Sat.Dec 04, 2010 - Fri.Dec 10, 2010

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F1 specifies 4-cylinder 1.6L engines from 2013; energy recovery systems, high-pressure injection and energy management

Green Car Congress

The FIA’s World Motor Sport Council (WMSC) has approved the introduction of a new specification engine for Formula One racing from 2013, underlining the FIA’s stated commitment to improving sustainability and addressing the needs of the automotive industry. Following dialogue with the engine manufacturers and experts in this field, the power units will be four cylinders, 1.6 liter with high pressure gasoline injection up to 500 bar (7,252 psi) with a maximum of 12,000 rpm.

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Lithium Batteries for an Electric Golf Cart

Electric Cars are for Girls

My golf cart has a 48volt system requiring 6 eight volt batteries. existing US batteries are on last legs and shopping for new ones.

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Help Plug In America renew the EV infrastructure tax credit

Plugs and Cars

From Plug In America: Last year, Plug In America, along with electric vehicle and EV infrastructure manufacturers from coast to coast, worked with members of the House and Senate to get a critical plug-in vehicle infrastructure tax credit into the stimulus bill. And then you helped us get it passed! These EV tax credits of 50% up to $2,000 for individuals, and 50% up to $50,000 for businesses have led to the beginning of early deployment of EV charging infrastructure all across the United States

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Hertz To Launch Electric-Car Rentals in NYC, Add Smart To Fleet

Green Car Reports

As it gears up to offer electric cars in selected rental fleets across the country, Hertz has dribbled out details of how its Global EV program will actually work. Today we learn that New York City will be the first region to receive the electric and plug-in hybrid rental cars, with rentals to start in Manhattan next Wednesday, December 15. San.

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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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Yeast and plant fatty acids produce durable recyclable plastic; conversion into biodiesel

Green Car Congress

Dr. Richard Gross, professor of chemical and biological science at Polytechnic Institute of New York University (NYU-Poly), has developed a method for producing a strong, highly ductile bioplastic using yeast and fatty acids of plant oils. The findings were published in the Journal of the American Chemical Society. Like all plastics, the new material is a polymer—a large molecule comprising smaller, repeating units called monomers.

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Help! Golf Cart Batteries Dying Young

Electric Cars are for Girls

I bought 6 golf cart batteries (Napa Specialty) only 1 3/4 year ago, had a charger on them that switched off when charged and since sometimes we would

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Why Are Few Of Today's Cars Among The Most Fuel-Efficient Ever?

Green Car Reports

Every now and then, readers write to grumble about new cars and their gas mileage. The gist is usually something like this: You wrote that the new 2011 [Make & Model] gets 40 mpg highway? Well, big whoop-de-doo. I always got at least 45 mpg in my 1992 Geo Metro, and it was a whole lot cheaper, so how can you say we're making progress? The most.

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GE in framework agreement with Chinas CSR to form US JV targeting high-speed rail and other rail technology in US

Green Car Congress

GE has entered a cooperative framework agreement with Chinese transportation equipment major CSR Corporation Limited (CSR) to establish a US-based joint venture to advance high-speed and other rail technology in the US. The partnership represents an investment of approximately $50 million in the joint venture with the potential to sustain or create 250 US jobs by 2012 for the first phase of the agreement.

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SWIGZ.COM Racing in WERA claiming exclusion by TTXGP and e-Power

National Green Transportation

Chip Yates of SWIGZ.COM Racing is back with yesterdays doozy of an announcement. In October he unveiled the electric race superbike motorcycle they've been working on for nearly a year. It's an awesome piece of technology, and.

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Battery Capacity and Amp Hours

Electric Cars are for Girls

With every thing being equal: the more amp hours a battery has, the more range? Hi, Tim - All else being equal, yes.

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

Brief

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BMW Hiring 2,600 Workers By 2012 For Hybrid And Electric Cars

Green Car Reports

First General Motors said it would add 1,000 workers purely to work on electric cars. Now it's BMW's turn. In a strong indicator of its commitment to developing hybrid and pure electric vehicles, BMW says it will hire an additional 2,600 employees over the next two years to work in these particular fields. The move is part of the automaker’s.

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Report: BYD scuttles F3e battery electric vehicle

Green Car Congress

Gasgoo.com. BYD has decided not to put the F3e EV into production due to the lack of an enabling environment for electric cars in China, according to a report in China Business News which cited Wang Jianjun, deputy general manager of BYD Automotive Sales Co Ltd. The Shenzhen-based automaker was initially engaged in development of all-electric vehicles, but changed its mind after a market investigation and consultation with the dealers for everyone thought there were still problems with the suppo

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Can U.S. Buyers Warm To Two-Seat Battery Electric City Cars?

All Cars Electric

Is small the new large? In the next few months we’ll see three different electric vehicles hit the market from automakers keen to break into the city car market. But historically two-seat cars have made up less than 2% of total U.S. car sales. Why would an electric car be any different? We’re not convinced it will be. Taking the 2011.

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Changing Golf Cart Battery Voltages

Electric Cars are for Girls

Will my golf cart operate normally with 4 8-volt golf cart batteries, vs the 6 6-volts?

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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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Driven: 2010 Nissan Cube 1.8S Krom

Green Car Reports

For a car that bears the name Cube, the Nissan Cube sure has a lot of circular design elements. For instance, there's the circular "wave" pattern in the headliner that radiates out from the dome light. Then there is the large, circular piece of shag carpeting that rides atop the center of the dash (I'm not kidding about this). Or the rounded.

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SKF creates global powertrain and electrical business unit

Green Car Congress

SKF, the world’s largest producer of bearings and seals, has created a new global business unit within its Automotive Division: the Powertrain and Electrical Business Unit. The new unit will combine SKF’s previous Powertrain and Electrical motor businesses to establish a unit dedicated specifically to addressing the current and long-term needs of new powertrain technologies that are driven by energy efficiency demands, as well as the emerging global alternate drive systems vehicle ma

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2011 Chevrolet Volt Ultimate Guide

All Cars Electric

You told us that you enjoyed our 2011 Nissan Leaf: Ultimate Reference Guide so much that we’re back again with AllCarElectric’s ultimate guide to the 2011 Nissan Leaf’s closest rival, the 2011 Chevrolet Volt. Below is our list of must-read articles on Chevrolet’s range-extended EV. Follow the story from the early days of.

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Manufacturer Spotlight: Kia

Green Cars News

Where we stand: December 2010 The second largest automobile manufacturer in South Korea, Kia has been taking significant steps forward in recent months as it bids to be among the frontrunners in the green car race. The Paris Motor Show 2010 was particularly important for the company as it took the opportunity to unveil a [.].

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Ford Starts Delivery Of Transit Connect Electric Vans

Green Car Reports

The first of Ford’s new Transit Connect Electric commercial vans are being delivered to customers in North America and the UK, just 13 months after Ford initially announced plans to develop the zero-emissions vehicles. To help speed their development Ford joined forces with Azure Dynamics, a Detroit-based company that provides the.

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Chevrolet names its new US-built small car Sonic for North America

Green Car Congress

Chevrolet announced that its all-new, US built small car will be called the Chevrolet Sonic in North America. The vehicle will continue to be called Aveo in other parts of the world, where it will be sold in more than 50 countries. The small car will carry the Sonic name in Canada, Mexico and the United States. Production of the Sonic begins in 2011 at GM’s Orion Assembly Center in Michigan, which received a $545-million investment in upgrades and retooling, and will help restore approximately 1

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2012 Mitsubishi 'i': Your Ultimate Reference Guide

All Cars Electric

Mitsubishi's 2012 i-MiEV has been in development and testing for some time now, so there's a lot of information to keep track of. The tiny egg-shaped electric car, with four doors and four seats, is expected to arrive in the U.S. for 2012, though it's already on sale in Japan, and just entering some European markets now. Since our 2011 Nissan Leaf.

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Toyota reveals huge Thailand expansion plans

Green Cars News

Last week we told you how Toyota would take production of its Prius hybrid car to Thailand (see article) and now we have news of further expansions in the country. According to the Nikkei, Toyota will increase production capacity to 600,000 vehicles a year by the middle of 2011 – that’s up 20 per cent [.].

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Is Natural Gas The Green Solution for Hybrid-less Chrysler?

Green Car Reports

Last summer, when Fiat-Chrysler CEO Sergio Marchionne lauded his company's line of European vehicles that run on compressed natural gas, it may have seemed like an off-the-cuff remark. But in fact, natural gas may be the only green or alternative fuel that Chrysler can feasibly adopt in any kind of reasonable time. Mainstream models first Newly.

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Hertz adds smart fortwo EVs to rental fleet, partners with Starwood Hotels on Hertz Global EV program

Green Car Congress

The Hertz Corporation and smart USA, a subsidiary of Penske Automotive Group, Inc., are partnering to bring smart fortwo electric drive vehicles to Connect by Hertz car sharing and Hertz Rent A Car locations in New York; Washington, DC; and San Francisco. The vehicle placements are part of the Hertz Global EV program, which will offer a variety of 100% electric and plug-in hybrids to car sharing and rental customers worldwide.

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Revenge Of The Electric Car Trailer: Watch It Now! [Video]

All Cars Electric

It's finally here! Well, the trailer is anyway. We announced just under a month ago that the long awaited sequel to the film Who Killed The Electric Car?, the logically titled Revenge Of The Electric Car (ROTEC), would be previewed with a trailer released when 10,000 people became fans of the film's Facebook page. In this time, the required.

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USA versus China – who is winning the clean energy race?

Green Cars News

Tuesday 6 December 2010. The Green Piece Column. Sweeping overstatement or accurate assessment? US Energy Secretary Steven Chu has claimed that America is facing a “Sputnik” moment because it has fallen so far behind China in the clean energy race and in creating the jobs of the future (see article). The original Sputnik moment occurred [.].

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2011 Hyundai Sonata Hybrid Delayed A Month, Misses Tax Credit

Green Car Reports

The U.S. launch of the 2011 Hyundai Sonata Hybrid has slipped a month, just enough to preclude buyers from taking advantage of a $1,300 Federal tax credit that expires December 31. According to Hyundai, the first cars will now reach dealers in January or perhaps later, rather than in early or mid December as it had originally hoped. Spokesman.

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Delphi EV charge coupler with cable and charge inlet achieve UL recognition

Green Car Congress

Delphi Automotive has successfully completed evaluation of its Electric Vehicle (EV) Charge Coupler with Cable and Charge Inlet under the Component Recognition Program of Underwriters Laboratories, Inc (UL). As a result, the UL Recognized components are now available for use in charging stations and vehicle-side charging applications in the US and Canada.

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As 2011 Chevrolet Volt Nears Dealers, Ghostly EV1 Gets Enthusiasts Excited

All Cars Electric

Just as the excitement is growing over the first dealer deliveries of the 2011 Chevrolet Volt and 2011 Nissan Leaf, eagle-eyed EV enthusiasts have spotted General Motor’s previous electric car on Google’s Street View. Is it serendipity or a more carefully timed disclosure to coincide with the release of Revenge of The Electric Car, the.

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SWIGZ.COM Racing in WERA claiming exclusion by TTXGP and e-Power

National Green Transportation

Do you like this story? Chip Yates of SWIGZ.COM Racing is back with yesterdays doozy of an announcement. In October he unveiled the electric race superbike motorcycle they've been working on for nearly a year. It's an awesome piece of technology, and all were.

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40-MPG Cars Are Better Than Ever; Too Bad They're Not Selling

Green Car Reports

Today's small cars are better than they've ever been, even if few of them are among the EPA's all-time gas mileage champs. And spurred by tighter fuel-economy laws, 40 miles per gallon on the highway is becoming the new target for subcompact and even compact cars. There's just one little problem: Not only are 40-mpg models not selling particularly.

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Toyota Motor and Hino to provide fuel-cell bus for commercial service on Tokyo airport route

Green Car Congress

Toyota Motor Corporation (TMC) and Hino Motors, Ltd. (Hino) will provide a fuel-cell hybrid bus for a commercial bus route between central Tokyo and Tokyo International Airport (Haneda Airport) run by Airport Transport Service Co., Ltd. ( Earlier post.) The provision is in response to a request from the Research Association of Hydrogen Supply/Utilization Technology (HySUT), a participant in the Hydrogen Highway Project.

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No Engine, No Brand Identity? Electric Cars And Branding

All Cars Electric

Let us run a few engines past you. A warbling flat six. A growling V8. The howl of an inline four changing cam profiles. The smooth buzz of a rotary. How about some names now? Hemi. Vortec. Powerstroke. VTEC. Renesis. Ecoboost. Noticing a pattern? The first list is clearly engine layouts, and the second are trademarked brand names for particular.

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Hertz to introduce Smart Fortwo EVs to rental fleet

Green Cars News

The Smart Fortwo electric vehicle will soon be part of one of the biggest rental fleets in the world after an agreement was reached between Smart USA and the Hertz Corporation. The vehicles will be introduced at car sharing and rent-a-car locations in New York; Washington, DC; and San Francisco, California with the vehicle placements [.].