The Truth About Cars

MARCH 1, 2024

Electric vehicles are dominating the industry conversation, so we had a chat with someone who is a bit of an EV evangelist.as Not fully electric, necessarily, but electrified. well as with a journalist who noted that his outlet elected seven electrified vehicles to its latest Top 10 list.

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Green Car Congress

DECEMBER 23, 2021

GM’s demonstrated proof-of-concept electric conversion vehicles include the E-10 pickup, K-5 Blazer-E, eCOPO Camaro, and Project X built in collaboration with Cagnazzi Racing’s eCrate Solutions Group. Proof of concept vehicle shown.

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Green Car Congress

MARCH 28, 2023

Canada-based Rock Tech Lithium officially broke ground for its lithium conversion plant in Guben, Germany ( earlier post ), from which it will supply Mercedes-Benz with battery-grade lithium hydroxide (LiOH) starting in 2026 (starting with a qualification period). Earlier post.)

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Teslarati

JUNE 25, 2022

The “Bay to Birdwood Run” has announced that starting this year, electric conversion vehicles will be allowed to participate in the rally. Some of the first players in the conversion space include Zelectric Motors and EV4U Custom Conversions, both started in the 2000s and offer conversion services for a variety of vehicles.

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Teslarati

MARCH 28, 2023

Nissan has teased an all-new electric conversion of an R32 Nissan Skyline GTR in a video posted on their YouTube channel. Now, the Japanese automaker has teased a potential EV conversion kit for the R32 Skyline GTR, which garnered the brand a following in the first place. What do you think of the article?

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Baua Electric

MARCH 24, 2024

Jeep Willys Dispatcher concept Jeep Willys Dispatcher concept Fully electric Recon, Magneto notably absent from debuts The heritage off-road look for the Dispatcher is nothing unexpected for Jeep. Does that still mean multiple electric Jeeps will be trekking to Moab in the future? And in 2023, a Jeep Magneto 3.0

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Green Car Congress

JULY 15, 2022

As a fully load-bearing component in the BMW M Hybrid V8, it had the advantage that it could be used in a monocoque chassis without an additional subframe and it was also the one that most closely corresponded to the regulatory requirements after conversion to a hybrid turbo engine. BMW M Hybrid V8 engine.

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Green Car Congress

NOVEMBER 7, 2019

QEV is a Spanish technology and engineering company that develops and manufactures electric drive components for Formula-E race cars, and electric drivetrain assemblies (‘e-kits’) for minibuses. In the Philippines, QEV recently equipped 10 new GET electric minibuses and converted numerous Jeepneys to use its fully-electric technology.

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Green Car Congress

JUNE 23, 2023

They used the model and the data to estimate the life cycle air pollution, greenhouse gas, and traffic externality benefits and costs of serving rides based on Chicago TNC trip data from 2019 to 2022 with fully electric vehicles.

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Teslarati

SEPTEMBER 25, 2023

Nissan said on Monday that all of its new models arriving in Europe will be fully electric, and the company will only sell EVs in the market by 2030, according to Reuters. “Nissan will make the switch to full electric by 2030 in Europe — we believe it is the right thing to do for our business, our customers and for the planet.”

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Green Car Congress

MAY 4, 2021

Preliminary conversations with commercial customers indicate a healthy mix for demand across all eight configurations, with roughly 40% leaning toward high-roof vans and 60% pointing to medium-roof, low-roof, cutaway and chassis cab versions.

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Teslarati

JULY 2, 2022

Colorado will offer EV buyers $2,500 for the purchase or conversion of a fully electric light-duty vehicle, $3,500 for a light-duty electric truck, $5,000 for a medium-duty electric truck, or $10,000 for a heavy-duty electric truck. For a new full EV, buyers are eligible for $2,500 or for PHEVs; $1,000.

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Green Car Congress

AUGUST 6, 2019

Ports of Auckland (New Zealand) has signed a contract with Dutch company Damen Shipyards to buy the world’s first full-size, fully electric port tug. It was important to us that a new electric tug should be able to carry out normal port operations, just like our existing diesel tugs.

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Green Car Congress

AUGUST 19, 2020

Daimler Buses will be providing the battery-electric Mercedes-Benz eCitaro and the new eCitaro G articulated bus. Hamburger Hochbahn AG received the first series-production model of the fully electric driven Mercedes-Benz eCitaro in November 2018 as part of an order for 20 eCitaro units.

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Green Car Congress

FEBRUARY 4, 2022

Lightning eMotors has reached an agreement with General Motors to be the first GM Specialty Vehicle Manufacturer (SVM) to provide fully electric Class 3 through Class 6 commercial vehicles.

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Green Car Congress

FEBRUARY 6, 2017

Groupe Renault has acquired the French company PVI (Power Vehicle Innovation), which specializes in the conversion of commercial vehicles to electricity or natural gas. PVI currently offers three fully-electric powertrain solutions: L powertrains, GVW of 3.5t Earlier post.). Master Z.E. Master Z.E. truck in China, etc.);

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Electric Auto Association

DECEMBER 6, 2021

Nissan E-ambition Nissan announced Ambition 2030 , a $17 billion plan to build 15 fully electric vehicle (EV) models by 2030. Electric truck. A truck from Flux Hybrids out to do a conversion. Hyundai, Nissan, Fisker, Canoo, Lucid, and more…. Nissan concept car. Clean trucks West Coast clean sweep! Lucid Air.

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Baua Electric

JANUARY 31, 2024

Additionally, the sightseeing company has deployed three fully electric open-top buses in London with plans for another thirty before the decade’s end. This will enable fleet operators of the sightseeing bus company to monitor its power supply, charger status, and electric vehicle usage to maximize efficiency.

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Green Car Congress

SEPTEMBER 15, 2016

The PCoB maximizes thermal performance by direct attaching power chips to the busbar, integrating the heatsink and busbar as one, and uses a dielectric fluid, such as air, for electrical isolation. The team is presenting two papers on the inverter at IEEE Energy Conversion Congress and Exposition (ECCE) next week in Milwaukee.

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The Driven EV News

NOVEMBER 15, 2022

Traffic management company Evolution plans to make its entire fleet of 500 utes fully electric within five years, with one third of them - mostly Toyota Hilux - to be converted. The post Australian company to make its entire fleet of 500 utes all electric within five years appeared first on The Driven.

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Green Car Congress

MAY 9, 2014

developer of a power conversion technology called Power Packet Switching Architecture (PPSA), received a purchase order for ten of its PPSA-enabled 30 kW battery converters from Coritech Services, a provider of custom engineering solutions for a variety of applications including electric vehicle charging. Ideal Power Inc.,

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Green Car Congress

MAY 4, 2019

Powered by ABB’s zero-emission technology, the two fully-electric vessels will take tourists to the heart of the Niagara Falls, undisturbed by engine noise or exhaust fumes. New York is leading the way in the transition to an electric transportation system.

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Baua Electric

JANUARY 18, 2024

The team built an actual AI chatbot, which you can access yourself here , whose main goal is to push all sorts of EV myths and channel consumers seeking a cleaner option into buying one of Toyota’s gas-powered hybrids instead of an actual electric car.

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Green Car Congress

MARCH 6, 2020

The boat’s powertrain contains the same sort of components as Scania’s hybrid and fully electric vehicles. We’re bringing automotive technology to the marine world, as we’ve done with diesel engines. —Lead Engineer Mattias Rosengren, Scania Engines.

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Green Car Congress

MARCH 14, 2017

These include an all-new fully electric small SUV, a high-volume autonomous vehicle, a hybrid F-150, a hybrid Mustang, a Transit Custom plug-in hybrid and two new pursuit-rated hybrid police vehicles. Ford is investing $4.5 billion in 13 new electrified vehicles in the next five years.

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Green Car Congress

JULY 18, 2021

With e-hybrids, their battery capacity is expanded, so that they can drive fully electric for an uninterrupted 15 to 100 km. The Flemish PTO will have 150 e-hybrids with a 15 km electric range, 90 e-hybrids with an e-range of 30 km and 84 articulated e-hybrids with a 100 km uninterrupted electric range.

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Teslarati

MAY 12, 2022

“As a logistics service provider, the conversion of our vehicle fleet is an important lever to help us avoid CO2 emissions on the road as well. ” Along with the 40 newly-ordered Volvo trucks , four Volvo FM electric trucks will be utilized for regional hauling.

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Green Car Congress

FEBRUARY 5, 2023

Charities, sole traders and business with 10 or fewer employees registered in London can apply to scrap a van (£5,000 grant) or a minibus (£7,000 grant), retrofit certain vans or minibuses (£5,000 grant) or scrap and replace a van or minibus with a fully electric vehicle (£7,500 or £9,500 grant respectively).

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Baua Electric

FEBRUARY 9, 2024

Nissan is taking the fight to the Ford e-Transit electric van by upgrading its full size commercial van lineup with — for the first time ever! — a fully electric powertrain and two different battery sizes (in Europe, anyway). tons (~3,525 lbs.) ton diesel Transit vans.

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Green Car Congress

MARCH 6, 2010

Some of the same enabling technology developed on the IDEA will be directly applied to the EV propulsion conversion of the LLV. As an example, Bright said, applying the rear electric drive of the IDEA PHEV powertrain to the LLV positions Bright Automotive’s conversion with proven production-intent technology.

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Baua Electric

JANUARY 30, 2024

Ford Pro will collaborate with global sustainability leaders Ecolab to speed up the electrification of its vehicle fleet, with a goal of transitioning to a 100% fully electric commercial fleet by 2030.

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Green Car Congress

DECEMBER 10, 2010

Peugeot earlier this year began marketing a new battery-electric version of its Partner Origin van, the Electric Partner Origin Venturi. This Venturi-powered fully-electric version retains the practical features. The Electric Partner Origin is aimed at all major account clients or fleets.

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Teslarati

MARCH 9, 2022

While Hyundai still has not quite committed to a fully-electric future and has talked about hydrogen options as a potential selection as well, the IONIQ 5 is undoubtedly a vehicle worth mentioning in the conversation of the most appealing EVs launched by long-standing automotive companies.

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Green Car Congress

MAY 16, 2018

A key element of this change is the conversion of production micro-grids from an alternating current (AC) to a direct current (DC) architecture—“Industrial Smart DC Grids”. However, today’s production grids are powered by alternating current—which has to be converted.

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Green Car Congress

DECEMBER 17, 2020

Assembly is performed at Lightning eMotors’ Loveland, Colorado facility, which is currently ramping up to reach a production capacity of 1,000 electric commercial EVs per year in 2021 and with a goal of 20,000 vehicles per year by 2025.

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Green Car Congress

OCTOBER 16, 2019

Per the terms of the transaction, XL acquires the engineering staff and technology assets of Quantum Fuel’s EV division, providing capacity to accelerate its product development plans for heavy duty and fully electric propulsion applications.

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Green Car Congress

MARCH 4, 2020

The Touareg R can be driven at up to 140 km/h using electric power; above this speed, the turbocharged V6 gasoline engine (TSI) supplements the electric drive motor. The Touareg R will cover most commuter distances fully electrically.

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