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• Mclaren P1 Scores Sub-Seven Minute Lap At The Nürburgring hybridCARS (Today) - The hybrid supercar McLaren P1 has achieved a sub-seven minute lap time of the Nürburgring circuit. From the start, the McLaren P1 has been developed with one clear goal: to be the best driver’s car on both road and track. Now realized, McLaren brought the...
• Tesla Designs Gran Turismo 6 Virtual Supercar hybridCARS (Today) - Launched over the weekend just past, the much-anticipated Playstation 3 virtual auto race game, Gran Turismo 6, will see digital-image cars submitted by no fewer than 17 companies, including Tesla Motors. Evidence for this came by way of promotion by Polyphony Digital, and the rendering...
• Ten Toxic Ingredients Found in Fossil Fuels: No. 4 Gas 2.0 (Yesterday) - Pet Coke — #4 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 Fuels Industry.” Read, share, and check in tomorrow for the...
• Honda Joins the University of Delaware’s Vehicle-to-Grid Project Gas 2.0 (Yesterday) - According to the University of Delaware, their vehicle-to-grid (V2G) project with Honda went into operation earlier this year, and is now putting enough electrical power through the PJM regional electric grid to power the equivalent of ten “typical” homes. Willett Kempton, a professor in...
• Texas Fracking Company Wants to Put Protestors on Terrorist Watchlist Gas 2.0 (Yesterday) - Despite the fact that Eagle Ridge Energy still hasn’t answered questions surrounding a fracking fluid spill in Denton, Texas earlier this year, indictments about illegal dumping, and a number of OSHA complaints from Eagle Ridge workers, they’re still the good guys, according to the...
• US PIRG report finds reduced driving and rates of car commuting in most populous US urbanized areas Green Car Congress (Yesterday) - VMT per capita has declined across the US (2006 to 2011). States with shading are missing reliable data for all or part of an urbanized area, and ‘X’s denote the location of excluded urbanized areas. Source: US PIRG. Click to enlarge. A new report...
• Ten Toxic Ingredients Found in Fossil Fuels: No. 5 Gas 2.0 (2 days ago) - Formaldehyde — #5 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 tomorrow for the next...
• Top 3 Graphs That Prove Ethanol Does NOT Raise Food Prices Gas 2.0 (2 days ago) - Just about every time we write a post about ethanol- be it about a 2000 hp ethanol-fueled hypercar that makes 400% more power than the gas version but still gets the same MPG or about the US military switching its mobile units to biofuels-...
• All I Want for Christmas is a 150cc VTEC Honda Ruckus Gas 2.0 (2 days ago) - Dear Santa, You’ve been very good to us already this year, what with the new turbocharged, 4-cylinder 2015 Ford Mustang and the 50 MPG Honda Accord- not to mention the slick little Motoped 50 that just reached its Kickstarter goal … but let’s get...
• Roadtrek Adds Solar Power, Biodiesel to Its RV Lineup Gas 2.0 (2 days ago) - I’ve maintained for a while now that the best way to convince someone that nature is worth preserving is to get them out into it. It seems like the people at Roadtrek agree- and they’re going a step further by offering a new B+...
• Renmatix and Virent collaborate on converting cellulosic sugars to renewable chemicals and packaging Green Car Congress (2 days ago) - Renmatix and Virent announced a strategic collaboration to convert affordable cellulosic sugars to renewable chemicals and bio-based packaging materials. The two companies, both ICIS Innovation Awards winners, made the announcement at the ICIS awards ceremony in London. Under the terms of the multi-phase development...
• U Wisc.-Ford team develops more realistic multi-component surrogate diesel models for modeling of low temperature combustion Green Car Congress (2 days ago) - A team from the Engine Research Center at the University of Wisconsin-Madison, Ford Motor, and Ford Forschungszentrum Aachen have developed new multi-component surrogate models for three different diesel fuels, and then examined their fidelity in capturing the characteristics of a diesel engine operated under...
• Statoil announces another high-impact natural gas discovery offshore Tanzania Green Car Congress (2 days ago) - Statoil announced its fifth discovery in Block 2 offshore Tanzania. The discovery of an additional 2-3 trillion cubic feet (Tcf) of natural gas in place in the Mronge-1 well brings the total of in-place volumes up to 17-20 Tcf in Block 2. (1 Tcf...
• Ten Toxic Ingredients Found in Fossil Fuels: No. 6 Gas 2.0 (3 days ago) - Polycyclic Aromatic Hydrocarbons — #6 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 tomorrow for...
• Legal trouble casts shadow on cheap, 300-mile Envia battery for EVs Autoblog Green (3 days ago) - Filed under: Emerging Technologies, EV/Plug-in, GM A bit shy of two years ago, battery startup Envia Systems looked quite promising. The Silicon Valley company had produced a 400-watt-hours-per-kilogram lithium ion battery and claimed it could be placed inside an electric car that would cost $20,000...
• Lockheed Martin Banks on an Ethanol Future Gas 2.0 (3 days ago) - Fighter jets + ethanol, it’s a calculation that Lockheed Martin recently announced a significant investment in. Lockheed is hoping to secure what it calls, “clean, secure, and smart energy” by buying into a company called Concord Blue. That company gained notoriety in the energy...
• SwRI operating connected vehicle affiliated test bed Green Car Congress (3 days ago) - Southwest Research Institute is now serving as a Connected Vehicle Affiliated Test Bed, recognized by the US Department of Transportation Research and Innovative Technology Administration (RITA). As a Connected Vehicle Test Bed, SwRI supports public and private sector research, testing and demonstrations of innovative, next-generation...
• What makes a bike share system great? (video) TreeHugger (3 days ago) - It's one of those ideas whose time has come, as Victor Hugo would say....
• Death-defying Norwegian cyclist rides down curvy mountain road... backwards (video) TreeHugger (3 days ago) - This mountain near Trollstigen in Norway would be scary going the right way......
• 14 Best Fuel Efficient Cars You Can Buy in 2014 Gas 2.0 (3 days ago) - 2014 is right around the corner, and before you say it: yes, I know that’s a 2015 Mustang up there that won’t be on sale until the end of 2014 … but I don’t care. You’ll be able to buy it in 2014, it’s...
• ABMI releases first report on biodiversity in Athabasca Oil Sands Area Green Car Congress (3 days ago) - Average estimated biodiversity intactness for >350 species in the AOSA. Dark red identifies the quarter sections that are estimated to have the lowest average biodiversity intactness, and dark green identifies quarter sections with the highest intactness. The enlarged area highlights the estimated intactness for...
• Tesla Opening New Store And Service Center Tonight In Toronto hybridCARS (3 days ago) - As Tesla Motors branches into Canada, a market about one-tenth the size of the U.S., it will open its fourth retail store and service center in Toronto tonight. This will be the second retail location in Toronto – the other is in a mall in...
• Is Honda Preparing To Axe The Insight? hybridCARS (3 days ago) - Rumors are circulating that Honda may either pull the plug on the Insight hybrid or revise it. Honda has neither officially confirmed nor denied any changes for the original Prius fighter (that lost), but it has quietly removed it from the Canadian lineup, and marketing...
• Plug-in and Electric Car Sales Up 300% Over 2012 Gas 2.0 (3 days ago) - 300% Increase In 100% Electric Car Sales In 2013 (via Clean Technica) Originally published on EV Obsession. 100% plug-in car sales are up about 300% in 2013 so far, while plug-in hybrid electric car sales are up about 31% for the same period. Note...
• Sekisui Chemical develops high-capacity film-type Lithium-ion battery with silicon anode; triple the capacity Green Car Congress (3 days ago) - Sample of the film-type Li-ion battery developed by Sekisui Chemical. Click to enlarge. Sekisui Chemical Co., Ltd. has developed a high-capacity film-type lithium-ion battery with a silicon anode using a coating process that has simultaneously tripled the battery capacity (900Wh/L) compared to other Sekisui...
• The British EV That Brushed Shoulders With Reagan Gas 2.0 (3 days ago) - Before the first Arab oil crsis hit American shores, there was a small but sure surge of interest in electric vehicles. In 1966 the United Kingdom Electricity Council held a contest calling for the design of an electric vehicle, and the winner was the Enfield...
• Audi Crossover Concept Slated For Detroit hybridCARS (3 days ago) - A new Audi crossover show car will make its debut in January 2014 at the North American International Auto Show (NAIAS) in Detroit. The two-door model with its high ground clearance is a crossover described by Audi as having a distinctly sporting slant – a...
• 2014 Toyota Highlander Production Starts, Hybrid Next hybridCARS (3 days ago) - Toyota Motor Manufacturing Indiana (TMMI) celebrated the start of production of the all-new 2014 Highlander yesterday. TMMI said team members and local citizens have much to celebrate as the popular midsize SUV is responsible for $430 million additional investment and more than 600 jobs at...
• Volvo Pure Tension Pavilion Powered By US-Sourced Solar Panels hybridCARS (3 days ago) - Colorado-based Ascent Solar Technologies, Inc. is the provider of solar modules for the Volvo V60 plug-in hybrid dedicated charger study, the Volvo Pure Tension Pavilion project. The company explained its flexible and lightweight CIGS solar modules were selected for integration into the Pavilion’s tensioned mesh...
• Deret Transport running 22 Canter Eco Hybrids in fleet; 25% reduction in fuel consumption Green Car Congress (3 days ago) - Deret Transport, one of France’s largest logistics companies, has recently opted for the Fuso Canter Eco Hybrid. The Deret Group now has one of the largest hybrid fleets in Europe, comprising 22 Canter Eco Hybrids. The Canter is the flagship model of Daimler subsidiary...

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