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China biobutanol firm files F-1 for public offering in US; developing process for cellulosic biobutanol

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Cathay’s current bio-refinery model using corn starch as feedstock. Click to enlarge. Shanghai-based Cathay Industrial Biotech, a producer of bio-derived n-butanol and of bioprocess-based long-chain dicarboxylic acids (LCDAs) used as chemical intermediates, has filed a form F-1 with the US Securities and Exchange Commission in preparation for offering American depositary shares (ADS) in the US market.

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Ford Hybrids Prove Durability By Racking Up Most Taxi Miles

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If you want to wring out your new car and test exactly how durable it is, never mind taking it to Death Valley or testing above the Arctic Circle. Just put it in service as a street taxi in any big city. New York City, maybe, or San Francisco. That's just what Ford has done with its hybrid vehicles, first the Escape Hybrid crossover and more.

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This Nissan Leaf Runs on Sunshine

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This Nissan Leaf runs on solar energy! Find out what an EV driver can do to drive his car for FREE.

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Walgreens Promises To Install 800 EV Chargers At Its Stores

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Cracker Barrel did it at all its Tennessee stores, and Best Buy is doing it at stores all around the country. Now pharmaceuticals giant Walgreens is getting in on the action as well. If you hadn’t guessed, we’re talking about installing electric car charging stations, a trend that's getting more common among big businesses across the.

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How serious is Norway about climate change? So much that its streetlights self-dim

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HaloIPT partnering with Drayson Racing Technologies to bring dynamic wireless charging to electric vehicle motorsport

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HaloIPT, a provider of Inductive Power Transfer (IPT) systems for wirelessly charging electric vehicles ( earlier post ), has entered a strategic partnership with Drayson Racing Technologies, the green R&D racing organization founded by Lord Drayson, former UK Minister for Science and Innovation. The partnership will use HaloIPT’s wireless charging technology to power high-performance cars as they race around the track.

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EPA Says Toyota Prius Hybrid No Longer 'Most Fuel-Efficient'

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Ask Americans about fuel-efficient cars, and many will name the iconic Toyota Prius hybrid, with gas mileage rated by the EPA at a combined 50 miles per gallon. So you'd expect the EPA to rank the Prius as the best midsize car on its list of Most and Least Fuel Efficient Cars, right? It's not there. Instead, it's been displaced by the.

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Ford Polls Facebook Fans For 2012 Focus Electric Noises (Video)

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Whether you think they're needed or not, all electric and hybrid cars are going to be required to fit noisemakers so that they can't be missed at speeds of 15 mph or below. To involve its fans, Ford posted four possible sounds for the noise that its upcoming 2012 Ford Focus Electric will emit as YouTube videos, linked to them on its Ford Electric.

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MIT team synthesizes all carbon nanofiber electrodes for high-energy rechargeable Li-air batteries

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Gravimetric Ragone plot comparing energy and power characteristics of CNF electrodes based on the pristine and discharged electrode weight with that of LiCoO 2. Source: Mitchell et al. Click to enlarge. A team at MIT, led by Carl V. Thompson and Yang Shao-Horn, has synthesized carbon nanofiber (CNF), binder-free electrodes for lithium-air batteries that yield high gravimetric energies up to ~2500 W h kg discharged -1 at powers up to ~100 W kg discharged -1 —among the highest values reporte

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Will 2012 Toyota Prius Plug-In Get Us Used To Plugging In?

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Last week, Toyota said it expects to sell 16,000 or more 2012 Prius Plug-In Hybrid models in the U.S. next year, once the car is launched (in June or before). For all intents and purposes, it's a standard Toyota Prius hybrid with a larger battery pack that uses lithium-ion cells. The car can be plugged into a wall outlet to recharge the battery on.

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Results and pictures for 2011 Laguna Seca TTXGP/e-Power electric motorcycle race

National Green Transportation

Yesterday during the Red Bull MotoGP weekend extravaganza at Laguna Seca, the FIM's e-Power and the TTXGP jointly held a quiet little electric motorcycle racing event that appears to be the harbinger of the coming age of.

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Faurecia and Accenture partner on products and services for connected and autonomous vehicles

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IKEA Latest To Announce Electric Car Charging Points At Stores

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Furniture and homewares giant IKEA has joined a grown list of retail firms announcing plans to install electric car charging points at their stores across the nation. Just this week we reported about Walgreens announcing plans for 800 charging points, and before that we saw Cracker Barrel and Best Buy do the same. Like the rest, IKEA is partnering.

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ITF study finds limited environmental and safety impacts of car fleet renewal schemes in US, France and Germany

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Cost-effectiveness of the fleet renewal schemes analysed from the perspective of CO 2 and. NO x reduction and increased safety. Click to enlarge. Car fleet renewal schemes introduced in the US, France and Germany to stimulate consumer spending on cars in the wake of the 2008. economic crisis fell short of their. potential to deliver on environmental and safety objectives, according to a new report prepared by Dutch research and consultancy organization TNO and published by the International Tran

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2011 Hyundai Elantra / Elantra Touring

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Globally, more compact cars are sold than any other size, and the competition is consequently fierce. The 2011 Hyundai Elantra is a new and very capable competitor that its maker has dropped into the fray, and early sales figures indicate it’s punching far above its weight. It makes the Toyota Corolla, which has been the best-selling compact.

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Ford's social media experiment seeking opinions on noise for Focus Electric

National Green Transportation

Because of a recent law requiring the NHTSA study the need for adding noise to electric cars, Ford Motor has launched a social media experiment seeking input on noises they proposed will be on the 2012 Ford Focus Electric.&nbsp.

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ExxonMobil announces 6th oil discovery offshore Guyana with Ranger-1; Guyana may move from non-producer to regional powerhouse

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2012 Mitsubishi i Electric Car: X-Ray Cutaway Shows Layout

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Here's a view of a car you've probably not seen before, though it may be familiar to you if you've ever been in the hospital. The image above shows the 2012 Mitsubishi i electric vehicle after an X-ray scan, allowing you to see many of the vehicle's key components. X-rays pass cleanly through fabrics, plastics and thin sheets of metal such as the.

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Daihatsu develops e:S Technology for 30 km/l in JC08 Mode; equivalent to 71 mpg US or 3.3 L/100km

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Daihatsu, the minivehicle specialist in the Toyota Group, has developed “e:S Technology (Energy Saving Technology) that it says will be at the heart of production of future motor vehicles with high fuel efficiency, low prices, and resource-saving features. In the process of this development, Daihatsu overhauled all aspects of the engine, the transmission, and the body structure, to maximize energy efficiency and achieve almost a 40% increase in fuel efficiency comparison with the Mira 2WD/

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BMW i3 Electric And i8 Plug-In, Under The Hood: Live Photos

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BMW revealed two new electric, hybrid, and range-extended models--the BMW i3 electric car and the BMW i8 plug-in hybrid--at a special press conference in Frankfurt earlier today. GreenCarReports editor John Voelcker is there, and he's managed to snap some up-close shots of the "Drive" powertrains of these vehicles, along with their advanced "Life".

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GM Ventures invests in solar powered EV charging station maker, Sunlogics

National Green Transportation

How many times have you seen an electric car pictured with a wind-turbine or solar power array in the background? The common imagination is that electric vehicles are clean, and what's cleaner than solar or wind.

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Electric Race Cars To Get On-Track Inductive Charging

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Inductive charging through the road is an impossibly futuristic dream, one not likely to be achieved in the near- to medium-term for road cars despite tests by Volvo and BMW, among others. Snatching a charge as you wait at a stoplight or even drive, without wires, charging stations, or any other external encumbrance? It seems positively magical.

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Study indicates warming Arctic is remobilizing persistent organic pollutants into the atmosphere

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A new study by researchers from Canada, Norway and China indicates that warming in the Arctic is revolatilizing persistent organic pollutants (POPs) that have accumulated in sinks such as water and ice. Their paper appears in the journal Nature Climate Change. Persistent organic pollutants (POPs)—organic compounds produced by human activities that are resistant to environmental degradation—include industrial chemicals such as polychlorinated biphenyls, and pesticides, such as DDT (di

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Even A 3000-MPG Chevy Volt Has To Turn On The Engine Sometimes

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As Chevrolet very often point outs in marketing its 2011 Volt extended-range electric car, more than 70 percent of U.S. vehicles cover less than 40 miles a day. That means that if you recharge a Volt every night, and cover less than that distance daily, your car might never, ever need to switch on its range-extending gasoline engine to generate.

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Brammo and TTXGP announce strategic partnership around the Empulse race bike

National Green Transportation

A year ago Brammo announced the Empulse, an electric motorcycle they developed from the two bikes they raced during the innagural TTXGP on the Isle of Man. Yesterday Brammo and TTXGP announced a joint partnership in which Brammo will.

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BMW i8 Concept: Plug-In Hybrid Sports Coupe—Full Details

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While its sports coupes are more of a known entity, the i8 Concept shown in Frankfurt today may be the most radical coupe BMW has ever built. Its “stream flow” lines, characteristic of the new BMW ‘I’ sub-brand, include an adaptation of the BMW twin-kidney grille and extremely slim LED headlamps. The roof is transparent, as.

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Chevrolet to install solar-powered electric charging stations for Volts at dealerships in North America

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Chevrolet, in what it is calling its Green Zone initiative, will install solar-powered electric charging stations for its Volts at dealerships in North America. The Green Zone initiative will generate electricity equivalent to 12 full vehicle charges per day; excess electricity created will help supplement the dealership’s power needs. American Chevrolet in Modesto, Calif., and Al Serra Auto Plaza in Grand Blanc, Mich., are the first US dealerships to complete their solar charging capability by

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5,000 Hydrogen Stations By 2020, For Forklifts, UPSes & Cars

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We don't hear so much about hydrogen fuel-cell vehicles these days. Just five years ago, before the announcement of either the 2011 Nissan Leaf battery electric car or the 2011 Chevy Volt range-extended electric, several auto companies were in the process of developing test fleets of hydrogen-fueled vehicles. Mercedes-Benz is still testing its.

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BMW forms electric car partnership

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BMW has announced a new electric car charging agreement with Coulomb Technologies for the Boston Metro area. More than 150 charging stations for electric vehicles are now being installed by Coulomb through its $37million ChargePoint America Department of Energy programme – with BMW ActiveE drivers able to take advantage of the network. ActiveE motorists will [.].

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BMW i3 Concept: Battery Electric Urban Minicar—Full Details

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The concept version of the 2014 BMW i3 unveiled today in Frankfurt shows just how radical a change BMW has made from its legacy of gasoline-powered, front-engine, rear-drive sporty vehicles. For one, it’s entirely powered by electricity. The flat lithium-ion battery pack is built into the car’s floor, and it powers a 125-kilowatt.

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Researchers boost isobutanol production in yeast

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Researchers at the Technical University of Denmark engineered yeast ( S. cerevisiae ) to boost the yield of isobutanol. They report on their work in an open access paper in the journal Biotechnology for Biofuels. The yield of isobutanol was improved from 0.16 to 0.97 mg per g glucose by simultaneous overexpression of biosynthetic genes ILV2, ILV3, and ILV5 in valine metabolism in anaerobic fermentation of glucose in mineral medium in S. cerevisiae.

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2012 Toyota Camry Hybrid: New Style, Same Old Hybrid System

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Sometimes, you find information in the strangest places. Take the YouTube video, "Georgetown Plant on the 2012 Camry," apparently posted by Toyota of the Black Hills, a dealer in Rapid City, South Dakota. It's got some shots of the newly redesigned 2012 Toyota Camry moving down the production line in Georgetown, Kentucky. You can see the revised.

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Is there still hope for hydrogen fuel cell cars? The Green Piece.

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July 25, 2011. The Green Piece Column Piece Column. More than 5,200 hydrogen fuelling stations will be operational worldwide by 2020 – that’s the verdict of a new report by Pike Research which suggests annual investment in hydrogen stations will reach $1.6billion (see article). However, with the majority of leading carmakers seemingly focusing on electric [.].

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Electric Cars Dirtier Than Gasoline Equivalents In China

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EV fans are probably sick of arguing the case for electric cars whenever someone brings up the old "well to wheels" scenario. "Well, where does the electricity come from?" they ask. Familiar with it? Most of us have pre-prepared figures as to why EVs are cleaner, even considering the fuel burned to make the electricity. Unless you live in China.

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A123 Systems to supply Li-ion energy storage system to Dongfang Electric Corporation for evaluation for wind power solutions

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Li-ion battery manufacturer A123 Systems will supply a 500kW Li-ion energy storage solution to Dongfang Electric Corporation (DEC), the third largest manufacturer of wind turbines in the People’s Republic of China and the country’s largest exporter of power equipment. Expected to be installed at DEC’s manufacturing facility in Hangzhou city, China Zhejiang Province, by the end of 2011, the system is designed as a demonstration project to help DEC evaluate how advanced energy st

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2011 Nissan Leaf: Free Recharging At Dealers, Except When They Balk

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EDITOR'S NOTE: We received the article below on July 6th from Nissan Leaf owner Bill Schwartz, and asked Nissan Americas for a comment before we published it. Brendan Jones, director of Leaf marketing and sales strategy, said that the comments by the Surf City Nissan employee "were not authorized statements," and that the owner of the dealership.

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NHTSA studies adding noise to electric cars, while British reject such a move

National Green Transportation

On July 7 the NHTSA (National Highway Traffic Safety Administration) published a notice considering a rulemaking process due to a 2010 law, the Pedestrian Safety Enhancement Act of 2010. This law required the NHTSA to study the whether quiet.

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