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Johnson Controls Launches High-Technology Laboratory to Create Lithium-ion Batteries for Future Hybrid Vehicles

Johnson Controls Launches High-Technology Laboratory to Create Lithium-ion Batteries for Future Hybrid Vehicles

World's Top Producer of Automotive Batteries - Drives Technology to Create Tomorrow's HEV Battery Solutions MILWAUKEE, Sept. 28 -- Johnson Controls today launched an advanced lithium-ion battery development laboratory in Milwaukee, to create advanced power-storage solutions for near-future, hybrid-electric vehicles (HE ... Continue reading

Ford Offers Technology & Tips to Help Conserve Fuel

Ford Offers Technology & Tips to Help Conserve Fuel

DEARBORN, Mich., Sept. 28 -- From technical innovations in a variety of products to simple ideas that help customers conserve fuel and help the environment, Ford Motor Company continues to seek ways to help reduce fuel consumption. That need for conservation was made even more urgent this week when President Bush urged ... Continue reading

PowerModule(TM) Electronic Converters to Be Utilized in Fuel Cell System for Hybrid Electric Bus

PowerModule(TM) Electronic Converters to Be Utilized in Fuel Cell System for Hybrid Electric Bus

Power converters to efficiently manage power for bus's electric drive system. WESTBOROUGH, Mass., Sept. 28 -- American Superconductor Corporation , a leading electricity solutions company, today announced that it has received an order from Hydrogenics Corporation, a global fuel cell developer and manufacturer. The orde ... Continue reading

Green Car Journal Brings Advanced Vehicles to Environmental Journalists

Green Car Journal Brings Advanced Vehicles to Environmental Journalists

AUSTIN, Texas, Sept. 28 -- At the annual conference of the Society of Environmental Journalists opening today in Austin, Texas, the mission is to network and learn how to improve the quality and accuracy of environmental reporting. Complementing this is the mission of Green Car Journal, which seeks to encourage underst ... Continue reading

UQM Hybrid Electric Propulsion System on U.S. Army Future Heavy Truck Demonstrator

UQM Hybrid Electric Propulsion System on U.S. Army Future Heavy Truck Demonstrator

FREDERICK, Colo., Sept. 27 -- UQM TECHNOLOGIES, INC. (AMEX:UQM) , a developer of alternative energy technologies, announced today that it has been selected by Stewart & Stevenson Services, Inc. to provide a UQM(R) hybrid electric propulsion system for use on a U.S. Army future heavy truck demonstrator. The custom UQM(R ... Continue reading

Bill Ford Remarks On Innovation

Bill Ford Remarks On Innovation

<i>Editors Mote: Earlier this week Bill Ford Chair of the Ford Motor Company discusseed his vision of Ford'd future. Here is the complete speech.</i><p> Dearborn, Michigan<br> September 21, 2005<p> Thank you, Gerhardt. Good morning, everyone. I want to welcome the people here in the room and everyone watching on our FC ... Continue reading

3rd Annual AltWheels Alternative Transportation Festival Draws 4,000

3rd Annual AltWheels Alternative Transportation Festival Draws 4,000

FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE Contact: Janice Halpern, classic.pr@verizon.net, 508-698-6810 3rd Annual AltWheels Alternative Transportation Festival Draws 4,000 Brookline, MA-September 23, 2005-With high gas prices and dramatic weather systems leading the news, the AltWheels Alternative Transportation Festival introduced a rec ... Continue reading

The Answer? Engineuity Presents a Breakthrough in Alternative Fuel - Bye Bye Oil?

The Answer? Engineuity Presents a Breakthrough in Alternative Fuel - Bye Bye Oil?

ASHKELON, Israel, September 22 -- Engineuity R&D Ltd has developed a unique technology for hydrogen production on board vehicles. The technology overcomes all obstacles presently associated with hydrogen. Concerns regarding safety, fuel distribution and storage are irrelevant since the hydrogen is produced onboard as i ... Continue reading

UQM Technologies Receives IQ Award Honoring Innovation for Its Hybrid Electric Starter/Motor/Generator

UQM Technologies Receives IQ Award Honoring Innovation for Its Hybrid Electric Starter/Motor/Generator

FREDERICK, Colo., Sept. 15 -- UQM TECHNOLOGIES, INC. (AMEX:UQM) , a developer of alternative energy technologies, announced today that it has received the 2005 IQ Award in transportation for its hybrid electric starter/motor/generator product. The IQ or Innovation Quotient Awards, honor innovative Northern Colorado com ... Continue reading

Purolator Courier Ltd.(Canada) Orders 115 Azure Hybrid Electric Vehicles

Purolator Courier Ltd.(Canada) Orders 115 Azure Hybrid Electric Vehicles

TORONTO, Canada, September 15 -- Azure Dynamics Corporation (TSX: AZD) (LSE: ADC) ("Azure Dynamics" or the "Company") a leading developer of hybrid electric and electric powertrains for commercial and military vehicles is pleased to announce that Purolator Courier Ltd. ("Purolator"), Canada's largest courier company , ... Continue reading

Event - Beat High Gas Prices at AltWheels Alternative Transportation Festival, Sept 17-18

Event - Beat High Gas Prices at AltWheels Alternative Transportation Festival, Sept 17-18

Calendar/Event Listing Date of Event: Saturday & Sunday, September 17-18, 2005 Calendar Editor: Please include in your calendar listing of local events. Please direct media inquiries to: Janice Halpern, classic.pr@verizon.net, (508) 698-6810. AltWheels Alternative Transportation Festival, September 17 - 18, 2005 Lookin ... Continue reading

Subaru Announces Development of Turbo Parallel Hybrid and Lithium-Ion Capacitor Technologies

Subaru Announces Development of Turbo Parallel Hybrid and Lithium-Ion Capacitor Technologies

-- Company continues 'green' efforts to help safeguard the environment -- CHERRY HILL, N.J., Sept. 7 -- Subaru of America, Inc. today announced that its parent company Fuji Heavy Industries, Ltd. (FHI) is developing new technology for future more environmentally friendly vehicles: the Turbo Parallel Hybrid (TPH) and Li ... Continue reading

Hyundai Kia Automotive Group opens Environmental Technology R&D Center

Hyundai Kia Automotive Group opens Environmental Technology R&D Center

News FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE CONTACT: Michael Choo ( <mailto:cdore@kia.co.kr> mjc@kia.co.kr), International Communications Manager, Kia Motors Corporation, Tel: +82-2- 3464-6574, Fax: +82-2-3464-6845 Hyundai Kia Automotive Group opens Environmental Technology R&D Center - US$58 million facility integrates research into f ... Continue reading

DOE Approves Amerigon's BSST to Move to Phase 2 on Project to Convert Waste Auto Engine Heat to Electrical Power

DOE Approves Amerigon's BSST to Move to Phase 2 on Project to Convert Waste Auto Engine Heat to Electrical Power

System to Use Amerigon's Advanced, Proprietary Thermoelectric Devices to Create New Source of Renewable Energy, Improve Fuel Economy, Reduce Environmental Pollutants DEARBORN, Mich., Sept. 6 -- Amerigon Incorporated today announced that the U.S. Department of Energy (DOE) has authorized the Company's wholly-owned subsi ... Continue reading

Tokyo Electric, Fuji Heavy to develop electric vehicle

Tokyo Electric, Fuji Heavy to develop electric vehicle

TOKYO September 3, 2005: Tokyo Electric Power Co and Fuji Heavy Industries Ltd said Friday they will jointly develop an environmentally friendly electric vehicle based on Fuji Heavy's "Subaru R1e" prototype EV. Tokyo Electric intends to use the planned vehicle for marketing, bill collection and other work. The R1e runs ... Continue reading

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