Green Car Reports

MARCH 29, 2012

Despite the lingering effects of economic recession, the world's auto industry built more vehicles in 2011 than ever in history: 80 million, in fact. The data comes from the International Organization of Motor Vehicle Manufacturers, or OICA.

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Green Car Congress

JUNE 14, 2011

Based on the results of the study, CAR believes the economic risk to the auto industry connected to mandating permanent fuel economy standards in the long run is “ very serious ” The group recommends periodic review to assess the rate of technology development and cost reduction of advanced technologies leading up to 2025.

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Green Car Congress

JANUARY 8, 2014

A newly-released report by the Center for Automotive Research (CAR) concludes that the automotive industry is not only “high-tech,” it is frequently a leader in technological developments and applications. Additionally, the auto industry provides 16% of total worldwide R&D funding for all industries. Click to enlarge.

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Green Car Congress

OCTOBER 31, 2014

Elantra is Hyundai’s first model, and one of only 10 cars in the history of the auto industry to reach 10 million sales. Elantra is also the three-time recipient (2011, 2012 and 2013) of the ALG Residual Value Awards and remains one of the top-shopped vehicles in the segment. Power 2014 US Initial Quality Study (IQS).

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Green Car Congress

MAY 23, 2012

An overwhelming majority of drivers who have experienced technology that allows vehicles to communicate with each other have a highly favorable opinion of its safety benefits, according to data released by the US Department of Transportation (DOT). The DACs used 16 V2V equipped vehicles—two from each participating OEM.

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Green Car Reports

NOVEMBER 9, 2017

Hyundai is known in the auto industry as an aggressive and very capable competitor, and the world's largest makers watch it closely and take it very seriously. until 2011 and, frankly, that year's hybrid Sonata sedan wasn't very good. The company didn't introduce its first hybrid car in the U.S.

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Green Car Congress

JANUARY 5, 2012

In polling 200 C-level executives in the global automotive industry for the 2012 automotive survey, KPMG found that executives in the US and Western Europe expect even less consumer adoption, projecting e-vehicles will only account for 6-10% of global annual auto sales. —Gary Silberg.

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Green Car Congress

SEPTEMBER 6, 2011

Honda is teaming up with ANA (All Nippon Airways) at the request of HySUT (The Research Association of Hydrogen Supply/Utilization Technology) to offer the FCX Clarity fuel cell vehicle as a limo service to passengers on international flights at Tokyo’s Narita International Airport from 5 September 2011.

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Green Car Congress

JANUARY 22, 2011

Fuel efficiency, safety innovation, and vehicle styling will be the three most important product issues influencing automotive consumer purchase decisions over the next five years, indicating a perceived shift in buying priorities, according to the 12 th annual global automotive survey conducted by KPMG LLP. Investments.

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Green Car Congress

MAY 6, 2010

The Coordinating Research COuncil (CRC) recently released a summary of the current mid-level ethanol blends testing program for highway vehicles that are not specifically adapted as flex-fuel vehicles that can run on ethanol blends of up to 85%. The initial round of vehicle testing is nearing completion. Earlier post.)

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Green Car Congress

JULY 6, 2009

KG, the automotive lithium-ion battery joint venture formed in 2008 by Daimler AG and Evonik Industries AG ( earlier post ), will begin construction of its production facility this autumn in Kamenz, Germany. Production is slated to begin in 2011, with the first application of Li-ion battery systems in Mercedes vehicles from 2012.

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Green Car Reports

NOVEMBER 16, 2011

While much of the auto industry is focused on the 2011 Los Angeles Auto Show, a handful of folks are looking in the opposite direction, toward Washington, D.C.

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Green Car Congress

JUNE 7, 2012

Challenges the auto industry to adopt new and future guidelines for technology to reduce the potential for distraction on devices built or brought into vehicles. The multi-market efforts in these states mirror the approach used in smaller-scale demonstration projects completed in 2011 in Hartford, CT, and Syracuse, NY.

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Clean Fleet Report

FEBRUARY 27, 2022

California’s plug-in vehicle sales tally is impressive: 663,014 battery electrics (62.9%). If you’re adding up the numbers that 1,054,095 electric vehicles since the state began counting in 2011. In fact, it might not even be possible for the auto industry to produce that many EVs, although the rate of expansion is dizzying.

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Green Car Congress

APRIL 19, 2011

The new company will concentrate on assembling new energy driveline systems and complete vehicle matching, prototype manufacturing and testing new energy driveline systems. Accelerating the development of the strategic new energy vehicle industry is a top priority for the Chinese government.

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Green Car Congress

FEBRUARY 26, 2022

Russia’s invasion of Ukraine threatens to increase costs for Europe’s vehicle industry, which is already struggling with record high lithium prices and a shortage of semiconductor chips, according to Benchmark Mineral Intelligence. —Greg Miller, an analyst at Benchmark.

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Green Car Congress

JANUARY 4, 2012

Global rating agency Fitch Ratings expects the financial profiles of US automakers and parts suppliers to remain resilient in a downside scenario characterized by sluggish global economic growth and weaker-than-expected North American light-duty vehicle demand. to be seen throughout the US auto sector. Continued global.

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Green Car Congress

FEBRUARY 4, 2011

A new study sponsored by Indiana University concludes that President Obama’s vision of one million plug-in electric vehicles (PEVs) on US roads by 2015 will require concentrated efforts action from all stakeholders— the auto industry, federal government, the scientific community, and consumers—to be realized.

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Green Car Congress

JULY 2, 2012

Vehicle electrification is not limited to hybrid or electric drive. Conventional automobiles of today are partly electric in their own way, with most systems in the vehicle having electrical and electronic connections for better functionality. European high-end vehicles demand about 3.5

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Cars That Think

JULY 13, 2023

His second, lithium manganese oxide, is used in power tools, medical devices, and some electric vehicles. His third, lithium iron phosphate, is now one of the most popular battery chemistries in the automotive industry. In addition to the Nobel Prize, he received the 2011 U.S. His first was lithium cobalt oxide.

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Green Car Congress

SEPTEMBER 11, 2010

Lower cost is one of the key aspects of the renewed interest by some in zinc air fuel cell technology—which had been explored in the 80s and 90s—propelled by the anticipated demand for efficient, low-cost alternatives to lithium for electric vehicle battery production. ZAI is the second company to license the LLNL ZAFC technology.

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Green Car Congress

JULY 18, 2011

2010 vs 2011 forecasts. Companies that can financially sustain themselves through the EV ramp will succeed in the long run, assuming that they have the technology and auto industry credibility. “In the near-term, we expect to see some consolidation in the battery industry, with a few leaders taking the lead.

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Revenge of the Electric Car

JANUARY 27, 2010

. “We are absolutely convinced that the paradigm change from cars with internal combustion engines to electric vehicles offers great possibilities for growth both in the auto industry as well as for utilities,&# said Stuart Gulliver, HSBC executive director and head of its Global Banking and Markets business.

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Green Car Congress

SEPTEMBER 27, 2011

Value of life-cycle emissions externality damages and oil premium costs from vehicles in 2010 $. Strategies to promote adoption of hybrid electric vehicles (HEVs) and plug-in hybrid electric vehicles (PHEVs) with small battery packs offer more social benefits (i.e., Michalek et al. Click to enlarge. Michalek et al.

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Green Car Congress

NOVEMBER 13, 2013

China has a number of critical economic and environmental imperatives driving its pursuit of vehicle electrification, said the roster of plenary speakers at the SAE 2013 New Energy Vehicle Forum held in Shanghai this week. If you choose a path to electrification, you want to choose a path that gives advantage to Chinese industries.

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Green Car Congress

JUNE 14, 2010

Well, America’s auto industry delivered over 100,000. That helped us become the world’s greatest industrial power. It helps that the auto industry will be building more efficient new vehicles. It’s under the hoods of the 250 million vehicles we drive today. We can upgrade vehicles too.

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Revenge of the Electric Car

JUNE 1, 2010

BEIJING—China will subsidize buyers of battery-powered cars and plug-in hybrids under a pilot program aimed at keeping the country competitive in the global race to develop an electric-vehicle industry, but which also risks a public backlash. All-electric e6 vehicles made by BYD charge up in Shenzhen, where the cars are used as taxis.

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Green Car Congress

MARCH 14, 2009

To right-size capacity levels and promote a viable industry, we believe 30 to 40 percent of all suppliers are at risk due to the necessary alignment of capacity with demand, which should stabilize in the 12 to 14 million-unit range by 2010-2011. Further, the government may be suffering from the early stages of bailout fatigue.

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Green Car Congress

OCTOBER 25, 2017

At the Tokyo Motor Show, Mazda is introducing the KAI CONCEPT compact hatchback ( earlier post ), powered by the next-generation SKYACTIV-X spark-controlled compression-ignition (SPCCI) gasoline engine ( earlier post ), SKYACTIV-Vehicle Architecture and a more mature expression of the KODO design language. In a vehicle with a 2.0L

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Current EV

DECEMBER 22, 2019

This edition of Volvo Reports investigates the state of electric vehicles in America and the public’s changing perspective on them. This edition of Volvo Reports investigates the state of electric vehicles in America and the public’s changing perspective on them. Enthusiasm and Expectations Around Electric Vehicles Are Rising.

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Plug In India

DECEMBER 21, 2021

They will need regular cash flows that can be ploughed into RnD, new vehicle designs, vertical integration efforts, and so on. He cited the example of an Indian car company called San Motors India, a limited edition sports car company operating from 1998 to 2011. A 200-km delivery vehicle costing 3.5

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Revenge of the Electric Car

MAY 17, 2010

gasoline-powered vehicles could be delayed. If electric cars can’t break out of niche status in the world’s two largest passenger car markets, then a transition away from gasoline-powered vehicles could be delayed. Bob Lutz, the outgoing vice chairman of GM, has said the company will produce about 8,000 Chevy Volts in 2011.

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Tony Karrer Delicious EVdriven

APRIL 22, 2009

The aggressive plans illustrate Chinas growing commitment to electrified vehicles and its strategy to support auto makers developing various types of electric cars and components with research subsidies. GM plans to launch the Volt in China in 2011. Among the most notable: a gas-electric hybrid Shanghai Automotive Industry Corp.

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Green Car Congress

JULY 17, 2015

The PHEV (Plug-in Hybrid Electric Vehicle), a subset of the electric car, combines a primary electric motor with a much smaller back-up engine fueled with a hydrocarbon/biofuel mix. (In Andrew Frank is a significant industry dignitary credited as being the “Inventor” (or “Father”) of the modern day Plug-in Hybrid Electric Vehicle.

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Electric Auto Association

OCTOBER 28, 2021

Meet the 17 members from across North America who have been nominated for the 2022 National Electric Auto Association (EAA) Board, and will be voted on by members in early November. He recognizes the diminishing power of the oil and gas industry, and embraces the imminent future of electrically powered transportation.

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Tony Karrer Delicious EVdriven

APRIL 22, 2009

will be unveiling its IDEA, a 100 miles-per-gallon plug-in hybrid electric vehicle. mark has pretty much been the Holy Grail in the land of alternative vehicles for some time. Three years ago, the magazine Popular Mechanics even wrote an article prodding the auto industry for not building the 100 m.p.g. The 100 m.p.g.

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Green Car Congress

MARCH 8, 2013

Volkswagen said it would roll out CO 2 MAC systems progressively over its entire vehicle fleet. Automakers must change the design of the refrigeration system and the vehicle, expect new training of service technicians, explore changes to design standards, and seek regulatory approval in the United States and Europe. Craig, and James A.

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