Thu.Apr 07, 2016

article thumbnail

Airbus Group and Siemens sign long-term agreement to develop hybrid-electric propulsion systems for aircraft

Green Car Congress

Airbus Group and Siemens have signed a collaboration agreement in the field of hybrid electric propulsion. In doing so, the Chief Executive Officers (CEO) of both companies, Tom Enders and Joe Kaeser, have launched a major joint project towards the electrification of aviation with the goal of demonstrating the technical feasibility of various hybrid/electric propulsion systems by 2020.

Hybrid 210
article thumbnail

Tesla Model 3 reservations rise to 325,000 after one week

Green Car Reports

Getting more than a quarter of a million people around the world to put down $1,000 apiece for a car they won't get for another two years is a remarkable feat. When Elon Musk took the wraps off the Tesla Model 3 last Thursday evening, a screen on stage showed more than 100,000 deposits. But by the end of Saturday, the global total had reached.

Tesla 95
article thumbnail

Tesla Model 3 reservations top 325,000; Tesla projects average price ~$43,000

Green Car Congress

Tesla Motors reported that Model 3 reservations have topped 325,000, corresponding to about $14 billion in implied future sales (average unit price ~$43,000). Base price is $35,000. Model 3 reservations secure the approximate priority within the buyer’s region for taking delivery of the desired Model 3. The reservation ($1,000) is effective when it is placed, and when Tesla receives payment.

Price 174
article thumbnail

2016 Tesla Model X electric SUV first drive by Model S owner

Green Car Reports

Its maker is doing a great job these days of quarantining the new 2016 Tesla Model X electric crossover SUV from unwanted prying eyes. The only folks lucky enough to get up close and personal with the slick, powerful electric SUV are those who’ve plunked down deposits of up to $40,000 to order the car. A fortunate thousand or so have already.

2016 95
article thumbnail

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

emissions global warming Norway climate change carbon dioxide youtube lighting

article thumbnail

Texas A&M-led team identifies synthetic hydrocarbon pathway in green alga B. braunii

Green Car Congress

The green microalga Botryococcus braunii is considered a promising biofuel feedstock producer due to its prodigious accumulation of hydrocarbon oils that can be converted into fuels. Now, a team led by researchers from Texas A&M AgriLife Research has identified the first committed step in the biosynthesis of hydrocarbon oil in B. braunii and has described a new enzyme which carries out this reaction.

Texas 163
article thumbnail

BYD launches two new all-electric sedans for Chinese market

Green Car Reports

Chinese automaker BYD may be largely invisible in the U.S., but it's thriving in its home market. Last year, the company sold more highway-capable electric cars and plug-in hybrids than any other company in the world. Aiming to expand on that success for 2016, BYD is introducing two new electric cars for the Chinese market. DON'T MISS: Who Sold.

BYD 92

More Trending

article thumbnail

European electric and plug-in hybrid sales for January-March 2016

Green Car Reports

The Renault-Nissan Alliance has sold more electric cars than any other company, with most of those sales coming from the Nissan brand. The Nissan Leaf is the bestselling electric car in history, and is popular in multiple markets. But so far in 2016, at least, it's Renault that is leading the charge in European electric-car sales. DON'T MISS.

2016 89
article thumbnail

SAIC-GM to unveil new Buick LaCrosse hybrid in Shanghai

Green Car Congress

SAIC-GM will unveil the all-new Buick LaCrosse Hybrid Electric Vehicle (HEV) will be unveiled in Shanghai on 18 April. GM’s joint venture with SAIC will also outline Buick’s vision for green transportation and introduce the award-winning Buick Avista concept for the first time in China. A major product under SAIC-GM's Drive to Green strategy, the new LaCrosse HEV is powered by a 1.8L SIDI (spark ignition direct injection) engine that is paired with an electric two-motor drive unit that provides

Buick 150
article thumbnail

2019 Ford 'Model E' hybrid, electric car coming from Mexico plant?

Green Car Reports

Two years ago, Ford successfully fought efforts by Tesla Motors to register the name "Model E" for what we now know as the Tesla Model 3, unveiled last week to great fanfare. Now it appears that the Detroit automaker may plan to use that name itself on a dedicated vehicle coming in 2019 that will be offered as a hybrid, a battery-electric car, and.

2019 89
article thumbnail

JATO Dynamics: China’s smaller cities help boost new car sales in 2015; SUVs biggest growth drivers

Green Car Congress

China’s new car market continues to be affected by the economic slowdown and the introduction of car purchase restrictions in eight key cities, according to the latest analysis by JATO Dynamics. New passenger car registrations in the world’s largest market totalled 18.9 million in 2015, an 11% increase on 2014. Although new car sales growth for 2015 was still in the double digits, the rate declined for a second year in a row—dropping to 11% from 13% in 2014 and 16% in 2013.

2015 150
article thumbnail

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

Brief

article thumbnail

Tesla Model 3 reservations, Model X driven, Ford 'Model E': Today's Car News

Green Car Reports

Today, Tesla Model 3 reservations reach 325,000, a Model S owner takes a first drive in the Tesla Model X, and Ford is rumored to be developing a new dedicated hybrid called the Model E. All this and more on Green Car Reports. The Renault Zoe led European plug-in electric car sales in January and February, with the Nissan Leaf close behind.

Ford 88
article thumbnail

Alcoa to supply 3D-printed titanium parts for Airbus aircraft

Green Car Congress

Alcoa has entered into an agreement with Airbus to supply 3D-printed titanium fuselage and engine pylon components for Airbus commercial aircraft. Alcoa expects to deliver the first additive manufactured parts to Airbus in mid-2016. Last year, Alcoa acquired RTI International Metals (RTI)—now known as Alcoa Titanium & Engineered Products (ATEP)—which grew Alcoa’s additive manufacturing capabilities to include 3D-printed titanium and specialty metals parts produced at ATEP’s Austin, T

Parts 150
article thumbnail

California car incentives may expand to more low-income buyers

Green Car Reports

California may soon expand a program aimed at helping lower-income individuals switch to more efficient cars. The Golden State previously launched "cash for clunkers" programs that incentivized the retirement of older, higher-polluting cars. But last year it also introduced the Enhanced Fleet Modernization Program Plus-Up pilot, which provides.

article thumbnail

Williams Advanced Engineering collaborates with Wille on zero-emission multi-function machines

Green Car Congress

Williams Advanced Engineering will work with Vilakone Oy to create a new zero emission multi-function machine based on the existing Wille 665 platform. Vilakone Oy is Northern Europe’s largest manufacturer of environmental management machinery such as leaf collectors, snow ploughs and city sweepers. Wille 665. Click to enlarge. A total of more than 6,000 Wille multi-function machines have been sold so far with its main markets in Finland, Sweden, Norway, Russia and North America.

article thumbnail

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

Oil

article thumbnail

NASA, Boeing designing truss-braced wing expected to reduce aircraft fuel consumption and emissions by 50%

Green Car Congress

NASA and Boeing have been working together to design a longer, thinner and lighter wing—so different from typical commercial transport aircraft wings that it requires a truss to provide the wing extra support. The researchers expect the lighter weight, lower drag truss-braced wing to reduce both fuel burn and carbon emissions by at least 50% over current technology transport aircraft, and by 4 to 8% compared to equivalent advanced technology conventional configurations with unbraced wings.

Design 150
article thumbnail

CARB research seminar on new car buyers’ valuation of ZEVs

Green Car Congress

On 20 April, Dr. Ken Kurani of the UC Davis Institute of Transportation Studies will present findings from a study commissioned by the California Air Resources Board (ARB) assessing consumer attitudes, barriers, and motivators toward purchasing zero, near-zero, and low-emission vehicles. The project produced a statistically robust representation of California’s new car buying population to identify the factors that influence new-vehicle purchase decisions and the areas where additional policies,

Davis 150
article thumbnail

Volvo Cars plans to launch large-scale autonomous driving experiment in China; 100 cars on public roads

Green Car Congress

Volvo Cars plans to launch a large-scale autonomous driving experiment in China in which local drivers will test autonomous driving (AD) cars on public roads in everyday driving conditions. Volvo expects the experiment to involve up to 100 cars; in coming months, the automaker will begin negotiations with interested cities in China to see which is able to provide the necessary permissions, regulations and infrastructure to allow the experiment to go ahead.

Volvo 150
article thumbnail

Summit Ag Group breaks ground on $115M corn ethanol plant in Brazil

Green Car Congress

US-based Summit Agricultural Group recently broke ground on the first large-scale corn ethanol production facility in Brazil. The $115-million plant is an international collaboration between Summit and Brazilian agribusiness Fiagril. The production facility is being built in Lucas do Rio Verde in Mato Grosso, an agricultural state in west central Brazil and the country’s largest producer of corn and soybeans.

Brazil 150
article thumbnail

U-Michigan, IBM collaborate on data-centric high performance computing system

Green Car Congress

The University of Michigan is collaborating with IBM to develop and deliver “ data-centric ” supercomputing systems designed to increase the pace of scientific discovery in fields as diverse as aircraft and rocket engine design, cardiovascular disease treatment, materials physics, climate modeling and cosmology. The system is designed to enable high performance computing applications for physics to interact, in real time, with big data in order to improve scientists’ ability to make quantitative

Michigan 150
article thumbnail

Hyundai Motor powers world’s first hydrogen fuel cell vehicle car-sharing service

Green Car Congress

Zero-emission car sharing service BeeZero, run by a newly founded subsidiary of The Linde Group, will feature 50 Hyundai ix35 Fuel Cell electric vehicles for public use. BeeZero, which will launch in Munich this summer, will be the first car sharing service using hydrogen fuel cell cars. The BeeZero car sharing service will be run on a zone-based model.

Hyundai 150
article thumbnail

Cummins-led team awarded $4.5M to develop Class 6 PHEV that reduces fuel use by 50%

Green Car Congress

Cummins Inc. has been awarded a $4.5-million grant from the US Department of Energy to develop a Class 6 commercial plug-in hybrid electric vehicle that can reduce fuel consumption by at least 50% over conventional Class 6 vehicles. ( Earlier post.) When fully loaded, Class 6 vehicles weigh between approximately 19,000 and 26,000 pounds; typical examples include school buses or single-axle work trucks.

Fuel 174