Green Car Congress
OCTOBER 27, 2010
According to a new report from Pike Research, algae biofuels production will grow rapidly over the next decade, reaching 61 million gallons per year and a market value of $1.3 billion by 2020. While barely a drop in the bucket for biofuels, Pike says, this represents a compound annual growth rate (CAGR) of 72%, roughly on par with early development in the biodiesel industry.
Creative Greenius
OCTOBER 27, 2010
If you dig Environmental Charter High School and the the Green Ambassadors as much as I do then you’re not going to want to miss this all star charity event on their behalf, especially if you’re also a fan of Ed Begley Jr. and his Living With Ed Show. Check out the details and join me on Saturday, Nov 6 in supporting these true green heroes!
Green Car Reports
OCTOBER 29, 2010
General Electric, the conglomerate that produces everything from power-plant turbines to television shows, wants to jumpstart the electric-vehicle market. To do that, said CEO Jeffrey Immelt yesterday in London, it will place the "largest order in history" for electric vehicles, numbering in the tens of thousands. That order could come as soon as.
DIY Electric Car
OCTOBER 25, 2010
Materials are everything! As my parts have arrived in good condition, I have progressed from selecting, purchasing to installing the electronics for my conversion (phase 3). My next step was to create a shelf within the motor compartment. Thinking of light material I chose 1X2 pine boards as shelving material. After installing them to the plastic fenders it soon became obvious that this was unacceptable, as the platform was bouncy, weak and unstable.
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Green Car Congress
OCTOBER 25, 2010
Turbocharged HCPC engine scheme. Click to enlarge. A team from Universita degli Studi di Pisa (Italy) and Rolf Reitz at the University of Wisconsin-Madison are proposing a novel combustion concept—Homogenous Charge Progressive Combustion (HCPC)—based on a split-cycle principle to control HCCI combustion in diesel-fueled engines. Ettore Musu from the University of Pisa presented a CFD study of concept at the SAE 2010 Powertrains, Fuels and Lubricants Meeting in San Diego.
All Cars Electric
OCTOBER 26, 2010
We all know that battery packs are the weakest link in electric vehicles. Not only are they heavy and expensive, but they take a long time to recharge and on average can only provide around 100 miles per charge. A German-based company has changed all that with a new vehicle capable of driving up to 375 miles at moderate highway speeds.
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National Green Transportation
OCTOBER 24, 2010
It was a beautiful fall afternoon in Albacete for the 2010 TTXGP Grand Final championship race, one which saw a closely fought battle between the front-runners, Munch Racing, CRP Racing, Team Agni and Campus Francorchamps resulted in an exciting.
Green Car Congress
OCTOBER 26, 2010
Hybrid electric Cascadia. Click to enlarge. Daimler Trucks North America LLC (DTNA) and Walmart have collaborated to build the first hybrid electric Freightliner Cascadia. This truck also marks the beginning of a long-term strategic partnership between DTNA and Walmart to develop innovative, green technologies. Developed based on a Walmart spec’d truck, the 72-inch raised-roof Detroit Diesel DD15-equipped Cascadia features a parallel hybrid system based on an electrically-driven second drive axl
All Cars Electric
OCTOBER 25, 2010
With the first Leafs now rolling off the production line, Nissan has given us an insight into how the car is produced with a short video. The video shows different aspects of production, such as how the battery is produced and installed, how the inverter is made and how the motor is made and installed. You also get a glimpse of various stages of.
Green Car Reports
OCTOBER 26, 2010
Turbochargers have been with us in volume production only since the Seventies, but superchargers have a long and honorable automotive history. They were used on the Blower Bentleys that won Le Mans 80 years ago, and have appeared ever since on high-performance engines, often larger ones. A boost for boost Now, propelled by new and stricter.
National Green Transportation
OCTOBER 24, 2010
On three of the 2010 AMA Superbike race weekends the TTXGP zero emissions motorcycle race series shared space and time at the track. A survey by Clarity Research showed that a third of those attending the race weekends were aware of the.
Green Car Congress
OCTOBER 27, 2010
Volvo C30 DRIVe Electric. Click to enlarge. Backed by research support from the Swedish Energy Agency, Volvo Cars is initiating development of a fuel cell system that can extend an electric car’s operating range. The aim is to have two prototype chassis based on the Volvo C30 DRIVe Electric ready for testing in everyday traffic in 2012. Volvo Cars is working together with the company PowerCell Sweden AB on this project.
All Cars Electric
OCTOBER 26, 2010
Your Mileage May Vary. One of the terms banded about time and time again by automakers as a justification for why your car doesn’t get the fuel economy it says your car should. The reason? Fuel economy is affected by many different variables, from the mood of the driver to the weather, tire condition and even the type of shoes the driver is.
Green Car Reports
OCTOBER 29, 2010
The oldest, and greenest, form of transportation is no further away than the ends of your legs. It's walking, courtesy of your feet. Today, rather to our surprise, it turns out that 51 percent of Americans who travel still walk regularly. And that's courtesy of the National Highway Traffic Safety Administration, no less. That, plus 14 other.
National Green Transportation
OCTOBER 23, 2010
Saturday morning in Albacete was foggy, chilly, a possibility of rain, and the whirring of electric motorcycles. Today is seeing the qualifying rounds for the TTXGP 2010 championship race, with twelve teams from all around the world itching.
Green Car Congress
OCTOBER 28, 2010
J.D. Power forecast of hybrid-, plug-in hybrid- and battery-electric vehicle global sales through 2020. Click to enlarge. A new report from J.D. Power and Associates estimates combined global sales of hybrid-electric vehicles (HEVs), plug-in hybrid-electric vehicles (PHEVs) and battery-electric vehicles (BEVs) will total 5.2 million units in 2020, or some 7.3% of the 70.9 million passenger vehicles forecasted to be sold worldwide by that year.
Green Car Reports
OCTOBER 27, 2010
Recycling old electronics isn’t necessarily something most Americans do. Many of us, it turns out, just stash our old computers, printers, and TV sets in the closet. Or we leave them at the curb. But suppose properly recycling those electronics could help redress a potentially critical shortage of elements needed to make electric vehicles?
All Cars Electric
OCTOBER 28, 2010
We've been waiting eagerly for more details of the modified U.S.-spec 2012 Mitsubishi i-MiEV electric car. Now, Mitsubishi has started the long tease. The company tweeted a sketch this morning that shows a wider, slightly more angular i-MiEV that still preserves the now-familiar shape of the right-hand-drive original. Mitsubishi has to make a.
Green Car Congress
OCTOBER 25, 2010
System components of cyanobacterial ethanol life cycle analysis. Credit: ACS, Luo et al. Click to enlarge. Algenol Biofuels’ Direct to Ethanol technology is based on an intracellular photosynthetic process in cyanobacteria (blue-green algae) that produces ethanol that is excreted through the cell walls, collected from closed photobioreactors as a dilute ethanol-in-water solution, and purified to fuel grade ethanol.
National Green Transportation
OCTOBER 24, 2010
On Sunday, Albacete awoke to clear skies promising a beautiful day of racing for the TTXGP 2010 world championship. The teams are ready after have two rounds of qualifying yesterday and a practice round this morning. Of the twelve.
Green Car Reports
OCTOBER 25, 2010
Did you notice? Us either. Nonetheless, last week, the first commercial hydrogen filling station in the country was opened in Wallingford, Connecticut, by startup firm SunHydro. The company generates hydrogen onsite using electricity from an array of photovoltaic solar cells that splits apart water molecules to yield hydrogen and oxygen. There are.
All Cars Electric
OCTOBER 27, 2010
Honda will jump into the electric-car and plug-in-hybrid fray at the 2010 Los Angeles auto show with a new EV concept. The automaker also confirmed it will lay out the plans for a new plug-in hybrid platform during the L.A. show, which opens to the media on November 17. Honda's entries into the electrified car world have been hampered by missteps.
Green Car Congress
OCTOBER 28, 2010
Normalized fuel consumption reduction from TSCi over the mini-map operating points compared to production PFI SI engine. Click to enlarge. Engine testing of the Transonic Combustion injection-ignition system (TSCi, earlier post ) applied to a gasoline-fueled production passenger car engine (with a diesel engine architecture) has shown fuel consumption reduction in the range of 5% to 21% across a number of speed and load conditions compared to a production port fuel injection (PFI) spark-ignition
Green Cars News
OCTOBER 25, 2010
The Renault-Nissan Alliance has been making a number of electric vehicle partnerships around the world – and now it has made an agreement in Northern Ireland. A memorandum of understanding has been signed by both the Alliance and the Northern Ireland Department for Regional Development and Department of Environment. As part of the agreement, joint [.].
Green Car Reports
OCTOBER 26, 2010
Toyota announced a year ago that it would apply the Prius model name not only to the current five-door hatchback, but to other hybrid vehicles as well. The first of these will be a 2012 Toyota Prius minivan, variously called the Prius Alpha or Prius Verso, though we don't yet know exactly what model name it will carry in the U.S. We've shown some.
All Cars Electric
OCTOBER 26, 2010
Think of all the places you might go in a week that would give your electric car enough time for a top-up. The mall? The cinema? Restaurants? How about church? EV networking company Coulomb Technologies has revealed that Wooden Cross Lutheran church in Woodinville, Washington will be the first church in the country to have its own EV charging.
Green Car Congress
OCTOBER 26, 2010
Volvo has received its first order for buses that operate on both biogas (biomethane) and diesel, for 11 buses from Vårgårdabuss in Sweden, for putting in service in July 2011. It involves the Volvo 8500 intercity bus model. Using diesel technology increases environmental efficiency compared with current gas-operated buses, Volvo notes. A diesel engine is 30-40% more efficient than current gas-operated engines.
Green Cars News
OCTOBER 28, 2010
The motor industry is ‘extremely’ unlikely to hit its EU set target of a fleet average of 130g/km of CO2 by 2013, according to Clean Green Cars. The claim comes as the website releases details of the industry’s performance in the third quarter of 2010, where the average CO2 emitted by new cars stood at [.]. Tags: Green credentials clean green cars CO2 emissions eu fleet.
Green Car Reports
OCTOBER 25, 2010
Well, now we know the numbers. And there are a lot of them. The U.S. Environmental Protection Agency and Department of Transportation jointly proposed cutting greenhouse-gas emissions from medium and heavy duty trucks by 10 to 20 percent, starting in 2014 and extending through 2018. (The actual numbers vary greatly depending on the class of truck.
All Cars Electric
OCTOBER 27, 2010
With a fanfare going up for every new electric car that hits the market at the moment, you'd be forgiven for thinking we're only a few short steps away from widespread EV adoption. According to marketing information services firm J.D. Power though, this might not be the case. According to the company, hybrids and electric vehicles may only capture.
Green Car Congress
OCTOBER 25, 2010
Audi reported that two Audi A3 TDI models running on Rentech, Inc. synthetic RenDiesel fuel—a Fischer-Tropsch fuel—flawlessly completed the 1,000-mile (1,600 km) ‘Eureka! Diesel Drives the Future’ tour spanning the length of California. ( Earlier post.). The results of the driver were promising, Audi said, demonstrating that RenDiesel synthetic fuel can operate for more than 1,000 miles with no noticeable differences in performance compared to traditional fuels; further research is p
Green Cars News
OCTOBER 26, 2010
Nissan will launch its latest hybrid car – the Nissan Fuga Hybrid – in Japan on November 2. The vehicle uses Nissan’s original intelligent dual clutch control one motor, two-clutch parallel hybrid system and achieves fuel economy of 44.7mpg, making it comparable to a compact car despite offering the performance of a luxury vehicle. The [.]. Tags: Green cars Hybrid cars Latest news Nissan new hybrid cars new Nissan Fuga Nissan Fuga Nissan Fuga hybrid Nissan hybrid cars.
Green Car Reports
OCTOBER 28, 2010
Working at Tesla Motors must be a lot of fun for many reasons. There's the chance of driving a lightning-fast 2011 Tesla Roadster Sport 2.5, for one. Then there's the chance that you'll be privy to hearing your CEO say something untrue. Or just wacky. Our latest example: On the sidelines of Tesla's ceremonial opening of its Fremont, California.
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