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Feds Greenlight Funding Aid For Mileage-Maxing Three-Wheelers

This week, President Obama signed a bill that makes fuel-efficient three-wheeled vehicles eligible for supplemental development assistance through loans from the Department of Energy (DOE). Prior to its passage, only manufacturers of four-wheeled vehicles qualified for consideration to get a chunk of the $25 billion available under provisions of the Advanced Technology Vehicles Manufacturing Incentive Program (ATVMIP). Terms of this new legislation -- which specifically came in the form of an amendment authored by Representative Brian Bilbray (R-California) and Representative Adam Schiff (D-California) attached to a previously passed energy appropriations bill -- extend consideration to include all "fully enclosed vehicles that are capable of...
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New Coskata Plant Demonstrates Enhanced Biofuel Potential

Coskata, one of the leading producers of the next-generation of biofuels made from non-foodstock sources, has taken one more step towards bringing its vision of a sustainable "cellulosic" future to reality by opening its new Project Lighthouse facility outside of Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania. According to Bill Roe, president and CEO of Coskata, "This facility is demonstrating that our efficient, affordable and flexible conversion technology is ready for commercialization. The next step is to build full-scale facilities and begin licensing our technology to project developers, project financiers and strategic partners." One of those key strategic partners is General Motors, which is already receiving and evaluating biofuel from Project Lighthouse. GM,...
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California Mandates Cooler Cars to Fight Global Warming

It's not quite what you think. But the California Air Resources Board (CARB) has just passed the first legislation requiring solar-efficient glass to be used in all new cars sold in that state starting in 2012. Beyond literally keeping occupants cooler in the summer, the coincident reduction in the use of air conditioning will help improve average fuel economy and decrease the amount of greenhouse gas emissions. This new regulation will be enacted using a two-stage roll. From 2012-2015, all vehicle glass must be capable of rejecting at least 45 percent of the sun's total heat-producing energy, except for the windshield which will have a 50 percent rejection requirement. Starting in 2016, the numbers will rise to 60 percent all around. CARB data...
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V-Vehicle Company Will Build New American Green Car in Louisiana

If you've never heard of the V-Vehicle Company of San Diego, California, you are not alone. But if a bold plan backed by billionaire investor T. Boone Pickens and a group of venture capitalists headed by Ray Lane and John Doerr of Kleiner Perkins Caufield and Byers and Louisiana businessman James Davison comes off as planned, it could become one of the hottest players in the "new" auto game. The V-Vehicle brief calls for a new "high quality, environmentally friendly and fuel-efficient car for the U.S. market," that will be built at a former Delphi Lighting facility in Monroe, Louisiana. To create this potentially game-changing vehicle -- which is rumored to be a minicar powered by compressed natural gas (CNG) -- Pickens and Co have retained the...
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Obama Plan Paves Way for Unified Mileage/Emissions Standards

President Obama today presented a landmark proposal aimed at moving the country ahead on the road to a clean energy economy. Speaking in the White House Rose Garden and flanked by members of his administration and key auto executives, Obama offered a comprehensive approach that will significantly boost fuel economy numbers and resolve the ongoing legal wrangling that has long set automakers and the state of California at odds over supplemental greenhouse gas emissions issues. The president, who characterized the existing rules governing fuel economy as "inadequate, uncertain and in flux," called for the adoption of a new single-standard formula that will accelerate the CAFE (Corporate Average Fuel Economy) requirement to 35.5 mpg by 2016 -- four...
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