Clean Fleet Report

NOVEMBER 2, 2023

The target customer may be someone buying their first Lexus and their first luxury car, a combination Lexus wants to take the lead in reaching. In the 210 miles we put on the CUV, averaging 65 miles per hour traversing Southern California highways, we had an average of 41.5 Your numbers may differ.

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Lexus Nickel Metal Hydride MPG Clean 77

Green Car Congress

FEBRUARY 28, 2010

liter VVT-i gasoline, permanent magnet synchronous motor, electrically controlled continuously variable transmission (E-CVT) and NiMH battery pack. The car is capable of running in EV mode for up to 1.2 miles at speeds up to 28 mph (45 km/h). The CT 200h. Click to enlarge.

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Lexus NiMH Gasoline-Electric MPH 170

Green Car Congress

MARCH 21, 2011

Researchers at the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign have developed a self-assembling three-dimensional nanostructure for battery cathodes (Li-ion and NiMH) that allows for faster charging and discharging without sacrificing energy storage capacity. Click to enlarge. Their findings are published in the journal Nature Nanotechnology.

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Nickel Metal Hydride Li-ion Lithium Ion Charging 319

Plugs and Cars

JANUARY 25, 2010

He's a bit surprised, as are all of us, that Nissan has emerged as the first big automaker to manufacture a mass-produced electric car. The 100 mile range cited by Nissan uses "a number tied to the most optimistic benchmark, the LA4 cycle." At least with NiMH, Toyota's passive system worked out better in the real world.

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Nissan NiMH GM Volt 124

Plugs and Cars

JANUARY 4, 2007

One point of interest is that GM and Cobasys are forsaking the technology that could provide plug-in hybrids in the shortest time - the Nickel Metal Hydride battery for which Cobasys holds the patents and GM used in its 140-mile range EV1. Tags: cobasys chevron battery a123 GM plug-in hybrid saft johnson controls Lithium NiMH.

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VUE Saturn Plug-in Nickel Metal Hydride 100

Green Car Congress

MARCH 2, 2010

The USABC specifies two PHEV designs to guide its battery requirements: an AE-10 crossover and AE-40 mid-sized car. MIT proposes a B-30 mid-size car, with a more aggressive driving cycle simulation. EPRI assumes PHEVs to be AE-20 and AE-60 mid-size cars. Mid-size car. Mid-size car. Mid-size car. grid only).

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Davis Commercial PHEV EPRI 210

Plugs and Cars

APRIL 16, 2007

Asked why not Nickel Metal Hydride batteries in the Volt, at least to start, he says "NiMH just doesn't do it." It would take more weight to reach 40 miles, he says. What's so sacrosanct about 40 miles? Interestingly, Lutz says GM is being approached by NiMH manufacturers to use this proven battery chemistry in the Volt.

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Volt NiMH EV1 Nickel Metal Hydride 100

Clean Fleet Report

AUGUST 25, 2022

So when they are ready to get their next car, the Lexus RX 450h F Sport will certainly not disappoint, and in many ways impress them with the changes from their previous model. In the parallel hybrid system the electric motor can power the car by itself, the gas engine can power the car by itself or they can power the car together.

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Lexus Fuel Economy Hybrid Nickel Metal Hydride 94

Plugs and Cars

NOVEMBER 22, 2007

London could soon replace California as the electric car capital of the world. The policy, which exempts electric cars from hefty daily taxation, is resulting in increasingly significant vehicle choices for English consumers. Mitsubishi could be the first with cars for sale if the UK distributor has its way. Norway's Th!nk

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London G-Wiz i-MiEV Recharge 100

Plugs and Cars

JUNE 21, 2007

Google is spending oodles doing it to their cars, but the rest of us need the carmakers to produce the plug-in hybrids and electric cars we want. Of course, Toyota could do it today with larger NiMH battery packs. Tell them you won't buy a new car without a plug. Add your voice to the campaign by clicking here.

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Toyota NiMH Plug-in Google 100

Green Car Congress

AUGUST 1, 2009

The Global Green Challenge evolved from the World Solar Challenge, a solar car race first held in 1987 in Australia. Today, the Global Green Challenge includes the World Solar Challenge for solar powered cars, and the Eco Challenge for other types of environmentally conscious production cars including fuel cell, electric and hybrid vehicles.

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Li-ion Solar Lithium Ion MIT 150

Green Car Congress

JULY 4, 2009

PEVE provides the NiMH packs for current Toyota hybrids. The report suggests that the 2012 plug-in hybrids will have an all-electric range of 20-30km (12-18 miles). s i-MiEV electric car, which is slated to debut later this month with a price tag of 4.59 Panasonic EV Energy Co. million yen [about US$47,700].

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Plug-in 2012 Toyota Plug 150

Green Car Congress

MAY 11, 2009

Honda’s Insight ( earlier post ) ranked as the best-selling car among all new vehicle registrations in Japan in April—excluding mini-vehicles with displacement of less than 660cc—with sales of 10,481 units, according to data from the Japan Automobile Dealers Association. Insight sales in Japan from launch. Click to enlarge.

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Insight Japan Hybrid Vehicles 150

Plugs and Cars

AUGUST 18, 2007

We may need ICE vehicles to get there (gas cars will serve for long distance travel even as EVs come to market, I believe) but they should be parked and forgotten. Their Rechargeit.org campaign really makes the connections between renewable power and plug-in cars. nk Global , the reinvigorated Norwegian electric car maker.

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NiMH Google Prius EPRI 100

Electric Auto Association

DECEMBER 1, 2022

I kept asking GM people when the car was going into production. I had a 30 mile commute to work… and there were no charging stations there.” But things changed for Cox when GM came out with a new version of the EV1 with a non-toxic nickel metal hydride (NiMH) battery with more than twice the energy of the original lead acid battery.

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EV1 Los Angeles Nickel Metal Hydride GM 77

Plugs and Cars

DECEMBER 15, 2008

There's good news in Jim Motavalli's Greentech report in the NY Times about NiMH batteries in hybrids. Yellow Cab in Vancouver has about 100 hybrids, some having racked up as many as 300,000 miles. The batteries have gotten cheaper, and they have proven robust and long-lived.

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Hybrid NiMH Batteries Battery 100

Clean Fleet Report

SEPTEMBER 5, 2022

The target customer may be someone buying their first Lexus and their first luxury car, a combination Lexus wants to take the lead in reaching. The nickel-metal hydride (NiMH) battery is charged when applying the brakes or coasting. Clean Fleet Report’s test car had the Lexus Multimedia System with a 10.3-inch,

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Lexus Hybrid Nickel Metal Hydride Fuel Economy 79

Green Car Congress

MARCH 31, 2010

We think this is a better balanced approach for the majority of car buyers. Another key engineering challenge for Hyundai Hybrid Blue Drive has been assuring maintenance-free battery operation over the vehicle’s life—at least 10 years, and 150,000 miles—in all weather conditions. John Krafcik, president and CEO, Hyundai Motor America.

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Nickel Metal Hydride New York Hyundai Hybrid 210

Green Cars News

APRIL 19, 2009

Many people have concerns about buying a hybrid car - and they don’t just relate to the price tag. This one is true as the US Department of Energy has run tests on hybrid battery packs and found they are as good as new after 160,000 miles. Fiction - Hybrid car battery toxicity is environmentally detrimental.

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Hybrid NiMH Cars Lithium Ion 36

Green Car Congress

SEPTEMBER 11, 2009

A five-door hatchback is the best selling type of car in Europe, Toyota notes, and so consequently the installation of HSD in Auris is the logical first step in deploying full hybrid technology across Toyota’s entire European model line-up. miles (2 km) at speeds up to 31 mph (50 km/h). Equipped with a 1.8-liter, Equipped with a 1.8-liter,

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Prius Concept Toyota Hybrid 239

Green Car Congress

JANUARY 9, 2012

It shuts off engine power smoothly when the car is stopped and seamlessly restarts as the driver releases the brake pedal, helping Fusion to reduce fuel consumption and emissions by approximately 3.5%. Finally, lane keeping aid will actually apply pressure on the steering to help bring the car back into proper lane position.

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Fusion Plug-in Hybrid Ford 236

Green Car Congress

SEPTEMBER 15, 2009

The 3008 HYbrid4 ( earlier post ) previews the production model scheduled to appear in the spring of 2011, while the experimental RCZ HYbrid4 is a sports car application of the same hybrid system. In addition, Peugeot introduced the BB1 electric concept car. Sanyo provided its expertise on the NiMH high voltage batteries.

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Concept NiMH Nickel Metal Hydride MPH 218

Revenge of the Electric Car

OCTOBER 27, 2008

To be considered for one of these cars, you have to go to [link] and sign up, but remember, they are only going to consider you if you live in one of the regions cited above. The MINI’s range is said to be 150 miles. If you need a long distance car, you should be driving a plug-in hybrid.

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BMW Mini E Electric Cars Cars 100

Green Car Congress

MARCH 7, 2018

A new nickel metal-hydride (NiMH) battery is used with a revised construction and more compact cooling system that allows for smaller dimensions overall. When a loss of rear-wheel grip is detected, the amount of power that can be directed to the rear of the car has been increased from 60 to around 80 per cent, at speeds up to 70km/h (43.5

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Lexus Hybrid Nickel Metal Hydride Gasoline-Electric 262

Plugs and Cars

OCTOBER 22, 2007

In a presentation, Asakura said the prototypes can operate on electric power for a range of about 7 miles." I hope someone tells Mr Asakura about the NiMH batteries Toyota used in the RAV4 EV. Actually achieved over 15 times greater range back in 1997. Toyota • Moving Backward? Well, let's just say catching up with itself.

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Nickel Metal Hydride Plug-in Toyota Plug 100

Plugs and Cars

MARCH 23, 2007

Interest in plug-in cars of all sorts is real and growing. billion taxpayer-funded effort, called the Partnership for a New Generation of Vehicles (PNGV), to build an 80-miles-per-gallon car. Laptops didn't wait for Lithium, and neither should cars. Tags: GM electric car plug-in hybrid chevy volt fuel cell.

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Volt GM Plug-in Plug 100

Plugs and Cars

JULY 14, 2007

A number of articles about "green cars" worth perusing in Saturday's New York Times Automotive section. Behind its green Teflon shield, the Lexus proved to be just another overstuffed sedan that can barely top 20 miles a gallon." The meme of the ugly green car gets its own article ( Once Frumpy, Green Cars Start Showing Some Flash ).

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LS 600H Hydrogen Nickel Metal Hydride Green 100

Revenge of the Electric Car

APRIL 16, 2009

Photo by Antuan Goodwin, from the CNET Article: Test-driving the Nissan EV-02 electric car. This wasn’t the final car, but the finished drivetrain in a Nissan Cube. No mistaking it, this is a test car. They are expecting this car to sell for $25K-$33K before tax incentives. I was very impressed with the ride.

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Tax Credit San Diego Tax Nissan 124

Green Car Congress

MAY 24, 2013

During an international press event in Germany, in which more than 42 test drives were conducted with journalists in the Panamera S E-Hybrid ( earlier post ) covering a total distance of more than 1,200 kilometers (746 miles), the new plug-in hybrid model consumed 4.4 miles) city driving, 9.2 miles) city driving, 9.2 Powertrain.

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Porsche MPG Hybrid PHEV 273

Green Car Congress

JUNE 16, 2009

PHEVs (blended 10-mile strategy), extended range electric vehicles (40-mile AER) and full EVs begin to make economic sense when gasoline is at about $10/gallon US. The industry does not need a 2011 version of “Who Killed the Electric Car”. Mild, moderate and strong hybrids make sense at $5/gallon. Data: Tom Cackette, ARB.

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Li-ion 2011 Market Hybrid 150

Teslarati

MARCH 31, 2022

It took Tesla owner Matthew Kerle a whole month to get behind the wheel of a car and drive on the highway once more. Upon realizing that they were about to crash, Kerle braced for impact, planting his feet on the car’s floor and clenching his iPhone as tightly as he could in his hand. And when he did, things were not the same. .

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Tesla Water Exhaust United States 98

Plug In Partners

JULY 18, 2008

But in the case of the PHEV , the logic goes something like this: Roughly 80% of our daily trips are under 35 miles. The grid is getting cleaner each year , and will continue to do so as we replace fossil power plants with renewables, while a gasoline car gets dirtier as it ages. And the remaining 20% are longer trips.

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EPRI Li-ion Ni-Li PHEV 100

Plugs and Cars

JULY 26, 2007

What began as a simple program requiring an ever increasing percentage of Zero Emission vehicles (read electric cars), has become mired in cumbersome bureaucratic complications. A plug-in hybrid, one could say, simply integrates electric drive into a car with internal combustion. An ARB ZEV meeting is ordinarily a predictable affair.

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Convert Prius Plug-in Civic Hybrid 100

Green Car Congress

JULY 4, 2009

Cautioning that the development and commercialization of the electric car is “ not a sprint, but a marathon ”, Volkswagen AG Chairman of the Board of Management Prof. Within a decade, he added, Volkswagen wants to offer significant numbers of pure electric cars at affordable prices and with the range expected by customers.

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2013 Companies Gas-Electric Recharge 150

Green Car Congress

SEPTEMBER 10, 2009

The concept vehicle has an all-electric range of up to 30 km (19 miles). The drive system in the concept car consists of three main components: a 3.5-liter We’ve already got all the key technology we need for such a dream car, which is why I see it being included in the next generation of the S-Class. Click to enlarge.

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Plug-in Mercedes Plug Hybrid 210

Green Car Congress

SEPTEMBER 19, 2011

The NiMH battery pack is the same as on the third-generation Prius liftback, but with a cooling duct located under the rear seat. As with current-generation Prius cars, Hybrid Synergy Drive is a series-parallel hybrid system that can provide power either from the engine alone, or the motor alone, or any mix of both.

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Prius MPG Sale Toyota 255

Green Car Congress

SEPTEMBER 13, 2010

liter, 98 hp (73 kW) VVT-i gas engine, a 60 kW (80 hp) electric motor, a generator, a high performance NiMH battery, a power control unit, and a power split device which employs a planetary gear set to combine and re-allocate power from the engine, electric motor and generator according to operational requirements. High Output Battery.

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Lexus Hybrid MPG Exhaust 225