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OCTOBER 12, 2015

Dr. Andreas Malikopoulos at Oak Ridge National Laboratory (ORNL) has developed a solution for the online optimization of power management in parallel HEVs/PHEVs and for any different driver (i.e., for different driving styles). A paper on his work is published in IEEE Transactions on Control Systems Technology. There has been a great deal of work done since the late 1990s on the optimization of power management control—i.e., the optimal distribution of power demanded by the driver to the a

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OCTOBER 12, 2015

Oh, this is brilliant. Level 2.5 charging for electric motorcycles like the Zero, using the j-plug we're all so familiar with. You can charge your Zero in about an hour! I *want* this for my LEAF, sigh.

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Green Car Congress

OCTOBER 12, 2015

The Government of Québec has unveiled a new Action Plan for the electrification of transport in 2015-2020. With a budget of more than C$420 million (US$324 million), the plan has the following objectives: Increase the number of electric vehicles in the car park of Québec; Reduce greenhouse gas emissions; Reduce energy dependence on oil and improve the trade balance of Quebec; and.

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Green Car Reports

OCTOBER 12, 2015

It's been the dream of visionaries for decades: Sunlight converted into direct current to use for recharging emission-free electric cars. Photovoltaic cells offer that capability today, but now researchers claim to have found a way to improve the efficiency of that process greatly, using a device called a "rectenna." This combines the functions of.

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OCTOBER 12, 2015

A team at Argonne National Laboratory has taken a closer look at vehicle-cycle (all processes related to vehicle manufacturing) and vehicle total life-cycle (vehicle-cycle plus fuel cycle—i.e., the use phase) impacts of substituting lightweight materials into vehicles. In a study published in the ACS journal Environmental Science & Technology , they reported that while material substitution can reduce vehicle weight, it often increases vehicle-cycle greenhouse gas emissions GHGs—for

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Green Car Reports

OCTOBER 12, 2015

As Volkswagen works overtime to figure out what changes it will make to 482,000 TDI diesel cars sold in the U.S. with a "cheat mode" that let them comply with emission rules, an obvious question arises. What will those cars be like to drive and own when they're fixed? Consumer Reports, one of only a few media outlets with extensive testing.

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Green Car Reports

OCTOBER 12, 2015

The French government not only grants incentives to buyers of new electric cars, it also encourages the scrapping of older diesel cars. It presently offers a 10,000-euro ($11,370) bonus to drivers who buy a new electric car and also send a 15-year-old diesel car to the scrapper. Soon, even more diesel cars will qualify for this scheme. DON'T MISS.

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OCTOBER 12, 2015

Amyris, Inc., , a company which converts plant-sourced sugars into renewable hydrocarbons, reports achieving a record low manufacturing cost of $1.75 per liter (US$6.63/gallon) for farnesene in September 2015. Amyris’ farnesene is a renewable hydrocarbon molecule addressing growing demand in a broad range of applications, from diesel and jet fuel to high-performance materials.

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Green Car Reports

OCTOBER 12, 2015

While it has unveiled the all-new 2016 Prius hybrid twice--once at a glitzy event in Las Vegas, once at the Frankfurt Motor Show--Toyota has been very stingy with technical information about the powertrain that will let the car earn promised EPA combined ratings of 55 mpg or better. At an event in Japan this morning, the company released a bit.

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OCTOBER 12, 2015

AVTOVAZ introduced a dual-Fuel Lada Vesta CNG at the International Gas Forum in St. Petersburg. The Lada line of vehicles running on natural gas are developed under a memorandum of cooperation signed between Gazprom Gazomotornoe Toplivo and AVTOVAZ. The car has a large fuel door, accommodating both a gasoline filler pipe, and a compressed natural gas filler.

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Green Car Reports

OCTOBER 12, 2015

Mitsubishi will unveil a new concept car at the 2015 Tokyo Motor Show that may preview a future all-electric production crossover. The Mitsubishi eX concept is a small crossover utility vehicle that's similar in size to the current Outlander Sport--which is due for replacement soon. Its styling follows the same themes seen in numerous recent.

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OCTOBER 12, 2015

HRL Laboratories, LLC, a corporate research-and-development laboratory owned by The Boeing Company and General Motors, will develop new ultra-lightweight materials for future aerospace vehicles and structures under NASA’s Game Changing Development Program. These new materials can enable NASA to reduce the mass of spacecraft for deep space exploration by 40% and are necessary for the journey to Mars and beyond.

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Green Car Reports

OCTOBER 12, 2015

Which story, now in its third week, shows no sign of letting up on the news, technology, or massive public humiliation front? And, what CEO tweeted about a mysterious new future model--and then deleted the tweet? This is our video look back at the Week In Reverse--right here at Green Car Reports--for the week ending on Friday, October 9, 2015.

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OCTOBER 12, 2015

A new age of electric motorcycling has dawned thanks to a product announcement on Monday from DigiNow and Electric Motor Werks. The two companies have jointly developed the DigiNow Super Charger Charge Tank, a super-high-speed charging.

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OCTOBER 12, 2015

Today, Consumer Reports tests the Volkswagen diesel "cheat mode," the Tesla Model X gets a tax break formerly used for HUMMERs, and the Mitsubishi eX electric crossover concept appears ahead of its official debut at the 2015 Tokyo Motor Show. All this and more on Green Car Reports. It turns out that the Tesla Model X electric crossover qualifies.

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National Green Transportation

OCTOBER 12, 2015

A new age of electric motorcycling has dawned thanks to a product announcement on Monday from DigiNow and Electric Motor Werks. The two companies have jointly developed the DigiNow Super Charger Charge Tank, a super-high-speed charging.

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OCTOBER 12, 2015

Researchers at the MIT Joint Program on the Science and Policy of Global Change have compared the worldwide economic, environmental, and energy impacts of currently planned fuel economy standards (extended to the year 2050) with those of region-specific carbon prices designed to yield identical CO 2 emissions reductions. Their study, which appears in the Journal of Transport Economics and Policy , finds that such stringent fuel economy standards would cost the economy 10% of global gross domesti

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