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New 4-cylinder 2.5L Ecotec for Malibu marks debut of new Ecotec engine family; enhanced power, efficiency and refinement

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New 4-cylinder, 2.5L Ecotec. Click to enlarge. Chevrolet revealed more details about the new Ecotec 2.5L four-cylinder engine that will be the standard engine in the 2013 Malibu. The new 2.5L—which GM says is more efficient, refined and powerful than its 2.4L predecessor—will be available next summer, marking the debut of the all-new Ecotec engine family.

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Arc 1 Conversion Journal 9/23/2011

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9/19/2011: Bought 1993 Plymouth Laser for $300. Then towed the vehicle back to our hometown at the cost of $200 in rental and gasoline. 10 hours of work, $500 spent, starting weight of vehicle: 2531 pounds. 9/20/2011: Cleaned car. Removed: radiators, exhaust manifold, upper cylinder head, alternator, camshaft, and assorted support bars. 6 hours of work, no money spent, 96 pounds removed from vehicle. 9/21/2011: Sold above components to recycling center.

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Can An Electric Car Cut Solar Panel Payback Time? Yes, But.

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If you’re a homeowner with a suitable home and enough money to invest in a set of photovoltaic solar panels for your roof, you can easily power your home cheaply and cleanly. But while some states offer Feed In Tariff (FIT) schemes to let you sell back any excess power your solar panels generate to the local utility company, payback times on.

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Golf cart batteries in an RV?

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I have a 22-foot RV with two 12V coach batteries. I've heard that two 6V golf cart batteries in series are better than two 12V marine batteries in parallel.

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

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Ryder Launches ‘Flex-to-Green’ lease offering for alt-fuel commercial vehicles

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Ryder System, Inc., a leader in commercial transportation and supply chain management solutions, launched its new “ Flex-to-Green ” lease offering, making it easier for private fleet operators to jump start their sustainability programs by providing the option of incorporating alternative fuel vehicles into their fleets in support of their business objectives.

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Brammo buys up QuantyaParx, renaming them to BrammoParx

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Brammo today announced the acquisition of Quantyaparx, a chain of dirt bike race tracks exclusively for electric dirt bikes. The existing tracks are successfully established in Germany, Austria, Spain, Sweden and the United Kingdom. The tracks.

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Electric Ton of Bricks Car Conversion

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I would like to know if anyone thinks it would be possible to convert a 1973 Cadillac Eldorado convertible to electric.

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Survey finds EV drivers will prefer to charge their vehicles at home

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An overwhelming number of drivers envision they will charge their EVs at home, new Chartwell research shows. Coinciding with the launch of its EV Customer Strategy Research Council and Electric Vehicle Programs Summit, Chartwell has conducted a study that reveals 89% of consumers would be “likely” or “extremely likely” to charge their plug-in EVs at home.

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Coda's beat plays on with funding, factory, acquisition and more

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Coda Holdings, the parent of electric car maker Coda Automotive, is assembling an impressive array of funding and business alignments. This includes a new round of funding announced yesterday, and in recent weeks they've opened an assembly.

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Audi Urban Future Initiative: Smaller, Smarter, Autonomous, Linked Cars

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Put a group of urban planners, architects, and sociologists on a panel to discuss transportation in the cities of the future, and you may find they don’t spend much time talking about cars. Instead, you get statements like, “The megacity of the future desires to be a generous knowledge partner to all elements of the transportation.

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

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Restoring Dead Golf Cart Batteries

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I have a set of new batteries, however, they are 6 years old. I've never used them. Can they be restored? Hi, Harry!

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Steep increase in global CO2 emissions despite reductions by industrialized countries; driven by power generation and road transport

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Global CO 2. emissions from fossil fuel use and cement production per region. Source: JRC. Click to enlarge. After a decline in global CO 2 emissions in 2009 of 1% (including a. correction for the leap year 2008), global emissions have. jumped by more than 5% in 2010, which is unprecedented. in the last two decades, 2 %20emissions%20report%20-%2021%20Sept.pdf">according to the newly published report “Long-term trend in global CO 2 emissions,” prepared by the European Commission’s Joi

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Nissan makes Juke greener and more economical

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Nissan has updated its Juke crossover lowering emissions and boosting fuel economy. Both the 1.6-litre petrol and 1.5-litre dCi diesel drivetrains have been given revised gear ratios, and both models have been fitted with manual transmissions to make them cleaner and more fuel-efficient. The 1.6-litre petrol variant now returns 47.1mpg on the combined cycle – [.].

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GM To Develop Electric Cars In China With SAIC, Longtime Partner

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Maybe you can beat 'em and join 'em at the same time? That may be what General Motors is hoping with its announcement this morning that it would develop electric cars with its longtime Chinese partner SAIC. In Shanghai this morning, GM CEO Dan Akerson and SAIC Motor Corp. chairman Hu Maoyuan signed an agreement covering the joint development of a.

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

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NYC's Duane Reade buys electric trucks from Smith Electric Vehicles

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Duane Reade announced yesterday a partnership with Kansas City based electric truck manufacturer, Smith Electric Vehicles. This pilot program makes Duane Reade the first U.S. retail pharmacy to adopt vehicle electrification for delivery vehicles.

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Car Charging Group partners With Central Parking and subsidiary for a US rollout of EV charging in parking garages

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Car Charging Group Inc., a provider of electric vehicle (EV) charging services, announced a partnership with Central Parking System Inc. and its subsidiary, USA Parking System Inc., the US’ largest parking garage operator, to provide EV charging services at locations nationwide via Coulomb Technologies’ ChargePoint Network. Car Charging Group plans to install EV charging stations at sites owned by the two parking garage operators.

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Ikea tops list of popular London charging points

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An Ikea store in north London, was the most popular place for charging an electric car in the whole of the Source London Network during August, electric vehicle charging specialist POD Point has revealed. PODDrivers took advantage of over 157 hours of charging time across 32 POD Poi nts in Source London network during August, [.].

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Diesel: The Dark-Horse Contender For Cleaner, Greener Cars?

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Though about half the new cars sold in Europe are diesels, the technology has never had much traction in the United States, partly because much stricter U.S. clean air regulations made it virtually untenable. But several years ago Daimler and Volkswagen introduced cars powered by clean diesel technology capable of meeting U.S. requirements. Audi.

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Brammo buys up QuantyaParx, renaming them to BrammoParx

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Brammo today announced the acquisition of Quantyaparx, a chain of dirt bike race tracks exclusively for electric dirt bikes. The existing tracks are successfully established in Germany, Austria, Spain, Sweden and the United Kingdom. The tracks.

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Siemens developing intelligent transportation technology using traffic light timing systems and mobile phones

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Siemens Intelligent Traffic Solutions is developing intelligent transportation technology for the fast and orderly evacuation of citizens. In this project, traffic light timing systems estimate the number of vehicles by registering Bluetooth signals emitted by the drivers’ cell phones and adjust the phases of red and green light accordingly. The associated software is supplied by Siemens’ global research unit, Corporate Technology.

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New video urges firms to take on electric cars

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The Energy Saving Trust is urging businesses to look at cutting carbon and fuel costs by launching a new video that looks at the realities of using electric cars. The Trust says the video highlights the benefits and opportunities of investing in electric vehicles and shows that not only can they help organisations to reduce [.].

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EcoBoost Gets Smaller: Ford Shows Its Three-Cylinder In Frankfurt

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Ford is using the Frankfurt Auto Show to familiarize consumers with its latest EcoBoost engine offering. The 1.0-liter, three-cylinder EcoBoost engine will debut in European Focus, B-Max, C-Max and other compact and subcompact segment vehicles in April of 2012. While no fuel economy numbers have been published yet, the engine is said to produce a.

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Prius v first member of expanded family to go on sale in US; 58% more cargo space than original Prius, with 42 mpg combined

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Toyota expects Prius v to account for about 15% (incremental) of conventional Prius sales. Click to enlarge. The new Prius v ( earlier post )—the first of three coming members of the Prius family joining the original Prius in the US—will go on sale here at the end of next month. (The other two are the Prius Plug-in hybrid ( earlier post ) and the Prius c.).

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Worldwatch Institute report finds global energy intensity increased in 2010 for second year in a row

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Global energy intensity, 1981-2010. Click to enlarge. Global energy intensity—defined as total energy consumption divided by gross world product—increased 1.35% in 2010, the second year of increases in the context of a broader trend of decline over the last 30 years, according to a new Vital Signs Online article from the Worldwatch Institute.

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Neste Oil starts up Europes largest renewable diesel plant in Rotterdam

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Neste Oil has successfully started up Europe’s largest renewable diesel plant in Rotterdam in the Netherlands. Production of NExBTL renewable diesel at the new plant—the company’s fourth—will be ramped up on a phased basis. The plant was completed on-schedule and on-budget. The Rotterdam plant has a capacity of 800,000 t/a and will increase Neste Oil’s total renewable diesel capacity to 2 million t/a.

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Carbon-fibre composite transmission tunnel key element of lightweight design of Mercedes-Benz SLS AMG E-Cell

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On display in Frankfurt. The transmission tunnel made out of lightweight carbon-fibre composite material (CFRP) is structurally integrated into the aluminium body shell and firmly bonded with it. Click to enlarge. A key element in the lightweight design of the Mercedes-Benz SLS AMG E-Cell electric vehicle ( earlier post ) is a transmission tunnel made out of lightweight carbon-fibre composite material (CFRP), which is structurally integrated into the aluminium body shell and firmly bonded with i

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GE and GM to partner on deploying EV infrastructure in China; focus on Shanghai

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General Electric and General Motors signed a Memorandum of Understanding (MoU) to accelerate jointly the deployment of electric vehicle (EV) charging infrastructure in China. The MOU was announced at the 2011 China International Electric Power and Electric Engineering Technology Exhibition in Shanghai. The main piece of the co-operation centers on Shanghai, which was selected by the Chinese government as the country’s first EV pilot city earlier this year and home to both GE’s and GM’s China hea

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Kia to Focus on EVs, Hyundai on plug-in hybrid and fuel cell vehicles

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Chosun Ilbo. Within the Hyundai-Kia Automotive Group, Kia will focus on electric cars, while Hyundai will work on plug-in hybrids and hydrogen fuel-cell vehicles, according to. Yang Woong-chul, vice president of the group, during a press briefing at the Frankfurt Motor Show. Under the new move, Kia will manufacture the group’s first high-speed electric vehicles under the project name “TAM” These are scheduled to hit the market at the end of this year.

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EIA projects world energy use to increase 53% by 2035; oil sands/bitumen and biofuels account for 70% of the increase in unconventional liquid fuels

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Unconventional liquids become increasingly important in the total supply of liquid fuels, according to IEO2011. Click to enlarge. Worldwide energy consumption will grow by 53% between 2008 and 2035 with much of the increase driven by strong economic growth in the developing nations, especially China and India, according to the reference case in the newly released International Energy Outlook 2011 (IEO2011) from the US Energy Information Administration (EIA).

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Coming Opel Zafira Tourer ecoFLEX 7-seater to deliver about 52 mpg US

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Equipped with Start/Stop and a package of ecoFLEX technologies, the new Opel Zafira Tourer 2.0 CDTI ecoFLEX emits 119 g/km CO 2. Click to enlarge. Shortly after the new Zafira Tourer goes on sale in the fall, Opel will also offer a lower CO 2 ecoFLEX version of the seven-seat monocab. Equipped with Start/Stop and a package of ecoFLEX technologies, the new Opel Zafira Tourer 2.0 CDTI ecoFLEX emits 119 g/km CO 2.

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UK consortium to develop new drivetrain technology for hybrid & electric vehicles to reduce dependency on rare earth metals

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UK-based motor control specialist Sevcon Ltd ( earlier post ) is leading a collaborative project that includes Cummins Generator Technologies and Newcastle University’s Power Electronics and Drives Research Group to develop a new type of electric traction drive for use in hybrid and pure electric vehicles that will use steel to replace the rare earth magnets used in motors.

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PSA Peugeot Citroën and General Electric sign a European Cooperation Agreement for the co-development of electromobility solutions; BEVs and PHEVs

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GE-badged Citroën C-Zéro EV and pedestal version of GE WattStation charger. Click to enlarge. PSA Peugeot Citroën and General Electric last week signed a technology and commercial cooperation agreement to collaborate towards establishing reliable business models for Electrical Mobility (EV), which includes both Fixed Battery Electrical Vehicles (FBEV) and Plug-in Hybrid Electric Vehicles (PHEV).

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Rice husks to H2; wet combustion technology converts waste organic materials to hydrogen and other value-added materials

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The Institute of Chemical and Engineering Sciences (ICES), an Institute of The Agency for Science, Technology and Research (A*STAR) (Singapore), is collaborating with Shion Pte Ltd (Shion), a wholly-owned subsidiary of Japan’s Science System Corporation Shion Inc., in a 18-month project to further develop wet combustion technology invented by Science System Corporation Shion Inc.

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Report: Production at two factories halted in east Shanghai after lead poisonings; local EPD suggests Johnson Controls likely source

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The Global Times reports that production at two factories in the Shanghai area has been halted after 21 children in a residential compound suffered lead poisoning. Ju Chunfang, a senior official from Pudong’s Environmental Protection Department, said that battery manufacturer Johnson Controls is likely the source of the lead poisoning. “A total of 756 children in Kangqiao Town in the Pudong New Area were tested in hospital.