Green Car Congress

SEPTEMBER 20, 2009

EcoMotors International, a Khosla-funded startup working to commercialize a diesel opoc (opposed-piston, opposed-cylinder) engine ( earlier post ), has named auto industry veteran Donald Runkle as its new CEO. EcoMotors was founded in 2008 by Prof. Don Runkle.

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Green Car Congress

MARCH 7, 2013

The auto industry should play a central role in the energy discussion, Akerson noted, because light-duty vehicles account for about 60% of total transportation energy usage in the United States. Akerson also pointed to GM’s 28% reduction in manufacturing energy intensity per vehicle from 2005 to 2010. —Dan Akerson.

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Green Car Congress

MAY 25, 2012

Search engine giant Google is looking for partners within in the auto industry to help launch one of the most significant applications of artificial technology over the next several years, the self-driving car. by Bill Cooke. We’re not perfect; the technology is nowhere near ready. —Anthony Levandowski.

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Revenge of the Electric Car

NOVEMBER 18, 2008

This press conference was held at the very same GM facility where the EV1 Vigil took place during February and March 2005. As you know, today I strongly urge Congress to withhold any bailout funds from the auto industry, unless and until the industry agrees to mass-produce fuel efficiency automobiles; electric cars.

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Green Car Congress

FEBRUARY 18, 2009

The plans, updated in the context of a worsening sales outlook for the entire auto industry, outline a need for up to an additional $16.6 In 2005, GM completed a long-term initiative to transform operations from a collection of semi-autonomous regions into a cohesive global enterprise. GM product plans.

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Green Car Congress

JUNE 23, 2009

Our domestic auto industry, in its modern incarnation, has never been able to execute an excellent portfolio, only isolated successes. mpg)&madsh;on the profitability and sales of the industry and separately for the Detroit 3, the Japan 3, and all others. Fuel Economy. mpg) and 50% (40.4 McManus and Kleinbaum (2009).

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Green Car Congress

FEBRUARY 5, 2009

At the end of January, DOE also issued the Hydrogen and Fuel Cell Activities, Progress, and Plans Report to Congress as required by the Energy Policy Act of 2005 (EPACT). However, some targets and milestones relating to non-critical path technologies—e.g., centralized hydrogen production and delivery systems—have slipped.

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Green Car Congress

JANUARY 22, 2010

It will help build a customer base and begin laying the foundation for American leadership in the growing electric vehicles industry. This is part of a sustained effort to develop and commercialize technologies that will be broadly deployed throughout the American auto industry. Energy Secretary Steven Chu.

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Green Car Congress

APRIL 29, 2009

Lead the team that won the DARPA Grand Challenge in 2005 for developing a vehicle that could navigate and drive through a desert course without human intervention. Responsible for designing the transportation system for the Citadel of Masdar. Professor Sebastian Thrun, Stanford University. Setting the stage for existing technology.

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Tony Karrer Delicious EVdriven

APRIL 21, 2009

Beginning in 2005, we excerpted individual statements of intentions by carmakers, but by the start of 2008, the number of comments became too numerous for us to track. This is from "Commercializing Plug-In Hybrids" (pdf), the current CalCars 24-slide presentation about PHEVs available along with other documents at CalCars Downloads.

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Green Cars News

OCTOBER 15, 2009

Industry analysts reckon oil demand in developed countries likely reached its all-time peak in 2005. The fact is that OECD oil demand has been falling since late 2005, well before the Great Recession began.”. million bpd of demand lost over the course of 2005 to 2009.

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Green Car Congress

JULY 7, 2010

This report is the third NRC review of the FreedomCAR and Fuel Research Program; Phase 1 and Phase 2 reviews were issued in 2005 and 2008, respectively. This research could provide sufficient information for the auto industry to make decisions about the marketability of hydrogen-powered vehicles by 2015.

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Tony Karrer Delicious EVdriven

APRIL 21, 2009

For more on plug-in hybrids and V2G, see CalCars Resources , University of Delaware V2G Research Center , and papers from a June 2005 conference in Seattle. What do environmental groups think of PHEVs? Bluewater Network and Rainforest Action Network have been active, vocal proponents of PHEVs.

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Tony Karrer Delicious EVdriven

APRIL 21, 2009

’s expertise on the auto industry in general, we are concerned that in its understanding of future pathways, it offers a flawed analysis and predictions based on business-as-usual,&# notes a posting on the California Car Initiative’s Web site. and Chrysler. Whatever B.C.G.’s — Scott 18.

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EV Match

AUGUST 29, 2022

on a path to reducing emissions more than 40% below 2005 levels, per a Princeton University analysis of the measure’s impacts : expanded tax credits for EVs, batteries, solar panels and wind turbines. How the IRA will help tackle climate change. carbon sequestration (capture and storage, i.e.).

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Tony Karrer Delicious EVdriven

APRIL 16, 2009

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