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APRIL 11, 2014

'Researchers at Stanford University have developed a nanocrystalline copper material that produces multi-carbon oxygenates (ethanol, acetate and n-propanol) with up to 57% Faraday efficiency at modest potentials (–0.25?volts to –0.5?volts versus the reversible hydrogen electrode) in CO-saturated alkaline water. The material’s selectivity for oxygenates, with ethanol as the major product, demonstrates the feasibility of a two-step conversion of CO 2 to liquid fuel that could be powered by renewab

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Green Car Reports

APRIL 11, 2014

'If you''ve never lived in the San Francisco Bay Area, you may not have heard of "Mr. Roadshow," the nickname of San Jose Mercury News reporter Gary Richards. Nor will you know how important his columns are, covering traffic, congestion, freeways, law enforcement, cars, and all the other topics associated with the region''s crowded roads. Now.

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Green Car Congress

APRIL 11, 2014

'Chemists at Ludwig Maximilians Universität München report that 20% of the gases produced by the combustion of R1234yf—the approved low global warming potential refrigerant for mobile air conditioning (MAC) systems, the adoption of which has met with resistance from German automakers ( earlier post )—consist of the highly toxic chemical carbonyl fluoride.

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Green Car Reports

APRIL 11, 2014

'Kansas City-based Smith Electric Vehicles has become the latest electric-vehicle building startup to cease operations--though the company says it isn''t shutting its doors for good. The firm builds electrically-powered commercial vehicles both in the U.S. and abroad, but hasn''t yet turned a profit. According to Kansas City Business Journal, the.

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Green Car Congress

APRIL 11, 2014

'Golf Sportwagen. Click to enlarge. Volkswagen of America, Inc. will debut a concept version of the latest SportWagen model featuring a 4MOTION all-wheel drive system and the new EA288 TDI Clean Diesel engine ( earlier post ) at the New York Auto Show. The concept previews the new Golf SportWagen that will go on sale in early 2015. Based on the new MQB (modular transverse matrix) architecture, the Golf SportWagen will continue the trend introduced by the seventh generation Golf whereby it is lig

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Green Car Reports

APRIL 11, 2014

'Lexus has unveiled the first official images of its new compact crossover, known as the NX. The NX is set to debut at the upcoming Beijing International Automotive Exhibition, and will be offered with hybrid, turbocharged and naturally-aspirated powertrains. The former, known as the NX 300h, is expected to use a 2.5-liter Atkinson cycle gasoline.

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Green Car Reports

APRIL 11, 2014

'Sometimes, selling a vehicle can be harder than making it. The 2015 Ford F-150 full-size pickup truck is the product of a complete redesign, meant to increase both utility and efficiency. To that end, Ford has given the new F-150 an aluminum body, a decision that has proved controversial among at least some potential buyers. F-150 chief engineer.

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Green Car Congress

APRIL 11, 2014

'Schematic of mesoporous silicon Image: Donghai Wang/Penn State. Click to enlarge. Researchers at Penn State have devised a new process for the bottom-up synthesis of mesoporous crystalline silicon materials with high surface area and tunable primary particle/pore size via a self-templating pore formation process. The nanosized crystalline primary particles and high surface areas enable an increased rate of photocatalytic hydrogen production from water and extended working life.

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Green Car Reports

APRIL 11, 2014

'Today on Green Car Reports: The 2015 Lexus NX compact crossover debuts, Tesla Motors gets hit with a very heavily-publicized lemon-law suit, and the 2015 Ford F-150''s aluminum body inspires skepticism from a few customers. All this and more on Green Car Reports. What does "e-tron" mean? Find out in our ultimate guide to Audi''s plug-in hybrids and.

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Green Car Congress

APRIL 11, 2014

'A report published by the European Court of Auditors (ECA)—the official institution that audits EU finances— found that two-thirds of urban transport projects co-financed by EU structural funds are underutilized. Weaknesses in project design and inadequate mobility policy were two of the main contributory factors identified. The EU auditors analysed the performance of 26 public urban transport projects in 11 cities in five Member States.

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APRIL 11, 2014

'My Nissan Leaf has more than 52,500 miles on its odometer, and in the past six years, I''m guessing I must have easily covered twice that at the wheel of a plug-in car. But tomorrow, I''ll be making a trip from Bristol to Norwich to see family. And I''ll be leaving my electric car at home, taking my [.].

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Green Car Congress

APRIL 11, 2014

'An international team examining the total warming impact of 25 major synthetic greenhouse gases (SGHGs) has concluded that without additional limits on SGHG use, the resulting increase in warming could outweigh the climate benefits gained thus far from phasing down chlorofluorocarbons (CFCs). Their study is published in Geophysical Research Letters.

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Green Car Congress

APRIL 11, 2014

'Lexus will unveil its new luxury compact crossover, the Lexus NX, at the 2014 Beijing International Automotive Exhibition to be held in Beijing, China from 20-29 April. Lexus will exhibit the NX 200t equipped with a newly developed 2.0-liter turbo engine—the first turbo in the lineup—and the NX 300h equipped with a 2.5-liter hybrid system.

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Green Car Congress

APRIL 11, 2014

'A comprehensive survey of major power management control algorithms for hybrid-electric (HEVs) and plug-in hybrid electric vehicles (PHEVs) proposes that future work will need to consider the vehicle as part of a larger system which can be optimized at an even larger scale. This type of large-scale optimization will require the acquisition and processing of additional information from the driver and conditions outside the vehicle itself, suggests Dr.

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APRIL 11, 2014

'MotorBrain prototype. Integrated unit is on the left, the motor core is at the right. Click to enlarge. The four partners in the European research project ”MotorBrain” —Infineon Technologies, Siemens, the Institute of Lightweight Engineering and Polymer Technology at the Technische Universität (Technical University) Dresden and ZF Friedrichshafen—are presenting their first prototype of a lightweight electric motor system that requires no rare earth metals.

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