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- Fisker Karma PHEV To Make Public Driving Debut
- Still Eco-Joy-Riding – LexusLog :: Day 4
- Brazil Unveils Hydrogen Bus
- A Greener Road Trip: St. Louis Cardinals Taking the Train
- 2,000 Gallons of Ethanol Per Acre for 15 Cents Per Gallon — Made From Wood
| Fisker Karma PHEV To Make Public Driving Debut Posted: 24 Jul 2009 03:31 PM PDT
The Fisker Karma PHEV is a slightly different take on electric vehicles. The car is a full-size luxury sedan with seating for four. It has a 50 mile range on a full charge and uses a lithium-ion battery. This is enough miles for the average person to drive to and from work. It ultimately has a total range of 300 miles due to an on-board generator turned by a 260hp Ecotec engine. Two 101.5hp electric motors send enough traction through a single-speed differential to reach 60 mph in 6 seconds. It’s top speed reaches 125 mph so no highway worries here folks. Together, the engine and motors create the Q-Drive powertrain which is exclusive to all Fisker automobiles. This technology allows its cars to exceed 100 mph with a lower carbon output than any other hybrid. |
| Still Eco-Joy-Riding – LexusLog :: Day 4 Posted: 24 Jul 2009 03:30 PM PDT
On day 4, I was inspired to actually lift the hood (or bonnet, depending on what type of english you speak) to see if the engine was as new and space-age as the interior of the vehicle and to see what a 187 horsepowered hybrid engine looked like. |
| Posted: 24 Jul 2009 02:47 PM PDT
The bus uses a hybrid system that combines hydrogen cells with batteries. This strategy allows for increased fuel savings and lower energy use. The batteries can be used to store the energy generated by the cell during the periods when the vehicle is idle (for passenger boarding or at traffic lights, for instance), in addition to regenerating braking energy. The hydrogen fuel cell system – which generates 68kW - is specific for automotive use, making it less expensive. This is similar to how an electric car such as the Tesla, or a hybrid car such as the Volt works. |
| A Greener Road Trip: St. Louis Cardinals Taking the Train Posted: 24 Jul 2009 02:35 PM PDT
On Friday, the St. Louis Cardinals will travel via Amtrak train from Philadelphia to Washington, D.C.’s Union Station for a weekend series with the Washington Nationals. The railroad road-trip will be the first time in over forty years the Cardinals have traveled via train. Cardinals General Manager John Mozeliak told NPR that both he and the players were looking forward to the trip. “It’s very unusual for us, but it was something we looked into and it seemed to make a lot of sense,” said Mozeliak. “Plus it ends up shaving a significant amount of time off our travel.” The Cardinals will ride in three privatized train cars that will be added to the standard train for the one hour, forty-five minute journey. |
| 2,000 Gallons of Ethanol Per Acre for 15 Cents Per Gallon — Made From Wood Posted: 24 Jul 2009 10:11 AM PDT
ZeaChem — a company launched in 1998 by “two guys in a pickup” and ranked by Biofuels Digest as the 11th hottest company in bioenergy last year — claims that their process for making advanced, next-generation ethanol from fast growing woody crops such as poplars will result in a yield of 2,000 gallons of ethanol per acre. In case you’re wondering if that number is good, compare it to the current yield obtained by the best managed corn ethanol plants of about 450 gallons per acre. A 2,000 gallon per acre yield is on par with the amount of fuel algae outfits claim they can produce with technology that doesn’t really yet exist. ZeaChem’s process already functions using available technology. |
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