Green Car Congress

NOVEMBER 12, 2010

Initial testing has demonstrated the hydrogen views have a range of more than 300 miles, representing an increase by almost a factor of 10 compared to standard electric cart vehicles. Tags: Brief. Performance and reliability data will be collected throughout the 12-month pilot for evaluation and potential for future markets.

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Green Cars News

NOVEMBER 16, 2010

It’s hosted the Olympics and the Superbowl in the past – and now Atlanta will be home to electric vehicles. Nissan North America has entered into an agreement with Clean Cities Atlanta (CC-A) to promote the development of electric vehicles in the state. Under the terms of the agreement, the two will collaborate on plans [.].

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Green Car Congress

JULY 6, 2009

The e-Zone Electric Vehicle (EV) is a Low Speed Vehicle (LSV) that passes international crash test standards and will be one of the vehicle types CT&T will produce for the US market. Company officials are considering potential sites in South Carolina, Georgia, North Carolina, Alabama and California. Source: CT&T United.

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Green Car Congress

MARCH 15, 2010

Source: Georgia Tech. Gleb Yushin, an assistant professor in the School of Materials Science and Engineering at the Georgia Institute of Technology. Using graphitic carbon as an electrically-conductive binder, the silicon-carbon composites are then self-assembled into rigid spheres that have open, interconnected internal pore channels.

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Green Car Congress

DECEMBER 13, 2009

South Africa’s drive to build batteries include the Centre for Scientific and Industrial Research (CSIR), the Industrial Development Corporation (IDC), the Department of Trade and Industry (DTI), Optimal Energy, (which has designed South Africa’s own electric vehicle) [ earlier post ], and one or two other commercial entities.

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Green Car Congress

MAY 4, 2011

In the US, GM has found that Chevrolet Volt demonstration units are a popular showroom draw for dealers as they let consumers look, touch and drive the electric car with extended-range capabilities. GM says that this is part of its plan to gain exposure for the vehicle and the Chevrolet brand.

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Green Car Congress

APRIL 19, 2010

NNA) will begin taking reservations for the Nissan LEAF zero-emission, all-electric vehicle on 20 April 20. The Manufacturer’s Suggested Retail Price (MSRP) for the 2011 all-electric, zero-emission Nissan LEAF is $32,780. Tags: Brief. Nissan North America, Inc. The lease price for the Nissan LEAF begins at $349 per month.

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Green Car Congress

MARCH 31, 2010

NNA) set the US MSRP for the 2011 Nissan LEAF electric vehicle, which becomes available for purchase or lease at Nissan dealers in select markets in December and nationwide in 2011, at $32,780. Using current national electricity averages, Nissan LEAF will cost less than $3 to “fill up.”. Tags: Electric (Battery).

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Green Car Congress

JULY 24, 2009

Company officials are considering potential sites in Alabama, California, Georgia, North Carolina and South Carolina; the company expects to employ 2,600 within the next five years. Tags: Brief. offer dual independent circuit hydraulic disk brakes and four-wheel MacPherson strut independent suspension.

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Revenge of the Electric Car

JUNE 17, 2009

New production electric cars are being delivered at a rate of 100 per month. Back in 1999, when we were all a twitter about Y2K, there were about 5,000 production EVs on California roads with a few dozen more in both Arizona and Georgia. It’s happening. Then they were gone.

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Green Car Congress

JUNE 13, 2009

University students from The Ohio State University earned top honors at the 2009 finals of the EcoCAR : The NeXt Challenge competition in Toronto, Canada for their design of a Extended Range Electric Vehicle (EREV). One team, University of Ontario Institute of Technology, chose to design a Full Function Electric Vehicle.

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Green Car Congress

OCTOBER 25, 2010

A team from Algenol and Georgia Tech calculated the life cycle energy and greenhouse gas emissions for three different system scenarios for this proposed ethanol production process, using process simulations and thermodynamic calculations. Tags: Algae Algal Fuels Ethanol Lifecycle analysis. MJ/MJEtOH down to 0.20 wt % to 5 wt %.

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Green Car Congress

JANUARY 8, 2010

NIST grant to significantly expand the Center for Applied Energy Research Laboratory’s (CAER) capabilities with a new 36,000-square-foot (3,344-square-meter) building dedicated to research in the biomass and biofuels industries, advanced distributed power generation and storage, and technologies for electric vehicles.

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Green Cars News

JULY 5, 2009

So which car manufacturer will be the first to make a serious impact in the electric car market? The company, which was founded by former Hyundai executive Yung Gi Lee, hopes to establish headquarters and a manufacturing facility in one of Alabama, California, Georgia, North Carolina or South Carolina.

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Green Car Congress

SEPTEMBER 22, 2009

The winning project proposals (by award amount) are: Metropolitan Atlanta Rapid Transit Authority, Georgia: $10,800,000. MARTA anticipates that the power produced by these photovoltaic panels will be sold to Georgia Power under their Distributed Generation Contract Program. The largest PV installation in Georgia. Of that, $26.5

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Green Cars News

NOVEMBER 9, 2009

Converting sunlight to electricity might no longer mean large panels of photovoltaic cells atop flat surfaces like roofs. This system gives the light much more surface area to interact with, leading to higher overall efficiency of electricity production. Dye-sensitized solar cells use a photochemical system to generate electricity.

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Cars That Think

OCTOBER 4, 2022

Georgia Chalvatzaki. The electric motors with the battery support could make a very good tool for academic research. The cheapest human-sized humanoids I’m aware of are in the $150K range (a long way from the olden days of $1M price tags)… But I’ll believe the price when I can actually buy one. BACK TO TOP ↑ ]. Will Jackson.

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Green Car Congress

APRIL 30, 2010

The second round was focused specifically on three areas of technology representing new approaches for advanced microbial biofuels (electrofuels); much higher capacity and less expensive batteries for electric vehicles; and carbon capture. Electrofuels: Biofuels from Electricity. The grants will go to projects in 17 states.

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Plug In Partners

AUGUST 1, 2008

Here's one of the announcements that came out of the conference : EPRI, GM, 34 Utilities Collaborate to Advance Plug-in Hybrid Electric Vehicles PALO ALTO, Calif. Seamless integration of PHEVs into the electric grid will require close collaboration between the automobile and electric sectors.” Sacramento Municipal Util.

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Green Car Congress

JUNE 25, 2010

The Federal Aviation Administration (FAA) is awarding $125 million in five separate contracts to Boeing, General Electric, Honeywell, Pratt & Whitney, and Rolls-Royce-North America to develop and demonstrate technologies that will reduce commercial jet fuel consumption, emissions and noise. General Electric. Earlier post.).

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Green Car Congress

AUGUST 5, 2009

President Obama announced 48 new advanced battery and electric drive projects that will receive $2.4 The announcement marks the single largest investment in advanced battery technology for hybrid and electric-drive vehicles ever made. billion in funding under the American Recovery and Reinvestment Act. DOE Award ($mil.).

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Baua Electric

JANUARY 3, 2024

The 2024 Kia EV9 fits the form that many American households seek in a family vehicle, made fully electric but without a luxury price tag. The EV9 is also the only electric three-row SUV built on an 800-volt architecture, permitting super-quick road-trip fast-charging of 10-80% in less than 25 minutes, according to Kia.

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Tony Karrer Delicious EVdriven

APRIL 19, 2009

must create a strong electric car industry. Why hes banking on an obscure Chinese electric car company and a CEO who - no joke - drinks his own battery fluid. Just this past year Russia sent tanks into oil-rich Georgia, and an oil tanker was hijacked off the coast of Somalia. Here, too, electricity is key. To keep U.S.

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Baua Electric

APRIL 19, 2024

was 10 when he started flying unaccompanied to visit his father in Kansas and later Georgia, said his mother, Chelsea Tippett. Write your name and phone number on the inside of their arm in Sharpie and put a parent’s business card in a luggage tag on both suitcase and backpack,” Ms. Life sometimes leaves no other option.

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Green Car Congress

OCTOBER 2, 2009

Researchers at Georgia Tech have developed a new ceramic material for use in a solid oxide fuel cell that resists deactivation by carbon buildup (coking) from hydrocarbon fuels or by sulfur contamination (poisoning)—two of the most vexing problems facing SOFCs. Tags: Fuel Cells. Science Vol. 126 - 129 doi: 10.1126/science.1174811.

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Green Car Congress

JULY 28, 2010

These areas are home to The EV Project—the largest electric vehicle and infrastructure deployment yet undertaken. More than 30% of reservations are for blue Nissan LEAF electric cars. Tags: Electric (Battery). Silver is a close second, at about 26%.

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Green Car Congress

OCTOBER 26, 2009

Eagle Picher, in partnership with the Pacific Northwest National Laboratory, will develop a new generation of high energy, low cost planar liquid sodium beta batteries for grid scale electrical power storage applications. Electric field swing adsorption for carbon capture applications. Earlier post.) DOE grant: $7,200,000).

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