Green Car Congress
SEPTEMBER 29, 2011
The higher-voltage variant will support moves by European vehicle manufacturers announced earlier this year to introduce 48 volt passenger vehicle power networks to help meet the requirement for lower fuel consumption and CO 2 emissions. TDI models, but even lower CO 2 emissions and fuel consumption than the current production 1.4l
Green Car Congress
JANUARY 11, 2012
A bridge technology such as a range extender could expedite market entry for a new generation of battery-powered vehicles and support legislators in their efforts to reduce CO 2 emissions, KSPG suggests. The advantages of such power units lie in the fact that they reduce battery size and costs and lower additional related weight.
Green Car Congress
FEBRUARY 24, 2012
With the Generation 3 HEV system, Ford decided to downsize the engine from a 2.5L The new battery pack, designed and built by Ford using prismatic Li-ion cells from Panasonic, has a charge and discharge power of 35 kW and nearly double the specific power per unit mass of the outgoing NiMH product (0.84
Green Car Congress
DECEMBER 11, 2011
The vast majority will be hybrids that use mainly gasoline plus a small amount of battery power; these will make up more than 40 percent of the global fleet by 2040. Vehicle downsizing could account for more than one-third of total projected fuel economy improvements through 2040.
Charged EVs
JANUARY 5, 2024
They haven’t, and GM is clearly struggling to overcome a host of startup production problems with its Ultium vehicles—sales of which have remained far, far below the company’s own goals. The first several months’ worth of EV9s will be built in South Korea, but US production will start sometime during 2024 in West Point, Georgia.
Green Car Congress
AUGUST 25, 2009
Continuing Opel’s strategy of downsizing, a new 103 kW (140 hp) 1.4 Highlighting Opel’s continued strategy of reducing CO 2 emissions through engine capacity downsizing, an all-new 1.4-liter Equipped with a 16 kWh Li-ion battery pack, the five-door, four-seat hatchback has a battery-powered range of up to 60 km (37 miles) (MVEG cycle).
Baua Electric
JANUARY 5, 2024
They haven’t, and GM is clearly struggling to overcome a host of startup production problems with its Ultium vehicles—sales of which have remained far, far below the company’s own goals. The first several months’ worth of EV9s will be built in South Korea, but US production will start sometime during 2024 in West Point, Georgia.
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