Green Car Congress

JULY 13, 2012

African Cats launched the first GreenCat 605 catamaran designed by Simonis-Voogd in Durban South Africa. With the swing keels and retractable motors lifted she can be beached. The Green-Motion system is powered with 12 Lithium Ion batteries, 50 kW power (giving her a 40 NM motoring range without using a DC generator).

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Green Car Congress

JULY 15, 2013

Carlos Ghosn, Nissan Motor President and CEO, unveiled the Datsun GO in India. Datsun is now the third brand for the Nissan Motor Company along with the Nissan and Infiniti brands. Datsun GO will be the first of several Datsun models that will be launched later in 2014 in Indonesia, Russia and South Africa.

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EV Central

MARCH 27, 2024

READ MORE: China’s Geely launches new electric brand Galaxy READ MORE: From China with love: New Zeekr 007 is the car designed and developed to beat the Tesla Model 3 READ MORE: Here comes another one! The Geely brand itself has also investigated coming to Australia with models such as the Radar ute. 2025 Galaxy E5 SUV. 2025 Galaxy E5 SUV.

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Green Car Congress

APRIL 4, 2009

Optimal Energy , the Cape Town, South Africa-based company that unveiled the Joule full battery-electric multi-purpose urban passenger vehicle to the world at the Paris Motor Show in 2008 ( earlier post ), plans to have pilot fleets on the road in South Africa and globally from 2010 onwards, with mass production to start in South Africa from 2012.

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Baua Electric

MAY 17, 2024

While the latest iteration retains the unmistakable ‘Swift’ silhouette, its design language has evolved with rounder elements and softer curves. swiftly All in all, the new Swift makes for a good dose of fresh motoring. The fourth-gen Swift has taken the motoring game forward. Taking the game forward.

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Green Car Congress

SEPTEMBER 16, 2015

The partnership between the Renault-Nissan Alliance and Daimler AG accelerated and strengthened as it entered its sixth year in 2015, the companies’ leaders said today in a media update given during the Frankfurt International Motor Show. The vehicle will have all of Mercedes Benz’ distinctive characteristics and features.

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Green Car Congress

JULY 19, 2010

Ford Figo is designed and engineered to compete in India’s small car segment, which accounts for more than 70% of the new vehicle market. In addition to strong internal demand, Ford India has also recently exported 1,200 Ford Figos to Ford Motor Company in South Africa. Earlier post.).

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Green Car Congress

JANUARY 28, 2016

Investors in SDCmaterials include the venture capital arms of General Motors, Volvo Group, and SAIC Motor as well as BASF Venture Capital. Engine designs for fuel economy can result in reduced exhaust temperatures. They may also enable developing countries to deploy more effective catalysts per value invested per vehicle.

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Green Car Congress

APRIL 9, 2015

Initiated by Shell, the collaboration, which is called Project M, brings together Shell’s Lubricant’s Technology Team, The Gordon Murray Design Group and Goto’s engine specialist company Geo Technology. The Shell car will be a ground-up, total re-think of the Gordon Murray Design T.25 Gordon Murray Design’s first milestone was the T.25.

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Green Car Congress

DECEMBER 10, 2011

The report reviewed more than 300 studies on health outcomes from different types of land transport systems in a “scoping exercise” designed to identify those mitigation measures most closely associated with specific health co-benefits or risks. Carlos Dora of WHO’s Department of Public Health and Environment.

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Green Car Congress

JULY 12, 2013

Describing its product goals and tracking progress toward its 2020 manufacturing priorities in its 2012 Sustainability Report , General Motors reaffirmed its commitment to further reduce the energy used and the environmental impacts of building and operating an automobile. The 2020 target was raised from 0.70 to reflect this change.

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Green Car Congress

MARCH 6, 2009

Ford Motor Company officially launched the new Ford Fiesta into the China market on the southern resort island of Hainan. Designed and developed in Europe for sale across Ford’s global markets, the new Fiesta is the first in a series of fuel-efficient new small cars developed through Ford’s global product development process.

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Green Car Congress

JANUARY 6, 2012

Tata Motors showcased its alternate fuel technology capability at the New Delhi Auto Expo 2012 by displaying four concepts: the Tata Nano CNG; the Tata Indigo Manza diesel-electric hybrid; the Tata Starbus Fuel Cell (hydrogen); and the Tata Magic Iris CNG. Tata Motors is India’s largest automobile company, with consolidated revenues of Rs.1,23,133

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Green Car Congress

JULY 16, 2014

The worldwide challenges kicked off in Lisbon, Portugal; Los Angeles, United States; and Mumbai, India; before moving on to Delhi and the Chennai region in India; Shanghai, China; Johannesburg, South Africa; and a countrywide challenge in Argentina. Venkatesh Prasad, senior technical leader, Open Innovation, Ford Motor Company.

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Green Car Congress

MARCH 18, 2013

The innovations are not just in fuels and tweaking cars—they are across a lot of new business models, product, services models, designs, infrastructures. The innovations have been burgeoning. How do we put that all together in the best way possible, while also needing to customize to a particular region and culture? Zielinski, S.

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Tony Karrer Delicious EVdriven

APRIL 28, 2009

Your correspondent borrowed the new A2B electric bicycle from Ultra Motors, a British firm, and took it for a spin in London. If more road space were given over to them, and roads were designed with two-wheeled transport in mind, that might change. The pedals are there should you wish to use them.

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Plug In Partners

JUNE 14, 2007

The Air Car , developed by ex-Formula One engineer Guy Nègre, will be built by India's largest automaker, Tata Motors. It just doesn't have an electric motor. Nègre has signed deals to bring its design to 12 more countries, including Germany, Israel and South Africa.

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Cars That Think

AUGUST 20, 2022

Just two countries—Chile and Australia—account for over two-thirds of global lithium reserves, and South Africa, Brazil, Ukraine, and Australia have almost all the manganese reserves. We should try as much as possible, for example, to avoid motorized travel by cutting the frequency and length of car trips through better urban planning.

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