Sat.Oct 26, 2013 - Fri.Nov 01, 2013

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VIA launches electric vehicle assembly plant in Mexico

Green Car Congress

'VIA Motors inaugurated its first high volume electric vehicle assembly line this week at its new facility in San Luis Potosi, Mexico. The new facility is strategically located in a free trade zone near several major automakers and suppliers. New vehicles are transported from the General Motors production facility in Silao, to VIA’s assembly plant in nearby San Luis Potosi, where they are transformed into electric vehicles by integrating VIA’s proprietary extended range electric power train.

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Tesla Superchargers Now Allow San Diego-To-Vancouver Electric Car Trips

Green Car Reports

'Can you drive from the Mexican border to the Canadian border for free? On Saturday, Tesla Model S drivers woke to find that radical idea was now a reality. Their cars'' GPS systems confirmed that the corridor of Tesla Supercharger DC fast-charging stations along Interstate 5 from San Diego, California, to Vancouver, Canada, was now complete. The.

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HV makes the CCShell go

DIY Electric Car

'DMOC and CCShell work ok with HV and a stable 12v supply. I''m using the lead acid battery from another car. Had to disable the CHARGED_ERROR fault, but it seems to persist even though the DMOC is presently resting on a bare metal frame and has a the spec grounding strap fitted. The manual says this error/parameter were removed in later versions so I guess it was too annoying to try to get it right, even in the factory.

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Tesla Motors and Panasonic sign battery supply deal for 2 billion cells

National Green Transportation

'Tesla Motors and their battery supplier, Panasonic, announced on Wednesday an agreement in which Panasonic will expand supplies of automotive-grade lithium-ion battery cells to Tesla. This expands on their 2011 agreement, and under the new.

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How serious is Norway about climate change? So much that its streetlights self-dim

emissions global warming Norway climate change carbon dioxide youtube lighting

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Fraunhofer and Continental building pilot system to extract Russian dandelion rubber for tires

Green Car Congress

'Researchers from the Fraunhofer Institute for Molecular Biology and Applied Ecology IME, in collaboration with Continental, are building a pilot system to extract rubber from the Russian dandelion for making tires. Working jointly with industry and science, the IME scientists have optimized the cultivation and production engineering for dandelion rubber over the past few years.

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What Happens To A Nissan Leaf Electric Car At A Gas Station?

Green Car Reports

'"Looks like we are going to fight with this car," one gas station attendant says to another. You''re in for quite a fight if you think you can fill a Nissan Leaf electric car with gasoline. In a delightful new South African television ad for the Leaf, the pretty young driver plays a "Candid Camera"-style trick: pulling up to the pumps and.

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Tesla's West Coast Supercharger Corridor opens for Model S road trips

National Green Transportation

'Tesla Motors announced on Wednesday the opening of the West Coast Supercharger Corridor. This is a continuous string of Supercharger stations from San Diego to the Canadian border, with enough stations in-between allowing Tesla Model S owners to.

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Mitsubishi Motors introducing 2 PHEV and 1 hybrid concept SUVs at Tokyo Motor Show

Green Car Congress

'Mitsubishi Motors Corporation (MMC) will unveil three world-premiere concept cars at the 43 rd Tokyo Motor Show 2013 at the end of this month: two plug-in hybrid (PHEV) concepts, and one mild-hybrid concept. Incorporating a new design, the three concepts point to the direction MMC’s development and manufacturing will take in the near future. Left to right: Concept AR (mild hybrid); Concept GC-PHEV; Concept XR-PHEV.

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Orders For 261-MPG Volkswagen XL1 Exceed Production of 200

Green Car Reports

'Volkswagen''s XL1 might be one of the most exciting and unusual green vehicles of recent years, but it''s certainly not one of the most accessible. Pricing around the $150,000 mark, based on the German price of 111,000 Euros, puts it in the same league as high-end sports cars. But as we''ve come to expect with the rare and the bespoke, there''ll.

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Electric car charging locations now in demand

Green Cars News

'Locations for electric car charging stations are starting to command a price, because charging stations are now generating commercial revenue returns. Generous payments for publically-accessible locations are now being offered by operators of electric car charging stations, according to sustainabl[.].

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Faurecia and Accenture partner on products and services for connected and autonomous vehicles

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Tesla Motors and Panasonic sign battery supply deal for 2 billion cells

National Green Transportation

'Tesla Motors and their battery supplier, Panasonic, announced on Wednesday an agreement in which Panasonic will expand supplies of automotive-grade lithium-ion battery cells to Tesla. This expands on their 2011 agreement, and under the new.

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Enbridge to develop two pipelines for total of $3B in Canadian oil sands

Green Car Congress

'Enbridge is developing two pipelines in the Canadian oil sands area for a combined investment of about $3 billion. The first is a new industry diluent pipeline with associated capital of up to $1.4 billion, depending on scope, to meet the needs of multiple producers in the Athabasca oil sands region. The second is a new $1.6-billion pipeline to transport crude oil production under long term transportation commitments to Enbridge’s mainline hub at Hardisty, Alberta.

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Elon Musk's Hyperloop Concept Becomes A Company

Green Car Reports

'Ground may already have been broken for California''s high speed rail network, but Tesla Motors CEO Elon Musk''s competing Hyperloop transport system has moved a step closer to reality. Hyperloop Transportation Technologies (HTT) is the new company aimed at turning Musk''s pneumatic pod system into rapid-transit reality. Speaking to Fox News, HTT''s.

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Call for Scotland to switch to pay-as-you-drive road tax

Green Cars News

'Scotland should abolish motoring taxes including VED and fuel duty and replace it with a pay-as-you-drive scheme, a leading independent think-tank recommends. Reform Scotland says a road pricing scheme would help reduce emissions, cutting congestion and increase fairness to drivers. In its new rep[.].

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ExxonMobil announces 6th oil discovery offshore Guyana with Ranger-1; Guyana may move from non-producer to regional powerhouse

Oil

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Tesla's West Coast Supercharger Corridor opens for Model S road trips

National Green Transportation

'Tesla Motors announced on Wednesday the opening of the West Coast Supercharger Corridor. This is a continuous string of Supercharger stations from San Diego to the Canadian border, with enough stations in-between allowing Tesla Model S owners to.

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EEA: All major car manufacturers in Europe met 2012 CO2 targets; 9 already meet 2015 targets

Green Car Congress

'Distance to 2012 target by individual manufacturer. Source: EEA. Click to enlarge. Based on emission levels recorded in vehicle tests, car registration data analyzed by the European Environment Agency (EEA) in the report “CO 2 emissions performance of car manufacturers in 2012” shows that in 2012 all major car manufacturers met their targets for their fleet.

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When Will The Last Gasoline Car Be Built? 2070, Shell Oil Says

Green Car Reports

'The disappearance of internal-combustion engines is far from inevitable today, but several groups and governments are now predicting when the last gasoline vehicles will be sold. The latest prediction comes from a particularly unlikely source: Shell Oil Company, one of the largest petroleum producers in the world. The company predicts in its.

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Peugeot refreshes 3008 and 3008 HYbrid crossovers

Green Cars News

'Peugeot has refreshed its compact crossover 3008 and 3008 HYbrid4 models to offer greater levels of equipment as standard, new looks and lower prices across the range. Among the visual improvements is a bold new grille and chrome-edged fog lights. Overall, the look is softer, with a more streamlin[.].

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Garage Lessons: Charging in The Real World

Plugs and Cars

'I participated in the Governor''s Office Conference Coast-to-Coast Workshop on E-Mobility in Sacramento sponsored by the governments of California and the Netherlands on Wednesday. The biggest impression of the day regarding EVs was made upon me before I even made it to the hotel. For the past decade I''ve been driving the 91 miles to Sacramento without stopping to charge in a 2002 RAV4 EV.

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Argentina’s largest ethanol plant begins operations; Vogelbusch technology

Green Car Congress

'Promaíz S.A. has begun operations of its new bioethanol plant in Alejandro Roca in the central Córdoba province of Argentina. The corn ethanol plant, which uses technology from Vogelbusch Biocommodities, has a nameplate capacity of 420,000 liters (111,000 gallons US) per day, making it the largest of its kind in Argentina. In Argentina, gasoline must contain 5% ethanol (E5) and the fuel ethanol production is government controlled under a quota system which assigns supply shares to the producers

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Who's Still Buying Brand-New Fisker Karmas, And Why?

Green Car Reports

'The 2012 Fisker Karma remains a stunning car, regardless of its range-extended electric powertrain. While the struggling-though-not-yet-bankrupt company remains in limbo, with a purchase reported but not yet confirmed, it hasn''t built cars since July 2012. MORE: 2012 Fisker Karma - full review The 2,500 or so Fiskers out there may be the only ones.

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Shell predicts death of combustion cars by 2070

Green Cars News

'When an oil company predicts the end of the petrol and diesel car, you’d understand why we might sit up and take notice. That’s exactly what Shell has done with its New Lens Scenarios report, which tries to envisage how the world will change over the coming decades and how we’ll cope in a future w[.].

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China’s CNOOC announces first gas from UK North Sea Rochelle Field

Green Car Congress

'China’s CNOOC Limited announced first production from the Rochelle gas-condensate field in the UK North Sea. At Rochelle field, Nexen Petroleum U.K. Ltd., a wholly-owned subsidiary of the CNOOC, acts as the field operator. CNOOC completed its acquisition of Nexen ( parlier post ) in February 2013. The Rochelle field in Blocks 15/26b, 15/26c and 15/27 lies approximately 115 miles northeast of Aberdeen.

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Pinnacle’s opposed-piston scooter engine can meet NOx target with lean operation and ignition delay; little fuel economy hit

Green Car Congress

'In a paper presented at the recent Small Engine Technology Conference organized by JSAE and SAE International, Michael (Tony) Willcox from Pinnacle Engines reported that the 110cc version of the 4-stroke, spark-ignited (SI), opposed-piston, sleeve-valve architecture engine ( earlier post ) can use lean operation and ignition delay to meet Euro 4 NO x emission targets without aftertreatment and with only a negligible impact (< 1.5%) on the fuel consumption benefits of the engine (about 25-27%

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OriginOil triples capacity of entry-level algae harvester

Green Car Congress

'OriginOil, Inc., developer of Electro Water Separation (EWS), a high-speed, chemical-free process to clean up large quantities of water, has tripled the capacity of its entry-level algae harvester from four to twelve liters per minute at no additional cost, with improved energy efficiency. The EWS Algae unit, now designated as Model 12, offers reduced energy consumption due to an improved design that reduces electrical resistance and boosts harvesting performance.

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Shell moves ahead with 80,000 barrel per day Carmon Creek oil sands project

Green Car Congress

'Royal Dutch Shell plc will proceed with its Carmon Creek project in Alberta, Canada, expected to produce up to 80,000 barrels of oil per day. Carmon Creek is a thermal in situ project that is 100% Shell owned and will be part of the company’s broader production, refining and marketing business across the full value chain in North America. At Carmon Creek, the design includes a novel well delivery system and the use of cogeneration that will also feed power into the Alberta grid; enough to power

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NSF awards Univ. of Maryland and Genovation $438K to develop novel hybrid energy storage system for EVs

Green Car Congress

'The National Science Foundation has selected a project by researchers at the University of Maryland and their partners from Genovation Cars ( earlier post ) for a $438,418 GOALI (Grant Opportunities for Academic Liaison with Industry) award to develop a novel hybrid energy storage system for electric vehicles. The specific objectives of the project—“Advanced Silicon Carbide based Novel Hybrid Energy Storage System for Plug-In Electric Vehicles”—are to: (a) reduce the weight of the e

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Chevrolet previews Spark EV Tech Performance concept, other performance concepts including Cruze Diesel for SEMA

Green Car Congress

'Chevrolet Spark EV Tech Performance concept. Click to enlarge. Chevrolet previewed the Spark EV Tech Performance concept, as well as other performance-oriented concepts of the Sonic, Malibu, new Impala, and Cruze Diesel. The cars will debut at the SEMA Show, 5-8 Nov. in Las Vegas. SEMA is the world’s largest convention of automotive aftermarket parts and accessories.

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SINTEF researchers devising energy-conserving aluminum parts manufacturing process

Green Car Congress

'Parts for suspension systems are among the automotive applications for aluminium. Today, many of these parts are kneaded into shape by means of forging in order to give them the required mechanical properties. Now, Norwegian materials technologists at SINTEF aim to meet these quality requirements via an alternative, energy-conserving manufacturing process that combines casting and forging.

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President Obama establishes Task Force on Climate Preparedness and Resilience, issues executive order

Green Car Congress

'President Obama today established a Task Force on Climate Preparedness and Resilience to advise the Administration on how the Federal Government can respond to the needs of communities nationwide that are dealing with the impacts of climate change. The Task Force members include state, local and tribal leaders from across the country. The President signed an Executive Order that directs Federal agencies to take a series of steps to make it easier for American communities to strengthen their res

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Toyota expanding EV and PHV charging infrastructure testing in Japan

Green Car Congress

'Toyota Motor Corporation will carry out verification tests in Aichi Prefecture, Japan from November 15, 2013 to March 15, 2014 to assess the practicality of the widespread deployment of chargers for plug-in hybrid vehicles (PHVs) and electric vehicles (EVs). The tests, which are a continuation of a similar program implemented in 2012, will be conducted jointly with four local governments (Gamagori City, Toyohashi City, Nishio City, Kota Town) and 13 businesses and organizations.

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Greenlots’ SKY to manage BC Hydro’s EV fast charger network

Green Car Congress

'BC Hydro (BCH) has selected Greenlots’ SKY network management solution to manage a provincial network of DC Fast Chargers (DCFC), announced in January 2013. The initial rollout in British Columbia includes 13 DCFC supplied by electrical power equipment manufacturers ABB and Eaton. Greenlots is a global provider of open standards-based technology solutions for electric vehicle (EV) networks.

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Honda begins construction of the first wind farm by an automaker in Brazil

Green Car Congress

'Honda Energy do Brasil Ltda. (Honda Energy), Honda’s wind power generation business subsidiary in Brazil, has started construction of a new wind farm in the city of Xangri-lá in Rio Grande do Sul, the southernmost state in Brazil (approximately 1,000 km south of Honda’s current automobile production plant in Sumaré, São Paulo). Honda Energy plans to begin the operation of its new wind farm in September 2014.

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SRC launches Synthetic Biology Research on biomedical and minimal-power electronic devices for novel semiconductor applications

Green Car Congress

'Semiconductor Research Corporation (SRC), the world’s leading university-research consortium for semiconductor technologies, has launched the Semiconductor Synthetic Biology (SSB) research program on hybrid bio-semiconductor systems to provide insights and opportunities for future information and communication technologies. The program will initially fund research at six universities: MIT; the University of Massachusetts at Amherst; Yale; Georgia Tech; Brigham Young; and the University of Washi

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