Green Car Congress

DECEMBER 19, 2014

'New Volvo Bus 7900 Electric Hybrid (plug-in hybrid) buses ( earlier post ) began scheduled operation in Hamburg on 18 December, coinciding with the opening of the Innovation Route 109. The public transport company in Hamburg, the Hamburger Hochbahn AG, is using the route to run comparative tests of innovative drive technologies under the strict everyday conditions of scheduled services.

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Green Car Reports

DECEMBER 19, 2014

'Tesla Motors will shortly announce that it is launching a pilot program next week to test the long-promised battery-pack swapping technology for its Model S electric sedan. The swapping site will be located at a facility across the street from the Tesla Supercharger site in Harris Ranch, California--184 miles south of San Francisco and about 200.

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Green Car Congress

DECEMBER 19, 2014

'In a pre-Christmas media event, Ford president and CEO Mark Fields said while 2014 was a good year for the company, 2015 has the potential to be a “ breakthrough year ”. Fields said that Ford’s investments in products, people, plants and technology, combined with industry growth, are not only delivering a year of growth in terms of revenue, pricing power, operating margins and profitability in 2014, but are setting the stage for growth in and beyond 2015.

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Green Car Reports

DECEMBER 19, 2014

'Toyota president Akio Toyoda is on the cover of this week''s Bloomberg Businessweek, along with a provocative blurb. It says Toyoda has a dream for his family''s company--and that dream is "no more gasoline." The grandson of Toyota''s founder, Toyoda said explicitly what has already been intimated by other company executives and ads that lash out at.

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Green Car Congress

DECEMBER 19, 2014

'Volvo Cars, protective gravity sports gear manufacturer POC and Ericsson will present an innovative safety technology connecting drivers and cyclists at the International CES in Las Vegas next month. The technology consists of a connected car and helmet prototype that will establish 2-way communication, offering proximity alerts to Volvo drivers and cyclists with the goal of avoiding accidents.

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Green Car Reports

DECEMBER 19, 2014

'The 2016 Toyota Mirai hydrogen fuel-cell car will get a huge amount of promotion and attention from its maker, despite the very low numbers that will be built in its first years. In that respect, it''s very similar to the first Toyota Prius hybrid back in 1997--a first sketch of what a future powertrain may promise. But what''s it actually like to.

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Green Car Reports

DECEMBER 19, 2014

'Gas prices are falling: Michigan has signs advertising regular at $1.99 per gallon. It''s now below $3 a gallon even in California, which continues to be the focal point for electric-car adoption. Now an electric utility CEO has joined with an environmental advocate to urge that Californians stay the course in their adoption of plug-in electric.

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Green Car Congress

DECEMBER 19, 2014

'Researchers at the University of Texas at Austin, led by Prof. Arumugam Manthiram, have found that using phosphorus pentasulfide (P 2 S 5 ) as an electrolyte additive. enables the direct use of commercially available bulk Li 2 S particles as high-capacity cathode materials for rechargeable Li?S batteries, without intricate synthesis or application of a high charging cut-off voltage that deteriorates the electrolyte stability and safety.

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Green Car Reports

DECEMBER 19, 2014

'There are drivers who view the limited range of an electric car as a limitation--and those who view it as a challenge. Only with the latter attitude would one BMW i3 owner think to travel more than 400 miles in a car with 72 miles of electric range, assisted by a small gasoline range extender fed by a tiny fuel tank. DON''T MISS: 2014 BMW i3 REx.

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Green Car Congress

DECEMBER 19, 2014

'G2X Energy, Inc. and Methanol Holdings Trinidad Limited (MHTL) announced that MHTL intends to partner with G2X Energy to construct the world-scale methanol-to-gasoline (MTG)-ready, methanol production facility being developed by G2X Energy in Lake Charles, Louisiana. ( Earlier post.). MHTL is one of the largest methanol producers in the world with a total capacity of more than 4 million metric tons annually from its five (5) methanol plants located at the Point Lisas Industrial Estate on the tw

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Green Car Reports

DECEMBER 19, 2014

'It''s the end of another Congressional session, which means that a budget extension bill has now been rushed through and is likely to be signed. Called The Tax Increase Prevention Act of 2014 (H.R. 5771), it contains special provisions, rule tweaks, and concessions for many, many, many different constituencies. It extends more than 50 provisions of.

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Green Car Congress

DECEMBER 19, 2014

'Toyota is planning a further $126-million expansion of its Southeast Michigan R&D campuses—the third time in just over a year that Toyota has announced plans to increase employment and investment in Michigan. Under the plan, Toyota will expand its powertrain operations at its Ann Arbor campus and consolidate vehicle development operations at a new facility on its York Township campus.

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Green Car Reports

DECEMBER 19, 2014

'We wrap up the week with a first drive report of the 2016 Toyota Mirai hydrogen fuel-cell car, plus stories on extended green-car tax breaks and a BMW i3 REx electric-car road trip. All this and more on Green Car Reports. See what it''s like to take a road trip in the 2014 BMW i3 REx range-extended electric car, getting by on 72 miles of electric.

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Green Car Congress

DECEMBER 19, 2014

'Shanghai GM launched the Chevrolet Sail 3 in Chengdu; the third-generation Sail had been unveiled last month at the Guangzhou Motor Show. Five variants of the new family car with a choice of new 1.3L and 1.5L engines are available. The Sail 3, built on Shanghai GM’s new-generation small car architecture, is the first model in its class that comes standard with a start-stop system, which reduces fuel consumption by 3-5% in heavy traffic.

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Green Car Congress

DECEMBER 19, 2014

'Neste Oil Corporation and Renewable Energy Group have entered into a Settlement and License Agreement whereby the parties have settled Neste Oil’s US patent infringement lawsuits against REG and REG’s Singapore patent infringement lawsuits against Neste Oil and REG has licensed certain Neste Oil NExBTL renewable drop-in fuel technology and intellectual property rights for use at REG Geismar in Louisiana.

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