Green Car Congress

JUNE 4, 2012

Energy management with the V2H system. Click to enlarge. Toyota Motor Corporation (TMC) has developed a vehicle-to_home (V2H) system for the mutual sharing of power between plug-in vehicles—plug-in hybrid vehicles (PHVs) and electric vehicles (EVs)—and homes. The V2H system is to start testing, using Prius PHVs, at the end of 2012 in approximately ten households as part of the Toyota City Low-Carbon Verification Project (Toyota City Project) that began in April 2010.

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Electric Cars are for Girls

JUNE 8, 2012

Steve Schneider, long time CEO of US operations at Zap, is now GONE. What does this mean for the future of Zap, I wonder?

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Green Car Reports

JUNE 8, 2012

Featuring some pretty nifty fuel-saving technology, like its redesigned continuously variable transmission and Easy Fill Tire Alert System, the 2013 Nissan Altima has always promised to be a green car. But now it’s official: according to the EPA, the 2013 Nissan Altima is the most fuel-efficient gasoline mid-size car you can buy. At least.

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National Green Transportation

JUNE 6, 2012

As if it's proof that it pays to be an insider with privileged access, Tesla Motors has begun delivering Founder Series Model S electric sedans. Model S #001 was delivered yesterday to venture capitalist and Tesla board.

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Green Car Congress

JUNE 6, 2012

The 2013 Honda Fit EV ( earlier post ) received a combined adjusted Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) mile-per-gallon-equivalency (MPGe) rating of 118 MPGe—the highest yet awarded by the EPA. City and highway cycle fuel-economy ratings are 132 and 105 MPGe, respectively. The FIT EV’s fuel consumption rating is 29 kWh per 100 miles; EPA-rated annual fuel cost is $500.

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Electric Cars are for Girls

JUNE 8, 2012

My favorite of the Zap electric cars is a zebra-striped Xebra. Sure, they do other paint jobs.but WHY??

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National Green Transportation

JUNE 5, 2012

The Ford Focus Electric will commence deliveries in the SF Bay Area within a week, and Ford brought the Focus Electric to a local electric car enthusiasts meeting to talk and give test rides.Ford's careful, measured, and.

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Green Car Congress

JUNE 3, 2012

The latest annual Report on Motoring by the Royal Automotive Club (RAC) says that motorists are continuing to give up important day-to-day activities by car as a result of the high cost of motoring. The report, based on a survey of motorists’ opinions also says that support for higher motorway speed limits has declined. A separate report for the RAC Foundation by the IFS says that the uptake of more low carbon cars is hitting Treasury revenues and suggests that the shortfall could be made up thr

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Electric Cars are for Girls

JUNE 7, 2012

From nuclear physicist to eco-activist: Vandana Shiva went after the mega-corporations with the two weapons she knows best - research and words.

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Green Car Reports

JUNE 6, 2012

It's quite the morning for electric-car news today, but we didn't want to let one from yesterday slip by either. After a lumpy start to sales of the Chevrolet Volt, it appears that California dealers now can't keep the range-extended electric car in stock. According to an analysis of registration data from January through March provided by R.L.

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National Green Transportation

JUNE 6, 2012

In a historic win in the 2012 TT ZERO, Mike Ritter (MotoCzysz) achieved a 104.056 miles/hr lap speed, the first electric motorcycle racer to break the ton during a TT Week race, winning the £10,000 prize.

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Green Car Congress

JUNE 5, 2012

The Premier of Québec, Jean Charest; the Minister of Sustainable Development, Environment and Parks, Pierre Arcand; and the Minister of Transport Pierre Moreau unveiled the Canadian province’s 2013-2020 Action Plan on Climate Change (PACC 2020). The action plan and strategy adaptation represent a total investment of nearly C$2.7 billion (US$2.6 billion).

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Electric Cars are for Girls

JUNE 7, 2012

IT electric cars from Dynasty look just the cars you're used to.only much, much CUTER.

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Green Car Reports

JUNE 5, 2012

The low sales of the Nissan Leaf electric car have been much discussed in the media--just as those of the Chevy Volt were until it began to log respectable sales numbers over the last few months. Nissan is now completing its switch from centralized online reservations for the car to treating it like any other new vehicle, with ready-to-buy Leafs.

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National Green Transportation

JUNE 7, 2012

There's a lot of concern about adopting electric cars, the high expense, the range limitations, and the recharging infrastructure. All those concerns are over-blown, because for example while todays electric cars have a higher up-front.

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Green Car Congress

JUNE 8, 2012

An all-electric, battery-powered prototype demonstration bus under joint development by Mitsubishi Heavy Industries, Ltd. (MHI), the government of Manitoba, Manitoba Hydro, Red River College and New Flyer Industries Canada ULC has been completed and was recently unveiled in Manitoba, Canada. ( Earlier post.) The bus will be demonstrated on the streets of Winnipeg over the next two years.

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Honda S2000 EV Conversion

JUNE 4, 2012

I was curious to see how much my cells have degraded so I took the car out for a test drive. I forgot how much I missed this car until I dropped the top and drove through the hills. What a blast! I drove 65 miles and brought it home using 137 Ah. At this point my check engine light was coming up with only about 1C draw so I new at least one cell was getting low.

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Green Car Reports

JUNE 6, 2012

You can virtually throw a stone these days and hit someone developing a "fuel of the future", but some do appear to show more promise than others. Many options for future transportation have their disadvantages, but Alchemy Research believes there's one option that could solve several of our fuel problems. Interestingly, that fuel is already very.

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Green Cars News

JUNE 6, 2012

The first ever portable electric vehicle charging unit is being launched onto the market by a leading British firm. The new EVRescue portable unit will enable rescue services to recharge a depleted electric car at the roadside, cancelling out the need to tow a stranded car. According to the Powys-based firm, the new portable charger [.].

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Green Car Congress

JUNE 6, 2012

Mazda Motor Corp. will use its hydrogen-fueled rotary engine technology ( earlier post ) as a range extender for an electric vehicle it plans to start leasing next year, according to Mazda President Takashi Yamanouchi as reported in The Nikkei. In 2009, Mazda began commercial leasing of the Mazda Premacy Hydrogen RE Hybrid ( earlier post ). The Premacy Hydrogen RE Hybrid featured a series-hybrid drivetrain, which combines Mazda’s hydrogen rotary engine with an electric motor.

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Green Car Congress

JUNE 5, 2012

The Green Dolphin. Click to enlarge. The Shanghai Merchant Ship Design & Research Institute (SDARI) and development partners DNV and Wärtsilä have unveiled a new Handysize—i.e., ships with a cargo-carrying capability of less than 60,000 metric tonnes—bulk carrier concept design: the Green Dolphin. The Green Dolphin leverages existing technologies to meet shipowners’ needs for fuel efficiency and operational flexibility while also being ready for future environmental regulations.

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Green Car Congress

JUNE 7, 2012

Mercedes-Benz and Glympse, the mobile technology company that pioneered temporary real-time location sharing, are teaming up to provide real-time location sharing to their drivers by integrating Glympse into the new Mercedes-Benz Digital DriveStyle application, set to launch in the new A-Class in September. Glympse allows GPS-enabled mobile phone users to share their location for a pre-set period of time with anyone they choose.

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Green Car Congress

JUNE 2, 2012

In an address at the 2012 Mackinac Policy Conference, Ford Motor Company Executive Chairman Bill Ford said that “ Michigan must become the Silicon Valley of the mobility revolution ” and outlined key public policy areas to help improve the state’s competitiveness and ensure that the state realizes the full benefit of that impending revolution. Ford told the delegates that the trends emerging in manufacturing, green technology and mobility demonstrate a great opportunity for Michigan to create a

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Green Car Congress

JUNE 6, 2012

The Coca-Cola Company, Ford Motor Company, H.J. Heinz Company, NIKE, Inc. and Procter & Gamble have formed the Plant PET Technology Collaborative (PTC), a strategic working group focused on accelerating the development and use of 100% plant-based PET (polyethylene terephthalate) materials and fiber in their products. PET is a durable, lightweight plastic that is used by all member companies in a variety of products and materials including plastic bottles, apparel, footwear and automotive fabric

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Green Car Congress

JUNE 4, 2012

Isomerization/dimerization of β-pinene. Source: Meylemans et al. Click to enlarge. Researchers at the Naval Air Warfare Center, Weapons Division (NAWCWD) at China Lake have developed a process for the synthesis of high energy density renewable fuels through the selective dimerization of α-pinene, camphene, limonene and crude turpentine using the heterogeneous catalysts Nafion, Nafion SAC-13, and Montmorillonite K-10.

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Green Car Congress

JUNE 4, 2012

Verizon Communications Inc. will acquire Hughes Telematics , Inc. (HTI) for $12.00 per share in cash, or a total of $612 million. The transaction will expand Verizon's capabilities in the automotive and fleet telematics marketplace and accelerate growth in key vertical segments, including emerging machine-to-machine (M2M) services applications driven by consumer trends and increasingly connected lifestyles.

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Green Car Congress

JUNE 7, 2012

The US Department of Energy (DOE) has selected nine universities for awards for research projects that will continue to support innovation and development of advanced, lower emission coal technologies. The projects at the nine universities will each receive approximately $300,000 to focus on the development of high-temperature, high-pressure corrosion-resistant alloys; protective coatings; and structural materials for advanced coal-fired power plants and gas turbines.

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Green Car Congress

JUNE 4, 2012

The team of the University of Maryland is the winner of the 2012 Hydrogen Student Design Contest, announced on Sunday by the US Department of Energy at the Young Scientist Symposium of the World Hydrogen Energy Conference 2012 in Toronto, Canada. For the 2012 Contest, students were challenged to plan and design a tri-generation system that produces electricity, heat, and hydrogen for their university campus.

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Green Car Congress

JUNE 4, 2012

BIOX Corporation, Canada’s largest biodiesel producer, signed definitive agreements with International-Matex Tank Terminals (IMTT) to secure the site and related infrastructure for the construction of its second biodiesel production facility. BIOX’s second facility will have a 100 million liter annual capacity (26.4 million gallons US)—50% larger than its existing facility in Hamilton, Ontario—and will be located within the IMTT terminal in Bayonne, New Jersey, at New York Harbor.

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Green Car Congress

JUNE 7, 2012

US Transportation Secretary Ray LaHood released a “Blueprint for Ending Distracted Driving” that offers a strategy to address the growing and dangerous practice of driver’s use of handheld cell phones behind the wheel. While unveiling the plan, Secretary LaHood also announced $2.4 million in federal support for California and Delaware that will expand DOT’s “Phone in One Hand, Ticket in the Other” pilot enforcement campaign to reduce distracted driving.

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Green Car Congress

JUNE 6, 2012

By 2025, ExxonMobil predicts natural gas will overtake coal to become the second most widely used source of energy worldwide. This historic shift of global energy markets toward increased use of natural gas will create new opportunities for economic growth and environmental progress, said Rex W. Tillerson, chairman and CEO of Exxon Mobil Corporation in a speech at the 25 th World Gas Conference in Malaysia.

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Green Car Congress

JUNE 3, 2012

Projected changes in summer mean usable capacity of power plants in the US and Europe for the SRES A2 emissions scenario for the 2040s (2031–2060) relative to the control period (1971–2000). Source: van Vliet et al. Click to enlarge. A study published in Nature Climate Change suggests that thermoelectric power plants (i.e., nuclear and fossil-fueled generating units) in Europe and the United States are vulnerable to climate change due to the combined impacts of lower summer river flows and highe

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Green Car Congress

JUNE 8, 2012

Shell and its affiliates have signed a memorandum of understanding with TravelCenters of America LLC (TA) to sell liquefied natural gas (LNG) to heavy-duty road transport customers in the US through TA’s existing nationwide network of full-service fueling centers. Pending final agreements, the proposed plans include constructing more than 200 LNG fuel lanes at about 100 TA sites and Petro Stopping Centers throughout the US interstate highway system.

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Green Car Congress

JUNE 8, 2012

Enerkem Inc., a waste-to-biofuels and chemicals company, has begun initial production of cellulosic ethanol from waste materials at its demonstration facility in Westbury, Québec. ( Earlier post.). The start of ethanol production at our Westbury facility is a significant milestone. Enerkem has already produced cellulosic ethanol at its smaller scale pilot laboratory facility in Sherbrooke.

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