Green Car Congress
AUGUST 5, 2019
With a new coating process, researchers of Karlsruhe Institute of Technology (KIT) have produced electrodes for lithium-ion batteries at record speed. At the same time, the new process improves the quality of electrodes and reduces production costs. Precise edges at new record speed: new process considerably increases production capacity of battery electrodes.
Green Car Reports
AUGUST 5, 2019
Self-driving cars are green cars, not just because they are usually electric. One of the biggest reasons engineers began working on self-driving cars more than a dozen years ago was for their efficiency, reducing stop-and-go driving and eventually even stoplights. (Potential safety improvements are another big motivation.) Now, a study by the.
Green Car Congress
AUGUST 5, 2019
Sierra Energy Corporation closed a $33-million Series A investment round led by Breakthrough Energy Ventures and joined by Cox Investment Holdings, Inc., BNP Paribas SA, Twynam Investments Pty Ltd, Formica Ventures AB, and The March Fund I LP. The funding will help Sierra Energy further develop and commercialize its FastOx gasification technology, which converts virtually any waste into clean, renewable energy and fuels without burning.
Green Car Reports
AUGUST 5, 2019
After Canada introduced a nationwide $5,000 tax credit for electric cars, sales shot up by 30 percent, the country's Transport Ministry announced on Thursday. The government announced the tax credit in March, after a new provincial election in Ontario last July brought a Conservative government to power which ended that province's $14,000 tax.
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Green Car Congress
AUGUST 5, 2019
According to a study commissioned by the Washington, DC-based Propane Education & Research Council (PERC), NO x emissions measured from propane autogas school buses were substantially lower than those measured from diesel school buses. The study was conducted in 2018 by West Virginia University’s Center of Alternatives Fuels, Engines, and Emissions (CAFEE).
The Truth About Cars
AUGUST 5, 2019
After a few years, most of us begin to notice our smartphones have developed an inability to hold a charge like they used to. The fix used to be pretty simple, no worse than swapping a couple of AAs into the remote. Order a new battery online, pop off the back of the device, and […]. The post Automakers Need to Start Worrying About the Batteries Lurking in Older EVs appeared first on The Truth About Cars.
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Green Car Reports
AUGUST 5, 2019
Gone is the Joker grin, as well as the walrus mustache. The new Karma GT by Pininfarina will show off its much sleeker facelift at Monterey Car Week next weekend in California. The GT by Pininfarina, which made its first appearance at the Shanghai auto show in April, is a two-door coupe version of the Karma Revero sedan. The Revero itself is an.
Green Car Congress
AUGUST 5, 2019
A new study from North Carolina State University finds that while shared e-scooters may be greener than most cars, they can be less green than several other options, including, in some cases, buses. Their open-access paper is published in the journal E.nvironmental Research Letters. Using life cycle assessment, the researchers quantified the total environmental impacts of shared e-scooters associated with global warming; acidification; eutrophication; and respiratory impacts.
Green Car Reports
AUGUST 5, 2019
Update: To clarify that the incentive is not a tax credit that requires filing federal taxes, and to correct Canadian Transport Minister Marc Garneau's first name. After Canada introduced a nationwide $5,000 discount for electric cars, sales shot up by 30 percent, the country's Transport Ministry announced on Thursday. The government announced the.
Green Car Congress
AUGUST 5, 2019
Porsche Cars North America, Inc. (PCNA) has launched Porsche Impact , an online tool that links individual CO 2 emissions to specific climate projects. The program is available to US customers after PCNA earlier this year enrolled its own Porsche Experience Center cars and its Porsche Passport subscription fleet. Impact has been available to customers in Germany, the UK, and Poland since late 2018.
Cars That Think
AUGUST 5, 2019
Paralyzing 20 percent of cars during rush hour could gridlock Manhattan.
Green Car Congress
AUGUST 5, 2019
An international research team led by the University of Technology Sydney (UTS) and the Woolcock Institute of Medical Research (WIMR) has found that even a sub-chronic low level exposure to particulate matter can have an adverse effect on lung health. In a paper in the American Journal of Physiology - Lung Cellular and Molecular Physiology (AJP-Lung), the researchers suggests that their findings should be taken into consideration for the planning of roads and residential buildings.
Green Cars News
AUGUST 5, 2019
157,198 new cars were registered in the UK in July marking a 4.2% year-on-year decline according to the latest stats from the Society for Motor Manufacturers and Traders (SMMT).
Green Car Congress
AUGUST 5, 2019
Roskill has constructed a comprehensive copper industry reference dataset covering the period 2014-2018, built upon a production, trade and consumption platform of the eleven main markets for semi-manufactures in copper and copper alloys. This new original data has been used to verify historical time series statistics of apparent and reported refined copper consumption and to calculate new unique series of direct scrap use volumes that are now the most comprehensive and accurate available to the
Green Car Reports
AUGUST 5, 2019
California filed another lawsuit against the Trump administration over proposed fuel-economy rules, this time about fines. Karma plans to show off its GT by Pininfarina coupe at Monterey Car week this month. New federal tax credits in Canada have boosted EV sales in the country, the government says. And a new study by Volvo hints at how much fuel.
Green Car Reports
AUGUST 5, 2019
California launched another lawsuit against the Trump administration over fuel economy regulations Friday, this time over a federal decision to suspend planned increases in penalties for automakers who miss required targets. In announcing the lawsuit, California Attorney General Xavier Becerra accused the Trump administration of trying to make.
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