Green Car Congress

OCTOBER 29, 2014

'Cutaway of the new power electronics unit, which is much smaller than in gen 1, and which is now integrated into the drive unit housing. The power electronics and the motors use separate cooling: water for the PE and ol for the motor unit. Click to enlarge. The second-generation Volt, which makes its world debut in about 10 weeks at the North American International Auto Show in Detroit, features a clean-sheet, all-new Voltec propulsion system—new battery, new electric drive unit, new powe

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Green Car Reports

OCTOBER 29, 2014

'We already know that in the next few years, we''ll see a slew of mid-size SUVs offered with plug-in hybrid powertrains--most from luxury brands like Audi, BMW, Mercedes, Porsche, and Range Rover. But the German luxury marques are making plans to compete more directly with Tesla Motors and its Model S all-electric long-range luxury sedan. All have.

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Green Car Congress

OCTOBER 29, 2014

'A new study on the combustion properties of biodiesel for use in urban transit buses found that using biodiesel can effectively reduce the mass of particulate matter released in both hot and cold idle modes. The study, published by the Mineta National Transit Research Consortium (MNTRC), observed a reduction in amount of particulate matter, number of elements, and elemental carbon; the reduction is considered beneficial to promoting the clean air and human health.

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Green Car Reports

OCTOBER 29, 2014

'Toyota might not be planning to invest in a mainstream electric vehicle for the U.S. anytime soon, but now, globally, it has this oddity: the i-Road. As we caught last month in this demonstration at the Paris Auto Show, the i-Road is driven at the front wheels by twin 2-kW electric motors, and steered at the rear wheels, as the articulating front.

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Green Car Congress

OCTOBER 29, 2014

'The US Department of Energy’s (DOE) Fuel Cell Technologies Office (FCTO) and the Hydrogen Education Foundation (HEF) launched the $1-million H2 Refuel H-Prize. The two-year competition challenges America’s engineers and entrepreneurs to develop affordable systems for small-scale hydrogen fueling. This H-Prize competition is intended to assist in expanding the hydrogen infrastructure across the country to support more transportation energy options for US consumers, including fuel cell electric v

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Green Car Reports

OCTOBER 29, 2014

'The Tesla Model S electric luxury sedan has now been on sale in China for six months, but it recently received a major sales incentive from local officials in Shanghai. That city''s municipal government has ruled that Tesla buyers will be exempted from paying the $12,000 registration fee required to obtain license plates. DON''T MISS: Tesla In.

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Green Car Reports

OCTOBER 29, 2014

'The first of our five nominees for Green Car Reports'' 2015 Best Car To Buy award is the new 2015 Audi A3 TDI, the diesel version of Audi''s new compact luxury sedan. All-new this year, as are most of its competitors, the TDI diesel version will be the highest-efficiency A3 model until the e-tron plug-in hybrid arrives for the 2016 model year. DON''T.

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Green Car Congress

OCTOBER 29, 2014

'The US Department of Energy (DOE) launched a new $2.3-million pilot program to accelerate the transfer of innovative clean energy technologies from the DOE’s National Laboratories into the commercial marketplace. Lab-Corps aims to better train and empower national lab researchers to successfully transition their discoveries into high-impact, real world technologies in the private sector.

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Green Car Reports

OCTOBER 29, 2014

'A vehicle''s design largely determines its fuel efficiency, but how it''s driven--and where--can have a significant impact as well. With their ability to drive solely on electric power at low speeds, hybrids appear better suited to city driving, while diesel drivers have been known to exceed their vehicles'' rated fuel economy on the highway. DON''T.

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Green Car Congress

OCTOBER 29, 2014

'Daimler subsidiary moovel GmbH is using cloud infrastructure from SoftLayer, an IBM Company, for its car-sharing mobile application car2go to allow the company to better serve its customers around the world by helping them find the least expensive or fastest way to travel. The moovel GmbH portfolio includes the car2go and car2go black car sharing services, the Park2gether platform and the moovel smartphone app. car2go is available in 26 cities in Europe and North America and has more than 800,0

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Green Car Reports

OCTOBER 29, 2014

'Today, we''ve got the first details on the second-generation Voltec electric-drive system that will power the 2016 Chevrolet Volt, analysis of how Audi, BMW, and Mercedes-Benz plan to compete with Tesla Motors, and the 2015 Audi A3 TDI is the first of our five nominees for Green Car Reports 2015 Best Car To Buy award. All this and more on Green Car.

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Green Car Congress

OCTOBER 29, 2014

'Toho Tenax Co., Ltd., the core company of the Teijin Group’s carbon fibers and composites business, has developed a new technology—Tenax Part via Preform (PvP)—for highly efficient production of thermoset carbon fiber-reinforced plastic (CFRP). Toho Tenax is now working with automakers worldwide to develop commercial applications for Tenax PvP.

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Green Car Reports

OCTOBER 29, 2014

'Hyundai announced a new six-speed automatic transmission for upcoming hybrid cars at its annual International Powertrain Conference in Namyang, South Korea. The carmaker says it was able to integrate almost all of the hybrid components--including an electric motor--into the transmission, increasing efficiency and reducing weight. DON''T MISS.

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Green Car Congress

OCTOBER 29, 2014

'The US Department of Energy''s Fuel Cell Technologies Office has issued two requests for information (RFIs) seeking feedback from the research community and relevant stakeholders about electrolytic hydrogen production ( DE-FOA-0001188 ) and hydrogen delivery research, development, and demonstration (RD&D) activities ( DE-FOA-0001187 ) aimed at developing technologies that can ultimately produce and deliver low-cost hydrogen.

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Green Cars News

OCTOBER 29, 2014

'With the second-generation Skoda Fabia getting long in the tooth, it’s no surprise that January will see a new Fabia come into the market. This is that car, and it’s promising more practicality, a fresh look and, crucially, reduced running costs. Crash diet To build the new car, Skoda has been bus[.].

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Green Car Congress

OCTOBER 29, 2014

'The European Commission recently sent a formal Statement of Objections to Honeywell International Inc. and E.I. du Pont de Nemours and Company of its preliminary view that the cooperation they entered into in 2010, based on several agreements on the production of a new low global warming potential (GWP) refrigerant (R-1234yf) for use in car air-conditioning systems (MAC), may have limited its availability and technical development, in breach of EU antitrust rules.

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Green Cars News

OCTOBER 29, 2014

'It won’t be coming to the UK, but when the next generation Chevrolet Volt appears at the Detroit Auto Show in January, it will show-off a new version of its range-extended propulsion system. That will mean a more fuel efficient drive and greater EV range than the current generation model. In t[.].

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Green Car Congress

OCTOBER 29, 2014

'BASF Venture Capital has led a $3-million Series A financing with a $1.5 million investment in SLIPS Technologies Inc. based in Cambridge, Massachusetts. The Swiss entrepreneur and private investor Hansjörg Wyss has also participated in the financing. SLIPS Technologies develops customized, highly-repellent slippery surfaces for customers in all industries including energy, packaging, consumer, automotive and environmental.

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Green Cars News

OCTOBER 29, 2014

'A building engineering group base Dartford in Kent is the latest to take on Nissan’s £2 challenge; to see just how much work it can get out of a new e-NV200 electric van on just a single charge. Taking on the challenge on behalf of the Ergro Group was engineer Charlie Morgan, who drove a fully loa[.].

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Green Car Congress

OCTOBER 29, 2014

'Clariant, a world leader in specialty chemicals, has agreed to sell its Energy Storage line of business to Johnson Matthey Plc for US$75 million at closing, which is expected early 2015. The Energy Storage business of Clariant is the largest hydrothermal Lithium Iron Phosphate (LFP) producer in the world. The lithium iron cathode material is used in electric vehicles and stationary battery applications.

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