Green Car Congress

NOVEMBER 3, 2014

'US sales of BMW’s battery-electric i3 ( earlier post ) have averaged almost 5% (4.93%) of BMW US passenger car sales over the past three months, and 3.85% of all BMW brand sales in that country. Deliveries of the i3 began in May, with 336 units. Sales proceeded approximately at that level for the next two months (June, 358; July, 363), then shot up to 1,025 in August; 1,022 units in September, and 1,159 units in October.

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Green Car Reports

NOVEMBER 7, 2014

'Every month, and often more frequently, a new story appears about the state-by-state battle between Tesla Motors and auto-dealer lobbyists. In some states, Tesla is permitted to sell its electric cars online, deliver them to customers, and open as many Tesla Store showrooms as it wants. DON''T MISS: Michigan Gov Snyder Signs Anti-Tesla Bill Called.

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Green Cars News

NOVEMBER 7, 2014

'Travelling 736km (457 miles) on a single charge is something that sounds far out of the range of even a Tesla Model S - but that''s exactly what one firm has achieved with its converted-to-electric-power Mazda 5. Developed by the Institute Metron, a specialist in electric car conversions based in Sl[.].

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Green Car Congress

NOVEMBER 1, 2014

'Crazy Diamond Performance (CDP) has received EPA approval on two new mono-fuel compressed natural gas small passenger vehicles, the CNG Chevrolet Cruze and CNG Chevrolet Sonic. These new mono-fuel CNG platforms are the first of a series of small and fuel efficient vehicles coming from CDP. Soon to be available are the 1.8 and 1.4L Cruze and Sonic CNG retrofit systems.

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Green Car Congress

NOVEMBER 5, 2014

'In a new report , Navigant Research forecasts that global annual sales of e-bicycles will grow modestly from 31.7 million units in 2014 to 40.3 million units in 2023 under a base scenario—a CAGR of 2.7%. Navigant expects China, the market leader, to reach 28.8 million e-bicycle sales this year under the base scenario, representing 91% of the total global market.

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Green Car Congress

NOVEMBER 6, 2014

'GKN Gyrodrive bus. Click to enlarge. GKN Land Systems is ramping up production of its Gyrodrive electric flywheel hybrid technology for buses following successful trials in London and the start of UK production. ( Earlier post.). Gyrodrive uses a high-speed composite flywheel paired with an innovative GKN EVO electric motor to regenerate the energy normally lost during braking.

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Green Car Congress

NOVEMBER 7, 2014

'Solid Power Inc. has been named “Emerging Cleantech Company of the Year” by the Colorado Cleantech Industries Association ( CCIA ). Solid Power, founded in 2012 based on research conducted at the University of Colorado at Boulder under funding from the Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency (DARPA), is developing solid-state rechargeable battery products for government and commercial markets, including aerospace and electric vehicles, where high energy, safe operation and long life are requi

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Green Car Congress

NOVEMBER 5, 2014

'BMW has sold almost 10,300 i3 EVs worldwide during the first nine months of this year, and 341 i8 plug-in hybrids from June through September, according to Dr. Norbert Reithofer, Chairman of the Board of Management of BMW AG in his statement on the company’s quarterly results. The i3 is now available in China, Reithofer said, adding that the company is seeing a surge in i8 deliveries.

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Green Car Congress

NOVEMBER 7, 2014

'The international “ Science Award Electrochemistry ” from Volkswagen and BASF ( earlier post ) goes this year to Dr. Vanessa Wood , Swiss Federal Institute of Technology, Zurich (ETH Zürich), Department of Information Technology and Electrical Engineering, Switzerland. The jury of representatives from BASF, Volkswagen and from academia selected Dr.

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Green Car Congress

NOVEMBER 5, 2014

'Southern California Edison (SCE) announced the selected suppliers and projects for 261 MW of energy storage resources, representing the largest grid-connected energy storage purchase yet in the US, and more than five times greater than the utility’s minimum energy storage procurement authorization of 50 MW, per California Public Utilities Commission (CPUC) ruling.

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Green Car Congress

NOVEMBER 7, 2014

'Volkswagen Group of America (VWGoA) will provide an battery-electric 2015 Volkswagen e-Golf ( earlier post ) to Stanford University for research dedicated to advancing e-mobility and improving the driver experience in electric vehicles. Prof. Dr. Martin Winterkorn, Chairperson of the Board of Directors, Volkswagen of America and a member of Stanford Engineering Advisory Board, presented the vehicle at Stanford on November 6.

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Green Car Congress

NOVEMBER 4, 2014

'Daimler Greater China opened its new 865-million RMB Mercedes-Benz Research & Development Center in China and extended its local R%D network in Beijing. A new Advanced Design Studio is a centerpiece of the R&D facility and represents the company’s new design hub in Asia. At the official opening, Gorden Wagener, Head of Design Daimler AG, presented the Mercedes-Benz G-Code plug-in hybrid crossover show car.

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Green Car Congress

NOVEMBER 4, 2014

'CDTi says that its Spinel technology uses various base metals to create an effective exhaust catalyst. Click to enlarge. Clean Diesel Technologies, Inc. announced new proprietary technology—which it calls Spinel—to replace costly platinum group (PGM) and rare earth metals in catalytic converters. The new technology will power multiple catalytic product lines that CDTi believes will be highly disruptive to the traditional platinum-based or rare-earth based device industry.

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Green Car Congress

NOVEMBER 5, 2014

'Andromeda Interfaces has introduced its Electric Vehicle Interface Controller (EVIC), a fully integrated display device to monitor the operation and safety of electric vehicle major sub-systems. The display device connects to the CAN network and retrieves the following data: Cell Temperatures (Min and Max). Cell Voltages (Min and Max). Traction High Voltage (VDC).

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Green Car Congress

NOVEMBER 7, 2014

'Honda’s 2015 Civic Hybrid and Civic Natural Gas vehicles are joining the already released 2015 Civic Sedan, Civic Coupe and Civic Si in showrooms in the US. The 2015 Civic Hybrid launches at Honda dealers nationwide on November 5 with a manufacturer’s suggested retail price (MSRP) starting at $24,735. The 2015 Civic Natural Gas goes on sale at Honda dealers in 37 states beginning on 19 November with an MSRP starting at $26,740.

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Green Car Congress

NOVEMBER 6, 2014

'Bosch has produced a map of automotive powertrain market share for Europe and select countries in the Americas and Asia. Among the differences highlighted are that nearly every fifth new vehicle in Japan is a hybrid; spark-ignition engines dominate the market most in China with an almost 100% share of new vehicle purchases; and diesel holds sway in Europe and India.

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Green Car Congress

NOVEMBER 5, 2014

'Representative schematic of hardware employed for testing of a complete biofuel cell. Credit: ACS, Ulyanova et al. Click to enlarge. A team from the University of Utah and CFD Research Corporation (CFDRC) reports the first bioelectrocatalysis of alkanes to produce electricity. In an paper published in the journal ACS Catalysis , they describe the use of a two-enzyme cascade in an enzymatic biofuel cell to oxidize hexane, octane and then JP-8, a jet fuel (C 6 -C 16 ) comprising a mixture of alka

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Green Car Congress

NOVEMBER 7, 2014

'The US Department of Defense (DoD) has awarded EaglePicher $22 million in funding under the Defense Production Act Title III Program ( DPA Title III ) for Phase II of the Lithium-Ion Battery for Military Applications (LIMA) project. The original solicitation for the LIMA project was in 2011. The program goal assures the affordable production of critical items deemed essential for national defense, alleviating concerns regarding market volatility and uncertainty within the current international

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Green Car Congress

NOVEMBER 6, 2014

'Greyrock Energy, a company transforming natural gas into premium transportation fuels ( earlier post ), announced a final investment decision (FID) to build a small-scale Gas-to-Liquids (GTL) facility near Houston, Texas. The plant will be commercially operational by the end of 2015. Greyrock targets midstream operators and producers who can profit by transforming abundant, low-cost natural gas into higher-value transportation fuels without the costly, large-scale processes that are typical wit

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Green Car Congress

NOVEMBER 7, 2014

'Researchers at the A*STAR Institute of Chemical and Engineering Sciences in Singapore have developed a novel catalyst (iron-promoted rhodium on a calcium-modified aluminum oxide support) for CO-free hydrogen production via low-temperature ethanol steam reforming (ESR). The catalyst could advance the realization of small-scale on-board ethanol reformers for hydrogen-powered cars.

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Green Car Congress

NOVEMBER 6, 2014

'The US Department of Energy (DOE) has selected four projects to receive funding for next-generation gasification systems. Awardees will receive approximately $16 million to advance the gasification process, which converts carbon-based materials such as coal into syngas for use as power, chemicals, hydrogen, and transportation fuels. Gasification plants have the potential for greater power generation efficiency and environmental performance than conventional coal-fired plants, and serve as the b

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Green Car Congress

NOVEMBER 6, 2014

'Toho Tenax Co., Ltd., the core company of the Teijin Group’s carbon fibers and composites business, has developed a new prepreg (carbon fiber sheet pre-impregnated with matrix resin) that offers super-high-heat and -oxidation resistance suited to automotive and aircraft engine compartments. The new bismaleimide resin pre-impregnated prepreg does not reach glass-transition below 320?

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Green Car Congress

NOVEMBER 5, 2014

'Toho Tenax Co., Ltd., the core company of the Teijin Group’s carbon fibers and composites business, has developed a new prepreg (carbon fiber sheet pre-impregnated with matrix resin) that achieves rapid curing for increased productivity and features excellent surface texture and formability. Prepregs are intermediate materials of thermoset CFRPs used mainly for aircraft and automotive applications.

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Green Car Congress

NOVEMBER 5, 2014

'Ninety-nine percent of used lead-based automotive batteries in the EU available for collection are recycled, making them one of the most recycled consumer products, according to a new report by consultancy IHS. The study was commissioned by EUROBAT, representing Europe’s automotive battery industry; the European Automobile Manufacturers Association (ACEA); the automobile manufacturers’ associations of Japan (JAMA) and South Korea (KAMA); and the International Lead Association (ILA).

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Green Car Congress

NOVEMBER 4, 2014

'Volkswagen of America, Inc. (VWoA) reported 30,313 units delivered in October, and increase of 7.8% over October 2013. The all-new Golf (earlier post) delivered 2,351 units for the month, marking a 101% increase in sales for the model over the previous October. Golf model sales in October included 2,351 Golf units (up from 1,169 in October 2013) and 1,724 Golf GTIs (up 67.1% Y-O-Y).

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Green Car Congress

NOVEMBER 3, 2014

'Researchers at the University of Wisconsin have disclosed a new method to convert lignin, an important component of biomass waste, into simple chemicals. Lignin, which accounts for nearly 30% of the organic carbon in the biosphere, is a complex material containing chains of six-carbon rings. These aromatics could be the basis for a sustainable supply of useful chemicals, but only if the chains of lignin can be broken down into the individual units.

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Green Car Congress

NOVEMBER 3, 2014

'A new material developed at Rice University based on molybdenum disulfide (Mo S 2) exposes as much of the edge as possible, making it efficient as both a catalyst for hydrogen production and for energy storage. Courtesy of the Tour Group. Click to enlarge. The Rice lab of chemist James Tour has turned molybdenum disulfide’s two-dimensional form into a edge-oriented nanoporous film that can catalyze the production of hydrogen or be used for energy storage as part of a supercapacitor device.

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Green Car Congress

NOVEMBER 1, 2014

'NXP Semiconductors N.V., co-inventor (with Sony) and leading supplier of near field communication (NFC), is launching a complete portfolio of automotive-qualified NFC products, enabling drivers and passengers to connect securely to the quickly growing NFC ecosystem. The new product line-up ranges from NFC tags and transceivers to the high-end NFC controller, the NCF3340.

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Green Car Congress

NOVEMBER 6, 2014

'Federal-Mogul Powertrain’s new high-modulus injection-molded Unipiston clutch pistons are now in series production at the company’s facility in Chivasso, Italy. The technology was a 2013 Automotive News PACE Award Winner in the process category. Unipiston is a one-piece, rubber-to-metal bonded piston that hydraulically engages clutches to activate the gearshift.

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Green Car Congress

NOVEMBER 6, 2014

'Polypore International, Inc.’s Celgard , LLC subsidiary and Panasonic Corporation have signed a letter of intent to work together in the development of coated and uncoated Celgard brand separators to meet Panasonic’s requirements for next-generation cylindrical battery cell production for various applications globally. Upon successful completion of this development effort, the parties expect to enter into a long term supply agreement.

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Green Car Congress

NOVEMBER 6, 2014

'In a newly published SAE paper, a team from Ford, General Motors and AVL argues that the exclusive use of a match blending approach to prepare ethanol-gasoline blends for regulatory emissions testing “has fundamental flaws”. This echoes the recent criticism by the Urban Air Initiative (UAI) and the Energy Future Coalition (EFC) that the latest version of the US Environmental Protection Agency’s (EPA) MOtor Vehicle Emission Simulator (MOVES) modeling system for estimating emissions from mobile s

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Green Car Congress

NOVEMBER 5, 2014

'The United States Advanced Battery Consortium LLC (USABC), a collaborative organization operated by Chrysler Group LLC, Ford Motor Company and General Motors, has awarded a $2.68-million advanced battery technology development contract for the development of a high-performance, hybrid energy storage system for automotive stop-start applications to Maxwell Technologies Inc. of San Diego, Calif.

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Green Car Congress

NOVEMBER 5, 2014

'Australia-based renewable fuels company Muradel has launched Australia’s first integrated demonstration plant for the sustainable conversion of algae into green crude, as a first step towards a commercial plant with the potential to produce 80 million liters (21 million gallons US, or about 500,000 barrels) of crude oil per year. The $10.7-million demonstration plant at Whyalla, South Australia (on the north-western coast of Spencer Gulf, northwest of Adelaide) will produce 30,000 liters of gre

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Green Car Congress

NOVEMBER 4, 2014

'More than 600 experts attended Volkswagen Group’s PhD Day, when 95 young scientists presented their research findings at the MobileLifeCampus in Wolfsburg, Germany. PhD students from the Volkswagen Passenger Cars, ŠKODA, Audi, Porsche, MAN and Scania brands as well as from Volkswagen Group China presented their doctoral theses on topics from twelve different specialist departments. 26 young scientists conducted research in the field of drive technology; 14 in production; eleven in electronics;

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