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Ohio State University Takes Top Spot at 2009 EcoCAR Competition with EREV Design

Green Car Congress

The competition challenges university engineering students across North America to re-engineer a 2009 Saturn VUE to improve fuel efficiency and reduce emissions while retaining the vehicle’s performance and consumer appeal. In year two of the competition, teams incorporate their unique powertrains into the Saturn VUE.

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ISU study finds large potential for biobased materials in auto industry, but with challenges

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Biobased materials may provide excellent biodegradability due to the renewable nature of the source materials. Biobased materials may or may not make improvements in this area due to being produced from renewable sources. Goodyear has developed tires using BioIsoprene technology, which is made from a renewable resource.

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Grist Writer Gets the URGE2 Electrify

Plugs and Cars

I hereby propose just such an overarching message, a mere five words long: Use renewably generated electricity, efficiently, or URGE². Putting renewable electricity into plug-in cars would move to the top of any such coherent enviro agenda, and of course ethanol moves down. What doesn't should be ignored or opposed.

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Conference confirms plug-in fever

Plugs and Cars

One week earlier, former Vice President Al Gore issued his well-received challenge to make the American grid 100% renewable in ten years. Representatives of GM stoked the clamor for the Volt, and a Saturn Vue plug-in hybrid sat on the show floor. Put the bumper sticker and your car and let everyone know.).

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PHEV Energy Bill

Plug In Partners

Authorizes $5 million per year 2009-2018 Stationary Energy Storage Demonstrations Directs DOE to carry out program of advanced energy storage demonstrations of integration with “self-healing grid , integration with renewable energy sources , optimization of transmission and distribution, peak load management, feasibility of microgrids or islanding.

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China Aims for a Permanent Moon Base in the 2030s

Cars That Think

These successes, together with renewed international scientific and commercial interest in the moon, have emboldened China to embark on a new lunar project that builds on the Chang'e program's newly acquired capabilities. James Provost.

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Perspective: A View Into the New GM

Green Car Congress

The Saturn version of the two-mode plug-in hybrid at the Milford Proving Grounds. As part of the culling, GM has the option to re-badge vehicles from the non-core brands, such as the Pontiac G8, Opel Insignia and Saturn Vue. With CAFE’s renewed emphasis on fuel economy, from 26 mpg in 2010 to 35.5 by Bill Cooke.

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