Green Car Congress

APRIL 7, 2010

Ford Motor Company is the first automaker and one of several companies taking a leadership position in joining the Water Disclosure Project , which will establish a water disclosure protocol for companies around the world and promote conservation and stewardship.

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The Truth About Cars

MARCH 14, 2024

In the early 1900s, the Broc Electric Vehicle Company was marketing some of the earliest all-electric vehicles to women. The company probably should have known better. The Baker Motor Vehicle Company tried something similar years earlier and pivoted hard toward marketing to women (particularly upper-crust ladies) in its last gasps.

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Green Car Congress

JUNE 18, 2010

The resulting product is a dry material that can be reclaimed in place or moved to another location for contouring and replanting with native vegetation, according to the company. Suncor has been researching, developing and testing the TRO technology since 2003. Tags: Oil sands. are currently being reviewed by ERCB staff.

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Green Car Congress

DECEMBER 24, 2009

A new improved-performance refractory lining material developed by the Office of Fossil Energy’s National Energy Technology Laboratory (NETL) has been successfully tested and could lead to greatly increased reliability and economics of gasification technology as a clean and efficient process. Tags: Brief. Click to enlarge.

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The Truth About Cars

MARCH 11, 2024

In the early 1900s, the Broc Electric Vehicle Company was marketing some of the earliest all-electric vehicles to women. The company probably should have known better. The Baker Motor Vehicle Company tried something similar years earlier and pivoted hard toward marketing to women (particularly upper-crust ladies) in its last gasps.

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Green Car Congress

JUNE 21, 2010

Southern Company, El Paso Exploration & Production, the Geological Survey of Alabama, and the University of Alabama are all participating in the field test, known as the Black Warrior CO 2 Storage Project. The characterization phase (2003–2005), which defined opportunities for carbon capture and storage, has been completed.

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Green Car Congress

SEPTEMBER 20, 2009

The opportunity to build up such an important company with a powertrain pioneer like Peter Hofbauer, and backed by a visionary like Vinod Khosla, was just too good to pass up. Tags: Brief. Hofbauer is serving as EcoMotors’s Chief Technical Officer. Don Runkle.

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Green Car Congress

JANUARY 26, 2010

The first GM-designed and built electric motors are scheduled to debut in 2013 in next-generation, rear-wheel-drive two-mode hybrid technology. The company’s expertise with transmission development will help with the overall packaging, he noted. Different applications will call for different types of motor technology.

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Plugs and Cars

OCTOBER 4, 2009

An SAE Research Report in 2001 stated that "several automakers have pledged the introduction of fuel cell vehicles, including buses, by 2003-2005." In 2007 GM spokesman Scott Fosgard told the Seattle Post-Intelligencer that by 2012 there will be about 10,000 hydrogen vehicles on the market from a variety of companies. I don't think so.

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Green Car Congress

NOVEMBER 30, 2009

In 2003, the State of California passed Assembly Bill 844, requiring the California Energy Commission, in consultation with the California Integrated Waste Management Board, to adopt and implement a tire energy efficiency program for replacement tires for passenger cars and light-duty trucks. Tags: Brief. —Jack Rosebro.

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Green Car Congress

MAY 9, 2009

Daimler said that the Citaro FuelCELL Hybrid is the next logical step on the path to zero-emission public transport which the company had already announced it would take, and thus represents an important element in the development of the mobility solutions of the future. Tags: Fuel Cells Heavy-duty Hybrids Hydrogen.

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Green Car Congress

APRIL 15, 2009

The Solid SCR system is installed on a Dodge Ram 2500 demonstrator truck that has been used as a technology carrier during the development process. SCR technology uses ammonia, usually provided in the form of a urea solution, for the reduction of NO x. Eberhard Jacob (2006) Perspectives on Mobile SCR Technology. MTZ Worldwide.

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Green Car Congress

JULY 10, 2009

Professor Günther Hambitzer originally founded fortu in 1997 to concentrate on battery technology characterized by a high energy per unit of weight, long operational life, and avoidance of environmental concerns relative to its manufacture and disposal. After a liquidation of the company in 2002, Hambitzer revived fortu in the summer of 2003.

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Green Car Congress

NOVEMBER 16, 2009

This is a follow-up to the European Union’s CUTE and HyFLEET:CUTE projects, which were carried out from 2003 to 2009. Daimler’ global initiative “Shaping Future Transportation” consolidates all the activities for sustainable mobility in the commercial vehicles sector at the company. —Prof.

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Green Car Congress

MAY 26, 2009

The recently converted A-Class F-CELL “plus” with 700 bar technology will participate in the tour along with hydrogen-powered vehicles from other automakers. The new 700 bar technology extends the range in the current vehicle generation by about 70%. The company expects marketability as early as 2015.

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Green Car Congress

MAY 20, 2009

EngineLab , a new technology company focused on automotive electronics embedded system design, is planning to revolutionize the engine control business by applying advanced technologies developed for consumer electronics to a vehicle’s Electronic Control Unit (ECU). Source: EngineLab. Click to enlarge.

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Green Car Congress

JUNE 25, 2009

The company also recently completed its first successful demonstration drive using Amyris renewable diesel. Amyris has proven this technology through the delivery of its first successful commercial scale technologies to sanofi aventis for the production of artemisinin, a low cost anti-malarial drug. Earlier post.).

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Plugs and Cars

JANUARY 27, 2007

Michael Kanellos over at CNetNews.com reports from the recent Clean-Tech Investor Summit that Tesla Motors will be selling its battery packs to other electric car companies. Martin Eberhard, CEO of Tesla Motors, said that Tesla has formed a group called Tesla Energy Now to sell battery packs to other companies. "A

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Plugs and Cars

APRIL 2, 2008

A bias toward one technology is reflected in the titles and job descriptions of many staffers who wrote the recommendation you are considering today that give a fuel cell vehicle more credit than a battery electric vehicle with the same range. Tags: fuel cell partnership california air resources board battery electric car.

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Green Car Congress

AUGUST 30, 2009

The government assisted the shift by giving sugar companies subsidized loans to build ethanol plants, as well as guaranteeing prices for their ethanol products. Automobile manufacturers were given tax breaks to produce cars that ran on hydrous ethanol, and, by 1980, every automobile company in Brazil was following this lead.

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Green Cars News

JUNE 4, 2009

Founded in 2003, Elektromotive are a leading provider of electric vehicle charging points. Based in the City of Brighton and Hove, UK, Elektomotive consist of a small team dedicated to designing and installing cutting edge technology for recharging electric and plug-in hybrid electric vehicles. TheGreenCarWebsite.co.uk

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Green Cars News

JUNE 17, 2009

Low carbon technology specialists, Connaught, is set to help troubled vanmaker LDV back on to the road to recover. Connaught is working with representatives at Midlands- based LDV to support their desire to achieve a viable future for the company and a swift return to production. per cent on diesel engines.

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Green Cars News

NOVEMBER 2, 2009

Founded in 2003, Silicon Valley based Tesla Motors is currently the only car manufacturer in the US or Europe manufacturing and selling highway capable electric vehicles in serial production. The company had already delivered more than 700 vehicles by the end of September, 2009 (see article ). Tesla Motors.

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Green Cars News

MAY 10, 2009

According to the company, the Citaro FuelCELL Hybrid represents a step towards zero emission public transport and an important element in the development of the mobility solutions of the future. Compared with previous fuel cell buses it will consume much less hydrogen thanks to a hybrid drive with a sophisticated control unit.

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Green Cars News

MAY 30, 2009

Most green car enthusiasts would claim that it was General Motors’ and Chrysler’s lack of foresight in embracing green cars and alternative fuel technologies that led to their downfall. Tags: Chrysler Green cars Latest news general motors is green to blame. To read the article in full, click here.

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Creative Greenius

JANUARY 17, 2009

Only the car company’s are still waiting and still making and selling cars that contribute to global warming. Meanwhile the plug-in EV RAV-4s they made in 1997-2003 are still working just fine - the ones they didn’t crush and actually allowed people to buy. This driver told the press he loves his electric truck.

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Green Car Congress

DECEMBER 4, 2009

Seambiotic , a developer and grower of marine microalgae for the nutraceuticals and biofuel industries using flue gas from electric power plants, has signed a license agreement and a joint venture agreement with Yantai Hairong Electricity Technology Ltd. Tags: Brief. and Penglai Weiyuan Science & Trading Ltd.,

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Tony Karrer Delicious EVdriven

APRIL 21, 2009

At that point, we expect the aftermarket companies prices to have come down sufficiently so that their conversions will be attractive to owners of hundreds of thousands of hybrids already on the road. The easiest conversions are for 2004-2008 Prius (not 2001-2003 Prius) and the Ford Escape/Mercury Mariner Hybrid.

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Tony Karrer Delicious EVdriven

APRIL 30, 2009

Still, the company will respond to a push by theObama administration for carmakers to sell plug-ins, he said. “We Bush in 2003 committed$1.2 are also developingfuel-cell cars, those companies, as well as Honda, don’t expecthydrogen to be competitive with gasoline autos until about 2020. Tags: evdriven. percent, to $27.65

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Tony Karrer Delicious EVdriven

APRIL 21, 2009

For people looking for the most effective way to end our addiction to oil, PHEVs have made sense because carmakers can build them now, with todays technology and using todays infrastructure. In 2003-04, the US Marine Corps demonstrated a diesel-electric PHEV-20 HUMVEE. Tags: evdriven.

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Tony Karrer Delicious EVdriven

APRIL 21, 2009

Instructions (1.5MB pdf) show how individuals can enable the Priuss EV-only mode Coastal Electric Technologies also offers a kit. If you know a decisionmaker at a company or institution that needs a best-available hybrid mini-fleet, especially Prius or Ford Escape, send them to us. Tags: evdriven. Read and distribute our flyers.

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Get Electric Vehicle

MARCH 9, 2021

Giant companies were paying no or very little attention in the electric vehicle market and they were still focusing on developing new IC engine-powered models. The Beginning (2003). The company wanted to create an all-electric sports car. Tesla accomplished something no other company has ever done with an electric car.

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Green Car Congress

OCTOBER 23, 2009

Toshiba recognizes the DMFC as a high potential solution for portable equipment and is promoting intensive technology and product development, including improved practical use and downsizing. The company has conducted R&D on both active and passive fuel cells since the early 1990s. Tags: Fuel Cells Methanol.

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Tony Karrer Delicious EVdriven

APRIL 16, 2009

News | Markets | Technology | Personal Finance | Small Business | CNN.com RSS Newsletters Video Home Fortune 500 Technology Investing Management Rankings Warren Buffett takes charge Warren Buffett hasnt just seen the car of the future, hes sitting in the drivers seat. The E6 will hit the Chinese market later this year.

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Revenge of the Electric Car

JANUARY 22, 2009

The company launched last month at Green Motors in Berkeley, California. The same state agency that drove the electric car off a cliff is now poised to wreck a new Berkeley company that triples the gas mileage of a Toyota Prius. “Acting too soon will shut off innovation and will kill companies that are just getting started.&#.

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Green Cars News

OCTOBER 27, 2009

Toyota has now built a plug-in version of the Prius, which may again see the company beat its rivals to the punch on name value alone. It developed turbocharged direct injection technology for diesel engines and has a wide range of TDI powertrains. The company has enjoyed a 73 per cent increase in hybrid sales this year (see article ).

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Revenge of the Electric Car

OCTOBER 25, 2008

The biggest obstacle for those who would prefer an alternative has been lack of purchasable plug-in electric vehicles since 2003 when auto manufacturers ceased production of plug-in EVs like the GM EV1, Honda EV Plus, and Toyota RAV4-EV. The energy storage unit: cutting-edge lithium-ion technology engineered specifically for use in the MINI.

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