Green Car Congress

APRIL 7, 2013

'Researchers at Fudan University with colleagues at the Shanghai Academy of Spaceflight have developed a LiMn 2 O4 material for a Li-ion battery cathode that exhibits superfast charging capabilities. Their paper is published in the ACS journal Nano Letters. It is known that from the nature there are a lot of materials rich in facets. Each different facet has different numbers of atoms and effects.

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Green Car Reports

APRIL 11, 2013

'This is an exciting time for electric car enthusiasts. From just a handful of choices only a few years ago, buyers in some states now have access to as many as a dozen different plug-in vehicles. It''s set to get even better--over the course of the next few years, another six electric vehicles are on the way. Here''s our full run-down of the most.

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Green Cars News

APRIL 12, 2013

'Driving the new, refreshed Nissan LEAF, I half expected to play a game of ‘Spot the Difference’ between this and the first car launched just two years ago, especially when Nissan revealed it had made more than 100 changes (enough to keep anyone busy). And while it is true to say it’s hard to spot [.].

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Green Car Congress

APRIL 8, 2013

'Capstone Turbine. Corporation has received an order for thirty-four liquid fuel C30 microturbines for use in DesignLine’s Eco Saver IV range extended electric buses. The buses are expected to be delivered to Denver Regional Transportation District (RTD) later this year. The new Denver RTD buses will operate on the 16 th Street Mall in downtown Denver.

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APRIL 10, 2013

'Johnson Controls is premiering its new 48-volt Micro Hybrid battery demonstration module ( earlier post ) in Europe at the Hannover Messe. A 48-volt Li-ion battery would be used in vehicles in conjunction with a 12-volt lead-acid starter battery. This enables greater energy and power efficiency while keeping overall system costs to a minimum, Johnson Controls says.

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Green Car Congress

APRIL 11, 2013

'XG Sciences, Inc. (XGS), a manufacturer of graphene platelets, has launched silicon anode materials for Li-ion batteries, with immediate availability. The new anode material is produced through proprietary manufacturing processes and uses the company’s xGnP graphene nanoplatelets to stabilize silicon particles in a nano-engineered composite structure.

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Green Car Congress

APRIL 11, 2013

'California Governor Edmund G. Brown Jr. signed the first agreement of its kind between a subnational entity and China’s Minister of Environmental Protection Zhou Shengxian to strengthen and coordinate efforts to improve air quality. In addition to collaboration on air quality measures, the agreement encourages joint efforts to protect public health, promote clean and efficient energy, protect the environment and natural resources and support sustained economic growth.

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Green Car Congress

APRIL 11, 2013

'The EU Commission has measured the fuel savings achieved by LED headlights from Audi—testing the low-beam headlights, high-beam headlights and license plate light in dynamometer testing. In the ten NEDC cycles that the Audi A6 ran through, CO 2 savings were found to be above one gram per km (1.61 g/mile). As a result, the EU Commission has officially identified the LED headlights as an innovative technology for reducing CO 2 emissions.

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Green Car Congress

APRIL 9, 2013

'Oerlikon Graziano will present a new front-axle parallel hybrid system at European All-Wheel Drive Congress in Graz, from 10 to 12 April 2013. The company developed a front-axle add-on electric module, transforming the Lancia 037 rear-wheel drive rally car into an innovative hybrid 4WD vehicle. The modified Lancia 037 kept its original rear-axle powered by the internal combustion engine coupled with the manual transmission, said Stefano Bertolotto, Oerlikon Graziano Design Engineer for Electric

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Green Car Congress

APRIL 12, 2013

'Researchers from the University of California, Santa Barbara; the Broad Institute of the Massachusetts Institute of Technology; and Harvard University have discovered a new species of gut fungus from the Piromyces genus from the digestive tract of a horse that could prove to be a rich source of enzymes for the breakdown of biomass for the production of biofuels.

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Green Car Congress

APRIL 12, 2013

'Ford’s 1.5L EcoBoost engine. Click to enlarge. Ford Motor Company officially launched the new 1.5-liter EcoBoost engine into its lineup. The new engine will be first introduced in China in the all-new Ford Mondeo, making its public debut later this month at Auto Shanghai 2013 ( earlier post ), with applications following in the Fusion sedan in North America this year, and later the new Mondeo in Europe.

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Green Car Congress

APRIL 10, 2013

'Scientists from UCLA’s Fielding School of Public Health have found a possible link between exposure to traffic-related air pollution and several rare childhood cancers. The results of their study—the first to examine air pollution from traffic and a number of rarer childhood cancers—were presented on 9 April in an abstract at the annual meeting of the American Association for Cancer Research in Washington, D.C.

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Green Car Congress

APRIL 8, 2013

'Renault and British designer Ross Lovegrove unveiled the Twin’Z, a battery-electric city-car concept at the Salone Internazionale del Mobile di Milano, the centerpiece of the Design industry’s annual calendar. Twin’Z is rear-wheel drive, and equipped with a 50 kW, 226 N·m (167 lb-ft) rear-mounted electric motor and four Li-ion battery packs spaced evenly beneath the floor.

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Green Car Congress

APRIL 12, 2013

'Cadillac’s 2014 ELR extended range electric vehicle ( earlier post ) will offer Regen on Demand via its paddle shifters. Unlike traditional performance vehicles where the steering wheel-mounted paddles allow drivers to upshift and downshift the mechanical transmission, Cadillac ELR’s paddle shifters enable the driver to temporarily regenerate energy and store it as electricity in the battery pack for later use.

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APRIL 11, 2013

'Researchers at the University of Bristol (UK) have developed a new family of catalysts that enables the conversion of ethanol into n-butanol—a higher alcohol with better characteristics for transportation applications than ethanol—with selectivity of more than 95% at good conversion. The team presented a pair of papers on their work at the Spring meeting of the American Chemical Society this week in New Orleans.

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Green Car Congress

APRIL 11, 2013

'The California Energy Commission approved $678,889 to projects that will boost the number of alternative fuel vehicles on the state’s roadways. The awards were made through the Commission’s Alternative and Renewable Fuel and Vehicle Technology Program, created by Assembly Bill 118. For the current fiscal year, the program is slated to invest approximately $90 million to encourage the development and use of new technologies, and alternative and renewable fuels, to help the state meet its climate

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Green Car Congress

APRIL 9, 2013

'Sendyne Corp., a company that develops semiconductor components and advanced circuits for the management of battery systems used for grid storage and EVs, has introduced the SFP100, a high-precision current sensing IC, that extends by at least an order of magnitude the range of accurate measurements of current through a resistive shunt. The Sendyne SFP100 was designed to address the unique requirements of battery monitoring in energy storage systems, such as those used for electric vehicles (EV

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Green Car Congress

APRIL 9, 2013

'Concept of valve implementation on 4-cylinder head. Source: LaunchPoint. Click to enlarge. LaunchPoint Technologies, Inc. is completing Phase II of a Small Business Innovation Research (SBIR) grant ( IIP-1058556 ) from the National Science Foundation (NSF) to design and test a novel electromechanical valve actuator designed specifically to control a low-cost, high efficiency valve actuation system that achieves fully variable control over the duration and phase of an engine’s intake valve.

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Green Car Congress

APRIL 7, 2013

'The US National Science Foundation (NSF) has issued a grants opportunity notice ( PD-14-7644 ) for up to about $13 million in awards to fundamental research and education that will enable innovative processes for the sustainable production of electricity and transportation fuels. Processes for sustainable energy production must be environmentally benign, reduce greenhouse gas production, and utilize renewable resources.

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Green Car Congress

APRIL 11, 2013

'Researchers from EADS and Technische Universität Wien (Vienna University of Technology) have developed and tested thermoelectric Energy Harvester Modules to supply wireless aircraft sensor nodes with electrical power. The combination of the two eliminates the need for batteries and cables. Sensor networks attached to an aircraft fuselage will in the future record and transmit essential data concerning the structural health of the aircraft.

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Green Car Congress

APRIL 10, 2013

'ABB launched the Terra 53 , the first 50 kW CCS (Combined Charging System) DC fast charging station compliant with BMW i3, Volkswagen e-up! and e-Golf, as well as other CCS cars expected in the market from autumn 2013 onwards. ( Earlier post.). The Terra 53 C is the first product configuration from a family of DC charging stations supporting the CCS standard.

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Green Car Congress

APRIL 10, 2013

'President Obama’s FY 2014 budget proposal submitted to Congress provides $28.4 billion in discretionary funds for the Department of Energy, an 8% increase above the 2012 enacted level. Among the direct transportation-related highlights of the department’s budget proposal are $575 million for advanced vehicle technologies research, an increase of 75% over the enacted 2012 level; $282 million for the next-generation of advanced biofuels research; and the $2 billion Energy Security Trust to transi

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Green Car Congress

APRIL 10, 2013

'US DRIVE (Driving Research and Innovation for Vehicle efficiency and Energy sustainability), a non-binding and voluntary government-industry partnership focused on advanced automotive and related infrastructure technology research and development (R&D), has released its 2012 Technical Accomplishments Report. ( Earlier post.). US DRIVE partners selected the technical highlights in the report from hundreds of US Department of Energy (DOE)-funded projects.

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Green Car Congress

APRIL 8, 2013

'A team of researchers at the Wyss Institute at Harvard University and Harvard’s School of Engineering and Applied Sciences (SEAS) have designed a new kind of adaptive material with tunable transparency and wettability features. A paper on the work, which has potential applications in pipelines, textiles, and optical systems, is published in Nature Materials.

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Green Car Congress

APRIL 8, 2013

'Reversible discharge capacities (normalized by the content of active material) for anodes with ( top ) 30 wt % Sn/SnO 2 NCs and ( bottom ) a high mass content (63.75%) of an active Sn-based material. Credit: ACS, Kravchyk et al. Click to enlarge. Researchers from ETH Zürich have synthesized highly monodisperse colloidal Sn and Sn/SnO 2 (tin/tin dioxide) nanocrystals for use as an anode material in Li-ion batteries.

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Green Car Congress

APRIL 12, 2013

'Alset’s dual-fuel Hybrid Hydrogen system. Click to enlarge. A prototype, twin-turbo, Aston Martin Rapide S at the 41 st ADAC Zurich 24 Hours of Nürburgring (19-20 May 2013) will debut Alset Global’s dual fuel Hybrid Hydrogen system, which enables the turbocharged 6.0-liter V12 engine car to run on pure gasoline or hydrogen or a blend of both. Austria-based Alset Global’s Hybrid Hydrogen system comprises a hydrogen fuel rail, storage tank and proprietary engine management system.

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Green Car Congress

APRIL 12, 2013

'Veolia Environnement and Total inaugurated the Osilub plant at the Gonfreville l’Orcher site in Normandy, France. The new plant expands engine oil treatment capacity in France and, more broadly, northwestern Europe, to regenerate used oil as high-end engine oils. Several years of research underpin the wiped-film vacuum distillation process deployed by Osilub, which preserves the oil molecules and ensures high yields when recycling fine chemical products.

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Green Car Congress

APRIL 12, 2013

'The Boeing X-48C research aircraft flew for the 30 th and final time 9 April, marking the successful completion of an eight-month flight-test program to explore and further validate the aerodynamic characteristics of the Blended Wing Body (BWB) design concept. ( Earlier post.). All 30 flights were conducted at NASA’s Dryden Flight Research Center. The X-48C typically flew for approximately 30 minutes on most flights, reaching speeds of up to 140 miles per hour (225 km/h) and attaining an altitu

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Green Car Congress

APRIL 11, 2013

'Citroën unveiled the DS Wild Rubis concept car, just a few days before the Shanghai Motor Show. Designed to be driven by full-hybrid, plug-in technology, the Wild Rubis concept car is the forerunner of the future DS SUV. The Wild Rubis concept car is the latest expression of the DS line, joining the DS3, DS4, DS5 and the Numéro 9 concept car. Wild Rubis.

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Green Car Congress

APRIL 10, 2013

'ConocoPhillips will put its 2014 Alaska Chukchi Sea exploration drilling plans on hold given what it called “the uncertainties of evolving federal regulatory requirements and operational permitting standards. The company has determined it would not be prudent at this time to make the significant monetary commitments needed to preserve the option to drill in 2014.

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Green Car Congress

APRIL 10, 2013

'Life sciences and materials sciences company Royal DSM signed a Memorandum of Understanding (MOU) for a strategic partnership with Rostekhnologii (Rostec), a Russian State Corporation, in the fields of biotechnology and functional materials. DSM and Rostec will explore a potential cooperation in the field of conversion of cellulosic biomass from forestry and agriculture to fermentable sugars for the production of biofuels and/or biobased chemicals as well as the manufacturing of bio-based produ

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Green Car Congress

APRIL 9, 2013

'With final 2012 Polk global market registration data just reporting, Ford Focus is officially the world’s best-selling passenger car, with the Ford F-Series pickup coming in third and Ford Fiesta coming in as the best-selling subcompact. Sales of the compact Focus totaled 1,020,410 cars worldwide according to the automotive data and trends forecasting company.

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Green Car Congress

APRIL 9, 2013

'The new Maserati Ghibli, which will [link] at the Shanghai Motor Show later this month, will be the first Maserati production car to be powered by a diesel engine, a 3.0-liter V6 turbo-diesel. The 4-door Ghibli will also feature an eight-speed automatic transmission and both rear-wheel drive and the new “Q4” all-wheel drive system. The Ghibli will have a sportier character compared to the larger Quattroporte, launched at the beginning of this year.

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Green Car Congress

APRIL 8, 2013

'car2go North America, LLC, a wholly owned subsidiary of Daimler North America Corporation, will partner with the Parking Spot, the leading near-airport parking company in the United States to enable car2go members to park their car2go edition smart fortwo vehicles at The Parking Spot, located adjacent to Austin-Bergstrom International Airport. The partnership with The Parking Spot will be the first airport parking option for car2go members in North America.

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