Green Car Congress

OCTOBER 17, 2011

Volvo Car Corporation confirmed again that it will begin sales of the V60 Plug-in Hybrid—the results of close cooperation between Volvo Car and Swedish energy supplier Vattenfall&mash;in 2012. This initiative resulted in the foundation of a jointly owned company: V2 Plug-in-Hybrid Vehicle Partnership HB.

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Green Car Congress

OCTOBER 3, 2012

In September, GM’s plug-in hybrid Chevrolet Volt (2,851 units sold) and Toyota’s plug-in hybrid Prius PHV (1,652 units sold) continued to lead sales in the US of plug-in vehicles from major OEMs. The Volt extended range electric vehicle has sold 16,348 units Jan-Sep 2012, up 319.7% in September year-on-year.

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Green Car Congress

JANUARY 4, 2013

2012 US sales of plug-in vehicles by major OEMs. GM was the US sales leader among the major OEMs for plug-in vehicles in December, and for 2012. from the 7,671 units in 2011, giving it a dominant lead among the major OEMs in the nascent plug-in vehicles market for the year. Click to enlarge. from the 2011 results.

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GM Plug-in Nissan Sale 304

Green Car Reports

DECEMBER 4, 2012

It's a hot topic whenever anyone mentions electric cars: Pricing. Many electric cars are more expensive than their regular counterparts, though naturally they cost less to run too. But what do today's electric and plug-in cars actually cost? We've gathered together each plug-in car on sale today in one place.

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Green Car Reports

OCTOBER 16, 2012

The 2012 Toyota Prius Plug-In Hybrid is the second best-selling plug-in electric car in the U.S. But if you view it as an electric car, it’s an odd duck indeed. The car’s plug-in hybrid powertrain adds a 4.4-kilowatt-hour kilowatt-hour lithium-ion battery pack to what is.

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Prius Plug-in 2012 Plug 124

Green Car Reports

APRIL 27, 2012

For the past few years, every time an automaker has launched a new plug-in hybrid or electric car, it’s been to a fanfare of sorts.

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Green Car Reports

JULY 8, 2013

With half the year now gone, are plug-in electric cars on track to double their sales last year? As of the end of June, roughly 41,000 plug-in cars had been sold in the U.S. That number would need to be closer to last year''s total of 53,000 to keep sales on pace to double the 2012 total.

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Green Car Congress

JANUARY 17, 2012

Van buyers in the UK will be able to receive 20%—up to £8,000 (US$12,300)—off the cost of a plug-in van, UK Transport Minister Norman Baker and Business Minister Mark Prisk announced. This is an extension of the Plug-In Car Grant which offers 25%—up to £5,000 (US$7,700)—to motorists buying a new plug-in car.

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Green Car Congress

JANUARY 2, 2013

Pike’s projected vehicle sales by electrified drivetrain, European markets: 2012–2020. Pike Research forecasts that electric vehicles—conventional hybrids (HEVs), plug-in hybrids (PHEVs) and battery-electrics (BEVs)—will grow from 0.7% of the market in Europe in 2012 to 4% in 2020. Click to enlarge. million HEVs.

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Green Car Congress

JULY 31, 2012

Take up of grants for the purchase of electric and hybrid cars rose by nearly 20% in the UK in the first half of 2012 compared with the same period in 2011. Overall, 134 more claims were registered according to the Office for Low Emission Vehicles (OLEV) the cross-departmental body which oversees the plug-in grant program.

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Green Car Congress

JUNE 14, 2011

Starting in spring 2012, Toyota Motor Corporation (TMC), in collaboration with Nomura Real Estate Development Co. Daikyo Incorporated and Toyota Housing Corporation, plans to launch a condominium-based car-sharing program using plug-in hybrids and electric vehicles.

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Prius Plug-in Toyota Plug 261

Green Car Reports

FEBRUARY 3, 2014

In the first month of 2014, sales of the two most popular plug-in electric cars were lower than they''ve been in many months. Sales levels likely fell victim both to the predictable winter slowdown in electric-car sales (which we saw in 2012 and 2013 too) and to particularly bad weather last month throughout much of the U.S.

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Plug-in Plug Electric Cars Sale 146

Green Car Congress

MAY 11, 2013

The California Center for Sustainable Energy (CCSE), administrator of the state’s Clean Vehicle Rebate Project (CVRP), has introduced an online interactive map with information on the distribution of more than 20,000 rebated plug-in cars. During the fourth quarter 2012, sales of PEVs in California reached 2.5% Click to enlarge.

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Green Car Reports

JANUARY 21, 2013

sales of plug-in electric cars--which tripled last year. Now, as the puck drops on a new hockey season, readers' thoughts might turn to our northern neighbor--and wonder whether Canadians lead or lag their American cousins when it comes to buying plug-in cars. We've covered U.S. Canada: One-third the U.S.

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Green Car Congress

FEBRUARY 22, 2022

Hubject, an e-mobility specialist founded in 2012 by leading companies in the energy, technology, and automotive industries ( earlier post ), has published the Open Plug&Charge Protocol (OPCP) , the first independent protocol to standardize the Plug&Charge EV ecosystem. Hubject simplifies the charging of electric vehicles.

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Green Car Reports

NOVEMBER 28, 2011

The GreenCarReports Best Car To Buy Award for 2012 goes to a pair of cars: the 2012 Toyota Prius V wagon and the 2012 Toyota Prius Plug-In Hybrid. The two new 2012 entries together make up two-thirds of an expanded Prius hybrid.

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2012 Prius Buy Toyota 136

Green Car Reports

JULY 25, 2011

Last week, Toyota said it expects to sell 16,000 or more 2012 Prius Plug-In Hybrid models in the U.S. next year, once the car is launched (in June or before). The car can be plugged into a wall outlet to recharge the battery on.

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Prius Plug-in Plug 2012 116

Green Car Reports

JANUARY 3, 2014

In their third full year of sales, more plug-in electric cars were sold in the U.S. The 2013 total of roughly 90,000 electric vehicles didn''t quite double the 2012 total of about 53,000, but with 16 different plug-in cars offered for sale as of this month, the numbers seem likely to grow again this year.

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Green Car Congress

APRIL 6, 2011

The two companies aim to help develop and deploy telematics applications on the Windows Azure platform, which includes Windows Azure and Microsoft SQL Azure, starting with TMC’s electric and plug-in hybrid vehicles in 2012. Microsoft Corp. and Toyota Motor Corp. Internet-based—platform. —Microsoft CEO Steve Ballmer.

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Plug-in Toyota 2012 Plug 240

Green Car Reports

MARCH 6, 2017

The Chevy Bolt EV electric car got off to a fast start in its first full month of Canadian sales, selling 86 vehicles in February. Excluding its first week of availability in late January, the Bolt enjoyed the fourth-best debut month of any plug-in electric vehicle in the Canadian market.

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Plug-in Plug Sale Canada 88

Green Car Congress

SEPTEMBER 27, 2012

At the 2012 Paris Motor Show, Volvo Car Corporation reported that it has sold out the first batch of the diesel-electric Volvo V60 Plug-in Hybrid ( earlier post ) before the car has reached the showrooms. The two companies financed the development project jointly. Fuel consumption is 1.8 seconds. seconds.

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Green Car Reports

JANUARY 15, 2014

Plug-in electric vehicle sales in Canada rose by half in 2013, with sales poised to top 3,000 units once end-of-year vehicle registration data arrives. This is a year-over-year improvement of more than 50 percent on 2012''s total Canadian sales of plug-in cars, helping their share of new-car sales rise from 0.12

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Plug-in Canada 2013 Plug 126

Green Car Congress

AUGUST 21, 2012

Toyota Motor Corporation (TMC) will carry out a series of verification tests in Aichi Prefecture, Japan from November 2012 to March 2013 to assess various practicalities of the widespread deployment of standard chargers for plug-in vehicles. The tests will be conducted together with two local governments and 10 businesses.

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Green Car Reports

SEPTEMBER 12, 2012

The 2012 Toyota Prius Plug-In hybrid has got off to a good start in its first six months on sale, with over 6,000 units sold so far. That, says Toyota, is more than the first six months of Chevrolet Volt sales, at 2,745 units, and Nissan Leaf sales, which managed 3,875 cars in its first month.

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Green Car Reports

OCTOBER 19, 2011

If you need a plug-in car that is capable of traveling long distances between charges but can’t afford the 300-miles per charge option offered by the 2012 Tesla Model S, the chances are you’re looking at buying a plug-in hybrid.

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Green Car Reports

FEBRUARY 10, 2014

The new year started out positively for Canadian electric-vehicle advocates, as government registration data showed Canadian plug-in electric vehicle sales topped 3,100 vehicles last year, representing a 58-percent increase over 2012.

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Canada Plug-in Plug Sale 134

Green Car Congress

FEBRUARY 23, 2012

Volvo Car Corporation, Ericsson, the utility company Göteborg Energi and the Viktoria Institute are collaborating in the research project ELVIIS (Electric Vehicle Intelligent Infra Structure) to develop a concept for using intelligent infrastructure for the smart on-board charging of plug-in vehicles. Göteborg Energi. vehicles.

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Green Car Congress

MARCH 18, 2015

Mercedes-Benz is making a strategic push on plug-in hybrids: the Stuttgart-based automaker will introduce 10 new plug-in hybrid models by 2017. The company said that the main emphasis as regards alternative drives in years to come will be on plug-in hybrids. 2012: E 300 BlueTEC Hybrid. 2014: S 500 Plug-in Hybrid.

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Plug-in Mercedes Plug 2017 150

Green Car Congress

JULY 4, 2009

plans to begin commercial production in 2012 of plug-in hybrid electric vehicles (PHEVs). The plug-ins will use Li-ion batteries produced by Toyota’s joint venture with Panasonic Corp., The report suggests that the 2012 plug-in hybrids will have an all-electric range of 20-30km (12-18 miles). Earlier post.).

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Plug-in 2012 Toyota Plug 150

Plugs and Cars

JANUARY 4, 2010

Mercedes-Benz's S-Class sedan will offer a plug-in hybrid version when it hits the showrooms, reportedly in 2012, according to Autocar.co.uk. However Mercedes' intention is to roll out plug-in hybrid versions of all its models eventually. Tags: thomas weber plug-in hybrid mercedes-benz.

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Plug-in Mercedes 2012 Plug 100

Green Car Reports

MAY 11, 2012

What makes a new car a success? Together, all of the above help us work out which cars are popular and which ones aren’t, but according to Cars.com (via Autobloggreen), the 2012 Toyota Prius.

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Green Car Congress

DECEMBER 14, 2011

Ford’s Michigan Assembly Plant is starting production of the 2012 Focus Electric ( earlier post )—a five-passenger, battery-electric car Ford expects will achieve more than a 100 miles per gallon equivalent (MPGe) fuel economy rating. 1 gallon of gasoline=33.7 1 gallon of gasoline=33.7 Phoenix and Tucson, Ariz.; Portland, Ore.;

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Green Car Congress

JANUARY 25, 2013

Volvo Car has enhanced its mobile app, Volvo On Call, with a new design, extra features and added vehicle connectivity. The app also enables users to connect with the plug-in diesel V60 Hybrid. New functions specific to the V60 D6 AWD Plug-in Diesel Hybrid incude: Passenger compartment preconditioning. Car in motion.

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Volvo Plug-in Plug Hybrid 261

Green Car Congress

JANUARY 27, 2011

At the 2011 Geneva Motor Show, Volvo Cars will unveil the V60 diesel Plug-in Hybrid—a virtually production-ready car with carbon dioxide emissions below 50 g/km, which translates into fuel consumption of some 1.9 The front wheels of the V60 Plug-in Hybrid will be driven by a five-cylinder 2.4-liter Earlier post.)

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Green Car Reports

JULY 26, 2012

The 2012 Toyota Prius Plug-In sits virtually in the center of these choices, with range-extended electric cars. In the spectrum of alternative fuel vehicles, there's something on sale to suit almost every taste.

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Prius 2012 Plug-in Toyota 98

Green Car Reports

FEBRUARY 29, 2012

In the world of plug-in cars, the Nissan Leaf and Chevy Volt may get all the attention, but a new arrival will make it very much a three-car race. The 2012 Toyota Prius Plug-In Hybrid is just now arriving at Toyota dealers in California plus a dozen or so other states.

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Prius Plug-in 2012 Toyota 102

Green Car Congress

APRIL 9, 2014

The Audi A6 L e-tron concept presented at Auto China 2012 in Beijing. Together with its Chinese joint-venture partner FAW, Audi will launch a plug-in hybrid car for the Chinese market. In 2012, Audi unveiled an Audi A6 L e-tron concept at Auto China in Beijing with an all-electric driving range of 80 km (50 miles).

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