Green Car Congress

NOVEMBER 13, 2019

General Motors LLC (GM) - GM will partner with Oak Ridge National Laboratory (ORNL) to develop residual stress models for laser-welded dissimilar joints (HSLA/CE steel) for car light-weighting in a project titled “Simulation Tools for Characterizing Stress Distribution in Laser Welded Dissimilar Joints.”. Praxair Inc., Praxair Inc.,

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Green Car Congress

JULY 17, 2012

General Motors’ OnStar subscribers can now rent out their idle vehicles through the RelayRides marketplace, leveraging OnStar connectivity already active in their vehicles ( Earlier post ), and with no need to hand over their keys. RelayRides reservation app. Click to enlarge. Challenges with access-based consumption.

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Green Car Congress

SEPTEMBER 24, 2014

General Motors for the first time achieved perfect scores on both climate change data disclosure and performance submitted to CDP , the world’s only global environmental disclosure system. Our customers expect us to help mitigate, if not eliminate, issues such as congestion and pollution.

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Green Car Congress

MAY 27, 2014

The Automaker Rankings report examines the emissions of both global warming and smog-forming pollution from of the automakers. Despite this progress, UCS noted, Ford, General Motors, and Chrysler still have higher than average new fleet smog-forming and GHG emissions. Source: UCS. Click to enlarge.

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Green Car Congress

DECEMBER 19, 2014

Fields said that Ford’s investments in products, people, plants and technology, combined with industry growth, are not only delivering a year of growth in terms of revenue, pricing power, operating margins and profitability in 2014, but are setting the stage for growth in and beyond 2015. We are transforming our approach to performance.

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Green Car Congress

AUGUST 23, 2011

General Motors is introducing a flame-treatment technology developed by FTS Technologies that lets paint stick to plastic vehicle parts such as instrument and door panels without using primers that contain solvents. Flame treatment of components has for years always been troublesome in a high-volume production environment.

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Green Car Congress

NOVEMBER 14, 2012

Fuel properties affect a number of combustion and engine properties, including ignition delay; knocking tendency; flame speeds; pollutant emissions; sooting tendency and particle size distributions; and density, viscosity and heating value. The components can be combined to model a large variety of new or existing fuel blends.

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Green Car Congress

MARCH 14, 2011

Emerging technologies and pollutants of concern. HEI is a nonprofit corporation chartered in 1980 as an independent research organization to provide high-quality, impartial, and relevant science on the health effects of air pollution. Steve Cadle, formerly at General Motors. Source: HEI. Click to enlarge.

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Green Car Congress

AUGUST 30, 2011

Project: Next Generation Water-Cooled Low-Pressure Die for the Production of Automotive Wheels. The University of British Columbia and CAPTIN will work together to develop an advanced water-cooled low-pressure die for the production of automotive wheels. million) in total project support.

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Green Cars News

AUGUST 11, 2009

Raser Vice President David West is expected to speak at the convention on “Scaling Up from an Idea to Production.”. We’ve taken a vehicle known for being both a gas guzzler and an environmental polluter and turned into a clean, green machine that outperforms its gasoline powered equivalent,” said West.

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Green Cars News

AUGUST 21, 2009

At the same time, we’ve been able to take old, polluting cars off the road and help consumers purchase fuel efficient vehicles.”. In response to the scheme, both General Motors and Ford ramped up production, adding shifts and rehired laid off workers to meet renewed demand. billion in rebates.

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Creative Greenius

JANUARY 17, 2009

Electric cars everywhere you looked, quiet as a mouse and making a total mockery out of General Motors, Ford, and Chrysler who could have been making these cars for the last decade, but instead had to be pushed to the brink of bankruptcy and shame-filled failure before they would start even talking about making these cars.

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Green Car Congress

MAY 17, 2012

The Coordinating Research Council (CRC) is a non-profit organization that directs, through committee action, engineering and environmental studies on the interaction between automotive/other mobility equipment and petroleum products. Earlier post.)

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Green Cars News

DECEMBER 1, 2009

According to Chetan Maini, the man behind the company, the factory represents the first mass production of a green car. Also unveiled at this year’s Frankfurt Motor Show was the REVA NXG, which is scheduled for production in 2011. The car will go on sale for around €10,000 and can be charged in just 90minutes.

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The Truth About Cars

MARCH 18, 2024

However, it’s estimated to be another three years before refinement takes place and the materials can be adapted for use in battery powered products — including all-electric vehicles. The fact that lithium mines have taken criticism for polluting groundwater may have also been a contributing issue.

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Green Car Congress

JULY 21, 2011

Earlier this year, General Motors signed a definitive agreement with ABB Group to identify joint research and development projects that would reuse Chevrolet Volt battery systems, which will have up to 70% of life remaining after their automotive use is exhausted. equipment that is installed parallel to the polluting loads.

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Tony Karrer Delicious EVdriven

APRIL 30, 2009

Search Results for Google April 29, 2009 09:40 AM Eastern Daylight Time Green Star to Demonstrate Plug-In Hybrid Electric Vehicle FRANKFORT, Ky.--( BUSINESS WIRE )--Green Star Products, Inc. Green Star Products is targeting to replace in-city delivery trucks which are the highest polluting vehicles in use today.

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Tony Karrer Delicious EVdriven

APRIL 30, 2009

General Motors Corp., Toyota Motor Corp. and startups Tesla Motors Inc. customers $600 a month to lease.Honda hasn’t revealed its production price. Still, the company will respond to a push by theObama administration for carmakers to sell plug-ins, he said. “We Naturally, we’regoing to have to accommodate that too.”

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Green Cars News

JULY 28, 2009

Having already adjusted its road tax system to penalise the heaviest polluters and introduced congestion charges; the Government created a vehicle scrappage scheme earlier this year meant to help more motorists make green choices while boosting the automotive sector. Now it seems that its efforts have been rewarded. The argument for the UK….

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Creative Greenius

JANUARY 19, 2009

Bird Cage Liners article this morning: Asking carmakers to comply with California’s rules would be tantamount to forcing a cancer patient to “finish chemo and then go run the Boston Marathon,&# General Motors Corp. spokesman Greg Martin said. That’s priceless, Greg “I’m Not Funny Like Steve&# Martin!

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Tony Karrer Delicious EVdriven

APRIL 22, 2009

Those prices are much lower than that of General Motors Corp.s You can search for auto parts by OEM Number or reference number , and get result in both Product and Catalog list. Alternative-fuel cars were some of the hottest items on display at the Shanghai auto show from homegrown companies like Geely Automobile Holdings Ltd.,

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Revenge of the Electric Car

JANUARY 22, 2009

General Motors plans to unveil the Chevy Volt, a plug-in hybrid, sometime in 2010, and Toyota may begin selling a plug-in Prius in late 2010 or early 2011. Consequently, gasoline-power vehicles pollute the most when the engine is first turned on in the morning after being off for many hours.

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Tony Karrer Delicious EVdriven

APRIL 21, 2009

In late 2008, BYD started selling the first production PHEV in China. 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. Several dozen prototypes on 15-passenger van since 2004; now in second generation development; no production plans.

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Creative Greenius

JULY 2, 2009

But let’s face it, I’ve got a pretty unconventional sense of sexy and as one of the ace marketers of my generation I know what brand of sex sells best to the people. Don’t forget that the big brains at General Motors used toasters, lamps and electric fans as the spokespeople last time they had a sexy electric car to market.

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Tony Karrer Delicious EVdriven

APRIL 20, 2009

Automakers agree on common plug to recharge electric vehicles by Darren Murph , posted Apr 19th 2009 at 4:24PM Just hours after General Motors put forth a proposal for a standardized plug for electric vehicles , in flies this. I mean, when the electricity it uses is produces, pollution still happens, just not "right from your car"?

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Cars That Think

SEPTEMBER 3, 2022

That car, based on its showroom Cayman sports car, previews a coming generation of Porsche’s customer racing teams, proving that, as one executive told IEEE Spectrum , “The electric future can be fun.” For now, he says, the only reason ICE can compete is because of the unmatched energy density of its polluting, carbon-based fuel.

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Cars That Think

OCTOBER 1, 2021

Since then Daimler , Ford Motor Company , General Motors , Stellantis and Volkswagen Group, have committed an additional $152 billion in investments, a sum four times their combined 2019 operating profits. An additional $60 billion plus in investments have also been made in more than 70 EV start-ups wanting in on the game.

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Tony Karrer Delicious EVdriven

APRIL 21, 2009

Electric car supporters are rising to defend General Motors’ development of the Chevy Volt after the Obama Administration’s automotive task force proclaimed that the car was probably too expensive to be commercially successful in the near future. Supporters of the car say that’s shortsighted. Volt will survive and prosper,” G.M.’s

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Tony Karrer Delicious EVdriven

APRIL 28, 2009

Think Global was formerly known as Think City, a prior Ford Motor Company ( F ) acquisition and part of a now-defunct Think division at Ford. The Think City was short-lived in the States with production halting in 2002 after just 1005 cars had been assembled. Oh, but theres that nasty carbon based fuel again.

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EV Adoption

MARCH 15, 2021

The link to the reveal was posted only on its European site, which may indicate that its first production EV outside China will be available only in Europe. battery production through 2025 – LG Energy Solution said Thursday it plans to invest more than $4.5 battery production capacity. – March 10, via Forbes.

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EV Adoption

MARCH 9, 2021

GM is close to building a second EV battery factory in the US, report says – General Motors is considering building a second battery factory in the United States, The Wall Street Journal reports , in order to ramp up its production of electric vehicles. Batteries and Charging. – March 8, via Green Car Reports.

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Tony Karrer Delicious EVdriven

APRIL 16, 2009

Credit: GM) General Motors and Segway plan to take a two-wheel concept vehicle for a spin around New York City on Tuesday. The prototype vehicle, called Project PUMA (Personal Urban Mobility and Accessibility), is designed to ease congestion and pollution problems in cities.

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Baua Electric

JANUARY 10, 2024

Nickel and cobalt have also tumbled, weighed down by an influx of new production amid concerns that the shift to EVs may not be as smooth and quick as predicted. The auto industry had shown signs of becoming an key source of funds, as companies such as Ford Motor Co. and General Motors Co.

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Tony Karrer Delicious EVdriven

APRIL 16, 2009

"On some products, the costs, particularly in advanced technologies, are high," he said in a lengthy interview with Automotive News (free subscription required). "On some products, the costs, particularly in advanced technologies, are high," he said in a lengthy interview with Automotive News (free subscription required).

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The Truth About Cars

FEBRUARY 20, 2024

The Alliance for Automotive Innovation, a trade group representing General Motors, Ford Motor Co., Stellantis, Toyota Motor Corp., The concern is that new standards may also impact how combustion vehicles are regulated and ultimately increase emissions fines on products that would have previously been deemed acceptable.

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