Green Car Congress

NOVEMBER 28, 2011

General Motors today announced initiatives for customer satisfaction and outlined its steps in battery safety research to ensure ongoing confidence in the safety of Chevrolet Volt extended-range electric vehicle. On Friday, the National Highway Traffic Safety Administration (NHTSA) opened a formal safety defect investigation to assess the risk of a battery-related fire in Chevy Volts that have been involved in a serious crash. ( Earlier post.

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Green Car Reports

DECEMBER 1, 2011

Despite the NHTSA inquiry into battery-pack fires following severe crash tests of the Chevrolet Volt range-extended electric car, the car's 5,000 or so owners to date seem to be unworried. Comments on Volt owner forums largely dismiss worries about any risk of fire during accidents, and many owners still seem ecstatically happy with their cars. So.

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Electric Cars are for Girls

NOVEMBER 29, 2011

Venus Motors builds new custom electric vehicles using fiberglass kits, electric drive trains, and lithium batteries.

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National Green Transportation

DECEMBER 2, 2011

Today NPR reported that the Partnership for a Healthier America is calling on Businesses to provide us with healthier food choices. At the recently held the Building a Healthy Future Summit in Washington DC, leaders from Business, Government and.

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Green Car Congress

DECEMBER 1, 2011

Changes in percentage of teenagers with driver’s licenses, 1983 to 2008. Data: Sivak and Schoettle. Click to enlarge. The age composition of US drivers has changed substantially between 1983 and 2008, according to a new study by University of Michigan researchers Michael Sivak and Brandon Schoettle, published in the journal Traffic Injury Prevention.

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Green Car Reports

NOVEMBER 27, 2011

Hybrids and, more recently, plug-in cars seem to have gotten all the green ink lately, leaving fans of fuel-sipping clean diesels out in the cold. Four makers sell diesel passenger vehicles in the U.S. for 2012: Audi and BMW joined longtime stalwarts Mercedes-Benz and Volkswagen a few years back. And there are more coming next year, a.

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National Green Transportation

NOVEMBER 28, 2011

GM is pushing for a "depowering" protocol after accidents involving electric vehicles, to ensure EV battery packs are in a "safe low-power state" This is occuring in the wake of a controversy arising from.

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Green Car Congress

NOVEMBER 28, 2011

Toyota Motor Corporation (TMC) and Yamaha Motor Co., Ltd. are collaborating in the development of communications-linked next-generation vehicles. A part of this collaboration is their joint exhibition of a communications-linked electric commuter concept and an electrically power assisted bicycle concept at the 42 nd Tokyo Motor Show 2011. Electric commuter EC-Miu.

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Green Car Reports

NOVEMBER 28, 2011

The late-night arguments are over, the statistical comparisons and product specs are put away, and we've made our choice. The GreenCarReports Best Car To Buy Award for 2012 goes to a pair of cars: the 2012 Toyota Prius V wagon and the 2012 Toyota Prius Plug-In Hybrid. The two new 2012 entries together make up two-thirds of an expanded Prius hybrid.

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Green Cars News

NOVEMBER 29, 2011

Volvo has made improvements to its automatic transmissions on its low emission DRIVe models which means that clutch-less cars now achieve the same low emission levels and strong fuel economy as manual models. The Swedish car maker, which prides itself on being among the leading manufacturers in Europe in tackling carbon emissions, announces two new [.].

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National Green Transportation

DECEMBER 1, 2011

Faced by a swirl of controversy about the safety of Chevy Volt battery packs, GM is perhaps over-reacting on the side of caution in offering loaner cars and now CEO Dan Akerson suggested today in a Reuters interview they.

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Green Car Congress

NOVEMBER 30, 2011

Researchers at MIT are devising algorithms for more accurately estimating driver behavior at road intersections—i.e., whether or not an oncoming car is likely to run a red light—and validating them using real traffic data. The team has introduced two classes of algorithms that can classify drivers as “compliant” or “violating”. These are based on i) Support Vector Machines (SVM) and ii) Hidden Markov Models (HMM)—two very popular machine learning approaches that have been used

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Green Car Reports

DECEMBER 2, 2011

Phew. Yesterday was quite a day indeed in Chevy Volt land. A bevy of news items hit the wires, following Monday's offer of loaner cars to Volt owners who weren't comfortable with their cars' safety until the NHTSA finishes its investigation into battery-pack fires in cars that had been wrecked in crash tests: CEO Dan Akerson said (maybe) that the.

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Green Cars News

DECEMBER 2, 2011

The Tokyo Motor Show was the setting for Subaru to introduce its hybrid Advanced Tourer Concept. The new hybrid car combines a downsized, direct injection turbocharged 1.6litre boxer engine, which is considered one of the company’s principal engine technologies for the future, with Subaru’s all-wheel drive hybrid system. In addition, the engine is coupled with [.].

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National Green Transportation

DECEMBER 2, 2011

Today NPR reported that the Partnership for a Healthier America is calling on Businesses to provide us with healthier food choices. At the recently held the Building a Healthy Future Summit in Washington DC, leaders from Business, Government and.

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Green Car Congress

NOVEMBER 26, 2011

Aggregated damage costs by pollutant. The EEA quantified the damage costs arising from CO 2 emissions based on estimated marginal abatement cost. Source: EEA. Click to enlarge. Air pollution from the 10,000 largest polluting facilities in Europe cost citizens between €102–169 billion (US$135–224 billion) in 2009, according to a new report from the European Environment Agency (EEA) which analyzed the costs of harm to health and the environment caused by air pollution.

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Green Car Reports

DECEMBER 2, 2011

Aptera has just released a statement, saying it will shut down operations today. The official letter is below: After years of focused effort to bring our products to the market, Aptera Motors is closing its doors, effective today. This is a difficult time for everyone connected with our company because we have never been closer to realizing our.

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Green Cars News

NOVEMBER 30, 2011

Oldham, in Greater Manchester, is set to become the first in the country to have a showroom solely dedicated to electric cars. Planning permission has been granted for the Manchester Electric Car Company (MECC) to build new premises on the former Roxy cinema site in Hollinwood, Oldham. The showroom, scheduled to open in the summer [.].

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National Green Transportation

DECEMBER 1, 2011

Today in a jointly held press conference in Tokyo, BMW and Toyota announced a Memorandum of Understanding leading towards a partnership in which the two companies will work together on battery technology, and where BMW will supply Toyota with.

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Green Car Congress

DECEMBER 1, 2011

Different pathways to jet fuel. Alcohol-to-jet (bottom) is currently being explored by an ASTM Working Group. Source: Byogy. Click to enlarge. LanzaTech has received a US$3-million contract from the United States Federal Aviation Administration (FAA), through the Department of Transportation’s John A. Volpe Center, to accelerate commercial availability of alcohol-to-jet (ATJ) renewable drop-in aviation fuel. ( Earlier post.).

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Green Car Reports

DECEMBER 2, 2011

For as long as we can remember, there’s been an ongoing love-to-hate relationship between the BBC's Top Gear show and electric cars. Until yesterday that is, when Top Gear Magazine caught everyone off guard by announcing that its Luxury Car of The Year was none other than the $95,900 Fisker Karma Plug-in Hybrid. Chosen twice, once as Luxury.

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Green Cars News

DECEMBER 1, 2011

As the second day of the Tokyo Motor Show gets under way, one thing conspicuous by its near-total absence is the hydrogen fuel cell car, despite three Japanese car makers-Honda, Nissan and Toyota-among seven who have pledged to have FCEVs in production by 2015. Of course, the familiar Honda FCX Clarity is on display, a [.].

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National Green Transportation

NOVEMBER 28, 2011

GM is pushing for a "depowering" protocol after accidents involving electric vehicles, to ensure EV battery packs are in a "safe low-power state" This is occuring in the wake of a controversy arising from.

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Green Car Congress

NOVEMBER 27, 2011

Emission reduction wedges for California in 2050. Williams et al. Click to enlarge. Technically feasible levels of energy efficiency and decarbonized energy supply alone will not be sufficient to reduce greenhouse gas emissions 80% below 1990 levels by 2050, according to a detailed modeling of the California economy performed by a team from Energy and Environmental Economics, the Monterey.

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Green Car Reports

DECEMBER 2, 2011

Earlier on today we caught wind of a brand new electric car hitting the market just in time for the New Year. With classic sports car styling, a 0-60 time of 2.3 seconds and a price tag of $1100, it could make the perfect gift for the electric car fan that has everything. But while the Traxxas XO-1 has a top speed of over 100 mph, is faster than a.

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Green Cars News

NOVEMBER 29, 2011

Tuesday 29 November, 2011. The Green Piece Column. Japan’s year of trials and troubles ends with a show of its industrial might in the Tokyo Motor Show and will show just how this determined nation has picked up the pieces following the Great East Japan Earthquake and Tsunami which rocked it back in March. As [.].

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National Green Transportation

DECEMBER 1, 2011

Today in a jointly held press conference in Tokyo, BMW and Toyota announced a Memorandum of Understanding leading towards a partnership in which the two companies will work together on battery technology, and where BMW will supply Toyota with.

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Green Car Congress

NOVEMBER 29, 2011

Volvo Car Corporation’s 1.6-liter diesel combined with the automatic Powershift gearbox now delivers the same low fuel consumption and CO 2 levels as the manual DRIVe versions. The combination of the four-cylinder, 1.6-liter diesel engine (115 hp) with the six-speed Powershift. gearbox is available in four models: Volvo S60, V60, V70 and S80. Fuel consumption in the Volvo S60 with the 1.6D engine and Powershift is 4.3 L/100km (54.7 mpg US).

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Green Car Reports

NOVEMBER 28, 2011

While hybrid and electric cars are becoming more popular throughout the U.S., it isn’t a secret that buyers in some areas are more keen to buy a hybrid or electric car than others. Now NPR has published an interactive map detailing just where electric and hybrid cars have proved popular this year, and which states have yet to embrace both.

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Green Cars News

NOVEMBER 28, 2011

Toyota and BMW are in talks for a partnership for greener vehicles, according to Reuters today. No official announcements have yet been made, but reports from Japan suggest that a proposed agreement could see BMW provide fuel efficient diesel engines for Toyota mid-size models sold in Europe. In return, Toyota could share its hybrid technology [.].

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National Green Transportation

DECEMBER 1, 2011

Faced by a swirl of controversy about the safety of Chevy Volt battery packs, GM is perhaps over-reacting on the side of caution in offering loaner cars and now CEO Dan Akerson suggested today in a Reuters interview they.

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Green Car Congress

NOVEMBER 29, 2011

Siemens Energy launched its new 6-megawatt (MW) direct-drive wind turbine at the European Offshore Wind Energy Conference in Amsterdam, The Netherlands. The new SWT-6.0 will be available with rotor diameters of 120 and 154 meters and is designed for the most challenging offshore sites. Prototype of the new SWT-6.0 wind turbine. Click to enlarge. The new turbine features the Siemens direct drive design with 50% fewer parts than comparable geared wind turbines.

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Green Car Reports

NOVEMBER 29, 2011

It might have an official EPA-approved range of just 73 miles, but the Nissan Leaf, Nissan’s first production electric car, is quickly becoming the primary car in multi-car households where a Leaf is owned. According to Nissan North America, many early adopters purchased the Leaf intending it to be the second family car for short trips, but.

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Green Cars News

DECEMBER 1, 2011

The future of Vauxhall Ampera production and whether it will come to the UK is unlikely to be decided before 2015, according to news agency Headlineauto.co.uk. It has been rumoured in the past that the range-extended Ampera-a UK version of the Chevrolet Volt-could be produced at the firm’s Ellesmere Port plant, where the Astra is [.].

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