Mon.May 16, 2016

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Study finds farms a major source of fine-particulate air pollution

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Emissions from farms outweigh all other human sources of fine-particulate air pollution in much of the United States, Europe, Russia and China, according a new study published in Geophysical Research Letters , a journal of the American Geophysical Union. Fumes from nitrogen-rich fertilizers and animal waste combine in the air with combustion emissions to form solid particles, which constitute a major source of disease and death, according to the new study.

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Tesla wants to sell electric cars in Michigan; state couldn't care less

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You don't see a lot of Teslas in Michigan. It's not because the three U.S. automakers headquartered there aren't interested in the electric cars produced by a Silicon Valley company founded just 12 years ago. It's because state laws bar the company from selling its cars online to state residents—and Tesla has no interest in using old-style.

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Report: Ontario targeting 5% EV share of all new vehicles sold by 2020, 12% by 2025 as part of C$7B climate plan

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Canada’s Globe and Mail reports that as part of a more C$7-billion (US$5.4-billion), 4-year climate change plan, the Ontario government will invest C$285 million (US$221 million) in electric vehicle incentives; implement lower carbon fuel standards; and invest C$280 million (US$217 million) to help school boards buy electric buses and trucking companies switch to lower-carbon trucks, including by building more liquid natural gas fueling stations.

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Toyota Mirai seeks to reclaim green image from Tesla, sans Supercharger network

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Since launching in Japan in 1997, the Toyota Prius hybrid has imbued its maker with a strong green image. The Prius has become Toyota's signature model, and helped the company become by far the world's largest seller of green cars. But after nearly two decades on sale, hybrid powertrains no longer have the novelty they once did. DON'T MISS.

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

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Texas Mineral Resources to establish lithium subsidiary to market Round Top lithium

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Texas Mineral Resources Corp. (TMRC), an exploration company targeting the heavy rare earths and a variety of other high-value elements and industrial minerals, in response to lithium industry inquiries, plans to establish a separate lithium subsidiary to market the lithium potentially produced from its poly-metallic Round Top long-life deposit. Column leach tests were conducted by Resource Development Inc (RDI) of Wheat Ridge, Colorado, an independent laboratory testing company which provides t

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European electric and plug-in hybrid sales for January-March 2016

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European sales of electric cars and plug-in hybrids were up 29 percent between January and March over the same period last year. The total of 23,160 sales pushed plug-in cars past the 1-percent barrier in terms of total European new-car sales. In the midst of that push, there was also a lead change among battery-electric cars. DON'T MISS: Plug-in.

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Gas-mileage error halts sale of GM's large SUVs; new labels on the way

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It would appear that every automaker is rechecking its gas-mileage calculations these days. The ongoing VW diesel-emission cheating scandal and Mitsubishi's recent admission that it misstated fuel-economy results in Japan for more than 20 years have led to renewed public attention to how makers are complying—or not—with emission and.

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Ford first automaker to use captured CO2 to develop foam and plastic for vehicles

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Ford Motor Company is the first automaker to formulate and test new foam and plastic components using carbon dioxide as feedstock. Researchers expect to see the new biomaterials in Ford production vehicles within five years. Formulated with up to 50% CO 2 -based polyols, the foam is showing promise as it meets rigorous automotive test standards. It could be employed in seating and underhood applications, potentially reducing petroleum use by more than 600 million pounds annually.

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Best deals on hybrid, electric, fuel-efficient cars for May 2016

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A new month brings more deals on hybrid, electric, and fuel-efficient cars. Incentives change from month to month as manufacturers try to boost sales of certain models, clear out inventory, or make them more competitive on price. So, as always, this month you'll see some models that have appeared in this feature previously, some newcomers, and.

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Toyota Mobility Foundation joins New Cities Foundation as global strategic member

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Toyota Mobility Foundation has joined the New Cities Foundation as the latest Global Strategic Member. The partnership between the two organizations aims to activate the next generation of urban mobility solutions. The Toyota Mobility Foundation and the New Cities Foundation are already discussing a number of substantial research projects and initiatives in the urban mobility area.

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

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Tesla MI fight, GM gas-mileage error, Toyota Mirai goal: Today's Car News

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Today, Tesla continues lobbying to sell its electric cars in Michigan, General Motors stops sales of SUVs due to a fuel-economy reporting error, and the Toyota Mirai aims to recapture a green image from Tesla. All this and more on Green Car Reports. We've got Tesla deadlines, Volkswagen's V-6 TDI fix, and Chevy Bolt EV predictions in our Week in.

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Stanford team develops nanofiber air filters for efficient high-temperature removal of PM2.5

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A team at Stanford has developed high-efficiency (>99.5%) polyimide-nanofiber air filters for the removal of PM 2.5 from exhaust streams. In a paper published in the ACS journal Nano Letters , the researchers report that the new polyimide nanofibers exhibit high thermal stability. The PM 2.5 removal efficiency was kept unchanged when temperature ranged from 25–370 °C.

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High-performance Li-S cathodes using 3D hierarchical porous nitrogen-doped aligned carbon nanotubes

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Researchers from Hunan University and Changsha University in China have designed 3D hierarchical porous nitrogen-doped aligned carbon nanotubes (HPNACNTs) with well-directed 1D conductive electron paths as scaffold to load sulfur for use as a high-performance cathode in Li-S batteries. A paper on their work is published in the Journal of Power Sources.

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Boron-Nitride fullerene as a potential solid-state hydrogen storage medium

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Researchers in India report that experimentally synthesized B 24 N 24 (boron-nitride) fullerene can serve as a potential reversible chemical hydrogen storage material with hydrogen storage capacity of up to 5.13 wt %. A paper on their work is published in the journal ChemSusChem. Fullerenes are large hollow spheroidal cages of carbon atoms; a regular boron-nitride fullerene substitutes nitrogen for carbon in equal numbers—e.g., B 24 N 24.

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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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Proterra boosts capacity of Catalyst XR battery pack 28% to 330 kWh with new design, same volume as predecessor

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Battery-electric bus manufacturer Proterra announced a new battery pack design for the Proterra Catalyst XR transit vehicle at the American Public Transportation Association Bus and Paratransit Conference (APTA). Within the same volumetric footprint as that in the original Catalyst XR, the new energy storage system now holds 28% more energy at 330 kWh.

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