China Aims To Ignite Green Car Market

July 18, 2012 :: Posted by - admin :: Category - Green Cars

The government of China is planning to pump and move in the subsidies and investments to boost China’s industry in green cars. China just did this so as to make itself even more sustainable and even more competitive in the field of green car industry. In account to this, China aims to sell over twenty million units by the year 2020. 
The State Council has presented this moth the blue print of generous subsidies to both green car producers and consumers. The imposition of such types of vehicles in this country aims to curb it over reliance on the use of imported oil.
In the same way, China has carefully plotted the sales of green cars in the country to reduce emissions and imprints of carbon in the environment. This also aims to speed up China’s restructuring in the auto sector to come up with environmentally sustainable models.
It was also added in the report that different core technologies in the country will take their toll investing on the said project of the China government. All of these will work altogether to build a stronger and more globally competitive industry for green cars.
It was reported recently that in a short-term period, China will focus in the production and designing of vehicles that make use of plug-in and electric hybrid vehicles along with the wider range of vehicles that come with engines that combust fuel in an energy-saving mode.
As a matter of fact, China authorities have planned to bring out and sell over five hundred thousand green vehicles by the year 2015. This is expected to increase ten times because the target green cars to be sold until 2020 is going to be a staggering five million units.
By the year 2020, the China government targets to come up with a production of two million plug-in and electric hybrid vehicles every year. This is going to be a very massive production of green cars for a single country, indeed and China is the only country with this kind of target.
China believes that with the use of such vehicles, consumers will be able to reduce fuel consumption by 6.9L for every one hundred kilometers by the year 2015. As for the energy-efficient vehicles, consumers are expected to reduce their consumption by 5.9L. By 2020, the target fuel consumption is going to be 5L for the passenger vehicles and 4.5L for cars, which are considered as energy-efficient.

The Volvo Builds-up the ‘Green’ C30 Racer

July 04, 2012 :: Posted by - admin :: Category - Green Cars

According to testing, the C30 fairs as a more advantageous racing car compared to the S60 and with C30 consistently proving Volvo’s commitment to promoting environmentally friendly technology and with the 1.6D efficiency as well as the promotion of Flexifuel, the response has been phenomenal. The Volvo 1.6D Efficiency has moderate fuel consumption with low CO2 emission rate.
In a statement made by Crabb, he expressed Volvo’s hopes of creating a winning car for this year’s Green Race and their excitement to develop a new race car that is part of their collaboration with Polestar Racing. Crabb hopes that the new race car model will continue to reinforce their stellar performance in the STCC, a record that has been held with high esteem by Volvo executives. Crabb did not provide any new details about the make and specifications of the new green racer and proceeded by saying that Volvo will release more information about the new car when it is ready.
The development of faster and more fuel efficient cars equipped with Green technology marks the new direction for many car manufacturers. Although most of green developments are used in racing for now, innovative technological changes in the way engines emit harmful gasses are slowly making their way into mainstream automotive production.

The Volvo Builds-up the ‘Green’ C30 Racer

July 04, 2012 :: Posted by - admin :: Category - Green Cars

The very known Volvo, a leading proponent in earth friendly automotive technology is set to create an innovative stake on race cars, which is based off the revolutionary C30 while continuing its development efforts with bioethanol and the green racing initiative. It is set to showcase their new model in the incoming STCC (the Swedish Touring Car Championship). Volvo Car Corporation has pledged its resources to a 3-year deal for C30.
Volvo representatives claim that the decision to go with a sleeker and faster car for this year’s green racing was quite easy. In house testing had shown that the C30 fared much better, even on standard prototypes compared to the previously developed S60 and was the driving force behind the decision to switch cars.
According to head of Powertrain at Volvo, Derek Crab, it was relatively easy to make the decision to change the race car for this year. The choice was based on excellent results from the STCC season and what it meant as a positive force on the Volvo brand. Derek in a recent appointment has been tasked to take charge of Volvo’s racing Department.