Electric Vehicles India

FEBRUARY 14, 2023

In addition to developing its fuel cell technology, since 2013, Honda has been collaborating with General Motors to develop fuel cell systems and hydrogen storage technology. We introduced the FCX Clarity sedan in 2008. We want to introduce a brand-new FCEV based on the CR-V 5-seater SUV the following year, in 2024.”

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Honda Hydrogen Vehicles Isuzu 76

Green Car Congress

JUNE 11, 2009

General Motors has announced that there will be no retail production of the Chevrolet Malibu hybrid for model year (MY) 2010 due to “elevated inventory levels of the 2009 model.” 2008 Malibu hybrid. A limited amount of 2010 Malibu hybrids may be produced to fulfill fleet sales requests. Click to enlarge.

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Green Car Congress

SEPTEMBER 8, 2011

Average on-road fuel economy in the US for all vehicles in 2008 was 17.4 That drop by itself, note Sivak and Schoettle, increased the energy intensity of driving per occupant by about 30%. mpg US (13.5 L/100km); in 1923, the average was 14.0

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Fuel Economy Economy Fuel North America 252

Green Car Congress

AUGUST 30, 2009

General Motors China and China FAW Group Corp. In December 2008, the two parties signed a joint venture contract. have formed a light commercial vehicle joint venture: FAW-GM Light Duty Commercial Vehicle Co. The new 50-50 joint venture between GM China and FAW is based in Changchun, Jilin.

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Light GM Commercial China 210

Revenge of the Electric Car

NOVEMBER 18, 2008

Friday November 14th, 2008 - GM Training Center - Burbank, CA. City Council Member, held a press conference demanding General Motors apologize to the American people for destroying the automaker’s EV1 plug-in electric vehicle. It’s a dishonest act on the part of General Motors.” said Holden.

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EV1 Congress General Motors GM 140

Green Car Congress

MARCH 2, 2011

SB LiMotive was established in September 2008 as a joint venture between Bosch and Samsung SDI. Bosch has extensive experience in hybrid and electric drive technology as well as power electronics, electric motors, transmissions and DC/DC converters. Cobasys, with two sites in Orion, Mich.,

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Li-ion Lithium Ion Energy DC 186

Green Car Congress

DECEMBER 8, 2010

Ten companies, agencies and universities have joined an initiative between The Gas Company (TGC), and General Motors to support a ramp up of hydrogen-powered vehicles and associated fueling infrastructure in Hawaii by 2015. Earlier post.).

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Hawaii Hydrogen Fuel Vehicles 199

Green Car Congress

NOVEMBER 20, 2009

For 2008, the last year for which EPA has final data from automakers, the average fuel economy value was 21.0 Seven of the nine highest-selling marketing groups increased fuel economy (which also reduced CO 2 emissions) from MY2007 to MY2008. mpg US (11.2 Hybrids are projected to have 1.8% share of MY2009 sales, diesels 0.5%.

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Revenge of the Electric Car

NOVEMBER 25, 2009

automaker since Henry Ford’s Ford Motor debuted its shares in 1956. The company’s chairman Elon Musk said early last year that an IPO was a possibility in either late 2008 or 2009.&#. automaker since Henry Ford’s Ford Motor debuted its shares in 1956. Electric-car maker Tesla preparing IPO. by Reuters.

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Tesla 2008 Ford Low Cost 140

Green Car Congress

AUGUST 4, 2009

General Motors. Toyota Motor Sales, USA (TMS) reported July sales of 174,872, down 11.4% over July 2008. over July 2008. American Honda Motor Co., compared to July 2008 results. Jeep Patriot sales increased 134 percent (8,059 units) compared with July 2008. Monthly sales of hybrids.

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Cash For Clunkers Sale Hybrid Dodge 150

Green Car Congress

JANUARY 4, 2012

With a few exceptions, General Motors Company (GM), Ford Motor Company (Ford), and Chrysler Group LLC (Chrysler) have focused mainly on refining existing vehicles in 2012, rather than introducing new models or new versions of existing models. than was seen in 2010 and 2011.

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2012 Detroit Chrysler Sale 186

Green Car Congress

JUNE 8, 2009

General Motors further expanded its battery research and development capabilities by opening what it called the largest and most technologically advanced battery lab in the US on its Technical Center campus in Warren, MI. Planning began in December 2007 and construction started in August 2008.

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Global GM Batteries Battery 170

Green Car Congress

MAY 30, 2009

Canada-based international auto supplier and contract assembler Magna International, now with a Memorandum of Understanding for the acquisition of Opel from General Motors ( earlier post ), sees vehicle electrification as one of its key strategic initiatives. We have come a long way in a year’s time. Siegfried Wolf. Earlier post.)

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Lithium Ion Vehicles Energy Storage Hybrid 170

Green Car Congress

DECEMBER 24, 2009

The United States Advanced Battery Consortium LLC (USABC)—an organization whose members are Chrysler Group LLC, Ford Motor Company and General Motors Company—is seeking requests for proposal information (RFPIs) for four projects related to advanced battery development for hybrid electric, plug-in hybrid electric and electric vehicles.

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Energy Storage Plug-in Hybrid Electric Vehicles 225

Green Car Congress

SEPTEMBER 12, 2011

The report expects aluminum to double its share of the light vehicle material mix by 2025 vs. the 2008 EPA baseline vehicle. —Randall Scheps, Chairman of the Aluminum Association’s Aluminum Transportation Group and Marketing Director at Alcoa, Inc. Ducker Worldwide. Click to enlarge.

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2012 Downsizing Auto Industrial 186

Revenge of the Electric Car

DECEMBER 23, 2008

Automakers hope to use the batteries in next- generation hybrids as well as plug-in electric cars. General Motors has said it might use foreign-produced batteries in the Chevrolet Volt, the plug-in scheduled for production in 2010. LA Times, December 20, 2008. December 20, 2008 U.S. Industry consultants say U.S.

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Power Powered Batteries Battery 100

Green Car Congress

APRIL 14, 2009

The four companies receiving the tax credits and announcing plant plans are Johnson Controls-Saft Advanced Power Solutions LLC; KD Advanced Battery Group LLC; A123Systems Inc.; JCS has partnered with Ford Motor Company on battery cell manufacturing, pack and system development, and integration capability. and LG Chem-Compact Power Inc.

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Tax Credit Michigan Li-ion Tax 150

Green Car Congress

NOVEMBER 14, 2012

How do we now take this pre-competitive work—funded by this group and exclusive to this group—and now make it available? In 2008, Reaction Design announced the launch of the MFC-II in response to tightening emissions standards and research linking respiratory conditions to harmful microscopic soot particles.

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Fuel Design Engine Emissions 225

Clean Fleet Report

OCTOBER 21, 2021

It’s a robust list of a variety of models–the majority of which are focused on the hot crossover segment–with total sales of more than 150,000 from six major automaker groups. The only upgrade is the Plaid version that features even faster acceleration from three motors, producing sub-two second 0-60 runs.

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Electric Cars Cars Plug-in Electric 105

Green Car Congress

JUNE 1, 2009

General Motors Corp. Reduce GM’s total number of assembly, powertrain and stamping facilities in the US from 47 in 2008 to 34 by the end of 2010 and 33 by 2012. GM’s restructuring advisor is AP Services LLP and its financial advisors are Morgan Stanley, Evercore Partners and the Blackstone Group LLP. Earlier post.)

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Revenge of the Electric Car

MAY 17, 2010

Cleantech Group and Deloitte. advocacy group Plug In America.&#. Interest in electric cars is surging: •Nearly 52,000 people were wait-listed as of mid-April for General Motors’ electric model, the Volt, due in November. Electric-car ventures made up nearly 40. percent of $1.9 car’s introduction. .

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China E6 Gasoline-Electric Chinese 133

Plug In Partners

DECEMBER 14, 2007

The first of Toshiba's groundbreaking SCiB packs will ship in March 2008 to an industrial systems market that Toshiba forecasts being worth 100 billion Yen by 2015. Finally, Mitsubishi Motors Corporation is working to promote greater use of electric vehicles, which is the ultimate in environmentally-friendly automobiles.

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Charging Li-ion Lithium Ion Mitsubishi 100

Green Car Congress

MAY 17, 2012

The Sustaining Members of CRC are the American Petroleum Institute (API) and a group of automobile manufacturer members (Chrysler, Ford, General Motors, Honda, Mitsubishi, Nissan, Toyota, and Volkswagen). More specifically: The CRC failed to establish a proper control group. Background.

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2001 2009 Engine Industrial 199

Green Car Congress

MAY 26, 2009

In another invited paper at ECS 215, Mark Verbrugge, Materials and Processes Laboratory, General Motors R&D Center, presented an update of work done in collaboration with Professor Yang-Tse Cheng at the University of Kentucky on the role of mechanical deformation on the life of electrode materials for traction batteries.

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Batteries Battery Nickel Metal Hydride Li-ion 150

Green Car Congress

MARCH 21, 2009

The Gen 1 Volt 16 kWh pack, comprising more than 200 cells grouped into modules. We spent all of 2008 evaluating cells. ”. by Mike Millikin and Jack Rosebro. GM is defining a “reuse” strategy for cells, packs and modules within its future vehicle line-up. Click to enlarge.

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Volt GM Future Batteries 150

Green Car Congress

MAY 28, 2009

General Motors last week again highlighted the progress it is making with advanced HCCI (homogeneous charge compression ignition) gasoline engines by showcasing a demonstrator unit. Then in the Spring of 2008.we GM approaches to extending the operating range of classic HCCI. Adapted from Yun et al.

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Range GM 2009 Engine 150

Creative Greenius

JANUARY 17, 2009

Electric cars everywhere you looked, quiet as a mouse and making a total mockery out of General Motors, Ford, and Chrysler who could have been making these cars for the last decade, but instead had to be pushed to the brink of bankruptcy and shame-filled failure before they would start even talking about making these cars.

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Convert Plug-in i-MiEV Plug 150

Green Car Congress

JULY 1, 2009

General Motors China and its joint ventures sold 814,442 vehicles in China in the first half of 2009. from the first six months of 2008. GM China Group President and Managing Director Kevin Wale. from the first half of 2008. This represented an increase of 38.0% to 32,065 units.

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GM China Sale Minivan 150

Tony Karrer Delicious EVdriven

APRIL 21, 2009

Splinter’s view, state portfolio standards — which have taken the lead since a national standard was cut from the 2007 energy bill — … States Will Continue to Drive Renewable Portfolios in 2008 Artificial Moore’s Law for Cleantech: Renewable Standards, by Steps : [.] Design by RareEdge Design Group.

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Plug-in Standards GM Plug 39

Green Car Congress

SEPTEMBER 2, 2009

General Motors sales in China in the first eight months of 2009 increased 49.6% We expect GM sales for the year as a whole to rise by more than 40 percent from 2008. —GM GM China Group President and Managing Director Kevin Wale. on an annual basis to 1,111,401 units. year-on-year to 152,365 units. million units last year.

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GM Sale Buick Minivan 170

Get Electric Vehicle

MAY 30, 2021

Tesla Motors began production in 2008 with the Roadster, which was essentially an AC Propulsion vehicle with kit-car parts replaced by one-grade-above-kit-car Lotus Elise pieces in the first generation. On the periodic table, lithium is a soft, silver-white metal belonging to the alkali metal group. million metric tonnes.

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Li-ion Lithium Ion Industrial Industry 52

Tony Karrer Delicious EVdriven

APRIL 21, 2009

In late 2008, BYD started selling the first production PHEV in China. Weve kept the summary table below generally up-to-date for passenger PHEVs, but not for BEVs, motorcycles or larger vehicles like buses and trucks. First Escape PHEV delivered to SCE Nov 2007; 20 in 2008-2009. See our frequent comments at our news archive.

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Plug-in Plug Hybrid PHEV 45

Green Cars News

SEPTEMBER 2, 2009

As we looked at in this week’s Green Piece Column , China may represent the most important market for auto manufacturers going forward – and so General Motors (GM) will feel rightfully encouraged by its sales success in the country so far this year. In the first eight months of 2008, its sales have increased by 49.6

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GM China Sale Buick 32

Green Car Congress

MARCH 17, 2009

The total deal, the largest yet secured by Torotrak, opens up major new markets for the company’s technology in the truck and bus sectors—currently experiencing a clear upturn in demand for gear shift automation—and builds on agreements already concluded with Tata Motors Ltd and a major unnamed European truck manufacturer. Click to enlarge.

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2007 Commercial Market Corporation 150

Green Car Congress

MARCH 27, 2009

This alternative, which corresponds to the Optimized Mid-2 scenario described in the final environmental impact statement (FEIS) on the new CAFE released by NHTSA in October 2008 ( earlier post ), is the one the agency is adopting for MY 2011 rules.

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2011 MPG Standards Industrial 210

Tony Karrer Delicious EVdriven

APRIL 21, 2009

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. The group pointed to a B.C.G. Supporters of the car say that’s shortsighted.

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Volt Green Electric Cars 2009 42

Tony Karrer Delicious EVdriven

APRIL 16, 2009

Revenues, which have grown by about 45% annually during the past five years, reached $4 billion in 2008. He was paid about $265,000 in 2008, and he lives in a BYD-owned apartment complex with other engineers. Each of BYDs business units - batteries, mobile-phone components, and autos - was profitable in 2008, albeit on a small scale.

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BYD 2009 Companies Electric Cars 62