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• Formula E Confirms EV Race Schedule hybridCARS (Today) - The promoter of the new FIA Formula E Championship confirmed its 2014/2015 calendar. Formula E Holdings says the first year of the new FIA championship featuring Formula cars powered exclusively by electric energy will feature 10 city-center events held over four continents. The first championship...
• Revised 2014 Civic Now On-Sale hybridCARS (Today) - An enhanced 2014 Honda Civic went on-sale Dec. 4 sporting a manufacturer’s suggested retail price starting at $18,190 for the Civic LX Coupe and $18,390 for the Civic LX Sedan. Exterior styling updates on the Civic Coupe and premium interior refinements to all models further...
• Ten Toxic Ingredients Found in Fossil Fuels: No. 8 Gas 2.0 (Yesterday) - Silica — #8 In “Top 10 Toxic Ingredients Used By The Fossil Fuel Industries” Series (via Planetsave) This is one part of a 10-part series on the ”Top 10 Toxic Ingredients Used By The Fossil Fuels Industr7.” Read, share, and check in tomorrow for the...
• 2014 Mitsubishi i MiEV electric car gets massive price cut ($6,130) TreeHugger (Yesterday) - This brings the starting price to $22,995 before incentives, and to $15,495 after the $7,500 federal tax credit in the US (and even lower if you get some state incentives)....
• $12,000 Colibri EV To Launch In Germany In 2015 Gas 2.0 (Yesterday) - Buying a car anywhere isn’t cheap (except maybe for India), though there is a growing market for cheap transportation in an increasingly expensive world. It is notoriously expensive to buy a new car in Europe, though a small electric car company plans to launch a...
• UMTRI: average fuel economy of new light-duty vehicles sold in November up slightly from October Green Car Congress (Yesterday) - The average fuel-economy (EPA window-sticker) value of new light-duty vehicles sold in the US in November was 24.8 mpg, up 0.1 mpg from the revised October value, according to the monthly report from Michael Sivak and Brandon Schoettle at the University of Michigan Transportation Research...
• Commuting is play... on a bicycle (video) TreeHugger (Yesterday) - "Make the ordinary fun" and "commuting is play... on a bicycle", these are ideas that should be used to promote the use of bikes. It's not about sacrifice!...
• Copenhagen Wheel bike booster rolls out, available for pre-order TreeHugger (Yesterday) - For four years we thought it was vaporware, but they have been working away in stealth mode and have now launched publicly....
• Mitsubishi Adds Content, Lowers Cost of its Electric Car Gas 2.0 (Yesterday) - Mitsubishi’s tiny MiEV electric car has always been cute, but when I first checked it out at the Chicago Auto Show back in 2012, the high price, chintzy interior, and general lack of interior refinement in a car with a nearly $30,000 price tag...
• Argonne researchers advancing new class of selenium sulfide composite cathodes that could boost Li-ion energy density 5x Green Car Congress (Yesterday) - Cycle performance of Li cells with (a, b) Se−, (c, d) SeS2−, and (e, f) SeS7−carbon composite as cathodes in ether-based electrolyte. Credit: ACS, Cui et al. Click to enlarge. New composite materials based on selenium (Se) sulfides used as the cathode in a...
• Renault: Subcompact EVs To Have 200 Mile Range By 2020 Gas 2.0 (Yesterday) - Range remains the biggest hurdle for electric cars to overcome, and low-cost, compact electric cars have the most ground to make up. While many remain skeptical that electric cars will ever have enough range to replace conventional cars, Renault thinks that by 2020, most compact...
• CRC ACES Phase 2 report finds emissions from modern heavy-duty diesels well below required levels Green Car Congress (Yesterday) - 2010 engines emissions reduction relative to 2010, 2007, and 2004 US emission standards. Source: CRC. Click to enlarge. A rigorous emissions testing of modern heavy-duty diesel engines in the US has demonstrated a greater than 94% reduction in the levels of nitrogen dioxide (NO2...
• Qantas and Shell biofuel report finds Australian aviation biofuel industry technically viable, but challenged Green Car Congress (Yesterday) - An Australian aviation biofuel industry is technically viable but significant obstacles remain, according to a report released by Qantas and Shell today. The study, conducted with the support of the Australian Government through the Australian Renewable Energy Agency (ARENA), is the most comprehensive investigation...
• Leaf Driver Arrested In Ga. For Taking 5 Cents Of Electricity hybridCARS (Yesterday) - Atlanta has become one of the hottest markets for plug-in vehicles, particularly for Nissan, but electric car owners had better take care before assuming everyone just gets it. Case in point: Last week, a man was arrested after plugging his Nissan Leaf into a local...
• The Natural Choice: 2013 Honda Civic Hybrid Review Gas 2.0 (Yesterday) - For most of the past 20 years, the Honda Civic has regularly been among the top 10 best-selling vehicles in America, and millions of Americans proudly call themselves Civic owners.I am convinced these are the only people who will buy the Honda Civic Hybrid,...
• 73 Percent SKYACTIV Sales For Mazda Canada hybridCARS (Yesterday) - Mazda Canada announced sales for November 2013 totaled 5,911 units, marking the best November sales on record in Mazda Canada’s 45 year history. November 2013 sales increased 13 percent compared to the previous year. The compact Mazda3 was the sales leader for Mazda in Canada...
• Saleen Automotive Building Electric Car Gas 2.0 (Yesterday) - Saleen Automotive is a name well-known in Mustang and performance enthusiast circles, but in the green car world Steve Saleen isn’t much of a celebrity. That could all change come next spring though, as Saleen has announced that his company will build an all-electric car...
• Injection of hydrogen into the German gas distribution grid from power-to-gas demo plant Green Car Congress (Yesterday) - ITM Power, with its partners Mainova Aktiengesellschaft and NRM Netzdienste Rhein-Main GmbH, has injected hydrogen into the German gas distribution network from the Thüga Group’s power-to-gas demonstration plant. (Earlier post.) The ITM Power rapid response electrolyzer plant has been delivered and commissioned ahead of...
• Smart nail for Li-ion penetration tests Green Car Congress (Yesterday) - Jeff Dahn and colleagues at Dalhousie University have developed a “smart nail” for penetration testing on Li-ion batteries. The project is detailed in the Journal of Power Sources. Nail penetration is one of the common safety tests used to simulate some aspects of an...
• EIA: natural gas use for power falls as industrial use continues to rise; higher prices, cooler summer Green Car Congress (Yesterday) - For the first eleven months of 2013, natural gas consumption in the electric power sector was below 2012 levels because of relatively higher natural gas prices compared with coal prices, and cooler summer weather compared with 2012, according to the US Energy Information Administration...
• São Paulo Transit completes successful trials of 40-foot BYD electric bus; revenue service starting in 2014 Green Car Congress (Yesterday) - São Paulo Transit has completed a pilot program of a 40-foot BYD electric bus conducted by the city which concluded that the battery-electric bus was effective on more than 80% of routes currently in operation. BYD Motors will deliver two new buses to the...
• Shell develops lead-free aviation gasoline Green Car Congress (Yesterday) - Shell has developed a lead-free replacement for aviation gasoline (Avgas 100 and 100LL); the replacement fuel will now begin a strict regulatory approvals process. Shell is the first major oil company to do so. The new lead-free formulation comes after 10 years of R&D,...
• Tata Motors commits almost $50M to UK National Automotive Innovation Campus Green Car Congress (Yesterday) - Tata Motors Limited, India’s largest automobile manufacturer, has confirmed its long term commitment to advanced research and development in the UK through the participation of its subsidiary, Tata Motors European Technical Centre (TMETC), in the UK’s National Automotive Innovation Campus (NAIC). (Earlier post.) TMETC...
• 76 Percent Of Mercedes Light Trucks Diesel-Powered In Canada hybridCARS (Yesterday) - Mercedes-Benz Canada reported that the company has achieved its best November sales results ever by delivering 3,147 Mercedes-Benz, Sprinter and smart vehicles throughout the month. This represents a month-over-month increase of 6 percent and has helped push overall growth ahead of last year by 1,788...
• Mazda To Tackle Thunderhill 25-Hour With Clean Diesel Racecars hybridCARS (Yesterday) - Mazda North American Operations has opted to enter three specially modified for racing 2014 Mazda6s in the longest endurance race in America, the National Auto Sport Association (NASA)’s US Air Force 25 Hours of Thunderhill. Taking place on December 7 and 8, 2013, at the...
• 2014 Mitsubishi i-MiEV Cheaper And Better Equipped hybridCARS (Yesterday) - Mitsubishi Motors North America, Inc. announced the 2014 edition of its Mitsubishi i-MiEV receives an expanded standard equipment package and a price reduction of $6,130 compared to the previous 2012 model year vehicle. The 2014 Mitsubishi i-MiEV ES model including a CHAdeMO DC quick charge...
• November EV Sales Approach 12-Percent In Norway hybridCARS (Yesterday) - Norway reported its best-ever sales in November for battery electric vehicles (BEVs) at an astonishing 11.9 percent of its total new car market. This is the first time the country topped 10 percent, and compares with 3.1 percent a year prior. While the actual number...
• Ten Toxic Ingredients Found in Fossil Fuels: No. 9 Gas 2.0 (2 days ago) - Radon — #9 In “Top 10 Toxic Ingredients Used By The Fossil Fuel Industries” Series (via Planetsave) This is the second part of a 10-part series on the ”Top 10 Toxic Ingredients Used By The Fossil Fuels Industry.” Read, share, and check in tomorrow for...
• Copenhagen Wheel Goes On Sale For $699 Gas 2.0 (2 days ago) - Four years ago, researchers at MIT unveiled a self-contained electric bike conversion kit called the Copenhagen Wheel, which can turn almost any bicycle into an impressive e-bike. After four years, a spinoff company called Superpedestrian has licensed the technology is bringing the Copenhagen Wheel to...
• Nissan Adds 24-Hour Test Drives, Dealership Charging In U.K. Gas 2.0 (2 days ago) - While the Nissan Leaf is one of Norway’s best-selling vehicles, other European countries as less enthused with the Leaf. This includes the U.K., where Nissan is launching a new program designed to get on-the-fence EV buyers into dealerships, and a Leaf, so they can experience...

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