Green Car Reports

OCTOBER 7, 2014

Batteries are the key component in building practical electric cars. And for its first all-electric Leaf in 2011, Nissan developed its own proprietary lithium-ion battery pack--even planning and setting up its own assembly facilities to build them.

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Green Car Reports

JUNE 4, 2018

Last week, we reported that Tesla is close to reaching the end of its allocation of federal tax credits for those who buy its cars. The credits were passed after the 2007 federal Energy Independence and Security Act to promote the sale of electric cars. The credits amount to a $7,500 discount for most buyers.

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Creative Greenius

APRIL 25, 2021

I started learning about, writing about, and promoting electric cars in 2007. The 2007 EV Parade in Santa Monica with State Senator Fran Pavley. Debra and I finally got our first electric car, A 2012 Toyota RAV4 EV, a joint production with Tesla, in January of 2013. Installing the 5.2

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Green Car Reports

OCTOBER 20, 2015

So it was for auto writer John Rettie, who recently uncovered an interesting tidbit in an issue of Driver, the in-house magazine sent out by Volkswagen of America to owners of its cars. Many journalists tend to have pack-rat tendencies, but sorting out old press kits, files, and magazines can have unexpected rewards.

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Green Car Reports

OCTOBER 20, 2015

Today, we drive the 2016 Scion iA subcompact sedan, Honda tests solar-powered electric-car charging in the Marshall Islands, and some digging reveals that Volkswagen thought electric cars were the future, back in 2007. All this and more on Green Car Reports.

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Porsche 914 EV Conversion

OCTOBER 12, 2006

After seeing the movie Who Killed The Electric Car , I got the nutty idea earlier this year to purchase an all-electric vehicle to commute to work. I hope everyone had a great 2006 and I wish you all the best for 2007. The motivation was to see if I could get by with as little oil products as possible.

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Green Car Reports

AUGUST 13, 2014

As problems have gradually emerged with the long-term test car, the magazine has begun to modulate its praise. Consumer Reports previously called the Model S as the best car it''s tested since 2007,and named.'

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Green Car Congress

MARCH 23, 2021

The first attempt to make a structural battery was made as early as 2007, but it has so far proven difficult to manufacture batteries with both good electrical and mechanical properties. In the longer term, it is conceivable that electric cars, electric planes and satellites could be designed with and powered by structural batteries.

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Green Car Reports

APRIL 22, 2011

Who Killed the Electric?" seemingly stung General Motors enough that the company unveiled the Chevrolet Volt concept in 2007 and then, startled by its popularity, decided to put the range-extended electric car into limited.

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Green Car Congress

DECEMBER 15, 2022

AUDI AG has owned the Belgium site since 2007. In 2021, Audi Brussels produced 43,866 all-electric cars. Since May 2022, Audi has been using rail transport on the approximately 1,300-kilometer route, a decision that reduces carbon emissions by around 2,600 tons annually. 2018 saw the birth of the Audi e-tron.

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Green Car Reports

JUNE 27, 2012

Between 2006 and 2007, cleantech and greentech emerged as hot terms in the investor vernacular. The green technology investing boom has slowed. But if you ask investors, greentech isn’t disappearing, it’s just changing.

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Green Car Reports

JANUARY 8, 2019

For a bunch of electric-car owning acolytes, our readers are surprisingly sanguine about the reduction and eventual expiration of plug-in tax credits on electric-car sales. When Congress set up the tax credits in 2007, it scheduled them to.

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Green Car Congress

MAY 18, 2018

Mercedes-Benz Cars is expanding its production capacities for electric cars in Europe. The Hambach plant in France, which currently produces smart brand electric vehicles, will produce a compact electric car of the new product and technology brand EQ. Annette Winkler, Head of smart.

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Electric Cars are for Girls

JULY 4, 2019

I have a 2007 Ford F250 crew cab with a diesel powertrain and four wheel drive. I would like to do either a hybrid CNG or hybrid electric conversion.

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Green Car Reports

OCTOBER 20, 2014

Turn the clock back to 2007--when Congress passed the U.S. A lack of public interest, an inability to develop cellulosic sources, and the rise of viable plug-in electric cars have considerably dampened enthusiasm for.'

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Teslarati

AUGUST 17, 2021

Burry is a longtime investor who previously predicted the 2007 housing crisis collapse. Burry placed bets of over $5 billion on the real estate market in 2007, resulting in billions of dollars of gains after the housing market eventually collapsed.

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Green Car Congress

OCTOBER 14, 2012

In 2008, SEI unveiled an electric vehicle equipped with a prototype superconducting motor cooled by liquid nitrogen and built using SEI’s high-temperature superconducting (HTS) wires. The Sumitomo motor developed around 30kW with 120 N·m torque.

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Green Cars News

OCTOBER 23, 2010

Anyone who thought that electric cars were ready to take over on the UK’s roads needs to think again, with new sales figures revealing that their popularity has slumped. According to The Guardian, sales of new electric cars in the UK dropped by 90 per cent from their peak of 397 units in 2007, to [.].

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Green Car Congress

JUNE 20, 2012

The preliminary figures will now be verified by car manufacturers before they are confirmed by the European Commission later this year. Other findings of the analysis include: Registration of new cars in the EU increased constantly between 2001 and 2007, peaking at 15.5 million cars, but has fallen continuously since.

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Baua Electric

JULY 8, 2023

The ultraluxury logo says somebody stuck reselling its first electrical car, the Spectre, for benefit will probably be prevented for moment. The aerodynamic electrical coupe has accrued such a lot of orders that Müller-Ötvös is already speaking about desiring to extend manufacturing. of patrons are fresh to the logo.

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Plugs and Cars

FEBRUARY 20, 2007

Khalid Abdullah Al Bu Ainnain, Chairman of Baynuna , told Gulf News in an interview that the group has signed a deal with a French company to export 10,000 electric cars. "We We are cooperating with the giant French group Dassault to produce an electric car which can operate on clean power with a speed of 160 km/h," he said.

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Green Car Reports

AUGUST 6, 2015

states, California is by far the most enthusiastic when it comes to electric cars. But Mary Nichols--the chair of this agency since 2007--isn't satisfied with having just a few electric cars on California roads. And that's largely due to regulations overseen by the state's Air Resources Board.

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Green Car Congress

JULY 1, 2010

Of the €10 million, €8 million (US$10 million) will be loaned to support the development of electric vehicles. Heuliez produces a limited run of vehicles for niche markets, including electric cars. Since 2006, the company has been financially struggling, and applied for protection from creditors in October 2007.

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Green Car Congress

DECEMBER 6, 2010

BYD has decided not to put the F3e EV into production due to the lack of an enabling environment for electric cars in China, according to a report in China Business News which cited Wang Jianjun, deputy general manager of BYD Automotive Sales Co Ltd. Gasgoo.com. It therefore created the F3DM, a plug-in hybrid compact sedan, Wan said.

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Green Car Reports

OCTOBER 27, 2011

Tesla’s first electric car, the 2007-2011 Roadster, may have ceased production after its planned 2,500 (ish) car production run, but the Tesla Roadster will live on in an all-new car for 2014, Tesla has confirmed.

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Green Car Congress

OCTOBER 29, 2013

The project is led by Dr. Alireza Khaligh, Assistant Professor Electrical and Computer Engineering, A. James Clark School of Engineering at the University of Maryland, with Steven Rogers, president and CTO of Genovation Cars. Khaligh’s research group has been collaborating with Genovation Cars Inc.

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Green Car Congress

SEPTEMBER 7, 2011

EVO Electric Ltd. has completed the initial tranche of a contract to deliver electric drive systems to e-Wolf , a German manufacturer of electric cars, utility vehicles and vans. tonne capacity electric truck. The EVO powered Alpha 1 SRF accelerates from 0 to 100 km/h in 3.9

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Get Electric Vehicle

OCTOBER 28, 2021

Do we, however, have any knowledge of the history of electric vehicles? When it comes to the conventional innovation of electric cars, many people deserve recognition. Anyos Jedlik built an electric motor in 1828, and he used it to make the first miniature electric car.

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Green Car Congress

DECEMBER 7, 2009

We expect the Detroit-Hamtramck plant will be the first facility in the US owned by a major automaker to produce an electric car. It is the hub for the wheel that we began rolling in 2007 when the Volt debuted at the North American International Auto Show in Detroit. engine-generator from Flint. “We

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Green Car Congress

SEPTEMBER 26, 2010

GS Yuasa Corporation, Mitsubishi Corporation (MC) and Mitsubishi Motors Corporation (MMC) launched a joint venture—Lithium Energy Japan—in 2007 to manufacture large-capacity and high-performance lithium-ion batteries for the i-MiEV. Earlier post.). Earlier post.). Earlier post.).

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Green Car Reports

JANUARY 15, 2015

Eight years ago, at the 2007 Detroit Auto Show, GM unveiled the first concept for what became the Chevrolet Volt range-extended electric car. It was a ‘moonshot’ for GM at the time. Now, it''s time for a second-generation Chevy Volt. Can it rekindle the excitement of GM''s tech icon? First things first.

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Green Car Congress

MARCH 21, 2009

Launched at the British International Motor Show in July 2008 ( earlier post ) and voted Electric Car of the Year at the Green Fleet awards, the MyCar electric vehicle is now on sale at evstores in London. 2 is developed and manufactured by EuAuto Technologies in Hong Kong—Hong Kong’s first car manufacturer.

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Green Car Congress

JULY 15, 2011

The Drive website details a wide range of transportation projects, from producing renewable fuels, to installing new fueling and charging stations for electric cars and other alternative fuel vehicles, to training the workforce that supports the ever-evolving transportation industry. —Energy Commission Vice Chair James Boyd.

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Green Car Reports

NOVEMBER 8, 2011

If you’ve been a fan of electric cars for more than a few years, you’ll probably remember Nissan’s adventurous all-electric concept cars -- the Pivo 1 from 2005 or Pivo 2 from 2007.

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Green Cars News

JUNE 25, 2009

Some of the participants in the UK Government’s electric car trial have expressed their enthusiasm at earning funding to be part of the scheme. “Smart has been conducting real-life trials of 100 electric cars with partner companies across the country since 2007,&# he said.

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Green Car Congress

SEPTEMBER 30, 2010

The diesel engine—optimized to run on renewable synthetic diesel and complying with future exhaust emission requirements—can be run separately or in combination with the electric motor for optimal power and energy utilization. Earlier post.). Earlier post.).

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Green Car Congress

JULY 23, 2012

Continental has years of experience in developing and producing battery electronics and entire battery systems as well as integrating them into the vehicle; Continental supplied the first mass-produced lithium-ion batteries in 2007. —Chey Jae-won, executive vice chairman of SK Group.

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