Wed.Nov 25, 2015

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Group-buy Black Friday deal on 2015 Nissan LEAFs in Northern Colorado: $10,600

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Consumers in Fort Collins and Loveland, Colo. will have a special group-buy Black Friday opportunity to purchase a 2015 Nissan LEAF for just more than $10,000, saving up to $21,000 off the sticker price. The program, offered in partnership with Tynan’s Nissan and Drive Electric Northern Colorado (DENC), starts Friday, 27 November and runs through 31 December 2015.

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Nissan Electric Cars Will Be For Mass Market: CEO Ghosn

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The success of the Tesla Model S has automakers--particularly German automakers--scrambling to build pricey luxury plug-in electric cars to compete with the upstart from Silicon Valley. But the automaker that's sold more electric cars than anyone else plans to continue in a different direction. The Renault Nissan Alliance will concentrate on.

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ARPA-E awards $2.1M to Marine BioEnergy for open ocean farming of kelp for hydrocarbon biofuels

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Marine BioEnergy, Inc. was awarded $2.1 million in funding from the US Department of Energy’s Advanced Research Projects Agency – Energy (ARPA-E) under the agency’s OPEN 2015 solicitation ( earlier post ). The funding will be used to research and develop open ocean farming of kelp as a biomass feedstock. The kelp will be processed into biocrude and further to hydrocarbons ready for commercial refineries.

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2017 BMW i3 Electric Car: 100- To 110-Mile Range, Battery Pack Retrofit?

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The BMW i3 electric car is due for a range boost in the near future, Harald Krüger--the company's CEO--said recently. But BMW hasn't publicly discussed the matter further. Now, a new report claims the range boost will come courtesy of a new battery pack, which could also be retrofitted to existing i3 hatchbacks. DON'T MISS: BMW i3 Electric.

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

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DUH charges that Renault Espace diesel emits 13-25 times Euro 6 NOx limit; Renault disputes

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The 1.6-liter Renault Espace diesel is the latest vehicle to come in the emissions crosshairs of German environmental NGO Deutsche Umwelthilfe (DUH). DUH published results of emissions testing by the University of Bern showing that NO x emissions from New European Driving Cycle (NEDC) driven tests with a warm engine exceed the applicable limit for Euro 6 vehicles 13- to 25-fold.

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Natural-Gas Vehicles To Get Electric-Car Tax Credit In Transportation Bill?

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As another Congressional session winds down, the two houses are working to pass a long-overdue transportation funding bill. And the natural-gas industry hopes certain provisions in the House's long-term transportation bill will survive the reconciliation process. Congress passed an interim funding bill last week, to keep transportation funding.

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Volkswagen Proposes 2.0-Liter Diesel Fixes As Crisis Continues

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Being a Volkswagen executive these days may be one of the more thankless jobs in the auto industry. Among groups including car buyers, business travelers, and environmental advocates, the first association with the brand now is often now "diesel emission scandal.” But differing customer outreach and occasionally combative statements between.

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Federal-Mogul marine piston ring technology reduces oil consumption and pollution from two-stroke diesels

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Federal-Mogul Powertrain, a division of Federal-Mogul Holdings Corporation, has developed a new piston ring for two-stroke diesel engines that reduces oil consumption and marine pollution by allowing the quantity of lubricant used to be greatly reduced. The patented surface topography of the new eWAVE rings has been designed to distribute oil more evenly around the cylinder bores, enabling less oil to provide greater protection. eWAVE is the first ring that disperses oil around the bore in a hom

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What Is It With Electric Cars And Star Wars Stormtroopers Anyway?

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There it was, in one corner of the Fiat display at last week's Los Angeles Auto Show: an odd black-and-white Fiat 500e electric car. On closer inspection, it proved to be the custom-painted "Fiat 500e Stormtrooper". though it's not clear that would have been obvious at first glance. Why this car, now? Because Star Wars: The Force Awakens opens.

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Navigant Research Leaderboard puts LG Chem as leader for Li-ion batteries for transportation

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In its latest Leaderboard report on what it sees as the top 8 automotive Li-ion battery companies, Navigant research has put LG Chem in first place, followed closely by Panasonic and Samsung SDI in the “Leaders” segment. To qualify for the Leaders category, a company must perform exceedingly well in strategy and execution. Navigant’s second category consists of the “Contenders”, which are companies that have exhibited staying power in the market despite relatively slow growth while boasting sign

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

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VW Diesel Fix, Natural-Gas Car Tax Credits, 'Star Wars' Fiat 500e: Today's Car News

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Today, Volkswagen proposes a fix for the 482,000 2.0-liter diesel cars in the U.S. equipped with "defeat device" software, a new transportation bill may enable tax credits for natural-gas vehicles, and a Fiat 500e gets dressed up like a Star Wars Stormtrooper. All this and more on Green Car Reports. A battery-pack retrofit may allow the BMW i3 to.

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Open Charge Alliance selects OASIS as the standard development organization for Open Charge Point Protocol (OCPP)

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The Open Charge Alliance ( OCA ) consortium has decided to standardize the Open Charge Point Protocol (OCPP) at OASIS , an international open standards development organization (SDO). OCA said that the move to OASIS will provide an expeditious standardization process and potential pathway to integrate OCPP with the International Electrotechnical Commission (IEC) framework.

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VW’s relatively simple technical fixes for cheating 1.6 and 2.0L diesels accepted by KBA; 1.2L fix coming by end of month

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The Volkswagen Group has proposed the specific technical fixes for the non-compliant 1.6-liter and 2.0-liter diesel EA 189 engines equipped with the software defeat device resulting in excessive NO x emissions to the German Federal Motor Transport Authority (Kraftfahrtbundesamt, KBA). Following an examination, these measures have been ratified by the KBA.

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Ensyn granted EPA Part 79 approval for renewable gasoline

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Ensyn ( earlier post ) has been granted a key regulatory approval from the US Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) for its renewable gasoline product, RFGasoline. This approval, pursuant to Title 40 CFR Part 79 promulgated under the Clean Air Act, is required for the sale of RFGasoline into US commerce. This approval follows the recently announced Part 79 approval of Ensyn’s renewable diesel product, RFDiesel. ( Earlier post.).

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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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NXP & Tongji University collaborate on Shanghai Intelligent And Connected Vehicle Demonstration Program

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NXP Semiconductors N.V. and Tongji University announced the continuation of their successful collaboration through the new Shanghai Intelligent and Connected Vehicle Demonstration Program. Launched in October, the Shanghai Intelligent and Connected Vehicle Demonstration Program is one of 46 pilot programs under the Made in China 2025 plan, created with the goal of building up to 20,000 smart, connected vehicles by 2019.

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Dürr supplies new robot cell for human-robot collaboration for vehicle assembly

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Dürr, a global mechanical and plant engineering firm, is for the first time supplying a complete robot cell for human-robot collaboration (HRC) to the car manufacturing industry. In this plant design, humans and robots are working together “hand-in-hand” in final assembly without a separating safety device. The specific innovative HRC solution increases the quality of glued seams at fuel tanks, makes the manufacturing process faster and more cost-effective.

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