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Team led by Local Motors 3D-printing a car during 6-day IMTS

Green Car Congress

'The Strati is being 3D-printed at IMTS. Click to enlarge. A team led by Local Motors is 3D-printing a full vehicle body over 44 hours during the International Manufacturing Technology Show 2014 and will follow it up with a first drive set to take place the morning of Saturday, 13 September. Local Motors collaborated with Cincinnati Incorporated, a large-scale manufacturing system builder; Oak Ridge National Laboratory (ORNL), a pioneer in advanced materials research; and SABIC to develop and va

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Drive Electric Week, Starting Next Monday, Set To Break Records

Green Car Reports

'As an example of how far the reach of electric vehicles has grown, you need to look little further than the growth of National Drive Electric Week. Now in its fourth year, Drive Electric Week began life as National Plug In Day. This year, 115 cities in 35 states and countries abroad will showcase electric vehicles, drawing four times the crowds it.

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SwRI, UTSA researchers show biochar is low-cost, effective method to treat fracking water

Green Car Congress

'Researchers at Southwest Research Institute (SwRI) and The University of Texas at San Antonio (UTSA) have determined that biochar, a substance produced from plant matter, is a safe, effective and inexpensive method to treat flowback water following hydraulic fracturing, or fracking. Flowback water treatment is a critical sustainability issue for the oil and gas industry.

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Carbon Fiber Wheels Proposed To Cut Weight, Boost Efficiency

Green Car Reports

'You probably don''t think about your car''s wheels that much, but to state the exceedingly obvious they''re an essential part of every car. They''re also surprisingly heavy, as you''ll know if you''ve ever rotated your tires or had to change to a spare at the side of the road. Heaviness is a quality undesirable for fuel efficiency. Carbon fiber.

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How serious is Norway about climate change? So much that its streetlights self-dim

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Li-ion cell provider XALT Energy partners with Williams Advanced Engineering

Green Car Congress

'Williams Advanced Engineering, the engineering services and technology business of the Williams Group, has entered a partnership agreement with XALT Energy , supplier of the lithium-ion cells for the Williams’ battery in the Formula E racing series. This new partnership will also see the two companies collaborate on future projects involving lithium-ion battery technology for a range of applications beyond motorsport.

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California Has More Than 100,000 Plug-In Electric Cars On Roads

Green Car Reports

'California has hit a major plug-in car milestone this week: Since the first electric vehicle was sold back in 2010, more than 100,000 others have now hit the streets. The figures have been compiled by the California Plug-In Electric Vehicle Collaborative. The number is impressive on its own, but also means that California accounts for around 40.

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Will Smaller Pickups Be More Popular Than Carmakers Expect?

Green Car Reports

'Sometimes it''s the throwaway lines that carry the most interesting news. In a routine report on August sales of new cars and trucks last Wednesday, The Detroit News had this nugget about the upcoming 2015 Chevrolet Colorado mid-size pickup truck: "GM said dealers have ordered nearly 28,000 midsize Colorado pickups—about seven times what GM.

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Exide reports large performance gains in new AGM start-stop batteries

Green Car Congress

'Exide Technologies announced that large performance gains will be seen in its new range of Start-Stop batteries. The new AGM battery will achieve four times longer cycle life, 20% more power and more than three times the charge acceptance of a standard conventional battery, according to Exide. Similar gains will also be seen in Exide’s new enhanced flooded battery (EFB) the company said.

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Plug-in Electric Car Sales in Canada, Aug 2014: Vive Le Volt

Green Car Reports

'In August, the Chevy Volt won the Canadian plug-in sales derby yet again – a category dominance that brings to mind the Ford F-150''s 48-year-reign(!) atop truck sales, in the land of the Maple Leaf. Funnily enough, it''s actually the French fleur-de-lis which is responsible for these victories: Fully three-quarters of all Volts sold in Canada.

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CATARC and UC Davis establish China-US ZEV Policy Lab to accelerate adoption of plug-in and fuel cell cars in US and in China

Green Car Congress

'The University of California, Davis, and the China Automotive Technology and Research Center (CATARC) have entered a new agreement to work together to help speed the commercialization of plug-in and fuel cell electric cars in China. CATARC is China’s the administrative body that oversees and regulates many activities of the auto industry in China, the world’s largest new-car market, and in the US.

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Faurecia and Accenture partner on products and services for connected and autonomous vehicles

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Mid-Size Truck Demand, Drive Electric Week, Carbon Fiber Wheels: Today's Car News

Green Car Reports

'We start the week with a wide variety of topics. Dealer orders indicate demand for smaller pickup trucks may be greater than carmakers anticipated, National Drive Electric Week will sing the praises of electric cars beginning next Monday, and carbon fiber wheels show promise as a way to improve efficiency. All this and more on Green Car Reports.

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Shell’s Cardamom development starts production; second major 2014 start-up in deep-water Gulf of Mexico

Green Car Congress

'Production is now underway from the Cardamom development, the second major deep-water facility Shell has brought online in the US Gulf of Mexico this year, following the start-up of Mars B in February. Oil from the Cardamom subsea development (100% Shell) is piped through Shell’s Auger platform. When at full production of 50,000 barrels of oil equivalent a day (boe/d), Auger’s total production capacity will increase to 130,000 boe/d.

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Greener fire engines, ambulances and taxis thanks to new £5 million fund

Green Cars News

'A wide range of public service vehicles, from buses to fire engines, are about to get cleaner, thanks to the government’s £5 million Clean Vehicle Technology Fund. Seventeen local authorities will share the fund, enabling them to use a variety of pollution-reducing technologies, which will now be [.].

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Chevy’s Cruze Diesel: a compact diesel contender in the US

Green Car Congress

'The Cruze Diesel is identified by a discreet badge on the trunk. Click to enlarge. US buyers hunting for a non-premium diesel passenger car (i.e., not a truck or SUV, and not a vehicle from BMW, Audi, Porsche or Mercedes-Benz) have until recently only had Volkswagen-brand cars as an option: Beetle, Golf, Jetta, Passat. Accordingly, Volkswagen of America (VoA) diesel sales to date in 2014 represent slightly north of 23% of all Volkswagen of America sales.

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ExxonMobil announces 6th oil discovery offshore Guyana with Ranger-1; Guyana may move from non-producer to regional powerhouse

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Vauxhall’s plug-in Ampera to be dropped

Green Cars News

'Well, it is official; we are losing Vauxhall’s flagship ‘range-extended’ eco-car, the Ampera. It has been rumoured for months, that when a new generation of the Chevrolet Volt is introduced in the US next year, that will signal the end of Europe’s plug-in hybrid Ampera, which is based on the Volt.[.].

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