Green Car Congress
JUNE 15, 2012
The new Audi R18 e-tron quattro diesel hybrid ( earlier post ) will start the 80 th running of Le Mans from grid position one. Le Mans rookie Marco Bonanomi in the number “4” Audi R18 ultra took grid position six (3m 26.420 s. After 2000, 2001, 2002, 2004, 2006 and 2011, this marked the seventh pole position for Audi at Le Mans.
Green Car Congress
JULY 23, 2012
SK Innovation began developing batteries for portable IT devices since 1996, launched lithium-ion battery development for hybrid-electric vehicle (HEV) applications in 2005, and started lithium-ion battery production in 2006. SK Innovation also develops batteries for grid energy systems.
Green Car Congress
SEPTEMBER 25, 2015
In 2006, Honda was the first auto company to voluntarily and publicly announce targets for the reduction of its CO 2 emissions for its products and operations globally. When complete, the new paint shop will be the most energy-efficient paint line in Honda’s US automobile production network. Source: Honda North America.
Cars That Think
OCTOBER 25, 2022
federal government has mandated that the country’s government-operated planes, trains, and automobiles run on a fuel blend partly made from corn- and soybean-based biofuels. From 2006, the RFS set a schedule of yearly obligations through 2022, with annually rising RIN targets. For the past decade and a half, the U.S.
Green Car Congress
JULY 8, 2015
CRI, founded in 2006 in Reykjavik, Iceland, is developing technology to produce renewable methanol from clean energy and recycled CO 2 emissions. Vulcanol is fuel-grade methanol, a clean burning, high-octane fuel that can be blended with gasoline for automobiles and used in the production of biodiesel or fuel ethers (DME, MTBE, OME etc.).
Plugs and Cars
NOVEMBER 30, 2006
While espousing the "electrification of the automobile," Waggoner made no firm committment. And now Rick Waggoner of GM, creator and killer of the EV1, has again breached the industry taboo on connecting to the cleaner, cheaper, ubiquitous electric grid. Sources: www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2006/11/29/AR2006112901343.html
Plugs and Cars
APRIL 4, 2007
Why are even the smartest journalists unable to get beyond the hype when it comes to automobiles and alternative fuels? One altfuel epiphany Pogue blogged in May, 2006 came watching The Amazing Race 9 (CBS) in Brazil, where sugar cane-based ethanol has eliminated petroleum imports and reduced pollution.
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