Green Car Congress

NOVEMBER 20, 2009

For the fifth consecutive year, the US Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) is reporting an increase in new vehicle fuel efficiency with a corresponding decrease in average carbon dioxide emissions for new US cars and light duty trucks. mpg, or 9%, since 2004. share of MY2009 sales, diesels 0.5%. mpg US (11.2

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The Truth About Cars

MAY 20, 2024

GM began producing cars on its J Platform beginning in 1981 , and the J-Body proved to be a tremendous global sales success for The General. Nearly a quarter-century later, the final new J-based cars were sold in the United States. Here's one of those last-year cars , found in a car graveyard in Charlotte, South Carolina.

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The Truth About Cars

MARCH 11, 2024

On International Women’s Day, the Kia EV9 was announced as the “Supreme Winner” of the Women's Worldwide Car of the Year (WWCOTY) 2024. These women also decided that the Volvo EX30 was the “Best Family Car,” the BMW 5 Series served as the “Best Large Car”, and that the Volkswagen Amarok ended up being the “Best 4x4 or Pick-up.”

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The Truth About Cars

MARCH 14, 2024

On International Women’s Day, the Kia EV9 was announced as the “Supreme Winner” of the Women's Worldwide Car of the Year (WWCOTY) 2024. These women also decided that the Volvo EX30 was the “Best Family Car,” the BMW 5 Series served as the “Best Large Car”, and that the Volkswagen Amarok ended up being the “Best 4x4 or Pick-up.”

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Baua Electric

APRIL 8, 2024

2024 Volvo C40 The governor has also proposed eliminating a sales tax exemption for EVs that’s been in place since 2004—potentially adding more revenue for infrastructure maintenance to the state’s coffers, but making EVs more expensive to own than gasoline cars.

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Green Car Reports

MAY 20, 2013

Starting with the 2004 model, it really came to define the public image of a hybrid car. Now, though, as hybrids and plug-in cars are slowly growing their share of the market, Prius sales have fallen--not just as a share of the "alternative powertrain".'

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The Truth About Cars

JULY 6, 2023

President and CEO of Porsche Cars North America, Kjell Gruner, has left the company. Porsche Cars North America COO Joe Lawrence and CFO Thierry Kartochian will assume the relevant business duties until a suitable replacement is found.& The news came out of left field," said an insider who requested to remain anonymous. "The

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The Truth About Cars

JUNE 8, 2023

British maker MG used the engine for three years on the crazy X-Power SV , on sale from 2003 to 2005. Further British usage included the Invicta S1 , a badly made sports luxury coupe offered between 2004 and 2012. The S1 was the last vehicle in production anywhere to use an InTech engine. Exterior appearances are up next time.&

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The Truth About Cars

DECEMBER 4, 2023

Here's a car trivia question for you: what engine name went on to become the designation for a body style and then a car model name in its own right? The door tag tells us that this car was assembled in St. The DSO code of 51 shows that it was sold out of the Denver sales office. Why did this car meet such a fate?

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Green Car Congress

NOVEMBER 24, 2015

Toyota Transport, the automaker’s in-house vehicle transportation trucking company, is using its first car hauler that runs on Compressed Natural Gas (CNG). Initially, the placement of alternate fuel tanks presented a challenge for car haulers utilizing a 9-car trailer with an over-the-cab head rack. Cottrell, Inc.

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Baua Electric

JANUARY 31, 2024

Analysts say the group companies’ problems are likely to have a limited impact on Toyota’s earnings because their sales and profits are a small fraction of Toyota’s overall global earnings. reported it sold over 11 million vehicles in 2023 to retain its status as the world’s top car manufacturer. .’s

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Green Car Reports

NOVEMBER 6, 2015

When the first Honda Insight and Toyota Prius hybrids launched in 1999 and 2000, expectations for their sales were low. And hybrids indeed logged annual sales in the low thousands until the second-generation Prius came along for 2004.

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Green Car Reports

APRIL 19, 2017

It's one of the more frequent questions on consumer car sites: why aren't there any hybrid crossover utility vehicles? The Ford Escape Hybrid reigned alone in the first segment from 2004 through 2012, and then Ford simply walked away from the segment.

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Green Car Congress

NOVEMBER 7, 2017

The plan is available to owners of certain units of Toyota connected cars, and uses driving data gathered via telematics technologies to adjust insurance premiums based on the level of safe driving every month. The service is scheduled to go on sale on 15 January 2018, while insurance liability is scheduled to commence in April 2018.

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Baua Electric

JULY 6, 2023

In 2004, he left Porsche for Daimler, the place he rose to director of technique for Mercedes-Benz Vehicles sooner than going back on Porsche in 2010. gross sales are not off course to strike a three-year prime this 12 months. gross sales are not off course to strike a three-year prime this 12 months. Gruner led a U.S.

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Green Car Congress

MARCH 23, 2013

Ford’s plan for growth in North America is focused on four key vehicle segments (subcompact, compact cars, small utility vehicles and midsize); what Ford is now calling the super segment. This super segment represents just more than 50% of total new vehicle sales in the US. Ford’s brand share of the super segment is running at 12.7%

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Green Car Congress

DECEMBER 17, 2015

He has been Head of the Design Department at Porsche AG since 2004 and was also given responsibility for styling the 2007 Porsche Cayenne, the Panamera and the 918 Spyder. Fred Kappler will assume responsibility for Group Sales. He held various responsibilities in the export section of Sales at Volkswagen AG from 1983.

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Green Car Congress

APRIL 15, 2019

The number of vehicle miles traveled (VMT) by light-duty motor vehicles (passenger cars and light-duty trucks) increased by 45.9% Between 1990 and 2004, average fuel economy among new vehicles sold annually declined, as sales of light-duty trucks increased.

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The Truth About Cars

APRIL 17, 2023

Daihatsu, however, sold three car models during its three years in the United States. So the point of the Nubira was that you could get a Corolla-sized car for a price closer to that of the wretched Hyundai Accent. This car just squeezed past the 100,000-mile mark during its 21 years on the road. Sterling had two.

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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. Correlating with the number of adults considered to be baby boomers is the number of smaller, car-based utility vehicles being sold to that demographic.

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Green Car Congress

APRIL 16, 2015

MMT CO 2 ) from 1990 due, in large part, to increased demand for travel as fleet-wide light-duty vehicle fuel economy was relatively stable (average new vehicle fuel economy declined slowly from 1990 through 2004 and then increased more rapidly from 2005 through 2013). CO 2 emissions from passenger cars and light-duty trucks peaked at 1,181.2

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Green Car Congress

OCTOBER 17, 2012

Europe is the world’s biggest market for clean diesel cars, with around 7.3 million diesel passenger cars sold in 2011, according to the European Automobile Manufacturers Association. Diesel’s share in new passenger car sales in Western Europe has been increasing since 1997, Pike notes, surpassing 50% of sales in 2004.

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Green Car Congress

MARCH 11, 2009

Total combined Toyota and Lexus hybrid vehicle sales in the US have topped the one million mark, according to Toyota Motor Sales (TMS), USA. Overall, cumulative worldwide sales of Toyota and Lexus hybrids have exceeded 1.7 The second-generation Prius launched in the fall of 2003 as a 2004 model year.

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Green Car Congress

JUNE 22, 2017

On the demand side, the premium gasoline share of total motor gasoline sales has steadily increased in recent years, reaching a high of nearly 12% in August 2016—the highest share since 2004. Source: US EIA. Click to enlarge.

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Drive Electric

OCTOBER 29, 2023

.” Drive Electric will soon be recruiting some new directors from the membership and will make a new Chair appointment before the end of the year.

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Baua Electric

JUNE 20, 2023

Trade Construction Supervisor Michael Barrett works with Genesis car vendors on “anything that drives profit outside of the new-car realm,” he stated. He additionally is helping assemble web pages for old automobiles and builds gross sales techniques for demonstrator automobiles. From the top employment in Markham, Ont.,

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Green Car Congress

NOVEMBER 18, 2010

EPA projects that the hybrid share of new vehicle sales will increase to 4.3% EPA projects a small improvement in 2010, based on pre-model year sales estimates provided by automakers, to 395 grams of CO 2 per mile and 22.5 mpg, or 16%, since 2004. in 2010, up from 2.3% Click to enlarge. mpg (10.45

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Green Car Congress

APRIL 11, 2010

million) charging station in Linyi City that is capable of charging 45 cars at a time. Shandong is one of China’s biggest auto producing provinces and has been developing electric cars since 2004. The province has more than 30 electric car producers, and is aiming at an annual production capacity of 300,000 vehicles by 2015. “How

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Green Car Congress

JUNE 9, 2014

The average age is in line with the trend shift first seen in 2013, in which the combined fleet of cars and light trucks on the road is older than ever. New analysis, however, indicates the average age of light trucks has increased in the past year to the same age as passenger cars, both at 11.4 years through 2015, then rise to 11.5

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Green Car Congress

DECEMBER 6, 2011

In 2004, Exide Technologies was the first in the market supplying an Absorbent Glass Mat (AGM) technology-based micro-hybrid battery for the Citroën C3. Exide was also first in the market, in 2009, with the Enhanced Cycling Mat (ECM) technology, used by European car manufacturers to power their Start-Stop systems.

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Green Car Congress

MARCH 11, 2012

Since 1975, overall new light-duty vehicle CO 2 emissions have moved through four phases: 1) a rapid decrease from MY 1975 through MY 1981; 2) a slower decrease until reaching a valley in MY 1987; 3) a gradual increase until MY 2004; and 4) a decrease for the seven years beginning in MY 2005, with the largest decrease in MY 2009.

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Baua Electric

FEBRUARY 6, 2024

The design sketches show that the new car will feature modified daytime running lights that extend downward on the bumper. In India, the nameplate crossed one lakh sales last year since its debut in 1998. The 2024 Skoda Octavia will make its global debut on February 14.

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Green Car Congress

SEPTEMBER 21, 2009

C-MAX is the first of a new generation of Ford global C-cars scheduled for introduction during the next several years, including the next-generation Ford Focus. The new C-car architecture will underpin more than 2 million vehicles per year worldwide.

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Green Car Congress

JANUARY 14, 2020

The New Jersey Legislature just passed the most significant legislation in more than 15 years to reduce air pollutants and global warming pollution from our cars and trucks since the passage of the Clean Cars bill in 2004.

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Green Car Congress

APRIL 21, 2013

With more new models, the expansion of its local manufacturing capability and a growing dealer network, GM expects to increase Cadillac sales from 30,000 units last year to 100,000 units in 2015. Its longer-term goal is to take Cadillac’s share of China’s luxury car market to 10% by 2020. —Gary Smyth. million units.

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Baua Electric

JANUARY 28, 2024

Affordable and fuel-efficient, the 800 democratised the passenger car and did so reliably, something new to the Indian landscape back then. Before its arrival in 2005, Maruti was associated with practicality and fuel efficiency, and generally perceived as a car for conservative buyers. million households.

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Cars That Think

NOVEMBER 12, 2023

Hari Balakrishnan Employer MIT Title Professor Member grade Fellow Alma maters Indian Institute of Technology, Madras, and the University of California, Berkeley He and his research team at MIT’s Computer Science and Artificial Intelligence Laboratory developed CarTel, short for car telematics. We showed that it could work at scale. “I

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