Green Car Congress

AUGUST 24, 2009

Canadian government programs that offer rebates to hybrid vehicle buyers are failing to produce environmental benefits commensurate with the cost, according to a study by researchers at the University of British Columbia (UBC). If the intention of rebate programs is to replace gas guzzlers with hybrids, they are failing. Chandra et al.

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Green Car Congress

JANUARY 19, 2011

Chrysler Group LLC and the US Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) are working together to determine the possibility of adapting a hydraulic series hybrid system for application in large passenger cars and light-duty vehicles. EPA and its partners announced the world’s first series hydraulic hybrid urban delivery vehicle in 2006.

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Green Car Reports

FEBRUARY 2, 2012

If you buy a new car but can’t get anywhere near the gas mileage the automaker says you should, can you sue them for misleading you? For Heather Peters -- former attorney and owner of a 2006 Honda Civic Hybrid -- the answer is a resounding yes.

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Green Car Congress

JUNE 2, 2011

Ford also said that its next generation of hybrid vehicles, including a new plug-in hybrid that will launch next year, will have a Ford-engineered transmission that will be built in Michigan. Consumers are telling us they want to buy affordable vehicles that get many more miles per gallon. Earlier post.). “The 1.0-liter

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MAY 9, 2010

These rates compare favorably or surpass the percentage of buyers opting for a hybrid version of a vehicle, he said. Similarly, the Ford Escape Hybrid introduced in 2004, had a consumer take rate of 10% in 2009. Lars Ullrich.

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Green Car Congress

JANUARY 6, 2011

—Micky Bly, GM’s lead electronics executive, including infotainment, hybrids and battery electric vehicles. Powermat, a private firm, was founded in 2007 and offers wireless charging products for the home in a number of retail stores, including Best Buy, Target and Wal-Mart. We first developed the Volt concept car in 2006.

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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

DECEMBER 9, 2009

Apart from efficient combustion engines, we will also be focusing our attention on alternative drivetrains such as hybrids and electromobility. In 2006, that began to unwind, with GM reducing its holding to 3%. That’s why it is right at the top of the agenda of our partnership. On what are we going to focus? There are so many things.

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Plugs and Cars

NOVEMBER 28, 2006

Who Killed the Electric Car opens across America EAA chapters turn out for openings Summer 2006 has been all about “Who Killed the Electric Car?” Tell your local dealer you’ll buy a hyrid with a plug. Stirring some confusion as to its intentions, Ford mentioned its “continued interest in plug-in hybrids” in its press announcement.

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Plug In Partners

OCTOBER 25, 2006

Here's the story from Auto Service World AutoNation Joins Hybrid Cause Auto Service World Oct. 12, 2006 AutoNation, Inc. automotive retailer, has joined the Plug-In Partners campaign calling on automakers to manufacture plug-in hybrid electric vehicles. Mike Jackson certainly knows what type of vehicles that Americans will buy.

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Green Car Congress

AUGUST 30, 2015

A working paper by a team at the Energy Institute at Haas, University of California, Berkeley, has found that 60% of the $18 billion in US federal income clean energy tax credits issued between 2006 and 2012—e.g., Since 2006, tax expenditures for these “clean energy” tax credits have exceeded $18 billion.

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Plug In Partners

JUNE 12, 2006

R epresentative Frank Hornstein reports that House File 3718 has passed, and that Minnesota is the first state to join the push for plug-in hybrids. The car runs primarily on electricity and renewable fuels like ethanol power the engine. The car runs primarily on electricity and renewable fuels like ethanol power the engine.

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Plug In Partners

AUGUST 18, 2006

AFS TRINITY SIGNS ACCORD WITH AUSTIN ENERGY The Auto Channel August 17, 2006 " A n accord that was signed this week in Seattle and Austin should put Americans one step closer to seeing the 250 MPG AFS Trinity Power Corp (AFST) Extreme Hybrid ™ car on the road," according to AFS Trinity CEO Edward W.

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Green Car Congress

JANUARY 28, 2014

Since the advent of the first Low-Emission Vehicle regulations in 1990 and the passage of California Assembly Bill 32 (AB 32) in 2006, the California Air Resources Board (ARB) has attempted to address the state’s air quality and climate goals by requiring development of motor vehicles that do not directly emit NO x or other criteria pollutants.

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Creative Greenius

JANUARY 17, 2009

I have seen the future my friends and it looks exactly like a 76 degree January day filled with beautiful people driving gorgeous plug-in hybrid and plug-in electric cars. No one needs to buy another new gas powered car. Keep your old car, or buy an inexpensive used car. It is already here today. Save your money. Imagine that.

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Plug In Partners

SEPTEMBER 6, 2006

P G & E plugs campaign for hybrid electric cars Joshua Sabatini The Examiner Sep 5, 2006 SAN FRANCISCO - Pacific Gas and Electric Co. Today’s hybrid cars, such as the Toyota Prius, use electricity generated by gasoline-fueled engines. wants its 5.1 There’s a ceiling on that. A PHEV would cut a consumer’s gas cost down to $0.75

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Tony Karrer Delicious EVdriven

APRIL 21, 2009

About CalCars Plug-In Hybrids FAQ How to Get a PHEV Where PHEVs are Carmakers Say. Conversions are mostly for the Prius, with a few for the Ford Escape/Mercury Mariner hybrid SUVs. At these prices, people are buying the "environmental feature" -- they want to be among the first owners of the worlds cleanest extended-range vehicles.

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Plug In Partners

SEPTEMBER 14, 2006

Philanthropy Google’s Way: Not the Usual By KATIE HAFNER New York Times Published: September 14, 2006 SAN FRANCISCO, Sept. According to people briefed on the program, the organization, called Google.org , plans to develop an ultra-fuel-efficient plug-in hybrid car engine that runs on ethanol, electricity and gasoline.

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Green Car Congress

APRIL 17, 2010

Aircraft Efficiency : electric/hybrid aircraft, alternative aviation fuels. XPF’s goal is to inspire a new generation of viable, safe, affordable and super fuel-efficient vehicles that people want to buy. In 2006 there were more than nine million new cases of TB worldwide. Under development is a Tuberculosis Diagnostics prize.

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Plug In Partners

FEBRUARY 13, 2006

13, 2006 Andrew Frank, University of California at Davis Mechanical engineering professor and researcher Andrew Frank has spent much of the last 30 years studying electric motors and batteries to make vehicles more fuel-efficient. Plug-in hybrids rely more on electricity; the batteries are charged at night using a standard household outlet.

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Plug In Partners

JANUARY 24, 2006

EV world NATIONAL COALITION LAUNCHES CAMPAIGN TO URGE AUTOMAKERS TO PRODUCE PLUG-IN HYBRID VEHICLES WASHINGTON, D.C.—January Plug-in Hybrid Electric Vehicles (PHEVs) would combine today’s new gas-electric hybrid technology with larger batteries that could provide an all-electric operating range of 25 to 35 miles or more.

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Revenge of the Electric Car

JANUARY 21, 2009

2006), and you’ll learn that those once-dead electric vehicles (EVs) are now exacting a shocking revenge. 2006), and you’ll learn that those once-dead electric vehicles (EVs) are now exacting a shocking revenge. People are demanding electric cars and plug-in hybrids. What happens to an electric car deferred?

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Plug In Partners

JANUARY 26, 2006

Editorial Trying to Find the Road Ahead Published: January 24, 2006 W ith its bonds downgraded to junk and its market share on the ropes, Detroit's auto industry almost looks to be in a free fall. To handle that, the auto bigwigs in Detroit should, for starters, be making sure that every new car they roll out is a flexible-fuel car.

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Green Car Congress

NOVEMBER 13, 2013

If Chinese companies follow the conventional hybrid path, the diesel path, those are led by other automotive centers. With the 10 th 5-year Plan (“10-5”, 2002-2006), the government introduced the goal of developing and commercializing electric vehicles. The government increased spending in a third phase, from 2006, to RMB 1.1

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Tony Karrer Delicious EVdriven

JANUARY 28, 2009

Where Can I Buy One? Batteries Included $142,000 Grant 2006 Archive GM Plug-in Series Hybrid? Learn About Plug-ins What Are Plug-ins? 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? 1 Point Reyes EVs Did You Know?

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Green Car Congress

AUGUST 30, 2009

The Saturn version of the two-mode plug-in hybrid at the Milford Proving Grounds. GM had been announcing they were planning on launching 25 vehicles over the next 24 months but with the cancellation of the Buick compact crossover (and its plug-in hybrid variant, earlier post ) that number may drop to 24 vehicles. by Bill Cooke.

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Tony Karrer Delicious EVdriven

APRIL 21, 2009

About CalCars Plug-In Hybrids FAQ How to Get a PHEV Where PHEVs are Carmakers Say. Our PRIUS+ Project Photos PHEV Resources Global Warming Take Action News and Events Contact Us How Carmakers are Responding to the Plug-In Hybrid Opportunity If you ask, "have major auto-makers come around on PHEVs?", No announced plans.

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Green Cars News

APRIL 30, 2009

From April 2010 anyone buying a new car will pay a different rate of vehicles tax in the first year of registration. Other detail changes from 6th April 2011 include: Drivers of Euro IV diesel cars registered before the 1st January 2006 are currently taxed at the same percentage rate as drivers of cars fitted with a petrol engine.

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Revenge of the Electric Car

JANUARY 22, 2009

3Prong Power converts existing Toyota Priuses into plug-in hybrids that can run entirely on electricity. Who’s Killing the Plug-In Hybrid? East Bay Express Who’s Killing the Plug-In Hybrid? They convert Toyota Prius hybrids into mostly electric vehicles that get 100 to 150 miles per gallon.

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Tony Karrer Delicious EVdriven

APRIL 21, 2009

About CalCars Plug-In Hybrids FAQ How to Get a PHEV Where PHEVs are Car-Makers Say. Until then, we also recommend you look at the FAQ at the Climate Progress Blog and the FAQ by Hybrids-Plus , an after-market converter of hybrid cars, for answers to many questions! What Are Plug-In Hybrids (PHEVs)?

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Revenge of the Electric Car

JULY 14, 2009

They own the hybrid market and are doing quite well, thank you, so why adopt a whole new technology that’s untried on a large scale? Those who make the decisions to forgo battery EVs in favor of plug- in hybrids only ignore a sizable market. which beat Nissan in introducing hybrid vehicles. Of this I am certain.

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Tony Karrer Delicious EVdriven

APRIL 16, 2009

High-Speed Rail Unlocks Intermodal Potential Texas Excess Ford Expands Hybrid Success to Electric Vehicles ► March (17) Carbon Capture and Storage: To Be or Not To Be? Hybrid electric buses and heavy trucks could power many homes or a school or a hospital in an emergency. The World's First Clean Motocross Race On Electric.

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Green Car Congress

APRIL 10, 2010

A limit was imposed on emissions from the power plants, and utilities were allowed to buy and sell permits to comply. As the price of pollution goes up, it becomes increasingly profitable for companies to shift to cleaner sources of energy instead of buying allowances to pollute. Flexible Debt Capital. Mr. Donovan is C.E.O. Renergie”).

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