Green Car Congress
SEPTEMBER 17, 2018
Volkswagen is launching its “Electric for All” campaign—a strategic effort to put attractive electric vehicles at affordable prices on the road, paving the way for the breakthrough of electric vehicles. Volkswagen’s electric offensive is based on the modular electric drive matrix (MEB), a technology platform developed specifically for electric vehicles.
Green Car Reports
SEPTEMBER 17, 2018
And finally, there is Audi. Late Monday night, the German luxury maker debuted took to the stage in San Francisco with its long-awaited, first volume battery-electric vehicle, a five-seat midsize crossover utility to be known simply as e-tron. It also opened reservations and will allow customers to configure the car, requiring a refundable $1,000.
Green Car Congress
SEPTEMBER 17, 2018
TRATON AG—formerly Volkswagen Truck & Bus—and Hino Motors Ltd. announced new details on their strategic partnership, announced earlier this year ( earlier post ). Both partners have agreed on two strategic initiatives: to join forces in e-mobility and the plan to establish a procurement joint venture. In e-mobility, TRATON and Hino plan to share their development efforts and market products in shorter time.
Green Car Reports
SEPTEMBER 17, 2018
The 2019 Nissan Leaf doesn't cost any more than it did last year, but it also won't deliver any additional electric range—yet. The Leaf S, Leaf SV, and Leaf SL will cost $30,885, $33,385, and $37,095 including an $895 destination charge. That's before any government tax credits or rebates. The Leaf is eligible for a full $7,500 federal tax.
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Green Car Congress
SEPTEMBER 17, 2018
Alstom held a world premiere event on Sunday celebrating its Coradia iLint hydrogen fuel cell train ( earlier post ) rolling into service in Lower Saxony, Germany. From today onwards, two such trains will enter commercial service according to a fixed timetable. Travellers in the Eisenbahnen und Verkehrsbetriebe Elbe-Weser (EVB) network can look forward to a world-first journey on the low-noise, zero-emission trains that reach up to 140 km/h (87 mph).
Green Car Reports
SEPTEMBER 17, 2018
British race car design company Gordon Murray Design showed off its new lightweight race car body last week at the Low Carbon Vehicle Show in England. The company calls its body-in-white—an industry term for a car body with no components attached—iStream, and it says it's the result of a new process it patented to make lightweight.
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Green Car Reports
SEPTEMBER 17, 2018
Facing reports of long wait times at Tesla-authorized collision repair centers, Tesla is bringing collision repairs in-house. The company has been opening in-house body shops at a Tesla service centers in the past month, and Tesla chief executive Elon Musk tweeted on Sunday that the company plans to bring "most collision repairs" in-house, because.
EV Driver
SEPTEMBER 17, 2018
If you haven’t read the first two instalments of Eleanor’s story, you can do so here and here. The day dawns for Eleanor and her partner, cousin, and friend to set off on their short holiday, but it isn't as straightforward as they'd initially hoped. Where are the charge points? ".We were faced with our next problem the next morning when I realised we wouldn’t have enough charge (currently 31%, a 40-mile range) to get us to the next rapid charger, so we had to resort to the closest charger in th
Green Car Reports
SEPTEMBER 17, 2018
The BMW Vision iNext previews a future self-driving luxury electric crossover SUV. Tesla opens its first in-house body shops. A British engineering firm wants to bring lightweight racing platform methods to production cars. And Nissan reveals pricing for the 2019 Leaf. All of this and more on Green Car Reports. The BMW Vision iNext made its global.
Green Cars News
SEPTEMBER 17, 2018
12 years ago, an episode of South Park entitled ‘Smug Alert!
Green Car Congress
SEPTEMBER 17, 2018
X-ray experiments at the Department of Energy’s SLAC National Accelerator Laboratory and Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory have revealed that the pathways lithium ions take through lithium iron phosphate are more complex than previously thought. The results correct more than two decades worth of assumptions about the material and will help improve battery design, potentially leading to a new generation of lithium-ion batteries.
Green Cars News
SEPTEMBER 17, 2018
Having previously shown off the i Vision Dynamics gran coupe at last year’s Frankfurt Motor Show, BMW has upped the ante by showing off the latest concept for its all-electric range.
Green Car Congress
SEPTEMBER 17, 2018
A variety of drop-in replacement biofuels—catalytic hydrothermal conversion diesel (CHCD-76), synthesized isoparaffin (SIP-76), and hydroprocessed renewable diesel (HRD-76)—have been produced in sufficient quantity and supplied to the US Navy for blending with the traditional naval diesel NATO F-76. Now, Jinxia Fu and Scott Q. Turn at the University of Hawaii report on the storage and oxidation stabilities of SIP-76, CHCD-76, and their blends with F-76.
Green Cars News
SEPTEMBER 17, 2018
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Green Car Congress
SEPTEMBER 17, 2018
Researchers at École Polytechnique Fédérale de Lausanne (EPFL) have developed a method that can significantly increase the yield of sugars from plants, improving the production of renewable fuels, chemicals, and materials. Producing fuels and chemicals from biomass (wood, grasses, etc.) involves breaking down (deconstructing), plants to produce single carbohydrates, mostly in the form of simple sugars such as xylose and glucose.
Creative Greenius
SEPTEMBER 17, 2018
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