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News: Hydrogen Fuel Cell Market Confused

Clean Fleet Report

” Honda’s signed up with General Motors to cooperate of future ZEVs and will have volume production of battery electric cars from that joint venture on the market in 2024. BMW’s fuel cell SUV. The fuel cells for the BMW SUV come from joint development work with Toyota. BMW & JLR Jump on Board.

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EPA Reports Fifth Consecutive Annual Increase in US New Vehicle Fuel Economy; Up 9% Since 2004, Back to Levels of Early 1980s

Green Car Congress

The report confirms that average CO 2 emissions have decreased and fuel economy has increased each year beginning in 2005. This positive trend beginning in 2005 reverses a long period of increasing CO 2 emissions and decreasing fuel economy from 1987 through 2004, and returns CO 2 emissions and fuel economy to levels of the early 1980s.

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Japanese officials raid a Toyota group plant after the company admitted cheating on engine testing ā€“ ET Auto

Baua Electric

In an unrelated quality problem, Toyota and General Motors Co. In an unrelated quality problem, Toyota and General Motors Co. The urgent warning Monday covers certain Corolla compact cars and Matrix hatchbacks from the 2003 and 2004 model years, as well as the RAV4 small SUV from 2004 and 2005.

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Interview with Chris Paine in the Whole Life Times

Revenge of the Electric Car

Paine was one of the first to lease a General Motors EV1 in 1997 ā€” only to get the car wrenched away from him five years later when he took it in simply to get a brake light fixed. A: Iā€™m much more hopeful today than I was in 2005, simply because the car companies have painted themselves into a corner. And he was right.

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How Carmakers Are Responding to the Plug-In Hybrid Opportunity

Tony Karrer Delicious EVdriven

General Motors Chevy Volt series PHEV, which it calls "extended range electric vehicle" (EREV), part of "E-Flex" multi-fuel platform. Beginning in 2005, we excerpted individual statements of intentions by carmakers, but by the start of 2008, the number of comments became too numerous for us to track.

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Who is winning the green car race? The Green Piece

Green Cars News

General Motors: Having been universally panned for its disregard of the EV1 and failing to get off the ground with a group of comparatively unsuccessful hybrids, the new GM is aiming to hit back with the Chevrolet Volt (see article ) ā€“ arguably the most eagerly anticipated green car in North America. Faye Sunderland.

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Cadillacā€™sĀ ambitious move to an all-electric luxury brand by 2030

Charged EVs

Itā€™s a truck, specifically the Escalade SUV, the gussied-up, very successful ultra-luxury version of the Chevy Suburban. Yet Cadillac is leading the high end of General Motorsā€™ ambitious move into EVs for all its brands. The brandā€™s best year in the US this century was 2005, when it sold 235,000 vehicles.