Creative Greenius

MARCH 11, 2015

'I was in Carson California last month at their City Council meeting to speak on behalf of the resolution I asked them to pass to approve participating in a feasibility study on community choice aggregation (CCA). . Carson was the sixth city to have our resolution on their agenda, the five others having already passed it. Like in each of the other cities, someone in Carson, this time the City Manager, had the same question for me, . “I understand all the CCA program stuff you’re tell

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Green Car Congress

MARCH 7, 2015

'Elio Motors, the start-up developing a $6,800, 84-mpg- (2.8l/100 km) three-wheeled vehicle with a target date of 2016, unveiled its engine prototype: a 0.9-liter, 3-cylinder unit developed by IAV. To provide its customers with high fuel efficiency and still provide the performance consistent with today’s passenger vehicles, the Elio Motors engine must operate efficiently at two different loads—lower loads representative of highway cruising, and more demanding loads associated with the fas

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Green Car Reports

MARCH 13, 2015

'The Nissan Leaf is by far the highest-volume electric car ever sold, with total sales now approaching 200,000 units. First launched for 2011, the Leaf got some updates in the 2013 model when production for North American sales moved from Japan to Smyrna, Tennessee. Since then, the Leaf has pretty much stayed the same--but we know an all-new model.

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National Green Transportation

MARCH 10, 2015

'On Monday, the Solar Impulse 2 began its long-awaited journey to fly around the world solely on solar power, with a flight from Abu Dhabi to Muscat, Oman. Then on Tuesday (Mar 10, 2015) the second leg commenced.

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Green Car Congress

MARCH 12, 2015

'Intelligent Energy is expanding its PEM fuel cell offerings with a new 100 kW automotive fuel cell architecture. Designed to deliver primary motive power within an advanced electric driveline, the 100 kW fuel cell architecture and core technology will be available to vehicle manufacturers through technology licensing programs and joint development agreements.

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Green Car Congress

MARCH 10, 2015

'XG Sciences (XGS), a leading provider of graphene nanoplatelets, has demonstrated full battery cell cycle stability through more than 400 charge/discharge cycles with a charge storage capacity of 600 mAh/gram over a broad voltage window in its next generation silicon graphene ( earlier post ) (XG SiG) anode materials for lithium-ion batteries. “ We believe our latest material is the first commercially viable silicon and graphene based anode formulation to achieve this all important performance

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Green Car Congress

MARCH 12, 2015

'Oregon Governor Kate Brown, who assumed office in February after the resignation of former Governor John Kitzhaber, has signed into law Oregon’s Clean Fuels legislation ( SB 324 ). The bill removes the 31 December 2015 sunset on the statutes requiring the adoption of clean fuel standards. ( Earlier post.) It also extends the target date for standard compliance from the year 2020 to 2025, directs the Oregon Environmental Quality Commission to adopt provisions to manage and contain costs, and add

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Green Car Congress

MARCH 12, 2015

'The California Energy Commission and the Province of Noord-Holland of the Netherlands will exchange information and collaborate on innovative transportation energy projects that further their respective 2050 greenhouse gas reduction and clean energy goals. Peter van Deventer, Diplomatic Liaison and Director of Coast to Coast e-Mobility, on behalf of the Province of Noord-Holland, and Janea A.

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Green Car Congress

MARCH 11, 2015

'Audi will have a plug-in hybrid in every model series in the coming years as part of its efforts in efficiency and sustainability, said Prof. Dr.-Ing. Ulrich Hackenberg, Member of the Board of Management at Audi AG for Technical Development, during his speech at Audi’s Annual Press Conference in Ingolstadt. Plug-in hybrids, natural gas vehicles and battery-electric drive systems will have a key role to play in achieving CO 2 targets, Hackenberg said.

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Green Car Congress

MARCH 10, 2015

'The National Aeronautics and Space Administration (NASA) has purchased Gevo’s renewable Alcohol-to-Jet fuel (ATJ) ( earlier post ) for aviation use at the NASA Glenn Research Center in Cleveland, OH. Gevo’s ATJ is manufactured at its demonstration biorefinery located in Silsbee, TX, using renewable isobutanol produced at its Luverne, MN, isobutanol plant.

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Green Car Congress

MARCH 11, 2015

'by Nick Cunningham of Oilprice.com. Predicting and diagnosing the trajectory of oil prices has become something of a cottage industry in the past year. But along with all of the excess crude flowing from the oil patch, there is also an abundance of market indicators that while important, tend to produce a lot of noise that makes any accurate estimate nearly impossible.

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Green Car Congress

MARCH 10, 2015

'The US Department of Energy (DOE) is awarding $6 million to 11 projects aimed at improving potential buyers’ experiences with alternative fuel and plug-in electric vehicles, supporting training, and integrating alternative fuels into emergency planning. Through the Clean Cities program, these projects address many of the challenges limiting the use of alternative fuel and plug-in electric vehicles, particularly in these three areas: on-the-road demonstrations, safety-related training, and emerg

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Green Car Congress

MARCH 9, 2015

'A project funded by the German government—“BiE – Bewertung integrierter Elektromobilität” (evaluation of integrated electromobility)—is exploring how mobility services (such as public transport services and car sharing) can be integrated better with electric vehicles and into the everyday life of users. The Federal Ministry of Education and Research (BMBF) is funding BiE with €2 million (US$2.2 million) under the federal program “Electric Mobility”.

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Green Car Congress

MARCH 13, 2015

'by Thomas Miller for Oilprice.com. Lest we be too quick to forget whence we came, America is now 9-months into lower gasoline prices, which started their swoon the week of June 30, 2015 from a lofty national average just under $3.70, tumbling almost every subsequent week before bottoming and bouncing from $2.02 the end of January, according to gasbuddy.com.

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Green Car Congress

MARCH 13, 2015

'Having bottomed?out in the second quarter of 2014, global oil demand growth has since steadily risen, with year?on?year gains estimated at around 0.9 million barrels per day (mb/d) for the final quarter of last year and 1.0 mb/d for the current quarter, according to the IEA Oil Market Report for March. IEA raised its forecast of demand growth for all of 2015 by 75 kb/d to 1.0 mb/d, bringing global demand to an average 93.5 mb/d.

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Green Car Congress

MARCH 9, 2015

'Ford announced the official production start of the new twin-scroll 2.0-liter and 2.3-liter EcoBoost engines for North America at its Cleveland Engine Plant in Ohio. This marks the first time these engines are being produced in the US. The twin-scroll 2.0-liter EcoBoost engine is available in the all-new Ford Edge, launching in first quarter of 2015.

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Green Car Congress

MARCH 8, 2015

'Leaded gasoline was a larger emission source of the toxic heavy metal lead than mining in South America, even though the extraction of metals from the region’s mines historically released huge quantities of lead into the environment, according to a study by researchers from the Paul Scherrer Institute PSI and the University of Bern. The team discovered evidence of the dominance of leaded gasoline based on measurements in an ice core from Illimani glacier in Bolivia; Illimani is the highest moun

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Green Car Congress

MARCH 12, 2015

'The California Energy Commission (CEC) has awarded $2.1 million to Eos Energy Storage, LLC to demonstrate an AC-integrated system incorporating the company’s zinc hybrid-cathode battery technology (“Zynth”) to enhance renewable energy generation and provide grid-scale, multi-hour energy storage. Znyth battery technology uses a safe aqueous electrolyte and a novel zinc-hybrid cathode to enable extremely low-cost electricity storage and long life.

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Green Car Congress

MARCH 10, 2015

'2015 Golf SportWagen. Click to enlarge. With the entry of the new 2015 Golf SportWagen, Volkswagen of America is bringing some dynamic and reasonably priced fuel-efficient verve to the non-luxury wagon segment in the US. The Golf SportWagen replaces the Jetta SportWagen with a slightly larger, definitely sportier and more dynamic vehicle that is a clear member of Volkswagen’s award-winning Golf family.

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Green Car Congress

MARCH 7, 2015

'A fleet of shared self-driving cars in Stockholm could reduce rush hour traffic volumes by 14 cars for every shared vehicle, according to researchers at Sweden’s KTH Royal Institute of Technology. Meanwhile, the remaining automobile commuters would need only 20% of the metropolitan area''s existing parking spaces, their study says. The study sheds further light on what can happen if cities build on the growing interest in car-share programs and other alternatives to car ownership, indicating th

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Green Car Congress

MARCH 13, 2015

'Dutch OEM VDL Bus & Coach has delivered a Citea Electric with Heliox Combined Charging System (CCS)-compliant 700 V DC Fast Charger to Swedish transport operator Byberg & Nordin. Designed for commercial & captive fleets, the Heliox Fast DC Charger series can recharge electric vehicles with 43kW – 120kW with a CCS connection. Heliox Fast DC chargers are designed for ultra fast DC charging of public transport vehicles running with 700V systems and Pantograph/CCS/MODE4 connection.

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Green Car Congress

MARCH 12, 2015

'JCB Research and Valebond Consultants Ltd., a company wholly owned by Jo Bamford have together acquired a strategic shareholding in ITM Power, a manufacturer of integrated hydrogen energy systems ( earlier post ), by way of a subscription for new ordinary shares, making them, in aggregate, ITM Power’s largest shareholder. JCB Research and Valebond agreed to subscribe for, in aggregate, 16,186,460 shares at a subscription price of 30 pence per share for £4.856 million (US$7.3 million) in aggrega

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Green Car Congress

MARCH 12, 2015

'The European Parliament approved rules that allow manufacturers to increase the length of truck cabs if this improves road safety and environmental performance. These rules were agreed to informally by the Italian Council Presidency and Parliament negotiators last December. The text now has to be formally approved by the Council of the European Union.

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Green Car Congress

MARCH 11, 2015

'UK Transport Minister Baroness Kramer and Business Minister Matt Hancock announced a shortlist of 12 cities vying for a share of a £35-million (US$53-million) fund to become centers of excellence for low emission vehicles. The shortlist will be reduced to 2-4 finalists which will receive funding awards. The Go Ultra Low city scheme will reward cities that demonstrate the most potential to become internationally outstanding examples for the adoption of ultra low emission vehicles (ULEVs) in a lo

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Green Car Congress

MARCH 11, 2015

'Researchers at the University of Wisconsin-Madison have developed an innovative hydrogen-producing photoelectrochemical cell (PEC), using solar-driven biomass conversion as the anode reaction. In a paper in the journal Nature Chemistry , the duo reports obtaining a near-quantitative yield and 100% Faradaic efficiency at ambient conditions without the use of precious-metal catalysts for this reaction, which is also thermodynamically and kinetically more favorable than conventional water oxidatio

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Green Car Congress

MARCH 10, 2015

'In a new report , Navigant Research forecasts that worldwide revenue from vehicle-grid integration (VGI) services will grow from $335,000 annually in 2015 to $20.7 million by 2024. The term VGI refers to a suite of hardware and software technologies that enable plug-in electric vehicles (PEVs) to participate in grid services such as the ancillary services markets (typically frequency regulation), demand response (DR) programs, and/or the operation of microgrids.

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Green Car Congress

MARCH 10, 2015

'China-based Shenzhen Senior Technology, a manufacturer of microporous separators, has licensed LG Chem’s Safety Reinforced Separator (SRS) technology. Under the agreement, Senior has gained rights to use the SRS technology, which uses a ceramic coating on separator substrates to improve thermal deformation resistance and mechanical strength. ( Earlier post.).

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Green Car Congress

MARCH 10, 2015

'Application of Linde oxyfuel technology (i.e., the combustion of a fuel using only oxygen, not air) to the continuous annealing of cold-rolled strip aluminum may soon speed production of aluminum autobody sheet; the company will present details about the new application at TMS 2015 in Florida next week. In a paper titled, “Direct Flame Impingement (DFI) – a new oxy-fuel based technology for continuous annealing of aluminum strip,” Linde senior nonferrous expert Henrik Gripenberg will discuss DF

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Green Car Congress

MARCH 13, 2015

'Researchers at the Beijing Institute of Technology have found a way to process biomass-derived natural silk to create carbon-based nanosheets that could potentially be used in Li-ion batteries and other energy storage devices. A paper on their work is published in the journal ACS Nano. They prepared hierarchical porous nitrogen-doped carbon (HPNC) nanosheets (NS) via simultaneous activation and graphitization of the silk.

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Green Car Congress

MARCH 13, 2015

'Ford has begun production of the 2015 F-150 ( earlier post ) at Kansas City Assembly Plant, which joins Dearborn Truck Plant in building the first mass-produced light-duty pickup truck with a high-strength, military-grade, aluminum-alloy body. Combined, Kansas City Assembly and Dearborn Truck facilities will have capacity to produce more than 700,000 Ford F-150 pickups per year for availability in 90 markets globally.

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Green Car Congress

MARCH 13, 2015

'Renault Trucks is now launching the D Wide CNG Euro 6, which operates equally well on natural gas or bio-methane fuel (biogas). Renault Trucks has been developing and selling vehicles running on compressed natural gas (CNG) for its Distribution range since 2004. The Renault Trucks D Wide CNG, fitted with the new 9L Euro 6 gas engine, offering a power rating of 320 hp (239 kW) and available in two configurations; a rigid 19 t 4x2 and a rigid 26 t 6x2.

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Green Car Congress

MARCH 12, 2015

'Mercedes-Benz’ Predictive Powertrain Control (PPC) technology, which has been shown to lower fuel consumption by up to 5%, is now now available for retrofitting in the new Actros, Antos and Arocs by Mercedes-Benz service partners throughout Europe. The cost in Germany including installation is around €1,500 (US$1,592) plus VAT. Installation takes only a few hours, and no additional technical approval is required.

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Green Car Congress

MARCH 12, 2015

'Engineers at Opel, in collaboration with the Technical University of Darmstadt, are developing eye-tracking technology for application in a third-generation of automotive adaptive lighting that will be introduced after the current AFL+ bi-xenon system. The concept is that the driver’s eye movements will control the direction and intensity of light.

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Green Car Congress

MARCH 12, 2015

'UC Berkeley chemists have developed a new material that can efficiently capture CO 2 and then release it at lower temperatures than current carbon-capture materials, potentially cutting by half or more the energy currently consumed in the process. The material, a metal-organic framework (MOF) modified with nitrogen compounds called diamines, can be tuned to remove carbon dioxide from the room-temperature air of a submarine, for example, or the 100-degree (Fahrenheit) flue gases from a power pla

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