Green Car Congress

MARCH 5, 2015

'Mercedes-Benz Vans USA introduced the Mercedes-Benz Metris midsize van at the NTEA Work Truck Show in Indianapolis. The Metris, which launches at US dealers in October 2015, is the US and Canadian sibling to the Vito ( earlier post ), which remains the midsize commercial van nameplate for all other global markets. The Metris will be available with a 4-cylinder gasoline engine that has 208 hp (155 kW) and 258 lb-ft (350 N·m) of torque, mated to a 7-speed automatic transmission with rear-w

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Green Car Reports

MARCH 5, 2015

'The announcement that the 2017 Chevrolet Bolt electric car will go into production within 18 months seemingly sent shockwaves through the auto industry. GM''s crosstown rival Ford, which has sold hybrids for more than 10 years but shown little love for battery-electric cars, now seems to feel the need to respond. According to reports, Ford will now.

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Green Car Congress

MARCH 5, 2015

'Lightning Hybrids, developer and manufacturer of hydraulic hybrid systems for medium- and heavy-duty trucks and buses ( earlier post ), announced an agreement with Kiessling Transit to supply 35 hydraulic hybrid systems. The sale marks Lightning Hybrids’ largest order to date. The company’s system demonstrated improvements of 30% in fuel efficiency and significantly reduced NO x emissions during a year-long pilot program with the leading Massachusetts-based transportation company.

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Green Car Reports

MARCH 5, 2015

'When pricing for the 2015 Volkswagen e-Golf electric car was announced last August, only one trim level was available, a lavishly equipped top-of-the-range package. Now VW has supplemented that SEL Premium version of the e-Golf with a new, less expensive model called the Limited Edition, at a price almost $2,000 lower. DON''T MISS: 2015 Volkswagen.

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Green Car Congress

MARCH 5, 2015

'Nissan and Endesa, an Enel Group subsidiary, signed an agreement at the Geneva International Motor Show pledging to work together to deliver a mass-market V2G system and an innovative business model designed to leverage this technology. The two companies have agreed to collaborate on the following activities: Introduction of V2G services in the European market; Exploring the use of second-life EV batteries for stationary applications (including households, buildings, grid); and.

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Green Car Reports

MARCH 5, 2015

'A cross-country road trip in a Tesla Model S electric car requires a fair amount of forward planning and contingency research. Still, I made it from New York''s cold, snowy Hudson Valley into the warm, humid climes of Alabama in my first three days--as I wrote about yesterday. Then, waking up on Day Four, I had a stroke of unexpected luck. DAY 4.

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Green Car Reports

MARCH 5, 2015

'As buyers prove more willing to trade spacious cabins for fuel efficiency, luxury carmakers are introducing more and more small sedans, crossovers, and hatchbacks. But at this week''s Geneva Motor Show, Lexus appears to have taken this trend to a whole new level. DON''T MISS: 2017 Audi R8 e-tron All-Electric Sports Car: Live Photos From Geneva Motor.

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Green Car Congress

MARCH 5, 2015

'by Martin Tillier of Oilprice.com. Oil’s rapid decline since August of last year has been dramatic. To listen to some commentators you would also think it is unprecedented and irreversible. Those claiming that oil will continue to fall from here and remain low for evermore, however, are flying in the face of both history and common sense. The question we should be asking ourselves is not if oil prices will recover, but when they will.

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Green Car Reports

MARCH 5, 2015

'Honda is expected to join Toyota and Hyundai in offering hydrogen fuel-cell vehicles in the U.S., but the timeline for that may have become a bit fuzzier. The Japanese automaker has already shown two concept cars previewing the design of its fuel-cell vehicle. But now Honda seems to have given itself a later window for when the production version.

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Green Car Congress

MARCH 5, 2015

'Researchers with the Energy Biosciences Institute (EBI), a partnership that includes Berkeley Lab and the University of California (UC) Berkeley, have introduced new metabolic pathways from the fungus Neurospora crassa into the yeast Saccharomyces cerevisiae to increase the fermentative production of fuels and other chemicals from biomass. An open access paper on the work is publised in the journal eLife.

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Green Car Reports

MARCH 5, 2015

'Oil prices have dropped precipitously over the past few months, and while that''s led to lower gas prices, it''s also creating a somewhat unusual problem. No matter how much or little oil the national economy is consuming, it''s still pumped out of the ground in massive quantities. MORE: Gas Prices To Plunge More After Oil Price Falls To 4-Year Low?

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Green Car Congress

MARCH 5, 2015

'The US Department of Energy (DOE) issued a $12.5 million Funding Opportunity Announcement (FOA) ( DE-FOA-0001285 ) for a new technical track under the US-China Clean Energy Research Center ( CERC ) that addresses water-related aspects of energy production and use. The solicitation calls for the formation of a US-based consortium to work with Chinese counterparts to bolster collaborative efforts to help ensure energy, water, and environmental security and combat climate change.

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Green Car Reports

MARCH 5, 2015

'We mull over a shadowy rumor about a new Ford electric car, analysts raise the idea of an oil-price collapse due to lack of storage, and there''s now a new version of the 2015 Volkswagen e-Golf that''s cheaper than before. All this and more today on Green Car Reports. We started off by considering a report that Ford will unveil a 200-mile electric.

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Green Car Congress

MARCH 5, 2015

'Over the last few years, Neste Oil has become the world’s largest producer of renewable fuels from waste and residues. In 2014, the company produced nearly 1.3 million tonnes (1.6 billion liters, 423 million gallons US) of renewable fuel from waste and residues. In practical terms, this is enough to power for two years all the 650,000 diesel-powered passenger cars in Finland with NEXBTL renewable diesel manufactured from waste and residues.

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MARCH 5, 2015

'Novelis, the world leader in automotive aluminum sheet, and Henkel Adhesive Technologies today signed a long-term agreement to collaborate on the development of advanced bonding technologies for the use of aluminum in high-volume vehicles. The first product to launch as a result of this partnership is BONDERITE M-NT 8453, the latest evolution in aluminum surface pre-treatments, providing a cost-effective adhesive bonding system for demanding vehicle requirements.

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Green Car Congress

MARCH 5, 2015

'Mobileye N.V., a designer and developer of camera-based Advanced Driver Assistance Systems (ADAS) for the automotive industry, introduced its 4 th -generation system-on-chip, the EyeQ4. Leveraging the company’s more than 15 years of expertise in designing computer-vision specific cores, the EyeQ4 consists of 14 computing cores out of which 10 are specialized vector accelerators with extremely high utilization for visual processing and understanding.

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Green Car Congress

MARCH 5, 2015

'Oil and gas operations in the United States produce about 21 billion barrels of wastewater per year, with accompanying disposal costs of about $5 billion per year. The saltiness of the water and the organic contaminants it contains have traditionally made treatment difficult and expensive. Engineers at the University of Colorado Boulder and New Mexico State University have developed a simpler process that can simultaneously remove both salts and organic contaminants from the wastewater, all whi

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Green Car Congress

MARCH 5, 2015

'Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory (LLNL) researchers and their colleagues from Lawrence Berkeley Laboratory and the Nanosystem Research Institute in Japan have identified electrical charge-induced changes in the structure and bonding of graphitic carbon electrodes that may one day affect the way energy is stored. The research could lead to an improvement in the capacity and efficiency of electrical energy storage systems, such as batteries and supercapacitors, needed to meet the burgeoning

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Green Car Congress

MARCH 5, 2015

'Volkswagen of America, Inc. announced that a lower-priced version of the fully-electric 2015 Volkswagen e-Golf ( earlier post ) will go on sale at participating dealerships. The 2015 e-Golf Limited Edition is priced nearly $2,000 less than its SEL counterpart at $33,450. The e-Golf Limited Edition is also available at a monthly lease price of $229, plus applicable fees.

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