Green Car Congress

DECEMBER 22, 2010

Hyundai Motor Company has completed development of its next-generation hydrogen fuel cell vehicle—the Tucson ix Fuel Cell Electric Vehicle (FCEV)—and will begin testing next year with an eye toward 2015 mass production. The SUV has a full-tank range of 650 kilometers (404 miles)—equal to that of a gasoline-powered car.

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Green Car Congress

OCTOBER 4, 2014

2015 Honda CR-V. Honda has given its 2015 CR-V compact SUV, which launched in US dealerships on 1 October, the most significant mid-model cycle refresh in the 17-year history of the model. The 2015 CR-V features increased EPA fuel economy ratings of 27/34/29 mpg (8.7/6.9/8.1 The 2015 CR-V’s new Earth Dreams Technology 2.4-liter

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Green Car Congress

SEPTEMBER 7, 2011

The Australian Government has released a discussion paper outlining the issues involved in the setting of mandatory standards to reduce carbon dioxide emissions from passenger vehicles from 2015. The average for the passenger car segment (which includes SUVs) was 205 g/km, with light commercials averaging 250 g/km.

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Green Car Congress

OCTOBER 19, 2012

STM), will from 2015, expand the production capacity of diesel engines used in Innovative International Multi-purpose Vehicle Project (IMV) series vehicles to meet increasing demand in emerging markets. The series consists of three pickup trucks, a minivan and an SUV. Exports to emerging markets are also being considered.

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Baua Electric

JANUARY 30, 2024

The new target of a 40 percent reduction in CO2 emissions per car by 2030 covers the entire enterprise, including production, supply chain, logistics, and the product use phase. In 2024, Lamborghini plans to introduce the first hybrid version of the Urus Super SUV and another HPEV replacing the Huracan.

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Green Car Reports

JANUARY 6, 2014

But potential buyers will have to wait a little longer, it turns out, due to high demand in other parts of the world and a limited supply of lithium-ion battery packs.'

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Green Car Congress

OCTOBER 23, 2014

The 2015 model vehicles were purchased by local Houston company NewTex Plumbing and San Antonio-based Pioneer Energy Services. GMC Sierra and Chevy Silverado trucks for each fleet were upgraded to run on either natural gas or gasoline using the new DuraDrive DI natural gas system, supplied by Utah-based AGA Systems.

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Green Car Congress

FEBRUARY 16, 2017

GKN’s Chinese joint venture, Shanghai GKN HUAYU Driveline Systems (SDS), will supply GAC FCA from its production facility in Shanghai. GKN manufactures the complete all-wheel drive system, including the power transfer unit (PTU), rear drive module (RDM), propshaft and sideshafts, as well as supplying software controls.

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Green Car Congress

JULY 29, 2014

Cadillac will add wireless charging of smartphones in the 2015 model ATS sport sedan and coupe launching this fall, to the CTS sport sedan this fall and to the Escalade SUV at the end of 2014.Compatible —Ryan Sanderson, associate director, Power Supply & Storage Components at IHS Technology.

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Green Car Congress

SEPTEMBER 20, 2019

Audi has set the goal of successively reducing vehicle-specific CO 2 emissions by 30% by 2025 compared with reference year 2015 and over the entire product lifecycle. As electric cars are more energy-intensive to manufacture than models with combustion engines, Audi has set itself the long-term goal of decarbonizing the supply chain.

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Green Car Congress

SEPTEMBER 8, 2014

LADA Vesta, based on a new Russian platform B/C and developed by AvtoVAZ engineers in collaboration with the Renault-Nissan Alliance, will be produced in Izhevsk, Russia starting fall 2015. LADA XRAY, a hatchback SUV based on the B0 platform, was developed by AvtoVAZ stylists while its body was developed jointly by Renault and AvtoVAZ.

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Green Car Congress

OCTOBER 17, 2019

The XC40 Recharge, based on the multi-award-winning and best-selling XC40 small SUV, is the first of a family of fully electric Volvos. Every Volvo model in the range includes a Recharge option, from the small XC40 SUV via the 60 Series cars to the company’s flagship, the large XC90 SUV.

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Recharge Volvo Climate Fully Electric 150

Green Car Congress

SEPTEMBER 21, 2017

The company plans to produce EQ-branded SUV models at MBUSI (Mercedes-Benz US International), its Tuscaloosa, Alabama facility. —Markus Schäfer, Member of the Divisional Board of Mercedes-Benz Cars, Production and Supply Chain. Mercedes-Benz exports more than 70% of its SUVs to markets around the globe. technologies.

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Alabama Mercedes Production Battery 170

Green Car Congress

APRIL 1, 2016

In addition, the partnership will encompass the development and supply of components and systems for motor control units, dynamic handling systems, starter generators, electronic steering systems and multimedia systems. Christian Borgward, grandson of company founder Carl Friedrich Wilhelm Borgward, brought the company back in 2015.

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Green Car Congress

SEPTEMBER 27, 2019

Hyundai Motor is a world leader in the development of hydrogen fuel cell technology, having opened the world’s first commercial production facility for fuel cell vehicles in 2013, and released the world’s first commercialized hydrogen-powered vehicle, the Tucson Fuel Cell, in 2015.

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Green Car Congress

FEBRUARY 13, 2015

The 100 volt AC onboard electrical outlet is capable of delivering an external power supply of up to 1500 watts of electrical energy—suitable for acting as an emergency power source for home appliances in the event of a power outage. Future Safety Technologies.

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North America Mitsubishi PHEV Concept 150

Green Car Congress

DECEMBER 14, 2018

The NEXO can be refueled in as little as five minutes, allowing a consumer lifestyle very similar to a comparable gasoline-powered SUV in terms of range and refueling speed. liter); the Gamma I-4 in 2012; the hydrogen fuel cell powertrain in 2015; the Nu (2.0-liter cubic feet and allowing for a flatter load floor. kVA per liter.

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Green Car Congress

NOVEMBER 21, 2014

The main focus will be on expanding the SUV range—in particular in the A/A0 class—as well as on modernizing part of the light commercial vehicle portfolio. Investments outside production are mainly planned for the areas of development, quality assurance, sales, genuine parts supply and information technology.

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Green Car Congress

APRIL 20, 2017

With over 25 years of supplying innovations to the Chinese vehicle industry and a proven range of advanced technologies that improve fuel-efficiency and reduce emissions, Dana is ideally positioned to help OEMs as they design vehicle programs for the future. —Bob Pyle.

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Green Car Congress

AUGUST 5, 2011

As previously announced, Toyota will pay Tesla approximately $100 million to supply the electric powertrain, which includes the battery, motor, gear box and power electronics for the RAV4 EV. Toyota and Tesla Motors, Inc. TMMC) in Woodstock, Ontario beginning in 2012.

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Toyota 2012 Building Electric Vehicles 218

Green Car Congress

JULY 10, 2015

In 2013, Nissan launched the Rogue SUV in the United States and X-Trail crossover SUV in China. In 2015, Renault will launch the Kwid in India. Cross production is expected to accelerate across the Alliance following the rollout of the Alliance Production Way (APW) at all plants around the world by the end of 2015.

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Green Car Congress

JULY 30, 2016

China-based GAC Motor recently held the completion ceremony of the company’s new phase II factory in Guangzhou in June, and launched the new GS8 SUV and GA3S PHEV plug-in hybrid sedan. Unveiled in November 2015, the GA3S PHEV is equipped with an efficient 1.5L

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Green Car Congress

MAY 29, 2017

In 2015, Rastatt plant management and works council reached an agreement for competitiveness and future development and agreed to produce the next Mercedes-Benz compact car generation in Rastatt. More than ten new electric passenger cars are scheduled to be launched by 2022 in all segments from smart to large SUVs. Earlier post.)

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Green Car Congress

MAY 27, 2013

In a newly published research report (“ Fuel Cell Vehicles ”), Navigant Research forecasts that worldwide sales of light-duty fuel-cell vehicles (FCVs) will reach the 1,000 mark in 2015 and then begin a period of strong growth, surpassing 2 million vehicles annually by 2030.

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Green Car Congress

APRIL 7, 2016

In December 2015, Hyundai delivered five ix35 Fuel Cell vehicles to the Paris-based electric taxi start-up STEP (Société du Taxi Electrique Parisien). In Power Charge Mode a portion of electricity being produced by the fuel cell is supplied to the battery to keep it topped up for later use.

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Hyundai Hydrogen Fuel Motor 150

Green Car Congress

SEPTEMBER 25, 2012

In Japan, Toyota Motor Corporation (TMC) outlined the progress of development of its green technologies as well as its vehicle deployment plans through 2015. TMC plans to launch 21 new hybrid vehicles models—consisting of additional (new) models and fully redesigned existing models—from now until the end of 2015.

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Baua Electric

APRIL 28, 2024

After this change, the manufacturing and supply chain functions for MTBD and CE will also get aligned to Vinod’s structure and Jalaj Gupta, Business Head for MTBD and CE, will report to Vinod. project, localisation of the first Jeep SUV — Compass in India.

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Green Car Congress

MAY 17, 2015

With the 2016 XC90 ( earlier post ) heading to dealerships across the US, Volvo Cars gave media an opportunity to experience the next generation of its full-size luxury SUV—in both its conventional T6 and plug-in hybrid T8 Drive-E Twin Engine forms—in and around Los Angeles. Luxury plug-in hybrid SUVs coming to US market.

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Volvo Plug-in PHEV Engine 150

Green Car Congress

JULY 17, 2013

Production of vehicles within the CMF-A scope will begin in 2015 at the Renault-Nissan Alliance plant in Chennai, India. The factory, which produces the Renault Pulse, Scala and Duster, and the Nissan Micra, Sunny and Evalia, represents an investment of about US$1 billion, or 45 billion INR from 2008 to 2015. Earlier post.)

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Green Car Congress

AUGUST 21, 2015

For both passenger vehicles and SUVs, the functional unit was one vehicle kilometer traveled. Life cycle GHG emissions of natural gas pathways for passenger vehicles (top panels) and SUVs (bottom panels) in gCO 2 -equiv/km. Earlier post.). Earlier post.). CNG vs methanol or gaseous hydrogen vs liquid hydrogen). —Tong et al.

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Baua Electric

JANUARY 21, 2024

Maruti Suzuki introduced mild hybrids in India in 2015 with the launch of the Ciaz diesel with SHVS. In India, only a few cars are equipped with PHEV technology, including luxury SUVs like the Volvo XC90 and Porsche Cayenne, luxury sedans like the Porsche Panamera, and even supercars like the Ferrari SF90 Stradale and Lamborghini Revuelto.

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Green Car Congress

JUNE 6, 2018

—Markus Schäfer, Member of the Divisional Board of Mercedes-Benz Cars, Manufacturing and Supply Chain. The plant is highly efficient and has a CO 2 -neutral energy supply. Finally, the second plant at the Kecskemét site uses renewable energies and will therefore have a CO 2 -neutral energy supply.

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Hungary Mercedes Cars Concept 150

Green Car Congress

APRIL 14, 2016

These included a new system for the charging and communications infrastructure and how electric mobility can be coordinated with the supply of green electricity to homes. In April 2015, Audi stepped up its involvement in the Electric Mobility Showcase, with 40 production models of the Audi A3 Sportback. 500 kilometers (310.7

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Green Car Congress

JULY 2, 2014

The following month, Nissan began selling the X-Trail crossover SUV in Japan, also based on CMF-C/D. The first model based on CMF at Renault will be the replacement for the Espace, which will debut in 2015 on CMF-C/D. Production of CMF-A vehicles will begin in 2015 at the Renault-Nissan Alliance plant in Chennai, India.

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Green Car Congress

FEBRUARY 13, 2015

Honda gave the all-new 2016 Honda Pilot SUV its global premiere at the 2015 Chicago Auto Show. The 2016 Pilot, launching at Honda dealerships nationwide this summer, is the third generation of Honda’s three-row midsize SUV to be designed, developed and manufactured in the US. The 2016 Pilot features a new 3.5-liter,

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Green Car Congress

OCTOBER 6, 2014

Aluminum companies are in an “ ebullient mood ”, WSD says, due in part to the aluminum-bodied 2015 Ford F-150 ( earlier post ) and an Aluminum Association report, authored by the Ducker Worldwide consulting group, forecasting that by 2025 three-in-four pickup trucks will have an all-aluminum body. Earlier post.).

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The Truth About Cars

JANUARY 5, 2024

& The V6 or V8 engine operated only as a generator to supply electricity to the electric drive unit once batteries were empty. VIA had plans for a third VTRUX model too, the so-called “Presidential SUV.”& The traditional transmission in each vehicle was removed, and the space used for batteries.

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