Green Car Congress

OCTOBER 22, 2010

The roles for hydrogen and fuel cells in the energy mix. Source: DOE. Click to enlarge. The US Department of Energy (DOE) has released a draft version of the Hydrogen and Fuel Cells Program Plan, which outlines the strategy, activities, and plans of DOE’s Hydrogen and Fuel Cells Program. It is initially published as a draft to solicit feedback from relevant stakeholders, with a final version to be published in FY 2011.

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Green Car Reports

OCTOBER 21, 2010

The U.S. is just getting its first taste of the funky Mazda2, a car that has helped rewrite the rulebook on affordable hatchbacks by showing that cheap doesn’t have to mean drab and boring to drive. However, the next-generation of Mazda’s global small car is currently in the works and is set for debut in Japan as early as the first.

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DIY Electric Car

OCTOBER 19, 2010

1984 Pontiac Fiero Electric Vehicle Conversion / From start to finish with a ride along. 1984 Pontiac Fiero Electric Vehicle Conversion / From start to finish with a ride along. In this video you will see how easy it is to convert a gas car to electric in your driveway with no garage and really no special tools. I did have a coupler made from a machinist because this part has to be pretty balanced as it can spin on the motor about 5000 rpm's.

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Plugs and Cars

OCTOBER 20, 2010

I got to drive the Mitsubishi iMiev a couple of weeks ago for a mile or so at Green Drive Expo in Richmond. I was much impressed with the car. A four seater that defies space by seeming so small outside but so large inside. Like my beloved Th!nk City, only grown up. Chuck Squatriglia of Wired Autopia has got an iMiev for a couple of weeks. I'm envious.

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Green Car Congress

OCTOBER 21, 2010

Contour Energy Systems, Inc. has acquired a carbon nanotube technology that can significantly improve the power capability of lithium-ion batteries, through an exclusive technology licensing agreement with Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT). ( Earlier post.) Early findings from researchers at MIT confirm that using carbon nanotubes for battery electrodes can produce a ten-fold increase in the amount of power that can be delivered from a given weight of material when compared to a conven

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Green Car Reports

OCTOBER 18, 2010

Finally, after almost four years, we've driven the 2011 Chevrolet Volt in a variety of conditions, talked over our impressions, and reached a conclusion: Yes, the 2011 Volt electric car is a real car. It may be propelled by electricity. It may plug into a wall socket or a special garage recharger to "refuel." But the new and remarkable compact.

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Plugs and Cars

OCTOBER 18, 2010

Airlines are being diverted from France as jet fuel supplies dwindle, and French motorists are panic-buying diesel and gasoline for their autos as strikes grip the country. France has already begun dipping into its 30-day strategic reserve of oil. Strikes at oil refineries have entered their second week, with a general strike called for Tuesday. Strikers are protesting the proposed rise in the retirement age from 60 to 62.

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Green Car Congress

OCTOBER 20, 2010

The California Air Resources Board (ARB) has certified the Chevrolet Volt as meeting California LEV-II ULEV (EPA Bin 4) emissions standards. For bi-, dual- or flex-fueled vehicles, the certification is based on the results testing with gasoline fuel—i.e, in this case, when the Volt’s range-extending engine is operating. Under California’s LEV-II, there are three sets of increasingly more stringent emission standards: LEV, ULEV, and SULEV.

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Green Car Reports

OCTOBER 19, 2010

We don’t hear “death of Detroit” stories as often now as we did a year ago. When GM and Chrysler plunged into bankruptcy and the entire U.S. industry laid off tens of thousands of workers in one year, the effects on an already battered Detroit region were dire. And they led to a rash of stories that Detroit was done with. Many.

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Electric Cars are for Girls

OCTOBER 18, 2010

I have just bought a 72 pinto electric car conversion that was converted in the early 90's by an eastern Oregon college. I had lots of large ups batteries.

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All Cars Electric

OCTOBER 21, 2010

We’ve already seen first-hand how the 2011 Nissan Leaf’s navigation system can predict just how far it will be able to travel before it needs a recharge, and even find you a nearby charger. But while parts of the navigation system and energy consumption software are proprietary to Nissan and smartphone-ready applications for the Leaf.

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Green Car Congress

OCTOBER 18, 2010

smart car2go with solar roof. Click to enlarge. Daimler subsidiary car2go GmbH and Hamburg-based Europcar Autovermietung GmbH will launch the car2go mobility concept in Hamburg in spring 2011. Initially there will be 300 smart fortwo vehicles for the car2go scheme in the Hanseatic city. The cars being used are two-seater smart car2go edition models equipped with carsharing telematics and a solar roof.

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Green Car Reports

OCTOBER 22, 2010

October has been quite a month. This week we drove a pre-production version of the 2011 Nissan Leaf, the first production electric car to be sold by a major automaker in more than 80 years. Unlike the range-extended electric 2011 Chevrolet Volt, which we drove last week, the 2011 Leaf is a pure battery electric vehicle. It is powered solely by.

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Electric Cars are for Girls

OCTOBER 19, 2010

My Trojan T-105's were great until I found myself as far away from the house as I could get in my development.

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National Green Transportation

OCTOBER 21, 2010

This weekend marks the end of the 2010 TTXGP racing season with a grand championship race in Albacete Spain. This comes after 12 races held in 6 countries, comprising of 14 nationalities, and track time at some of the most prestigious race tracks in the world. The final field consists of 12 teams representing each of the three championship series.Today, thursday, the teams and TTXGP management are beginning to gather in Albacete to prepare for the race.

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Green Car Congress

OCTOBER 20, 2010

Electric vehicles could contribute up to 37% of Toronto’s annual target for GHG emissions reductions by 2030, according to a new report released by Canada-based environmental NGO Pollution Probe. Higher reductions were associated with a greater proportion of commercial-duty electric vehicles within the vehicle mix. The report, “Unlocking the Electric Mobility Potential of Toronto: Moving Toward an Electric Mobility Master Plan for the City”, is the result of in-depth research,

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Green Car Reports

OCTOBER 18, 2010

We read a lot of stuff about green cars and, lately, most of it's about electric cars. Sometimes the coverage is unquestioning and adulatory. More often it's cranky and dismissive. But major media outlets are working hard to understand the complexities of what is a huge, slow, expensive, and very complex transition to another type of vehicle and.

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All Cars Electric

OCTOBER 18, 2010

The Tesla Roadster is known among gearheads and electric car advocates as being the sports car that smashes all preconceptions about electric vehicles. So when Tesla announced its aptly-named revision to the iconic all-electric car we just had to see if the Californian-based automaker could beat the iconic first and second generation models. And.

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National Green Transportation

OCTOBER 18, 2010

TTXGP, the worldwide zero emission (electric) motorcycle racing championship series, announced recently that Zongshen is their first "factory team" Zongshen is one of the largest motorcycle manufacturers in China who recently has been moving towards electric motorcycles. Readers with good memories will remember they've been in talks with San Francisco based Mission Motors over a potential joint venture to produce electric motorcycles.A team going by the name "Team Z" part

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Green Car Congress

OCTOBER 18, 2010

The California Energy Commission recently announced EV Connect, a provider of electric vehicle infrastructure solutions and the Los Angeles County Metropolitan Transportation Authority (Metro) will be conducting a pilot program to assess the integration of plug-in electric vehicles (PEVs) into the transportation network and consumer behavior and ridership patterns.

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Green Car Reports

OCTOBER 22, 2010

All the different incentives to purchase electric cars can be confusing. But if all the stars align and you're the lucky person who can take advantage of multiple incentives, there’s a slim chance that you could buy a brand-new 2011 Nissan Leaf for a mere $12,300. Here’s how it works: Start with the $32,780 list price of a Leaf base.

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All Cars Electric

OCTOBER 18, 2010

Pretty much anyone who's driven one loves the performance of the Tesla Roadster, the first modern electric car with a lithium-ion battery pack. The 2011 Chevrolet Volt is a much less radical electric car than the Roadster in certain ways, and one of them is its accelerator response. Volt: Just like an automatic GM's engineers have tuned the.

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National Green Transportation

OCTOBER 19, 2010

Brammo, the Oregon based maker of electric motorcycles, announced today the 2011 Enertia Plus. It has the same specs as the 2010 Enertia, but with one very important distinction. The range. It's double the range, with the same weight, and a slightly higher price. The Enertia is a small urban motorcycle. It has a 60+ miles/hr top speed and in the original model a max range of 42 miles (but of course that range is not when riding at top speed).

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Green Car Congress

OCTOBER 16, 2010

Xinhua. China Minister of Science and Technology Wan Gang said that the country’s annual production capacity for electric motor vehicles will reach 1 million units by 2020. While extolling new energy cars, Wan said promotion of public transportation would also help to ease the problems caused by expanding car ownership in China. Public transport should also be the top priority for use of new energy automobiles in China, he said.

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Green Car Reports

OCTOBER 18, 2010

Electric cars may run clean. But how green is the battery? Hi, this is Steven Cherry for IEEE Spectrum's "This Week in Technology." With governments around the world investing heavily in electric and hybrid cars, the demand for the batteries that power these vehicles is on the rise. The United States alone has invested $2.4 billion to ramp up.

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All Cars Electric

OCTOBER 19, 2010

What happens when a company releases an update to a vehicle which promises twice as much fun as its predecessor? It happens rarely, but today an Oregonian company has accomplished just that. Keen to show the world that electric vehicles don’t always have to have four wheels to be impressive and fresh from its successes at the TTXGP, Brammo.

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National Green Transportation

OCTOBER 18, 2010

An October 18, 2010 CNN news article about electric vehicle range anxiety is illustrative about one way to slant the coverage of this issue. Experienced electric vehicle owners tend to not have range anxiety because they know the limits of their vehicle. But for some reason the range anxiety issue has been trumpeted in news coverage written by reporters who almost certainly have zero experience with electric vehicle ownership.

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Green Car Congress

OCTOBER 21, 2010

Chrysler Group Pentastar V-6 with VVT. Click to enlarge. Chrysler has provided additional details on its Pentastar V-6 ( earlier post ), which is slated to be the workhorse engine across 13 models and will eventually replace seven different V-6 engines over the next three years. By 2014, the new V-6 is expected to account for more than a third of the powertrains in the vehicle line-up.

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Green Car Reports

OCTOBER 18, 2010

Startups are hard. Automaker startups may be harder. But one of the necessary qualities in startups--tenacity--was on display recently from Next Autoworks. New name, new CEO That's the new name of the former V-Vehicles Inc., which attracted funding from famed Silicon Valley venture firm Kleiner Perkins to build a simple, high-mileage, option-free.

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All Cars Electric

OCTOBER 22, 2010

If you regularly read AllCarsElectric you’ll know that last weekend we were lucky enough to borrow a Lightning Green example of Tesla’s latest incarnation to the already-famous electric two-seater. But while most commentators view the 2011 Tesla Roadster Sport 2.5 as little more than a rich person’s plaything, we weren’t so.

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Green Cars News

OCTOBER 20, 2010

Mercedes-Benz has been recognised for its role in reducing emissions from commercial vehicles. The firm’s commercial vehicle arm picked up two awards for its development of alternative fuel technology, from leading Irish specialist publication ‘Fleet Transport Magazine’. The two ‘Green Commercial of the Year’ awards given as part of this year’s Fleet Transport Awards, recognise [.].

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Green Car Congress

OCTOBER 16, 2010

A study by researchers at The Hong Kong Polytechnic University and Tianjin University has found that the use of fumigation ethanol in a 4-cylinder diesel decreases NO x , smoke and particulate mass and number concentrations. An accompanying significant increase in hydrocarbon (HC) and carbon monoxide (CO) can be reduced by a diesel oxidation catalyst.

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Green Car Reports

OCTOBER 20, 2010

October is the month of electric-car media this year, with major press rollouts and lots of coverage of both the 2011 Chevrolet Volt and the 2011 Nissan Leaf. Next year, several more electric cars arrive on the U.S. market. One is the 2012 Ford Focus Electric, and yesterday, Ford discussed volume targets for its electric compact. They turn out to.

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All Cars Electric

OCTOBER 22, 2010

What does British Petroleum, one of the most-hated corporate villains in the past twenty years do to become a little more loved by environmentalists? Allow a network of electric car charging stations to be installed at its filling stations. But while there are more than 11,000 BP owned gas stations nationwide, the partnership announced last week.

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