Subaru Wins "2006 Commendation for Global Warming Prevention Activity" Award (Japan)

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Press Release:

SUBARU WINS TOP ENVIRONMENTAL COMMENDATION

Subaru’s pioneering work with electric vehicles has attracted a top award from Japan’s Minister of the Environment for helping prevent global warming.
Parent company, Fuji Heavy Industries, received the ‘2006 Commendation For Global Warming Prevention Activity’ award.

This is for developing the Subaru R1e electric vehicle in conjunction with Tokyo Electric Power Co., Inc (TEPCO) and NEC Lamilion Energy, Ltd.
FHI was commended in the technological development and commercialisation category for the jointly-developed Subaru R1e electric vehicle and its high-speed charger.

Subaru’s 2+2 city car is light, efficient and ideal for metropolitan use with a battery which can be recharged in 15 minutes.

The Subaru R1e has a 50 mile range and can be initially charged for eight hours at home then fast-charged at a supermarket, ECO station or local hospital.

The car has a 62 mph top speed, weighs just 870 kg and produces 54 PS at

6,000 rpm from its electric motor, while the battery life is at least 10 years or 124,000-plus miles.

Significantly, one of the advantages of the Subaru R1e is its fuel efficiency. Daytime charging costs are half that of a typical hybrid car and if cheaper night-time electricity is used, recharging is a staggering one-fifth less than for a hybrid.



The following innovations were highlighted by Japan’s Minister of the Environment as helping reduce greenhouse gas emissions:

High-density lithium-ion battery that can be quickly charged and discharged
· Installed in compact high-performance electric vehicle

· Convenient high-speed charger able to charge the battery to 80 per cent capacity in 15 minutes

· Elimination of large quantity of heavy and bulky batteries

The Tokyo Electric Power Company now plans to have 3,000 electric vehicles running in the Kanagawa prefecture within five years supported by 150 fast-charge stations.

And as a consumer incentive, there will also be a 90 per cent reduction in car tax and purchase tax plus discounted parking and highway fees.

Meanwhile, Subaru aims to spread its ground-breaking technology by licensing to other manufacturers.

Meanwhile, Subaru aims to spread its ground-breaking technology by licensing to other manufacturers.


^hopefully this will be another profitable source of income for FHI

Damn a 90 percent tax break. That should help them sell better.

K Car FTW!

K Car FTW!

Yep....!

I want one.

I know I will never have one because I live in Amuricah.

Award for Global Warming Prevention? How can you get an award for preventing a myth? Way to go Subaru! I hope you also win the award for best Hello Kitty flux capacitor that cures Alzheimer's of the Ass! :)

But seriously, I'd rock an R1e.

Would you prefer the term, "global climate change" or just of the mindset that everything is fine and there are just a LOT of really confused scientists out there?

PS - is my sarcasm detector not turned up high enough??

Would you prefer the term, "global climate change" or just of the mindset that everything is fine and there are just a LOT of really confused alarmists out there?

PS - is my sarcasm detector not turned up high enough??

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Would you prefer the term, "global climate change" or just of the mindset that everything is fine and there are just a LOT of really confused scientists out there?

If only science was a democracy... remember that there were many scientists who believed the luminiferous aether existed as well, including the smartest people in their field at the time, and their theories were all based on solid science. In fact the Michelson–Morley was probably the best scientific experiment ever performed.

Would you prefer the term, "global climate change" or just of the mindset that everything is fine and there are just a LOT of really confused scientists out there?

PS - is my sarcasm detector not turned up high enough??

I thought the smiley face at the end of my jack-ass statement indicated I was only joking, but yeah, I was being sarcastic. :lol:

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If only science was a democracy... remember that there were many scientists who believed the luminiferous aether existed as well, including the smartest people in their field at the time, and their theories were all based on solid science. In fact the Michelson–Morley was probably the best scientific experiment ever performed.

Luminiferous aether is your argument?

From wiki:
Aether theory was dealt another blow when the Galilean transformation and Newtonian dynamics were both modified by Albert Einstein's special theory of relativity, giving the mathematics of Lorentzian electrodynamics a new, "non-aether" context. Like most major shifts in scientific thought, the move away from aether theory did not happen immediately but, as experimental evidence built up, and as older scientists left the field and their places were taken by the young, the concept lost adherents.

Einstein based his special theory on Lorentz's earlier work, but instead of suggesting that the mechanical properties of objects changed with their constant-velocity motion through an aether, he took the somewhat more radical step of suggesting that the math was a general transformation, and that the Galilean transformation was a "special case" that worked only at the low speeds we had studied up to that time. By applying the transformation to all inertial frames of reference, he demonstrated that physics remained invariant as it had with the Galilean transformation, but that light was now invariant as well.

So that's great Einstein blew a late 19th century theory out of the water. Guess you'll also point to those numbskulls back in the day who swore the earth was flat? Look at how wrong they were!

It kinda sounds like you're suggesting we ignore all scientific based evidence? Regardless of what side of the political/moral spectrum it falls on, of course. By your logic it would seem that all science has the potential to be wrong and, eventually, overturned, regardless of how many experiments, data, theories, etc. are developed, so therefore we shouldn't put any weight into science at all.

Maybe you're right- I mean, hell, everybody believes in this gravity thing, but for all we know it could turn out to be a huge hoax or misdirected theory in 200 years. Same goes for this climate change BS. Sure there is an almost unamimous agreement that the climate on earth is changing (though arguments do exist as to the direct cause...), but we might find out in 150 years that it really didn't change as much as we thought. Why bother looking into it now??
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It kinda sounds like you're suggesting we ignore all scientific based evidence?

Wow, did you even comprehend my point? I merely stated that science is not a democracy and gave an example. Obviously that means "we [should] ignore all scientific based evidence". :rolleyes: Scientific Theory has nothing to do with plurality, theories are not weighted by how many people subscribe to them.

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this isnt a climate change debate thread.. its a car thread, so i've modified my post....

Its great to see subaru developing clean technology. Hopefully this stuff will one day become economic, and most importantly, i hope it will become 'powerful and exciting'.

Nobody wants to drive a looser honda in-site.... well... except loosers.

hehe

I hope you all realize that grid energy is vastly supplied by natural gas and coal. Until we clean up the grid, your electric car will pollute just the same.

3) There is NO economic way to reduce green house gasses. Even if you strongly agree that green house gasses are a problem, there are NO short term solutions.

There are, however, medium term solutions, and they represent a massive economic boon to the countries that will develop, implement, and manufacture the requisite technologies for sale to the rest of the world.

So lets get it done before China does. Getting clean energy is their national policy now - they see energy availability and pollution as limiting factors on growth, and their government structure allows them to be a lot more focused on the problem than ours does.

And kudos to Subaru for the work on the R1e. Keep it coming.

Very cool and innovative concept.......it is our future......

hilarious as none of the US models have a hope of being fuel efficient..

K Car FTW!

What does Chrysler have to do with this? :p

hilarious as none of the US models have a hope of being fuel efficient..


Turbo diesel. :banana:

I just want the TPH....in Impreza form please. If I can have 225 hp, almost no pollutants, and 40 mpg Ill sleep better at night. I dont care if I make the money back in fuel savings or not.

So, it was pointed out that I reposted this, and then the thread was locked for no good reason. Funny thing is, i swear to god i'm not making this up, but I never see more than EIGHT threads in the News & Rumors section, and no other pages of threads are available. No need for anyone to get panties in a bunch. I posted because I could find no other mention of it.

The thin-skinned nature of this forum makes me want to never own another Subaru - it's an awfully discouraging "community." Seriously, sorry about the minor breach of etiquette, but it's an honest mistake, and there's no need to be jerks.

Funny thing is, i swear to god i'm not making this up, but I never see more than EIGHT threads in the News & Rumors section, and no other pages of threads are available.

At the bottom-left of the page, there is a box with "Display Options". Under "From The", you probably have it set to a short interval. Change that to "Last Month" or even "Beginning" and click Show Threads and you should see more of the active threads in this forum.

What a crock, the planets getting warmer due to Solar activity. Just think what causes the planet to get warm? The SUN and BTW water vapor is the most abundant greenhouse gas, not CO2

From NOAA

Water Vapor is the most abundant greenhouse gas in the atmosphere, which is why it is addressed here first. However, changes in its conentration is also considered to be a result of climate feedbacks related to the warming of the atmosphere rather than a direct result of industrialization. The feedback loop in which water is involved is critically important to projecting future climate change, but as yet is still fairly poorly measured and understood.

As the temperature of the atmosphere rises, more water is evaporated from ground storage (rivers, oceans, reservoirs, soil). Because the air is warmer, the relative humidity can be higher (in essence, the air is able to 'hold' more water when its warmer), leading to more water vapor in the atmosphere. As a greenhouse gas, the higher concentration of water vapor is then able to absorb more thermal IR energy radiated from the Earth, thus further warming the atmosphere. The warmer atmosphere can then hold more water vapor and so on and so on. This is referred to as a 'positive feedback loop'. However, huge scientific uncertainty exists in defining the extent and importance of this feedback loop. As water vapor increases in the atmosphere, more of it will eventually also condense into clouds, which are more able to reflect incoming solar radiation (thus allowing less energy to reach the Earth's surface and heat it up). The future monitoring of atmospheric processes involving water vapor will be critical to fully understand the feedbacks in the climate system leading to global climate change. As yet, though the basics of the hydrological cycle are fairly well understood, we have very little comprehension of the complexity of the feedback loops. Also, while we have good atmospheric measurements of other key greenhouse gases such as carbon dioxide and methane, we have poor measurements of global water vapor, so it is not certain by how much atmospheric concentrations have risen in recent decades or centuries, though satellite measurements, combined with balloon data and some in-situ ground measurements indicate generally positive trends in global water vapor.