Green Car Congress

SEPTEMBER 24, 2010

The California Air Resources Board adopted unanimously a regulation establishing a 33% renewable electricity standard. Under the regulation, one-third of the electricity sold in the state in 2020 must come from renewable sources of energy. The regulation adopted is the product of coordination and cooperation by ARB, California Public Utilities Commission, California Energy Commission and California Independent System Operator.

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Electric Cars are for Girls

SEPTEMBER 24, 2010

What sort of going away present do you give a guy who's resigning from his post at BP after spilling all their shareholders' oil into the Gulf? Lemme think.Hey, I've got it! How about an electric car? It only takes 25,000 signatures to get him the keys.

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Revenge of the Electric Car

SEPTEMBER 29, 2010

Last week Chris Paine moderated a panel on electric vehicles at the Opportunity Green business conference in Los Angeles. Among the panelists sat Richard Steinberg of BMW, where he leads battery electric vehicle programs in the US markets, including the MINI E and BMW ActiveE programs. “BMW ActiveE?&# you may be asking- “what’s that?

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Green Car Reports

SEPTEMBER 10, 2010

Marketing missteps in naming cars quickly become legendary. There's the urban myth that the Chevrolet Nova failed in South America because in Spanish, no va means "won't go." (It's not true.) But now it turns out that Audi may have committed a blunder in naming its line of electric cars e-Tron. Especially since they're about to be shown at the.

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All Cars Electric

SEPTEMBER 27, 2010

American-born Thomas Edison might be best known for coming up with one of history's most significant inventions, the lightbulb, but the inventor had other bright ideas too. Just over a decade into the 20th Century, Edison also turned his hand to electric cars, as part of his vision to make the longest lasting battery in the world, according to Bob.

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National Green Transportation

SEPTEMBER 1, 2010

Yesterday Matthew Dieckmann, 29, of Santa Rosa California died in a motorcycle accident. Matt was an entrepreneur in the electric motorcycle field, being the owner of ElectricRaceBikes.com, a small business selling parts for high performance electric motorcycles, and the owner of the Electric Race Bikes team. The Electric Race Bikes team, consisting of Matt and professional rider Mike Hannas, raced this year in the TTXGP and e-Power electric motorcycle races.

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Green Cars News

SEPTEMBER 16, 2010

Three teams will share $10million after successfully completing the Progressive Insurance Automotive X Prize. The X Prize winners are Edison2 of Lynchburg, Virginia; X-Tracer of Winterthur, Switzerland; and Li-ion Motors Corporation of Mooresville, North Carolina. The winners were chosen from an original field of 111 teams representing 136 vehicle entries from around the world.

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Honda S2000 EV Conversion

SEPTEMBER 9, 2010

One issue I frequently dealt with was the charger shutting down due to over heating. I would finish work and come out to find a car with less than full charge. Luckily most of the time it had charged enough to still get my home, but I found myself a couple of times sticking around work another hour or more. The temporary solution was to leave the trunk slightly cracked during non winter months and this did the trick.

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Green Car Reports

SEPTEMBER 22, 2010

During his 2008 campaign for president, Barack Obama famously said that he wanted one million plug-in cars on U.S. roads by 2015. That's a goal that many experts continue to think will be extremely hard to attain. Now California has adopted the same goal for the state alone, but with a different and longer timeframe. For the Golden State, the.

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All Cars Electric

SEPTEMBER 25, 2010

As a writer for a group of car sites with 3 million readers each month, I don't think I need to explain how much gasoline has changed my life. I've seen the world from street level because of it. It's fueled my life. Oil has caused me agita this year, too. It's played havoc with a place I see myself someday, when I'm divorced from work. And it's.

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National Green Transportation

SEPTEMBER 13, 2010

Today A123 Systems, developer and manufacturer of their Nanophosphate lithium batteries, announced the grand opening of their manufacturing plant in Livonia Michigan. The plant will have a 600 megawatt-hour per year production capacity, and being located in a Detroit suburb makes it conveniently close to a major center of automobile manufacturing in the U.S.

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Green Car Congress

SEPTEMBER 22, 2010

Kangoo Express ZE. Click to enlarge. At the International Commercial Vehicle Show in Hanover, Renault is premiering the definitive version of Kangoo Express ZE (Zero Emission), the first all-electric van developed and built by a vehicle manufacturer. ( Earlier post.). Kangoo Express ZE will be sold in Europe at a price of €20,000 (US$26,800) excluding VAT, prior to any tax incentive that might be deductible.

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Green Cars News

SEPTEMBER 2, 2010

Global CO2 emissions are finally on their way down – despite strong growth in developing countries. According to an addendum to an earlier study published in the journal Environmental Research Letters, CO2 emissions fell by 1.3 per cent in 2009 – that’s the first decrease recorded this decade and this in spite of the fact [.]. Tags: Green cars Green credentials Latest news China emissions co2 emissions emissions global emissions greenhouse gas emissions India emissions.

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Creative Greenius

SEPTEMBER 10, 2010

Well I guess I’m just not the “leading thinker&# on Hermosa’s Carbon Neutral City movement or the Green Idea City I thought I was. Damn. Who’d have thunk it?! But I’m trying not to take it too personally since the “thinking&# behind that judgment is based on sheer politics and not intellect. When I didn’t get invited to Michael DiVirgilio’s clandestine Green Idea City Carbon Neutral “Leadership Forum&# I went on his unlisted web page and sign

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Green Car Reports

SEPTEMBER 18, 2010

It doesn't get mentioned as much in the press as the 2011 Nissan Leaf and 2011 Chevrolet Volt, but there's a third compact electric car coming to market within the next six months. It's the 2011 Coda Sedan, and now Green Car Reports is happy to bring you the first published photos of the production version. A number of details have been changed.

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All Cars Electric

SEPTEMBER 24, 2010

Remember the Freedom Drive, where a solitary 2011 Chevy Volt made its way from Texas to New York to publicize the extended-range electric vehicle’s launch? Finishing on Independence Day with a massive fireworks display, the tour gave out T-Shirts and offered test-drives to potential customers en-route. Ever since then we’ve been.

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National Green Transportation

SEPTEMBER 25, 2010

Whole Foods is in a way emblematic of the Green Living movement. They consciously scuplt this imagry of eco-conscious living, organic products, herbal treatments, freshly made wonderfully yummy everything. Yup, there's a lot of good things to be said about the company, its products, etc. But look around a little complaints can be easily found that Whole Foods isn't green enough and it doesn't live up to the aura it has claimed for itself.

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Green Car Congress

SEPTEMBER 24, 2010

Saab Automobile and American Axle Manufacturing (AAM) have formed a jointly-owned company for the engineering, development and marketing of electric all-wheel drive systems, as well as electric and hybrid driveline systems. The new company, called e-AAM Driveline Systems, will be based in Trollhattan. The joint venture will commence operations on 1 October. e-AAM will develop and market an electric all-wheel drive system in a full service package.

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Green Cars News

SEPTEMBER 20, 2010

A smart fortwo has been crowned the winner of this year’s MPG Marathon, the second time the diminutive car has taken the title. The marathon, designed to prove the fuel-saving possibilities that sensible, ‘eco’ driving can achieve, crowns its winner based on greatest miles to the gallon figure recorded by the contestants. Despite squally autumn [.].

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Green Car Congress

SEPTEMBER 1, 2010

A C-17 Globemaster III based at Edwards Air Force Base is conducting flight tests to see how it performs with different combinations of biofuels. The C-17 Globemaster lifts off. Source: USAF. Click to enlarge. The aircraft was powered by 50% JP-8, 25% hydro-treated renewable jet fuel (HRJ) and 25% of a Fischer–Tropsch (FT) fuel. The 418 th Flight Test Squadron conducted flight tests earlier using different combinations of regular JP-8 and the HRJ.

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Green Car Congress

SEPTEMBER 16, 2010

The Edison2 Very Light Car on the track. Credit: Edison2. Click to enlarge. The X PRIZE Foundation awarded $10 million to three teams who successfully completed the rigorous Progressive Insurance Automotive X PRIZE. The winning teams—Edison2 of Lynchburg, Virginia; X-Tracer of Winterthur, Switzerland; and Li-ion Motors Corp. of Mooresville, North Carolina—emerged from an original field of 111 competing teams, representing 136 vehicle entries from around the world.

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Green Car Congress

SEPTEMBER 26, 2010

Pedego Electric Bikes and SiGNa Chemistry have developed an ultra-high-performance range extender for electric bicycles. The battery-fuel cell hybrid system is compatible with all existing Pedego bicycles and batteries. For every 1.5 lbs. of weight a rider carries, an additional 700 watt-hours of energy is available (compared to ~350 watt-hours for an ultra-high performance lithium-polymer battery at a weight of 7 lbs.).

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Green Car Congress

SEPTEMBER 21, 2010

General Motors and ABB Group, a global leader in power and automation technologies, have signed a memorandum of understanding to develop pilot projects for re-using the batteries from the Chevrolet Volt electric vehicle, examining whether the batteries may be a source for renewable energy that could improve the effectiveness of wind and solar power generation.

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Green Car Congress

SEPTEMBER 20, 2010

A new global alliance comprising businesses and government leaders and led by the international NGO, The Climate Group, set an ambitious target to put one million additional EVs on the road by 2015, on top of EVs that automakers are already planning to bring to market. Businesses joining the EV20 alliance included global fleet owner TNT, auto manufacturers PSA Peugeot Citroën and Smith Electric Vehicles, battery manufacturer Johnson Controls, Better Place and Deutsche Bank.

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Green Car Congress

SEPTEMBER 28, 2010

Global plots for and LTO (0-1 km) and full flight (LTO + Cruise) operations: vertically summed average fuel burn (kg/s per 1° x 1°); ground-level BC perturbation (µg/m 3 ); and ground-level total PM2.5 perturbation (µg/m 3 ) attributable to aviation. Credit: ACS, Barrett et al. Click to enlarge. A study by a team from the University of Cambridge (UK) and MIT attributes ~8,000 premature mortalities per year to aircraft cruise emissions.

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Green Car Congress

SEPTEMBER 28, 2010

A picture of the YASA topology. Source: Woolmer and McCulloch 2007. Click to enlarge. Recent results from certified dynamometer testing has demonstrated that the 23 kg Oxford YASA motor produces a peak torque of 700 N·m (516 lb-ft), pushing its specific torque to more than 30N·m/kg. The company has also received the second tranche of £1.45-million (US$2.3 million) investment funding.

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Green Car Congress

SEPTEMBER 25, 2010

Microalgae biodiesel processing and lifecycle analysis model overview. Credit: ACS, Click to enlarge. Researchers at Colorado State University have found that a microalgae biodiesel process using currently available technologies can show improvement in lifecycle GHG emissions and net energy ratio (NER) compared to soybean-based biodiesel. A paper on their lifecycle analysis (LCA) appeared online 24 September in the ACS journal Environmental Science & Technology.

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Green Car Congress

SEPTEMBER 4, 2010

A new Albertsons supermarket in the San Diego, California community of Clairemont is generating nearly 90% of the electricity it needs with a PureCell 400 kW fuel cell from UTC Power, a United Technologies Corp. The PureCell 400 system uses a Fuel Processor (reformer) to reform natural gas to hydrogen to feed the Fuel Cell Stack. The project is estimated to cut carbon dioxide emissions by 478 metric tons each year compared to California non-baseload powerplants.

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Green Car Congress

SEPTEMBER 20, 2010

Cruze BEV on the road. Click to enlarge. General Motors announced a demonstration project ( earlier post ) to explore market needs and customer acceptance of battery electric vehicles in Korea. The project involves a fleet of electric vehicles based on the Chevrolet Cruze. The Cruze EV is equipped with a 31 kWh battery that generates maximum power of 150 kW.

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Green Car Congress

SEPTEMBER 8, 2010

Solazyme, Inc. announced that Sir Richard Branson has invested in Solazyme’s Series D financing. Sir Richard invested in Solazyme’s financing in a personal capacity, although the stake complements existing Virgin Group investments through the Virgin Green Fund in the renewable energy and resource efficiency sectors. Sustainable renewable oils and biofuels will play an important role in our future.

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Green Car Congress

SEPTEMBER 2, 2010

New fleet efficiency horizon in terms of energy intensity and fuel consumption. rate compared to historical fleet averages and recent US regulations. Source: DeCicco 2010. Click to enlarge. Tripling US new light-duty vehicle fleet fuel efficiency by 2035 through evolutionary change—e.g., relying heavily on improvements in advanced engines and in the application of hybrid drive technology—rather than on revolutionary alternatives such as plug-in vehicles or hydrogen requiring extensiv

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Green Car Congress

SEPTEMBER 27, 2010

Liquid transportation fuels—and combustion engines that burn them—are “ going to be with us for quite awhile, a number of decades ,” said Dr. Steven E. Koonin, Under Secretary for Science, US Department of Energy in his plenary talk at the 16 th Directions in Engine-Efficiency and Emissions Research (DEER) Conference in Detroit.

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Green Car Congress

SEPTEMBER 17, 2010

The UK Department of Transport has awarded £24 million (US$37.5 million) to six projects to further develop the UK’s low carbon vehicle capability. The six winning projects—which together with contributions from business will receive total funding of £52 million (US$81.2 million)—are part of the latest Technology Strategy Board competition.

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Green Car Congress

SEPTEMBER 13, 2010

The US Department of Energy is awarding more than $5 million to support US wind energy development. Two projects receiving a total of $3.4 million over two years will improve short-term wind forecasting, which will accelerate the use of wind power in electricity transmission networks by allowing utilities and grid operators to more accurately forecast when and where electricity will be generated from wind power.

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