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APRIL 25, 2018

Toyota Motor plans to introduce to the Chinese market plug-in hybrid electric vehicle (PHEV) versions of its Corolla and Levin passenger cars in 2019 and a battery electric vehicle (BEV) model based on its C-HR / IZOA compact SUV in 2020. (To To be sold in China as a C-HR by GAC Toyota Motor Co., and as an IZOA by FAW Toyota Motor Sales Co.,

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MARCH 21, 2019

Vehicle fuel economy improvements have slowed globally, according to the latest report from the Global Fuel Economy Initiative (GFEI): Fuel Economy In Major Car Markets: Technology And Policy Drivers 2005-2017. per year between 2015 and 2017. —more than triple the improvement rate between 2016 and 2017.

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MARCH 12, 2012

According to a recent report examining batteries for electric vehicles from Pike Research, as manufacturing efficiencies improve and access to lithium expands, the installed cost of Li-ion batteries will fall by more than one-third by the end of 2017. billion by 2017, the market intelligence firm forecasts. —John Gartner. (In

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AUGUST 22, 2011

Annual light-duty electric vehicle sales, world markets: 2011-2017. Pike Research forecasts that cumulative sales of plug-in electric vehicles (PEVs), the category that includes both plug-in hybrid and battery-electric vehicles (PHEVs and BEVs), will reach 5.2 between 2011 and 2017 (this compares to a CAGR of 3.7%

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MARCH 18, 2015

Mercedes-Benz is making a strategic push on plug-in hybrids: the Stuttgart-based automaker will introduce 10 new plug-in hybrid models by 2017. 2015: C 350 e. The company said that the main emphasis as regards alternative drives in years to come will be on plug-in hybrids. 2012: E 300 BlueTEC Hybrid. 2013: SLS AMG Coupé Electric Drive.

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NOVEMBER 1, 2016

EDI) announced that its EDI PowerDrive 6000 PHEV drivetrain system has surpassed one million miles in a commercial fleet setting over the course of the last 18 months. Beginning in 2015, the vehicles took to the roads, functioning at full OEM performance as they operated in highway, city, and mountainous scenarios.

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Green Car Congress

APRIL 22, 2017

At the 2017 Shanghai Auto Show, Jeep unveiled the new plug-in hybrid Yuntu SUV Concept (without giving much detail about the powertrain itself). GAC FCA) Changsha plant in 2015. Yuntu is targeting the Chinese market. Yuntu has an all-electric range of approximately 65 km (40.4

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Green Car Congress

FEBRUARY 16, 2016

As policy, Daimler managers will be driving electrified company cars—mainly its plug-in hybrid (PHEV) models. Källenius has just been appointed member of the Board of Management responsible for Group Research and Mercedes-Benz Cars Development effective 1 January 2017. He will succeed Professor Dr. Thomas Weber.).

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Green Car Congress

JULY 5, 2012

PEV Sales in China by segment: 2012-2017. However, according to a new report from Pike Research, PEV production will fall well short of the government’s ambitious goals of manufacturing 500,000 PEVs a year by 2015. BEV/PHEV cars that were. Source: Pike Research. Click to enlarge. Battery-electric (BEVs) will outsell.

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JUNE 7, 2017

With more than 750,000 units sold over the year, the number of electric vehicles in the global parc—primarily Battery Electric Vehicles (BEVs) and Plug-in Hybrid Electric Vehicles (PHEVs)—surpassed 2 million units in 2016, following a year of strong growth in 2015, according to the International Energy Agency’s Global EV Outlook 2017.

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NOVEMBER 3, 2016

Other models will follow in the years to come, including a MINI Countryman plug-in hybrid in 2017. In 2015, the BMW Group sold approximately 2.247 million cars and nearly 137,000 motorcycles worldwide. Earlier post.). At the start of the next decade, another, larger BMW i model with electric drive is due to appear: the BMW iNEXT.

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Green Car Congress

JANUARY 26, 2018

ZEV technologies include hydrogen fuel cell electric vehicles (FCEVs) and plug-in electric vehicles (PEVs), which include both pure battery electric vehicles (BEVs) and plug-in hybrid electric vehicles (PHEVs). fully zero tailpipe emissions vehicles—on its roads. When plug-in hybrids are added, that brings the total to 337,483 units.

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JUNE 26, 2017

The four different scenarios differ in terms of new vehicle acquisitions, but are identical in terms of transition rates—set in accordance with the average observed annual rates during 2010–2015. The trend scenario is essentially an extrapolation of the changes in market shares observed between 2010 and 2015. Fridstrøm (2017).

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FEBRUARY 23, 2010

Projected 2015 battery demand and supply in major regions ( in units “EV equivalents”, high penetration scenario). The critical size will be approximately €600 million in revenues in 2015.” million vehicles by 2015. Source: Roland Berger. Click to enlarge. million EV equivalents. million EV equivalents.

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DECEMBER 6, 2016

Toyota intends to deploy these new powertrain units in a rapidly broadening range of vehicle models, starting in 2017. Conventional engine-powered vehicles account for the vast majority of vehicles currently on the market, and HEVs and PHEVs—the advance of which is expected to continue—also have internal-combustion engines.

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FEBRUARY 2, 2018

The same drivetrain system received government certification after undergoing durability testing in late 2015. In the US, EDI introduced its EDI PowerDrive 7000EV drivetrain system in Q3 of 2017. The EDI PowerDrive 6000 has surpassed more than 3.8 Recently, its EDI PowerDrive system hit a cumulative mileage of 3.8

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Green Car Congress

JUNE 22, 2017

In the latest E-Mobility Index report (2Q/2017), consultancy Roland Berger and partner Forschungsgesellschaft Kraftfahrwesen Aachen (fka) find that China has for the first time moved into the pole position. In 2016, China more than doubled sales of plug-in hybrids (PHEVs) and battery-electric vehicles (BEVs) to more than 350,000 units.

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MARCH 28, 2016

Of the $230 million, $55 million is slated to satisfy remaining FY 2015-16 demand (through Sept 2016), and $175 million for the period from Oct 2016-Sept 2017. Fuel cell vehicles are temporarily exempt from the income cap because these vehicles are in a much earlier stage of commercialization than BEVs or PHEVs.

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Green Car Congress

FEBRUARY 8, 2018

In its new ten-year market outlook to 2027, Roskill, a leading provider of international metals and minerals research, forecasts primary nickel consumption to rise by just under 4% per year between 2017 and 2027, driven by increased consumption by stainless steel producers and by growth in demand in the automotive battery sector.

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JANUARY 9, 2017

Sales of plug-in vehicles (PEVs) in China—battery-electric and plug-in hybrid—suddenly soared 343% in 2015 to about 331,000 units—more than 3 times the number sold in the US that year. The scale of subsidies in 2015 in China was massive: The central government provided a much as US$8.4 —Wang et al.

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MARCH 6, 2014

100km (34 mpg US) in 2015. annually—between 2015 and 2020. The multiplier is set at 5 in 2016–2017, falling to 3 in 2018–2019, and then to 2 in 2020. 100km (84 mpg US) will be counted as 3 vehicles in 2016–2017, 2.5 This works out to an overall reduction of about 28%—6.2% in 2018–2019, and 1.5

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DECEMBER 18, 2012

As a result, production plans for EVs and plug-in hybrid electric vehicles (PHEVs) for the next 4-5 years are being slashed. Anderman projects a global EV/PHEV 2016 market at around 0.6% Roland Berger’s projections of xEV sales through 2015. Conversely, those of HEVs are in line with plans. million units in 2012 to about 4.1

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DECEMBER 5, 2012

Increased sales for hybrids and PHEVs. quadrillion Btu in 2025, due to incorporation of the model year 2017 to 2025 GHG and CAFE standards for LDVs. quadrillion Btu in 2025, due to incorporation of the model year 2017 to 2025 GHG and CAFE standards for LDVs. quadrillion Btu in 2011 to 14.0 quadrillion Btu in 2011 to 14.0

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FEBRUARY 7, 2013

For the purposes of the executive order and action plan, ZEVs include hydrogen fuel cell electric vehicles (FCEVs), battery electric vehicles (BEVs), and plug-in hybrid electric vehicles (PHEVs). The Executive Order established several milestones organized into three time periods: by 2015, by 2020, and by 2025.

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Green Car Congress

JANUARY 25, 2017

The 2017 edition of the BP Energy Outlook , published today, forecasts that global demand for energy will increase by around 30% between 2015 and 2035, an average growth of 1.3% billion cars in 2015 to 1.8 million in 2015 to around 100 million in 2035 (~5.5% Oil demand grows at an average rate of 0.7% billion by 2035.

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Green Car Congress

MAY 15, 2014

To meet the cap by 2015 requires an “infeasible” 40% new vehicle fuel consumption (FC) reduction per year in 2011?2015 2015 ( 400 MPG by 2015) to overcome the inertia of the higher-emitting older vehicles in the fleet. Biofuel plays a large role in North America, enabling the relaxation of the near-term (2015?2025)

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FEBRUARY 1, 2021

While BEVs were a hot item last month, jumping 81%, to a record 407.000 units, PHEVs were even hooter, shooting 205% in December, allowing them to end the year with 31% of plugin sales, up 5% from the 26% of 2019, giving credit to those that say that PHEVs will still be around for a while. But more on that later.

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OCTOBER 27, 2016

Of that $37 billion, health costs added up to $24 billion in 2015; the $24 billion represents the monetized sum of harmful emissions responsible for an estimated 220,000 work-loss days, more than 109,000 asthma exacerbations, hundreds of thousands of other respiratory impacts, and 2,580 premature deaths. New York: $7.9 New Jersey: $4.6

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Green Car Congress

FEBRUARY 21, 2018

Mitsubishi Motors Corporation (MMC) will stage the global premiere of the new 2019 model year Mitsubishi Outlander PHEV at the upcoming Geneva show. The new PHEV will be introduced to the European market towards the end of the year. MMC launched the Outlander PHEV plug-in hybrid electric Twin Motor SUV in 2013. liter unit.

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JUNE 16, 2009

By 2015, he suggests, full hybrids (e.g., PHEVs (blended 10-mile strategy), extended range electric vehicles (40-mile AER) and full EVs begin to make economic sense when gasoline is at about $10/gallon US. PHEVs and EREVs require $7/gallon. About half of those, he suggests, could be the mini-EVs of the i-MiEV type.

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Clean Fleet Report

AUGUST 24, 2021

First was the short-lived, 2014-2016, very cool looking ELR plug-in hybrid electric vehicle (PHEV). Then in 2017 along came the CT6 PHEV , an electrified version of Cadillac’s full-size, flagship sedan, but 2019 saw the end of this car. Road Test: 2018 Cadillac CT6 PHEV. Road Test: 2015 Cadillac ELR.

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JULY 2, 2012

Plug-in vehicle (PEV) sales—comprising battery-electric (BEV) and plug-in hybrid electric vehicles (PHEV)—in the US by 2015 will fall far short of the 1-million unit target set by the Obama Administration, according to a new report from Pike Research. Pike expects the US consumer preference for PHEVs over BEVs to continue.

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MARCH 22, 2010

Recent market reports have predicted that the global market for large format lithium-ion batteries—such as those used in plug-in vehicle applications—will see a substantial overcapacity in the coming years, with some predicting an excess of more than 100% in 2015. Earlier post.). Click to enlarge.

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NOVEMBER 26, 2009

ARB Staff’s analysis shows ZEVs will need to reach 100% of new vehicle sales between 2040 and 2050, with commercial markets for ZEVs launching in the 2015 to 2020 timeframe, to meet the 80% GHG reduction target set by the Governor. Source: ARB. Click to enlarge.

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JANUARY 23, 2024

Definitely worthy of used EV tax credits Here are all the Used EVs that qualify for tax credits As promised, here is the current list of used EVs that qualify for tax credits in the US, per the IRS, separated by all-electric BEVs and plug-in hybrids (PHEVs).

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Green Car Congress

NOVEMBER 18, 2011

For the 2017-2025 model year standards, ARB proposes to use the US Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) approach and adopt separate standards for CO 2 , CH 4 , and N 2 O. Estimates of the average reduction in operating costs of the new vehicles range from about 4% for model year (MY) 2017 vehicles, to more than 25% for MY2025 vehicles.

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FEBRUARY 16, 2017

Furthermore, two engineers from the US technical center gave presentations last week at the SAE 2017 Hybrid & Electric Vehicle Technologies Symposium in San Diego, discussing aspects of the hybrid and battery-electric powertrains, including some of the unique features and Hyundai “firsts” represented in the Ioniq. Plug-in hybrid.

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