Green Car Congress

DECEMBER 12, 2012

Ford had earlier developed a NiMH battery model for use in KLTs, as detailed in a 2010 paper by a Ford team (Yang et al. Ford says it has reduced the cost of its current hybrid system by 30% compared with previous-generation technology and vehicles are coming to market 25% faster. Taenaka, B., and Snyder, K. Energy Res. , 34: 171–181.

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FEBRUARY 26, 2018

Adopting a laser clad valve seat for the intake valve seat to make the intake port compatible with strong tumble flow (fuel consumption performance) and intake flow rate (output performance). kWh NiMH pack with 180 cells (6.5 Direct Shift-CVT: A New Type of Continuously Variable Transmission. The new system uses a 1.4 Ah, 212 V).

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JULY 16, 2022

A rear wheel eAxle that’s equipped with a high output water-cooled electric motor is combined with the hybrid engine to directly transmit force to all four wheels, ensuring a thrilling throttle response and linear acceleration throughout the power band. liter DOHC four-cylinder engine with two electric motors in a highly compact system.

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Green Car Congress

SEPTEMBER 7, 2011

Hybrid electric vehicles (HEVs), plug-in hybrid electric vehicles (PHEVs), and battery electric vehicles (BEVs) all continue to have higher upfront costs that are significant enough to result in higher total cost of ownership for the vehicles. —senior analyst Dave Hurst.

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Green Car Congress

JANUARY 10, 2011

unveiled the Prius family of vehicles today at the 2011 North American International Auto Show in Detroit. The new Prius v, with “v” expressing the vehicle’s versatility, shares the current generation Prius’ platform and Hybrid Synergy Drive technology, including the NiMH battery pack. Toyota Motor Sales, USA Inc.,

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Green Car Congress

AUGUST 20, 2012

Battery electric buses are still in development and demonstration for most parts of the world, including the United States and Europe. undertaking a major initiative to deploy electric vehicles of all types through its “Ten Cities, Thousand Vehicles Program.” The biggest challenge for electric drive technologies has.

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Green Car Congress

SEPTEMBER 23, 2009

The current state of market readiness of plug-in hybrid and electric vehicles presents serious challenges, particularly in mass production, given issues including range; cost; a charging time still longer than a conventional gasoline refueling; a broad variation in battery pack life, and the lack of infrastructure. Michael O’Brien.

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Green Car Congress

FEBRUARY 14, 2009

Bubble chart of plausible mainstream PHEV buyers’ battery requirements (light and dark gray circles) and experts’s requirements overlaid on a Ragone plot of NiMH and Li-ion batteries. The Most Plausible Early Market consumers value fuel economy. Source: Ken Kurani. Click to enlarge.

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Green Car Congress

NOVEMBER 1, 2012

Volkswagen is holding media drive events this week for the sporty new 2013 Jetta Turbo Hybrid ( earlier post ), which features the second version of a Volkswagen gasoline-electric hybrid drive system: a 1.4L Volkswagen’s first gasoline-electric hybrid system—that for the Touareg Hybrid—combines a 3.3-liter Earlier post.)

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Green Cars News

SEPTEMBER 23, 2009

Japanese car manufacturer Toyota may be seen as the hybrid car king, but it has openly called into question the viability of plug-in hybrid and electric vehicles. As such he said Toyota sees a “clear path to the commercial introduction of fuel cell vehicles by 2015”.

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Green Cars News

OCTOBER 20, 2009

Unsurprisingly, its fuel economy figures are impressive at 54mpg, but there is no sacrifice for performance levels. The Toyota Sai compact uses a NiMH battery pack, while the transaxle’s compact high-speed motor manages to gain increased output with a reduction gear that increases torque.

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Plug In Partners

JANUARY 24, 2006

Plug-in Hybrid Electric Vehicles (PHEVs) would combine today’s new gas-electric hybrid technology with larger batteries that could provide an all-electric operating range of 25 to 35 miles or more. The result is an 80+ mile-per-gallon vehicle — with even greater fuel economy possible utilizing bio-fuels.

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FEBRUARY 19, 2009

CPI) shortly after GM selected CPI and its parent LG Chem as the provider for the Li-ion batteries for the Extended Range Electric Vehicle (E-REV) Chevy Volt. (GM Long term barriers to widespread electric vehicle use. CPI sees three long term barriers to the subsidy-free adoption of electric vehicles.

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Tony Karrer Delicious EVdriven

APRIL 21, 2009

Its like having a second fuel tank that you always use first -- only you fill up at home, from a regular outlet, at an equivalent cost of under $1/gallon. But when you do, your car essentially becomes an electric vehicle with a gas-tank backup. gasoline this equates to 75 cents a gallon for equivalent electricity.

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Tony Karrer Delicious EVdriven

APRIL 21, 2009

GM has announced plans for public sales in 2010, and almost every carmaker now says it will sell PHEVs or highway-speed battery electric vehicles (BEVs) sometime after 2010. Weve kept the summary table below generally up-to-date for passenger PHEVs, but not for BEVs, motorcycles or larger vehicles like buses and trucks.

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