The Truth About Cars

NOVEMBER 20, 2023

Like so many old Volvos I've found in junkyards in recent years (including a 240 with better than 600,000 miles on the odometer ), this one has the look of a car that spent most or all of its life with one owner who loved it very much. Did the owner finally trade it in on a new Volvo? It couldn't have been much later than the early 1970s.

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Teslarati

AUGUST 4, 2023

When General Motors unveiled the Cadillac Celestiq last year, we were told it would be 18 feet long, pack 300 miles of range, have an impressive 0-60 MPH acceleration rate of just 3.8 When it hits the market, it will be built by hand at the GM Global Technical Center in Warren, Michigan. seconds, and start at $300,000.

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Green Car Congress

AUGUST 28, 2019

The study looked at a variety of factors that can affect the relative performance of these vehicles, including the role of low temperatures in reducing battery performance; regional differences in average number of miles driven annually; and the different mix of generating sources in different parts of the US. Di Wu, Fengdi Guo, Frank R.

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Teslarati

MAY 19, 2022

With that being said, Ford is preparing to ship these demo units to dealers, and production units are already filling up lots near the automaker’s Dearborn, Michigan, manufacturing facility. Ford to begin shipping F-150 Lightning units to dealers in coming days following ‘Ok-To’Buy’ status.

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Baua Electric

JANUARY 13, 2024

And Kia revealed a new global family of PBV concept electric vans that will provide a modular basis for last-mile delivery, cargo operations, and even robotaxis. The rental-car giant Hertz has announced that it’s selling a third of its EV fleet —about 20,000 EVs, including some Teslas—to buy gasoline cars. Looking at 14 different U.S.

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Clean Fleet Report

MAY 24, 2024

The Silverado gets electric motivation Clean Fleet Report had the opportunity recently to drive the Silverado EV RST at an automotive media event in Detroit, Michigan. Freeway time can be much more enjoyable, and relaxing, by activating Super Cruise that allows the driver to travel more than 400,000 miles on compatible roads.

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Green Car Congress

JULY 18, 2013

An ISO buys, sells and transmits electricity. The project is funded with $1 million from the Michigan Economic Development Corporation (MEDC) and $400,000 from NextEnergy. We’re choosing to go the extra mile by also exploring how electric vehicles might mesh with our energy infrastructure.

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Electric Auto Association

MARCH 22, 2023

For years, the media and automakers have thrown around the phrase EV range anxiety and how drivers could be disusaded from buy electric vehicles due to the small battery packs and limited range. daily trips are less than 100 miles. The Wejo data “found that EV drivers have extended the distance of their journeys by an impressive 5.5%

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Plug in America

JULY 21, 2023

EVs Cost Less to Fuel Powering your ride with electricity costs about 60% less than buying gasoline. EVs have Better Warranties The average gasoline vehicle has a powertrain warranty of 5 years or 50,000 miles. Thanks to federal regulations, EV batteries are required to be 8 years or 100,000 miles.

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Green Car Congress

NOVEMBER 9, 2012

Ford began production of the 2013 C-MAX Energi plug-in hybrid vehicle ( earlier post ) at Michigan Assembly in October, and the vehicles are heading for showrooms. Ford’s first plug-in hybrid vehicle on the market offers EPA-rated 108 mpg equivalent city, 92 mpge highway and 100 mpge combined;the all-electric range is up to 21 miles.

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Clean Fleet Report

MAY 3, 2021

You Can Buy Level 2 Today. Today, you can also buy Level 2 vehicles such as the Volvo XC90 with Intellisafe semi-autonomous capabilities such as lane keep, maintaining a safe distance from the car in front, and a 360-degree camera. DOT, NHTSA and the University of Michigan. This includes both occupied and unoccupied vehicles.

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Cars That Think

JANUARY 28, 2023

Today, depending on the EV model, where it charges, and assuming it is a battery electric and not a hybrid vehicle, it may need to be driven anywhere from 8,400 to 13,500 miles , or controversially, significantly more to generate less GHG emissions than an ICE vehicle. He notes, “You must achieve all the goals, or you don’t win.

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Clean Fleet Report

OCTOBER 25, 2023

The Valet program also includes an option of buying a Genesis without ever visiting a dealership. GV60 Expanded Range The 2024 GV60 will be available for the first time as a rear-wheel drive model that adds up-to 46 miles or 19% more estimated range on a full charge. Currently all GV60 models are all-wheel drive.

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The Truth About Cars

MAY 11, 2023

Alfa Romeo has likewise been talking a big game about going all-electric, making me wonder how their holdover combustion vehicles are going to fare when nobody running the business wants you to buy them. kWh battery will do 30 miles all by itself if you’ve plugged it in and given it a full charge. I am only human.)

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Green Car Congress

JUNE 2, 2011

Ford also said that its next generation of hybrid vehicles, including a new plug-in hybrid that will launch next year, will have a Ford-engineered transmission that will be built in Michigan. Consumers are telling us they want to buy affordable vehicles that get many more miles per gallon. “The 1.0-liter The new 1.0L

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Green Car Congress

JUNE 2, 2010

ChargePoint America will provide 4,600 Level II (220 – 240 volts) public and private ChargePoint Networked Charging Stations by October 2011 to program participants in nine regions in the United States: Austin, Texas; Detroit, Michigan; Los Angeles, California; New York, New York; Orlando, Fla.; Sacramento, Calif.; and Washington DC.

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Cars That Think

MARCH 12, 2023

That range is a testament to Lucid’s obsessive pursuit of efficiency: The Air uses the same 2170-format cylindrical cells (supplied by Samsung SDI) as many EVs, but ekes out more miles via superior battery management, compact-yet-muscular power units and slippery aerodynamics. kilometers from each onboard kilowatt hour.

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Baua Electric

JANUARY 25, 2024

General Motors just announced that it has finally started production at its factory in Michigan, but only in very limited numbers, of course. Here’s what that eye-watering starting price of $340,000 will buy you. The vehicle can fast charge at up to 200 kW, offering up to about 78 miles of range in 10 minutes. Get started here.

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Green Car Congress

AUGUST 26, 2009

Clean Energy Coalition’s CEC Michigan Green Fleets Initiative. The project will increase the use of natural gas, electric and hybrid electric vehicles in 13 sites throughout Michigan. Fleets include transportation authorities, cities, school districts, the University of Michigan, FedEx, and Meijer. Total DOE award: $14,983,167.

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Green Car Congress

JUNE 14, 2010

Since our cars and trucks use almost two-thirds of the oil we buy, the quickest way to cut oil use is to free transportation from its grip. Over time, we can conserve by reducing the miles we drive. That means we’ll be powering some miles with increasingly renewable electricity that isn't made from imported oil.

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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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Charged EVs

AUGUST 4, 2022

Founded by Mujeeb Ijaz in July of 2020, the Michigan-based company recently closed a $65-million funding round led by BMW i Ventures. kWh battery with an energy density of 416 Wh/l, and drove it 752 miles on a single charge, as a proof of concept. Steven Kaye: Four hundred miles is pretty reasonable.

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Baua Electric

FEBRUARY 29, 2024

Total EPA-rated range is 270 miles, and it can also plugged into a Level 2 charger and run on electricity for a 29 miles in EV mode. The specs The CR-V e:FCEV is the first car to use the Japanese brand’s second-gen fuel cell module, codeveloped by General Motors and assembled in Michigan. Max power output is an estimated 92.2

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Green Car Congress

FEBRUARY 19, 2009

Dr. Patil has an undergraduate degree from IIT, Bombay (India) and a PhD in Aerospace Engineering from the University of Michigan, Ann Arbor. power providers) to buy the battery and lease them to the customer we can make the lease payment very attractive in the end. (GM plans to handle module and pack assembly itself, earlier post.)

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Green Cars News

JULY 3, 2009

Or should Americans be allowed to buy the vehicles they want irrespective of environmental damage or a lack of resources? It believes that many of the domestic industry’s problems stem from an underestimation of US consumer demand for green cars. What do you think of the American green car problem? Will green cars ever be popular there?

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Tony Karrer Delicious EVdriven

APRIL 22, 2009

will be unveiling its IDEA, a 100 miles-per-gallon plug-in hybrid electric vehicle. • MORE: "How to Build a 100 Mile-Per-Gallon Car. Not what you think When the wrap finally comes off, though, I think there will be some surprise for anyone who had hopes of rushing out to a dealership to buy their first 100 m.p.g.

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The Truth About Cars

JUNE 21, 2023

Fortunately, the Blue Oval invited us to take a gander at the new trucks at the Ford Michigan Proving Grounds earlier this month. Full Disclosure: Ford invited me out to the 3,880 acres that make up the Michigan Proving Grounds in Romeo.

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Clean Fleet Report

OCTOBER 25, 2021

Sure, you’ll have to plug in and recharge eventually, but with a median range of more than 250 miles per charge, you won’t have to worry about refueling for a while in a modern EV. Rent, lease or buy one of the following models. This luxury SUV EV will quickly charge to 80% in 30 minutes and drive 222 miles on a full battery.

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Cars That Think

JANUARY 7, 2023

“Public policy implementation is hard even if everyone supports a policy,” says University of Michigan professor emeritus John Leslie King , who has studied policy management and administration for decades. Unfortunately, between 2010 and 2020, only 18,000 miles of new transmission lines were added to the US grid.

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Tony Karrer Delicious EVdriven

APRIL 28, 2009

Bredesen said the state is committed to buying some of the vehicles for its own use, as well as helping to develop the necessary resources to support the vehicles, including installing charging stations in strategic locations such as downtown areas or shopping mall parking lots. (2 16,000 miles. I think a lot of folks will do that."

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Baua Electric

MARCH 28, 2024

kg tank with 10,000-psi compressed hydrogen gas, set to take you an EPA-rated 241 miles. of electricity, based on California prices, you’ll get an additional 29 miles without using hydrogen. That’s about $144 to fill its 4.3-kg Whenever you’re home, plug into a 240-volt home charger for a couple hours and with about $4.00

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Charged EVs

MAY 19, 2021

However, its parent company seems likely to devote at least as much marketing to the GMC Hummer EV coming late this year [and the Cadillac Lyriq that will follow early in 2022] as to the much smaller, much less noticeable and glamorous tall hatchback—regardless of its 250-mile projected range rating. New role: value pricing.

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Plug In Partners

AUGUST 25, 2008

We can do this,” he vowed in Michigan, the nation’s car capital, promising to spend $150 billion over 10 years on the effort. The plans include a $ 7,000 tax credit to drivers who buy advanced-technology vehicles and $4 billion in direct assistance to Detroit automakers to help them build hybrid vehicles in the U.S. “I

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Tony Karrer Delicious EVdriven

APRIL 21, 2009

Plugging In BYD’s all-electric E6 mid-sized vehicle can run for 250 miles on a single charge and tops out at 100 miles per hour. How to Buy it Cheap Treasury Launches Auto Supply Program Would You Drive GM's PUMA? Consumer Reports: Most Reliable Used Cars Auto Auctions: What You Need to Know Car Lease Up?

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Tony Karrer Delicious EVdriven

APRIL 16, 2009

It is basically a 40 mile per hour / 40 mile electric car. While a series hybrid is good, the Toyota Prius gets 100 miles per gallon because after the 20 miles of pure EV mode, it kicks into a hybrid-electric car. Turn the car into a 80 mile range EV. The GM (Range Extending EV) comes in with 50 miles per gallon.

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Tony Karrer Delicious EVdriven

APRIL 21, 2009

Fisker $80,000 Karma series luxury 50-mile range series PHEV, S Sunset convertible version.Partnering with Quantum Technologies. Volvo Ford-owned company exploring PHEVs "ReCharge" flex-fuel series 60-mile concept PHEV w/wheel motors. Showed BlueZERO E-CELL PLUS series PHEV concept in December 08. Establishing dealer network.

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Tony Karrer Delicious EVdriven

APRIL 16, 2009

A PUMA runs on lithium ion batteries, can reach 35 miles per hour, and can travel up to 35 miles between charges. One of them is bringing out a nice looking 4-passenger electric with a 110 mile range. My Vespa scooter gets 100 miles to the gallon and can carry two people and two bags of groceries under the seat.

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