Green Car Congress

JULY 29, 2014

The Electric Power Research Institute, 8 automakers and 15 utilities are working to develop and to demonstrate an open platform that would integrate plug-in electric vehicles (PEVs) with smart grid technologies enabling utilities to support PEV charging regardless of location. Automakers and V2G. Earlier post.) Earlier post.). Earlier post.).

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Green Car Congress

JULY 9, 2013

Car buyers are more likely to buy a plug-in electric vehicle (PEV) if they know that the electricity used to charge it is from a renewable energy source, according to a study in the IOP journal Environmental Research Letters (ERL). —Jonn Axsen. —Jonn Axsen. doi: 10.1088/1748-9326/8/1/014045.

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Green Car Congress

NOVEMBER 8, 2013

Plug-in electric vehicles are promising and sales have started, but it will take time to reach very large volumes, and will likely require strong incentives over the coming decade to reach a fully competitive point. The global vehicle fleet is predicted to double by 2050 with 80% of that growth in the developing world.

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Green Car Reports

FEBRUARY 6, 2018

A recent study from the University of California, Davis suggested that awareness of available plug-in electric cars among potential buyers was no higher in 2017 than it had been in 2014.

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Green Car Congress

APRIL 24, 2013

The site is on the campus of the University of California, Davis; the building process will be documented and shared through the Honda Smart Home US website. It is expected to produce more energy than it consumes, using less than half of the energy of a similarly sized new home in the Davis area for heating, cooling, and lighting.

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Green Car Congress

MAY 26, 2010

The introduction of electric vehicles on a large scale in the UK can only have a beneficial effect on CO 2 emissions if low-carbon electricity, universal broadband provision and smart grids are in place to support the transition, according to a new report published by the UK Royal Academy of Engineering.

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Green Car Reports

AUGUST 15, 2014

While battery-electric and plug-in hybrid cars have had much of the spotlight to themselves for the past four years, we''re going to be hearing a lot more about hydrogen fuel-cell cars over the next few.

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Green Car Congress

MARCH 25, 2015

CALSTART; UPS Advanced Hybrid Lift Truck Demonstration Program. Center for Transportation and the Environment; Fuel Cell Hybrid Electric Delivery Van Project. The Regents of the University of California (Irvine); NextGen American Fuel Cell Bus Project. Caterpillar; Hybrid Wheel Loader With Integrated Technologies.

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Green Car Congress

JUNE 13, 2009

described a prototype lithium-ion battery system targeted at a plug-in hybrid electric vehicle (PHEV) application. and Marshall Miller (2009) Performance Characteristics of Lithium-ion Batteries of Various Chemistries for Plug-in Hybrid Vehicles. Tags: Batteries Plug-ins. Click to enlarge. kWh useable energy. (A

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Green Car Congress

APRIL 22, 2016

and UC-Davis Emeritus and Bruce R. The Plug-in Hybrid Electric Vehicle with Long Electric Range (PHEVLER - pronounced “fevler”) is a new category emerging in the electric vehicle marketplace. which produces hybrid and electric drivetrains for small, medium and large vehicles. Dr. Bruce R. He has a Ph.D. Table of Contents.

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Green Car Congress

JUNE 11, 2010

The California Center for Sustainable Energy (CCSE) will lead a joint research study of how the useful lifespan of electric vehicle batteries could be extended by repurposing them as household electric storage devices with a $992,000 grant from the University of California. of Monrovia, Calif.; Flux Power of Vista, Calif.; —Mike Ferry.

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Green Car Congress

APRIL 23, 2014

million grant to the Center for Transportation and the Environment to develop and deploy fuel cell hybrid electric walk-in delivery vans. million grant to the University of California, Davis, to establish a National Center for Sustainable Transportation. One will fund clean energy research that benefits electricity ratepayers.

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Green Cars News

MAY 30, 2011

That’s the verdict of research by the Institute of Transportation Studies at the University of California at Davis which suggests that more [.].

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Green Car Congress

APRIL 6, 2011

The cost of Li-ion batteries currently affects the affordability of plug-in hybrid and electric vehicles (PHEV/EV) for consumers. For the field test, researchers will deploy aged EV batteries at the University of California (UC), San Diego’s campus-wide electric power grid.

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Tony Karrer Delicious EVdriven

APRIL 21, 2009

About CalCars Plug-In Hybrids FAQ How to Get a PHEV Where PHEVs are Car-Makers Say. 2 Plug-in hybrids are cleaner 3 Plug-in hybrids are cheaper 4 Plug-in hybrids are domestic 5 Plug-in hybrids already exist 1. What Are Plug-In Hybrids? You dont have to plug it in.

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Plug In Partners

FEBRUARY 13, 2006

13, 2006 Andrew Frank, University of California at Davis Mechanical engineering professor and researcher Andrew Frank has spent much of the last 30 years studying electric motors and batteries to make vehicles more fuel-efficient. Frank spoke recently with Staff Writer Doug Beizer about plug-in hybrid technology and car fuel economy.

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Green Car Congress

FEBRUARY 23, 2010

The LCVTP involves seven industry and research partners: Jaguar Land Rover, Tata Motors, Zytek, Ricardo, MIRA, WMG (formerly Warwick Manufacturing Group) at the University of Warwick and Coventry University. Dr Geoff Davis, MIRA’s Business Development Director. More details of the £29-million (US$44.7-million) Drive Motors.

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Green Car Congress

MARCH 2, 2016

In the study, published in the journal Nature Energy , Noel Melton, Jonn Axsen and Daniel Sperling conduct a media analysis to show how society’s attention has skipped among alternative fuel vehicle (AFV) technology between 1980 and 2013, including methanol, natural gas, plug-in electric, hybrid electric, hydrogen and biofuels.

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Green Car Congress

OCTOBER 20, 2014

Early in September, the California Air Resources Board (ARB) announced it would consider in a 23-24 October meeting amendments to the Zero Emission Vehicle (ZEV) regulation that would modify the requirements for intermediate volume manufacturers (IVMs) selling into the state to allow them more time to come into the market. Earlier post.).

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Green Car Congress

APRIL 22, 2016

The workshop will be followed by an invitation-only event where further panel discussions will occur at the University of California, Davis. Background. This represents roughly 80% of EV chargers installed in California since that date.

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China EV

JANUARY 13, 2020

Selling NEVs – which includes battery electric, plug-in hybrid electric, and hydrogen fuel cell vehicles but for all intents only means BEVs and PHEVS right now – is already challenging in China. Full disclosure: I was not there.) But as usual, the central government made only vague statements regarding NEV policy. million in 2018.

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Plug In Partners

FEBRUARY 15, 2008

I t's fair to say that the plug in hybrid ( watch video ) was born in California at UC Davis through the vision and tenacity of Andy Frank; but now, as the idea and the technology begins to mature and spread, another State and another University is joining the effort: Here's the story from Channel Nine news : N.C.

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Tony Karrer Delicious EVdriven

APRIL 21, 2009

About CalCars Plug-In Hybrids FAQ How to Get a PHEV Where PHEVs are Carmakers Say. Conversions are mostly for the Prius, with a few for the Ford Escape/Mercury Mariner hybrid SUVs. See How Carmakers are Responding to the Plug-In Hybrid Opportunity. So far, most start as hybrids.

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Electric Auto Association

JANUARY 5, 2023

Chapter member Ian Wright cofounded Tesla then later founded Wrightspeed, a company that built large hybrid trucks in San Jose. Founding EVA chapter connects with entrepreneurial stars. So many of our members have been practicing engineers, not just tinkerers,” Freund continued. And that entrepreneurship persists here in the valley.

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Green Car Congress

JULY 17, 2015

and UC-Davis Emeritus and Catherine JJ DeMauro. The PHEV (Plug-in Hybrid Electric Vehicle), a subset of the electric car, combines a primary electric motor with a much smaller back-up engine fueled with a hydrocarbon/biofuel mix. by Professor Andrew Alfonso Frank. CTO Efficient Drivetrains Inc. About Dr. Frank.

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Green Car Congress

AUGUST 30, 2015

A working paper by a team at the Energy Institute at Haas, University of California, Berkeley, has found that 60% of the $18 billion in US federal income clean energy tax credits issued between 2006 and 2012—e.g., Source: Borenstein and Davis. —Borenstein and Davis (2015). Electric Vehicle Credit. Click to enlarge.

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Plug In Partners

JULY 20, 2006

Toyota Motor Company J ust last month, there seemed to be good evidence that Toyota was looking at producing a plug- in. Toyota moves to corner the 'plug-in' market Reversing course, the Japanese automaker reveals it will make hybrid cars that can go even farther on electricity. Now, Toyota is making it official.

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Green Car Congress

JUNE 13, 2011

The University of California, Davis and the BMW Group released the largest publicly available study of electric-car users yet conducted, including more than 120 families who drove the fully electric MINI E automobile more than 1 million miles in California, New York and New Jersey from June 2009 to June 2010.

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Plug In Partners

JANUARY 26, 2006

Coalition Turns On to 'Plug-In Hybrids' Utilities, Localities, DaimlerChrysler Give Traction to Professor's Drive For High Mileage By JOHN J. In the 1990s, as a mechanical-engineering professor at the University of California here, Dr. Frank produced another shocker. Hybrid automobiles work with two engines.

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Plug In Partners

JANUARY 24, 2006

EV world NATIONAL COALITION LAUNCHES CAMPAIGN TO URGE AUTOMAKERS TO PRODUCE PLUG-IN HYBRID VEHICLES WASHINGTON, D.C.—January Plug-in Hybrid Electric Vehicles (PHEVs) would combine today’s new gas-electric hybrid technology with larger batteries that could provide an all-electric operating range of 25 to 35 miles or more.

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Green Car Congress

APRIL 30, 2010

Easel Biotechnologies, UC Davis). The US Department of Energy is awarding $106 million in funding for 37 research projects selected in the second round by the DOE’s Advanced Research Projects Agency-Energy (ARPA-E). Earlier post.). Earlier post.) More than 540 initial concept papers were received in the three focus areas.

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Green Car Congress

AUGUST 14, 2009

BMW of North America and the University of California at Davis (UC Davis) are partnering on a year-long field study to determine the viability of electric vehicles. Tom Turrentine, director of UC Davis’ PHEV Research Center. Jim McDowell, Vice President, MINI USA.

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Green Car Congress

JANUARY 20, 2010

The basic goal of the revised ZEV program should be to help demonstration-stage, low-GHG emitting technologies to commercialization, include fuel cell vehicles (FCVs); battery-electric vehicles (BEVs); and Enhanced AT PZEVs, which currently include plug-in HEVs (PHEV) and hydrogen internal combustion engine (HICE) vehicles, according to ARB staff.

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Tony Karrer Delicious EVdriven

APRIL 21, 2009

About CalCars Plug-In Hybrids FAQ How to Get a PHEV Where PHEVs are Carmakers Say. Our PRIUS+ Project Photos PHEV Resources Global Warming Take Action News and Events Contact Us How Carmakers are Responding to the Plug-In Hybrid Opportunity If you ask, "have major auto-makers come around on PHEVs?",

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Green Car Congress

JANUARY 11, 2010

Toyota Motor Sales (TMS) USA unveiled the FT-CH dedicated hybrid concept at the North American International Auto Show (NAIAS) in Detroit. The CH stands for compact hybrid as in compact class. By far, the single most successful example of this has been the gas-electric hybrid. Eight new hybrids. —Jim Lentz.

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Tony Karrer Delicious EVdriven

APRIL 21, 2009

About CalCars Plug-In Hybrids FAQ How to Get a PHEV Where PHEVs are Car-Makers Say. Below is a chronology of hybrid Toyota Priuses and Ford Escapes that have been converted. If youre interested in converting your Prius, see the information at How To Get a Plug-In Hybrid. Unless otherwise noted, all are Prius.

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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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