Green Car Congress
NOVEMBER 17, 2011
20Ah SCiB cell. Click to enlarge. Honda selected Toshiba Corporation’s SCiB rechargeable Li-ion battery to power the Fit EV. ( Earlier post.) Toshiba will supply battery modules for the new car, which Honda will launch in summer 2012 in Japan and the US. In 2010, Toshiba announced that it was working with Mitsubishi Motors Corporation to bring the SCiB battery ( earlier post ) to electric vehicles (EVs). ( Earlier post.
Electric Cars are for Girls
NOVEMBER 12, 2011
If you're in the San Diego area, and would like to attend an EV conversion workshop. The Kick Gas Car Club is offering a series of evening classes, starting in January, on converting a small pickup to electric. Class size is limited to 8 people. Follow the link for more information or to grab a seat.
Green Car Reports
NOVEMBER 14, 2011
Preliminary conclusions from the investigation into a Mooresville, North Carolina, house fire that destroyed a Chevrolet Volt indicate the fire did not start in the vehicle, but elsewhere, and progressed to engulf the electric car. Iredell County chief deputy fire marshal Garland Cloer told GreenCarReports in an exclusive interview that, "the.
Revenge of the Electric Car
NOVEMBER 17, 2011
REVENGE is growing strong, playing in theatres across the country, and the reviews have been glowing! Thank you to everyone who who requested the film in your area- we're still adding more locations and more screenings and putting together some great events for people to meet the filmmakers, the electric cars, and each other. Check out this behind-the-scenes video from our October 21st premiere in Los Angeles: "Revenge of the Electric Car" Premier in Los Angeles. from Steve Payne on Vimeo.
Advertisement
emissions global warming Norway climate change carbon dioxide youtube lighting
Green Car Congress
NOVEMBER 18, 2011
The eT! research vehicle. Click to enlarge. Volkswagen unveiled the eT! electric delivery van research vehicle at the Design Center in Potsdam. The all-electric eT!, which is equipped with wheel hub motors, can be operated semi-automatically in certain situations. The van can follow the delivery person from house to house (“Follow me”), or the van can return to the delivery person on command (“Come to me”).
Electric Cars are for Girls
NOVEMBER 12, 2011
"In the long run, a fully electrified vehicle fleet would theoretically -- just do the math! -- provide enough balancing power for a 100 percent renewable electricity system.
EV Driven brings together the best content on electric vehicles from the widest variety of industry thought leaders.
National Green Transportation
NOVEMBER 17, 2011
As expected, Honda today debuted the 2013 model year Honda Fit EV. The all-electric car, which will have nearly exactly the dimensions of the gasoline Fit, was originally shown as a "concept car" at the 2010.
Green Car Congress
NOVEMBER 15, 2011
The new American Fuel Cell Bus. Click to enlarge. Canada-based Ballard Power Systems has, together with consortium partners BAE Systems and ElDorado National (California) Inc., successfully deployed a “Buy America”-compliant, fuel cell bus for SunLine Transit Agency in Palm Springs, CA. This marks the 7 th generation of hydrogen buses deployed by SunLine, which has pursued an aggressive strategy of implementing clean technologies into its fleet.
Electric Cars are for Girls
NOVEMBER 13, 2011
Traditionally, street rods have been powered by fire breathing, and belching, large displacement V8's.
Green Car Reports
NOVEMBER 18, 2011
It's the smallest car ever sold as a Chevrolet. It's already a huge hit in India (where it's fitted with a tiny 0.9-liter three-cylinder turodiesel). And now it's coming to the U.S. At this week's Los Angeles Auto Show media days, the 2013 Chevrolet Spark minicar shared the stage with a Chevrolet Camaro ZL1 convertible--an odd couple if ever there.
National Green Transportation
NOVEMBER 17, 2011
As expected, Honda today debuted the 2013 model year Honda Fit EV. The all-electric car, which will have nearly exactly the dimensions of the gasoline Fit, was originally shown as a "concept car" at the 2010.
Green Car Congress
NOVEMBER 15, 2011
The FCV-R concept. Click to enlarge. Toyota Motor Corporation (TMC) will stage the world premiere of the FCV-R, a practical sedan-type next-generation hydrogen fuel-cell concept vehicle, at the upcoming Tokyo Motor Show. Toyota calls this concept model “ a highly practical fuel-cell vehicle ” that is planned for launch in about 2015. With the fuel-cell unit located beneath the specially designed body, the vehicle can accommodate up to four passengers and offers what Toyota calls &ldq
Green Cars News
NOVEMBER 18, 2011
A new development of solar powered homes is now under construction in the US, which could help future owners run their cars with next to no cost in electricity. Announcing the start of construction in the California cities of Signal Hill, Santa Barbara and Brea, City Ventures, the company behind the new solar, no-gas homes, [.].
Green Car Reports
NOVEMBER 18, 2011
Once in a while, you get an announcement that looks interesting but requires. ummmmm. some interpretation. During the barrage of car launches, interviews, press releases, and general running around that comprised media days at the recent Los Angeles Auto Show, we got a press release with the following subject line: Nissan Selects Coulomb.
Green Car Congress
NOVEMBER 12, 2011
Northwestern Univ. researchers report on a new high-power Si–graphene composite anode material for Li-ion batteries in the journal Advanced Energy Materials. With current technology, the capabilities of a lithium-ion battery are limited in two ways: energy capacity is limited by the charge density, and charge rate is limited by the speed at which the lithium ions can make their way from the electrolyte into the anode.
Green Car Congress
NOVEMBER 18, 2011
The US Navy successfully concluded its largest demonstration of shipboard alternative fuel use with the successful arrival of the Self Defense Test Ship (SDTS) to Naval Surface Warfare Center Port Hueneme. The SDTS is a decommissioned Spruance-class destroyer ex-Paul F. Foster (EDD 964) reconfigured to provide the Navy an at-sea, remotely controlled, engineering test and evaluation platform without the risk to personnel or operational assets.
Green Car Congress
NOVEMBER 18, 2011
BMW AG has secured a 15.16 percent stake in SGL Carbon SE, reflecting its strengthening of focus on lightweight construction and the use of carbon fibre reinforced plastics (CFRP) in automobile manufacture. The BMW Group and the SGL Group already operate a joint venture, SGL Automotive Carbon Fibers (B Earlier post.). The company is not disclosing the financial details of the transaction.
Green Car Congress
NOVEMBER 15, 2011
Renault inaugurated an electric test center in Lardy, France. The €28-million (US$38-million) center is the cornerstone of the brand’s development of new electric technologies and houses most of the test facilities for electric motors and batteries. Operational since 2009, it has been gradually expanded to cover 3,300 sq. meters and some 100 test benches: Eight test benches for electric motors: unlike test benches for internal combustion engines, which are powered by fuel, electric motor test be
Green Car Congress
NOVEMBER 17, 2011
Nissan North America, Inc. (NNA) has fully integrated Coulomb Technologies’s ChargePoint Network into the Nissan LEAF website to provide electric vehicle public charging infrastructure locations for Nissan LEAF drivers. The Nissan LEAF website carries a list of charging stations to give current and prospective drivers the ability to find the stations and real-time charging station availability.
Green Car Congress
NOVEMBER 13, 2011
E.ON is developing a pilot plant in Falkenhagen in the north east of Germany to convert power from wind energy into hydrogen which can then be stored in the country’s gas grid. The company is investing more than €5 million on the pilot plant and further research into this technology. Using power from renewable energy sources, the plant will produce about 360 m 3 (30 kg) of hydrogen per hour from 2013 onwards through electrolysis.
Green Car Congress
NOVEMBER 17, 2011
Shell Oil Company is now producing oil from what it says is the world’s deepest subsea well at its Perdido Development. ( Earlier post.) The well, at 9,627 feet (2,934 meters, 1.82 miles) below the water’s surface, is located in the Tobago Field 200 miles southwest of Houston in the ultra-deep water of the Gulf of Mexico. Moored in about 8,000 feet of water, the Perdido regional DVA (direct vertical access) spar is the deepest spar production facility in the world.
Green Car Congress
NOVEMBER 16, 2011
Smith Electric Vehicles Corp. will expand its US operations by adding a manufacturing facility in the South Bronx in New York State. Smith will manufacture the battery electric Newton, its medium-duty vehicle with a range of up to 150 miles at the new facility beginning in 2012. A package of city and state incentives of approximately $11 million will augment Smith’s private investment.
Green Car Congress
NOVEMBER 18, 2011
Researchers at Michigan Technological University are developing an asymmetric ultracapacitor using a novel cathode based on carbon foam-supported nickel oxyhydroxide. Asymmetric ultracapcitors combine the benefits of ultracaps—very high discharge rates and cycle life—with those of batteries—high energy densities and low self-discharge rates—to create a device that has significantly lower self discharge and much higher energy density than ultracapacitors, and significantly
Green Car Congress
NOVEMBER 18, 2011
General Motors is introducing a solar charging canopy that moves with the sun. The Tracking Solar Tree is located at GM Company Vehicle Operations in Warren, Michigan. Chevy Volts beneath the Solar Tree. Click to enlarge. The Tracking Solar Tree, built by Envision Solar , features a hybrid multi-axis tracking design which enables the entire canopy to track the sun, increasing renewable energy production by about 25%.
Green Car Congress
NOVEMBER 17, 2011
Mazda North American Operations (MNAO) unveiled its all-new 2013 CX-5 compact SUV ( earlier post ) at the Los Angeles Auto Show. The CX-5 is the first Mazda fully to encompass the range of SKYACTIV technologies. The first applications of SKYACTIV engine and transmissions was in the refreshed Mazda3 ( earlier post ). CX-5. Click to enlarge. The 2013 CX-5 features a SKYACTIV-G 2.0-liter gasoline engine with a 13:1 compression ratio.
Green Car Congress
NOVEMBER 14, 2011
Toyota’s H2V units. Click to enlarge. Toyota Motor Corporation (TMC), in collaboration with its customer service IT company, Toyota Media Service Corporation, has developed a tool to support easy home-based charging of the Prius PHV plug-in hybrid vehicle, due for launch next year, and electric vehicles (EVs). Toyota Housing Corporation, TMC’s house construction and design subsidiary, will start sales of the tool, the H2V (home-to-vehicle) Manager, in Japan in January 2012.
Green Car Congress
NOVEMBER 16, 2011
The 1.6 liter four-cylinder EcoBoost engine. Click to enlarge. The new Ford Escape will offer two different EcoBoost engines: a 2.0-liter four-cylinder and, for the first time in the US, a 1.6-liter four-cylinder. Each new engine uses the core EcoBoost technologies of direct fuel injection and turbocharging and adds twin independent variable camshaft timing (Ti-VCT) ( earlier post ).
Green Car Congress
NOVEMBER 18, 2011
The California Energy Commission has awarded $398,662 to the University of California, Davis to develop a forecasting tool that can be used by the state’s grid operator to respond to sudden changes in wind power production. The research is intended to help better integrate wind power into the electrical grid and improve the reliability of California's generation system, said Energy Commission Chair Dr.
Green Car Congress
NOVEMBER 18, 2011
car2go N.A., LLC, a wholly owned subsidiary of Daimler North America Corporation, and the City of San Diego officially launched North America’s first all-electric carsharing network. car2go began deploying 300 smart fortwo electric drive vehicles Friday in San Diego, which are now in service and available for use. Unlike traditional carsharing programs, car2go meets the daily needs of members by providing a free-floating network of vehicles that is available on-demand for point-to-point trips.
Green Car Congress
NOVEMBER 18, 2011
The cumulative on-road passenger vehicle fleet mix for one scenario developed by ARB staff that achieves the 2050 GHG emission reduction goal. ZEV sales must constitute nearly 100% of new vehicles in 2040 for ZEVs to constitute approximately 87% of the on-road fleet by 2050. Click to enlarge. Prior to the full release of its proposed Advanced Clean Cars (ACC) program in December ( earlier post ), the California Air Resources Board (ARB) has posted a detailed summary of the program’s packag
Green Car Congress
NOVEMBER 15, 2011
General Motors and its local joint venture partner UzAvtosanoat opened a new engine plant in Tashkent, 400 kilometers from the automakers’ vehicle manufacturing facility in Asaka. The facility, which covers 40 hectares, is GM’s first engine plant in Uzbekistan. It will produce more than 225,000 new Ecotec 1.2L and 1.5L engines for use in GM small passenger cars sold globally.
Green Car Congress
NOVEMBER 15, 2011
Toyota Motor Sales, U.S.A., Inc., will debut the subcompact Prius c ( earlier post ) next January at the 2012 North American International Auto Show in Detroit. Prius c. Click to enlarge. The subcompact member of the Prius Family will join the third-generation Prius Liftback hybrid vehicle, the new Prius v midsize hybrid vehicle and the Prius Plug-in Hybrid model, which will also debut next spring.
Green Car Congress
NOVEMBER 18, 2011
Researchers with the US Department of Energy (DOE)’s Joint BioEnergy Institute (JBEI) and the US Department of Agriculture’s Agricultural Research Service (ARS), have demonstrated that introducing a maize (corn) gene into switchgrass ( Panicum virgatum ), a potential feedstock for advanced biofuels, more than doubles (250%) the amount of starch in the plant’s cell walls, resulting in higher glucose release for fermentation with or without biomass pretreatment.
Green Car Congress
NOVEMBER 18, 2011
Carbon capture and storage (CCS) involves capturing carbon dioxide released by power stations and other industrial sources, and burying it deep underground. In addition to keeping anthropogenic CO 2 out of the atmosphere, this technology will lead to benefits and trade-offs for air pollution, according to a new report from the European Environment Agency (EEA).
Expert insights. Personalized for you.
342 
Let's personalize your content