Green Car Congress

JULY 18, 2011

Dabiri suggests using optimized arrays of smaller vertical-axis wind turbines to increase the power density and reduce the cost, and visual, acoustic, radar and environmental impacts, of wind farms using giant horizontal-axis turbines. Source: Dabiri 2010. Click to enlarge. Research by Prof. John Dabiri at Caltech suggests that using counter-rotating vertical-axis wind turbines (VAWTs) arrayed in layouts that enable them to extract energy from adjacent wakes and from above the. wind farm could p

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Electric Cars are for Girls

JULY 18, 2011

Have you heard of the GM EN-V? It's a concept electric vehicle, sort of a cross between a personal electric car and a cell phone. In a word? Inevitable.

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DIY Electric Car

JULY 19, 2011

Controller started turning off under heavy loads. Asked around and was told I needed to replace the filter board caps. $90 @ mouser, some heavy duty soldering, everything is still going strong two months later. Also, I did a measured 45mi and measured 9kwh (of 14kw). The entire trip was secondary roads (35 typical, 45mph max).

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Green Car Reports

JULY 21, 2011

The lithium-ion battery pack in the 2011 Chevrolet Volt is backed by an eight-year, 100,000 mile warranty. The engineers behind its development will be the first to tell you that most packs will last quite a bit longer than that. But even the most carefully treated Volt battery pack will still have a finite lifespan in an automobile. Still, when.

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Green Car Congress

JULY 19, 2011

The Virginia Department of Mines, Minerals and Energy (DMME) and Virginia Clean Cities (VCC) at James Madison University (JMU) are requesting proposals from fleets in the southeastern US interested in converting eligible gasoline vehicles to run on propane autogas. The application deadline is Friday, 12 August 2011, at 5pm EDT. Funding to cover the parts and labor for vehicle conversions will be provided under the Southeast Propane Autogas Development Program.

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Electric Cars are for Girls

JULY 16, 2011

Which 6 volt golf cart battery is the best choice for electric car drivers? Here are the favorites.

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Green Car Reports

JULY 20, 2011

Toyota may have started the hybrid revolution with its original Prius, the first mass-produced gasoline-electric hybrid car and the vehicle which quickly became the eco badge of honor for celebrities and city dwellers alike. But ten years after the first Prius rolled into the U.S., Toyota is now playing green car catchup, with its 2012 Toyota.

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Green Car Congress

JULY 20, 2011

Perspective by The Townsend Company. Figure 1. Typical daily grid demand. Click to enlarge. “ Why do you need energy storage on the grid, when the grid is full of power plants that generate all the energy that is needed? ” It would seem like a good question to ask and applies the same logic has been used for the past fifty years in determining grid strategy.

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National Green Transportation

JULY 22, 2011

Yesterday the Tesla Motors blog posted a Q&A, between Chief Designer Franz von Holzhausen and Model S Program Director Jerome Guillen, about Tesla's next all-electric car, the Model S sedan. The discussion centered on.

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All Cars Electric

JULY 19, 2011

If you’re the kind of person who thinks that a fun weekend consists of redecorating your bathroom, landscaping your garden or perhaps making your own shelving units from scratch, you’re probably familiar with Lowe’s, the Home Improvement Store. But what you may not know is that as of August DIY Enthusiasts in selected areas will.

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Green Car Reports

JULY 16, 2011

The 2011 Toyota Prius hybrid has the highest gas mileage of any car sold in the U.S. this year: 51 mpg city, 48 mpg highway, for a combined EPA fuel efficiency rating of 50 mpg. It's a practical five-door hatchback with enough interior room to qualify as a mid-size car. Outside times when gas prices spike--when Prius sales go through the roof--you.

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Green Car Congress

JULY 20, 2011

Scion’s 2012 iQ premium micro-subcompact will begin arriving in dealerships this October. The Scion iQ is only 10 feet long yet seats four people. 2012 Scion iQ. Click to enlarge. Six engineering innovations enable iQ’s ability to be small in size, but large in capability: a compact front-mounted differential; high-mount steering rack with electronic power-steering; and a compact air-conditioning unit all amount to significant decreases in front-end length.

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National Green Transportation

JULY 18, 2011

This weekend will see what promises to be an epic electric motorcycle race at Laguna Seca, amongst the Red Bull MotoGP and AMA Superbike festivities. The entry list (below) contains a who's-who of the leading electric.

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All Cars Electric

JULY 21, 2011

Ask most people which car would be best to have in a disaster and they’re likely to name something like a Humvee. While the now deceased gas-guzzling Humvee be good for navigating through deserted streets and clearing obstacles in the road it can’t help you cook a meal. But it turns out plug in cars can. Spurred on by the desire to.

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Green Car Reports

JULY 19, 2011

Once its initial battery charge is exhausted, the 2011 Chevy Volt seamlessly switches on its internal combustion engine to generate electricity. But it turns out that the 2011 Volt can sometimes return to electric-drive mode even before it's plugged in, letting it deliver additional “clean miles." Here's how. According to the very detailed.

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Green Car Congress

JULY 21, 2011

The California Air Resources Board (ARB) approved up to $40 million for the third year of funding to promote the purchase of next-generation clean cars, trucks and off-road equipment. Californians will be able to use vouchers or rebates on a first-come, first-served basis toward the purchase of zero-emission or plug-in hybrid cars, and zero-emission or hybrid trucks and buses.

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National Green Transportation

JULY 19, 2011

Today Nissan announced plans for the 2012 model year LEAF, their all-electric sedan. The plans include expanding availability to more of the U.S. and making standard the most popular options on the 2011 model, including the DC.

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All Cars Electric

JULY 18, 2011

If you’re thinking of buying a 2011 Chevrolet Volt plug-in hybrid, then you’re probably already aware that its 16 kilowatt-hour battery pack is much smaller than the battery packs normally found in pure electric cars. As a consequence, it is even possible to charge the Volt’s battery pack overnight from a domestic power outlet.

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Green Car Reports

JULY 18, 2011

You might call it pure propaganda, but confident young BMW worker Mirco Schwarze describes the process of assembling the BMW ActiveE electric car in a way that makes it all quite palatable. The short video below, barely longer than a minute, shows the BMW 1-Series assembly line at the carmaker's Leipzig plant, which is becoming its manufacturing.

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Green Car Congress

JULY 20, 2011

Chevrolet sold 2.35 million vehicles globally in the first six months of 2011, the best half-year performance in Chevrolet’s 100-year history. Chevrolet sold 286,499 more vehicles in the first half of 2011 than the same time period of 2010, a 14% increase year over year. In addition, Chevrolet set record first-half sales in many countries, including Argentina, Brazil, Chile, China, Colombia, Denmark, Ecuador, France, South Africa, and Turkey.

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National Green Transportation

JULY 21, 2011

It was with great sadness that Green Vehicles CEO Mike Ryan penned a blog post on July 12 abruptly announcing that Green Vehicles had run out of money and was shutting down. Reports today (July 21) from local news.

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All Cars Electric

JULY 20, 2011

What happens when your electric car runs out of charge? It’s a question we regularly get asked by readers and its one that for a while, there’s only been one real solution. Just like a gasoline car, you need to make sure you have enough fuel to make your trip. But everyone makes mistakes once in a while, and we’re sure most.

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Green Car Reports

JULY 18, 2011

By now, you may well have seen short video clips of crudely animated people talking in monotonous tones, with more than occasional mispronunciations and odd rhythms. They're Xtranormal animations, created by feeding your dialogue into a website that animates them based on the author's choices of characters and animations. Now Chevy Volt owner and.

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Green Car Congress

JULY 17, 2011

Rice—which provides nearly half the daily calories for the world’s population—could become better adapted to stresses resulting from climate change and some catastrophic events through what researchers are calling “symbiogenics”—symbiosis-altered gene expression. In an open-access paper published in the journal PLoS ONE , a team lead by researchers from the US Geological Survey reported adapting two commercial rice varieties to cold, salt and drought stress simply b

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National Green Transportation

JULY 19, 2011

This weekend the Laguna Seca racetrack features a jam-packed schedule of motorcycle racing action including the TTXGP and e-Power electric motorcycle race, and the MotoGP. Santa Cruz based electric motorcycle manufacturer, Zero Motorcycles, will.

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All Cars Electric

JULY 19, 2011

The 2012 Nissan Leaf electric car will include more standard equipment, but it will carry a higher price tag as well. Announcing the updates for the second Leaf model year, Nissan said today it will expand U.S. sales of the Leaf into several Southeastern states plus Illinois. The 2012 model of the first battery-electric vehicle sold in the U.S. in.

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Green Car Reports

JULY 18, 2011

The 2011 Nissan Leaf is the first battery electric car from a major carmaker built in high volumes for almost a century. Its distinctive five-door design makes it as recognizable and iconic on the road as the Toyota Prius hybrid, yet distinctively a Nissan. As the sole all-electric car sold in volume this year, it’s hands-down the greenest.

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Green Car Congress

JULY 19, 2011

Comparative levelized cost of electricity in 2025 ($/MWh) at different CO 2 prices. Source: EPRI. Click to enlarge. The Electric Power Research Institute (EPRI) released a report, Integrated Generation Technology Options on the cost, performance, and technology status for eight central-station power generation technologies likely to dominate the US generation mix over the next two decades: pulverized coal; integrated gasification combined-cycle (IGCC); natural gas combined-cycle (NGCC); nuclear;

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Green Cars News

JULY 19, 2011

Tuesday 19 July 2011. The Green Piece Column. Electric cars may be game changers in the automotive world, but they are being held back by one crucial aspect – namely, electric car batteries. It is widely believed that electric cars will never have mainstream acceptance until they are able to travel as far as a [.].

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All Cars Electric

JULY 21, 2011

As we reported back in December last year and again last month, California’s $4.1 million Clean Vehicle Rebate Project has now run out of money. If you’re one of the early adopters who has been lucky enough to buy a 2011 Nissan Leaf, or 2011 Tesla Roadster in the state since 2010 you should already have had a $5,000 rebate check.

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Green Car Reports

JULY 18, 2011

If you thought the 40 mpg highway fuel economy rating of the 2011 Ford Fiesta SFE model was impressive, just wait until the reveal of the three-cylinder version, which is reportedly destined to land in the U.S. The car will come powered by a turbocharged 1.0-liter EcoBoost engine that should deliver horsepower and torque equal to or even better.

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Green Car Congress

JULY 20, 2011

The new pretreatment approach uses ammonia (NH 3 ) to reorganize the hydrogen bond network within cellulose, resulting in up to a 5-fold increase in saccharification rates. Credit: ACS, Chundawat et al. Click to enlarge. Researchers at the US Department of Energy’s Los Alamos National Laboratory (LANL, the Great Lakes Bioenergy Research Center (GLBRC) and Michigan State University (MSU) have developed a new biomass pretreatment method that reorganizes the hydrogen bond network within cryst

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Green Cars News

JULY 21, 2011

The UK is to gain its first privately funded network of electric vehicle (EV) recharging points, with a staggering 4,000 to be installed by the end of 2012. Starting in September, leading EV charging infrastructure supplier Chargemaster Plc will launch its ‘Polar’ project, with charging points initially appearing in around 100 towns and cities across [.].

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All Cars Electric

JULY 20, 2011

Unless you’ve been sleeping for the past year you’ll know that Toyota is bringing back the iconic RAV4 EV for the 2012 model year and contrary to past reports, will be available for private purchase. You probably also know that the 2012 Toyota RAV4 EV will be powered by a drivetrain designed by Californian electric car maker Tesla.

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