by Sebastian Blanco on March 11, 2010
Filed under: EV/Plug-in, Hybrid, Chevrolet
Chevy Volt suspension testing - Click above to watch the video after the jump
Right now, no amount of baksheesh will get you behind the wheel of the
Chevrolet Volt. Still, some people are getting paid to do exactly that. Oh, and they're having a lot of fun doing it, too, from the looks of a new video from
Chevrolet VoltAge. The people we're talking about are GM employees like Murray Butler IV, who appears in the new video talking about his job testing the Volt's suspension on GM's test track at the Milford Proving Ground, specifically the Seven Sisters series of turns.
No matter what sort of bad news is happening to GM, it appears that driving fast(ish) in a new car never gets old. Butler says his job is, "like Disneyland" and that he can't believe he's drawing a check for what he does. OK, Butler is only going about 25-35 miles per hour over these turns, but we imagine that, once the early rounds of durability tests is completed, he'll get to go a bit faster than that. Watch the video
after the jump.
[Source:
Chevrolet VoltAge]
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by Jeremy Korzeniewski on March 11, 2010
Filed under: Diesel, Chrysler, Dodge
During last summer's bankruptcy proceedings, New
Chrysler chose not to pick up the contract it had previously entered with Cummins to procure light-duty diesel engines for its line of
Ram pickup trucks. At a
rumored 5.0 liters, this powerplant would be somewhat less powerful but likely less expensive and more fuel efficient than Dodge's larger 6.7-liter inline six diesel, also supplied by Cummins.
Now, though, our friends from PickupTrucks.com are reporting that
Dodge may be back in the light-duty diesel game. Joe Veltri, Chrysler vice president of product planning, reportedly said at the NTEA Work Truck Show, "We're in discussions with Cummins. There's no contract [with Cummins] but [a light-duty diesel] is in our plan."
As an aside, it seems as if the so-called light duty engine could find its way into the engine bays of the
Heavy Duty 2500 and 3500 Ram trucks in addition to the expected 1500. "Does every guy need a 6.7-liter diesel? It could certainly package in a heavy duty," Veltri said.
[Source:
PickupTrucks.com]
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by Sebastian Blanco on March 11, 2010
Filed under: Ethanol, Manufacturing/Plants
Ethanol company
Poet (formerly Broin) today announced something called
Ingreenuity, a "new initiative to enhance the environmental performance of ethanol." The first step in the process is to decrease the amount of water it takes to make the biofuel down to
2.33 gallons per gallon of ethanol, a 22 percent reduction compared to today's water usage rates. Instituting this reduction, called the Total Water Recovery process, is expected to take five years.
The main way Poet plans on reducing the amount of water used is by recycling cooling water instead of discharging it. Since it started making ethanol in 1988, Poet claims to have reduced the amount of water needed by 80 percent. Future steps in Ingreenuity are greenhouse gas reductions and the development of bio-based products.
Of course, Poet is not the only ethanol producer out there trying to limit the amount of water it takes to process feedstock into fuel. Coskata, for example, says that its cellulosic ethanol process requires
less than a gallon of water for each gallon of ethanol it makes. Poet says it is willing to share its water reduction technology with other ethanol companies.
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