Green Car Congress

JUNE 20, 2013

'Cumulative natural gas vehicles in use by segment, world markets: 2013-2020. Source: Navigant Research. Click to enlarge. In a new report , Navigant Research forecasts that the number of natural gas vehicles (NGVs) on roads worldwide will reach 34.9 million by 2020. The increase is largely driven due to a combination of low-cost natural gas and sustained higher prices for gasoline and diesel in many countries, Navigant suggests.

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Green Car Reports

JUNE 21, 2013

'Well, this is a new tactic we haven''t seen before in the fight between franchised auto dealers and Tesla Motors, the Silicon Valley electric-car startup. A pair of bills in the New York State Legislature, backed by New York state auto dealers, would make it illegal to license or renew licenses for Tesla stores within the state. The bills, now.

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JUNE 21, 2013

'On Wednesday and Thursday, Honda unveiled the updated 2014 Honda Accord Hybrid and Accord Plug-in Hybrid for both the U.S. and Japan. The new cars feature improved fuel efficiency, and improvements to driver assist features like the.

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Green Cars News

JUNE 17, 2013

'Tuesday, 18 July, 2013. The Green Piece Column. My three mile walk home from my work takes me through a variety of roads, paths and neighbourhoods, from the industrial estate where I work, across busy roads and onto semi rural roads, but my favourite part is the last leg; when I turn off a busy A-[.].

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Green Car Congress

JUNE 19, 2013

'Siemens Metals Technologies and LanzaTech, a producer of low-carbon fuels and chemicals from waste gases, have signed a ten-year co-operation agreement to develop and market integrated environmental solutions for the steel industry worldwide. The collaboration will utilize the fermentation technology developed by LanzaTech transforming carbon-rich off-gases generated by the steel industry into low carbon bioethanol and other platform chemicals. ( Earlier post.).

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Green Car Reports

JUNE 21, 2013

'As predicted last month, and tweeted and teased by CEO Elon Musk, Tesla Motors showed off battery swapping for its Model S electric car at a press event last night. Held at Tesla''s design studio in Hawthorne, California, the demonstration itself was simple: A Tesla Model S drove onto the stage and stopped over a hole in the floor. Automated arms.

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Green Cars News

JUNE 21, 2013

'Cars will become more like robots in the future, as populations increasing migrate into megacities and this compact way of living starts to influence driving patterns, Richard Parry-Jones, co-chair of the UK Automotive Council told a conference in London this week. The former Ford technical offi[.].

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Green Car Congress

JUNE 18, 2013

'Powertrain technologies outlook up to 2020. Click to enlarge. At the company’s 61 st Automotive Press Briefing in Boxberg, Germany, Bosch senior executives outlined the company’s view on the general future of automotive technology—“ efficient and increasingly electrical ”, and provided a thumbnail of the way they see—and thus are developing products for—sector-specific technology trends.

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Green Car Reports

JUNE 21, 2013

'So how did Rick and Christine Prell and their two teenage sons become the first family in the U.S. to buy a 2014 Chevrolet Spark EV? Turns out it was at least partly luck. The family needed a third car for Alex, their 16-year-old son who is about to turn 17, to drive to school. Alex, a car enthusiastic, had a number of ideas for the car he.

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Green Car Congress

JUNE 18, 2013

'The iBooster. Click to enlarge. Bosch has developed the iBooster, an electromechanical brake booster that provides situation-dependent support when the driver initiates braking. The iBooster makes hybrid and electric vehicles even more efficient, while enhancing safety through shorter braking distances, says Gerhard Steiger, president of the Bosch Chassis Systems Control division.

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Green Car Congress

JUNE 20, 2013

'Engine compartment of the CrossBlue Coupé plug-in hybrid shows the transverse-mounted 3.0L V6; DSG is to the right, with the power electronics unit mounted above it. Click to enlarge. Volkswagen brought the new CrossBlue Coupé plug-in hybrid sporty mid-size SUV show car, introduced in April at Auto Shanghai 2013 ( earlier post ), to a media event in Berlin for its European premiere.

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Green Car Congress

JUNE 21, 2013

'Nissan ZEOD RC. Click to enlarge. Nissan unveiled the ZEOD RC (Zero Emission On Demand Racing Car)—an electric Le Mans prototype racing car intended to reach speeds of more than 300 km/h (186 mph) at the Le Mans 24 Hours race in 2014, where it will makes its debut. Nissan will use the same core lithium-ion battery technology as in the LEAF and will test out variants of new electric drive train technologies as part of its intended future return to LM P1 competition.

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Green Car Congress

JUNE 16, 2013

'A power-to-gas (P2G) unit installed by E.ON in Falkenhagen in eastern Germany ( earlier post ) injected hydrogen into the natural gas system last week for the first time as part of a function test. During the test, which lasted three hours, the unit produced 160 cubic meters of hydrogen, which was injected into the gas pipeline system. It marks the first time E.ON has successfully implemented all stages of the process, from receiving electricity to injecting hydrogen.

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Green Car Congress

JUNE 15, 2013

'Siemens suggests abandoning a fixed target for renewable energies and concentrating on the CO 2 reduction goal. Relying on a higher share of efficient, low-emission combined cycle power plants and wind energy could save €150 billion (US$200 billion) by 2030 while attaining the same CO 2 targets, Siemens says. Source: Siemens. Click to enlarge. Germany has embarked on a large-scale Energiewende (energy transition)—a policy-driven shift away from nuclear and fossil energy to a renewable ene

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Green Car Congress

JUNE 21, 2013

'GAZ Group, part of Basic Element, one of the Russia’s largest diversified industrial groups, and Gazprom have agreed to cooperate on using natural gas as a motor fuel. The goal of cooperation between the companies is to develop and implement gas-engine vehicles of different classes in Russia as well as to create favorable conditions for the development of a domestic market for natural gas as a motor fuel.

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Green Car Congress

JUNE 17, 2013

'EV maker Kandi Technologies Group, Inc. announced that Hangzhou City, China, has started the construction of its first EV smart vertical parking and charging facility to advance its planned five-year goal of establishing a mini-public transportation system which will include up to 100,000 self-service rental EVs and all necessary service infrastructure throughout Hangzhou. ( Earlier post.).

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Green Car Congress

JUNE 19, 2013

'Moving to further strengthen California’s ties with China, California Air Resources Board Chairman Mary Nichols and Director of the Shenzhen Development and Reform Commission Xu Anliang signed a memorandum of understanding in Shenzhen that will expand cooperation at the subnational level to tackle global climate change. Under the new agreement, California and Shenzhen have agreed to work together to share policy design and early experiences from their climate trading programs, in order to build

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Green Car Congress

JUNE 20, 2013

'Robert Bosch GmbH and the Japanese companies GS Yuasa International Ltd. and Mitsubishi Corporation have agreed to work together on the next generation of high-performance lithium-ion batteries. These batteries are fundamental for future forms of mobility, such as plug-in hybrid or all-electric vehicles. The three companies intend to set up a joint venture for joint research and development, and to support their parent companies in sales and marketing activities.

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Green Car Congress

JUNE 17, 2013

'Oxis Energy, a UK-based developer of lithium-sulfur batteries ( earlier post ), has published a video showing nail testing of one of its Li-sulfur batteries and a standard lithium cobalt oxide Li-ion cell. Oxis Lithium Sulfur cell: 2.1V, 4A. Li-ion cell: LiCoO 2 , 3.7V, 4Ah. In a 2010 review of thermochemical processes associated with lithium cobalt oxide cathodes, Chil-Hoon Doh and Angathevar Veluchamy noted that under abuse conditions—such as the penetration of the nail test—the t

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Green Car Congress

JUNE 20, 2013

'The California Air Resources Board (ARB) has stepped up enforcement of its diesel truck regulations to ensure that only vehicles compliant with California’s stringent anti-pollution laws travel across the U.S. border into the state. All trucks transporting cargo originating from, or going to, a regulated port or rail yard in California must be compliant drayage trucks.

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Green Car Congress

JUNE 17, 2013

'In the electrochemical reduction of water to molecular hydrogen, the hydrogen evolution reaction (HER) is facilitated by noble metal catalysts such as platinum (Pt), which generate large cathodic current densities for this reaction at low overpotentials. A research team led by Raymond Schaak, a professor of chemistry at Penn State University, now reports that nanoparticles of nickel phosphide (Ni 2 P)—the two component elements of which are inexpensive and earth-abundant—have demons

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Green Car Congress

JUNE 15, 2013

'BMW 4 Series Coupe. Click to enlarge. BMW is unveiling the all-new BMW 4 Series Coupe, previewed as a concept last December. ( Earlier post.) Launched as the latest generation of BMW’s sporty mid-size Coupe, the two-door model will be available from launch powered by a six-cylinder in-line gasoline engine in the BMW 435i Coupe, a four-cylinder gasoline unit for the BMW 428i Coupe and the four-cylinder diesel for the BMW 420d Coupe.

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Green Car Congress

JUNE 21, 2013

'Honda Motor Co., Ltd. has introduced the new Accord Hybrid in Japan. Featuring the new Sport Hybrid i-MMD (intelligent Multi-Mode Drive) powertrain, the Accord Hybrid offers fuel economy of 30.0 km/L (70.6 mpg US, 3.33 L/100 km) on the JC08 cycle. The company also introduced the Accord Plug-in Hybrid, with fuel economy (gasoline plus electricity) of 70.4 km/L equivalent (165.6 mpg US, 1.42 L/100 km) on the JC08.

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Green Car Congress

JUNE 20, 2013

'An Airbus A321 aircraft powered by two Snecma CFM56 jet engines flew from Toulouse to Paris using a blend of renewable jet fuel produced by Amyris and Total. This demonstration flight was in support of the French Initiative for Future Aviation Fuels, which seeks to produce and commercialize alternative, renewable and sustainable aviation fuels in France in the coming years.

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Green Car Congress

JUNE 18, 2013

'Myriant Corporation, a global renewable chemicals company, announced the successful start-up at its flagship bio-succinic acid plant located in Lake Providence, Louisiana. Myriant has produced on-spec commercial product at the plant and anticipates that customer shipments will commence soon. Myriant’s bio-succinic acid plant is the first of its kind and scale in North America and has an annual nameplate production capacity of 30 million pounds of bio-succinic acid.

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Green Car Congress

JUNE 17, 2013

'Lightning Hybrids ( earlier post ) and National Fleet Hybrids have entered a partnership to sell, install and distribute Lightning’s medium-duty hydraulic hybrid retrofit systems. The Lightning Hybrids applies a hydraulic drive system to the driveline of a vehicle to regenerate braking energy. Hydraulic pumps and a lightweight accumulator store braking energy and upon acceleration the pumps become motors that use the stored energy in the accumulator to provide torque to power the wheels.

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Green Car Congress

JUNE 21, 2013

'As promised, Tesla Motors CEO Elon Musk demonstrated a battery swap option for the Model S. The swap, which, similar to the Better Place approach, has the target vehicle drive over a pit for removal of the old and insertion of a new pack, takes about 90 seconds. The scenario, said Musk, is that each Tesla Supercharging station (“Tesla station”) would have a swap option.

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Green Car Congress

JUNE 19, 2013

'The IMO (International Maritime Organization) has chosen DNV to gather knowledge about the potential of LNG powered international shipping in the North American Emission Control Area (ECA) and identify the necessary conditions for the successful implementation of LNG as a fuel source in the region. The North American ECA, under the International Convention for the Prevention of Pollution from Ships (MARPOL), came into effect from 1 August 2012, bringing in stricter controls on emissions of sulp

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Green Car Congress

JUNE 19, 2013

'Mascoma Corporation, a renewable fuels company, announced that the US Food and Drug Administration’s (FDA) Center for Veterinary Medicine has completed its scientific review and supports the use of TransFerm Yield+, a bioengineered yeast, as a processing aid in the production of animal feed, which is a by-product of the corn ethanol conversion process.

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Green Car Congress

JUNE 18, 2013

'Researchers at the Univ. Politécnica de Valencia (Spain) have found that noble metal nanoparticles supported on titanium dioxide or cerium dioxide can catalyze the industrially important water gas shift (WGS) reaction for hydrogen production at ambient temperatures using visible light irradiation. An open access paper on their discovery is published in the RSC journal Energy and Environmental Science.

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Green Car Congress

JUNE 21, 2013

'SGL Group and Samsung established a strategic partnership for carbon fiber composite materials with the foundation of a marketing & sales joint venture. The joint venture partners, Samsung Petrochemical and SGL Group, will each hold a 50% share. The primary objective of the cooperation is to develop new industrial and electronic applications with carbon composite materials for Samsung and the Korean market.

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Green Car Congress

JUNE 21, 2013

'Mack Trucks, part of the Volvo Group, will begin production of dimethyl ether (DME)-powered MACK Pinnacle Axle Back models in 2015. Volvo Trucks had announced earlier this month that it would commercialize dimethyl ether (DME)-powered heavy-duty commercial vehicles in North America, with limited production beginning in 2015. ( Earlier post.). The Pinnacle Axle Back model powered by DME will be equipped with a MACK MP8 engine, offering a 13-liter engine.

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Green Car Congress

JUNE 20, 2013

'ECOtality, Inc. has closed its previously announced private placement of common stock and warrants to certain institutional investors. Gross proceeds from the issuance were $8.2 million and will be used for general corporate and working capital purposes. We are making good progress to advance our Blink Network and monetize our EV solutions. This capital raise helps us continue our operational momentum as we execute on our strategic initiatives to expand our diversified business lines and contin

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Green Car Congress

JUNE 20, 2013

'A brief study by Dr. Michael Sivak, Director, Sustainable Worldwide Transportation at the University of Michigan Transportation Research Institute (UMTRI) concludes that despite the absolute number of vehicles in the US having reached a maximum in 2008, it is highly likely that—from a long-term perspective—the absolute number of vehicles in the US has not yet peaked.

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