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- Fiat Unveils New Version of Uno Subcompact for Brazil
- Auto Industry Wants EPA to Delay Raising Ethanol Levels at the Pump
- United States’ First Electric Car Engineering Graduate Program to Start Up this Fall
- Electric Car Start-Up, Coda, Will Sell Cars With New Business Model
- Carbon Green Pushes into the Crowded Tire Recycling Field
| Fiat Unveils New Version of Uno Subcompact for Brazil Posted: 06 May 2010 12:45 PM PDT
Chrysler has been quiet. Too quiet, if you ask me. They are up to something over there at the Pentastar, collaborating with their Italian overlords on some car or concept that will blow us away. At least, I hope so. But Fiat has been anything but quiet. Their latest announcement lays the groundwork for bringing their old Uno back to life in Brazil with a brand new look. By bringing back the Uno name, does Fiat really think this tiny little car has what it takes to be number one? |
| Auto Industry Wants EPA to Delay Raising Ethanol Levels at the Pump Posted: 06 May 2010 11:01 AM PDT
For the better part of a year now, the auto industry has been pushing the Environmental Protection Agency to hold up on issuing a final ruling on whether or not higher blends of ethanol will be allowed at normal fuel pumps. As most of you are surely aware, the current blend limit allowed by EPA is 10% ethanol/90% gasoline (E10) — and even that has met with resistance, especially among small gas-powered equipment owners. In light of the potential problems, the Auto Industry has stated all along that it wants the EPA to conclusively prove a move to blends higher than E10 won’t harm existing cars. And now, armed with new data, the auto industry says that if the EPA goes ahead and approves E15 — as it is expected to within the next few weeks — that it is likely many cars will suffer damage to their emissions systems, fuel storage equipment, engines and computers. |
| United States’ First Electric Car Engineering Graduate Program to Start Up this Fall Posted: 06 May 2010 10:09 AM PDT
It’s a sign of the times that there is enough worldwide demand for electric car engineers that an institution of higher learning can establish a graduate program devoted to the subject. Although in the last few years programs have sprung up in the United States that offer certificates or minors concentrating on EV engineering, yesterday Wayne State University in Detroit approved what they’re billing as the nation’s first graduate program offering a masters in the subject. |
| Electric Car Start-Up, Coda, Will Sell Cars With New Business Model Posted: 06 May 2010 08:30 AM PDT
Electric cars have been around for over a century, without ever catching on with the general public. There are plenty of reasons for that; low oil prices, limited range, and the overall prevalence of petrol-powered cars. The business model behind selling cars of any kind, though, has not really changed. Dealerships bring cars into a showroom, customers come to the lot, pick out what they want, and drive it away… or order it and wait a week. But will that model work for electric cars? Probably. But that doesn’t mean the model couldn’t use some improving. Coda, the China-based electric car startup, plans to use a different business model for both its dealerships, and its car assembly. And it sounds like a pretty good plan. |
| Carbon Green Pushes into the Crowded Tire Recycling Field Posted: 06 May 2010 08:26 AM PDT
Carbon Green, Inc., a tire recycling company with administrative offices in Canada, is pushing into the tire recycling market with a rather intriguing entry: a tire recycling method based on pyrolysis. The company has been gearing up to process about 800,000 tires in the first year of operation for its new recycling plant in Cyprus. The ambitious plans include opening a string of facilities in North America and Europe by 2015, and eventually moving its headquarters from its current location in Slovakia to North America. The use of pyrolysis by Carbon Green comes as something of a surprise because pyrolysis has not been considered to be a commercially viable tire recycling method, at least not until now. However, Carbon Green claims that its newly patented process is unique, and it has a couple of advantages that would help it achieve bottom-line success. |
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