Green Car Reports

JUNE 10, 2015

Back in October 2013, General Motors announced plans to launch a "bi-fuel" version of its new Chevrolet Impala full-size sedan. It billed the planned Impala variant as the only production full-size sedan capable of running on both gasoline and compressed natural gas (CNG).

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Green Car Congress

OCTOBER 26, 2009

Hempstead Town’s new fueling station is a major research and demonstration project that will help to assess the viability of hydrogen and HCNG as alternative fuels, with the goal of identifying cleaner alternatives to gasoline that will reduce fossil fuel dependency.

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Grid Hydrogen Fuel New York 186

Green Car Congress

AUGUST 16, 2016

Volvo Technology of America LLC will develop and demonstrate a tractor trailer combination with lightweight cab that achieves the freight efficiency goal using alternative engine designs and a variety of system technologies. Advances for the Production of Low‐Cost Electric Drive vehicle Motors (Area of Interest 5). Description.

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Vehicles Plug-in Lithium Ion Universal 150

Green Car Congress

APRIL 1, 2015

Among their findings from the pathway analysis were: The Gasoline CV has both the highest base case energy use (900 GJ per vehicle lifetime) and CO 2 emissions (60 t), while the CNG CV results are 10% and 20% lower, respectively. The Gasoline CV has both the highest base case GHG climate change ($3000) and CAC health ($700) impacts.

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Climate Change Energy Gas-Electric Plug-in 150

Plug In Partners

AUGUST 30, 2007

23, 2007 -- General Motors Corp. If they were able to get 30,000 to 60,000 on the road in a year, it would be a huge leap in technology ," Brett Smith, an alternative-fuel analyst at the Center for Automotive Research in Ann Arbor, Michigan, told Bloomberg. "It according to Audodata Corp., Join Plug In Partners today.

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Volt Prius Oakland Alternative Fuels 100

Green Car Congress

NOVEMBER 14, 2012

Diesel fuel components, including n-heptane, iso-octane, decalin and alpha-methyl naphthalene (AMN). Gasoline components, including toluene, propylbenzene, ethyl benzene and xylene. Alternative fuel components, including ethanol, butanol, bio-diesel components and methyl esthers. Additive components such as ETBE.

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Fuel Design Engine Emissions 225

Green Car Congress

SEPTEMBER 18, 2015

The US Department of Energy (DOE) is awarding nearly $55 million for 24 projects to develop and deploy advanced vehicle technologies, supporting the Energy Department’s EV Everywhere Grand Challenge to make plug-in electric vehicles as affordable to own and operate as today’s gasoline-powered vehicles by 2022. General Motors.

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Fuel Carbon Fiber Lithium Ion Vehicles 150

Tony Karrer Delicious EVdriven

APRIL 21, 2009

Car Companies Standardize Plug for Electric Vehicles Written by Jerry James Stone Published on April 19th, 2009 34 Comments Posted in Electric Cars (EVs) , Plug-in hybrid EVs Just a few hours after General Motors called for a standardized EV plug , one has been created! This is a major step froward in EV mass production.

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Gas-Electric Standards Plug Gas 66

Green Car Congress

NOVEMBER 21, 2013

Hyundai began production of the ix35 Fuel Cell (the Tucson’s counterpart in Europe) at the company’s Ulsan manufacturing plant in Korea in January 2013; the first complete car rolled off the assembly line on 26 February 2013. Hydrogen emissions sourced from biogas are a tiny fraction of equivalent gasoline vehicle emissions.

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Tucson Honda Hyundai Concept 324

Tony Karrer Delicious EVdriven

APRIL 22, 2009

Alternative-fuel cars were some of the hottest items on display at the Shanghai auto show from homegrown companies like Geely Automobile Holdings Ltd., The government sees environmental upsides and a chance for its car makers to gain ground on foreign rivals, since electric vehicles are simpler to engineer than gasoline-engine ones.

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China Electric Vehicles Chery Vehicles 28

Green Car Congress

MARCH 19, 2014

The architecture is also designed to support hybrid propulsion systems and alternative fuels. Similarly, Shanghai-General Motors in China drove validation of the new 1.4L naturally aspirated direct-injection engines that will be offered in the 2015 next-generation Chevrolet Cruze for the Chinese market.

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Engine GM Oil-Sands Oil 261

Tony Karrer Delicious EVdriven

APRIL 21, 2009

In late 2008, BYD started selling the first production PHEV in China. Weve kept the summary table below generally up-to-date for passenger PHEVs, but not for BEVs, motorcycles or larger vehicles like buses and trucks. Several dozen prototypes on 15-passenger van since 2004; now in second generation development; no production plans.

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Plug-in Plug Hybrid PHEV 45

EV Adoption

MARCH 31, 2021

New Chinese Mini EV flying off the lots – Chinese customers took delivery of 200,000 Wuling Hongguang Mini EVs in the vehicle’s first 200 days of production. According to the Asian auto industry gurus at ZoZo Go , it’s the strongest product debut in the history of four-wheeled vehicles. – March 25, via Charged EVs.

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Kia Jeep Lexus Re-Charge 52

Tony Karrer Delicious EVdriven

APRIL 28, 2009

Think Global was formerly known as Think City, a prior Ford Motor Company ( F ) acquisition and part of a now-defunct Think division at Ford. The Think City was short-lived in the States with production halting in 2002 after just 1005 cars had been assembled. Massive government subsidies are upending commercial considerations.

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