Green Car Congress

APRIL 3, 2009

US sales of hybrids in March 2009 as reported by the automakers dropped 44% by volume year-on-year to 21,433 units; that performance was worse than the total light duty vehicle market, which posted a 36.8% drop by volume for the month compared to March 2008, based on total sales figures from Autodata ( earlier post ). Click to enlarge.

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Green Car Congress

AUGUST 30, 2017

The MINI E unveiled in 2008 was the first all-electric car from the BMW Group to be driven by private users in everyday traffic conditions—as part of an extensive field trial. More than 600 MINI E cars entered service worldwide for the purpose of the field studies.

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Green Car Congress

SEPTEMBER 2, 2009

Overall sales of light duty vehicles in the US rose 1% to 1,261,977 units in August, according to figures from Autodata. There were 26 selling days in August 2009, vs. 27 in August 2008. month-to-month in August; sales of all light-duty vehicles jumped 26.5%. Changes in OEM hybrid market share, August 2008 to August 2009.

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Green Car Congress

MAY 1, 2009

Reported US sales of light-duty vehicles in April dropped 34.4% to 432,939 units, while sales of light trucks dropped 34.5% April 2008 and April 2008 both had 26 selling days. million SAAR in April 2008. million SAAR in April 2008. Reported hybrid new vehicle share in April 2008 was 3.2%—the

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Green Car Congress

JULY 3, 2009

by volume in June 2009 year-on-year to 26,205 units, representing 3% of new vehicles sold—marking the highest monthly new vehicle share since April 2008, and the fourth straight month of increasing share. Hybrids significantly outperformed the total light-duty vehicle market, which dropped 27.7% from 1,330 units in June 2008.

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Green Car Congress

JANUARY 7, 2010

Overall, light duty vehicle sales rose 15.1% December 2009 had 28 selling days vs. 26 days in December 2008; all comparisons here are by volume, not by adjusted day sales rate. over December 2008. December sales of all light-duty vehicles reached 187,860 units, an increase of 32.3% percent from the same period in 2008.

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Green Car Reports

SEPTEMBER 1, 2010

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. In the green-car world, the leaf is the king of all icons. The king of the leaves?

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Green Car Congress

APRIL 1, 2009

Sales of light-duty vehicles in the US dropped 36.8% to 444,892 units, while sales of light-duty trucks dropped 39.0% March 2009 had 25 sales days compared to 26 in March 2008; all figures here reflect changes in actual volume, rather than adjusted day selling rate. million units, down 35% from March 2008’s 15.10

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Green Car Congress

AUGUST 4, 2009

to 554, 527 units, while light truck sales dropped 14.1% Light truck sales were down 10.1% Light truck sales were led by the RAV4 compact SUV with best-ever July sales of 15,912 units, up 32.5% over July 2008. over July 2008. compared to July 2008 results. to 76,724; total light truck sales were down 20.6%

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Green Car Congress

MARCH 17, 2010

The study offers two main insights on the nature of clean energy jobs in the automobile sector: First, the paper documents that saving oil will directly create good jobs by driving demand for specific additional manufactured components. By 2020, the US job gain relative to 2008 could be as little as 49,000 or more than 150,000.

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Green Car Congress

JANUARY 16, 2012

Criegee radicals have been impossible to measure until this work carried out at the Advanced Light Source. These measurements determine rate coefficients with key species, such as sulfur dioxide (SO 2 ) and nitrogen dioxide (NO 2 ), and provide new insight into the reactivity of these transient molecules. Oliver Welz, John D.

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Cars That Think

AUGUST 24, 2023

When Ifeanyi Orajaka was an undergraduate engineering student in 2008, he had his career all mapped out. In 2008 only about half of Nigeria’s 152 million citizens had electricity, according to a Macrotrends report. To improve his chances, he worked as an intern for two of them.

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Green Car Congress

FEBRUARY 18, 2009

Data gathering for the Beijing study was completed in 2008. Light-duty vehicles together contributed to 82% of all distance traveled (passenger cars, 64%; taxis, 18 %), buses and trucks contributed to 11% and 8% of total distance traveled respectively. Light-duty gasoline vehicles were the major contributors to CO and VOC emissions.

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Green Car Congress

JULY 21, 2016

During past eight years the number of plug-in electric vehicle models has increased from one to more than 20, battery costs have decreased 70%, and the number of electric vehicle charging stations has increased from less than 500 in 2008 to more than 16,000 today—a 40-fold increase. Dayton Power & Light Company. Duke Energy.

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DIY Electric Car

NOVEMBER 28, 2010

I was asked to speak about the economic impact of our oil dependency and so I began researching this topic to see if I could draw some insightful conclusions. The oil price continued to increase all the way into the middle of 2008. The amount of money the US economy shed during this recession was over $250 billion. Everything!

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Green Cars News

SEPTEMBER 2, 2009

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 per cent while sales of all light duty vehicles rose by 26.5 The Civic Hybrid meanwhile sold 717 units, down 77 per cent compared to August 2008.

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Green Cars News

JUNE 7, 2009

The end of the slump in the automotive sector appears far from over as total sales of light duty vehicles in the USA during May 2009 were revealed to have decreased by 33.7 per cent to 488,045 units; while sales of light trucks fell by 27.2 However, there is some light at the end of the tunnel. per cent to 437,779.

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Green Cars News

JULY 5, 2009

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. Indeed sales of hybrids have significantly out-performed the total light duty vehicle market, which dropped by 27.7 per cent in volume to 859,847 units.

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Green Cars News

OCTOBER 5, 2009

September 2009 light duty vehicle sales dropped back to pre-incentive lows with 745,997 cars and light duty trucks sold during the month according to Autodata. However, it sold 2,138 hybrids in September which is 116 per cent up compared to September 2008 – sales of the Milan/Escape hybrid were down 11.3

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Green Cars News

JUNE 30, 2009

It was a clear winner in our poll to determine the ‘Green Car Manufacturer of the Year’ in 2008 – but 2009 has been much more difficult for Toyota. Tags: The Green Piece green piece Honda Insight prius Toyota. The Green Piece - Tuesday 30th June 2009. Our verdict. Faye Sunderland.

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Green Car Congress

DECEMBER 9, 2012

Between 2008 and 2015, it is estimated that more than $15 billion will be spent to add processing capacity specifically for heavy crude blends in US refineries. Light sweet SCO can have GHG emissions as low as 2.5 This analysis provides insights that can help to inform emissions reductions decisions at refineries. FCC and SMR).This

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Green Car Congress

OCTOBER 30, 2009

Because the latter was a $126 billion/year market in 2008, even small differences in GWPs can have large economic consequences. This research also provides regulators insight into how certain pollution mitigation strategies might simultaneously affect climate and air quality.

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Green Car Congress

OCTOBER 18, 2013

Researchers from ETH Zurich and the Paul Scherrer Institute have visualized and quantified the origins and evolution of this electrochemical and mechanical degradation of Li-ion batteries during battery operation using high-resolution 3D movies recorded using using x-ray tomography at the Swiss Light Source. X-Ray Tomography Group at PSI.

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Creative Greenius

FEBRUARY 2, 2009

She graciously agreed to be interviewed for Creative Greenius and give me some insight into the vital job she’s been tasked with. Since May of 2008 Heidi’s job has been to help the South Bay cities through the action plan process, which starts with each city joining ICLEI, which is the local governments for Sustainability.

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Green Car Congress

NOVEMBER 15, 2010

The small size and light weight of the pushbroom imager will enable its use as a field instrument, and its installation in various robotic systems as well as in small aircraft. Dell’Endice (2008) Improving the performance of hyperspectral pushbroom imaging spectrometers for specific science applications. Beijing 2008).

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Clean Fleet Report

APRIL 12, 2024

The first Honda hydrogen vehicle–the FCX EV Plus 1997-99 Insight Hatchback Hybrid 1999-2006 Civic Hybrid 2003-* (offered intermittently in various generations of Civics starting with the 7 th generation in 2003; note: An all-new Civic Hybrid will be released in 2025.) The driver and passenger seats are heated, with power adjustments.

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Green Car Congress

JUNE 3, 2009

Total sales of light-duty vehicles in the US decreased 33.7% to 488,045 units; sales of light trucks declined 27.2% There were 26 selling days in May 2009, compared with 27 in May 2008. to 81,009 units; light trucks were down 20.8% Hybrids as a percentage of light vehicle sales. New vehicle SAAR. Data: Autodata.

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Green Car Congress

APRIL 29, 2009

The upper level will be for pedestrians and light weight vehicles like bicycles, Segways and electric bicycles. PRT challenges include the reliance on a central computer, the inability to adapt the vehicle to your personality via ownership and losing the local color and insight provided by a cab driver. LFEE 2008-05 RP, July 2008.

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Green Car Congress

NOVEMBER 13, 2013

From 2008 to 2010, China began increasing pubic demonstrations to evaluate the technology; these are being expanded from 2010 to 2015. Urban personal vehicle use will fit between high speed intercity rail and densely constructed urban light rail and subway systems, following a satellite-style urban expansion.

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Tony Karrer Delicious EVdriven

JANUARY 15, 2009

An excellent "dirty hands turning the wrenches"kind of guide to building and maintaing a reliable electric car.

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Cars That Think

JUNE 20, 2023

When IEEE Spectrum’s editor in chief, Harry Goldstein, needed to replace his 2008 Honda Fit in October 2020, he thought seriously about buying an electric vehicle. light-duty vehicle sales. Two obstacles stood in his way. One was affordability. Even without a son soon to be entering college, the premium prices of EVs were a turnoff.

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Tony Karrer Delicious EVdriven

APRIL 16, 2009

Solar, Wind and Biofuels Grew 53 Percent in 2008 Green Education = Environmental Religion? Review of Forestry Carbon Standards 2008 Ford Partners to Commercialize Electric Vehicles A New "Green" Deal.Direction for the economic re. Agassi’s Davos Insights Success with V2G would be a double win for electric utilities.

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Tony Karrer Delicious EVdriven

APRIL 16, 2009

We should be concentrating on eliminating the hoggiest of the hogs by hybridizing them or reducing their acceleration which BY ITSELF reduces consumption since it leads drivers to unlearn stop and go driving, instead timing arrival at lights to when they are green. Its a damn shame. Now Im starting to smell a "crock of Shit" from GM.

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