Green Car Congress

MAY 22, 2013

Tesla brought its Roadster sports car to market with a 30% gross margin, designed electric powertrains for Daimler (Mercedes) and had done preliminary design of the Model S all before receiving a government loan. This is another important contribution to what the Obama Administration has done to preserve and promote America’s auto industry.

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Push EVs

JULY 15, 2023

share of the market in H1 2022 has halved, to 5.66% in H1 2023. Whereas PHEVs previously had almost as much market share as BEVs (see graph below) in Germany, they have now slipped to around one third that of BEVs. This is more in line with the plugin weightings in the other large European markets of France and the UK.

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Green Car Congress

NOVEMBER 29, 2010

Hyundai Motor Company has begun construction of a third plant in China to respond to growing demand in the world’s largest automobile market. Beijing Hyundai Motor Company (BHMC), a 50-50 joint venture between Hyundai Motor and Beijing Automotive Industry Holding Co., 28 in Shunyi District, Beijing. million units.

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Green Car Congress

FEBRUARY 5, 2009

The US Department of Energy (DOE) Hydrogen Program has issued a Request for Information (RFI) on potential early markets and deployment opportunities for hydrogen and fuel cells. Market development RFI. Topics to be considered include: Early fuel cell market applications with high volume potential.

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Green Car Congress

AUGUST 24, 2009

The study finds that the rebates had a large and positive effect on the market share of hybrid vehicles, largely at the expense of intermediate cars, intermediate SUVs and some high performance compact cars. The Canadian government offered hybrid rebates during 2007-2008. for every liter (US$1.50/gallon)

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Green Car Congress

MARCH 6, 2010

The Brazilian Sugarcane Industry Association (UNICA) represents the top producers of sugar and ethanol in the country’s South-Central region, especially the state of Sao Paulo, which accounts for about 50% of the country’s sugarcane harvest and 60% of total ethanol production. —Marcos Jank. million tons of sugar and 25.7

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Green Car Congress

MARCH 2, 2011

SB LiMotive was established in September 2008 as a joint venture between Bosch and Samsung SDI. The objective of the alliance is to adapt lithium-ion battery technology to the requirements of automobiles, and thus explore the market for hybrid and electric vehicles. Cobasys, with two sites in Orion, Mich.,

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Green Car Congress

MARCH 17, 2010

Contingent on fuel economy rules, currency exchange rates, incentives for US production (or the lack thereof ), and automakers’ and technology suppliers’ production location decisions, the United States could gain fewer than 20,000 jobs from 2008 to 2014, or nearly 54,000.

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Green Car Congress

SEPTEMBER 20, 2009

EcoMotors International, a Khosla-funded startup working to commercialize a diesel opoc (opposed-piston, opposed-cylinder) engine ( earlier post ), has named auto industry veteran Donald Runkle as its new CEO. EcoMotors was founded in 2008 by Prof.

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Green Car Congress

JANUARY 4, 2012

rapidly weakening worldwide economy causes the global auto market to collapse, much as it. escalation in fuel prices; a steep rise in raw materials costs; or a slowdown in the rate of secular demand growth in key developing markets, particularly China. —“2012 Outlook: US Auto Manufacturers and Suppliers”.

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Green Car Congress

JULY 6, 2009

KG, the automotive lithium-ion battery joint venture formed in 2008 by Daimler AG and Evonik Industries AG ( earlier post ), will begin construction of its production facility this autumn in Kamenz, Germany. Deutsche Accumotive GmbH & Co. Daimler holds 90% and Evonik holds 10%.

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Green Car Congress

FEBRUARY 18, 2009

As required by the loan agreements signed in December 2008, GM and Chrysler submitted their updated restructuring plans showing a pathway to achieve financial viability to Congress on Tuesday. The plans, updated in the context of a worsening sales outlook for the entire auto industry, outline a need for up to an additional $16.6

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Wallbox

JUNE 30, 2021

Compared to the USA, where EVs make up only 2% of new car sales, this gives one a good idea of Norway’s strong leadership position in terms of EV market share. Initially, Oslo had been at the heart of testing new infrastructure, and in 2008 it launched the first municipal EV charging system. in 2018 and 42.4%

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Green Car Congress

AUGUST 9, 2009

Cischke cited the recent agreement on one national standard for fuel economy and greenhouse gas emissions regulations as an example of how the government, the auto industry and the environmental community can work together toward common goals. annual increase; meeting the EU targets for 2008-2015 requires a 2.5% Earlier post.)

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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. At Detroit's auto show, it unveiled a Chinese car that Geely plans to upgrade and sell in the United States in 2008.

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Revenge of the Electric Car

MAY 17, 2010

presence in the world’s two largest passenger car markets (China and the. Read more in the article: Can electric cars break out of niche status in US, China market? the world’s two largest passenger car markets, then a transition away from. Can electric cars break out of niche status in US, China market?

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Green Car Congress

FEBRUARY 14, 2009

not enthusiast or pioneer—adoption of coming plug-in hybrid electric vehicles (PHEVs), given current market conditions and consumer awareness and attitudes. The Most Plausible Early Market consumers value fuel economy. Expect mostly incremental change unless the market is helped, or unless technology progress surprises us again.

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Green Cars News

JULY 3, 2009

This failure, it believes, has prompted US car manufacturers to lose market share to foreign rivals and particularly those from Japan such as Toyota and Honda. Tags: Green cars Latest news auto industry profits gas prices petrol prices US auto industry. Leave a comment with your thoughts.

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Green Car Congress

DECEMBER 24, 2009

USABC has carried out a number of battery development programs, focusing on low-cost, long-life, high-energy, high-power technologies, including several programs, started in 2008, which addressed the development of plug-in hybrid batteries (Round I).

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Plug In Partners

DECEMBER 14, 2007

Slow charging has been the key hurdle to public acceptance of battery-electric vehicles as viable distance travelers, so this breakthrough has all sorts of implications for the automotive industry as well as being a very welcome upgrade to a whole host of other portable devices.

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Green Cars News

JULY 5, 2009

After months of doom and gloom for the auto industry in the USA, there is finally a ray of hope courtesy of hybrid cars. This meant that a total of 26,205 hybrid units were sold - some three per cent of all new vehicles, the highest monthly new vehicle share since April 2008. Reported sales of hybrids in the US increased by 5.2

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Green Car Congress

MAY 20, 2009

If you are driving a 2008 Acme Motors A1, it may have launched in 2006 and the microprocessor may have been sourced in 2003. By focusing on aftermarket applications for vehicles already developed and by avoiding legacy software, EngineLab hopes to have an ECU on the market with an advanced microprocessor a year before any OEM vehicles.

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Green Car Congress

MARCH 26, 2009

The European automotive industry is key to the EU economy, employing 12 million workers directly and indirectly—6% of the employed population in the European Union. The industry has been badly hit by the global economic crisis, and has seen a significant drop in demand during the last quarter of 2008 and the first of 2009.

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Green Car Congress

AUGUST 10, 2009

Additionally, suggested one of the speakers, advanced SIDI (spark-ignited, direct-injection) engines can take light-duty market share back from diesels in Europe based on the same trends. don’t think we expect to see a large market share of light duty diesel in the short term. SULEV/Tier 2 Bin 2 is the target. smog and particulates.

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Tony Karrer Delicious EVdriven

APRIL 22, 2009

Three years ago, the magazine Popular Mechanics even wrote an article prodding the auto industry for not building the 100 m.p.g. Whats more, mainstream consumers wont be able to buy it when it comes to market. John Waters, the CEO of Bright Automotive, is a veteran of Detroits auto industry, just like most of the Bright team.

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OCTOBER 28, 2021

He has a 34-year career as a journalist, advertiser, marketer, publicist, event planner, teacher, and fundraiser for-profit and not-for-profit organizations including Motorola, Business Marketing Association, and Michigan State University. Experience in business & market development.

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Baua Electric

APRIL 25, 2024

After decades of trumpeting “free trade,” and watching industry after industry decamp to China, the US government has apparently decided to draw a red line in front of the auto industry, and protectionism is back in style. Since the 2008 advent of the Tesla Roadster (or since the 1996 debut of GM’s EV1?)

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Electric Auto Association

OCTOBER 28, 2021

He has a 34-year career as a journalist, advertiser, marketer, publicist, event planner, teacher, and fundraiser for-profit and not-for-profit organizations including Motorola, Business Marketing Association, and Michigan State University. Experience in business & market development.

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Green Car Congress

NOVEMBER 13, 2013

If you look at China and you look at the development of the market here in China, it is an inevitable consequence that the largest auto market in the world is likely going to lead a revolution in automotive paradigms. With the development of EVs, the China auto industry can transform from a big producer to the leading producer.

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Tony Karrer Delicious EVdriven

APRIL 16, 2009

Order a reprint of this article now APRIL 7, 2009 GM, Segway to Make Vehicle Article Video Comments more in Auto Industry News » Email Printer Friendly Share: Yahoo Buzz facebook MySpace LinkedIn Digg del.icio.us Home World U.S. NewsVine StumbleUpon Mixx Text Size By SHARON TERLEP General Motors Corp. is teaming with Segway Inc.,

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Tony Karrer Delicious EVdriven

APRIL 21, 2009

The auto industry is now gearing up to hash out those standards at the SAE conference in Detroit next week — and GM has a major stake in getting them out swiftly. Marketing consulting by ACS. And for this ecosystem to be robust, there must be commonality, especially when owners are plugging into the electrical grid.

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Green Car Congress

MARCH 12, 2009

The US is quickly overtaking Europe as an attractive market for EVs and is an ideal location to engineer and build EVs. The two companies are part of a growing US supply chain serving the electric vehicle and plug-in hybrid car markets. NK city in 2008. The US plant will build the TH!NK Think launched the TH!NK

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Tony Karrer Delicious EVdriven

APRIL 22, 2009

Alternative-fuel cars were some of the hottest items on display at the Shanghai auto show from homegrown companies like Geely Automobile Holdings Ltd., " Some regulatory and market characteristics make China one of the most promising markets to experiment with electric cars. China auto parts firms face.

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Tony Karrer Delicious EVdriven

APRIL 21, 2009

’s expertise on the auto industry in general, we are concerned that in its understanding of future pathways, it offers a flawed analysis and predictions based on business-as-usual,&# notes a posting on the California Car Initiative’s Web site. There’s plenty of room in the market for both. and Chrysler.

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Green Car Congress

JULY 7, 2010

This report is the third NRC review of the FreedomCAR and Fuel Research Program; Phase 1 and Phase 2 reviews were issued in 2005 and 2008, respectively. This research could provide sufficient information for the auto industry to make decisions about the marketability of hydrogen-powered vehicles by 2015.

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Tony Karrer Delicious EVdriven

APRIL 21, 2009

In late 2008, BYD started selling the first production PHEV in China. First Escape PHEV delivered to SCE Nov 2007; 20 in 2008-2009. Several after-market companies have done PHEV conversions of the Ford Escape hybrid and one has done a retrofit of the F-150 pickup -- see Where PHEVs Are and ICE-Conversions.) Batteries not ready.

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Green Car Congress

SEPTEMBER 23, 2013

The program backs automotive companies that offer both green energy initiatives, such as increased fuel efficiency, and new auto industry jobs in the United States. The company lost about $1 billion between 2008 and 2012, according to a Reuters article. Earlier post.)

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