Green Car Congress

DECEMBER 2, 2011

Aptera Motors, the developer of an all-electric, three-wheeled lightweight aerodynamic vehicle ( earlier post ) is shutting down. Aptera executives had been engaged in exhaustive due diligence with the Department of Energy (DOE) pertaining to an ATVM (Advance Technology Vehicle Manufacturing) loan.

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Green Car Congress

FEBRUARY 20, 2011

When the four-stroke auto-rickshaws were separated into “new” and “old” groups and their emissions compared by fuel type, no significant difference was observed for any exhaust constituents except for NO x from the gasoline-fueled vehicles. Fuel consumption for PET-4S (3.8 kg 100 km -1 ) was in fact almost double that of CNG-4S group (2.1

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Gasoline Emissions Fuel India 287

Green Car Congress

APRIL 24, 2012

Pinnacle has signed a licensing and joint development agreement with a major, as yet unnamed, Asian vehicle OEM, with lower power products targeted for two- and three-wheel applications in the developing country markets expected to be available in the first quarter of 2013. Click to enlarge. —Willcox et al. Willcox, M.,

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Light Fuel Economy Engine Fuel 304