Green Car Congress

OCTOBER 22, 2013

'SolidEnergy says that its Solid Polymer Ionic Liquid technology can deliver energy densities upwards of 800 Wh/kg—twice the densities of advanced startup batteries and four times the density of current conventional batteries. Source: SolidEnergy. Click to enlarge. A123 Venture Technologies, a Massachusetts-based technology incubator, will collaborate with MIT startup SolidEnergy.

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Green Car Reports

OCTOBER 22, 2013

'Over the last couple of years, Tesla Motors has fought legal and legislative battles in a number of states over proposed or current state laws that try to stymie its unique factory-direct sales and service model. In most cases--Massachusetts, New York, and North Carolina, among others--Tesla has managed to stave off the proposed laws, which are.

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Green Cars News

OCTOBER 21, 2013

'French carmaker Citroen has won the prestigious GreenFleet Fleet Car Manufacturer of the Year award, in recognition of its extensive range of fuel efficient and fleet friendly vehicles. Sponsored by Rockingham race circuit, the award was presented to Citroen at a black tie ceremony held at the E[.].

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Green Car Congress

OCTOBER 19, 2013

'Plot of cumulative steam-to-oil ratio (cSOR) vs. ratio of energy produced in form of chemical energy contained in bitumen if combusted to energy injected in form of steam (75% efficient steam generation). From Gates and Larter (2013). Click to enlarge. A team at the University of Calgary has assessed the thermal efficiencies, energy balances, and emissions of Steam-Assisted Gravity Drainage (SAGD)—both theoretically and as deployed at scale, using field data from the ERCB—for the pr

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Green Car Congress

OCTOBER 24, 2013

'The governors of 8 states—California, Connecticut, Maryland, Massachusetts, New York, Oregon, Rhode Island and Vermont—have signed a memorandum of understanding ( MoU ) to take specific actions to put 3.3 million zero emission vehicles on the roads in their states by 2025, along with the refueling infrastructure required to support those vehicles.

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Green Car Congress

OCTOBER 22, 2013

'0.9 TwinAir. Click to enlarge. Fiat is introducing a new two-cylinder 0.9 Turbo TwinAir 105 HP engine for the 2014 Alfa Romeo MiTo sport mini. The gasoline engine delivers 105 hp (72 kW) at 5500 rpm and maximum torque of 145 N·m (107 lb-ft) at 2000 rpm/min, with combined cycle fuel consumption of 4.2 l/100 km (56 mpg US ), equivalent to 99 g CO 2 /km.

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Green Car Congress

OCTOBER 21, 2013

'GE Capital’s Transportation Finance business and Clean Energy Fuels Corp., the largest provider of natural gas fuel for transportation in North America, have entered into a strategic alliance to accelerate the conversion of heavy-duty trucking fleets from diesel to cleaner-burning, less-expensive natural gas. Truck fleet operators will first work with Clean Energy to develop natural gas fueling contracts, and will then apply for loans and leases, including fair market value leases, from GE Capi

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Green Car Congress

OCTOBER 23, 2013

'An overview of the direct sugar to hydrocarbon (DSHC) process for the production of renewable jet fuel. Source: Amyris. Click to enlarge. Renewable fuels and chemicals company Amyris, Inc. and GOL Linhas Aéreas Inteligentes S.A., the largest low-cost and low-fare airline in Latin America, signed a memorandum of understanding that could pave the way for GOL commercial flights to use Amyris renewable jet fuel in 2014.

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Green Car Congress

OCTOBER 20, 2013

'Thierry Vanlancker, president, DuPont Chemicals & Fluoroproducts, issued a statement calling on German and European Union authorities to quickly bring closure to questions about safety related to HFO-1234yf, the low global warming potential (GWP) mobile air conditioning refrigerant targeted as the replacement for the current refrigerant, R134a. ( Earlier post.).

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Green Car Congress

OCTOBER 20, 2013

'Alcoa, the inventor and global leader of forged aluminum wheels, introduced its most advanced aluminum wheel alloy in 45 years. The new material enables lighter weight wheels at increased strength with the same corrosion-resistant characteristics as the industry standard, also made by Alcoa. Alcoa expects to introduce a new, advanced wheel featuring the alloy in early 2014.

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Green Car Congress

OCTOBER 24, 2013

'General Motors announced that a 1.8-megawatt rooftop solar array at its Toledo Transmission plant in Ohio would be completed next month. The project, which will generate nearly 3% of the plant’s overall electricity consumption, will be the largest rooftop array in Ohio. The energy produced will be enough to power 200 homes in the United States. Separately, GM was also recognized today by the Solar Energy Industries Association, or SEIA, as a “Solar Champion” at its annual awards luncheon at Sol

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Green Car Congress

OCTOBER 23, 2013

'One of General Motors’ fuel cell research vehicles recently passed a milestone for a hydrogen-powered vehicle, topping 100,000 miles (161,000 km) of real-world driving. By using renewable hydrogen, this vehicle has saved 5,260 gallons of gasoline. At $3.50 per gallon, that’s more than $18,000 in fuel cost savings. The specially equipped 2007 Chevrolet Equinox was part of GM’s 119-vehicle Project Driveway program, launched in 2007. ( Earlier post.

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Green Car Congress

OCTOBER 22, 2013

'Researchers at the University of Colorado Boulder and Singapore University of Technology and Design have added a “fourth dimension” to additive manufacturing technology, opening up possibilities for the creation and use of adaptive, composite materials in manufacturing, packaging and biomedical applications. The research could help provide a new approach to creating reversible or tunable 3D surfaces and solids in engineering such as the composite shells of complex shapes used in automobiles, ai

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Green Car Congress

OCTOBER 19, 2013

'The University of Michigan Board of Regents approved plans to proceed with the design of a unique environment for testing connected and automated vehicles. The facility, which simulates a dynamic urban environment, is a critical element of a joint project with industry and government to develop and implement an entire system of connected and automated vehicles on the streets of Southeastern Michigan by 2021.

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Green Car Congress

OCTOBER 24, 2013

'Researchers at the University of St. Andrews in Scotland report in a paper in the journal Nature Materials that titanium carbide (TiC) may represent a viable, stable cathode for rechargeable lithium-air batteries. Li-air batteries are receiving intense interest because of their extremely high theoretical specific energy. However, the team, led by Dr.

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Green Car Congress

OCTOBER 24, 2013

'The National Science Foundation (NSF), in partnership with the National Institutes of Health (NIH), US Department of Agriculture (USDA) and NASA, announced new investments totaling approximately $38 million for the development and use of robots that cooperatively work with people to enhance individual human capabilities, performance and safety. These mark the second round of funding awards made through the National Robotics Initiative (NRI) launched with NSF as the lead federal agency just over

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Green Car Congress

OCTOBER 24, 2013

'WiTricity has secured $25 million in Series E financing from new and existing investors, including Intel Capital and Hon Hai/Foxconn. The funding will support the company’s growth strategy as it further develops designs and products for wireless charging in the consumer electronics, electric vehicles, defense and medical device industries, as well as allowing WiTricity to pursue other strategic growth opportunities in the wireless power field.

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Green Car Congress

OCTOBER 23, 2013

'Sumitomo Electric Industries, Ltd. has reached an agreement with Tongji University in China on joint development of a bus priority control system to support the smooth flow of public buses. The purpose of this joint development is to combine Sumitomo Electric’s traffic control technologies and Tongji University’s bus priority control technologies, thereby facilitating research and development of a traffic control system to support the smooth flow of public buses, for which the need is growing i

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Green Car Congress

OCTOBER 22, 2013

'Summary of comparison of NO x emissions and fuel consumption of hybrid (D7E) and conventional (D6) dozers. Negative values mean hybrid benefit and positive values mean dis-benefit. PM, THC, and CO emission rates were very low for both the D7E and D6T and thus were not able to be quantified as a hybrid benefit or dis-benefit. Idle emissions showed a similar trend, with the hybrid emitting less CO 2 (-15%) and more NO x (+15%).

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Green Car Congress

OCTOBER 21, 2013

'US Department of Agriculture Secretary Tom Vilsack announced the availability of $181 million via its Biorefinery Assistance Program to develop commercial-scale biorefineries or retrofit existing facilities with appropriate technology to develop advanced biofuels. The Biorefinery Assistance Program was created through the 2008 Farm Bill and is administered by USDA Rural Development.

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Green Car Congress

OCTOBER 21, 2013

'Clariant, a global provider of specialty chemicals, has supplied a proprietary CO 2 -SNG (synthetic natural gas) catalyst for the methanation unit of Audi’s new power-to-gas facility in Werlte, Germany. ( Earlier post.). The “e-gas plant” was started up in June this year and is part of Audi’s sustainability initiative. The plant, which can convert six megawatts of input power, will utilize renewable electricity for electrolysis, producing oxygen and hydrogen, the latter which could one day powe

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Green Car Congress

OCTOBER 22, 2013

'The US Department of Energy (DOE) has awarded a 3-year, $600,000 grant to help researchers at Georgia Tech advance an additive manufacturing technique for fabricating three-dimensional (3D) nanoscale structures from a variety of materials. Known as focused electron beam induced deposition (FEBID), the technique delivers a tightly-focused beam of high energy electrons and an energetic jet of thermally excited precursor gases—both confined to the same spot on a substrate.

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Green Car Congress

OCTOBER 21, 2013

'PowerGenix, the developer of nickel-zinc (NiZn) rechargeable batteries ( earlier post ), has signed a product evaluation contract with HELLA, a Tier 1 supplier to major automotive manufacturers worldwide. HELLA will conduct real-world vehicle tests to evaluate NiZn’s ability in meeting the high-power requirements of 48-volt mild hybrid systems, while substantially reducing overall system complexity and cost.

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Green Car Congress

OCTOBER 20, 2013

'Car-Net mobile online services can now be ordered as an option in the Volkswagen Golf and Golf Estate. Traffic information obtained via the Internet makes it possible to compute alternative routes in real time. Google Street View and Google Earth also give drivers better visual orientation. The Golf Estate can be made even more dynamic with a progressive steering option.

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Green Car Congress

OCTOBER 25, 2013

'A transparent film of copper nanowires was transformed into an electrocatalyst for water oxidation by electrodeposition of Ni or Co onto the surface of the nanowires. Chen et al. Click to enlarge. A team led by Benjamin J. Wiley at Duke University has introduced a new electrocatalyst for water oxidation consisting of a conductive network of core-shell nanowires that is just as efficient as conventional metal oxide films on indium tin oxide (ITO) and a great deal more transparent and robust.

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Green Car Congress

OCTOBER 23, 2013

'The US Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) released its third year of greenhouse gas data detailing greenhouse gas emissions and trends broken down by industrial sector, greenhouse gas, geographic region, and individual facility. Data for 2012 show that in the two years since reporting began, emissions from power plants have decreased 10%. This is due to a switch from coal to natural gas for electricity generation and a slight decrease in electricity production.

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Green Car Congress

OCTOBER 23, 2013

'OAO Novatek, Russia’s largest independent natural gas producer and its second-largest gas producer, concluded a Heads of Agreement for the supply of liquefied natural gas (LNG) between Yamal LNG and China National Petroleum Corporation (CNPC). The document provides for the supply of no less than three (3) million tons of LNG per year at delivered ex-ship (DES) terms for a period of 15 years with possible supply extension, with the LNG price is indexed to the Japanese Crude Cocktail.

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Green Car Congress

OCTOBER 22, 2013

'Syngenta in North America has signed a commercial agreement with Arkalon Ethanol, LLC of Liberal, Kan., to begin using corn that features Enogen trait technology. Enogen grain delivers alpha amylase enzyme in the corn kernel, eliminating the need for an ethanol plant to use liquid alpha amylase. The ethanol plant will begin using the new grain following the 2014 corn harvest.

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Green Car Congress

OCTOBER 21, 2013

'Ford Motor Company has added Hong Kong to the list of global cities served by its Transit Connect Taxi, among them New York City, Chicago, Miami and Los Angeles. The Transit Connect Taxi Ford unveiled in Hong Kong comes equipped with a Ford-engineered, liquefied petroleum gas (LPG) fuel system. It is designed to run on Hong Kong’s well-established LPG infrastructure, providing dependability, low maintenance and long-range travel.

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Green Car Congress

OCTOBER 21, 2013

'The International Council on Clean Transportation (ICCT) and the China Automotive Technology and Research Center (CATARC) recently finalized a memorandum of understanding detailing the two organizations’ intentions to collaborate on a joint research project analyzing passenger vehicle technologies and costs in China. The non-binding memorandum, which covers a two-year period (2013–2015) and is renewable, also expresses the organizations’ desires to develop a closer and more formal cooperative r

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Green Car Congress

OCTOBER 25, 2013

'Production has begun at the Volkswagen Group’s new plant in Ningbo, China—the Group’s 105 th plant worldwide and its 16 th in China. The Ningbo plant is located about 150 km (93 miles) south of Anting (greater Shanghai area). With its own press, body and paint shops plus a final assembly unit, the plant has a total annual capacity of 300,000 vehicles.

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Green Car Congress

OCTOBER 25, 2013

'Audi of America announced that base pricing for the 2015 A3 sedan in the US will start at $29,900. The A3 represents the entry level to the Audi brand. The A3 sedan also plays a pivotal role in the soon to be expanding Audi A3 family. It will be joined later in 2014 by the recently announced Audi A3 Cabriolet; A3 TDI clean diesel; the high-performance S3 sedan; and in early 2015, the A3 Sportback e-tron gasoline electric plug-in hybrid (PHEV).

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Green Car Congress

OCTOBER 24, 2013

'Air Products and its subsidiary Air Products Canada Ltd., signed a long-term agreement to supply North West Redwater Partnership with approximately 25 million standard cubic feet per day (MMSCFD) of hydrogen for North West’s Sturgeon Refinery near Edmonton, Alberta, Canada. The hydrogen supply to North West will come both from the recently announced new world-scale hydrogen production plant Air Products Canada will build in Scotford, Canada, and from Air Products Canada’s existing Heartland Hyd

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Green Car Congress

OCTOBER 24, 2013

'Toyota Motor Sales, USA, Inc.’s transportation team, Toyota Logistics Services (TLS), moves approximately 2.2 million new Toyota and Lexus vehicles to dealerships every year. This week the US EPA recognized TLS for making these moves as efficient as possible. TLS received an Excellence Award from the US Environmental Protection Agency’s (EPA) SmartWay Transport program; the SmartWay Excellence Awards program recognizes the top 1% of SmartWay partners with superior environmental performance.

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