Green Car Congress

JUNE 18, 2019

For every year except 2011, the United States has produced the majority of plug-in electric vehicles (PEVs) sold in the United States, according to the US Department of Energy (DOE). In 2018, the United States produced 75%, Japan 9%, and Germany 5%, while the remaining eight countries listed produced a combined 11%. In 2011, 55% of the PEVs sold in the United States were produced in Japan, 43% in the United States, and 2% in France.

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Green Car Reports

JUNE 18, 2019

Since even before the first market deliveries of its Leaf electric car in late 2010, Nissan has made frequent mention about the need to create second-use demand for the Leaf's battery packs. It turns out, they may need to see many of those ideas put into place. According to comments made last month by a Nissan-Renault executive, citing charging.

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JUNE 20, 2019

Fossil fuel giant, BP, team up with battery materials innovation leader StoreDot, to make a contribution to the world’s ambition of transitioning to EV with the ability to recharge a battery in just five minutes

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EV Driver

JUNE 21, 2019

We’re coming to the end of Refugee Week and we can’t let it go by without sharing this very cool project with you! Lesvos Solidarity is a non-profit organisation that not only provides medical support and shelter, but also hosts workshops for refugees in which they up-cycle things such as life jackets and dinghies that pile up on the shores of Lesvos and tell the story of their harrowing journeys across the Aegean sea from Turkey. “ no one leaves home unless home is the mouth of a shark

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Green Car Congress

JUNE 17, 2019

The Chilean Minister of Transportation and Telecommunications, Gloria Hutt, recently announced a new order for 183 BYD electric buses for the Chilean capital of Santiago, due to arrive in August of this year. The 183 BYD electric buses will join the 100 electric buses that BYD and local partner Enel brought into Santiago last December, giving BYD a dominant share of more than 60% in the capital’s electric bus market.

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Green Car Reports

JUNE 21, 2019

A lot of ink, pixels, and synapses get spent trying to figure out how to make heavy duty electric trucks that can travel 500 to 1,000 miles in a day and get a fast enough recharge before heading back to work. Recent studies have shown a far more effective way to reduce pollution is to supplant short-haul machines that spend most of their time in.

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EV Driver

JUNE 17, 2019

Over the past week Linda and Charlie have been all over the place attending the Vindis Electric Revolution event in Alconbury and then on to the Fully Charged Live show at the Silverstone race track. This was the perfect opportunity to try out a new electric ride and since we’ve been dreaming of the Jaguar I-PACE we tried our luck. So with a huge THANK YOU to Marshall Jaguar in Ipswich for making this a reality Linda and Charlie took off in the I-PACE and here’s what they thought in the form of

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Green Car Congress

JUNE 16, 2019

A report released by C40 Cities finds that consumption-based emissions from nearly 100 of the world’s big cities already represent 10% of global greenhouse gas emissions. Without urgent action, those emissions are projected to nearly double by 2050. The new research, The Future of Urban Consumption in a 1.5°C World , was produced in partnership with Arup and the University of Leeds, and cautions that urban consumption-based emissions must be cut by at least 50% by 2030 in order to maintain the p

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Green Car Reports

JUNE 20, 2019

It's no accident that nearly half of the world's electric cars on the road today are in China. According to the International Energy Agency, of the 1.9 million battery electric vehicles on the road, 951 million are found in China. Wan Gang had a lot to do with that. The former Audi exec is now China's state science and technology chief and helped.

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JUNE 19, 2019

Written by Cara Clairman, President and CEO, Plug’n Drive. I have pretty exciting news for everyone who thought they couldn’t afford an EV… Yes, you can! At Plug’n Drive, we have lots of visitors come to the EV Discovery Centre , waxing poetic about electric cars, that they are the future of transportation, but they are too expensive and out of reach for most consumers.

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Green Car Congress

JUNE 17, 2019

Innovusion Inc., a designer and developer of hybrid Solid State LiDAR systems for vehicle safety applications, announced the availability of its Cheetah system. Based on a rotating polygon optical architecture, Innovusion has melded together proprietary detector electronics, advanced optics and sophisticated software algorithms to offer a long-distance, high-resolution LiDAR vehicle mobility system.

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Green Car Reports

JUNE 20, 2019

If converting city buses to electric power is one of the most effective ways to reduce harmful pollution from particulate matter and nitrogen oxides in cities an even more effective way is to double the number of people they can carry. London has begun converting its iconic double-decker buses to electric models made by China's BYD, and now.

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JUNE 18, 2019

Honda has broken cover with details of its new e Platform upon which it will base its new generation of small city cars, starting off with the Honda E which made its debut in near-production form at the Geneva Motor Show back in March.

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JUNE 21, 2019

Jeremy Clarkson isn’t always a sight for sore eyes, yet he was there at just the right time when something broke in an early Ford Focus gearbox during testing on the car’s international launch in 1998.

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Green Car Congress

JUNE 21, 2019

Imec, a research and innovation hub in nanoelectronics, digital and energy technologies and partner in EnergyVille—a collaboration between the Flemish research partners KU Leuven, VITO, imec and UHasselt—has developed a solid-state Li-metal battery cell with an energy density of 400 Wh/liter at a charging speed of 0.5C (2 hours). Imec also announced that it has started to upscale the materials and processes in a pilot line for fabrication of solid-state pouch cells at the EnergyVille

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Green Car Reports

JUNE 19, 2019

In the U.S., pickups reign supreme for most work detail. Abroad? That duty often falls to slab-sided commercial vans like the Fiat Ducato. In the U.S. the Ducato is offered as the Ram ProMaster, but is largely identical. Earlier this month, Fiat Professional rolled out its 2020 Ducato van with slight updates inside and out, but the brand offered.

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JUNE 18, 2019

BMW's seventh-generation 3 Series, codenamed the G20, has gained a PHEV version and while the saloon version is already available, from mid-2020 it will also be on offer in touring guise.

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Green Cars News

JUNE 21, 2019

New car marketplace Leasing.com has won the Gamechanger award at the 4th annual Car Finance Awards.

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Green Car Congress

JUNE 18, 2019

Emissions Analytics, a leading independent specialist for the scientific measurement of real-world emissions, suggests that mass adoption of hybrid vehicles, rather than low-volume take-up of full BEVs, is the most effective solution to cutting CO 2 now and also in meeting 2030 emission targets. Of all electrification strategies, full BEVs currently offer the least effective CO 2 reduction per kWh of battery size, according to the analysis by the firm: 21 times worse than mild hybrids and 14 tim

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Green Car Reports

JUNE 16, 2019

If there are two things you learn about police cars from watching cop shows on TV, it's that they should be both fast and stealthy to sneak quickly into sketchy situations. What better option than a Tesla Model X? That's what the police in the Australian state of Victoria are thinking at the moment, anyway. The Victoria police department just.

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JUNE 18, 2019

In a recent interview with Automotive News Europe Mazda President and CEO, Akira Marumoto, confirmed that the first production EV based on Mazda architecture will go on sale in 2020.

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Green Cars News

JUNE 21, 2019

This week we’ve learned that the new PM will be either Boris Johnson or Jeremy Hunt

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JUNE 20, 2019

Shortly before the market launch of its full-electric car sharing service WeShare in Berlin at the end of June, Volkswagen has entered a strategic partnership with the Lidl and Kaufland supermarket chains, which are owned by the Schwarz Group. The food retailers are to install 140 public charging stations for the electric vehicles of their customers at 60 Lidl and 10 Kaufland branches in the German capital.

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Green Car Reports

JUNE 18, 2019

The Volkswagen Group has made one of the largest investments in electric-car building, infrastructure, and development for any automaker on the planet. In the next decade, Volkswagen and its subsidiaries including Audi, Porsche, and others, plan on building millions of EVs and will invest billions more into charging infrastructure. In an Op-Ed.

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JUNE 17, 2019

Electric vehicle leasing specialists, Octopus Electric Vehicles, and home charge point innovators, Wallbox, have teamed up to launch the world's smallest and lightest vehicle-to-grid (V2G) charger to the UK market.

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Green Cars News

JUNE 18, 2019

The British Vehicle Rental and Leasing Association (BVRLA) believe the government is slightly behind schedule on its electric vehicle strategy, and that the market is seeing a mixed response to its current policy approach.

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Green Car Congress

JUNE 16, 2019

OXIS Energy will establish the first manufacturing plant for the production of electrolyte and cathode active material specifically for the mass production of lithium sulfur cells. The plant will be built at the Kenfig Industrial Estate Port Talbot in Wales. OXIS has signed a 15-year lease with United UK Real Estate Investment Industrial Holdings Limited to develop the plant.

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Green Car Reports

JUNE 17, 2019

If ever there were an argument for wireless charging, taxis may be it. And as with most things in electric cars, if there's a way to demonstrate the technology in action, Norway may find it. That's the impetus behind the country's latest effort to equip all of Oslo's taxi stands with wireless chargers. The city announced the plan in March.

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JUNE 18, 2019

Jeep's plug-in hybrid versions of its Renegade and Compass models have made their public on-road debut at the President's Parade, Parco Del Valentino, Turin.

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Green Cars News

JUNE 17, 2019

The Suzuki Jimny has been turning heads since the SUV was revealed at the 2018 Paris Motor Show, but now it’s here does it live up to the hype as a true workhorse?

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Green Car Congress

JUNE 17, 2019

The Mercedes-Benz OM 654q four-cylinder diesel from the modern OM 654 engine family already complies with the Stage 2 RDE (Real Driving Emissions) standard which does not come into force until 2020, and is certified to Euro 6d. With its near-engine installation, the emission control system has low heat losses and thus very favorable operating conditions in the vast majority of operating situations.

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Green Car Reports

JUNE 17, 2019

While the upstart electric vehicle maker Byton hasn’t yet said much about how its $45,000 M-Byte electric SUV will be sold or serviced in the U.S. it’s confirmed that this vehicle, due next summer, will come with a standout feature atop its dash: a wider screen than you might have in your living room. The huge 48-inch Shared Experience.

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JUNE 18, 2019

After the recent launch of the Vauxhall Corsa-e, Peugeot has joined the EV scrum taking place in the B-segment with the electric version of its all-new 208.

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