Location: Bath, United Kingdom
Researchers at the University of Bath are helping to develop new rechargeable
batteries that could improve hybrid electric cars in the future. Transport is a
major energy user and is estimated to be responsible for around 25% of the UK's...
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Location: Wasington, United States
Recently, Toyota Motor Corp opened the production site of its gasoline-electric hybrid cars to journalists for the first time. Many leading auto makers have questioned the benefit of developing these vehicles, arguing
they are just a...
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Location: Paris, France
The EUREKA E! 3734 i-StARS project is developing a compact, fully integrated and
low-cost start-stop system for cars to replace conventional alternators in mass
production. This second-generation starter alternator reversible system (StARS)...
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Location: Geneva Motor Show, Swaziland
It's now official, Opel presents an electric vehicle using GM technology
Voltec already seen on the Chevrolet Volt. This 5-door, four seats, will be
revealed at the Geneva Motor Show which opens on 5 March.
"With this Ampera,...
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Location: North Carolina, United States
When the 2010 Mercedes-Benz E-class goes on sale, buyers will have the option
to enhance the car's appearance with the AMG Sports Package. The package can be
added to all engine configurations and includes some interior and exterior...
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Location: Detroit, United States
To the delight of many fresh - Fans have now the new Kia Soul off the roof. The Detroit Motor Show "Soul" has a two-tier roof, whose separate parts can be removed. This allows Fondinsassen independently of the driver and passenger's Open Air...
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Location: California, United States
The strange-looking, three-wheeled electric vehicle from Aptera, the Google.org-funded
startup based in Vista, CA, will be rolling off assembly lines this October, the
company says. The fish on wheels seemed a long shot for commercial...
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Location: Massachusetts, United States
It turns out Hybrid vehicles do more than just save gas. In times of crisis such as power outages due to severe weather (ice storms or hurricanes) a Hybrid vehicle which produces and stores electricity in its battery can be converted into a...
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Location: Tokyo, Japan
Toyota's biggest contribution thur far to the eco-friendly car world would
undoubtedly be its hybrid technology, which graces over a million driveways all
around the world in cars such as the Prius, the Camry Hybrid and the Highlander...
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Location: MIT, United States
An MIT group hopes that its foldable electric vehicles will cut pollution, and ease congestion.
The Smart Cities group at the MIT Media Lab is working on two low-cost electric vehicles that it hopes will revolutionize mass transit and...
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Location: Detroit, United States
Audi announced at the 2009 Detroit Auto Show that its 2010 A3 2.0 TDI will be coming to the US early next year. The diesel hatchback, which participated in the Audi Mileage Marathon last fall, averaged more than 45 miles per gallon over
the...
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Location: Fisker Motors, United States
Oriented environmentally friendly fiber products, the Detroit show is the
presentation of the serial version of the much-anticipated Fisker Karma, a sedan
eco chic, with good taste to associate aguichant design, performance and...
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Location: Oak Ridge, Spain
A new material characterized at the Department of Energy's Oak Ridge National Laboratory could open a pathway toward more efficient fuel cells.
The material, a super-lattice developed by researchers in Spain, improves ionic...
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Location: Michigan, United States
Michigan lawmakers are hoping that this week's announcement that General
Motors will build a battery pack assembly facility in Michigan to support
production of the Chevrolet Volt is just the beginning. Governor Jennifer
Granholm signed a...
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Location: Wasington, United States
Engineers at a national lab have shown that small fans embedded in car seats could help cool passengers down -- saving up to 7 percent of the 30 to 40 gallons of gasoline per year an average driver consumes for powering air conditioning...
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Location: Peoria, United States
A modified method of producing biobutanol could make the fuel more competitive with ethanol as a clean-burning alternative to gasoline.
According to Agricultural Research Service (ARS) chemical engineer Nasib Qureshi, biobutanol...
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Location: Fraunhofer Institute, Germany
In the future, vehicles will also be customized as their owner. Everyone can compose his vehicle according to its needs. To define exactly these functions individually, more and more software will be used to help you make those
choices. Above...
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Location: Chrysler, United States
Seeming to be carved into the body to face the toughest track of off-road, the Patriot doubles exhibition in Detroit of a hybrid version. But, like its cousin, the Chrysler 200C EV, it is for now as a concept.
The powertrain of the...
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Location: Baijing, China
BYD, China's biggest battery maker, isn't wasting any time carving its niche
in the new world of electric cars and plug-in hybrids. It all started with the
F6DM plug-in hybrid sedan, followed by the smaller and less expensive F3DM
plug-in...
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Location: Volvo, Sweden
The high-end sedan Swedish is now available with a brand new block turbo 5-cylinder 205 hp. More efficient and less greedy than the old version, it retains the name D5.
"Our intention was to create a certified art diesel Euro...
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