Green Car Congress

JUNE 15, 2011

In addition to their relatively high total cost of ownership, EVs face substantial go-to-market challenges—including questions about battery durability and establishment of the required charging infrastructure—that will impact their rate of adoption. Conventional technologies with high CO 2 reduction potential. Source: BCG.

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Green Cars News

SEPTEMBER 8, 2009

The engine is attached to an electricity generator and provides an efficient source of energy to power an electric motor directly or charge the vehicle’s battery. Thanks to its high efficiency and low mass it will be possible to downsize expensive batteries while maintaining efficiency and range, according to Lotus.

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Green Cars News

SEPTEMBER 21, 2009

. “Before we see full electric cars or fuel cell vehicles we need to establish infrastructures. Topping up batteries is straightforward if we charge vehicles slowly overnight. But we need to look at charging stations and how we can top batteries up in much shorter timescales, and this requires investment to upgrade the grid.

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Green Cars News

JULY 14, 2009

According to the team at Liverpool University, traditional spark plugs impose severe constraints on our ability to achieve ultra lean burn by manipulating combustion: they ignite the charge in a fixed position, so they can’t cope with a stratified charge. Tags: Ford Green credentials emissions ignition Liverpool spark plug.

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Baua Electric

APRIL 20, 2024

Which EV maker is grading how reliably fast-charge stations work with its vehicles? This is our look back at the Week In Reverse—right here at Green Car Reports—for the week ending April 19, 2024. Rivian charging grades for trip planning – Software Update 2024.11.01

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Green Cars News

SEPTEMBER 8, 2009

Its dive into the financial doldrums was short-lived however, and on July 10, 2009, the company bounced back with the formation of a new, downsized GM (see article ). The company was created from the old GM’s strongest operations and was reborn with a clear focus on building better and more environmentally friendly vehicles.

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Green Car Congress

FEBRUARY 12, 2016

While the Niro Hybrid was preceded by clean mobility products such as the Optima Hybrid and Soul EV, Niro is the first Kia to make use of an all-new, dedicated eco-car platform and is an important next step on the path to nearly tripling the brand’s global green car line-up by 2020. A compact and lightweight 1.56-kWh

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Green Car Congress

JULY 17, 2015

Appendix B: Car of the Future: A Comparison of Alternative Vehicles. Appendix E: PHEV and the Electrical Grid—fast charge v. slow charge. Every electric energy consumer, not just the relatively few electric-only vehicle owners, will be asked to pay for the expensive hardware for these high-power charging stations.

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Tony Karrer Delicious EVdriven

JANUARY 28, 2009

The latter projects utilise what is know as Hybrid Battery Pack Configurations in which we take advantage of State Of Charge Drift in order to accomplish State Of Charge Manipulation which allows us to utilize our additional battery capacity.

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Tony Karrer Delicious EVdriven

APRIL 21, 2009

Were charging full-speed ahead before we know exactly what the investment is going to be, before we know whether we can make any money off it or not, before we know how many were going to sell," Lutz said. Lutz said lithium-ion batteries must be improved to hold a bigger charge and deliver the charge gradually. Red Herring ).

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