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Faurecia using flax-based composite in Urban Liftgate demonstrator

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Faurecia’s recently introduced Urban Liftgate demonstrator is a showcase for several innovations designed to rethink the rear-end of vehicles. Among the innovations is the use of a new type of composite made of natural flax fibers instead of carbon. Although the flax-based composite is not comparable mechanically to carbon fiber composites, said Laurent Gillard, Senior Engineering Manager, it has its own intersting properties and offers a lower-cost than carbon fiber and an environmentally frien

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Next top-level Tesla Model S to be P100D, says software hacker

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Perhaps no car company today is as good at the extended tease as California electric-car maker Tesla Motors. Whether it's tweets from CEO Elon Musk, fervent fan speculation on few facts, or mainstream-media coverage based on incomplete knowledge and misunderstanding, the tiny carmaker gets huge media attention. Now, a comment tweeted to Musk by a.

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UT, Oak Ridge scientists gain new insights into atomic disordering of complex metal oxides; materials for energy applications

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A team from the University of Tennessee, Oak Ridge National Laboratory, Stanford University, the University of Michigan and Forschungszentrum Jülich Institute of Energy and Climate Research has used neutron total scattering to gain new insights into atomic disordering of complex metal oxides. This provides a new basis for understanding order-to-disorder transformations important for applications such as plutonium immobilization (host materials for nuclear waste containment), fast ion conduction

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Prius V power plus Pontiac pony car equals.Firebird Hybrid!

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What would be your ultimate Toyota Prius hybrid? Maybe a convertible version? One that brings fond memories of bygone performance to middle-aged friends and neighbors? An Ohio man is now in the process of building what might become the ultimate Toyota Prius—at least for muscle car enthusiasts. DON'T MISS: Toyota Prius Family May Shrink As.

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How serious is Norway about climate change? So much that its streetlights self-dim

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Ricardo collaborates with Shengrui on new version of 8AT transmission with stop/start

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A new version of the Shengrui 8AT transmission, co-developed with Ricardo, will add stop/start functionality. The eight-speed transmission is already being manufactured at volumes in excess of 8,000 units per month, and is proving to be successful within the Chinese automotive market. The 8AT provides excellent shift quality, a highly compact design package, flexibility for further adaptation for four-wheel drive, and has the potential for application across a variety of torque capacities.

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Tesla Model S P100D, electric car as fuel station, hybrid Firebird via Prius V: Today's Car News

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A possible new Tesla battery, the world's only hybrid Pontiac Firebird, and plug-in electric car sales in Canada. All this and more today on Green Car Reports. A notorious software hacker may have uncovered a future battery upgrade for the Tesla Model S electric car. What would you think of a P100D version? What car would you like to make a lot.

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U.S. advanced research agency optimistic on storage-battery progress

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The Federal government's Advanced Research Projects Agency-Energy said last week that it has made huge strides toward creating a next generation of batteries for energy storage. The agency is tasked with kickstarting energy-related projects in the private sector; its director suggested that the new technologies could be on the market soon. ARPA-E.

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Ford only automaker on Ethisphere Institute’s list of 2016 World’s Most Ethical Companies

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Ford Motor Company is the only automaker named a 2016 World’s Most Ethical Company by Ethisphere Institute today; this marks the seventh consecutive year Ethisphere Institute has named Ford a World’s Most Ethical Company. Engine manufacturer Cummins, Inc. and Tier 1 supplier Delphi Automotive also made the 2016 list. The framework of Ethisphere’s proprietary rating system, the corporate Ethics Quotient (EQTM), consists of a series of multiple-choice questions that capture a company’s performance

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Plug-in electric car sales in Canada, February 2016: Volt Valentine

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Chevy's 102 Volt sales may have led the Canadian plug-in electric vehicle market in February, and bring its national total to 5,611 units. As it happens, this is a mere 103 units away from Nolan Ryan's major league baseball strikeout record of 5,714. Up slightly from January's 94 sales, this was also the plug-in hybrid Volt's best-ever February in.

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Toyota begins production at efficient new engine plant in Indonesia

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Toyota Motor Manufacturing Indonesia (TMMIN), Toyota Motor Corporation’s vehicle production subsidiary in Indonesia, recently began production at its newly completed engine plant. Built with an investment of approximately 2.3 trillion rupiah (US$176 million), the Karawang Engine Plant, located in West Java, has the capacity to produce 216,000 engines per year and will take on approximately 400 new employees.

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Faurecia and Accenture partner on products and services for connected and autonomous vehicles

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Borgward SUVs' Geneva debut: new plug-in hybrids, old German name, Chinese owners

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Borgward is hardly a household name anywhere, but the recently-revived automaker hopes that its new plug-in hybrids will make it a hit in China's still-growing new car market. At this week's Geneva Motor Show, Borgward debuted a pair of crossovers christened BX5 and Projekt BX6 TS. The Geneva debuts follow in the footsteps of the Borgward BX7.

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London Hydrogen Network Expansion partners aim at new hydrogen car records

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A group of companies in the UK is aiming to set two new records for hydrogen fuel cell electric vehicles (FCEVs) as part of Hydrogen Week (11-18 March), with a continuous five-day and five-night drive around the M25 highway. Working together, the partners of the government-backed London Hydrogen Network Expansion project (LHNE) will attempt to set new records for the longest journey on one tank of hydrogen (existing record 435 miles/700 km) and the longest continuous FCEV journey (6,024 miles/9,

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Goodyear showcases two concept tires designed for autonomous driving

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At the Geneva Motor Show, The Goodyear Tire & Rubber Company introduced two concept tires designed with autonomous driving in mind. The future-oriented spherical Eagle-360 was designed with key features of maneuverability, connectivity and biomimicry for autonomous mobility; the IntelliGrip, featuring advanced sensor and treadwear technology, is a solution for the earlier adoption of self-driving vehicles.

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BMW looks ahead to its next century with VISION NEXT 100; Alive Geometry; 4D Printing; Companion

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To mark its centenary year in 2016, the BMW Group is looking further ahead than usual with a series of Vision Vehicles designed to anticipate and respond to future mobility needs. In developing the BMW VISION NEXT 100 , the company said that its main objective was to create not an anonymous vehicle but one that is highly personalized and fully geared to meet the driver’s every need in an effort to retain the emotional connection between a BMW and its driver.

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ExxonMobil announces 6th oil discovery offshore Guyana with Ranger-1; Guyana may move from non-producer to regional powerhouse

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Tohoku researchers develop efficient hydrodynamic reactor for pretreatment of biomass

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Researchers at Tohoku University in Japan have developed a new system combining hydrodynamic cavitation with sodium percarbonate (SP) (an environmentally benign oxidation reagent) for the efficient pre-treatment of biomass. Compared to a pretreatment system using ultrasonication and SP (US-SP), the new HD-SP system was more efficient for glucose and xylose production; both systems resulted in a similar degree of lignin removal, and neither generated the inhibitor furfural, while it was detected

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DOE-funded Bioenergy Research Centers file 500th invention disclosure

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Three US Department of Energy-funded research centers—the BioEnergy Science Center (Oak Ridge National Laboratory); the Great Lakes Bioenergy Research Center (University of Wisconsin–Madison and Michigan State University); and the Joint BioEnergy Institute (Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory) ( earlier post )—reported the disclosure of their 500 th invention.

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Fuji Heavy outlines next-gen “Subaru Global Platform”; improved performance, adaptable to electrification

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Fuji Heavy Industries Ltd. (FHI), the manufacturer of Subaru automobiles, outlined the Subaru Global Platform which is currently under development as the architecture to be used for all the company’s next-generation vehicles. The next-generation platform looks ahead to 2025. The main features include Subaru’s biggest-ever enhancement in overall vehicle performance, with an emotionally engaging “dynamic feel” that goes beyond high performance; the highest levels of safety; and a single design con

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