article thumbnail

New Honda FCEV Concept to make world debut at 2013 Los Angeles Auto Show

Green Car Congress

Honda will introduce a new fuel cell electric vehicle concept at the upcoming Los Angeles Auto Show. In 2002, Honda was the first automaker to begin a retail initiative with the leasing of its fuel-cell electric vehicles to fleet customers. — Mike Accavitti, senior vice president of American Honda Motor Co.,

article thumbnail

NOAA, partners find about 98% decline in VOCs concentrations in LA Basin over last 50 years despite 3x increase in use of gasoline and diesel

Green Car Congress

A scatter plot of CO, as a tracer for pollution, versus CO 2 , as a tracer for the amount of combustion, for 2002 and 2010. Even though the CO 2 enhancements over background were comparable in the two years, about 25 ppm in 2002 and 35 ppm in 2010, the ?CO/?CO2 CO2 ratio for this flight track segment decreased from 24.5 Warneke, C.,

article thumbnail

Fuel Cell Equinox tops 100,000 miles in real-world driving

Green Car Congress

The senior project engineer routinely drives the vehicle between the Los Angeles suburb of Torrance and outlying communities of Oxnard, Santa Clarita, Victorville, Palm Springs and San Diego. According to Clean Energy Patent Growth Index, GM ranked NÂș 1 in total fuel cell patents filed between 2002 and 2012.

Miles 246
article thumbnail

Honda FCV Concept makes world debut in Japan; Power Exporter concept

Green Car Congress

Honda had introduced an earlier version, the FCEV concept, at the 2013 Los Angeles Auto Show. Honda also unveiled the Honda Power Exporter Concept, a concept model for an external power feeding device that enables AC power output from the FCV with maximum output of 9 kW. Earlier post.) Fuel Cells Hydrogen'

Honda 255
article thumbnail

10-year study shows how air pollution fosters heart disease; accelerated plaque build-up in arteries

Green Car Congress

Repeated scans were done for nearly all participants between 2002 and 2005; for a subset of participants between 2005 and 2007; and for half of all participants between 2010 and 2012. The clinics were in Baltimore, Chicago, Los Angeles, New York City, St. Paul and Winston-Salem.

Pollution 199
article thumbnail

VW BUDD-e electric microbus named “2016 Concept Truck of the Year”

Green Car Congress

Founded in 2002, the North American Concept Vehicle of the Year Awards recognize those concept vehicles that have made the strongest impact in terms of automotive design, engineering and market responsiveness. Gesture control 2.0 that enables intuitive operation of interior and exterior features.

2016 150
article thumbnail

Toyota opens CES with strong affirmation of hydrogen fuel cell vehicles; “staggering” rate of cost reduction; FCV on sale in US in 2015

Green Car Congress

Since 2002, Toyota has been testing and developing a series of prototypes in North America. Toyota estimates a 95% cost reduction in the powertrain and fuel tanks of the vehicle it will launch in 2015, compared to what it cost to build the original prototype in 2002. We’re doing a good job with both and we will launch in 2015.

2015 332