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DuPont Collaborates with Automakers to Meet Ambitious Fuel Economy Standards

The U.S. Department of Transportation and the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency have proposed to set higher greenhouse gas pollution and fuel economy standards for the vehicles to be produced in 2017-2025. Fuel economy standards of 54.5 mpg have been proposed for vehicles such as trucks and cars.

17 Nov 2011

New Test Facility Evaluates Performance of Conventional and Solar Air Conditioning Systems

CSIRO engineers have designed and commissioned a new, state-of-the-art air conditioner test facility to evaluate the electrical, cooling and heating performance of conventional and solar-powered systems.

15 Nov 2011

New Street Lighting System for Conserving Energy consumption

In 2009, Navarre, Spain, the ACR Grupo, Tecnalia and Eguzkitan joined forces to create LUIX, the company that currently markets intelligent public illumination systems that saves 80% of the energy earlier consumed by such systems.

15 Nov 2011

Airtel Upgrades its Base Stations in Nigeria with Flexenclosure’s Power Management Solution

Bharti Airtel, an international telecommunications company, has inked a deal with Ericsson, a leading provider of mobile telecommunications equipment, to use Flexenclosure’s green energy solution called E-site for upgrading an initial lot of 250 base stations powered by diesel in Nigeria.

14 Nov 2011

Interfora Buildings Achieve Energy Efficiency Using Arkema’s Sunlight Reflective Coating

Interfora, an established France-based training institute in the chemical industry, has applied a Kynar Aquatec resin-based white coating on its roofs spanning 900 sq m, as part of the construction of new buildings and renewal of existing ones.

14 Nov 2011

IKEA Installs Four Electric Vehicle Charging Stations in its Carson Store

US-based home furnishings retailer has formally plugged-in four Blink Pedestal charging stations for electric vehicles at its Carson, California branch in partnership with ECOtality, who is a green electric transportation and storage technology expert.

14 Nov 2011

Collaborative Research Center to Address Energy Efficiency Problems in Data Centers

Led by scientists at Binghamton University and its collaborators, the University of Texas at Arlington and Villanova University, have partnered with 15 US-based firms to establish a collaborative research center to combine the fields of cooling systems, electronic devices, telecommunications and information technology to address energy efficiency problems in data centers.

10 Nov 2011

DuPont Automotive Focuses on Plastics, Composites for Fuel Efficiency of Electric Vehicles

Mike Day, the North America Development Director of DuPont Automotive, will discuss about how composites and plastics can enable the industry to support economic fuel usage without any power compromise at the “Plastics in Lightweight & Electric Vehicles 2011”conference organized by Plastics News on November 9 in Livonia, Michigan.

5 Nov 2011

Hong Kong Government Switches to Brammo Electric Motor Cycles

Brammo, an electric motorcycle manufaturer has declared that the Government of Hong Kong has chosen its Brammo electric motorcycles to substitute the traditional petrol driven motorcycles used in government fleet.

2 Nov 2011

Fraunhofer Institute Researchers to Introduce Eco-friendly EV Charging Facilities in Germany

The growing number of road side electric vehicle charging facilities in Germany, which presently sport steel or aluminum -clad pillars and housing will soon be constructed using eco-friendly materials.

1 Nov 2011