Green Car Congress

JANUARY 8, 2014

'During 2014, the global plug-in electric vehicle (PEV) industry is poised to grow by 86% and will surpass more than 346,000 new vehicles sold, according to a new white paper—“ Electric Vehicles: 10 Predictions for 2014 ”—published by Navigant Research. This would bring the global total of PEVs on the road to more than 700,000 by the end of the year, according to the firm’s calculations.

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Green Car Reports

JANUARY 7, 2014

'Recently, we attracted flak from some quarters of our readership for featuring pickup trucks. While not green by the standards of modern electric vehicles and hybrids, their push towards greater efficiency is equally important--because the biggest gains come from the most popular and least-efficient vehicles. Fuel-efficient big rigs take that to.

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National Green Transportation

JANUARY 10, 2014

'Tesla Motors announced on Friday that the company is replacing Tesla Model S Universal Mobile Connector’s to mitigate the fire risk in case of overheating. The move follows a garage fire in November involving a Tesla Model.

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Green Cars News

JANUARY 6, 2014

'Nissan’s new take on the London black cab has been revealed, with the promise of an electric version to be launched by 2015. The new Taxi for London is based on Nissan’s successful NV200 platform. First unveiled in August 2012, the taxi has since been redesigned following feedback from the London [.].

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Green Car Congress

JANUARY 9, 2014

'Energy intensities of flying (blue) and driving (green), 1970-2010. Data: Sivak, UMTRI-2014-2. Click to enlarge. Currently, the energy intensity (BTU per person mile) of driving is 57% greater than that of flying, according to a new analysis by Dr. Michael Sivak, Director, Sustainable Worldwide Transportation at the University of Michigan Transportation Research Institute (UMTRI).

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Green Car Reports

JANUARY 10, 2014

'Get out the binoculars, because there''s been a 2015 Tesla Model X has been seen on public roads. Instagram user jmtibs (via InsideEVs) spotted a Tesla Model X electric crossover prototype testing on the streets of Culver City, California. Reportedly the only complete Model X in existence, the plug-in crossover was spotted about 10 miles from.

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Green Cars News

JANUARY 6, 2014

'The UK-based Institute of Motor Industry (IMI) is to provide training support to community colleges across Malaysia—after it signed an agreement with the country’s Ministry of Education—to help students learn about electric and hybrid vehicles. In signing an Memorandum of Understanding (MOU), the [.].

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Green Car Congress

JANUARY 7, 2014

'Toyota opened the 2014 Consumer Electronics Show (CES) with a strong affirmation of the benefits of and potential for hydrogen fuel cell technology. “ We aren’t trying to re-invent the wheel; just everything necessary to make them turn, ” said Bob Carter, senior vice president of automotive operations for Toyota Motor Sales (TMS), USA, Inc. “ Fuel cell electric vehicles will be in our future sooner than many people believe, and in much greater numbers than anyone expected. ”.

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Green Car Reports

JANUARY 7, 2014

'The suggestion hit the day before Christmas: Analyst Yra Harris of Praxis Trading predicted in a CNBC interview that General Motors might buy Tesla Motors sometime in 2014. Harris called it "a perfect fit" for one of the three largest carmakers in the world to buy the closely-watched Silicon Valley electric-car startup. The internet went wild.

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Green Car Congress

JANUARY 9, 2014

'Passat BlueMotion Concept. Click to enlarge. Volkswagen of America will introduce the Passat BlueMotion Concept at the 2014 North American International Auto Show in Detroit next week. Based on the current Passat that was developed specifically for North America, the BlueMotion label defines the version that has the best efficiency in the model lineup.

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Green Car Congress

JANUARY 9, 2014

'Plug Power Inc., the leading provider of hydrogen fuel cell technology to the materials handling market, will develop hydrogen fuel cell range extenders for 20 FedEx Express electric delivery trucks, allowing FedEx Express to nearly double the amount of territory the vehicles can cover with one charge. ( Earlier post.). This $3-million project is funded by the US Department of Energy (DOE) and includes project partners FedEx Express, Plug Power and Smith Electric Vehicles.

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Green Car Congress

JANUARY 6, 2014

'A123 Energy Solutions announced today that a new 2-megawatt Grid Storage Solution for Ray Power Systems Co. Ltd., a Beijing-based energy services company, is now in commercial operation providing frequency regulation services. Located in Beijing, this is A123 Energy Solutions’ first deployment in China in commercial operation. The containerized 53-foot long battery is one of A123’s widely deployed High Rate (HR) Grid Storage Solutions and stabilizes the grid to ensure power quality.

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Green Car Congress

JANUARY 6, 2014

'A team led by researchers at Oregon State University has discovered novel nitrated polycyclic aromatic hydrocarbon (NPAH) compounds produced by combustion sources or formed in the atmosphere that are hundreds of times more mutagenic than their parent PAHs, which are known carcinogens. The findings were published in the ACS journal Environmental Science and Technology.

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Green Car Congress

JANUARY 6, 2014

'Although sales of plug-in vehicles (plug-in hybrid-electric and battery-electric vehicles, collectively PEVs) in the US climbed more than 80% in 2013 to more than 96,000 units (Tesla has not yet released its final figures) from 52,835 units in 2012 EDTA ), the 2013 results still reflect a meagre new light-duty vehicle market share of ~0.6% for PEVs.

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JANUARY 10, 2014

'The Federal Transit Administration (FTA) announced the availability of $24.9 million of Fiscal Year 2013 funds ( FTA-2014-001-TRI ) for the deployment of low- or no-emission (LoNo) transit buses. Of that amount, $21.6 million is available for buses and $3.3 million is available for supporting facilities and related equipment. The LoNo Program provides funding for transit agencies for capital acquisitions and leases of zero emission and low-emission transit buses, including acquisition, construc

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Green Car Congress

JANUARY 8, 2014

'General Motors and its joint ventures sold a record 3,160,377 vehicles in China in 2013. Sales increased 11.4% from 2012. GM sold an average of one vehicle every 10 seconds and almost 9,000 each day in China. Domestic sales by Shanghai GM rose 13.6% last year to a record 1,512,000 units. SAIC-GM-Wuling sold 1,584,920 units in China, an increase of 9.7% and an all-time high as well.

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Green Car Congress

JANUARY 10, 2014

'A team from Villanova University is proposing a new method for optimizing the knock threshold; the method, presented in a paper in the International Journal of Engine Research , significantly improved the closed loop performance of a standard knock controller. Traditional approaches assume that in order to control potentially damaging knock events, it is necessary to use thresholds set to detect such events.

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Green Car Congress

JANUARY 7, 2014

'Harman, the premium global audio and infotainment group is demonstrating the integration of Google Glass with its advanced driver assistance system (ADAS) engine at the Consumer Electronics Show (CES) in Las Vegas. Harman continues to implement its ADAS engine on a variety of devices and is the first Tier 1 automotive supplier to launch ADAS implementation on wearable devices, a growing market projected to exceed $5 billion in 2016.

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Green Car Congress

JANUARY 7, 2014

'Audi of America unveiled a new partnership with AT&T offering US Audi drivers in-vehicle 4G LTE data connection with the introduction of the 2015 A3 family. The announcement was made today at the 2014 Consumer Electronics Show. Audi says it will be the first automaker to offer a Mobile Share data plan option to AT&T wireless customers who would like to add their vehicle to their existing smartphone or tablet data plan.

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Green Car Congress

JANUARY 8, 2014

'Percentage of Global R&D Spending by Industry, 2013. Source: Booz & Company “Global Innovation”; Battelle R&D Magazine; Center for Automotive Research 2012. Click to enlarge. A newly-released report by the Center for Automotive Research (CAR) concludes that the automotive industry is not only “high-tech,” it is frequently a leader in technological developments and applications.

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Green Car Congress

JANUARY 6, 2014

'Even if well-known technology, infrastructure, economic and political challenges in meeting the biofuel requirements of the RFS2 mandate are overcome, it is “ highly unlikely ” that the light-duty vehicle parc will be capable of consuming the RFS2 (Renewable Fuel Standard) mandated volumes of biofuels, according to a new analysis by a team from Sandia National Laboratory.

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Green Car Congress

JANUARY 9, 2014

'Avere-France. Sales of EVs in France rose 55% to 8,779 units in 2013, up from 5,663 the year before. The Renault Zoe took the top spot with 5,511 registrations or 62.8% of the market. The Nissan Leaf with second, 1,438 registrations, followed by the Bolloré Bluecar with 658 registrations. Source: Avere-France. Click to enlarge. 5,175 electric vehicles vans were registered in France in 2013, with sales increased 42% over 3,651 registrations recorded in 2012.

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Green Car Congress

JANUARY 9, 2014

'The new 2015 Audi Q3 compact SUV will arrive in the US in the Fall of 2014, joining the Q5 and Q7. The Q3 will make its US debut at the North American International Auto Show (NAIAS) in Detroit next week; Audi originally unveiled the Q3 in April 2011. ( Earlier post.). The Audi Q3 will initially be powered by a 200 hp (149 kW) 2.0-liter TFSI gasoline engine mated with a six-speed Tiptronic transmission.

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Green Car Congress

JANUARY 9, 2014

'Conventional layered lithium and transition metal cathode material (top) and the new disordered material studied by researchers at MIT (bottom) as seen through a scanning tunneling electron microscope. Inset images show diagrams of the different structures in these materials. (In the disordered material, the blue lines show the pathways that allow lithium ions to traverse the material.

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Green Car Congress

JANUARY 5, 2014

'In December, BAE Systems in the UK reported the production of one of the largest 3D printed metal parts to be made in the UK, a long titanium spar section for an aircraft wing. The part, measuring 1.2m in length was produced in 37 hours from digital model to a complete 3 dimensional part. The part is the result of a research project led by Cranfield University to develop processes for the manufacture of large structural parts using the 3D printing process, otherwise known as Additive Layer Manu

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Green Car Congress

JANUARY 7, 2014

'Researchers from Duke University, Brigham Young University, and Carnegie Mellon University have used high-throughput first-principles calculations to identify dozens of platinum-group alloys (binary systems of the platinum-group metals—PGMs—with the transition metals) that were previously unknown but that could prove beneficial in a wide range of applications.

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Green Car Congress

JANUARY 5, 2014

'A new forecasting study by researchers in Brazil has concluded that every increase of 10% electric vehicles in the São Paulo fleet corresponds to an increase of about 2% of the electricity demand in the state and a corresponding reduction of about 1.3% of the total emissions in the state. São Paulo is the main state in Brazil in terms of economy, energy and environment.

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Green Car Congress

JANUARY 9, 2014

'The average fuel economy (window-sticker value) of new vehicles sold in the US in December was 24.8 mpg (9.49 l/100 km), down 0.2 mpg from the revised value in November, according to the latest monthly figures from Michael Sivak and Brandon Schoettle at the University of Michigan Transportation Research Institute (UMTRI). The December figure represents an increase of 4.7 mpg from the value in October 2007 (the first month of their monitoring).

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Green Car Congress

JANUARY 8, 2014

'Navigant Research is forecasting a slow start through the end of this decade but then a quick ramp from 2020 to 2023 for light-duty vehicles with 48V electrical subsystems, with sales reaching nearly 13.5 million worldwide by 2023. Click to enlarge. As auto manufacturers continue to replace mechanical systems with electrical components, particularly in stop-start vehicles, the demands for power have begun to outstrip the capabilities of traditional battery systems.

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Green Car Congress

JANUARY 4, 2014

'Visteon Corporation will present its new connected cockpit electronics solution developed in collaboration with Renault at the 2014 International CES next week in Las Vegas. Unveiled at the LeWeb’13 Paris event in December, Visteon’s cockpit demonstrator offers an insight into ways drivers and passengers can interact with autonomous driving features for driver delegation.

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Green Car Congress

JANUARY 10, 2014

'Schematic of hybrid anode placed in a Li–S battery. The graphite/Li connected in parallel forms a shorted cell where the graphite is always lithiated at equilibrium and maintains a pseudo-equal potential with the Li metal. As such, it functions as an artificial SEI layer of Li metal that supplies Li + ions on demand, while minimizing direct contact between soluble polysulfides and the metal surface.

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Green Car Congress

JANUARY 8, 2014

'Porous Power Technologies, LLC (PPT) launched Symmetrix NC2020, a new ceramic battery separator designed to improve significantly thermal stability and safety of large-format lithium-ion batteries. Applications include batteries for electric vehicles, flat-cell consumer electronics, utility-grade energy storage, and other high-power or high-energy applications.

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Green Car Congress

JANUARY 8, 2014

'Cientifica, an investment company focusing on the acquisition of businesses making use of advanced materials, graphene and emerging technologies, has signed an exclusivity agreement with London Graphene Ltd (LGL) jointly to explore a number of applications of graphene in energy storage. Under the terms of the exclusivity agreement, which currently runs until 30 April 2014, the two parties have agreed to work together in good faith to, among other things: prepare a joint business plan to develop

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Green Car Congress

JANUARY 6, 2014

'AT&T announced two major initiatives for the connected car market: a connected car center in Atlanta, called the AT&T Drive Studio; and a modular, global automotive platform called AT&T Drive. AT&T Drive is the company’s connected car platform—a modular, global solution that allows automakers to pick and choose what services and capabilities are important to them in order to differentiate their solutions in the marketplace.

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