The Truth About Cars

FEBRUARY 29, 2024

After a decade-long project that saw changes in approach, multiple delays, staff changes, planning and replanning, and conflicting reports, Apple’s Titan autonomous electric car project is dead. Let’s start at the beginning, in 2014. In the latter portion of 2014 the project was approved by CEO Tim Cook.

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Green Car Reports

FEBRUARY 27, 2014

The 2014 Geneva Motor Show is almost upon us, and true to form there''s much higher green car content than at other recent shows. This year includes everything from production city cars through fuel-efficient.'

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MAY 22, 2017

Ford Motor Company has appointed Jim Hackett as Ford Motor Company president and CEO, replacing Mark Fields, who is retiring, effective immediately. year-to-date, with cars showing the steepest decline of 22.1%. Ford needs to make substantial progress in terms of self-driving cars and e-vehicles.

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Green Car Congress

AUGUST 13, 2018

Kia Motors corporation unveiled its next-generation Separated Sound Zone (SSZ) technology that allows each passenger of a vehicle to experience an audio stream tailored to their individual needs, including music, hands-free phone calls, and vehicle alerts, while maintaining a headphone-free social space where passengers can converse freely.

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Green Car Congress

OCTOBER 8, 2013

Mitsubishi Motors Corporation (MMC) will unveil three world premiere concept cars—two of them plug-in hybrids—at the 43 rd Tokyo Motor Show 2013 late in November. US shipments of the PHEV will likely wait until 2014 at the earliest. Earlier post.)

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Cars That Think

AUGUST 27, 2021

Faraday was an interesting choice for this task, as Nancy Forbes and Basil Mahon recount in their 2014 book. After Faraday [left] failed to acknowledge his mentor, Humphry Davy [right], in an 1821 paper on the electric motor, Davy accused him of plagiarism. Soon, people were snatching up pocket-size motors as novelty gifts.

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Green Car Congress

JULY 1, 2014

Mitsubishi Motors Corporation (MMC) and Chrysler de Mexico (CdM) announced a five-year agreement in which MMC will supply its global compact sedan to CdM, to be sold in Mexico starting November 2014. —Bruno Cattori, President and CEO of Chrysler de Mexico.

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Green Car Congress

JULY 1, 2014

China’s Innovation Center for Energy and Transportation (iCET) recently released its 2014 Green Car China Annual Report , an evaluation of mainstream vehicles on sale in China by their lifecycle impacts and their health impacts. Among the results of the Green rankings for all vehicles: 2014 China Green Car ratings.

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Green Car Congress

DECEMBER 4, 2013

Tata Motors Limited, India’s largest automobile manufacturer, has confirmed its long term commitment to advanced research and development in the UK through the participation of its subsidiary, Tata Motors European Technical Centre (TMETC), in the UK’s National Automotive Innovation Campus (NAIC). Earlier post.). billion in 2012-13.

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Green Car Congress

DECEMBER 12, 2013

Cutaway of the Protean Electric in-wheel motor. FAW-VW will create a new rear-wheel drivetrain for an electric vehicle (EV) based on the new Bora compact sedan, utilizing two Protean in-wheel motors. Our technology will return the space to the new Bora vehicle platform that was formerly occupied by an in-board motor and powertrain.

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Green Car Congress

MAY 10, 2012

Daimler’s smart will launch the escooter on the market in 2014. smart escooter concept shown at Paris Motor Show in 2010. In 2010, smart unveiled a comprehensive portfolio of electric products for urban transport at the Paris Motor Show. For smart, this is the next step in implementing its concept for future urban mobility.

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Green Car Reports

MARCH 10, 2014

Major manufacturer launches are only one part of the annual Geneva Motor Show. Tear yourself away from the glitzy stands and the smiling girls who recline against the newest launches, and a host of smaller companies showing eco-friendly concepts is always present.

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Green Car Congress

FEBRUARY 11, 2014

Elio Motors has selected Comau Inc., Slated to begin production in the fourth quarter of 2014 and available in the US by the first quarter of 2015, the Elio will be built in a plant in Shreveport, LA. We are very pleased to be partnering with Elio Motors on the assembly of this unique three-wheel vehicle.

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Green Car Congress

MARCH 27, 2013

Mercedes-Benz staged the world premiere of the production battery-electric 2014 B-Class Electric Drive at the New York International Auto Show; a concept version had appeared last year at the Paris Motor Show. Earlier post.). This pre-entry climate control system makes the B-Class Electric Drive unique in its segment.

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Green Car Congress

JANUARY 8, 2014

During 2014, the global plug-in electric vehicle (PEV) industry is poised to grow by 86% and will surpass more than 346,000 new vehicles sold, according to a new white paper—“ Electric Vehicles: 10 Predictions for 2014 ”—published by Navigant Research. Tesla Motors will have a bumpy year.

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Green Car Congress

DECEMBER 2, 2016

Eco-Motive , a startup developing what it calls the first dual-fuel “H” engine ( earlier post ), revealed photos of a full-scale prototype of the Eco-Motive H-Motor. Our Eco-Motive H-Motor is a revolutionary twin vertical, hybrid internal combustion dual fuel engine that can run on CNG or gasoline.

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Green Car Congress

MAY 6, 2014

BASF will introduce its innovative LNT+CS4F emissions control system for diesel engines at the International Vienna Motor Symposium, 8-9 May 2014 in Vienna, Austria. For diesel (compression ignition) passenger cars, the Euro 6c NO x maximum is 80 mg/km (128 mg/mile). Euro 6 legislation will be implemented in 2014.

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Green Car Reports

OCTOBER 3, 2014

The 2014 Paris Motor Show this week kicked off the annual global parade of new production cars and concepts, and several notable green cars made their debuts. Demonstrating the breadth of green-car.' Autumn is here, and so is auto-show season.

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APRIL 15, 2015

Volvo Cars will introduce the production version of the S60L T6 Twin Engine plug-in hybrid sedan at the 2015 Shanghai Motor Show; the plug-in sedan first made its appearance as a concept car at the Beijing auto show in 2014. The new S60L Twin Engine is manufactured in Volvo Cars’ Chengdu Plant. Earlier post.)

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Green Car Congress

FEBRUARY 9, 2014

Mahindra Racing, the motor sports division of the India-based Mahindra Group, unveiled India’s first Formula E battery-electric race car, capable of reaching speeds of up to 225 km/h (140 mph), at Auto Expo 2014 in Delhi. The Formula E car produces 200 kw of power. Mahindra is the only Indian team in the Formula E.

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Green Car Congress

JULY 23, 2014

1/3 — Karl-Thomas Neumann (@KT_Neumann) July 23, 2014. 3/3 /KTN — Karl-Thomas Neumann (@KT_Neumann) July 23, 2014. 1/2 — Karl-Thomas Neumann (@KT_Neumann) July 23, 2014. No budget car, but a real @Opel (quality, innovation, German engineering)! By the way: @Opel will not move into the low-budget segment.

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Green Car Congress

JANUARY 11, 2016

More efficient electric motors are also expected to contribute to better fuel economy and electric driving range, although Ford did not quantify an improvement on either. and 15.6%, respectively, from calendar year 2014. to 300,170 units from 306,860 in 2014. to 300,170 units from 306,860 in 2014.

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Green Car Congress

OCTOBER 1, 2013

At the media launch of the all-new 2014 Soul, Kia Motors America (KMA) also announced plans to offer an all-electric version of the company’s iconic Soul urban passenger vehicle in select markets in 2014. —Orth Hedrick, executive director of product planning, KMA.

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Green Car Congress

SEPTEMBER 8, 2014

AvtoVAZ, the largest automaker based in Russia, a part of Rostec Corporation, introduced three new LADA concept cars at the Moscow International Motor Show 2014. All are aimed to attract foreign and domestic customers as well as “ restore people’s pride for the brand of LADA ” according to AvtoVAZ CEO Bo Inge Andersson.

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Green Car Congress

OCTOBER 1, 2015

Dhammika Bandara created the novel method for processing drive units and electric motors to separate chemically rare earth elements—specifically neodymium, dysprosium, and praseodymium—from other materials used to make the devices. The research dates back to the spring of 2014, when WPI was named the lead institution on a $7.4-million,

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Green Car Congress

FEBRUARY 21, 2012

Johnson Controls will showcase its next-generation low-profile prismatic automotive lithium-ion cells and sub-modules at the upcoming Geneva Motor Show. Johnson Controls says that the prismatic cells require less installation space and are easier to integrate into cars than cylindrical cells.

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Green Car Congress

NOVEMBER 14, 2014

General Motors and its joint ventures sold their 3 millionth vehicle in China in 2014. In October, General Motors and its joint ventures sold 291,371 vehicles in China, setting a new October record. Cadillac sales in China in the first ten months of 2014 increased 57.9% on an annual basis to a record 2,872,501 units.

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Green Car Congress

MAY 11, 2016

In April, Mitsubishi Motors Corporation (MMC) admitted to manipulating fuel consumption testing data for some 625,000 mini-cars representing four models it manufactured for sale in Japan by itself and partner Nissan. Earlier post.).

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Green Car Congress

JANUARY 13, 2015

Local Motors is 3D printing and assembling a Strati—the first 3D-printed car—live from the show floor at the North American International Auto Show (NAIAS). The design was chosen in May 2014 from more than 200 submitted to Local Motors by the company’s online co-creation community after launching a call for entries.

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Green Car Congress

NOVEMBER 12, 2013

Nissan Motor Co., launched of the all-new Skyline, which will go on sale late February 2014 with an Infiniti badge at Nissan dealers throughout Japan. Nissan’s original one-motor two-clutch parallel hybrid “Intelligent Dual Clutch Control” system ( earlier post ) is adopted in every grade. New Skyline. Click to enlarge.

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Teslarati

FEBRUARY 23, 2024

The fact that Gemmingen-Hornberg started his journey with his Model S way back in 2014 is extremely impressive, especially if one were to consider the fact that electric vehicles were not as prevalent back then as they are today. It should be noted that the Model S has received several battery and electric motor replacements over its 1.2

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Green Car Congress

SEPTEMBER 11, 2014

The latest Short-Term Energy Outlook (STEO) expects 2014 gasoline consumption to be 8.82 million barrels per day (2 billion gallons) higher than last November’s forecast, which was close to the average 2014 consumption forecast across the 12 editions of STEO published in 2013. over the past year. million barrels per day (135.2

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Green Car Congress

AUGUST 17, 2015

National Electric Vehicle Sweden AB (NEVS)—the rebirthed Saab—and Dongfeng Motor Corporation (Dongfeng) have signed a strategic cooperation agreement to achieve global industrial synergies. Dongfeng Motor Corporation (DFM) is the third biggest Chinese state-owned automobile manufacturer headquartered in Wuhan, Hubei Province.

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Green Car Congress

JUNE 30, 2014

Mitsubishi Motors’ iMiEV Evolution III all-electric racecars ( earlier post ) took first and second place in the the Electric Modified Division of the 2014 edition of the Pikes Peak International Hill Climb. Fuji and the thin air means that cars powered by internal combustion engines lose power the higher up they go.

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Green Car Reports

FEBRUARY 27, 2014

Today on Green Car Reports: We preview the green production cars and concepts of the 2014 Geneva Motor Show, the 2015 BMW i8 plug-in hybrid will arrive in dealers this year, and chemists create a gasoline substitute made from plant waste. All this and more on Green Car Reports.

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Green Car Reports

JULY 10, 2013

With the global unveiling of the 2014 BMW i3 less than three weeks away, BMW has revealed a few more details on its radical new electric car. The i3 battery-electric five-door hatchback''s 125-kilowatt (170-horsepower) electric motor can generate peak torque of 184 lb-ft.

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Green Car Congress

JANUARY 2, 2013

Kia Motors America (KMA) will work with Google to provide content and search-based solutions enabled by Application Program Interfaces (APIs) for the second-generation of the automaker’s UVO (“Your Voice”) eServices telematics system, introduced in November 2012 at the Los Angeles Auto Show. Apple iOS6 compatibility is expected early in 2013.

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