Green Car Congress

NOVEMBER 8, 2009

Proposed vehicles covered under the submission include Dodge Ram 1500 Plug-in Hybrid-electric Vehicles (PHEVs), Chrysler Town & Country PHEVs and Chrysler Town & Country Electric Vehicles (EVs). With a 50/50 cost share, the total investment represented by the proposals is $448 million. Earlier post.).

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Teslarati

APRIL 1, 2024

As electric vehicles (EVs) from Tesla and others have become more popular , so too have the cultures of trolling, memes, and general online silliness continued to grow. Tesla has had a long history of making April Fool’s jokes, not unlike many before it in the tech automotive industries. Eight years and 22.2

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Baua Electric

MARCH 28, 2024

While car manufacturers are increasingly focusing on downsizing the engines in the face of tightening emission norms across the world, Porsche is planning to continue with its V8 engine beyond 2030. Porsche aims to keep the V8 engine in business beyond 2030, but with necessary tweaks to safeguard it from tightening regulations.

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Green Car Congress

JANUARY 9, 2010

Peugeot continues to improve engine efficiency with a downsizing strategy for its gasoline and HDi FAP diesel engines. 100% Electric vehicles. Peugeot will initially launch the i0n in Europe into the private electric vehicle market from the end of 2010. Included in its product strategy are: Cleaner engines.

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Green Car Congress

JANUARY 18, 2010

A new report from Frost & Sullivan, Implementation Roadmap of CO 2 Tax Banding in European Countries and Impact Analysis on Powertrain and Green Technology Adoption , finds that about 80% of the European vehicle sales is expected to be in the less than 150 g/km CO 2 emission band by 2015. Hariher Balasubramanian.

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Green Car Congress

MARCH 10, 2010

As part of the new plan, Valeo will devote two-thirds of its advanced research investment to developing technology solutions for downsized internal combustion engines and for hybrid and electric vehicles. Valeo expects to double its sales for technologies linked to CO 2 emissions reduction to €1 billion (US$1.4

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Green Car Congress

NOVEMBER 6, 2014

Engines with port-fuel injection still feature in more than every second gasoline-powered vehicle. Downsizing, turbocharging and direct injection are becoming more popular. Hybrid and electric vehicles: In Japan, nearly every fifth new car now features a hybrid powertrain.

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Green Car Congress

APRIL 18, 2013

In a fairly bleak assessment of global progress towards low-carbon energy, the International Energy Agency (IEA) concluded that, despite a few bright spots such as the rapid expansion of renewable technologies and the growth of hybrid and EV sales, the progress is far below that required to achieve a 2 °C pathway—i.e.,

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Green Car Congress

JUNE 24, 2016

Torotrak expects that the developments, which provide a wider ratio spread and seamless power delivery, will further stimulate the popularity of CVTs, already predicted to reach global sales of 12 million per year by 2020. Fuller said that electric vehicles could also benefit from the latest variator developments.

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Green Car Congress

NOVEMBER 8, 2012

Priorities will include motorcycles, safety of new vehicle technologies (EVs) and technologies supporting driver behavior and enforcement of road rules (intelligent speed management devices, seat belt reminders, ITS, ecodriving). promote dialogue with relevant stakeholders on a voluntary fuel labeling scheme.

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Green Car Congress

SEPTEMBER 15, 2016

When presented with a list of technologies analyzed within a National Academies of Science report ( earlier post ) that might be used to meet fuel-efficiency standards, suppliers picked turbocharging and engine downsizing, along with higher-speed automatic transmissions, as the most critical.

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Green Car Congress

MAY 5, 2015

Most battery and plug-in hybrid electric vehicle (PHEV) manufacturers in Europe and the US have been adopting onboard chargers with a power output between 3 to 3.7 kW are expected to remain dominant, accounting for 62% of sales even in 2020, according to new analysis from Frost & Sullivan. kilowatts (kW). kW onboard chargers.

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Green Car Congress

NOVEMBER 8, 2011

Washington, DC’s current focus is electric vehicles (EVs) and electric technology. The Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) continues to employ outdated mileage formulas (55 city 45 highway) that do not accurately represent consumers driving habits and dramatically tilts manufacturers into producing electric-vehicle solutions.

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Green Car Congress

AUGUST 21, 2012

This contributes not only to device downsizing and weight-reduction, but also makes wiring and mounting much simpler. Omron is targeting annual sales for the Type G9EN in 2013 & 2014 of 500,000 units, and 1 million units from 2015 onwards.

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Green Car Congress

SEPTEMBER 6, 2012

Active City Stop, already available in Focus, is being rolled out to vehicles including B-MAX and Fiesta. The Focus Electric will go on sale early next year. The Ford Mondeo Hybrid will be Ford’s first full hybrid-electric vehicle for Europe. The Ford C-MAX Energi is Ford’s first plug-in hybrid electric vehicle.

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Green Car Congress

MARCH 19, 2013

This first report (Phase I) examines only the impact of improving the efficiency of fossil-fueled vehicles, in which efficiency gains are delivered by the improvement of the internal combustion engine vehicle, including lightweighting, engine downsizing and hybridization.

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Green Car Congress

MARCH 11, 2014

The output power is more than 100kW, despite significant unit downsizing. Toyota believes that environmentally friendly vehicles can only truly have a positive impact if they are widely used. An electric vehicle is suitable for short-distance commuting, because of its short cruising distance and long charging time.”. “We

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Green Car Congress

MARCH 1, 2016

At the core of Nissan Intelligent Mobility are three areas of innovation: Nissan Intelligent Driving, spearheaded by Nissan’s autonomous drive technology, Piloted Drive; Nissan Intelligent Power, spearheaded by electric vehicles (EV); and Nissan Intelligent Integration—new links between vehicles and society.

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Green Car Congress

JUNE 18, 2013

By 2020, Bosch expects to see new vehicle sales reaching some 110 million units worldwide, with 12 million of them with an electrical powertrain. Therefore, Bohr said, Bosch aims to develop lithium-ion batteries that will at least double the range of current electric vehicles and at half the cost per kilowatt-hour.

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Cars That Think

MARCH 12, 2023

A battery will be the high-voltage heart of each of those 77 million electric vehicles, and by far their most expensive component, setting off a worldwide race to ethically source their materials and crank up production to meet exploding demand. ICE sales have to come down for BEV sales to come up,” Brinley says.

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EV Central

OCTOBER 27, 2023

The local importer has confirmed the BYD ute will be tested in Australia in late 2023 and 2024 ahead of an on-sale later in 2024. litre turbocharged four-cylinder petrol engine with two electric motors, providing about 100km of EV range as well as the ability to travel further on petrol.

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Green Car Congress

OCTOBER 4, 2009

In a news conference at the Japan National Press Club on Friday, Toyota Motor President Akio Toyoda said that the company plans to begin mass production of electric vehicles in the US in 2012, followed by US production of fuel cell vehicles in 2015. Why fuel-cell vehicles? Click to enlarge. Earlier post.).

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Green Car Congress

JUNE 7, 2010

In terms of powertrain technologies, Renault focused on the introduction of new technologies for internal combustion engines and conventional transmissions, as well as outlining its commitment to electric powertrains. The downsizing process involved shortening the piston stroke by reducing the size of the crank pin and conrod assembly.

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Green Car Congress

JANUARY 10, 2013

Two-thirds (67%) of respondents believe e-vehicles will represent 15% or less of total new car sales by 2025. Nevertheless, this still represents potential sales of up to 5.7 These results show an increasing realization that the electric vehicle is not quite the savior many had hoped for. million in China, 2.5

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Green Car Congress

JUNE 15, 2011

Significant public messaging from the government on EVs has yet to lead to either promised breakthroughs in battery technology or significant sales outside of public fleets. Combined, EVs and hybrids could reach 15% of aggregate new-car sales in the four major markets—Europe, North America, China, and Japan—in 2020.

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Green Car Congress

APRIL 27, 2016

For Honda on the vehicle side, that strategy encompasses ongoing development of more efficient hybrids, as well as battery-electric and fuel cell vehicles. Honda has set a target of two-thirds of its overall unit sales coming from plug-in hybrid/hybrid vehicles and zero emission vehicles (BEVs and FCVs) by around 2030.

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Green Car Congress

APRIL 2, 2010

Included in this is a temporary program that will provide additional credit provisions as incentives for the development and sales of plug-in hybrids (PHEVs), battery-electric vehicles (BEVs); and fuel-cell vehicles (FCVs). Initial commercialization of electric vehicles and plug-in hybrids.

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Green Car Congress

FEBRUARY 14, 2009

A series of presentations at the SAE 2009 Hybrid Vehicle Technology Symposium held in San Diego (11-12 February) sketched a mixed outlook for mainstream consumer—i.e., not enthusiast or pioneer—adoption of coming plug-in hybrid electric vehicles (PHEVs), given current market conditions and consumer awareness and attitudes.

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Green Car Congress

JULY 17, 2015

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. (In In this paper PHEV refers solely to the long-range PHEV of 60 miles (100 km) electric-only range.) CTO Efficient Drivetrains Inc.

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Green Car Congress

MAY 26, 2015

Hyundai began the US rollout of the 2016 Hyundai Sonata Plug-in Hybrid Electric Vehicle (PHEV) ( earlier post ) and its conventional hybrid sibling (HEV) with a series of media drives in California—one of the main markets for the PHEV, which offers some 24 miles (38.6 km) of all electric range and a 9.8 Earlier post.).

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The Truth About Cars

OCTOBER 19, 2023

Stellantis wants to have 75 EVs on sale globally by the end of the decade.& We could go and redo the Hemi, but we realized we needed to downsize the engine and bring up the power." & Stellantis is downsizing powertrains and has confirmed that the 3.0-liter We are aggressively streamlining our diesel portfolio.

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Green Car Congress

NOVEMBER 22, 2016

Our analysis shows that a CO 2 target of 70 g/km for 2025, on average for the entire new car fleet, can be achieved with either no or only modest levels electric vehicle penetration. These individual class curves are then sales weighted to estimate fleet average compliance costs for a range of potential CO 2 standards.

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Green Car Congress

AUGUST 25, 2009

Opel will debut the new Astra at the 2009 Frankfurt Motor Show; the company will also showcase the Ampera, Opel’s implementation of the Voltec extended range electric vehicle architecture. A sale to RHJ would also keep Opel within GM’s sphere of operations and make it possible for an eventual repurchase. L/100km (39.9

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Cars That Think

OCTOBER 25, 2022

Earlier this month, Reuters reported that the program could be expanded to provide power for charging electric vehicles. lawmakers established the RFS in 2005 and expanded it in 2007, well before solar panels, wind turbines, and electric vehicles became the stalwarts of decarbonization they are today. In 2016, a U.S.

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Charged EVs

JANUARY 5, 2024

Choosing “best of” or “most important” new cars is always dicey, and doubly so with electric vehicles. They haven’t, and GM is clearly struggling to overcome a host of startup production problems with its Ultium vehicles—sales of which have remained far, far below the company’s own goals. Now we’ve driven both.

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Green Car Congress

NOVEMBER 16, 2011

Those consumers who buy a new vehicle with a typical 5-year loan will benefit from an average monthly cash flow savings of about $12 during the loan period, or about $140 per year, on average, as the monthly fuel savings more than offsets the higher monthly payment due to the higher incremental vehicle cost. NHTSA and CAFE.

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Baua Electric

JANUARY 5, 2024

Choosing “best of” or “most important” new cars is always dicey, and doubly so with electric vehicles. They haven’t, and GM is clearly struggling to overcome a host of startup production problems with its Ultium vehicles—sales of which have remained far, far below the company’s own goals. Now we’ve driven both.

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