Green Car Congress

JULY 14, 2014

'The ETHOS 2.8L demo truck. Click to enlarge. Cummins has developed an E-85-specific engine and powertrain that reduce carbon dioxide emissions by as much as 80% compared with a baseline gasoline-powered medium-duty truck. The work was jointly funded by Cummins and partners ($3,790,027) in partnership with the California Energy Commission (CEC) ($2,712,140).

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Green Car Reports

JULY 14, 2014

'General Motors is still hard at work behind the scenes on the next-generation Chevrolet Volt. We won''t know full details of the car for some time, but one upgrade it''s likely to feature is a new, more efficient and less expensive power inverter. According to Charged EVs, GM is currently developing an inverter capable of a 55kW peak and 30kW.

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Green Car Congress

JULY 14, 2014

'Crazy Diamond Performance (CDP) has developed a mono-fuel CNG Chevrolet Cruze, with intended market introduction no later than October 2014. The CDP CNG Cruze will certified to the cleanest emissions standard available for an internal combustion engine, according to CDP President Kevin Fern. Fern said that the 1.8L-equipped CNG Cruze outputs 20 hp and 24 ft-lbs torque over its competitor, while maintaining nearly the same fuel economy.

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Green Car Reports

JULY 14, 2014

'With a new Toyota Prius on the horizon, rumors abound as to what the next-generation of the world''s best-selling hybrid will offer when it''s unveiled late next year. Some changes are a given: Better fuel efficiency, an improved interior, a revised yet familiar shape. Others, such as all-wheel drive, looked less likely--but Toyota engineers are.

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Green Car Congress

JULY 14, 2014

'Lithium-ion batteries could benefit from a theoretical model created at Rice University and Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory that predicts how carbon-based anodes will perform. The model is based on intrinsic characteristics of materials used as battery electrodes. These include limitations on quantum capacitance (the ability of the material to absorb charge) and the material’s absolute Fermi level, which determines how many lithium ions may bond to the electrodes.

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Green Car Reports

JULY 14, 2014

'To borrow from an old soccer saying, plug-in electric car sales in Canada are a game in which about a dozen models compete, and the Chevy Volt wins. But in the broader competition with combustion, based on current trends, the Canadian market looks ripe to hit a nice round milestone by the end of the year. And Canadians have made some Smart moves.

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Green Car Reports

JULY 14, 2014

'Today on Green Car Reports: Tesla Motors recruits U.S. military veterans, and reports of all-wheel drive for the 2015 Toyota Prius hybrid and a diesel engine option for the 2016 Hyundai Tucson compact crossover. All this and more on Green Car Reports. We recounted our biggest stories of last week in The Week in Reverse. Catch up with our video.

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Green Car Congress

JULY 14, 2014

'Click to enlarge. Under a new 10-year, $1.1-billion agreement, Alcoa will supply key parts for Pratt & Whitney’s jet engines, including the forging for the first aluminum fan blade for jet engines. The forging was developed for Pratt & Whitney’s PurePower engines using an advanced aluminum alloy and a proprietary manufacturing process. Also for the PurePower engines, Alcoa is developing a fan blade forging using its most advanced aluminum-lithium alloy.

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Green Car Reports

JULY 14, 2014

'While the keys of the first Hyundai Tucson Fuel Cell to be leased in the U.S. were handed over last month, the automaker is putting the final touches on the new 2016 Hyundai Tucson. It''s expected to launch early next summer. Hyundai''s chief U.S. designer, Chris Chapman, told us the next Tucson will be "as big a leap in design as the.

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Green Car Congress

JULY 14, 2014

'In Vienna, the Linde Group officially opened the first small-series production facility for hydrogen fueling stations. Linde extensively modernized and expanded the Vienna Application Centre specifically for this project. A number of hydrogen fueling innovations have originated from this research and development hub in Vienna in recent years, including Linde’s energy-efficient, compact ionic compressor, the IC 90. ( Earlier post.).

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JULY 14, 2014

'Tuesday 15 July, 2014. The Green Piece Column. Electric quadricycles have been long been mooted as the perfect transport solution and promoting them as such has almost become a self-defence response to any criticism about their speed and range. But are those like Renault, doing themselves a diss[.].

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Green Car Congress

JULY 14, 2014

'The new mid-size SUV is based on the CrossBlue concept. Click to enlarge. The Board of Directors of Volkswagen Group of America has decided to award the production of its new midsize SUV to the Chattanooga plant in Tennessee. The Group will be investing a total of approximately US$900 million (€643 million) in the production of the newly developed, seven-passenger SUV, creating 2,000 additional jobs in the US.

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Green Cars News

JULY 14, 2014

'Nissan’s fully electric LEAF supermini is to go wild with a new deployment to Knowsley Safari park near Liverpool. A model of the zero emission hatchback is to join the fleet at Knowsley as part of the Learning and Discovery team at the park, as they deliver lessons on conservation and sustainabil[.].

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Green Car Congress

JULY 14, 2014

'Elevance Renewable Sciences, Inc., a high-growth specialty chemicals company that creates novel specialty chemicals from natural oils, has entered a new collaboration with Genting Plantations Berhad through Genting Integrated Biorefinery Sdn Bhd (GIB), to be located in the Palm Oil Industrial Cluster (POIC) in Lahad Datu, Sabah, Malaysia. The 25:75 collaboration between Elevance and Genting Plantations Berhad will build a 240,000 MT metathesis biorefinery based on Elevance’s proprietary metathe

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JULY 14, 2014

'Daimler-owned Mitsubishi Fuso Trucks is beginning a trial lease program in Portugal for its new Fuso Canter E-Cell trucks, to see how the fully electric commercial deals with the demands of working life. Produced at the car giant’s Tramagal plant in Portugal, eight models of the new Canter E-Cell [.].

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Green Car Congress

JULY 14, 2014

'Volkswagen is endowing its the new version of its Scirocco sports coupé with a range of six new gasoline (TSI) and diesel (TDI) engines delivering more power and better fuel economy. With its entry-level engines, the Scirocco consumes 5.4 l/100 km (43.6 mpg US) with the 92 kW 1.4 TSI, and 4.2 l/100 km (56 mpg US) with the 110 kW 2.0 TDI. The Scirocco 2.0 TSI (132 KW)—with and additional 20 PS—accelerates 0.6 seconds faster to 100 km/h than its predecessor.

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Green Cars News

JULY 14, 2014

'While the German football team was picking up the FIFA World Cup in Brazil, one of the country’s biggest car manufacturers, Volkswagen, was awarded the National Energy Globe Award Germany for its environmental programme ‘Think Blue. Factory.’ The award honours outstanding projects from around the[.].

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Green Car Congress

JULY 14, 2014

'View of the CNG tank in the bed of a Silverado 2500HD with bi-fuel option. Click to enlarge. GM’s 2015 Chevy Silverado 2500HD with the bi-fuel (natural gas) option ( earlier post ) offers buyers—primarily commercial and fleet buyers—a strong natural-gas option in the ¾-ton pickup market that combines the excellent qualities of the base Silverado 2500HD with the economic (lower cost) and environmental (lower emissions of GHGs and criteria pollutants) benefits of natural gas fu

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Green Car Congress

JULY 14, 2014

'Airbus officially launched the latest enhancement to its medium-range widebody A330 Family: the A330neo (new engine option) program. The A330neo program comprises two versions—the A330-800neo and A330-900neo—which incorporate new Rolls-Royce Trent 7000 engines, along with aerodynamic improvements and the latest in the company’s cabin technology to provide enhanced operating economics.

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