Green Car Reports

OCTOBER 14, 2014

A few more details on the upcoming 2017 Chevrolet Sonic EV electric car are starting to come into focus, including its production date and a second version to be sold in Europe. Based on information from two separate sources in the auto industry, here''s what we now know about Chevy''s next all-electric car.

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Green Car Congress

SEPTEMBER 13, 2017

At the Frankfurt Motor Show, the European Automobile Manufacturers’ Association (ACEA) outlined the industry’s proposal for a pathway to future CO 2 reductions: a 20% CO 2 reduction for passenger cars by 2030, compared to 2021. The European Commission will reveal its proposal on CO 2 targets for cars post-2021 later this year.

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MARCH 23, 2024

The auto industry is electrifying, and all new cars will be electric in the relatively near future. BMW, VW and Renault asked European regulators to push back the 2035 gas car phase-out , despite that this timeline has already been loosened. It is necessary that we stop burning fossil fuels, and fast.

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Green Car Congress

APRIL 2, 2018

The US Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) Administrator Scott Pruitt announced the completion of the Midterm Evaluation (MTE) process for the greenhouse gas (GHG) emissions standards for cars and light trucks for model years 2022-2025, and his final determination that the current standards are not appropriate and should be revised.

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Green Car Congress

FEBRUARY 2, 2016

HELLA, an auto industry electronics and lighting expert, will launch production of its fourth-generation 24GHz radar sensors in mid-2017, replacing third-generation radar sensors that have been in series production since June of 2014. Fourth-generation radar sensor. Click to enlarge. We are also looking at 77GHz technology.

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Green Car Congress

JULY 27, 2011

Washington Convention Center in Washington, DC to announce the next round of a coordinated national program to improve fuel efficiency for Model Years 2017-2025 cars and light-duty trucks. Reports suggest that the Administration and the auto industry are converging on a 54.5 percent from 2017-21 on average.

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Baua Electric

MARCH 13, 2024

Minda, CMD, Uno Minda Edited excerpts: Q: After two consecutive years of swift growth in the auto component industry ‘s performance, what is your outlook for 2024? The past two years have seen a remarkable transformation in the Indian auto and auto component industry.

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Teslarati

JANUARY 31, 2024

of company’s overall revenue in 2023 The Chinese auto industry will closely watch Hyundai’s project with BAIC. Hyundai’s annual output in China peaked in 2017 at 1.6 Hyundai isn’t the only foreign car company strengthening its presence in China, either. Tesla China accounted for 22.5% million units.

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Green Car Congress

JULY 23, 2019

Volvo Cars has made investments in two Israeli technology start-ups through the Volvo Cars Tech Fund, the company’s venture capital investment arm. Both UVeye and MDGo have their headquarters in Tel Aviv, where Volvo Cars has been involved with DRIVE, an accelerator for young companies in the mobility sector, since 2017.

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Teslarati

JANUARY 15, 2024

While the Model S proved that EVs can be just as good or even better than combustion-powered cars, the Model 3 proved that EVs can compete with ICE-powered vehicles at a competitive price. But unlike Apple fans lining up for the newest iPhone, the Tesla fans lined up for a car whose design and specs are yet to be revealed.

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Green Car Congress

FEBRUARY 23, 2017

The Auto Alliance has sent a letter to EPA Administrator Scott Pruitt requesting that the US Environmental Protection Agency withdraw the Final Determination on the Appropriateness of the Model Year 2022-2025 Light-Duty Vehicle Greenhouse Gas Emissions Standards under the Midterm Evaluation which EPA announced on 13 January 2017.

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Green Car Congress

JUNE 14, 2011

Plug-in hybrids dominate market penetration in 2025 under CAR scenario IV (62 mpg CAFE standard). Source: CAR. The CAR report, the US Automotive Market and Industry in 2025 , relies on technology and market forecast data from the National Research Council (NRC) and J.D. CAR researchers estimated the best (i.e.,

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AUGUST 16, 2021

Tesla’s Model 3 triggered the Osborne effect in the auto industry and is causing the internal combustion engine (ICE) market to melt, The Driven shared and explained just how this happened. In the article, the author takes us back to 2017 where the global new car sales began their downturn, and that increased in 2020 […].

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Green Car Congress

APRIL 21, 2014

In conjunction with the start of Auto China 2014 in Beijing, GM China President Matt Tsien announced that GM’s China joint ventures will make capital expenditures of about $12 billion between 2014 and 2017. Passenger cars and commercial vehicles are sold under the Baojun, Buick, Cadillac, Chevrolet, Jiefang, Opel and Wuling brands.

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Green Car Congress

MAY 16, 2017

Solstice yf was developed to meet the needs of the automotive industry to replace R-134a, the most widely used auto refrigerant. R-134a is a hydrofluorocarbon (HFC), which many governments and industries have been looking at phasing out since the early 2000s. Today, more than 20 million cars on the road safely use Solstice yf.

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Green Car Reports

APRIL 27, 2015

Electric-car maker Tesla Motors has done many remarkable things in its short decade of existence--including a few the auto industry viewed as impossible. But the company has never managed to get a car into volume production on the date it first announced. DON'T MISS.

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Green Car Reports

SEPTEMBER 16, 2017

Why might all the electric-car concepts at last week's Frankfurt auto show be a sign of desperation? What news out of China could scramble the future of the global auto industry? This is our look back at the Week In Reverse—right here at Green Car Reports—for the week ending on Friday, September 15, 2017.

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Baua Electric

FEBRUARY 1, 2024

Fully electric vehicles accounted for over 23% of new car sales last year in China, with 6.68 Hyundai and BAIC’s relationship dates back to 2002 when they established a joint venture to build a car plant in China. Hyundai’s market share has fallen from a peak of 7% in 2017, with 1.6 China is the undisputed EV market leader.

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Green Car Reports

SEPTEMBER 15, 2016

Over the last five years, much has been written about autonomous-car efforts from Apple and Google. Could these two massively successful Silicon Valley startups overturn the established order in the global auto industry? DON'T MISS: 2017.

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Green Car Congress

JANUARY 24, 2017

Advancements such as connectivity, big data, autonomous vehicles and artificial intelligence are driving new economic models for automakers, and most see tremendous revenue potential and consumer value in leveraging driver and vehicle data to offer mobility services, according to the 2017 KPMG Global Automotive Executive Study.

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Green Car Reports

FEBRUARY 3, 2016

Today, Toyota kills off its Scion "youth brand," a look at how General Motors and LG collaborated on 2017 Chevrolet Bolt EV development, and everything we know so far about the Tesla Model 3 electric car. All this and more on Green Car Reports.

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Green Car Congress

DECEMBER 12, 2017

For the last 18 months, a fleet of 6 methanol-fueled versions of the Geely Emgrand 7 cars have been in Iceland. In the recently concluded first phase of the fleet test, the cars were driven roughly 150,000 kilometers (93,000 miles). Geely is a shareholder ($45.5-million Earlier post.). It features a 1.8-liter,

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Green Car Congress

APRIL 27, 2016

Electric car buyers will receive a €4,000 (US$4,500) subsidy; buyers of plug-ins will receive €3,000 (US$3,400). billion) (€600 million from the federal government, €600 million from the auto industry) and has a term expiring no later than 2019. The German government will put approximately €1 billion (US$1.1 billion (US$1.4

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Green Car Congress

SEPTEMBER 17, 2018

Our Modular Transverse Toolkit already proved Volkswagen is one of the most successful platform developers in the auto industry. By the end of 2022, four Group brands will be ramping up 27 MEB models worldwide, ranging from compact cars to the lifestyle Bulli. That is something quite unique. The company is investing €1.3

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MAY 24, 2022

billion, and Tesla, of course, represents a revolution in the auto industry. Because all the other big automakers — Ford, GM, Volkswagen — internationally, they’re all committing to electric cars in the future. ” Tesla entered the Fortune 500 for the first time in 2017, with the company becoming No.

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Green Car Congress

NOVEMBER 30, 2016

The final standards are projected result in an average industry fleet-wide level of 163 grams/mile of CO 2 in model year 2025, which is equivalent to 54.5 As part of the rulemaking establishing the model year 2017-2025 light-duty vehicle GHG standards, EPA committed to conduct a Midterm Evaluation of standards for model years 2022-2025.

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Green Car Reports

MARCH 5, 2015

The announcement that the 2017 Chevrolet Bolt electric car will go into production within 18 months seemingly sent shockwaves through the auto industry. GM''s crosstown rival Ford, which has sold hybrids for more than 10 years but shown little love for battery-electric cars, now seems to feel the need to respond.

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Green Car Congress

MARCH 13, 2016

Renault would supply a fleet of 150 Renault ZOE models through 2017 to the city. Infrastructure installation would run side by side with development of a car-share service of electric cars, powered by renewable energy, for Utrecht residents. This could be the starting point for a new system storing renewably sourced energy.

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Green Car Congress

JUNE 9, 2014

The average age is in line with the trend shift first seen in 2013, in which the combined fleet of cars and light trucks on the road is older than ever. New analysis, however, indicates the average age of light trucks has increased in the past year to the same age as passenger cars, both at 11.4 years by 2017 and 11.7

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Green Car Congress

JULY 16, 2012

A new analysis from the Consumer Federation of America (CFA) of consumer polling data finds that the proposed MY 2017-2025 passenger vehicle fuel economy (CAFE) and greenhouse gas (GHG) emissions standards to be finalized this summer ( earlier post ) align with consumer demands and needs. mpg US (5.87 L/100km) in model year 2021, and 49.6

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Green Car Reports

NOVEMBER 16, 2015

Since a concept version was unveiled at the 2015 Frankfurt Motor Show, all eyes have been on Audi's electric crossover to be the auto-industry establishment's first true rival to the Tesla Model X. But another luxury brand could beat Audi to the punch.

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Green Car Congress

DECEMBER 22, 2016

Adopting an open source approach to software development is a key part of our technology strategy and will help us to keep pace with the rapid advances happening across the auto industry.

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Green Car Congress

JULY 2, 2018

A new study by the European Automobile Manufacturers’ Association (ACEA) finds that the affordability of electric cars remains a strong deterrent for customers across the EU, along with lack of infrastructure and lack of investment in infrastructure. To put this in context, pure battery-electric cars accounted for just 0.7%

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Green Car Congress

AUGUST 23, 2017

But despite its light weight and natural abundance, automakers have been stymied in their attempts to incorporate magnesium alloys into structural car parts. These enhancements make magnesium easier to work with and more likely to be used in structural car parts. It also improves ductility. Stephens, T. 2017.06.062. Overman, D.

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Green Car Congress

SEPTEMBER 16, 2010

A new national poll of likely voters conducted by the Mellman Group found that 74% of likely voters favor having “ the federal government require the auto industry to increase average fuel efficiency…to 60 miles per gallon by the year 2025.” The standards will cover model years 2017 to 2025.

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Teslarati

FEBRUARY 8, 2023

With Pininfarina’s relationship with Ferrari essentially coming to an end in 2017 with the release of the Ferrari-designed La Ferrari, it was no surprise that the famous Italian brand decided to build a car of its own. Still, the fact that its first offering, the Pininfarina Batista, would be electric was a shock to many.

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Baua Electric

JUNE 6, 2023

Two executives are retiring: Kiersten Robinson, common supervisor of nation cars and president of Mexico and Canada for Ford Blue, on July 1; and Jonathan Jennings, vice chairman of provide chain, as of Aug. Door has served as Whirlpool’s government vice chairman of world strategic sourcing since 2017. Robinson nearest day.

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