Green Car Congress

JULY 17, 2015

and UC-Davis Emeritus and Catherine JJ DeMauro. The alternative-fuel car evolved to reduce exhaust emissions and other problems derived from burning fossil fuels. Andrew Frank is a significant industry dignitary credited as being the “Inventor” (or “Father”) of the modern day Plug-in Hybrid Electric Vehicle. Conclusions.

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Green Cars News

OCTOBER 6, 2009

“Car scrapping initiatives are often mistakenly labelled as green because they subsidise the purchase of cars that are usually, more fuel-efficient than those they replace, but the schemes are by their nature wasteful and routinely fail to take into consideration the amount of energy required to build a vehicle in the first place.”.

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Green Cars News

SEPTEMBER 15, 2009

EU regulation is striving to cut the CO2 emitted by cars to an average figure of 130 g/km by 2015. Director at the ETA, Andrew Davis, said: “Car makers can build green cars, but they need us to buy them. The average British driver comes sixteenth in the list with 158g/km (eg. VW Passat).

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Green Cars News

AUGUST 18, 2009

With payments of up to $4,500 for motorists willing to swap their ageing gas guzzling vehicles for more fuel efficient ones, it seemed like a ‘can’t lose’ scheme with consumers getting cheaper cars, the automotive industry enjoying more sales and the environment boosted by a reduction in harmful emissions.

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Green Cars News

AUGUST 21, 2009

“At the same time, we’ve been able to take old, polluting cars off the road and help consumers purchase fuel efficient vehicles.”. The scheme gave owners of old cars and lorries up to $4,500 towards a new, more fuel efficient vehicle in exchange for their old model.

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Green Cars News

JUNE 17, 2009

In all, 1,300 vehicles were considered with examinations made of their power, emissions, fuel efficiency and even the amount of noise they produce. According to Andrew Davis, director of the ETA, the XJ “consistently outperforms its rivals in the luxury class&#.

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Green Cars News

JUNE 9, 2009

Research by the by ethical breakdown provider, the Environmental Transport Association (ETA) has found that stressed out and aggressive drivers not only add to road danger, but lower the fuel efficiency of their vehicles. Avoid harsh acceleration and braking to save fuel, reduce wear and tear and feel more relaxed.

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Tony Karrer Delicious EVdriven

APRIL 21, 2009

At these prices, people are buying the "environmental feature" -- they want to be among the first owners of the worlds cleanest extended-range vehicles. Today youd do it to be one of the first to drive the worlds cleanest extended range vehicle; in the future, youll do it because its an obvious and affordable win!

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Green Cars News

AUGUST 16, 2009

The BMW MINI E is one of the most exciting and head turning electric car concepts and now it is being put to the test thanks to a partnership between BMW and the University of California at Davis. The vehicle reportedly has a 100 mile range on a single charge.

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Tony Karrer Delicious EVdriven

APRIL 21, 2009

Some of these vehicles may be available for demonstrations using the available contact info. Click on images of cars 1, 6-8, or 10-12 for high-resolution images (media may use with credit: CalCars.org). Austin Energy by Hymotion, March 2007 Same as above (2 vehicles), contact mark.kapner@austinenergy.com. Jim Tech Ltd.

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Tony Karrer Delicious EVdriven

APRIL 21, 2009

GM has announced plans for public sales in 2010, and almost every carmaker now says it will sell PHEVs or highway-speed battery electric vehicles (BEVs) sometime after 2010. Weve kept the summary table below generally up-to-date for passenger PHEVs, but not for BEVs, motorcycles or larger vehicles like buses and trucks.

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