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Detroit Electric goes Dutch with Europe Electric cars and Proton

After showing practically no signs of life since being revived in a joint venture between Zap! and Youngman Automotive Group last February and officially striking out on its own less than a week ago, Detroit Electric has emerged, in Malaysia, as a Dutch company with $300 million in backing and a fleet of prototypes. Say what? We had a hint of this earlier but this seems to make it all official. The company, reportedly majority owned by CEO Albert Lam (Lam joined Zap! management late last year) has investors from America, Holland and Malaysia ... Read more →

Proton looking to offer a hybrid in 2 to 3 years Jeremy Korzeniewski

Proton, the Malaysian state-owned automaker which also owns Lotus, is currently working on a hybrid vehicle which it hopes to bring to market in two to three years. Prime Minister Abdullah Ahmad ...

Detroit Electric to aid Proton get powered by electrons Domenick Yoney

The Malaysian government has given the green light to national car maker Proton to begin "in-depth validation and testing" of electric cars. The announcement came after the Cabinet Committee on ...

Dubai makes big biodiesel investment in Malaysia Sebastian Blanco

Photo by Soylentgreen23. Licensed under Creative Commons license 2.0. As we noted when Dubai announced a test of GM Hybrids for taxi and limo service, just because the Emirate has a lot of oil ...

More palm-oil biodiesel plants popping up in Asia Dane Muldoon

Indonesian corporation Sinar Mas Group is planning to build two massive new palm-oil biodiesel plants for fuel export to Europe and the U.S. The first of the two is to be built on the Indonesian ...

Africa to become the world's biodiesel supplier? 2 years ago on Autoblog Green

Crude palm oil (CPO), used extensively as a biodiesel feedstock in South East Asia, has seen its popularity go through the roof over the last few years as Europe's mandatory biodiesel targets have seen global demand boom. Despite the environmental concerns over large scale rainforest destruction to ...

Palm oil production and prices soar on back of biodiesel 2 years ago on Autoblog Green

The price of palm oil, which has gained favour over the last few years as a cheap biodiesel feedstock, is soaring. Another relatively new use of palm oil is as a trans-fat substitute for use in processed food. But the oil palm, grown mainly in Malaysia and Indonesia, is not well liked - it has been ...

South East Asia expanding biodiesel feedstock production 2 years ago on Autoblog Green

While rapeseed/canola continues to be the main biodiesel feedstock in Europe, and soy dominates U.S. biodiesel production, a host of other plants are moving biodiesel forward in other parts of the world. In the Philippines, the Biofuel Act is about to pass into law mandating the immediate use of ...

Shell and Malaysian Palm Oil Board in Joint Research on Straight Palm Oil Blending with Diesel 3 years ago on Autoblog Green

Many different types oils have been proposed for use as fuels in diesel engines. Fortunately one of the inherent advantages of diesel engines is that they can run on a wide variety of liquid fuels. That flexibility means that many different feed stocks that can grow in different climates and in ...

Proton Savvy gets 55.76 mpg in Malaysian economy run 3 years ago on Autoblog Green

A Proton Savvy used just 1.66 tanks of gas to cover a little over 1,000 miles in a journey across . That run set a national fuel economy record for a standard showroom vehicle above 1,000cc. The vehicle recorded fuel economy of 4.218 liter per 100km, which equates to 55.76mpg. The Savvy is powered ...

Malaysia spends big on 20 biodiesel projects 3 years ago on Autoblog Green

The government of Malaysia approved 1.9 billion ringgits (if my calculation is correct, that's about 526 million USD) towards 20 biodiesel projects, and 64 percent of those were domestic projects, according to today's Business Times out of Malaysia. The announcement came as the PetrolWorld Asia ...

Forest conservation beats fuel conservation 3 years ago on Autoblog Green

While the U.S. has a corn surplus, countries like Malaysia do not necessarily have sufficient production capacity for the commodities needed for biofuel production. While NGO's and Foreign Environmental activists have claimed that Malaysia has cleared its forest cover to plant oil palm, the ...


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