All About Alternate Fuel Vehicles (AFV)

Albany, February 28, 2008
Source: WalbNews
http://www.walb.com/Global/story.asp?S=7944178&nav=5kZQ

The price of gasoline hit another all-time high Thursday in Georgia. Like most drivers, Emma Greene is feeling the pinch.  She says, “Previous trips, before the gas went up, it was affordable. But now I’ve got think twice before I make the trip.”  And she worries the prices are only going to go higher. “I understand by the summer it’s going to be up to $4.00 a gallon. I think we’re going to feel this every time we go out to buy something,” says Greene.

But there may be some good news on the horizon; even though it may take some time before it has a major effect on the majority of consumers. It’s called E85 - a fuel that’s 85% ethanol and 15% gasoline.
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By Pat Sherman,November 16, 2007
Source: SignsonSanDiego.com
http://www.signonsandiego.com/news/northcounty/20071116-9999-lz1mi16green.html

For North County residents hoping to rack up green mileage, the demand for alternative fuels surpasses the supply. Finding the stuff can be difficult.  Oceanside businessman Bill Cox owns a branch of 1-800-Got-Junk, which hauls trash from homes and businesses to a landfill or recycling center. When the Vancouver-based company invited its franchise owners to operate one of their trucks on biodiesel for a six-month test, Cox jumped at the chance.
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By Xuefei Chen, People’s Daily Online correspondent in Stockholm /November 13, 2007
Source: People’s Daily Online
http://english.people.com.cn/90001/90781/90879/6301828.html

To produce green cars is a fashion nowsdays, says Fredrik Wiss from Swedish Volkswagen Company at the just concluded three day Clean Vehicles and Fuels European Symposium and Exhibition 2007.  Wiss said two years ago when the first time the clean vehicles and fuels exhibition was held in Stockholm, there were only specialists and experts attending the exhibition, but this year, there are many ordinary people coming here to ask about a green car which uses biogas or ethanol.
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Marina Sarruf/ANBA */Translated by Mark Ament
Sao Paulo, Oct 24, 2007
Source: Brazil-Arab News Agency ANBA
http://www.anba.com.br/ingles/noticia.php?id=16308
Yesterday (23), Sao Paulo became the first city on the continent to have the vehicle launched. The objective of the project, executed by the University of São Paulo, is to reduce the emission of polluting gases, providing incentives to the use of alcohol instead of diesel in public transportation.
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St. Louis, Missouri, Oct 9, 2007
Source: Associated press / ColumbiaMissourian.com
http://www.columbiamissourian.com/stories/2007/10/09/
state-might-be-spending-more-money-flex-fuel-vehic/

The state has bought hundreds of flex-fuel vehicles capable of running on ethanol over the past few years, but that may be costing taxpayers thousands of dollars in fuel costs because of these vehicles’ lower gas mileage, the St. Louis Post-Dispatch reported Tuesday.  Flex-fuel vehicles can run on either regular gasoline or an 85 percent blend of ethanol, which typically is generated from corn.
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IRVINE, Calif., Oct. 22, 2007
Source: Quantum Fuel System Technologies /press release
http://www.qtww.com/files/qtww_press/

Quantum Fuel Systems Technologies Worldwide, Inc. today announced that it received an order for six hydrogen hybrid vehicles for the U.S. Army’s Tank Automotive Research, Development and Engineering Center (TARDEC). The contract will be administered by Aerospace Engineering Spectrum (AES), based in Ogden, Utah.
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Source: IndyStar.com /Oct 10, 2007
http://www.indystar.com/apps/pbcs.dll/article?AID=/20071009/
BUSINESS/71009078/-1/topstoriesrecache

Racing against competition to offer a better battery for hybrid vehicles, EnerDel said it has developed a lithium-ion battery that is smaller, more powerful and longer-lasting than the batteries now in use. EnerDel officials say the company’s new lithium ion battery runs cooler and can be punctured without exploding. It’s a “major milestone. We are close to bringing this to the market,” said EnerDel’s Chief Executive Ulrik Grape on Tuesday.

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More Than 100 Petroleum- and Emissions-Free Vehicles to Go to California, New York and Washington D.C.
Los Angeles, New York, 17 Oct 2007
Source: FuelCellWorks
http://www.fuelcellsworks.com/Supppage7989.html

Chevrolet fuel cell electric vehicles will be seen on the streets and driveways of Los Angeles, New York City and Washington D.C., beginning today, in the largest market test ever of its kind.  Customers in suburban Los Angeles, New York City and Washington, D.C. will begin driving more than 100 Chevrolet Equinox Fuel Cell electric vehicles as part of a comprehensive deployment plan dubbed “Project Driveway.” It constitutes the first large-scale market test of fuel cell electric vehicles anywhere.
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By Edie Hall, The Hutchinson News
http://www.hutchnews.com/news/regional/stories/Ethanol061707.shtml

Several ethanol plants operate around the Hutchinson area.  A major gas station chain is headquartered here.  Carriers of E85, a blend of 85 percent ethanol and 15 percent gas, are eligible for a 40 percent state income tax credit on top of the 30 percent federal tax credit.  And sales for flexible-fuel vehicles, which can be gassed up with the blend, are on the rise, creating at least the potential for an increased demand for the fuel. So, how many gas stations in this town carry E85?
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The Daily Auto Insider,  May 7, 2007
Source: Car and Driver.com
http://www.caranddriver.com/dailyautoinsider/12951/

General Motors, Ford and Chrysler Group promise to increase production of vehicles that can run on either gasoline or ethanol blends, the Associated Press reported.  The Detroit automakers produced about 6 million flex-fuel vehicles since the mid-1990s but have pledged to double production to about 2 million a year by 2010—20% of their expected production, the story said. (more…)