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Researchers at the University of Copenhagen have discovered a natural process for the breakdown of biomass they describe as “reverse photosynthesis”—as opposed to the building of biomass as is the case with photosynthesis. Combined with a specific enzyme, the energy of sunlight can break down plant biomass. Oxidative processes are essential for the breakdown of plant biomass.

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APRIL 4, 2016

The history of the modern incarnation of Dutch brand Spyker is a short but troubled one. After launching in 2000 with a sports car called the C8, Spyker made the costly error of entering Formula One. It then made an even costlier error of trying to save Saab, which ultimately still went under and saw its assets sold off to National Electric.

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Tesla delivered 14,820 units worldwide in Q1 of 2016, comprising 12,420 Model S vehicles (84%) and 2,400 Model X vehicles (16%). Q1 deliveries were almost 50% more than Q1 last year and Tesla said it remains on track to deliver 80,000 to 90,000 new vehicles in 2016. Tesla said that the Q1 delivery count was impacted by “severe” Model X supplier parts shortages in January and February that lasted much longer than initially expected.

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Three days ago, when Global Equities Research projected more than 300,000 reservations for the Tesla Model 3 electric car by the start of this week, that number seemed outlandish. And yet, by the end of Saturday, the global total had reached 276,000, according to a tweet by Tesla CEO Elon Musk. When the Model 3 was first unveiled in California on.

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The average fuel economy (window-sticker value) of new vehicles sold in the US in March 2016 was 25.3 mpg (9.29 l/100km)—unchanged from the revised value for February 2016, according to the latest monthly report from Dr. Michael Sivak and Brandon Schoettle at the University of Michigan Transportation Research Institute (UMTRI). Fuel economy is down 0.5 mpg from the peak reached in August 2014, but still up 5.2 mpg since October 2007.

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Richard Hugo, of Carpinteria, California, may be the only Tesla Model S owner in the world who prefers to drive his other car. But it’s not as crazy as it sounds; his second set of wheels is a gorgeous blue 1967 Volkswagen Beetle that he’s converted to electric power. It gets just as many stares and thumbs-up as his Model S, he.

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APRIL 4, 2016

Purchase incentives have proven to be a powerful tool for electric-car adoption in those states that offer them. And now it seems two more states may be ready to join that group. New York has just added budget provisions for an electric-car incentive program during the upcoming fiscal year, and Minnesota is close to passing similar measures as.

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During an impromptu Twitter AMA (Ask Me Anything) session over the weekend, Elon Musk, Tesla’s Chairman, CEO, chief evangelist and one-man marketing dynamo tweeted that Model 3 reservations were up to 276,000 by the end of Saturday. Musk said he would post another update on Wednesday. Musk also said that Tesla had expected reservations to be ¼ to ½ of what actually occurred; “ No one at Tesla thought it would be this high before Part 2 of the unveil. ” Other snippets: Model 3 is RW

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Today, we look at the implications of the surge in Tesla Model 3 deposits, a European Volkswagen diesel recall stalls, and Dutch boutique carmaker Spyker may build an electric SUV. All this and more on Green Car Reports. We have the Tesla Model 3, Toyota Prius Prime, and more in our Week in Reverse feature and video. Designers explain their work.

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Toyota is launching a new company—Toyota Connected, Inc.—to significantly expand the company’s capabilities in the fields of data management and data services development. The new company will serve as a data science hub for Toyota’s global operations and will support a broad range of consumer-, business- and government- facing initiatives.

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APRIL 4, 2016

Six months into the Volkswagen diesel scandal, the company still hasn't reached an agreement with regulators on how it will recall nearly 600,000 affected TDI cars in the U.S. But things didn't look so bad in Europe, at least for a while. VW previously said that a fix for some of the affected vehicles sold there had been approved, and that it.

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APRIL 4, 2016

Uno-X Hydrogen AS , a NEL ASA (NEL) joint venture, will build a hydrogen refueling station (HRS) with on-site hydrogen production co-located with Powerhouse Kjørbo, an energy-positive office building in Sandvika, Norway. Powerhouse Kjørbo, which is owned by Entra ASA, uses solar panels that can supply upward of 200,000 kWh each year, twice the amount of the building’s annual energy consumption.

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Researchers at the National Renewable Energy Laboratory (NREL) have developed a modeling and experimental strategy to characterize the thermal performance of materials and their interfaces using a unique technique: laser-based transient thermoreflectance. The heat removal path in electronics packaging usually involves multiple layers. These layers and the associated contact resistances can present a significant bottleneck to heat flow.

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Researchers from the Shandong Provincial Key Laboratory of Synthetic Biology, Qingdao Institute of Bioenergy and Bioprocess Technology, Chinese Academy of Sciences have identified and characterized the first thermophilic bacterium capable ( Defluviitalea phaphyphila ) of direct conversion of brown algae to ethanol. D. phaphyphila Alg1 can simultaneously utilize mannitol, glucose, and alginate to produce ethanol.

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Swedish-Finnish steel company SSAB, mining company LKAB and power company Vattenfall have launched an initiative to develop a steel production process that emits water rather than carbon dioxide. The aim of the HYBRIT (Hydrogen Breakthrough Ironmaking Technology) project is to reduce carbon dioxide emissions from ironmaking to zero by eliminating the need to use fossil fuel for iron ore reduction.

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Kapsch TrafficCom AG has acquired Schneider Electric’s Transportation Business. The company, formerly operating under Telvent Tráfico y Transporte, is a provider of real-time IT solutions and intelligent transportation systems complementary to those provided by Kapsch. The acquisition expands the Kapsch portfolio and strengthens its market position in intelligent transportation systems, especially in the growth markets of Spain, Latin America, North America and the Middle East.

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