Green Car Congress
APRIL 12, 2016
Lexus International announced it has sold more than 1 million hybrid vehicles worldwide since the RX 400h went on sale in April 2005. As of the end of March 2016, Lexus had sold approximately 1,000,600 hybrid vehicles in 11 years. The hybrid drive system continues to be our core vehicle technology to help reduce CO 2 emissions, while providing a pleasurable driving experience.
Green Car Reports
APRIL 12, 2016
The Tesla Model S electric car, which went into production in June 2012, is getting its first styling updates in almost four years. The Silicon Valley carmaker said that Model S luxury sedans produced starting today in its Fremont, California, assembly plant will have a new front-end design. Dispensing with the simulated oval "grille" of the.
Green Car Congress
APRIL 12, 2016
In a paper published in the American Journal of Respiratory and Critical Care , researchers report that children exposed to higher levels of air pollution—even if relatively low—including fine particulate matter (PM 2.5 ) and soot (black carbon), had worse lung function than those living in less polluted areas. By age eight, the lung function of children living within 100 meters of a major roadway was on average 6% lower than that of children living 400 meters or more away.
Green Car Reports
APRIL 12, 2016
Fast hybrid and electric cars have shown they have the performance to match traditional sports cars and supercars. But they're often considered to be missing one oft-cited part of the supercar driving experience. That would be the engine roar, which of course is totally absent when you're driving on near-silent electric power. DON'T MISS: Rimac.
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Green Car Congress
APRIL 12, 2016
Ford Motor Company unveiled its plans to transform its Dearborn facilities into a modern, green and high-tech campus to foster innovation and help drive the company’s transition to an auto and a mobility company. The 10-year transformation of the company’s more than 60-year-old Dearborn facilities will colocate 30,000 employees from 70 buildings today into primarily two locations—a product campus and a world headquarters campus.
Green Car Reports
APRIL 12, 2016
Tesla Motors will recall 2,700 Model X electric crossover utility vehicles to replace seat backs in the third row after a recliner unexpectedly slipped during seat-strength tests. The vehicles in question were built prior to March 26, and are all located in the U.S. Tesla said in a letter e-mailed yesterday to owners that it discovered the.
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Green Car Reports
APRIL 12, 2016
In theory, it's a wonderful concept: once their tenure in an electric car is over, lithium-ion battery packs with as much as 70 percent of their energy capacity remaining can be sold and reused. In practice, however—especially at scale—the idea turns out to have some practical challenges that must be overcome. At the simplest level, a.
Green Car Congress
APRIL 12, 2016
The Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency (DARPA) has awarded HRL Laboratories, LLC, $4.3 million to develop vibration- and shock-tolerant inertial sensor technology that enables future precision navigation system accuracy needs without utilizing GPS. Positioning, navigation, and timing are key to ensuring the location accuracy critical to the success of modern military missions.
Green Car Reports
APRIL 12, 2016
Nine days remain until the deadline imposed by a judge for Volkswagen and two regulatory agencies to agree on the outline of a plan to modify vehicles affected by the diesel-emission scandal. That deadline was already postponed once, but whether VW, the EPA, and the powerful California Air Resources Board can come to an agreement on how to update.
Green Car Congress
APRIL 12, 2016
The California Air Resources Board released a new draft of California’s Short-Lived Climate Pollutant Strategy to significantly reduce the near-term climate impacts of these potent pollutants. SLCPs are chemical agents with an outsized global warming impact up to thousands of times stronger than CO 2 ; these agents include methane, black carbon (soot) and hydrofluorocarbons (HFCs)—chemicals most often used as refrigerants, aerosols and in insulation.
Green Car Reports
APRIL 12, 2016
Today, the 2016 Tesla Model S gets a styling update and other changes, Volkswagen and regulators struggle to agree on a diesel fix, and a Florida city subsidizes Uber. All this and more on Green Car Reports. The Tesla Model X is recalled to replace third-row seat backs after a problem was discovered during European safety testing. The 2016 Dodge.
Green Car Congress
APRIL 12, 2016
Volkswagen has reopened its Dresden Transparent Factory (Gläserne Manufaktur) as a new Volkswagen brand showcase for electromobility and digitalization; the site had closed for 10 days to carry out the necessary modifications for around 50 interactive exhibits and vehicles allowing visitors to experience future mobility first-hand. The new exhibition is just the first step in an extensive rebuild of the Transparent Factory, which opened in 2001 specifically to manufacture the Phaeton.
Green Car Reports
APRIL 12, 2016
On paper, the Tesla Model S seems like a good candidate for green-minded limousine operators. It's a luxury sedan, which is a common starting point for stretch-limousine conversions. It's also used in taxi and ride-sharing services, indicating it should be fit for more upscale duty. DON'T MISS: When Will The Presidential Limo Become A Tesla.
Green Car Congress
APRIL 12, 2016
The Advanced Research Projects Agency - Energy (ARPA-E) has issued a $30-million funding opportunity ( DE-FOA-0001564 ) for the Next-Generation Energy Technologies for Connected and Automated On-Road Vehicles (NEXTCAR) program. ( Earlier post.). NEXTCAR seeks to fund the development of new and emerging vehicle dynamic and powertrain (VD&PT) control technologies that can reduce the energy consumption of future vehicles—light-, medium- and heavy-duty—through the use of connectivity and
Green Car Reports
APRIL 12, 2016
As part of its revised, five-year plan, Fiat Chrysler Automobiles (FCA) announced in January that it will end production of its smallest sedan, the compact Dodge Dart. Along with the Chrysler 200 mid-size sedan, the Dart will be phased out rather than replaced, to free up production capacity for trucks and SUVs. Before that happens, though, FCA is.
Green Car Congress
APRIL 12, 2016
NREL has released a new report presenting the findings of a study on the public’s sentiments regarding plug-in vehicles (PEVs), with a focus on vehicle purchasing behaviors, awareness, and barriers to acceptance. Conducted in February 2015, the study—“Consumer Views on Plug-in Electric Vehicles-National Benchmark Report”—covered a 1,015-household sample designed to be representative of the US population.
Green Car Reports
APRIL 12, 2016
A Florida city has become the nation's—and presumably the world's—first to subsidize Uber rides beginning or ending within its borders. Altamonte Springs, a suburb of Orlando, will cover 20 percent of any ride that starts or finishes within its city limits. Call Uber for a ride to SunRail, the region's commuter train system, in fact.
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