Green Car Congress

JANUARY 29, 2015

'In the face of shifting global trade patterns, international freight transport volumes will likely grow more than four-fold (factor 4.3) by 2050, according to the International Transport Forum at the OECD’s ITF Transport Outlook 2015. Average transport distance across all modes will increase 12%. As a result, CO 2 emissions from freight transport will grow by 290% by 2050.

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Green Car Reports

JANUARY 29, 2015

'Sometime next month, electric-car maker Tesla Motors will release its 2014 earnings and hold a conference call for financial analysts to discuss them. If recent patterns hold, the company won''t disclose a number of the important operating metrics that reveal how well it''s doing. In fact, over the last two years, Tesla has quietly stopped providing.

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Green Car Congress

JANUARY 29, 2015

'University of Michigan researchers have developed a new process that can sprout microscopic spikes on nearly any type of particle and that may lead to more environmentally friendly paints and a variety of other innovations. The “hedgehog particles” are named for their bushy appearance under the microscope. Their development is detailed in a study published in Nature.

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Green Car Reports

JANUARY 29, 2015

'Reader Jen Danziger explains what it''s really like to drive a very small battery-electric car year-round in the Midwest. In the years following my participation in the Progressive Automotive X-Prize, I have watched with keen interest as major car companies introduced electric vehicles into their fleets. Obsessed with cars since my teen years, I.

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Green Car Congress

JANUARY 29, 2015

'McLaren-Honda revealed its new MP4-30 racer for the upcoming 2015 FIA Formula One (F1) World Championship. The car is fitted with Honda’s RA615H Hybrid power unit. ( Earlier post.). The McLaren-Honda MP4-30 is the only chassis on the grid to be fitted with Honda’s new RA615H Hybrid power unit. The car was aerodynamically refined over the winter, resulting in a refined nose-box solution, slimmed rear-end packaging—particularly around the gearbox—and the incorporation of the all-new p

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Green Car Reports

JANUARY 29, 2015

'Back in the 1980s, Audi was one of the very first carmakers to promote all-wheel drive aggressively--first in rally cars, then in production sedans and coupes. Quattro all-wheel drive helped Audi stand out from the crowd, and has been an important part of its brand identity ever since. DON''T MISS: 2016 Audi Q7 To Offer e-Tron Quattro Diesel.

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Green Car Reports

JANUARY 29, 2015

'It''s been more than six years since fabled investor Warren Buffet bought 10 percent of BYD Autos, one of the few independent Chinese automakers. At that time, the company had big plans to become China''s largest producer of plug-in electric vehicles--and then export them to the U.S. DON''T MISS: BYD Plans Electric Supercar, More Powerful Plug-In.

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Green Car Congress

JANUARY 29, 2015

'Chevron Corporation’s subsidiary, Chevron USA will now work with BP Exploration and Production Inc. (BP) and ConocoPhillips Company (COP) to explore and to appraise jointly-held offshore leases in the emerging Paleogene trend in the deepwater Gulf of Mexico. The transaction encompasses BP’s recent Tiber and Gila discoveries, and the Gibson exploratory prospect.

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Green Car Reports

JANUARY 29, 2015

'Gas prices are at their lowest level in years, and that''s triggered a flurry of speculation from analysts that sales of hybrids and other fuel-efficient vehicles will suffer. That in turn has led to a few confident ripostes from car-company executives saying that isn''t the case. DON''T MISS: 2014 BMW 328d xDrive: 40-MPG Diesel Sport Wagon Reviewed.

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Green Car Congress

JANUARY 29, 2015

'NEC Energy Solutions, along with NEC Corporation, has announced production availability of the Li-ion ALM 12V35 product line of 12-Volt batteries utilizing Nanophosphate lithium iron phosphate (LiFePO 4 ) technology from A123 Systems. With its EverSafe battery protection technology, the ALM 12V35 is immune to short circuit, overvoltage, undervoltage, and other common accidental battery abuse conditions, the company said.

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Green Car Reports

JANUARY 29, 2015

'It''s been roughly eight years since stricter Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) diesel-engine emissions standards took effect. After a hiatus, significant numbers of cleaner diesel engines are now being sold each year in new vehicles on U.S. roads. And a new study confirms that they are achieving the low emissions they were expected to. DON''T.

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Green Car Congress

JANUARY 29, 2015

'The Aluminum Association has published a manual detailing the range of commercially available production processes for joining aluminum components in automotive applications. Developed in collaboration with the European Aluminium Association (EAA) and the Aluminum Extruders Council (AEC), the joining manual is a reference for automotive designers and engineers as use of aluminum alloys in high-volume vehicles is expected to accelerate rapidly in the next decade.

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Green Car Reports

JANUARY 29, 2015

'There''s a wide variety of stories today. We look at Tesla''s lack of transparency, a possible electric all-wheel drive system from Audi, and why BMW is confident low gas prices won''t hurt sales of its diesel models. All this and more on Green Car Reports. Watch people react to the "Insane" mode of the Tesla Model S P85D in this (NSFW) video. Tesla.

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Green Car Congress

JANUARY 29, 2015

'Kia Motors America will unveil an electric all-wheel drive (e-AWD) concept vehicle at the upcoming Chicago Auto Show. The concept was conceived by Kia’s California design studio and built for city dwellers.

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Green Car Congress

JANUARY 29, 2015

'Van Hool N.V. has signed a grant agreement with the EU Hydrogen Fuel Cell Joint Undertaking for deployment of 21 fuel cell buses in Europe as part of the 3Emotion Program. Ballard Power Systems and Van Hool, partners in the deployment of numerous fuel cell buses in Europe ( earlier post ), are in the process of finalizing an equipment supply agreement (ESA) for the provision by Ballard of 21 next-generation fuel cell power modules for the buses.

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