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ORNL demonstrates 120 kW wireless charging for vehicles; 97% efficiency

Green Car Congress

Researchers at the Department of Energy’s Oak Ridge National Laboratory (ORNL) have demonstrated a 120-kilowatt wireless charging system for vehicles—providing six times the power of previous ORNL technology and a big step toward charging times that rival the speed and convenience of a gasoline station fill-up. The wireless system transfers 120 kilowatts of power with 97% efficiency, which is comparable to conventional, wired high-power fast chargers.

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Real News About Your Fake Life

Creative Greenius

Ladies and gentlemen, with the permission of stars Rachel Hardisty and Eric Wolfgang Nelson, here is Sunday night’s 9:00 performance of my latest one-act play, “Real News About Your Fake Life”. It’s my first comedic farce and very different from my last 5 plays – all of which have been produced as part of the critically acclaimed Cafe Plays at The Ruskin Group Theatre.

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Report: Battery production could offset emissions gains from electric cars

Green Car Reports

A new report shows that emissions from producing large battery packs for electric cars could cancel out improvements from their low emissions for years. The report comes from Bloomberg New Energy Finance, which is usually optimistic about electric cars. In May, the analytic arm of the finance publishing house predicted that electric cars will make.

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The Electric Highway to the Talison Lithium mine | Day 914-918

Plug Me In

After a month in Perth I left the city and went into Western Australia’s Southwest region. Easy coverable because of […]. The post The Electric Highway to the Talison Lithium mine | Day 914-918 appeared first on Plug Me In.

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

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DOE, General Motors and MathWorks launch EcoCAR Mobility Challenge

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The US Department of Energy (DOE), General Motors and MathWorks launched the EcoCAR Mobility Challenge, the latest DOE-sponsored Advanced Vehicle Technology Competition ( AVTC ), revealed the 12 competing universities and named the Chevrolet Blazer as the vehicle platform selected for the competition. The headline sponsors are the US Department of Energy, General Motors, and MathWorks, and the challenge is managed by Argonne National Laboratory.

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@LATimes Magical Thinking & Wishing Doesn’t Win Elections #JoeTakesOnTheNews

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First drive review: Range Rover Sport PHEV

Green Cars News

Land Rover has been dabbling with electrified powertrains for its car for quite some time, but it’s only now these cars are open for the public to drive, own and lease.

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Infineon introduces first Trusted Platform Module specifically for automotive cybersecurity

Green Car Congress

Infineon Technologies AG is the first semiconductor manufacturer to put a Trusted Platform Module (TPM) specifically for automotive applications on the market. The new OPTIGA TPM 2.0 protects communication between the car manufacturer and the car—which is increasingly turning into a computer on wheels. A number of car manufacturers have already designed in Infineon’s OPTIGA TPM.

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@ericgarcetti No Hollywood Casting Would Audition You For The Role Of POTUS. You’ll Be Reading For The Part Of Press Secretary Instead – So Don’t Quit Your Day Job #JoeTakesOnTheNews

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Tesla Model 3 range-efficiency edge is a serious market strength

Green Car Reports

Although Tesla may still sometimes be finding its way in terms of how to build cars themselves, it retains a distinct advantage over pretty much every other automaker in one respect: superb power management. Buried in the company’s third-quarter 2018 financial results—hailing a profit—were some numbers worth boasting about more.

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

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Halloween special: The top five creepiest clips caught on dashcam

Green Cars News

Dashcams are useful bits of kit that are slowly creeping (pun intended) into everyday motoring

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LG Chem invests in Enevate; silicon-dominant Li-ion battery technology

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Enevate Corporation, developer of a silicon-dominant composite anode material and high energy density batteries ( earlier post ), announced that LG Chem has participated in Enevate’s recent funding. Introduced in November 2017, Enevate’s HD-Energy Technology for EVs enables Lithium-ion (Li-ion) cells with up to 50% higher capacity than conventional graphite cells.

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@LATimes NEWSFLASH: We Ain’t Seen Nothing Yet When It Comes To Mass Migration Of Refugees. You Might Want To Wake Up & Smell The Climate Burning #JoeTakesOnTheNews

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BMW says 85 percent of cars will still have engines in 2030

Green Car Reports

Once a leader in electric cars, BMW now says it expects 85 percent of its cars still to have internal combustion engines by 2030. Speaking to Australian reporters for GoAuto at the Paris auto show earlier in October, BMW board member for development Klaus Froehlich said, “A very optimistic scenario says 30 per cent of BMWs will be pure.

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

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The Top Gear presenters that time forgot

Green Cars News

Well, the 2019 Top Gear presenter line-up has been announced, with Lancashire pair Paddy McGuinness and Freddie Flintoff replacing Matt LeBlanc when he steps down at the end of the next season

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US EPA awards $9.6M in DERA grants to reduce harmful diesel emissions in California

Green Car Congress

The US Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) awarded $9.6 million in Diesel Emission Reduction Act (DERA) grants to public and private partners in California. The funds will be used to retrofit and replace old, polluting diesel vehicles and equipment, including school buses, heavy-duty trucks, tractors and port equipment. The DERA program is administered by the EPA’s West Coast Collaborative, a partnership comprised of EPA’s Pacific Southwest and Pacific Northwest Regions, which leverages public

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@LATimes – Isn’t Bonesawing The Body Of A Journalist Brutal Enough To Make The Headline? But Hey, Congrats On The New Food Writer #JoeTakesOnTheNews

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New fast charger is more efficient, smaller, and half the cost

Green Car Reports

Researchers at North Carolina State University have developed a 50-kw fast charger that they say costs half as much as conventional DC fast chargers, is more efficient, and only 1/16th the size. Instead of being mounted on concrete slabs, sometimes in two locations, with a transformer behind a fence and a charge station box by a parking space, the.

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Will WLTP kill off car options?

Green Cars News

It’s safe to say the Worldwide Light Vehicle Test Procedure (WLTP) has thrown a few spanners in the works for many manufacturers since it was first developed in 2015 and introduced just last month.

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Audi and Umicore developing closed-loop recycling for high-voltage batteries; 95%+ recovery of key elements

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Audi and Umicore have successfully completed phase one of their strategic research cooperation for battery recycling. The two partners are developing a closed loop for components of high-voltage batteries that can be used again and again. Particularly valuable materials are set to become available in a raw materials bank. Even before the start of the cooperation with Umicore in June 2018, Audi had analyzed the batteries in the A3 e-tron plug-in hybrid car and defined ways of recycling.

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El Segundo Times Editors @LATimes Too Dizzy To Cover Climate Change After Being Gassed By @Chevron Refinery #JoeTakesOnTheNews

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Dyson plans to build its electric car in Singapore

Green Car Reports

Dyson, the British maker of premium vacuum cleaners, aims to enter the electric-car arena—and it’s chosen Singapore as the global assembly site. The company confirmed that its board has ratified the decision for the company itself to construct what it calls a “purpose-built advanced automotive manufacturing facility” there.

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MPs join BVRLA call for tax incentives to drive EV uptake

Green Cars News

42 MPs have called for the Chancellor Philip Hammond to introduce tax-based incentives in his upcoming budget in order to stimulate uptake of electric vehicles.

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UPS cargo eBike pilot in Seattle

Green Car Congress

In an effort to address growing traffic congestion and air quality concerns, UPS and Seattle Mayor Jenny Durkan announced the deployment of an innovative downtown delivery pilot project using pedal-assist cargo eBikes and customized, modular trailers. The cargo eBikes will operate in the historic Pike Place Market and downtown Seattle area on sidewalks and in designated bike lanes.

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I Had To Answer The Question @JonahNRO Has No Clue About In Today’s @LATimes #JoeTakesOnTheNews

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Tesla removes Full Self Driving option from website for all models

Green Car Reports

Friday marked exactly two years since Tesla announced that every one of its cars was being produced with the hardware needed for Full Self-Driving. Friday was also the first full day that Tesla removed the option from its configurator—at the same time that it introduced a new $45k Model 3 Mid Range, effectively splitting the difference.

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Weekly Wheelspin: Top Gear tribulations, T-Cross turns up and Halloween havoc

Green Cars News

As the nights draw in, and a chill enters the air, the car becomes almost like a cocoon of warmth and protection from these outside elements.

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JBEI researchers produce high density jet fuel precursors from bacteria

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Researchers with the US Department of Energy (DOE) Joint BioEnergy Institute (JBEI), with colleagues in China, have produced the tricyclic sesquiterpenes epi-isozizaene, pentalenene and ?-isocomene—promising jet fuel feedstocks—at high production titers, providing novel, sustainable alternatives to petroleum-based jet fuels. An open-access paper on their work appears in Biotechnology for Biofuels.

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Only In An Computer Simulated Alternative Reality Programed By Aliens Tripping On Bad Acid Is A Mitch McConnell Possible #JoeTakesOnTheNews

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Could carbon-fiber electric-vehicle bodies double as ‘mass-less’ batteries?

Green Car Reports

Automakers seem to be in agreement that the ‘skateboard’ location for heavy battery packs—low and wide beneath the passenger floor—is the ideal layout for electric vehicles. Decades from now that might not be the case. Researchers in Sweden have examined the possibility of using the vehicle shell as a battery casing.

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2019 Audi R8 gets sharper look and power boost

Green Cars News

The Audi R8 supercar has been updated for 2019, with the facelifted version featuring a sharp new look as well as a more potent V10.

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Testing shows Talga graphene silicon boosts capacity of Li-ion battery anode; Safevolt project

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Australian advanced materials technology company Talga Resources Ltd announced positive initial test results from the development of its graphene silicon lithium-ion anode in the UK. The results are the first under Talga’s UK Government funded “Safevolt” project—a Talga-led program run in conjunction with consortia partners, Johnson Matthey, the University of Cambridge and manufacturing research group, TWI.

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@LATimes – Let’s Put The Blame Where It Belongs #JoeTakesOnTheNews

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Tesla reports profit, explains $46k Model 3 Mid Range model, hints about leasing

Green Car Reports

Tesla’s quarterly earnings call today was shaping up to be, at long last, an earnings call. Tesla reported a net income of $312 million for the third quarter of 2018. The all-electric vehicle maker made money. It also claimed that, given its financial results—and some creative number-crunching—it has the best-selling car in the.

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