Green Car Congress

FEBRUARY 11, 2014

California’s vehicle GHG standards—authorized by AB 1493 (Pavley) in 2002, first approved in 2004, and extended in 2012—are delivering fuel consumption and CO 2 reductions. Since its launch in 2011, the regulation has generated a multitude of unique approaches for cleaner fuels. million zero emission vehicles on its roads by 2025.

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Green Car Congress

JUNE 14, 2010

We’re now in the crisis CalCars knew, when we began in 2002, would some day arrive. (We Over time, we can conserve by reducing the miles we drive. That means we’ll be powering some miles with increasingly renewable electricity that isn't made from imported oil. No one can make that promise. We’ll pre-fund your prototypes.

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Green Car Congress

NOVEMBER 21, 2013

While the battery electric vehicle has made progress in recent years, with improved affordability and energy storage capability, for most consumers, range anxiety and lengthy recharging time remain formidable obstacles, Hyundai said. Hyundai is taking the second approach. —John Krafcik. ultra-aerodynamic body.

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Green Car Congress

FEBRUARY 5, 2009

Reducing the projected, high-volume manufacturing cost of automotive fuel cell systems from $275/kW in 2002 to $73/kW in 2008 and improving the projected durability of fuel cell systems in vehicles from 950 hours in 2006 to 1,900 hours in 2008. million hydrogen-fueled vehicles identified in [EPACT} section 811(a).

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Creative Greenius

JANUARY 17, 2009

In 2002 when she was just a freshman California Assemblywoman, this former school teacher worked with Bluewater Network (which later merged with Friends of the Earth ) to author the Assembly Bill that made California the first state to reduce greenhouse gas emissions in automobiles. If you can afford them.

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Green Cars News

SEPTEMBER 8, 2009

As a more long term solution, GM is introducing homogenous charge compression ignition (HCCI) which can offer a 12-15 per cent improvement in fuel economy while remaining more affordable than diesel or hybrid technologies. It is expected that the technology will reach the market within 10 years.

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Green Car Congress

JANUARY 11, 2010

The cost of lithium ion batteries…needs to be reduced significantly…or a more affordable alternative developed. Even at 100 miles, BEVs as a primary mode of transportation do not yet offer what most consumers see as true mobility. In December 2002, Toyota began limited testing of fuel cell vehicles in the US and Japan.

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Green Car Congress

SEPTEMBER 23, 2009

As Toyota learned with the introduction of the Prius and its efforts on the 2002 RAV4 EV, O’Brien said, it is difficult to force technology adoption by consumers. It is not enough to build niche vehicles that only a few can afford to buy or fulfill only a small subset of customer needs. Michael O’Brien.

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Plugs and Cars

NOVEMBER 1, 2013

For the past decade I''ve been driving the 91 miles to Sacramento without stopping to charge in a 2002 RAV4 EV. It''s simple and affordable by America''s small and medium sized employers. The biggest impression of the day regarding EVs was made upon me before I even made it to the hotel. So that day I was driving my LEAF.

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Green Car Congress

JUNE 16, 2011

Given that the ultimate energy savings are directly related to the amount of fuel consumed, as opposed to the distance that a vehicle travels on a gallon of fuel, consumers also will be helped by addition to the label of explicit information that specifies the number of gallons typically used by the vehicle to travel 100 miles.

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Revenge of the Electric Car

OCTOBER 25, 2008

Per BMW’s press release the MINI E will be motivated by a 150kW electric drive system with a range of 150 miles per charge and a top speed of 95 mph. Specially engineered for automobile use, the battery technology will have a range of more than 240 kilometers, or 150 miles. second range. Production in Oxford and Munich.

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Tony Karrer Delicious EVdriven

APRIL 16, 2009

BYDs plug-in, called the F3DM (for "dual mode"), goes farther on a single charge - 62 miles - than other electric vehicles and sells for about $22,000, less than the plug-in Prius and much-hyped Chevy Volt are expected to cost when they hit the market in late 2010. we could not afford to do anything like this."

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Tony Karrer Delicious EVdriven

APRIL 16, 2009

The four-door sedan will deliver 40 miles on a charge; a small gasoline engine will recharge the battery as it approaches depletion, extending its range by as much as 200 miles. Ive found it facinating how car commercials changed the main MPG number they promoted before gas went over $4 a gallon as city miles. Thats right.

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