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NRC report: US Navy, Marines and Coast Guard need to begin now to prepare for effects of climate change in the Arctic

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The Arctic region, in this report, is defined as the area north of the Arctic Circle (highlighted on this map in red). Click to enlarge. In response to the measured and projected effects of climate change, US naval forces—i.e., the US Navy, Marine Corps and Coast Guard—should begin now to strengthen operational capabilities in the Arctic, prepare for more frequent humanitarian missions, and analyze potential vulnerabilities of seaside bases and facilities, says a new report by the Na

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Plasma Boy's Silver Streak to Seattle

Electric Cars are for Girls

I get asked this question quite a bit: Why not take a light, aerodynamic hybrid - like a Prius - and convert it into an all-electric car? Well, "Plasma Boy" John Wayland is working on just that, an all-electric Honda Insight conversion, 'cause he's gotta be different, and the Prius has been done, and done, and done.and so when it's finished, he's planning a freeway trip-slash-parade from Portland to Seattle and back in his Insight conversion, called the Silver Streak, flanked by a squadron of Te

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High Gas Prices May Soon Turn Your Lovely Suburb Into A Slum

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Americans rarely think much about zoning, but it governs almost every facet of how we live our lives. And unintended consequences of 50-year-old zoning codes may be about to turn some of our loveliest and quietest suburbs into the next slums. Why? Simply because they've been built too far away from everything else, and we won't be able to afford.

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2011 Nissan Leaf: Your Ultimate Reference Guide (Updated)

All Cars Electric

Here at AllCarsElectric.com we've covered a lot of news featuring the 2011 Nissan Leaf. So much, in fact, that it may be difficult keeping track of them all. What we thought may help is an index page of all of our favorite articles featuring the 2011 Nissan Leaf. Bookmark it in your browser or rss reader, as we'll be updating it every time a new.

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How serious is Norway about climate change? So much that its streetlights self-dim

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Researchers demonstrate production of C3 hydrocarbons from biomass with no external H2 required

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Researchers have demonstrated a route for the production of major commercial C 3. hydrocarbons (propane and propylene) from renewable biomass via the hydrothermal conversion of well-known fermentation end-products (butyric acid and 3-hydroxybutyrate) without the use of exogenous hydrogen. The process can potentially have high thermal efficiencies. The two-step process first uses fermentation to produce partially deoxygenated intermediate chemicals.

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"Hydrogen is the Fuel of the Future.

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and it always will be." Did you think hydrogen cars had slipped right out from under the radar into oblivion, another Bush-era delusional fantasy? (Right, me too.) Now you can lease a hydrogen Mercedes in California and all the hydrogen you can use is included in your lease. Even at 600 bucks a month, that might be a bargain these days!

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Has U.N. Doomed Quiet Electric Cars to a Life of Noise Making?

All Cars Electric

Should electric cars make noise? It’s one of the most contentious arguments in the electric vehicle world today, with passionate cases made on both sides for and against warning systems designed to announce the presence of a plug-in car to pedestrians. But early reports coming out of a recent United Nations committee on noise levels in.

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Penn State team develops more environmentally friendly method for separating bitumen or oil from sands using ionic liquids

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Separation of bitumen from a Canadian oil sand sample using an ionic liquid. Click to enlarge. A team of researchers at Penn State has developed a new, more environmentally friendly method of separating bitumen from oil sands utilizing ionic liquids (IL). The method is also capable of cleaning oil spills from beaches and separating oil from drill cuttings, the solid particles that must be removed from drilling fluids in oil and gas wells.

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Nissan Leaf's Get You Home Guarantee

Electric Cars are for Girls

Nissan Leaf owners , worried about the possibility of getting stranded in an emergency? Never fear, Nissan will come and get you! Now, how user-friendly is that??

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Pay Attention This Summer When You Gas Up: It Might Be E15

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While the legal status of E15 gasoline is in doubt, the Environmental Protection Agency is moving forward with plans for it to roll out before this summer's driving season. That means that drivers will have to pay attention to the labels on their gas pumps, making sure that E15 is only used for cars built in 2001 or later. Older vehicles have not.

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Faurecia and Accenture partner on products and services for connected and autonomous vehicles

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Tesla CEO: Model S Will Support Third-party Apps

All Cars Electric

Does your car have an app for that? If Tesla Motors CEO Elon Musk has his way, it will. The electric-car maker’s CEO said at a conference today in San Francisco that the much-hyped Model S electric sedan will support third-party apps and text-to-voice capabilities. Musk made the announcement during the question-and-answer portion of his.

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6-Speed PowerShift automatic in Fiesta, Focus delivers a 10% fuel economy gain

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The new dual dry-clutch Ford PowerShift six-speed automatic available in the Focus and Fiesta enables a 10% fuel economy gain compared to a four-speed automatic transmission, contributing to both cars delivering as much as 40 mpg on the highway. The PowerShift automatic consists of two manual transmissions (in the same case) working in parallel. Each has its own independent clutch unit controlled by computers and fast-acting electromechanical actuators that shift the gears.

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Lean burn engine to debut at SAE 2011 World Congress

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A lean burn engine concept from FEV Inc that has been modified to run on compressed natural gas will make its world debut at the SAE 2011 World Congress. The engine has been designed to be used in light duty vehicles and achieves diesel like fuel efficiency using compressed natural gas. Modifications were made to [.].

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2011 Chevrolet Volt Drive Review: Five Things We Like

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We're going to have a lot of 2011 Chevrolet Volt coverage this week, as we round up our impressions on the five days and hundreds of miles we've racked up on GM's first extended-range electric vehicle. We'll do a full drive report later on, but first, a few quick hits about the things we like in the Volt (here), the things that puzzle us, and the.

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ExxonMobil announces 6th oil discovery offshore Guyana with Ranger-1; Guyana may move from non-producer to regional powerhouse

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Are Public Electric Car Charging Points Needed? Not Necessarily

All Cars Electric

What comes first? The electric car or the charging point? Of course it depends on who you ask. Generally if you’re an existing electric car owner the answer is likely to be the former. If you’re a government official, prospective electric car owner or automaker the answer is likely to be the latter. Automakers believe this fact so much.

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Daimler Trucks launches new heavy-duty, Euro VI-compliant engines; X-PULSE injection system with pressure booster

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Daimler Trucks has launched the Mercedes-Benz OM 47x, under the name “Blue Efficiency Power” The Blue Efficiency Power generation of Mercedes-Benz engines has been specifically developed for use in Europe and is the first of its type to meet, from the outset, the Euro VI emission standard. The Blue Efficiency Power engines, which share a common basic design, have been under development for five years.

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Renault apology over electric car leaks accusations

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Renault has offered its sincere ‘apologies and regrets’ to the three executives it fired over allegations of industrial espionage relating to electric vehicle secrets. An investigation into allegations of ‘theft, industrial espionage and breach of trust’ has collapsed due to a lack of evidence that the three ex-employees leaked details of its electric car developments. [.].

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New Study Looks At Illusive Break-Even Costs For Hybrids

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With fuel prices continuing to edge higher, the cost benefit of fuel saving hybrid and diesel vehicles are now more important than ever. We recently looked at why mainstream automakers in the U.S. refuse to launch more fuel efficient diesel models locally, and now we have details of a new study that’s looked into the often mystifying.

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Screw Gas, Drive A Drill-Powered Electric Suicide Trike

All Cars Electric

We're all familiar with alternative lifestyles, but the EX electric tricycle looks like an attempt at an alternative deathstyle. Concocted in the mind of Nils Ferber and realized with the aid of a pair of Bosch drill/drivers, this is an EV for the motorist with a Rube Goldberg fetish and a death wish. Even the description of how to drive the.

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FEV to show compressed natural gas light-duty concept engine with ATAC combustion system at 2011 SAE World Congress

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FEV Inc., (FEV) a leading developer of advanced powertrain and vehicle technologies, will exhibit a lean burn engine concept at the SAE 2011 World Congress that has been modified to run on Compressed Natural Gas (CNG). The engine is designed for use in light-duty vehicles, and demonstrates the potential of modifying passenger vehicle engines to achieve diesel-like fuel efficiency and power using CNG as an alternative fuel.

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Obama proposes nuclear power expansion while Japan has nuclear crisis

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David Herron Friday, the fifth strongest earthquake ever recorded hit Japan (8.9 on the richtor scale). It's caused a lot of damage, and thousands of lives have been lost. It caused Tsunami's not only in Japan but around the Pacific. The widespread. March 13, 2011.

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Reduce, Reuse, Recycle: Saturn Vue Returns As Chevy Captiva

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The shuttered Saturn brand is quickly fading from memory, but now GM plans to bring back one former Saturn model to live on in a new incarnation. But even if you're a Saturn fan, you won't be able to buy one--unless you're a business. Vue redux The compact crossover that sold for only two years as the 2008 and 2009 Saturn Vue will return to the.

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2011 Nissan Leaf Leaves Owners Stranded: What Really Happened?

All Cars Electric

Every new car has a few teething problems, but a few reports of Nissan's all-electric Leaf running out of charge prematurely hasn't helped the age-old stereotype that electric cars will leave their owners stranded without power. But are these incidents as rare as the reports suggest and what exactly happened? Who's to blame? A few weeks ago we.

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SAE International releases 2nd edition of book on hybrid vehicle design

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SAE international has released a second edition of the book Hybrid Powered Vehicles , intended to provide executives and decision-makers with the necessary information for making the best choices pertaining to hybrid vehicle engineering. With more than 20 different hybrid cars available on the market, and with several high profile plug-in hybrids coming out now or within the next year, innovation and development of hybrid vehicles is continuing at an ever-growing pace.

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Is the insurance industry ready for EVs?

Green Cars News

As the first electric cars become available to purchase in the UK, here at TheGreenCarWebsite.co.uk, we have been doing a bit of digging around to find out how much it will cost to insure your new, shiny electric car, as rumours circulate round the internet that you might struggle to get insurance. Some of the [.].

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2011 Chevrolet Volt Drive Review: Five Things We Don't Like

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Some things about the 2011 Chevrolet Volt we liked, and there were a few that puzzled us. But GM's innovative range-extended electric car also has its share of annoyances. We found several features irritating, or (to be more diplomatic) perhaps not-quite-entirely-thought-through yet. That's probably inevitable, given the quick development.

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(VIDEO) Film Premiere, Earth Day: Electric Car Gets Revenge in New York

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It was the film that many electric car advocates cite as the reason they drive electric, but now electric car “who done it?” documentary Who Killed the Electric Car? has a sequel: Revenge of the Electric Car. And as the film’s director Chris Paine tells us on the ROTEC website, “Revenge is at hand.” It is indeed.

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UCLA researchers engineer E. coli to produce 1-butanol with high titer and high yield

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A team of UCLA researchers led by Professor James Liao have engineered Escherichia coli bacteria to produce 1-butanol with high titer (30 g/L) and high yield (70 - 88% of theoretical production) anaerobically, comparable to or exceeding the levels demonstrated by native producers. An open access paper on their work appears in the journal Applied Environmental Microbiology.

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A hybrid to really get excited about and more i-MiEVs to arrive

Green Cars News

Friday 18 March 2011. Things-We-Learned-This-Week Column. Our new end-of-the-week column taking a light-hearted look at the big stories making the news this week in the world of economical and environmental transport. The general public’s perception of hybrids is arguably formed by that of the most famous hybrid of them all – the Toyota Prius. The [.].

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Want To Beat High Gas Prices? Public Transit: Winner

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There’s no doubt consumers will be faced with higher gas prices going into the future, and alternatives, like diesel powered cars and hybrids, all have their respective shortcomings. We recently looked at why mainstream automakers refuse to launch more diesel models in the U.S. and, just yesterday, we saw the results of a study that claimed.

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Running on Empty: The Problem With Electric Car Fuel Gauges

All Cars Electric

Just a few months in and we’re already hearing stories of electric car owners getting stranded as their new electric cars ‘suddenly’ run out of power. We’ve already examined the reasons behind why two 2011 Nissan Leaf drivers recently found themselves stranded without charge, but it got us thinking: do electric cars need to.

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Fallbrook Technologies, Shentong to form JV to develop and market NuVinci CVP technology in

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Fallbrook Technologies and Ningbo Shentong Group (Shentong), a Tier 1 automotive supplier to the Chinese automotive industry, have signed a joint venture agreement to develop and market Fallbrook’s NuVinci continuously variable planetary (CVP) transmissions for electric-powered passenger cars and light trucks in China and abroad. ( Earlier post.).

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Study looks at electrical energy storage

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With the increased penetration of renewable energy, it seems it is widely accepted that electrical energy storage is becoming more important along with the implementation of smart grids and an improvement in power reliability and quality. Now a report by researchers at the US Department of Energy’s Pacific Northwest National Laboratory takes a closer look [.].

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Does The Future Of Electric Cars Lie In Capacitors?

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Back to the Future may have been right: The cars of tomorrow will be powered by capacitors (they will not, presumably, be able to time-travel). At least, that’s what Tesla CEO Elon Musk said at yesterday’s Cleantech Forum in San Francisco, unleashing a torrent of speculation that the electric car company may be researching capacitor.