Green Car Congress

MARCH 18, 2009

The current generation NiMH PHEV prototype in London. EDF and Toyota first announced their partnership in Fall 2007, with a small number of NiMH PHEVs being integrated into EDF’s fleet. Click to enlarge. Earlier post.)  EDF and Toyota expanded their European road trials of PHEVs to the UK last year. Earlier post.).

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Clean Fleet Report

AUGUST 25, 2022

Clean Fleet Report recently had the opportunity to drive the 2022 Lexus RX 450h F Sport AWD and came away reminded why more than 50% of Lexus owners return to the brand. In 380 miles of mixed driving through Southern California, Clean Fleet Report achieved an average of 31.2 Hybrid Sophistication. The system comprises a 3.5-liter

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Clean Fleet Report

SEPTEMBER 5, 2022

Fuel economy numbers reported by Clean Fleet Report are non-scientific and represent the reviewer’s driving experience using the dash gauge computer. The nickel-metal hydride (NiMH) battery is charged when applying the brakes or coasting. Clean Fleet Report’s test car had the Lexus Multimedia System with a 10.3-inch,

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Plugs and Cars

AUGUST 18, 2007

The founders of Google have made personal investments in Tesla as befits dotcom billionaires, and they're converting Priuses to plug-in hybrids for the company fleet with battery maker A123. The plug-in Priuses are almost doubling the fuel efficiency of Google standard Prius fleet, getting 74 MPG rather than 41 MPG.

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Green Car Congress

SEPTEMBER 7, 2011

In the United States, trucks represent approximately 13% of the total fleet market (in number of vehicles). The market intelligence firm expects that the use of nickel metal hydride (NiMH) batteries will peak in 2016, as vehicle manufacturers move their remaining systems toward Li-ion. The global truck market is about 3.7

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Green Car Congress

APRIL 9, 2009

The system combines a 100 kW AC induction traction motor, power electronics and 288 V NiMH battery pack with the conventional 5.4-liter Azure technology is currently operating in major vehicle fleets in both the United States and Canada. liter Triton gasoline engine and 5-speed automatic Torqshift transmission. A Collins bus.

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Plugs and Cars

DECEMBER 12, 2007

One of the things he specifically said to Sherry Boschert, author of Plug-in Hybrids , to demonstrate the inadequacy of NiMH in electric cars was that the batteries have been replaced in many of SCE's fleet of RAV4-EVs. Of the almost 14,000 NiMH battery modules powering these EVs only a little less than 0.5% had to be replaced!

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Green Car Congress

FEBRUARY 24, 2011

NREL’s Fleet Test and Evaluation Team recently completed a year-long technology evaluation of gasoline hybrid electric (gHEV) FedEx Express delivery trucks compared with conventional diesel vehicles. Ah NiMH battery pack. Criteria emissions by drive cycle. Source: Barnitt 2011. Click to enlarge.

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Green Car Congress

DECEMBER 7, 2010

The hybrid bus is fitted with two 80 kW, 260 N·m permanent magnet electric motors powered by NiMH batteries and two 90 kW PEM fuel cell stacks , and is fueled with hydrogen gas stored in tanks at 35 MPa (350 bar). Maximum speed is 80 km/h (50 mph).

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Green Car Congress

SEPTEMBER 11, 2009

liter, 98 hp (73 kW) engine, 60 kW traction motor, and NiMH battery pack, the car will accelerate from 0 to 62 mph in around 10 seconds, while returning what Toyota calls class-leading combined cycle fuel economy and sub-100g/km CO 2 emissions. Sales are scheduled to start during second half of 2010. Equipped with a 1.8-liter,

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Green Car Congress

MARCH 9, 2011

The hybrid models are equipped with a NiMH battery pack. Utilizing Aisin’s A465, 6-speed automatic transmission, the Hino hybrid is the first to be packaged with an automatic transmission.

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Diesel Hybrid Market Philadelphia 225

Green Car Congress

JUNE 3, 2009

This brings the initial planned global deployment of early plug-ins—primarily to fleet customers—to approximately 500 units. The leases will be to designated users such as government ministries, local governments and corporations.

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Green Car Congress

MAY 11, 2009

Saft manufacturers a range of advanced batteries for a large range of applications using lithium and nickel chemistries, including lithium-ion, lithium-thionyl chloride (Li-SOCl 2 ), lithium-sulfur dioxide (Li-SO 2 ), lithium-manganese dioxide (Li-MnO 2 ), nickel-cadmium (Ni-Cd), nickel-hydrogen (Ni-H 2 ), and nickel-metal hydride (NiMH).

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Plugs and Cars

NOVEMBER 22, 2007

Corporate and public-sector fleets will get to lease 100 test cars for a pilot period of four years. The first cars will utilize NiMH batteries, as do the Toyota test platform Plug-in Priuses at the University of California. From where I sit (in the driver's seat of a NiMH powered Toyota RAV4 EV) this seems eminently practical.

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London G-Wiz i-MiEV Recharge 100

Green Car Congress

MARCH 8, 2012

The Yaris is Toyota’s best-selling core model in Europe, with the largest Unit in Operation fleet on European roads. The new, downsized full hybrid powertrain also features a smaller, NiMH battery with a more efficient management system.

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Green Car Congress

DECEMBER 3, 2009

Hybrid vehicles, which require batteries that primarily provide short bursts of power for acceleration and allow the engine to be turned off when idling, have been served well by less expensive nickel-metal hydride (NiMH) batteries, and this class of vehicles will be much slower to shift to higher cost Li-ion batteries, according to the report.

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Green Car Congress

DECEMBER 6, 2010

The study by Dr. Jeremy Michalek and colleagues found that while a fleet with plug-in hybrid electric vehicles (PHEVs) with universal high electric range (i.e., kW h electricity, $400/kW h Li-ion batteries, $600/kWh NiMH batteries, and 5% discount rate, PHEVs are part of the least-cost solution for gas prices above $2.6/gal,

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Revenge of the Electric Car

APRIL 16, 2009

The acceleration was significantly better than my RAV, no doubt due to the Li-Ion battery pack weighing about 400-500 lbs less than the Toyota’s NiMH pack. I was very impressed with the ride. That’s 4 adults worth of mass, and as anyone who drives EVs will tell you, weight is something to be avoided.

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Green Cars News

APRIL 21, 2009

Li-ion would be less costly than NiMH in large volumes - approximately 30 percent less expensive at an annual volume of 3 million hybrids. The Li-ion battery packs that Ford will use in its hybrids and electric vehicles, are 25 to 30 percent smaller and 50 percent lighter than NiMH batteries.

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Green Car Congress

MARCH 20, 2009

According to the report, participants expressed strong enthusiasm for deploying more hydrogen buses, with most indicating a desire for larger fleets, such as 50–100 buses per site. However, because each site developed its own solutions, future research could capture lessons learned and develop best practices and guidelines.

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Tony Karrer Delicious EVdriven

APRIL 21, 2009

We Promote PHEV Conversion Programs: First CalCars in 2004, then a number of aftermarket companies, have converted over 200 cars — at first most were for fleets, but more and more are going to individual owners. The first after-market conversion company, built Felixs car, currently provides vehicles mainly to fleets.

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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. The Key Life Test (KLT) takes about 10 months to complete. published in the International Journal of Energy Research.

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Green Cars News

JULY 1, 2009

The patented ‘two mode’ parallel hybrid technology combines direct power from an electronically controlled diesel engine with electric power from an energy storage system and is already delivering significant fuel saving benefits, lower emissions, and raising vehicle performance for bus fleets over 115 cities worldwide.

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Plug In Partners

JANUARY 24, 2006

The vans, which have a 20-mile all-electric range, will be outfitted with either nickel-metal hydride (NiMH) batteries or lithium ion (Li-Ion) batteries. The cost, reliability and weight of batteries are often cited by automotive industry experts as one of the stumbling blocks to the mass production of plug-ins. “We

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Tony Karrer Delicious EVdriven

APRIL 21, 2009

A PHEV can provide power to an entire home in the case of an outage; A fleet of PHEVs could power critical systems during emergencies. They are converting up to 40 15-passenger Mercedes commercial vans into PHEVs, with some vehicles using NiMH and others advanced lithium-ion batteries, plus diesel and gasoline engines.

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Green Car Congress

SEPTEMBER 17, 2011

Toyota’s goal was to reduce the cost, weight and volume of the pack from the NiMH system used earlier. Significantly, the biggest change in packaging from the Prius Plug-in Hybrid test-fleet model is the smaller, more efficient battery pack in the production model. Changes include: Completely new battery design.

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Green Car Congress

SEPTEMBER 23, 2009

This experience has convinced Toyota of three things, he said: NiMH batteries appear to be the best choice for conventional hybrid vehicles for some time to come. Toyota has collected extensive data using hybrids, plug-in hybrids and electric vehicles in real-world testing, matching conditions seen in day-to-day use, O’Brien said.

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Tony Karrer Delicious EVdriven

APRIL 21, 2009

Plans "large demonstration fleet" late 2009. Saab GM-owned company exploring PHEVs Joint Venture with Volvo and others to research PHEVs Toyota 500 PHEV 2010-model Priuses with lithium batteries to be leased for fleet tests in 2009 (150 in U.S.) 2010 Prius designed to be manufactured with NiMH or Lithium batteries.

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Tony Karrer Delicious EVdriven

APRIL 21, 2009

by EAA-PHEV with Nilar NiMH batteries, May 2007 (Centennial, CO) contact: info@nilar.com Small photo. Sonoma County Water Agency "Sparky" by Hymotion, May 2007, (Santa Rosa, CA), contact: sherwood@scwa.ca.gov Wisconsin Public Power Inc. Beacon Energy by Amberjac/EnergyCS, May 2007 (Loughborough, UK), contact simon@amberjac-projects.co.uk

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Tony Karrer Delicious EVdriven

APRIL 16, 2009

The first buyers will be fleet users, which will build central fast-charging facilities. Both will be sold first in China, primarily to fleet users: the government, post office, utilities, and taxi companies, all of which will build central fast-charging facilities. The E6 will hit the Chinese market later this year.

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