Green Car Congress
JULY 4, 2009
However, Winterkorn said, VW, and the German auto industry in general, abandoned the early advantage and work in electromobility. And the auto industry doesn’t hold back on announcements. Does it ever make sense ecologically to operate a car with power from a coal-fired plant? We are witnessing an electro-hype.
Green Car Congress
FEBRUARY 5, 2009
Developing and demonstrating a novel cryo-compressed tank concept. Improving hydrogen-from-coal technologies, including developing membranes for separation and purification that show the potential, at laboratory scale, to achieve the 2010 technical targets for flux (200 ft 3 /hr/ft 2 ). wt%, which exceeds the 2010 system target of 4.5
Green Car Congress
JULY 17, 2015
The combination of harvesting whole forests and burning long-sequestered carbon sources such as coal or oil has impaired the Earth’s carbon cycle at an increasing pace. Then as solar, wind, water and other non-fossil fuel industries ramp up, the fossil material industry can shift to different but more lucrative customers.
Green Car Congress
JULY 7, 2010
This research could provide sufficient information for the auto industry to make decisions about the marketability of hydrogen-powered vehicles by 2015. The new report calls for the partnership’s sustained support of a balanced portfolio of nearer-term and longer-term options, including research on fuel cells and hydrogen technologies.
Tony Karrer Delicious EVdriven
APRIL 21, 2009
Audi Volkswagen-owned company exploring PHEVs Metroproject Quattro Sub-compact PHEV Concept Car shown October 2007; PHEV of A1 Sportback under consideration Bright Automotive For-profit spin off from Rocky Mountain Institute designing lightweight PHEVs, successor to RMIs 1990s "Hypercar" concept. Has shown some concept fuel-cell PHEVs.
Tony Karrer Delicious EVdriven
APRIL 21, 2009
But its monumentally less pollution , even on the national (half-coal) grid. Vehicle-to-Grid (V2G) is the concept of using stored energy in a plug-in hybrids (or electric cars) battery to send power to the electrical grid when necessary. Dont PHEVs just shift pollution from gasoline cars to power plants?
Tony Karrer Delicious EVdriven
APRIL 16, 2009
GM says it is already looking ahead to the next generation of Volt-based vehicles — it unveiled the Cadillac Converj concept in January — and says costs will come down as the technology spreads to more models. Denmark did that with Wind Power and now most of their energy comes from wind rather than oil, natural gas, or coal.
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