Green Car Congress

JULY 1, 2013

'The LTC research project has three proposed components. Click to enlarge. The University of California Berkeley is partnering with MIT, Lawrence Berkeley, Lawrence Livermore and Sandia National Labs and Ricardo to investigate the the use of partial fuel stratification (PFS) in compression-ignition (CI) engines as well as the combination of PFS and microwave-assisted spark plug (µWASP) technology in spark-ignition (SI) engines to enable Low Temperature Combustion (LTC) engines to operate over th

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Green Car Reports

JULY 3, 2013

'Look out, owners of 200-mph testosterone-supplement poster cars. If there ever was a real hypercar, it''s the Volkswagen XL1. Although in recent years the term hypercar has been distorted—to include cars that are faster (and often even thirstier) than those supercars from Lamborghini, Ferrari, and others—we''re getting back to basics.

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JUNE 29, 2013

'On Thursday, the largest municipal fleet deployment of electric cars in the U.S. took place when Mitsubishi Motors deployed 50 i-MiEV's to four Bay Area local government fleets – San Jose, Los Gatos, Campbell and Mill.

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Green Cars News

JULY 4, 2013

'When you''re a footballer at one of the world''s most famous clubs and with 49 England caps to your name, it''s fair to say you''re earning quite a lot of money: and that the Ferraris, Porsches and Lamborghinis of this world are comfortably within reach. So it''s encouraging then that Liverpool FC and E[.].

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Green Car Congress

JULY 4, 2013

'The Solar Team Eindhoven (STE) of Eindhoven University of Technology (TU/e) presented the world’s first solar-powered family car. “ Stella ” is the first “energy-positive car” with room for four people, a trunk, intuitive steering and a range of 600 kilometers (373 miles). This is the car being entered by the student team in the Cruiser class of the World Solar Challenge that starts in Australia in October 2013.

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Green Car Reports

JUNE 30, 2013

'On June 5, a Tesla Motors fan mounted what seemed like another quixotic effort to support Tesla in selling its electric cars directly to buyers. The petition at WhiteHouse.gov that he or she launched required 100,000 people to sign it within a month, by Friday, July 5. Suddenly, it seems that petition may actually get the needed support--helped.

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Green Car Congress

JULY 3, 2013

'Toyota Motor Corporation (TMC) announced that as of the end of June, worldwide cumulative sales of the Prius gasoline-electric hybrid vehicle (generations I, II and III) passed the 3-million mark. (The figure is based on worldwide cumulative sales through the end of May 2013 plus June sales in the US.) Total global Prius nameplate sales (the expanded Prius family) are at 3.436 million units.

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Green Car Congress

JULY 5, 2013

'Peugeot is unveiling its AE21 HYbrid compact ebike at the “Who’s Next” show on 6 July in Paris. Powered by a Li-ion battery, the AE21 features an electric motor located in the front wheel. The battery is locked in place and can be recharged directly in the bike or removed for recharging at home. The aluminum frame accommodates the battery, a laptop bag and an ABUS Bordo folding lock to ensure the everyday protection of the bike.

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Green Car Congress

JULY 5, 2013

'Volvo Car Group will introduce a number of safety and driver assistance technologies in the all-new Volvo XC90 at the end of 2014, including the use of autonomous steering functions to avoid accidents and make driving more comfortable, according to Thomas Broberg, Senior Safety Advisor Volvo Car Group. Pedestrian detection at night. According to STRADA (Swedish TRaffic Accident Data Acquisition), 44% of all the pedestrian fatalities occurred in darkness, at dusk or dawn.

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Green Car Congress

JULY 5, 2013

'Non-tactical vehicle spending by alternative drive type, US Department of Defense: 2013-2020. Source: Navigant Research. Click to enlarge. In a new report , Navigant Research forecasts that US military spending on alternative drive vehicles (ADVs—including hybrid electric vehicles (HEVs), plug-in electric vehicles (PEVs), and ethanol-powered vehicles—for the non-tactical fleet will increase from more than $435 million in 2013 to $926 million by 2020, a CAGR of 11.4%.

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Green Car Congress

JULY 1, 2013

'Cadillac’s upcoming extended-range electric luxury coupe, the 2014 ELR ( earlier post ), the Volt’s upscale cousin, is targeting responsive driving dynamics enabled by advanced suspension and steering systems as well as the smart use of energy. The technologies include front HiPer Strut suspension, rear compound crank with Watt’s link suspension, a premium ZF electric power steering system and ZF-Sachs continuous damping control. he 2014 Cadillac ELR''s advanced suspension and steering technolo

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Green Car Congress

JULY 2, 2013

'Biofuel advocacy group Advanced Biofuels introduced the concept of “E30 Capable” vehicles as part of its comments to the the US Environmental Protection Agency’s (EPA’s) recently proposed Tier 3 motor vehicle fuel and emission rulemaking. ( Earlier post.). As part of the Tier 3 requirements, EPA proposes allowing vehicle manufacturers to request approval for an alternative certification fuel—such as a high-octane 30% ethanol by volume (E30) blend—for vehicles they might design or op

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Green Car Congress

JUNE 29, 2013

'LiquidPiston, the developer of engines based on its High Efficiency Hybrid Cycle (HEHC) ( earlier post) , has raised $2.25 million in new funding, according to SEC filings. LiquidPiston’s X Engine is a non-Wankel rotary embodiment of the HEHC. Expected realized brake efficiency for the X engine is 58% (peak) and 50% at partial load; power density is targeted to be around 2 hp/lb.

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Green Car Congress

JUNE 30, 2013

'Abengoa recently inaugurated a demonstration plant using Waste-to-Biofuels (W2B) technology. The plant has a capacity to treat 25,000 tons of municipal solid waste (MSW) from which it will obtain up to 1.5 million liters (396,000 gallons US) of bioethanol for use as fuel. The demonstration plant, located in Babilafuente (Salamanca, Spain), uses W2B technology developed by Abengoa to produce second-generation biofuels from the organic fraction of MSW using an enzymatic hydrolysis treatment follo

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JUNE 30, 2013

'The US Federal Transit Administration (FTA) will award up to $3.0 million of Fiscal Year (FY) 2012 research funds for innovative research, development, and demonstration (RD&D) projects targeting bus efficiency enhancements, specifically enhanced electrification of accessories, and improvements in thermal management of bus bodies ( FTA-2013-003-TRI ).

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Green Car Congress

JULY 5, 2013

'Mazda North American Operations (MNAO) announced fuel economy figures for and updated pricing of its new 2014 Mazda6 midsize sedan, featuring the i-ELOOP regenerative engine braking system. ( Earlier post.) The i-ELOOP equipped Mazda6 is EPA-rated at 28 city/40 highway/32 combined mpg US (8.4, 5.9 and 7.4 l/100km, respectively). Fuel efficiency when paired with the manual transmission for non-i-ELOOP cars is rated by the EPA at 25 city/37 highway/29 combined mpg (9.4, 6.4 and 8.1 l/100 km) and

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Green Car Congress

JULY 5, 2013

'An electric vehicle (EV) leasing scheme has been launched in London as part of UK Power Networks’ Low Carbon London EV trials. Fifty new Nissan LEAFs are being leased to residential and commercial motorists for up to two years, accompanied by free charging units for homes or offices. All the cars are being enrolled on the Low Carbon London EV trials, led by London’s electricity distributor, to understand the impact on the electricity network of larger numbers of electric vehicles being plugged

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Green Car Congress

JULY 4, 2013

'Clean Air Power exhibited its first prototype vehicle retrofitted with a Genesis-EDGE Dual-Fuel product suitable for the US market at the Alternative Clean Transportation EXPO in Washington DC. The prototype vehicle, a 425 hp Volvo VNL retrofitted with a US version of Clean Air Power’s patented Dual-Fuel Genesis-EDGE product, successfully made the 2,720 mile journey across the US from the group’s manufacturing facility in Poway, California to the Convention Center in Washington DC.

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Green Car Congress

JULY 2, 2013

'Dresser-Rand Group Inc. received a project award from Apex Compressed Air Energy Storage, LLC for the supply of equipment to be used in a new 317 MW compressed air energy storage (CAES) facility to be constructed near Tennessee Colony, Texas in the Electric Reliability Council of Texas (ERCOT) market. The Apex Bethel Energy Center would be the first CAES facility to be built in the United States since the Power South facility in McIntosh Alabama, which was built in 1991 and also contains Dresse

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Green Car Congress

JULY 5, 2013

'Volkswagen is running the diesel plug-in hybrid XL1 ( earlier post ) and its e-up! battery electric vehicle ( earlier post ) at this year’s Silvretta E-Car Rally in Austria. The new e-up! is taking part in the Silvretta E-Car Rally in the Austrian Montafon region for the first time. With its Alpine route profile, the rally is both a test of reliability and highly demanding, as the challenge is to recover large amounts of the power used on the long uphill climbs through battery regeneration on t

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Green Car Congress

JULY 4, 2013

'Summary of levelized production cost estimates of fuel (LCOF) for the examined plant designs. The horizontal red lines show the comparable price of gasoline (before tax, refining margin 0.3 $/gal, exchange rate: 1 € = 1.326 $) with crude oil prices 100 $/bbl and 150 $/bbl. Source: VTT. A study by researchers at Finland’s VTT has concluded that it is possible to produce sustainable low-carbon fuels from lignocellulosic biomass for as estimated gasoline-equivalent production cost of 0.5–0.7 €/lit

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Green Car Congress

JULY 3, 2013

'Ford Motor Company is developing a new form of manufacturing technology—rapid freeform sheet metal forming—that has the potential to reduce costs and delivery time for sheet metal parts needed in smaller quantities. The project is part of a three-year, $7.04-million US Department of Energy grant to advance next-generation, energy-efficient manufacturing processes. ( Earlier post.).

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Green Car Congress

JULY 2, 2013

'University of Delaware researchers have identified an algae— Heterosigma akashiwo —that grows rapidly on a gas mixture that has the same carbon dioxide and nitric oxide (NO) content as emissions released from a power plant. The algae, found worldwide in the natural environment, also make large amounts of carbohydrates, which can be converted into bioethanol to fuel vehicles.

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Green Car Congress

JULY 5, 2013

'CN will start serving a new advanced frac sand terminal north of Grande Prairie, Alta., starting in November 2013. The new 20-acre facility being built by Di-Corp of Edmonton will have an annual throughput capacity of 550,000 tons of frac sand and have three tracks capable of holding 44 rail cars for unloading. Frac sand is used by oil and gas industries in the hydraulic fracturing process to hold shale fractures open and let natural gas and oil flow out.

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Green Car Congress

JULY 3, 2013

'STMicroelectronics, a leading global semiconductor provider and supplier of automotive electronics, and Great Wall Motor Company Limited (GWM), China’s leading SUV and pickup manufacturer and privately owned enterprise, have formed a strategic partnership and established a joint development laboratory at GWM’s Technical Center. The joint lab will focus on advanced research and development of advanced solutions in powertrain, chassis, safety, car body, car infotainment, as well as new-energy tec

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Green Car Congress

JULY 2, 2013

'Toyota Motor Sales (TMS), USA, Inc., reported 10 million US sales of its Toyota Camry, the top-selling car in the US for the past 11 years, representing nearly 20% of all the vehicles Toyota has ever sold in the US. This milestone comes the same year Camry celebrates its 30-year anniversary in the US. Toyota’s first generation Camry was introduced to the US market in 1983.

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Green Car Congress

JULY 1, 2013

'The Nikkei reports that Honda Motor Co. and General Motors will tie up in environmental technology. Honda Executive Vice President Tetsuo Iwamura and GM Vice Chairman Stephen Girsky will explain the details at a news conference in New York at 9 am Tuesday, local time, according to the Nikkei report. The deal is a shift in strategy for Honda, which has been working on its own amid a big shift in carmakers’ approach to green technology.

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Green Car Congress

JULY 1, 2013

'The report from a task force assembled by the CEPS (Centre for European Policy Studies), a Brussels-based think tank, on European transport policy has concluded that the EU’s goal of a 60% greenhouse gas (GHG) emissions reduction in the transport sector in 2050 compared to 1990 levels is possible, but at a cost. Achieving the goal will require a comprehensive policy strategy that needs to be both “ credible and adequate ”, the report found.

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Green Car Congress

JUNE 29, 2013

'Canada-based waste-to-biofuels company Enerkem Inc. recently closed a C$50-million (US$47.6-million) financing, which brings total equity investment raised by Enerkem in 2013 to C$87 million (US$82.7 million). Enerkem’s technology platform is a 4-step thermochemical process that consists of: feedstock preparation. gasification. cleaning and conditioning of syngas. catalytic synthesis.

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Green Car Congress

JULY 4, 2013

'Shell announced a successful exploratory well at Vicksburg in the deep-water Gulf of Mexico (GOM). The well is located 75 miles (120 kilometers) offshore in the Mississippi Canyon Block 393 in 7,446 feet (2,269 meters) of water. It was drilled to a total depth of 26,385 feet (8,042 meters) and encountered more than 500 feet (152 meters) of net oil pay.

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Green Car Congress

JULY 3, 2013

'General Motors and its joint ventures posted record sales in June and during the first half of the year in China. GM’s sales in China in the initial six months of 2013 rose 10.6% from last year’s previous record for the period to 1,567,392 units. GM’s domestic sales in June were also up 10.6% from last year’s previous June high to 236,207 units. By comparison, GM sales in the US were 1,420,346 units for the first six months of the year and 264,843 units in June.

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Green Car Congress

JULY 2, 2013

'In contrast to arguments that peak conventional oil production is imminent due to physical resource scarcity, a team from Stanford University and UC Santa Cruz has examined the alternative possibility of reduced oil use due to improved efficiency and oil substitution. In their a paper published in the ACS journal Environmental Science & Technology , Dr.

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Green Car Congress

JULY 1, 2013

'NuScale Power, LLC, a company commercializing a small modular nuclear reactor ( earlier post ), announced the launching of the Western Initiative for Nuclear (WIN)—a multi-western state collaboration—to study the demonstration and deployment of a multi-module NuScale Small Modular Reactor (SMR) plant at a site such as the Idaho National Laboratory location that would be operational by 2024.

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Green Car Congress

JULY 1, 2013

'KiOR, Inc., developer of a catalytic pyrolysis process to produce renewable crude oil from biomass ( earlier post ), has achieved several key operational milestones at its commercial-scale cellulosic gasoline and diesel production facility in Columbus, Mississippi. First, the Columbus facility’s Biomass Fluid Catalytic Cracking, or BFCC, unit has completed its first uninterrupted 30-day run.

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