Green Car Congress

JANUARY 19, 2015

'European 2014 EV marketshare of top 5 OEMs. Data: Nissan. Click to enlarge. The battery-electric Nissan LEAF has topped its own European sales record with a 33% increase in European sales in 2014 over the previous year, taking 26% of the burgeoning electric car market with 14,658 sales out of a total 56,393, according to figures from Nissan. Nissan and its partner Renault together accounted for a full 46% of the EV market in Europe in 2014.

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Green Car Reports

JANUARY 19, 2015

'Say "P85D" to Tesla owners and fans, and you will see the drooling and twitching and heavy breathing and lustful stares--and more drooling--that Tesla''s fastest, highest-performance electric car brings. The same happens with the word "Hellcat" for fans of high-powered Hemi V-8 performance. DON''T MISS: Tesla Model S P85D Obliterates Ferrari In Drag.

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Green Car Congress

JANUARY 19, 2015

'In a study investigating the effect of the water and free fatty acid (FFA) content in waste chicken fat from poultry processing plants on the production of renewable diesel (not biodiesel), researchers in Thailand have found that both higher FFA and water content improved the biohydrogenated diesel (BHD) yield. In their paper, published in the ACS journal Energy & Fuels , they reported that the presence of water accelerated the breakdown of the triglyceride molecules into FFAs, while the presen

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Green Car Reports

JANUARY 19, 2015

'As electric cars grow in popularity, workplace charging becomes more important. Yet while it provides a convenient option for drivers--especially those without their own garages for charging at home--workplace charging can also pose management problems for the companies that offer it. DON''T MISS: Workplace Charging Doubles in Two Years, 90% Of.

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Green Car Congress

JANUARY 19, 2015

'The Korea Herald reports that unnamed sources say that Hyundai Motor has decided to lower the price of the Tucson fuel cell sport utility vehicle ( earlier post ) to compete with Toyota Motor’s Mirai fuel cell car ( earlier post ). “Hyundai Motor recently informed Gwangju City, a major local buyer of the Tucson FCV, of its internal decision to cut the car price,” an industry insider close to the matter said on condition of anonymity last week. … “Hyundai Motor made the move, pressed by Toyota’s

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Green Car Reports

JANUARY 19, 2015

'Advertising is crucial for automakers trying to explain the benefits of electric cars to an often-skeptical public. So what better forum than the advertising mecca that is the Super Bowl? While teams battle for the National Football League championship during Super Bowl XLIX, BMW will try to catch customers'' attention with an ad for its i3.

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Green Car Reports

JANUARY 19, 2015

'The new 2016 Chevrolet Volt, its designers and engineers say, carries many features requested by owners of the first-generation Volt built from 2011 through this year. Among them are more electric range, an illuminated charging port. and a fifth seating position. DON''T MISS: 2016 Chevrolet Volt: 50-Mile Range, 41 MPG, Five Seats, All New.

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Green Car Congress

JANUARY 19, 2015

'Exxon Mobil Corporation and its partners in the Sakhalin-1 consortium have begun production at the Sakhalin-1 project’s Arkutun-Dagi field—the last of the three sub-Arctic offshore Sakhalin Island in the Russian Far East to be developed. Peak daily production from the field is expected to reach 90,000 barrels. The field will bring total daily production at Sakhalin-1 to more than 200,000 barrels.

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Green Car Reports

JANUARY 19, 2015

'Sergio Marchionne, CEO of newly merged Fiat Chrysler Automobiles, is not a man to mince words. While carmakers can meet fuel-economy requirements for 2025, he said last week, he slammed government efforts to boost plug-in electric cars. The industry will find the most cost-effective way to meet efficiency goals, he said. But, "Don''t tell me that I.

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Green Car Congress

JANUARY 19, 2015

'Researchers at North Carolina State University have developed a highly effective new perovskite-promoted iron oxide redox catalyst for a hybrid solar-redox scheme they had proposed earlier for partial oxidation and water-splitting of methane. In a paper published in the RSC journal Energy & Environmental Science , Feng He and Fanxing Li report that the new material—lanthanum strontium ferrite (La 0.8 Sr 0. 2FeO 3-?

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Green Car Reports

JANUARY 19, 2015

'Today we bring you a drag-race contest between a Tesla Model S P85D electric car and a 707-horsepower V-8 Dodge Challenger SRT Hellcat, an explanation of the 2016 Chevrolet Volt''s "occassional" fifth-seat claim, and Fiat Chrysler CEO Sergion Marchionne''s belief that carmakers can meet upcoming fuel-economy targets. All this and more on Green Car.

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Green Car Congress

JANUARY 19, 2015

'CALSTART announced that four electric shuttle buses are being deployed in Mountain View, California. The Mountain View Community Shuttle service is aimed at moving residents and visitors through the City between neighborhoods, shopping centers, medical complexes, City facilities, and recreation areas. The buses were manufactured by Motiv Power Systems of Foster City, using funds from the California Energy Commission (CEC).

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