Green Car Congress

NOVEMBER 30, 2009

The HyBoost project ( earlier post ), a two-year collaborative research program led by Ricardo in partnership with Controlled Power Technologies, the European Advanced Lead Acid Battery Consortium, Ford, Imperial College London, and Valeo, aims to demonstrate a very cost-effective, ultra-efficient gasoline engine in a C-segment passenger car.

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Green Car Congress

OCTOBER 1, 2010

GHG levels from the MY 2016 fleet-wide average of 250 g/mi, using different technology pathways to achieve the reductions. costs, future regulatory fuel economy/GHG requirements, and government incentives for vehicle purchasers and owners such as the existing tax credits for EVs and PHEVs. hybrids, and electric vehicles.

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Green Car Congress

NOVEMBER 11, 2010

BCG’s analysis finds that cellulosic ethanol is on the verge of becoming cost-competitive with gasoline at $3/gal US. ” also sees steady adoption of on-shore wind and electric vehicle technologies, but suggests that off-shore wind and carbon capture and sequestration look likely to fade or decline. Click to enlarge.

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Green Car Congress

APRIL 23, 2009

The state is aggressively working to reduce greenhouse gas emissions by 80% below 1990 levels by 2050, decrease petroleum fuel use to 15% below 2003 levels by 2020, and increase alternative fuel use to 20% by 2020. Tags: Climate Change Hydrogen Plug-ins Policy. Vehicles are the major contributor to global warming pollution.

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Green Car Congress

APRIL 10, 2009

This is the largest one-time purchase of hybrid vehicles for the federal government fleet yet. By swapping out less efficient federal vehicles for new hybrid and fuel-efficient ones, this strategy will reduce gasoline consumption by 1.3 GSA will also dedicate $15 million to pilot advanced technology vehicles in the GSA Fleet.

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Green Car Congress

MAY 3, 2010

At the ceremonial launching of Germany’s “National Electric Mobility Platform” (NEMP) in Berlin, Volkswagen presented the Golf blue-e-motion electric vehicle concept to German Chancellor Dr. Angela Merkel. The electricity for driving the electric motor is stored in a 26.5 kWh lithium-ion battery pack.

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Green Car Congress

JANUARY 22, 2010

The military alone uses more than 90% of the energy consumed by the Federal Government, Secretary of the Navy Ray Mabus said in remarks at the signing of the MoU, and the Federal Government uses about 2% of all the energy consumed in America. Tags: Bio-hydrocarbons Fuels Policy. —Secretary Mabus.

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Green Car Congress

JANUARY 29, 2010

An new study from the Smith School of Enterprise and the Environment at Oxford University suggests that best way to reduce transport greenhouse gas (GHG) emissions in the short term is a “drastic downscaling of both size and weight” of conventional gasoline and diesel cars. ” “We should just use fuel cells.”

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Green Car Congress

OCTOBER 30, 2009

Ford Motor Company and Smith Electric Vehicles US (SEV US) have mutually agreed to terminate the development project of an electric car-derived van based on Transit Connect. It was concerned that the market for electric car-derived vans would become increasingly competitive. Earlier post.). Ford and Azure. Oak Park, Mich.-based

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Green Car Congress

AUGUST 30, 2009

The oil price shocks of the 1970s led the Brazilian government to address the strain high prices were placing on its fragile economy. In 1975, General Ernesto Geisel, then-president of Brazil, ordered the country’s gasoline supply mixed with 10% ethanol.

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Green Car Congress

JUNE 14, 2010

For $100 million in one year, we’ll demonstrate how to rapidly reduce use of oil in transportation with safe, warrantied retrofits of tens of millions gas-guzzlers. That will enable us in just ten years for $100 billion, much of which the federal government will get back, to cut US oil use in half, by seven million barrels a day.

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Green Car Congress

AUGUST 30, 2009

The people I talked about realized you only get one second chance, were very thankful for the government support and were enthusiastic about the products they had coming out over the next 24 months. The Cadillac Converj extended-range electric vehicle Concept uses the Voltec platform. Two-Mode Plug in Hybrid Electric Vehicle (PHEV).

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Tony Karrer Delicious EVdriven

APRIL 21, 2009

You can fill it up at the gas station, and you can plug it in to any 120-volt outlet. But when you do, your car essentially becomes an electric vehicle with a gas-tank backup. So youll have a cleaner, cheaper, quieter car for your local travel, and the gas tank is always there should you need to drive longer distances.

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Tony Karrer Delicious EVdriven

APRIL 22, 2009

Some of the new and updated models, such as a battery-powered version of Geelys Panda hatchback, may hit the market as early as October, and in some cases they might carry price tags low enough for farmers and other rural residents with limited financial means. Among the most notable: a gas-electric hybrid Shanghai Automotive Industry Corp.

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Green Car Congress

AUGUST 7, 2009

The Toyota Highlander Fuel Cell Hybrid Vehicle – Advanced (FCHV-adv) ( earlier post ) achieved an estimated range of 431 miles on a single full tank of compressed hydrogen gas, and an average fuel economy of 68.3 Currently, hydrogen gas pricing is not fixed, but DOE targets future pricing at $2 to $3 per kilogram.

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Green Car Congress

SEPTEMBER 23, 2009

The current state of market readiness of plug-in hybrid and electric vehicles presents serious challenges, particularly in mass production, given issues including range; cost; a charging time still longer than a conventional gasoline refueling; a broad variation in battery pack life, and the lack of infrastructure. Earlier post.).

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Revenge of the Electric Car

JULY 14, 2009

It’ll be mostly driven by the cost of gas. CEO Carlos Ghosn is spending big money to make electric vehicles in high volumes — and soon. 2, Ghosn will unveil the first of three electric models in three vehicle segments that he plans to sell by 2013. government will cover some of the costs. That’s a given.

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Revenge of the Electric Car

FEBRUARY 18, 2010

Cities Prepare for Life With the Electric Car. In nearby Silicon Valley, companies are ordering workplace charging stations in the belief that their employees will be first in line when electric cars begin arriving in showrooms. Cities Prepare for Life With the Electric Car. Photo by Jim Wilson, New York Times.

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Plug In Partners

JUNE 14, 2007

That is, if you live nearby a gas station with custom air compressor units. If a driver doesn't have access to a compressor station, they will be able to plug into the electrical grid and use the car's built-in compressor to refill the tank in about 4 hours. So, in a sense, this is an electric car. Join Plug In Partners today.

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Tony Karrer Delicious EVdriven

APRIL 21, 2009

GM has announced plans for public sales in 2010, and almost every carmaker now says it will sell PHEVs or highway-speed battery electric vehicles (BEVs) sometime after 2010. Shifted earlier focus to all-electric Focus in 2011 with Magna. Plans "large demonstration fleet" late 2009. todays answer is "Yes -- but not yet."

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Tony Karrer Delicious EVdriven

APRIL 16, 2009

Why hes banking on an obscure Chinese electric car company and a CEO who - no joke - drinks his own battery fluid. BYDs breakthrough all-electric E6, photographed at this years Detroit auto show. The first buyers will be fleet users, which will build central fast-charging facilities. tech industry during the 1990s.

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Tony Karrer Delicious EVdriven

APRIL 28, 2009

Price tag: about $25,000, made from 95% recyclable materials with a top speed of 65 miles per hour and range of 110 miles per charge. Think is also working closely with the Brussel based Eurelectric , the European union of electricity industry. market b y the end of 2009. Think has established a U.S. before 2010. safety requirements.

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Tony Karrer Delicious EVdriven

APRIL 16, 2009

Find investors, resumes, and free research Get Cleantech Blog in your email Enter your email address: Subscribe in a reader Join us on Linked In Follow us on Twitter Join us on Facebook GHGBlog.com - The Greenhouse Gas Blog Loading. The World's First Clean Motocross Race On Electric. Here we go again.or Carbon trading vs t.

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Plugs and Cars

JULY 9, 2007

As I read in the San Jose Mercury News about California's flex-fuel fleet fiasco. a near silent electric trolley bus passes by my window on Haight St in San Francisco, an old technology tried, true, and spurned by the environmental "experts" of the present and recent past. Of course I'm speaking of electricity.

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Plugs and Cars

MAY 13, 2008

Electric cars are in the news almost daily. The NY Times headlined "As Gas Costs Soar, Buyers Flock to Small Cars." In perhaps the biggest news, on May 13 amidst a generally downbeat report, Nissan announced a serious, forward-looking effort to make electric cars an important part of their automotive portfolio. GM lost $3.25

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Tony Karrer Delicious EVdriven

APRIL 16, 2009

The Volt is, and always has been, more than than an electric car. GM will leapfrog Toyota and Honda by providing an electric car to the masses by the end of next year. Ive found it facinating how car commercials changed the main MPG number they promoted before gas went over $4 a gallon as city miles. Thats short-sighted.

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