Green Car Congress

OCTOBER 4, 2018

Veloz is working to radically transform mobility in California and take electrification to a new level. With our distinct approach, Veloz will inspire Californians to get behind the wheel and into the passenger seat of electric cars. The good news is we are overcoming barriers to EV adoption.

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Green Car Congress

JULY 20, 2018

Over the last two decades, fully electric cars have had, let’s say, a slow start. Plus, battery costs are rapidly decreasing and the public is warming up to the idea of electric cars. There are still a few variables on the table, but it’s safe to say a clean, green electric AV would significantly reduce air pollution.

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Green Car Congress

DECEMBER 2, 2014

Yonhap News reported that SK Innovation Company will end the battery-pack joint venture with German partner Continental AG ( earlier post ) due to slow growth in demand for electric cars. Earlier post.).

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Green Car Congress

NOVEMBER 11, 2010

Customers wishing to reserve an Ampera can register at www.opel-ampera.com and become an ‘ePioneer’, receiving exclusive news and a chance to test drive the electric car. Because trim levels will differ from market to market, prices in each country may differ. Sales start in the fourth quarter of 2011.

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Green Car Congress

JANUARY 17, 2011

Automotive News Europe. Think North America Vice Chairman Richard Canny is resigning his position with the electric car maker effective at the end of the month. “It’s but it’s time for me to move on to a new adventure and challenge,” Canny said in an e-mail exchange with Automotive News Europe.

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Green Car Congress

MAY 28, 2012

The driver and two female passengers on the pure-electric car apparently never had a chance to get out. News about the accident has spread quickly as speculation mounts over the cause of the EV fire and its possible effects on BYD and the industry. A person in the other taxi suffered minor injuries.

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Green Car Congress

DECEMBER 6, 2010

BYD has decided not to put the F3e EV into production due to the lack of an enabling environment for electric cars in China, according to a report in China Business News which cited Wang Jianjun, deputy general manager of BYD Automotive Sales Co Ltd. Gasgoo.com.

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Green Car Congress

JANUARY 11, 2011

General Motors is preparing to launch two more extended-range electric vehicles (EREVs) and a plug-in hybrid (PHEV), CEO Dan Akerson told reporters on the sidelines of the 2011 Automotive News World Congress.

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Green Car Congress

MAY 30, 2010

China’s incentive plan for private purchases of new-energy vehicles may be introduced by the end of this month and will be tested in five cities, rather than nationwide, according to a report in the Shanghai Securities News. The five cities are Beijing, Shanghai, Shenzhen, Chongqing and Wuhan, the report said.

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Green Car Congress

JULY 5, 2019

The first new electric car to be produced at the plant will be Jaguar’s flagship XJ. The news was confirmed to workers at Castle Bromwich as production of the current XJ came to an end.

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Green Car Congress

FEBRUARY 19, 2015

There are now about 1,100 electric cars and vans in Scotland; in August 2014 there were a total of 2,885 individual charging sessions. The encouraging news is that electric car sales in the UK are at last showing signs of improvement, but we still have a charging network in Scotland that is running below capacity.

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Green Car Congress

JULY 11, 2009

The city council of Vancouver, British Columbia (Canada) has unanimously approved new regulations for electric vehicle charging stations.

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Green Car Congress

MARCH 5, 2019

The increase in CO 2 is certainly worrying and bad news for governments and most carmakers. Nissan saw the most improvement thanks to the strong performance of the LEAF, which became Europe’s top-selling electric car in 2018. —Felipe Munoz, JATO’s global analyst.

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Green Car Congress

AUGUST 25, 2010

On 4 August 2010, the Shanghai Securities News reported (without citation) that China may invest more than 100 billion yuan (approximately US$14.8 This includes Argentina-based Autoelevadores Yale, Colombia-based Industrias IVOR, Electric Cars of Costa Rica, Mol Transportation Solutions in Europe and, most recently, Km.

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Green Car Congress

DECEMBER 12, 2017

This is good news. It gives us a promising new pathway for optimizing the voltage performance of lithium-rich cathodes by controlling the way their atomic structure evolves as a battery charges and discharges. The team’s open-access paper appears in Nature Communications.

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Green Car Congress

DECEMBER 21, 2009

In the Pre-Budget Report (PBR) released on 9 December, UK Chancellor Alistair Darling announced that all electric cars will be exempt from Company Car Tax (CCT) for 5 years and electric vans will be exempt from Van Benefit Charge (VBC) for the same period. The PBR also has news of an additional £30 million (US$48.5

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Green Car Congress

OCTOBER 2, 2009

Nissan will invite people to opt-in and receive updates and information about LEAF through a reservation system that will tell them when the electric car is available—either for test drives or to take home.

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Green Car Congress

OCTOBER 5, 2016

We want to be the first one to produce more than 1 million electric cars. is in our mind the right answer for a volume manufacturer because it solves some core issues of electric cars today. This is not only for electric cars, this comes for all cars, but it starts with the electric cars.

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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. Toyoda positioned EVs for short-distance travel and fuel cell cars for longer ranges.

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Green Car Congress

SEPTEMBER 19, 2012

The Nissan LEAF electric car was introduced to the world as a mass production vehicle during December 2010. An independent test of Nissan LEAF battery capacity and range loss organized by Inside EV writer and LEAF owner Tony Williams has found significant battery capacity loss—and therefore range loss—in the EVs.

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Green Car Congress

AUGUST 19, 2009

German Chancellor Angela Merkel and her ministers are finalizing a plan to provide financial incentives starting in 2012 to support the production and sale of 100,000 electric cars annually. The plan envisages around one million electric cars on German roads by 2020.

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Green Car Congress

AUGUST 31, 2017

With the electrically powered smart vision EQ fortwo, smart is presenting a concept vehicle from the relatively recent product and technology brand EQ at the 2017 Frankfurt International Motor Show. More than ten new electric cars are set to go into series production at Mercedes-Benz Cars by 2022, from the smart to the large SUV.

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Green Car Congress

JUNE 17, 2021

Polestar, the premium electric car brand from Sweden, announced that its first all-electric SUV will be manufactured in the United States. The forthcoming Polestar 3 will be manufactured alongside new Volvo vehicles at the Volvo Cars production center in Ridgeville, South Carolina.

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Green Car Congress

JULY 19, 2010

is working on a plug-in hybrid electric vehicles and an all-electric car, both for release in about three years. Honda President Takanobu Ito will announce his company’s plans for plug-in hybrids, electric cars and other alternative vehicles at a news conference Tuesday.

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Green Car Congress

JANUARY 6, 2015

Possible reasons for this could include a lack of electrical supply voltage, the shift lever not being in “P”, the car not being parked properly over an inductive charging plate, or a fault in the charging system. CarPlay feeds iPhone apps—Telephone, News, Maps and Music—into the infotainment system via a USB interface.

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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 23, 2013

The program backs automotive companies that offer both green energy initiatives, such as increased fuel efficiency, and new auto industry jobs in the United States. On 18 September, the Detroit News reported that Sen. Tesla received a $465 million loan in 2010 for the design and production of a luxury electric car.

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