Green Car Congress

JANUARY 20, 2011

by Jack Rosebro. Mitsubishi will introduce 8 xEVs by FY 2015. Click to enlarge. Mitsubishi Motors Corporation (MMC) plans to introduce eight hybrid (HEV), plug-in hybrid (PHEV), and battery-powered (BEV) models by fiscal year 2015 in anticipation that demand for low-carbon, fuel-efficient automobiles will expand worldwide. Concurrently, the company will focus on producing new compact vehicles and SUVs in emerging markets, and will strengthen manufacturing capabilities in China, Russia, and Thail

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Electric Cars are for Girls

JANUARY 21, 2011

Ford is coming out with a 240 volt electric version of the Focus at the end of the year. It's got a portable charging system, fast charging (3-4 hours), and a "Value Charging" application from Microsoft so you can charge up when it's cheapest.

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Green Car Reports

JANUARY 20, 2011

Another in our irregular series of answering questions from readers, this one from John Q of Eugene, Oregon: Question: I was wondering how an electric car provides heat and defrosting. Using batteries to generate the heat will drain them pretty fast. Maybe with the 2011 Chevrolet Volt, the internal combustion engine is run for heat? But what about.

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Plugs and Cars

JANUARY 20, 2011

While governments scrape together money to roll out a public charging infrastructure for the plug-in cars that are already being delivered to customers, Mercedes is pleading for more money to enable hydrogen fuel cell vehicles they have failed to deliver for a decade. [Source: AutoBlogGreen ].

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Green Car Congress

JANUARY 17, 2011

First on-road SARTRE mini-platoon. Click to enlarge. The EU-financed SARTRE (Safe Road Trains for the Environment) project has carried out the first successful demonstration of its vehicle platooning technology at the Volvo Proving Ground close to Gothenburg, Sweden. ( Earlier post.) This marks the first time the EU-financed development teams in SARTRE have tried their systems together outside the simulators.

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Electric Cars are for Girls

JANUARY 18, 2011

Last month, Carlos Ghosn, the Nissan Leaf's daddy, said that "people who buy electric cars will never ever buy another car again. " Hey, I thought that was OUR LITTLE SECRET. Shh. But get this: The Stig, former driver for Top Gear - the gearhead show that hates everything electric, even lamps - tumbled for that very same Nissan Leaf. And he fell so hard that he's driving one in the EV Cup this summer!

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All Cars Electric

JANUARY 20, 2011

Build a $30,000 electric car in under four years. That’s the promise made last night by Tesla CEO Elon Musk. Speaking at the Cleantech Investor Summit in Palm Springs, California, the 39-year old businessman shared his plans for the venture-backed automaker. In addition to bringing the 2012 Model S sedan we saw moving under its own power.

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Green Car Congress

JANUARY 17, 2011

A recent white paper by Leslie Bromberg of MIT’s Plasma Science and Fusion Center and Wai K. Cheng of the Sloan Automotive Laboratory assessing the prospects for methanol as an alternative transportation fuel in the US concludes that methanol is a safe and viable transportation fuel, although it not as good as ethanol in terms of energy density and ease of handling.

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Electric Cars are for Girls

JANUARY 15, 2011

Electric is the new black, apparently, and the Chevy Volt is right in the center of the stage in Detroit. I.shh.like the Nissan Leaf better, and I'll be writing a little something about it very soon. Did you get on the list for a Leaf?

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Green Car Reports

JANUARY 17, 2011

Ford was clearly one of the stars of last week's Detroit Auto Show, launching green vehicles and concepts across a wide range of fuel-saving technologies. The company unveiled just a single concept, the Vertrek crossover, but it's an important one. The production version of the Vertrek will be the replacement for both the Escape crossover in the.

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All Cars Electric

JANUARY 19, 2011

Less than two months after the first 2011 Nissan LEAFs and 2011 Chevrolet Volts arrived in the eager hands of their new owners, there is an increasingly large group of owners worldwide who are wanting to ditch the confines of dedicated electric vehicle charge points and plug in where-ever they can find a suitable power source. Speedy Filling, Not.

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Green Car Congress

JANUARY 19, 2011

In the last few decades, a growing number of European cities have led the world in changing the direction of parking policy, with a number of attractive results including revitalized town centers; large reductions in car use; and decreasing air pollution and rising quality of urban life, according to a new report published by the Institute for Transportation and Development Policy ( ITDP ).

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Electric Cars are for Girls

JANUARY 15, 2011

How come my car's 12 volt battery is kept fully charged, yet I am told not to charge golf cart battery every night?

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Green Car Reports

JANUARY 18, 2011

A green roof is not at its most photogenic in a Michigan winter. In fact, it's hardly green at all--more like gray and brown--though it still insulates the building below just as well. But while some of the green aspects of Ford's showcase Rouge assembly plant have succumbed to the January weather, others operate year-round. A recent tour.

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All Cars Electric

JANUARY 17, 2011

What happens when the masked marvel of the highly popular and highly anti-electric car BBC Show Top Gear leaves? He starts racing electric cars, of course. Since his fiery departure from the prime-time entertainment show after he unveiled his identity, racing driver and stuntman Ben Collins has spent his time promoting his autobiography, joining a.

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Green Car Congress

JANUARY 16, 2011

Researchers in South Korea report the synthesis of high capacity Mn-rich mixed oxide cathode materials for Li-ion batteries. A paper on their work was published in the January issue of the Journal of Nanoscience and Nanotechnology ; the team had presented a poster on their material at the 3 rd International Conference on Advanced Lithium Batteries for Automobile Application ( ABAA-3 ) held at Hanyang University in Seoul, Korea in September 2010.

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Green Cars News

JANUARY 17, 2011

Monday 17 January 2011. The Green Piece Column. The North American International Auto Show 2011 (the Detroit Motor Show as it is colloquially known) opened its doors to the public last Saturday (Jan 15) with many anticipating one of the most spectacular line-ups in the show’s 104-year history. With the auto industry enjoying a resurgence, [.].

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Green Car Reports

JANUARY 17, 2011

Here at GreenCarReports, we're often contacted by friends and business acquaintances (usually the ones who want to drive green) with some variation on the question, "What car should I buy?" We ask several questions before making recommendations, among them: What kind of vehicle is it replacing? How will you be driving it: mostly in the city, on.

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All Cars Electric

JANUARY 19, 2011

It was announced nearly 3 years ago and we’ll not see it on the roads for another year, but Tesla’s Model S has made another important step towards production: the obligatory drive-by road video. As our John Voelcker reported yesterday over at GreenCarReports, the all-electric Californian car company posted a short video showing its.

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Green Car Congress

JANUARY 18, 2011

Two separate research collaborations have recently reported advances in the efficiency of thermoelectric materials in converting heat to electricity. A collaboration including researchers from Boston College, MIT, the University of Virginia and Clemson University have achieved a peak ZT (thermoelectric figure of merit) of 0.8 at 700 °C (973 K), in half-Heusler alloys—about 60% higher than the best reported ZT of 0.5 for the materials and possibly good enough for consideration for waste

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National Green Transportation

JANUARY 19, 2011

Do you like this story? Several reports have been in the news this week of a rumoured "eco-friendly" limousine from Rolls Royce. The typical Rolls Royce isn't exactly known for fuel efficiency, but eco-consciousness is important to their customers and of.

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Green Car Reports

JANUARY 18, 2011

It's both true and not-so-true: Small cars are dangerous in a crash. It's true, in that the laws of physics indicate a heavier object will have more momentum than a lighter object when they collide, meaning the small one gets displaced. But it's not so true if you're looking at absolute levels of passenger safety, since all cars--and small cars in.

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All Cars Electric

JANUARY 19, 2011

Smart's current range, just like its sole product, the ForTwo, is short and sweet. The lineup consists of the Pure and Passion specifications, and convertible versions of each. A Ford Fiesta rival is expected in the fall, based on the new Nissan March/Micra subcompact. And although it's not currently on sale, you can get your electric fix with the.

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Green Car Congress

JANUARY 19, 2011

Chevrolet will of fer Coulomb’s ChargePoint electric vehicle (EV) charging stations for use at its US Chevrolet dealerships in support of the arrival of the Volt. SPX Corporation, Chevrolet’s home charging installation partner, will deliver and install hundreds of Level II 240V ChargePoint charging stations to the Chevrolet dealers. Coulomb has already shipped ChargePoint charging stations to hundreds of customers worldwide, including its first Chevrolet dealership in Irvine, Calif.

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National Green Transportation

JANUARY 19, 2011

Do you like this story? KLD Energy is a Austin TX based manufacturer of high efficiency electric vehicle drive train technology. Yesterday, an SEC filing disclosed that they are seeking $10 million in debt financing to aid their expansion.This follows earler rounds of.

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Green Car Reports

JANUARY 21, 2011

Coda Automotive, the electric-car startup that last fall delayed the launch of its all-electric Sedan, announced this afternoon that it had hired Phil Murtaugh as its new CEO. It also revealed that it plans to launch its Coda Sedan electric car into the domestic Chinese market once the car has been launched in the U.S. market. Murtaugh succeeds.

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All Cars Electric

JANUARY 21, 2011

After initially appearing skeptical about the electric car, Audi has been busy over the past few years with a selection of plugin hybrid and fully electric-powered concepts, showing them off at prestigious events such as the Le Mans 24 hour race. But unlike the R8 e-tron, R4 e-tron spyder and A1 e-tron projects, Audi’s latest offering can.

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Green Car Congress

JANUARY 19, 2011

Serious traffic gridlocks, like the jam on Beijing’s national expressway a few months ago which brought vehicles to a halt for days, are a real-world issue needing attention. In a paper published this month in the SIAM Journal on Mathematical Analysis, authors Corrado Lattanzio, Amelio Maurizi and Benedetto Piccoli propose a mathematical model of vehicular traffic based on the study of a moving bottleneck caused by a slow-moving vehicle within the flow of cars.

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Green Cars News

JANUARY 15, 2011

It may have taken its time to reach the marketplace, but the Mitsubishi i-MiEV is now firmly making its mark across Europe. The electric car is now available in 15 European countries: Austria, Belgium, Denmark, France, Germany, Ireland, Italy, the Netherlands, Norway, Poland, Portugal, Spain, Sweden, Switzerland and the United Kingdom. Production of the European [.].

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Green Car Reports

JANUARY 21, 2011

Later this year Mitsubishi’s battery-powered i-MiEV will finally go on sale in the U.S., having already gone on sale in Europe and Japan and making an appearence at the 2010 Los Angeles Auto Show last November. However, it’s hard to get excited over Mitsubishi’s zero-emission minicar with the likes of the Nissan Leaf and.

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All Cars Electric

JANUARY 17, 2011

As hybrid cars and electric vehicles increase in market share, rare earth metals like neodymium - a soft metal which is used to create the ultra-strong magnets used in electric motors - are becoming increasingly expensive and sought-after. But it’s not just demand causing a rise in prices: China, home to one of the largest neodymium mining.

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Green Car Congress

JANUARY 21, 2011

An independent review panel concluded in a recent report that Californians would benefit from long-term geologic storage of carbon dioxide to reduce greenhouse gas emissions. The Carbon Capture and Storage (CCS) Review Panel, formed last year by three state agencies—the California Energy Commission, the California Public Utilities Commission (CPUC) and the California Air Resources Board (ARB)—presented its findings and recommendations in their January 2011 final report.

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Green Cars News

JANUARY 15, 2011

Could companies as competitive as Toyota, Honda and Nissan actually join forces? If it means furthering the development of hydrogen fuel cell vehicles, then it appears they can. A coalition of 13 major Japanese automakers and energy companies has formed to expand the introduction of fuel cell vehicles in 2015 as well as to develop [.].

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Green Car Reports

JANUARY 17, 2011

Scientists in Europe are working closely with major industry and government as part of a new initiative called SARTRE (SAfe Road TRains for the Environment), which hopes to develop self-driving technology that will allow vehicles to drive autonomously in long road trains on the highway. Just imagine leaving home in the morning in your car and.

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