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• Tanaka Precious Metals records highest shipment volume of fuel cell catalysts in FY2011; led by home use applications Green Car Congress (Today) - Tanaka Kikinzoku Kogyo K.K., which holds the global leading share in fuel cell catalysts, posted record shipment volume of fuel cell catalysts in FY2011 (April 2011 - March 2012). Using the shipment volume in FY2004 as an index of 100, shipment volume reached its...
• MIT report finds China’s actions on climate change crucial; argues for global economy-wide greenhouse gas tax Green Car Congress (Today) - A new report from the MIT Joint Program on the Science and Policy of Global Change shows the importance of all major nations taking part in global efforts to reduce emissions—and in particular, finds China’s role to be crucial. The report—titled “The Role of...
• 40% of Americans Who Rely on Public Transit Live in Rural Areas TreeHugger (Yesterday) - And surprise! There aren't very many good options for getting around....
• 2012 Hyundai Sonata Hybrid Tops Consumer Award’s Hybrid Category hybridCARS (Yesterday) - By Philippe Crowe Winners of this year’s Autobytel & AutoPacific Consumer Awards have been released and the top-rated hybrid car winner is the 2012 Hyundai Sonata Hybrid. This is the 16th edition of this annual Vehicle Satisfaction Awards.read more...
• VTT researcher proposes theory for sliding friction Green Car Congress (Yesterday) - Dr. Lasse Makkonen, Principal Scientist at VTT Technical Research Centre of Finland, has presented a first principles thermodynamic model of sliding friction between solid objects. According to his theory, the amount of friction depends on the thermodynamic surface energy per unit area of the...
• Honda to Start Fit Hybrid Production in Thailand This Summer TreeHugger (Yesterday) - The Fit hybrid (which is known as the Jazz hybrid outside of North-America) is a hit for Honda, who's been struggling to catch up with Toyota when it comes to gas-electric vehicles....
• Carbon nanotube–graphene complexes show promise as low-cast, high-activity electrocatalysts for fuel cells or metal-air batteries Green Car Congress (Yesterday) - This drawing shows the damaged outer wall of a carbon nanotube with nanosized graphene pieces (white patches), which facilitate the formation of catalytic sites made of iron (yellow) and nitrogen (red) atoms. The catalyst reduces oxygen to water. Click to enlarge. A team of...
• Infiniti models to be manufactured in Xiangyang, China beginning 2014 Green Car Congress (Yesterday) - Dongfeng Motor Co., Ltd. (DFL) and the City of Xiangyang today announced that the Xiangyang plant in Hubei Province, China, has been selected as the local production site for Infiniti. The plant, operated by Dongfeng Motor Co., Ltd., Nissan’s joint venture company in China,...
• SARTRE road train premieres on public roads; focus now shifts to fuel consumption Green Car Congress (Yesterday) - SARTRE public road test. Click to enlarge. Vehicle platoon tests in the SARTRE (Safe Road Trains for the Environment) project—a joint venture between Ricardo UK Ltd, Applus+ Idiada, Tecnalia Research & Innovation, Institut für Kraftfahrzeuge Aachen (IKA), SP Technical Research Institute, Volvo Technology and...
• Second Gen Fuel-Cell Buses Roll In Switzerland hybridCARS (Yesterday) - By Jeff Cobb PostAuto Schweiz AG has become the first company in Switzerland to deploy fuel-cell technology for public road transport. Since the end of 2011, five Mercedes-Benz Citaro FuelCELL Hybrid models have been serving on routes in and around Brugg (in the canton...
• David Byrne On Bike Sharing Coming To New York City TreeHugger (Yesterday) - The Talking Head has tried bikeshares all over the world, and describes them to New Yorkers...
• Nikkei: Japan carmakers now rely on emerging markets for 62% of profit Green Car Congress (Yesterday) - An analysis by the Nikkei finds that emerging markets are rapidly rising as a percentage of Japanese automakers’ earnings, at the expense of Japan, Europe and the US. Six major domestic carmakers earned a combined 62%, or Â¥788.4 billion (US$9.9 billion), of their operating...
• Initial details on fiery crash involving BYD e6 that killed 3 Green Car Congress (Yesterday) - China Auto Web. Three passengers in a BYD e6 taxicab, including the driver, were killed in an accident in Shenzhen on 26 May. BYD e6 in flames following crash. Click to enlarge. In its microblog on weibo.com, Shenzhen traffic police say the accident happened...
• Ex-Sierra Club chair: U.S. EV makers should adopt cell-phone sales model Autoblog Green (2 days ago) - Filed under: Emerging Technologies, EV/Plug-in, Green Culture, North America, USA Makers of electric vehicles geared towards U.S. consumers would be wise to adopt a sales model similar to that of mobile phones, in which drivers would pay a set fee for unlimited electric charging, ex-Sierra...
• Better Fuel Economy Becomes America’s #1 New Car Priority Gas 2.0 (2 days ago) - It’s Memorial Day weekend and we just finished watching a 78-lap single-file parade the Monaco Grand Prix. The 96th running of the Indianapolis 500 will be underway here shortly. It’s a beautiful, sunny day in Chicago. In other words: there is no way I’m getting...
• Study finds diesel oxidation catalyst eliminates mutagenicity of diesel exhaust in gas phase Green Car Congress (2 days ago) - Top row: Effects of the DOC on mutagenicity of the condensates in the strain TA98 with and without metabolic activation (+/−S9); n.s.: not significant. Bottom row: Mutagenicity of the particle extracts with and without DOC. Credit: ACS, Westphal et al.Click to enlarge. A team...
• Nikkei: Japan gov’t to ease rules for building hydrogen stations in June, offer subsidies Green Car Congress (2 days ago) - The Nikkei reports that the Japan government will ease regulations on the construction of hydrogen stations for fuel cell cars in June, in addition to offering subsidies to companies involved in a plan to set up 100 such sites throughout the country by 2015....
• Mitsui O.S.K. Lines vessel demonstrates ocean-going diesel particulate filter Green Car Congress (2 days ago) - Mitsui O.S.K. Lines has started a demonstration test of the Diesel Particulate Filter (DPF) system installed on the diesel engine used for power generation on an MOL Group-operated ocean-going vessel. This is the first application of the self-cleaning DPF on an ocean-going ship. The...
• EU awards €4M for project on doped carbon nanostructures as metal-free catalysts Green Car Congress (2 days ago) - The EU has awarded €4 million (US$5 million) to a new research project that will develop doped carbon nanostructures to replace precious metals needed in catalysis: FREECATS - Doped carbon nanostructures as metal-free catalysts. FREECATS has chosen to focus on three applications where metal-free catalysts...
• OptaSense signs global agreement with Shell to deploy fiber monitoring for hydraulic fracturing operations Green Car Congress (2 days ago) - OptaSense, a QinetiQ company, has signed a Global Commercialization and Framework Agreement with Shell that sets out the basis on which Shell businesses can contract with OptaSense directly to use its unique Distributed Acoustic Sensing (DAS) system. The initial service to be provided under...
• F1 Stars and E85 Set to Make 2012 a Classic Indy 500 Gas 2.0 (3 days ago) - This year’s Indy 500 is shaping up to be a good one, with F1 contenders Rubens Barichello and Jean Alesi adding some international talent to a field of drivers that (finally!) feels like something out of the long-lost golden days of CART. In addition to...
• Memorial Day Madness for F1, Indy, and NASCAR Fans Gas 2.0 (3 days ago) - SWEETJEEBUS, people! Did you see this morning’s Formula 1 qualifying session at Monaco? Who knew ‘ol Schumi still had that in him, am I right? Wild. For those of you who didn’t catch this morning’s action, kill yourselves don’t worry – there’s plenty more racing...
• EcoCAR 2 Year One Winner: Mississippi State University Green Car Congress (3 days ago) - EcoCAR 2: Plugging In to the Future named Mississippi State University, with its series-parallel plug-in hybrid electric vehicle design, the Year One winner at the EcoCAR 2012 Competition in Los Angeles. The 15 universities competing in EcoCAR 2 gathered for six days of judged...
• Richard Sauter Draws Up a Hybrid Coast Guard Vessel Gas 2.0 (3 days ago) - The low-emission design specialists at Sauter are at it again, having been hard at work designing this – a low-emission military catamaran they’ve pitched to the USCG E Class Sea Eagle, which Sauter calls “The Ultra Green Homeland Security vessel that’s tough on the bad...
• BMW banking on carbon fiber costs to broaden M range Autoblog Green (3 days ago) - Filed under: Emerging Technologies, BMW, Lightweight There once was a time when BMW only produced a handful of its models in high-performance M guise. There was the M3, the M5, and that was pretty much it. Now, however, it offers M models based on the...
• Univ of Delhi team uses Ru/C catalyst for one-pot conversion of biomass to DMF; EMF as another promising biofuel Green Car Congress (3 days ago) - Researchers at the University of Delhi (India) report the one-pot conversion of lignocellulosic and algal biomass into 2,5-dimethylfuran (DMF) using a multicomponent catalytic system comprising [DMA]+[CH3SO3]− (DMA=N,N-dimethylacetamide), Ru/C, and formic acid. A paper on their work is published in the journal ChemSusChem. The synthesis...
• DOE to fund up to $12M in FY 2012 for work on innovative biosynthetic pathways for transformational improvements in biofuels production Green Car Congress (3 days ago) - The US Department of Energy (DOE) is soliciting (DE-FOA-0000719) research projects for up approximately $12 million in awards in FY 2012 for work on biosynthetic pathways for advanced biofuels to demonstrate transformational, not incremental, improvements in yield and productivity. Synthetic biology technologies hold promise...
• NOAA predicts a near-normal 2012 Atlantic and Eastern Pacific hurricane season, below-normal in Central Pacific Green Car Congress (3 days ago) - Conditions in the atmosphere and the ocean favor a near-normal hurricane season in the Atlantic Basin this season, NOAA forecasts. NOAA’s outlook for the Eastern Pacific basin is for a near-normal hurricane season and the Central Pacific basin is expected to have a below-normal...
• Petrobras: drilling in new deepwater pre-salt block indicates 700M barrels oil, 3T cubic meters gas Green Car Congress (3 days ago) - Petrobras announced the development of the exploration of block BM-C-33, south of the Campos basin. The drilling of the well 1-REPF-12D-RJS, where the discovery of a new hydrocarbon reservoir in the pre-salt layer was recently announced, indicated estimated recoverable volumes of more than 700...
• Newly Formed Swedish Electric Car Company 'Close To' Purchasing Saab hybridCARS (4 days ago) - By Jeff Cobb Prior to being bankruptcy, Saab unveiled this experimental Saab 9-3 ePower wagon in 2010. The Swedes equipped it with a 35.5- kwh lithium-ion battery designed to operate in climates down to minus 22 degrees F with estimated range of 124 miles....

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