CleanTechnica EVs

MAY 28, 2023

Starting in 2017, with grand plans to revolutionize safety and environmental technology for trucks, the company has had a long journey to delivery. Volta Trucks is trying to take a different approach to cargo vehicles in cities.

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Green Car Congress

FEBRUARY 16, 2017

At the SAE 2017 Hybrid & Electric Vehicle Technologies Symposium last week, an overview of the plans for testing to validate power levels up to WPT 3, (11kW) for SAE J2954TM were shown along with a preview of the technology to be standardized in the upcoming Recommended Practice. Earlier post.). 7.7kW) in 2016. 7.7kW) in 2016.

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Green Car Congress

MARCH 2, 2017

General Motors China has launched the 2017 Green Supply Chain project. Building on the success of the 2016 program, GM China will offer the new group of suppliers training, energy audits and other support.

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Green Car Congress

JANUARY 2, 2018

Titan LNG, a full service supplier of LNG to the marine and industrial markets in North West Europe, reported that in 2017 around 11% of all new build contracts were LNG powered ships, a trend it expects to continue during 2018. The supplier suggests that LNG adoption as a marine fuel has passed the tipping point.

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Green Car Reports

NOVEMBER 7, 2016

With anticipation of the 2017 Chevrolet Bolt EV launch growing, General Motors has started to ramp up production of its groundbreaking 200-mile electric car.

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Green Car Reports

MARCH 20, 2019

Volkswagen is scrambling to convert its business to building electric cars from building internal combustion cars to building electrics. According to a report by VW itself, orders for its diesel vehicles rose from 39 percent of its products in 2017 to 43 percent in 2018, and that goes double for private.

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Green Car Reports

DECEMBER 10, 2019

Although the Mitsubishi i-MiEV electric car may seem like a relic from another time, when the best chance of EVs succeeding cast them as super-utilitarian urban lightweights, the Japanese automaker still builds the i-MiEV, and it was discontinued for the U.S. Last week a new recall for the 2012-2017 i-MiEV, in U.S.

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Teslarati

DECEMBER 17, 2021

Known as Launch Complex 49 (LC-49) and located where NASA once considered building LC-39C, a third Saturn-class pad to match 39A and 39B, NASA now says that SpaceX aims to develop the site into a dedicated Starship launch pad. The plot of land NASA deemed LC-49 as recently as 2017 sits about 1 mile (1.6

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Florida Building Saturn Texas 145

Cars That Think

JANUARY 7, 2022

While growing up in Germany, Heike Riel helped her father design and build furniture in the family workshop. She says the experience taught her that “precision and creativity are necessary to build something excellent.” When I go back to my hometown, many of our clients still have the furniture that I helped build for them.”

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Building Light Germany Connect 133

Green Car Congress

NOVEMBER 2, 2017

In its third-quarter 2017 financial results update, Tesla Motors reported that it is delaying its expected start of volume production—defined here as 5,000 Model 3 vehicles per week—to “late Q1 2018”. The company was earlier targeting that milestone for “some time in 2017”. The company posted a Q3 2017 loss of $619.4

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Green Car Congress

SEPTEMBER 5, 2018

A recent mobility study by ABI Research on regional ride-hailing markets found that 16 billion ride-hailing trips were completed worldwide in 2017. Our research showed that at the beginning of 2017, Grab had just 30% market share of the Indonesian ride-hailing market, while local rival GO-JEK had a commanding 58% of the market.

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Green Car Congress

MAY 5, 2016

Volkswagen Chattanooga reached an early production milestone with the completion of the first assembled metal test body for the upcoming Midsize SUV, scheduled to begin production late this year and to enter the market in 2017. The body is then passed on for further testing and development.

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2017 SUV Building Production 150

Green Car Congress

APRIL 16, 2014

One thousand construction workers will be hired to build the facility which is due to be completed in 2017, creating up to 150 permanent jobs. The site has excellent transport links and existing fuel storage facilities.

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Waste Fuel 2017 Building 246

Teslarati

MAY 3, 2022

Nearly half of the 2017-2019 Chevrolet Bolt EV vehicles that were recalled due to potential battery pack fires have been remedied, according to NHTSA documents. Chevrolet Bolt vehicles were recalled last year after some cells used in the earlier builds of the vehicle contained flawed cells made by LG Energy Solution.

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2017 Batteries Battery Chevrolet 86

Green Car Congress

MAY 18, 2016

The proposed volume requirements and associated percentage standards for are for calendar year 2017 for cellulosic biofuel, biomass-based diesel, advanced biofuel, and total renewable fuel. Total renewable fuel volumes would grow by some 690 million gallons between 2016 and 2017. Proposed 2017 Percentage Standards. Source: EPA.

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Baua Electric

JANUARY 15, 2024

A Tesla Model Y owner decided to build his own solar roof that can add over 20 miles of range to the electric SUV per day. In 2017, CEO Elon Musk said that he pushed his Tesla engineers to look into integrating solar cells on Model 3 , but they concluded that it wasn’t worth it at the time. Electrek’s Take This is pretty cool.

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Solar Building Tesla Carbon Fiber 52

Green Car Congress

DECEMBER 27, 2016

At CES 2017, TriLumina ( earlier post )—a spin-out from Sandia National Laboratories—will demonstrate , in collaboration with LeddarTech ( earlier post ), an innovative 256-pixel, 3D LiDAR solution for autonomous driving applications powered by TriLumina’s breakthrough laser illumination module and LeddarTech’s LeddarCore ICs.

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Green Car Congress

MARCH 30, 2022

Founded in 2017 and headquartered in Hanoi, VinFast has a vehicle production facility in Haiphong, Vietnam, that will have the capacity to produce 950,000 vehicles per year by 2026. —North Carolina Commerce Secretary Machelle Baker Sanders.

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North Carolina Vietnam Building Batteries 170

Green Car Congress

JULY 10, 2018

CATL) is building its first plant outside of China in Thuringia, Germany. GWh in 2017—making it Nº 1 globally. With an annual supply of 12 GWh in 2017, CATL is number one in the global automotive battery industry. At the end of 2017, around 23% of CATL’s workforce was in R&D.

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Germany Chinese Manufacturer Building 170

Green Car Congress

MARCH 16, 2018

General Motors will build production versions of its Cruise AV ( earlier post ) at its Orion Township assembly plant in Michigan. Our Orion and Brownstown teams have proven experience in building high-quality self-driving test vehicles and battery packs, so they are well-prepared to produce the Cruise AV.

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GM Building San Francisco Production 170

Green Car Congress

JANUARY 15, 2016

The 2017 Hyundai Elantra—Hyundai’s best-selling model in the US— launches this month with Apple CarPlay and Android Auto. By launching our best-selling model, Elantra, with CarPlay and Android Auto support, we are building on our promise to offer more convenience features for today’s modern driver at an affordable price point.

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CleanTechnica EVs

JULY 15, 2021

In 2017, Pierce rented a Chevy Bolt through the former […]. Originally published on RMI.org By Laurie Stone Michelle Pierce, a retired electrical engineer living in Southern California, is a passionate EV advocate.

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Building California Charging 2017 144

Cars That Think

JANUARY 24, 2022

Among other things, Meta hopes RSC will help it build new neural networks that can do real-time voice translations to large groups of people, each speaking a different language, the researchers write. The experiences we’re building for the metaverse require enormous compute power (quintillions of operations / second!)

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Building Connect Connected Design 131

Green Car Congress

JULY 28, 2017

FCA US has received a certificate of conformity from the Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) and a conditional executive order from the California Air Resources Board (ARB), permitting the production and sale of FCA US 2017 model-year light-duty Ram 1500 and Jeep Grand Cherokee vehicles equipped with 3.0-liter liter diesel engines.

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EPA 2017 Diesel California 150

Green Car Congress

JULY 10, 2018

CATL) is building its first plant outside of China in Thuringia, Germany. GWh in 2017—making it Nº 1 globally. With an annual supply of 12 GWh in 2017, CATL is number one in the global automotive battery industry. At the end of 2017, around 23% of CATL’s workforce was in R&D.

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Germany Chinese Manufacturer Building 150

Green Car Congress

JANUARY 31, 2012

Micro-hybrids will grow nearly eight-fold to 39 million vehicles in 2017 and create a $6.9 million vehicles in 2017, accounting for 1.6% Micro-hybrids will take over the automotive market, while mild hybrids will leverage the excessive build-out of Li-ion capacity to grow. of the auto market.

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Green Car Congress

NOVEMBER 3, 2017

The governing boards of the ports of Los Angeles and Long Beach unanimously approved the 2017 Clean Air Action Plan (CAAP) Update , ushering in a new era of aggressive clean air strategies for moving cargo through the nation’s busiest container port complex. The combined port complex is on pace in 2017 for the busiest year ever.

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Long Beach 2017 Clean Cleaning 150

Green Car Congress

DECEMBER 3, 2016

The first 2017 Chrysler Pacifica Hybrid ( earlier post ) rolled off the line at the FCA US Windsor Assembly Plant (Ont.) on 1 December. The launch of the Chrysler Pacifica Hybrid marks another milestone for the Windsor plant as it is the first electric vehicle to be built on its assembly line.

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Chrysler 2017 Hybrid Minivan 150

Green Car Congress

AUGUST 4, 2017

Germany-based TerraE-Holding GmbH has organized 17 major companies and research institutions into a consortium to handle planning for building large-scale lithium ion battery cell manufacturing in Germany. The goal is to gradually build up production capacities of up to 34 GWh/year by the year 2028.

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Germany Li-ion Lithium Ion Manufacturer 170

Green Car Congress

JULY 30, 2018

In March 2017, the Belgian organization WaterstofNet received approval for the €3.52-million The project aims to build and demonstrate a 27-ton rigid hydrogen fuel cell truck along with a mobile refueler. million () project ‘ H2-Share ’ from Interreg North-West Europe (NWE).

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Hydrogen Belgium Netherlands Building 244

Green Car Congress

JANUARY 12, 2021

In 2017, Russelectric installed a renewable, hybrid microgrid at its Hingham location, consisting of grid power, a solar photovoltaic power generation system, an energy storage system, and a diesel generator.

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Massachusetts Renewable Charging North America 418

Green Car Congress

APRIL 20, 2018

Ahead of Beijing International Motor Show, INFINITI announced it will build five new vehicles in China in the next five years, beginning with the all new QX50 SUV, and electrify its portfolio ( earlier post ). In 2017, INFINITI sold a record 48,408 vehicles in China, a 16% increase from the prior year.

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Infinity China Building Asia 186

Green Car Congress

DECEMBER 15, 2017

The California Air Resources Board unanimously approved the 2017 Climate Change Scoping Plan , which sets the state on an aggressive course to reduce greenhouse gas emissions an additional 40% below 1990 levels by 2030 under SB 32. —2017 Scoping Plan. Earlier post.).

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Climate Change Climate 2017 California 170

Green Car Congress

SEPTEMBER 19, 2020

The violations were discovered during routine audits of the company’s 2017 and 2018 vessel fleet visits to the Port of Oakland. CARB’s investigation revealed that from 2017 to 2018, Mitsui O.S.K. In 2017, 87% of all regulated fleets complied with the regulation.

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Green Car Congress

DECEMBER 14, 2018

In late 2017, Fulcrum began construction on the Sierra BioFuels Plant located near Reno, Nevada. Fulcrum’s Centerpoint plant will be the company’s second waste-to-fuels plant. When the Sierra plant begins operations in early 2020, it will be the first commercial-scale waste-to-fuels plant in the United States.

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Indiana Waste Fuel Building 259

Green Car Congress

JULY 16, 2018

Johnson Matthey (JM) is building a demonstration-scale plant in Clitheroe, UK to manufacture next-generation battery materials to power electric vehicles. —Alan Nelson, Sector Chief Executive, New Markets and Group Chief Technology Officer, Johnson Matthey during JM New Markets Sector Conference Call Dec 2017.

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Building Batteries Battery Production 170

EV Central

SEPTEMBER 27, 2022

SEA Electric Asia-Pacific chief Bill Gillespie flew back into Australia last weekend fresh from discussions with Toyota in Thailand that included a proposal to build a battery electric version of Australia’s top-selling vehicle. So if someone said ‘can you build 200 in the second half of next year?’ the answer is ‘absolutely;’.

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