Green Car Reports

AUGUST 7, 2014

I recently leased a 2014 Chevy Volt to replace my Mitsubishi i-MiEV, and I expect that it will free me even more from using gasoline than the i-MiEV--which was a battery electric car that used no gas at all. The Volt has a range-extending gasoline engine to charge the battery after the first 40.'

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DIY Electric Car

MARCH 21, 2021

I have a 76 triumph spitfire with no engine but do have a T9 5 speed trany for it. I'm trying to decide if I was to go with another gas engine or turn it into a electric car. If I go gas it will probably cost me $2000 or so. I was hoping someone would give my an idea of the cost of going electric.

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Green Car Reports

APRIL 26, 2018

As fast as electric cars are improving and expanding, there are some things that gas engines do better—many experts agree that gasoline engines will be around for several decades. Developing electric cars and refining gas engines aren't mutually exclusive.

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Green Car Congress

APRIL 20, 2019

According to a new study published by the ifo Institue Center for Economic Studies (CESifo) in Germany, EVs will barely help cut CO 2 emissions in the country over the coming years, as the introduction of electric vehicles does not necessarily lead to a reduction in CO 2 emissions from road traffic given the current power generation mix.

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Clean Fleet Report

SEPTEMBER 6, 2023

What’s the Most Environmental Thing To Do When a Car’s Engine Dies Questions & Answers from our Friends at EarthTalk® The engine is fried on my old Honda Civic. What’s the most environmentally friendly thing to do with this car? One obvious option is engine repair or replacement. — Tom C.,

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Teslarati

JUNE 22, 2021

Audi will now phase out gas engines by the year 2033, CEO Markus Duesmann announced at the Berlin Climate Conference earlier today. Duesmann said that “Audi is ready to make its decisive and powerful move into the electric age,” finally accepting the challenge of ditching gas engines for electric ones.

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Green Car Reports

DECEMBER 6, 2018

Our readers speculate a lot on this site about how long it will be until gas and diesel engines fade out, and the transition to electric cars is complete. Volkswagen may just have given an answer to that question in a conference at the automaker's headquarters in Wolfsburg, Germany, on Tuesday.

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Get Electric Vehicle

AUGUST 29, 2023

While purchasing a brand-new electric car might not be feasible for everyone due to its higher upfront costs, people are looking for alternatives. converting existing internal combustion engine (ICE) cars into electric vehicles using conversion kits. Cost Considerations #1.

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Teslarati

APRIL 6, 2021

Electric vehicle registrations in the United Kingdom have exploded, increasing over 88% in March 2021 compared to the same month in 2020. increase compared to last year’s figure of 18,256 cars in the same period. Diesel-powered engine sales dropped 31.4% BEVs have increased their market share to 7.5% last year.

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CleanTechnica EVs

NOVEMBER 13, 2021

WEST LAFAYETTE, Indiana — Purdue University engineers have invented a new, patent-pending charging station cable that would fully recharge certain electric vehicles in under five minutes – about the same amount of time it takes to fill up a gas tank. Article courtesy of Purdue University.

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CleanTechnica EVs

JULY 26, 2023

Electric vehicles from both Tesla and other manufacturers require a bit of a paradigm shift when considering having them serviced.

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EV Box

FEBRUARY 10, 2023

Make no mistake, electric vehicles and their batteries are a crucial step towards a more sustainable future in transportation, as they offer a cleaner and greener alternative to traditional combustion engine cars. On-road operation of EVs results in significantly fewer greenhouse gas emissions, with zero tailpipe emissions.

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Green Car Reports

JANUARY 12, 2019

What company will sell and manage installation of home chargers for new Audi e-tron electric models? Which engines were involved in the latest diesel emissions settlement? This is our look back at the Week In Reverse—right here at Green Car Reports—for the week ending Jan.

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Electrek

FEBRUARY 17, 2022

To what extent are electric vehicles better than gas cars for the environment? Experts at the Argonne National Laboratory , a US Department of Energy science and engineering research center in Lemont, Illinois, are inviting the public to listen in as they discuss the best ways to measure greenhouse gas emissions.

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CleanTechnica EVs

APRIL 8, 2022

Electric vehicles take longer to charge than gas cars take to be fueled. While there’s no denying this fact, EV drivers are using their charging hours elsewhere to make the most of the extra time — something we’ll all need to consider as the world moves away from internal combustion engines.

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Green Car Congress

SEPTEMBER 15, 2022

The transport sector is the fastest-growing greenhouse gas (GHG) emitting sector, expected to reach a share of more than 30% of total GHG emissions in the future, according to the United Nation’s Environment Programme. Ovako : Engineering steel from 100% carbon-neutral operations and 97% recycled content. Hydro: Zero-carbon aluminium.

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Electric Cars Report

MARCH 3, 2023

The Goodyear Tire & Rubber Company introduced RangeMax RSD EV, Goodyear’s first electric vehicle-ready tire compatible with EV and gas- or diesel-powered regional work vehicles. The RangeMax RSD EV is Goodyear’s best regional drive tire for energy efficiency.

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Green Car Reports

JANUARY 23, 2018

Automakers and electric utilities have been incentivized to build electric vehicles and install vast numbers of public charging stations to.

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Green Car Reports

APRIL 3, 2012

Electric cars get a lot of press, and they'll increase in number--slowly--over the next decade. But more efficient gasoline engines are what will drive the increase in fuel efficiency for U.S. We've written many times about smaller, more efficient engines, and in a nutshell, that's how cars will get better gas.

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Green Car Congress

MARCH 8, 2019

Bioscience engineers at KU Leuven have created a solar panel that produces hydrogen gas from moisture in the air. Twenty of these solar panels could provide electricity and heat for one family for an entire winter. A traditional solar panel converts between 18 to 20% of the solar energy into electricity.

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Green Car Congress

NOVEMBER 6, 2020

of passenger cars sold in the EU were electrically-chargeable vehicles, compared to 3.0% The support measures introduced by various countries to stimulate car demand amid the COVID-19 pandemic disadvantaged conventionally-powered vehicles. Diesel cars accounted for 27.8% of the EU car market. to 766,146 units.

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Green Car Reports

OCTOBER 19, 2021

With the arrival of the 2022 C40 Recharge, Volvo is truly starting to lay the groundwork for a future after internal combustion engines. The C40 Recharge isn’t the automaker’s first electric car, but it’s the first model to be sold solely as an EV. There will be no gas-powered equivalent of the C40 Recharge.

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Green Car Congress

NOVEMBER 5, 2019

These include fully-electric systems, as well as a gasoline-generated EV system (known as e-POWER at Nissan, earlier post ) in which a gasoline engine generates electrical power stored in a battery (series hybrid), which can then be delivered to all four wheels through a pair of high-output electric motors. Earlier post.)

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Green Car Reports

APRIL 10, 2018

A Tesla founder has a new startup car company, the British utility would be OK with more electric cars sooner, reporters are getting a crucial distinction wrong, and we've got a new Twitter poll on the Honda Clarity. All this and more on Green Car Reports. The national electric utility in the U.K.

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Green Car Congress

MARCH 31, 2021

Battery-electric AMG derivatives based on the new Mercedes Electric Vehicle Architecture (EVA) for luxury and premium-class vehicles. Extensive modifications to the drive, chassis, design and equipment will provide the hallmark AMG driving experience with all-electric drive. This is a P3 hybrid configuration.).

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DIY Electric Car

JULY 11, 2017

Over the years, we were made to believe that petrol is the best option to run cars. However, modern engineering has been able to change this notion by introducing the fastest electric cars. Why make electric cars? Electric cars in the long run can be cheaper. Detroit Electric SP:01.

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Green Car Reports

AUGUST 31, 2018

Dyson plans to invest in a new test track for its electric-car program. Chinese startup Byton begins testing its electric crossover SUV in the real world. And did you know internal-combustion engines still waste up to 88 percent of the energy they produce? We provide tips on how to save fuel on a Labor Day road trip.

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Teslarati

NOVEMBER 23, 2023

Earlier this week, New Jersey officials announced plans to ban the sale of new gas-powered cars by 2035. The steps we take today to lower emissions will improve air quality and mitigate climate impacts for generations to come, all while increasing access to cleaner car choices,” said Governor Phil Murphy.

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CleanTechnica EVs

FEBRUARY 21, 2024

The Library of Congress tells a heartwarming story of the rise of the gas-powered car with an internal combustion engine. continued] The post Goldman Sachs Insists Our Future Transportation Is All Electric appeared first on CleanTechnica.

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Green Car Reports

OCTOBER 26, 2012

It's called in shorthand "being ICEd," meaning that an Internal-Combustion Engined car has parked in a space reserved for plug-in electric cars. What to do about it is the subject of much discussion among electric-car owners. Now charging network Blink is offering at least a partial solution.

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CleanTechnica EVs

JUNE 21, 2023

Most are watching the gradual shift from gas-powered to electric vehicles through the mirrors of the environment, climate or automotive industry. That shift has introduced a different issue, and a new challenge, for the University of Nebraska–Lincoln’s Cody Stolle and his colleagues at the Midwest Roadside Safety Facility.

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Green Car Congress

FEBRUARY 12, 2018

Analysts at the International Council on Clean Transportation (ICCT) have reviewed recent research into the greenhouse gas emissions from the manufacturing of lithium-ion batteries for electric vehicles. They note that the the impacts of battery production on electric vehicles’ overall emissions is “an especially complex topic”.

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Green Car Reports

AUGUST 17, 2016

Today, electric-car charging companies ask for independent oversight of $2 billion in Volkswagen diesel fines, the variable-compression Infiniti VC-T engine is scheduled for production in 2018, and new analysis argues that automakers may be making cars bigger because of gas-mileage rules. Charging companies.

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Green Car Congress

MAY 17, 2020

A recent PSI study led by environmental scientist Christian Bauer found that a battery electric car is already the most environmentally friendly option in Switzerland and many other countries, even when the manufacture of the battery is figured in. Our tool offers a very wide range of engine types. in review).

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Green Car Reports

APRIL 23, 2015

When I traded in my 2012 Mitsubishi i-MiEV electric car for a 2014 Chevrolet Volt, I wrote an article with the bold prediction that I would now use less gasoline even though my new car has a gasoline engine. Fuel Economy Range-Extended Electric Vehicle'

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EV Connect

AUGUST 28, 2023

The 60% surge in new electric vehicle (EV) registrations in Q1 2022 shows that drivers are hungry for change, provided that somewhere to charge is on the menu. We can’t expect the market to move en masse towards electric until the public recharging network matches the landscape for petrol-powered vehicles. Everyone wins.

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Green Car Congress

MAY 5, 2014

For the third month in a row, more than 57% of retail sales of Ford F-150 light-duty trucks are powered by V6 engines—reversing 47 years of V8 engine dominance in the industry. It really is amazing when you consider we are doing that with just two V6 engine choices—the 3.5-liter liter Ti-VCT engine.

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