Green Car Congress
DECEMBER 29, 2010
The Social Non Profit. I believe that non profits are more capable of fulfilling their Mission, meeting their business goals, empowering (liberating) their staff and engaging their stakeholders when they choose to work smarter using social technologies. As non profits embark on a working smarter path I see them incrementally evolving into a social non profit state (continuous dynamic process).
Green Car Reports
DECEMBER 28, 2010
Why are many European carmakers now planning to build electric vehicles? Because many European cities are widely expected to ban high-emissions vehicles from their city cores over the next decade--perhaps even vehicles with any emissions at all. Now, Paris may be the first city to experiment with such a policy. Next year, it will begin to test.
Plugs and Cars
DECEMBER 28, 2010
Here's an unexpected opportunity to purchase an EV, especially if you've had a hankering for a Th!nk City. According to the Seattle Clean Cities Newsletter, you've got three days to order a Th!nk City for $6000 off from the base price of $41,695 if you live in a ZEV state. Th!nk is apparently looking to quickly sell 150 of the vehicles they are putting together in Elkhart, IN.
Electric Cars are for Girls
DECEMBER 25, 2010
Why would our golf cart batteries start bubbling after about one half hour of charging? Hi, Maynard!
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Green Car Congress
DECEMBER 25, 2010
Researchers from General Motors Global Research & Development Center and HRL Labs report enhancing the high rate capability of Li-ion anode materials through the used of vertically aligned graphene nanosheets on the current collector. Their paper is in press in the journal Electrochemistry Communications. In this paper, we demonstrated that the high rate capability of electrode can be achieved by engineering the existing electrode materials.
Green Car Reports
DECEMBER 30, 2010
This video clip, now six months old, has been making the rounds yesterday and today. Still, it's worth pondering. What would you do if gasoline rose to $5 a gallon in two years? How would your driving, and car buying, behavior change? Two days after the BP drilling rig blowout in the Gulf of Mexico, Shell Oil's ex-president John Hofmeister.
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National Green Transportation
DECEMBER 25, 2010
Do you like this story? The electric truck maker based in Kansas City, Smith Electric Vehicles (SEVUS), was the US branch of a British company with a long history of electric truck manufacturing. In Feb 2009 the conglomerate, Tanfield Group, entered the US market.
Green Car Congress
DECEMBER 28, 2010
Carbon Sciences Inc. (CSI), a company developing technology to transform carbon dioxide and methane into gasoline and other portable fuels ( earlier post ), has executed a worldwide exclusive license agreement with the University of Saskatchewan (UOS), Canada, for catalyst technology for the dry reforming of methane with CO 2 —a critical element of CSI’s proposed platform.
Green Car Reports
DECEMBER 28, 2010
Start-stop systems, which shut off car engines when the vehicle comes to a stop, have been offered in Europe for several years. But until now, no automaker other than Porsche has offered them on U.S.-market cars. That's about to change. Ford said yesterday it will offer the systems on some of its cars, crossovers, and sport-utility vehicles sold.
All Cars Electric
DECEMBER 28, 2010
California has always been kind to drivers of alternative fuelled vehicles with special privileges in High-Occupancy Vehicle (HOV) lanes, reduced parking and even additional purchase tax credits. However, the $5,000 Californian state rebate for those purchasing electric vehicles may soon run out, an electric vehicle advocate has warned. Jay.
Green Cars News
DECEMBER 29, 2010
Wednesday 29 December 2010. The Green Piece Column. Last week we began a two part look back at the events of 2010 in the green car sector (see article). This week we continue our review. Honda The year began in earnest for Honda at the Geneva Motor Show where it revealed its minimalist approach to [.].
Green Car Congress
DECEMBER 27, 2010
Audi plans to invest about €11.6 billion (US$15.3 billion) between 2011 and 2015, primarily in new products and technologies, as well as in upgrading its sites. This marks the largest investment program in the company’s history. About 80% of all investment—more than €9.5 billion (US$12.5 billion)—will go to developing new products and to technologies of the future such as electric and hybrid drive systems.
Green Car Reports
DECEMBER 28, 2010
Now that the 2011 Nissan Leaf and 2011 Chevy Volt have reached showrooms--a handful of them, anyhow--a new crop of electric vehicles will launch into the market for 2011. One of those may be the e6 all-electric crossover built by Chinese manufacturer BYD. Famed financier Warren Buffet was so intrigued by the upstart battery maker-turned-auto.
All Cars Electric
DECEMBER 30, 2010
Back in 2009 we were approached by a press representative for Racing Green Endurance, a team of 20-something post-graduate engineers from Imperial College London. We didn't hear from them again until June this year, when we met up with them in London. Their goal? To drive the 16,000 miles from Alaska to Argentina in an electric car. We had to be.
Green Cars News
DECEMBER 26, 2010
In a major boost for the biofuel sector, China has decided to exempt taxes on pure biodiesel from waste animal fats and vegetable oils. Its new policy will actually be retroactive from January 1, 2009, with taxes that have already been paid to be refunded according to the Ministry of Finance and the State Administration [.].
Green Car Congress
DECEMBER 30, 2010
Massachusetts Energy and Environmental Affairs (EEA) Secretary Ian Bowles has set the statewide greenhouse gas (GHG) emissions limit for 2020 required by the Global Warming Solutions Act of 2008 at 25% below 1990 levels, the maximum authorized by the Act, saying that measures already in place will get Massachusetts much of the way toward that goal. A targeted portfolio of additional policies, chosen because they promise overall cost savings, will allow the state to reach the most ambitious targe
Green Car Reports
DECEMBER 29, 2010
Unless you're Argonne Laboratories, putting gasoline into a diesel fueled car is a bad problem. Maybe it was brain fade. Perhaps you rented or borrowed an unfamiliar car. Or you simply didn't realize that nice Volkswagen or Mercedes-Benz was a new, clean-diesel car. (It also happens to particularly stupid car thieves.) Why it's bad for the engine.
All Cars Electric
DECEMBER 31, 2010
Right now, six companies are vying to win a contract that would provide 100 electric vehicles to the government’s General Administration services 214,000-strong fleet. One of them is Ford; the other, a relative newcomer called Smith Electric. But the government isn’t looking for electric sedans to chauffeur VIPs or parade around at.
Green Cars News
DECEMBER 30, 2010
The Massachusetts Energy and Environmental Affairs Secretary Ian Bowles has outlined an ambitious state wide greenhouse gas emissions limit for 2020. According to the Global Warming Solutions Act, emissions must be 25 per cent below 1990 levels by 2020. Though it seems a difficult goal to achieve, Secretary Bowles believes the state already has the [.].
Green Car Congress
DECEMBER 31, 2010
Maquette of the Can-Am plug-in Hybrid Spyder. Click to enlarge. The Centre de technologies avancées BRP at the Université de Sherbrooke (CTA) is receiving C$11.3 million (US$11.3 million) in financial support to develop a plug-in hybrid version of BRP’s (Bombardier Recreational Products) Can-Am Spyder roadster. The government’s Automotive Partnership Canada program is contributing $6.2 million and BRP is contributing $5.1 million over a four-year period.
Green Car Reports
DECEMBER 30, 2010
We love looking back to see what's been popular over the course of a full year. And 2010 was definitely chock-full of green car news. Our 10 most popular posts this year are a little less random than last year's most popular, which featured Muslims and ethanol, urine, hybrid Ferraris, and our ever-popular rant on why Miles-Per-Gallon is a really.
All Cars Electric
DECEMBER 29, 2010
Ten years ago the concept of social media was in its infancy. Mark Zuckerberg, Facebook’s geeky founder, wasn’t even at university and the best chance you had of playing at being a farmer was to head down to your local city farm. So what happens when you combine the always-connected idea of the smart phone and social media to create a.
Green Cars News
DECEMBER 29, 2010
After dominating the green car sector for a decade with the success of the Prius, Toyota has been relatively quiet in recent times. However, it now appears the Japanese manufacturer has a plan to lead the marketplace again. A 10-year blueprint will be unveiled next spring outlining the automaker’s first long-term vision compiled under President [.].
Green Car Congress
DECEMBER 28, 2010
A collaborative led by researchers at the University of Illinois and including the Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory, the University of California at Berkeley, Seoul National University and BP have engineered a strain of Saccharomyces cerevisiae —the common industrial yeast—to co-ferment glucose and xylose simultaneously to produce ethanol.
Green Car Reports
DECEMBER 29, 2010
BMW is pressing forward with its plans to build a production version of the striking plug-in hybrid concept car it called Vision Efficient Dynamics, unveiled at the Frankfurt Motor Show in September 2009. According to reports filtering out of Germany, the model that goes on sale in October 2013 may be called the i8 and cost roughly $200,000. BMW's.
All Cars Electric
DECEMBER 30, 2010
If General Motors' EV1 had featured in the Disney Pixar animated film Cars, we can't imagine it would have been the happiest of characters. It might well have spent a little time complaining about its friends all being crushed back in 1999, and who could blame it? And four years ago it might have been equally unhappy when it was pulled from an.
Green Cars News
DECEMBER 26, 2010
A solar reactor derived by a team from Caltech, ETH Zurich and the Paul Scherrer Institute, could assist the thermo-chemical production of fuels. In a paper published in the journal Science, the researchers claim that fuel can be generated over 500 cycles. Solar to fuel efficiencies of 0.7-0.8 per cent were achieved. The basis for [.].
Green Car Congress
DECEMBER 30, 2010
The Yomiuri Shimbun reports that the US will incorporate 310 quick charges using Japan’s standardized CHAdeMO system ( earlier post ) in its large scale EV tests being held in Arizona, California, Texas, Tennessee, Oregon and Washington State. This will be the first time a large number of quick chargers using the CHAdeMO Method are used overseas and is seen as an initial step toward the Japan system becoming the world standard.While competition is intensifying worldwide over how to standar
Green Car Reports
DECEMBER 30, 2010
Many readers on this site are concerned with miles per gallon, or how much fuel their car uses. And while any site called Green Car Reports is bound to have an environmental tilt, most car buyers are far more concerned with saving money than saving the planet. Nonetheless, we're all about making educated choices. And a writer we admire, GigaOm's.
All Cars Electric
DECEMBER 30, 2010
We’re just two days away from 2011, the year many industry experts are terming the year of the electric car, but 2010 hasn’t been a slow year for electric cars. We’ve seen new models launched, records broken and even the Pope show an interest in going electric. But over the course of 2010 what stories have been getting the most.
Green Cars News
DECEMBER 27, 2010
Previously its fuel-saving start-stop technology has been limited to hybrid cars and some vehicles in Europe, but now Ford will introduce the devices across its vehicles, including crossovers and SUVS, in North America in 2012. When the technology debuts it will be available on petrol powered cars and utilities with either a manual or automatic [.].
Green Car Congress
DECEMBER 27, 2010
Automobile production in Japan dropped 6.7% year-on-year in November to 802,009 units, according to data from the Japan Automobile Manufacturers Association. Passenger car production dropped 8.2% to 689,808 units, led by a 30.3% decline in small cars to 165,866 units. By contrast, production of standard cars of more than 2L displacement rose 3.7% to 415,548 units.
Green Car Reports
DECEMBER 31, 2010
Recently, we wrote about the move in the private sector to use electric and hybrid delivery trucks. Companies like FedEx and Frito Lay are tapping into benefits of greener cars — even ahead of the broader consumer market because they’re a hedge against volatile diesel prices and can pay returns more quickly. That’s the market.
All Cars Electric
DECEMBER 31, 2010
At the time of this writing, oil has sprinted above $90 a barrel, silver has jumped 80-plus percent in the last year and China just announced an 11 percent decrease in exports of rare earth metals for 2011. Will these constraints on critical resources, and their inevitable steep rise in costs and prices, kill the electric car? Like it or not.
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