Green Cars News

JUNE 22, 2009

Keep your eye on Magna Electronics, which is rapidly emerging as one of the key players in the green car sector. Semikron is a privately held company that signed a supply and license agreement with Fuji Electric in November 2008.

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Green Cars News

MAY 21, 2009

However, as green cars become more mainstream could it mark the end for exclusive green car brands? It appears that it is no longer viable for companies to designate one of their brands as green because advanced fuel efficient technology is expected across their range.

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Green Car Reports

SEPTEMBER 1, 2010

In the green-car world, the leaf is the king of all icons. The 2010 Honda Insight fertilized the idea when it bowed in 2008; it still promotes greener driving with electronically rendered displays of plants that add leaves as the car's computers sense a light, planet-conscious foot on the gas pedal.

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Green Cars News

JUNE 13, 2009

It seems like a great idea in theory - the US Government is backing up its calls for the public to move to green cars by buying some of its own. For example, 2,933 vehicles have been ordered from Chrysler despite the fact that the manufacturer does not include any hybrids in its line-up with the exception of the Durango/Aspen line.

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Green Cars News

MAY 29, 2009

As part of the 24 th International Battery, Hybrid and Fuel Cell Electric Vehicle Symposium & Exhibition a number of lectures took place focusing on the development of electric vehicles in China and India. It will also give priority to high efficiency direct injection engine cars and hybrids until 2020.

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Green Cars News

MARCH 29, 2010

The three-year fleet trial of the Fuso Canter Eco Hybrid has reached the halfway stage in the London area. The trial kicked off in August 2008 when 10 light duty trucks equipped with hybrid drive systems were put to work in the city.

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Green Car Congress

JANUARY 8, 2010

The exhibit, which will highlight green-car technologies from across Magna’s operating units, will also introduce E-Car Systems, Magna’s newly created global operating unit that serves as an integrator to Magna’s range of electrification capabilities. Don Walker, co-CEO of Magna International. Earlier post.) Earlier post.)

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Green Cars News

MARCH 5, 2013

Peugeot-Citroen’s unique hybrid-air technology, currently being showcased at the Geneva Motor Show, will be in production by 2016, using the group’s new EMP2 platform. That new platform makes its debut on the new Citroen Picasso, while the hybrid-air tech itself is being demonstrated attached to a Peugeot 2008 and a Citroen C3.

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Green Cars News

JULY 18, 2009

Green car drivers are more responsible about the environment, keep their speed in check to keep fuel consumption low and are therefore less likely to have accidents. As a result, their car insurance premiums should be lower, right? The theory is simple isn’t it?

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Green Cars News

AUGUST 5, 2013

Prior to the Olympic Games in 2008, Beijing was notorious as one of the world''s most polluted cities: so what would the impact be of introducing plug-in electric vehicles to its taxi fleet? Latest News Green cars Electric cars Hybrid cars'

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Green Cars News

NOVEMBER 2, 2009

In last week’s edition of The Green Piece Column, we looked at the leaders in the green car race including the likes of Toyota, Honda, Volkswagen and Nissan. Of all the ‘upstart’ green car companies, Tesla is the closest to breaking out into the mainstream. REVA: An Indian company that markets the G-Wiz in the UK.

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Green Cars News

JULY 21, 2009

The South Korean market has already shown its willingness to embrace green car technologies so it comes as no surprise that GM Daewoo Auto & Technology is considering producing a hybrid vehicle in the country in two years time. The company also sold in Korea and exported more than 1.9million units in 2008.

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Green Cars News

OCTOBER 14, 2009

Hybrid car sales may have slumped as the recession continues to take its toll on the car industry, but Ford has made itself the exception that proves the rule. The trend continued during September when Ford sold 26,016 hybrid vehicles – a 73 per cent increase on the 15,015 units it sold during the same period last year.

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Green Cars News

JULY 3, 2009

Here in the UK we’re so downtrodden by extortionate petrol prices that the prospect of driving fuel efficient green cars carries obvious appeal. However, what about our US neighbours where ‘gas’ prices are distinctly lower and so-called muscle cars are seen as almost iconic and part of the culture?

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Green Cars News

OCTOBER 14, 2009

The Mitsubishi Fuso Truck and Bus Corporation (MFTBC) has been marketing the Fuso Canter hybrid truck in its home market since July 2006 with 600 vehicles sold in Japan to date. MFTBC has sold 10 Fuso Canter Eco Hybrid trucks to Ireland’s Electricity Supply Board in Dublin – the country’s leading utility company.

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Green Cars News

APRIL 28, 2009

A new test platform that could reduce the time required for the design and development of a hybrid architecture is now up and running. It uses a suite of generic tools to reproduce and assess the architectures of hybrid cars.

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Green Cars News

JULY 5, 2009

After months of doom and gloom for the auto industry in the USA, there is finally a ray of hope courtesy of hybrid cars. Reported sales of hybrids in the US increased by 5.2 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.

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Green Cars News

MAY 3, 2009

Green cars continue to be as badly hit as any during the on-going recession as sales of hybrid cars showed another dramatic year-on-year slump in April. Combined reported US hybrid sales from Ford, GM, Honda, Nissan and Toyota fell by 45.5 GM delivered a total of 1,534 hybrid vehicles in the month.

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Green Cars News

APRIL 18, 2009

One of the leading suppliers of commercial duty fully automatic transmissions and hybrid propulsion systems, Allison Transmission, has announced record hybrid sales. The company is emerging as one of the leading suppliers to the global bus and coach market with almost 50,000 Allison transmissions sold in 2008.

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Green Cars News

APRIL 29, 2009

In fact, in the fiscal year from 2007-2008 more than 45,000 models were sold around the world. Now, Porsche is working on a Cayenne Hybrid which it hopes will lead its emergence in the high performance green car sector. The Cayenne S Hybrid will reach showrooms in 2010.

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Green Cars News

SEPTEMBER 2, 2009

The cash for clunkers campaign has given a massive boost to hybrid sales in the US, with a reported leap by 48.6 Overall sales of light duty vehicles in the US increased by one per cent to 1,261,997 units according to figures from Autodata, with reported hybrid sales representing 3.07 Sales of the Camry hybrid however, dropped by 38.8

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Green Cars News

APRIL 22, 2009

A new mild hybrid concept vehicle made its global debut at Auto Shanghai this week dubbed the Buick Business Concept. The vehicle accommodates the next-generation GM Hybrid system and will be introduced in China in the near future.

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Green Cars News

OCTOBER 5, 2009

Hybrid sales were not immune from the troubles either. per cent compared to the previous year at 19,977 units (though they do not include sales of the Mercedes S400 Hybrid which went on sale in the USA at the end of August). Compared to August results, this meant that hybrid sales were down 48.4 Reported sales dropped 4.1

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Green Cars News

MAY 4, 2009

Yesterday we told you how hybrid sales continued their downward trend in the US. Overall, reported sales of hybrids dropped 45.5 per cent year-on-year to 21,735 even though it incorporated a full month’s sales for new vehicles such as the Honda Insight, as well as the Ford Fusion and Mercury Milan Hybrids.

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Green Cars News

OCTOBER 4, 2013

With the news that last month’s new car registrations were at their highest since March 2008, up 12.1 per cent compared with the same month in 2012, Toyota is just one of the carmakers celebrating the glut of sales. The firm reports that it reaped the benefit of a booming market thanks to the re[.].

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Revenge of the Electric Car

NOVEMBER 25, 2009

The IPO represents a landmark in the resurgence of electric-car technology that most carmakers had dismissed as impractical until recently. The company’s chairman Elon Musk said early last year that an IPO was a possibility in either late 2008 or 2009.&#. Electric-car maker Tesla preparing IPO. by Reuters.

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Green Cars News

JANUARY 6, 2010

As of 2008, Japan had around 600,000 “next generation” vehicles on its roads – including hybrids and electric vehicles, making up [.]. As Japan aims to take its plug-in vehicle sales to 600,000 a year by 2020, the Japan Automobile Manufacturers Association (JAMA) has outlined the steps that will need to be taken to reach this goal.

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Green Cars News

JULY 12, 2009

times the number it sold in June 2008 at 6,231 units - according to data from the Japan Automobile Dealers Association. The hybrid green car leader first became the country’s top seller in May with sales of 10,915 units, more than twice its year-on-year sales of 5,079 units in May 2008.

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Green Cars News

OCTOBER 9, 2009

Suzuki is set to exhibit two new exciting green car concepts at the Tokyo Motor Show later this month, a Swift with Plug-in Hybrid system and an SX4 Fuel Cell Vehicle (FCV). The type of petrol engine used for the Hybrid is similar to the 3-cylinder 658 cc fitted to the compact and low tax ‘Kei’ cars in Japan. .

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Green Cars News

AUGUST 9, 2009

Japanese automaker Toyota may be renowned for its petrol-electric hybrid vehicles, but now it can celebrate a significant achievement with a fuel cell hybrid. Its Toyota Highlander Fuel Cell Hybrid Vehicle Advanced achieved an estimated range of 431 miles on a single full tank of compressed hydrogen gas.

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Green Car Congress

AUGUST 4, 2011

However, while Mazda plans to offer hybrid vehicles in the medium-term, its engineers are pushing hard to increase the efficiencies of both the gasoline and diesel platforms, moving toward what they call “the ideal Internal Combustion Engine. Mazda and hybrids.

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Green Cars News

NOVEMBER 11, 2009

At the Milan International Cycle and Motorbike Show, the company unveiled a three-wheel drive hybrid scooter concept known as the Hybrid3 Evolution. The Hybrid3 Evolution is a high powered version of the Hybrid3 Compressor that was originally unveiled at the 2008 Paris Motor Show.

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Green Cars News

JULY 11, 2009

How many times have we read about various green car concepts that come to nothing? However, if you were expecting the Fisker Karma to be another example of a green car that got away, then it seems you got one wrong. It features a 2.4 It features a 2.4

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Green Car Congress

FEBRUARY 19, 2009

Green Car Congress recently had the opportunity to spend some time with Dr. Prabhakar Patil, the CEO of Compact Power, Inc. He served as the chief engineer for the Ford Escape Hybrid from 1998 to 2003 and holds 12 patents. Source: DOE, ALBAA 2008. Mini-cells” Source: LG Chem, ALBAA 2008. by Bill Cooke.

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Green Cars News

AUGUST 17, 2009

BYD has secured an agreement to supply lithium-ion batteries to one of China’s top three auto groups for applications in hybrid vehicles - making it the first lithium-ion supply deal with a domestic Chinese manufacturer.

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Green Cars News

MAY 7, 2009

In an online blog, General Motors’ (GM) vice chairman Tom Stephens stated that the company will apply plug-in hybrid technology to one of its four core brands followings its’ restructuring. GM is planning initial delivery of plug-in hybrid vehicles for use in fleets to the DOE and EPRI in 2011.

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Plug In Partners

MAY 20, 2008

N ow that the number one automaker and the number two automaker has made the commitment to building Plug In hybrid / electric vehicles by 2010, another automotive giant is joining the race. Here is the story from the New York Times : Nissan Plans Electric Car in U.S. Thus, Nissan will be offering serial plug in hybrids.

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