Green Car Congress

AUGUST 9, 2013

'E 200 Natural Gas Drive. Click to enlarge. Mercedes-Benz is introducing the latest version of the bivalent drive E 200 Natural Gas Drive (NGD) variant to the E?Class family in Europe. The E200 NGD can run on either gasoline or natural gas; benefits of running the car on natural gas include a 20% reduction in CO 2 emissions compared with comparable operation using gasoline, and much lower fuel costs.

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Green Car Reports

AUGUST 8, 2013

'The Tesla Model S electric sedan has become the latest car to be awarded a full five star crash test rating by the National Highway Traffic Safety Administration. While it''s no surprise for modern cars to score highly in such tests, it''s still an impressive feat for a young automaker like Tesla Motors, which hasn''t had previous decades of safety.

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Green Cars News

AUGUST 6, 2013

'A new network of electric car charging points will make it easier for electric car owners to connect to London Underground services. Benefitting from exemption to the London Congestion Charge, electric cars can be driven into the capital without paying the fee, but are still then faced with the [.].

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AUGUST 6, 2013

'In an effort to compete against the much cheaper 2013 Nissan Leaf, GM announced on Tuesday the base MSRP for the 2014 Chevy Volt has fallen to $34,995, or a $5,000 decrease over the 2013 Volt. In.

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Green Car Congress

AUGUST 8, 2013

'The OLEV bus in Gumi. Click to enlarge. The Korea Advanced Institute of Science and Technology (KAIST) is trialing a bus application for its Online Electric Vehicle (OLEV) technology, a dynamic wireless charging technology that recharges a vehicle’s battery while the vehicle is in motion. ( Earlier post.) An OLEV bus thus requires no pantographs to feed power from electric wires strung above the tram route.

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Green Car Reports

AUGUST 9, 2013

'The late and much lamented GM EV1 electric car is by now a mythical creature. It''s been the subject of a much-discussed documentary, and is still cause for blind loathing of General Motors in some quarters. Designed, engineered, and offered for lease in California and a few other locations from 1998 to 2003, the two-seat EV1 was likely the most.

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National Green Transportation

AUGUST 6, 2013

'In an effort to compete against the much cheaper 2013 Nissan Leaf, GM announced on Tuesday the base MSRP for the 2014 Chevy Volt has fallen to $34,995, or a $5,000 decrease over the 2013 Volt. In.

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Green Car Congress

AUGUST 6, 2013

'Toyota Motor Corporation (TMC) launched hybrid versions of the Corolla Axio sedan and Corolla Fielder station wagon in Japan. In addition, there will be a special Corolla Fielder Hybrid G Aerotourer·WxB grade. Monthly sales target for Japan are 1,000 units of the Corolla Axio hybrid and 1,500 units of the Corolla Fielder hybrid. The vehicles are equipped with a 1.5-liter hybrid system akin to that in the Prius c ( earlier post ) and that achieves a fuel efficiency of 33.0 km/L (77.6 mpg US, 3.0

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Green Car Reports

AUGUST 9, 2013

'It''s now been more than five months and 5,000 miles since I took delivery of my 2013 Tesla Model S. The four-year wait after I put down my deposit in 2009 created a huge burden of pent-up hopes and expectations. With the initial glow of ownership now dulled by the daily routine of real-world driving, how has the Model S stood up to those grand.

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Green Cars News

AUGUST 6, 2013

'Tuesday 6 August, 2013. The Green Piece Column. Toyota recently revealed that it was trialling a new mobility device it calls the Winglet. While the fact that a car giant like Toyota even troubles itself to look at small mobility solutions like this is quite admirable, there is a fine line bet[.].

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Green Car Congress

AUGUST 5, 2013

'Audi A3 1.6 TDI ultra. Click to enlarge. Audi unveiled its most fuel-efficient production model, the A3 1.6 TDI ultra. With 81 kW (110 hp) of power output, the Audi A3 1.6 TDI ultra consumes 3.2 liters of diesel per 100 kilometers (73.50 US mpg). This equates to 85 grams of CO 2 emissions per kilometer (137 g/mile). This latest A3 is not only the most efficient Audi, it is also the brand’s first model designated as “ultra”.

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Green Car Congress

AUGUST 7, 2013

'Prototype BMW i8 at the track. Click to enlarge. BMW i presented a prototype of its second production vehicle, the i8 ( earlier post ), at a driving event at the BMW Group’s Miramas test track in France. Following the world debut of the first production model, the battery-electric urban-focused BMW i3 ( earlier post ), the BMW Group’s next step will be to address the sports car segment with the plug-in hybrid BMW i8.

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Green Car Congress

AUGUST 3, 2013

'The Biofuels Center of North Carolina has begun to shut down operations over a 90-day period and will close its doors by Thursday, 31 October 2013, due to the North Carolina General Assembly’s elimination of its funding in the state budget signed recently by Gov. Pat McCrory. Based in Oxford, the statewide economic development agency will terminate its activities and grant programs; shut down its growing and development projects; truncate company relationships; convey reports and information to

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Green Car Congress

AUGUST 3, 2013

'A research team at Monash University (Australia) led by Professor Dan Li of the Department of Materials Engineering has developed a new strategy to engineer graphene-based supercapacitors (SC), resulting in an energy density of 60 Wh/liter—comparable to lead-acid batteries and around 12 times higher than commercially available SCs. The approach could make SCs more viable for widespread use in renewable energy storage, portable electronics and electric vehicles.

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Green Car Congress

AUGUST 9, 2013

'New York Governor Andrew M. Cuomo announced a $19-million New York Truck Voucher Incentive Program to encourage the purchase of battery-electric commercial trucks as well as other energy-efficient transportation, including hybrid and CNG (compressed natural gas) trucks. The New York State Energy Research and Development Authority (NYSERDA) estimates that this program could encourage the purchase or retrofit of up to 1,000 low-emission trucks in areas of the state with the poorest air quality.

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Green Car Congress

AUGUST 9, 2013

'A German-US collaboration including OH-Energy Germany, GmbH; the University of Delaware; Fraunhofer ICT; and Leibniz Institute for Polymer Research released initial results demonstrating 616 mW/cm 2 peak power density at 80 °C for a hydroxide (OH - ) exchange membrane (HEM) fuel cell. ( Earlier post.). The results are an early indication the partnership is on track to reach its stated goal of delivering 600 mW/cm 2 from a platinum-free fuel cell by 2015.

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Green Car Congress

AUGUST 7, 2013

'Bosch, a leading supplier of technology for diesel engines, recently provided an overview of trends it sees in the diesel engine marketplace globally. In addition to the ongoing strength in the European market and India (the second-largest diesel market after Europe, Bosch sees potential strength in North America and China. Europe. Because diesel vehicles already account for a high share of the European market, opportunities for growth are correspondingly moderate.

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Green Car Congress

AUGUST 7, 2013

'The Steel Market Development Institute’s (SMDI) Wheels Task Force recently presented the results of its latest lightweight steel wheel project. The analysis developed a new steel wheel design solution that is equivalent in mass to a comparable aluminum wheel, but at a 30 to 40% cost saving. SMDI is a business unit of the American Iron and Steel Institute.

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Green Car Congress

AUGUST 6, 2013

'About 50% of the more than 12,000 PEV owners in SCE territory charge at Level 1. Click to enlarge. Southern California Edison (SCE) released a white paper summarizing learnings from its Electric Vehicle (EV) readiness program. The paper, “Charged Up: Southern California Edison’s Key Learnings about Electric Vehicles, Our Customers and Grid Reliability,” shares information based on customer data and utility operations gathered since SCE began to prepare the distribution system and its customers

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Green Car Congress

AUGUST 6, 2013

'Aspirational targets among seven countries participating in the Electric Vehicle Initiative would see growth from just under 2 million EV and PHEVs to just under 20 million by 2020. Source: “Electric Vehicle Grid Integration”. Click to enlarge. A recently published paper by M.J. Bradley & Associates, commissioned by the Regulatory Assistance Project (RAP) and the International Council on Clean Transportation (ICCT), examines key drivers of EV adoption in the US, Europe and China, with an emphas

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Green Car Congress

AUGUST 8, 2013

'Tesla Motors reported strong sales results for the second quarter, posting 5,150 units of the battery-electric Model S in North America, along with a significant improvement in automotive non-GAAP gross margin. Tesla had projected deliveries of 4,500 units. Q2 revenues were $551 million on a non-GAAP (Generally Accepted Accounting Principles) basis and $405 million on a GAAP basis.

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Green Car Congress

AUGUST 5, 2013

'A team at Shanghai Jiao Tong University (SJTU) in China reports on a way to reduce the platinum loading in automotive three-way catalysts (for CO, NO x and hydrocarbon treatment) without sacrificing performance. An open-access paper on the work is published in the journal Scientific Reports. The team found that Brønsted acid sites on the external surface of a microporous silicoaluminophosphate (SAPO) catalyst support act as a promoter for exhaust gas purification, effectively enabling the reduc

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Green Car Congress

AUGUST 4, 2013

'The US Department of Transportation (DOT) earlier this year launched the ITS Asset Viewer —an interactive geospatial viewer of the hardware assets—such as cameras, message signs, traffic controls, radio as so on—that comprise the basis for the intelligent transportation systems currently deployed in the US. The ITS Asset Viewer complements the USDOT’s ITS Deployment Tracking Survey and was developed for the ITS JPO by Oak Ridge National Laboratory.

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Green Car Congress

AUGUST 7, 2013

'The new 1.0L turbo. Click to enlarge. Opel will introduce the first in an all-new modular family of small-displacement three- and four-cylinder gasoline direct injection engines at the upcoming Frankfurt International Motor Show next month. The new three-cylinder 85 kW/115 hp, 1.0-liter turbo will be launched in the Opel Adam, coupled with an all-new six-speed gearbox.

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Green Car Congress

AUGUST 5, 2013

'NanoSteel body-in-white using the three grades of steel. Click to enlarge. The NanoSteel Company released the results of an automotive light-weighting study it had commissioned from EDAG, Inc., an independent engineering firm, demonstrating the potential for the company’s Advanced High Strength Steel (AHSS) ( earlier post ) to enable a 30% reduction of weight in the BIW (body-in-white) structure of a baseline mass-market sedan.

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Green Car Congress

AUGUST 3, 2013

'Electric vehicle (EV) drivers using the UK’s motorway system can now access 13 more rapid chargers at Welcome Break service stations. The rapid chargers represent the latest phase of work completed by Nissan and Ecotricity to expand the rapid charging network on the UK’s motorways. The new additions bring the total number of rapid chargers in the UK to 97.

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Green Car Congress

AUGUST 7, 2013

'General Motors is adding a new $167-million investment in its Spring Hill assembly plant, brining the total spending on the plant to $350 million in support of two future mid-size vehicles. The new investment is for two projects: An additional $40 million added to the earlier announced $183-million investment to support a future mid-size vehicle program, bringing the new total investment to $223 million.

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Green Car Congress

AUGUST 7, 2013

'Ford is using plastic reinforced with rice hulls—a byproduct of rice grain—in an electrical harness in the 2014 F-150. The company will need at least 45,000 pounds of hulls in the first year. The 2014 F-Series exemplifies our continued efforts to use recycled content in our vehicles. We can have greater impact in this case because of the size and sales volume of this product.

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Green Car Congress

AUGUST 6, 2013

'The California Energy Commission (CEC) has awarded Hydrogen Frontier, Inc. a $3-million grant to build a new 100% renewable hydrogen fueling station for fuel cell electric vehicles at Hyundai’s hydrogen energy generation and fueling station in Chino, Calif. All of the energy consumed in generation and operation of the station and 100% of the fuel dispensed will come from a renewable source; energy used to create hydrogen will be purchased from a renewable energy provider.

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Green Car Congress

AUGUST 5, 2013

'German Li-ion battery systems specialist AKASOL is supplying Li-ion battery systems for Bombardier’s PRIMOVE system. ( Earlier post.) PRIMOVE is a Business Unit of Bombardier that specializes in creating market-ready solutions in the field of electromobility; its portfolio comprises integrated charging, battery, and power solutions for all types of electric rail and road vehicles.

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Green Car Congress

AUGUST 9, 2013

'UPS has agreed to test in-use operation of Clean Air Power’s new Genesis EDGE Dual-Fuel for the Volvo D13 and MACK MP8 engines. UPS has been operating 9 Caterpillar C12 tractor units with Clean Air Power’s Dual-Fuel system since 2002. They have each completed over 1 million miles. UPS will provide 10 MACK MP8 tractor units which will be installed with the US version of Clean Air Power’s Genesis EDGE Dual-Fuel system for demonstration and optimization.

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Green Car Congress

AUGUST 7, 2013

'Clariant, a world leader in specialty chemicals, announced commercialization of new HYDROCEROL chemical foaming agents (CFAs) that can help automakers cut the weight of many plastic interior car parts without adversely affecting appearance or performance. Foaming has been used in auto parts before, but earlier CFAs made it difficult to achieve a consistent, high-quality surface finish; applications were limited to parts that were hidden from view.

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Green Car Congress

AUGUST 3, 2013

'The US Department of Energy (DOE) is seeking comments and information from members of academia, research laboratories and industry to assist DOE in understanding the research topics in next-generation photovoltaic technologies that would aid in: narrowing the gap between theoretical and realized device efficiency limits; exceeding the Shockley-Queisser limits; overcoming materials and process barriers.

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Green Car Congress

AUGUST 3, 2013

'Rolls-Royce is supporting US-based NuScale Power LLC in its submission to the United States Department of Energy’s (DOE) funding opportunity announcement to bring scalable, small modular reactor technology to market by 2025. ( Earlier post.). The development of clean and affordable nuclear power options is a key element of the DOE Nuclear Energy Research and Development Roadmap.

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