Green Car Congress

FEBRUARY 21, 2013

The plug-in diesel-electric hybrid, which Volkswagen will showcase at the Geneva show, can cover a distance of up to 50 km (31 miles) in all-electric mode. Volkswagen has confirmed that its XL1 Super Efficient Vehicle, featuring fuel consumption of 0.9 l/100 km (approx. hp, Volkswagen says. In all-electric mode, the XL1 requires less than 0.1

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Green Car Congress

JANUARY 24, 2013

During 2012, CCSE conducted research to evaluate the current readiness for plug-in electric vehicles (PEVs) in the Central Valley and San Diego regions and identified areas for improvement. The reports show a wide difference in preparedness between the two. Other cities and the county are addressing such issues on various levels.

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Green Car Congress

SEPTEMBER 29, 2009

The city of Brighton UK) plans to install 20 Elektrobay roadside charging stations for plug-in electric vehicles (PEV) over the coming year. Elektromotive has already completed installation of four Elektrobays at pilot sites in Brighton. The remaining Elektrobays will be installed in two phases.

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Green Car Congress

JUNE 21, 2011

Odyne’s plug-in hybrid system. The new parallel plug-in hybrid system features a Remy HVH250 electric motor ( earlier post )—80 hp continuous, 110 hp peak—and a choice of 14 kWh or 28 kWh lithium-ion battery packs. In January 2009, Odyne’s assets were acquired by the parent company of DUECO, Inc.

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Green Car Congress

SEPTEMBER 25, 2009

Volvo Car Corporation is postponing its plans to produce a full hybrid based on a diesel engine and instead will introduce a series-produced plug-in diesel hybrid (PHEV) in Europe as early as 2012. The plug-in will support up to a 50 km (31 mile) all-electric range—sufficient to cover the daily transport needs of 75% of European drivers.

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Green Car Congress

JUNE 24, 2013

During a media event in Wolfsburg, Germany, Volkswagen provided a medium dive into details of its two-seater XL1 Super Efficient Vehicle diesel plug-in hybrid ( earlier post ) as well as some driving time on local roads and highways. XL1s ready to roll. Click to enlarge. two-cylinder diesel, 20 kW electric motor and 5.5 Click to enlarge.

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Green Car Congress

OCTOBER 28, 2010

TOTE) cargo ships will now plug into electrical power and shut down diesel engines while docked during weekly calls at their Tacoma terminal. The EPA grant was provided under the American Reinvestment and Recovery Act (ARRA) of 2009 National Clean Diesel Funding Assistance Program. Supported by an EPA grant worth nearly $1.5

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Green Car Congress

SEPTEMBER 16, 2013

Ford Motor Company is installing a new workplace plug-in vehicle charging network at nearly every Ford facility in the US and Canada. Ford will install charging stations at more than 50 company offices, product development campuses and manufacturing facilities. In 2009, there were 3,000 known public charge stations.

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All-Electric Ford Charging Electric Vehicles 338

Green Car Congress

JANUARY 28, 2012

Odyne Systems, LLC has delivered seven trucks featuring the Odyne plug-in hybrid propulsion system to utilities and municipalities throughout Wisconsin. Marshfield Utilities, serving the city of Marshfield, Wisconsin took delivery of its first Odyne hybrid truck in 2009. Manufactured by DUECO, Inc. Manufactured by DUECO, Inc.

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Green Car Congress

AUGUST 20, 2009

Over the past year, Semcon , a global engineering services company, has been working with Volvo Cars’ development of 3 demo plug-in hybrids in a cooperation project between Volvo Cars, Vattenfall, ETC and Energimyndigheten (The Swedish Energy Agency). Anders Björnberg, responsible for the plug-in project at Volvo Cars. Earlier post.).

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Green Car Congress

MAY 25, 2010

million electric vehicle charge points will be installed worldwide during the period from 2010 to 2015 to support the transition to plug-in vehicles. China, which in 2009 became the world’s largest automotive market, will represent more than one-third of the global market for charging equipment, according to Pike.

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Green Car Congress

JULY 1, 2009

The City of Hillsboro, Oregon plans to deploy 16 Coulomb Technologies ChargePoint Networked Charging Stations for plug-in and electric vehicles. The charging stations will be installed in downtown Hillsboro, including at a new intermodal transit facility to be built in 2009.

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Creative Greenius

APRIL 25, 2021

But I was still stoked to exhibit the car at every LA area EV Expo, Earth Day Event and Plug-In spectacular. Learning to install solar with GRID Alternatives in 2009. That’s me on January 16, 2017, with my brand new Chevy Bolt EV Premier edition in my garage at home. Debra Bushweit Galliani in 2013 with our first electric car.

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Green Car Congress

FEBRUARY 22, 2010

The new F800 Style is a five-seat upper-range sedan featuring an all-new multi drive platform suited for a hydrogen fuel cell electric drive with a range of almost 600 kilometers (373 miles) as well as the a plug-in hybrid drive with a 30 km (19 mile) all-electric range. F 800 Style Plug-in Hybrid. F800 Plug-in Hybrid, Gasoline.

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Creative Greenius

AUGUST 5, 2009

They delivered the cars late, they screwed up the installation of the proprietary charging stations at the homes of lessees and they restricted the range and the easy chargeability of the vehicles. Plug-In insiders know exactly what BMW is trying to pull with all this and many have lost respect for BMW as a result.

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Green Car Congress

SEPTEMBER 22, 2010

It also looks at strategic and infrastructure opportunities that will accommodate the expected influx of plug-in hybrid and all-electric cars, and investment in research and development for new technologies related to generation and distribution. —California Clean Energy Future Implementation Plan.

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Green Car Congress

AUGUST 14, 2014

The project, funded by DTE Energy, will provide employees with 360 covered parking spaces and 30 charging stations for plug-in electric vehicles such as the company’s Ford Fusion Energi and C-MAX Hybrid Energi. The solar installation is part of an initiative DTE Energy launched in 2009 called SolarCurrents.

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Green Car Congress

APRIL 29, 2009

On 20 April, the opening day of the SAE 2009 World Congress, the AVL Technology Leadership Theater presented a forum on “Green Mobility—The Long View”. by Bill Cooke. Organized by Shane Chang at Honda Research Institute USA Inc., Organized by Shane Chang at Honda Research Institute USA Inc., Dr. Luca Guala, Systemica.

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Plug in America

OCTOBER 13, 2023

This was 2009, a full year before the first mainstream mass-produced EVs had hit the road, so we mostly had Toyota RAV4 EVs. This was 2009, a full year before the first mainstream mass-produced EVs had hit the road, so we mostly had Toyota RAV4 EVs. Little else had been delivered in any significant number. It didn’t matter.

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Green Car Congress

DECEMBER 26, 2009

Toyota Industries Corp (TIC) has developed a solar charging station for plug-in hybrid vehicles (PHVs) and electric vehicles (EVs). Full operation of the stations will begin in April, with 20 Prius Plug-In Hybrids. TIC launched its current EVSE stands in July 2009. kW solar panel in an 8.4 kW solar panel in an 8.4

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Green Car Congress

MARCH 30, 2012

Through the Chicago-Area EV Infrastructure Project, 26 fast-chargers have been installed, with 73 total fast-chargers planned. The installations, managed by 350Green, were performed by Chicago-based JNS Power & Control Systems. Before plugging in to one of the Tollway’s fast-chargers, drivers must purchase a payment card from 350Green.

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Illinois Chicago Charging Installation 274

Green Car Congress

JULY 15, 2014

In 2009, BMW selected SB Limotive, a joint venture between Bosch and Samsung SDI, as the battery supplier for its “MegaCity” vehicle—what would become the BMW i3 and then the i line. Samsung SDI will supply the BMW Group with battery cells for the BMW i3, BMW i8 and additional hybrid models over the coming years. Earlier post.)

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Green Car Congress

DECEMBER 17, 2013

The Electrification Coalition, launched in November 2009, is committed to promoting policies and actions that facilitate the deployment of electric vehicles on a mass scale in order to combat the economic, environmental, and national security threats posed by US dependence on petroleum. Earlier post.). Earlier post.).

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Green Car Congress

MARCH 23, 2009

The Japanese firm, said to be first to turn out portable fuel cells on such a scale, is installing an assembly line at a Yokohama facility. Although production will initially focus on external fuel cells for recharging, the company plans to commercialize mobile handsets and PCs with built-in fuel cells by the end of fiscal 2009.

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Green Car Congress

MAY 10, 2018

Last month UPS announced that it had installed a radical new charging technology at its central London depot in Camden that overcomes the challenge of simultaneously recharging an entire fleet of EVs without the need for an expensive upgrade to the power supply grid. We are helping to drive demand for these disruptive technologies.

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Green Car Congress

OCTOBER 6, 2010

Built by Swiss electric rail supplier Furrer+Frey and Germany’s Schunk, the Opbrid Bůsbaar can be installed easily in any location, since it is unobtrusive and swings away from the road when not in use. The Bůsbaar can be installed in days at a fraction of the time and cost for installing an electric tram or trolleybus system.

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Green Car Congress

OCTOBER 1, 2015

Chrysler Ram Pickup: plug-in hybrid electric vehicles (PHEVs). 2013, this combined project installed nearly 17,000 alternating current (AC) Level 2 charging stations for residential and commercial use and more than 100 dual-port direct current (DC) fast chargers in 22 regions across the United States. Between 1 Jan. 2011, and 31 Dec.

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Green Car Congress

DECEMBER 5, 2011

Building on Evatran’s first product trials around its headquarters in Virginia and its prototype installation at Google’s Mountain View campus in early 2011, this trial, which Evatran is calling the “Apollo Launch Program”, will follow market leaders from six industry segments as they trial Plugless Power systems on their own Volt and LEAF vehicles.

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Creative Greenius

MAY 14, 2009

After a decade in the solar power installation business, Bradley Bartz is tired of being Mr. Nice Guy. He’s filed suit against Torrance, the proud home of Exxon/Mobil’s refinery, for stopping him from installing solar panels in the Hillside Overlay district. See how this house towers over the one next to it?

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Solar Installation California Building 210

Green Car Congress

APRIL 9, 2009

Nestlé Waters North America has installed 32 Plug Power GenDrive hydrogen fuel cells, purchased in 2008, in its materials-handling fleet at their Dallas, Texas bottling facility. The fueling station is to be installed and operational during the second quarter of 2009.

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Green Car Congress

JUNE 7, 2017

With more than 750,000 units sold over the year, the number of electric vehicles in the global parc—primarily Battery Electric Vehicles (BEVs) and Plug-in Hybrid Electric Vehicles (PHEVs)—surpassed 2 million units in 2016, following a year of strong growth in 2015, according to the International Energy Agency’s Global EV Outlook 2017.

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Setec Powerr

OCTOBER 20, 2022

Through its multipath strategy, Toyota offers a complete range of electrification technologies, from Hybrid Electric Vehicles (HEV), Plug-in Hybrid Electric Vehicles (PHEV) to Battery Electric Vehicles (BEV). The 143 electric cars consist of 41 units of Toyota bZ4X and 102 units of Lexus UX 300e.

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Indonesia Lexus Power Powered 98

Green Car Congress

SEPTEMBER 6, 2009

GENCO Supply Chain Solutions recently ordered 136 GenDrive fuel cell power units from PLug Power Inc. million award made to GENCO in April, 2009 by the US Department of Energy (DOE) through the American Recovery and Reinvestment Act. The order consists of 100 class-3 pallet jack units and 36 class-2 standup reach truck units.

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Purchase Fuel Power Powered 225

Green Car Congress

NOVEMBER 26, 2009

UK-based Elektromotive has appointed The PluginCompany to install networks of electric vehicle (EV) charging stations across Belgium and Luxembourg. Pilot schemes will see the installation of 20 Elektrobay units in the two countries by the end of this year, ahead of further planned rollouts during 2010. The Elektrobay.

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Green Car Congress

OCTOBER 29, 2012

Comparing the subsidy necessary to achieve lifetime cost parity with the least-cost option for each vehicle class in the base case, they found that the maximum cost per gallon saved for increased all electric range (AER) is 5%–40% less than the minimum cost per gallon saved when installing charging infrastructure, depending on vehicle class.

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The Truth About Cars

JANUARY 5, 2024

In 2009 Raser displayed a Hummer H3 that claimed to return up to 100 miles* on a gallon of fuel (*in local daily driving) when it was outfitted with the company’s range-extender plug-in electric powertrain. Lutz was a staunch supporter of GM’s plug-in hybrid of the time, the Cruze-based Volt.

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Green Car Congress

NOVEMBER 8, 2013

The OIG concluded that DOE had not provided information that raised questions about Ecotality’s ability to meet its project goals, including completing planned EV charger installations and the collection of EV usage data—even though the data had a “ readily apparent ” connection to the OIG audit then underway. Earlier post.).

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