Green Car Congress

JUNE 28, 2010

The presence of low-speed pre-ignition is considered a major impediment to automobile manufacturers’ efforts to aggressively downsize engines to reduce carbon dioxide emissions. This problem was important enough to the automotive industry that SwRI chose to fund the work internally through our internal research and development program. —Dr.

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Green Car Congress

DECEMBER 4, 2009

The world’s leading heavy-duty vehicle and engine manufacturing companies are urging the close cooperation between policy makers in Europe, the United States and Japan to develop practical and effective fuel-efficiency measurement metrics, methodologies and regulations which would then be used all around the globe. Globalautoregs.com.

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Green Car Congress

MAY 20, 2010

The product meets European Union regulatory requirements for lower GWP refrigerants for automobile air conditioning systems. Tags: Climate Change Emissions Vehicle Systems. DuPont and Honeywell developed the product jointly but will market and sell it separately.

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Green Car Congress

APRIL 13, 2009

Axion Power International Inc. The company has four global business groups: Transportation Americas, Transportation Europe and Rest of World, Industrial Energy Americas and Industrial Energy Europe and Rest of World. Tags: Batteries. An Axion Power PbC battery. Click to enlarge.

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Green Car Congress

AUGUST 30, 2009

The 1979 Iranian crisis and related oil price shock accelerated Brazil’s conversion of its gasoline supply and automobile fleet. 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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Baua Electric

JANUARY 13, 2024

At a time when global electric vehicle major Tesla is set to announce its big-bang entry into the Indian market this month, the world’s third largest passenger vehicle market is set to take a big leap into electric vehicle exports, with the Make in India tag well proven over the last couple of decades.

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Green Car Congress

MAY 6, 2009

The new Focus is being developed in Europe—where Ford is a leader in small cars—off a new global C-car platform. It is about skilled and motivated teams working together in new ways to create the future of automobile manufacturing in the United States. Tags: Electric (Battery) Fuel Efficiency Vehicle Manufacturers.

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Green Car Congress

APRIL 30, 2009

In a session on total vehicle energy consumption, several people shared similar pie charts showing the flow of energy within an automobile. For every kJ of chemical energy in the fuel for a spark ignition internal combustion engine, 73 % is sacrificed to chemical and thermal losses. Tags: Brief. Where does all of the energy go?

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Green Car Congress

MARCH 22, 2010

Every ton of offsets verified by a DOE can thereafter be used to compensate for excessive emissions by companies in Europe, Japan, Australia, and New Zealand. Donovan is an engineer and attorney with more than thirty-four years of international business experience. Tags: Climate Change Emissions Policy. About the Author.

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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 hopes to begin selling the Fisker Karma in mid 2010 in Europe. Tesla Motors. Faye Sunderland.

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Green Car Congress

JUNE 25, 2010

The European automobile manufacturers have agreed to a first phase of joint specifications to connect electrically chargeable vehicles to the electricity grid in a safe and user-friendly way. Currently different connectors are proposed for electric vehicle charging in Europe (IEC 62196-2 Type 1, Type 2 and Type 3).

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Green Car Congress

APRIL 15, 2010

which is due to go on sale in Israel, Denmark and the rest of Europe from 2011, at motorists and fleet operators who are looking for a “status-enhancing vehicle” that is both economical to run and respectful of the environment. m 3 ) as the internal combustion-engined version. Renault strove to make the Fluence Z.E.—the Fluence Z.E.

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Tony Karrer Delicious EVdriven

APRIL 21, 2009

Europe uses 220 v.a.c. My Web Technorati Windows Live Blogmarks Propeller Mixx E-mail It To Addresses (up to 3): Your Name: Your Address: Tags: evdriven. . “My guess is that there are more materials like this out there,&# he says. I see a future of higher voltage ranges, high voltage to high current devices other than a.c.

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Green Car Congress

APRIL 23, 2009

The revised Recommended Practice will focus on PHEVs and be coordinated with both California Air Resources Board (CARB) and International Standardization Organization (ISO) standards. The Japan Automobile Research Institute (JARI) is also in alignment with the J1772 work, Kissel said earlier. Tags: Hybrids Standards.

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Green Car Congress

OCTOBER 5, 2009

At the 18 th Aachen Colloquium of Automobile and Engine Technology this week (5-7 October), Delphi is highlighting a range of its technologies including advanced gasoline and diesel engine management systems, fuel handling systems, powertrain cooling solutions and hybrid and electric vehicle products.

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Green Car Congress

OCTOBER 24, 2009

Michael Oppenheimer, director of the Program in Science, Technology and Environmental Policy and professor of geosciences and international affairs in the Wilson School of Public and International Affairs, is a co-author. Tags: Biomass Climate Change Emissions Land use Policy. Earlier post.). Cronin, Sergey Paltsev, Benjamin S.

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Green Car Congress

MARCH 30, 2009

Detroit Electric plans to begin sales in 2010; its plans call for selling more than 270,000 EVs in Europe, UK, China and the United States by 2012. Proton, established in 1983, is Malaysia’s largest manufacturer of automobiles, currently producing 270,000 vehicles of various models annually in Malaysia.

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Revenge of the Electric Car

OCTOBER 25, 2008

Woodcliff Lake, NJ - October 18, 2008… The BMW Group will be the world’s first manufacturer of premium automobiles to deploy a fleet of some 500 all-electric vehicles for private use in daily traffic. Specially engineered for automobile use, the battery technology will have a range of more than 240 kilometers, or 150 miles.

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Green Cars News

NOVEMBER 13, 2009

The fossil fuelled version is expected to sell in Turkey, Romania and Russia, while the electric version however will make up part of mass market range of affordable zero-emission electric vehicles expected to start retailing across Europe starting in 2011. Tags: Electric cars Renault eletric ev Fluence model saloon Turkey.

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Tony Karrer Delicious EVdriven

APRIL 21, 2009

The electrification of the automobile is inevitable." This is different from anything Ive ever seen in my 40 years in the automobile industry." ( Detroit Free Press ). Partnering with Alcoa, Duke Energy, Google.org, Johnson Controls Indiana startup plans to unveil vehicle May 2009 at EVS-24 in Norway; mass production in 2012.

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Green Car Congress

NOVEMBER 11, 2010

Unlike internal combustion engines, electric motors yield their maximum torque at extremely low rpms, practically from the starting position. The German Automobile Industry Association is working together with automotive manufacturers on uniform cell standards, Audi said. Six integrated sensors monitor the heat build-up.

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Tony Karrer Delicious EVdriven

APRIL 16, 2009

Wang entered the automobile business in 2003 by buying a Chinese state-owned car company that was all but defunct. His engineers investigate a wide array of technologies, from automobile air-conditioning systems that can run on batteries to the design of solar-powered streetlights. Tags: evdriven.

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Tony Karrer Delicious EVdriven

APRIL 21, 2009

is hoping to launch the Volt in late 2010 with a price tag of about $40,000. Also maintenance on these (no oil changes to speak of) etc will cost much less than an internal combution propelled car. Still, the word from on high is that the Volt will make it to the finish line. Volt will survive and prosper,” G.M.’s

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Tony Karrer Delicious EVdriven

APRIL 16, 2009

Topics: Deals and investments , Transportation Tags: GM , Segway , city transportation , 2009 New York auto show Share: Digg Del.icio.us In the Hawkins Electrical Guide, copy right 1928, there is a entire chapter on electric Automobiles. Tags: evdriven. He started at CNET News in 2002, covering IT and Web development.

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Tony Karrer Delicious EVdriven

APRIL 16, 2009

Most days, most cars are going to have lots of extra battery capacity,” said Mr. Kempton, noting that on average, American automobiles get driven for just one hour each day. An embryonic movement is growing in Europe to build “smart cities&# that will challenge the status quo. ’s power generation, he said. — CGC 22.

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Green Car Congress

APRIL 10, 2010

Cantwell said that cap-and-trade had been discredited by the Wall Street crisis, the Enron scandal and the rocky start to a carbon credits trading system in Europe that has been subject to dizzying price fluctuations and widespread fraud. Donovan is an engineer and attorney with over thirty-four years of international business experience.

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