Over £12 million is to be invested by the government-backed Technology Strategy Board to develop new technology that will speed up the reduction of CO2 emissions from road vehicles. The investment will be made in sixteen proof of concept studies, which will last up to one year, and six longer-running full research and development projects. [...]
Jan 28 2010 | Posted in Uncategorized |
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This years conference runs from January 25th to the 28th at the Washington DC Convention center. EDTA’s Conference & Annual Meeting features industry leaders who are building the advanced vehicles and fueling infrastructure of an electrified transportation sector. The conference will offer the industry’s roadmap for an electric drive future; distinguished speakers will provide insight [...]
ECOtality, Inc., a leader in clean electric transportation and storage technologies, will provide a preview of its first generation of internet-based software for advanced electric vehicle charging. The software, developed by eTec (Electric Transportation Engineering Corporation), a wholly-owned subsidiary of ECOtality, will be on display this week at the Electric Drive Transportation Association (EDTA) conference [...]
Almost two years to the day after announcing its first car partnership and its first country deployment in Israel, Better Place today announced that it has signed an agreement with an HSBC-led investor consortium for new equity financing of $350 million. The deal marks one of the largest clean-tech investments in history and values Better [...]
GM will expand its in-house electric vehicle development capabilities by becoming the first major U.S. automaker to design and manufacture electric motors, a core technology for hybrids and electric vehicles. According to GM this move will allow the company to lower costs and improve performance, quality, reliability and manufacturability of electric motors by controlling design, materials [...]
Jan 26 2010 | Posted in
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Secretary of Energy Steven Chu announced the Department of Energy has closed its $465 million loan with Tesla Motors, Inc. for construction of a manufacturing facility in southern California on the Model S electric sedan and a power-train manufacturing facility in Palo Alto, California. The Palo Alto facility will assemble electric vehicle battery packs, electric [...]
The Chevrolet Volt electric vehicle with extended range capability this week claimed The Detroit News Readers Choice Most Earth Friendly Award for being the greenest vehicle at the show. Each year, the Detroit News takes 100 readers to the North American International Auto Show at Cobo and then asks them to pick their favorites in a [...]
Jan 19 2010 | Posted in
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In the presence of French President Nicolas Sarkozy, Renault, EDF, GBH (Groupe Bernard Hayot), Total Réunion, GE Money and the GERRI agency today signed a letter of intent on the experimentation of 50 electric vehicles in Reunion together with battery charge infrastructure powered mainly by renewable energies. The letter of intent signed today in Reunion by [...]
Advanced Air-Management Component Represents Another Key to Product Leadership Strategy Navistar, Inc. has acquired from Holley Performance Products, Inc. certain assets including intellectual property rights to some of Holley’s valve technology for diesel engine exhaust-gas recirculation systems. Pure Power Technologies LLC, a Navistar company, will manufacture the advanced EGR valve at its Blythewood, S.C., plant. [...]
Cobalt Technologies, a leader in commercializing biobutanol as a renewable fuel and chemical, recently formally launched its first facility. California Governor Arnold Schwarzenegger and Silicon Valley cleantech leaders were on hand, demonstrating the importance of clean technology to the state’s future economic vitality. Cobalt uses non-food feedstock, such as forest waste and mill residues, and its [...]
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