Green Car Congress

JUNE 5, 2014

'A new report from Frost & Sullivan, “Strategic Analysis of Inductive Charging for Global Electric Vehicles (EV) Market,” finds forecasts the total market for inductive (wireless) charging will experience a compound annual growth rate of 126.6% from 2012 to 2020, with approximately 351,900 units likely to be sold. Inductive charging will account for 1.2% of both public and residential charging in North America and more than 2.6% in Europe, according to the report.

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Creative Greenius

JUNE 5, 2014

'Your Friendly Neighborhood Greenius (white shirt) talks to Manhattan Beach Councilman Wayne Powell (center) and Councilman Mark Burton at the 2014 Manhattan Beach Earth Day Celebration. A lot of my political friends are still suffering from election night hangovers this Throwback Thursday. Their heads continue to pound, they’re still suffering from dry mouth and disorientation.

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Green Car Reports

JUNE 5, 2014

'Many entrepreneurs have tried to start car companies in the U.S. over the past century, but the last person to do so from the ground up with a brand that survives to this day was Walter P. Chrysler. He started his company in December 1924--which indicates the magnitude of the challenge faced by Elon Musk, CEO of startup electric-car maker Tesla.

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National Green Transportation

MAY 31, 2014

'Yesterday, Mugen's John McGuinness broke the TT ZERO lap speed record, with a 111.904 miles/hr time, and on Saturday it was Mugen's Bruce Anstey's turn, setting a new TT ZERO lap record.

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Green Car Congress

JUNE 5, 2014

'Woven carbon fiber can act as an electrode for lithium ion batteries. (Photo: Peter Larsson) Click to enlarge. Researchers in Sweden are exploring the use of carbon fiber as an active electrode in a multifunctional structural Li-ion battery in an electric car; i.e., electrical storage is incorporated into the body of the car. Carbon fiber material is a good candidate for structural electrodes since it has high specific tensile stiffness and ultimate tensile strength (UTS) as well as high lithiu

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Green Cars News

JUNE 3, 2014

'A leading UK supplier of charging stations is set to demonstrate just what modern electric cars can achieve, with a new 2,000 mile journey around the country. Pod Point’s new ‘Charging around the UK’ (#CATUK) journey will set off from London on June 12 in a Renault Zoe, and head off around n[.].

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National Green Transportation

JUNE 2, 2014

'History was made on Monday when Mugen's rider, John McGuinness, had the fastest lap time ever in TT ZERO electric motorcycle racing, 115.598 miles/hr. McGuinness and Mugen teammate, Bruce Anstey, both shattered the previous record.

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Green Car Congress

JUNE 4, 2014

'Enjoy, the car sharing service that Italy-based energy major Eni developed in partnership with Fiat and Trenitalia, will start operating in Rome tomorrow with a fleet of more than 300 Fiat 500 cars which will increase to 600 by September 2014. Enjoy is already deployed in Milan, with more than 80,000 registered customers and 500,000 rentals in the first five months.

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Green Cars News

JUNE 2, 2014

'Tuesday 3 June, 2014. The Green Piece Column. When Lexus’ new hybrid, the NX debuts this autumn, it could be the most significant market debut, since the Toyota Auris; bringing hybrid technology to a whole new market segment, with the new 300h model. A segment which, as we all know, is hugely in v[.].

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Green Car Reports

JUNE 4, 2014

'Parking is one of those maneuvers that we all screw up now and then, no matter how experienced we are at driving. And there''s nothing worse than having an audience just as you''re trying to squeeze into a space. Even professional athletes can''t experience that much pressure, surely? But what if your car could park itself? If you''ve bought a 2014.

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National Green Transportation

JUNE 4, 2014

'Electric motorcycle racing took another huge leap forward on Wednesday, as Team Mugen's John McGuinness and Bruce Anstey shattered lap speed records in the 2014 TT ZERO on on the Isle of Man. Both McGuinness and Anstey.

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Green Car Congress

MAY 31, 2014

'Black carbon emissions and BC emissions intensity per year. Credit: ACS, Wang et al. Click to enlarge. A study led by a team from Peking University has estimated that global black carbon (BC) emissions increased from 5.3 teragrams/year in 1960 to 9.1 teragrams per year in 2007 (+72%). These estimates are 11-16% higher than produced by in previous inventories, the researchers noted in a paper published in the ACS journal Environmental Science & Technology.

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Green Cars News

JUNE 4, 2014

'Some of Europe’s most popular heavy, electric quadricycles have proved to have very poor standards of crash safety. Not subject to the same safety standards as full cars, heavy quadricyles – an increasingly popular alternative to scooters – have fallen under the gaze of safety authority, Euro NCAP[.].

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Green Car Reports

JUNE 2, 2014

'Battery-electric, or fuel-cell? Japanese automakers are divided on the subject--Nissan and Mitsubishi brought electric cars to the market early, but Toyota and Honda have dragged their feet, concentrating instead on developing fuel-cell vehicles. The Japanese government is now on their side, as the country announces plans to become the global.

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National Green Transportation

JUNE 4, 2014

'Electric motorcycle racing took another huge leap forward on Wednesday, as Team Mugen's John McGuinness and Bruce Anstey shattered lap speed records in the 2014 TT ZERO on on the Isle of Man. Both McGuinness and Anstey.

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Green Car Congress

JUNE 5, 2014

'New registrations of all types of diesel passenger vehicles—passenger cars, light-duty trucks, vans, SUVs and heavy-duty pickup trucks (> 8,500lbs gvwr)—increased 11.5% (from 6,337,460 units to 7,068,439), and registrations of hybrid-electric passenger vehicles increased 65% (from 1,717,601 units to 2,826,885) from 2010 through 2013, according to a new analysis and supporting data released by the Diesel Technology Forum.

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Green Cars News

JUNE 6, 2014

'Ford has been astonishingly quiet when it comes to electric cars, which is surprising for a company professing to be one of the biggest in the business. Nissan, Toyota, Volkswagen, Peugeot, Renault; all have been involved in EV development and all have brought an EV or plug-in hybrid to market. For[.].

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Green Car Reports

JUNE 3, 2014

'In the grand scope of automotive history, modern electric cars haven''t been on the road very long. Yet they''ve already demonstrated considerable staying power. At the Electric Drive Transportation Association conference in Indianapolis, PlugInsights Research (via InsideEVs) unveiled new findings indicating that--three and a half years after the.

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Creative Greenius

MAY 31, 2014

'This political primary season just keeps getting weirder and weirder. Assemblyman Al Muratsuchi, representing the 66th District in California explains as State Controller, John Chiang listens at the Lunquist Mansion on the Palos Verdes Peninsula during a recent fundraiser (photo by Joe Galliani). Imagine my surprise on Friday afternoon when my cell phone rang and it was Assemblyman Al Muratsuchi on the line calling to tell me he had made a big mistake and that he was sorry. .

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Green Car Congress

JUNE 3, 2014

'SUEZ Environnement and Déinove ( earlier post ) are collaborating on an R&D program to explore the development of a process to convert organic urban waste into ethanol using Deinococcus bacteria. The two companies have signed a two-year agreement. This organic waste is currently mainly recovered via composting and methanization. The widespread availability of this source of carbon, its cost, and its composition, which is conducive to the growth of micro-organisms, make it a realistic candidate

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Green Cars News

JUNE 2, 2014

'Businesses in South Yorkshire are being offered the chance to trial leasing an electric car for a discounted rate. In a new scheme, set to launch later this week, the Electric Vehicles InMotion program is the first of its kind to use government grants to deliver reduced leasing rates for electric [.].

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Green Car Reports

JUNE 3, 2014

'Well, chalk up another first for Nissan: It sold 3,117 Leaf electric cars in the U.S. last month. That''s not only its best-ever one-month sales performance, but it''s the first time any carmaker has sold more than 3,000 plug-in electric cars in a month in this country--ever. The May result brings total year-to-date Leaf sales to 10,389, and.

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Green Car Congress

JUNE 1, 2014

'Trojan Battery, Co. will showcase its new lines of deep-cycle lead-acid batteries featuring Smart Carbon technology which addresses the impact of partial state of charge (PSOC) on cycling batteries in renewable energy (RE), inverter backup and remote telecom applications. Smart Carbon is designed to enhance life and performance of Trojan batteries operating in PSOC.

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Green Car Congress

JUNE 1, 2014

'As part of a four-year DOE-funded project, researchers at the US Department of Energy’s Argonne National Laboratory, working with FMC Corporation, have developed a novel polymer binder and solvent system facilitating the use of FMC’s unique Stabilized Lithium Metal Powder (SLMP) as a performance-enhancing additive in Li-ion battery electrodes. SLMP-based materials can enable commercialization of batteries with simplified formation process, lower irreversible capacity losses (leading to higher e

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Green Car Congress

JUNE 6, 2014

'Synthetic fuel production from fuel-combustion-based energy and CO 2 (top) and from atmospheric CO 2 using solar electricity (bottom). Credit: ACS, van der Giesen et al. Click to enlarge. Researchers at the Institute of Environmental Sciences at Leiden University, The Netherlands) have concluded that the energy demand and climate impacts of using CO 2 to produce synthetic hydrocarbon fuels by using existing technologies can be greater than the impacts of existing hydrocarbon fuels.

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Green Car Congress

MAY 31, 2014

'The National Transportation Safety Board (NTSB) recently issued a series of recommendations related to the evaluation and certification of lithium-ion batteries for use in aircraft systems, as well as the certification of new technology. The five safety recommendations, all addressed to the Federal Aviation Administration (FAA), are derived from the ongoing investigation of the 7 January 2013, fire event that occurred in a lithium-ion battery on a Boeing 787 that was parked at Boston Logan Airp

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Green Car Congress

JUNE 6, 2014

'The US Department of Energy (DOE) Fuel Cell Technologies Office (FCTO) issued a funding opportunity announcement for up to $4.6 million for 12–24 month projects with industry and academia ( DE-FOA-0000966 ) in support of innovations in fuel cell and hydrogen fuel technologies. ( Earlier post.). The FCTO Incubator Funding Opportunity Announcement (FOA) is intended to identify potentially impactful technologies that are not already addressed in FCTO’s strategic plan or project portfolio.

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Green Car Congress

JUNE 4, 2014

'In an event in San Francisco, Ford Motor Company and Samsung SDI, an affiliate of Samsung Group, outlined several collaborative research efforts on next-generation battery technology for non-hybrid vehicles. For the near term, they have been working on a dual-battery combining a lithium-ion battery with a 12-volt lead-acid battery that could enable regenerative braking technology in non-hybrid vehicles for greater fuel savings.

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Green Car Congress

JUNE 3, 2014

'A new working paper by the the International Council on Clean Transportation (ICCT) concludes that tighter heavy-duty diesel vehicle emissions standards in Mexico (NOM 044 standards) would result in a net benefit to Mexico of US$123 billion (1.6 trillion Mexican pesos), taking into account the value to society of 55,000 avoided early deaths from air pollution and the reduced climate impact from lower emissions of black carbon.

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Green Car Congress

JUNE 2, 2014

'In-use testing of three light duty diesel vehicles—certified to US-EPA Tier2-Bin5 and California LEV-II ULEV emissions limits— found a wide variation in real world emissions performance relative to the regulatory limits. The International Council on Clean Transportation (ICCT) contracted with the Center for Alternative Fuels, Engines and Emissions at West Virginia University to conduct in-use testing of three light-duty diesel vehicles (two 2.0L diesels and one 3.0L diesel) over pre

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Green Car Congress

JUNE 2, 2014

'BC mass emissions for all four GDI and PFI vehicles over the three different driving patterns. Solid bars represent low ambient temperature measurements whereas open, dashed bars represent standard temperature measurements. Credit: ACS, Chan et al. Click to enlarge. Although gasoline direct injection engines (GDI) are a favorable technology for reducing fuel consumption and greenhouse gas emissions, recent studies have shown that GDI vehicles could emit more PM than traditional PFI (gasoline po

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Green Car Congress

JUNE 5, 2014

'General Motors and its joint ventures sold 276,109 vehicles in China in May—a new record for the month. Sales increased 9.2% from the same month last year. Shanghai GM and SAIC-GM-Wuling as well as their Buick, Chevrolet, Cadillac and Wuling brands also reached new highs for May sales. In addition, Shanghai GM’s total sales surpassed 9 million units since the joint venture’s establishment in 1997.

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Green Car Congress

JUNE 4, 2014

'The average fuel economy (window-sticker value) of new vehicles sold in the US in May was 25.6 mpg (9.19 l/100 km), up 0.4 mpg from the value for April, according to the monthly report from Michael Sivak and Brandon Schoettle at the University of Michigan Transportation Research Institute (UMTRI). This increase likely reflects the continuing high price of gasoline, they suggested.

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Green Car Congress

JUNE 4, 2014

'Siemens recently introduced an Organic Rankine Cycle (ORC) module for industrial plants or power stations for the conversion of waste heat to electricity. In an ORC system, the working medium drives a turbine, and then cools and reverts to its initial liquid state. Because waste heat produced in industrial plants or power stations often does not have enough energy to drive a turbine with steam, the Siemens ORC module system employs silicone oils, which have a lower enthalpy of vaporization than

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