Green Car Congress
MAY 11, 2012
Audi e-bike Wörthersee. Click to enlarge. One of the highlights on the Audi stand at the 2012 Wörthersee Tour in Austria (an annual gathering of Audi VW, Seat and Skoda enthusiasts) is an electric bicycle technology concept: the Audi e-bike Wörthersee. The prototype cycle—described by Audi as a high-end pedelec made for sport, fun and tricks—combines an electric drive and muscle power.
Green Car Reports
MAY 11, 2012
Electric-car infrastructure firm Better Place has spent the past few years creating some serious waves in the electric car world with grandiose claims that it can make electric cars as convenient to use as gasoline ones. Alongside its fully integrated smart-grid network of charging stations, battery packs and cars, Better Place is best known for.
National Green Transportation
MAY 5, 2012
Today, in the second day of 2012 TTXGP electric motorcycle race action at the Infineon Raceway, was a dramatic day. The day began with Team Icon Brammo having exited the paddock in order to repair the Empulse RR after.
Green Cars News
MAY 8, 2012
Tuesday 8 May, 2012. The Green Piece Column. When you think of Formula One cars, chances are you don’t think green. And its fair to say that Lewis Hamilton gets through plenty of fuel in a season. According to the official Formula One website, a typical F1 team will get through around 200,000 litres of [.].
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Green Car Congress
MAY 6, 2012
1.4 TFSI with cylinder on demand technology. Click to enlarge. When the new A3 is launched ( earlier post ), Audi will be offering one TDI and two TFSI engines, with a 1.4L TFSI with cylinder-on-demand to follow. The initial three four-cylinder engines all make their appearance as new developments. Their engine displacements range from 1.4 to 2.0 liters and their power from 90 kW (122 hp) to 132 kW (180 hp).
Green Car Reports
MAY 11, 2012
Going electric makes a lot of sense for the smallest city-commute vehicles—like the Smart Fortwo Electric Drive, which is still on the way. But in the meantime, it looks like a different Smart electric vehicle will arrive first: the Smart eBike. The Smart eBike is a bicycle, but an electrically boosted, hybridized bicycle at that. With a.
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Green Cars News
MAY 7, 2012
30 per cent more efficient than the old car, no slower than the old car, more drivable than the old car – it’s a set of claims any cooking family hatchback would be proud of. Yet it’s not a mainstream model we’re talking about here, but Mercedes’ all-new SL 63 AMG. Despite producing up to [.].
Green Car Congress
MAY 11, 2012
The 7-speed manual transmission is based on the 7-speed double-clutch transmission. Click to enlarge. ZF Friedrichshafen AG is supplying a 7-speed manual transmission (7MT) for Porsche’s new 911 models, marking the first manual transmission with 7 speeds available for passenger cars. The transmission design is based on ZF’s 7-speed double clutch transmission (7DT).
Green Car Reports
MAY 7, 2012
Turn back the clock by one decade, and there were three hybrid cars on sale in the U.S. One was the first-generation Toyota Prius, the original Honda Insight was still going strong as the most efficient vehicle on sale, and Honda also offered the Civic Hybrid. Today, including different transmission options that figure has risen to 48, giving.
National Green Transportation
MAY 6, 2012
Michael Barnes (Lightning) and Martin Szwarc (Zero) wins in the first race of this weekends TTXGP electric motorcycle racing action at Infineon. The weekend has seen drama with two wrecks that took Team Icon Brammo out of the action.
Green Cars News
MAY 10, 2012
Major carmakers are attempting to block new rules which would call for cars to be more fuel efficient, says Greenpeace, as the charity releases a new report. The environmental lobby group’s new ‘EU Fuel and CO2’ study maps the predicted cost of running a car depending on the CO2 standards set by the EU. Current [.].
Green Car Congress
MAY 9, 2012
The Renault Foundation is launching a new training course for students with two years’ further education (Bac+2 or professional-experience diploma) in partnership with the IUT technology institute in Mantes (Université de Versailles-Saint-Quentin): the first professional diploma (a French licence) in “Electric Vehicle and Electro-mobility”. The objective is to finance a training program for students on work-study programs to enhance their employability and prepare them for mid-manager job positi
Green Car Reports
MAY 8, 2012
There are many routes to outstanding fuel efficiency, but it's often diesel that's chosen to demonstrate the highest mpg numbers and longest distances. Mileage experts Helen and John Taylor achieved both, to become the world record holders for the longest distance driven on one tank of fuel, using a Volkswagen Passat TDI. In driving from Houston.
Green Car Congress
MAY 8, 2012
The Department of Energy’s (DOE), Office of Energy Efficiency and Renewable Energy (EERE) is seeking applications ( DE-FOA-0000708 ) for up to $5 million in funding to reduce multiple barriers to alternative fuel vehicle—including electric vehicle—adoption and use. The Funding Opportunity Announcement (FOA) is fuel neutral; applications should focus on one or more identified alternative fuels , depending on what fuels and technologies make the most sense for the proposed geographic a
Green Car Congress
MAY 7, 2012
RAV4 EV. Click to enlarge. Toyota Motor Sales, U.S.A., Inc. revealed the all-new Toyota RAV4 EV at the 26 th annual Electric Vehicle Symposium (EVS26) in Los Angeles. The battery-electric SUV features a 41.8 kWh Li-ion pack, offering an expected driving range rating of approximately 100 miles (161 km). With a 10 kW charger on-board (SAE J1772 connector), charging time of the large pack is approximately six hours on a 240V/40A charger.
Green Car Congress
MAY 10, 2012
Daimler’s smart will launch the escooter on the market in 2014. For smart, this is the next step in implementing its concept for future urban mobility. smart escooter concept shown at Paris Motor Show in 2010. Click to enlarge. In 2010, smart unveiled a comprehensive portfolio of electric products for urban transport at the Paris Motor Show. In addition to the smart fortwo electric drive as a coupé and a convertible, it included the smart ebike and the escooter.
Green Car Congress
MAY 9, 2012
Details of the unexpected nanosheet structure of the nickel-molybdenum-nitride catalyst, seen here as dark, straight lines. Source: BNL. Click to enlarge. A team of researchers led by Dr. James Muckerman at the US Department of Energy’s (DOE) Brookhaven National Laboratory (BNL) have developed a new class of high-activity, low-cost, non-noble metal electrocatalyst that generates hydrogen gas from water.
Green Car Congress
MAY 8, 2012
At EVS26 in Los ANgeles, Siemens described its ‘eHighway of the Future’ concept for the electrification of trucks and select highway lanes via overhead electrified wires similar to how modern day trolleys or streetcars are powered on many city streets. Currently being tested in Germany, pilot projects are already being planned for the ports of Los Angeles and Long Beach to connect to cargo centers.
Green Car Congress
MAY 8, 2012
Schneider Electric, a global energy management products company operating in more than 100 countries, announced the availability in the US of its EVlink DC Quick Charger. The offering now rounds off Schneider’s charging offerings, said Mike Calise, Director, Electric Vehicles, Power Business for Schneider at EVS 26. The 50 kW, 125A quick charger, which is currently CHAdeMO-compliant, will incorporate the J1772 combo-coupler when the standard is finalized.
Green Car Congress
MAY 10, 2012
Research project PROTON-PLATA (SDR) platform embedded in the trunk of the BMW X5 Research Prototype. Click to enlarge. BMW Forschung und Technik GmbH and EURECOM, which have been partnering for six years on the integration of intelligent information and communication technologies in vehicles, have expanded their cooperation with a focus on next-generation mobile networks for use in the networked vehicle.
Green Car Congress
MAY 10, 2012
In its letter to shareholders reporting Q1 2012 results, Tesla Motors Chairman, Product Architect and CEO Elon Musk and Deepak Ahuja, Chief Financial Officer, said that the company had recently signed an agreement with Daimler to create an entire electric powertrain for a new Mercedes-Benz. EV, formalizing a joint effort kicked off in Q4 last year. ( Earlier post.).
Green Car Congress
MAY 9, 2012
p> Audi has opened its high-voltage battery project house in Gaimersheim near Ingolstadt. In this competence center, Development, Production and partner companies are working together to construct prototypes. Alongside the production of prototypes, future small-series production is an option. The project house for the high-voltage battery technology is located two kilometers from the Ingolstadt plant.
Green Car Congress
MAY 11, 2012
PepsiCo’s Frito-Lay North America division will purchase 100 Newton Series 2000 all-electric commercial vehicles in 2012 from Smith Electric Vehicles, bringing the total number of its electric fleet to more than 280. Over the past two years, 176 Smith Electric Vehicles trucks have been added to the Frito-Lay commercial delivery truck fleet. To date, these trucks have accumulated 1 million miles and eliminated the need for approximately 200,000 gallons of diesel fuel.
Green Car Congress
MAY 8, 2012
Balqon Corporation, a developer of heavy-duty electric vehicles, drive systems and lithium-ion battery storage devices, has installed a one MWh lithium-ion battery storage system at the University of California, Riverside (UCR); the system has gone operational, providing electric power to the Bourns College of Engineering building. The one MWh battery storage system installed at UCR is one of the largest battery storage systems installed by Balqon and includes batteries and Balqon’s proprietary
Green Car Congress
MAY 7, 2012
Researchers from General Motors Global R&D Center, and colleagues from HRL Labs and MEDA Engineering and Technical Services, have developed a new class of Si-Sn nanocomposites for Li-ion battery electrode materials. A report on their work is published in the Journal of Power Sources. Silicon and tin each have high theoretical specific capacities (3600 mAh g -1 for Li 15 Si 4 and 992 mAh g -1 for Li 22 Sn 5 respectively) and are among the most attractive materials for potential negative electrode
Green Car Congress
MAY 5, 2012
Researchers from Shanghai Jiao Tong University report on the combustion and emission characteristics of dual-fuel compound homogeneous charge compression ignition (HCCI) combustion in a paper published in the International Journal of Engine Research. They used n-heptane and oxygen-containing alcohols (e.g., ethanol) as the port-injection fuel and the in-cylinder direct-injection fuel, respectively.
Green Car Congress
MAY 5, 2012
The City of Windsor, Ontario, Canada, has signed a letter of intent to purchase up to 10 BYD 40-foot electric buses for City transit services in 2012. The agreement also opens talks to bring manufacturing of BYD buses to the Ontario region in the near future. Transit Windsor has the unique distinction of running in Canada as well as in Detroit, making this launch one that serves on both Canadian and United States’ roads.
Green Car Congress
MAY 10, 2012
The California Air Resources Board (ARB) released proposed regulations to link its cap-and-trade program to Québec’s to form a joint carbon market to reduce greenhouse gas emissions. ( Earlier post.). The draft linkage regulations provide guidelines to ensure that California and Québec carbon allowances are interchangeable at auction and can be used for compliance purposes in one another’s programs.
Green Car Congress
MAY 11, 2012
The California Energy Commission unanimously approved funding of more than $15 million to projects that will advance biofuels and electric vehicle research in California. These grants are provided through the Energy Commission’s Alternative and Renewable Fuel and Vehicle Technology Program. The program, created by Assembly Bill 118 (Núñez, Chapter 750, Statutes of 2007), provides approximately $100 million annually to encourage the development and use of new vehicle technologies and alternative
Green Car Congress
MAY 10, 2012
International Rectifier introduced a new 600V automotive grade IGBT platform—COOLiRIGBT—for use in a wide range of fast switching applications for electric (EV) and hybrid electric vehicles (HEV) including on-board DC-DC converters, motor drives, and battery chargers. The new Gen. 1 COOLiRIGBT devices are capable of operating at the same fast switching speeds as MOSFETs while offering higher efficiency at high current levels.
Green Car Congress
MAY 6, 2012
The market for water treatment for hydraulic fracturing (“fracking”) to produce previously inaccessible shale gas will grow nine-fold to $9 billion in 2020, according to a new report from Lux Research. This expansion will spur technology innovation and novel thinking about water disposal and reuse, but the field is rapidly growing overcrowded, creating significant risk for new entrants, Lux Research said.
Green Car Congress
MAY 11, 2012
Veolia Transportation is launching Baltimore’s first propane autogas taxi fleet. The company—the largest private provider of multiple modes of transportation in North America—is converting 300 of its taxis nationwide from gasoline to propane autogas. The company has also installed an autogas fueling station in Baltimore to serve 50 Checker and Yellow taxis.
Green Car Congress
MAY 9, 2012
Brammo, Inc. has announced pricing and production plans for the Empulse and Empulse R electric motorcycles and previewed the new design. Brammo Empulse R. Click to enlarge. The Empulse offers a 100-mile (161-kilometer) range and 100-mph top speed. The Empulse and Empulse R will cost $16,995 and $18,995, respectively, with financing available from Sheffield Financial.
Green Car Congress
MAY 11, 2012
Vision Industries has finalized the purchase order agreement for 100 hydrogen fuel cell plug-in hybrid Tyrano Class 8 trucks ( earlier post ) with Total Transportation Services, Inc. (TTS-I) of Rancho Dominquez, California. ( Earlier post.). The electric motor produces 400 kW peak and 3,300 ft-lb (4,474 N·m) of torque. With a the standard H 2 fuel tank configuration, the Tyrano can cover 200 miles (400 miles on an extended configuration) over an 8 hour shift.
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