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Generating Electricity from Air Flow

Green Car Congress

A group of researchers at the City College of New York is developing a new way to generate power for planes and road vehicles based on short, flexible piezoelectric cantilever beams which convert the kinetic energy of motion into electricity. a car or truck—at Reynolds numbers of 10,000. Yiannis Andreopoulos.

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US DOT Awards $100M in Recovery Act Funds to 43 Transit Projects to Reduce Energy Consumption and Greenhouse Gas Emissions

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Minneapolis-St. Energy Reduction Consolidated Projects: A variety of building energy-efficiency upgrades, hybrid vehicle upgrades, wind generator power systems, and the equipment needed to convert cooking oil to a blend with vehicle fuel to operate some of their buses. Solar PV system installations range from 5kW to 20kW.

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Study: Reducing Future Transportation CO2 Emissions to Kyoto Protocol Levels Will Require Combination of Vehicle Technology and Smart Growth

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The research, led by Associate Professor Brian Stone, shows that expected levels of CO 2 emissions from cars and trucks in 2050 could be reduced back to close to 2000 levels if the full vehicle fleet was converted to hybrid electric vehicles—a greater reduction in CO 2 emissions than achieved by two smart growth scenario modelled in the study.

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Summer Update

Plug In Partners

The bill, sponsored by Representative Frank Hornstein of Minneapolis, would require that the State of Minnesota begin buying PHEVs once they are commercially available and when the price is no more than 10% higher than similarly equipped vehicles. Additionally, other local governments and state agencies are joining the coalition.

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Could electricity come from the air?

Green Cars News

Using short, flexible piezoelectric cantilever beams which convert the kinetic energy of motion into electricity, the researchers believe the power generated could scavenge otherwise wasted energy from the environment.

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Where Plug-In Hybrid Conversions (mostly Priuses) Are

Tony Karrer Delicious EVdriven

Below is a chronology of hybrid Toyota Priuses and Ford Escapes that have been converted. If youre interested in converting your Prius, see the information at How To Get a Plug-In Hybrid. Contact Toronto Atmospheric Fund Ontario Ministry of the Environment , Prius, Hymotion, August 2007 (Toronto, ON, Canada).

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The Aftershocks of the EV Transition Could Be Ugly

Cars That Think

The introduction of any new system causes perturbations within the current operating environment, which in turn, create behavioral responses, some predictable, many not. There must be another room, somewhere down the hall, where the real meeting is happening, where the real experts are, making the real decisions,” Sullivan related.