Green Car Congress

SEPTEMBER 18, 2014

'Citroën will unveil its new C4 Cactus AIRFLOW 2L concept at the Paris Motor Show. With the C4 Cactus AIRFLOW 2L concept, Citroën is demonstrating fuel consumption of 2l/100 km (118 mpg US) through the use of optimized design with a 20% improvement in aerodynamics; lower rolling resistance (Tall&Narrow) tires; efforts to use lighter parts and thus reduce overall vehicle weight by 100 kg; and the implementation of Hybrid Air technology ( earlier post ), which cuts fuel consumption by 30%.

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Green Car Reports

SEPTEMBER 18, 2014

'Have we just seen the first crack in the facade of auto-dealer opposition to Tesla Motors selling cars directly to retail buyers? An opinion piece in auto-industry trade journal Ward''s Auto concludes with the following remarkable sentences: We can keep Tesla busy defending what are basically nuisance suits. But it will prevail in all states one at.

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Green Car Congress

SEPTEMBER 18, 2014

'ArcelorMittal, the world’s largest steel and mining company, has created two sets of steel solutions to reduce the average weight of pick-ups, following on from the award-winning launch of its S-in motion catalogue for standard, C-segment cars. ArcelorMittal has refined and extended these innovations to help meet the specific challenges facing the North American light truck market.

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Green Car Reports

SEPTEMBER 18, 2014

'Fossil fuels have been an integral part of the industrialized world since it began 250 years ago. While renewable, carbon-free energy sources have long been viewed as the ideal solution, they were always more expensive than pumping carbon into the air. That may now have changed, according to a new analysis from Lazard published today and reported.

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Green Car Congress

SEPTEMBER 18, 2014

'UK-based Controlled Power Technologies ( CPT ) has incorporated a US subsidiary, and has appointing Taylor Hansen as vice president responsible for the company’s North American operations. CPT specializes in the development of cost-effective tailpipe emission reduction measures achieved through low cost electrification of conventional and hybrid vehicles—increasingly at 48 volts. ( Earlier post , earlier post.).

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Green Car Reports

SEPTEMBER 18, 2014

'The Iron Butt Association now has its first electric member, Terry Hershner. You may recognize Terry from his several cross-country attempts on his electric motorcycle. Now he has pushed the limits even farther, traveling 1,000 miles in less than 24 hours on his modified 2012 Zero S. The Iron Butt Association (IBA) is well known to motorcyclists.

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Green Car Reports

SEPTEMBER 18, 2014

'In February, the Canadian province of British Columbia became one of few areas of the world to allow its plug-in electric vehicle purchase incentives to expire. The cause was simple: The initial allocation of funds ran out, and the incentive was not renewed with further funding. Five months of vehicle registration data later, electric-car.

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Green Car Congress

SEPTEMBER 18, 2014

'BMW is using the AS8510 , an integrated automotive data acquisition front-end integrated circuit (IC) from ams AG, a leading provider of high performance analog ICs and sensors, to provide extremely accurate battery voltage and current measurements in its i3 electric vehicles (EVs). The BMW i3 model in volume production today includes an AS8510 in the battery sensor.

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Green Car Reports

SEPTEMBER 18, 2014

'Diesels seem likely to gain U.S. market share in light trucks and SUVs, hybrids are at least holding their own, and of course sales of plug-in electric cars are rising steadily. Wait.are we missing a green-car technology? As an article in The Los Angeles Times points out, natural-gas powered passenger vehicles remain the "neglected stepchild".

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Green Car Congress

SEPTEMBER 18, 2014

'The 2015 Volkswagen Jetta earned the Insurance Institute for Highway Safety’s highest award, Top Safety Pick+ , after a structural upgrade to improve small overlap protection and the addition of an optional front crash prevention system. Although the car didn’t get a full redesign, the A-pillars and door sills were strengthened for the 2015 model year.

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Green Car Reports

SEPTEMBER 18, 2014

'If you''ve never heard of the Iron Butt Assocation, you may not be a motorcycle rider--but you''ll be interested in the first electric bike rider to win the honor. Plus a crack in the dealer opposition to Tesla Motors, and some encouraging news on wind and solar energy. All this and more on Green Car Reports. What happens to sales when electric-car.

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Green Cars News

SEPTEMBER 18, 2014

'This is the flagship concept car Peugeot will be unveiling at October’s Paris Motor Show and it’s a plug-in hybrid with a 500bhp drivetrain. The Quartz four-seater crossover is a little larger than a Nissan Qashqai, measuring at 4.5 metres long and 2.06 metres wide, and intends to “create the ulti[.].

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Green Car Congress

SEPTEMBER 18, 2014

'A new study concludes that using ethanol can be a cost-effective approach to increasing the octane rating of the US gasoline pool. Source: ACS, Hirshfeld et al. Click to enlarge. A number of studies recently have pointed out that increasing the octane rating of the US gasoline pool (currently ?93 Research Octane Number (RON)) would enable higher engine efficiency for light-duty vehicles through reducing engine knock constraints, thereby enabling the design of new spark-ignition engines with hig

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Green Cars News

SEPTEMBER 18, 2014

'Citroen claims to be listening to consumer’s requests for more efficient, cheaper-to-run cars with the launch of the new 91mpg Cactus, but at next month’s Paris Motor Show, the French manufacturer will be unveiling the ultimate in economical Cacti: the Airflow 2L. Like sister company Peugeot’s 208 [.].

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Green Car Congress

SEPTEMBER 18, 2014

'MAHLE has developed a piston ring with new technology that offers engine manufacturers improvements in weight, quality and overall value. MAHLE’s new “second” piston ring uses chrome-silicon steel to replace cast iron traditionally used for the second of three rings found on gasoline-powered spark-ignition engines. MAHLE’s thinner, lighter-weight steel-wire design for the second ring is based on the company’s own NanoNapier Steel (NNS) technology for which a patent is pending.

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