Chevy Volt To Get Low Emissions Perks In California. Many in motoring are looking forward to an all-electric future, but as long as we’re burning fuel we’ll need to keep incentivizing low emissions.
In California, a limited number of low-emissions vehicles are given stickers that let them travel in the HOV lanes, which residents know is a hell of a perk. North East to Implement Their Own System for Electric Vehicles. CleanTech Published on November 9th, 2011 | by Chris Keenan The Northeast Electric Vehicle Network is a new coalition of states who have banded together to support clean energy and to reduce dependence on foreign oil while reducing the environmental impact of vehicles.
They will be working with a $994,500 Electric Vehicle Readiness Grant awarded to the New York State Energy Research and Development Authority, and they’ll use the money to create a more effective infrastructure for electric vehicles. Met charges first electric police motorbike - 14 Oct 2011. GM Debuts Electric Car: Chevy Spark.
This is an archived story. The information and any links may no longer be accurate. General Motors debuted it's Spark Electric minicar, its first electric vehicle (EV) since the popular EV1, 13 years ago. It will be an electric version of the gasoline-powered subcompact Spark, which is only sold in China, India and Korea - and goes on sale in the US next year. The electric Spark will first be sold in select US and other markets in 2013, when GM hopes it will give the Nissan Leaf some competition. GM hasn't announced the range or price of the Spark EV, but demonstration fleets in China, India and Korea get about 80 miles.
Michel Smit : dance for sustainable energy « Stephan Wrage : kite propulsion for cargo vessels « The video embed code SKySails co-founder Stephen Wrage has developed specialized kites to harness wind power at sea, reducing fuel consumption by up to 35%. With the deepening of global economic uncertainty, green technology like SkySails can help companies grow while reducing costs and environmental impact. Tags: : Alternative Energy , cargo , eco-mobility , ecomobility , Green , kite , merchandise , sea , transport , wind. Superfast Driving AND Superfast EV Charging on the Autobahn. Cars Published on October 7th, 2011 | by Charis Michelsen The German Autobahn is popularly known for allowing drivers to go as fast as they want – and, starting this fall, EV drivers will be able to charge their cars almost as fast as they drive them.
NASA Contest Heralds Dawn of the Electric Plane. In addition to NASA's missions in space that amaze the world, our work in aeronautics continues to spur innovation and jobs.
NASA is providing the $1.65 million prize purse for the Comparative Aircraft Flight Efficiency (CAFE) Foundation Green Flight Challenge competition, sponsored by Google, taking place this week outside of Santa Rosa, Calif. The purse is the largest aviation prize in history and attracted 13 teams, all led by American innovators. Three teams successfully completed aircraft and flight qualification requirements and are competing for the purse.
Teams are flying electric and biofueled powered aircraft to prove they have the most fuel efficient, small aircraft in the world. To win the competition, an aircraft must fly 200 miles in less than two hours and use less than one gallon of fuel per occupant, or the equivalent in electricity. Why is NASA sponsoring the competition? Electric Vehicles: Harmony and Consensus? Look Elsewhere. There are some highly respected thinkers who completely and vocally reject the idea of electric vehicles.
I spoke recently with John Petersen of SeekingAlpha.com fame, whose recent article: “It’s Time To Kill The Electric Car, Drive A Stake Through Its Heart And Burn The Corpse” has stirred a great deal of conversation on the subject. Adura Drives Energy Waste Out of Parking Garage Lighting. Building managers, who are already hip to the savings high-tech HVAC control systems can offer, are starting to turn their focus to lighting, which can account for about 30 percent of a building's power consumption.
One of the big places they’re seeing opportunities for advanced lighting controls is in parking garages, where always-on lighting adds unnecessary operating cost and carbon emissions to the building footprint. Adura Technologies recently completed installations in two high-profile parking garages in San Francisco. During a 20-week measurement period, the company's automated lighting-control systems reduced energy use for lighting by 40.5 percent at the Hills Plaza complex garage and by 41 percent at Anchorage Square Garage. Silverstone revs up electric car charging network - 31 Aug 2011. DC’s Capital Bikeshare is a Red Hot Success Story in One Year! Eco-cities Published on August 29th, 2011 | by Priti Ambani Eco-cities, is a new series on Ecopreneurist, where we will feature the most environmentally friendly cities and their innovative city planning models designed to face their toughest environmental concerns.
Increasing fuel efficiency with a smartphone. In July, at the Association for Computing Machinery’s MobiSys conference, researchers from MIT and Princeton University took the best-paper award for a system that uses a network of smartphones mounted on car dashboards to collect information about traffic signals and tell drivers when slowing down could help them avoid waiting at lights.
By reducing the need to idle and accelerate from a standstill, the system saves gas: In tests conducted in Cambridge, Mass., it helped drivers cut fuel consumption by 20 percent. Cars are responsible for 28 percent of the energy consumption and 32 percent of the carbon dioxide emissions in the United States, says Emmanouil Koukoumidis, a visiting researcher at MIT who led the project. “If you can save even a small percentage of that, then you can have a large effect on the energy that the U.S. consumes,” Koukoumidis says. Grand Paris : le schéma d'ensemble du réseau de transport est approuvé. Le décret par lequel le Gouvernement approuve le schéma d'ensemble du réseau de transport public du Grand Paris est paru au Journal officiel du 26 août.
Ce schéma avait été adopté à l'unanimité par le conseil de surveillance de la Société du Grand Paris le 26 mai dernier. La mise en œuvre du projet de réseau doit faire l'objet d'une première enquête publique en 2012, avec comme objectif une mise en service des premiers tronçons dès 2018. "La publication du décret relatif au schéma d'ensemble du réseau de transport du Grand Paris est non seulement une grande étape pour le lancement des travaux du Grand Paris Express, mais l'est également pour l'élaboration des contrats de développement territorial (CDT)", s'est félicité Maurice Leroy, ministre de la Ville.
Les CDT devront être mis à l'enquête publique dans les 18 mois qui viennent. China’s new energy vehicle sector faces growing pains. Lancement d'un appel à manifestations d'intérêt ''navires du futur'' Dans le cadre des investissements d'avenir, les ministères en charge de l'écologie et des transports, de l'économie et de l'industrie, de l'enseignement supérieur et de la recherche ont annoncé le 15 juillet le lancement d'un appel à manifestations d'intérêt (AMI) dédié aux navires du futur. ''Placée au sixième rang mondial et dans un contexte de forte concurrence, l'industrie navale française se doit impérativement de rester compétitive. Pour cela, les filières maritimes, fluviales et de plaisance ont à relever plusieurs défis majeurs notamment liés à la raréfaction du pétrole, à la croissance des échanges mondiaux ainsi qu'aux impacts environnementaux qu'elles auront à anticiper'', explique le communiqué de presse.
Mazda Test-Drive at Britcar 2011 « The video embed code. The Equivalent of Fast Charging EV Batteries. Batteries Published on July 19th, 2011 | by Nicholas Brown Project Better Place is about developing an electric vehicle battery swapping system that can enable people to literally replace their battery packs in exchange for another one which was charged while it was at the Better Place swapping station.
In other words: While battery packs that other people dropped off are stored inside the swapping station and are being charged, you would drop off your old battery by driving onto a machine which then takes it out from underneath the car and installs a new one in the car in less than 5 minutes. It then charges the old one that you dropped off so that it is ready to be installed when the next vehicle stops by for a replacement. EDF hires MiniEs for electric Olympic Games - 19 Jul 2011. First Takes: Priuses Power up Japan's Recovery, EPA Sued on Smog & More. First Takes: IKEA to Host EV Charging Stations, Panasonic's Emergency Energy Box, and More.
• Charging Ahead with a Blink: IKEA intends to host charging stations for electric vehicles at 10 West Coast stores under a partnership announced today with ECOtality, the purveyor of Blink charging stations and their support networks. The pilot program, which is expected to run through 2012, has set its sights on placing at least two charging stations at selected IKEA stores in Arizona, California, Oregon and Washington, possibly as early as this fall.
ECOtality is the project manager of The EV Project, whose mission is to install more than 14,000 chargers in the U.S. Jonathan Bardelline wrote GreenBiz.com's latest article on technology that brings together energy, vehicles, information systems and buildings -- all the elements of the nascent field GreenBiz calls VERGE. Leaders Awards 2011: Nicko Williamson electrifies the green taxi market - 13 Jul 2011 - Feature from BusinessGreen. EPA Proposes Air Pollution Standard for Commercial Aircraft. This is an archived story. The information and any links may no longer be accurate. The U.S. Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) is proposing new air pollution standards for large aircraft engines, and greenhouse gas regulations could be on the way, as a result of a new federal court ruling. The EPA is proposing nitrogen oxide standards for engines used in large aircraft such as 737s, 747s, and 767s.
Exposure to nitrogen oxide emissions can cause and aggravate lung diseases and increase susceptibility to respiratory infection. The standards, which were previously agreed to by the United Nation's International Civil Aviation Organization (ICAO), would reduce ground-level nitrogen oxide emissions by an estimated 100,000 tons in the US by 2030.
The proposal comes just days after a US District court ruled the EPA must formally determine whether greenhouse gas (GHG) pollution from aircraft also endangers human health and welfare. While U.S. Ikea Installs First Electric Vehicle Chargers. Electric Irish Water Taxi is the Future of Venice – CleanTechnica: Cleantech innovation news and views. New Electric Car in Israel Includes Battery Swap Subscriptions. GE, Ryder, Staples To Cut Fuel Consumption With Energy Department. General Motors Deal Hints At Future of Natural-Gas Powered Cars.