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Nissan announces Green Program 2016; targeting cumulative sales of 1.5M zero-emission vehicles across Alliance; new fuel cell electric vehicle with Daimler, new Nissan PHEV

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announced its new six-year environmental plan, Nissan Green Program 2016 (NGP 2016). Nissan Green Program 2016, the company’s third environmental mid-term plan, aims to deliver the following by the end of fiscal year 2016: No. Nissan Motor Co., 1 in Zero-Emission Vehicles: cumulative sales of 1.5

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New Open Fuel Standard Act would set minimum requirement for non-petroleum fuel capability in new automobiles

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2493 ) which would require 30% of new automobiles in 2016, 50% in 2017, and 50% in each subsequent year, to operate on non-petroleum fuels in addition to or instead of petroleum based fuels. The auto industry had criticized the 95% requirement as unattainable, noted the Methanol Institute, which came out strongly in support of the new bill.

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The EV Transition Explained

Cars That Think

The 2016 ICE F-150 reportedly had about. University of Michigan professor emeritus John Leslie King , who has long studied the auto industry. The core technologies and requisite expertise, supply chain dependencies, and political alliances are different. 150 million lines of code. Chris Paredis. Having committed.

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Using the PHEV (Plug-In Hybrid Electric Vehicle) to Transition Society Seamlessly and Profitably From Fossil Fuel to 100% Renewable Energy

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The potential is enormous because the current grid has sufficient energy capacity to supply every vehicle in the United States if every one of them was a PHEV. These can be supplied by our current energy distribution and dispensing network without changing the infrastructure. To ignore this potential is wasteful and foolish.

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Verifying the origin of EV battery materials at the source: Traceability challenges, Part Two

Charged EVs

Bureau Veritas has partnered with digital platform provider OPTEL to create a traceability and sustainability assessment solution called V-Trace, which companies and government regulators can use to follow products through their supply chains, from extraction of the raw materials to final assembly. I joined BV in 2016.

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Auto Lobby Says EPA Targets Aren’t Achievable

The Truth About Cars

But it’s hard to have any sympathy for the industry after so many manufacturers have been chanting the mantra of electrification since 2016. The industry has been wildly anti-consumer in some of its recent practices and your author has been required to absorb countless press releases using language that borders on ridiculous.

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2020 Top 10 Countries in the Global EV Revolution

EV Sales

The only exception to this geographical intra-Europe rule was Ukraine, entering the Top 10 in 2016-2018 on the power of grassroots-driven lively market of second-hand EV imports, which seems to have stalled in 2019-2020. France’s auto industry is probably the largest Western auto industry that goes completely under the radar in the US.

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