Green Car Congress

OCTOBER 14, 2011

BMW revealed first details of the new sixth-generation 3 Series; the 3 Series accounts for one-fifth of the company’s global sales. The sixth generation of the 3 Series is larger than its predecessor, with a wide track (front + 37 mm, rear + 47 mm), increased length (+ 93 mm) and augmented wheelbase (+ 50 mm). Despite the larger dimensions, the new car has a curb weight 40 kilograms (88 lb) below that of its predecessor.

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Creative Greenius

OCTOBER 9, 2011

16 file cartons full of paper to be shredded! It’s true. I’ve been dreaming of this day for several years now and I’ve got to say I feel even better than I thought I would. I’m downright giddy in fact. I just got rid of 14 cartons of old paper files and 8 cartons of old VHS tapes, reclaimed all that space in my attic and my garage and didn’t have one scrap of any of it go into a landfill.

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Green Car Reports

OCTOBER 11, 2011

GM [NYSE:GM] had hoped to announce its latest green vehicle tomorrow morning, at a nice, orderly, staged press event to celebrate Chevrolet's 100th birthday. But one of its hometown papers jumped the gun and broke the news: The largest domestic car company will launch a small battery electric vehicle in the U.S. market. While The Detroit News had.

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Plugs and Cars

OCTOBER 11, 2011

Google translate sure knows how write a headline. Seems the deal between Better Place and its Danish partner Dong Energy has gone south. BP Denmark has gone through the initial investment of 400 kroner, and Dong denies an obligation to loan more. " There are eroded cooperation between DONG Energy and Better Place Group," according to the story in epn.dk Regarding additional funding of Better Place Denmark, "it is our choice.

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Green Car Congress

OCTOBER 11, 2011

The Detroit News reported that GM will announce on Wednesday it will introduce a full battery-electric city car in the US. Green Car Reports fleshed that basic item out with additional details: The vehicle is the Chevrolet Spark EV, unveiled as the Chevrolet Beat EV, in India. It is an conversion of the upcoming 2013 Chevrolet Spark/Beat minicar. ( Earlier post.).

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Creative Greenius

OCTOBER 9, 2011

16 file cartons full of paper to be shredded! It’s true. I’ve been dreaming of this day for several years now and I’ve got to say I feel even better than I thought I would. I’m downright giddy in fact. I just got rid of 14 cartons of old paper files and 8 cartons of old VHS tapes, reclaimed all that space in my attic and my garage and didn’t have one scrap of any of it go into a landfill.

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Electric Cars are for Girls

OCTOBER 13, 2011

Electric Low Speed Vehicles are becoming tremendously popular these days for a number of reasons. Here's how to make them go faster.

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Green Car Congress

OCTOBER 9, 2011

Glori Energy, a company seeking to commercialize a microbial enhanced oil recovery technology ( earlier post ), filed an S-1 to go public with a proposed maximum yield of $115 million. Glori Energy’s AERO System (Activated Environment for the Recovery of Oil) technology stimulates the native microorganisms that reside in an oil reservoir to improve the recoverability of the trapped oil.

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Green Cars News

OCTOBER 13, 2011

The global market for biofuels is predicted to double over the next ten years as governments encourage their use, motivated by growing concerns about energy security and economic stagnation. At least 38 governments around the world have introduced blending mandates or targets to increase the production and consumption of biofuels in the transport sector, a [.].

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Green Car Reports

OCTOBER 13, 2011

Tesla’s second ever car -- the 7-seat all-electric luxury Model S sedan -- got more reservations nine months before it went on sale than Tesla planned making in its first year of production. But what lies beneath the Silicon Valley hype? What’s it like to drive, and what things should you know about the car that made Elon Musk bet.

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National Green Transportation

OCTOBER 13, 2011

Why should you buy the electric vehicle charging station the manufacturer wants you to buy? The standardized EV charging socket (J1772) means that, in theory, you could buy any charging station, wire it up to your electrical panel, and.

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Green Car Congress

OCTOBER 9, 2011

Mitsubishi Chemical Corporation (MCC) will establish a new subsidiary in China in February 2012 to manufacture and sell formulated electrolyte for Lithium-ion batteries (LiBs). Commercial operation is expected by the end of 2012. Battery production in China is expected to grow rapidly, both for the consumer electronics and for the emerging automotive applications.

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Green Cars News

OCTOBER 11, 2011

The upcoming Audi S8, due on the market in early summer 2012, will feature a newly developed 4.0 TFSI twin turbo V8 engine which develops 382kW while consuming 23mpg. Compared to the engine in the previous model, the normally aspirated 5.2litre V10, the new engine develops around 15 per cent more power and yet consumes [.].

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Green Car Reports

OCTOBER 10, 2011

It's conventional wisdom that more electric cars will be sold in California than in any other state. Some estimates say Californians will buy more plug-in cars than the next five states combined. But California has roughly 25 million vehicles on its roads, so while the absolute numbers are high, it won't be the state with the highest percentage of.

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National Green Transportation

OCTOBER 13, 2011

The proposed Keystone XL pipeline would carry tar sands oil from Canada to Texas refineries. Tar sands oil is one of the dirtiest most environmentally devastating sources of the fossil fuels required to power gasoline/diesel powered vehicles, and.

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Green Car Congress

OCTOBER 10, 2011

The ANSI Electric Vehicles Standards Panel (EVSP) will convene its second plenary meeting on 17-18 November 2011, in Arlington, Virginia, to continue work on a strategic roadmap identifying the standards and conformity assessment programs needed to enable the widespread acceptance and deployment of electric vehicles and associated infrastructure in the United States.

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Green Cars News

OCTOBER 10, 2011

Automotive executives expect that Europe will become the first mass market for electric cars, new research from Ernst & Young reveals. According to new study conducted by market analysts at the firm, the market for electric cars will reach critical mass by 2022 too. Ernst and Young surveyed the opinion of 300 European automotive leaders [.].

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Green Car Reports

OCTOBER 11, 2011

Despite reports that it won't offer battery electric cars, Hyundai might just be working on a plug-in car after all, says German website Auto Motor und Sport. A month after Hyundai unveiled the 2012 Elantra Touring (known as the i30 in other counties), Auto Motor und Sport reports that the Korean automaker is working on a plug-in hybrid variant of.

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National Green Transportation

OCTOBER 12, 2011

Shares of battery maker A123 Systems are sharply higher on todays news about GM's new all-electric car, the Chevy Spark EV (see GM's Chevy Spark EV will be their first 100% Battery EV since the.

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Green Car Congress

OCTOBER 10, 2011

BMW is offering an advanced traffic information system that gives fast, accurate and reliable data about road conditions. Real Time Traffic Information (RTTI) is an enhanced BMW ConnectedDrive feature that is available on new BMW models and comes at no additional cost when customers order the BMW Professional navigation system and Bluetooth telephone preparation with telematics.

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Green Cars News

OCTOBER 12, 2011

Just two teams will represent the UK in next week’s World Solar Car Challenge, which kicks off in Darwin, Australia next week. Cars from Durham University and Cambridge University will take part in the international event which sees solar-powered cars from around the world travel 3000km across the heartland of Australia to Adelaide on the [.].

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Green Car Reports

OCTOBER 13, 2011

Amidst supposedly slow sales--actually limited mostly by low production--one benefit to automakers of offering electric cars has nothing to do with cars that plug in. Not only do electric cars attract radically different buyers to the brands that offer them, they also help sell conventional gasoline cars. Plug-in cars, it turns out, are "halo.

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National Green Transportation

OCTOBER 11, 2011

Electric vehicle advocacy group Plug-In America is organizing a nation-wide day of awareness, National Plug-In Day, this Sunday, October 16. With events scheduled across America they wish to demonstrate newly built highway-capable electric.

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Green Car Congress

OCTOBER 12, 2011

Ecotec small gasoline engine. Click to enlarge. General Motors will develop an all-new global family of small-displacement Ecotec gasoline engines over the next several years that will deliver improved fuel economy, higher quality, better performance and reduced CO 2 emissions. The program could encompass more than 2 million engines a year by the end of the decade.

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Green Cars News

OCTOBER 11, 2011

A collaboration of car makers including Audi, BMW, Daimler, Porsche, and Volkswagen are to present their new Combined Charging System at the 15th International VDI-Congress and Exhibition “Electronic Systems for Motor Vehicles” in Baden-Baden, Germany tomorrow. The new charging system, developed in collaboration with the American car makers Ford and General Motors (GM), is a [.].

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Green Car Reports

OCTOBER 10, 2011

Nauna’s Bella Casa Restaurant in Montclair, N.J., was the venue for the final MINI E Northeast Meetup before the cars must be returned. After a two-year run, BMW’s MINI E adventure is nearing its end. The car may seem old hat to people like Tom Moloughney, who has clocked over 65,000 miles on his MINI E--and who hosted the event at his.

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National Green Transportation

OCTOBER 12, 2011

Nissan, and their partner Aerovironment, announced today new reduced pricing for the official "home charging system" for the Nissan LEAF. The new typical price is $1,818 and includes both hardware and installation services for typical.

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Green Car Congress

OCTOBER 13, 2011

Air France and Airbus have combined the latest fuel and air traffic management technologies in a commercial flight from Toulouse-Blagnac to Paris-Orly using an Airbus A321 to demonstrate the cutting in half of CO 2 emitted compared to a regular flight, according to the partners. The commercial flight (AF6129) combined for the first time the use of bio-fuels (50% in each engine), optimized air traffic management (ATM) and efficient Continuous Descent Approach (CDA) to minimize CO 2 emissions.

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Green Cars News

OCTOBER 13, 2011

Nissan has revealed its next generation of fuel cell stack, which offers 2.5 times greater power density than its previous 2005 model. The Japanese car maker, which as of yet only has small demonstration fleets of hydrogen fuel cell vehicles, is in the process of developing production viable models. Such work rests on developments such [.].

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Green Car Reports

OCTOBER 12, 2011

General Motors has just officially, finally confirmed news that this site has previously reported: The 2013 Chevrolet Spark minicar will be launched in the first half of next year An all-electric Spark EV model will be offered in selected regions of the U.S. and other markets New front-end styling The 2013 Spark shown this morning on stage in.

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National Green Transportation

OCTOBER 13, 2011

The proposed Keystone XL pipeline would carry tar sands oil from Canada to Texas refineries. Tar sands oil is one of the dirtiest most environmentally devastating sources of the fossil fuels required to power gasoline/diesel powered vehicles, and.

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Green Car Congress

OCTOBER 13, 2011

According to a new report from Pike Research, the increased production and consumption of biofuels will more than double the industry’s market value in the next decade. Pike forecasts that the global market for biofuels will increase from $82.7 billion in 2011 to $185.3 billion by 2021. Pike projects that by 2021, the production of biofuels derived from a range of feedstocks will reach 65.7 BGPY worldwide, representing a 127% increase over 2010 production volumes and an 8.4% compound annual grow

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Green Cars News

OCTOBER 13, 2011

The Thailand eco-car programme requires vehicles to have low fuel consumption of at least 47mpg and CO2 emissions of 120g/km or less – and now Nissan will be the first automaker to launch a saloon car in the country that meets the criteria. The new Nissan Almera is the vehicle in question. It is powered [.].

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Green Car Reports

OCTOBER 10, 2011

The Volkswagen Jetta line of compact sedans and wagons has gotten more complicated since last year. In 2011, VW launched a redesigned, larger, and cheaper Jetta four-door sedan--but carried the Jetta SportWagen using the older body style, albeit with new front sheetmetal to make it resemble the sedan. So the 2012 Volkswagen Jetta SportWagen is.

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