Remove Automobile Remove Charging Remove Future Remove South America
article thumbnail

China realizes charging piles, complete vehicles and accessories to go overseas

Setec Powerr

Demand for charging piles soars. Judging from the customs data for the first eight months of this year, the contribution rate of my country’s new energy vehicle exports to the growth of automobile exports reached 26.7%, becoming a new bright spot in the foreign trade of the automobile industry.

China 52
article thumbnail

Honda Reveals Saloon Electric Concept, Announces New EV Line

The Truth About Cars

Honda used CES 2024 to reveal a couple of purely conceptual automobiles and then announced that one of them would serve as the basis for its new EV line coming in 2026. The manufacturer is also making pretty bold claims about battery life, claiming less than a ten-percent degradation of its maximum charge over ten years.

Honda 59
article thumbnail

The EV Battery Wish List

Cars That Think

Instead, Lucid leaders see a bright future in cars that aim for maximum efficiency — rather than range per se — via smaller, more-affordable batteries. Extrapolating from company targets, a future compact-size Lucid—think the size of Tesla Model 3 or Model Y—could decisively downsize its battery without sacrificing useful range.

article thumbnail

NYU-BMW i report explores future urban mobility; sustainability and resilience

Green Car Congress

The NYU-BMW i study— Urban Mobility in the 21 st Century —predicts a future where growing cities will be inhabited by populations that, although less likely to own cars, will increasingly utilize a new generation of smaller, more efficient, sustainable and networked vehicles to get around. Demographics. billion people.

BMW 366
article thumbnail

Report: Stellantis Discusses Engine Plans

The Truth About Cars

We will have a low-displacement diesel and a big diesel that's coming in the future." We are growing capacity, adding capacity, for South America, the Middle East and Europe and Asia Pacific.” Stellantis wants to have 75 EVs on sale globally by the end of the decade.& ICE is here to stay for a period of time.

Engine 106
article thumbnail

Cellulosic nanocrystals from biomass waste for thermoplastics for automotive applications

Green Car Congress

We believe that a lot of car parts, including dashboards, bumpers, side panels, will be made of nano-sized fruit fibers in the future. But in the future, we may be able to replace steel and aluminum automotive parts using these plant-based nanocellulose materials. So far, we’re focusing on replacing automotive plastics.

Waste 247
article thumbnail

BMW MINI E Powered by AC Propulsion?

Revenge of the Electric Car

While the past couple of years have been full of news about future plug-in electric vehicles arriving in 2010, BMW plans to leap frog ahead of all automakers on the electrification front by releasing 500 all electric plug-in MINIs at the end of 2008. Amazing AC Propulsion eBoxes at AltCarExpo Saturday, September 27th, 2008.

Mini E 100