Green Car Congress

AUGUST 30, 2010

Four samples of the first proposed label design with the letter grade. From left to right: EV, PHEV, gasoline/diesel, gasoline/diesel. Color is integral to the new schemes. Source: EPA. Click to enlarge. The US Department of Transportation (DOT) and the US Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) are jointly proposing changes to the fuel economy labels consumers see on the window of new vehicles in dealer showrooms.

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Creative Greenius

SEPTEMBER 2, 2010

My old pal, Michael DiVirgilio, the Mayor of Hermosa – until Pete Tucker takes over that ceremonial title later this month - is putting on a “Leadership Forum&# on Sept 10 in Hermosa Beach in the City Council chamber. I only know about it because the announcement was sent to me by accident with a request not to forward it to anyone. I’m honoring that request by reposting the invite here instead of forwarding it to anyone.

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Revenge of the Electric Car

AUGUST 28, 2010

Chris Paine and the Revenge crew (Sean, Craig, Jessie, and Jessica) are proud to say that they are among the first film crews ever to professionally film mass production of an EV. (Of course, this is mostly because no one has made them in so long.) Since GM will be one of the first to the EV market with its Volt in 2011, we came to film them being put together through the multiple stages of the car manufacturing process.

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Green Car Reports

AUGUST 30, 2010

Here at High Gear Media, we've followed the launch of the 2011 Honda CR-Z two-seat hybrid sports car with great interest. In name, it's a reincarnation of the much-loved 1984-1992 CRX two-seater. In shape and technology, though, it's as reminiscent of the first-generation 1999-2006 Honda Insight as it is of the CRX. We just spent a long weekend.

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Green Car Congress

SEPTEMBER 1, 2010

A C-17 Globemaster III based at Edwards Air Force Base is conducting flight tests to see how it performs with different combinations of biofuels. The C-17 Globemaster lifts off. Source: USAF. Click to enlarge. The aircraft was powered by 50% JP-8, 25% hydro-treated renewable jet fuel (HRJ) and 25% of a Fischer–Tropsch (FT) fuel. The 418 th Flight Test Squadron conducted flight tests earlier using different combinations of regular JP-8 and the HRJ.

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Creative Greenius

AUGUST 28, 2010

“My great fear is that within the next few decades – it could be next year, or it could be in fifty years, we don’t know exactly when – we will trap enough heat close to the surface to our planet to precipitate a collapse, or partial collapse, of a major ice shelf…. I have friends who work on the West Antarctic Ice Sheet, and they say [when a collapse happens] you’ll hear it in Sydney… Sea levels would rise pretty much instantaneously, certainly over a few months.

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Green Car Reports

AUGUST 31, 2010

While many of its rivals have flocked to hybrid technology for fuel efficiency gains, Mazda is relatively unique in that it plans to further develop existing internal combustion technologies in order to maximize the fuel efficiency of its engines. Mazda previewed its next-generation of powertrain technologies, which included two new engines and an.

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Green Car Congress

AUGUST 29, 2010

China-based Foton Motor and Freescale Semiconductor have established the Foton-Freescale Automotive Joint Lab. The lab is Foton Motor’s first formal cooperation project in automotive electronics. The Foton-Freescale Automotive Joint Lab is committed to co-developing silicon, software and system-level solutions for use in the next generation of Foton vehicles.

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Creative Greenius

AUGUST 30, 2010

After the overwhelming success of the inaugural bicycle valet operation at the Memorial Day Fiesta Hermosa, filling our free parking lot to capacity for all three days , those of us who worked to make it happen set our sights even higher for the upcoming Labor Day Fiesta. Even though we took care of 800 to 1,000 bicycles per day over Memorial Day weekend, and made visiting the Fiesta a no-hassle, groovy good time for all those riders, we’re not satisfied.

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National Green Transportation

SEPTEMBER 1, 2010

Yesterday Matthew Dieckmann, 29, of Santa Rosa California died in a motorcycle accident. Matt was an entrepreneur in the electric motorcycle field, being the owner of ElectricRaceBikes.com, a small business selling parts for high performance electric motorcycles, and the owner of the Electric Race Bikes team. The Electric Race Bikes team, consisting of Matt and professional rider Mike Hannas, raced this year in the TTXGP and e-Power electric motorcycle races.

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Green Car Reports

SEPTEMBER 1, 2010

Range anxiety—that's the worry that people feel as they approach an electric car's driving range—has long been a bit unbecoming to discuss among fierce electric-vehicle advocates; but looking out at the general market, it's one of the most significant barriers against widespread electric-vehicle adoption. As we get past the first early.

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Green Car Congress

SEPTEMBER 2, 2010

New fleet efficiency horizon in terms of energy intensity and fuel consumption. rate compared to historical fleet averages and recent US regulations. Source: DeCicco 2010. Click to enlarge. Tripling US new light-duty vehicle fleet fuel efficiency by 2035 through evolutionary change—e.g., relying heavily on improvements in advanced engines and in the application of hybrid drive technology—rather than on revolutionary alternatives such as plug-in vehicles or hydrogen requiring extensiv

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Creative Greenius

AUGUST 30, 2010

With school starting up again it’s easy to remember what an exciting and terrifying time this is for high school freshmen making the giant leap from middle school to the intimidating and initially confusing big-time campus. They don’t get any more big-time than Redondo Union High School ‘s 56-acre campus, one of the largest in all of California.

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Green Cars News

SEPTEMBER 2, 2010

Global CO2 emissions are finally on their way down – despite strong growth in developing countries. According to an addendum to an earlier study published in the journal Environmental Research Letters, CO2 emissions fell by 1.3 per cent in 2009 – that’s the first decrease recorded this decade and this in spite of the fact [.]. Tags: Green cars Green credentials Latest news China emissions co2 emissions emissions global emissions greenhouse gas emissions India emissions.

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Green Car Reports

SEPTEMBER 2, 2010

We’ve been hearing about the 2011 Ford Fiesta for quite a long time. We drove a European version more than a year ago, and liked it a lot. It had edgy styling, great handling, and a far more inspired interior than the drab, grey-plastic monotony of competing subcompacts. Last year, well before cars landed at dealers, Ford’s.

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Green Car Congress

SEPTEMBER 3, 2010

UPS has begun a 90-day demonstration trial of the Electric Vehicles International (EVI) walk-in van (EVI-WI). The EVI-WI is built on a Freightliner Custom Chassis Corporation (FCCC) glider equipped with a Utilimaster body. ( Earlier post.). Over the past year, EVI and UPS have worked together to develop a vehicle to meet the needs of the parcel delivery service industry.

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Creative Greenius

AUGUST 31, 2010

I’ve been playing this new, fun, ultra exciting game on my Facebook page but it’s time to bring it here to Creative Greenius for everyone to enjoy. In “Greenius Connects-the-Dots-For You&# I’ll do the job your newspapers, TV and radio never do. I’ll bring you news each day that connects yet another Hot Dot. What’s a Hot Dot?

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National Green Transportation

SEPTEMBER 2, 2010

(UPDATE to Lightning Motors sets electric motorcycle world land speed record at Bonneville) This week is the BUB Speed Trials on the Bonneville salt flats, and both MotoCzysz and Lightning Motors are there attempting to win the title of "Fastest Production Electric Motorcycle in the World" The Lightning Motors team has claimed a series of records this week, first breaking last years record set by Mission Motors on their first run at (162 miles/hr), setting another record at 166 miles/h

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Green Car Reports

SEPTEMBER 3, 2010

Well, it's over. After four days of driving across the eastern half on North America, splitting time between a manual-transmission Ford Fiesta SE and an automatic-transmission Fiesta SES. We have already covered each day in individual posts this week, and now it's time for a quick wrap-up. The tour started in Los Angeles and is traversing around.

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Green Car Congress

SEPTEMBER 3, 2010

The CT 200h instrument panel, backlit in red to designate Sport mode. The panel is backlit in blue in Normal, ECO and EV modes. Click to enlarge. Lexus has provided a little more detail on the four drive modes—Normal, Eco, Sport and EV—to be offered by the new 2011 Lexus CT 200h premium compact hybrid. ( Earlier post.). The CT 200h, Lexus’s second dedicated hybrid (the 250h being the first), benefits from a new platform incorporating numerous, exclusively developed body, chassis and Lexus Hybrid

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All Cars Electric

SEPTEMBER 2, 2010

It’s not a secret that Hawaii is keen to become the most electric car-friendly state in the whole of the U.S. And now two more electric car companies are laying a claim to the electric vehicle market in the island state. Earlier this week at the Asia Pacific Clean Energy Summit and Expo, the state of Hawaii announced it has signed a.

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National Green Transportation

SEPTEMBER 1, 2010

BREAKING: This week the Lightning Motors team is on the Bonneville Salt Flats for the yearly time trials, and on their first time run, with a speed of 162 miles/hr, they have set the AMA and FIM land speed record for electric motorcycles. They are making this speed attempt fresh from winning the TTXGP North American series two weeks ago at Virginia International Raceway.

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Green Car Reports

SEPTEMBER 1, 2010

Fans of the Chevrolet Volt and Toyota Prius now have another reason to look forward to purchasing one, with news coming out this week that Gov. Arnold Schwarzenegger has signed a measure allowing up to 40,000 more motorists in the state of California to drive solo in carpool lanes. The bill, SB 535 by Sen. Leland Yee (D-San Francisco) and.

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Green Car Congress

AUGUST 31, 2010

A new report from the InterAcademy Council, an organization of the world’s science academies, including the US National Academy of Sciences, found that the process used by the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change to produce its periodic assessment reports has been a success overall, but that IPCC needs to reform its management structure, strengthen its procedures, and become more transparent to handle increasingly complex climate assessments and greater public scrutiny.

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All Cars Electric

SEPTEMBER 1, 2010

While prototypes of the upcoming 2011 Chevrolet Volt have been running around the streets of America for the past several months, the first customer delivered car won’t be built until production officially kicks off on November 11, 2010. The information comes from people familiar with the Volt's launch activities and was confirmed to.

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National Green Transportation

SEPTEMBER 3, 2010

Yesterday EVI-INC (Electric Vehicles International, Stockton, CA) and UPS announced a 90 day demonstration trial of EVI's all electric walk-in delivery van. They jointly developed this van to meet the needs of the parcel service industry. In the commercial truck industry it is common that fleet owners do not buy finished trucks directly from manufacturers like Freightliner.

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Green Car Reports

SEPTEMBER 1, 2010

Sometimes you need a pickup truck—and nothing else will do. Full-size pickup trucks make up roughly one in every five vehicles sold in the U.S. market, though they’re a vehicle type largely restricted to North America, where gasoline is cheap. The rest of the world is more likely to use what we’d consider midsize or even compact.

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Green Car Congress

SEPTEMBER 3, 2010

A new economic analysis in an issue brief from the Consumer Federation of America (CFA) is recommending that the Obama Administration set a fleet-wide car and light truck fuel economy standard of 60 mpg (3.92 L/100km) by 2025. The Obama Administration will release a Notice of Intent for 2017-2025 light duty fuel economy standards on 30 September. The current CAFE standard calls for fleet fuel economy of approximately 34 mpg in 2016—a target that the CFA termed “ very modest ” T

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All Cars Electric

SEPTEMBER 1, 2010

Fear is a powerful motivator. It has been used in the past to start wars, persuade kids to study at school and of course, sell life insurance. But now GM appears to be gearing up to use the fear of running out of electricity to give the extended-range 2011 Chevrolet Volt a competitive edge over purely electric cars. In a move which will not.

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National Green Transportation

AUGUST 29, 2010

Last winter Chip Yates wowed the electric motorcycle scene with his plan for a powerful electric superbike, which would he would race in this years TTXGP season, declaring that "2010 is really the pioneering year for electric superbike racing." While the 2010 TTXGP and e-Power season has been amazing, Chip Yates team was not there citing the need for more R&D to achieve their vision.

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Green Car Reports

SEPTEMBER 3, 2010

Subaru is sticking to its almost trademark horizontally opposed or ‘boxer’ engine for its future lineup of cars, improving on the design, making it more refined and fuel efficient with it each generation. According to latest reports, we could see the next iteration of the famous Subaru four-cylinder boxer engine as early as the end of.

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Green Car Congress

SEPTEMBER 1, 2010

Siemens Industry, Inc. has joined A2BE Carbon Capture LLC’s “Algae@Work Alliance Network,” which was formed to develop and deliver turnkey algae production systems. The Algae@Work Alliance Network is made up of corporations, researchers and institutions. The Alliance Network collaborates to develop and commercialize a bio-secure, scalable, climate adaptive and cost effective system to recycle industrial CO 2 emissions.

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All Cars Electric

AUGUST 31, 2010

Many think the infrastructure for hydrogen-powered fuel cell vehicles just isn’t there, and they’re mostly right. There have been a few advances in hydrogen production recently, but the distribution system is the weak point. However, there are companies, such as SunHydro, which are helping to change all that and are even partnering.

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National Green Transportation

SEPTEMBER 2, 2010

In what universe does class 8 big rig drive train technology get used to power a motorcycle? That universe is the one living within the frame of the electric superbike built by Lightning Motors. That motorcycle has dominated the TTXGP North America race series, winning that championship two weeks ago, and today has gone on to today setting the land speed record for electric motorcycles.

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