Green Car Congress

FEBRUARY 19, 2015

'Panda Power Funds has entered into a joint venture with Sunbury Generation LP to develop, finance, construct and operate a 1,000 megawatt natural gas-fueled, combined-cycle power project near Shamokin Dam in Snyder County, Pennsylvania. The Hummel Station generating facility will utilize the latest, most advanced emissions-control technology, making it one of the cleanest natural gas-fueled power plants in the US, according to Panda.

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Green Car Reports

FEBRUARY 19, 2015

'By the end of this year, there will be several luxury SUV models offered in the U.S. with plug-in hybrid powertrains that let them run 12 to 20 miles on electricity alone. We''ve now driven one of them, the 2016 Volvo XC90 T8 "Twin Engine" model, which will go on sale this fall. And based on our impressions of a pre-production prototype driven 96.

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Green Car Congress

FEBRUARY 19, 2015

'At this year’s Geneva International Motor Show, Volkswagen will present an extensive technical update of the Sharan MPV, of which more than 800,000 units have been sold since its launch in 1995. The update includes numerous systems to assist the driver and enhance convenience and comfort, some features being unique to this market segment, as well as new gasoline (TSI) and diesel (TDI) engines.

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Green Car Reports

FEBRUARY 19, 2015

'When it comes to electric cars, conventional wisdom states that sales will inevitably decrease alongside gas prices. After all, the argument goes, if buyers can''t expect to save as much by cutting fuel costs, they''ll be less inclined to buy a plug-in, right? DON''T MISS: Once More: Low Gas Prices Don''t Hurt Electric-Car Sales Not exactly. In fact.

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Green Car Congress

FEBRUARY 19, 2015

'UK startup Libertine LPE has developed a free piston linear power generator technology that it says overcomes the key challenges faced by earlier free piston engine schemes of motion control, emissions and power conversion efficiency. The company, which on 16 Feb won the €20,000 (US$22,800) Climate-KIC cash prize at this year’s Cleantech Innovate, will be presenting its Linear Power Systems technology to investors at CleanEquity Monaco from 5-6 March.

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Green Car Reports

FEBRUARY 19, 2015

'Nearly five years ago, as a tidal wave of charging stations were rapidly planned for some West Coast regions, in support of a new wave of all-electric and plug-in vehicles, the question may have became where can the stations be installed, when it shouldn''t have budged from where should they be installed. And therein lies one significant likely.

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Green Car Reports

FEBRUARY 19, 2015

'For the past couple of years, California has been like nowhere else when it comes to new car sales. That''s because, in both 2012 and 2013, the Toyota Prius hybrid was the best-selling new car in the Golden State. MORE: Most Popular Car Line In California? The Toyota Prius Hybrid--Again (February 2014) Yet even Californians'' appetite for the Prius.

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Green Car Congress

FEBRUARY 19, 2015

'Volvo Cars’ holistic solution generates exact positioning and a complete 360° view of the car’s surroundings using a combination of multiple radars, cameras and laser sensors. A network of computers processes the information, generating a real-time map of moving and stationary objects in the environment. Click to enlarge. Volvo Cars has developed what it says is a unique, complete system solution that makes it possible to integrate self-driving cars into real traffic.

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Green Car Reports

FEBRUARY 19, 2015

'Today, check out our first drive review of the 2016 Volvo XC90 T8 "Twin Engine" plug-in hybrid, more evidence that low gas prices don''t affect electric-car sales, and the Toyota Prius hybrid''s loss of the California sales title to the Honda Accord. All this and more on Green Car Reports. Read our first impressions of the 2016 Volvo XC90 T8 "Twin.

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Green Car Congress

FEBRUARY 19, 2015

'Air Products and Suzuki Shokan, an industrial gas company based in Tokyo, will work together on the design, construction and operation of hydrogen fueling stations for use in fueling the material handling vehicle market in Japan. Air Products and Suzuki Shokan will take Air Products’ proven hydrogen fueling technology and work jointly to make any needed infrastructure modifications in order to meet Japanese laws and regulations.

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Green Car Congress

FEBRUARY 19, 2015

'Motor and controller company UQM Technologies Inc. will expand directly into the fuel cell business by taking over the fuel cell compressor module business from Roush Performance Products. These compressor modules are an integral component of hydrogen-powered fuel cell vehicles. UQM will now manufacture the complete compressor modules for Roush’s current customer base as well as for new customers.

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Green Car Congress

FEBRUARY 19, 2015

'Almost half of the electric vehicle charging units in the ChargePlace Scotland network may be unused from month-to-month, official data suggests, according to an analysis by the RAC Foundation. Figures for August 2014 show that of the 482 units (with 885 sockets) in the network, 217 (45%) were not plugged into at all during that month. (This does not include domestic charge points.

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Green Car Congress

FEBRUARY 19, 2015

'Cycling data for C-coated SiNFs compared to uncoated SiNFs at C/10 (1C = 4 A g ?1 ). Favors et al. Click to enlarge. Researchers at the University of California, Riverside’s Bourns College of Engineering have developed a novel nano-silicon paper electrode material for high capacity lithium-ion batteries. A paper describing the work is published in the Nature journal Scientific Reports.

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Green Car Congress

FEBRUARY 19, 2015

'3M has made an investment in Nanoscale Components, a company that has developed a novel, low-cost pre-lithiation process. 3M says its investment will expand the adoption of 3M’s unique silicon alloy anode for lithium-ion batteries. ( Earlier post.). To take advantage of promising high-capacity anode materials such as silicon, sulfur and other lithium-free materials in a next-generation Li-ion battery, either the cathode or the anode needs to be prelithiated—i.e., lithium needs to be inser

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Green Car Congress

FEBRUARY 19, 2015

'by Nick Cunningham for Oilprice.com. It may be difficult to look beyond the current pricing environment for oil, but the depletion of low-cost reserves and the increasing inability to find major new discoveries ensures a future of expensive oil. While analyzing the short-term trajectory of oil prices is certainly important, it obscures the fact that over the long-term, oil exploration companies may struggle to bring new sources of supply online.

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