Green Car Congress

NOVEMBER 20, 2013

The A3 e-tron plug-in hybrid. Audi of America officially announced plans today for the arrival in the US of the new A3 family of premium compact cars, with three body styles, five new engines and seven variants including its plug-in hybrid model. This new A3 lineup begins with the A3 sedan, which goes on sale in the spring of 2014.

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Green Car Congress

OCTOBER 11, 2014

EPA obtains the detailed data supporting the report directly from automobile manufacturers; the agency has been collecting and maintaining these data since 1975. More are coming to the US market, such as the Audi A3 e-tron plug-in hybrid and Volkswagen e-Golf BEV. —EPA 2014 Trends report. —EPA Trends report.

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Baua Electric

AUGUST 24, 2023

That get entry to additionally applies to telematics knowledge had to diagnose and service a automobile, if now not another way to be had. It additionally covers all automobile applied sciences and powertrains, together with battery-electric, plug-in hybrid and gasoline mobile automobiles.

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Green Car Congress

MARCH 2, 2015

It may come as a surprise for you, but I highly welcome the interest of Apple, Google and others in the automobile. Winterkorn introduced Future Tracks at the Geneva Show in 2014, saying that over the next few years, the automotive industry will face one of the greatest upheavals since the invention of the automobile.

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Green Car Congress

APRIL 9, 2019

While all van manufacturers respected their specific emission targets in 2017, three car manufacturers (Automobili Lamborghini, Mazda Motor Corporation and Société des Automobiles Alpine), representing together 1.4% The proportion of electric vehicles (plug-in hybrid and battery electric cars) increased from 1.0% in 2016 to 1.5%

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Green Car Congress

JANUARY 23, 2015

Low gasoline prices and pent-up consumer demand will combine to drive new car and light truck sales to an estimated 16.94 million in 2015, according to the National Automobile Dealers Association. million new cars and light trucks for 2014 was on target. Lower gasoline prices accelerate that shift. this year from 13.7%

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Green Car Congress

AUGUST 28, 2013

Ogiso—who earlier in his career had been the chief engineer for the Prius, chief engineer for the Prius family, and chief engineer, product planning—made the remarks at the “2013 Toyota Hybrid World Tour” event the company staged in Ypsilanti, Michigan. Improved aerodynamics will contribute to an all-new exterior design.

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Green Car Congress

SEPTEMBER 12, 2023

Lithium batteries made with DRX cathodes could safeguard the automobile industry and therefore consumers from higher prices spurred by supply constraints. That versatility is key if we want to replace gasoline vehicles with electric vehicles. DRX cathodes can be made with almost any transition metal instead of nickel and cobalt.

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Green Car Congress

JULY 8, 2015

Methanol-powered vehicles are one pillar of Geely Auto’s diversified new-energy strategy, which also encompasses ethanol, CNG, gasoline-electric hybrid, plug-in hybrid, pure-electric, and extended-range solutions. Their results showed that in comparison with gasoline mode, CO emitted in methanol mode decreased 11.2%.

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Green Car Congress

MAY 10, 2015

The hybrid combustion mode was employed with spark assistance to change gradually to the desired HCCI mode or SI combustion mode respectively, by increasing or decreasing the percentage of homogeneous charge compression ignition combustion during the hybrid combustion operation. Shupeng Zhang and Guoming G. 1558,1569 doi: 10.1109/TCST.2012.2201719.

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Green Car Congress

SEPTEMBER 30, 2015

Anhui Jianghuai Automobile Group Co Ltd (JAC) and Ricardo are collaborating on a project to develop the Ricardo HyBoost concept ( earlier post )—a combination of low-cost technologies to deliver improved performance and fuel economy which featured recently in the Ricardo Centenary celebrations —into volume production on a JAC vehicle.

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Green Car Congress

OCTOBER 24, 2017

The battery factory will supply the nearby Dadong plant, which is operated by the BMW Brilliance Automotive (BBA) joint venture and will produce the BMW 5 Series Plug-in Hybrid for the local market. Going forward, this facility will also build the plug-in hybrid variant of the BMW 5 Series and the new BMW X3.

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Green Car Congress

MAY 29, 2014

Based on their calculations, the scientists concluded that within the area they found to have elevated pollution from the airport, automobiles contributed less than 5% of the PN levels. The total freeway length in Los Angeles is 1500 km (932 miles). The emissions from LAX are likely not unique on a per-activity basis. —Hudda et al.

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Green Car Congress

AUGUST 20, 2011

Canada and the United States are taking a common North American approach and Canada intends to implement regulations with the 2014 model year in alignment with the United States. The proposed regulations would also seek to promote the implementation of advanced technology vehicles such as hybrid and electric vehicles. Earlier post.).

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Green Car Congress

JANUARY 18, 2010

Staggered implementation: 65% to comply with requirements in 2012; 75% in 2013; 80% in 2014 and 100% in 2015. In 2014, any weight increase in new cars will be studied. Eco-innovations will count for up to 7 grams of manufacturers’ fleet targets. Super-credits are awarded for vehicles emitting less than 50 g CO 2 /km.

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Green Car Congress

MAY 22, 2013

A final, comprehensive report will be published in late summer 2014. The committee will continue to gather and review information and conduct analyses through late spring 2014 and will issue its final comprehensive report in late summer 2014.

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Green Car Congress

FEBRUARY 18, 2009

While GM hopes to reach agreement with the Swedish government, the Saab Automobile AB subsidiary could file for reorganization as early as this month. GM’s dealer count is also projected to be further reduced, from 6,246 in 2008 to 4,700 by 2012, and to 4,100 by 2014. GM Fuel Economy plans. GM Restructuring Plan.

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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. It will also include entirely new systems like hybrid drive trains and advanced diesel engines.

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Green Car Congress

JUNE 19, 2009

In volume production, FCVs are expected to be cost competitive with other advanced vehicles, and are approaching the cost of advanced hybrid system even with current designs and high costs of materials. Current estimates of Li-ion storage cost are $1,000/kWh, with DOE targeting a cost of $300/kWh by 2014. Infrastructure.

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Clean Fleet Report

MAY 3, 2021

The technology has gotten better and many of the elements of self-driving cars are already embedded into our current automobiles. Most of these advanced vehicles will be electric or plug-in hybrids. Each Tesla Model S built after October 2014 has a software upgradable to ADAS as we reported recently. The ride continues.].

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Green Car Congress

SEPTEMBER 24, 2015

This could eventually have a role comparable to that of the Volkswagen Group’s modular diesel and modular gasoline engine kits (MDB and MOB). (“Baukasten” = German for construction kit). Hackenberg then conceived the transverse matrix, the MQB, applied in the new Audi A3 in 2012, with the TT debuting in 2014.

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Green Car Congress

FEBRUARY 15, 2013

Qoros Automotive, an equal joint venture partnership founded in 2007 between China-based Chery Automobile and Israel Corporation, is presenting the world premiere of its first series production vehicle, the C-segment Qoros 3 Sedan, at the Geneva International Motor Show. liter turbocharged engine, both with GDI (gasoline direct injection).

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Green Car Congress

JUNE 12, 2015

The company currently has a number of projects underway producing or developing—with its different technology partners—e-gas (methane) ( earlier post ); e-ethanol ( earlier post ); two versions of e-diesel from different pathways ( earlier post , earlier post ); and e-benzin (gasoline) ( earlier post ). Audi e-gas.

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Green Car Congress

JUNE 16, 2011

Replacing spark-ignition engines with diesel engines and components would yield fuel savings of about 37% at an added cost of approximately $5,900 per vehicle, and replacing spark-ignition engines with hybrid engines and components would reduce fuel consumption by 43% at an increase of $6,000 per vehicle. Compression-ignition technologies.

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Green Car Congress

NOVEMBER 17, 2015

TDI quattro plug-in hybrid ( earlier post ); the Audi A7 h-tron quattro fuel cell vehicle ( earlier post ); the Audi e-tron quattro concept battery-electric SUV ( earlier post ); the Audi TT clubsport turbo concept ( earlier post ); the Audi RS 5 TDI competition concept ( earlier post ); and the Audi R18 e-tron quattro ( earlier post ).

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Tony Karrer Delicious EVdriven

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?", No announced plans.

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Green Car Congress

FEBRUARY 1, 2012

(At the Tokyo Motor Show, Volkswagen unveiled the first model publicly shown based on the MQB: the Cross Coupé all-wheel-drive (AWD) plug-in hybrid vehicle (PHEV). Volkswagen says that its MQB strategy represents a turning point in the design and production of its future automobiles with transverse-mounted engines. Earlier post. ).

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Green Car Congress

MARCH 7, 2016

FHI), the manufacturer of Subaru automobiles, outlined the Subaru Global Platform which is currently under development as the architecture to be used for all the company’s next-generation vehicles. Fuji Heavy Industries Ltd. The next-generation platform looks ahead to 2025.

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Green Car Congress

JULY 29, 2015

BRUSA Elektronik AG, an automotive Tier 1 power electronics supplier, has licensed Qualcomm Incorporated’s Halo ( earlier post ) patented inventions to commercialize Wireless Electric Vehicle Charging (WEVC) systems for Plug-In Hybrid and Electric Vehicles (EVs). From a Qualcomm Halo infographic. Click to enlarge.

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Cars That Think

SEPTEMBER 3, 2022

That series unexpectedly swore off gasoline and staged its first all-electric race on 13-14 August in Hell, Norway. In Formula E’s early years beginning in 2014, drivers actually had to jump into a second car in the pits around the event’s midpoint, because a single car couldn’t complete a full race on a single charge.

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