Green Car Congress

AUGUST 24, 2011

Virent’s BioForming platform can produce drop-in gasoline, diesel or jet fuels from plant sugars. Source: Virent. Click to enlarge. Virent has taken another step in the gasoline certification process, successfully completing its first road fleet test organized and executed by Virent collaborator and investor Royal Dutch Shell. Virent’s biogasoline was found to cause “no harm” to vehicles in comparison to Shell’s baseline fuel.

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Electric Cars are for Girls

AUGUST 25, 2011

Heard about this gigantic pipeline project in the works yet? Keystone XL is a new pipeline designed to move oil from the Alberta oil sands to the Gulf of Mexico.hoping to destroy the boreal forests of Canada and the Gulf at the same time, I guess, because environmental devastation and climate change weren't moving fast enough already. We need to stop this.

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Green Car Reports

AUGUST 25, 2011

It was much easier to be suspicious of older diesels with their poor performance, noise and so-so economy figures, and images of diesel-powered trucks "rolling coal" did nothing for their green image either. The latest generation of diesels are significantly cleaner than their older brethren, with particulate filters and urea injection reducing.

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DIY Electric Car

AUGUST 23, 2011

Fixed: Front fender (fiberglass, fill, paint). Passenger side door interior handle. lit the speedometer. wired the heater element (already installed). Tapped the fan rheostat and an existing switch to control the heater.

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Green Car Congress

AUGUST 20, 2011

Marine classification society ABS has issued its first Approval in Principle (AIP) for a new concept renewable energy design in which a moored spar uses ammonia in a closed-cycle process to produce electrical power for a commercial utility grid. Unlike wind, tidal or solar power the advanced design for this Ocean Thermal Energy Conversion (OTEC) system can deliver constant output 24 hours a day.

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National Green Transportation

AUGUST 22, 2011

The Norweigan EV maker, Think, has undergone so many corporate deaths and rebirths their corporate symbol ought to be The Phoenix, the mythical bird which symbolizes death and rebirth. In recent years a consortium of investors formed to support.

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DIY Electric Car

AUGUST 21, 2011

One can turn 2001-2003 Prius as Electric Car very easily and cheaply.All one has do is to remove the EFI fuse once ign. is no and you get "READY" indication. But now it well only go about 1.7 or less unit the HV battery down to far.So one well need to add Power to the HV Battery. It can be done by using, a 2nd gen Prius Boost converter. One needed about min of 160 volt. of battery power , the boost converter well increase the to about to about 306 V that should keep the HV battery (OEM)

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Green Car Congress

AUGUST 22, 2011

Annual light-duty electric vehicle sales, world markets: 2011-2017. Source: Pike Research. Click to enlarge. Pike Research forecasts that cumulative sales of plug-in electric vehicles (PEVs), the category that includes both plug-in hybrid and battery-electric vehicles (PHEVs and BEVs), will reach 5.2 million units worldwide by 2017, up from just under 114,000 vehicles in 2011.

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National Green Transportation

AUGUST 22, 2011

The U.S. Dept of Energy today launched a new set of websites with information meant to help communities better prepare for widespread adoption of plug-in electric vehicles. The website and tools focus on the permitting process so.

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Green Car Reports

AUGUST 22, 2011

There are lots of different Land Speed Record categories, and each year one or two of them fall to new challengers. So it's not surprising that new records for production diesel and biodiesel trucks were set this weekend at the Bonneville Salt Flats in Utah. What is surprising is the vehicle that was used: a relatively stock 2011 Ford F-250.

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Green Cars News

AUGUST 23, 2011

August 22, 2011. The Green Piece Column. With electric cars inching ever closer to a mainstream reality, questions are raised as to how the grid will cope with increased demand. One of the potential answers appears to be energy storage. In 2009, for example, the US Stimulus Plan helped finance research into energy storage with [.].

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Green Car Congress

AUGUST 20, 2011

Retired US Army General Wesley Clark, Chairman of Envidity Inc., announced the commitment of funds to launch a US$1-billion underground coal gasification gas-to-liquids (UCG-GTL) project in Mongolia. The project will transform low-quality deeply-embedded, underground coal into synthetic diesel. In August of 2010, Envidity entered into an exclusive agreement with operator Live Energy Group LLC and Shine Shivee LLC to transform economically stranded coal more than 150m deep in the Shine Shivee lic

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National Green Transportation

AUGUST 25, 2011

Mavizen is changing its role to developing electric race vehicle technology not just for the TTXGP electric motorcycle race series, but for other racing formats, and for other projects outside racing. They are not the only supplier of such.

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Green Car Reports

AUGUST 24, 2011

If you had over half-a-million dollars to spend on an electric car, which car -- or cars -- would you buy? For $550,000 -- that’s about the same price as the gas-guzzling rocket ship that is the 2011 Mercedes SLS AMG GT3 race car - you could buy 7 Tesla Model S Signature Series Sedans. Or you could buy yourself and twelve lucky friends a.

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AUGUST 26, 2011

It is one thing to focus on the exhaust emissions of a vehicle in an effort to boost its environmental performance – but the new Toyota Prius A (Alpha) hybrid vehicle goes one step beyond. The new vehicle will feature automotive interiors made of DuPont Sorona EP polymer – which is a high-performance, renewably sourced [.].

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Green Car Congress

AUGUST 24, 2011

Texas-based KLD Energy Technologies Inc., a developer of advanced electric propulsion and generation systems ( earlier post ), announced that Zhejiang Qianjiang Motorcycle Co., Ltd. (Qianjiang) will serve as a contract manufacturer for the company and intends to leverage KLD Energy Technologies’ electric motor systems. With an advanced electric vehicle division, Qianjiang is one of the largest two-wheeled vehicle manufacturers in China, with annual output of more than one million units.

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National Green Transportation

AUGUST 23, 2011

Toyota revealed today details and pricing on the 2012 Camry and Camry Hybrid, their highly popular sedan. This model year is what Toyota calls the seventh generation Camry, and continues Toyota's strategy of focusing on value with.

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Green Car Reports

AUGUST 26, 2011

Elon Musk, CEO of electric-car startup Tesla Motors, sometimes says things that later prove not to be quite true. In that, he's like many entrepreneurs, who spend a portion of their time persuading the unconvinced and painting pictures of the rosy future, despite inconvenient facts that may contradict that vision of the future. And in the case of.

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Green Cars News

AUGUST 21, 2011

The Ford Focus in Europe will be blessed with two more fuel efficient powertrain options in the form of the Ford PowerShift automatic with dual dry-clutch technology; and the Flexifuel, which is capable of utilising E85 fuel. The dual dry-clutch technology will be featured on new Focus models with the 125PS, 1.6litre Duratec Ti-VCT petrol [.].

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Green Car Congress

AUGUST 24, 2011

Audi A8 hybrid. Click to enlarge. Audi will start series production of the A8 hybrid in 2012. ( Earlier post.) Its 2.0 TFSI gasoline engine and an electric motor develop peak output of 180 kW (245 hp) and 480 N·m (345 lb-ft) of torque. Average fuel consumption in the EU cycle is below 6.4 liters per 100 km (36.75 mpg US); CO 2 emissions are below 148 grams per km (238 g/mile).

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National Green Transportation

AUGUST 22, 2011

What if you could have your light truck or SUV, have high fuel efficiency, without sacrificing capabilities in the vehicles? A partnership announced today by Ford and Toyota aims to achieve that dream of big efficient vehicles that cause.

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Green Car Reports

AUGUST 25, 2011

Electric car enthusiasts have struggled for years with "golf cart" jibes and only recently with cars like the 2011 Tesla Roadster and 2012 Nissan Leaf has the "ugly and slow" image started to disappear. In Florida, there's a different problem - people who believe their golf carts are actual cars. So many people are using the cars to pop out for.

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Green Cars News

AUGUST 26, 2011

Using smartphone technology could help drivers cut fuel consumption by more than 20 per cent, researchers at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT) say. Back in July, the Institute and Princeton University proposed the idea of using a network of smartphones to collect information about traffic signals to be able to tell the driver when [.].

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Green Car Congress

AUGUST 26, 2011

Comparison of the percent differential for WTW (well-to-wheel) GHGs from gasoline produced from WCSB oil sands using different production processes relative to gasoline produced from reference crudes. Source: FEIS, Appendix V. Click to enlarge. The US Department of State (DOS) released the final version of the Environmental Impact Statement (FEIS) for the proposed Keystone XL oil pipeline project today.

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National Green Transportation

AUGUST 25, 2011

Yesterday Mavizen released news that the KillaCycle Racing team, Bill Dube’ and Eva Håkansson, have joined Mavizen with Dube holding the CTO title. Dube has a 20 year history in electric motorsports and is most famous for.

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Green Car Reports

AUGUST 22, 2011

In a startling announcement, Ford and Toyota announced this morning that the two companies would jointly develop a hybrid system for rear-wheel-drive light trucks and sport utility vehicles. The system would be roughly competitive with the General Motors Two-Mode Hybrid system now used in Chevrolet, GMC, and Cadillac full-size sport utility.

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Green Cars News

AUGUST 24, 2011

Four Nissan LEAFs have been delivered to electricity and gas firm National Grid as part of a four-year/40,000-mile lease contract. The electric cars will act as a pool car fleet for National Grid staff who are delivering a project over the next eight years to construct tunnels that will house a new high voltage electric [.].

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Green Car Congress

AUGUST 22, 2011

Ford and Toyota are collaborating as equal partners on the development of an advanced new hybrid system for light trucks and SUVs. The two companies signed a memorandum of understanding (MOU) on the product development collaboration, with the formal agreement expected by next year. Ford and Toyota also agreed to work together on enablers to complement each company’s existing telematics platform standards, helping bring more Internet-based services and useful information to consumers globally.

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National Green Transportation

AUGUST 22, 2011

The U.S. Dept of Energy today launched a new set of websites with information meant to help communities better prepare for widespread adoption of plug-in electric vehicles. The website and tools focus on the permitting process so.

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Green Car Reports

AUGUST 24, 2011

President Obama may be aiming to get 1 million plug in vehicles on the roads of the U.S. by 2015, but a recent study by Pike Research predicts that by 2017 there will only be 5.2 million plug-in vehicles worldwide. In total, more than 14 million hybrid and plug-in electric cars will be on the roads by 2017, but it is estimated this will only.

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Green Cars News

AUGUST 25, 2011

Europcar has become the first daily rental provider to add Peugeot iONs to its UK fleet, making it even easier for motorists to try electric driving without committing to a life without a combustion engine. Initially the car hire firm says that the iONs will largely be based around central London locations and airports to [.].

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Green Car Congress

AUGUST 21, 2011

The new Volkswagen up! Click to enlarge. Volkswagen will launch its new up! minicar in December, first in the European market, with 3 versions for different budgets and needs: take up! is the entry-level car; move up! the comfort-oriented one; and high up! the top version. Directly at the car’s market launch, there will also be 2 independent models based on the high up!

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National Green Transportation

AUGUST 22, 2011

The Norweigan EV maker, Think, has undergone so many corporate deaths and rebirths their corporate symbol ought to be The Phoenix, the mythical bird which symbolizes death and rebirth. In recent years a consortium of investors formed to support.

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Green Car Reports

AUGUST 21, 2011

Volkswagen has been teasing us with concept versions of its Up minicar since the Frankfurt Auto Show in 2007, but finally the production version has been revealed and will make its debut at Frankfurt again in September. The Up (which VW spells "up!") is part of Volkswagen's drive towards greater efficiency in the absence of diesel and electric.

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