Mon.Aug 08, 2016

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CALSTART brief highlights growth of and future opportunity for California’s clean transportation technology industry

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A new CALSTART brief indicates that California’s climate and energy policies are not only helping to protect the environment and improve air quality, but are also helping to accelerate growth of the clean transportation technology industry (CTTI) in the state. The paper, “ California’s Clean Transportation Technology Industry: Time to Shift into High Gear ,” profiles the development of a burgeoning manufacturing sector that is producing zero- and near-zero emission light-, medium- and heavy-duty

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Plug-in hybrid problem: buyers don't understand them at all

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What's an electric car? It's a car powered by a battery, like your cellphone. Doesn't use gasoline. What's a hybrid car? It's a car that runs on gasoline, but gets better fuel economy (whether or not you understand how). OK, so what's a plug-in hybrid? DON'T MISS: BMW 330e plug-in hybrid ads: no wait for Tesla Model 3 needed Ask average car buyers.

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Aqua Metals opens first AquaRefining center for low-pollution lead-acid battery recycling

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Aqua Metals , Inc. recently held an open house at its first AquaRefinery at the Tahoe-Reno Industrial Center (TRIC) in McCarran, Nevada. The company says that its proprietary AquaRefining is first environmentally friendly process to recycle lead-acid batteries (LABs). The AquaRefining technology extracts lead from LABs with a room temperature, closed-loop, water-based process that results in significant reductions of hazardous waste and direct human contact with the lead itself.

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Is the elevated Chinese bus really practical? Could it work?

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Last week, the massive Chinese elevated bus whose renderings had rocketed around the Internet made its first test run. The bus runs on rails embedded in the street, with room for cars to pass underneath it. Officially known as the Transit Elevated Bus, or TEB-1, it carried its first passengers on a stretch of street in the city of Qinhuangdao.

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How serious is Norway about climate change? So much that its streetlights self-dim

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Tufts team finds aviation impact on particle number concentrations downwind of airport; correlation with flight activity

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Jet aircraft emit ultrafine particles (UFPs; aerodynamic diameter of <100 nm) at high rates. In a study with implications for populated areas near airports, a team from Tufts University in Boston has found that the impact of aviation on ambient ultrafine particle number concentrations (PNCs) extend many kilometers downwind of Boston’s Logan airport.

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BMW 330e plug-in hybrid ads: no wait for Tesla Model 3 needed

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The Tesla Model 3 electric car, which its maker says will launch late next year with 200 miles of range and a $35,000 price, has caused a few shock waves across the car industry. All the German luxury makers now have plans for their own 200-mile battery-electric vehicles coming in 2018 or later, at various prices. Now at least one maker, BMW, is.

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Olympics VIPs get rides in Nissan BladeGlider electric sports car

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The Nissan BladeGlider electric sports car concept, which first appeared at the 2013 Tokyo Motor Show, is now back in the form of working prototypes that were unveiled in Brazil. A pair of prototypes will be used during the Summer Olympics in Rio de Janeiro, with one car serving as a static display and another giving rides to VIPs. The prototype.

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Johnson Matthey and 3M complete NMC patent license agreement for automotive Li-ion batteries

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Johnson Matthey and 3M have entered into a patent license agreement that aims at further expanding the use of Nickel-Manganese-Cobalt (NMC) cathode materials in lithium-ion batteries for automotive applications. Under the agreement, 3M grants Johnson Matthey a license to US6964828 (Lu and Dahn), US7078128 (Lu and Dahn), US8241791 (Lu and Dahn), US8685565 (Lu and Dahn) and all global equivalents thereof, and to US6660432 (Paulsen et al.) and all global equivalents thereof.

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Consumer Reports urges higher VW diesel buyback amounts

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Last month, a federal judge gave preliminary approval to a settlement covering Volkswagen 2.0-liter TDI diesel cars with illegal "defeat device" software. That settlement included specific amounts VW must pay owners in buybacks. But just before the public comment period for the settlement ended, Consumer Reports stepped in to advocate for higher.

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Karma using independent dealers and company centers for launch or Revero plug-in hybrid

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Karma Automotive’s planned distribution strategy will use both independent dealers and also company owned brand-experience centers to sell and service the new high-end Revero plug-in hybrid. The company said it has been curating best-in-class dealers in key markets in preparation for the Revero going on sale later this year. We spent the last year going through a long and complex process to ensure that our distribution strategy would live up to the exacting standards for luxury and service our c

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Faurecia and Accenture partner on products and services for connected and autonomous vehicles

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BMW teases Tesla, Nissan BladeGlider, CR on VW buybacks: Today's Car News

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Today, ads for the BMW 330e plug-in hybrid poke fun at Tesla Model 3 wait times, the Nissan BladeGlider electric sports car reemerges in Brazil, and Consumer Reports criticizes Volkswagen diesel buyback offers. All this and more on Green Car Reports. Read about electric car emissions, a Chevrolet Volt sales milestone, and good news for Volkswagen.

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TU Delft student team presents Forze VII hydrogen racer

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TU Delft student team Forze presented the Forze VII hydrogen racer to the public for the first time on Sunday during the Gamma Racing Day at the TT Circuit in Assen. The Forze VII is built using an ADESS-03 LMP3 monocoque and is powered by a 100 kW Ballard FC Velocity MK1100 stack with Forze balance of plant along with a battery pack. Two Yasa P400 electric motors give the car a peak power of 320 kW.

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BMW 225xe Active Tourer – Review

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Guest post: Dan Brook of EVIOM (With thanks to Buchanan BMW) EVIOM (Electric Vehicles Isle of Man) took one of BMW’s PHEVs for a spin recently (that’s Plug-in Hybrid Electric Vehicle to you). This is one of the first of many Plug-in versions of BMWs range that you will see.

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Pete Savagian leaves GM to become VP Engineering at Faraday Future

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Pete Savagian, who served in critical electric drive engineering roles at GM since the EV1, has left General Motors to become the VP Engineering at Faraday Future. In a posting on Linked In, Savagian said that he will lead Faraday Future’s engineering operations for powertrain, battery and related high voltage systems. In July, Faraday Future announced a long-term alliance with Dragon Racing, becoming the core technical partner and title sponsor of the team.

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ExxonMobil announces 6th oil discovery offshore Guyana with Ranger-1; Guyana may move from non-producer to regional powerhouse

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Alfa Romeo reveals pricing and spec for long-awaited Giulia

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The new Alfa Romeo Giulia has been a long time coming, but ahead of the saloon’s September arrival the pricing and specifications have been revealed.

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First drive review: New Audi A5

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Always one of the more elegant cars in the Audi range, the original A5 is getting on a bit. While it masks its nine years well, it’s probably time for.

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