Green Car Reports

FEBRUARY 14, 2012

When the Nissan Leaf launched in 2010, it came with an optional Chademo direct current (DC) quick charging port that could enable its 24 kilowatt-hour battery pack to recharge to 80 percent in under 30 minutes at compatible quick charge stations. but Nissan.

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Green Car Congress

JULY 20, 2009

Nissan Motor Co., within the Renault-Nissan Alliance, plans to build two plants for the production of its advanced lithium-ion batteries in Europe. The governments of the UK and Portugal have offered to extend financial assistance and other support to ensure that Nissan locates the proposed plants within their respective countries.

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Green Car Congress

JULY 28, 2010

Earlier this year, Nissan Nissan North America (NNA) selected AeroVironment to supply electric vehicle home-charging stations and installation services supporting the introduction of the LEAF. The charging network is expected to be operational by 1 December 2010 to support the variety of new EVs entering the roadways.

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Green Car Congress

JULY 27, 2009

Nissan Motor Co., Nissan’s EVs go to market in the US and Japan in 2010. A 24 kWh laminated compact lithium-ion battery pack from Nissan joint venture AESC is placed under the vehicle floor for more efficient packaging, without compromising cabin or cargo space. A Nissan Zero-emission Website will also go live then.

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Green Car Congress

DECEMBER 14, 2011

By comparison, the Nissan LEAF carries a 99 MPGe (combined) EPA rating, while the smaller i-MiEV carries a 112 MPGe (combined) rating. (1 Ford’s rollout of electrified vehicles began in December 2010 with the 2011 Ford Transit Connect Electric—a small commercial van built in collaboration with Azure Dynamics. Earlier post.).

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Plug In Partners

SEPTEMBER 25, 2006

H ere is another very encouraging development Nissan to end Toyota hybrid tie-up The Yomiuri Shimbun N issan Motor Co. The independently produced low-emission and fuel-efficient models will be released on 2010 , the sources said. have used, the lithium-ion battery has more capacity and can be recharged more quickly.

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Green Car Congress

JUNE 1, 2011

The stations will be placed at convenient locations and will allow drivers to recharge their electric vehicles from a fully-discharged state in less than 30 minutes. AeroVironment’s Level 3 fast charging stations are CHAdeMO compliant and so compatible with fast-charge capable EV models such as the Nissan LEAF.

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Green Car Congress

JANUARY 30, 2018

Based on 12,330 miles driven per year, the pure battery electric Nissan Leaf has lower five-year and 10-year life cycle costs than the internal combustion Hyundai Elantra and the plug-in hybrid Chevrolet Volt, even without the federal government incentive. Tesla’s Superchargers can recharge EVs to 80% in 20 to 40 minutes.

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EV Central

DECEMBER 30, 2023

Nissan Leaf – from $9000 2012 Nissan Leaf. Mitsubishi i-MiEV – from $12,000 2010 Mitsubishi i-MiEV. These tiny i-MiEVs were the first EVs on sale in Australia in 2010. 2021 Lexus UX300e – from $56,000 2021 Volvo XC40 Recharge – from $62,000 2018 Jaguar I-Pace – from $65,100 (only 18,000km!)

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Cars That Think

JULY 13, 2023

Goodenough was awarded the 2012 IEEE Medal for Environmental and Safety Technologies for discoveries that “paved the way for development of the rechargeable lithium-ion battery technology.” It was there that Goodenough made his mark while working on a rechargeable lithium battery with Koichi Mizushima , a postdoctoral researcher.

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Plug In Partners

MAY 20, 2008

N ow that the number one automaker and the number two automaker has made the commitment to building Plug In hybrid / electric vehicles by 2010, another automotive giant is joining the race. Here is the story from the New York Times : Nissan Plans Electric Car in U.S. Thus, Nissan will be offering serial plug in hybrids.

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Green Car Congress

APRIL 23, 2010

Fisker automobiles are range-extended electric vehicles, driven by electric motors that get their power from a rechargeable Lithium-ion battery, or, when that is depleted, by a generator driven by an efficient gas-powered engine. The Karma is scheduled to appear in showrooms in late 2010.

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Green Car Congress

SEPTEMBER 15, 2012

VLC 4.0), the next generation version of the innovative, light-weight, fuel-efficient vehicle entered in the Progressive Automotive XPRIZE in 2010. kWh battery pack to achieve a 100-mile (161 km) range, the eVLC recorded 245 MPGe (EPA combined), compared to 99 MPGe of the Nissan Leaf. Earlier post.). Needing only a 10.5

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Creative Greenius

AUGUST 5, 2009

I have seen the future and it is a new car electric car from Nissan. Nissan is about to drink GM’s milkshake with a breakthrough, affordable, next generation electric car that will be beat the Chevy Volt to market, cost half as much and work twice as well. And by that I mean the end of 2010. Plus it looks ten times cooler.

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Green Car Reports

DECEMBER 14, 2009

High Gear Media has partnered with Tesla Motors on a new writing contest where YOU can win a tour and road test of the 2010 Tesla Roadster Sport. Enter now! == As a plug-in battle starts to take shape among the 2011 Chevrolet Volt, the 2012 Nissan Leaf, and a rechargeable.

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Green Car Congress

JULY 25, 2014

The study by William Sierzchula at Delft University of Technology, published in the journal Transportation Research Part D , used fleet manager interviews and pilot project report to investigate 14 US and Dutch organizations that adopted EVs from 2010 to 2013 to determine which factors influenced their purchase decisions.

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Green Car Congress

JANUARY 7, 2011

” Familiarity about the Nissan Leaf stood at 17%, and product knowledge for some of its characteristics was also low among those familiar with the car: 30% of those familiar with the Leaf agreed with the correct statement that “the battery pack that runs the Nissan Leaf should last around 100,000 miles.”

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Green Cars News

SEPTEMBER 6, 2010

Tuesday, September 7, 2010: The Green Piece. After what seems like decades of anticipation, electric cars will finally break off their shackles as niche vehicles and drive into the mainstream with the upcoming launch of the Nissan LEAF electric car and the extended range Chevrolet Volt (Vauxhall/Opel Ampera).

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Green Car Congress

JUNE 24, 2009

million North East project that will see an initial 35 passenger vehicles developed in the region, which is already home to one of Europe’s most productive car plants, Nissan, and Smith Electric Vehicles, the world-leading manufacturer of commercial electric vehicles. Electric Vehicle Accelerated Development in the North East is a £10.7-million

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Green Cars News

JULY 20, 2009

Carmaker Nissan is to begin manufacturing batteries for electric cars at its Sunderland plant. Prime Minister Gordon Brown and Business Secretary Lord Mandelson today welcomed Nissan’s intention to invest more than £200m over the next five years in a new battery factory in Sunderland. Nissan Motor Co., Nissan Motor Co.,

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Green Car Congress

JUNE 5, 2009

Around 170 units of delivery in total will be planned in this fiscal year (by the end of March 2010). The EV can be re-charged up to 80% of its capacity in 15 minutes using the quick charging system (3-phase 200VAC, 50 kW); a full recharge takes 8 hours with 100VAC household power or 5 hours with 200VAC.

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Tony Karrer Delicious EVdriven

APRIL 28, 2009

Tennessee, Nissan and TVA forge a path for electric car By G. Phil Bredesen spent part of Earth Day last week test-driving a Nissan prototype all-electric vehicle at the automakers U.S. Coming to public in 12 Nissans first electric car is to go into corporate and government fleets beginning in late 2010.

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Green Car Congress

JULY 16, 2009

California’s electricity capacity could recharge as many as 4 million plug-in hybrids when charged during off-peak hours when electricity use is low. SDG&E expects the OEM plug-in hybrids and all-electric vehicles due on the market in late 2010 will exhibit efficiencies higher than those demonstrated in SDG&E’s study.

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Revenge of the Electric Car

MAY 17, 2010

worldwide in the first quarter of 2010, according to a study by the. posted May 10, 2010 at 9:49 am EDT. As of March, almost 56,000 people had signed up to reserve Nissan’s all-electric Leaf, due in dealerships by December. •In Nissan is planning to start deploying it in only five states. percent of $1.9

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Green Car Congress

AUGUST 6, 2013

Since 2010, of all the nearly 400 upgrades made to (or identified for) circuits that serve PEV customers, only 1% of that work was required due to additional power demands from PEVs. A sample of Nissan Leaf owners have indicated that any “range anxiety” had been eliminated after driving their new BEV over time. kilowatts to 6.6

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Green Cars News

JULY 2, 2009

Paris is known as the city of romance, and now the Renault-Nissan Alliance and EDF Energy hope that its residents will fall in love with electric cars. The alliance and the French energy company are planning a large-scale electric vehicle test in the region that will run for one year beginning in September, 2010.

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Green Car Congress

JANUARY 22, 2012

Wireless Charging enables the customer the ability to have “transparent” recharging of plug-in electric vehicle—EV, combustion engine (IC) PHEV, fuel cell (FC) PHEV—through a seamless connection to the EVSE charger and automated charging process. —Jesse Schneider, Chair SAE J2954.

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Cars That Think

MARCH 11, 2023

Photo-illustration: Max-o-matic; photo source: M&N/Alamy Some operators of early direct-current power plants at the turn of the 20th century solved the problem of uneven power output from their generators by employing large banks of rechargeable lead-acid batteries, which served as a kind of buffer to balance the flow of electrons.

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Plug In Partners

NOVEMBER 3, 2008

The vehicle will be recharged at night, plugged into a standard home outlet. Toyota also is developing a plug-in hybrid, expected on the road by 2010. Ford , Chrysler , Volvo Nissan , Subaru and VW have all indicated they will be bringing plug-in hybrids to the showroom floor for sale within the next few years. —it

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Revenge of the Electric Car

APRIL 6, 2010

Many things in your life haven’t changed since 2010 but one thing certainly has: You won’t need to buy gas in order to drive. Instead, while you recharge your battery after a long day at work, your new electric car could be recharging as well. Will Electric Cars Give New York a Charge? by Lars Vercelli.

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EV Adoption

FEBRUARY 7, 2021

In the 12 months since sharing the forecast below, multiple new crossover/SUV EVs including the Mustang Mach-E, Volvo EC40 Recharge, Polestar 2, Tesla Model Y Standard Range, Nissan Ariya, VW ID.4, GM’s EV Sales Since 2010.

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Green Cars News

JULY 7, 2009

For one, they need to improve their energy capacity and recharge times which are, at the moment, “simply inappropriate”. The scheme has committed to installing more than 500 roadside, car park, business and home charging stations by June 2010 as outlined in our article ‘ Electric car trial to boost electric infrastructure ’.

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Green Car Congress

APRIL 7, 2011

EV IT investment by segment, United States: 2010-2015. Utilities will face a host of new infrastructure requirements to support the increased power demand that will result from customers plugging in to recharge. billion in spending between 2010 and 2015. Source: Pike Research. Click to enlarge.

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Green Cars News

NOVEMBER 2, 2009

In last week’s edition of The Green Piece Column, we looked at the leaders in the green car race including the likes of Toyota, Honda, Volkswagen and Nissan. The company hopes to begin selling the Fisker Karma in mid 2010 in Europe. Tata Motors: Most people know Tata Motors because it acquired Jaguar and Land Rover in 2008.

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Green Car Congress

MARCH 6, 2009

Nissan; the Pima Association of Governments ( PAG ), which represents the Tucson, Arizona region; and ECOtality are forming a partnership to promote the development of an electric vehicle (EV) charging network in the area. Nissan will introduce EVs in the United States in 2010 and will mass market EVs globally two years later.

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Revenge of the Electric Car

JULY 14, 2009

We’ll finally get to see the new Nissan August 2nd. I’m kind of excited to see this car, having tested the drivetrain in the Nissan Cube. The best thing about the Nissan is the expected price range of $25K- $34K. The gamble is that Nissan could grab the EV market and dominate it until BYD (China) enters the U.S.,

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Tony Karrer Delicious EVdriven

APRIL 30, 2009

and Nissan MotorCo., are rushing out cars that can be recharged at electrical outletsas the U.S. Tokyo-based Honda plansstarting producing the vehicles in late 2010. “We “We understand the situation, in terms of government andincentives,” Fukui said April 23 in Detroit. Naturally, we’regoing to have to accommodate that too.”

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