Green Car Congress

OCTOBER 25, 2010

Weyland Bioethanol has begun production of cellulosic bioethanol at its pilot plant in Bergen, Norway. The process is based on concentrated acid hydrolysis with Weyland’s core technology being a method (patent pending) for recovering acid consumed in the process, with recovery of more than 98.5%, according to the company.

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Green Car Congress

SEPTEMBER 1, 2009

Revolt’s zinc-air technology offers up to three times the energy density on a volumetric basis and twice on a gravimetric basis of lithium-ion, according to the company. Under that agreement, BASF will use its expertise in material science as well as electrochemistry to further advance the technology. Tags: Batteries.

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Green Car Congress

NOVEMBER 8, 2009

Many countries, including Norway, have raised the alarm about this trend. And Norway enormous areas that are very suitable for cultivating kelp. Norway has trawled for kelp commercially on the coast for 35 years, Skjermo says, and harvests about 170,000 tonnes each year primarily for use in a range of food products. Jonesa, M.L.

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Green Car Congress

OCTOBER 29, 2009

says that it is accelerating the set-up of its joint-venture production facility in Norway with its partner Miljøbil Grenland. Electrovaya’s superior energy density and large format pouched cell technology are core competitive strengths. Tags: Brief. Electrovaya Inc. Earlier post.).

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Green Car Congress

APRIL 28, 2010

The closest is the combination of improved technology and “avoid and shift” policies. While technological advances are producing cleaner vehicles, more and more passengers and goods are travelling further distances in Europe, thereby offsetting efficiency gains. Tags: Climate Change Emissions Europe Policy. Click to enlarge.

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Green Car Congress

OCTOBER 27, 2009

In October 2008, battery supplier Electrovaya announced it was partnering with Tata Motors and Miljø Grenland/Innovasjon to manufacture batteries and electric cars in Norway, beginning in 2009, using Electrovaya’s Lithium Ion SuperPolymer battery technology for the Indica EV. Tags: Batteries Electric (Battery). Earlier post.).

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Green Car Congress

SEPTEMBER 15, 2009

ScanWind is a developer of advanced drive train and control wind turbine technologies aimed at offshore deployment. Direct drive technology, such as that developed by ScanWind, takes the rotor and connects it directly to a generator that is designed to operate at low speeds creating a simple, solid, reliable drive train design.

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Green Car Congress

NOVEMBER 19, 2010

Wave-piercing technology is proven technology for high-speed catamarans and trimarans, and Rolls-Royce is now applying these advanced concepts to the demanding offshore market, in which extreme operating conditions can pose serious challenges to vessel performance and crew safety. Tags: Brief.

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Green Car Congress

MAY 11, 2010

specializing in energy and clean technology; and Ener1 Inc., Headquartered in Norway, THINK has raised a total of US$87 million since last August, when it started a new phase of production with strategic partner Valmet Automotive of Finland, and has invested heavily in new product development in Europe and Asia.

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Green Car Congress

JANUARY 21, 2010

Norway-based Eltek Valere will deliver battery chargers to THINK City. The contract is the first result of Eltek Valere’s growth initiative for electric vehicle technologies, and shows new areas of application for the company’s core competencies. This contract shows new areas of application for the company’s technology.

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Green Car Congress

DECEMBER 11, 2009

Led by IFP (France), the project brings together eight other research and industrial partners: the Le Havre Region Development Agency (France), Geogreen (France), Accoat (Denmark), SINTEF Energy Research (Norway), DNV (Norway), TNO (Netherlands), Port of Rotterdam NV (Netherlands) and SANERI (South Africa). Tags: Brief.

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Push EVs

MAY 8, 2023

Whilst some other regions, less far along the EV transition, are seeing a rise in HEVs (plugless hybrids — a temporary transition technology), in Sweden (and Norway), this category is already becoming passé. PHEVs lost just over 6% volume, thus shedding market share overall. Sweden’s HEV share dropped YoY from 11.5%

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Green Car Congress

NOVEMBER 12, 2009

REVA’s business model includes: electric vehicle design, development and manufacture, electric vehicle technology licensing and electric vehicle manufacturing franchising. REVA develops all key technologies including energy management, fast-charge and telematics systems in-house. Tags: Electric (Battery).

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Green Car Congress

JULY 20, 2010

Electric vehicles have become a strategic focus of the automotive industry during recent years, but the technology is still nascent in the global marketplace. These efforts will help catalyze the technological innovation that will be critical to achieving participating countries’ deployment targets.

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Creative Greenius

JUNE 30, 2009

It attracted a lot of attention but so did his comments during the “Clean Technology in California: Opportunities and Challenges&# panel to start the day. Norway is now pledging to become completely carbon neutral – not by 2050, but by 2030. He sees four key areas to make money in the Clean Technology Revolution: 1.

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Green Cars News

MAY 12, 2009

Mazda took another step forward towards establishing a hydrogen economy in Norway today as it delivered the first of its Norwegian-specification RX-8 Hydrogen RE model. Tags: Hydrogen fuel hydrogen Hynor mazda Norway project RX-8 Hydrogen.

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Plugs and Cars

JANUARY 27, 2007

nk Global of Norway with its ready-for-manufacture Th!nk It is the car that brought me forth out of the oil age, and made me realize it was not technology, batteries, or consumer acceptance that was keeping electric cars out of the showroom. First in line appears to be Th!nk nk Global. I drove a 2001 Ford Th!nk

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Green Car Congress

APRIL 5, 2009

We know the technology exists to tackle impacts of the transport sector on Europe’s environment. Tags: Climate Change Emissions Europe Market Background Policy. Almost 67 million people (i.e. Transport at a crossroads. TERM 2008: indicators tracking transport and environment in the European Union. ( EEA Report No 3/2009 ).

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Green Car Congress

APRIL 10, 2009

The obvious one is increased fuel taxes, but somehow governments need to make sure the benefits of better technology aren’t wiped out by increased demand for lower-priced fuel. 120 g/km by 2012, decreasing to 80 g/km by 2020 and 60 g/km by 2025, in the EU27 plus the EFTA countries Norway and Switzerland. Jos Dings, T&E Director.

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Current EV

DECEMBER 22, 2019

Volvo Car USA has teamed up with The Harris Poll to deepen insights into the American opinion across four core themes: design, safety, technology and environment. Volvo Car USA has teamed up with The Harris Poll to deepen insights into the American opinion across four core themes: design, safety, technology and environment.

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Green Cars News

AUGUST 11, 2009

Together with sister company, Jaguar, Land Rover is investing £800m in sustainable technology which includes the development of hybrid technology and the use of lightweight material. Tags: Latest news atlantic rising expedition go beyond. To keep up to date with the Atlantic Rising team please visit their website [link].

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Green Cars News

AUGUST 27, 2009

nk city EV and ran a business leasing program in Norway with plans for a similar scheme in the UK. NK city EV will move to Finland at the Valmet’s high-technology manufacturing base in Uusikaupunki, , alongside its assembly facilities for Porsche’s Boxster and Cayman models. Tags: Electric cars TH!NK

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Green Car Congress

MAY 13, 2009

Valence Technology Inc., The agreement, announced at the EVS-24 event in Stavanger, Norway, is for the supply of Valence battery systems to support Oxygen’s sales of its electrically powered scooters to its customers, including those in the postal delivery market. Tags: Brief.

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Tony Karrer Delicious EVdriven

FEBRUARY 4, 2009

Last week an application was submitted by the consortium, led by former Ford marketing guru Ash Gupta, pictured below, with backing from Edinburgh City Council, to the Technology Strategy Board for a year-long trial to bring more electric vehicles to the streets of the capital. Tags: ev evdriven.

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Green Car Congress

JUNE 16, 2010

Our ancillary drivetrain business, stripping out THINK’s drivetrain technology and combining with the EnerDel solution, is particularly powerful, allowing an impressive time-to-market advantage for third parties. Tags: Brief. Earlier post.).

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Cars That Think

AUGUST 5, 2023

Enter ice-penetrating radar (IPR), a technology that uses radio waves to image the internal layers of glaciers and the bed beneath them. Peregrine lands after a test flight in Norway. Although they were initially limited in scope, these programs grew and, crucially, began to collect digitized data tagged with GPS coordinates.

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Driivz

AUGUST 23, 2023

23, 2023 – Electric vehicle (EV) drivers want a simple and seamless charging experience: drive up, plug in and charging that starts automatically, without having to open an app, tap an RFID tag or use a charge card. MUNICH & TEL AVIV, Israel, Aug. It looks like this will be the year of Plug&Charge.

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Green Car Congress

AUGUST 27, 2009

Ener1 and Think have collaborated for years on systems development, and today possess a unique ability to bring together category-leading technologies in a fully integrated platform, to suit a wide variety of vehicle applications. Tags: Batteries Electric (Battery). Ener1 Chairman and CEO Charles Gassenheimer. Valmet Automotive.

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Green Car Congress

MAY 12, 2009

The company will preview the transmission at EVS, the Electric Vehicle Symposium (Norway, 13-16 May). Tags: Electric (Battery) Transmissions. Transmission engineering and control specialist Vocis is developing a novel multi-speed transmission for electric vehicles. Vocis managing director Mike Everitt.

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Tony Karrer Delicious EVdriven

APRIL 17, 2009

Until then, other transition technologies, like CNG and biogas, will also play an important role. In Norway EVs are allowed on bus lanes and there is no VAT on EVs. Tags: evdriven. Because of the different peripheral circumstances, there isnt one solution that fits all. Based on these experiences we see EVs as the future.

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Tony Karrer Delicious EVdriven

JANUARY 15, 2009

FordExpress : Svein Medhus has the first EV conversion in Norway. EV conversions in Canada CommuterCars: Builders of the "Tango" tandem EV Currie Technologies: Homeof US ProDrive Electric Scooters and Electric Bicycles. Ford Fiesta :Interesting English conversion.

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Tony Karrer Delicious EVdriven

APRIL 28, 2009

New technology. An (expected) high price tag. Its new technology, it takes time, and money. Although Climate change is a massive problem, it always comes down to money with the real decision makers so rite now you could say people use only steam reforming but we havent really developed H2 technology much have we???

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Tony Karrer Delicious EVdriven

APRIL 28, 2009

Reply ↓ ↑ report 6 Zeph 10:32AM (4/25/2009) What they have to hide is the fact they are downgrading already fairly simple technology so as to artificially create value through scarcity. Line breaks and paragraphs are automatically converted — no need to use or tags. 15 days ago AutoblogGreen for 03.31.09

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Tony Karrer Delicious EVdriven

APRIL 21, 2009

Partnering with Alcoa, Duke Energy, Google.org, Johnson Controls Indiana startup plans to unveil vehicle May 2009 at EVS-24 in Norway; mass production in 2012. Fisker $80,000 Karma series luxury 50-mile range series PHEV, S Sunset convertible version.Partnering with Quantum Technologies. Establishing dealer network.

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Tony Karrer Delicious EVdriven

APRIL 16, 2009

April 10, 2009 10:09 am Link It amazes me that in the vast debate about electric cars world wide including here in Norway, no one ever mention the fact that the batteries in such cars need replacement in no more than five years. Home Page Todays Paper Video Most Popular Times Topics Search All NYTimes.com Energy & Environment World U.S.

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