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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 [...]

China

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 [...]

Battery developments

DOE Awards $4 Million to Planar Energy Under Its Advanced Research Project Agency-Energy Initiative

(BUSINESS WIRE)–Planar Energy, the developer of large-format, solid-state, ceramic-like batteries at half the cost and triple the performance of lithium-ion batteries, today received a $4,025,373 award from the U.S. Department of Energy, as part of its Advanced Research Project Agency-Energy (ARPA-E) initiative to accelerate transformational energy research projects.

Dept of Energy

Department of Energy Announces Closing of $529 Million Loan to Fisker Automotive

The Department of Energy announced today the closing of a $528.7 million loan with Fisker Automotive for the development and production of two lines of plug-in hybrid electric vehicles (PHEV). The loan will support the Karma, a full-size, four-door sports sedan, and a line of family oriented models being developed under the company’s Project NINA [...]

Charging Infrastructure

ZAP Licenses Electric Car Smart Charger Controller Technology from Battelle

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Press Release. To make electric car charging cleaner and less expensive, industry pioneer ZAP (OTC BB: ZAAP) has licensed the Smart Charger Controller technology developed at Pacific Northwest National Laboratory. The technology allows customers to minimize the cost of charging electric vehicles by automatically recharging a vehicle’s battery at times of least demand on the [...]

Dept of Energy

Government Agency Takes the Lead in Updating to Fuel Efficient Hybrids and Plug-ins

U.S. Government Agencies Move to Increase Energy Security and Fuel Efficiency

President Obama announced  that the Federal Government will lead by example in replacing older cars in the federal fleet with fuel efficient hybrids and plug-in hybrid electric vehicles, reducing our dependence on foreign oil as well as cutting carbon dioxide and other pollution.

The U.S. General [...]

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Cars and Trucks Sold in the US Must Reduce GHG Emissions by 5% a Year

The U.S. Department of Transportation (DOT) and the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) have jointly established historic new federal rules that set the first-ever national greenhouse gas emissions standards and will significantly increase the fuel economy of all new passenger cars and light trucks sold in the United States. The rules could potentially save the [...]

China

World Bank Loan to Help China’s Wuhan Improve Urban Transport

The World Bank’s Board of Executive Directors has approved a loan of $100 million to the People’s Republic of China to help improve urban transport and road safety in Wuhan. Wuhan, the capital of Hubei Province, is the eighth largest city in China (with an urban central city population of more than 5 million) and [...]

EPA

Nissan earns award for protecting the environment through energy efficiency

Nissan has been leading the charge in Green vehicle development and manufacturing around the world with introduction of the Leaf and other hybrids. Now Nissan is being recognized for its robust management direction in becoming a green company. They recently have been named a 2010 ENERGY STAR® Partner of the Year by the U.S. Environmental [...]

Government Agency

Innovation for Green Advanced Transportation Excellence

i-GATE (Innovation for Green Advanced Transportation Excellence) as one of six applicants to be recognized as inaugural members of the California iHub demonstration program.

i-GATE was submitted by the city of Livermore (iHub coordinator) in close partnership with Sandia National Laboratories/California (Program Lead), Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory and several others, including two University of California campuses. [...]

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EDAG “Light Car” Open Source Updates

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