Green Car Congress

NOVEMBER 9, 2010

At the current pace of research and development, replacing gasoline and diesel with renewable fuel alternatives could take some 131 years, according to a new University of California, Davis, study using a new sustainability forecasting approach based on market expectations. The forecast was published online 8 Nov. in the ACS journal Environmental Science & Technology.

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Green Car Reports

NOVEMBER 11, 2010

The 2011 Nissan Leaf electric car is clearly one of the most revolutionary vehicles to be sold in the U.S. in many years. It's a first battery electric car that relies solely on plugging into grid electricity for its the energy that powers it. Unlike the 2011 Chevrolet Volt range-extended electric car, it has no onboard gasoline engine to provide.

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DIY Electric Car

NOVEMBER 7, 2010

Update 11-07-2010. The gauges were a lot of work but worth it! My original idea was just to mount the amp meter, voltmeter, ect on top of the dashboard. But at the behest of a friend I DID take the dashboard apart to get at the instrument cluster, it wasn?t as bad as imagined it, after multiple configurations ( 4), I ended up with a very attractable presentation on the instrument cluster.

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Plugs and Cars

NOVEMBER 6, 2010

Just three days after Michael Jackson, Coda Automotive's senior vice president of global sales, marketing and distribution, resigned to start his own company, the company's CEO, Kevin Czinger, is also stepping down from his position. Czinger, who has pretty much been the public face of the Miles Electric Vehicles spin-off since he joined in 2008 – and a substantial shareholder – will adopt the role of senior strategic advisor.

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Green Car Congress

NOVEMBER 11, 2010

BCG’s analysis finds that cellulosic ethanol is on the verge of becoming cost-competitive with gasoline at $3/gal US. Click to enlarge. Advanced biofuels, concentrated solar power (CSP), and solar photovoltaic power (PV) will see accelerating adoption and growth and are on track to change the global energy mix far earlier than is often assumed, according to a new report from The Boston Consulting Group (BCG).

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Green Car Reports

NOVEMBER 8, 2010

There's nothing like a rant from an old friend to focus the mind. We recently read a profanity-laced note from a high school pal excoriating all the major automakers for not selling small, high-mileage diesel cars and trucks in the U.S. We referred him to an article about why we can't buy small European diesel cars in the States. After further.

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Plugs and Cars

NOVEMBER 10, 2010

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Green Car Congress

NOVEMBER 9, 2010

Wrightspeed, Inc., the developer of the high-performance electric X1, has secured $5 million in a Series A financing from a private investor. The funding will be used to support the development of Wrightspeed’s Digital DriveSystem—an extended-range hybrid electric drive system targeted at high fuel consumption (e.g., medium and heavy-duty trucks) as well as high-performance vehicles.

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Green Car Reports

NOVEMBER 12, 2010

The new 2011 Hyundai Sonata Hybrid already has a lot going for it--as evidenced by Marty Padgett's take on the car in our first drive report and John Voelcker's inclusion of the car in GreenCarReport's 2011 Best Car To Buy nominees. But the deal just got even sweeter: the battery pack in the Sonata Hybrid will come with a 10-year/100,000-mile.

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All Cars Electric

NOVEMBER 8, 2010

Tesla knew what they were doing when they selected the chassis from the British Lotus Elise sports car as the basis for their Roadster. The bonded aluminum chassis is spectacularly light by modern standards and also incredibly strong and rigid despite being a roofless design. It also has a large engine compartment perfect for batteries and motors.

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NOVEMBER 9, 2010

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Green Car Congress

NOVEMBER 9, 2010

Volkswagen has provided an update on its Golf blue-e-motion electric vehicle ( earlier post ), now scheduled to arrive on the market in 2014. At the presentation of the concept in Germany earlier this year, VW had said the EV would launch on the market in 2013. The EV is driven by an electric motor integrated in the front engine compartment with a maximum power output of 85 kW (115 PS, 112 hp) and a continuous power output of 50 kW (69 PS, 67 hp), with 270 N·m (199 lb-ft) torque, powered by a 26

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Green Car Reports

NOVEMBER 9, 2010

First came the sketch, now come the photos. Mitsubishi has released the first official images of the U.S. version of its 2012 i-MiEV electric minicar, just a week before the car is unveiled at the 2010 Los Angeles Auto Show. The company also released some specifications for the little i-MiEV. Against the home-market version, the i-MiEV that will.

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All Cars Electric

NOVEMBER 10, 2010

If the 2011 Chevrolet Volt, 2011 Nissan Leaf, 2011 Coda Sedan or 2011 Tesla Roadster are a little too modern for your tastes, an eBay auction ending this weekend could offer just what you’re looking for. But is it and other converted or one-off cars worth buying when commercially made cars capable of a higher range and better support are.

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National Green Transportation

NOVEMBER 9, 2010

It is well known that exhaust from diesel powered vehicles contains heavy particulates that are known to cause a wide variety of illnesses. Some commuter rail systems, such as in Chicago (METRA) and the San Francisco Bay Area (Caltrain), use.

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Green Car Congress

NOVEMBER 8, 2010

Butamax Advanced Biofuels, LLC, the biobutanol joint venture between BP and DuPont ( earlier post ), has opened a biobutanol technology laboratory in City of Paulínia, São Paulo, Brazil to accelerate the path to commercial market entry for sugarcane-to-biobutanol production. Sugarcane is an efficient feedstock for the production of biofuels and the laboratory will optimize the cane fermentation process.

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Green Car Reports

NOVEMBER 10, 2010

There seems to be no end to the list of waste products that can be converted into useable diesel fuel. The latest material researchers are using to create a renewable fuel source to power everything from cars to power generators to even water desalination plants is plastic bottles, the kind that usually holds soft drinks and ends up as landfill.

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All Cars Electric

NOVEMBER 12, 2010

Finding the perfect gift to say thank you is a difficult task. Finding the right thank you present is a fine line between a gift that will convey that special message and something you know is unique. So what do you give the CEO that has everything, especially if he runs the world’s largest automaker and has just helped invest $110 million.

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National Green Transportation

NOVEMBER 10, 2010

While the Chip Yates racing team did not participate in the TTXGP 2010 they've been working on an electric motorcycle design since late 2009. We took a look at their bike in October and came away very impressed by the engineering of a.

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Green Car Congress

NOVEMBER 11, 2010

SG Biofuels, a bioenergy crop company developing and producing elite seeds of Jatropha, has established a strategic partnership with Bunge North America, the North American operating arm of Bunge Limited to research and develop a model to process Jatropha seeds into a biofuel feedstock. Bunge, a global leader in oilseed processing, joins an industry-leading team of partners, including Flint Hills Resources, a refining and petrochemical company and wholly-owned subsidiary of Koch Industries; Life

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Green Car Reports

NOVEMBER 10, 2010

As we noted yesterday, we'll be giving one brand-new 2011 model the GreenCarReports 2011 Best Car To Buy Award in conjunction with the Los Angeles Auto Show next week. We'll summarize each of our five nominees, one per day, between now and then. To avoid any bias, we're doing the list in strict alphabetical order, starting with the 2011 Chevrolet.

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All Cars Electric

NOVEMBER 11, 2010

The world of EVs is a strange business. The jump from gasoline and diesel cars to EVs is akin to the jump at the end of the 19th Century from horse and carriage to motor vehicles, in the change in mindset and widespread adoption of infrastructure required. Charging in particular is an area that many people are still wary about, even if the cars.

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National Green Transportation

NOVEMBER 9, 2010

California's High Speed Rail project is among several around the country. It is facing stiff controversy along the San Francisco Peninsula from people alarmed about plans to run through the train line their back yards (more or less).

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Green Car Congress

NOVEMBER 7, 2010

AE Biofuels , Inc.’s wholly-owned advanced ethanol subsidiary AE Advanced Fuels Keyes, Inc. (AE Keyes), closed a $4.5 million financing with Third Eye Capital Corporation. The funds will be used for the repair, restart and operation of an existing 55 million gallon per year ethanol plant located in Keyes, California. AE Biofuels integrated starch and cellulose process plant.

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Green Car Reports

NOVEMBER 11, 2010

As we noted yesterday, we'll be giving one brand-new 2011 model the GreenCarReports 2011 Best Car To Buy Award in conjunction with the Los Angeles Auto Show next week. We'll summarize each of our five nominees, one per day, between now and then. We going down the roster by previewing each nominee in strict alphabetical order, so yesterday we.

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All Cars Electric

NOVEMBER 10, 2010

Thanks to the limited availability of electric cars on the market thus far and lack of parity between EV models and their gasoline or diesel counterparts, comparing the relative costs of the three isn't the easiest of tasks. The human race wouldn't have got very far if we'd only ever done what was easy though, so we're pleased to find that a.

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National Green Transportation

NOVEMBER 9, 2010

Plug-In America is a grass roots advocacy organization which sprung out of the crushing of the earlier era of electric vehicles. Today they released several PSA advertisements that are meant to entertain and educate the public about the.

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Green Car Congress

NOVEMBER 11, 2010

The non-hybrid 2011 Chevrolet Cruze Eco delivers an EPA-estimated 42 mpg on the highway (manual transmission models), with city fuel economy of 28 mpg. Cruze Eco’s highway fuel economy beats non-hybrid segment competitors—including 23% greater highway fuel economy than the Honda Civic—as well as the Ford Fiesta subcompact and hybrid models, including the Ford Fusion Hybrid, Nissan Altima Hybrid and Toyota Camry Hybrid.

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Green Car Reports

NOVEMBER 12, 2010

For its first-ever hybrid-electric vehicle, Hyundai has blazed a new path. Not only does the 2011 Sonata Hybrid carry gas-mileage ratings better than its competition, but it neatly splits the difference between the indistinguishable-from-standard styling of the Toyota Camry and Ford Fusion hybrids and a dedicated body style a la Toyota Prius. The.

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All Cars Electric

NOVEMBER 11, 2010

Yesterday, with just one week to go before the 2010 Los Angeles Auto Show, Toyota released a few teaser pictures of the much-anticipated love-child of Toyota and Tesla - and told us when it will be unveiled. The Toyota 2013 RAV4 Electric Vehicle is based upon Toyota’s popular compact crossover SUV gas-guzzler, but has an electric soul. And.

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National Green Transportation

NOVEMBER 7, 2010

Last week Mission Motors announced launch of a new line of business, MissionEVT. The mission, if you will, is to sell electric vehicle drive train components that other companies will incorporate into their own vehicles. At the.

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Green Car Congress

NOVEMBER 9, 2010

A123 Systems has been selected to develop Li-ion battery packs for a new, 2012 model year electric passenger car from Shanghai Automotive Industry Corporation (SAIC), the largest automaker in China. Under the terms of the letter of intent, A123 will use its Nanophosphate cells to develop a customized battery pack that it will provide to Advanced Traction Battery Systems Co.

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Green Car Reports

NOVEMBER 8, 2010

For the next few years, the 2011 Chevrolet Volt range-extended electric car will be the sole focus of GM's advanced powertrain efforts for U.S. car buyers. But that hasn't stopped it from putting battery electric cars into production elsewhere in the world. Electric minicars in China Last week, in China, the company started building pre-production.

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Green Cars News

NOVEMBER 8, 2010

We could soon be driving on plastic power after SITA UK reached an agreement with Cynar Plc to build Britain’s first plant to convert end of life plastic into diesel fuel. SITA is one of the country’s leading recycling and resource management companies while Cynar was established to commercialise ThermoFuel technology. It built its first [.]. Tags: Biofuels Green cars Latest news Cynar PLC plastic to diesel plastics recycling SITA UK.

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