Green Car Congress

MARCH 10, 2021

A Rolls-Royce electrical power system will be integrated into the VA-X4 piloted all-electric vertical take-off and landing (eVTOL) vehicle, which will carry up to four passengers and the pilot for 120 miles at cruise speeds of more than 200 mph and is on course to certify in 2024.

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Green Car Congress

JUNE 2, 2022

Buick is committing to an all-electric portfolio by the end of the decade. In support of General Motors’ vision of a zero-emissions, all-electric future, Buick will bring its first electric vehicle to market for North America in 2024. The Buick brand is committed to an all-electric future by the end of this decade.

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Green Car Congress

JULY 13, 2021

Crowley Maritime Corporation will build and operate eWolf, the first all-electric powered harbor tugboat. The electric tug will replace one that consumes more than 30,000 gallons of diesel per year. The eWolf will feature a design that allows the vessel to operate fully electric with full performance capabilities.

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The Driven EV News

JANUARY 18, 2023

Tasmania's Incat plans to deliver the world's largest and longest fully electric ship, a 130m ferry destined for South America. The post Tasmania’s Incat to build world’s largest all electric ship after customer dumps LNG appeared first on The Driven.

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Green Car Congress

MAY 8, 2021

Canada-based Lion Electric Company, a leading manufacturer of all-electric medium- and heavy-duty urban vehicles, has selected Joliet, Ill., The Will County region in Illinois has a history of manufacturing, and Lion plans to build a robust local supply chain within the area.

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Green Car Congress

MAY 23, 2023

The ESCALADE IQ will join the LYRIQ and the upcoming CELESTIQ as Cadillac continues to build an all-electric portfolio. The Cadillac ESCALADE IQ will be revealed later this year. The IQ designation is Cadillac’s EV nomenclature and first debuted on the LYRIQ.

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Electric Cars Report

NOVEMBER 11, 2022

The chair can drive, has LED lights, driver assistance and an infotainment system — finally, office workers can experience something close to what people who use a car in their line of work experience every […] The post Video: Volkswagen builds an all-electric office chair appeared first on Electric Cars Report.

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Green Car Congress

APRIL 24, 2021

Bye Aerospace announced an eight-seat all-electric twin turbo-prop class airplane, the eFlyer 800. Safety features include two wing-mounted electric motors, each with dual redundant motor windings, quad-redundant battery packs and a full airplane parachute. —George E. Bye, Bye Aerospace CEO.

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Green Car Congress

OCTOBER 11, 2021

Rock Tech Lithium intends to build Europe’s first lithium converter—a production plant for battery-grade lithium hydroxide—in Guben, Brandenburg, Germany. The company intends to locate all production steps of lithium refining in one overall plant at the Guben site. The converter is scheduled to start operations in 2024.

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Green Car Congress

OCTOBER 19, 2021

Ford announced that it intends to invest up to £230 million (US$316 million) at its Halewood vehicle transmission facility to transform it to build electric power units for future Ford all-electric passenger and commercial vehicles sold in Europe. Production capacity is planned to be around 250,000 units a year.

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Green Car Congress

SEPTEMBER 12, 2023

The BMW Group will invest more than £600 million (US$751 million) in the MINI factories at Oxford and Swindon for all-electric MINI production. With this new investment we will develop the Oxford plant for production of the new generation of electric MINIs and set the path for purely electric car manufacturing in the future.

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Electrek

FEBRUARY 15, 2024

Born again truck brand Scout Motors hit a significant milestone this morning, breaking ground in Blythewood, South Carolina, the site of its future US hub for electric truck production. Still, there’s a lot to be excited about, and the brand’s heritage is already garnering a loyal fanbase in full support of its all-electric transition.

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Green Car Congress

FEBRUARY 1, 2021

Kawasaki Heavy Industries has selected Corvus Energy to supply the energy storage system (ESS) for the first zero-emissions electric “e5 tanker” currently under construction for Asahi Tanker Co., set up to build infrastructure services focused on electrically powered vessels. of Tokyo, Japan.

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Green Car Congress

MARCH 26, 2019

Electric aviation technology company magniX and Harbour Air, North America’s largest seaplane airline, announced a partnership to transform Harbour Air seaplanes into an all-electric commercial fleet powered by the magni500, a 560 kW (751 shp) all-electric motor that delivers 2,814 N·m of torque.

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Green Car Congress

OCTOBER 10, 2021

The New York City Council passed a bill mandating that the city’s school bus fleet be fully electric by 1 September 2035. Of the 960 currently managed by the City, 885 would still be need to be converted from diesel to electric as the City had previously committed to converting 75 school buses. billion through Fiscal 2035, or $310.9

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Green Car Congress

SEPTEMBER 1, 2022

Polestar, the Swedish electric performance car company, announced that all 500 build slots were reserved online within a week of the production announcement for the Polestar 6 LA Concept edition. This begins with the world debut of the company’s first electric performance SUV—Polestar 3—in October 2022.

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Green Car Congress

MARCH 29, 2022

Lightning eMotors, a provider of medium-duty and specialty commercial electric vehicles for fleets, has expanded its partnership with Forest River ( earlier post ) to offer a factory-certified all-electric repower program for shuttle buses and passenger vans. —Forest River Bus president David Wright.

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Green Car Congress

AUGUST 26, 2023

This will produce a logistics hall for the current fifth-generation high-voltage batteries and an office building, both of which are due to reach completion in mid-2024. When all the construction work is complete, the new buildings at the Supply center North will provide workplaces for approximately 500 employees.

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Electrek

JUNE 2, 2022

billion investment in building an “all-new commercial electric vehicle” in Ohio. billion in building an “all-new commercial electric vehicle” in Ohio appeared first on Electrek. Ford announced today a new $1.5 The post Ford invests $1.5

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Green Car Congress

AUGUST 9, 2022

In line with the Kaohsiung City Government’s plan to have all public buses run on electricity by 2030, Foxconn subsidiary Foxtron Vehicle Technologies delivered the first Model T electric bus to Kaohsiung Bus earlier this year. More will be handed over based on operational demand. million (US$50,000) per vehicle.

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Green Car Congress

FEBRUARY 2, 2021

The bill, HB 1204 / SB 5256 , requires all model year 2030 or later passenger and light-duty vehicles sold in Washington State to be electric. Electric vehicles are defined as “vehicles that use energy stored in rechargeable battery packs or in hydrogen that rely solely on electric motors for propulsion.”.

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Green Car Congress

DECEMBER 1, 2022

Ford has produced its 150,000 th Mustang Mach-E electric vehicle since starting production nearly two years ago, a significant milestone as the company scales EV production to a rate of 600,000 annually by late 2023 and more than 2 million annually by 2026.

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Green Car Congress

AUGUST 28, 2020

Bollinger Motors has unveiled its DELIVER-E all-electric delivery van concept. The DELIVER-E leverages the engineering, technology, and components used in the company’s product portfolio to deploy an electric van tailored for the delivery market. Production is slated for 2022.

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Green Car Congress

FEBRUARY 24, 2023

Ford Motor Company, LG Energy Solution and Koç Holding signed a non-binding memorandum of understanding (MoU) to form a new joint venture subject to final agreement by all the parties to create one of Europe’s largest commercial electric vehicle battery cell facilities near Ankara, Turkey. Earlier post.)

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Electric Cars Report

DECEMBER 19, 2023

Acura has opened reservations for its first all-electric model – the all-new 2024 Acura ZDX performance SUV and high-performance ZDX Type S, the most powerful Acura SUV ever. Acura clients can now build and reserve their new ZDX, with first client deliveries slated for early 2024.

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Green Car Congress

SEPTEMBER 4, 2020

The all-electric Ford Mustang Cobra Jet 1400 prototype has blazed through a quarter-mile in 8.27 seconds at 168 miles per hour and reached 1,502 peak wheel horsepower in recent private development testing—the equivalent to the combined output of more than three 2021 Mustang GT V8 engines.

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Green Car Congress

SEPTEMBER 17, 2018

Volkswagen is launching its “Electric for All” campaign—a strategic effort to put attractive electric vehicles at affordable prices on the road, paving the way for the breakthrough of electric vehicles. Now, we’re transferring this know-how and this strategy to the electric age. The company is investing €1.3

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Green Car Congress

JUNE 7, 2021

Foxconn and PTT have signed a Memorandum of Understanding to collaborate in setting up an open platform for producing electric vehicles (EV) and key components to serve the EV sector in Thailand. PTT is a Thai state-owned oil and gas company and the largest publicly listed conglomerate in Thailand.

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Teslarati

JANUARY 30, 2024

Jeep has teased its all-electric Wagoneer S, providing a first look at what parent company Stellantis plans to bring to market. For example, Ford went with a crossover for its electric Mustang Mach-E. The post Jeep teases its all-electric Wagoneer S appeared first on TESLARATI. Deliveries are set for this Fall.

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Green Car Congress

JANUARY 27, 2020

billion at its Detroit-Hamtramck assembly plant to produce a variety of all-electric trucks and SUVs. GM’s first all-electric truck will be a pickup with production scheduled to begin in late 2021. Detroit-Hamtramck will be GM’s first fully-dedicated electric vehicle assembly plant. General Motors will invest $2.2

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Green Car Congress

DECEMBER 1, 2022

In fact, it’s all a lot of us are talking about. Electric vehicles are one of the most powerful climate solutions today—but also one of the most under-utilized. That’s why Polestar will trace all of the materials it uses in its cars to ensure responsible sourcing, and that’s where the team at Circulor comes in.

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Green Car Congress

MARCH 20, 2020

DEUTZ combines diesel, gas, hybrid, electric and hydrogen technologies to create optimal solution for every customer. The DEUTZ Advanced Configurator is a modular product design toolbox that enables DEUTZ to design tailored drive systems using diesel, gas, hybrid, electric and hydrogen technologies. The new DEUTZ D 1.2

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Green Car Congress

DECEMBER 24, 2020

After examining electric-driven solutions to the carbon and emissions footprint of Argent’s fleet, it became clear the best fit would be low-carbon, sustainable, bio-based renewable diesel fuel, primarily due to the rugged duty cycles of its trucks and equipment. There’s no change in engine performance. —Bill Crotinger.

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Green Car Congress

FEBRUARY 14, 2023

billion to build the country’s first automaker-backed LFP battery plant, offering customers a second battery technology within Ford’s EV lineup. Ford is now commited to build both nickel cobalt manganese (NCM) and lithium iron phosphate (LFP) batteries in the US. Ford will invest $3.5 With this $3.5-billion

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Green Car Congress

JANUARY 6, 2021

Lightning eMotors, a leading provider of commercial electric vehicles for fleets, announced a $45-million order for its zero-emission powertrain systems from Faribault, Minnesota-based motorcoach supplier ABC Companies. The T2145e electric motor coach undergoing final testing in Colorado. —Tim Reeser, CEO of Lightning eMotors.

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Electrek

JULY 18, 2023

We have our first glimpse at the “design validation” builds below, which will soon see public demonstrations and testing before reaching fleet customers. more… The post Bollinger Motors kicks off all-electric B4 chassis cab validation builds ahead of 2024 deliveries appeared first on Electrek.

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Green Car Congress

JUNE 9, 2023

to evaluate batteries for electric and electrified vehicles in North America. This new investment in our North American R&D operation, which has been a key pillar of the Michigan automotive industry for more than 50 years, shows Toyota’s directional shift towards electrification for all. Toyota Motor North America, Inc.

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