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.;

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Green Car Reports

MARCH 3, 2014

new-car sales last month, but one electric car racked up record February sales: the Nissan Leaf. Leaf sales of 1,425 cars in February were a record for the month, more than double the 2013 total of 653 February sales (the numbers for 2012 and 2011 were 478 and 67, respectively).

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Green Car Reports

SEPTEMBER 20, 2011

When you’re researching your next new car it’s likely that you research not one but many different cars, comparing them on everything from fuel economy and features to reliability and interior space.

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Green Car Reports

SEPTEMBER 26, 2012

Thanks to an increasing number of public charging stations, finding a place to recharge your electric car or plug-in hybrid is easier than ever before.

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Green Car Reports

JULY 3, 2012

Half of this year is now gone, which means it's time once again to look at sales of plug-in electric cars--both for June and for the first six months of 2012. Coming off a streak of low sales months, 535 Nissan Leafs were sold in June, less than one-third the 1,708 Leafs delivered in June 2011.

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Green Car Reports

MARCH 15, 2016

When it comes to thriving markets for electric cars, New Zealand doesn't exactly top the list. So what happens when a bestselling electric car is withdrawn from what is already a low-volume market? The Nissan Leaf is the bestselling electric car worldwide, but now Nissan will stop selling it from New Zealand.

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Green Car Reports

APRIL 11, 2012

With gasoline prices on the increase, many consumers are looking to buy a hybrid or plug-in hybrid as their next car in order to save gas and money.

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Green Car Reports

APRIL 22, 2016

The Nissan Leaf may be the best-selling electric car in history, with more than 200,000 sales, but the Renault half of the Renault-Nissan Alliance can now trumpet a milestone of its own. The Renault Zoe electric car has passed 50,000 sales since the first one was delivered in December 2012.

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Green Car Congress

JUNE 21, 2013

Nissan ZEOD RC. Nissan unveiled the ZEOD RC (Zero Emission On Demand Racing Car)—an electric Le Mans prototype racing car intended to reach speeds of more than 300 km/h (186 mph) at the Le Mans 24 Hours race in 2014, where it will makes its debut. Nissan ZEOD RC. Click to enlarge. Click to enlarge.

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Green Car Reports

JUNE 11, 2013

Last month, the Nissan Leaf passed the Chevrolet Volt to take this year''s top spot among plug-in electric cars for sale. It announced that it will offer $5,000 cash back on remaining 2012 Volt range-extended electric cars, and $4,000 on 2013 models, according to Chevrolet spokespeople quoted yesterday.

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Green Car Reports

OCTOBER 24, 2011

NASCAR-loving North Carolina may not be the first place you’d think of as being particularly pro-electric car, but for 40-lucky residents the cost of buying a 2012 Nissan Leaf there just dropped by $5,000 thanks to a time-limited scheme being run by Advanced Energy.

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Green Car Reports

NOVEMBER 25, 2011

Last year, the only volume battery electric car on sale in the U.S. was the Nissan Leaf. But for 2012, there's a new electric vehicle in town: the 2012 Mitsubishi 'i'.

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Green Car Reports

FEBRUARY 9, 2012

Critics of plug-in cars like the 2012 Nissan Leaf and 2012 Mitsubishi i often say their high sticker prices are just too expensive to make a sound economic case for making the switch from gasoline to electric. Not so, says electric car advocate and BMW ActiveE driver Peder Norby.

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Green Car Reports

APRIL 8, 2012

Plug-in electric cars have been getting quite a lot of press, but their numbers are still low.

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Green Car Reports

MAY 20, 2015

Electric cars may be very different from their internal-combustion counterparts, but some aspects of the ownership experience are the same. Does it make more sense to trade the car in for a new vehicle, or buy it out and keep going? Regardless of the powertrain, owners reaching the end of leases have to decide what to do.

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All Cars Electric

FEBRUARY 28, 2011

While Nissan and Chevrolet have slogged it out to become the champion of the plug-in vehicle sales in the U.S., Mitsubishi Motors is gearing up to join in the fight, with the imminent launch of a new customer reservation website for its 2012 Mitsubishi i.

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All Cars Electric

APRIL 8, 2011

President Obama’s goal of 1 million hybrid and electric vehicles on the roads of the U.S. by 2015 may sound like a tall order given the slow sales rollout of plug-in cars for the first few months of 2012, but as we’ve discovered before, it isn’t impossible.

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Green Car Reports

JULY 18, 2011

Electric cars are coming, electric cars are coming! While electric cars like the Nissan Leaf and Tesla Roadster are already here, plug-in hybrids are stepping stones between hybrids and full electric cars for many manufacturers. Not so fast.

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Green Car Reports

JULY 20, 2015

Nissan appears to have reached a final settlement with plaintiffs in a class-action lawsuit over Nissan Leaf electric-car batteries that now goes back almost three years. The suit was filed in California in 2012 on behalf of all Leaf owners in that state and in Arizona.

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Plugs and Cars

FEBRUARY 9, 2009

Nissan has joined the world's automakers with bad news. Nissan's Carlos Ghosn had become a major industry advocate for plug-in cars, with a fairly aggressive plan for multiple platforms within a very few years. Will the worldwide economic downturn cause a general plug-in postponement?

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Green Car Reports

JANUARY 24, 2013

The Chevrolet Volt is by far the best-selling plug-in car in the United States. Last year, it represented almost 45 percent of all plug-in electric cars sold during 2012. compared to the Nissan Leaf--which is sold globally in North America, Asia, and Europe? But how's it doing outside the U.S.,

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Green Car Reports

AUGUST 23, 2012

Like early-adopters of any new technology, the first owners of electric cars like the 2012 Nissan Leaf and 2012 Chevrolet Volt have already proven that they like to hack their plug-in cars to improve features, charging times and even performance.

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Green Car Reports

AUGUST 6, 2010

For the Friday files, some cool new technology: How about a car that plugs in, but doesn't use that electricity to power the car? Nope, we're not talking about battery electric cars like the 2011 Nissan Leaf. Or even conventional hybrids adapted to plug in, like the 2012 Toyota Prius Plug-In.

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Green Car Congress

DECEMBER 14, 2010

The first nine electric drive cars to become eligible for the Plug-in Car Grant of up to £5,000 (US$7,900) in the UK are: Mitsubishi iMiEV; smart fortwo electric drive; Peugeot iON; Citroen CZero; Nissan Leaf; Tata Vista EV; Toyota Prius Plug-in; Vauxhall Ampera and Chevrolet Volt.

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Green Car Congress

JANUARY 30, 2018

million target, set by California Governor Brown in 2012, was recently superseded by a new, 5.0-million When the state’s 2025 ZEV goal was set in 2012, California needed to average 35.5% In 2017, Tesla Model S had the farthest EPA-rated range for an all-electric vehicle, at 315 miles. million ZEVs on California’s roads by 2025.

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Green Car Reports

JUNE 12, 2012

Talk to any electric car owner, and it’s likely they’ll tell you how little money they spend on running their plug-in car.

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All Cars Electric

MARCH 23, 2011

Ford has just announced that it has chosen telecoms giant AT&T to provide wireless connectivity to its new range of electric and plug-in cars, enabling drivers of its 2012 Ford Focus electric car to remotely interact with their car via an Internet portal or their smart phone.

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Green Cars News

JANUARY 6, 2013

Normal service was resumed during the final month of 2012: as General Motors once again established itself as the leader of the pack in terms of plug-in vehicle sales. During the month, GM sold 2,633 units of the Chevrolet Volt (pictured) in the USA: that’s up by 72.2 per cent compared to the same month [.].

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EV Life

NOVEMBER 18, 2023

See which EVs are joining Tesla’s charging network and adopting the NACS plug. Driving an electric vehicle is getting a whole lot easier. Back in 2012, Tesla introduced a proprietary charging connector for its Model S , which it later expanded to subsequent EV models, such as the Model X , Model 3 , Model Y , and Cybertruck.

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Green Car Congress

APRIL 25, 2012

GE Energy’s Industrial Solutions business unveiled the new WattStation and WattStation Connect software at the SAE 2012 World Congress in Detroit, Mich. Other demonstrations include Nissan’s CHAdeMO-based DC quick charging system and vehicle-to-home, reverse-flow power management with the Nissan LEAF. Click to enlarge.

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Green Car Congress

JULY 12, 2011

The Chevrolet Volt is the first electric car being used by the NYPD. The NYPD already uses electric scooters and electric powered golf carts on boardwalks, in parks and some transit hubs. The Administration is also working towards the use of electric vehicles in the City’s fleet of more than 13,000 yellow taxis.

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Electric Auto Association

OCTOBER 2, 2021

The Volt that doesn’t quit By Mark Scribner: President, Drive Electric Cars New England. I’ve been driving the same plug-in electric vehicle (EV) for almost 10 years now. Back in early 2012, buyers did not have dozens of EVs to choose from like they do today, rather just two: the Chevrolet Volt and the Nissan LEAF.

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Green Car Congress

NOVEMBER 23, 2009

If each electric vehicle is to be equipped with a battery with a 30,000 WH capacity, the annual output will meet the demand of 150,000 vehicles by 2010.According According to the expectation from the NDRC, the amount of pure electric vehicles in China will reach 100,000 units in 2012 and climb to 4,000,000 units in 2020.

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Electric Auto Association

OCTOBER 2, 2021

The Volt that doesn’t quit By Mark Scribner: President, Drive Electric Cars New England. I’ve been driving the same plug-in electric vehicle (EV) for almost 10 years now. Back in early 2012, buyers did not have dozens of EVs to choose from like they do today, rather just two: the Chevrolet Volt and the Nissan LEAF.

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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. Nissan ( NSANY ). Honda ( HMC ).

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Green Car Congress

JANUARY 1, 2011

DB has lowered its advanced lithium-ion battery cost projection by about 30% for 2012. passenger cars will outgrow larger vehicles due to favorable policies. Based on discussions with industry experts and several automakers, the DB Auto team has lowered its advanced lithium ion battery cost projection by about 30% for 2012.

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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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