Green Car Congress

SEPTEMBER 24, 2013

'The 9.5 MW solar park at Chattanooga is owned and operated by Silicon Ranch; VW has signed a 20-year power purchase agreement. Click to enlarge. Volkswagen Chattanooga has received a 2013 Green Power Leadership Award from the US Environmental Protection Agency (EPA)—the only automaker to be so recognized. The annual awards recognize the country’s leading green power users for their commitment and contribution to helping advance the development of the nation’s voluntary green power market.

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Green Car Reports

SEPTEMBER 24, 2013

'State and national auto-dealer groups have been battling Tesla Motors for four years now. The dealers want to stop Tesla from selling its electric cars directly to buyers, and are working to change state laws so Tesla will have to conduct all sales through independently-owned third parties--which is to say, car dealers. In Tesla''s home state of.

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DIY Electric Car

SEPTEMBER 22, 2013

'I''m new to the ev world but my idea was to eleminate the batteries.start with a vw beetle, put a 50 hp or more electric motor kit (sold for 3k to 7.5k). Now instead of batteries arrange the front end to fit a two stroke engine (two strokes are easiest to convert to steam) running a generator head with enough current to power the 50 hp motor. Don''t know if it is posibble but would really like to get some info on it.

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Green Cars News

SEPTEMBER 24, 2013

'Do not adjust your sets: the Tesla Model S (pictured), an electric super car, is currently topping the best-selling vehicle charts. Of course this isn''t on a global basis: but it is in one country where electric car infrastructure is thriving - Norway. The vehicle has topped the best sellers list f[.].

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Green Car Congress

SEPTEMBER 25, 2013

'Areal discharge capacities for Miura-folded versus unfolded cells. Credit: ACS, Cheng et al.Click to enlarge. Researchers at Arizona State University have shown that paper-folding concepts can be applied to Li-ion batteries in order to realize a device with higher areal energy densities. In a paper published in the ACS journal Nano Letters , the team reported that folded cells showed higher areal capacities compared to the planar versions with a 5 × 5 cell folded using the Miura-ori pattern dis

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Green Car Reports

SEPTEMBER 27, 2013

'With most electric-car charging today taking place in the garages of private homes, installing a home charging station can pose a hurdle to potential buyers. Now Palo Alto, California--the city in the center of Silicon Valley--is moving to make it easier for homeowners who want to switch to an electric car. The city council adopted a proposal that.

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Green Car Congress

SEPTEMBER 24, 2013

'System boundaries (red line) schematic for liquid fuel carbon balance. For biofuels, because biogenic carbon is automatically credited within a product lifecycle, the boundary effectively excludes vehicle end-use CO 2 emissions. DeCicco 2013. Click to enlarge. In a paper that could have a significant impact on climate policies for transportation fuels, Dr.

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Green Car Congress

SEPTEMBER 26, 2013

'The study found that TCO for electric and diesel medium-duty urban delivery trucks were similar. The electric truck is relatively more cost-effective on the NYCC and when VKT demand is higher. Cost-competitiveness of the electric truck diminishes in drive cycles with higher average speeds. Credit: ACS, Lee et al. Click to enlarge. Researchers at Georgia Tech have compared medium-duty (MD) electric and diesel urban delivery trucks in terms of life-cycle energy consumption, greenhouse gas (GHG) e

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Green Car Congress

SEPTEMBER 25, 2013

'The EPA-rated 50 mpg (4.7 l/100 km) city 2014 Accord Hybrid ( earlier post ), which goes on sale 30 October in the US, will carry a manufacturer''s suggested retail price (MSRP) ranging from $29,155 to $34,905 plus a destination and handling charge of $790. The 2014 Accord Hybrid, equipped with a two-motor hybrid system, also carries EPA ratings of 45 mpg highway and 47 mpg combined (5.2 and 5.0 l/100 km).

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Green Car Congress

SEPTEMBER 24, 2013

'Chrysler Group LLC has filed a registration statement on Form S-1 with the US Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC) relating to a proposed initial public offering of common shares. Details of the offering—i.e., number of shares and price range—are yet to be determined. However, the document not only provides a detailed look at the finances of the company, it also provides a quick recap of recent technology developments and some insight into the company’s immediate research priori

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Green Car Congress

SEPTEMBER 21, 2013

'The US Department of Energy (DOE) announced more than $60 million in nuclear energy research awards and improvements to university research reactors and infrastructure. According to industry estimates, the US electric power industry will have to replace nearly 100,000 workers—more than 25,000 of them in the nuclear industry—by 2015. In the next few years, about 30% of nuclear energy industry workers, many of whom joined the field in the 1960s and 1970s, will be eligible for retireme

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Green Car Congress

SEPTEMBER 25, 2013

'Shell has selected Ascension Parish in Louisiana as the location for a potential natural gas-to-liquids (GTL) facility. According to the terms of an incentive agreement with the state, the company at a minimum would spend $12.5 billion and create 740 direct jobs, should the project be built. Shell’s Gulf Coast GTL facility would be one of the first of its kind built to commercial scale in the United States.

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Green Car Congress

SEPTEMBER 23, 2013

'E15 blended gasoline is now available in four of North Dakota’s larger cities. North Dakota is the ninth state to offer the fuel blend containing 15% ethanol and 85% gasoline. The others are Illinois, Iowa, Kansas, Michigan, Nebraska, North Carolina, South Dakota, and Wisconsin. E15 is available at six Petro Serve USA locations in Bismarck, Mandan, West Fargo and Fargo.

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Green Car Congress

SEPTEMBER 23, 2013

'Pinto Energy LLC (Pinto), a developer of smaller scale Gas-to-Liquids (GTL) facilities, will build a 2,800 barrel per day (bpd) GTL plant at Pinto’s 80-acre industrial site to the east of Ashtabula, Ohio. The plant will convert abundant low-cost natural gas from the Utica and Marcellus shale region into high-value specialty products (solvents, lubricants and waxes), as well as transportation fuels.

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Green Car Congress

SEPTEMBER 27, 2013

'The California Air Resources Board (ARB) announced an additional $72.5 million in funding for state programs that will improve public health by helping to clean up California’s fleet of cars, trucks and buses. The Air Resources Board will move $8 million from other clean vehicle projects into ARB’s Truck Loan Assistance Program. Additionally, the board was briefed on additional funding the Legislature recently made available for clean car, truck and bus programs.

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Green Car Congress

SEPTEMBER 23, 2013

'After less than two months in the market, the Tesla Model S topped Norway’s best-sellers’ list during the opening two weeks of this month, comfortably outselling all other cars, regardless of fuel type, according to industry newsletter Automotive Industry Data (AID). The Tesla Model 2 posted 184 registrations in its debut month in Norway in August; from 1-16 September, registrations of the Model S in Norway jumped to the chart-topping 322 units, according to AID-compiled data—displacing V

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Green Car Congress

SEPTEMBER 26, 2013

'The Volkswagen Group and its joint venture FAW-Volkswagen inaugurated the new vehicle production plant in Foshan, Guangdong province. First-stage production capacity is 300,000 vehicles per year. It is planned to double capacity in the medium-term. The first vehicle to leave the assembly line in Foshan is a seventh-generation Volkswagen Golf. The Foshan facility was the first car factory in China to receive a Triple-Star Green Building Award, the highest state award available for environmentall

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Green Car Congress

SEPTEMBER 25, 2013

'Nissan Motor Co., Ltd. has launched a one-way car sharing service with the City of Yokohama that is the first of its kind in Japan to involve significant use of ultra-compact EVs. Called “Choimobi Yokohama,” this new service, which will be provided in the downtown core of Yokohama, will eventually employ up to 100 units of the Nissan New Mobility Concept ultra-compact electric vehicle (EV).

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Green Car Congress

SEPTEMBER 26, 2013

'The Hertz Corporation has expanded its Dream Cars offering with the introduction of the all-electric Tesla Model S in the US. With the expansion, Dream Cars consumers in select markets are now able to rent both the Tesla Model S and Tesla Roadster, along with a variety of other high-end performance vehicles, from Ferrari to Lamborghini to Porsche and Mercedes Benz.

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Green Car Congress

SEPTEMBER 23, 2013

'The North American steel industry has recycled more than one billion tons of steel since 1988, according to the Steel Recycling Institute (SRI), a business unit of the American Iron and Steel Institute (AISI). For 2012, the overall recycling rate for steel was 88% with nearly 84 million tons of steel recycled. This included the more than 1.3 million tons of tin plate steel—the equivalent of 21 billion steel cans, which were recycled at a rate of 72%, the highest among packaging materials.

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Green Car Congress

SEPTEMBER 27, 2013

'A newly released working paper from the American Council for an Energy-Efficient Economy (ACEEE) outlines the organization’s recommendations to policymakers for developing the next phase of fuel efficiency and greenhouse gas (GHG) emissions standards for heavy-duty vehicles in the United States expected in 2015. The focus of the paper is less on the range of technologies that might be applied to deliver the requisite reductions (ACEEE also published a short fact sheet briefly touching on techno

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Green Car Congress

SEPTEMBER 25, 2013

'Volkswagen has released the latest version of its ViaVision magazine, which this month focuses on electromobility and the forthcoming e-up! city car ( earlier post ). Following a foreword by the new Board Member for Development of the Volkswagen brand, Dr. Heinz-Jakob Neußer, this issue of ViaVision explores multiple aspects of e-mobility, from batteries, through plugs and magnetic fields and back to the first electric research vehicle which was based on the first Golf and developed as early as

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Green Car Congress

SEPTEMBER 24, 2013

'The new Mazda3 (Axela in Japan) will feature a next-generation car connectivity system, Mazda Connect, when it goes on sale this autumn. To enable the driver to enjoy the wide range of content on offer while keeping attention focused on the road ahead, Mazda has developed a brand new Human Machine Interface (HMI), based on its Heads-Up Cockpit concept.

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Green Car Congress

SEPTEMBER 26, 2013

'Houston-based Rock River Resources plans to build a small refinery and terminal for shipping crude by rail in Green River, Utah, with the goal of providing a long-term viable refining option in the region. Rock River will build a rail line to link its terminal to Union Pacific. The $320-million project will be built in three stages, with the rail facilities coming on line first, followed by a microrefinery.

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Green Car Congress

SEPTEMBER 26, 2013

'With support from the National Science Foundation (NSF), a team of Stanford University engineers has for the first time built a tiny computer with 178 transistors made from carbon nanotubes, a semiconductor material that may replace silicon in computer chips. This change could launch a new generation of electronic devices that are smaller, cheaper, faster and more energy-efficient than those of today.

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Green Car Congress

SEPTEMBER 24, 2013

'Ford unveiled the redesigned 2014 Transit Connect Taxi at the 2013 International Association of Transportation Regulators Conference in St. Louis. The 2014 Ford Transit Connect Taxi comes with a new powertrain—the 2.5-liter four-cylinder engine paired with a new, fuel-efficient six-speed automatic transmission—providing drivers with quick response as well as durability, low-rpm cruising and an expected best-in-class highway fuel economy rating. 2014 Transit Connect Taxi.

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Green Car Congress

SEPTEMBER 23, 2013

'Shell and Baker Hughes recently announced a software license and joint development agreement to produce a high-end platform for geological and reservoir modeling. The system will be optimized for resource modeling and production in tight/shale gas and liquids rich shale reservoirs, and is based on the Baker Hughes JewelEarth software development platform, which has a strong track record of delivering integrated, data-driven workflows for optimizing these types of plays.

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Green Car Congress

SEPTEMBER 25, 2013

'China’s Great Wall Motors (GWM) and Baosteel have opened a joint steel laboratory in Baoding, China. The laboratory will carry out technical and test projects involved in the lightweighting of GWM’s passenger vehicles, as well as the application verification and evaluation of Baosteel’s new materials and new types of steel. The two companies have already cooperated in a range of areas such as application of EVI (early vendor involvement) technology; ultra-high-strength steel technology; hot sta

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Green Car Congress

SEPTEMBER 23, 2013

'Daimler AG has received top marks for disclosure of its climate protection measures aimed at combating climate change, receiving the maximum 100 points in the Carbon Disclosure Project’s (CDP’s) “Climate Disclosure Leadership Index” and an “A” rating in the “Climate Performance Leadership Index”. Daimler has the declared aim of adopting a pioneering role in climate protection, and has made a major step further forward on the way to achieving this, the company said.

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Green Car Congress

SEPTEMBER 22, 2013

'On 19 September, the Advanced Research Project Agency-Energy (ARPA-E) awarded $34 million to 15 projects to find advanced biocatalyst technologies that can convert natural gas to liquid fuel for transportation. ( Earlier post.) The largest award in this new program, (Reducing Emissions using Methanotrophic Organisms for Transportation Energy—REMOTE, earlier post ), provides $3.5 million to a team led by Dr.

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Green Car Congress

SEPTEMBER 27, 2013

'The staff of the California Energy Commission will conduct a workshop to gather input from stakeholders on a draft outline of a Vehicle-Grid Integration Roadmap document on 8 October in Sacramento, California. In March 2012, California Governor Jerry Brown issued an executive order directing state government to help accelerate the market for zero-emission vehicles (ZEVs) in California.

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Green Car Congress

SEPTEMBER 25, 2013

'Coal-powered synthetic natural gas (SNG) plants being planned in China would produce seven times more greenhouse gas emissions than conventional natural gas plants, and use up to 100 times the water as shale gas production, according to a new study by Duke University researchers published in the journal Nature Climate Change. As part of the largest investment in coal-fueled synthetic natural gas plants ever, the central Chinese government recently approved construction of nine large-scale plant

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Green Car Congress

SEPTEMBER 25, 2013

'The US Department of Transportation’s National Highway Traffic Safety Administration (NHTSA) will add rearview video systems to its list of recommended features under its New Car Assessment Program (NCAP). NHTSA made the addition to the list of Recommended Advanced Technology Features to encourage improved rearview visibility for the nation’s motor vehicle fleet and to help prevent backover accidents while NHTSA researches implementation of a rear visibility rule in the form of an amendment to

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Green Car Congress

SEPTEMBER 25, 2013

'Researchers at Purdue University have developed a new valveless hydraulic steering system for heaving construction equipment that improves efficiency and reduces fuel consumption. The new approach eliminates valves now needed to direct the flow of hydraulic fluid in steering systems and uses advanced algorithms and models to control hydraulic pumps precisely.

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