Green Car Congress

JULY 9, 2014

'The porous, sponge-like nanomaterial made of silicon. Source: PNNL. Click to enlarge. Researchers at Pacific Northwest National Laboratory (PNNL), with colleagues at UC San Diego, have developed a “mesoporous silicon sponge” material that, when applied as an anode in a lithium-ion battery, can deliver capacity of up to ~750?mAh?g ?1 based on the total electrode weight with more than 80% capacity retention over 1,000 cycles.

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Green Car Reports

JULY 9, 2014

'The 2014 Mercedes-Benz B-Class electric car hasn''t quite reached dealerships yet--several are telling customers it could be next week--and its EPA ratings for range and efficiency have been something of a mystery too. Now, courtesy of an alert electric-car fan, we know the ratings for the first battery-electric vehicle sold as a Mercedes. The.

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Green Car Congress

JULY 9, 2014

'Alameda County Board of Supervisors President Keith Carson, the Metropolitan Transportation Commission (MTC), the Bay Area Climate Collaborative (BACC), and 10 other public agencies today announced the rollout of 90 all-electric vehicles into the fleets of ten Bay Area local governments—the largest government fleet EV deployment in the US to date.

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Green Car Reports

JULY 9, 2014

'Whether you call them fuel-economy standards or carbon-emission limits, new vehicles sold in North America, Europe, China, and elsewhere are subject to regulations that will require them to get more energy-efficient. Now, another country is discussing new regulations that would require both new and imported used vehicles to meet minimum gas.

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Green Car Congress

JULY 9, 2014

'Researchers at the University of California, Riverside’s Bourns College of Engineering have synthesized a porous nano-silicon material from beach sand (SiO 2 ) via a highly scalable heat scavenger-assisted magnesiothermic—i.e., using a combination of heat and magnesium—reduction. The addition of NaCl as a heat scavenger for the highly exothermic magnesium reduction process promotes the formation of an interconnected 3D network of nano-silicon with a thickness of 8-10?

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Green Car Reports

JULY 9, 2014

'Tesla is once again facing copyright issues over its name in China, up against a trend the industry knows as "trademark trolls". When Tesla first made plans to sell cars in China, it came up against a businessman called Zhan Baosheng. Zhan had trademarked the Tesla name for automotive back in 2006, three years after Tesla formed in the U.S. The.

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Green Car Reports

JULY 9, 2014

'As you drive your shiny new Nissan Leaf out of the dealership in silence and zero-emissions cleanliness, it''s easy to forget all the resources and energy that have gone into building it. Those are a necessary evil as far as car production goes, but companies like Nissan are doing their best to reduce the environmental impact of production--as.

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Green Car Congress

JULY 9, 2014

'Despite a decrease in sales in North America, the Volkswagen Passenger Cars brand delivered more than three million vehicles in the first half year for the first time. A total of 3.07 (January-June 2013: 2.95) million vehicles were handed over to customers worldwide, representing an increase of 3.8%. Volkswagen Passenger Cars delivered 514,900 (June 2013: 509,200; +1.1%) models in the month of June.

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Green Car Reports

JULY 9, 2014

'Today on Green Car Reports: Tesla sees another eruption of copyright challenges in China, the natural-gas vehicle industry talks about diesel fuel, and we get the range and efficiency ratings from the EPA for the first Mercedes-Benz electric car. All this and more on Green Car Reports. The 2014 Mercedes-Benz B-Class electric car has been rated at.

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Green Car Congress

JULY 9, 2014

'Three Washington state utilities have been awarded $14.3 million in matching grants from the state’s new Clean Energy Fund to lead energy storage projects with ties to federally funded research at the Department of Energy’s Pacific Northwest National Laboratory (PNNL). The total cost for the three smart grid demonstration projects is $35.3 million, including more than $21 million in non-state funds.

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Green Car Reports

JULY 9, 2014

'How do you ensure that all fuels are treated equally, and that customers are aware of the benefits and drawbacks to every alternative to gasoline power? One of the most effective ways is to compare a new fuel to one consumers are already familiar with. That''s why a group of natural gas advocates, retailers, businesses and users is proposing a new.

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Green Car Congress

JULY 9, 2014

'Amyris has partnered with Brazilian airline GOL to begin the first international commercial route with a drop-in renewable jet fuel (farnesane) blend developed by Amyris and Total ( earlier post ). On 15 June, ASTM revised its jet fuel standard, paving the way for airlines to use Synthesized Iso-Paraffin (SIP) farnesane as a jet fuel component in commercial airlines globally.

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Green Cars News

JULY 9, 2014

'A 2,500 mile tour around the UK using an ordinary Renault ZOE electric car has gone without a hitch – proving the usability of both EVs and their supporting charging infrastructure. Organised by charging firm, Pod Point, the ‘Charging around the UK’ tour (#CATUK) set off on June 12, heading to no [.].

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Green Car Congress

JULY 9, 2014

'Streamlines showing intake process for an SI engine in a FORTE simulation. Source: ANSYS. Click to enlarge. The US Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) has selected ANSYS simulation solutions to model in-cylinder combustion to develop an advanced test engine that will demonstrate fuel-saving and emissions-reducing technologies. The EPA’s test engine will help establish the feasibility of meeting recently issued fuel standards through improvements to combustion chamber geometries, fuel injectio

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JULY 9, 2014

'The air around London’s Oxford Street is the world’s worst for NO2 emissions according to new research. A multitude of taxis, buses, cars and commercial vehicles all help to push the capital’s famous and very busy shopping street to the top of the global league. According to the Sunday Times, da[.].

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Green Car Congress

JULY 9, 2014

'The European Commission has awarded €39 million (US$53 million) in funding from the NER300 program to Maabjerg Energy Concept towards the construction of a large-scale cellulosic biorefinery in western Denmark. Maabjerg Energy Concept is a consortium of companies: Energy company DONG Energy, enzyme producer Novozymes and local utilities Vestforsyning, Struer Forsyning and waste management company Nomi.

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Green Car Congress

JULY 9, 2014

'5th generation Corsa Click to enlarge. Opel revealed the new, fifth-generation of the Corsa, which will make its world premiere in October at the Paris Motor Show. The gen 5 Corsa will offer new, refined and efficient 1.0-liter three-cylinder turbo engines, smooth-shifting transmissions, a new suspension and optimized steering. The new Corsa will be in production in Zaragoza and Eisenach before the end of the year.

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Green Car Congress

JULY 9, 2014

'Livestock were the single largest source of methane gas emissions in the United States in 2004, releasing 70% more into the atmosphere than the oil and gas industry as estimated by other inventories, according to a new study by a team from Harvard University, JPL/CalTech and UC Irvine. The paper is published in the Journal of Geophysical Research: Atmospheres , a publication of the American Geophysical Union.

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