Green Car Congress

SEPTEMBER 13, 2019

Lightning’s first Transit Bus Repower powertrain was deployed in a 2004 30-foot GILLIG bus and has been on the road with a transit operator in Colorado for the past 9 months. The powertrain features an active thermally-managed battery system, sourced from a Tier 1 battery cell manufacturer. Lightning Electric Repowered Gillig bus.

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The Truth About Cars

APRIL 17, 2023

North Americans had been buying Daewoos for quite some time by the 2000s, with the 1988-1993 Pontiac LeMans (United States) and the Asüna GT / Passport Optima (Canada) paving the way for Daewoo-badged machinery. We continued to buy new Daewoos after 2002, but they bore the badges of other brands.

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Green Car Reports

APRIL 17, 2016

Best Buy's Geek Squad tech-support unit is getting a makeover. Since the service launched nationwide in 2004, it has primarily used a fleet of black-and-white Volkswagen Beetles, known as "Geekmobiles." Those vehicles are about to be replaced with 1,000 2016 Toyota Prius C hybrids.

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Green Car Reports

OCTOBER 5, 2011

It's had a good run, starting in the fall of 2004 and continuing through the 2012 model year. The Ford Escape Hybrid was not only the first U.S.-built built hybrid electric vehicle, it was also the first hybrid sport-utility vehicle--or crossover, if you prefer.

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Baua Electric

JANUARY 18, 2024

For example, in 2004 they posed as representatives of Dow Chemical and promised that the company would clean up after the Bhopal Disaster, leading to a temporary $2 billion drop in the company’s market cap. Instead of spending so much effort trying to convince everyone to buy worse vehicles, Toyota should focus its efforts on making good EVs.

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The Truth About Cars

MARCH 11, 2024

However, saying that this is the vehicle women most desire — let alone are willing to spend money buying — is probably a stretch. Women tend to buy smaller vehicles boasting lower MSRPs than their male counterparts. As of 2021, they were also more prone to head to the used market and decidedly less inclined to buy something brand new.

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The Truth About Cars

MARCH 14, 2024

However, saying that this is the vehicle women most desire — let alone are willing to spend money buying — is probably a stretch. Women tend to buy smaller vehicles boasting lower MSRPs than their male counterparts. As of 2021, they were also more prone to head to the used market and decidedly less inclined to buy something brand new.

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Green Car Reports

DECEMBER 14, 2011

Look back a few years, and you’d be forgiven for thinking the only people who wanted to drive a hybrid car were celebrities, leaf-leaning liberals and electric car advocates who couldn’t buy a production electric car.

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Green Car Congress

MAY 9, 2010

Similarly, the Ford Escape Hybrid introduced in 2004, had a consumer take rate of 10% in 2009. As we examine this data, we are excited to see that even though clean diesels have been on the market for a shorter timeframe than hybrids, their acceptance by the buying public has accelerated more rapidly than similar hybrid models.

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Green Car Congress

DECEMBER 7, 2009

The multi-billion-dollar deal is the largest approved for a Chinese firm to buy an Australia raw material provider, according to the Shanghai Daily News. In 2004, Yanzhou acquired Southland coal mine in Australia (renamed as “Austar Coal Mine”), marking the first successful acquisition of an overseas coal mine by a Chinese coal enterprise.

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Green Car Congress

MARCH 23, 2014

An uptick in small utility vehicle sales started in 2004 and has continued a steady climb, according to retail sales data from Polk, which was recently acquired by IHS. The largest demographic buying small utility vehicles such as the Ford Escape are people between the ages of 55 and 64, according to Polk.

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Green Car Congress

JANUARY 19, 2011

In 2004, EPA had combined a full series hydraulic hybrid system with a diesel engine in a 2003 Ford Expedition SUV. This vehicle was announced and displayed to the public in 2004 SAE World Congress. EPA and its partners announced the world’s first series hydraulic hybrid urban delivery vehicle in 2006. Earlier post.)

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The Truth About Cars

NOVEMBER 15, 2023

I started bringing up the matter in 2018, citing relevant studies dating back to 2004 , to hypothesize that increased roadway fatalities might have something to do with modern vehicle designs. Think about the best-looking SUVs or trucks (new or used) you’ve considered buying. Probably not.

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Green Cars News

MAY 20, 2009

In 2004, Tesla began development of its first electric vehicle, the Roadster, which remains the only highway capable EV for sale in North America or Europe. In 2010 the company will introduce its first battery-powered Mercedes-Benz.

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Cars That Think

DECEMBER 24, 2021

Back in the 1970s, when antilock braking systems—the original active safety feature—started to become common, customers rushed to buy it as an option because they loved the way it stopped the car on slick pavement. Formal requirements came long afterwards—in Europe in 2004 and in the United States in 2012.

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Green Car Congress

APRIL 17, 2010

XPF’s goal is to inspire a new generation of viable, safe, affordable and super fuel-efficient vehicles that people want to buy. Since 2004, public and private entities have invested more than $1.5 The current prize in this area is the Progressive Automotive X PRIZE (PIAXP). GLXP is the largest international prize ever offered.

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My Energi

NOVEMBER 17, 2020

We can’t buy these moments online or staring down aisles awash with cardboard and plastic. Established 2004 in sunny Cleethorpes England. There are many great reasons to buy and support local business. Every time you support small or buy locally, the person who receives your custom is guaranteed to smile. Extreme Sports.

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Plugs and Cars

FEBRUARY 5, 2007

And use the $15 million left over to educate Americans on why it is in their personal and the national security interest to buy a plug-in car. nk City confiscated in 2004! I say take the proposed $390 million in Bush's budget, and give 75,000 people a $5000 grant for the purchase of a plug-in hybrid or electric car.

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Green Car Congress

MARCH 2, 2009

The all-new hybrid transaxle adopts improvements first used in previous post-2004 Toyota/Lexus hybrids such as the Camry hybrid, Highlander hybrid, and Lexus RX 400h, as well as refinements not previously employed. More than 90% of Prius owners tell us they intend to buy another Prius. Click to enlarge.

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Cars That Think

JULY 21, 2021

Lowe's plan for the PC called for buying existing components and software and bolting them together into a package aimed at the consumer market. In reality, customers were buying 200,000 PCs per month by the second year. People could buy the machines at ComputerLand , a popular retail chain in the United States.

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The Truth About Cars

MARCH 4, 2024

That year, American car shoppers could buy a new 1996 Honda Civic DX coupe with five-speed manual for just $11,720 ($23,411 now), but that car had a mere 98 horsepower. Oldsmobile was gone after 2004 , not long after Geo had to endure having its final two models torn away and handed to Chevrolet in 1997 and 1998.

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The Truth About Cars

DECEMBER 11, 2023

It had dwindled to just the Axiom and Rodeo by 2004, then staggered on for a few more years selling hastily rebadged Chevy Trailblazers and Colorados. By the time the Equator hit showrooms, Isuzu's once-mighty presence in the American-market truck business was no more.

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Tony Karrer Delicious EVdriven

JANUARY 28, 2009

Where Can I Buy One? Romm, 2004 "Out of Gas, The End of the Age of Oil", by David Goodstein, 2004 "Hubbert's Peak: The Impending World Oil Shortage", by Kenneth S. Learn About Plug-ins What Are Plug-ins? 1 Point Reyes EVs Did You Know? Who Killed the Electric Car?"

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Green Car Congress

APRIL 29, 2009

Winner of the 2004 Dale Prize for Excellence in Urban Planning. He believes “ monolithic vehicle design ”—where people buy one car to fit all of their needs—is outdated. Cervero, The Scandinavian Model: Strings of TODs, Urban Land, May, 2004, p. Dr. Luca Guala, Systemica. Professor Sebastian Thrun, Stanford University.

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Cars That Think

APRIL 17, 2022

National Academy of Engineering ; United Kingdom Royal Academy of Engineering ; Canadian Academy of Engineering Most meaningful awards: IEEE Medal of Honor : “For pioneering contributions to the development and commercialization of innovative sensing and systems technologies, and for distinguished research leadership”; UCLA Alumnus of the Year 2004.

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Cars That Think

FEBRUARY 28, 2024

My wife grew up listening to records on this stereo, but now it was 2004, and vinyl was clearly dead and never coming back. So when my wife and I were newlyweds two decades ago, and my wife’s parents gifted us with an early 1960s General Electric wood-cabinet stereo hi-fi, the wheels started turning in my head.

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Green Car Reports

NOVEMBER 26, 2011

Until this year, though, the Prius has been a single model: a subcompact four-door sedan from 2000 through 2003, and then two generations of mid-size five-door hatchback after that, one from 2004 through.

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Spirit of DC - PHEV3A

NOVEMBER 27, 2009

He encouraged the county to buy the car in 2004, when a state energy conservation grant paid half the $22,000 cost, he said.The Honda gets 45 to 50 miles per gallon, Maynard said.

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Tony Karrer Delicious EVdriven

APRIL 21, 2009

At these prices, people are buying the "environmental feature" -- they want to be among the first owners of the worlds cleanest extended-range vehicles. They are early adopters, buying "Version 1.0" The easiest conversions are for 2004-2008 Prius (not 2001-2003 Prius) and the Ford Escape/Mercury Mariner Hybrid.

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Plugs and Cars

OCTOBER 27, 2007

UPDATE: Felix Kramer of Calcars informs me that the vacuum bottle is standard on 2004-2008 Prius.) Zimmerman writes: Too bad that there are only a few dozen in existence and that if you could actually buy one -- which you can't -- it would have a sticker price of about $1 million.

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Charged EVs

NOVEMBER 9, 2020

Since its founding in 2004, Proterra has grown to become North America’s largest supplier of electric buses. You’re buying components from other suppliers, but you’re working closely with them to customize the stuff to your specifications. To buy a battery pack in that mid-decade era was extremely expensive. Dustin: Yeah.

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Tony Karrer Delicious EVdriven

APRIL 28, 2009

The British government, for example, announced recently that, in a few years, motorists will be able to get up to £5,000 in incentives to buy an electric car. All these measures would be far less costly than subsidies proposed for electric cars. Such bribes would not be necessary to encourage people to switch to electric bicycles.

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Green Car Congress

JUNE 28, 2009

The order from Busslink is Scania Sverige’s largest single bus transaction in the Swedish market since 2004. A continued commitment to ethanol power is consistent with SL’s decision to buy only buses that operate on renewable fuels starting in 2010.

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Cars That Think

FEBRUARY 24, 2022

In 2021, the IMU units you could buy off the shelf were pretty inexpensive and reliable. We bought a booth at the first RoboNexus trade show held in San Jose in 2004. On all my early attempts, about 30 Hz was enough to keep the robot stable. He rode up, and stopped for a moment, and said jokingly, “Wow!

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Tony Karrer Delicious EVdriven

APRIL 21, 2009

Power and Associates 2004 report ]. Despite this, a 2003 EPRI study , assuming only $2/gallon gas , zero buying incentives, and a PHEV premium of $3-$5,000 more than standard hybrids, shows that the total lifetime cost of ownership for a PHEV will be lower than that of any other vehicle type -- so the payback will be there.

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Revenge of the Electric Car

JANUARY 22, 2009

3Prong Power only works on Prius model years 2004 to 2009. If one company offers a two-year warranty on its battery, and another offers three years, then consumers should decide which company to buy from. The length of the warranty depends on how old the car is.

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Tony Karrer Delicious EVdriven

APRIL 21, 2009

Several dozen prototypes on 15-passenger van since 2004; now in second generation development; no production plans. People wont buy a full car. They will buy a car and rent or lease the battery and the cost of leasing the battery will be the same as, or less than, the cost theyre paying today for petrol.

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