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• VW XL1 Awarded Transport Designs of the Year Title hybridCARS (Today) - The Volkswagen XL1 hybrid car has been named the winner of the Transport category in UK’s annual Designs of the Year Awards. The XL1 is one of 76 designs in seven categories currently on display at the Design Museum in London until August 25. It...
• Four-Millionth Ecotec Engine Goes In A Chevrolet Malibu Eco hybridCARS (Today) - Yesterday General Motors produced its four-millionth Ecotec engine at its Spring Hill powertrain plant. This happened two years after the three-millionth engine was assembled. GM added the four-millionth engine powers a 2014 Chevrolet Malibu Eco. “GM’s line of Ecotec engines continue to win awards and...
• Consumer Reports finds mixed results with plug-in car salespeople hybridCARS (Today) - A four-month long survey using 19 secret shoppers inquiring about plug-in cars at 85 dealerships in various states found what anecdotal accounts have been saying for the past three years: the experience can be spotty. That is, while there were exceptions, salespeople frequently gave incorrect...
• Lincoln MKX Concept Is The Brand’s First International Debut Gas 2.0 (Yesterday) - The reveal of the Lincoln MKX Concept at the Beijing Auto Show marks the brand’s first international debut, and Lincoln has grand ambitions for China. This uniquely American brand wants to expand its sales overseas, especially in China, where the brand launches this fall...
• Elon Musk Shows Johnny Depp The Model S, Gets Pulled Over Gas 2.0 (Yesterday) - While on set for the film ‘Transcendence’, Johnny Depp and some of his costars (including Rebecca Hall, Paul Bettany, and director Pfister) were given a spirited demonstration of the Tesla Model S by Elon Musk. Then they ran afoul of local law enforcement. Unsurprisingly,...
• Transport Canada orders removal of least crash-resistant DOT-111 tank cars within 30 days, non-compliant cars within 3 years Green Car Congress (Yesterday) - Transport Canada is ordering the least crash-resistant DOT-111 tank cars be removed from dangerous goods service within 30 days. These are older cars that have no continuous reinforcement of their bottom shell, said Transport Minister Lisa Raitt. There are roughly 5,000 of these tank cars...
• 431 electric vehicles gather in Montréal to set Guinness World Record for largest EV parade TreeHugger (Yesterday) - The world's quietest parade broke the previous record which was previously held by Zurich in Switzerland (but they counted electric scooters, this one didn't)....
• Dyson Wants To Vacuum Pollution Out Of Our Rivers Gas 2.0 (Yesterday) - James Dyson dreams of a giant vacuum boat to clean our rivers of pollution, and he calls it the M.V. Recyclone. It’s a clever name for a clever idea, and with just 3% of the Earth’s water being drinkable freshwater, it’s more important than...
• Solar Roadways Launches IndieGoGo Campaign To Find Funding Gas 2.0 (Yesterday) - Harnessing the power of the sun, the Solar Roadways project wants to replace asphalt streets with solar-powered panels the light up and melt snow. While the project has received plenty of press, and even funding from the Department of Transportation, the family behind Solar...
• 12,000 Mile Tesla Road Trip Concludes On Earth Day Gas 2.0 (Yesterday) - Yesterday was Earth Day, and what better way to celebrate than with the completion of a 12,000 mile road trip in a Tesla Model S? Managing Director of Recargo Norman Hajjar arrived in Venice California yesterday, after driving through 27 states and visiting all...
• 2016 Chevy Cruze Bows In Beijing Gas 2.0 (Yesterday) - While GM has improved the connectivity of the Chevy Cruze with the 2015 model, the 2016 Chevy Cruze debuted with a whole new look at the Beijing Auto Show. In fact, the new Cruze will debut in China before coming to the U.S., and...
• First stretch of the glow-in-the-dark Smart Highway opens in the Netherlands TreeHugger (Yesterday) - The award-winning proposal to reinvent roadways gets its first trial....
• Tesla and Sixt Leasing partner in Switzerland; monthly Model S payments start at about US$920 Green Car Congress (Yesterday) - Tesla has expanded its strategic relationship with Sixt Leasing to include Switzerland as well as Germany. With 10% down on a 36-month lease, Sixt offers payments of approximately CHF 810 - 950 (US$919 - $1,078) per month, depending on the mileage selected by the...
• Dearman-led consortium awarded $3.1M to develop waste-heat-recovery system using liquid air engine Green Car Congress (Yesterday) - A consortium led by the Dearman Engine Company has been awarded £1.86 million (US$3.12 million) in the latest round of IDP10 funding from the UK’s Technology Strategy Board to support the development of a heat-recovery system for urban commercial vehicles. The tenth competition under the...
• MG Dynamo Concept Is A Short Range Runabout Gas 2.0 (Yesterday) - To celebrate 90 years as an automaker, MG built the Dynamo Concept, a short range electric vehicle that may hint at MG’s future plans. Could the Dynamo become more than a placeholder in MG’s timeline? It may stand a better chance at production than...
• EPA revises 2013 cellulosic biofuel standard down to 810,185 gallons; 0.0005% Green Car Congress (Yesterday) - The US Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) has revised the 2013 cellulosic biofuel requirements for obligated parties (e.g., refiners) under the Renewable Fuel Standard 2 program down to 810,185 ethanol-equivalent gallons, or a 0.0005% ratio of the renewable fuel volume to the non-renewable gasoline and...
• Creating electric car clusters to test the grid of the future TreeHugger (Yesterday) - A UK-based experiment looks at what happens to the grid when everyone wants to charge their car....
• California Energy Commission approves plans to invest nearly $500M in electricity R&D and alternative fuels Green Car Congress (Yesterday) - The California Energy Commission has unanimously approved two major investment plans that could total nearly a half a billion dollars. One will fund clean energy research that benefits electricity ratepayers. Another is an annual clean transportation investment plan that is designed to spark innovation...
• HELLA and Vahle developing wireless charging systems for plug-in vehicles Green Car Congress (Yesterday) - HELLA is working with Paul Vahle GmbH to develop wireless (inductive) charging systems for plug-in vehicles. The cooperation between Vahle and HELLA combines the expertise and experience of both companies in the field inductive charging. Based in Kamen, Germany, Vahle has 15 years of...
• 5 ways biking is getting better in the U.S. (and one way it's not) TreeHugger (Yesterday) - If your are passionate about bikes as transportation, you'll be happy to know biking is getting a little better, all the time....
• Land Rover unveils the diesel Range Rover Hybrid Long Wheelbase in Beijing; first diesel hybrids in China Green Car Congress (Yesterday) - Land Rover introduced the Range Rover Hybrid Long Wheelbase at the Beijing motor show. Together with the Range Rover Sport Hybrid (earlier post), it will be the first diesel hybrid from any manufacturer to be offered in China. Land Rover has identified China as...
• Lufthansa to evaluate Gevo Alcohol-to-Jet renewable fuel for commercial aviation use Green Car Congress (Yesterday) - Bio-isobutanol producer Gevo, Inc. has come to an agreement with Lufthansa under which the carrier will evaluate Gevo’s renewable jet fuel with the goal of approving the alcohol-to-jet fuel (ATJ) for commercial aviation use. (Earlier post.) Lufthansa’s testing is being supported through work with the...
• GM restructures global engineering organization; focus on quality and safety Green Car Congress (Yesterday) - General Motors is restructuring its Global Vehicle Engineering organization to form two new organizations—Global Product Integrity and Global Vehicle Components and Subsystems—to improve cross-system integration, deliver more consistent performance across vehicle programs and address functional safety and compliance in its vehicles. A vehicle is a...
• UQM Technologies and Kinetics Drive Solutions collaborate on electric drive systems for all-electric commercial vehicles Green Car Congress (Yesterday) - EV3-850 combined with PowerPhase HD220. Click to enlarge. UQM Technologies Inc. and Kinetics Drive Solutions Inc. are collaborating to offer an integrated electric motor and multi-speed transmission system for commercial vehicle applications that will benefit from a full system approach. This system is engineered...
• Lincoln Unveils MKX In China hybridCARS (Yesterday) - Lincoln has unveiled its MKX Concept during Auto China 2014 in Beijing. The Lincoln MKX Concept hints at an EcoBoost-powered global SUV that will become the third of four all-new Lincoln vehicles due by 2016. It is designed to capture the attention of consumers worldwide....
• Toyota US Hates Trash hybridCARS (Yesterday) - Yesterday was Earth Day, and every automotive manufacturer tried to put forward their green credentials. In Toyota’s case, it opted to reveal an interesting fact about its operations in the U.S. Since 2009, Toyota Motor Sales, U.S.A., Inc. (TMS) said it has reduced or avoided...
• Range Rover Hybrid LWB Debuts In China hybridCARS (Yesterday) - We knew a Range Rover Hybrid was coming, we just didn’t know when and where first. As things turned out, Land Rover debuted of the Range Rover Hybrid Long Wheelbase at the Beijing motor show. Land Rover stated the derivative brings together two of the...
• Production Begins Of Mercedes B-Class Electric Drive Gas 2.0 (2 days ago) - While critical of Tesla’s long-term game plan, Mercedes has no problem using Tesla parts in the Mercedes B-Class Electric Drive, which just began production. It’s not Tesla Model S competitor Mercedes needs, but it still outshines many competitor EVs in both range and luxury....
• Solar Roadways puts up a parking lot, launches Indiegogo campaign [w/video] Autoblog Green (2 days ago) - Filed under: Emerging Technologies, Solar, USA Joni Mitchell was wrong when she sang out against paving paradise and putting up a parking lot. Ok, maybe not. Still, we think the demonstration project just built by the folks over at Solar Roadways would get a pass...
• Honda Is Not Trying To Dethrone Toyota’s Hybrid Dominance hybridCARS (2 days ago) - Honda, which started the modern hybrid segment in 1999, now possesses “world-class” hybrid technology but for those wondering when it means to assert its theoretical superiority in new Toyota-beating products, it’s still steady as she goes. Today Honda has three up-and-coming hybrid technologies – in...

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