Green Car Congress

DECEMBER 18, 2011

Norwegian transportation company Fjord1 launched the MF Boknafjord , the world’s largest gas ferry. The new ferry, delivered by Fiskerstrand BLRT AS, will serve the Arsvågen-Mortavika route on the Boknafjord in Rogaland County. MF Boknafjord. Click to enlarge. The new gas-operated ferry is designed by Multi Maritime AS in Førde, Western Norway and has a total length of 129.9m, a maximum width of 19.2m and a capacity of 242 passenger cars or 22 heavy goods vehicles in combination with passenger c

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Electric Cars are for Girls

DECEMBER 20, 2011

"For your average drag race fan, this change opens a new and exciting chapter on the drag race scene, not seen since the likes of the inception of the electric vehicle itself.

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Green Car Reports

DECEMBER 20, 2011

Recently named by Gizmodo as the second most viral person on the Internet (ahead of Ashton Kutcher!), Matt Drudge is the go-to guy for headlines guaranteed to feed red meat to the right-hand side of the U.S. political spectrum. And he hates electric cars. Boy, does that man hate anything with a plug. And if it's the "failed" Chevy Volt, from the.

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DIY Electric Car

DECEMBER 17, 2011

I collected the car last weekend and, having not seen it in the flesh, i was very pleased with what I'd bought. It's a MK2 golf with 9'' ADC motor fitted, battery tray up front and one sunk into the rear where the fuel tank was. It needs a reasonable amount of attention but is a greater starter project for my first EV. The lights, etc run from a dedicated 12V battery (missing) and all the wiring is there so it should just be a matter of sticking the battery in.

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Green Car Congress

DECEMBER 18, 2011

Life-cycle GHG emissions per MJ of fuel produced and combusted for both 100-year and 20-year time horizons. Gasoline section shows results for fuel derived from both conventional oil and oil sands. Expansion bars show the components of fuel production. Credit: ACS, Burnham et al. Click to enlarge. The base results from a study by a team at the Center for Transportation Research, Argonne National Laboratory indicate that shale gas life-cycle greenhouse gas (GHG) emissions are 6% lower than conven

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Electric Cars are for Girls

DECEMBER 21, 2011

I can't believe the electric car dealer let me take their ZENN out by MYSELF. What were they thinking?

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National Green Transportation

DECEMBER 20, 2011

While Tesla Motors is best known for the Roadster, an all electric super-sports-car, their eyes all along have been on a business plan to develop modest priced electric cars. The Tesla Model S, to go on sale.

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Green Car Congress

DECEMBER 19, 2011

Cumulative light-duty PEV deployments by segment, world markets: 2011-2017. Source: Pike Research. Click to enlarge. Nearly nine out of ten plug-in electric vehicles (PEVs) sold this year will include at least a basic telematics package, and that percentage will likely grow to 94% by 2017, according to a new report from Pike Research. Annual revenue from worldwide sales of electric vehicle telematics will total $1.4 billion by 2017, Pike forecasts.

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Green Cars News

DECEMBER 20, 2011

Tuesday 20 December, 2011. The Green Piece Column. Proclaimed to be ‘the year of the electric car’, 2011 was expected to deliver a lot in terms of the development and uptake of lower emission cars. But did it deliver? We take a look back over the year. Year in review January-Plug-in Car Grants launch as [.].

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Green Car Reports

DECEMBER 23, 2011

Few things seem to set off a certain part of the political spectrum like the Chevrolet Volt, the extended-range electric car from General Motors. It's been on sale exactly one year, so we think it's rather too early to deem the Volt a success or a failure, though that hasn't stopped its critics. When criticizing anything, however--the Volt.

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National Green Transportation

DECEMBER 23, 2011

According to a blog post today by the UrbanCincy blog, Cincinatti is asking bicyclists to grade the cities efforts to improve the local bicycling infrastructure. From now until December 31, 2011, the Department of Transportation & Engineering.

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Green Car Congress

DECEMBER 20, 2011

Top: Conventional F-T process. Bottom: SRI process. Click to enlarge. Researchers from SRI International (SRI) are developing a methane-and-coal-to-liquids process that consumes negligible amounts of water and does not generate carbon dioxide. Based on data from bench-scale tests, SRI engineers estimate that the capital cost for a full-scale plant using SRI’s process would be less than half that of a conventional coal-to-liquids (CTL) plant using Fischer-Tropsch synthesis (FTS).

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Green Cars News

DECEMBER 21, 2011

Renault is celebrating delivering its very first Kangoo Z.E electric van in the UK. Printer Patrick Chard is the first owner of one of the battery-powered van, after he picked up the keys from Milton Keynes dealership, Marshall Renault. Already a winner of two major industry awards; the International Van of the Year 2012 and [.].

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Green Car Reports

DECEMBER 22, 2011

Yep, it's almost the end of the year, which means reams of roundup stories from all your favorite auto websites. Nope, we're not that different: We've got one too. Here's our take on the five most important stories--or perhaps themes--of 2011 in the growing world of green cars. New fuel economy rules: 54.5 mpg CAFE by 2025 The biggest story of the.

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National Green Transportation

DECEMBER 20, 2011

While Tesla Motors is best known for the Roadster, an all electric super-sports-car, their eyes all along have been on a business plan to develop modest priced electric cars. The Tesla Model S, to go on sale.

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Green Car Congress

DECEMBER 17, 2011

Siemens Corporate Technology and partners are pursuing several research projects aimed at improving the range and efficiency of electric motors. In the project PELiKAn (Power Electronics in Kraftfahrzeugen. und Aeronautik, or “Power Electronics in Motor Vehicles and Aeronautics), the aim is to use highly efficient power electronics to improve efficiency in aircraft and motor vehicles.

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Green Cars News

DECEMBER 19, 2011

The production of biofuels is a bigger cause of land grab deals than was previously thought, a new report suggests. New and extensive research by the International Land Coalition (ILC) reveals that more than half of all land grabbing deals in developing countries over the last decade are attributably to biofuel production. Covering a full [.].

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Green Car Reports

DECEMBER 19, 2011

Just can't wait for a 2012 Fisker Karma, the first examples of which are now finally arriving at dealers? Well, you can always turn to eBay, that massive online repository for all things of all kinds. The auction site currently carries a listing for a 2012 Fisker Karma, one of two the seller says he owns, with a sweetener to justify its purchase.

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National Green Transportation

DECEMBER 23, 2011

According to a blog post today by the UrbanCincy blog, Cincinatti is asking bicyclists to grade the cities efforts to improve the local bicycling infrastructure. From now until December 31, 2011, the Department of Transportation & Engineering.

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Green Car Congress

DECEMBER 20, 2011

Li-ion battery maker A123 Systems will supply a Grid Battery System (GBS) to Maui Electric Company (MECO), a utility serving residents and businesses on the islands of Maui, Lanai and Molokai in Hawaii. To be installed at MECO’s Wailea Substation on Maui, the advanced energy storage system will be designed to deliver one-megawatt (1MW) of power for a full hour to reduce the peak energy load on one of the substation’s transformers, which is expected to increase grid stability and improve power qu

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Green Cars News

DECEMBER 23, 2011

Before you set to work wrapping your Christmas presents this year, you might want to think about how much paper you are using. Not to put a damper on Christmas spirits, but new research from the Imperial College London reveals that if all the UK’s wrapping paper and festive cards discarded over Christmas could make [.].

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Green Car Reports

DECEMBER 23, 2011

No, this isn't a paid ad. With roughly 17,000 plug-in electric cars sold in the U.S. this year, and likely a multiple of that number next year, many owners will be installing charging stations in their garages. Not all plug-in cars will need a 240-Volt Level 2 charging station, mind you. It all depends on the size of the lithium-ion battery pack.

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Green Car Congress

DECEMBER 23, 2011

Total transportation fuel use in California broken down by subsector and fuel type for each scenario: business-as-usual (BAU); plug-in electric vehicles (PEVs); and combined PEVs and fuel cell vehicles (FCVs). Source: Yang et al. Click to enlarge. Without policy intervention, total travel demand in every transportation subsector in the state of California is projected to increase between 50 and 100% from 2005 to 2050 due to population growth and increasing travel demand per capita, with the most

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Green Car Congress

DECEMBER 21, 2011

Distance to 2015 target by individual manufacturers in 2010 (only manufacturers registering > 100 000 vehicles in Europe). The size of the bubble is proportional to the number of vehicles registered in Europe. Source: EEA. Click to enlarge. While most car manufacturers have already met their individual 2012 CO 2 targets for Europe, several carmakers need to make their fleets even more carbon-efficient to meet the 2012 target, according to updated data published by the European Environment Agency

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Green Car Congress

DECEMBER 21, 2011

E300 BlueTEC HYBRID. Click to enlarge. Mercedes-Benz is is launching two new luxury hybrids in its core segment: the diesel-electric E 300 BlueTEC HYBRID, and the gasoline-electric E 400 HYBRID. The new hybrid models, based on a modular hybrid system, make their world premiere at the Detroit Auto Show and will appear on the market over the course of the year.

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Green Car Congress

DECEMBER 22, 2011

A three-year study by a team of researchers based at MIT has concluded that fundamental changes are needed in the US energy-innovation system. Without systematic, transformative changes, the US is unlikely to succeed either in averting the worst economic and environmental consequences of climate change or in achieving a secure, affordable and reliable energy supply.

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Green Car Congress

DECEMBER 20, 2011

Renault and the city of Boulogne-Billancourt (France) opened the Renault ZE (Zero Emission) Center, the first such to be opened in Europe by a vehicle manufacturer. Its aim is to share the ZE experience with all visitors, in order to convince them of the credibility of Renault’s offering and the relevance of its ambitions in electric vehicles. The Renault ZE center is based on the concept of a customer journey: reception; briefing on the electric vehicle ecosystem (comprising the car, battery, c

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Green Car Congress

DECEMBER 19, 2011

Saft has just started shipping the first Li-ion cells to roll off. the production lines at its advanced automated lithium-ion battery factory, in. Jacksonville, Florida. The first deliveries from Jacksonville have included hundreds of cells for battery assembly for European customers. Starting volume industrial-scale deliveries to customers from the Jacksonville plant opened in September this year confirms the sound foundations we have put in place, both in terms of the advanced production techn

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Green Car Congress

DECEMBER 23, 2011

Sears Home Services, the residential and commercial installation arm of Sears Holdings, recently entered an installation agreement with Evatran, the developer of Plugless Power inductive charging systems for electric vehicles. Plugless Power is a Level 2 (240V at 30A, 3.3 kW rated power output) system, with a transfer efficiency of 90%. Benefits offered to Plugless Power customers through the agreement include: Simplified Purchasing: Evatran will offer Plugless Power systems with optional basic

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Green Car Congress

DECEMBER 17, 2011

The California Air Resources Board voted Friday to amend the Low Carbon Fuel Standard ( LCFS ) to streamline procedures and clarify language. ( Earlier post.) The LCFS intends to reduce, on a full-fuel lifecycle basis, the carbon intensity (CI) of transportation fuels (measured in gCO 2 e/MJ) used in California by an average of 10% by the year 2020. ( Earlier post.).

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Green Car Congress

DECEMBER 21, 2011

Global coal demand has almost doubled since 1980, driven by increases in Asia, where demand is up over 400% from 1980-2010, according to the US Energy Information Administration (EIA). In turn, China dominates Asian demand; demand in China increased almost five-fold between 1980-2010 and accounted for 73% of Asia’s consumption and almost half of coal consumption globally in 2010.

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Green Car Congress

DECEMBER 20, 2011

A new report from the Stockholm Environment Institute (SEI) finds that recent progress in developing and deploying low carbon technology is fragile, and advises that policy support must be stabilized globally to maintain momentum. The research was carried out in partnership with the 3C (Combat Climate Change) business leaders’ initiative. The research focused on two key low-carbon technologies: solar photovoltaics (PV) and carbon capture and storage (CCS).

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Green Car Congress

DECEMBER 20, 2011

The Dow Chemical Company, through its wholly-owned subsidiary Dow Europe GmbH, and Turkey-based AKSA Akrilik Kimya Sanayii A.?. signed a definitive agreement to form a joint venture to manufacture and commercialize carbon fiber and derivatives. The joint venture will develop and globally market a broad range of products and technical service support in the rapidly expanding carbon-fiber based composites industry.

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Green Car Congress

DECEMBER 19, 2011

Opel is further expanding its market trial with hydrogen fuel cell vehicles with a HydroGen4 vehicle going to the Berlin Airports. BER [Berlin Brandenburg Airport] is an ideal partner as it possesses the world’s first CO 2 neutral gas station. The Total gas station provides green hydrogen produced from wind energy by Enertrag. Both firms, Total and Enertrag, are also partners of our market trial.

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