Green Car Congress

OCTOBER 19, 2010

Norbert Reithofer, Chairman of the Board of Management of BMW AG, and Philippe Varin, Chairman of the Managing Board of PSA Peugeot Citroën have signed a Memorandum of Understanding to expand their companies’ cooperation by including hybrid components for front-wheel-drive vehicles. Tags: Hybrids Vehicle Manufacturers.

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Green Car Congress

APRIL 7, 2011

The BMW Brilliance plug-in hybrid concept. BMW Group and its Chinese joint venture partner Brilliance China Automotive Holdings Ltd. have presented a concept plug-in hybrid sedan based on the long wheelbase version of the BMW 5 Series Sedan. This also applies to field testing of the BMW ActiveE.

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Green Car Reports

NOVEMBER 16, 2009

For 2010, BMW is releasing two hybrid vehicles that are very different both in style and in their approach to using electric power to assist the gasoline engine.

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Green Car Congress

OCTOBER 26, 2011

One year after the two partners signed a memorandum of understanding, the joint venture formed by the BMW Group and PSA Peugeot Citroën to develop and manufacture hybrid and drive technology—BMW Peugeot Citroën Electrification ( earlier post )—is now up and running. More than 1.8 More than 1.8

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Green Car Congress

SEPTEMBER 30, 2011

The BMW ActiveHybrid 5. BMW’s newest hybrid, the BMW ActiveHybrid 5, will arrive in US showrooms in March 2012. BMW unveiled the Concept version of the 5 Series ActiveHybrid at the Geneva Motor Show in 2010. Based on the BMW 535i Sedan, the ActiveHybrid 5 brings together BMW’s 3.0-liter

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Green Car Reports

OCTOBER 12, 2009

We've known for a while that BMW would launch its first hybrid this year, and now we know when: The 2010 BMW ActiveHybrid X6 will reach dealers this December.

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Green Car Reports

NOVEMBER 7, 2009

"Our goal was to fundamentally change the view of hybrids ," said Peter Tünnermann, project manager for the 2010 BMW ActiveHybrid X6. "We We wanted to make a 'non-hybrid' hybrid." In other words, a hybrid that didn't drive like a hybrid. And in that goal, BMW has succeeded admirably.

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Green Car Congress

JULY 16, 2015

Cryo-compressed hydrogen storage, being developed by the BMW Group based on its long experience with cryogenic storage, involves storing gaseous hydrogen at low temperature on board the vehicle at a pressure of up to 350 bar. From a 2010 paper by BMW and Lawrence Livermore researchers describing CCH 2 technology. Aceves et al.

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Green Car Congress

AUGUST 20, 2012

XL Hybrids, Inc., developer of a low-cost hybrid electric powertrain designed specifically for class 1 to 3 commercial fleet use ( earlier post ), signed a one-year supply agreement with Johnson Controls, Inc. kWh Li-ion packs for use in XL’s aftermarket hybrid conversion system.

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Green Car Congress

JANUARY 27, 2011

BMW powertrain strategy. For the first time in more than a decade, BMW will once again offer a four-cylinder engine in the United States, said Jim O’Donnell, president BMW North America, in remarks at the Washington DC Auto Show. BMW: relationship between cell and system characteristics for Li-ion for hybrids.

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Green Car Congress

APRIL 5, 2010

The top two vendors of hybrids in the US, Toyota and Ford, each reported strong gains in hybrid sales in March 2010 year-on-year. Toyota saw its overall hybrid sales grow 21.6% Ford reported hybrid sales of 3,050 units, up 69.3% Honda, however, reported a decrease in hybrid sales of 22.2% from March 2009.

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Green Car Congress

FEBRUARY 26, 2010

Along with the world debut of the new BMW 5 Series Sedan ( earlier post ) at the 2010 Geneva Motor Show, BMW is also presenting the BMW Concept 5 Series ActiveHybrid—its first combination of a BMW straight-six with electric drive. Tags: Hybrids. The Concept 5 Series ActiveHybrid Click to enlarge.

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Green Car Congress

NOVEMBER 19, 2009

The BMW ActiveHybrid X6 ( earlier post ) will arrive in US showrooms right on the heels of its North American debut at the Los Angeles International Auto Show. The Sports Active Coupe featuring two-model hybrid technology will be available beginning 5 December 2009 with a base MSRP of $89,725, including destination and handling.

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Green Car Congress

OCTOBER 9, 2013

A123’s transportation business continues to serve customers including BAE Systems, BMW, Daimler, GM and SAIC, among others. The executive team is headquartered in A123’s Livonia, Michigan facility which has continuously produced battery systems for the company’s global list of clients since 2010. Batteries Hybrids' Earlier post.)

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Green Car Congress

NOVEMBER 14, 2011

SB LiMotive, the 50:50 Li-ion battery joint venture between Robert Bosch and Samsung SDI, will supply Li-ion battery packs to Mahindra & Mahindra for a new hybrid SUV from the Indian company in 2013. Series production of battery cells began at Ulsan in 2010. The BMW Active E electric vehicle also uses SB LiMotive cells.

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Green Car Congress

AUGUST 13, 2009

The BMW ActiveHybrid 7. BMW announced the production versions of the BMW ActiveHybrid X6 and the BMW ActiveHybrid 7. The ActiveHybrid X6 will reach US BMW Centers in fourth-quarter 2009, and the ActiveHybrid 7 will arrive in the US in Spring 2010. Components of the BMW ActiveHybrid 7. Earlier post.)

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Green Car Congress

AUGUST 30, 2010

Citroën will offer the e-HDi micro-hybrid system as an option on the new DS4, to be revealed at the 2010 Paris Motor Show; the DS4 is expected to go on sale later in 2011. The three gasoline powerplants—VTi 120, THP 155 and the new THP 200—were co-developed with BMW. Tags: Engines Hybrids. The new DS4 from Citroën.

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Green Car Reports

NOVEMBER 20, 2009

We've covered BMW's first two hybrid vehicles, just launched for the upcoming year: the 2010 BMW ActiveHybrid X6 "sports activity coupe", the world's most powerful hybrid, and the 2010 BMW ActiveHybrid 7, the world's fastest hybrid sedan.

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Green Car Congress

JULY 24, 2015

According to a new technology briefing paper on hybrid system technologies by John German at the International Council on Clean Transportation (ICCT), the costs of full-function hybrid systems are likely to drop to half the cost of their 2010 counterparts before 2025. Click to enlarge.

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Green Cars News

FEBRUARY 26, 2010

While planning to debut its new BMW 5 Series saloon car at the 2010 Geneva Motor Show next week, the German car manufacturer has also revealed plans for a Concept 5 Series ActiveHybrid. The BMW Concept 5 Series ActiveHybrid will be the first combination of a straight-six with electric drive.

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Green Car Congress

AUGUST 13, 2009

The BMW ActiveHybrid X6. BMW announced the production versions of the BMW ActiveHybrid X6 and the BMW ActiveHybrid 7. The ActiveHybrid X6 will reach US BMW Centers in fourth-quarter 2009, and the ActiveHybrid 7 will arrive in the US in Spring 2010. Click to enlarge. Earlier post.). Earlier post.).

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Green Car Congress

MARCH 14, 2016

GKN Driveline has developed an eAxle module—derived from the technology used in cars such as the Porsche 918 Spyder and BMW i8—that will enable C-segment vehicles to offer buyers a plug-in hybrid option with improved performance and a reduction in CO2 emissions of more than 50%.

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Green Car Reports

MARCH 30, 2010

Hybrids originally came from mass-market brands--Toyota, Honda, then Ford--before they ascended into loftier realms (Mercedes-Benz, BMW, Porsche). Now Ford is taking its well-received hybrid sedans upscale, by adding a hybrid model to the 2011 Lincoln MKZ lineup.

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Green Car Congress

OCTOBER 11, 2014

In this tally, the BMW i3 counts as an EV in its battery-only configuration and as a PHEV when equipped with a range extender.) More are coming to the US market, such as the Audi A3 e-tron plug-in hybrid and Volkswagen e-Golf BEV. The BMW i3 with the range extender posts fuel economy just below Tesla and above the B-Class BEV.).

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Green Car Reports

FEBRUARY 26, 2010

We've already seen two hybrids from BMW: the 2010 ActiveHybrid X6 "sport activity vehicle" and 2010 ActiveHybrid 7 full-size sedan. Now BMW's third hybrid model, which it has hinted at for several months, will be unveiled next week at the Geneva Motor Show. But in fact, it's a.

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Green Car Congress

OCTOBER 17, 2013

The California ZEV Regulation requires large volume and intermediate volume vehicle manufacturers to bring to and to operate in California a certain percent of ZEVs (such as battery electric and fuel cell vehicles); plug-in hybrids; hybrids; and gasoline vehicles with near-zero tail pipe emissions.

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Green Car Reports

JANUARY 12, 2010

Only four electric vehicles really matter at the Detroit Auto Show: the 2011 Chevrolet Volt, the 2012 Nissan Leaf, and the 2012 Toyota Prius Plug-In Hybrid, plus the current 2010 Tesla Roadster. The rest fall into two categories: low-volume prototypes from makers like BMW and Volvo, and a.

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Green Car Reports

JANUARY 22, 2010

BMW is expected to unveil its third hybrid model at the 2010 Geneva Motor Show this March. It will be a mild-hybrid version of the all-new 2011 BMW 5-Series sedan line it has just unveiled, which will go on sale in June.

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Green Car Congress

OCTOBER 23, 2015

This report covers battery-electric (BEV), plug-in hybrid (PHEV), range extended electric vehicles (REV), and fuel cell electric vehicles (FCEV). The number of sold electric vehicles of all types rose from 760 in 2010 to more than 70,000 in 2014, with the trend continuing in the first half of 2015, according to the report.

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Green Car Reports

APRIL 8, 2010

Can hybrid vehicles deliver on muscle performance? To answer these questions, I took two luxury hybrid vehicles, the 2010 BMW ActiveHybrid X6 and the 2010 Cadillac Escalade Hybrid, for a week-long test drive through Southern California. The 2010 ActiveHybrid X6 and the 2010 Escalade Hybrid are.

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Green Car Reports

FEBRUARY 7, 2011

Think "hybrid" and what comes to mind? There's now actually a raft of low-volume hybrid luxury and sports sedans from such makers as Mercedes-Benz, BMW, Lexus, and now Infiniti. The 2012 Infiniti M35h Hybrid was officially unveiled at last fall's 2010 Los Angeles Auto Show after one of the more.

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Green Car Congress

JUNE 13, 2011

The University of California, Davis and the BMW Group released the largest publicly available study of electric-car users yet conducted, including more than 120 families who drove the fully electric MINI E automobile more than 1 million miles in California, New York and New Jersey from June 2009 to June 2010.

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Green Car Congress

NOVEMBER 14, 2016

The California Plug-In Electric Vehicle Collaborative (PEVC) announced that according to projections, California will this month top 250,000 plug-in electric cars sold since they became available on the market in 2010. Just a few years ago, you could count the number of plug-in models on one hand. Times have changed.

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Baua Electric

APRIL 16, 2024

By 2030, Nissan plans to introduce 19 new EVs with electrified vehicles (including hybrids) accounting for 55% of global sales. Since launching the LEAF in 2010, Nissan’s Yokohama Plant has been producing electric motors. Meanwhile, several other companies, such as Volkswagen, Hyundai, and BMW, are advancing their plans.

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EV Central

DECEMBER 30, 2023

Mitsubishi i-MiEV – from $12,000 2010 Mitsubishi i-MiEV. These tiny i-MiEVs were the first EVs on sale in Australia in 2010. BMW i3 – from $28,000 2020 BMW i3s EV. The range extender hybrid i3s are basically the same price. Perhaps these groundbreaking BMWs are close to collector status?

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Green Car Congress

JANUARY 22, 2011

Safety innovation (71% in 2010) and vehicle styling (61% in 2010) were among the factors seeing the most significant increases in perceived importance compared to last year’s survey results. Conversely, responses for hybrid vehicles dropped in 2011, and basic/introduction cars fell more than 20 percentage points from last year.

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Green Car Congress

DECEMBER 15, 2010

CGA has a network of more than 200 retail stores carrying 40 brands including Mercedes-Benz, BMW, Lexus and Lamborghini. In 2010 the company reached sales of RMB 50 billion (US$7.5 Fisker Automotive’s first car, the Fisker Karma, will make its Chinese debut at the Shanghai Motor Show in April 2011.

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