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June 2023 – Tesla Model Y was the best selling BEV in Germany

Push EVs

The new Honda “e:Ny1” (let us know what you think of this name in the comments) also made its debut, with just 5 units. This is Honda’s first all-round competent BEV (412 km WLTP rating), though with fairly weak charging speed (46 minutes 10% to 80%), with low peak. Its starting price is around €48,000.

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Heard At The Show: Snippets from SAE 2009 World Congress

Green Car Congress

How did the high fuel prices impact customer behavior in 2008? Honda demonstrated their “ Walking Assist Device ” at the Congress. Honda is still interpreting the data but they believe the user’s externally powered legs are acted like a second heart, helping pump blood. The cells make up the remainder.

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Sales of hybrid cars increase in US

Green Cars News

After months of doom and gloom for the auto industry in the USA, there is finally a ray of hope courtesy of hybrid cars. This meant that a total of 26,205 hybrid units were sold - some three per cent of all new vehicles, the highest monthly new vehicle share since April 2008. Reported sales of hybrids in the US increased by 5.2

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Will green cars put industry on road to profit?

Green Cars News

This failure, it believes, has prompted US car manufacturers to lose market share to foreign rivals and particularly those from Japan such as Toyota and Honda. Tags: Green cars Latest news auto industry profits gas prices petrol prices US auto industry. Leave a comment with your thoughts.

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NYT Editorial

Plug In Partners

Editorial Trying to Find the Road Ahead Published: January 24, 2006 W ith its bonds downgraded to junk and its market share on the ropes, Detroit's auto industry almost looks to be in a free fall. At Detroit's auto show, it unveiled a Chinese car that Geely plans to upgrade and sell in the United States in 2008.

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Automotive Market Research Perspectives on Selling Green in a Try-to-Survive Market

Green Car Congress

’“ This is one of the reason Honda reintroduced the Insight, they wanted the Insight to be a unique body style rather than a powertrain option on a Civic. Second, the Prius has a high quality of execution. Edwards of Strategic Vision adds “ The Prius.when you get inside of it looks innovative and attractive.

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The Long View from SAE 2009 World Congress

Green Car Congress

Organized by Shane Chang at Honda Research Institute USA Inc., the session counted among its panelists: Professor John Heywood, Sun Jae Professor of Mechanical Engineering and Director of the Sloan Auto Laboratory at MIT. LFEE 2008-05 RP, July 2008. Corporate Average Fuel Efficiency (CAFE) challenge. Bandivadekar, A.,

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