Green Car Congress

JULY 23, 2019

The Volvo Cars Tech Fund was launched last year and invests in high-potential technology start-ups around the globe. It focuses its investments on strategic technology trends transforming the auto industry, such as artificial intelligence, electrification, autonomous driving and digital mobility services.

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Green Car Congress

JULY 23, 2010

But the automakers are now accelerating their efforts to develop electric cars, and there are two main reasons for this. The second reason for the heightened focus on electric cars is China’s move to promote them.

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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

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Green Car Congress

MARCH 13, 2016

Infrastructure installation would run side by side with development of a car-share service of electric cars, powered by renewable energy, for Utrecht residents. The Renault ZOE R.Access connectivity and 22 kW charging make it suited for car-share and smart charging applications.

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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

JULY 20, 2018

Over the last two decades, fully electric cars have had, let’s say, a slow start. But things are looking up for electric. Plus, battery costs are rapidly decreasing and the public is warming up to the idea of electric cars. Another hot topic in the auto world is autonomous rides. By Haden Kirkpatrick.

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Green Car Congress

JANUARY 8, 2018

At the kickoff of the 2018 International CES, Volkswagen CEO Dr. Herbert Diess and NVIDIA founder and CEO Jensen Huang discussed on stage how AI is transforming the auto industry and highlighted the new I.D. Artificial intelligence is revolutionizing the car. BUZZ is part of the I.D.

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Green Car Congress

FEBRUARY 17, 2016

LeEco’s SEE Plan is dedicated to build electric, smart, connected and socialized cars. We have been targeting the highest standard in the auto industry in terms of design, R&D and manufacturing of our electric cars. —Ding Lei, co-founder and global vice chairman of SEE Plan.

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Green Car Congress

MAY 18, 2019

One of SEAT’s landmark environmental initiatives is the SEAT al Sol solar power park on the roofs of the Martorell factory, the largest facility of its kind in Europe and one of the largest in the global auto industry.

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Green Car Congress

MARCH 15, 2022

Following the successful European introduction of the all-electric Mach-E in 2021 and Mach-E GT this year, plus the launch of the E-Transit in the next quarter, Ford today unveiled plans for seven more all-electric vehicles to join the Ford family in Europe—three new passenger vehicles and four new commercial vehicles.

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Green Car Congress

SEPTEMBER 8, 2014

The University of California, Davis, and the China Automotive Technology and Research Center (CATARC) have entered a new agreement to work together to help speed the commercialization of plug-in and fuel cell electric cars in China. The Chinese government also recently announced new financial incentives for electric car purchases.

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Green Car Congress

DECEMBER 12, 2017

In the recently concluded first phase of the fleet test, the cars were driven roughly 150,000 kilometers (93,000 miles). Among drivers testing the vehicles were CRI staff and members of the Icelandic Automobile Association as well as several local service providers in the auto industry. —Ómar Sigurbjörnsson.

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Green Car Congress

JULY 6, 2017

We see a momentous inflection point for the global auto industry in the second half of the 2020s. The forecast, put together by the advanced transport team at BNEF, relies on likely future reductions in price for lithium-ion batteries and of prospects for the other cost components in EVs and internal combustion engine vehicles.

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Green Car Congress

JULY 4, 2009

Cautioning that the development and commercialization of the electric car is “ not a sprint, but a marathon ”, Volkswagen AG Chairman of the Board of Management Prof. Dr. Martin Winterkorn said that Volkswagen would introduce its first electric vehicles based on the up! VW and the electric car. Martin Winterkorn.

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Green Car Congress

SEPTEMBER 20, 2009

EcoMotors International, a Khosla-funded startup working to commercialize a diesel opoc (opposed-piston, opposed-cylinder) engine ( earlier post ), has named auto industry veteran Donald Runkle as its new CEO. EcoMotors was founded in 2008 by Prof.

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Green Car Congress

APRIL 14, 2022

Independent research into electric vehicle (EV) development has found that most automotive companies are more focused on improving electric car range and reducing costs than improving the vehicles’ carbon footprint, despite mounting scrutiny of their hidden environmental impacts.

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OCTOBER 23, 2015

by Mike Millikin, editor, Green Car Congress. The car has become the most computationally complex high-tech device with which the vast majority of consumers will ever come into contact—let alone own. The auto industry has known for a long time that business-as-usual was literally unsustainable.

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Green Car Congress

JANUARY 22, 2010

It will help build a customer base and begin laying the foundation for American leadership in the growing electric vehicles industry. This is part of a sustained effort to develop and commercialize technologies that will be broadly deployed throughout the American auto industry. Energy Secretary Steven Chu. Tenneco Inc.

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Green Car Congress

JUNE 18, 2018

Volvo Cars announced its ambition that from 2025, at least 25% of the plastics used in every newly launched Volvo car will be made from recycled material. In 2017, the company announced an industry-leading commitment to electrify all new Volvo cars launched after 2019.

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Green Car Congress

JULY 23, 2021

With regard to cell manufacturing, Mercedes-Benz intends to team up with new European partners to develop and efficiently produce future cells and modules, a step which ensures that Europe remains at the heart of the auto industry even in an electric era.

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Green Car Congress

MARCH 12, 2009

Norway-based electric car maker Think plans to open a new manufacturing plant and technical center in the United States. The company is currently in discussions with eight states, including Michigan, hoping to host the facility.

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Green Car Congress

JULY 17, 2015

The PHEV (Plug-in Hybrid Electric Vehicle), a subset of the electric car, combines a primary electric motor with a much smaller back-up engine fueled with a hydrocarbon/biofuel mix. (In In this paper PHEV refers solely to the long-range PHEV of 60 miles (100 km) electric-only range.) It is much more than that.

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Green Car Congress

FEBRUARY 16, 2009

Swiss auto innovator Rinspeed is unveiling the “iChange,”—an electric car the body of which can adapt through the use of a “pop-up” rear end to seat between one and three passengers, at the upcoming Geneva Motorshow. The heater’s efficiency—the direct energy conversion from electric energy into thermal energy—is 99%.

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Green Car Congress

JULY 21, 2014

These—including, for example, an electric version of the T2, the iconic VW van of the late 1960s and 1970s—were mostly test cars and prototype cars, but also small fleets for special purposes. Illustration of main electric-drive components. Bottom right. The heat pump for US and potentially other markets.

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APRIL 21, 2009

Volkswagen CEO says "Future belongs to electric cars," has gained German government support for development. When people start driving electric cars, where will the electricity come from? When Lutz first proposed creating an electric car in 2003, the idea "bombed" inside GM, he says. "If

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Green Car Congress

SEPTEMBER 23, 2013

Even after accounting for all possible losses on the Fisker loan, expected losses to date only represent about 2% of our overall loan program portfolio of approximately $34 billion—and less than 10% of the loan loss reserve Congress set aside for the program. ”. Earlier post.) Hybrids Plug-ins Policy'

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Green Car Congress

MARCH 2, 2011

EASYBAT is the first project for switchable battery electric cars approved by the Commission. The project calls for the “EASYBAT” Consortium to develop off-the-shelf automotive grade components and interfaces that enable the auto industry to easily integrate battery switching technology into their electric car platforms.

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Tony Karrer Delicious EVdriven

APRIL 16, 2009

The Volt is, and always has been, more than than an electric car. Lutz, who retired earlier this year, called the car Detroits "moon shot" and an attempt to wrest the mantle of innovation back from the Japanese. GM will leapfrog Toyota and Honda by providing an electric car to the masses by the end of next year.

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