Green Car Congress

AUGUST 11, 2014

'Researchers have shown that magnesium industrial wastes of AZ91 alloy and Mg-10 wt.% Gd alloy can be used for the production of hydrogen storage materials. A paper on their work is published in the Journal of Power Sources. The team of researchers, from Germany, Denmark, Italy and Sweden, investigated the properties of the alloys by means of volumetric technique; in situ synchrotron radiation powder X-ray diffraction (SR-PXD); and calorimetric methods.

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Green Car Reports

AUGUST 11, 2014

'Three and a half years after modern electric cars entered the mass market, there are now no fewer than 17 models on sale in the U.S. But that impressive number shouldn''t disguise a fundamental truth about the current state of the plug-in electric cars offered today: Only three of them are widely available nationwide. Those three are the Chevrolet.

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Green Car Congress

AUGUST 11, 2014

'Mercedes-Benz will replace conventional aluminum pistons with a new generation of steel pistons in the V6 diesel engine of the E 350 BlueTEC in September. Combined with the innovative NANOSLIDE ( earlier post ) cylinder bore coating technology and the aluminum housing, the advantages of the shift include lower fuel consumption and CO 2 emissions. Mercedes-Benz has already announced the coming use of steel pistons in the OM 626 four-cylinder diesel produced by Renault and applied in the C-Class

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Green Car Reports

AUGUST 11, 2014

'You may not have thought much about it, but fleet managers could play a huge role in electric-car adoption. They''re the people whose job it is to buy and manage the huge fleets of vehicles operated by companies, government agencies, and other organizations. A recent study of fleet managers found that they initially bought a small number of plug-in.

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Green Car Congress

AUGUST 11, 2014

'Prof. Dr. Martin Winter and his colleagues at the University of Mnster report promising results for the use of graphite as both the anode and cathode material in a so-called dual-graphite or dual-carbon cell ( earlier post ) based on anion intercalation. Dr. Winter and his colleagues have been working with anion intercalation in dual carbon cells for several years.

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Green Car Reports

AUGUST 11, 2014

'Natural gas is very much in the public consciousness right now, if not for all the best reasons. Seen as a cleaner, more energy-independent fuel than fossil fuel oil, it nevertheless has its detractors, largely concerning the ''fracking'' process through which it is extracted from the ground. But its benefits mean that it has plenty of potential as.

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Green Car Reports

AUGUST 11, 2014

'Today on Green Car Reports: Only three electric cars are sold nationwide, a retro streamliner concept uses Tesla electric power, and ride-sharing services try to get customers to carpool. All this and more on Green Car Reports. As the run-up to the debut of the 2016 Chevrolet Volt begins, take a look back at the first generation of General Motors''.

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Green Car Congress

AUGUST 11, 2014

'Mitsubishi Heavy Industries, Ltd. (MHI), as part of the Strategic Innovation Program for Energy Conservation Technologies operated by the New Energy and Industrial Technology Development Organization (NEDO), has developed a 2-megawatt (MW) 16-cylinder high-speed gas engine achieving one of the worlds highest power generation efficiency ratings in a high-speed gas engine.

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Green Car Reports

AUGUST 11, 2014

'Tesla Motors has existed for more than 10 years now, and it''s built and sold more than 50,000 electric cars. It''s become a genuine U.S. automaker, albeit a very small one, and it now sells all over the world--and garners more media coverage than its volume alone might warrant. But it still seems to cause severe delusions and derangement among some.

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Green Cars News

AUGUST 11, 2014

'In January I drove a Nissan LEAF from London to Edinburgh, it was cold and we had the heater on. We stopped to charge eight times. Twenty minutes charge each time, we never got close to empty. We did it in 13 hours, it wasnt difficult in any technical or range anxiety sense, but it was quite a sc[.].

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Green Car Reports

AUGUST 11, 2014

'Mazda is set to field a competitor to cars like the Nissan Juke, Jeep Renegade and Buick Encore by 2016. Likely dubbed ''CX-3'', the subcompact crossover would slot in under the CX-5 in Mazda''s lineup. Speaking to The Motor Report, Mazda Australia boss Martin Benders has said that a new, smaller Mazda crossover is "not that far away". The new car.

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Green Cars News

AUGUST 11, 2014

'Fords efficient 1.0 litre EcoBoost engine is taking over, as new sales data reveals that the engine was equipped to one in every five Fords sold in Europe in the first six months of the year. Fresh from its third successive win at the International Engine of the Year award, the 1.0 litre EcoBoost[.].

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Green Car Reports

AUGUST 11, 2014

'Toyota is recalling 2007 through 2011 model-year Camry Hybrid sedans to correct an issue with the cars'' brake-fluid reservoirs. On the vehicles affected--roughly 177,000 of them--a filter between the two chambers of the reservoir can become clogged with sediment or rust residue, inhibiting fluid flow, and causing the brake-fluid level in one.

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Green Cars News

AUGUST 11, 2014

'Today, there are more public charging stations across the UK than ever before. Whats more, we have the largest number of fast and quick charging stations of any European country. Considering the UKs tiny size, this should, theoretically, make travelling from one side of the country to the other by[.].

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Green Car Reports

AUGUST 11, 2014

'What if you could reduce the number of vehicles on the road by using each one more efficiently? By allowing travelers to rent individual rides, ridesharing services like Uber and Lyft have occupied a grey area between individual car ownership and more traditional forms of public transportation like buses, taxis, and subways. Now, the companies are.

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Green Cars News

AUGUST 11, 2014

'Tuesday 12 August, 2014. The Green Piece Column. Once again, diesel cars and their emissions are in the news for all the wrong reasons. Now a new campaign is being run by The Sun calling for diesel car owners to be compensated by the introduction of a scrappage scheme, for being duped into think[.].

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Green Car Congress

AUGUST 11, 2014

'The assembled 200W TEG tested in June delivered 270W of output. Click to enlarge. GMZ Energy and its partners are on track to deliver a 1 kW thermoelectric generator (TEG) for the Bradley Fighting Vehicle as well as to design and to integrate a light-duty vehicle TEG into a Honda Accord as part of a DOE-funded project. Thermoelectric materials convert temperature differences into electric voltage; a TEG in a vehicle is designed to convert waste heat to power.

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Green Cars News

AUGUST 11, 2014

'The new FIA-approved electric car racing series, Formula E has run its first event trial run ahead of its first real race in Beijing this September. At the championships headquarters at Leicestershires Donington Park, the series ran two event simulations, to test the cars, drivers, IT and operat[.].

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Green Car Congress

AUGUST 11, 2014

'Tour Engine , the developer of a novel split-cycle engine ( earlier post ), has secured a $2-million investment from Joan and Irwin Jacobs to further the development of the latest generation of the engine, which features a new patent-pending crossover mechanism. Dr. Irwin Jacobs is the co-founder of Qualcomm. The premise of a split-cycle engine is that segregating the intake and compression strokes in one cylinder and the combustion and expansion strokes in another, coupled cylinder, provides a

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