March marked the fifth anniversary of Japan’s catastrophic 2011 earthquake and tsunami—a disaster that tested a society’s ability to switch to different power sources. For example, battery-powered electric vehicles (EVs) were a transportation boon at a time when conventional fuel was ...
The redesigned 2018 LEAF will be unveiled in Tokyo on Sept. 6. From all accounts, the new LEAF will shed the first-generation’s high-tech appearance in favor of a more mainstream design. That means the current LEAF’s bulging headlights, bulbous tail and sloped hood will be less pronou...
Report: Toyota to begin mass production in China in 2019 of EVs based on C-HR 22 July 2017 Japan’s Asahi Shimbun reports that Toyota will begin mass production of EVs in China in 2019, using the C-HR crossover (earlier post ) as the base. The report says that production volume will be...
John Voelcker Jul 22, 2017 Follow John Add to circle What grim breaking news could make the expanding diesel emission scandal more painful for all German makers? And why did GM really extend the shutdown of the assembly plant where the Chevrolet Bolt EV electric car is made? This is o...
The sedan is falling rapidly out of favor in many world markets but especially so in America, where demand for SUVs is rising to a fever pitch. GM is reporting sedan sales are down over 30% so far this year. Amid predictions that sedans will be even less popular in the future, The Gen...
Project shows maritime fuel cell generator can increase energy efficiency by up to 30% at part load; reliability and cost issues 22 July 2017 A recent project demonstrated a 100 kW fuel cell generator with 72 kg of hydrogen storage for marine applications. Project goals were to demons...
“Dirty, Difficult, And Dangerous”: Why Millennials Won’t Work In Oil 22 July 2017 by Tsvetana Paraskova for Oilprice.com Like many industries today, the oil industry is trying to sell its many job opportunities to the fastest growing portion of the global workforce: Millennials. But u...
SAIC-GM-Wuling officially launched the Baojun E100, the brand’s first all-electric vehicle. Available in two variants, it is priced as low as RMB 35,800 (5,290 USD or 4,536 EURO) after national and local subsidies. On July 10, SAIC-GM-Wuling began limited pre-sales of the E100 in Liuz...
Canada’s electric vehicle industry is about to receive a major boost with the announcement of an agreement between eCAMION, based in Toronto, Dallas-based Leclanche North America, part of Switzerland’s Leclanche SA and SGEM based in Geneva, to develop and install a network of 34 fast-...
About NICE America Research: NICE America Research, Inc. is a newly established R&D Center in Silicon Valley, and is a branch of the National Institute of Clean-and-Low-Carbon Energy (NICE) in Beijing, China. NICE is the corporate research arm of Shenhua Group which is an integrated e...
The redesigned 2018 LEAF will be unveiled in Tokyo on Sept. 6. From all accounts, the new LEAF will shed the first-generation’s high-tech appearance in favor of a more mainstream design. That means the current LEAF’s bulging headlights, bulbous tail and sloped hood will be less pronou...
We are celebrating our fourth summer here in Park City. Thanks to all of the tourists and locals, Park City Electric Bikes is a huge success! What better way to see Old Town Main Street and beautiful Park City than on a Pedego Electric Bike? Pedego Electric Bikes is located in the Par...
John Voelcker Jul 13, 2017 Follow John Add to circle Today, what lessons did a Chevy Bolt EV electric-car driver learn from his 1,300-mile road trip? Do you know what to do if your car seats are in a crash? And how many plug-in electric cars did BMW sell over six months? All this and ...
General Motors has been tapping into engineering experience that goes back to astronauts driving its Lunar Rover on the moon. GM’s Chevrolet brand paid tribute Thursday to engineers who’d designed the all-electric Lunar Rover. It had been driven by Apollo 15 astronauts on the moon dur...
Automotive executives and German government officials have reached agreement on software upgrades that could resolve the diesel emissions cheating scandal. Engine software updates on about 9 million diesel cars in Germany will cost automakers nearly 2 billion euros ($2.33 billion), co...
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John Voelcker 1 Jul 14, 2010 Follow John Add to circle General Motors announced today that it would offer an 8-year, 100,000-mile warranty on the battery pack, the charger, and the Voltec electric drive components of its upcoming 2011 Chevrolet Volt electric car. The announcement sets...
Antony Ingram Jun 6, 2014 Follow Antony It's fair to say we don't give roads much thought unless they're doing something wrong. You certainly notice them when you run over a pothole, for example. But what about when they're radiating heat on a hot summer's day? The effect of all those...
If there were an encyclopedia entry for “unrealized expectations,” the promise of the Mitsubishi Outlander’s coming to North America might be featured, but don’t let that dissuade you as it could be here by year’s end. Positive indicators include at least two Canadian dealer websites ...
The California Air Resources Board (CARB) announced that it filed a consent decree for its final settlement with the Volkswagen Group of America. The company will be required to pay an additional $153.8 million to California over the company’s use of illegal “defeat devices” in 2009-2...
John Voelcker Jul 21, 2017 Follow John Add to circle Audi Q7 e-Tron 3.0 TDI Quattro (European model), Madrid, Nov 2015 Today, our missing plug-in Mini review, some rumors on future Chevrolet Volts, a new Volvo crossover, and much more diesel drama. All this and more on Green Car Repor...
The next-gen Bugatti Chiron hypercar will get hybrid tech to help make it even faster, according to the company’s CEO. “Electrification will happen,” said Bugatti CEO Wolfgang Dürheimer. The current Chiron uses a quad-turbo 8.0-liter W16 that makes an absolutely massive 1,479 horsepow...
John Voelcker Jul 21, 2017 Follow John Add to circle The makers of the 2018 Mini Coooper S E Countryman All4, the unwieldy name for its first plug-in hybrid small crossover utility vehicle, aren't going to make any friends among electric-car fans. That's because the company has includ...
John Voelcker Jul 21, 2017 Follow John Add to circle As numerous political probes over the years have famously shown, once investigators dig into the circumstances around an alleged crime, anything can happen. The September 2015 announcement by the EPA that VW Group engineers had admi...
Electric cars may receive most of the attention within the realm of alternative propulsion methods, but liquid hydrocarbon fuels will be with us for many decades to come. The challenge then becomes how to reduce the carbon footprint of extracting, transporting, refining, and burning t...
John Voelcker Jul 21, 2017 Follow John Add to circle Small SUVs are all the rage, steadily eating into sales of passenger sedans and hatchbacks of pretty much every size. It's not just limited to North America, either: the trend is global, which is why several makers have jacked up pe...
Alejandro Agag, Founder & CEO of Formula E, said: “Formula E has a habit of breaking new ground – this weekend in New York was yet another example of achieving what many thought was impossible. We managed to bring international open-wheel racing to New York for the first time in histo...
The UK’s first multi-brand electric vehicle showroom – the Electric Vehicle (EV) Experience Centre, operated by Chargemaster – opens its doors in the Centre:MK shopping centre on Saturday 22 July. It will be run by a team of professionally-trained EV gurus, providing information and a...
More rumors that Apple is working on becoming an automaker, or at least an automotive supplier, have bubbled up thanks to a report out of China. Chinese publication Yicai Global says the tech giant is working in secret with a Chinese battery manufacturer – Contemporary Amperex Technol...
The route to a FRP composite part has never been straightforward, with multiple steps needing to come together. At each step of the supply chain there are multiple innovations, extending from the fibres and their precursors through to the manufacturing processes and their associated i...
