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MARCH 28, 2016

Ioxus, Inc. is offering the ultracapacitor-based uSTART engine starting system for Class 3-6 trucks as a drop-in replacement product that needs no special wiring. Ioxus says the product increases the vehicle bus voltage by greater than 10% during crank, reducing cranking time by more than 20%; reducing peak current to the starter by more than 15%; reducing the cycling seen by the battery by more than 40%; increases starter life by more than 30%; and provides a built-in jump start system that wil

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MARCH 28, 2016

German automakers, especially the luxury brands, are not necessarily known for humility, modesty, and deference. So for an executive at such a company to acknowledge that a U.S. upstart that didn't exist 15 years ago "did everything right" is remarkable. That's exactly what one Audi executive said of electric-car maker Tesla Motors at a recent.

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MARCH 28, 2016

Global plug-in light duty vehicle (PEV) sales increased by about 80% in 2015 to 565,668 units, according to figures compiled by Argonne National Laboratory and posted by the US Energy Information Administration (EIA). PEV sales in the US declined by 3% to 115,262 units (20% global share); however, sales in China more than doubled to 214,283 units, surpassing all other countries in the number of PEVs sold.

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MARCH 28, 2016

Would you buy a car from a company that makes vacuum cleaners? Dyson, the U.K. company known for its bagless vacuums, could soon try to build an electric car of its own. It's developing an electric car at its headquarters in Wiltshire, England, according to government documents. DON'T MISS: Dyson Buys Solid-State Battery Startup Sakti3 For $90.

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MARCH 28, 2016

The US Department of Agriculture (USDA) will support Novus Energy’s new biorefinery project in Boardman, Ore. with an $11-million loan guarantee through the Biorefinery, Renewable Chemical, and Biobased Product Manufacturing Assistance Program. The Novus plant will process agricultural waste into fuel, natural gas, organic fertilizer and other bio-based products.

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MARCH 28, 2016

Biofuels offer the promise of lower emissions, but they are often made from crops that might otherwise be used for food—or displace food acreage. Given the scale of production needed for a given biofuel to have a meaningful impact on carbon emissions, that's a problem. So the challenge for researchers is finding a plant source that isn't.

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MARCH 28, 2016

Carlos Ghosn, who runs automakers Nissan and Renault, is one of the few auto executives who'll regularly take questions from a roomful of more than 100 journalists. At last week's New York Auto Show, many of the questions concerned plans by the Renault Nissan Alliance for more and higher-volume electric cars. Discussing plans for India and China.

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MARCH 28, 2016

Business Korea reports that a team at Korea Institute of Machinery & Materials (KIMM) has developed a Euro-6 compliant HCNG engine for intracity buses as part of a larger project consortium headed by Korea Gas Corporation (Kogas). HCNG is blend of hydrogen and compressed natural gas (CNG). Earlier studies by Kogas showed that as the hydrogen mixing volume increases, the flammable lean limit of the blended fuel expands and the combustion rate is increased.

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MARCH 28, 2016

The actual six-month anniversary of the Volkswagen diesel-cheating scandal came 10 days ago, and news has continued to bubble up since then. Most recently, all three parties who must agree on a regulatory settlement (the EPA, the powerful California Air Resources Board, and VW itself) were granted a further delay in a court-mandated deadline to.

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MARCH 28, 2016

DARPA’s latest Grand Challenge— Spectrum Collaboration Challenge (SC2) —is designed to ensure that the exponentially growing number of military and civilian wireless devices will have full access to the increasingly crowded electromagnetic spectrum. SC2 will reward teams for developing smart systems that collaboratively, rather than competitively, adapt in real time to today’s fast-changing, congested spectrum environment—redefining the conventional spectrum management roles of human

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MARCH 28, 2016

Today, we have the reservation agreement for the Tesla Model 3, news that the U.S. launch of the 2017 Mitsubishi Outlander Plug-In Hybrid is being delayed again, and Dyson electric-car plans. All this and more on Green Car Reports. The 2017 Mitsubishi Outlander Plug-In Hybrid is delayed again, and there will be more significant changes for the.

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A new study by a team from the Engine Research Laboratory at the Indian Institute of Technology Kanpur explores the combustion, performance and emission characteristics of a prototype spark ignition engine operating with different blend ratios of HCNG (hydrogen and compressed natural gas blends). Their paper is published in the journal Fuel. Use of lower carbon natural gas and carbon-free hydrogen have potential to reduce harmful emissions of criteria pollutants and greenhouse gas (GHG) emission

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MARCH 28, 2016

The current Hyundai Tucson Fuel Cell was the first of the modern crop of hydrogen fuel-cell vehicles to go on sale, and it's also the only one with a crossover utility vehicle body. As the name suggests, it's a (previous-generation) Tucson fitted with a fuel-cell powertrain. Now it seems that Hyundai may make its next fuel-cell vehicle a crossover.

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MARCH 28, 2016

A Sandia-led team has developed a new method to make an iron-nitride magnetic material that could lead to lighter and smaller, cheaper and better-performing high-frequency transformers, needed for more flexible energy storage systems and widespread adoption of renewable energy. Sandia manufactures iron nitride (γ’-Fe 4 N) powders by ball-milling iron powders in liquid nitrogen and then ammonia.

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