Green Car Congress

JULY 19, 2013

'The Spark EV. Click to enlarge. Chevrolet is hosting a series of media drives this week for the production version of its new Spark EV ( earlier post ). Featuring a GM-developed 105 kW electric motor that pushes out 400 lb-ft (542 N·m) of torque and a 21 kWh pack that supports an estimated 82-mile (132 km) range, the Spark EV is a speedy (0-60 mph in 7.6 seconds); efficient (combined city/highway 119 MPGe); affordable (as low as $17,495 in California net after Federal and state rebates);

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Green Car Reports

JULY 18, 2013

'"History is littered with big companies that ignored innovation that was coming their way because you didn’t know where you could be disrupted." General Motors will be hoping those words, from vice chairman Steve Girksy as the automaker begins to study electric upstart Tesla Motors [NSDQ:TSLA], don''t become too prophetic. They''re a clear.

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JULY 16, 2013

'Hi All, EMW here. EMW JuiceBox has reached its initial funding goal on kickstarter. Onward to a Stretch Wi-Fi goal of $40K! EMW has announced that Juicebox kickstarter campaign has reached its initial funding goal on July 10th, 2013 - with 13 days left to go. Find the project on kickstarter at [link]. Thank you all for your great support! The JuiceBox is now REAL!

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JULY 13, 2013

'The newly announced fast charging network in the Netherlands is facing a lawsuit from incumbent service station owners afraid of the competition. News of the lawsuit emerged on Thursday, and was filed by 26 service station owners who are.

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Green Car Congress

JULY 18, 2013

'The E-Force truck for Feldschlösschen. Click to enlarge. BRUSA Elektronik AG is to supply the main drivetrain components such as motors, inverters and chargers for the E-FORCE, Switzerland’s first all-electric 18-tonne truck. The E-FORCE truck was jointly developed by EFORCE ONE AG and Designwerk GmbH for use in short-haul services and the national distribution of goods.

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Green Car Reports

JULY 19, 2013

'The trouble with kids is that they just don''t have enough ways to injure themselves these days. If you''re a parent who thinks this should change, then we can''t think of anything with better arm-breaking potential than the Crazy Cart from Razor. What the Crazy Cart is, is a shrunken electric go-kart on casters with a tiny seat and a.

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National Green Transportation

JULY 13, 2013

'The newly announced fast charging network in the Netherlands is facing a lawsuit from incumbent service station owners afraid of the competition. News of the lawsuit emerged on Thursday, and was filed by 26 service station owners who are.

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Green Car Congress

JULY 13, 2013

'BRUSA 750V electric drive components. Click to enlarge. BRUSA Elektronik AG is now offering its proven electric-drive components—including motor, controller, power electronics, battery pack and chargers—in 750-volt versions. The new 750-volt products are suited for use in commercial vehicles and applications demanding very high output performance.

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Green Car Reports

JULY 18, 2013

'With hybrid sales growing all the time, no hybrid-touting manufacturer can afford to be left without stock. That''s why Ford has announced it''s to increase production of the 2014 Lincoln MKZ Hybrid by double for the new model year. Announced by Ford''s group vice president of global product development, Raj Nair, the increased production means 40.

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Green Cars News

JULY 15, 2013

'Weekly Column. By Nikki Gordon-Bloomfield. Look back almost two years ago, and you’ll find a story (covered by both The Times and The Telegraph) telling us that anyone stupid enough to buy an electric car would soon be faced with a £19,000 bill to replace the battery pack when it died. The story it[.].

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Green Car Congress

JULY 16, 2013

'New Golf GTD. Click to enlarge. Volkswagen has introduced a new version of the Golf GTD (“Gran Turismo Diesel”) in Europe, and plans to bring it to the US market, reportedly likely for the 2016 model year. The latest GTD is based on the seventh-generation Golf ( earlier post ), and thus, on the strategic MQB (modular transverse matrix) platform. ( Earlier post.

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Green Car Congress

JULY 14, 2013

'Technologies in the EA888 engine line. Click to enlarge. Among the important product changes for Volkswagen of America for the 2014 model year is the introduction of the EA888 1.8-liter turbocharged and direct-injection four-cylinder TSI engine, which will gradually replace the 2.5-liter five-cylinder naturally aspirated powerplant fitted to the Jetta, Beetle, and Passat models.

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Green Car Congress

JULY 16, 2013

'Ford is boosting the on-road fuel economy performance of its 2013 model year hybrid vehicles in the US and Canada. Starting in August, the company will make calibration updates for owners at dealerships designed to improve on-road fuel economy of the 2013 Ford C-MAX Hybrid, 2013 Ford Fusion Hybrid and 2013 Lincoln MKZ Hybrid. New 2014 models will have the updated settings from the factory.

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Green Car Congress

JULY 19, 2013

'Nissan Motor Co., Ltd. will offer six units of the electric Nissan New Mobility Concept ( earlier post ) for Japan’s first ultra-compact mobility rental car service in Teshima, Tonosho-cho, Shozu-gun, Kagawa prefecture as part of a pilot project for ultra-compact mobility to be conducted on the island. Nissan New Mobility Concept. Click to enlarge.

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Green Car Congress

JULY 15, 2013

'The Cat marine hybrid power system uses AKA’s XeroPoint Hybrid system. Source: AKA. Click to enlarge. Caterpillar Marine Power Systems has introduced the the Cat Powered Marine Hybrid System, a complete hybrid propulsion package applicable to all engine platforms. Developed with systems integrator Aspin Kemp & Associates (AKA), the package utilizes AKA’s XeroPoint Hybrid marine propulsion system and provides fuel savings of up to 25% and corresponding emissions reductions.

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Green Car Congress

JULY 18, 2013

'Chrysler Group is working with NextEnergy to evaluate vehicle-to-grid (V2G) technology using four all-electric minivans. Detroit-based NextEnergy is a non-profit energy-technology and business accelerator. The battery-powered minivans are connected to a charging module that, using NextEnergy technology, can simulate any electrical grid in the world.

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Green Car Congress

JULY 19, 2013

'Drivers of diesel vehicles can save thousands of dollars in total ownership costs compared to similar gasoline vehicles, according to a University of Michigan Transportation Research Institute (UMTRI) study. The estimates of savings for three and five years of ownership vary from a low of $67 in three years to a high of $15,619 in five years, but most of the savings are in the $2,000-to-$6,000 range, which also include the extra cost that is usually added to the diesel version of a vehicle.

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Green Car Congress

JULY 19, 2013

'Honda Motor Co., Ltd. achieved fuel economy of 36.4 km/L (85.6 mpg US, 2.7 l/100 km) over the JC08 cycle on the new Fit Hybrid—a 35% improvement over the preceding model and the highest among all hybrid models (excluding plug-in hybrids) in Japan, according to Honda research. ( Earlier post.) The new Fit Hybrid is scheduled to be introduced and go on sale in Japan this September.

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Green Car Congress

JULY 18, 2013

'Expected urban private motorized travel (in passenger kilometers). Source: IEA. Click to enlarge. Policies that improve the energy efficiency of urban transport systems could help save as much as US$70 trillion in spending on vehicles, fuel and transportation infrastructure between now and 2050, according to a recently released report from the International Energy Agency (IEA).

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Green Car Congress

JULY 15, 2013

'Asian Power reports that South Korea’s SK Innovation Company, Beijing Automotive Industries Holding Co. (BAIC) and Beijing Electronics Holding Co., the world’s fifth-largest LCD maker, have signed an agreement to form a joint venture to produce battery packs for electric vehicles. The joint venture will invest US$166.4 million to build a battery pack plant that will have an annual production capacity of 200 MWh (capable of powering about 10,000 electric vehicles) by the second half of 2014, acc

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Green Car Congress

JULY 16, 2013

'Sapphire Energy, Inc. and The Linde Group will expand their partnership to commercialize a new industrial-scale conversion technology needed to upgrade algae biomass into crude oil. Together, the companies will refine the hydrothermal treatment process developed and operated today by Sapphire Energy at pilot-scale. In addition, they will jointly license and market the technology into an expanded list of industries, including algae, municipal solid waste, and farm waste, in order to upgrade othe

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Green Car Congress

JULY 16, 2013

'Chevrolet sold a record 2.5 million vehicles around the world in the first six months of 2013, up 1.4% over the same period in 2012, and achieved its 11 th straight quarter of increased sales on the strength of new products in all markets. Overall, General Motors Co. posted sales of more than 4.85 million vehicles in the first half of 2013, an increase of nearly 4% over the same period in 2012.

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Green Car Congress

JULY 13, 2013

'OpEneR prototype at RIVE2013 in Alès. Click to enlarge. Bosch, PSA Peugeot Citroën and partners recently presented the first two Optimal Energy Consumption and Recovery solution ( OpEneR ) prototypes. OpEneR is a European research project under the Seventh Framework Programme designed to increase the range of future hybrid and electric vehicles by optimizing energy management.

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Green Car Congress

JULY 18, 2013

'Saft has won €35-million (US$46-million) of orders to supply specialized Li-ion telecom battery systems for Reliance Jio Infocomm Limited (RJIL) broadband mobile base stations in India. Reliance Jio Infocomm Limited is a subsidiary of India’s largest private firm and currently the only Pan-Indian 4G/LTE operator. The order is Saft’s largest to date for Li-ion telecom batteries.

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Green Car Congress

JULY 19, 2013

'Chevron USA Inc. has paid $422,500 in penalties for supplying gasoline and diesel fuel in violation of California regulations designed to protect air quality. Chevron agreed to pay the penalties as part of three separate settlements it reached with the California Air Resources Board (ARB). In all, 15.9 million gallons of fuel were in violation of state regulations.

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Green Car Congress

JULY 16, 2013

'The independent Dutch research organization TNO is working with the Russian A.V. Topchiev Institute for Petrochemical Synthesis ( TIPS ) on marketing a new technology developed by TIPS to convert flared gases into hydrocarbon fuels such as gasoline. The new method offers a range of benefits compared with the common, but nearly hundred-year old, Fischer-Tropsch process, the partners said.

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Green Car Congress

JULY 16, 2013

'California’s Interagency Working Group on Refinery Safety released its draft report outlining steps and recommendations to improve public and worker safety at and near the state’s oil refineries. The Interagency Working Group, composed of thirteen agencies and departments and the Governor’s office, was formed following the fire at Chevron’s Richmond oil refinery last August.

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Green Car Congress

JULY 18, 2013

'Wärtsilä has been awarded a retrofitting contract by the German shipyard BVT Brenn - und Verformtechnik Bremen GmbH. The project entails converting the m/v Ostfriesland , a car and passenger ferry owned by AG EMS, to be able to utilize liquefied natural gas (LNG) as fuel. The vessel sails between Emden and Borkum Island on the Lower Saxon Wadden Sea National Park, an ecologically sensitive UNESCO World Heritage listed area in the southeastern part of the North Sea, and the retrofit will reduce

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Green Car Congress

JULY 17, 2013

'Researchers from Trinity College (Connecticut), North Carlina State University (NCSU) and General Motors (GM) have developed a model to improve the clarity of the vehicle-to-vehicle (V2V) transmissions needed to realize an intelligent transportation system. V2V communication relies on transmitting data via radio frequencies in a specific band. However, the transmission is complicated by the fact that both the transmitter and the receiver are in motion—and by the reflected radio waves, or

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Green Car Congress

JULY 13, 2013

'Toyota has joined the iZEUS (Intelligent Zero Emission Urban System) project in Germany as an associated partner, and is contributing four Prius Plug-in Hybrid vehicles to Fraunhofer Institute for Systems and Innovation Research (Fraunhofer-Institut für System- und Innovationsforschung, ISI); Fraunhofer Institute for Solar Energy Systems (Fraunhofer-Institut für Solare Energiesysteme, ISE); and Karlsruhe Institute of Technology (Karlsruher Institut für Technologie, KIT). iZEUS examines how traf

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Green Car Congress

JULY 17, 2013

'A subsidiary of Chevron Corporation signed an agreement with affiliates of the Argentine oil company YPF S.A. that furthers the development of shale oil and gas resources from the Vaca Muerta formation located in the Neuquén province. ( Earlier post.) The agreement calls for initial outlays of approximately $1.24 billion to enable the first phase of development in the Loma La Lata Norte and Loma Campaña areas.

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Green Car Congress

JULY 17, 2013

'While refinery receipts of crude oil by truck, rail, and barge remain a small percentage of total receipts, EIA’s recently released Refinery Capacity Report shows refineries across the nation received more than 1 million barrels per day (bbl/d) by rail, truck, and barge in 2012, a 57% increase from 2011. Total refinery receipts of crude oil run about 15.2 million bbl/d, with more than half of that crude oil arriving by pipeline.

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Green Car Congress

JULY 19, 2013

'US Energy Secretary Dr. Ernest Moniz highlighted the continued growth of plug-in electric vehicle (PEV)sales—more than doubling in the first 6 months of 2013 to 40,000 units compared to the same period in 2012—as the US Department of Energy (DOE) released its most recent pricing data showing the low cost of fueling on electricity. The eGallon, a quick and simple way for consumers to compare the costs of fueling electric vehicles vs. driving on gasoline, rose slightly to $1.18 from $

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Green Car Congress

JULY 19, 2013

'The first of the twin centers designed to promote common standards in electric mobility and smart grids on both sides of the Atlantic was inaugurated at Argonne National Laboratory. Chicago. The launch of the Interoperability Centre for electric vehicles and smart grids is the fruit of 18 months of dedicated work following the Letter of Intent (LoI) for closer co-operation, signed by the JRC, the European Commission’s in-house science service, and the US Department of Energy (DOE) in 2011.

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