Green Car Congress

JUNE 29, 2010

Linc Energy Limited and AFC Energy, developer of low-cost alkaline fuel cells, have successfully combined syngas from underground coal gasification with the alkaline fuel cell technology to produce electricity at Linc Energy’s Chinchilla Demonstration Facility in Queensland. ( Earlier post.). Linc Energy’s Chief Executive Officer Peter Bond said his company’s exclusive agreement with UK-based AFC Energy for application with UCG and the delivery of an Alpha Unit Hydrogen Fuel Ce

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Creative Greenius

JUNE 28, 2010

I walked down from my Hollywood Riviera home to the Riviera Village Summer Festival Saturday on a mission to get something good to eat while I listened to the groovin’ music on this perfect June beach day for the first weekend of summer. I also wanted to see how my own hometown street fair stacks up against neighboring events in Hermosa Beach, Manhattan Beach and Palos Verdes.

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DIY Electric Car

JUNE 26, 2010

Here are a few strict guide lines that I follow to ensure a happy and productive partnership of parts. Remember most companies have to pay to get rid of some surplus. 1.If you don't ask you will not receive legally, I have received free things like: -73 used power packs (retail $200 ea. total $14,600). -1 3000 watt 12 volt inverter with 1 blown internal fuse. -1 1750 watt inverter. -20 Deka Ungly 45 ah deep cycle batteries (retail $3000).

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Green Car Reports

JUNE 28, 2010

If you're shopping for a hybrid vehicle, time is drawing to a close to take advantage of the Federal government's hybrid tax credits. But before those credits expire at the end of 2010, there's one new hybrid you'll want to add to your shopping list: the upcoming 2011 Hyundai Sonata Hybrid. It's expected to go on sale sometime in October or.

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Green Car Congress

JUNE 29, 2010

The extended range electric vehicle drive system by Raser Technologies and its development partner FEV is targeted at providing up to 40 miles all-electric range for SUVs and light trucks. Click to enlarge. Raser Technologies, Inc. and Hyundai Heavy Industries (HHI) have signed a Memorandum of Understanding (MOU) for the joint development of renewable energy and electric vehicles.

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Creative Greenius

JUNE 28, 2010

A typical June gloom morning on the beach at 26th Street couldn’t put a damper on the determined group of 50 to 60 concerned residents who participated in a Surfrider Foundation beach cleanup Saturday. The trash pickup work, which I was happy to participate in, was the prelude to our part in the nationwide Hands Across the Sand action, designed to bring people from all walks of life and political persuasions together to say no to offshore drilling and yes to switching to clean energy.

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Green Car Reports

JUNE 30, 2010

Quick, name the last automaker to go public before yesterday's Tesla Motors IPO. Stumped? It was Ford Motor Company. The year was 1956. Perhaps buyers of Tesla Motors stock [NSDQ:TSLA] were optimistic because they had little context to assess the comapny. Tesla's stock soared from its offering price of $17 to close at $23.89 by the end of.

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Green Car Congress

JUNE 26, 2010

Natural gas will play a leading role in reducing greenhouse-gas emissions over the next several decades, largely by replacing older, inefficient coal plants with highly efficient combined-cycle gas generation, according to a major new interim report out from MIT. In the transportation sector, the study found a somewhat smaller role for natural gas. The use of compressed or liquefied natural gas as a fuel for vehicles could help to displace oil and reduce greenhouse gas emissions, but to a limite

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Creative Greenius

JUNE 26, 2010

The Green Idea City of Hermosa Beach project has reached a major milestone in its goal to help the town become the first carbon-neutral city in the South Bay. The City Council voted 5-0 on Tuesday to agree to a memorandum of understanding between Hermosa Beach and AECOM , an international provider of environmental and energy-related technical and management support services.

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All Cars Electric

JUNE 28, 2010

Tesla, or TSLA as it will trade under on Nasdaq, has been priced at $17 per share, allowing the electric car start-up to raise more than $226 million in its IPO. Investors were expecting the share price target range to be between $14 and $16 but the overflow of excitement saw Tesla increase the number of shares it plans to offer to 13.3 million.

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Green Car Reports

JUNE 28, 2010

News of Gordon Murray's decision to build a low-cost minicar created quite a stir when it was announced last year. That stir was in part because of the key driving force behind the project, Gordon Murray, ex-McLaren F1 designer and the pen behind the Caparo T1 supercar, but also because the car itself is an ambitious project. Designed to be tiny.

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Green Car Congress

JUNE 29, 2010

Biorefineries may have a major role to play in mitigating the threat of climate change; meeting the “ seemingly boundless demand ” for energy, fuels, chemicals and materials; and creating economic growth, according to a new report released by the World Economic Forum: The Future of Industrial Biorefineries. The report defines a biorefinery as a facility that integrates biomass conversion processes and equipment to produce fuels, chemicals, feed, materials and energy from biomass: biological mate

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Green Cars News

JULY 2, 2010

As the European Commission faces a court case over its failure to release 140 documents detailing the true environmental costs of its policy of biofuel use within the transport sector, ActionAid, a charity which aims to eradicate poverty around the world, has been tirelessly working to make international governments rethink policies that encourage the use [.].

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All Cars Electric

JUNE 28, 2010

Is one of the most anticipated EVs to launch this year nothing more than a plug-in-hybrid? Or has miscommunication lead to a rumor that the 2011 Chevy Volt will run on gasoline only at highway speed? In an article for the U.K's Telegraph newspaper, motoring journalist Andrew English shared his experience behind the wheel of a european.

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Green Car Reports

JUNE 30, 2010

You've surely seen car-carriers full of brand-new vehicles on the highways. But many new cars roll out of the factory onto trains that carry them over much of their journey. Now a new video from India shows a trainload of diminutive Tata Nano minicars passing by an onlooker in Bangalore. The significant thing is that the Nano is short enough (at.

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Green Car Congress

JUNE 30, 2010

Energy crop company Ceres, Inc. has developed a plant trait for salt tolerance that could bring millions of acres of abandoned or marginal cropland damaged by salts into use. Results in several crops, including switchgrass, have shown levels of salt tolerance not seen before. Ceres reported that its researchers tested the effects of very high salt concentrations and also seawater from the Pacific Ocean, which contains mixtures of salts in high-concentration, on improved energy grass varieties gr

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Green Cars News

JUNE 29, 2010

Tuesday 29 June 2010. The Green Piece Column Think green cars, and much like The Vapors 30 years ago, you’re probably “turning Japanese”. From Toyota’s groundbreaking Prius, to Honda’s wealth of hybrids, Mitsubishi’s innovative i-MiEV and Nissan’s plans to be the first to mass produce an electric car with the LEAF, it seems that the rest [.]. Tags: Ford The Green Piece econetic electric car focus green piece.

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All Cars Electric

JULY 2, 2010

Taking a break from the relentless drumbeat of news about Tesla Motors, its stock offering this week, and the latest model of its electric two-seater, the Roadster 2.5--we bring you a story about the upcoming 2011 Chevrolet Volt range-extended electric vehicle. Specifically, a Volt is now en route from Austin, Texas, to New York City, scheduled to.

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Green Car Reports

JUNE 29, 2010

Hybrid vehicles have been alternately portrayed as the saviours of modern transportation or the last gasp of the dying oil-based economy. Either way, Toyota has capitalized on their popularity with its world-beating Prius, even managing to sell more than 2.5 million hybrids worldwide--and at a faster rate than ever before. So far this year.

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Green Car Congress

JULY 2, 2010

UTC Power, a United Technologies Corp. company, has set durability records for its latest generation transit bus fuel cell system. A PureMotion Model 120 fuel cell powerplant aboard an Alameda-Contra Costa Transit District (AC Transit) bus operating in the Greater Oakland, California, area has surpassed 7,000 hours in service with the original cell stacks and no cell replacements, and another has exceeded 6,000 hours.

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Green Cars News

JUNE 30, 2010

The Gordon Murray Design T.25 electric city car made its first public appearance this week at the Smith School World Forum on Enterprise and Environment in Oxford. The small electric car model debuted on Monday, displaying its unique and holistic design especially catered for electric operations and designed to also reduce weight, increase efficiency and [.].

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All Cars Electric

JULY 1, 2010

Tesla have taken cues from the world of software design as it announces the latest set of upgrades to its world-famous Tesla Roadster. But unlike a minor software upgrade, the Tesla 2.5 model gives customers a whole lot more than a few performance tweaks. Just days after its IPO and with shares almost doubling in value on the first day of.

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Green Car Reports

JUNE 28, 2010

Hybrid technology's responsible for those airy fuel economy numbers from the likes of the Honda Civic Hybrid and the Toyota Prius, but the 40-mpg barrier's about to be broken by a pair of compact cars--without any batteries or hybrid add-ons whatsoever. Earlier this year, we showed you the 2012 Ford Focus, which the American automaker says could.

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Green Car Congress

JULY 1, 2010

The US Department of Energy (DOE) launched the EERE Technology Commercialization Portal —an online resource that will serve as a tool for potential investors to identify opportunities to invest in work being conducted by DOE laboratories and participating research institutions. Traditionally, investors, entrepreneurs, and companies have faced substantial barriers when identifying clean energy technologies to license.

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Green Cars News

JUNE 29, 2010

Another partnership has been formed as companies work towards the development of renewable energy and electric vehicles. Raser Technologies Inc has signed a memorandum of understanding with Hyundai Heavy Industries that sets out two projects intended to lead to a broader long-term relationship to develop renewable energy. It also outlines the first phase of commercial production [.].

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All Cars Electric

JUNE 30, 2010

We've been keeping you in the loop as High Gear Media--well, me in particular--angles to be among the first to drive and own the 2011 Nissan Leaf electric car. Since Nissan opened up the ordering process to potential buyers earlier this year, the company's been aiming to release more specifics on the Leaf delivery process by June 30. In an email I.

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Green Car Reports

JUNE 30, 2010

When auto editors go on vacation, we rent cars too. Which is how a pair of very plain 2010 Toyota Corollas in South Africa taught us a few lessons about fuel economy, green value, and what other countries drive. The bottom line: U.S. buyers get a lot more car, for a lot less money, than elsewhere in the world. Toyota has built cars in South Africa.

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Green Car Congress

JUNE 30, 2010

Toyota Motor Corporation (TMC), Hino Motors Ltd. (Hino) and Showa Shell Sekiyu K. K. (SSSKK) plan to begin trials on 1 July of a diesel-electric hybrid transit bus fueled by a mixture of Fischer-Tropsch diesel (FTD)—specifically, Shell’s gas-to-liquids (GTL) fuel—and hydrogenated vegetable oil (HVO), a type of renewable diesel offering similar characteristics to FTD.

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Green Cars News

JULY 1, 2010

It’s been a big week for electric car maker Tesla Motors – no sooner had the company enjoyed a successful debut on the stock exchange, it announced a brand new version of its Roadster model. The Roadster 2.5 will debut simultaneously with the opening of two new stores in Newport Beach, California, and Copenhagen, Denmark. So what [.].

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All Cars Electric

JUNE 30, 2010

There was a time when 'electric vehicle racing' was nothing more than an oxymoron. While teams of dedicated engineers, speed junkies and volt-heads have lit up drag strips with custom-built EV quarter-mile kings for years, the concept of racing production electric vehicles has yet to take off. But Scandinavian EV company Think is about to change.

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Green Car Reports

JULY 1, 2010

Tesla's on a roll, it seems. Two days after its successful public stock offering, the company has released details of the latest updates to its Roadster electric sports car--known as "Roadster 2.5" after software-release numbering. The 2.5 version sports some new styling at front and rear, including a new front fascia (the grille-and-bumper area).

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Green Car Congress

JUNE 29, 2010

Allison Transmission, Inc. dedicated a new hybrid drive system manufacturing plant in Indianapolis, Indiana. ( Earlier post.) Once fully operational, nearly 100 manufacturing workers will be capable of producing more than 20,000 commercial-duty hybrid propulsion systems each year. Allison was being awarded a $62.8 million matching grant in 2009 by the US Department of Energy (DOE) to increase the United States’ capacity to manufacture cost efficient, fuel-efficient commercial-duty hybrid truck p

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Green Cars News

JUNE 30, 2010

Stunning good looks and a breathtaking body that is bound to turn heads… Oh and the girl isn’t bad either. The Vauxhall Ampera made a spectacular debut in London alongside supermodel Erin O’Connor who was aptly dressed in an electrifying design from British fashion icon William Tempest. The Ampera (known outside Europe as the Chevrolet Volt) was continuing [.].

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All Cars Electric

JULY 1, 2010

When Tesla (Nasdaq:TSLA) finally listed on Nasdaq on Tuesday its share price went from $17 up to $23.89 at the end of trading, a gain of almost 41 percent in just one day alone. Scores of profit takers would have been rejoicing; among them Tesla CEO Elon Musk who managed to walk away with a cool $24 million after selling some of his own shares in.

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