Green Car Congress

AUGUST 28, 2017

In May 2017, Reno, Nevada, boasted that it is laying the groundwork for the industry’s first driverless bus program, launching a three-phase process to roll out a full fleet in its downtown area. An emerging concept for public transit is to mimic rideshare services. Tapping into the rideshare model. What comes next?

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Charged EVs

JUNE 2, 2023

The concept for an all-EV reboot of the classic Type 2 Microbus appeared in 2016 and was confirmed for production in August 2017. From a peak in about 2000, this segment has stabilized at a low level with only a few players (Chrysler, Toyota, Honda, Kia). How popular was the concept?

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Green Car Congress

JANUARY 3, 2011

with LG Chem in 2000—is developing a 6.3m We zeroed in on electric shuttles for the fleet market for two main reasons. They are used to doing business overseas, and they had some interesting concepts, such as making a lightweight bus. Click to enlarge. First, predictable routes. Second, lots of driving, intensive use.

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Green Car Congress

NOVEMBER 24, 2009

The lack of any mechanical coupling or other form of linkage through the system’s casing enables Kinergy to offer a robust, compact and lightweight package suitable both for incorporation into new product designs as well as retrofit applications aimed at improving the efficiency of existing vehicle fleets and industrial equipment.

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Green Car Congress

FEBRUARY 22, 2017

With the start of the first electrically driven test fleet in 2007 in London, smart also took on a pioneering role in the field of electric mobility when 100 smart fortwo electric drives took to the roads of the British capital. Instead of the planned 1000 vehicles more than 2000 smart fortwo electric drives were produced in Hambach.

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Green Cars News

MAY 26, 2009

Place this one firmly in the ‘rumour mill’ for now, but reports are suggesting that Honda may soon add two hybrid sports cars to its fleet. Now, the company has also confirmed that a CR-Z Concept will arrive within the next year as a hybrid coupe - possibly with a 2.5litre four cylinder engine with direct injection.

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China EV

APRIL 11, 2019

One of the folks I interviewed was my old friend Freeman Shen, whom I met in the year 2000 or so when he was head of BorgWarner China. It is a new retail concept in China, he says, because WM Motor will have a direct relationship with every owner, even if the BEV is purchased through a franchised dealer. It should be out in May.

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Green Car Congress

MAY 17, 2013

Innovative engine concepts and designs such as the Direct Injection Ethanol Boosted Gasoline Engine (DIEBGE) that improve the efficiency of gasoline use through the leverage effect of ethanol. Standard deviations increase by >10% and >200% when used in high and low blends, respectively.

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Green Car Congress

SEPTEMBER 23, 2009

All of us at Toyota are committed to technological development to realize sustainable mobility, but we believe it is important to take not just one path, but to base our approach on the concept of the right car at the right place at the right time, in accordance with customer needs and emerging and available energy resources. Michael O’Brien.

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Cars That Think

AUGUST 16, 2021

Those objections added to the concerns environmentalists were raising about the ozone layer—a scenario seemingly justified a few years later by MIT researchers, who concluded that a future fleet of 500 supersonic airliners would deplete the ozone layer by 16 percent. Senate ceased funding the development of a supersonic airliner in 1971.

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Drive Electric

MAY 16, 2023

New Zealand currently has 4 million passenger cars in its fleet, the vast majority of which are fuelled by petrol and diesel. The government itself has set a target to have 30% of the light fleet electric by 2035. Careful consideration needs to be given to the concept of ‘load control tariffs’ as they apply to public charging services.

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Tony Karrer Delicious EVdriven

APRIL 16, 2009

GM says it is already looking ahead to the next generation of Volt-based vehicles — it unveiled the Cadillac Converj concept in January — and says costs will come down as the technology spreads to more models. It will appear in Europe next year as the Opel Ampera and in Australia as the Holden Volt in 2012.

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