Green Car Congress

OCTOBER 12, 2021

Introduced at Automotive Circle’s annual EuroCarBody conference, the study’s aluminum top hat achieved 42% weight savings compared to the reference top hat of the current Audi e-tron electric SUV, which uses advanced (AHSS) and ultra-high-strength steels (UHSS). —Mark White, Executive Director of Alumobility.

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Green Car Congress

APRIL 7, 2017

Ford also confirmed plans to bring an all-new fully electric small SUV to China within five years; the electric SUV will feature a range of up to 450 km (279 miles) and will also be marketed in North America and Europe. Globally, the company is investing $4.5

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Green Car Congress

MARCH 16, 2018

years as it replaces three-quarters of its lineup and adds four new trucks and SUVs. By 2020, trucks and SUVs—including electrified vehicles—are to represent 86% of Ford’s product mix. It is the first of six electric vehicles coming by 2022 as part of the company’s $11 billion global electric vehicle investment.

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Baua Electric

JANUARY 20, 2024

This is our look back at the Week In Reverse—right here at Green Car Reports—for the week ending. Teaser for 2025 Jeep Wagoneer S Stellantis provided a first look at the 2025 Jeep Wagoneer S electric SUV , confirming Thursday that it’s right on schedule and set to arrive this fall in the U.S., inch infotainment screen.

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Green Car Congress

JUNE 13, 2016

Working together with partners from its global competence network, Daimler AG has developed an all-new fuel-cell system. Furthermore, the cost of the technology has been slashed due largely to a 90% reduction in the amount of platinum used in the stack. The 9 kWh battery pack is housed at the rear of the SUV to save space.

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Baua Electric

APRIL 27, 2024

Which EV brand has the lowest ownership costs of any automotive brand? This is our look back at the Week In Reverse—right here at Green Car Reports—for the week ending April 26, 2024. made electric SUV —in Princeton, Indiana, starting in 2026. vehicle share, and about 20% of all cars sold globally.

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Green Car Congress

MARCH 3, 2022

Ford is continuing to transform its global automotive business, accelerating the development and scaling of electric, connected vehicles, while leveraging its nameplates to strengthen operating performance and take full advantage of engineering and industrial capabilities. Ford reaffirms guidance for 2022 of $11.5 billion to $12.5

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Baua Electric

JANUARY 30, 2024

Kalyani Powertrain is trying to keep the cost of the repowered truck to “well within 2X and closer to 1.5X” of its original cost. With right supply chain strategies, the volume will support the cost competitiveness,” he said. Krishan Kohli, President and CEO of Kalyani Powertrain.

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Green Car Congress

APRIL 6, 2022

General Motors and Honda plan to expand the two companies’ relationship by codeveloping a series of affordable electric vehicles based on a new global architecture using next-generation Ultium battery technology. —Doug Parks, GM executive vice president, Global Product Development, Purchasing and Supply Chain.

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Green Car Congress

APRIL 30, 2022

Suzuki Motors has a global EV alliance with Toyota, however it has lags with regards to its BEV strategy in India. This could be compared with its compact-SUV strategy where it launched its Vitara Brezza after similar products from Ford, Jeep and Hyundai proved successful in the Indian market.

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Green Car Congress

APRIL 26, 2021

As the first of the 10 models, the mass-production model based on the Honda SUV e:prototype is scheduled to go on sale in spring 2022. Honda SUV e:prototype shown at Shanghai 2021. The company plans to introduce 10 Honda-brand EV models within five years. Advanced Battery Technology.

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Baua Electric

APRIL 21, 2024

Earth Day is now a global event each year, and over a billion people across 192 countries now take part in what is the largest civic-focused day of action in the world. And the automotive industry too is doing its bit to ensure green motoring. The shift to eco-friendly electric mobility is underway globally.

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Green Car Congress

JULY 26, 2010

The 2011 Ford Explorer SUV. The unique turbocharger is optimally matched to the EcoBoost I-4 engine and SUV vehicle performance behavior. The EcoBoost I-4 uses 5W30-GF4 oil to reduce friction and reduce cost of ownership through 10,000-mile oil change intervals. Click to enlarge. Ford has introduced the new 2011 Explorer.

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Green Car Congress

JULY 24, 2009

The Ford Falcon (XT model shown) will be the first global RWD application of the new 2.0L Second, the Ford Territory, the only Australian-made SUV, will receive a clean diesel version of Ford’s 2.7-liter EcoBoost engine. Click to enlarge. liter turbocharged V6 engine.

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EV Central

FEBRUARY 4, 2024

Previewed in an Impact Analysis published on Sunday (February 4), the newly renamed National Vehicle Efficiency Standard (NVES), will impose tough CO2 emissions limit on passenger vehicles, SUVs, utes and vans that ramp up around 12 per cent per year from 2025 to 2029 under the government’s preferred model.

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Driivz

JUNE 22, 2022

The intent of decarbonization is to reduce the impact of human activity on our planet’s climate in order to slow global warming. The 2015 Paris Agreement set the goal of limiting global warming to well below 2, preferably to 1.5 In a renewable grid, electricity comes from green sources — solar, wind, and hydropower.

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Baua Electric

JANUARY 15, 2024

As Honda’s global CEO alluded this past week in a Q&A with Green Car Reports and various automotive and tech media at CES, it doesn’t see how the parallel pencils out quite yet. Whether the vehicle is luxury or affordable, the cost of the battery is the same,” said Honda CEO Toshihiro Mibe, through a translator.

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Green Car Congress

AUGUST 24, 2009

Canadian government programs that offer rebates to hybrid vehicle buyers are failing to produce environmental benefits commensurate with the cost, according to a study by researchers at the University of British Columbia (UBC). Ambarish Chandra, Sumeet Gulati, and Milind Kandlikary (2009) Green Drivers or Free Riders?

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Drive Electric

JANUARY 7, 2022

There’s a huge demand for new vehicles that simply aren’t being made due to a global shortage of raw materials and components; namely semiconductors. Businesses are also going green and being ever-more mindful of their corporate carbon footprint. Factors Pushing The Number Down. This shortage is expected to last until around mid-2022.

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Baua Electric

JANUARY 6, 2024

The hybrid vehicles — dual powered by a petrol engine and an electric motor — are gathering strong traction amongst SUV buyers versus all electric battery-operated passenger vehicles. That number is higher for the global hybrid specialist Toyota Urban Cruiser Hyryder — a third of these sold are hybrids. Hybrids cost about Rs 2.5

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Green Car Congress

DECEMBER 18, 2019

signed a binding Combination Agreement providing for a 50/50 merger of their businesses to create the 4 th -largest global automotive OEM by volume and 3 rd -largest by revenue. The total one-time cost of achieving the synergies is estimated at €2.8 Fiat Chrysler Automobiles N.V. and Peugeot S.A.

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Green Car Congress

NOVEMBER 21, 2014

billion (US$106 billion) in new models, innovative technologies and its global presence in its Automotive Division over the coming five years. Investments in property, plant and equipment, investment property and intangible assets, excluding capitalized development costs (capex) in the Automotive Division will amount to €64.3

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Green Car Congress

MARCH 22, 2017

These fuel economy levels are achieved based on a sustained 4%–6% annual reduction of fuel use per mile with incremental technology additions that do not compromise vehicle size or utility at an incremental cost of $800–$1,300 from 2025 to 2030. Previous costs of compliance have been greatly overestimated. Lightweighting.

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Green Car Congress

JULY 24, 2012

Ford is passing along to customers cost savings that have been achieved through various efficiencies, says Kevin Layden, director, Ford’s Electrification Programs and Engineering. For example, Ford has cut costs by bringing in-house the development and manufacture of many aspects of vehicles such as C-MAX Energi.

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Baua Electric

MARCH 25, 2024

as well as higher-volume, reduced-cost EVs, with aims to cut the cost of next-generation EVs by 30%. As such, they’ll cost the same or less than combustion models by 2030. Sources have confirmed to Green Car Reports that two larger U.S. EVs set to be built around then in Mississippi will incorporate that strategy.

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Clean Fleet Report

MAY 30, 2023

Now, the company’s green and yellow machines’ ubiquity throughout America and the world is a clue to the innovation that is brought to the market, foreseeing the needs of John Deere customers. 30-percent of the cost of growing consists of spraying jobs of fertilizing, weed and pest control.

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Green Car Congress

MAY 8, 2009

Kilometers per crop hectare for switchgrass feedstock with a small SUV. This is largely due to fact that the small SUV BEV has an electric motor that is 3.1 times as efficient as the internal combustion engine of the small SUV ICV for highway driving. Campbell et al. 2009) Click to enlarge. Campbell et al.

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Clean Fleet Report

MARCH 13, 2023

Those days are over with the introduction of the all-new, all-electric 2023 Lexus RZ 450e compact SUV. Lexus has been known to say they are where “luxury goes green,” which is fair and accurate. Because of this we don’t address issues such as long-term reliability or total cost of ownership. Photos by John Faulkner and Lexus. [

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Green Car Congress

MAY 12, 2009

At the AABC 2008 conference, Robert King from GE Global Research outlined requirements and challenges for hybrid locomotive batteries, including: 1,300 kW continuous chare/discharge power. The first application will be GE’s hybrid locomotive, which will be commercialized in 2010. Earlier post.). Battery Requirements for Hybrid Locomotives.

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EV Central

DECEMBER 21, 2023

Could it be that plug-in hybrid tech works better in a $1 million supercar than any SUV, sedan or wagon costing one-tenth as much? They’re short-range EVs, but with the added complexity and maintenance costs that come with an ICE. It’s different with everyday PHEVs, which come with multiple disadvantages.

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Plug In India

NOVEMBER 16, 2021

Video: BYD's Blade Battery & World EV leader Introduction BYD sells a full range of electrified Buses, Trucks, Cars and they are global leaders in the electric bus space. So BYD makes their own chips and are insulated from the global chip shortage of 2021. The BYD e-platform 3.0 They make cells, battery packs and power electronics.

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Green Car Congress

FEBRUARY 18, 2014

SpeedStart and TIGERS technologies are aimed not only at the C-segment car platform represented by the Ford Focus, but also are relevant from the B-segment to the largest passenger car and rapidly growing SUV platforms. SR machines are ideally suited to this concept of low cost development, while reducing the cost of production components.

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Clean Fleet Report

APRIL 20, 2022

However, drivers who choose an electric vehicle or other eco-friendly model that offers lower emissions may be able to save some money with a green auto loan. What are green auto loans? Let’s explore the answer and some of the best options for anyone looking to buy a green or eco-friendly car in 2022. What Is a Green Auto Loan?

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Green Car Congress

NOVEMBER 7, 2014

2014 has been a year of rapid growth for the fuel cell market with positive progress being made globally, especially in markets such as US, UK, Germany, France and Japan. Despite the recent progress, a number of myths around the use, power efficiency and cost of fuel cells still exist. by Dr. Henri Winand, CEO of Intelligent Energy.

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Charged EVs

FEBRUARY 23, 2021

In 2019, Volvo launched the XC40 compact crossover, a boxy but stylish compact SUV with a 2.0-liter A pre-production XC40 Recharge I drove for an hour last October through rolling suburban hills outside New York City drew little attention, perhaps due to its muted, elegant silvery-green color and black roof. Volvo’s first EV.

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Baua Electric

JANUARY 27, 2024

Which CEO of a global automaker suggested that EVs may never top 30% of the global vehicle market? This is our look back at the Week In Reverse—right here at Green Car Reports—for the week ending January 26, 2024. All that said, the 2024 Subaru Solterra costs just $120 more than 2023. Which EV from a U.S.

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Green Car Congress

JULY 19, 2011

At the “Forward with Ford” event held in June—a conference exploring the linkage of Ford vehicles and technologies to global consumer trends—the company showcased its work on vehicle-to-vehicle (V2V) communications with a focus on crash avoidance. Click to enlarge. Volvo’s City Safety.

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