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In addition to the Green Field Project, LG Energy Solution and GM are currently discussing plans to build a second joint venture plant in the US, which will even further increase its cell production capacity. In 2019, the company entered into a joint venture with General Motors (GM) to construct a $2.3-billion

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DeepDrive has developed a cost- and resource-efficient dual-rotor motor, extending the range of electric vehicles. Both variants combine the motor with a two-stage spur gear and a highly efficient SiC inverter. The company says it is actively working with several leading OEMs interested in the DeepDrive drive unit.

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SEPTEMBER 16, 2010

A study by Ricardo for the Renewable Fuels Association (RFA) concludes that the adoption of E15 as the blend limit for standard US pump grades of gasoline rather than the current E10 should not adversely affect vehicles manufactured between 1994 and 2000 in terms of their performance and durability based on normal specifications and usage profile.

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MARCH 19, 2011

g/km CO 2 in 2010 according to the Society of Motor Manufacturers and Traders’ (SMMT) 10 th annual CO 2 report. Average CO 2 emissions from new cars have fallen by more than 20% since 2000. Cars in the sub-130 g/km CO 2 category represented almost 40% of the market in 2010 compared with less than 1% in 2000.

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AUGUST 15, 2018

Tropos Motors has released the new eXtended Range, ABLE XR low-speed electric utility vehicle. With the largest capacity battery pack of LSVs on the market, the ABLE XR can travel up to 45+ mph (72+ km/h), and up to 160 miles (at 25 mph), as well as tow a max of 2000 pounds on public roads, or 3000 pounds on closed campuses.

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FEBRUARY 14, 2012

Ford Motor Company now holds 461 patents on its hybrid technology, up from 10 in 2000. The development work began to accelerate slowly with the evolution of the Escape Hybrid—the first production hybrid vehicle from a US-based automaker—that was designed and developed in the early 2000s.

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FEBRUARY 1, 2018

YASA, a manufacturer of axial-flux electric motors and controllers ( earlier post ), has raised £15 million (US$21 million) in growth funding. YASA’s innovative axial-flux electric motor design offers best-in-class power and torque densities and is suited to both hybrid and pure electric vehicle applications.

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JANUARY 16, 2022

Steering yokes and touchpad controls are considered cutting-edge car tech today, but 35 years ago a General Motors prototype had those features and more. The 1987 Pontiac Pursuit aimed to show what cars would be like in the then-far-off year 2000.

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JANUARY 16, 2014

YASA Motors, the manufacturer of highly differentiated advanced axial flux motors and generators based on its Yokeless And Segmented Armature (YASA) technology ( earlier post ), has raised £5 million (US$8.2 YASA motors make more efficient use of key materials, and are produced with simple low cost manufacturing processes.

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Motor Motors Motoring 2000 199

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JULY 7, 2022

The study looked at applications turned in between 2000 through the end of March from 10 countries and territories. The study found that Toyota Motor is by far the leading holder of solid-state battery patents with 1,331 known patents. Panasonic Holdings is a distant second with 445 patents.

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FEBRUARY 23, 2017

Annual methanol consumption in China, 2000-16. Similar to how ethanol is currently blended into motor gasoline in the United States, methanol is blended into gasoline in China. The estimates developed in the study have now been incorporated into EIA’s historical data and forecasts of petroleum and other liquids consumption in China.

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MAY 17, 2016

Unlike Tesla Motors, though, the first products of the newly-revealed Nikola (pronounced Neek-oh-la) Motor Company won't be a sports car or a luxury sedan. What will Elon Musk think of this? There is now a second company named after inventor Nikola Tesla—and it too plans to build electric vehicles.

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DECEMBER 31, 2020

hours flight duration as well as an aircraft with up to 40 passengers and a range of up to 2000 km (1200 miles). The Hy4 features a 120 kW electric motor and a fuel cell system with 55 kW continuous power. The plane has received a Europe-wide “Permit to Fly” and is in Stuttgart until May 2021 for further testing.

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SEPTEMBER 7, 2018

Rolls-Royce is planning to test a new MTU hybrid system incorporating Series 2000 engines in a yacht in 2019. The combination of diesel engines and electric motors, in addition to batteries, will offer our customers significant benefits in a variety of marine applications. In the case of. Heesen Yachts Nova Hybrid.

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APRIL 12, 2023

In May 1980, as required by the Motor Vehicle Act, DOE proposed a method of calculating the petroleum-equivalent fuel economy of electric vehicles utilizing a “petroleum equivalency factor” (PEF). DOE published a final rule on 12 June 2000. DOE has not updated this since the June 2000 Final Rule. Background.

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MAY 7, 2024

Headlining today’s Green Deals is Juiced Bikes’ Mother’s Day sale that is taking $100 off purchases over $500, including most e-bikes, like the RipRacer Fun-Sized Fat-Tire e-bike for $1,049. Plus, more hangover Green Deals still alive and well. Currently the blue and black models are sold out, with only the green colorway available.

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FEBRUARY 13, 2022

The Hybrid PowerPack combines a diesel engine, which complies with the EU Stage V emissions directive, with an electric machine, which can be used either as an electric motor or generator, and an mtu EnergyPack battery system, which stores the energy recovered during braking.

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MARCH 10, 2017

Matthias Müller, CEO of Volkswagen AG, Bernhard Maier, CEO of ŠKODA Auto and Günter Butschek, CEO and Managing Director of Tata Motors Ltd., Under the terms of the memorandum, the Volkswagen Group and Tata Motors will explore possibilities for a strategic partnership in India. billion in 2015-16.

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MAY 30, 2014

The US Department of Transportation''s National Highway Traffic Safety Administration (NHTSA) released a new study that finds the price tag for motor vehicle crashes in the US in 2010 carried a cost of $871 billion in economic loss and societal harm. The economic cost of motor vehicle crashes in the US is the equivalent of 1.9%

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SEPTEMBER 27, 2016

Toyota Motor Europe (TME) reported that sales of hybrids have increased 45% so far this year compared with the same period in 2015—which was already a record year. 31% of Toyota Motor Europe’s customers have opted for a hybrid powertrain in 2016; 41% in Western Europe alone. —Karl Schlicht. To date, 1.5

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JULY 27, 2015

Mitsubishi Motors Corporation (MMC) officially announced , after several days of press reports, that Mitsubishi Motors North America, Inc., Mitsubishi Motors’ production in the United States started in 1988 as Diamond Star Motors (DSM, later re-named as MMNA) which was a joint venture company with Chrysler Corporation.

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Mitsubishi Motor Motors Motoring 150

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JUNE 11, 2015

Leclanché is a joint partner in the Green Ferry Project and will deliver a full-electric drive train to the ferry with its partner Visedo. CO 2 emissions will be reduced by 2000 tons and NO x by 41.5 The ferry will be placed in service in June 2017 to transport vehicles and passengers between island Ærø and the mainland in Denmark.

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JUNE 17, 2020

Toyota Motor Corporation will make its Total Human Model for Safety (THUMS) software freely available from January 2021 as part of its efforts toward a safe mobility society. THUMS was the world’s first virtual human body model software when it launched in 2000.

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APRIL 19, 2012

American Honda Motor Co, Inc. has established a “Green Dealer” program for its independently-owned Honda and Acura automobile dealers in the United States. The top-level Platinum award is reserved for dealers whose facilities earn LEED certification from the US Green Building Council.

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SEPTEMBER 12, 2023

billion) on its Swindon, Hams Hall and Oxford plants since 2000. The new manufacturing plant in Zhangjiagang, Jiangsu Province is based on a joint venture with Great Wall Motor. By 2030 production volume will be exclusively electric and the BMW Group will have spent more than £3 billion (US$3.75 Exports will begin in early 2024.

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DECEMBER 24, 2019

Gemini Motor Transport, the primary fuel carrier for Love’s Travel Stops, will be fueling its growing CNG fleet of tractor trailers, which use the new Cummins Westport Low NO x 12-liter natural gas engine, with RNG from the two new locations, as well as an existing station in Tulare.

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MAY 22, 2012

Toyota Motor Corporation (TMC) announced that global cumulative sales of its hybrid vehicles—passenger car and commercial—topped the 4-million unit mark as of 30 April. Sales of the Prius began in North America, Europe and elsewhere in 2000. Cumulative worldwide sales of TMC hybrids. Click to enlarge.

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AUGUST 12, 2019

The End of Life Vehicles Directive (Directive 2000/53/EC of the European Parliament and of the European Council of September 18, 2000 on end-of-life vehicles) regulates the disposal and recycling of motor vehicles within the European Union.

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JANUARY 7, 2020

—Akio Toyoda, president, Toyota Motor Corporation. Toyota plans to populate Woven City with Toyota Motor Corporation employees and their families, retired couples, retailers, visiting scientists, and industry partners. The plan is for 2000 people to start, adding more as the project evolves.

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JUNE 13, 2019

The study, published in the American Journal of Otolaryngology , analyzed records in the Consumer Product Safety Commission’s National Electronic Injury Surveillance system between 2008 and 2017 to determine the types and frequency of head and facial injuries resulting from motorized scooters. —Amishav Bresler. Carron, Wayne D.

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NOVEMBER 8, 2012

Cumulative sales in Japan of Toyota Motor Corporation (TMC) hybrid vehicles—including plug-in hybrids— reached 2.04 Sales of the Prius began in North America, Europe and other markets in 2000. Global annual sales of TMC hybrids. Click to enlarge. million units as of 31 October. million units, with 1.02

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29) has adopted three new regulations to improve the safety and environmental performance of motor vehicles. The new regulations are: A new global technical regulation (UN GTR – 1998 Agreement) to improve the safety of motor vehicles’ occupants in the event of an impact against pole size objects (i.e. 87 of July 12, 2002).

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AUGUST 27, 2010

Using a pre-production example of the Chevrolet Volt as a teaching tool, General Motors launched a nationwide electric vehicle training tour and outreach project for emergency personnel this week at the 2010 Fire-Rescue International Conference in Chicago. A Chicago Fire Department firefighter using a hydraulic. International in Chicago.

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MAY 27, 2014

For the first time since UCS began the Automaker Rankings report in 2000, all eight major automakers reduced their average greenhouse gas (GHG) and smog-forming emissions compared to their fleet averages from 1998, the model year examined in the first report.

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MAY 16, 2019

—Ryan Harty, manager of Connected and Environmental Business, American Honda Motor Co., Honda has set a voluntary goal to reduce CO 2 emissions from its vehicles and operations by 50% by 2050 compared to the year 2000, and toward this goal has announced plans to electrify two-thirds of its fleet by 2030.

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JUNE 19, 2014

Ford Motor Company is furthering its commitment to aggressively step up water conservation programs at its global facilities and among the company’s suppliers, according to its 15 annual Sustainability Report, released today. Replacing asphalt with ecological concrete, which allows rain to reenter the ground.

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The certification means that the new generation of Series 2000 and 4000 engines, that currently account for 85% of our sales revenues, will be qualified to run on second-generation bio-fuels and on E-fuels. —Dr Otto Preiss, Chief Technology Officer and COO of Rolls-Royce Power Systems. Switch to alternatives for combustion engines.

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