Green Car Congress

NOVEMBER 19, 2020

By the end of 2022, each of our German plants will be producing at least one fully electric vehicle. The future assembly and its production processes will be designed for a new cluster architecture geared towards electric drive trains. Rendering of the new assembly hall. —Milan Nedeljkovi?,

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Green Car Congress

MAY 8, 2019

Mack Trucks unveiled the Mack LR battery electric vehicle (BEV) at WasteExpo 2019. Combining the refuse industry-leading design of the Mack LR model with a fully electric Mack drivetrain, the demonstration model will begin real-world testing in 2020 in the demanding operations of the New York City Department of Sanitation (DSNY).

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Green Car Congress

MARCH 10, 2023

This includes a plan to purchase more than 3,500 fully electric last-mile delivery vehicles and the electrification of more than 60 terminals across Canada. It also plans to reduce emissions from electricity by 100% through the use of renewable sources and by diverting more than 70% of its waste from landfill.

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Green Car Congress

MAY 3, 2019

Porsche has launched two new cogeneration plants in Stuttgart-Zuffenhausen to enhance its environmentally friendly energy mix and close the remaining gap to CO 2 neutral production of the fully electric Taycan in Zuffenhausen.

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Green Car Congress

SEPTEMBER 13, 2023

The iONTRON eMixer is fully electrically powered, reducing carbon emissions by up to 100% depending on the local electricity mix. The two vehicles are the first from the manufacturer Putzmeister within Cemex globally. They will be used in the ready-mix concrete plants in Spandau and Hohenschönhausen.

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Green Car Congress

OCTOBER 8, 2020

Republic Services is an industry leader in US recycling and non-hazardous solid waste disposal. Republic will test the LR Electric model in Hickory, North Carolina on one of its residential recycling collection routes. The LR Electric will be evaluated for its range, functionality and payload capacity.

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Green Car Congress

FEBRUARY 22, 2023

In the supply chain of a mid-sized fully-electric vehicle around a quarter of the CO 2 emissions are attributable to aluminum. Owing to its comparatively low weight and other positive material properties, aluminum occupies a firm place in the BMW Group’s intelligent composite construction.

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Green Car Congress

NOVEMBER 17, 2022

Around 20% of supply chain CO 2 emissions for a mid-sized fully-electric vehicle are attributable to steel— which comes in third, after battery cells and aluminum. The company will supply the BMW Group’s European plants with steel produced exclusively using hydrogen and electricity from renewable energies.

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Green Car Congress

DECEMBER 2, 2022

As early as 2030, at least half of BMW Group’s global sales will consist of fully electric vehicles. Material, previously stored in dumps and considered waste, can now be tapped into with this new form of resource-conserving extraction. Around 70% of the world’s copper resources are bound up in those primary sulfide ores.

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Green Car Congress

SEPTEMBER 14, 2020

The eEconic is mainly used as a waste-collection vehicle in urban waste-management. This is very suitable for battery-electric trucks due to the comparatively short and planned routes of about 100 km with a very high proportion of stop-and-go operation. Series production is scheduled to start in 2022.

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Green Car Congress

JUNE 27, 2018

The company is continuing on its course of $11 billion to put 40 hybrid and fully electric vehicle models on the road by 2022. Ford now is working on setting a new goal focused on increasing it use of renewable energy while maintaining its energy efficiencies. Ford also remains focused on reducing vehicle emissions.

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Green Car Congress

APRIL 11, 2020

Linear actuators create the push-and-pull movements in the mechanisms of heavy machinery which are essential for lifting and loading materials across many industries, including: construction, agriculture, and waste management. Without linear actuators excavators couldn’t dig, garbage trucks couldn’t crush, and forklifts couldn’t lift.

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Green Car Congress

FEBRUARY 2, 2018

Joby Aviation has designed, built and flight-tested a fully-electric, vertical take-off and landing passenger aircraft prototype that is optimized for local and regional air-transportation-as-a-service. People waste billions of hours sitting on roads worldwide each year.

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Green Car Congress

SEPTEMBER 2, 2020

When considering the impact of diverting secondary feedstocks (wastes and residues) from an existing use in another sector (e.g. However, for syngasoline and syndiesel which are co-produced in an FT process, the results between the two methodologies can vary by more than 100%. avoided emissions from manure storage).

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Green Car Congress

JUNE 15, 2018

The design of the battery and charging system for Volkswagen’s fully-electric I.D. When developing the battery for Volkswagen’s first fully-electric racing car, the team benefitted from the expertise in the specialist departments for E-mobility at Volkswagen in Wolfsburg. —Marc-Christian Bertram.

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Drive Electric

MARCH 25, 2021

Fully electric vehicles are zero-emission and their batteries can be charged using renewable energy. Regenerative braking is built into all electric vehicles and is a feature that helps you maximise range, and makes the process of braking less wasteful. What is regenerative braking?

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Green Cars News

FEBRUARY 4, 2014

Renault has built a new semi-autonomous vehicle based on its fully electric supermini; the ZOE. This would allow the driver to use otherwise wasted time[.]. Called the Next Two prototype, the concept can take-over driving duties at times when driving is at its most tedious; in slow-moving traffic jams.

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EV Central

SEPTEMBER 8, 2022

This is the idea of the circular economy, a future in which we don’t waste so much, and we create vehicles that are not only made from 100 per cent recyclable materials, but 100 per cent recyclable at the end of their lives as well. Every part of the i-Vision Circular has been designed to minimise waste, and weight. MIni Aceman.

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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. And while hybrid technology has taken off, drivers have been hesitant to accept fully battery-powered tech for a variety of reasons, including a lack of charging stations. What’s Next for Electric Self-Driving Cars? By Haden Kirkpatrick.

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Green Car Congress

OCTOBER 28, 2021

The fully electric van—based on the Mercedes-Benz eSprinter—combines a variety of innovative solutions designed to improve the quality of life in cities; to conserve resources and protect the climate; and to better the health and safety of the driver and other road users.

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Green Car Congress

APRIL 27, 2017

Volkswagen is also highlighting its spectrum of efficiency and electrification solutions all the way to further optimized battery-powered propulsion as in the new e-Golf and the coming new MEB-based electric vehicles exemplified by its series of I.D. Partially and fully electric drive systems form a key pillar of our drive system strategy.

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Green Car Congress

MAY 16, 2018

The production hall uses renewable energy and reduces water consumption and waste significantly. On the roof of “Factory 56” there is a photovoltaic system which supplies the shop with self-produced green electricity.

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Current EV

SEPTEMBER 25, 2020

Audi sold just over 224,000 vehicles in 2019 and launched the brand’s first fully electric vehicle, the Audi e-tron – one of four fully electric models coming to the U.S. model lineup being fully or partially electrified by 2025. In the U.S., market in the next two years. BY JOHN COULTER, CURRENT EV CMO.

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Baua Electric

MAY 17, 2024

“You still have the same effect of this incredibly high torque and the increased weight of the vehicle, so that we just leverage the same technologies to accompany these trends, whether it’s fully electric or hybrid.” Although the company is working on ways to produce it from agricultural waste, the cost is a barrier.

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EV Adoption

MARCH 3, 2021

Volvo to go all electric by 2030 – Volvo announced that its entire car line-up will be fully electric by 2030 and joins GM, JLR, Ford Europe, and other automakers in stating their goals or “aspirations” (in the case of GM) – to end production of gas-powered vehicles by 2030 or 2035 depending on the OEM.

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Green Car Congress

JANUARY 29, 2014

Renewable power production can be exploited to produce electricity to power ships at berth (cold ironing), and to charge batteries for fully electric and hybrid ships. Enhancing the role of electricity on ships will contribute towards improved energy management and fuel efficiency on larger vessels.

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Blink Charging

SEPTEMBER 8, 2023

As one MIT report found, on average, “a fully electric vehicle emits about 25 percent less carbon than a comparable hybrid car.” This year, we have increased our focus on waste reduction, recycling, energy conservation, and exploring more sustainable materials to incorporate into our products.

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Get Electric Vehicle

JUNE 7, 2023

Electric motors have higher efficiency rates compared to internal combustion engines, which waste a significant amount of energy as heat. EVs convert a higher percentage of electrical energy from the battery into actual propulsion, resulting in less energy waste.

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Green Car Congress

SEPTEMBER 28, 2021

Blue Oval City will become a vertically integrated ecosystem for Ford to assemble an expanded lineup of electric F-Series vehicles and will include a BlueOvalSK battery plant, key suppliers and recycling. Ford’s new Tennessee assembly plant is designed to be carbon-neutral with zero waste to landfill once fully operational.

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Green Car Congress

FEBRUARY 14, 2020

ICEs are just boring and inefficient in the sense of wasting energy. We can only think of driving a plug-in or a fully electric car as the next one if one of the Priuses has to go. It won’t be easy to find an alternative one as the Gen2 Prius has no real competitors.

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Green Car Congress

SEPTEMBER 20, 2018

During the IAA 2018 from 20th to 27th September 2018 in Hanover, MAN will present a fully electric eTruck solo distributor chassis with a swap body frame and a 6x2 axle configuration. The additional drive systems needed for such applications are also electric. Earlier post.). Earlier post.)

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Green Car Congress

MAY 1, 2022

Metal offcuts and filings from milling, for example, will be recycled and reused, while waste heat from cooling will be fed into a circuit to heat indoor spaces and water. Another element of sustainable production is consistent circularity. Wherever possible, production materials and resources will be reused.

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Green Car Congress

SEPTEMBER 24, 2015

Audi already has developed a wealth of IP on quattro four-wheel drive, torque vectoring and electric drive systems. The new e-tron quattro marks the company’s combination of all of those elements into a fully-electric quattro drive. The e-tron quattro SUV can “ turn like a hunting dog after a rabbit.”

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My Electric Car

AUGUST 21, 2020

It is important to realize that a fuel cell car is actually an electric car. The Honda FCX Clarity FCEV and the Toyota Mirai FCEV, both use an electric drive motor and a battery pack. So, fuel cell cars have some of the advantages of pure fully electric cars.

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Green Car Congress

MARCH 31, 2021

The EV6 offers buyers a choice of multiple fully-electric powertrain configurations, including long-range (77.4 This includes Kia’s latest-generation energy-efficient heat pump, which scavenges waste heat from the car’s coolant system. kWh) and standard-range (58.0 kWh) high-voltage battery packs. This ensures that at -7 ?C

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Current EV

DECEMBER 22, 2019

This is followed by a coffee shop or café with Wi-Fi to improve connectivity while they wait for their vehicle to charge (42%) to increase productivity during this otherwise wasted downtime. Additionally, every new Volvo car launched in 2019 onwards will have an electric motor.

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Green Car Congress

FEBRUARY 23, 2011

The investment plan for 2011-2012 is spread across 11 technologies and areas: Plug-In Electric Vehicles ($8 Million). Sales of in-state plug-in electric vehicles are expected to rapidly increase over the next 2-3 years, as major automakers begin offering fully electric and plug-in hybrid electric vehicles.

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