Green Cars News

JULY 9, 2011

General Motors will extend its efforts to eliminate the shipment of plant waste to landfills, to its non-manufacturing sites.

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Green Cars News

JUNE 27, 2009

The so-called Frying Squad has launched a six-month trial to recycle waste cooking oil into vehicle fuel. It focuses on converting used chip fat from the site’s 38 canteens into fuel to run a diesel engine Peugeot Expert van. According to Rupert Webster, the company just wanted to have a role in reducing emissions.

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Green Cars News

FEBRUARY 4, 2011

It’s long been known that renewable diesel can be created from biomass waste – but creating a simple, energy efficient process to achieve this conversion has been the problem.

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Green Car Congress

JANUARY 24, 2013

25% less energy and water consumption, waste and emissions. Ten SMA inverters and 5 transformers (rated at 1500 KVA each) convert the 9.58 Volkswagen hosted Green Car Congress for the inauguration of the solar park. Every new model generation will on average be 10 to 15% more efficient than its predecessor.

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Green Cars News

JULY 11, 2009

Hot on the heels of McDonald’s announcing it will install an electric vehicle charging station at one of its North Carolina restaurants (for more see our article ‘ McDonald’s embraces electric cars ‘), Burger King has jumped on the fast food green car bandwagon.

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Green Cars News

DECEMBER 14, 2010

Though many car manufacturers are focusing their efforts on producing greener vehicles, General Motors has gone one step further in its environmental push. In fact, GM [.].

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Green Cars News

NOVEMBER 25, 2009

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. When they combine, the beam generates maximum energy output that varies dependent on the location of the wake.

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Green Cars News

JULY 22, 2009

The FedEx fleet of hybrid-electric vehicles has leapt by more than 50 per cent from 172 to 264 after the company added 92 hybrid-electric trucks to its delivery fleet by converting existing models. Tags: Green cars Hybrid cars Latest news FedEx FedEx California hybrid-electric delivery trucks.

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Green Car Congress

MARCH 15, 2010

Osage Bio Energy (OBE) is a Virginia-based company that will use regional grain, primarily winter barley, to produce ethanol and high value co-products for East Coast markets via a fairly conventional pathway of converting starch to sugar, followed by fermentation. As a result, the carbon impact of the process is reduced.

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Green Car Congress

SEPTEMBER 24, 2015

A highlight was the new arrangement of the clutch and torque converter behind the differential, resulting in a longer wheelbase. The magnetic alternating field induces an AC current in the secondary spool mounted across the gap in the underside of the car. Audi hosted Green Car Congress at the IAA in Frankfurt.

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Green Cars News

OCTOBER 26, 2009

Lightweight Thermal Energy Recovery System: A grant of $2,655,174 will help General Motors to develop a shape memory alloy energy recovery system that converts waste heat from car engines to electricity. They have received a grant of $4,462,162.

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Green Cars News

AUGUST 4, 2009

In laboratory tests, the seafood converted rapeseed oil to biodiesel faster (89 per cent conversion in three hours) and more efficiently than some conventional catalysts. The new catalysts also can be reused and the process minimizes waste production and pollution, the scientists noted.

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Green Cars News

MAY 5, 2009

The majority is sourced from hydropower and the rest from wind power and generation from waste, with sources based in the UK and on the continent. We also have an energy committee which has secured this continued green power supply for the site - further contributing to Ford’s considerable environmental progress to date.&#.

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Green Cars News

NOVEMBER 11, 2009

One North East has invested £314,000 to sponsor the ECO2Trans project, which is converting two electric Gulliver U500EUK buses into hydrogen vehicles using a fuel cell, battery and capacitor combination. The ECO2Trans project is helping AMAP to trial new energy storage devices, novel motor technology and develop new control technology.

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Green Car Congress

SEPTEMBER 25, 2015

Use of a higher efficiency paint-curing process, a new waterborne two-component primer material and “dry-booth” paint overspray technology will eliminate water used to capture paint particulates, which is one of the few remaining landfill waste streams in the manufacturing process. from a high of 755 kg/auto in FY11. kg/auto to just 0.8

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Green Cars News

MAY 3, 2009

BMW is looking into ways to maximise waste heat recovery in vehicles with two pathways being explored - thermoelectric and thermodynamic. It has found, through bench test measurements that waste heat recovery can provide an additional power output of around 10 per cent. per cent. . per cent and 31.7

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JANUARY 28, 2009

HEV - The current generation of production Hybrids are 100% gas fueled vehicles with a few EV tricks like Regen Braking and no wasteful Idling. What changes do we make to convert a gasoline-only hybrid to a Plug-In Hybrid? Our goal: Get car makers to build Bettah PHEVs than we can convert ourselves.

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Green Cars News

NOVEMBER 11, 2009

One of these intrepid road testers sent to try the fuel efficiency of Volvo’s new DRIVe models-the V70 and S80- was our reporter Tom Stewart, who kindly kept a diary to explain how Volvo converted a confessed ‘lead-foot’ to an eco-angel. The DRIVe Story. By Tom Stewart.

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Green Car Congress

FEBRUARY 16, 2017

Mike O’Brien, Hyundai vice president of corporate and product planning, noted that the “green car market” in the US has declined a bit—about one hundred thousand units since its high in 2013 with 3.8% The Ioniq EV also features a sophisticated heat pump system that integrates recovered waste heat from the power electronics.

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Green Car Congress

FEBRUARY 16, 2017

Mike O’Brien, Hyundai vice president of corporate and product planning, noted that the “green car market” in the US has declined a bit—about one hundred thousand units since its high in 2013 with 3.8% The Ioniq EV also features a sophisticated heat pump system that integrates recovered waste heat from the power electronics.

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Green Car Congress

JULY 17, 2015

To ignore this potential is wasteful and foolish. It is wasteful and destructive to be burning this versatile molecule; we must stop. The electrical system has perhaps 85% excess capacity most of the year which means we are wasting money in excess electric generation and distribution infrastructure and resources.

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