Cars That Think

MARCH 15, 2024

As the world builds more and more electric cars and trucks—and electrifies other modes of transit—a race is underway to build the ideal, mean-and-green motor. El-Refaie originated the GE program in dual-phase materials in 2005.

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Green Car Congress

OCTOBER 26, 2011

The contract between the two companies provides that e.motor Advance will deliver 100 sets of its drivetrain and battery pack systems to Foton for their Midi-E electric car. In 2005, AC Propulsion established a subsidiary manufacturing operation in Shanghai, which provided components used in the BMW Mini-E program. of Beijing.

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Supplies Motor Motors Motoring 279

Green Cars News

NOVEMBER 9, 2011

Nissan is to reveal a new version of its Pivo electric car concept at the forthcoming Tokyo Motor Show which opens on December 3, 2011. It is the eight EV concept has shown since its first, the Pivo 1, was revealed back in 2005. The new Pivo 3 is designed to show a more ‘realistic’ [.].

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Green Car Congress

APRIL 28, 2016

China-based internet company LeEco unveiled its LeSEE electric car concept this week at Auto China 2016—The 14th Beijing International Automobile Exhibition. The LeSEE electric concept features an advanced autopilot and driver assistance systems, intelligent inductive charging and car sharing capabilities.

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Green Car Congress

OCTOBER 10, 2018

The Council agreed to adjust the Commission proposal on an incentive mechanism for zero- and low-emission vehicles such as fully electric cars or plug-in hybrid vehicles as regards passenger cars. The benchmark for cars for 2030 was raised to 35%. Negotiations between the co-legislators will start immediately.

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Green Car Congress

MAY 23, 2014

Deaths from outdoor air pollution by region in 2005 and 2010. From 2005 to 2010, the death rate rose by 4% worldwide, by 5% in China and by 12% in India. The report also supports tightening emission standards, expanding urban bicycle-sharing and electric car programs and extending road charge schemes to reduce congestion.

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Green Cars News

NOVEMBER 2, 2009

In last week’s edition of The Green Piece Column, we looked at the leaders in the green car race including the likes of Toyota, Honda, Volkswagen and Nissan. Here we offer some insight into these newcomers and their potential impact on the future of green motoring. Tesla Motors. Fisker Automotive.

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Green Car Reports

NOVEMBER 8, 2011

If you’ve been a fan of electric cars for more than a few years, you’ll probably remember Nissan’s adventurous all-electric concept cars -- the Pivo 1 from 2005 or Pivo 2 from 2007.

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Clean Fleet Report

OCTOBER 19, 2022

Research on hydrogen vehicles dipped until the 1990s when European countries announced plans for more hydrogen-centered car power, such as the 2005-07 bi-fuel BMW 7-Series with a V12 engine that ran on either compressed hydrogen or gasoline. For example, a long-haul electric truck needs a long time to recharge —up to six hours.

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Hydrogen Vehicles Alternative Fuels Toyota 87

Green Car Congress

JULY 23, 2012

SK Innovation began developing batteries for portable IT devices since 1996, launched lithium-ion battery development for hybrid-electric vehicle (HEV) applications in 2005, and started lithium-ion battery production in 2006. —Chey Jae-won, executive vice chairman of SK Group.

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Green Car Congress

AUGUST 27, 2010

Seattle City Light’s fully offsetting its carbon emissions since 2005, the only large utility in the country to achieve carbon neutrality, which means electric cars charged in City Light’s service territory run “totally clean”.

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Green Car Congress

APRIL 29, 2014

The new Mercedes-Benz B-Class Electric Drive is based on the conventionally powered B-Class, for which the current generation has become a top seller since being launched in many countries in 2011. Since the launch of the first B-Class version in 2005, Mercedes-Benz sold more than 1 million units. Click to enlarge.

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Green Car Congress

SEPTEMBER 7, 2009

Given automakers’ production plans, electric vehicles will in the near future account for less than 1% of all passenger cars, with little immediate impact on gasoline sales. But in the medium term, electric vehicles will have an inevitable impact. I often tell gas station managers that we must adapt to the changing times.

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Green Car Congress

SEPTEMBER 25, 2009

While in Pittsburgh, CT&T executives also met with experts in battery and fuel technology from Carnegie Mellon University, which is engaged in a range of research initiatives to support the growth and development of electric vehicle technology.

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Green Cars News

JULY 13, 2009

A new study has unveiled the health, wealth and environmental benefits of the mass-market adoption of electric cars, suggesting that electric cars could account for a staggering 64 per cent of all car sales in the US by 2030. The study also attempts to quantify how the electrification of the U.S.

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Clean Fleet Report

MARCH 31, 2023

Car sharing and ride sharing are blurring together Car sharing allows households to own only one car, instead of two or three, or for some to forgo car ownership completely, using the variations of car sharing and services to pick a vehicle or ride for a given task and location. Convenient hourly and daily rentals.

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Green Car Congress

MAY 2, 2011

In the years since 2005, we have established and significantly enhanced the LBNL China End-Use Energy Model based on the level of diffusion of end use technologies and other drivers of energy demand. It is reduced by 900 Mtce to 4600 Mtce in AIS in 2050, a cumulative energy reduction of 26 billion tonnes of coal equivalent from 2005 to 2050.

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Green Car Congress

APRIL 9, 2019

Other key findings of the report: For the first year since 2009, gasoline cars constituted the majority of new registrations in 2017 (almost 53%). The proportion of electric vehicles (plug-in hybrid and battery electric cars) increased from 1.0% g CO 2 /km less than the average gasoline car. in 2016 to 1.5%

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Green Car Congress

NOVEMBER 25, 2013

million kilometers (2 million miles) of experience with the Mercedes-Benz B-Class Fuel Cell fleet as well as the main technical targets envisioned for the next generation fuel cell electric car. Earlier post.). In total (fleet testing plus developmental testing), the Daimler hydrogen fuel cell fleet has accumulated more than 9.0

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Green Car Congress

SEPTEMBER 20, 2009

Until mid-2005, Runkle was Vice Chairman and Chief Technical Officer of Delphi Corporation, where he was the senior executive responsible for deploying lean principles and integrating engineering, manufacturing and purchasing, and for leading major international customer accounts. Don Runkle.

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Green Car Congress

JANUARY 30, 2018

The report shows that projected global ZEV adoption from 2015 to 2039 (based on the BNEF 2017 forecast) may follow an s-curve, similar to that of smartphone adoption in the US from 2005 to 2015. Convenience: From 2011 to 2016, the number of stations for charging electric vehicles increased by 1,138% in the US. This works out to 0.05

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Green Car Congress

APRIL 3, 2009

Since 2005 Valence has shipped 70 MWh of Li-ion battery capacity, or the equivalent of 3,500 electric cars. While we are currently supplying US customers out of China, we would expect to be supplying the US markets from a domestic facility by 2011, when the first phase of construction is completed.

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Lithium Ion Building Energy Storage Li-ion 150

Green Car Congress

JUNE 23, 2009

The Advanced Technology Vehicles Manufacturing Loan Program, first appropriated in the fall of 2008, will provide about $25 billion in loans to companies making cars and components in US factories that increase fuel economy at least 25% above 2005 fuel economy levels. Nissan will receive $1.6

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Green Car Congress

FEBRUARY 26, 2011

Shell Springboard provides a financial boost to innovative, low-carbon business ideas from across the UK and was piloted in 2005. This reduction of domestic voltage can lead to a decrease in household electricity bills of between 6-12%. —Stephen Voller from Cella Energy.

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2011 Hydrogen Energy Polymer 218

Green Car Congress

JANUARY 3, 2017

The company has sold more than 520,000 electrified vehicles in North America since 2005 and 560,000 globally. Specifically, 92% of battery electric car customers say they will purchase another battery electric vehicle as their next purchase, while 87% of plug-in hybrid customers want another plug-in for their next vehicle.

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Green Cars News

MAY 2, 2009

Despite the doom and gloom however, Chrysler insists that its day to day operations won’t be affected and that its green ENVI division will continue. ENVI has been working on vehicles since 2005 and wants to have as many as 100,000 of them sold by 2010. Its battery mini van is already on the road, albeit in small numbers.

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Plug In Partners

OCTOBER 10, 2006

must not be 'hostage' to foreign oil February 20, 2006 MIT researchers invent new hybrid car battery February 7, 2006 Re-thinking the world's economic future February 7, 2006 100-M.P.G.

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Green Car Congress

AUGUST 28, 2009

Based on the optimized, more compact fuel cell system presented by Mercedes-Benz in its F 600 HYGENIUS research vehicle in 2005 ( earlier post ), the 80 kW stack module in the B-Class F-CELL is around 40% smaller, but develops 30% more power output and cuts fuel consumption by 16% compared to the A-Class stack. Source: Daimler.

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Green Cars News

JUNE 23, 2009

Nissan meanwhile, has received money to produce electric cars and battery packs at its manufacturing facility in Tennessee. These fully electric cars are the first produced in the USA by a major manufacturer. However, these cars and components must increase fuel economy by at least 25% above 2005 fuel economy levels.

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Plug In Partners

AUGUST 30, 2007

GM Could Reportedly Produce 60,000 Plug-in Hybrids in 2010 Source: GreenBiz.com by Jeff Green at Bloomberg OAKLAND, Calif., could reportedly produce up to 60,000 Volt electric cars in 2010 , its first anticipated year on the market. Sales tripled the following year and topped 60,000 for the first time in 2005.

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Electric Auto Association

JANUARY 5, 2023

When that company was bought out by ENEL X , Miftakhov used the substantial profit to launch ZeroAvia in Hollister, California to develop and manufacture fuel cell-powered electric aircraft using green hydrogen (locally produced by electrolysis of water using solar or wind power). so I’m in the movie.”

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Green Cars News

OCTOBER 24, 2009

It has been manufacturing the A-Class since 1997 and the B-Class since 2005, with its most important markets for compact vehicles expected to be Germany, Italy, France and the UK. The B-Class has also been launched in China this year and has already gained a 25 per cent market share – well ahead of initial expectations.

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Green Car Congress

OCTOBER 15, 2012

An example of that was DOE’s ATVM Loan Program, the mission of which was to provide loans to companies making cars and components in US factories that increase fuel economy at least 25% above the fuel economy levels for 2005. Accordingly, the program provided loans to two companies to manufacture battery packs for electric cars.

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Green Cars News

JULY 1, 2009

Electric vehicle maker Aixam Mega; which owns the NICE brand in the UK, has called on the government to rethink its policy on electric cars and vans. They believe that a report published today by the Sustainable Development Commission (SDC) will add considerable weight that government policy is at odds with its green plans.

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Tony Karrer Delicious EVdriven

APRIL 21, 2009

Supporters of the car say that’s shortsighted. Electric car supporters are rising to defend General Motors’ development of the Chevy Volt after the Obama Administration’s automotive task force proclaimed that the car was probably too expensive to be commercially successful in the near future. . and Chrysler. .’s

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Tony Karrer Delicious EVdriven

JANUARY 28, 2009

Real Life EV Stories A Case for Electricity Plug In America Positions Energy Policy Frequently Asked Questions About Plug-in Buses Who Killed the Electric Car? Prop 87 Missed Opportunity RAVs to Keep Rolling in LA Holiday EVangelism ZEVTech Saving RAVs Holiday EVangelism Who Killed the Electric Car?

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Green Car Congress

JANUARY 25, 2013

The challenge is illustrated for electric cars, which are roughly three times as fuel efficient as conventional, non-hybrid gasoline cars. Per unit of delivered energy, however, the US electric grid is on average about twice as carbon intensive as gasoline. A parametric analysis by Barter et al.

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