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GREEN CAR REPORTS MAY 24, 2012 Electric Cars Equal $1/Gallon Gas For Life + $1,200 Cash A Year Car buyers are notoriously fond of focusing only on the purchase price of new vehicles, without much thinking about the total cost of ownership. For electric cars that may cost twice or more what a similar-size gasoline vehicle does, that's a problem. Still, two separate pieces of evidence begin to make a compelling case for the huge running-cost | GREEN CAR CONGRESS MAY 25, 2012 Google’s technology campaign for autonomous driving by Bill Cooke. Search engine giant Google is looking for partners within in the auto industry to help launch one of the most significant applications of artificial technology over the next several years, the self-driving car. We’re not perfect; the technology is nowhere near ready. —Anthony Levandowski. For some, driving is a distraction.” | | GREEN CARS NEWS MAY 24, 2012 Irish hotels to welcome electric cars The Irish are renowned for offering a warm welcome – and now anyone with an electric car will feel particularly at home in the country’s hotels. That’s because ESB e-cars and Failte Ireland (logo, pictured) have teamed up to start a Green Hotel Drive. Its aim is to install e-car charge points in 100 hotels [.]. | | | | | | | |
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GREEN CAR REPORTS | FRIDAY, MAY 25, 2012 2012 Volt Electric Car Brings Chevy Whole New Type Of Customer
Who buys a Chevrolet Volt plug-in hybrid car? It’s a question that we’ve tried to answer in the past, examining initial sales data from General Motors to try and create the automotive equivalent of an indentikit Volt buyer. Unsurprisingly, many early-adopting Volt buyers were green car fans looking to make the switch to a plug-in MORE >> -
GREEN CAR CONGRESS | MONDAY, MAY 21, 2012 MECA member companies sold 20,177 diesel retrofits in the US 2011
The total number of verified (US EPA- and/or California ARB-verified) diesel retrofit devices (for both on-road and off-road diesel engines) sold in the US (including California) by MECA member companies in 2011 was 20,177, according to the Manufacturers of Emission Controls Association (MECA). 4% (881) were flow-through filters (FTFs). MORE >> -
HYBRID CAR BLOG | WEDNESDAY, MAY 23, 2012  How plug-ins are hurting America; and how to fix it
Why is the most cost-effective plug-in hated by most plug-in advocates? It’s simply time to get real about battery-powered potential. In the last couple of days there has been a ton of news about the Facebook IPO. It’s the Internet boom all over again. Oh how Americans seem to love hype, and the plug-in revolution is another sad example. MORE >> -
GREEN CARS NEWS | THURSDAY, MAY 24, 2012 Green motoring that will drive you around the bend
It’s well known that driving smoothly can help to reduce fuel consumption and lower emissions. However, how does this apply to driving around bends? Simon Elstow, the head of training for IAM Drive & Survive, has issued a number of motoring tips aimed at enhancing the way we drive around bends – and even though [.]. MORE >> -
GREEN CAR REPORTS | MONDAY, MAY 21, 2012 2012 Chevrolet Volt: Saving You From Zombies In Electric Safety
Here are two subjects we never thought would go together: zombies, and plug-in cars. But the winning entry in the 2012 MOFILM Barcelona Chevrolet Volt Video Contest by director Josh Soskin does just that, and now it's being aired by Chevrolet Europe to help drum up interest for its plug-in hybrid. It also appears to be helping the trend towards MORE >> - WSU researchers developing nanoneedle tin anode material for Li-ion batteries GREEN CAR CONGRESS | FRIDAY, MAY 25, 2012
- Toyota sells 4m hybrids worldwide GREEN CARS NEWS | TUESDAY, MAY 22, 2012
- Attacks Abate From The Right On Volt & Electric Cars GREEN CAR REPORTS | THURSDAY, MAY 24, 2012
- US Senate Armed Services Committee produces markup limiting DoD purchase of biofuels and prohibiting construction of biorefineries GREEN CAR CONGRESS | FRIDAY, MAY 25, 2012
- 10 Tips For Better Gas Mileage This Memorial Day Weekend GREEN CAR REPORTS | WEDNESDAY, MAY 23, 2012
- Sun-Powered Boat Completes Round-The-World Trip GREEN CAR REPORTS | FRIDAY, MAY 25, 2012
- BREAKING: 2012 Tesla Model S Deliveries To Start June 22 GREEN CAR REPORTS | TUESDAY, MAY 22, 2012
- BMW updates 7 Series; completely new powertrain for ActiveHybrid 7 GREEN CAR CONGRESS | FRIDAY, MAY 25, 2012
- Oak Ridge researcher developing autonomous intelligent engines capable of real-time calibration based on driver behavior GREEN CAR CONGRESS | THURSDAY, MAY 24, 2012
- Aviation and clean technology leaders launch Midwest Aviation Sustainable Biofuels Initiative GREEN CAR CONGRESS | THURSDAY, MAY 24, 2012
- New exhaust sleeving provides customizable flexible design for increased emissions performance GREEN CAR CONGRESS | WEDNESDAY, MAY 23, 2012
- Simulation study finds “Millerizing” the Scuderi split-cycle engine could enable 50% engine downsizing with retention of power and torque, along with reduced fuel consumption GREEN CAR CONGRESS | SUNDAY, MAY 20, 2012
- Eager To Learn About Electric-Car Charging Stations? Webinar On Thu Explains It All For You GREEN CAR REPORTS | MONDAY, MAY 21, 2012
- Mitsubishi Mirage delivers kei-car rivaling fuel economy with more space and size GREEN CAR CONGRESS | SATURDAY, MAY 19, 2012
- New-Generation Electric-Car Batteries Will Take 10 Years, DoE Lab Says GREEN CAR REPORTS | THURSDAY, MAY 24, 2012
- Orbital to supply FlexDI spark-ignited heavy fuel engines to AAI in $4.7M contract GREEN CAR CONGRESS | THURSDAY, MAY 24, 2012
- Skylark Restaurants in Japan to offer free EV recharging at 900 locations GREEN CAR CONGRESS | THURSDAY, MAY 24, 2012
- Worldwide sales of Toyota Motor hybrids top 4M units; Prius family accounts for almost 72% GREEN CAR CONGRESS | TUESDAY, MAY 22, 2012
- Mahle gasoline-only pre-chamber jet ignition combustion system yields diesel-like thermal efficiency of 42.8%; 45% achievable with engine upgrade GREEN CAR CONGRESS | MONDAY, MAY 21, 2012
- Report: Honda to assemble Fit hybrids in Thailand GREEN CAR CONGRESS | SUNDAY, MAY 20, 2012
- SARTA switching 50% of bus fleet to CNG over next 2 year, holds grand opening for Northern Ohio’s first public CNG station GREEN CAR CONGRESS | SUNDAY, MAY 20, 2012
- Study finds that optimizing engine parameters for renewable diesel can reduce PM and NOx both by more than 25% GREEN CAR CONGRESS | SATURDAY, MAY 19, 2012
- Opel opens up Astra OPC CAN bus data to iPhone app GREEN CAR CONGRESS | FRIDAY, MAY 25, 2012
- Wanxiang and GreatPoint Energy close $1.25B deal for 1 Tcf/year coal-to-natural-gas plant in Xinjiang; Sinopec to purchase output, building pipeline to east GREEN CAR CONGRESS | MONDAY, MAY 21, 2012
- Heliae breaks ground on commercial demonstration facility for algae production; sells first barrel of algae-based jet fuel GREEN CAR CONGRESS | SATURDAY, MAY 19, 2012
- 2012 Hyundai Sonata Hybrid: Newest Competitor For Camry, Fusion Hybrids GREEN CAR REPORTS | WEDNESDAY, MAY 23, 2012
- 2012 Nissan Leaf Australian Ad Turns Gas Pumps Into Art GREEN CAR REPORTS | MONDAY, MAY 21, 2012
- NEMA creates new EVSE working groups to address key gaps in EV standards GREEN CAR CONGRESS | FRIDAY, MAY 25, 2012
- US Army and Air Force planning to develop 1GW of renewable energy on installations by 2025 GREEN CAR CONGRESS | THURSDAY, MAY 24, 2012
- BP agrees to add more than $400M in pollution controls at Whiting Refinery and pay $8M Clean Air Act penalty GREEN CAR CONGRESS | THURSDAY, MAY 24, 2012
- Enova developing next-generation electric drive system “ACUMEN” by reaching out for emerging technologies from other sources GREEN CAR CONGRESS | THURSDAY, MAY 24, 2012
- Volvo Car Corporation’s pedestrian airbag GREEN CAR CONGRESS | WEDNESDAY, MAY 23, 2012
- GraalBio to build $145M cellulosic ethanol plant in Brazil; first in the Southern Hemisphere GREEN CAR CONGRESS | WEDNESDAY, MAY 23, 2012
- Study finds pollution strengthens thunderclouds, warming the atmosphere GREEN CAR CONGRESS | SATURDAY, MAY 19, 2012
- Electric-Car Prices: Tesla, Nissan, Chevy Should Be Ashamed--Here's Why GREEN CAR REPORTS | WEDNESDAY, MAY 23, 2012
- Fuel Economy Now #1 Factor In Car-Buying, Consumer Reports Study Says GREEN CAR REPORTS | TUESDAY, MAY 22, 2012
- Mitsubishi Reveals Its Crazy Pikes Peak i-MiEV Electric Racer GREEN CAR REPORTS | MONDAY, MAY 21, 2012
- Diesel-Like Direct-Injection Engine Gets 50 Percent Better MPG GREEN CAR REPORTS | WEDNESDAY, MAY 23, 2012
- Green-Car Death List: 2012 Models To Which We Bid Adieu GREEN CAR REPORTS | TUESDAY, MAY 22, 2012
- Senate To Get Electric-Car Charging Stations (No Tax Dollars Used) GREEN CAR REPORTS | FRIDAY, MAY 25, 2012
- Electric vehicle company is Saab suitor GREEN CARS NEWS | THURSDAY, MAY 24, 2012
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