Green Cars News

OCTOBER 27, 2009

The Green Piece Column: Tuesday 27 October. With the global recession making drivers think about their wallets and the environment ahead of power and good looks, a green car race has emerged with manufacturers keen to offer more fuel efficient and environmentally friendly vehicles than their rivals.

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Green Cars News

OCTOBER 29, 2009

A solar car made by students from Japan’s Tokai University was announced the winner of the 3,000 km Global Green Challenge 2009. The Global Green Challenge in its former guise as the World Solar Challenge was first run in 1987 and has been conducted every two years since.

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Green Cars News

JULY 12, 2009

The Global Green Car Challenge is inching ever closer and this year’s event promises a host of environmentally friendly production cars battling for the title of “most eco-friendly&#. The event kicks off in Darwin on October 24 and finishes some 3,000km later in Adelaide on October 31.

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Green Cars News

NOVEMBER 3, 2009

Last week’s Global Green Challenge in Australia threw a number of vehicles in the spotlight, after many of the competing vehicles showed amazing eco-credentials. None more so than the Suzuki Alto, not because it is an exciting eco-concept but because it is an ordinary enough, full production car.

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Green Cars News

JULY 29, 2011

It seems that solar power is the hot topic among the green car industry – with General Motors the latest to make a huge investment in the technology.

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Green Car Reports

SEPTEMBER 23, 2015

The VW diesel emission scandal continues to unfold, with more cars to be investigated and questions about the future of diesel not only in the U.S. but globally. And we've got a shape-shifting concept car and a B&B with solar-powered electric-car charging. All this and more on Green Car Reports.

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Green Cars News

JANUARY 25, 2013

That is what Volkswagen has done by creating a huge solar park (pictured) at its US plant in Chattanooga, Tennessee. It is the largest solar facility operated by an automaker in the USA – the new Volkswagen Solar Park will have [.].

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Green Cars News

MARCH 14, 2012

The global market for clean energy technologies continued a rapid expansion in 2011, against a tough economic and politic climate, according to new research from leading analyst company, Clean Edge Inc. Combined global revenue for solar, wind power and biofuels rose 31 per cent over the previous year, from $188.1

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Green Cars News

AUGUST 23, 2012

Car giant, General Motors is edging towards doubling its global solar generation with the addition of 8.15 megawatt solar array on top of its Opel plant in Rüsselsheim, Germany. The array is one of the largest in Europe and is equivalent to the area of 32 football pitches.

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Green Cars News

FEBRUARY 15, 2011

MW of solar PV systems at sixteen locations across the US in the first phase of the company’s solar initiative. The global car rental firm has already completed construction of a 235 kW solar electric system located at Denver International Airport. Rental giant Hertz, has announced it is installing over 2.3

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Green Cars News

NOVEMBER 9, 2009

Solar power could become cheaper and a more practical energy solution thanks to research into specially designed fibre optics. This is truly a three dimensional solar cell.”. The work was sponsored by the Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency (DARPA), the KAUST Global Research Partnership and the National Science Foundation (NSF).

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Green Cars News

MAY 19, 2009

Starting last Friday (May 15, 2009) to coincide with EU Solar Day, three intrepid adventurers began their 12,000 mile, around the world cycle to promote solar energy. In particular, they will demonstrate the potential for solar energy to provide a sustainable solution to global energy needs.

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Green Cars News

JANUARY 28, 2010

Honda has begun testing a solar-powered hydrogen refuelling device for home use, in the hope that the prototype could help solve a global lack of refuelling infrastructure for hydrogen cars. The carmaker, which is leasing its FCX Clarity hydrogen-fuel cell car in California, is now testing the solar-powered pump at it U.S.

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Green Cars News

JULY 30, 2009

Carmaker Hyundai and a postgraduate student from Massachusetts Institute of Technology have developed a prototype solar-powered hydrogen car, the Telegraph reports. Named the Hyundai City Car 2020, it uses solar panels to use sun’s rays to create electricity, which is subsequently used to create a hydrogen fuel source.

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Green Cars News

DECEMBER 1, 2009

However, while competition mounts in the industry with big name manufacturers finally jumping on the electric car bandwagon, REVA is determined not to be left behind and is building what will be the biggest factory making battery-powered city commuter cars, in the world. Leaders of the pack.

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Green Car Congress

JULY 17, 2015

It offers the solution to several significant transitions we need: moving society from burning fossil fuels to substituting renewable resource fuels such as solar, wind and biofuels; and from using fossil materials as fuel to using them for other recyclable uses. Distributed Solar and Wind with the PHEV. It is much more than that.

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Green Cars News

JUNE 27, 2009

After facing some questionable criticism about its manufacturing processes and how green the Toyota Prius really is, the Japanese manufacturer has hit back with a Press release highlighting its environmentally focused manufacturing. Tags: Green cars Latest news Toyota eco-factory how green is Toyota Toyota Prius.

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Green Cars News

JULY 26, 2009

House Bill 3039: Focuses on the development of a pilot programme that will integrate 25megawatts for small scale solar energy into the state’s electricity mix. Tags: Global warming Green cars Latest news climate change laws house bill Oregon senate bill.

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Green Cars News

SEPTEMBER 22, 2009

The Green Piece Article: Tuesday 22, 2009. However, by producing electricity in a sustainable manner, such a through wind, solar, tidal, hydro or geothermal means, the issue that calls into question electric cars’ tag as ‘zero emission vehicles’ is wiped out. Tags: The Green Piece fossil fuels green piece.

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Green Car Congress

JUNE 23, 2011

Chevron has already shifted to gas-fired co-generation plants to produce steam and export power to the California grid; it is also working on a solar concentrator pilot in New Mexico that would generate steam using sunlight to further reduce costs and environmental impact of its thermal production process.

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Green Car Congress

JULY 22, 2009

Green Car Congress attended the Renewable Energy Finance Forum - Wall Street (REFF-Wall Street) conference (23-24 June) sponsored by Euromoney Energy Events and the American Council on Renewable Energy (ACORE). The US is in a race for global dominance in the new energy economy with China. by Bill Cooke. Billion vs. $28.3

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Green Cars News

AUGUST 25, 2009

Most solar power systems use silicon wafers to generate electricity directly. per cent of the Earth’s surface to satisfy a global energy consumption rate of 20 terawatts, the amount it is predicted that the world will need in 2030. Ultimately, Barber hopes to improve on nature’s own solar cell.

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Tony Karrer Delicious EVdriven

APRIL 21, 2009

About CalCars Plug-In Hybrids FAQ How to Get a PHEV Where PHEVs are Car-Makers Say. Green Car Company , "Green Machine," Manzanita Micro (PiPrius), April 2007 (Kirkland, WA), contact: greg@greencarco.com. San Diego Gas & Electric , Prius by Green Gears (San Diego, CA) July, 2007. Full size photo.

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Tony Karrer Delicious EVdriven

JANUARY 28, 2009

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APRIL 16, 2009

Lutz, who retired earlier this year, called the car Detroits "moon shot" and an attempt to wrest the mantle of innovation back from the Japanese. Lutz is a man given to hyperbole — called global warming "a crock of shit" — but in this case, hes right. We are facing a big problem with global warming.

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