Green Car Congress

NOVEMBER 29, 2010

In a speech at the National Press Club, US Energy Secretary Steven Chu said that the success of China and other countries in clean energy industries represents a new “Sputnik Moment” for the United States, and will require a similar mobilization of innovation to enable the US to compete in the global race for the jobs of the future. Secretary Chu observed that China’s investments in clean energy technologies represent both a challenge and an opportunity for the United States.

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Creative Greenius

DECEMBER 3, 2010

I ordered my new 2011 wall calendar for my office from Amazon.com because they had the best price and free shipping. But I thought that free shipping meant “no cost&# not “brain free.&# Apparently that’s not the case because Amazon sent me my 2011 calendar in a box big enough to ship a flat screen TV. Check it out: When the box arrived via Fed Ex ground, I got excited thinking someone had sent me a large gift… I mean this box was huge, dwarfing my large sized trash an

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DIY Electric Car

NOVEMBER 28, 2010

The True Cause of Recessions: OIL. By Douglas A. Stansfield. Recently I had the opportunity to speak at the annual Pennsylvania Energy Festival ( [link] ) back in September of this year. I was asked to speak about the economic impact of our oil dependency and so I began researching this topic to see if I could draw some insightful conclusions. My initial analysis looked at the recessions that have happened within my lifetime and since I am 45 years old that record goes back to the 1970s.

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Green Car Reports

DECEMBER 2, 2010

Doug Parks, vehicle line executive for the 2011 Chevrolet Volt, GM's range-extended electric vehicle, confirmed Tuesday that the company loses money on every Volt it sells. This should hardly be a surprise. It's called R&D, folks Every major automaker spends billions of dollars a year on research and development costs. And they know that when.

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Green Car Congress

DECEMBER 2, 2010

Researchers in Viet Nam and Belgium have developed a catalytic cracking process to convert vegetable oil sludge to renewable hydrocarbon fractions. Their paper, in which they compare the results of this process to a pyrolysis process, is in press in the journal Fuel. Vegetable oil sludge is a major byproduct of vegetable oil factories, and consists of triglycerides (61%), free fatty acid (37%) and impurities (2%).

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Creative Greenius

NOVEMBER 28, 2010

The Hermosa Beach Chamber of Commerce quietly parted ways with its executive director last week , telling local reporters only that it wanted to embark on “a new direction&# that would include “more community outreach and more collaboration with local businesses and city government.&#. Well I’ve got just the new direction the Chamber is looking for.

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Green Car Reports

DECEMBER 3, 2010

It doesn't really matter whether GM sells the first Chevrolet Volt electric cars at a loss or not. The company announced yesterday that it plans to hire 1,000 new engineers over the next two years to focus exclusively on developing and expanding its work in electric-drive vehicles, everything from additional vehicles that use the Volt's Voltec.

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Green Car Congress

DECEMBER 2, 2010

The Nikkei reports that Toyota Motor Corp. plans to begin assembling plug-in hybrids in China by 2012. The joint venture with China FAW Group Corp. will make the hybrids, with output likely starting at a few thousand units a year. The joint venture already has a track record for producing the Prius, the Japanese carmaker’s mainstay hybrid. Toyota intends to position the joint venture as the Chinese supply base for plug-ins, which are touted as the next big thing in environmentally friendly

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All Cars Electric

NOVEMBER 30, 2010

We’re big fans of Mythbusters here at AllCarsElectric and love busting some of our own myths. So we decided to test a myth we hear time and time again: electric cars can’t go very far in the Winter when in-cabin electric heating zaps the power from the battery pack. We put on our thermal underwear, grabbed a warm coffee and headed out.

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National Green Transportation

NOVEMBER 29, 2010

The TT Zero is one of three electric motorcycle racing series which sprang up following the 2009 TTXGP race held on the Isle of Man during the 2009 TT Week.

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Green Car Reports

NOVEMBER 29, 2010

For many years, Honda was routinely awarded the title of greenest carmaker in the U.S. market. But its most recent green cars have stumbled, and a dark-horse competitor is rising fast toward taking the coveted title, conferred every few years by the Union of Concerned Scientists. It's not Nissan, which launched the 2011 Leaf battery electric car.

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Green Car Congress

NOVEMBER 30, 2010

Cracker Barrel Old Country Store is becoming a major participant in The EV Project and will install 24 Blink electric vehicle (EV) chargers, provided by ECOtality, Inc., at select locations in “The Tennessee Triangle,” the 425-mile stretch of interstate highway that connects Nashville, Knoxville, and Chattanooga. The EV Project, designed to increase the adoption of electric vehicles by creating a solid charging infrastructure across the country, is managed by ECOtality.

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All Cars Electric

DECEMBER 3, 2010

Many would argue that the 2011 Tesla Roadster Sport 2.5 is a work of art, with its smooth lines, low profile and breathtaking performance. But one digital artist has taken the Californian electric sports car to a whole new level - by turning one into a work of art. Created as part of Art Basel Miami Beach, taking place between 2-5 December, the.

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National Green Transportation

NOVEMBER 27, 2010

Pardon the pun (Denali, Denial, eh?) but the GMC Yukon Denali Hybrid is one of those behemoth cars that make one scratch their head in amazement they bothered to make it a Hybrid. It's a large expensive SUV ($62,000 for the model.

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Green Car Reports

NOVEMBER 29, 2010

The main thing to understand about the Toyota Prius Plug-In Hybrid is that it's not an "electric car" as many people use the term. Yes, it plugs in to any electric socket to recharge the 5.2-kilowatt-hour lithium-ion battery pack. And, yes, its Hybrid Synergy Drive system uses electric torque, either by itself or along with the gasoline engine, to.

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Green Car Congress

NOVEMBER 30, 2010

The new entry-level 2011 Insight. Click to enlarge. The 2011 Honda Insight hybrid, now on sale in the US, gains new standard features and the addition of a value-oriented entry model featuring an MSRP starting at $18,200. The new base model is simply designated as “Insight” The Insight LX and top-of-the-line Insight EX are still available.

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All Cars Electric

DECEMBER 2, 2010

He’s the Pontiff to over 1.6 billion people worldwide. But until now, His Holiness The Pope has attended appointments in his fleet of heavily modified and heavily armored Mercedes SUVs. But the Vatican told the press earlier to day that His Holiness was keen to partake of the pleasures of electric motoring. Nick-named the “green.

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National Green Transportation

NOVEMBER 30, 2010

Graphene supercapacitor's have been under development for several years, and this week a research team has announced a breakthrough. The new device has an energy density of 85.6 watt-hours per kilogram, a density equal to the Nickel.

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Green Car Reports

DECEMBER 3, 2010

The launch of the 2012 Fiat 500 at the Los Angeles Auto Show wasn't only the first new model from Chrysler's partnership with Italian automaker Fiat. It also added a new and attractive model to a category of cars that have always been an afterthought in the U.S. market: minicars, those even smaller than subcompacts. In this case, the four-seat.

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Green Car Congress

NOVEMBER 27, 2010

The Nikkei reports that Honda Motor Co. plans to have hybrids account for more than 20% of its Japanese sales next fiscal year, double fiscal 2010’s roughly 10%, citing the company’s sales plan. Honda forecasts overall domestic automobile sales to decline by 20,000 units on the year to 635,000 units in fiscal 2011. However, it projects Japanese hybrid vehicle sales will rise to 147,000 units, up 50,000 units from the figure projected for the current fiscal year and representing 23% o

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All Cars Electric

DECEMBER 3, 2010

If there's one gadget that seems to go hand in hand with electric cars, it's Apple's iPhone. We've seen apps that allow you to place reservations and even customise your order, apps that allow you to keep track of charging and even switch on your aircon or heater remotely, and earlier in the year Nissan had one of the first iAds for their 2011.

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Green Cars News

NOVEMBER 30, 2010

With China and other countries racing ahead in the clean energy industry, US Energy Secretary Steven Chu has commented that the US is facing a new “Sputnik Moment” and will need a similar mobilisation of innovation to compete in the global race. The original Sputnik moment occurred in 1957 when the Soviet Union placed the [.]. Tags: Green cars Latest news China clean energy clean energy industry Secretary Chu Sputnik moment U.S.A US Secretary for Energy Steven Chu.

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Green Car Reports

DECEMBER 2, 2010

Just a month ago, we suggested that 40 miles per gallon is the new bragging threshold for subcompact and even compact cars. Now, Hyundai has dropped the gloves (or thrown down the gauntlet) with a clever marketing campaign to contrast it with other makers: It will start breaking out the sales of its models rated at 40 mpg every month, and.

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Green Car Congress

DECEMBER 3, 2010

Toyota Motor Sales, USA, Inc. (TMS) announced that New York City will join the company’s US Prius Plug-in Hybrid vehicle (PHV) demonstration program. Five new Prius Plug-in Hybrid vehicles (PHVs) will be used on city streets as part of Toyota’s partnership with the New York City Department of Transportation (NYCDOT) and the Port Authority of New York and New Jersey.

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All Cars Electric

NOVEMBER 29, 2010

A few months ago we reported that the diminutive Think City had snatched the top spot as the world’s best-selling city EV with over 2,500 vehicles now on the road. But that claim is now dwarfed by Mitsubishi, which last week celebrated the 5,000th i-Miev electric car to roll off its Japanese production line - and it hasn’t even started.

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National Green Transportation

DECEMBER 3, 2010

The TÛRANOR PlanetSolar is a large 100% solar powered "multi-hull" catamaran boat that's on an around the world trip. Last week they arrived in Miami for a promotional stop, and they are now in Cancun for the UN Climate Change.

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Green Car Reports

NOVEMBER 29, 2010

The 2011 Nissan Leaf all-electric car has been designated as Europe's 2011 Car of the Year, according to reports in Autocar and other media outlets. While the Leaf won our GreenCarReports 2011 Best Car To Buy award, the bulk of similar U.S. awards went instead to the 2011 Chevrolet Volt range-extended electric car. U.S.: Volt. Us: Leaf. Among.

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Green Car Congress

NOVEMBER 27, 2010

Daimler has been awarded the German Sustainability Award 2010 for most sustainable products/services for the Mercedes-Benz Atego BlueTec Hybrid. ( Earlier post.) The award’s conceptual sponsor is the German Sustainability Award Foundation in Düsseldorf. Daimler’s Mercedes-Benz Atego BlueTec Hybrid addresses various challenges to sustainability. The adjustment of hybrid components to the vehicle operating strategy reduces fuel consumption and CO 2 emissions by between ten and 15 percent—and

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All Cars Electric

DECEMBER 2, 2010

Best known for its construction of oddball but impressive concepts like the James Bond-esque underwater sQuba and eXasis glass car, Swiss tuning and engineering firm Rinspeed is now delving into a new world of minimalistic auto design where efficiency and renewability is the name of the game. Set to debut at the 2011 Geneva Motor Show in March.

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National Green Transportation

NOVEMBER 29, 2010

VW, in their Green Diesel brochure, claims their TDI technology is the bridge on the path to energy independence tomorrow. The bridge. The combination of high fuel efficiency and cleaner exhaust is attractive. Anyone who knows.

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Green Car Reports

DECEMBER 1, 2010

Finishing our last few stories from the 2010 Los Angeles Auto Show, we realized we forgot one piece of consumer news: Mercedes-Benz started taking orders for its 2011 B-Class F-Cell hydrogen fuel-cell vehicle last month, and now it has announced the price. So what does it cost to lease a compact five-door hatchback that runs exclusively on (still.

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Green Car Congress

NOVEMBER 30, 2010

The US Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) finalized the 2011 percentage standards for the four categories of fuel—cellulosic, biomass-based diesel, advanced biofuel, and total renewable fuels—under the agency’s renewable fuel standard program, known as RFS2. This regulatory action finalizes these annual standards that apply to all gasoline and diesel produced or imported in year 2011.

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All Cars Electric

NOVEMBER 30, 2010

Audi is demonstrating the use of solar energy for future mobility by converting the roof of one of its factories in Ingolstadt, Germany to solar panels. Here, Audi e-tron models will in future have their batteries charged with current obtained directly from the photovoltaic equipment installed on the roof. If you have been living under a rock for.

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Plugs and Cars

NOVEMBER 30, 2010

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