Green Car Reports

JULY 6, 2015

Today, we look at the possibility of a future Tesla Model S electric car surpassing the 2016 Toyota Mirai hydrogen fuel-cell car's 312-mile range, changes to California's electric-car rebate program, and the Solar Impulse 2 airplane's successful crossing of the Pacific Ocean. All this and more on Green Car Reports.

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Green Car Congress

JANUARY 25, 2021

These communities are mostly located in states in the West and Midwest, such as Oregon, Utah, South Dakota, and Nebraska, along with Hawaii. For example, the team’s findings suggest that it may be more effective to subsidize infrastructure development as opposed to the sale of an electric car. population greater than 50,000).

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Green Car Reports

JANUARY 30, 2017

Islands can be excellent places to promote clean energy. Because they are typically disconnected from both mainland grid infrastructure and sources of fossil fuels, it is easier for alternative sources of energy to gain a foothold. In fact, the cost of importing coal or oil to fuel power plants or vehicles can make fossil fuels vastly more.

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Green Car Reports

AUGUST 7, 2017

Today, a Tesla Model 3 EPA rating, a future electric SUV from Nissan, who loves tiny crossovers and who doesn't, and hydrogen fuel for Maui. All this and more on Green Car Reports. Over the weekend, we covered last week's most popular green-car news.

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Green Cars News

MAY 12, 2010

Hawaii is certainly grabbing its fair share of green car headlines – just yesterday we told you that it would be the trial base for GM’s new hydrogen fuel cell prototypes (see article). Now, Nissan North America has selected the state as one of its initial launch markets in the US. From early 2011, the Japanese manufacturer [.].

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Green Car Reports

JUNE 15, 2016

While its electric-car manufacturing continues to get the most attention, Tesla quietly continues to build up its energy-storage business as well. Today, the still-incomplete "gigafactory" in Nevada is assembling standalone battery packs for the company's Tesla Energy stationary energy-storage division.

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Green Car Reports

JULY 17, 2012

Hawaii is already a pretty good place to drive an electric car, and not just so you can enjoy the beautiful scenery in electric-powered silence. Islands are ideal places to own electric cars, where distances are shorter and gas prices are higher.

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Green Car Reports

SEPTEMBER 17, 2013

If you like electric cars--or are even just curious about how they work--keep the last weekend of September open. The third annual National Plug-In Day (actually it''s now a full weekend) will take place September 28 and 29, with events in cities across the United States (including Hawaii).

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Green Car Reports

OCTOBER 8, 2015

When it first went on sale, the Kia Soul EV electric car was only available at select dealers in California. Earlier this year, Kia announced the expansion of sales to Oregon, Washington, Georgia, Texas, and Hawaii. But Kia later followed up on a promise to expand sales when it determined that there was significant interest.

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Green Car Congress

JULY 14, 2009

Electric Cars in the United States: A New Model with Forecasts to 2030” was written by Thomas Becker, a Ph.D. The high rate of adoption is driven by the low purchase price and operating costs of electric cars with switchable batteries. The total cost of ownership of these vehicles is expected to be between $0.10

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Green Car Reports

NOVEMBER 2, 2011

As Plugincar contributor Eric Loveday reports, the all-electric car was awarded to Chad.

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Green Cars News

JULY 14, 2009

Good news for electric car infrastructure innovators Better Place after a new study stated that with a battery switching model and pay-per-mile contracts, electric cars could account for as much as 64 per cent of US light duty vehicle sales by 2030.

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Green Car Congress

MAY 4, 2011

In the US, GM has found that Chevrolet Volt demonstration units are a popular showroom draw for dealers as they let consumers look, touch and drive the electric car with extended-range capabilities. GM says that this is part of its plan to gain exposure for the vehicle and the Chevrolet brand.

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Green Car Congress

JULY 19, 2011

After the prioritized ordering phase for existing reservations in those markets, Nissan on 4 August will open new reservations and orders to the general public, both in these new markets, as well as places where the Nissan LEAF already has been on sale (Arizona, California, Hawaii, Oregon, Tennessee, Texas, and Washington).

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Green Car Congress

SEPTEMBER 22, 2010

CODA Automotive, a California-based, US-engineered electric car and battery company, is now accepting deposits for its 100% electric, four-door, five-passenger electric sedan. The CODA Twitter and Facebook pages will be announcing upcoming events and opportunities to see the electric cars. Powered by a 33.8

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Revenge of the Electric Car

MAY 17, 2010

old question for electric cars – When will electric cars make a real. presence in the world’s two largest passenger car markets (China and the. Read more in the article: Can electric cars break out of niche status in US, China market? Electric-car ventures made up nearly 40.

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Green Cars News

DECEMBER 8, 2010

The US Army Tank Automotive Research Centre in Hawaii has this week taken possession of the first of four battery electric ancillary power vehicles with a vehicle-to-grid (V2G) capability.

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Green Cars News

JULY 21, 2009

University of Hawaii : $5,548,585 has been dedicated to exploring the management of distribution system resources for improved service quality as well as reliability, grid support functions and transmission congestion relief. Its goal is to reduce residential electrical demand.

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Green Car Congress

JANUARY 12, 2012

In an effort to calculate what percentage of daily trips in the US could be covered with a fully charged electric vehicle, two Columbia doctoral candidates recently conducted a statistical analysis using the National Household Travel Survey of 2009 on distances driven by the US population. Car commuting distances were found to average 12.6

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Tony Karrer Delicious EVdriven

APRIL 16, 2009

Electric cars and a smart electric grid have a bright future, according to panelists at a roundtable discussion on the subject that I attended last Friday in Boston. “I So far Israel, Denmark, Australia , Hawaii and California’s Bay Area have plans to implement the Better Place model.

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Green Car Congress

JULY 28, 2010

Nissan LEAF will be introduced to Texas and Hawaii shortly thereafter, in January 2011; North Carolina, Florida, Georgia, Washington DC, Virginia, Maryland, South Carolina and Alabama follow in April 2011; and be rolled-out to the balance of the nation beginning in Fall 2011 with availability in all markets nationwide by the end of that year.

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Green Car Congress

SEPTEMBER 22, 2010

Our team of partners is committed to accelerating the acceptance of electric cars as more affordable and more convenient than our gasoline heritage. This financing will further drive the early EV market in those countries, helping to bring the first 10,000 electric cars to consumers there.

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Green Car Congress

NOVEMBER 11, 2011

Better Place, a developer and provider of electric car networks—including battery switch stations, batteries and public/personal charge spots ( earlier post )—worldwide, has secured $200 million through a Series C equity financing from a consortium of top-tier investors and partners, nearly doubling the company’s valuation to $2.25

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Tony Karrer Delicious EVdriven

APRIL 28, 2009

Kulongoski, Oregon as the electric-car manufacturer may be eyeing the “green” city of Portland. Think may use the former Freightliners plant site to employ over 1,000 workers that would ultimately expand to make 60,000 compact cars a year. market b y the end of 2009. Think has established a U.S. before 2010.

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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.) It is much more than that.

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Green Car Congress

SEPTEMBER 16, 2009

Better Place introduced its electric vehicle (EV) services platform at the Frankfurt Motor Show, in conjunction with Renault’s unveiling of the Fluence ZE Concept with Quickdrop (switchable) battery system and an expanded agreement with Renault, committing both companies to a volume of at least 100,000 electric cars in Israel and Denmark by 2016.

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Tony Karrer Delicious EVdriven

APRIL 16, 2009

The article is often carried by lots of media who will point to this breakthrough as something that has an impact on electric vehicles. The EV discussion groups take this up and, with huge amounts of optimism, tell us that we will soon have the ability to instantly charge our electric cars at home or on the highway.

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Tony Karrer Delicious EVdriven

APRIL 21, 2009

Volkswagen CEO says "Future belongs to electric cars," has gained German government support for development. When people start driving electric cars, where will the electricity come from? When Lutz first proposed creating an electric car in 2003, the idea "bombed" inside GM, he says. "If

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Creative Greenius

APRIL 22, 2012

You can go to festivals and visit the booths of green nonprofits and solar energy companies, take part in composting workshops, learn about wildlife protectors and electric car companies. You can go to events where you recycle your old paper tax records, your motor oil, your cellphone, computers and other electronics. .

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Creative Greenius

APRIL 22, 2012

You can go to festivals and visit the booths of green nonprofits and solar energy companies, take part in composting workshops, learn about wildlife protectors and electric car companies. You can go to events where you recycle your old paper tax records, your motor oil, your cellphone, computers and other electronics. .

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