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California orders hike in number of super clean
cars
Los Angeles Times
The package of Air Resources Board regulations would require auto
manufacturers to offer more zero- or very low-emission cars such as battery
electric, hydrogen fuel cell and plug-in hybrid vehicles in
California starting with model year 2018.
Ford's forthcoming C-Max Energi wins 2012 Green
Car Vision Award
Torque News
The 20-mile electric range plug-in model will be built on the global C-car
platform used by the Ford Focus and other planned products. This line of
plug-in and straight hybrid vehicles is the linchpin of Ford's
competition with the Toyota Prius line.
Hyundai Motors to build cars with better
fuel efficiency
Rush Lane
While most auto manufacturers are going the hybrid way and concentrating
their attentions on bringing out more hybrid vehicles, Hyundai is
heading towards launch of highly fuel efficient vehicles in the future.
Though the company brought out Hyundai ...
2012 Toyota Prius V: Hybrid Wagon Drive
Report
Green Car Reports
We also loaded up the car with enough stuff over part of our run that
it was noticeably slower in acceleration. And that points out what's
probably our major drawback with the Prius V hybrid wagon: Because it
has the same powertrain as the hatchback, .
Toyota Builds 400000th European Hybrid In
Derbyshire
Contract hire and
leasing news (press release)
The Auris Hybrid was the first full hybrid power Toyota to be built in
Europe and has been manufactured at Burnaston since 2010. Globally, the
Japanese carmaker has sold more than 3.5 million hybrid vehicles to
date, representing a cumulative saving of ...
Hyundai Reveals Details of Its Hybrid
Lifetime Battery Guarantee
MarketWatch (press
release)
A Hyundai representative at the mass technology demonstration summit also
had an opportunity to review Hyundai's hydrogen-powered fuel cell vehicle
announcements with President Obama. The Hyundai Lifetime Hybrid
Battery Replacement Guarantee ensures ...
Lynnfield Dealership Selling Electric Cars
Patch.com
By William Laforme Earlier this month, Nissan reported that 10000 of its new
all-electric Leaf vehicles have now sold nationwide.
Intrigued, Lynnfield Patch checked in this week with Kelly Nissan on Route 1
to learn more about these cars, ...
California law gives electric vehicles
huge boost
TheChargingPoint.com
So policies approved on Friday by the California Air Resources Board (CARB)
are a really big deal – California will mandate that 15.4% of new
vehicles sold in the state must be zero tailpipe emission by 2025. That
means pure-electric, plug-in hybrid or
More drivers turning to electric cars,
expert tells Camarillo crowd
Ventura County Star
By Tony Biasotti Plug-in electric cars are still rare enough to turn
heads, but they're being adopted at a faster rate than gas-electric hybrids
were when they were new, an expert in the field told a group of electric
enthusiasts in Camarillo on Sunday ...
Indiana's electric-vehicle bust
The Republic
By Julie Wernau Chicago Tribune ELKHART, Ind. — For politicians betting on
electric vehicles to drive job growth, the view from inside Think
City's plant here is their worst nightmare: 100 unfinished vehicles lined up
with no word whether they will be .
Variations On Cheaper Hybrid Tech To Help
MPG, Efficiency
Green Car Reports
More The market for gasoline-electric hybrids and electric cars is
expected to grow over the next few... Read More The market for
gasoline-electric hybrids and electric cars is expected to grow over
the next few years, but they aren't the only ...
GreenCharge App for Electric Vehicle
Enthusiasts Launches Today in the iOS App ...
Sacramento Bee
31, 2012 /PRNewswire/ -- Xatori Inc., creators of PlugShare, the nation's
largest electric vehicle charging network, today introduces its
second product, GreenCharge. The iOS application allows users to view real
time battery data and to share the ...
Electric Vehicles
International Establishes Michigan Office and Expands ...
MarketWatch (press
release)
31, 2012 /PRNewswire via COMTEX/ -- Electric Vehicles International (EVI)
is happy to announce the opening of a new office in Southfield, Michigan.
The Michigan office will primarily support EVI's national marketing and
sales efforts.
Ethanol's
food-fuel dilemma
CNNMoney
By Scott Cendrowski, writer-reporter January 31, 2012: 5:00 AM ET FORTUNE --
After 30 years of government largesse that would have made even Nancy Pelosi
blush, Congress in December let expire the roughly $6 billion annual subsidy
for corn ethanol.
Will Seaweed be the biofuel solution?
Canada Free Press
A new biotech discovery enables ethanol to be made from a common
variety of brown seaweed. This would by-pass the biggest problem with corn
ethanol and biodiesel—the world's shortage of cropland. The new
ethanol process uses the familiar E coli ...
Is Cellulosic Ethanol The Loch Ness
Monster Of Biofuel?
ThomasNet Industrial
News Room
In June of last year, Congress formerly repealed the nation's ethanol
subsidies in a bipartisan vote that raised few eyebrows and generated only a
handful of news reports. The tax credit, which had been in place since 2004,
gave the makers of ethanol ...
Giving ethanol a good name: Advocates
tout increase in production, jobs for state
Wisconsin State Journal
This large pile of corn, generated in just two days from arriving trucks and
already stripped of starch used to make ethanol, will be sold as
livestock feed by Badger State Ethanol in Monroe. This story appeared
first in the Sunday edition of the ...
Embracing Natural Gas Power Means Freight
Trucks Join Other Logistics Sectors
The Handy Shipping Guide
Over 125000 buses in the US already run on natural gas and world wide well
over thirteen million vehicles are powered either solely by liquefied (LNG)
or compressed natural gas (CNG) with the applications growing
continuously. Certainly, as our picture ...
New Type of Inverter Could Drive Down the Cost
of Solar Power
CleanTechnica
By Nicholas Brown On January 31, 2012 — Leave a Comment ArrayPower says that
it has invented a “sequenced inverter” design that could cut the cost of
solar power by 10%. For those that don't know what an inverter is, don't
worry, ...
Tool determines value of solar
photovoltaic power systems
R & D Magazine
Consistent appraisals of homes and businesses outfitted with photovoltaic
(PV) installations are a real challenge for the nation's real estate
industry, but a new tool developed by Sandia National Laboratories and
Solar Power Electric and licensed by ...
GE sees more casualties in wind and solar
Reuters
By Tom Bergin | FLORENCE (Reuters) - General Electric Co. expects increased
competition and a reduction in subsidies by cash-strapped governments to
lead to more companies exiting the wind and solar power businesses,
but the industrial behemoth still ...
Solar Energy
Use on the Rise
Patch.com
The Los Angeles area is finally catching up with San Diego in terms of
solar electricity use, according to a recent report. By City News
Service The amount of electricity produced via rooftop solar panels
in Los Angeles nearly tripled over the past two
Buffett's utility votes for wind energy
REVE
MidAmerican Energy, owned by Warren Buffett, said this week that it will set
up a new unregulated subsidiary to invest in wind power, solar power,
geothermal energy and hydro projects. The electric utility owned by one
of America's best-known investors ...
BP's energy outlook projects strong
renewables growth
Ethanol Producer
Magazine
“Even with continued policy support, biofuels, wind, solar and geothermal
together are not expected to account for more than around 6 percent of
energy by 2030, barring unexpected technology breakthroughs,” Dudley
said. “This is because of challenges ... |