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AUGUST 30, 2023

Ricardo has supported Winnebago to develop and launch North America’s latest all-electric RV prototype, called the Winnebago eRV2, based on the Ford E-Transit. Winnebago chose Ricardo due to its proven track record in diverse product development cycles, launch management and expertise in electric vehicle integration. Earlier post.)

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Green Car Congress

AUGUST 8, 2023

This breakdown has important implications as the freight sector shifts towards electric drive and other alternative fuels where range and refueling infrastructure may be limiting factors. Source: US Department of Transportation, Bureau of Transportation Statistics and Federal Highway Administration, Freight Analysis Framework Version 5.5,

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Green Car Congress

NOVEMBER 23, 2022

A team led by Raymond Borges Hink at the Department of Energy’s Oak Ridge National Laboratory (ORNL) has developed a method using blockchain to protect communications between electronic devices in the electric grid, preventing cyberattacks and cascading blackouts. The work is summarized in a new technical report from ORNL. —Hahn et al.

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Green Car Congress

SEPTEMBER 16, 2022

Volvo Trucks is beginning series production of the electric versions of the company’s most important product range, its heavy-duty trucks: Volvo FH, Volvo FM and Volvo FMX. With these new additions, Volvo Trucks has six electric truck models in series production globally—the broadest electric truck line up in the industry.

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CleanTechnica EVs

OCTOBER 14, 2023

Zimbabwe’s national statistics agency, Zimstat, recently released its Transport Statistics Report for the 2nd Quarter of 2023. The report says as of June 30, 2023, light motor vehicles (up to 2,300 kg) accounted for 76.5% of the 1,583,700 registered vehicles in the country.

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Green Car Congress

JULY 18, 2022

One hybrid electric vehicle (HEV) equipped with a PFI engine was also used. The test fleet showed statistically significant effects for some pollutants, but not for others. Findings included: Cold-start and weighted THC emissions showed statistically significant reductions of 6% and 5%, respectively, for E15 compared to E10.

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Green Car Congress

NOVEMBER 13, 2016

A new statistical method developed by researchers at KAUST (King Abdullah University of Science and Technology, Saudi Arabia) can detect abnormal ozone levels within large bodies of monitored data. The monitoring methods can quickly and accurately detect ozone anomalies—localized spikes in ozone concentration indicated by sensor data.

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Electric Cars Report

APRIL 26, 2023

The booming number of electric vehicles on the roads may be considered good for the environment, but it is causing concern among fire fighters.

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Green Car Congress

JUNE 8, 2023

The levels of these non-fuel-derived gases will likely remain unchanged, even as more drivers transition from gas-powered to electric vehicles. These emissions are independent of the vehicle energy/propulsion system and therefore applicable to all road vehicle types including those with battery-electric powertrains. Cliff et al.

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CleanTechnica EVs

JANUARY 11, 2023

Best known for the compact battery-swap vending machines placed outside of convenience stores and take-out shops, Gogoro is leading the charge for electric scooter sales in Taiwan — but that’s not the biggest news.

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Green Car Congress

MAY 2, 2022

The health of residents living alongside a bus route in Gothenburg, Sweden, improved when hybrid buses were replaced by buses fully powered by electricity. In the fall of 2019, all-electric buses were introduced on bus route 60 in Gothenburg. The other half, who lived some distance away, made up the reference group.

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CleanTechnica EVs

JANUARY 16, 2022

The argument that there are more electric car fires than gasoline car fires is silly, yet many people believe this is the case.

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CleanTechnica EVs

AUGUST 26, 2023

Department of Transportation, Bureau of Transportation Statistics, and Federal Highway Administration, Freight Analysis, and as reported by the U.S. According to a report from from the U.S. Department of Energy in 2021, 87% of U.S. truck freight tonnage was shipped fewer than 250 miles (400 km).

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Green Car Congress

JUNE 22, 2021

Researchers from the National Renewable Energy Laboratory (NREL), in collaboration with two electric utilities, recently examined the causes, costs and lead times of distribution system upgrades anticipated for depot charging of short-haul heavy-duty trucks in the United States. Their paper appears in the journal Nature Energy. Borlaug, B.,

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Cars That Think

NOVEMBER 21, 2023

Barroso was born in Brazil and earned bachelor’s and master’s degrees in 1989 in electrical engineering from Pontifical Catholic University of Rio de Janeiro. The two estimators—rules for calculating an estimate of a given quantity based on observed data—provided the basis for much of modern statistics.

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Green Car Congress

JANUARY 25, 2020

liter, turbocharged V6 engine paired with an electric motor integrated into the torque converter of the eight-speed automatic transmission. The Audi virtual cockpit is also updated to display battery data and range statistics. Additional state incentives may also be available. The A8 TFSI e is powered by a 3.0-liter,

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Green Car Congress

JUNE 9, 2023

A suggestive market-wide simulation extrapolation indicates that if every gasoline vehicle had a BEV option in 2030, the majority of new car and near-majority of new sport-utility vehicle choice shares could be electric in that year due to projected technology improvements alone. —Forsythe et al. Forsythe et al. Resources Connor R.

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Green Car Congress

JANUARY 7, 2021

However, the starting year of this analysis is 1966 because (1) for 1923 through 1935, fuel-economy information is available only for the entire fleet of all vehicles, and (2) from 1936 through 1965, light trucks were included with other trucks in the relevant statistics.?. Annual statistics from the U.S. Department of Transportation.

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CleanTechnica EVs

JULY 19, 2022

Kenya has done really well when it comes to increasing the share of renewable energy in its electricity generation mix. According to the latest Economic Survey from the Kenya National Bureau of Statistics (KNBS), in 2021, Kenya’s total installed electricity generation capacity increased by 5.4% to 2,990 MW.

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CleanTechnica EVs

MAY 13, 2024

A month ago, I spent some time assembling statistics on major geographies’ split of domestic freight tonnage across different modes: road, rail, and water. I was surprised to find that road freight was so much more dominant in Europe than rail compared to other major geographies. I think of Europe.

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Plugs and Cars

FEBRUARY 26, 2011

I just ran across the latest available data, from 2005, for the electricity consumption by petroleum refineries. Source: Energy Statistics Database | United Nations Statistics Division ) The US is, hoorah, #1. One electric car, roughly speaking, will use about 3000 kWh to go about 12,000 miles. Almost 49,000,000,000 kWh.

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CleanTechnica EVs

JANUARY 8, 2023

By Maarten Vinkhuyzen and Zach Shahan Because we never have enough statistics, here’s another list of top selling electric vehicles — this one showing the 100 best selling BEVs in 10 European countries (combined) in 2022.

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Teslarati

OCTOBER 1, 2021

Tesla is leading an electric offensive in Norway as new data from the Opplysningsrådet for Veitrafikken (The Road Traffic Information Council of Norway, or OFV) reveals that 77.5% of new car sales for September consisted of electric vehicles. being electric. With 3,564 sales, making up 19.8% of the total sales.

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Green Car Congress

APRIL 24, 2019

the largest food industry redistributor in North America, announced the deployment of an Orange EV T-Series battery-electric terminal truck at Dot’s operation in Modesto, CA. Dot Foods Orange electric yard truck. Increased safety was a key component in Dot’s decision to purchase all-electric. a subsidiary of Dot Foods, Inc.,

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Electric Cars Report

OCTOBER 6, 2023

Zapmap, the UK’s leading charge point mapping service, has published new statistics for charge point installations in 2023.

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JUNE 13, 2012

seen in 2010, according to the newly released BP Statistical Review of World Energy, 2012. Hydro-electric output grew just 1.6%, the weakest growth since 2003. Click to enlarge. Global energy consumption grew by 2.5% in 2011, broadly in line with the historical average but well below the 5.1% more as natural gas was diverted to Asia.

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Green Car Congress

SEPTEMBER 28, 2020

A new analysis of the real-world usage of more than 100,000 plug-in hybrid electric vehicles shows a large deviation between on-road CO 2 emissions and fuel efficiency and the official vehicle type-approval values. The real-world share of electric driving for PHEVs, on average, is about half the share considered in the type-approval values.

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CleanTechnica EVs

MAY 1, 2023

Official statistics for March (see UNRAE) offer a glimpse of hope for electric […] As the rest of Europe enjoys new records, the Bel Paese also boasted a strong performance in March. The road to recovery is, however, still paved with uncertainty.

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CleanTechnica EVs

MARCH 7, 2023

The US Bureau of Labor Statistics projects growth of electrician jobs will increase by 9.1% from 2020 to 2030.

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Green Car Congress

MARCH 1, 2023

The sample was homogenized by cone-and-quarter methods and pulverized to 100 mesh to obtain a statistically repetitive sample. Through this analysis an open-pit resource estimate was developed that would support a processing rate of at least 200,000 tons of claystone per day.

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Green Car Congress

SEPTEMBER 30, 2019

However, the starting year of this analysis is 1966 because (1) for 1923 through 1935, fuel-economy information is available only for the entire fleet of all vehicles, and (2) from 1936 through 1965, light trucks were included with other trucks in the relevant statistics.?. Annual statistics from the U.S. Department of Transportation.

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Green Car Congress

AUGUST 9, 2021

They used statistical and data analysis methods including sparse regression and neural networks to compare the behavior of these parameters temporally and between the two fuel types. Among their findings: Although differences in the performance metrics were statistically significant, the magnitude of these differences were minimal.

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Green Car Congress

AUGUST 17, 2023

China Association of Automobile Manufacturers (CAAM) statistics suggestthat in 2023 electric passenger vehicle sales in China will reach 9 million, with annual penetration of EVs expected to climb to 36%. Increasingly, investment in charging infrastructure has been devoted in China to meet the growing demand for charging.

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Setec Powerr

AUGUST 11, 2022

According to data released by BloombergNEF, Europe now accounts for 34% of global electric vehicle sales and is the second largest worldwide market after China. million electric vehicles will be sold in Europe in 2021, up 66% year-over-year, accounting for 19% of all new vehicle sales and only 3.6%

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Electric Vehicles India

APRIL 12, 2022

CRISIL analysis says the shift from vehicles with internal combustion engines to electric vehicles presents an estimated 3-lakh-crore opportunity for manufacturers of components, financiers, insurers, and shared mobility players, among other stakeholders in India, over the next five years. essential in it is a potential revenue of about ?1.5

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Green Car Congress

SEPTEMBER 30, 2020

Hybrid systems of floating solar panels and hydropower plants may hold the technical potential to produce a significant portion of the electricity generated annually across the globe, according to an analysis by researchers at the US Department of Energy’s National Renewable Energy Laboratory (NREL). This is really optimistic.

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CleanTechnica EVs

DECEMBER 1, 2022

Official statistics through the first three […]. Following years of exponential growth, the spark of the EV revolution seems to have gone cold in one of the arguably most important auto markets — by volume and automotive history — in Europe and the world.

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