Green Car Congress
OCTOBER 11, 2013
'Initial sales of the 2014 Cadillac ELR extended range electric luxury coupe ( earlier post ) will begin in January in all major US metropolitan areas. The 2014 ELR has a starting price of $75,995, including a $995 destination charge but excluding tax, title, license and dealer fees. (Base price of a 60 kWh Tesla Model S—without Federal tax incentive, but with destination fee—is $71,070.
Green Car Reports
OCTOBER 9, 2013
'Does the all-new 2014 Honda Accord Hybrid really get 50 miles per gallon? And does it drive as well as a regular four-cylinder Honda Accord? To cut right to the spoiler: yes and yes. For some shoppers who already know and like the Accord, that might honestly be enough—once they run the numbers and see that this is a car for which hybrid.
National Green Transportation
OCTOBER 7, 2013
'The Chevy Spark EV, GM's first all electric car since the EV1, is an urban-oriented car built on GM's popular ultra-compact Spark platform. Many dismiss the Spark EV as just a compliance car.
Green Cars News
OCTOBER 11, 2013
'The UK’s Plug-in Car Grants (PiCG) had their best quarter ever from July through to September, this year with 1,149 new electric cars registered with the support of the £5,000 incentives. Since January 2011, motorists buying a qualifying ultra-low emission vehicle (ULEV) have been eligible for a [.].
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Green Car Congress
OCTOBER 11, 2013
'New Duramax 4-cylinder diesel. Click to enlarge. Chevrolet Sales Thailand introduced the new-generation MY14 Duramax four-cylinder turbo-diesel engine in 2.5- and 2.8-liter variants. The new Duramax engine was engineered in Europe and the US, with global application as one of its developmental objectives. Applications include powering the Colorado pickup truck and Trailblazer SUV for the Thailand and Southeast Asian markets.
Green Car Reports
OCTOBER 8, 2013
'The 2014 Honda Accord Hybrid has no transmission. To be more precise, there''s nothing in a form we''d normally recognize as a transmission—no conventional automatic transmission, no automated dual-clutch system, no belt-and-pulley continuously variable transmission (CVT) either. There''s no torque converter, either—not even a drive.
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Green Cars News
OCTOBER 6, 2013
'Ford''s focus on the electrified car market has seen its sales share leap: as it grasped 14.7 per cent of the US market during the first nine months of 2013, up from 7.3 per cent during 2012. Whereas in 2012 Ford sold just 35,719 electric cars out of the total of 487,480 sold for the year, from Janu[.].
Green Car Congress
OCTOBER 11, 2013
'California state economic development director Kish Rajan announced an effort to streamline the permitting process for zero emission vehicle fueling stations and significantly expand California’s hydrogen and electric vehicle capacity. Automobile manufacturers plan to roll out hydrogen fuel cell vehicles in the 2015 to 2017 timeframe, while California’s share of the US market for plug-in electric vehicles currently stands at nearly 40%.
Green Car Reports
OCTOBER 11, 2013
'Cadillac''s first-ever plug-in car will be in showrooms within three months. The 2014 Cadillac ELR compact luxury coupe will go on sale in January, GM''s high-end brand says. The ELR will carry a base price of $75,995, including destination. It will be eligible for a $7,500 Federal tax credit and a variety of state and local incentives. For.
Green Car Congress
OCTOBER 8, 2013
'Tesla Motors plans to offer a $1,000 adapter to enable Model S EVs to use CHAdeMO fast charging stations for those Model S units with Supercharging already enabled. For Model S without Supercharging enabled, onboard hardware must be activated to use the CHAdeMO adapter; for those vehicles, the CHAdeMO adapter will cost $2,400 prior to delivery and $2,900 after delivery.
Green Car Congress
OCTOBER 5, 2013
'Tenaska, one of the largest independent energy companies in North America, is launching a marketing and development company in response to the growing use of liquefied natural gas (LNG) and compressed natural gas (CNG), together NG fuels, in the transportation sector and among industries using high-horsepower engines. Chairman of Natural Gas Vehicles for America (NGVAmerica) Doug Clark has signed on to lead commercial activities for the new affiliate, Tenaska NG Fuels, LLC (TNG Fuels).
Green Car Congress
OCTOBER 10, 2013
'XL Hybrids, Inc., developer of a low-cost hybrid electric powertrain designed specifically for class 1 to 4 commercial fleet use ( earlier post ), announced that it is providing hybrid vans to Canadian Linen, a linen and uniform service subsidiary of AmeriPride Services. XL Hybrids recently unveiled its XL3 hybrid system for model year 2014 vehicles.
Green Car Congress
OCTOBER 10, 2013
'Toyota today won an unintended acceleration case in Superior Court in Los Angeles, as a jury in the first bellwether trial in the Judicial Council Coordinated Proceeding (JCCP) rejected claims that a 2006 Camry involved in a fatal accident in 2009 was defective because it lacked a brake override system. After deliberating for approximately four and a half days, a jury reached a defense verdict in favor of Toyota in a case brought by the family of Noriko Uno, who claimed that her accident would
Green Car Congress
OCTOBER 8, 2013
'Sales of the Nissan LEAF in Japan have passed the 30,000 unit mark. The cumulative total in Nissan’s home market was reached at the end of September 2013, the same month that monthly global sales of the Nissan LEAF topped 4,700 units—the LEAF’s best-ever global monthly sales result to date. By the end of September, cumulative global sales of the Nissan LEAF since launch totaled 83,000 units.
Green Car Congress
OCTOBER 6, 2013
'The OECD-FAO Agricultural Outlook 2013-2022 projects that global ethanol production will increase 67% over the next ten years, with biodiesel increasing even faster but from a smaller base. The report projects that ethanol production will reach 168 billion liters (44 billion gallons US), with biodiesel reaching 41 billion liters (11 billion gallons US) by 2022.
Green Car Congress
OCTOBER 10, 2013
'In September, General Motors and its joint ventures sold 277,647 vehicles in China—a record for the month. Sales increased 13.7% from September 2012. During the first nine months of 2013 as a whole, sales by GM and its joint ventures in China increased 11.1% on an annual basis to a record 2,312,418 units. GM’s Shanghai GM and SAIC-GM-Wuling manufacturing joint ventures as well as all of their brands had all-time record September domestic sales.
Green Car Congress
OCTOBER 9, 2013
'According to ABI Research, the number of full electric vehicles (EVs) shipping yearly worldwide will increase from 150,000 in 2013 to 2.36 million in 2020, representing a CAGR of 48%. Asia-Pacific will exhibit the strongest growth, driven by mounting pollution issues in its many megacities; however, true mass-market uptake will only start happening in the next decade.
Green Car Congress
OCTOBER 9, 2013
'Ricardo’sTwin Vortex Combustion System (TVCS) reduces soot by 45- 50% compared to a conventional approach. Source: Ricardo. Click to enlarge. Ricardo and Korea-based Doosan Infracore presented details of the latest DL06 engine at the 22 nd Aachen Colloquium on automobile and engine technology in Germany. The Doosan DL06 engine is a turbocharged and intercooled 5.9-liter, in-line 6-cylinder diesel engine used in both on-highway and off-highway applications.
Green Car Congress
OCTOBER 7, 2013
'Researchers at the Harbin Institute of Technology in China have identified a novel heterotrophic alga (algae that grow by consuming sugars derived from plants rather than autotrophic, photosynthetic algae) with high total lipid content. In an open access paper in the journal Biotechnology for Biofuels , they reported that compared to autotrophic algae, the microalga Scenedesmus sp. strain R-16 grows well heterotrophically without light.
Green Car Congress
OCTOBER 10, 2013
'AMP Americas signed a deal with Dairy Farmers of America (DFA) and Select Milk Producers, both national dairy cooperatives, to convert a portion of their diesel needs to CNG by working with haulers to convert their fleets to CNG-powered trucks. Under the agreement, AMP-Trillium, the joint venture between AMP Americas and Trillium CNG, will build seven public fueling stations between August 2013 and early 2014 and lease new CNG trucks that will travel more than 13.2 million miles per year, servi
Green Car Congress
OCTOBER 9, 2013
'Results of a study by a research team from Brescia and Parma, Italy, to be presented at the Acute Cardiac Care Congress 2013 by Dr. Savina Nodari from Spedali Civili Hospital of Brescia, support the hypothesis that raised levels of PM 10 —even below the current limits set by the European Environmental Protection Agency—are associated with increased admission rates for acute cardiac events, especially in males, older patients and those with previous cardiovascular hospitalizations.
Green Car Congress
OCTOBER 8, 2013
'UPS plans to invest approximately $50 million to build an additional nine liquefied natural gas (LNG) fueling stations, bringing the total number of stations to 13. Four were announced in April, and all should be operational by the end of 2014. The enhanced LNG fueling infrastructure will support the operation of approximately 1,000 UPS LNG tractors that will displace more than 24 million gallons of diesel fuel annually.
Green Car Congress
OCTOBER 9, 2013
'Achates Power, Inc., the developer of a family of two-stroke compression-ignition opposed-piston engines ( earlier post ), has finalized $35.2 million in Series C financing. The company also announced the formation of a new Industry Advisory Board, and its selection as a semi-finalist in the Securing America’s Future Energy (SAFE) Energy Security Prize.
Green Car Congress
OCTOBER 11, 2013
'The Venezuelan state oil company, Petroleos de Venezuela, SA (PdVSA), has signed agreements with two major Indian energy companies, Reliance and OVL, for work in Venezuela’s Orinoco heavy oil belt. Reliance Industries Limited (RIL) and PDVSA signed a Joint Study Agreement for Ayacucho Block 8 in Orinoco Oil Belt. As per the study agreement, both the parties will jointly evaluate the development plan for Ayacucho 8.
Green Car Congress
OCTOBER 8, 2013
'Cadillac introduced the 2015 Escalade, the fourth-generation of the luxury SUV. Offered with 2WD and 4WD drivetrains, the Escalade features a new 6.2L V-8 engine that is more powerful and more efficient than previous models. There is no new hybrid model to replace the MY2013 Escalade two-mode hybrid, which was dropped in MY 2014 due to low sales (about 2%, according to a Cadillac spokesperson).
Green Car Congress
OCTOBER 7, 2013
'Researchers from the UK, China and Japan have combined gelatin with iron and magnesium to create an electrocatalyst that performs almost as well as a commercial platinum catalyst, but is significantly less expensive. A paper on their work is published in the Royal Society of Chemistry Journal of Materials Chemistry A. ne of the biggest challenges for materials science is to design facile routes to structurally complex materials, which is particularly important for global applications such as fu
Green Car Congress
OCTOBER 11, 2013
'Kalmar Motor, the aircraft tractor specialist, has awarded Saft a contract to supply a lithium-ion battery system for the first hybrid electric tractor suitable for wide body aircraft. The contract for the TBL 800 Hybrid—shortly to be trialed at one of Germany’s leading airports—represents a significant entry by Saft into the airport ground-handling sector.
Green Car Congress
OCTOBER 11, 2013
'Chrysler Group will invest $1.249 billion in two Saltillo, Mexico facilities. Of the total investment, $1.085 billion is in the construction of the new Van Assembly Plant to produce the Ram ProMaster commercial vehicle. The additional $164 million will add a new production line to assemble Tigershark engines at the Saltillo North Engine Plant. Mexican development banks Bancomext and Nafin provided financial support for the Van Assembly Plant project.
Green Car Congress
OCTOBER 10, 2013
'Avianca Brasil has selected the Byogy Renewables Alcohol to Jet (ATJ) fully renewable aviation biofuel process ( earlier post ) as the source for its alternate low carbon aviation fuels in the future. The fastest growing airline in Brazil, Avianca now operates one of the newest, most modern aircraft fleets in Latin America. Brazil, a world leader in the production of sugar cane ethanol, can leverage the Byogy ATJ process and lead the world in the development of a truly sustainable renewable avi
Green Car Congress
OCTOBER 7, 2013
'WiTricity, a developer of highly resonant wireless power transfer technology ( earlier post ), has introduced WiCAD, an end-to-end simulation environment for designing and developing highly resonant wireless power transfer systems. The tool, a software application deployed on a subscription basis, enables developers to streamline the design process, avoid the high cost of trial-and-error physical prototyping, and significantly reduce the time to market of products, the company said.
Green Car Congress
OCTOBER 11, 2013
'Toyota Motor Corporation has developed a next-generation advanced driving support system—Automated Highway Driving Assist (AHDA)—which uses automated driving technologies to support safer highway driving. AHDA links two automated driving technologies to support safer driving and reduce driver workload: Cooperative-adaptive Cruise Control, which wirelessly communicates with preceding vehicles to maintain a safe distance; and Lane Trace Control, which aids steering to keep the vehicle
Green Car Congress
OCTOBER 11, 2013
'Researchers in Europe have been investigating the potential of the protonated hexatitanate H 2 Ti 6 O 13 as an anode material for rechargeable lithium batteries. Results of their work suggests that the properties of H 2 Ti 6 O 13 seem to surpass those of the parent compound Li 2 Ti 6 O 13. Its reversible capacity is well maintained upon cycling, even at increasing discharge rates.
Green Car Congress
OCTOBER 10, 2013
'Bank of America has joined Stanford University’s Global Climate & Energy Project (GCEP), a collaboration of academic and business experts that identifies and supports new avenues of research to make environmentally sustainable, low-cost energy available to everyone. The GCEP collaboration expects to benefit from the bank’s expertise in financing sustainable businesses dedicated to addressing climate change and advancing low-carbon solutions.
Green Car Congress
OCTOBER 10, 2013
'Waste and recycling company Republic Services, Inc. has deployed 23 compressed natural gas (CNG) solid waste and recycling trucks to serve customers throughout the Twin Cities area. The new CNG fleet will replace older diesel powered trucks. Republic operates a fleet of more than 1,400 CNG vehicles and 26 natural gas fueling stations nationwide. Nationwide, the company plans to have more than 3,100 trucks nationwide running on natural gas and other alternative fuels by the end of 2015.
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