Sat.Jun 11, 2011 - Fri.Jun 17, 2011

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Audi takes plug-in diesel hybrid e-tron Spyder concept, Q5 hybrid to Le Mans

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Former Le Mans Winner Frank Biela driving the Audi e-tron Spyder. Click to enlarge. Audi is presenting the Audi e-tron Spyder concept plug-in diesel hybrid car ( earlier post ) against the backdrop of “Le Mans vers le futur,” an event held in Le Mans as a venue for manufacturers to showcase innovative drivetrain technologies. Along with the e-tron Spyder, Audi sent an Audi Q5 hybrid quattro ( earlier post , earlier post ).

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Think in trouble as Norwegian EV market booms

Plugs and Cars

Think, maker of the Think City, is in trouble, Norwegian business newspaper E24 reports. It's not paid it's bills since February, according to Swedish parts supplier AQ Wiring Systems. At the same time, sales of electric cars are booming in Norway. The iMiev has become the fastest selling car in its segment, beating out gas vehicles. 764 new electric cars were registered in the first five months of the year.

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Who Actually Buys 2011 Chevy Volt Electric Cars, And Why?

Green Car Reports

Despite media attempts to conjure a "sales battle" between the 2011 Chevy Volt and the 2011 Nissan Leaf, both companies are selling every car they can manage to get into the showrooms. Now Chevrolet has released its first look at who is actually buying its Volt range-extended electric cars. The $41,000 four-seat compact hatchback plug-in hybrid is.

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Converting My Motor Home to Electric

Electric Cars are for Girls

I'd like to know what electric motor I would need to replace the 300+ HP Cummins Diesel in my motor home.

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How serious is Norway about climate change? So much that its streetlights self-dim

emissions global warming Norway climate change carbon dioxide youtube lighting

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Honda begins European demonstration program of EV-neo electric scooter

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The EV-neo. Click to enlarge. Honda will begin a European demonstration program of the battery-electric EV-neo scooter in conjunction with Barcelona City Council (Spain) beginning in July 2011. Honda will provide Barcelona City Council with 18 EV-neos for the period of one year. Montesa Honda, Barcelona City Council and RACC, Spain’s leading Automobile Club will work together to carry out daily research and monitoring activities on the EV-neo’s usage in Barcelona.

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Clipper Creek Unveils Smallest Electric Car Charging Station yet

All Cars Electric

Well-established charging station manufacturer Clipper Creek has just unveiled what it claims is the smallest electric vehicle charging station currently available on the market. Costing $995 and weighing in at 7 pounds, the Clipper Creek LCS-25 unit looks like the portable 110V level 1charging cable found in the 2011 Chevrolet Volt - but is a.

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Dept of Energy announces $36 million for biofuels and bioproducts development

National Green Transportation

Yesterday U.S. Secretary of Energy Steven Chu today announced up to $36 million to fund six small-scale projects in California, Michigan, North Carolina, Texas, and Wisconsin. The new program is meant to advance technology improvements and.

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Study finds resource constraints should not be a limiting factor for large-scale EV battery production

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(A) Energy storage potential (ESP) based on annual production of the elements. The elements in brackets at the right side of the labels are the limiting elements in each couple. (B) ESP based on the reserve base of the elements. *ESP well beyond the limit of the figure. (C) Extraction costs of the elements in the couples, calculated from the USGS prices of the elements.

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Greenlighting: Lantern Ryan Reynolds to Promote Nissan Leaf

All Cars Electric

Nissan has always been particular in who it choses to associate with its all-electric Leaf, but its latest superstar signing is quite literally a shining example of what it means to be a leader in the world of green cars. Enter Canadian actor Ryan Reynolds. The 34-year old star of Green Lantern - the big-screen interpretation of the classic DC.

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How To Send Hybrid Cars From Japan? Diesel-Hybrid Cargo Ship, Of Course

Green Car Reports

In this day and age, when it comes to being green, looking at the end result is never enough. You have to take a life cycle approach to assessing how green something is, which in the case of cars, means looking at how they are manufactured and delivered to your driveway. Unfortunately, most cars produced overseas, including top selling hybrids.

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Faurecia and Accenture partner on products and services for connected and autonomous vehicles

Brief

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Brussels named most congested city in Europe

Green Cars News

Congested road conditions are a bane in the lives of any of us concerned about saving fuel and money. With that in mind then Brussels will be the city to avoid, according to a new study from the sat nav peps at TomTom. The Belgian capital topped the traffic study as the most congested city [.].

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Virginia Tech team wins EcoCAR Competition

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The team from Virginia Tech University received top honors as overall winners of EcoCAR: The NeXt Challenge after designing and building an extended-range electric vehicle (EREV) using E85 (ethanol). Virginia Tech competed against 15 other universities to take home the top prize of the three-year competition sponsored by the Department of Energy and General Motors.

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Should Electric Cars Mimic the Gasoline Driving Experience?

All Cars Electric

You probably already know this, but electric cars and gasoline cars are completely different beasts. In fact, concepts we’ve become accustomed to in gasoline cars such as the creep and kick-down functions of an automatic gearbox are not natively present in a electrical drivetrain - and yet automakers are spending lots of development time and.

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Audi e-tron Spyder Diesel Plug-In Hybrid Turns Up At Le Mans

Green Car Reports

In recent years at the 24 Hours of Le Mans endurance race there is an event called the Le Mans vers le Futur that takes place before the actual race in which a number of vehicles showcasing future automotive technology takes to the famous Circuit de la Sarthe for a couple of demonstration laps. Last year we saw the R8 e-tron supercar take to the.

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ExxonMobil announces 6th oil discovery offshore Guyana with Ranger-1; Guyana may move from non-producer to regional powerhouse

Oil

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‘One Tonne’ family prove low carbon lifestyle is possible

Green Cars News

The ground-breaking One Tonne Life project has successfully proved that a climate change-busting lifestyle is possible through a combination of altered human behaviour and innovative technology. For the past six months, the project, which saw one ordinary Swedish family relocated to a new climate smart house, sought to drive down the average carbon emissions from [.].

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Toyota launching condominium-based vehicle car-sharing program with plug-in hybrid Prius and iQ EVs

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Starting in spring 2012, Toyota Motor Corporation (TMC), in collaboration with Nomura Real Estate Development Co. Ltd., Daikyo Incorporated and Toyota Housing Corporation, plans to launch a condominium-based car-sharing program using plug-in hybrids and electric vehicles. Two condominiums in Tokyo and one condominium in Aichi Prefecture will each receive two of a total of six Prius Plug-in Hybrid and iQ-based electric vehicle units managed by nearby Toyota vehicle rental and lease companies.

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General Motors Invests in Electric Bus Firm With Rapid Charger Tech

All Cars Electric

You’d think that General Motors already had a pretty impressive grasp of the electric vehicle market with its 2011 Chevrolet Volt, but the automaker announced today that its investment arm was providing part of the capital in a joint $30 million venture investment in a company that makes electric busses. That’s right. Busses. Enter.

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Mini E Driver Study: Some Caveats On Electric-Car Happy News

Green Car Reports

The 450 lucky U.S. drivers who were picked to test the BMW Mini E between June 2009 and June 2010 are one happy bunch. They love their cars, they like electric driving in general, they're willing to overlook the car's faults, and they willingly talk not only to BMW but also amongst themselves about it all. BMW released the most recent study of.

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New electric super car to take on Tesla

Green Cars News

Little-know Korean car maker Leo Motors is set to take on the might of Tesla in launching its own electric super car by the end of 2011. Named the LZ-1, the car has impressive performance stats, even beating its Roadster rival from Tesla. Leo Motors says it expects that the car will have a top [.].

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USGS scientist concludes that anthropogenic CO2 emissions dwarf those from volcanoes

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On average, human activities put out in just three to five days the equivalent amount of carbon dioxide that volcanoes produce globally each year, according to Terrance Gerlach of the US Geological Survey (USGS). Gerlach based his findings on a review of five published studies of present-day global volcanic carbon dioxide emissions, which he then compared to anthropogenic (human-induced) carbon dioxide output.

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2012 Nissan Leaf Gets Ready for Winter, Gets More Heating

All Cars Electric

The 2011 Nissan Leaf may have been the first all-electric mass-produced electric car from a major automaker to hit the roads, but in the first few months following its launch Nissan came under a lot of criticism for not having a more sophisticated thermally managed battery pack inside the Leaf. Now that should stop, with the announcement that.

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VW Commits To Launching Hybrid Option On Every Model: Report

Green Car Reports

It appears Volkswagen is copying Toyota’s commitment to offer a hybrid option on every model in its lineup, if the latest comments from the automaker’s CEO, Martin Winterkorn, are to be believed. The German auto giant sees hybrids, more specifically, range-extended plug-in hybrids, as the most viable option going into the future, with.

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National Motor Museum adds EV charging facility

Green Cars News

Beaulieu, home of the National Motor Museum, has become one of the first sites in Hampshire to join a new Government initiative that aims to encourage the uptake of electric vehicle technologies. In the nationwide scheme which receives fifty per cent of its funding from government bodies, the Office of Low Emissions (OLEV), and the [.].

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OSU researchers explore mechanism behind the production of a new high-strength, ductile steel; could enable auto frames 30% thinner and lighter

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Researchers at Ohio State University are working in collaboration with the inventor to understand the science behind a new flash-processing treatment that produces steel at least 7% stronger and with 30% greater elongation than published results on martensitic advanced high-strength steel. (Martensitic steel is so named because the internal microstructure is entirely composed of a crystal form called martensite.).

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Why CNBC Is Flat-Out Wrong On Electric-Car Charging

All Cars Electric

The transition from gasoline to plug-in hybrid and fully electric cars will admittedly be a slow one, but sometimes we wonder if our colleagues in the mainstream media would rather the transition not happen at all. At least, that’s the message we got reading an article by the usually balanced CNBC on Tuesday when it published a.

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Toyota Fixes Quirks On Upcoming 2012 Prius Plug-In Hybrid

Green Car Reports

The 2012 Toyota Prius Plug-In Hybrid isn’t set to go on sale until early next year, but we already know quite a lot about the car. This is mostly thanks to the fleet of Prius Plug-In Hybrid prototypes running around the country, an early version of which we drove back in 2010. However, some new details of the production car were revealed.

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New white label EV to achieve 430 mile range

Green Cars News

British electric vehicle firm Gevco has revealed a new ‘white label’ design for electric cars which can achieve up to an impressive 430 mile range. In collaboration with international automotive engineering and testing firm, MIRA, the new design is planned to form the base for a range of electric cars by 2015. Called i-Mav (short [.].

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BCG study finds conventional automotive technologies have high CO2 reduction potential at lower cost; stiff competition for electric cars

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BCG comparison of the CO 2 reduction potential and cost of different technologies. Source: BCG. Click to enlarge. Conventional automotive technologies have significant emission-reduction potential, according to a draft of the Boston Consulting Group’s (BCG) latest report on automotive propulsion, Powering Autos to 2020. Advanced combustion technologies alone could reduce CO 2 tailpipe emissions by 40% from current average levels for new-vehicle fleets of 250 to 270 grams per kilometer (g/k

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Who Make The Best Electric Car Sales People? Early Adopters

All Cars Electric

If you were in the market for a new car then you might find yourself visiting your local dealership to get a test-drive and grill the salesperson about fuel economy, specifications and financing. But it turns out that in the case of electric cars it’s not the dealers which make the most impact on future buyers: it’s other electric car.

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After 11 Years, Two-Millionth Hybrid Car Sold In United States

Green Car Reports

Sometime early last week, someone somewhere in the U.S. bought a hybrid car. And while we may never know exactly who that person was, the car was the 2-millionth hybrid-electric vehicle sold here since the very first Honda Insight went on sale in late 1999. Industry trade journal Ward's Auto calculated from its sales data that the milestone was.

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India to become third largest automotive market

Green Cars News

Having already surpassed France, the UK and Italy and establishing itself as the sixth largest automotive market in the world, India is now expected to become the third largest by 2020. That’s the prediction of a special report entitled “India Automotive 2020: The Next Giant from Asia” released by JD Power and Associates. It highlights [.].

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J.D. Power study pegs India as 3rd largest vehicle market by 2020; small car focus

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Light-duty vehicle sales, 2010 vs. 2020. Source: J.D. Power. Click to enlarge. India surpassed France, the United Kingdom and Italy to become the sixth-largest automotive market in the world in 2010, and it is expected to become one of the three largest automotive markets in the world by 2020, according to a special report titled “India Automotive 2020: The Next Giant from Asia,” released by J.D.

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Will YOU Dump The Pump Today and EVangelize About Electric Cars?

All Cars Electric

You may not know it, but today marks the sixth annual National Dump the Pump Day. Ran as a collaboration between the American Public Transportation Association (APTA), the Sierra Club and the Natural Resources Defense Council (NRDC), National Dump the Pump Day is held to encourage commuters to leave their gas-guzzling cars at home and get to work.

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Why Ford Would Be Crazy To Kill The Escape Hybrid: Real AWD

Green Car Reports

Ford has made lots of changes to its model lineup of late, some of them remarkably quickly. Now comes word that the new Ford Escape compact crossover for 2013 may not include the Escape Hybrid model it has sold since 2004. We think that would be a terrible shame, because it takes off the market a unique vehicle: the only affordable hybrid.

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