Green Car Congress

NOVEMBER 21, 2013

Also at the LA Auto Show, the new Honda FCEV Concept made its world debut. The concept expresses a potential styling direction for Honda’s next-generation fuel-cell vehicle anticipated to launch in the US and Japan in 2015, followed by Europe. At the Tokyo Motor Show, Toyota highlighted its own new FCV Concept with a world premiere.

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Green Car Congress

DECEMBER 5, 2012

natural gas vehicle. natural gas vehicle, previewed in a concept form in 2011 ( earlier post ) and revealed in its production version at the Geneva auto show in March this year, in Europe. m 3 ) of natural gas per 100 km—equivalent to CO 2 emissions of 79 g/km. Like the gasoline engines of the up!,

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Green Car Congress

FEBRUARY 5, 2009

Hydrogen produced by water electrolysis has the potential to be a useful means of storing excess electricity generated using wind, solar, and other intermittent renewable energy. Biogas, including anaerobic digester gas, can be reformed to produce hydrogen and used in a fuel cell to produce significant amounts of electricity and heat.

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Green Car Congress

NOVEMBER 14, 2012

The Model Fuel Library is a subscription-based library which includes more than 40 fully validated, self-consistent components that can be used to simulate fuel effects in virtually all types of automotive and aircraft engines, as well as engines used for electric power generation. Additive components such as ETBE. Source: Reaction Design.

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Green Car Congress

JANUARY 20, 2010

The basic goal of the revised ZEV program should be to help demonstration-stage, low-GHG emitting technologies to commercialization, include fuel cell vehicles (FCVs); battery-electric vehicles (BEVs); and Enhanced AT PZEVs, which currently include plug-in HEVs (PHEV) and hydrogen internal combustion engine (HICE) vehicles, according to ARB staff.

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Green Car Congress

NOVEMBER 22, 2013

At the Tokyo Motor Show, Mazda is showcasing the recently-released Mazda Axela (known as Mazda3 overseas) with a variety of engine types at the 2013 Tokyo Motor Show, including a CNG concept and hybrid variants. Major technologies on Mazda3 SKYACTIV-CNG concept. Earlier post.). Click to enlarge. Alternative fuels: CNG and E85.

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Green Car Congress

NOVEMBER 21, 2011

Harmonizing fuel programs between state, federal, and foreign jurisdictions is useful to ensure the optimum reduction of greenhouse gas (GHG) emissions. The concept of harmonizing specific aspects of the LCFS program with other low carbon fuel standard programs has been of interest for the staff since the inception of the program.

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Green Car Congress

MAY 27, 2009

In addition to providing the heat for system processes, the CHP generator will provide 7.5MW of green electricity. First, the industry is approaching the ethanol-to-gasoline blend wall of 10% ethanol, 90% gasoline in standard gas engines. gasoline would need to be greater than $2.80/gallon Earlier post.).

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Tony Karrer Delicious EVdriven

APRIL 17, 2009

Fisker Automotive , which unveiled the concept version of the Karma in January, recently raised $87 million to help put it into production. After that, an onboard gasoline generator kicks on to recharge the battery, extending the range by 250 miles between fill-ups. It takes the Volt about 9 seconds.)

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Green Car Congress

SEPTEMBER 21, 2015

liter unit introduced in the US in 2008 in the Jetta as Volkswagen’s first Tier 2 Bin 5/CA LEV II-compliant (i.e., Volkswagen engineers redesigned a large number of the base engine components to improve acoustics, fuel consumption, and exhaust gas emissions. The engines at the core of this evolving debacle began with a 2.0-liter

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Revenge of the Electric Car

OCTOBER 25, 2008

The automotive and green electric vehicle blogosphere has been abuzz with talk of the BMW MINI E ever since July 9th, 2008, when AutoblogGreen published the rumor that 500 of the intriguing new electric cars would be released later this year in California. AC Propulsion's 0-60mph in 3.6 second li-ion powered tzero.

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Plug In Partners

NOVEMBER 7, 2007

It will go about 50 miles on a battery charge , which isn't far, but the car will also come with a built-in gas engine that exists primarily to charge the battery. With a range of hundreds of miles, the car will go farther than other electric cars coming to market. clip) Fisker also hopes to come out with SUVs and other types of cars.

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Tony Karrer Delicious EVdriven

APRIL 21, 2009

GM has announced plans for public sales in 2010, and almost every carmaker now says it will sell PHEVs or highway-speed battery electric vehicles (BEVs) sometime after 2010. In late 2008, BYD started selling the first production PHEV in China. Showed BlueZERO E-CELL PLUS series PHEV concept in December 08. Batteries not ready.

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Tony Karrer Delicious EVdriven

APRIL 16, 2009

Email ECOtality CEO: Fast Charging and Why Battery Swapping Is Doomed Jonathan Read discusses why electric vehicles and fast-charging systems, not battery-replacement systems such as the one touted by Project Better Place, are the future. by: Jonathan Read, President and CEO, ECOtality June 24, 2008 ECOtality CEO Jonathan Read.

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Tony Karrer Delicious EVdriven

APRIL 16, 2009

The Volt is, and always has been, more than than an electric car. GM will leapfrog Toyota and Honda by providing an electric car to the masses by the end of next year. Wired Home Subscribe Sections Cars 2.0 But it is a price that must be paid, and GM should be commended for remaining committed to the Volt. Thats short-sighted.

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