July 3, 2009
Nothing says "I really care about the planet" quite like a race car.
By Scott Doggett, Contributor
The American Le Mans Series, contributor of countless tons of greenhouse gases for sport, says it has formed "a relationship" with The Nature Conservancy, a nonprofit organization renowned for its wildlife conservation and environmental regeneration efforts.
"As the Global Leader in Green Racing, the Series believes it is as important to lead with off-track programs as much as it is to lead with on-track innovation that emphasizes energy conservation and sustainability within a highly relevant platform applicable to today's automobile and transportation industries," the race series' organizers said in a press release Thursday.
The relationship has several components: the racing organization, teams and fans can donate money to the conservancy's adopt-an-acre reforestation project in California (which, of course, they could do before the relationship), and they can purchase T-shirts that read "Growing a Greener Tomorrow ... Faster." The shirts will be at American Le Mans Series races and on its Website with a portion of the proceeds going to the conservancy.
As if that weren't innovative enough, the Series says it will soon announce a Green Park program - "a media-driven event" (that usually means that it is being done to attract media coverage) "for each of its race markets."
The program involves planting trees in areas affected by the ALM Series races, specifically a "city park, local children's hospital, track, etc., along with construction of environmentally sustainable playground equipment provided by Lowe's Home Improvement Stores and Michelin."
So in the great American spirit of paying someone else to clean up after you, the race series has taken a page from the playbook of hundreds of other businesses and decided to plant trees in the neighborhoods affected by the emissions it causes.
The series is also promoting use of cleaner fuels and this year is even letting a hybrid race car run.
It's all better than doing nothing.
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July 2, 2009
The Ford Fusion (above) and Toyota Prius help propel hybrid sales gains despite weak economy and credit woes.
By John O'Dell, Senior Editor
Led by strong showings from both third-generation Prius and the gas-electric version of Ford's Fusion, hybrid car sales in June were up 9 percent from a year earlier and rose 2 percent form May's tally to mark the sixth consecutive monthly increase in sales volume for the segment.
Hybrids, which gained traction from the June introduction of the new 2010 Prius and continued consumer interest in the well-reviewed Fusion hybrid that was introduced in March, outperformed the new-car market as a whole - which was down 28 percent from June of 2008 and off 7 percent from May.
It's too early to declare a recovery in the segment, but rising gasoline prices and renewed public awareness of the importance of improved fuel economy in addressing climate change issues seem to be underlying a gradual strengthening of market performance.
"The most important thing is that there have been a couple of new models that are putting some excitement into the segment, said Edmunds.com industry analyst Jessica Caldwell.
"Then there's all the news of government fuel efficiency and emissions initiatives, and some pretty generous incentives in a segment that really hasn't seen many incentives in the past."
Caldwell doesn't think gas prices were a significant factor in June's hybrid market, but says "they certainly are on people's radar, with a broad expectation that they'll keep going up."
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July 2, 2009
Hitachi Ltd, Japan's biggest industrial electronics group, reportedly plans to boost production capacity for lithium-ion batteries for hybrid cars at an estimated cost of $200 million to $300 million, targeting a 70-fold increase by 2015.
Capacity will initially be raised more than 600 percent by next autumn, the Nikkei business daily reported today.
Hitachi has already received orders for lithium-ion batteries for 100,000 hybrid autos that General Motors plans to sell from next year, Nikkei said.
With an eye toward winning orders from domestic and other overseas carmakers, Hitachi will bolster capacity to meet the needs of 700,000 hybrids a year, the paper said.
Each hybrid vehicle is generally equipped with 30-50 lithium-ion batteries.
Hitachi will mass produce two new types of lithium-ion batteries for use in next-generation hybrid vehicles.
In addition to significant improvements in output density, the batteries are half the weight and size of conventional nickel-metal hydride ones, Nikkei said.
Production will be undertaken at subsidiary Hitachi Vehicle Energy Ltd's Tokai works in the Ibaraki Prefecture, the paper said.
JPMorgan Securities Japan Co. has estimated that the global market for hybrid-use batteries will exceed $6 billion in 2015. Hitachi is targeting sales of $1.04 billion that fiscal year, Nikkei said.
In 2000, Hitachi was the first to start volume production of high-capacity lithium-ion batteries for commercial vehicles. It has supplied batteries for a few thousand vehicles to automakers such as Isuzu Motors Ltd and Mitsubishi Fuso Truck & Bus Corp.
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July 2, 2009
The Renault-Nissan Alliance, which has plans to offer electric vehicles in the U.S. beginning next year, announced today that it has signed a memorandum of understanding with Italy's A2A energy company to promote EV sales in the Lombardy region next year.
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Right, N-R's zero-emissions concept car.
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The significance of this news is that despite the financial turmoil in the automotive industry these days, one of the first automakers likely to bring a plug-in electric vehicle to market is forging ahead with efforts to create the infrastructure needed to support the vehicles.
In this case, A2A has agreed to install recharging stations in Milan and Brescia and join Renault-Nissan in testing an electronic payment service.
Marking its 10th anniversary this year, the Alliance is leading a collaborative approach with business and governments to advance the EV industry worldwide. To date, it has signed nearly 30 agreements with partners to launch its first electric vehicle starting in 2010 and to mass market a full range of EVs in 2012.
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July 2, 2009
Hundreds of solar panels contribute up to 40 kilowatts directly into the Auriga Leader's electrical system.
By Scott Doggett, Contributor
The Auriga Leader, the first pure car carrier partly powered by solar energy, called on the Port of Long Beach Wednesday to unload a cargo consisting chiefly of Toyota Priuses (pictured right).
Rising more than seven stories out of blue-green water, the ship sported 328 solar panels affixed to the top deck to offset diesel fuel consumption and reduce air pollution.
The 656-foot, 60,000-ton vessel can carry more than 6,200 cars at a time and regularly does so, transporting Toyota, Lexus and Scion vehicles from Toyota Motor Co. factories in Japan to this port 24 miles south of downtown Los Angeles.
On Wednesday, under a clear blue Southern California sky, Captain Eugen State (pictured) told Green Car Advisor that on this trip some 60 percent of the vehicles aboard his ship were third-generation Priuses - a fact he said with pride.
While Toyota on Wednesday reported a 32 percent plunge in June-over-May sales overall, demand for the spunky hybrid actually rose 10 percent for the same period and its second-quarter sales outperformed first-quarter figures by more than 51,000 vehicles.
But enough about the car. On this day the news at Toyota's 144-acre spread at the Port of Long Beach was the seaworthy car-mover, not the cargo. Pure car carriers are notorious for fouling air while docked, and the world's biggest automaker was doing something about it.
In the seven months since the Auriga Leader was fitted with solar panels, the first vessel in its class to utilize solar technology to add electricity to its grid - as opposed meeting a particular need, such as powering a ship's low-watt lighting - curbed its thirst for diesel by an estimated six tons, State told us.
State emphasized that the panels constituted an experiment to see if such a system would work effectively aboard a car carrier. So far, so good, State said, adding that not a single problem had arisen since the panels were installed last December.
"She may be the first of her kind," he said, "for sure, she will not be the last."
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July 1, 2009
A natural gas tractor approaches pumps at new facility in Southern California's major port complex. Twin 25,000-gallon tanks tower over site.
As part of the ongoing effort to clean up the air at the Ports of Los Angeles and Long Beach, truckers are being required to get rid of older, dirty diesel tractors and replace them with clean diesel or cleaner natural gas models.
Quite a few are opting for natural gas - which has far fewer particulate pollutants and a lot less carbon content that diesel - and to to serve the growing demand for the fuel, Clean Energy Corp. has just opened what it claims to be the world's largest natural gas truck fueling station.
The company, one of the world's largest natural gas retailers, said the station, which is open 'round the clock, seven days a week, can store up to 50,000 gallons of liquefied natural gas (LNG), has eight pumps and can deliver the fuel as a liquid (right) in six of the pumps or as compressed natural gas (CNG) from two pumps, depending on the type of the fuel a truck is set up to use.
Clean Energy expects the station to provide fuel for several hundred trucks a day right now and plans to double the fuel storage capacity as demand increases with the number of natural gas trucks operating at he ports.
An older port-area station also operated by Clean Energy is presently pumping about 10,000 gallons of LNG a day.
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July 1, 2009
How often do we get to run a picture of a stompin' Ford F250 pickup in the Green Car blog?
Well, it is one of the vehicles that can be purchased with the credit you'll get for trading-in an eligible clunker.
For the complete list of cars and truck that meet the Cash for Clunkers purchase requirements, click here.
And for the vehicles that meet the clunker trade-in requirements, click here.
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July 1, 2009
As The Tesla Turns, Chapter 3.
When last we left the intrepid electric vehicle makers, Chef Executive and major investor Elon Musk was defending himself against ousted company co-founder Martin Eberhard's multi-faceted suit (libel, slander and breach of contract) in a lengthy blog posting.
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Tesla' Elon Musk drives Model S electric sedan concept at unveiling in May.
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Now the drama advances as Tesla Motors this week has filed a pair of motions in Superior Court in Northern California's San Mateo County, where Eberhard filed his action.
The Tesla motions (Musk is also a plaintiff) seek to have Eberhard's suit tossed on grounds that it is baseless on all counts and a thinly disguised attempt to stop Musk from publicly criticizing Eberhard's leadership.
We could go on - between them the motions take up 45 pages - but our little summary above pretty much says it all. Things will get nasty and nastier as each side calls the other liar and questions the opposing side's competency and integrity.
Stick with us and we'll keep you up to date and the suit and dismissal motions wend their ways through the corridors of justice.
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July 1, 2009
The City of Hillsboro, Oregon, has joined the small but growing network of municipalities committed to fostering the market for plug-in hybrids and battery-electric vehicles by providing public battery charging stations.
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A battery of battery chargers at San Francisco Civic Center.
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Northern California-based Coulomb Technologies said this morning that Hillsboro has purchased 16 of its networked EV chargers from an area distributor and plans to install them throughout the downtown area, including in the central transit depot being built this year.
"Our city is progressive and aggressive in implementing sustainable solutions to environmental and economic challenges," David Robinson, Hillsboro's facilities and fleet director, sad in a statement. "We have a large forward-thinking population ready to embrace electric vehicle technology and the city is committed to providing the facilities to meet the public's demand."
That demand is likely to come from the techies who make up a big chunk of Hillsboro's population and historically have been early adopters of EVs.
The city, 15 miles from Portland, is the heart of Oregon's "Silicon Forest" high-tech region and is home to major facilities of companies such as Intel, Epson and Sun Microsystems.
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July 1, 2009
President Obama signed into law on June 24 a program the National Highway Traffic Safety Administration is calling the Car Allowance Rebate System, or CARS (cute, eh?). This is a government program that helps a motorist purchase a new and more fuel efficient vehicle when he or she trades in a less fuel efficient vehicle.
According to the CARS Website, "while the CARS Act makes transactions on and after July 1 potentially eligible for credits under the program, interested dealers and consumers may want to wait until all of the detailed issues that must be addressed in the implementing regulations are resolved and the final rule is issued. Issuance will occur around July 23."
See the Frequently Asked Questions portion of the official site for more details. What appears below are the nuts and bolts of the program to help the completely uninformed get up to speed.
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July 1, 2009
By Scott Doggett, Contributor
California's air-quality authorities are an innovative bunch, and this month they took an unprecedented step toward making the Golden State less hazy by requiring automakers to place a reflective coating on the windshields of cars and trucks purchased in California.
The requirement is one of several that the California Air Resources Board has considered under its Cool Cars program, which is designed, as you likely guessed, to keep vehicles in the sunny state cooler.
By doing that, they reason, Californians won't need to use their vehicles' air conditioners as much, which will reduce the strain on automotive engines, which will decrease the speed with which we gobble up fossil fuels, which in turn will reduce the amount of greenhouse gases we release into the atmosphere.
Green Car Advisor first reported on the program in February, when CARB was focusing on having paint-makers tweak their automotive paints so they'd be more light reflective - as opposed to more light absorbing.
Light-absorbing paints, the king of which is black, contribute significantly to a vehicle's cabin temperature when parked in direct sunlight. Hot parked cars tend to cause their owners to reach for A-C controls the moment they enter their vehicles. Running the air conditioners adds to the workload of the vehicles, which in turn results in higher fuel consumption - you know the story.
The same is true with regard to windshields. When you consider at how much of the surface area of a car's sunny side consists of windshields, you can appreciate how important it is for the glass to be sunlight-reflective to help keep a vehicle's interior cool when parked in sunlight.
The technology used by glass manufacturers to make more reflective car windows has been around for nearly 20 years, said Mukesh Rustagi, director of strategic product management at Pittsburgh Glass Works, the largest automotive glass supplier in North America.
The technology exists and it's not particularly costly compared to, say, wiping out entire species and watching the world's glaciers - water sources for more than a billion people - melt away.
With that in mind, California's air regulators voted unanimously last week for a mandate requiring automakers to include sun-reflecting windshields on all vehicles sold within the state by 2014.
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June 30, 2009
Less than a week after Reuters reported that Suzuki Motor Corp. was in talks with Volkswagen about building ultra-small cars for the German automaker, the news agency reported today that Suzuki CEO Osamu Suzuki had denied having spoken with anyone at VW about anything recently.
Reuters reported last week that a source familiar with the matter had said that Volkswagen was exploring a deal to cooperate with Suzuki to boost VW's presence in the ultra-small-cars market.
At about the same time, a German magazine reported that VW could secure such a deal by taking a 10 percent stake in Suzuki.
But then on Saturday, Osamu Suzuki denied all of it.
"So far there's been absolutely no contact (with Volkswagen)," he was quoted as telling the Chunichi Shimbun daily.
"Lately, we've been the victim of a lot of rumors (of equity tie-ups and cooperation deals)," the newspaper quoted him as saying.
A Suzuki spokesman said he could not confirm the CEO's comments.
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June 30, 2009
Magazine says hybrid is the most disappointing Honda it has tested "in a long time."
By Scott Doggett, Contributor
The new Honda Insight posted a lackluster "Good" overall road-test score in Consumer Reports' testing for the August issue, and fell short in ride quality, handling, interior noise, acceleration, rear-seat access and visibility.
"The Insight is the most disappointing Honda Consumer Reports has tested in a long time," said David Champion, senior director of CR's Auto Test Center. "The Insight is a noisy, stiff-riding car with clumsy handling that is nothing like the Fit on which it is based. Also, Electronic Stability Control is only available on the highline EX version."
About the only thing CR seemed impressed with was the vehicle's fuel efficiency. The Insight achieved an excellent 38 miles per gallon overall in CR's fuel-economy tests.
In a ratings chart of small hatchbacks and wagons, the Insight was rated 21st out of 22 vehicles, with a road test score of 54 points. It was followed by the Dodge Caliber, which scored 49.
All vehicles in the test group are Recommended by Consumer Reports except for the Insight.
CR only recommends vehicles that have performed well in its tests, have at least average predicted reliability based on CR's Annual Car Reliability Survey of its more than 7 million print and Web subscribers, and performed at least adequately if crash-tested or included in a government rollover test.
Full tests and ratings of the test group appear in the August issue of Consumer Reports, which goes on sale June 30.
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June 30, 2009
UPDATE: Adds details, comments from state officials.
By Scott Doggett, Contributor
The Obama administration announced today that it will give California the waiver it needs to begin regulating greenhouse-gas emissions from cars and trucks, ending the state's seven-year battle to enforce its own stringent tailpipe standards.
The decision comes a little more than a month after President Obama unveiled a suite of new national auto standards that weds federal fuel-economy standards with California's proposed emissions standards, making today's announcement anticlimactic.
Still, those federal standards will not take effect until model-year 2012, meaning the waiver will allow California and other states that choose to enforce their own emissions standards to begin with this year's models.
"This waiver is consistent with the Clean Air Act as it's been used for the last 40 years and supports the prerogatives of the 13 states and the District of Columbia who have opted to follow California's lead," EPA Administrator Lisa Jackson said in a statement. "More importantly, this decision reinforces the historic agreement on nationwide emissions standards developed by a broad coalition of industry, government and environmental stakeholders earlier this year."
Under the Clean Air Act, California is the only state that can enforce its own standards -- but only with an EPA waiver. Now that California has been granted the waiver, other states will be allowed to enforce the same tailpipe standard. Thirteen other states and the District of Columbia have already moved to adopt the California's standards, and a handful of others have indicated they may follow.
"The waiver affirms California 's authority to set the standards for the cleanest cars in the nation and recognizes the ability of forward-thinking states to continue to adopt them," CARB Chairwoman Mary Nichols said in a statement. "Now we can begin to work with the manufacturers to make a new generation of cars that deliver all the comfort and power we have come to expect but with improved efficiency and far fewer greenhouse gas emissions."
The waiver gives California -- and states that choose to adopt California's standards -- permission to enforce its standards through 2009, 2010 and 2011; or three years earlier than the federal standards take effect.
Additionally, California is working on an extension beyond 2016 right now, CARB spokesman Stanley Young told Green Car Advisor. He said CARB officials are in communication with Obama administration officials regarding national fuel-economy standards, "but we're working independently in California as a kind of laboratory of innovation."
In other words, California's air-quality regulators are going to do what they feel is best for the state regardless of what the U.S. EPA does. Young said he's hopeful national regulators will follow California's lead.
"This is just the first step in a much longer journey to produce cleaner cars," he said.
California adopted the tailpipe standards in 2002 and had been fighting for a waiver since 2005. Under then-President George W. Bush, EPA denied the state's request, but Obama ordered a review of the decision soon after taking office.
The auto industry had challenged California's attempt to regulate tailpipe emissions, arguing it would create a "regulatory patchwork" that would depress overall sales and put some dealers at a competitive disadvantage. Car makers and dealers argued that because consumers buy vehicles in different quantities in different states, automakers' fleetwide greenhouse-gas averages would vary by state, forcing manufacturers to manipulate the amount of each model they make available in each state.
The litigation was unsuccessful in federal courts, and the industry agreed to drop their legal challenges as part of the compromise that led to the new federal auto standards.
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June 30, 2009
Revamped SUV Apparently Would Boast 23% a 6 % Fuel Economy Hike, No Word on How
(Note: We are red-faced with embarrassment. Acura would only have to boost MDX fuel economy by 1 mile per gallon, to 18 mpg, not 22 mpg, to qualify for the program. That's because the MDX is a light truck, not a car, and it means a 6 percent increase, not 23 percent.
It also means it would be a lot easier to accomplish and wouldn't require much more than a 6-speed transmission and some weight reduction and aerodynamic tweaks to achieve. We've edited this article to eliminate the stuff that's just plain wrong, but in the spirit of transparency, are only striking it out, not erasing it, so you can see where and how badly we messed up.)
By John O'Dell, Senior Editor
Look for some fuel-economy news from Acura next month.
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2009 MDX pictured gets an EPA combined fuel economy rating of 17 mpg.
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Buried deep in a missive Honda's luxury division sent out this week notifying the automotive press that Acura has several models that would qualify for purchase with a cash for clunkers voucher was this tidbit:
"Certain models of the 2010 MDX luxury sport-utility vehicle" will qualify.
That means those 2010 Acura MDX models will have to get at least 22 18 miles per gallon on the EPA's rating for combined city and highway driving. And that means Acura has figured out a way to make the 17 mpg, 7-seat, 300 horsepower SUV into a 22 mpg fuel-sipper (well, maybe not a sipper but at least not as thirsty as the present model).
That's a 23 percent improvement, which isn't too shabby.
Just how they're going to do it remains a secret. Acura won't talk until the official 2010 MDX introduction on July 20.
But given the MDX placement atop the Acura SUV lineup, it's unlikely that the improved mileage will be achieved by shoving a four-banger into the engine bay and calling it a day.
We're guessing - and it's just guessing at this point, no leaks from insiders helping us out - is that the higher-mileage MDX models will use six-speed automatic transmissions instead of the five-speeds used across the line in the '09 MDX.
Acura might then remove the third-row seating to lighten the SUV and drop all-wheel drive to increase fuel economy, and/or add Honda's cylinder deactivation system to the MDX's 3.7-liter V6. or even stick a smaller, turbocharged V6 in the engine bay.
A couple of longshots: Is there an Acura MDX hybrid in the works, or could the company be resurrecting the V6 diesel it once planned for its SUVs?
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