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JANUARY 6, 2011

General Motors and Powermat, a provider of wireless charging technology for mobile personal devices, announced a commercial agreement that will eliminate the need for charging cords for personal electronic devices in many future Chevrolet, Buick, GMC and Cadillac products beginning mid-2012. Chevy Volt Powermat. Click to enlarge.

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SEPTEMBER 4, 2009

Annual global sales of TMC hybrids. Toyota Motor Corporation (TMC) has cumulatively sold more than 2 million hybrid vehicles since the launch in 1997 in Japan of the Coaster Hybrid EV in August and the Prius in December. On May 31, 2007, the global cumulative sales of TMC’s hybrid vehicles had topped 1 million.

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OCTOBER 17, 2011

Scientists at the University of California, Riverside’s Center for Environmental Research and Technology have received a $2-million contract for a first-of-its-kind study of hybrid construction vehicles. Half of the funding will be used as an incentive voucher to get 20 to 30 hybrid construction vehicles in use.

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JULY 2, 2013

GM’s Project Driveway program, launched in 2007, has accumulated nearly 3 million miles of real-world driving in a fleet of 119 hydrogen-powered vehicles, more than any other automaker. —Takanobu Ito, president & CEO of Honda Motor Co. Earlier post.). Earlier post.)

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APRIL 20, 2010

The California Air Resources Board (ARB) is soliciting a project for the hybridization of an existing marine vessel for an award of up to $1,000,000. In November 2007, the Board approved a regulation to significantly reduce diesel PM and NO x from diesel-fueled engines on commercial harbor craft (CHC) vessels.

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MAY 3, 2016

UPS announced an update to 125 Workhorse E-GEN series hybrid electric delivery trucks that improve fuel economy as part of the company’s broader Rolling Laboratory approach. AMP Electric Vehicles was established in 2007 as a developmental-stage vehicle electrification company. The smaller engine will improve fuel economy, however.

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MAY 7, 2013

Wrightbus, which has had a relationship with Valence since 2007, selected Valence as the battery supplier of choice for Wrightbus’ range of hybrid vehicles. This order once again demonstrates that we have the technology of choice for leading edge hybrid and electric commercial fleets.

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JUNE 30, 2010

SSSKK) plan to begin trials on 1 July of a diesel-electric hybrid transit bus fueled by a mixture of Fischer-Tropsch diesel (FTD)—specifically, Shell’s gas-to-liquids (GTL) fuel—and hydrogenated vegetable oil (HVO), a type of renewable diesel offering similar characteristics to FTD. Toyota Motor Corporation (TMC), Hino Motors Ltd.

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APRIL 28, 2009

Navistar became the first truck and bus manufacturer to receive total hybrid vehicle certification from the California Air Resources Board (CARB) for improving fuel economy and overall emissions. In addition to commercial hybrid trucks, Navistar manufactures hybrid school buses ( earlier post ).

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SEPTEMBER 30, 2010

a wireless energy transfer technology provider, to develop automatic wireless charging products for hybrid and electric vehicles. The collaboration between the two companies is intended to help establish a global infrastructure of safe and convenient charging options for consumer and commercial electric vehicles. Earlier post.)

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SEPTEMBER 25, 2009

Volvo Car Corporation is postponing its plans to produce a full hybrid based on a diesel engine and instead will introduce a series-produced plug-in diesel hybrid (PHEV) in Europe as early as 2012. A V70 plug-in hybrid demonstrator. A new company was founded, V2 Plug-in-Hybrid Vehicle Partnership, as a result of this initiative.

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APRIL 28, 2010

Toyota, French energy provider EDF, and the City and the Urban Community of Strasbourg launched a large-scale, 3-year Plug-in Hybrid Electric Vehicle demonstration in Strasbourg. Based on the third-generation Prius ( earlier post ), the new Prius Plug-in Hybrid ( earlier post ) is equipped with a lithium-ion battery pack.

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MARCH 2, 2010

In a paper published in the journal Transport Policy , Jonn Axsen, Ken Kurani and Andrew Burke explore two aspects of the “ purported problem ” in the context of starting a market for plug-in hybrid vehicles (PHEVs): performance goals, and the abilities of present and near-term battery chemistries to meet those goals. Source: Axsen et al.

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SEPTEMBER 26, 2012

launched the next generation of its SuperPolymer lithiated manganese oxide-based MN series of cells, first introduced in 2007 ( earlier post ), the “MN-HP Series”. Electrovaya’s MN-HP series cells use commercially proven electrode materials such as graphite anodes and lithium metal mixed oxide cathodes. Electrovaya Inc.

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JUNE 1, 2010

a 2007 spin out from Imperial College London, has launched its new generation of Axial Flux motor and generator technology. For example, EVO says it has supplied high-torque machines with peak outputs of 200 kW/660 N·m (100 kW/240 N·m nominal) and weighing only 40kg to a number of hybrid and electric vehicle developers. Earlier post.).

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JUNE 30, 2010

SSSKK) plan to begin trials on 1 July of a diesel-electric hybrid transit bus fueled by a mixture of Fischer-Tropsch diesel (FTD)—specifically, Shell’s gas-to-liquids (GTL) fuel—and hydrogenated vegetable oil (HVO), a type of renewable diesel offering similar characteristics to FTD. Toyota Motor Corporation (TMC), Hino Motors Ltd.

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AUGUST 10, 2012

By the end of this year, Frito-Lay will have more than 275 electric trucks deployed in the US, making Frito-Lay the largest commercial fleet of all-electric trucks in the country. In the US, Frito-Lay hopes to reduce its total fuel consumption and greenhouse gas emissions by 50 pe%ent by 2020, compared to a 2007 baseline.

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MAY 22, 2016

The plug-in hybrid TX5 London Cab will be launched in the UK at the end of 2017 and in international markets in 2018. The global green bonds market amounted to more than US$40 billion in 2015, with issuers including the World Bank, commercial banks, corporations and municipalities. million (US$25.4 million (US$67.5-million)

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MAY 25, 2024

With an average annual sales volume of around 1 million commercial vehicles, 5 million cars, 17 million two-wheelers, 1 million tractors, and 1.1 However, to avoid overexpansion, Lumax Cornaglia initially intends to focus primarily on commercial vehicles for the next 5–6 years before venturing into other segments. crore in FY23.

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MARCH 18, 2009

EDF and Toyota are expanding their joint plug-in hybrid electric vehicle (PHEV) road-trials in France, with about 100 units of a next-generation PHEV equipped with lithium-ion batteries to be leased to selected companies and partners in the Strasbourg area starting from the end of 2009, for a duration of three years. Earlier post.).

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MAY 23, 2016

ULEMCo, the developer of a hydrogen-diesel dual fuel conversion system for commercial vehicles, has delivered its first hydrogen dual-fuel refuse vehicles to Fife Council in Scotland. Liverpool-based ULEMCo, owner of the dual fuel technology, carried out the conversion: two Heil Farid vehicles adapted to run on both hydrogen and diesel.

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SEPTEMBER 28, 2010

Source: Woolmer and McCulloch 2007. The company is continuing to develop new markets for hybrid and electric vehicles, through ongoing collaborations with Delta Motorsport and Morgan Motor Cars in the UK, plus Electroengine in Sweden. 2007) Analysis of the Yokeless And Segmented Armature Machine. IEMDC 2007) doi: 10.1109/IEMDC.2007.382753.

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JULY 29, 2009

SymPowerco Corporation, holder of a direct methanol fuel cell technology, has acquired 70% ownership in both Highline Hydrogen Hybrids, Inc. Earlier in July (subsequent to the Letter of Intent), Sympowerco and HMSI began discussions for the development of design criteria and specifications for Prototype Hybrid-Electric Powered Test Vehicles.

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DECEMBER 6, 2010

It therefore created the F3DM, a plug-in hybrid compact sedan, Wan said. BYD Co, backed by US billionaire Warren Buffet, also established three charging stations as part of a pilot program in Shenzhen in 2007. Ia Hipping, general manager of BYD Automotive Sales Co Ltd.

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MARCH 14, 2014

Deutsche Post DHL has set itself a CO 2 -efficiency target that aims to improve its companywide CO 2 -efficiency by 30% by 2020 on the basis of 2007. Vehicles cover all kinds of technologies, starting from bio gas to electrification, and cover the full range of commercial transport vehicle levels.

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SEPTEMBER 2, 2014

WiTricity, the MIT spin-off commercializing strongly coupled magnetic resonance wireless charging technology for EVs as well as consumer devices, industrial, medical and military applications ( earlier post ), has work underway to deliver wireless charging systems capable of delivering 10s of kilowatts for plug-ins, compared to the current 3.3

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JULY 16, 2009

The third phase of a SDG&E multi-year in-use study on plug-in hybrid electric vehicles showed that plug-in hybrids offer significant improvements in gas mileage and reductions in emissions when compared with standard hybrid-electric and gasoline internal combustion engine (ICE) vehicles. One of SDG&E’s converted PHEVs.

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JANUARY 28, 2024

A compact boxy structure focused on space efficiency, the Omni – as it later came to be known as – appealed to family buyers as well as commercial operators. THE MISSES Maruti Baleno/Altura | 1999-2007 Maruti’s bold step into the premium sedan space back in 1999 was with the Baleno sedan.

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JULY 5, 2011

The new partners—Coca-Cola, Enterprise Holdings, General Electric, OSRAM SYLVANIA, Ryder, and Staples—operate a total of nearly a million commercial vehicles nationwide. The company also expects to deploy additional hydraulic hybrid vehicles this year. Earlier post.) This project is expected to save 1.5

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MARCH 5, 2019

The total value of CO2 emissions was on a steady decline from 2007, but started to slowdown in 2016 as the fall reduced from -4.1 In Norway, the growing popularity of electric and hybrid cars (57% market share) was large enough to absorb the drop posted by diesel cars (-28%). —Felipe Munoz, JATO’s global analyst.

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AUGUST 5, 2011

ALTe, the developer of a range-extended electric powertrain used to repower light commercial vehicles, is collaborating with Pacific Gas & Electric Company (PG&E) to help validate the ALTe powertrain for the fleet industry. Earlier post.)

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FEBRUARY 22, 2010

The new F800 Style is a five-seat upper-range sedan featuring an all-new multi drive platform suited for a hydrogen fuel cell electric drive with a range of almost 600 kilometers (373 miles) as well as the a plug-in hybrid drive with a 30 km (19 mile) all-electric range. F 800 Style Plug-in Hybrid. F800 Plug-in Hybrid, Gasoline.

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AUGUST 18, 2009

Ford Motor Company has developed an intelligent vehicle-to-grid communications and control system for its plug-in hybrid electric vehicles that communicates directly with the electric grid. All 21 of Ford’s fleet of plug-in hybrid Escapes eventually will be equipped with the vehicle-to-grid communications technology. Click to enlarge.

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DECEMBER 5, 2012

Increased sales for hybrids and PHEVs. Energy consumption by LDVs (including commercial light trucks) declines in the Reference case, from 16.1 Reductions in battery electric vehicles are offset by increased sales of hybrid and plug-in hybrid vehicles, which grow to about 1.3 The share was 29% in 2007.).

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MARCH 11, 2014

Toyota Motor continues to lay the foundation for the introduction of its production fuel cell hybrid vehicle in 2015; the company began work on fuel cell technology in 1992. From March 2006 he was engaged in Plug-in Hybrid vehicle planning and development, and, in 2007, became planning and development leader for the Prius Plug-in project.

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DECEMBER 15, 2009

Costs of light-duty plug-in hybrid electric vehicles (PHEVs) are high—largely due to their lithium-ion batteries—and unlikely to drastically decrease in the near future, according to a new report from the National Research Council (NRC). At this point, however, it is not clear what sorts of breakthroughs might become commercially viable.

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APRIL 21, 2011

The state of Oregon conducted a similar study completed in November 2007 and Iowa, Nevada and Texas are among several states currently researching mileage-based user fees. In 2007 the Minnesota Legislature appropriated $5 million from the trunk highway fund for the demonstration. —Cory Johnson, project manager.

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