Green Car Congress

JANUARY 19, 2012

Gen Y’s strong affinity for hybrid vehicles could make it the “ generation that leads us away from traditional gasoline-powered vehicles ,” reports Craig Giffi, vice chairman and automotive practice leader at Deloitte LLP, after seeing the results of Deloitte’s annual survey of consumers and what they want in an automobile.

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Green Car Congress

JUNE 16, 2009

In 2011, the largest dollar volume for Li-ion automotive applications could come from the mini EV and EREV segment. Dividing that forecast in to application segments—micro-, mild-, full-, and plug-in hybrids; mini-electric (e.g., By 2015, he suggests, full hybrids (e.g., Data: Dr. Menahem Anderman. Click to enlarge.

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Green Car Congress

MAY 24, 2011

We are in the decade of the hybrid electric vehicle despite the fact that most off-road and underwater vehicles are pure electric. Electric Vehicles—Land, Sea & Air Europe 2011. The “ Electric Vehicles—Land, Sea & Air Europe 2011 ” conference and exhibition will take place in Stuttgart, Germany 27–28 June.

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Green Car Congress

JULY 28, 2010

In June, Plug In Carolina selected AeroVironment to supply, install and support a network of public electric vehicle stations in seven South Carolina cities. kW, 240V at 32A) inductive charging system that it plans to roll out on a commercial scale in 2011. Among those exhibiting were: Aerovironment. Aerovironment’s home charging dock.

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Green Car Congress

MAY 5, 2011

Plug-in hybrid electric vehicles are expected to place a considerable strain on local electricity distribution networks. 2011) Online Mechanism Design for Electric Vehicle Charging. In: The Tenth International Joint Conference on Autonomous Agents and Multi-Agent Systems (AAMAS 2011), 2-6 May 2011, Taipei, Taiwan.

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Green Car Congress

OCTOBER 24, 2013

Zero-emission vehicles include battery-electric vehicles, plug-in hybrid-electric vehicles, and hydrogen fuel-cell-electric vehicles; the technologies can be applied in passenger cars, trucks and transit buses. US electric car sales in 2012 more than tripled to about 52,000 from 17,000 in 2011. This has not been easy.

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Green Car Congress

JANUARY 4, 2011

TMS hybrid sales in December rose 14.2% TMS 2010 full year hybrid sales dropped 3.3% The Prius mid-size gas-electric hybrid posted best-ever December sales of 15,253 units, up 33% by volume over December 2009. Toyota Motor Sales (TMS) reported a decrease in December sales year-on-year on a raw volume basis of 5.5%.

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Green Car Reports

DECEMBER 2, 2009

While Toyota's press conference today at the Los Angeles Auto Show covered the new 2011 Toyota Sienna minivan, a very special Prius hybrid on the show floor signaled the company's first tentative step into the world of plug-in vehicles. Toyota will deliver the first of 150 Toyota Prius Plug-In Hybrids early next year.

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Green Car Reports

NOVEMBER 18, 2011

At the 2011 Los Angeles Auto Show, BMW introduced its press conference with a preview of the next installment of the Tom Cruise Mission Impossible movie series. BMW features prominently in this production, with its plug-in hybrid supercar i8 as one of the team’s advanced tools.

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Green Car Congress

APRIL 29, 2010

Under the Report baseline estimate, the global plug-in hybrid electric (PHEV) market will grow from essentially zero in 2009 to 500,000 units in 2020, and the associated Li-Ion automotive battery business—which includes EV, PHEV and HEV batteries—from $150 million in 2009 to $8.4 about 400,000 EV units by 2020. billion in 2020.

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Teslarati

MARCH 13, 2023

Maryland aligned with the California Air Resource Board (CARB) vehicle standards in 2011 and is one of seventeen states in the U.S. The requirements allow plug-in hybrid vehicles to account for 20 percent of the requirements. to adopt the same standards. This new regulation puts us on a fast-track to meet our climate goals.

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Green Car Congress

FEBRUARY 1, 2012

Using that data, the researchers modeled the costs for a fleet of 250 delivery trucks, and examined alternate scenarios in which the whole fleet used one of three kinds of motors: purely electric engines, hybrid gas-electric engines and conventional diesel engines. miles per gallon for hybrid trucks, while the electric-only trucks averaged 0.8

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Green Car Congress

AUGUST 15, 2009

Prior to his current position, Tinskey led Ford’s product planning and product management activities for hybrids and for developing and implementing the electric vehicle strategy announced last January ( earlier post ). Currently, Ford has four full hybrids on the market. Currently, Ford has four full hybrids on the market.

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Green Car Congress

JUNE 11, 2009

During or after fiscal 2011, larger electric vehicle models based on full-sized cars, not minicars. The first, due out sometime in fiscal 2011, will be an electric version of a 1-liter small car. By fiscal 2013, a plug-in hybrid sport utility vehicle.

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Green Car Congress

MAY 12, 2009

GE Chairman and CEO Jeff Immelt shows a sodium-metal halide battery cell at the press conference announcing the battery plant. GE says the planned facility will produce approximately 10 million sodium-metal halide cells each year—equivalent to 900 MWh of energy storage, or enough to support 1,000 GE hybrid locomotives. Earlier post.).

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Green Car Congress

MARCH 4, 2012

to the Annual Press Conference 2012 in Ingolstadt, Rupert Stadler, Chairman of the Board of Management of Audi AG, said that the company believes that five key innovation areas will determine the shape of future mobility: design; lightweight construction; connected vehicles; mobility services; and electric mobility. In his speech.

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Green Car Congress

MAY 24, 2012

Malikopoulos has recently begun a DOE-funded project on developing autonomous intelligent plug-in hybrid electric vehicles (PHEVs); he presented an early update at the recent DOE 2012 Annual Merit Review meetings in Washington, DC. Improvement in fuel consumption (red line) from one of the case models using the POD learning model.

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Green Car Congress

MAY 7, 2010

The FSV Program is midway through its second phase, designing optimized AHSS body structures for four proposed 2015-2020 year vehicles: battery electric (BEV); plug-in hybrid electric (PHEV), with both PHEV-20 and PHEV-40 powertrains; and fuel cell (FCV), with variants among the different powertrain types for four and five passengers vehicles.

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Green Car Congress

MAY 12, 2011

At the 2011 Google I/O developer conference this week, Ford researchers presented a conceptual case of how the Google Prediction API could alter the performance of a plug-in hybrid electric vehicle. Prototype screen shot of Ford’s Google Cloud Prediction. Click to enlarge.

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Green Car Congress

APRIL 21, 2011

Researchers from the Norwegian University of Science and Technology (NTNU) have performed life cycle assessments (LCA) of three batteries for plug-in hybrid (PHEV) and full performance battery electric (BEV) vehicles. They also found higher life cycle global warming emissions than have been previously reported. Click to enlarge.

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Green Car Congress

NOVEMBER 28, 2011

Twenty-one days after the 12 May 2011 testing, delayed thermal heating and pressure release resulted in a fire that consumed the Chevrolet Volt and three other vehicles in close proximity at the test facility. Earlier post.) The GM team reaches the car, hooks up a unit and drains the battery.

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Green Car Congress

APRIL 15, 2011

At the SAE 2011 World Congress in Detroit, Michigan, US Department of Energy’s (DOE) Assistant Secretary for Policy and International Affairs, David Sandalow, announced the official launch of the EcoCAR 2 : Plugging into the Future competition and the sixteen university teams selected to participate. EcoCar 2 Malibu.

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Revenge of the Electric Car

APRIL 1, 2010

Microsoft CEO Steve Ballmer took part in the press conference via a remote video feed from Redmond. “For Ford,&# Mulally said, “this is a needed step in the development of the infrastructure that will make electric vehicles viable.&#. Microsoft’s Hohm to Manage Ford’s Electric Cars.

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Green Car Congress

JULY 17, 2015

The PHEV (Plug-in Hybrid Electric Vehicle), a subset of the electric car, combines a primary electric motor with a much smaller back-up engine fueled with a hydrocarbon/biofuel mix. (In Andrew Frank is a significant industry dignitary credited as being the “Inventor” (or “Father”) of the modern day Plug-in Hybrid Electric Vehicle.

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Green Car Congress

AUGUST 30, 2009

The Saturn version of the two-mode plug-in hybrid at the Milford Proving Grounds. Click to enlarge. On 11 August, GM invited approximately 75 journalists and auto analysts to spend a day learning about the new GM. GM also gave a tour of the pre-production area where we could see production-intent Chevy Volts being assembled.

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Green Car Congress

FEBRUARY 11, 2010

The Kia Ray plug-in hybrid. Kia Motors America (KMA) unveiled the Ray Plug-in Hybrid concept compact sedan during a press conference at the 2010 Chicago Auto Show. The latest design from KDCA follows award-winning Kia vehicles Soul, Forte, Forte Koup and the all-new 2011 Sorento CUV. Click to enlarge.

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Green Cars News

AUGUST 16, 2009

Ford gave its opinions as part of the Plug-in 2009 conference in Long Beach last week. At the moment Ford has four full hybrids on the market and will increase its use of hybrid technology going forward with plans to introduce plug-in hybrid electric vehicles and pure electric vehicles during the mid-term 2011-2020 period.

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Green Car Congress

APRIL 29, 2009

For example, President Obama has issued the United States the challenge of having one million plug-in hybrids on the road by the end of 2015—a goal which many keynote speakers supported but also identified significant barriers to achieving. Organized by Shane Chang at Honda Research Institute USA Inc., Dr. Luca Guala, Systemica.

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APRIL 21, 2009

About CalCars Plug-In Hybrids FAQ How to Get a PHEV Where PHEVs are Carmakers Say. Our PRIUS+ Project Photos PHEV Resources Global Warming Take Action News and Events Contact Us How Carmakers are Responding to the Plug-In Hybrid Opportunity If you ask, "have major auto-makers come around on PHEVs?",

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Green Car Congress

JUNE 8, 2011

The report, being released as part of the LowCVP Annual Conference 2011 on 9 June, highlights the increasing importance of accounting for whole life carbon emissions to compare the greenhouse gas emissions of low carbon vehicles. Hybrid vehicle. Plug-in hybrid vehicle. —Greg Archer, LowCVP Managing Director.

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Green Car Congress

NOVEMBER 20, 2011

The California Air Resources Board (ARB) will consider at its December 2011 meeting amendments to the Low Carbon Fuel Standard (LCFS) regulation. The LCFS intends to reduce, on a full-fuel lifecycle basis, the carbon intensity (CI) of transportation fuels (measured in gCO 2 e/MJ) used in California by an average of 10% by the year 2020.

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Electric Auto Association

OCTOBER 28, 2021

About Marc: Marc has been a long-time advocate of electric vehicles and drives a 2002 Toyota RAV4 EV, 2011 Th!nk I have had memberships in the EAA, Tucson EAA, and West Michigan EV and Plug-in Vehicle Enthusiasts. EV ownership promotes interest from the general public, which allows demonstrations. nk City, and 2013 Tesla Model S.

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Electric Auto Association

OCTOBER 28, 2021

About Marc: Marc has been a long-time advocate of electric vehicles and drives a 2002 Toyota RAV4 EV, 2011 Th!nk I have had memberships in the EAA, Tucson EAA, and West Michigan EV and Plug-in Vehicle Enthusiasts. EV ownership promotes interest from the general public, which allows demonstrations. nk City, and 2013 Tesla Model S.

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Plug In India

OCTOBER 11, 2022

BYD entered the Lithium-Ion battery business in 1996 They enter the passenger car market in 2003 Warren Buffet acquires a stake in BYD in 2008 In 2011, BYD's electric bus fleet is put in operation. In 2018, BYD holds the Worldwide Developers Conference, the first developers conference in the automotive industry's 132-year history.

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Green Car Congress

AUGUST 11, 2009

So, a vehicle like the Volt that achieves a combined triple-digit fuel economy is a game-changer.The key to high-mileage performance is for a Volt driver to plug into the electric grid at least once each day. For plug-in vehicles that require some assist from the engine for propulsion or as a generator for the test cycles (i.e.,

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Green Car Congress

JUNE 12, 2015

Now we imagine the maximum scenario: e-tron plug-in hybrid drive under the hood and e-fuel in the tank. Like other major automakers, Audi (and its parent Volkswagen Group) is working on meeting its medium-term regulatory requirements (e.g., Audi sees the potential for the use of CO 2 -neutral fuels to reduce fleet CO 2 emissions.

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Green Car Congress

SEPTEMBER 30, 2011

The Department of Energy’s Advanced Research Projects Agency-Energy (ARPA-E) has selected 60 research projects for up to a combined $156 million in funding from the Fiscal Year 2011 budget. Prior to today, ARPA-E has awarded $365.7 million in funds to approximately 120 energy projects within seven program areas. million in awards at ARPA-E.

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