The Truth About Cars
MARCH 18, 2024
Honda beat everybody to the production gasoline-electric hybrid game in the United States, putting the Insight in showrooms in 1999. Ford launched the Escape Hybrid as a 2005 model (its Mercury Mariner and Mazda Tribute siblings showed up a bit later), so The General had some catching up to do in the green-car department.
Green Car Congress
FEBRUARY 14, 2012
The development work began to accelerate slowly with the evolution of the Escape Hybrid—the first production hybrid vehicle from a US-based automaker—that was designed and developed in the early 2000s. Still, by 2002 Ford only had approximately 30 hybrid patents. —Ming Kuang.
Green Car Congress
FEBRUARY 22, 2010
From 1994 to 2002, Purcell led the GM Advanced Technology Vehicles Group (GM ATV). The company has so far introduced two products from this platform: Sonata cycle life. Nordic Ecolabel and Chinese EPA CEC Ecolabel accreditation for chemical control during manufacturing and in the final product. Click to enlarge. Voltage: 340V.
Green Cars News
OCTOBER 16, 2009
The importance of the emerging automotive market in China has not escaped Europe’s leading car manufacturers, with Volkswagen planning to expand its operations in the country. Increased productivity in the Chinese market is exemplified by the timing of Shanghai Volkswagen’s milestones.
Tony Karrer Delicious EVdriven
JANUARY 28, 2009
HEV - The current generation of production Hybrids are 100% gas fueled vehicles with a few EV tricks like Regen Braking and no wasteful Idling. Formed in 2002, our efforts for "100+MPG Hybrids" took off when we built PRIUS+ , the worlds first plug-in Prius). See SEVA:Electric vehicle.
Tony Karrer Delicious EVdriven
APRIL 21, 2009
Nickel-metal hydride batteries, proven for many years in hybrids to be safe, could go into PHEVs today -- they would be designed more like the ones Toyota put in its 2002 RAV4 EV compact all-electric SUV than like current hybrid batteries. Unfortunately you can no longer buy a new highway-capable production electric vehicle in the U.S.
Tony Karrer Delicious EVdriven
APRIL 16, 2009
"When I first visited the BYD factory, I was shocked," says Daniel Kim, a Merrill Lynch technology analyst based in Hong Kong, who has been to the fully automated production lines in Japan and Korea. Deploying the armies of laborers at BYD is an officer corps of managers and engineers who invent and design the products.
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