Green Car Reports

OCTOBER 20, 2017

How Mazda plans to integrate plug-in hybrid and battery-electric vehicles into its range of increasingly efficient gasoline and diesel models is a topic that interests parts of the global auto industry.

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Baua Electric

JUNE 7, 2024

As the International Energy Agency last week underscored, SUVs emit about 20% more CO2 than cars , whether they’re electric or not. After that three-year phase-in, starting in 2027, EVs will only count like a 120-mpg gasoline model, much lowering the number of low-mpg models that each EV enables. vehicle sales.

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Green Car Congress

DECEMBER 12, 2017

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. The participants reported virtually no difference in driving experience compared to regular gasoline- or diesel-fueled cars. It features a 1.8-liter,

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Green Car Congress

SEPTEMBER 18, 2017

accounting for the emissions generated during production of the vehicle and the fuel. To derive the emissions figure, T&E said that it made a number of assumptions for their calculations: The average gasoline lifetime driving distance of 175,000 km (108,740 miles) is taken as the starting point. l/100 km (37.3 mpg US) and 7.1

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Green Car Congress

NOVEMBER 30, 2016

Although EPA’s technical analysis indicates that the standards could be strengthened for model years 2022-2025, proposing to leave the current standards in place provides greater certainty to the auto industry for product planning and engineering, the agency said.

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Teslarati

JUNE 13, 2022

There was a time when Toyota was one of the world’s greenest auto manufacturers. The company practically made hybrids mainstream with the Prius, but it has maintained a conservative stance on electric vehicles since then. The company has become a stern critic of the rapid transition to all-electric cars.

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Green Car Congress

MARCH 23, 2015

Professor Neville Jackson, Ricardo’s chief technology and innovation officer, presented the results of a research project carried out by the Automotive Council UK to establish a long-term (to 2050) transition from current gasoline and diesel fuels to a majority renewable energy portfolio. Click to enlarge. —Professor Neville Jackson.

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The Truth About Cars

MARCH 21, 2024

But as the Times points out, the government is NOT forcing the fleet to become all electric: The E.P.A. It does not mandate the sales of electric vehicles, and gas-powered cars and trucks could still be sold. Rather, it requires carmakers to meet tough new average emissions limits across their entire product line.

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Green Car Congress

JANUARY 13, 2017

EPA analysis demonstrates that compliance can be achieved through a number of different technology pathways reflecting predominantly the application of technologies already in commercial production. The Midterm Evaluation process was established as a part of the 2012 final greenhouse gas emissions standards for model years 2017-2025.

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Green Car Congress

FEBRUARY 18, 2009

The plans, updated in the context of a worsening sales outlook for the entire auto industry, outline a need for up to an additional $16.6 billion in Federal support for GM and $2 billion for Chrysler; deeper job and brand cuts; as well as product plans for the surviving versions of the automakers. GM product plans.

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Cars That Think

MARCH 11, 2023

They wanted to see whether an electric vehicle could feed electricity back to the grid. The concept behind V2G had gained traction in the late 1990s after California’s landmark zero-emission-vehicle (ZEV) mandate went into effect and compelled automakers to commercialize electric cars. AC Propulsion’s experiment was timely.

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Charged EVs

DECEMBER 14, 2021

The startup carmaker Rivian was founded a decade ago by RJ Scaringe, but it didn’t go public with its electric pickup truck and SUV until the 2018 Los Angeles Auto Show. Three years and one global pandemic later, the company is now starting to deliver production versions of its 2022 R1T electric pickup truck to paying customers.

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Green Car Congress

APRIL 24, 2013

LC Super Hybrid features an electric supercharger developed by CPT. It combines advanced lead-carbon batteries with CPT’s production-ready SpeedStart motor-generator system. The vehicle also includes production-ready electric boosting technology sold by technology developer CPT to Valeo. Click to enlarge. Earlier post.)

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Green Car Congress

SEPTEMBER 27, 2011

Strategies to promote adoption of hybrid electric vehicles (HEVs) and plug-in hybrid electric vehicles (PHEVs) with small battery packs offer more social benefits (i.e., In our base case, we assume average US values for emissions and damage valuation of electricity generation, oil refining, vehicle. Michalek et al.

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Charged EVs

MAY 31, 2022

Upcoming electric passenger vehicles and light trucks from GM get most of the attention, but its new commercial EV brand is a quiet and very serious push too. Many US drivers now have a vague idea that General Motors is doing something with electric vehicles. The BrightDrop Zevo 600. Photo courtesy of BrightDrop.

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Green Car Congress

MARCH 19, 2013

The Phase II report, to be presented mid-2013, examines the impact of the gradual penetration of advanced powertrains, such as battery-electric vehicles and fuel cell electric vehicles, and the gradual replacement of fossil fuels with increasing levels of indigenous energy resources, such as electricity and hydrogen.

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Green Car Congress

MARCH 7, 2013

The auto industry should play a central role in the energy discussion, Akerson noted, because light-duty vehicles account for about 60% of total transportation energy usage in the United States. More efficient gasoline engines. The death of the V-8 has been greatly exaggerated, Akerson said. Vehicle electrification.

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Green Car Congress

APRIL 7, 2010

In addition to the immediate projects, partners will explore other potential areas of collaboration, including opportunities to co-develop technologies relating to electric vehicles and batteries. We know that we can make brand-typical products based on shared architectures. The individual brand identities will remain unaffected. —Dr.

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Revenge of the Electric Car

MAY 17, 2010

old question for electric cars – When will electric cars make a real. Read more in the article: Can electric cars break out of niche status in US, China market? Electric-car ventures made up nearly 40. incentives, and concerns over the electrical grid are slowing the electric. percent of $1.9

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Revenge of the Electric Car

APRIL 20, 2010

Funny that this article cites “a shortage of public charging stations&# as the sole reason for auto makers scrapping electric vehicles in the 1990s. Read more about it in the San Jose Mercury News Article: Reservations for the all-electric Nissan Leaf start Tuesday. But many feel the electric car’s time has arrived.

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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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Green Car Congress

FEBRUARY 4, 2011

A new study sponsored by Indiana University concludes that President Obama’s vision of one million plug-in electric vehicles (PEVs) on US roads by 2015 will require concentrated efforts action from all stakeholders— the auto industry, federal government, the scientific community, and consumers—to be realized.

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Green Car Congress

FEBRUARY 14, 2009

not enthusiast or pioneer—adoption of coming plug-in hybrid electric vehicles (PHEVs), given current market conditions and consumer awareness and attitudes. The most frequent designs resulting from the game include higher charge-sustaining (CS) and charge-depleting (CD) blended operation—few valued all-electric range. Ken Kurani.

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Green Car Congress

JUNE 14, 2010

Well, America’s auto industry delivered over 100,000. That helped us become the world’s greatest industrial power. It helps that the auto industry will be building more efficient new vehicles. That means we’ll be powering some miles with increasingly renewable electricity that isn't made from imported oil.

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Current EV

DECEMBER 22, 2019

This edition of Volvo Reports investigates the state of electric vehicles in America and the public’s changing perspective on them. This edition of Volvo Reports investigates the state of electric vehicles in America and the public’s changing perspective on them. Enthusiasm and Expectations Around Electric Vehicles Are Rising.

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Green Car Congress

FEBRUARY 5, 2009

DOE is seeking to facilitate the market penetration of hydrogen and fuel cell products through higher volume purchases (e.g., Hydrogen produced by water electrolysis has the potential to be a useful means of storing excess electricity generated using wind, solar, and other intermittent renewable energy.

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Green Car Congress

MAY 7, 2009

The Green Car Initiative concentrates on long-term R&D, largely combining existing projects under a clear policy focus and underlining the importance of a joint approach between industries and policy makers. New vehicle concepts required for electric propulsion technologies, e.g. using in-wheel motors.

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Tony Karrer Delicious EVdriven

APRIL 22, 2009

As a subscriber, you can receive our free weekly China Auto News, which keeps you informed the latest developments of Chinas automobile industry. Alternative-fuel cars were some of the hottest items on display at the Shanghai auto show from homegrown companies like Geely Automobile Holdings Ltd., Brilliance Jinbei Automobile Co.

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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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Clean Fleet Report

NOVEMBER 23, 2021

The production-ready 2023 Fisker Ocean debuted at the 2021 Los Angeles Auto Show to an interested group of industry insiders and journalists. Henrik Fisker revealed his plans to shake-up the electric SUV category with the all-new, all-electric Ocean. Swimming with the Big Boys. Henrik and his new namesake.

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Cars That Think

DECEMBER 23, 2022

The latest Edison Electric Institute projection is that only about 26.4 In addition, gasoline vehicles 15 years or older and diesel trucks over 10 years old should not be allowed on US roads, as is happening in some Indian cities. However, that is still far short of RMI’s 70 million target.

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Plug In India

NOVEMBER 9, 2021

By Abhishek & Kamlesh ​ Welcome to the new weekly series - Electric Car Watch, where we will talk about EV plans of major car brands, take a look at their EV vision, and go over their technology platforms. We will also discuss the EV models in production and look at what we can expect for India. That is absolute nonsense.

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Get Electric Vehicle

MAY 28, 2022

A recent report from the Environmental Defense Fund indicates that electric vehicle sales volumes are growing at a rapid pace, signalling an epochal shift in the auto industry over the next decade. Despite that and other numerous issues, the electric vehicle sector has gained traction in the previous year.

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Revenge of the Electric Car

JANUARY 22, 2009

3Prong Power converts existing Toyota Priuses into plug-in hybrids that can run entirely on electricity. “It’s Who Killed the Electric Car 2.0.&#. The same state agency that drove the electric car off a cliff is now poised to wreck a new Berkeley company that triples the gas mileage of a Toyota Prius.

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Tony Karrer Delicious EVdriven

APRIL 21, 2009

Our PRIUS+ Project Photos PHEV Resources Global Warming Take Action News and Events Contact Us How Carmakers are Responding to the Plug-In Hybrid Opportunity If you ask, "have major auto-makers come around on PHEVs?", In late 2008, BYD started selling the first production PHEV in China. todays answer is "Yes -- but not yet."

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Tony Karrer Delicious EVdriven

APRIL 21, 2009

We also think that with more people realizing that global warming is our greatest challenge, and that evolving the transportation sector to zero-carbon via cellulosic ethanol plug-in hybrids plus electricity from renewable sources may be our best strategy, the discussions about payback are a narrow answer to big questions.

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Cars That Think

JANUARY 23, 2023

With the combination of requiring all new light-duty vehicles sold in New York State be zero-emission by 2035, investments in electric vehicles charging stations , and state and federal EV rebates, “ you’re going to see that you have no more excuses ” for not buying an EV, according to New York Governor Kathy Hochul.

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