Green Car Congress
MARCH 18, 2016
Twizy, Renault’s all-electric quadricyle, has been certified by Transport Canada, and is now set for release on the Canadian market. The Canadian Renault Twizy (Twizy 40) is fitted with a type-1 charging cable and side reflectors. With speed capped at 40 km/h (25 mph), it comes under the Canadian category of low-speed vehicles (four-wheel electric vehicles with top speed from 32 to 40 km/h).
Green Car Reports
MARCH 18, 2016
When it comes to buses, few are more recognizable than London's iconic double deckers. And now these distinctive vehicles are going electric. Transport for London (TfL), the British capital's transit agency, is placing five electric buses into service as the city continues to look for ways to reduce air pollution. DON'T MISS: London's Black Cabs.
Green Car Congress
MARCH 18, 2016
The four-year projet ORCNext , aimed at developing knowledge and design tools for next generation of Organic Rankine Cycles (ORCs), has concluded that waste heat recovery efficiency can be increased by 20 to 25% through appropriate cycle selection, efficient expanders, appropriate control and less oversizing of the heat exchangers. The project, funded by the government agency IWT, ran from February 2012 to January 2016 and was a partnership between Ghent University, University of Antwerp, Univer
Green Car Reports
MARCH 18, 2016
The Toyota Prius may have started the era of modern hybrid cars when it debuted in Japan in 1997, but it was far from the first hybrid vehicle. Ferdinand Porsche actually designed a handful of hybrid and electric cars with Vienna-based carriage builder Jacob Lohner and Company, starting in 1898. But there's another vehicle that predates even that.
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Green Car Congress
MARCH 18, 2016
Scientists at Tokyo Institute of Technology, in collaboration with colleagues in Japan, have demonstrated the first electrochemical reaction based on hydride ions in an oxide-based solid-state cell for potential next-generation batteries. A paper on their work is published in the journal Science. Ionic transport has been studied extensively over the years for energy devices such as fuel cells and batteries using Li + , H + , Ag + , Cu + , F – , and O 2– as ionic charge carriers.
Green Car Reports
MARCH 18, 2016
The state-by-state battles between electric-car maker Tesla Motors and lobbyists for state auto-dealer interests often take unusual twists and turns. But the situation in the state of Virginia may be among the odder episodes in Tesla's eight years of selling cars online directly to buyers. In the Old Dominion state, the auto-dealers' trade group.
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Green Car Reports
MARCH 18, 2016
When Car2Go launched its car-sharing service in San Diego about five years ago, its entire fleet was composed of electric cars. It was a move that made San Diego officials smile, as the city is undertaking an ambitious plan to cut carbon emissions. But now Car2Go is withdrawing the fleet of Smart Fortwo Electric Drive city cars, and replacing them.
Green Car Congress
MARCH 18, 2016
The world’s leading manufacturers of heavy-duty commercial trucks and engines called for further progress in regulatory harmonisation and closer cooperation among European, North American, and Japanese regulators in order to improve energy efficiency and reduce fuel consumption associated with on-road freight transport. Convening in Brussels at the 2016 Global Commercial Vehicle Industry Meeting, the chief executives of more than 10 global truck and engine manufacturers discussed key issues faci
Green Car Reports
MARCH 18, 2016
Today, London takes delivery of five electric double-decker buses, Car2Go pulls electric cars from San Diego, and more new green cars debuting at the 2016 New York Auto Show. All this and more on Green Car Reports. Car2Go will replace its San Diego fleet of electric Smart Fortwo city cars with gasoline models, owing to lack of charging.
Green Car Congress
MARCH 18, 2016
A techno-economic analysis by a team from the University of Illinois at Urbana Champaign and Virginia Polytechnic Institute and State University has determined that biodiesel produced from oil from genetically modified lipid-producing sugarcane (lipid-cane) is much more economical than biodiesel produced from soybean oil. In their open-access paper, published in the journal Biofuels, Bioproducts & Biorefining , the researchers reported results showing that the biodiesel production cost from
Green Car Congress
MARCH 18, 2016
The US Department of Energy (DOE) will award up to $3 million ( FBO315-16 ) in the second round of funding for High Performance Computing for Manufacturing (HPC4Mfg) program, which enables manufacturers to use high-performance computing resources at the Department’s national laboratories to tackle major manufacturing challenges. ( Earlier post.) This effort also advances President Obama's National Strategic Computing Initiative, unveiled in July 2015, which calls for public-private partnerships
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