Abundant hydrogen is available on the island of Oahu to power a ramp up of fuel cell vehicles through a General Motors collaboration with The Gas Company (TGC), Hawaii’s major gas energy provider. TGC produces hydrogen along with synthetic natural gas and delivers it in its utility gas stream, with more than 5 percent hydrogen [...]
Chemists at the U.S. Department of Energy’s Brookhaven National Laboratory have received three patents for developing catalysts to accelerate chemical reactions in fuel cells. The newly patented catalysts, as well as a method for making a particular type of catalyst with a thin layer of platinum, could greatly reduce the cost and increase the use [...]
Universal Cars Ltd. (UCL), Mitsubishi Motors Corporation (MMC)’s importer and distributor for Hong Kong, announced today it will begin sales of the i-MiEV the new-generation electric vehicle to individuals. Mass-production i-MiEVs have already been delivered to the government of the Hong Kong Special Administrative Region of the People’s Republic of China (HKSAR) and some companies; however [...]
Tesla Motors and Toyota are going to work jointly on the development of electric vehicles, parts, production system and engineering support. Toyota is going to invest $50 million in Tesla stock immediately after their IPO, and Tesla is purchasing the NUMMI plant that Toyota once produced vehicles in as part of a joint venture with General [...]
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 [...]
In sharp contrast to Japanese carmaker Nissan which is moving full speed ahead into the EV (electric vehicle) market, Honda’s head of research has stated that the company remains skeptical about electric-cars, 10 years after it has stopped selling the EV-Plus battery-powered model. “We lack confidence” in the electric-vehicle business, Tomohiko Kawanabe, president of Honda’s research [...]
The San Diego Centre for Algae Biotechnology (SD-CAB) was established in 2008 as a consortium of researchers from The Scripps Research Institute (TSRI), the University of California, San Diego (UCSD), and Scripps Institution of Oceanography (SIO), in partnership with private industry. The center collaborates with the private sector to apply lab discoveries to the industrial [...]
Battery systems, chargers, wheel hub motors – in the cars of the future, what will the components look like, and how will they interact with each other? Fraunhofer researchers are engineering the parts for electric vehicles and testing them on »Frecc0«, their demonstration vehicle. In a multi-disciplinary collaborative effort, 33 Fraunhofer institutes are working together [...]
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, [...]
A thrilling battle for first, third and just to finish marked a the start of the first zero carbon world series motorcycle championships (TTXGP), yesterday. History was made as the TTXGP took to the field of the West Coast Moto Jam at the Infineon Raceway, California. Teams from across America came and changed hearts and [...]
Ford’s Michigan Assembly To Build Gas- Powered, Electric, Hybrid and Plug-In Hybrid Vehicles
ZAP Begins Project Development on Green City Partnership with Shanghai’s Yangpu District in China
Uncommon Alliance to Accelerate Plug-in Cars in California
California Approves $1.2million Grant for Wrightspeed Inc. EV Plant
Nissan Delivers First “Leaf” to Customer in California
Mahindra Reva Targets to Sell 2,500 Electric Cars in India Next Year
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