Filed under: Uncategorized | Tags: Chen Cheng-liang, e-bikes, ebikes, electric bicycles, electric vehicles, Taiwan, transportation
The annual competition has brought forth the latest trends of the industry and has also shown what the bikes of the future might become, the center said recently.
“There has been an obvious growth of popularity in electric bikes,” a spokeswoman of the center said, adding that six of the 19 finalists used such products.
Apart from a smaller motor system, how the battery is concealed in an aesthetic way is also crucial, she added.
The “Velocity,” an urban bike designed by Chen Cheng-liang of Taiwan, for example, has a hidden and detachable power assistance system inside the frame.
via Light electric vehicles, urban bikes foci of design competition | Eco-Business.com.
Filed under: Uncategorized | Tags: Chevrolet, Chevy Volt, Detroit, Detroit-Hamtramck Assembly, General Motors, GM, Hamtramck, Malibu, Volt
And start Malibu production…
The 3.6 million-square-foot Detroit Hamtramck plant, opened in 1985, operates four days a week, 10 hours a day, on one shift employing 1,200 hourly and 130 salaried workers.
GM confirmed it also might extend the summer shutdown there, a move first reported by Ward’s Auto.
Chevy is preparing to launch production of the 2013 Malibu this summer at Detroit-Hamtramck Assembly.
Volt sales bounced up last month, from 603 in January to 1,023 in February. It outsold Nissan’s electric Leaf for the month. The Volt’s best sales month was December, when 1,529 cars were sold.
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GM sold about 7,700 Volts in 2011, below its target of 10,000. GM last month abandoned its sales target of 45,000 for 2012, saying it would match “supply to demand.”
via GM to suspend Volt production | The Detroit News | detroitnews.com.
Filed under: Uncategorized | Tags: Azerbaijan, Brazil, Canada, depletion, North Sea, Norway, OECD, Oh Heck, oil supply, OPEC, peak oil, Reguly, Saudi Arabia
Like this Eric Reguly character of the Globe and Mail:
Why hasn’t the high price triggered a production surge? The biggie, it seems, is that the non-OPEC countries are simply not up to the job. As Barclays points out, non-OPEC supply last year landed at a full one million barrels a day less than forecast by the International Energy Agency. The North Sea (whose production is shared by Britain and Norway) continued its terminal decline. Brazil and Azerbaijan were also the scenes of production disappointments.
Meanwhile, OPEC, dominated by Saudi Arabia, is sweating exceedingly hard. OPEC production volumes are at three-year highs, to the point that the cartel has only about 1.6 million barrels a day of spare capacity, and still prices are climbing.
via CTV News | All the signs point to a falling oil price – except supply.
Filed under: Uncategorized | Tags: bicycle commuting, bicycle transportation, bicycling, bike, bike commuting, bike path, bikeways, biking, Boulder, commuter bikeway, Denver-Boulder, MUP, transportation, US 36
Which is awesome.
The first phase of the project — from Federal to 88th Street — includes:
• Adding an express lane in each direction of U.S. 36, where bus rapid transit and high-occupancy vehicles can travel, free of charge. Solo drivers also will be able to use the express lane by paying a toll, the cost of which will vary by the time of day.
• Reconstructing existing pavement on U.S. 36 and widening the highway to accommodate 12-foot inside and outside shoulders.
• Replacing the Wadsworth Parkway, Wadsworth Boulevard (at West 112th Avenue) and Lowell Boulevard bridges over U.S. 36.
• Installing a separate commuter bikeway along much of the corridor.
via U.S. 36 from Boulder to Denver to get $311 million in improvements – The Denver Post.
Filed under: Uncategorized | Tags: albatross, cash for clunkers, energy, February 2012 SAAR, light vehicle sales, oil consumption, peak oil, SAAR, transportation
via Rortybomb (who took the chart from Calculated Risk). MK is very excited about the auto numbers that came out today.
http://rortybomb.wordpress.com/2012/03/01/auto-sales-surpass-cash-for-clunkers-month/
Filed under: Uncategorized | Tags: energy, Iran, Iran oil exports, Iran oil production, Iran oil trade, Iran sanctions, Pakistan, petroleum, sanctions
First one’s free. Yeah.. If you like it, you know where to find me. Tell your friends.
“It is only an initial offer of 80,000 barrels on deferred payment at the moment,” Irfan Qazi, a spokesman for Pakistan’s Ministry of Petroleum and Natural Resources, told Reuters.
via Iran offers Pakistan 80,000 bpd of oil – official | Reuters.
Filed under: Uncategorized | Tags: census, durable goods, durable goods orders, economy, january 2012
http://www.census.gov/manufacturing/m3/adv/pdf/durgd.pdf
click link for entire pdf
Filed under: Uncategorized | Tags: auto bailout, bailouts, car dealers, cash for clunkers, channel stuffing, energy, General Motors, GM, Government Motors, inventory, new car inventory, peak oil, transportation
via Zero Hedge:
Filed under: Uncategorized | Tags: boehner, congress, energy, gas prices, Mitch McConnell, peak oil, reid, SPR, strategic petroleum reserve
And that leaves me in weird agreement with Mitch McConnell, one of the most objectionable individuals in the entire den of thieves on Capitol Hill:
“The [SPR] is there for an emergency situation. You have to ask the question: If there were release from the [SPR], would it have the desired effect, and how long would it have the desired effect?” McConnell said.
via Worried Dems pressing Obama on gas prices – TheHill.com.
Filed under: Uncategorized | Tags: available net exports, Chindia, energy, India, India oil consumption, India oil imports, peak oil, unavailable net exports
Via the Energy Export Databrowser:
Also — China’s import picture.
Filed under: Uncategorized | Tags: China, India, Iran, Iran oil exports, Iran sanctions
Filed under: Uncategorized | Tags: Asia, China, Chindia, oil consumption, oil demand, oil imports, peak oil
via the Export Data Browser:
Filed under: Uncategorized | Tags: Brent, Chris Cook, cornucopianism, EROI, market manipulation, Naked Capitalism, peak oil, refineries, WTI
…has little to do with geology, EROI and all that, and everything to do with manipulation by market players. An interesting take, although I don’t get on board with any analyst that completely ignores an entire wing of the mental hospital of energy ideas.
http://www.nakedcapitalism.com/2012/02/chris-cook-the-oil-end-game.html
Filed under: Uncategorized | Tags: Brent, Cushing, Gulf Coast leg, Keystone XL, NYMEX, oil pipelines, pipelines, TransCanada, WTI
Doesn’t need fed approval for that.
TransCanada said Monday that a 700,000 barrel-per-day Gulf Coast leg originally part of the Alberta-to-Texas Keystone XL proposal is now a separate $2.3-billion US project that doesn’t require a cross-border presidential permit. Obama denied Keystone XL a construction permit in January, following a delay of the project last November caused by an extension of U.S. environmental review.
The link between an oversupplied Oklahoma oil storage hub and the world’s largest refining market in Texas will help relieve a glut in crude supply in the U.S. Midwest upon startup in mid to late 2013, the company said.
Filed under: Uncategorized | Tags: Canada, energy, fuel taxes, gas tax, gas taxes, gasoline, oil consumption, oil demand, transportation
In 2010, per liter.
click to enlarge
See also GAS TAXES IN DIFFERENT COUNTRIES
Filed under: maps, Uncategorized | Tags: Caesium, cesium, China Syndrome, Fukushima, Iodine-131, leukemia, massive fail, meltdown, nuclear wreck, radiation, thyroid cancer
The outside annual radiation dose due to the radionuclides from the Fukushima accident is estimated to be 10 mSv in Naka-Dori, 40 mSv in Iitate, 0.2 mSv in the region between northern Ibaraki and eastern Saitama, and 2 mSv in southern Ibaraki and northern Chiba prefectures (note that the present estimate does not include the doses from short-lived radionuclides). No internal dose contribution is assumed in these estimations.
via PubMed: Assessment of individual radionuclide distributions from the Fukushima nuclear accident covering central-east Japan.
Filed under: Uncategorized | Tags: Cantarell, crude oil production, energy, Ku Maloob Zaap, Mexican oil exports, Mexican oil production, Mexico, peak oil, Peak Oil is dead
I guess they haven’t heard that Peak Oil is dead. Once they get word, exports should jolly well pick right back up again.
State-owned Pemex said Friday the country exported 1.191 million barrels per day in the first month of 2012, the lowest level in 19 months and a drop from the 1.282 million bpd shipped in December.
The company sent 1.254 million bpd to refineries in Mexico in January, compared with 1.164 million in December.
via UPDATE 2-Mexico's January oil exports lowest since mid-2010 | Reuters.
Filed under: Uncategorized | Tags: energy, gasoline, Jevon's Paradox, mustachio'd, oil exports, OPEC, peak oil, porn 'stache, taco time, tacos, thoughtful man, Tom Friedman, transportation, Verleger
That’s what oil exporters do! Yup, we’re going to frack our production up about 200% over its current level, and get more efficient of course, and, of course, “do it right,” and then we’ll start exporting crude to those suckers in Japan and Europe. But first —
But all of this depends on an understanding between the oil industry and the environmentalists. If President Obama could pull that off, it would be a huge contribution to America’s security, economy and environment.
Yeah, that’s it. If we can just come to an understanding with the environmentalists, it’s OPEC time!
Friedman is unbelievably bad sometimes. Other times, believably so.
via http://www.nytimes.com/2012/02/26/opinion/sunday/friedman-a-good-question.html
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