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FEBRUARY 23, 2016
SPLT will launch a pilot rideshare platform with global automotive supplier Magna International. As part of the pilot program, Magna will offer the SPLT rideshare platform to approximately 1,700 of its employees, who commute to and from four of its Southeast Michigan locations. SPLT is a 2015 Techstars Mobility company that provides an app-based dynamic rideshare platform.
Green Car Reports
FEBRUARY 23, 2016
When talking about electric cars and early adopters, the state of Oregon often seems like the Little Engine That Could. It's the only state to have appointed an Electric Car Czar as a state employee, it started work on the West Coast Electric Highway fully five years ago (California is just now funding its share of those chraging sites), and it.
Green Car Congress
FEBRUARY 23, 2016
Mobileye N.V has signed a Memorandum of Understanding with Nissan aimed to integrate Mobileye’s new Road Experience Management (REM) technology into Nissan’s fleets. REM technology provides real-time data for precise localization and high-definition lane data that forms an important layer of information to support fully autonomous driving. Nissan is the third large automaker, following GM and Volkswagen, to have partnered with Mobileye to integrate REM technology.
Green Car Reports
FEBRUARY 23, 2016
There's an emerging rivalry between two different technologies for zero-emission transportation: battery-electric cars and hydrogen fuel-cell vehicles. Within the auto industry, each powertrain has its strong advocates. Some carmakers are focusing on either fuel cells or batteries, to the exclusion of the other. Hydrogen fuel cells are backed most.
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Green Car Congress
FEBRUARY 23, 2016
The US Energy Information Administration (EIA) expects that motor gasoline consumption in the US will remain below the 2007 peak despite an increase in travel. EIA attributes the outcome largely to improvements in light-duty vehicle fuel economy. Based on estimates in the most recent Short-Term Energy Outlook (STEO), vehicle travel in the United States in 2015 was almost 4% above its 2007 level, but motor gasoline consumption has not exceeded its previous peak in 2007.
Green Car Reports
FEBRUARY 23, 2016
The 2016 Geneva Motor Show is right around the corner, and a number of electric cars, hybrids, and other green models are set to debut there. As with any auto show, there will be a mix of concept cars and more down-to-earth production models. This being a European show, there will also be a few green-car debuts that fall under the category of.
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Green Car Reports
FEBRUARY 23, 2016
As U.S. electric-vehicle advocates are well aware, a handful of states have reduced or killed incentives for plug-in vehicles over the past year, adding some headwinds to sales. Earlier this month, the Canadian province of Ontario took the opposite approach, expanding its plug-in electric vehicle incentive program. It's a welcome tailwind. The new.
Green Car Congress
FEBRUARY 23, 2016
At Mobile World Congress in Barcelona, LG Electronics (LG) and Intel announced that they are collaborating to develop and to pilot 5G-based telematics technology, the next generation of wireless technology for cars. LG and Intel will utilize research and development expertise and leadership from both companies with the intent to be first to market with 5G ready solutions. 5G telematics delivers data more than 33 times faster than 4G LTE with latency expected to drop to about one tenth of current
Green Car Reports
FEBRUARY 23, 2016
Tesla Motors seems poised to make a small but significant change to its online presence. Anyone familiar with the company knows that its domain name is TeslaMotors.com. But now Tesla has finally gotten its hands on the domain name "Tesla.com"--after roughly 10 years of trying. DON'T MISS: Tesla Resolves Chinese Trademark Fight 'Completely.
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FEBRUARY 23, 2016
Li-ion battery maker LG Chem will supply the 16-kWh Li-ion battery pack system and controls for the 2017 Chrysler Pacifica Hybrid minivan. ( Earlier post.) The agreement with FCA US marks the first time LG Chem will engineer and manufacture a complete battery pack in Michigan for a volume production North American PHEV. The Pacifica Hybrid, scheduled to be launched in late 2016 and introduced at the North American International Auto Show in Detroit, will be the first mass-produced hybrid minivan
Green Car Reports
FEBRUARY 23, 2016
Five months after it first hit the press, U.S. owners of 580,000 diesel vehicles with Volkswagen TDI engines are no closer to knowing how or when their cars will be modified than they were in mid-September. And if a report last week by the Reuters news service is accurate, they have at least another month to wait--and potentially longer yet. VW.
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FEBRUARY 23, 2016
AT&T is expanding its multi-year connected car agreement with Audi in North America; the integration of next-generation technology will help deliver many new features to the Audi connect system in select 2017 and 2018 models. AT&T also announced it will enter a multi-year connected car agreement with Porsche in North America. AT&T has provided Audi cars with connectivity for Audi connect and Wi-Fi since 2014.
Green Car Reports
FEBRUARY 23, 2016
Today, we preview the green-car debuts for the 2016 Geneva Motor Show, Tesla Motors secures the domain name "Tesla.com," and Daimler CEO Dieter Zetsche is skeptical of hydrogen fuel-cell cars' long-term prospects. All this and more on Green Car Reports. Tesla Motors finally secures the domain name "Tesla.com," helping clear the way for the company.
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FEBRUARY 23, 2016
A team from the US, China and India, led by researchers from Michigan State University, has developed a new liquid ammonia biomass pretreatment methodology called Extractive Ammonia (EA). EA-pretreated corn stover delivers a higher fermentable sugar yield compared to the older Ammonia Fiber Expansion (AFEX) process while using 60% lower enzyme loading.
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FEBRUARY 23, 2016
The EU and Brazil signed an agreement to develop 5G, the next generation of communication networks. The Commission also started work on an action plan to deploy the technology in the EU by 2020. 5G will be the backbone of the EU Digital Single Market, industries of the future, modern public services and innovative applications such as connected cars, smart homes or mobile health services.
Green Car Congress
FEBRUARY 23, 2016
Researchers at the University of Texas at Arlington have demonstrated a new solar process for the one-step, gas-phase conversion of CO 2 and H 2 O to C 5+ liquid hydrocarbons and O 2 by operating the photocatalytic reaction at elevated temperatures and pressures. The photothermocatalytic process for the synthesis of hydrocarbons—including liquid alkanes, aromatics, and oxygenates, with carbon numbers (C n ) up to C 13 —ran in a flow photoreactor operating at elevated temperatures (18
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