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Why Businesses Should Adapt EVs to Their Fleet?

Get Electric Vehicle

Automakers are continuing to ramp up the production of electric vehicles worldwide. Subsidies, tax breaks, and other incentives for electric vehicles are being offered by an increasing number of governments around the world. So it is pretty clear that the future of personnel transportation would be electric.

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Road Test: 2023 Lexus UX 250h Premium FWD

Clean Fleet Report

liter gasoline powered, 4-cylinder engine combined with the twin electric motors. Gas plus two electric motors The hybrid system automatically switches between the pure electric drive mode, combined electric motor and gasoline engine, and gasoline-only engine power. Your numbers may differ.

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False Starts: The Story of Vehicle-to-Grid Power

Cars That Think

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.

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Safer and Self-Driving Cars Now on Roads

Clean Fleet Report

note: We’re republishing this article because it’s a good reminder of how technology timelines can slip and yet things are clearly moving forward. Most of these advanced vehicles will be electric or plug-in hybrids. Level 4 Prototype Cars on California Roads Since 2009. They’re Coming Soon Than Predicted. [Ed.

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Up close and personal with Volkswagen’s e-Golf carbon offset project: Garcia River Forest

Green Car Congress

In 2014, Volkswagen of America announced that starting with the launch of the zero-tailpipe emissions battery-electric 2015 e-Golf ( earlier post ), it would invest in projects to offset the carbon emissions created from the e-Golf on a full lifecycle basis: production, distribution and up to approximately 36,000 miles (57,936 km) of driving.

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Packaging second-life EV batteries into a plug-and-play energy storage system

Charged EVs

Smartville currently has a pilot project up and running at the University of California San Diego. CEO and co-founder Antoni Tong recently explained to Charged how the system works, and how the company procures batteries and prepares them for successful second careers. Charged : Let’s start at step one. Antoni Tong: Correct.

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DOE ARPA-E awards $156M to projects to 60 projects to accelerate innovation in clean energy technologies

Green Car Congress

GENI: Green Electricity Network Integration ($36.4 Solar ADEPT: Solar Agile Delivery of Electrical Power Technology ($14.7 Energy Plant Design The University of California, Los Angeles, will re-engineer. contains no rare earths, in a prototype electric motor. usually made of copper) that conduct electricity.

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