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Continental nominated for PACE Award for smart NOx sensor 1 month ago on Autoblog Green

Continental has developed a smart NOx sensor to help manage automotive emissions and Automotive News has recognized it with a nomination for its annual PACE awards. As more and more sensors are added to cars, suppliers are trying to drive down the cost by increasing the level of integration. ...

Ford adds wheat straw plastic to a small corner of the 2010 Flex 1 month ago on Autoblog Green

Soy seats aren't Ford's only way to introduce as many bio-materials as possible into a production vehicle. See also: Mazda's biofabric and Toyota's "ecological plastics." Ford announced today that a new wheat straw-reinforced plastic will be used in the 2010 Flex. You'll have to kind of hunt ...

Project Sartre uses road trains to save fuel on the highway 1 month ago on Autoblog Green

Do you get bored when driving along the interstate? Ever wish you could just pull out your laptop and check Facebook on a long straightaway? If a EU-funded project called Sartre ever becomes a reality, you could. Sartre is a sort of drafting software that would use wireless controls to group up ...

Bio-plastics could almost completely replace petroleum plastics 1 month ago on Autoblog Green

Aside from fuels, one of the biggest uses of petroleum is in the production of polymer materials like plastics. Just as automakers have attempted to reduce the use of petroleum-based fuels, researchers are also working on reducing the other dino juice applications. One of the best known ...

It's Friday: Swedish automatic PHEV charging prod gets a big WTF? from us [w/VIDEO] 1 month ago on Autoblog Green

Is it too harsh to say that the Trinnovator is a solution without a problem? At the very least, we don't think that a flexible, extendable prod coming out of the front bumper of a plug-in car and creepily finding its way into a grid of receptacles is the best way to recharge a vehicle. This is ...

LA Auto Show Design Challenge entrants reveal Youthmobile 2030 designs 1 month ago on Autoblog Green

This year's iteration of the annual Design Challenge at the LA Auto Show asks the question: How will a new generation of drivers age 16-23 – raised with cell phones, web cams and online communities – emotionally connect to the automobile in 2030? We don't know the answer either, but ...

Rendered racing fantasy: 1-Liter Racing surfs to the future 1 month ago on Autoblog Green

We recently saw a rendering for the purely-speculative Audi Avatar, which was based on the outlandish vehicles seen in some futuristic racing video games. A new set of renderings takes the unreal racing game concept a bit further and imagines an entire league that uses hyper-efficient racing ...

Turn those blister packs into fuel with the Envion oil generator 1 month ago on Autoblog Green

It's no secret that we generate a phenomenal amount of garbage, especially here in the United States, and a lot of that trash consists of plastics. Plastics hit us in a number of ways. Most plastics are are produced, at least in part, from petroleum and the plastics don't decompose when put it in ...

STUDY: Lots of local, green electricity possible for most of the U.S. 1 month ago on Autoblog Green

One of the reasons that a vehicle powered by something other than gasoline is such a popular idea in the U.S. is that it helps us become less reliant on other countries for our transportation needs. To this end, biofuels and electric vehicles offer great potential to use local sources of energy ...

GM awarded DOE money to research Shape Memory Alloy heat engines 1 month ago on Autoblog Green

General Motors has been awarded $2.7 million by the Department of Energy to create a working prototype engine using Shape Memory Alloys (SMA). The idea is for the prototype to use SMA tech to capture heat energy from engine exhaust gasses via an electric generator and transfer that energy to ...

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