Green Car Congress
MAY 11, 2009
The Honda Fit was the best-selling car among new vehicle registrations in Japan for calendar year 2008 and the fiscal year ended March 31, 2009. Fit was also the industry’s best-selling car for the month of March 2009, for the fourth consecutive month since December 2008, until it was displaced by Insight.
Green Car Congress
FEBRUARY 16, 2011
Official US EPA fuel economy estimates will be available closer to the car’s on-sale date. The electric motor is connected to a nickel metal hydride (NiMh) battery that stores electric energy recovered from braking and other driving situations. With standard performance tires, the Panamera S Hybrid’s fuel consumption is 7.1
Green Car Congress
JUNE 16, 2009
Menahem Anderman, President of Advanced Automotive Batteries and the organizer of last week’s Advanced Automotive Battery Conference 2009. Reflecting the current difficulties in forecasting, Anderman, who publishes an annual market forecast for the sector, said he decided not to produce the 2009 report. Data: Tom Cackette, ARB.
Green Car Congress
FEBRUARY 14, 2009
Bubble chart of plausible mainstream PHEV buyers’ battery requirements (light and dark gray circles) and experts’s requirements overlaid on a Ragone plot of NiMH and Li-ion batteries. the first time in your entire lives you’ve ever heard the EPA and the OEMs agree on something: tax the fuel. Source: Ken Kurani.
Green Car Congress
MARCH 2, 2009
The Gen III Prius offers an EPA-rated combined cycle fuel economy of 50 mpg (now revealed to comprise 50 mpg city and 49 mpg highway). The Gen III Prius offers an EPA-rated combined cycle fuel economy of 50 mpg (now revealed to comprise 50 mpg city and 49 mpg highway). Battery pack.
Green Car Congress
AUGUST 13, 2009
The ActiveHybrid X6 will reach US BMW Centers in fourth-quarter 2009, and the ActiveHybrid 7 will arrive in the US in Spring 2010. EPA ratings will be available closer to the market introduction. Energy storage is provided by a NiMH battery pack positioned beneath the floor of the luggage compartment. Earlier post.).
Green Car Congress
APRIL 8, 2009
Mercedes-Benz staged the world premiere of the ML 450 HYBRID at the 2009 New York International Auto Show (NYIAS) ( earlier post ). As a point of comparison, the 2009 Cadillac Escalade 2WD two-mode hybrid carries an EPA rating of 20 mpg city, 21 mpg highway (11.8 kWh, 288V liquid-cooled high-voltage NiMH battery pack.
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