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• Ten Toxic Ingredients Found in Fossil Fuels: No. 3 + No. 2 Gas 2.0 (Today) - SO2 & NOx — #2 & 3 In “Top 10 Toxic Ingredients Used By The Fossil Fuel Industries” Series (via Planetsave) This is part of a 10-part series on the ”Top 10 Toxic Ingredients Used By The Fossil Fuel Industries.” Read, share, and check in...
• Rinspeed XchangE Concept is Everything Bad About Driverless Cars Gas 2.0 (Today) - I’m really starting to worry about Frank Rinderknecht. My encounters with Frank in South Florida centered, primarily, around the Rinspeed Yello Talbo and Mono Ego concepts from the late 90s, but we crossed paths a few times, again, while I was at RENNtech and...
• BMW i3 EV will have lower insurance, repair costs thanks to carbon fiber Autoblog Green (Today) - Filed under: Emerging Technologies, EV/Plug-in, BMW, AutoblogGreen Exclusive, LA Auto Show What you see above is the carbon fiber frame that underpins the BMW i3. This lightweight material will allow the plug-in vehicle to set itself apart from the competition in a lot of ways...
• Consumer Reports Says 2015 ELR Induces ‘Sticker Shock’ hybridCARS (Today) - Readers here have commented that Cadillac’s Volt-based 2015 ELR due looks good, but costs too much, and so perhaps you’ll feel validated that Consumer Reports agrees with you. Without mincing words, after its first 10 days driving the $76,000 Caddy due for production this month...
• Farm-to-Fleet venture to make drop-in biofuel blends part of regular operational fuel use by US military Green Car Congress (Today) - Starting next year, the joint “Farm-to-Fleet” venture of the US Departments of Agriculture (USDA) and Navy will make biofuel blends part of regular, operational fuel purchase and use by the military. The announcement incorporates the acquisition of biofuel blends into regular Department of Defense (DOD)...
• Scania to lead 3-year European research project on vehicle platooning Green Car Congress (Today) - Scania will take the lead role in a three-year European research project to develop a system for implementing truck platooning on roads. Introducing platooning on European roads can significantly contribute towards reducing the carbon footprint of trucks. The European Union has set a goal of...
• Celebrate winter biking with the Winter Bicycle Waltz! (video) TreeHugger (Today) - If you approach it with a positive attitude and the necessary preparation, winter biking can be fun....
• Beautiful isometric transit maps from Japan! TreeHugger (Today) - This one is for all the transit map fans out there. You know who you are!...
• Peak Car? We’re Not Even Close Gas 2.0 (Today) - The term “peak oil” has been around for decades, referring to when domestic oil production in America would peak. The jury is still out on peak oil, though the latest term to go around is “peak car”, with some studies indicating that the American car...
• 2015 Toyota fuel cell hydrogen vehicle prototype Autoblog Green (Today) - Filed under: Emerging Technologies, Hydrogen, Toyota, AutoblogGreen Exclusive, Tokyo Motor Show, First Drive Satoshi Ogiso, dubbed "the grandfather of the Prius," said in a recent interview in Tokyo, "Earlier would have been better, but it's taken a long time to get to this point." The...
• Mascoma bioengineered yeasts have produced more than 1B gallons of ethanol Green Car Congress (Today) - Mascoma Corporation, a leading provider of bioconversion technology, announced that its consolidated bioprocessing technology (CBP) has been used to produce more than 1 billion gallons of corn ethanol. The company said that this represented a key commercial milestone for its MGT yeast products including...
• Air-Scrubbing E-Bike Concept Is Better For Your Lungs Gas 2.0 (Today) - Pollution levels in China’s largest cities are literally off the index scale, and breathing the air for just one day is akin to smoking an entire pack of cigarettes. Quick and clever solutions will be needed to not just reduce emissions, but scrub the putrid...
• EPA announces winners of the 2013 Presidential Green Chemistry Challenge Awards Green Car Congress (Today) - The US Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) announced the winners of the 2013 Presidential Green Chemistry Challenge Awards. The Presidential Green Chemistry Challenge Awards are presented in five categories: academic, small business, greener synthetic pathways, greener reaction conditions and designing greener chemicals. In the academic...
• Nissan Leaf Electric Motor’s Magnetic Wire Now US-Sourced hybridCARS (Today) - Nissan’s Leaf electric motor magnetic wire is now sourced in the U.S. Nissan is working on finding more and more ways to localize its Leaf production in the U.S. When the vehicle first became available in December 2010, the car was fully manufactured in Japan....
• Coca-Cola partners with XL Hybrids to convert new 2014 Express vans into hybrids Green Car Congress (Today) - Coca-Cola is converting all of its newly purchased 2014 Chevrolet Express service vans into fuel-efficient hybrid-electric vehicles using XL Hybrids’ powertrain technology. (Earlier post.) The updated vans will be on the road across the country by year’s end. The latest version of the XL...
• New Bosch start-stop system with coasting mode can reduce fuel consumption by up to another 10% Green Car Congress (Today) - Bosch has developed a new start-stop system with coasting mode; the system stops the engine when the vehicle is traveling at speed, helping to reduce fuel consumption by up to 10%. The function can be combined with any type of combustion engine. First generation...
• Hydrogen Fuel Cells Double Renault EV Range Gas 2.0 (Today) - French automaker Renault is one-half of the Nissan-Renault alliance, and that means they’ve got access to a large bin of electric vehicle parts. Renault has launched four electric vehicles, including the Kangoo Z.E. electric delivery van that has been by France’s postal service. These vans...
• IEA: non-OPEC oil supply tops 43 mb/d for first time in decades; global demand to reach 92.4 mb/d in 2014 Green Car Congress (Today) - The International Energy Agency’s (IEA’s) Oil Market Report (OMR) for December raised the estimate of global oil demand for 2013 by 130,000 barrels per day (130 kb/d) to 91.2 million barrels per day (mb/d), on stronger-than-expected third-quarter demand growth among OECD countries of 320...
• Orange’s 4G/LTE Being Tested By Renault-Nissan hybridCARS (Today) - The Renault-Nissan alliance’s French side entered in a partnership with wireless service provider Orange in order to explore uses for 4G on future vehicles. The partnership will provide Renault and Orange with a real-life testing framework for exploring new connectivity applications on vehicles using high-speed...
• Consumer Reports: Cadillac ELR Is Overpriced Gas 2.0 (Today) - When GM announced the Cadillac ELR would be priced at $76,000, the collective jaw of the automotive writing world dropped. Is an upscale Chevy Volt really a contender for the Tesla Model S? Nope, not even close according to Consumer Reports, which says the Cadillac...
• Venter: algae biofuels require “real scientific breakthroughs”; biofuels need a carbon tax to be viable Green Car Congress (Today) - During his keynote and subsequent question-and-answer session at the BIO Pacific Rim Summit on Industrial Biotechnology and Bioenergy in San Diego this week, Dr. Craig Venter, Founder, Chairman, and CEO, J. Craig Venter Institute and Founder and CEO, Synthetic Genomics, Inc. (SGI) tangentially provided...
• INVISTA to collaborate with CPI to develop gas-fermentation-based, bio-derived process technology Green Car Congress (Today) - INVISTA and The Centre for Process Innovation (CPI) will collaborate on the development of new technologies to enable gas-fermentation-based processes for the production of industrial chemicals. US-based INVISTA is one of the world’s largest integrated producers of chemical intermediates, polymers and fibers. The Centre...
• 17 oil and gas companies partner for seismic mapping in Barents Sea Green Car Congress (Today) - A group comprising 17 oil and gas companies has established a project for joint seismic acquisition in the southeastern Barents Sea. Statoil is the operator of the project. The Barents Sea Shelf lies entirely north of the Arctic Circle. At the request of the...
• INL releases results of testing of Evatran Plugless 3.3 kW Level 2 wireless charging system Green Car Congress (Today) - System efficiency at 100mm gap for 3.3kW output plotted against primary coil position relative to secondary coil (mm). Source: INL. Click to enlarge. Idaho National Laboratory researchers recently released independent testing results of a wireless charging system designed for plug-in electric vehicles (PEVs). The...
• GM to cease manufacturing in Australia by 2017 Green Car Congress (Today) - General Motors announced it will transition to a national sales company in Australia and New Zealand. The company will discontinue vehicle and engine manufacturing and significantly reduce its engineering operations in Australia by the end of 2017. The decision to end manufacturing in Australia...
• La Poste testing hydrogen fuel cell range extenders in Renault Kangoo Z.E. mail delivery vehicles Green Car Congress (Today) - Symbio ALP-5 range extender. Click to enlarge. The Franche-Comté region and La Poste (the French postal service) are testing hydrogen fuel cell range extender kits from Symbio FCell in three Renault Kangoo Z.E. electric mail delivery vehicles under real working conditions. This system is...
• Hyundai to introduce Intrado lightweight fuel-cell concept at Geneva show Green Car Congress (Today) - At the 2014 Geneva Motor Show Hyundai Motor will unveil Intrado, a concept car previewing future developments for the brand. Intrado is built around a super-lightweight structure made from a mixture of advanced materials and joined using a technique that Hyundai says has the...
• Hyundai’s Fuel Cell-Powered Intrado Concept To Debut In Geneva hybridCARS (Today) - Hyundai Motor will unveil the fuel cell-powered Intrado at the 2014 Geneva Motor Show. The Korean company describes the Intrado as an iconic concept car that confirms the company’s ongoing commitment to innovation by previewing future developments for the brand. The Intrado is said to...
• Study: Gas Engines Under 2.0 Liters Dominate, EV Sales Stagnate Gas 2.0 (Yesterday) - What a difference a decade makes. In response to the global recession and the surge in gas prices, the size of the average car engine has plummeted, and today a majority of motors displace between 1.0 and 1.9 liters. By 2020, it’s estimated that more...
• Honda will use Accord Plug-in for vehicle-to-grid demonstration project Autoblog Green (Yesterday) - Filed under: Emerging Technologies, EV/Plug-in, Honda Honda is joining a pre-existing vehicle-to-grid (V2G) demonstration project involving the University of Delaware and NRG Energy. Honda will use one of its Accord Plug-in Hybrid models as a back-up grid-power source when conventional power supply drops and demand...

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