Green Car Congress

JULY 20, 2010

Marathon Oil Corporation announced that its Droshky development in the deepwater Gulf of Mexico has begun production on time and under budget. This marks the first new deepwater production since the Obama Administration halted drilling after the Deepwater Horizon accident. The new well had already been drilled at the time of the incident. Marathon owns a 100% working interest in Droshky, which is expected to produce approximately 50,000 net barrels of oil equivalent per day at its peak, consisti

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Creative Greenius

JULY 22, 2010

My pals at Greenpeace, spearheaded by my sister from another mother, Jenny Binstock, produced the video above to warn folks like me, who live in ToxicTown Torrance, that we’re not really safe from the danger that surrounds us all over the South Bay and throughout all of Los Angeles. Luckily we have Greenpeace on the case to do the job that our own Mayor and City Council just aren’t courageous or visionary enough to do.

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Revenge of the Electric Car

JULY 23, 2010

Who Killed the Electric Car? alumnus and Revenge of the Electric Car consultant Chelsea Sexton recently got her turn to test drive the Nissan Leaf, and posted her findings on AutoBlogGreen : After inviting hundreds of people to Japan to check out the production-ready Leaf electric vehicle, Nissan has begun a much smaller effort in launch markets in the U.S., thus far conducting test drives in San Diego and Los Angeles, California.

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DIY Electric Car

JULY 21, 2010

Sunday our New Beetle rolled out of the garage on it's own! We got on a testdrive in our neighborhood, just to feel this great moment :-). There is still a lot of work to do, but this milestone was a big rock! :-). So stay tuned. it will go on :-).

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Green Car Congress

JULY 20, 2010

At the Clean Energy Ministerial in Washington, DC, 19-20 July, ministers reaffirmed their commitment to previously-announced targets for the deployment of electric vehicles, which the International Energy Agency (IEA) estimates will create global market momentum leading to at least 20 million electric vehicles on the road worldwide by 2020. In support of those targets, the ministers are launching the Electric Vehicles Initiative (EVI), which will provide a forum for global cooperation on the dev

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Creative Greenius

JULY 18, 2010

After listening to politicians and want-to-be politicians toot their own horns about how they are Redondo Beach environmental champions, I went out into the field to track down the truth. It wasn’t hard to find. All I had to do was drive to Neighborhood Grinds on Artesia Boulevard on Thursday afternoon. I went there to check out the real “green&# in the form of locally grown organic produce from Tanaka Farms in Irvine and to find out what boxes of fruits and vegetables were doing ins

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Green Car Reports

JULY 23, 2010

It's a wonderful TV news flash: Blind people in peril from killer electric cars! News at 11. The fear is that electric vehicles are so silent that blind people can't hear them coming, so new draft safety regulations may now require electric vehicles to emit sounds. There's just one problem: Accident data from the National Highway Traffic Safety.

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Green Car Congress

JULY 20, 2010

Cyclone Power Technologies, Inc. has successfully performed combustion acceptability tests of crude oil recovered from the Gulf of Mexico with its heat-regenerative external combustion engine. During the tests, Cyclone ignited a small amount of crude oil spilled from the Deepwater Horizon accident through its combustion chamber fuel atomizers without any system modifications.

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All Cars Electric

JULY 21, 2010

Electric vehicles are zero emissions, right? That's a rhetorical question. As I'm sure most of you are aware, that statement is only correct up to a point. Most electric vehicle manufacturers, such as Nissan with their 2011 Leaf, are keen to point out that their vehicles produce zero tailpipe emissions, meaning only the cars themselves are zero.

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Green Cars News

JULY 22, 2010

The range-extended electric Ampera enjoyed an audience with a Royal this week after a visit to Kensington Palace. Prince Michael of Kent, a keen car enthusiast took quickly to the car after he was shown how the it operates and performs. According to its maker, Vauxhall, the Prince was impressed by the cars strong [.]. Tags: Vauxhall ampera electric car Prince Michael of Kent royal.

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Green Car Reports

JULY 19, 2010

Hot on the heels of its new dual injector engine comes another relatively unique engine design from Japanese automaker Nissan. The latest innovative design consists of a compact 1.2-liter three-cylinder gasoline engine with direct fuel injection and supercharger technology, boosting output to what Nissan claims is equivalent to that of a 1.5-liter.

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Green Car Congress

JULY 23, 2010

Diagram of the proposed closed-loop fuel cycle. CO 2 is recycled into hydrocarbon fuels in a process based on: capturing CO 2 from the atmosphere, high-temperature co-electrolysis of CO 2 and H 2 O in a solid oxide cell to yield syngas (CO/H 2 mixture), and catalytic fuel synthesis from the syngas. Source: Lenfest Center. Click to enlarge. Researchers at Columbia University’s Lenfest Center for Sustainable Energy, in collaboration with Risø National Laboratory for Sustainable Energy, DTU, are in

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All Cars Electric

JULY 20, 2010

Just like last week's Toyota-Tesla announcement, the rumor mill went into overdrive yesterday with talk of plans from Honda to build both electric cars and plug in Hybrids in the near future. Knowing full well how the world's largest manufacturer of internal combustion engines felt about battery technology and electric cars in particular, we.

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Green Cars News

JULY 17, 2010

PSA Peugeot Citroen has been boosted by a €200million loan agreement with the European Investment Bank for the development of plug-in hybrid vehicles. A total of €400million will be poured into the plug-in hybrid programme with the aim of developing multi-purpose vehicles that combine the advantages of a diesel engine on the highway with those [.]. Tags: Citroen Green cars Hybrid cars Latest news Peugeot European Clean Transport Facility programme European Investment Bank Peugeot plug-in hybrid

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Green Car Reports

JULY 22, 2010

With a fuel economy of 36 mpg in the city and 41 mpg on the highway, the new 2011 Lincoln MKZ Hybrid already lays claim to the title of being the world's most fuel efficient luxury sedan, and now it's making the headlines once again. Lincoln will sell its new hybrid at the same base price as its conventional gasoline only V-6 powered sibling, with.

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Green Car Congress

JULY 20, 2010

Organizations representing auto manufacturers, electric utilities and the electric drive industry are calling on President Obama to establish a new National Electric Fuel Task Force to help accelerate the adoption of plug-in electric vehicles and the necessary infrastructure. A letter was signed and delivered to the White House by the Alliance of Automobile Manufacturers (AAM), the Association of International Automobile Manufacturers (AIAM), the Electric Drive Transportation Association (EDTA)

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All Cars Electric

JULY 23, 2010

I'm on the highway to. Canada. Yes, Canada, via its southern neighbor, Washington state. Washington state has a plan, and that plan is to build electric vehicle charging stations. By this fall, the State of Washington plans to turn a 275-mile section of Interstate 5 (running from Oregon to Canada) into an electric highway, just in time for the.

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Green Cars News

JULY 22, 2010

There’s good news for green car fans who want the best environmental technology without paying over the odds after Lincoln revealed pricing details for its new MKZ Hybrid. The Ford brand has priced the vehicle the same as its conventional petrol version, starting at $35,180 including destination and delivery. The vehicle is notably cheaper than [.].

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Green Car Reports

JULY 21, 2010

The 2011 Volkswagen Jetta arrives this fall in showrooms, but the German automaker's already planning on two green versions of the new compact four-door for U.S. customers. When it goes on sale, the Jetta will assume its usual place in the VW lineup, beneath the Passat and atop a likely addition to the family, the new Volkswagen Polo subcompact.

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Green Car Congress

JULY 23, 2010

EU biodiesel production increased 16.6% in 2009 to 9 million tonnes, compared to the prior year, according to figures from the European Biodiesel Board (EBB). This increase is well below the increases in production in three of the four prior years (35% in. 2008, 54% in 2006 and 65% in 2005); in 2007, the industry growth rate was. also 16%. In 2009, biodiesel production decreased in a number of EU Member States, including Germany, Greece and the UK, but expanded in other countries such as Austria

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All Cars Electric

JULY 23, 2010

Electric vehicle manufacturers will be energized this week by the news that a bipartisan Senate panel has just given their approval to a proposed plug-in vehicles bill. Although not final, as the bill needs approval first by the full Senate and then the House and Senate, the measures introduced in the bill would be very important to encouraging.

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National Green Transportation

JULY 19, 2010

It's an exciting time to be an electric motorcycle fan, what with multiple manufacturers bringing bikes to market, and the electric motorcycle races in North America and Europe.

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Green Car Reports

JULY 22, 2010

GM sells only about 10,000 Two-Mode Hybrids a year, but if nothing else, its system is technically sophisticated. Sophisticated enough, in fact, that a former General Motors employee and her husband have been indicted on charges of copying thousands of pages of GM documents on the system in January 2005, just five days after the company extended.

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Green Car Congress

JULY 22, 2010

The Numerical Algorithms Group ( NAG ) has expanded the NAG C Library (the largest commercially available collection of numerical algorithms for C and C++, widely used for automotive design application development) with the addition of more than 150 functions for a total of more than 1,300 user-callable functions. Many of these are key to new automotive components and products modeling and other automotive research, NAG says.

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All Cars Electric

JULY 23, 2010

Unless you've been living in a remote shack in the remote wilderness of Northern Alaska you'll be familiar with the television adverts we all suffered in the 80s which started with the immortal line "Four out of five dentists." What followed was normally an advertisement for some form of dental product, from the latest toothbrush and toothpaste.

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National Green Transportation

JULY 22, 2010

The Portland Oregon city council voted yesterday to approve policies meant to speed up electric vehicle adoption. This adopts proposals in a report titled "Electric Vehicles: The Portland Way". Oregon is a hotbed of electric.

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Green Car Reports

JULY 21, 2010

What's it like driving , the Porsche 911 GT3 R Hybrid, the world's fastest hybrid vehicle? Ask driver Patrick Long, and he'll tell you he's "still pretty charged up (forgive the pun)" after returning to the States following two weeks of testing the car on the Lausitzring circuit outside Berlin. We had a chance to chat with Long next to one of the.

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Green Car Congress

JULY 22, 2010

The US Department of Energy has selected six projects for funding that aim to find ways of converting captured carbon dioxide emissions from industrial sources into useful products such as fuel, plastics, cement, and fertilizers. Funded with $106 million from the American Recovery and Reinvestment Act—matched with $156 million in private cost-share—the selections highlight the potential opportunity to use CO 2 as an inexpensive raw material that can help reduce carbon dioxide emissio

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All Cars Electric

JULY 19, 2010

We're living in exciting times. In the next year we'll see electric cars hit the market in the form of the 2011 Chevrolet Volt, 2011 Nissan Leaf and 2011 Mitsubishi i-Miev to name just three. While we wax lyrical about the multitude of vehicles set to reach the market there are very few available on the sort of money most folks consider spending.

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Green Cars News

JULY 20, 2010

President Barack Obama is being urged to create a National Electric Fuel Task Force to help accelerate the adoption of plug-in electric vehicles and their infrastructure. The calls are being made by organisations representing car manufacturers, electric utility companies and the electric drive industry, including: the Alliance of Automobile Manufacturers (AAM); the Association of International [.].

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Green Car Reports

JULY 19, 2010

It's been a time of turmoil for Honda lately, with the company doubling down on hybrids and pulling back on its clean-diesel efforts. Now, according to a Reuters report, the company will introduce both a plug-in hybrid and a fully electric car for the 2013 model year. The electric car will be offered in the U.S. market first, to compete against.

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Green Car Congress

JULY 19, 2010

The Mayor of London, Barclays and Transport for London (TfL) launched the first two Barclays Cycle Superhighways, which aim to help significantly increase the number of Londoners choosing pedal power for their daily commute. Section of a Cycle Superhighway. Click to enlarge. A key part of the Mayor’s commitment to stimulate a cycling revolution in the Capital, the two pilot routes run from Merton to the City via the A24 and A3, and Barking to Tower Gateway via the A13 and Cable Street.

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All Cars Electric

JULY 19, 2010

At the renowned Silvretta Classic Rally in Montafon, Austria, 24 electric cars drove amongst the vintage cars that typically compete in this mountain race. The rally, cutting through the Austrian Alps, is demanding for the drivers and cars alike. The initial lineup of cars runs across the gamut, from concept cars to production vehicles.

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Green Cars News

JULY 19, 2010

The new generation of the Smart Fortwo, scheduled to be launched this autumn, will boast a number of green improvements compared to its predecessor. Among them, the 40kW turbo-diesel will feature fuel consumption of 71.3mpg with CO2 emissions slashed to just 86g/km. Indeed the optimised petrol engines will also set new CO2 lows with the [.]. Tags: Green cars Latest news smart new Smart Fortwo new Smart models smart fortwo Smart Fortwo diesel.

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