Green Car Congress

NOVEMBER 3, 2013

'According to a new paper and policy brief by Brookings, the Car Allowance Rebate System (CARS) or “cash for clunkers” program, launched during the height of the recession with the intention of stimulating the economy and reducing emissions, actually resulted in only a small and short-lived impact on GDP; a higher implied cost per job created than alternative fiscal stimulus programs; and a higher cost per ton of CO 2 reduced than what would be achieved through a policy such as a carbon tax or c

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Green Car Reports

NOVEMBER 8, 2013

'There have now been three separate fires among roughly 20,000 Tesla Model S electric luxury sedans on the world''s highways. The most recent one, two days ago, seems to have set off a fresh round of Internet fulmination--combined with much opining on what the news would do to the falling stock price of Tesla Motors [NSDQ:TSLA]. So let''s pull.

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Green Cars News

NOVEMBER 4, 2013

'One of the big advantages of driving a Nissan LEAF 35,000 miles becomes apparent when you get to drive another electric car. Instead of just experiencing the novelty of the electric car (oh goodness me, it’s so quiet!) I have something concrete to judge it against. For the last week I have had the [.].

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National Green Transportation

NOVEMBER 4, 2013

'Ford Motors' had the highest market share of plug-in hybrid car sales in October 2013, according to information the company released on Monday. The Ford C-MAX Energi, and Ford Fusion Energi, the company's two.

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Green Car Congress

NOVEMBER 4, 2013

'A new European Joint Research Centre (JRC) study looking into the supply of raw materials for the manufacture of low-carbon energy technologies found that eight metals were at high risk of shortages. The applications, i.e. technologies, of particular concern as a result are electric vehicles, wind and solar energy, and lighting. The risk arises from EU dependency on imports, growing demand worldwide and geopolitical reasons.

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Green Car Reports

NOVEMBER 7, 2013

'Today, California buys the largest number of plug-in electric cars by far of any North American state or province. But the many civic benefits of electric cars--from zero emissions to greater energy efficiency--are inspiring other locales to step up to the plate. Last Friday, the government of Quebec announced Canada''s most comprehensive policies.

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National Green Transportation

NOVEMBER 4, 2013

'Ford Motors' had the highest market share of plug-in hybrid car sales in October 2013, according to information the company released on Monday. The Ford C-MAX Energi, and Ford Fusion Energi, the company's two.

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Green Car Congress

NOVEMBER 2, 2013

'Rendering of the AEGT Evo2. Click to enlarge. Altran and Quimera have signed a new agreement to invest in their continued development and construction of vehicles to achieve better performance while significantly reducing environmental impact. One of the key commitments outlined by Altran and Quimera to deliver tangible results for this new endeavor will be for Altran to enhance its Excellence Centre for New Automotive—the hub of the Altran Group’s projects focused on innovation and elect

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Green Car Reports

NOVEMBER 8, 2013

'The claim that race car development helps road car development is getting harder to uphold these days, but there are still some engineers willing to have a go. Look at the Nissan BladeGlider electric car concept for example, and it''s hard to argue that the design and engineering hasn''t been influenced by the company''s Delta Wing and ZEOD RC race.

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Green Cars News

NOVEMBER 4, 2013

'By Nikki Gordon-Bloomfield. Hi! My name is Nikki, I’ve been driving electric cars since 2006, and I still can’t get my head around charging infrastructure. I’m not talking range anxiety here. Nor am I talking about my fear that when I arrive at a particular location I’ll find a working, accessibl[.].

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Green Car Congress

NOVEMBER 7, 2013

'A study by researchers at Virginia Tech Transportation Institute, Virginia Tech, and Chosun University (S. Korea) demonstrated that a proposed connected-car ecodrive system can significantly improve vehicle fuel efficiency without significantly increasing the inter-vehicle spacing. Specifically, fuel savings in the range of 27% were achieved with an average vehicle spacing of 47 m along a study section of an Interstate highway.

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Green Car Congress

NOVEMBER 4, 2013

'The Nissan LEAF has for the first time claimed the number one spot in Norway’s passenger car sales chart. In October, the battery-electric family car outsold all of its internal combustion engine, hybrid and electric rivals, posting 716 units for 5.6% of the total passenger vehicle market. The LEAF is the fourth best-seller in the Norwegian market for 2013 to date, with 3,755 units sold for 3.2% of the market.

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Green Car Congress

NOVEMBER 7, 2013

'A new 1.4-megawatt utility-owned fuel cell is now in full operation at Cal State San Bernardino. The commissioning of a Direct Fuel Cell DFC1500 power plant, a joint project with Southern California Edison, was recently completed. Now integrated into the campus’ central plant, the fuel cell is generating electricity to the utility grid with waste heat to the campus.

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Green Car Congress

NOVEMBER 6, 2013

'The US Department of Agriculture (USDA) awarded nearly $10 million to a consortium of academic, industry and government organizations led by Colorado State University (CSU) and their partners to research using insect-killed trees in the Rockies as a sustainable feedstock for bioenergy. Specifically, the team will explore recent advances in scalable thermochemical conversion technologies, which enable the production of advanced liquid biofuel and co-products on-site.

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Green Car Congress

NOVEMBER 7, 2013

'The US Department of Energy (DOE) launched a new mobile app to help drivers find stations that provide alternative fuel for vehicles. Developed by the National Renewable Energy Laboratory with support from the Energy Department, the Alternative Fueling Station Locator app provides information on more than 15,000 stations across the country. Users can search for stations that offer electricity, biodiesel (B20), natural gas (compressed and liquefied), ethanol (E85), hydrogen, and propane.

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Green Car Congress

NOVEMBER 3, 2013

'Protocol for measuring the electrochemically active surface area, catalytic activity, stability, and Faradaic efficiency of heterogeneous electrocatalysts for OER. Credit: ACS, McCrory et al. Click to enlarge. Electro-catalytic water splitting to produce hydrogen and oxygen is a key element of solar-fuels devices; identifying efficient catalysts for the oxygen evolution reaction (OER) is critical to their realization.

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Green Car Congress

NOVEMBER 2, 2013

'Mitsui Engineering & Shipbuilding Co., Ltd. (MES) has awarded a $2.6-million contract to Ocean Power Technologies, Inc. (OPT) to provide the final design and supply of key components of a PowerBuoy system intended for deployment off the coast of Japan to demonstrate its utility application in local sea conditions. This follows work performed under a previously-announced contract for preliminary development and design work completed earlier this year.

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Green Car Congress

NOVEMBER 8, 2013

'Nissan BladeGlider concept. Click to enlarge. Nissan will reveal several new concept cars at the upcoming Tokyo Motor Show. Among them is the BladeGlider —a highly efficient EV with radical swept-wing styling. Aerodynamically-focused, BladeGlider’s narrow front track and wide, stable rear track reduces drag while generating downforce to enhance maneuverability and road-hugging performance, with high G cornering and acceleration-yet the vehicle is thrifty in its power use.

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Green Car Congress

NOVEMBER 8, 2013

'Fuel economy improvements from conventional internal combustion engine cars can save an estimated $2 trillion in fuel costs through 2025—and more in years after— according to a new working paper published by the Global Fuel Economy Initiative (GFEI) prepared by Dr. Lew Fulton, Co-Director, NextSTEPS Program at the Institute of Transportation Studies, University of California at Davis.

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Green Car Congress

NOVEMBER 8, 2013

'Battelle researchers have developed a mobile catalytic pyrolysis unit that converts biomass materials such as wood chips or agricultural waste into bio-oil. As currently configured, the Battelle-funded unit converts one ton of pine chips, shavings and sawdust into as much as 1,300 gallons of wet bio-oil per day. The bio-oil then can be upgraded by hydrotreatment into a gas/diesel blend or jet fuel.

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Green Car Congress

NOVEMBER 4, 2013

'Enterprise CarShare, a service offered through the Enterprise Rent-A-Car local network, launched in Salt Lake City with vehicles at nearly 30 locations throughout the downtown area and on local university campuses. Salt Lake becomes the seventh major retail market to offer Enterprise CarShare in the past two years. The Utah Transit Authority (UTA), Salt Lake City, the University of Utah and Utah Valley University are all partners with Enterprise to provide car-sharing services to the Salt Lake

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Green Car Congress

NOVEMBER 7, 2013

'Natural aerosols, such as emissions from volcanoes or plants, may contribute more uncertainty than previously thought to estimates of how the climate might respond to anthropogenic greenhouse gas emissions, according to a new study by researchers at the University of Leeds (UK) and their colleagues in the US and Australia published in the journal Nature.

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Green Car Congress

NOVEMBER 4, 2013

'Chevrolet is unveiling the Chevrolet Silverado Cheyenne concept vehicle today at the SEMA Show. The performance-oriented version of the 2014 Silverado regular cab combines a reduced curb weight with the performance of the new 420 hp (313 kW) 6.2L V-8 for a strong power-to-weight ratio and exciting performance. A lowered ride height, a rear stabilizer bar and Brembo carbon ceramic brakes complement the Cheyenne concept’s high-performance character with enhanced handling and braking capability.

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Green Car Congress

NOVEMBER 8, 2013

'By 2021, Ann Arbor could become the first American city with a shared fleet of networked, driverless vehicles. That’s the goal of the Mobility Transformation Center, a cross-campus University of Michigan initiative that also involves government and industry representatives. ( Earlier post.). Researchers are in the midst of the nation’s largest street-level connected vehicle experiment, called Safety Pilot, which involves some 3,000 area residents in networked vehicles. ( Earlier post.).

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Green Car Congress

NOVEMBER 8, 2013

'Pennsylvania has awarded more than $3 million in Fuel Incentive Grants (AFIG) to 33 companies, counties and organizations making the switch to compressed natural gas (CNG), liquefied natural gas (LNG), or propane for medium to light-weight fleet vehicles. The awarded AFIG grants will help pay for the conversion or purchase of 351 natural gas vehicles and 337 propane vehicles weighing less than 14,000 pounds.

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Green Car Congress

NOVEMBER 7, 2013

'GE researchers are working with an additive manufacturing process called “cold spray,” in which metal powders are sprayed at high velocities to build a part or add material to repair an existing part. Cold spray is part of GE’s expanded additive manufacturing toolkit. Spray technologies are particularly attractive for the production of large structures, which are challenging for today’s powder-bed additive manufacturing processes due to equipment size limitations.

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Green Car Congress

NOVEMBER 8, 2013

'BP announced two new technologies for the production of key petrochemical feedstocks. SaaBre is a new route for the production of acetic acid from syngas and Hummingbird directly converts ethanol to ethylene through dehydration. SaaBre. SaaBre’s breakthrough is a process for the conversion of synthesis gas (carbon monoxide and hydrogen derived from hydrocarbons such as natural gas) directly to acetic acid in a proprietary, integrated three-step process, that avoids the need to purify carbon mon

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Green Car Congress

NOVEMBER 8, 2013

'The US Department of Energy’s (DOE’s) Office of Inspector General (OIG) has issued a report concluding that DOE “ had not fully disclosed known concerns regarding Ecotality’s ability to meet its EV project obligations ” to the Office of Inspector General prior to completion of an earlier audit, and thus prior to Ecotality’s bankruptcy filing in September. ( Earlier post.).

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Green Car Congress

NOVEMBER 7, 2013

'Car sharing network Zipcar, Inc., with the support of the City of Sacramento, California, is expanding the number of vehicles in the region, as well as establishing an office in California’s capital city. Driven by increasing demand for affordable, convenient and “on-demand” mobility, Zipcar is increasing its footprint in the city, becoming the company’s 26th major metropolitan market.

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Green Car Congress

NOVEMBER 7, 2013

'Coates International , Ltd., the developer of the , is establishing a new subsidiary—Coates Engines, China Ltd.—in Hong Kong. The Coates manufacturing and mass production operations are being established in mainland China. As the Chinese Government is in the deal, Coates International, Ltd. will own approximately 49% of Coates Engine China, Ltd.

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Green Car Congress

NOVEMBER 7, 2013

'Volkswagen de Mexico is investing an additional $118 million to mark the start of the second stage of its engine plant located in the Guanajuato Puerto Interior industrial park. The additional funding will be used to manufacture new components that will be used in a new version of the EA888 turbocharged and direct-injection TSI engine. With this investment, the factory will be able to produce a new variable camshaft system that improves the performance of the engine and reduces CO 2 emissions.

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Green Car Congress

NOVEMBER 6, 2013

'Ford Motor Company will re-enter the marine market after a more than 20-year absence via an agreement with Indmar Marine Engines, the world’s largest privately held manufacturer of gasoline inboard marine engines. Indmar Marine Engines will offer high-performance boaters the 6.2-liter V8 engine, which powers Ford F-150 SVT Raptor and Ford F-Series Super Duty trucks.

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Green Car Congress

NOVEMBER 6, 2013

'Sasol and General Electric (GE: NYSE)’s GE Power & Water have together developed new technology that will clean waste water from Fischer-Tropsch plants used to produce synthetic fuels and chemicals, while also providing biogas as a by-product for power generation. The new Anaerobic Membrane Bioreactor Technology (AnMBR) will be further developed at a new demonstration plant at Sasol’s R&D Campus at its Sasol One Site in Sasolburg, South Africa.

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Green Car Congress

NOVEMBER 6, 2013

'Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory, in partnership with Intel and Cray, introduced a new high performance computing (HPC) cluster—“Catalyst”—that will serve research scientists at all three institutions and provide a proving ground for new HPC and Big Data technologies and architectures. As the name implies, Catalyst aims to accelerate HPC simulation and big data innovation, as well as collaborations between the three institutions.

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