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House and Senate Unveil Electric Drive Vehicle Deployment Act of 2010

 The EV industry is about to get a big boost in the United States.  House Select Committee on Energy Independence and Global Warming Chairman Ed Markey (D-MA) and Rep. Judy Biggert (R-IL) will introduce today the Electric Drive Vehicle Deployment Act of 2010, legislation that aims to advance the widescale deployment of electric vehicles and [...]

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Coda to Site Electric Car Battery Facility in Ohio

CODA, a California-based electric car and battery company, announced today its plans to build an automotive-grade lithium ion battery system manufacturing facility in Ohio. CODA is considering several sites within Ohio for the facility, which could employ more than 1,000 skilled manufacturing workers initially. Construction of the facility is contingent upon finalizing an incentive package [...]

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Navistar Launches Electric Truck in

Navistar, Inc. announced that it will launch it’s new eStar™ truck, the first full-production, purpose-built all-electric truck, in the uber-green, environmentally sustainable city of Portland, Oregon. “Freight and service trucks present the biggest opportunity for real and significant reductions in carbon emissions and pollution, especially in the urban environment,” said Portland Mayor Sam Adams. “Because [...]

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Will Alternative Fuel Maker Joule Help Save the Planet or ......?

Joule, the Massachusetts based company founded in 2007, had its solar platform for renewable fuel production included among the MIT Technology Review’s 2010 TR10, an annual list of the world’s ten most important emerging technologies. The distinction follows Joule’s selection to the 2010 TR50 in February, which recognized the world’s 50 most innovative companies. Alongside [...]

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Automotive News to Host Green Car Conference June 16th in Novi, Michigan

The Automotive News  is once again holding a Green Car Conference.  The theme will be “Making Green Mainstream, Barriers and Acclerators to meeting the new CAFE standards and beyond”.   Their last conference focusing on “green cars” was held in the fall of 2008 at the same venue in the greater Detroit area, and was dominated by [...]

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UNEP Reports Finds Recycling of

Moving the global economy towards environmentally-friendly, clean technologies will increasingly hinge on rapid improvements in the recycling rates of so called “high-tech” specialty metals like lithium, neodymium and gallium.

Such metals, needed to make key components for wind turbines and photovoltaics to the battery packs of hybrid cars, fuel cells and energy efficient lighting systems, exist [...]

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Automotive X-Prize

Automotive X PRIZE Concludes First of Three On-Track Competition Stages at Michigan International Speedway

The Progressive Insurance Automotive X PRIZE, a $10 million competition to inspire a new generation of viable super-efficient vehicles capable of achieving 100 MPGe (miles per gallon or its energy equivalent), announced 22 teams representing 27 vehicles survived Shakedown – the first of three on-track testing stages – and will now move on to the [...]

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Alternative Liquid Fuels

Researchers Find Biofuel Combustion Chemistry More Complex than Petroleum-based Fuels

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Understanding the key elements of biofuel combustion is an important step toward insightful selection of next-generation alternative fuels.  And that’s exactly what researchers at Sandia and Lawrence Livermore national laboratories are doing.  The journal Angewandte Chemie devotes its May 10 cover to a paper co-authored by Sandia’s Nils Hansen and Lawrence Livermore’s [...]

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Sandia's Bob Carling to Speak at Present and Future Auto Engines Conference in China

The 11th International Conference on Present and Future Engines for Automobiles will take place from May 30th to June 3rd, 2010 in Shanghai, China.  The US and Europe should take note that events such as this highlight the fact that the Chinese are committed to becoming the world leader in automobile design and manufacturing.  Bob [...]

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Ford and Microsoft Team Up to Give Electric Car Owners a Way to Manage Energy

Ford Motor Company and Microsoft Corp. are leading the way toward a more energy-efficient future by announcing a new solution that will make electric vehicle ownership easier and more affordable for consumers.

The two companies are teaming up to implement the Microsoft Hohm™ energy management application for Ford’s electric vehicles. Ford is the first automaker announcing [...]

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EDAG “Light Car” Open Source Updates

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