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• Up To Half Of America’s Top-10 MPG Leaders Are ’80s and ’90s Tech Cars hybridCARS (Today) - Among America’s 10 most fuel-efficient cars, you might expect only late-model examples, but two on the EPA’s official list – and up to five unofficially – are dated from the mid-1980s and early ’90s and ranked alongside the Toyota Prius PHEV, Chevy Volt, and BMW...
• Will Carbon Fiber Grow On Trees? Gas 2.0 (Today) - Yes, according to Gerald Tuskin, of Oak Ridge National Laboratory near Nashville, Tennessee. Tuskin holds a Ph.D. in genetics and a M.A. in Forest Genetics. He has devoted his life to the study of trees, especially the common poplar, and he makes an extraordinary...
• BMW introduces compact i DC Fast Chargers; ChargeNow DC Fast program for no-cost 30-min charge through 2015 Green Car Congress (Today) - BMW of North America launched its BMW i DC Fast Chargers, which can charge the BMW i3 all-electric vehicle’s battery up to 80% in 30 minutes, at the Plug-In 2014 conference. The fast chargers are a joint development between BMW and Bosch Automotive Service...
• 2015 Porsche Cayenne Will Offer Plug-In Option Gas 2.0 (Today) - When the all new 2015 Porsche Cayenne hits the showrooms later this year it will offer a real plug-in hybrid option that mates a supercharged V-6 with a 70 kilowatt electric motor and 10.8 kWh lithium-ion battery pack. The combination should power the nearly 2...
• State Auditor Gives Pennsylvania DEP A Failing Grade Gas 2.0 (Today) - Pennsylavania Auditor General Eugene DePasquale issued a report this week that is sharply critical of the state’s Department of Environmental Protection (DEP) for its failure to provide effective oversight of fracking operations within the state. The report was released July 22, the same day...
• Google and IEEE launch $1M challenge for downsized inverters Green Car Congress (Today) - Google and the IEEE have launched the Littlebox Challenge—an open competition to design and build a small kW-scale inverter with the highest power density (of at least 50 W/in3, or 3.05 kW/L) in an enclosure of less than 40 in3 in volume (0.66L). The winning...
• BMW i9 A Performance-Focused Hybrid Supercar? Gas 2.0 (Today) - Able to dash from 0 to 60 MPH in 4.5 seconds, nobody could call the BMW i8 a slow car with a straight face. But to celebrate its 100th birthday, BMW is reportedly planning a faster and more robust version of the i8 called...
• Zero SR + Power Tank Review | Ride Farther Gas 2.0 (Today) - When I first rode the 2014 Zero SR I was terrified; this was an electric motorcycle after all, a completely different beast from what I was used to, and at high speeds I felt like I might fall over. Then I found out why;...
• Is this the best super-commuter bike ever? TreeHugger (Today) - Five teams in five cities (NYC, PDX, SEA, CHI, SFO) set out to design and build the perfect commuter bike for the Oregon Manifest challenge. Who succeeded? You decide....
• Video: Elon Musk On The Colbert Report Gas 2.0 (Today) - Last week Tesla Motors and SpaceX CEO Elon Musk made his way onto the the Colbert Report, where the always-witty Stephen Colbert talked electric cars, rocket ships, and jet packs. Musk also dropped some hints about updates for the Tesla Model X, and what’s...
• 2015 Mustang EcoBoost Good For At Least 31 MPG? Gas 2.0 (Today) - The 2.3 liter EcoBoost engine found in the 2015 Mustang is one of the most talked-about motors of the past two years, and we finally have some hard numbers attached to it. The official ratings are 310 horsepower and 320 ft-lbs of torque, which...
• Tesla Delivers First Cars In Hong Kong Gas 2.0 (Today) - Though it’s probably taken longer than they hoped, Tesla has finally delivered the first right-hand drive Model S electric sedans to customers in Hong Kong. It’s a big day for Elon Musk especially, who has said that China could become Tesla’s biggest and most...
• Cadillac ELR next EV to get Plugless Power wireless charging tech Autoblog Green (Today) - Filed under: Emerging Technologies, EV/Plug-in, Cadillac Evatran has been testing its Plugless Power wireless charging systems for electric vehicles in the Chevy Volt and Nissan Leaf for years now and made the tech commercially available early this year. With the growth of the EV market,...
• Navigant forecasts global road transportation energy consumption to increase 25% by 2035; 84% from conventional fuels Green Car Congress (Today) - In a new report (Transportation Forecast: Global Fuel Consumption), Navigant Research forecasts total road transportation energy consumption will grow from 81.1 quadrillion Btu in 2014 to 101.7 quadrillion Btu in 2035—an increase of 25.4%. Approximately 84% of that will be provided by conventional fuels. The...
• Fisker’s New Owners Want Karma Re-Launched, Second Model Within 3 Years hybridCARS (Today) - In addition to re-launching the Karma series hybrid, Fisker Automotive’s new owners hope to introduce a second plug-in model within the next three years. However, both Lu Guanqiu, chairman and founder of Wanxiang Group Co., which bought Fisker during a bankruptcy auction earlier this year,...
• Rimac Upgrades Fan’s Electric Wheelchair Gas 2.0 (Today) - Powered by a 91 kWh lithium-ion phosphate battery pack and four-electric motors making a total of 1,088 horsepower, the Rimac Automobilii Concept_One is a mighty electric supercar. Electric supercar builder Rimac has showcased another use for its EV technology; improving the performance of a fan’s...
• GM Will Reportedly Build Chevy Sonic EV With 200 Mile Range hybridCARS (Today) - Just a few days ago there were several individual stories around, each potentially unrelated but important nonetheless. First, the news that Opel was killing its Ampera plug-in hybrid, then LG Chem announced that it was working on a 200-mile-range EV with one automaker (but not...
• China BAK Battery and Dalian Institute of Chemical Physics collaborate on next-gen batteries Green Car Congress (Today) - China BAK Battery, Inc. (CBAK) will collaborate with Dalian Institute of Chemical Physics of Chinese Academy of Sciences (DICP) in the R&D of next-generation battery manufacturing technologies with new battery materials, from lab scale tests, pilot scale tests to industrial tests, and related special...
• Ceres awarded Brazil government loan and grant to enhance sorghum and sugarcane development programs Green Car Congress (Today) - Ceres, Inc. , an agricultural biotechnology and seed company, will enhance its product development programs in Brazil and expand its development activities in biotech traits for sorghum and sugarcane over the next four years. The programs will now be funded in part under the...
• GE GHG Ecomagination Innovation Challenge for higher value use of low grade waste heat from oil sands production Green Car Congress (Today) - NineSigma, representing the General Electric Company, is inviting participation in a GE GHG Ecomagination Innovation Challenge to create value from excess low grade heat resulting from Steam Assisted Gravity Drainage (SAGD) oil sands production and/or related surface facility operations. The challenge is one of...
• U Mich professor finds fuel cycle analysis for evaluating CO2 impacts of liquid fuels is fatally flawed; calls for focus on CO2 removal Green Car Congress (Today) - Fuel cycle analysis (FCA)—or “well-to-wheels analysis”—is a type lifecycle analysis (LCA) that examines fuel products and their supply chains, and that has greatly influenced climate-related research priorities and public policies for transportation fuels. However, in a major review of methods for evaluating the net...
• Stanford team reports progress toward stable Li-metal anode for high-energy-density batteries Green Car Congress (Today) - Dr. Yi Cui and colleagues at Stanford University—including Dr. Steven Chu, Nobel Laureate and the former Secretary of Energy, now a professor in the Physics department at Stanford—report progress toward a stable lithium metal anode for use in high-energy-density batteries such as Li-sulfur or...
• Unique BMW i8 Concours d’Elegance Edition Created hybridCARS (Today) - In celebration of the U.S. arrival of the BMW i8, BMW created a one-of-a-kind 2014 BMW i8 Concours d’Elegance Edition. This special one-off i8 will be auctioned during the weekend of the 2014 Pebble Beach Concours d’Elegance, ahead of the official BMW i8 fall sale...
• Chevrolet Provides 12 Volts To MBAs Across America hybridCARS (Today) - Chevrolet announced it is providing 12 extended-range electric Volts to help expand a unique program that matches local entrepreneurs and MBA students committed to revitalizing small businesses across America known as MBAs Across America. MBAs Across America launched last year when four first-year Harvard MBA...
• Lexus VP: We’re Losing Sales to Tesla Model S Gas 2.0 (Yesterday) - When Toyota first launched the Lexus brand at the start of the 1990s, many wondered whether the Japanese could effectively compete with the dominant German luxury car brands. Lexus’ flagship LS looked like a Mercedes, was quiet like a Mercedes, and – in the...
• 2016 Toyota Supra Hybrid to Get BMW 4 Cyl. Gas 2.0 (Yesterday) - It’s no secret that the next Toyota Supra – based loosely on the FT-1 concept shown, above – is being developed in conjunction with BMW’s next Z car. The details of the new platform that are starting to emerge, however, may be a big...
• 2016 Honda ACX Hydrogen Car Gets Rendered, Looks Good Gas 2.0 (Yesterday) - Honda’s successor to its original FCX Clarity hydrogen fuel cell car got teased in the form of the FCEV concept car that debuted in 2013. The concept’s wild styling was expected to carry over, to some extent, to the 2016 Honda ACX- but, Dillon...
• U Tokyo team proposes new high-capacity rechargeable battery system based on oxide-peroxide redox reaction Green Car Congress (Yesterday) - (a) Charge and discharge voltage curves in repeated charge/discharge cycles at 45 mA g−1. (b) Charge and discharge voltage curves at various current densities (13.5–1080 mA g−1). Click to enlarge. Researchers at the University of Tokyo, led by Dr. Noritaka Mizuno (“oxygen rocking”, earlier...
• Formula 1 2014: Hungarian GP Results – Final Gas 2.0 (Yesterday) - The 2014 Formula 1 Hungarian GP is in the record books, and it was easily the most thrilling race of 2014 – if not the past few years! – with lead changes, strategy, changing weather conditions, and a closely-fought final few laps that saw...
• Delphi to debut new Tech Truck at IAA CV show; new high-pressure fuel injection system and new HPDI injector for natural gas Green Car Congress (Yesterday) - Delphi Automotive PLC will unveil the second generation of its Technology Truck concept highlighting future technologies at the upcoming IAA Commercial Vehicles show being held 25 Sept - 2 Oct in Hannover, Germany. Among the technologies Delphi will unveil is the next-generation fuel injection...

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