Green Car Congress

OCTOBER 30, 2022

Most eVTOL manufacturers are targeting 2023 for the start of commercial operations, and the IDTechEx report provides forecasts in unit sales and battery demand through 2042. Tier 1 cities in China were the first to adopt electric buses, driving rapid growth between 2012-2016, but now many of these markets are saturated.

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Green Car Congress

DECEMBER 4, 2019

Chinese OEMs continue to focus on a portfolio of low-cost small and mid-range BEVs, according to the report. In China, battery cell production in 2017-2022 is expected to increase by more than 1,000% compared to the same period last year (2016-2021). US ranks fourth with an increase in sales share of more than 2.3

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Green Car Congress

JUNE 24, 2016

At the 2016 International VDI Congress “Drivetrain for Vehicles” in Friedrichshafen, Germany, John Fuller, Director of Concepts & IP for Torotrak Group, presented and discussed the company’s latest advances to optimize its full-toroidal variator technology for the light vehicle market as applied in continuously variable transmissions (CVTs).

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Green Car Congress

FEBRUARY 4, 2016

With increasing EV sales—97,687 EVs were sold in Europe in 2015, up 48% on 2014—so is the requirement in energy to charge them. The system also allows the batteries to be charged via low-cost off-peak electricity tariffs, enabling users to reduce their energy costs. E-STOR and Renault ZOE. Click to enlarge.

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Green Car Congress

NOVEMBER 22, 2013

Low-cost 14V micro hybrid systems and full (strong) hybrid (i.e., of total vehicle sales by 2020, the more significant story is the rapid expansion of strong-hybrid vehicles led by Toyota, Ford, and Honda, followed by Hyundai, Nissan and others. The corresponding data for PHEV cells and packs are about 10-20% lower. Source: AAB.

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Green Car Congress

MAY 18, 2018

Scrap steel was banned from sale to such furnaces in early 2017, becoming available for use in EAFs. Natural graphite often provides a low-cost option, despite the extensive processing needed to transform mined product into the high carbon, low impurity, technical grades required for lithium-ion batteries. Mt in 2017.

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Get Electric Vehicle

JULY 14, 2021

HMC is making bold movements to seize the opportunity and aspires to become a new market leader in Europe, fighting against both domestic producers and low-cost imported Chinese electric bicycles. By 2025, the firm hopes to generate organic sales of up to EURO 300 million, with inorganic revenue of up to EURO 200 million.

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Green Car Congress

NOVEMBER 3, 2017

After 2025, falling battery prices and rising consumer demand based on TCO will drive rapidly increasing sales of all electrified vehicles, and especially BEVs. The low cost of gasoline in the US will yield similar results.

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Cars That Think

APRIL 2, 2024

Even though the consumer business had huge growth potential, 3M had little experience with a low-cost, low-profit-margin model. To stay in the “dog fight” meant 3M had to invest enormous amounts of money in order to remain the low-cost producer, with no assurance that profit margins ever would improve.

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Green Car Congress

DECEMBER 11, 2016

They noted that due to current sales trends, three lithium-ion chemistries account for nearly all of the storage capacity, and half of the cells are cylindrical. However, no specific model has existed to examine the costs of manufacturing these cylindrical cells. Engineering and Public Policy (EPP) Ph.D. —Rebecca Ciez.

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Green Car Congress

NOVEMBER 15, 2016

In his talk, Krzanich noted that in 2016, the average person generates 650MB of data a day through use of their PCs, mobile phones and wearables. Data that tracks how many people are in the car, music preferences of each passenger, or even what stores or brands passengers prefer and, when you are near them, tees up sale items.

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Green Car Congress

FEBRUARY 21, 2018

Natural gas grows strongly over the period, supported by increasing levels of industrialization and power demand in fast-growing emerging economies, continued coal-to-gas switching, and the increasing availability of low-cost supplies in North America and the Middle East.

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Clean Fleet Report

OCTOBER 21, 2021

It’s a robust list of a variety of models–the majority of which are focused on the hot crossover segment–with total sales of more than 150,000 from six major automaker groups. This list is subjective and weighted toward functionality with an emphasis on fun, but also factors in sales numbers. had Tesla badges on them.

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Green Car Congress

JANUARY 31, 2013

MTBE was low-cost, had a high octane value, and was easily blended into gasoline stock—and was later found to have its own environmental problems.). In 2011, regular gasoline grade sales by the refiners accounted for 86% of all motor gasoline sales, according to the US Energy Information Administration (EIA).

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Green Car Congress

DECEMBER 30, 2015

More to the point, the cost of electric vehicles will only decline in real dollar terms over time, and adoption should continue to rise in a non-linear fashion. That presents a significant threat to long-term oil sales. The industry cut upstream investment by $250 billion in 2015, and another $70 billion could be cut in 2016.

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Green Car Congress

SEPTEMBER 21, 2016

Ford is showcasing the latest Transit and Transit Custom line-up powered by the Ford EcoBlue diesel engine ( earlier post ) at 2016 IAA Hannover Commercial Vehicle Show. Ford’s Transit Custom Kombi M1 and Tourneo Custom models are now available to order with a unique-to-segment rear air suspension system, for customer delivery in late 2016.

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Green Car Congress

MARCH 10, 2018

For 20 years, researchers have shown that CNT membranes offer tremendous promise for a wide variety of uses including the low-cost production of ethanol fuel, precision drug delivery, low-energy desalination of seawater, purification of pharmaceutical compounds, and high-performance catalysis for the production of fuels.

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Cars That Think

MAY 7, 2022

But the technology that I needed to make it happen—reliable low-cost communications, cheap screens and processors—didn’t exist yet. How did these ugly, piece-of-crap thermostats cost almost as much as Apple’s most cutting-edge technology? In 2016 Google decided to sell Nest, so I left the company. And they might sue you.

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Green Car Congress

JUNE 25, 2009

In April, the US Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) officially registered Amyris’s renewable diesel fuel, making it the first time a hydrocarbon-based fuel made from plant-derived resources (earlier post) has been registered for commercial sale. Earlier post.).

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Green Car Congress

MARCH 18, 2013

Projected rates of fuel consumption improvement under different scenarios relative to past experience and the 2016 and 2025 CAFE standards. Additional policy support may be required to promote increased sales of natural gas vehicles, battery-electric vehicles, and fuel cell vehicles. Source: NRC. Click to enlarge.

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Green Car Congress

JULY 17, 2015

Already Porsche, Mercedes and other high-end automotive manufacturers are making such PHEVs because of the availability of low-cost electricity from wind and solar and the availability of government incentives which make them competitively priced in the beginning. The convenience and low cost of this concept alone merit attention.

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