Green Car Congress

JUNE 4, 2013

'Scientists at the Zentrum für Sonnenenergie- und Wasserstoff-Forschung Baden-Württemberg (ZSW) (Center for Solar Energy and Hydrogen Research Baden-Württemberg) have developed Li-ion batteries that have already demonstrated a very high cycle life of more than 10,000 full cycles with retention of more than 85% of original capacity. The cells have a power density of 1,100 W/kg.

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Green Car Reports

JUNE 5, 2013

'There are barely 10,000 Tesla Model S electric cars on the roads, and its Model X crossover won''t arrive for more than a year. Still, at yesterday''s Tesla Motors [NSDQ:TSLA] annual meeting, CEO Elon Musk''s comments on the startup automaker''s long-range plans for a second, less expensive line of electric cars caught many ears. We''ve known for a.

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DIY Electric Car

JUNE 5, 2013

'This project is an electric vehicle conversion on a 1976 MG Midget. I''ve owned the car for about 15 years, and last worked on it in 2005. I''m back at it and making good progress. Here''s some photos of the car before the project began.

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National Green Transportation

JUNE 6, 2013

'On Tuesday, Lightning Motorcycles announced they had signed Pikes Peak International Hill Climb multi-time-champion Carlin Dunne to ride with the team in the 2013 event. While this is important for Lightning Motorcycles, as a team, to sign.

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Green Car Congress

JUNE 2, 2013

'Project Volt Gas Volt is based on a long-term financing plan and the use of existing technologies for the large-scale conversion of surplus renewable electricity to methane, with subsequent reuse. Diagram: Isabelle Plat. Click to enlarge. Corinne Lepage, Member of the European Parliament (and former French Minister of the Environment) and Professor Robert Bell, Brooklyn University, City University of New York, are proposing Project Volt Gas Volt (VGV) as a technology pathway for using renewable

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Green Car Reports

JUNE 7, 2013

'The problem with battery electric cars is that you can''t take them on long trips, because they take so long to recharge. Or so goes the common wisdom, anyhow. Would a trip from Los Angeles to New York City in an electric car perhaps refute that statement? That''s the idea discussed by CEO Elon Musk at Tuesday''s annual shareholder meeting of Tesla.

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National Green Transportation

JUNE 6, 2013

'On Tuesday, Lightning Motorcycles announced they had signed Pikes Peak International Hill Climb multi-time-champion Carlin Dunne to ride with the team in the 2013 event. While this is important for Lightning Motorcycles, as a team, to sign.

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Green Car Congress

JUNE 5, 2013

'1.4 TSI with ACT. Click to enlarge. Volkswagen’s 1.4 TSI with automatic cylinder deactivation (ACT) ( earlier post ) received the “Best New Engine Award” at the 2013 International Engine of the Year Awards 2013 at Engine Expo in Stuttgart, Germany. This award recognizes the best engine development of the past 12 months. The 1.4-liter TSI gasoline engine from Volkswagen also won the “Engine of the Year Award” for seventh consecutive time in the 1.0 to 1.4 liter displacement category.

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Green Car Reports

JUNE 6, 2013

'Win some, lose some. Tesla''s had a very good year thus far, but it was recently dealt legislative defeats in two states where it had hoped to sell its electric cars. In Texas, the state legislature declined to make an exception to existing rules that make it illegal for automakers to sell cars to retail buyers. In North Carolina, a Senate.

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Green Cars News

JUNE 4, 2013

'Lithium-ion batteries are at the centre of the electric car revolution: boasting longer lifecycles than the majority of zinc-air batteries that they have effectively replaced. So imagine if that lifecycle became even longer? That is what the scientists at Zentrum fur Sonnenenergie und Wasserstoff-F[.].

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National Green Transportation

JUNE 5, 2013

'MotoCzysz has won its fourth straight TT ZERO on Wednesday, in a stunning defeat of Mugen Shinden who many thought would win this year. MotoCzysz' Mike Rutter and Mugen's John McGuiness finished just 1.67 seconds.

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Green Car Congress

JUNE 7, 2013

'2014 Toyota Corolla LE Eco. Click to enlarge. Toyota unveiled the 2014 Toyota Corolla—the 11 th generation of the car. With nearly 40 million units sold, the Toyota Corolla is the world’s best-selling car nameplate; this year marks its 47 th year on the market. The 2014 Corolla is available in four distinct grades: L, LE, S, and the new LE Eco grade.

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Green Car Reports

JUNE 3, 2013

'Plug-in car sales continued at a steady pace in May, with early estimates of perhaps 6,500 to 7,000 sold overall. As always, precise figures are impossible because Tesla Motors [NSDQ:TSLA] does not report monthly sales as every other carmaker does. We''ll refine our totals as more reports come in over the course of the day (and, for the Ford.

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Green Cars News

JUNE 3, 2013

'Scientists at Stanford University have developed a zinc air battery they hope could become the next generation of battery, costing less and delivering more power than the current generation of lithium ion batteries. Because they don''t need expensive catalysts made of platinum or iridium, zinc air [.].

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Green Car Congress

JUNE 3, 2013

'Chiyoda’s hydrogen supply chain concept. Click to enlarge. Japan-based Chiyoda Corporation announced that a demonstration plant located in its Koyasu Office and Research Park has successfully achieved expected performance using a liquid organic hydrogen carrier (LOHC) technology. The demonstration was a test run to prove Chiyoda’s “Large-Scale Hydrogen Storage and Transportation System” including (1) hydrogenation to fix hydrogen to toluene (C 7 H 8 ) producing methylcyclohexane (MCH: C 7 H 14

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Green Car Congress

JUNE 4, 2013

'The French website moteurnature reports that sales of the Renault ZOE EV dropped to 483 units in May, down from 748 units in April. For the first five months of 2013, ZOE posted a combined 2,830 registrations, making it the best-selling electric vehicle in France, accounting for 73% of the electric passenger car market. ZOE goes on sale in Germany on Saturday.

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Green Car Congress

JUNE 6, 2013

'Neste Oil, the world’s largest producer of renewable diesel (NExBTL), has signed a contingent commercial off-take agreement with Cellana, an algae biomass developer based in the United States. The agreement will enable Neste Oil to purchase Cellana’s algae oil for use as a feedstock in the future for producing renewable fuel. The agreement is contingent on Cellana’s future production capacity and on compliance with future biofuel legislation in the EU and US, among other factors.

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Green Car Congress

JUNE 1, 2013

'The US Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC) has issued a cease-and desist order against split-cycle engine developer Scuderi Group ( earlier post ) and its president, Salvatore Scuderi, as well as a $100,000-fine against Salvatore Scuderi for violations of the Securities Act including unregistered stock offerings and “ misleading disclosures regarding the use of offerings proceeds.”.

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Green Car Congress

JUNE 5, 2013

'Earlier CN testing of LNG using a tank-car (non-Westport)-based tender with two converted test locomotives. Click to enlarge. Westport Innovations Inc. launched a liquefied natural gas (LNG) locomotive tender product solution with an order for four tenders from Canadian National Railway (CN); CN is currently testing two Electro-Motive Diesel locomotives converted for operation on natural gas. ( Earlier post.

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Green Car Congress

JUNE 4, 2013

'United Airlines executed a definitive purchase agreement with AltAir Fuels ( earlier post ) for cost-competitive, sustainable, bio-synthetic paraffinic kerosene at commercial scale. With United’s strategic partnership, AltAir Fuels will retrofit part of an existing petroleum refinery to become a 30-million gallon, advanced biofuel refinery near Los Angeles, Calif.

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Green Car Congress

JUNE 7, 2013

'Novozymes and Novo Nordisk have in collaboration installed a 36 meter tall, high-performance biogas reactor that utilizes wastewater from both Novo Nordisk and Novozymes’ large production in Kalundborg for an efficient production of biogas. The biogas reactor—one of the most efficient worldwide—can produce 47 MWh of electricity a year as well as heat.

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Green Car Congress

JUNE 6, 2013

'The Electric Drive Transportation Association (EDTA) today released the May 2013 Electric Drive Sales Dashboard, showing strong ongoing gains in hybrid and plug-in vehicle sales in the US, continuing the steady market rollout. Automakers reported that 48,796 hybrids were sold in May, up 14% from April’s 42,804 units, showing a larger increase than the overall automobile sales market.

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Green Car Congress

JUNE 6, 2013

'Researchers at Oak Ridge National Laboratory (ORNL) have designed and tested an all-solid lithium-sulfur battery with approximately four times the energy density of conventional lithium-ion technologies. The ORNL battery design also addresses flammability concerns experienced by other chemistries. Despite the theoretical promise of high energy density in rechargeable Li-sulfur batteries, commercialization has been retarded by the reduced cycle life enabled by the liquid electrolytes.

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Green Car Congress

JUNE 6, 2013

'Scuderi Group, Inc., developers of a split-cycle engine ( earlier post ), signed a memorandum of understanding (MOU) with a worldwide engine manufacturer concerning intended cooperation in a joint development project. Details of this agreement are confidential. The Scuderi Engine’s Split Cycle design separates the compression stroke from the combustion/power stroke and connects them with a high-pressure crossover passage.

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Green Car Congress

JUNE 4, 2013

'Schematic illustration of 3D porous SiNP/conductive polymer hydrogel composite electrodes. Each SiNP is encapsulated in a conductive polymer surface. Wu et al. Click to enlarge. A team at Stanford University has developed stable silicon Li-ion battery anodes by incorporating a conducting polymer hydrogel into the Si-based material. The hydrogel is polymerized in situ , resulting in a well-connected 3D network structure of Si nanoparticles (SiNP) coated by the conducting polymer.

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Green Car Congress

JUNE 6, 2013

'Ioxus, a manufacturer of premium performance ultracapacitor technology for the automotive and transportation industries, introduced the new 1200 Farad (F) cell to its portfolio of high performance ultracapacitors. The 1200F cell is a high-powered energy solution intended to optimize the performance of lead acid, AGM and Lithium-ion batteries in cars, tractors and motorbikes, enabling improved start/stop technology performance and serving as a reliable and cost-effective feature of hybrid engine

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Green Car Congress

JUNE 4, 2013

'UK-based Ashwoods Electric Motors Ltd has begun production of a low-cost, efficient axial flux permanent magnet motor for motive and industrial applications. Ashwoods officially launches the motor at Engine Expo 2013 in Stuttgart, 4-6 June. Ashwoods motor. Click to enlarge. Ashwoods developed a fully productionized electric motor for highway and off-highway vehicles, as well as industrial applications.

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Green Car Congress

JUNE 2, 2013

'Concurrent Technologies Corporation (CTC) has been awarded a $15-million increase on an Air Force Research Laboratory (AFRL) contract. The Indefinite Delivery Indefinite Quantity (IDIQ) contract was awarded in June 2009 and had an original ceiling value of $98 million. The ceiling has been raised to $113 million to accommodate new work for the United States Air Force and Army.

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Green Car Congress

JUNE 6, 2013

'Monthly fuel economy of the retrofitted Honda Civic during the first 9 months of the fleet test. DOE researchers attributed the significant fuel economy reduction for May, June, and July as most likely being due to significant mountain driving and the likely use of the vehicle’s air conditioning. Source: DOE. Click to enlarge. In a project co-funded by the US Department of Energy and managed by Ecotality North America, the Advanced Lead Acid Battery Consortium (ALABC) has demonstrated the durab

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Green Car Congress

JUNE 5, 2013

'MCW Energy Group, a Canadian holding company involved in fuel distribution and the creation of oil sands extraction technology, announced successful results of processing random Alberta oil sands tailings ponds samples in a series of preliminary laboratory tests. The separation/extraction tests utilizing MCW’s proprietary extraction technology were recently completed by separating solid and liquid phases, analyzing the contents of both phases and then implementing MCW’s extraction technology wh

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Green Car Congress

JUNE 3, 2013

'The Polk County, Oregon, Sheriff’s Office is running 10 patrol cars converted to propane autogas, including seven Ford Crown Vics, two Chevy Tahoes and one Ford F-350 pickup truck; the office expects to save more than $20,000 every year by using the alternative fuel. The law enforcement fleet began switching to autogas in March 2013 through Blue Star Gas, which provides the Alliance AutoGas program for West Coast fleets.

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Green Car Congress

JUNE 3, 2013

'DNV and WWF have developed a concept design for a new research vessel—the Spindrift—to focus on the seemingly intractable problems associated with cleaning up the plastic debris that is accumulating in the world’s ocean gyres. The pathways and degradation processes of plastic in the ocean are still largely unknown, and to enable efficient clean-up these knowledge gaps need to be filled.

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Green Car Congress

JUNE 4, 2013

'In a new report, energy, mining and minerals consultancy Wood Mackenzie projects that despite efforts to limit coal consumption and seek alternative fuel options, China’s strong appetite for thermal coal will lead to a doubling of demand by 2030. China’s demand will grow to approximately seven billion tonnes per annum (btpa) of thermal coal which is contrary to speculation that its thermal coal demand may peak in the next decade.

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Green Car Congress

JUNE 3, 2013

'Quantum Fuel Systems Technologies Worldwide, Inc. has developed alternative new technology lightweight carbon composite compressed natural gas and hydrogen fuel tanks utilizing selective fiber placement that leads to significant reduction in weight and cost—demonstrating more than 20% reduction in material utilization. The underlying methodology for the design and analysis of discrete composite elements was developed by Quantum, and the manufacturing process involving discontinuous reinfo

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