(FREEP.com) During the 2010 Center for Automotive Research Management Briefing Seminars on Tuesday, auto executives debated which technologies to boost fuel efficiency will catch on in the short term. Barb Samardzich, Ford's vice president of powertrain engineering, said internal-combustion engines will
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Back TO HOMELocal Supercar Races toward Multi-Million-Dollar Prize
by Brian McNeill (The Daily Progress) All eyes will be on the “Very Light Car” — designed by the Charlottesville-based team Edison2 — at the finals of the multimillion-dollar X Prize competition to build a vehicle able to achieve 100 miles
July 23, 2010 Read Full Article
Project G.R.E.E.N. Dyno Test #1 - Engine
by Jim McFarland (Circle Track) Initial Results For Our First Engine Dyno Session Open Up Some Distinct Possibilities For Future "Green" Racing This project is clearly getting some traction. While initial reader responses have largely been in support of CT's "green racing initiative,"
July 15, 2010 Read Full Article
Go Green Goal
by Godwin Kelly (Daytona Beach News Journal) Racing history may one day look back at Forrest Jehlik and his rag-tag band of volunteer engineers and technicians, who have worked in oven-like heat at New Smyrna Speedway this week, and say,
July 15, 2010 Read Full Article
2011 Chevy Caprice to be FFV
by Michelle Kautz (DomesticFuel) Chevrolet has released the technical manual for the Holden-based 2011 Chevrolet Caprice PPV (Police Patrol Vehicle) and it includes an E85 compatible platform. ...General Motors (GM) says its 0-100km/h time of less than 6.0 seconds will
July 15, 2010 Read Full Article
FreedomCAR and Fuel Partnership Given 'Thumbs Up' Review Plus Support for Multiple Technologies R&D
National Research Council report says continued near- and long-term Government /Industry R&D is needed to reduce petroleum dependence and greenhouse gases In its third report on the FreedomCAR and Fuel Partnership (FC&FP), the National Research Council (NRC) of the National Academies
July 01, 2010 Read Full Article
The Gulf of Mexico and the Future of the Ethanol Industry
(E100 Group/Biofuels Digest) The recent oil platform blowout in the Gulf of Mexico shows the madness of the United States continuing to use 140 billion gals of gasoline/yr to power our light duty cars and trucks. The E100 Ethanol Group believes it
July 01, 2010 Read Full Article
Are You Driving Your Last Gasoline Powered Car?
(ETCGreen.com) Vehicle owners now understand the ever dwindling supply and higher expense and risks of extracting petroleum will continue to increase the price at the pumps. For over 100 years we have enjoyed this cheap energy source, but the party is
June 30, 2010 Read Full Article
Honeywell Wins $27 Million Contract To Develop New Technologies To Reduce Fuel Burn And Emissions From Jet Engines
(Honeywell) Agreement Includes Testing of Bio-Based Renewable Fuels Honeywell announced today that it has been awarded a contract by the Federal Aviation Administration (FAA) to develop mature technology for Fuel Burn Reduction and test aviation biofuels for use in Honeywell Gas
June 26, 2010 Read Full Article
Lewis: A Digital Revolution - for Engines
by Al Lewis (Dow Jones Newswires/Denver Post) Eddie Sturman wants to kill the electric car. Electric cars were all the buzz this week (September 19, 2009) at the latest auto show in Frankfurt, Germany, but Sturman says they waste too much energy. Like
June 24, 2010 Read Full Article
World’s Largest Ethanol Bus Fleet Grows by 85 New Scania Buses
(Scania) Scania is delivering 85 ethanol-powered buses to Nobina, which operates on behalf of the Stockholm regional public transport company, Storstockholms Lokaltrafik (SL). Ethanol buses will help SL fulfil its decision to invest only in buses that operate on renewable
June 24, 2010 Read Full Article
New Technologies Can Result in Significant Fuel Savings for Passenger Vehicles, But at Higher Purchase Prices for Consumers
(National Acadamies) Various combinations of commercially available technologies could greatly reduce fuel consumption in passenger cars, sport-utility vehicles, minivans, and other light-duty vehicles without compromising vehicle performance or safety, says a new report by the National Research Council. The technologies would
June 15, 2010 Read Full Article
Dearth of Financing Stalls Inventor of 110-mpg Engine
by Larry P. Vellequette (Toledo Blade) A year ago, hundreds of people flocked to a 100,000-square-foot former factory building in Wauseon's industrial area where a Napoleon, Ohio, inventor promised to begin building engines that would travel more than 110 miles on
June 03, 2010 Read Full Article
Are Bio-Fuels Still Relevant?
by Sue Cischke (Ford Motor Company, Huffington Post) The short answer to that question is a simple yes. ...Opponents of bio-fuels claim billions of dollars have been wasted researching advanced bio-fuels, and that they will never be competitive with gasoline or
June 02, 2010 Read Full Article
DeltaWing Takes DC!
by Bob Kozak (Advanced Biofuels USA) Our friends at DeltaWing Racing brought their DeltaWing Prototype to the Indiana Society of Washington DC for their annual Indy 500 reception last week. “Senior Green Motor Sports Correspondent” and former Capitol Hill denizen Bob
May 25, 2010 Read Full Article
Alternative Fuel Vehicles Find More Use among Fleets
by Dan Olson (Minnesota Public Radio) ...Coca-Cola started using alternative fuel vehicles in 2001. It has more than 250 fleet vehicles in the Twin Cities, and 10 of them are the hybrid-electric delivery trucks, along with a batch of smaller
May 20, 2010 Read Full Article
Durban Company Flies High on Biofuel
(Times Live) A Durban company has unveiled a light aircraft engine which can operate on biofuel or liquid petroleum gas. “Our technology benchmarks South Africa against the finest aviation engineering in the world,” said Andre Schoeman, chairman of ADEPT Airmotive, the company
May 18, 2010 Read Full Article
All 2011 Buick Regals to Be Flex-Fuel Capable from This Fall
by Sam Abuelsamid (AutoBlogGreen) ...According Jim Federico, vehicle line executive for the global mid-size platform, combining direct injection and turbocharging will allow the new engine to get much closer to the volumetric fuel efficiency of gasoline while running on ethanol.
May 07, 2010 Read Full Article
NASCAR Sets Sights on E15 Use by 2011
(Fox News) When NASCAR takes the green flag in 2011, race cars are expected to be fueled by E15 -- a mixture of 15 percent ethanol and 85 percent gasoline. Hendrick Motorsports is already testing the fuel and Roush Yates engines
May 03, 2010 Read Full Article
Amtrak Runs Heartland Flyer on Biodiesel
(UPI) Amtrak plans to operate its Heartland Flyer Oklahoma-Texas service on animal-based biodiesel for the next year, officials say. The first biodiesel-powered train pulled into Fort Worth, Texas, Tuesday, the Fort Worth Star-Telegram said. The train does a daily 400-mile round
April 30, 2010 Read Full Article
Will Traditional Gasoline/Diesel Combustion for Light Vehicles Be Obsoleted by Critical Fuel System
by Bob Brook (Automotive Industries) New information and comment by combustion experts at the recent SAE Congress meeting here provide substantial reasons to believe critical fuel combustion could be the first fundamental combustion advance for IC engines in a very
April 23, 2010 Read Full Article
Bill Ford: Few, If Any, Trade-Offs in Going Green
by Martin LaMonica (cnet News) The U.S. auto industry needs to "go green" in more than one way, says Bill Ford. Ford is committed to making its vehicles more fuel efficient by investing in a number of technologies, including electrification,
April 15, 2010 Read Full Article
Flex Fuel Vehicles Hold the Key
by Gal Luft (The Baltimore Sun) ...While both drilling and efficiency promise little relief, with growing instability in the Middle East and millions of Chinese and Indians moving from bicycles to cars, it is almost a given that we will
April 07, 2010 Read Full Article
Biofuels; More Than Fulfilling Early Promises.
(Gerson Lehman Group) Needless to say, as the ethanol industry continues to grow, the level of opposition continues to increase and the battle has become much more visible. Historically anti-ethanol rhetoric has originated from the American Petroleum Association (API) and associated “Big oil” companies but
April 07, 2010 Read Full Article
As E15 Receives the Full Court Press from Ethanol Lobbies, E85 Languishes
by Jim Lane (Biofuels Digest) There is hardly an organization in the world that has done more of the heavy lifting and hard work for ethanol than Growth Energy, but it takes a fair bit of effort to find the
April 07, 2010 Read Full Article
High Schoolers win Gold for Vehicle that Gets 345 mpg Using Ethanol
by Megan Peterson (WEAU.com) A group of Durand High School (Wisconsin) students made the trip to Texas this past weekend to compete in a national competition to see who can build the most fuel efficient vehicle. The team ended up bringing
April 06, 2010 Read Full Article
New Fuel Economy Standards May Benefit Ethanol
by Joanna Schroeder (DomesticFuel.com) ...The easiest way to gain the improved fuel economy is through “engine downsizing,” in other words, using smaller engines. But the new smaller engine technologies will not mean less power, like in the past. According to
April 02, 2010 Read Full Article
2011 Ford F-Series Super Duty Leads Heavy-Duty Trucks in Capability, Now Fuel Ecomomy and B20 or E85 Compatibility Too
The Ford F-Series Super Duty is the most powerful and fuel efficient for the 2011 model year, offering customers their choice of either gas or diesel engines ...B20 compatibility added for 2011 model year: The strict testing work also ensured the
February 25, 2010 Read Full Article
Aerospace Chief: Industry on Track to Deliver 'Greener' Aircraft
(EurActiv.com) Industry is on track to ensure "carbon-neutral growth" in the aviation sector from 2020, but strengthened European Union support for research and development (R&D) is vital to help manufacturers deliver the green technologies required, François Gayet, secretary-general of the
February 19, 2010 Read Full Article
Volvo Group Announces Academic Partnership with Pennsylvania State University
At the Renewable Energy Technology Conference & Exhibition (RETECH 2010) the Volvo Group announced its first academic partnership in North America. Penn State was chosen as part of Volvo’s Academic Partner Program, which was launched globally in 2009 for research
February 18, 2010 Read Full Article
Ricardo Consortium Aims to Meet the Engineering Challenge of Biofuels
Ricardo today announced the formation of a consortium that is open to automakers, Tier 1 suppliers, oil companies, additive manufacturers and government agencies, with the aim of evaluating the impact of biofuels on current and future light duty engine technologies. Concerns
February 18, 2010 Read Full Article
Improved Internal Combustion Engines: Zajac Motors
by Eric Weshoff (Greentechmedia) ...With a longer "residence time" and a constant temperature of 1425 degrees C, their split-cycle engine can make carbon fuels "virtually clean." The engine certainly emits CO2, although only half as much as conventional diesels. The
February 17, 2010 Read Full Article
Kirloskar Oil Engines Enters Binding MOU for Joint Venture Mass Production of Axial Vector Engines
Axial Vector Energy Corporation ("AVEC") announced today the signing of a binding MOU with Kirloskar Oil Engines (KOEL) to make ready for mass production of its multi fuel engines and the building of mass production lines for its engines in
February 15, 2010 Read Full Article
New Engine Technologies Could Give New Life (and Larger Markets) to Ethanol
by Robert Kozak (Advanced Biofuels USA) The use of E-85 (85% ethanol) fuel in “Flex-Fuel” vehicles has been limited by its 25 percent lower energy content than gasoline. When used in engines designed for only gasoline, this results in approximately
February 15, 2010 Read Full Article
National Biodiesel Board Drives into the New Decade With “Carbon-Neutral” Cars and Trucks
by Will Thurmond (Biofuels Digest) This evening I enjoyed a drive from Houston to Dallas and arrived at the National Biodiesel Board (NBB)’s 2010 event just in time for the auto-show. I’m a big auto enthusiast, and a fan of
February 10, 2010 Read Full Article
European Union Approves Patent on Cyclone Power Technologies' Green Engine
Cyclone's invention is a high-efficiency modern steam engine, known as a Schoell Cycle engine, capable of running on virtually any liquid or gaseous fuel, and creating far fewer noxious emissions than comparable internal combustion engines. Two of the many aspects
February 10, 2010 Read Full Article
Advanced Engine-Control System Reduces Biodiesel Fuel Consumption and Emissions
Researchers from Purdue University and Cummins Inc. have developed an advanced "closed-loop control" approach for preventing diesel engines from emitting greater amounts of smog-causing nitrogen oxides when running on biodiesel fuels. Operating truck engines on a blend of biodiesel and ordinary
February 09, 2010 Read Full Article
Ricardo Achieves Breakthrough Efficiency for Ethanol
[caption id="attachment_6062" align="alignright" width="300" caption="Kent Niederhofer, President of Ricardo, Inc., unveils highly fuel-efficient, low-emissions, flex-fuel engine at DC Auto Show"][/caption] Ricardo technology achieves breakthrough efficiency for ethanol-fuelled engines System surpasses gasoline efficiency, reaches near-diesel levels and reduces operational costs compared to current
January 29, 2010 Read Full Article
Ethanol Race Fuel - Why Ethanol? Because It Will Save You Money With No Performance Loss
By Rob Fisher, Forrest Jehlik (Circle Track) Shortly after the first installment of Circle Track's Project G.R.E.E.N. hit the newsstand it became apparent that the project had a multitude of different dimensions, all of which can positively impact the oval track
August 30, 2009 Read Full Article
Sneak Peak! Ford's "Bobcat" Dual Fuel Engine
by Mike Levine. A radical twin-fuel engine from Ford, code-named “Bobcat," that variably blends gasoline and ethanol on demand to realize diesel-like performance continues to make steady progress in its development, according to presentations made by the automaker to the
June 16, 2009 Read Full Article
Saab 9-3 BioPower Concept
(Left Lane) ...(T)he ground-breaking Saab 9-3 BioPower Hybrid Concept, which delivers zero fossil CO2 emissions, enhanced performance and a range of energy-saving features by combining the use of pure bioethanol fuel and electric power generation for the first time. As