Green Car Congress

JULY 21, 2016

The Obama Administration has announced a series of actions from the Federal government, private sector, and states, as well as a new framework for collaboration for vehicle manufacturers, electric utilities, electric vehicle charging companies, and states, all geared towards accelerating the deployment of electric vehicle charging infrastructure and putting more electric vehicles on the road.

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Green Car Reports

JULY 21, 2016

The 2017 BMW i3 represents the first significant update of BMW's electric car since it went on sale in the U.S. back in May 2014. This mid-cycle refresh includes several updates, most notably a much larger battery pack and a corresponding increase in its EPA-rated range. Battery capacity rises 50 percent, from 22 to 33 kilowatt hours, and BMW says.

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Green Car Congress

JULY 21, 2016

A team of researchers from the UK’s Cardiff University’s Cardiff Catalysis Institute and Queen’s University Belfast have shown that significant amounts of hydrogen can be unlocked from fescue grass—without significant pre-treatment—using sunlight and a metal-loaded titania photocatalyst. An open access paper on their work is published in Proceedings of the Royal Society A.

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Green Car Reports

JULY 21, 2016

In August 2006, Elon Musk issued a "Top Secret Master Plan" for Tesla Motors, outlining the goals of what was then a small and largely unknown company. He said Tesla would sell a low-volume electric car, use the proceeds to create a higher-volume model, and then use money from that car's sales to develop an electric car that was truly affordable.

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JULY 21, 2016

Rocks formed beneath the ocean floor by fast-spreading tectonic plates may be a large and previously overlooked source of free hydrogen gas, a new Duke University study suggests. Their paper is published in the journal Geophysical Research Letters. Recent discoveries of free hydrogen gas, which was once thought to be very rare, have been made near slow-spreading tectonic plates deep beneath Earth’s continents and under the sea.

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Green Car Reports

JULY 21, 2016

More than nine months after the Volkswagen emissions scandal first broke, its impact on the U.S. diesel market is still being assessed. It's now becoming clear that VW won't return to selling large numbers of its TDI diesel models in the U.S. any time soon. Other carmakers remain committed to their diesel models, mostly pickup trucks, SUVs, and.

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Green Car Reports

JULY 21, 2016

Today, we have details on Elon Musk's updated "Master Plan" for Tesla, the fate of Mazda's U.S. diesel engine, and a preview of the 2017 BMW i3 electric car. All this and more on Green Car Reports. Elon Musk's updated "Master Plan" for Tesla includes an electric pickup truck, a compact SUV, and a defense of Autopilot. Mazda's diesel engine appears.

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Green Car Congress

JULY 21, 2016

Ballard Power Systems signed a follow-on Technology Solutions contract with an unnamed leading global automotive OEM. Under the contract Ballard will provide expertise in proton exchange membrane (PEM) fuel cell technology in order to advance the customer’s membrane electrode assembly (MEA) development program related to future versions of its engine for fuel cell vehicles.

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Green Cars News

JULY 21, 2016

The Advertising Standards Agency (ASA) has ruled that Tesla has the right to claim that its Supercharger network is the world’s fastest recharging sys.

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Green Car Congress

JULY 21, 2016

Fiat Chrysler Automobiles appointed Mark Chernoby as the Group’s new Chief Technical Compliance Officer. This newly created role will assume responsibility for overseeing all regulatory compliance programs in FCA’s four operating regions, both in terms of safety and emissions, including CAFE compliance in the US. The move is effective immediately. The speed of introduction of new standards in all of our operating regions has made the creation of this role a necessity.

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JULY 21, 2016

With order books now open nationwide, the updated Volkswagen Up will be hitting UK streets with more power than ever before. The 89bhp one-litre petro.

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Green Car Congress

JULY 21, 2016

Honda R&D Co., Ltd., a wholly owned R&D subsidiary of Honda Motor Co., plans to collaborate with SoftBank Corp. and begin a joint research project toward application of the “emotion engine,” an artificial intelligence (AI) technology developed by cocoro SB Corp., a SoftBank Group company, for mobility products. The “emotion engine” is a set of AI technologies that enable machines to generate their own emotions.

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Green Cars News

JULY 21, 2016

Which? Car’s annual survey of car owners has found that working on a budget can often lead you to the most reliable and dependable vehicles when it co.

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Green Car Congress

JULY 21, 2016

The Renault-Nissan Alliance has become the newest member of the World Business Council for Sustainable Development (WBCSD), joining forces with more than 200 international companies promoting global sustainability. While Renault-Nissan develops the cars of the future, it also focuses on creating products that enhance society, increase mobility for all and help solve today’s most significant safety and environmental challenges.

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JULY 21, 2016

The US Department of Energy (DOE) has announced the 2017 Small Business Innovation Research and Small Business Technology Transfer (SBIR/STTR) Phase I Release 1 topics, including two subtopics focused on hydrogen and fuel cell technologies. The fuel cell subtopic includes novel, durable supports for low-platinum group metal (PGM) catalysts for polymer electrolyte membrane (PEM) fuel cells.

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JULY 21, 2016

Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory (LLNL) engineers have achieved unprecedented scalability in 3D-printed architectures of arbitrary geometry, opening the door to super-strong, ultra-lightweight and flexible metallic materials for aerospace, the military and the automotive industry. In a study published in Nature Materials , the LLNL engineers report building multiple layers of fractal-like lattices with features ranging from the nanometer to centimeter scale, resulting in a nickel-plated me

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Green Car Congress

JULY 21, 2016

PSA Groupe is evaluating a free-piston engine linear-generator under development by Israel-based start-up Aquarius Engines for use as a range-extender in its electric vehicles. According to a report from Reuters, PSA Research and Development Director Gilles Le Borgne said that while the company is evaluating the technology, “Nothing has been decided yet.

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