Green Car Congress

JUNE 5, 2017

This partnership will reduce the cost of a Powervault smart battery unit by 30%, helping Powervault to bring home energy storage to the tipping point of mass-market roll-out in the UK. Powervault units can also automatically charge using low-cost, off-peak energy from the grid.

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Green Car Congress

FEBRUARY 12, 2018

The company is increasing line speed at its Kentucky Truck Plant to build more Lincoln Navigator and Ford Expedition SUVs, boosting production targets approximately 25% since last fall when the SUVs hit the market. 2018 Lincoln Navigator unveiled at New York Auto Show in 2017. Click to enlarge. The 2018 Navigator is powered by a 3.5-liter

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Teslarati

JUNE 1, 2022

General Motors-owned Chevrolet rolled back prices of the new model year versions of the Bolt EV and EUV by $5,900 and $6,300, respectively, despite electric vehicle costs increasing due to materials and parts shortages. Nearly 50% of 2017-19 Chevy Bolt EVs have been remedied after battery fire recall.

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Green Car Congress

MAY 20, 2020

BNEF’s analysis suggests that global sales of internal combustion engine, or ICE, cars peaked in 2017 and will continue their long-term decline after a temporary post-crisis recovery. of municipal bus sales globally by 2040, but with higher shares in East Asia and parts of Europe. million units.

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Green Car Congress

MARCH 20, 2018

As a result of this project and the learning that comes with the related investments, UPS can now tailor the lowest cost approach building by building and determine how best to adopt and charge a fully electric fleet. SEUL is a two-year project that commenced in April 2017.

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Green Car Congress

NOVEMBER 8, 2017

This suggests that the opportunity cost, in terms of lives saved, for waiting for better HAV performance may indeed be large. This evidence can help decisionmakers better understand the human cost of different policy choices governing HAV safety and set policies that save more lives. —Kalra and Groves (2017).

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Green Car Congress

DECEMBER 13, 2016

Velodyne LiDAR announced a new design for a solid-state LiDAR sensor that can deliver a subsystem cost of less than US$50 when sold in high-volume manufacturing scale. LiDAR sensors that leverage this new design will be less expensive, easier to integrate due to their smaller size, and more reliable as a result of fewer moving parts.

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Green Car Congress

OCTOBER 6, 2016

Applicants to the Energy Department’s Fuel Cell Technologies Office’s fiscal year 2017 funding opportunity will collaborate with national lab consortia stemming from the EMN initiative. This collaboration will continue to grow FEMP’s diverse offerings of training courses and build on FCTO’s existing outreach efforts to various stakeholders.

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Green Car Congress

APRIL 14, 2017

As a part of the first cycle of investment, Volkswagen’s “Electrify America” program is earmarked to spend $300 million, with the most focus on the installation of hundreds of electric vehicle (EV) charging stations at multi-family residences, workplaces, highway rest-stops, commercial and retail sites, and municipal lots and garages.

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Green Car Congress

JANUARY 4, 2018

Under the current regulatory system, the cost of building the additional capacity would have to be borne by customers, so UK Power Networks is using innovation to optimize its existing infrastructure to reduce this cost. By 2030 it is anticipated that there will be up to 1.9

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Green Car Congress

DECEMBER 11, 2012

In line with the government’s plan to develop a national e-vehicle industry, the project will support the establishment of an e-vehicle parts industry, battery supply chain, and charging stations, including five off-grid solar charging stations. The project will run for five years, with an estimated completion date of December 2017.

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Green Car Congress

JULY 25, 2013

Compliance with future emissions standards such as Euro 6b (from 9/2014) and Euro 6c (from 9/2017) will call for further improvements in engine combustion processes. Building on the level we’ve already reached, we are continuing to work on the XL3 injector with an eye to meeting the stringent requirements of Euro 6c.

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Green Car Congress

MARCH 16, 2018

billion envisioned by Fields in 2017. That money will go toward: Next-Gen Hybrid Electrics: Part of Ford’s new strategy includes going all-in on hybrids to bring more capability to customers of our most popular and high-volume vehicles like F-150, Mustang, Explorer, Escape and Bronco.

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Green Car Congress

DECEMBER 10, 2013

However, Honeywell is also looking at the possibility of building a plant in Europe, but this will be driven by demand and the requirements of that market. HFO-1234yf is being adopted by automakers in part to meet the EU MAC Directive, which requires that refrigerants in all new vehicle types sold in Europe after 1 Jan. Refrigerant.

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Green Car Congress

DECEMBER 6, 2012

Building on a Phase 1 Lotus study published in 2010 ( earlier post ), the Phase 2 study demonstrated the crashworthiness of a low mass body-in-white (BIW) using computer aided analysis and simulation. Designing each part to be a structural element. Elimination of parts. Maximizing structural sections. magnesium, 37.0%

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Green Car Congress

MARCH 22, 2017

These fuel economy levels are achieved based on a sustained 4%–6% annual reduction of fuel use per mile with incremental technology additions that do not compromise vehicle size or utility at an incremental cost of $800–$1,300 from 2025 to 2030. Previous costs of compliance have been greatly overestimated. Lightweighting.

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Green Car Congress

DECEMBER 2, 2016

The 2030 Target Scoping Plan Discussion Draft builds on the state’s efforts to reach its more immediate goal of reducing greenhouse gas emissions to 1990 levels by 2020 and outlines the most effective ways to reach the new 2030 goal, including continuing California’s Cap-and-Trade program. —2030 Target Scoping Plan Discussion Draft.

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Cars That Think

SEPTEMBER 28, 2021

Even without the lockdowns, many parts of the world have been facing an obesity epidemic, which has created a need to help people manage their weight. A 2017 study looked at seven such typical devices, and found their counts were off between 27 and 93 percent , depending on the device.

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Green Car Congress

DECEMBER 16, 2016

The deadline to submit a Concept Paper for MARINER is 5 pm ET, 14 February 2017. The US has the potential to utilize this resource to build and grow a thriving marine biomass industry for the production of fuels, chemicals, feed, and food.

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Green Car Congress

DECEMBER 8, 2016

Nano One produces low-cost high-performance energy storage materials for batteries as well as a wide range of advanced nanostructured composite materials. The support leverages existing plans to build and operate our Demonstration Pilot Plant. ASIP was created as part of the Canadian Federal Government’s Economic Action Plan 2015.

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Green Car Congress

MARCH 20, 2017

We are in a good position to transform the global energy system but success will depend on urgent action, as delays will raise the costs of decarbonization. The findings of this report will inform G20 work on energy and climate in the context of the 2017 German G20 presidency. —IRENA Director-General Adnan Z. Around US$3.5

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Green Car Congress

DECEMBER 21, 2016

Peloton plans to bring its first platooning system to market in 2017, and ARPA-E is funding research into platooning technology as part of its NEXTCAR project. We believe that ultimately this thinking will allow us to build new transportation systems in which the cost of transportation will be reduced substantially.

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Charged EVs

DECEMBER 21, 2022

Among its first announced customers, back in December 2017, was Pepsi, which reserved 100 of the trucks and plans to use them in the California regions of Modesto and Sacramento. Identifying ideal routes is key to success,” says the LIGHTS group’s final report , and the learnings were underscored by the fleet operators taking part.

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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. ARB staff proposes that many of the technologies that reduce climate change emissions will also reduce the operating costs of light-duty vehicles.

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Green Car Congress

JANUARY 20, 2017

The process could significantly lower the cost of producing the one-dimensional (1D) nanostructures, enabling a broad range of uses in lightweight structural composites, advanced sensors, electronic devices—and thermally-stable and strong battery membranes able to withstand temperatures of more than 1,000 ˚C. —Gleb Yushin.

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Green Car Congress

MAY 17, 2009

In addition, the bill allocates 3% of the emissions allowances (under the cap-and-trade scheme defined in the bill) through 2017 and 1% from 2018 through 2025 be allocated for investments in electric vehicles and other advanced automobile technology and deployment. Advanced technology vehicles.

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Green Car Congress

APRIL 27, 2016

Accordingly, to offer a product with a competitive value proposition, the industry focus has shifted to increasing the value of the product for the end user from a total cost of ownership (TCO) perspective. Cost, productivity, efficiency and fuel economy now offer the highest focus for technology investment, he said.

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Green Car Congress

JULY 21, 2016

Alone, the federal government plans to purchase more than 500 plug-in hybrid electric vehicles (PHEV) or EVs in fiscal year 2017. The Standard for High Performance Green Buildings will consider a revision to encourage EV-ready building practices. Municipal fleet electrification.

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EV Info

SEPTEMBER 23, 2021

It comes upon us when we have barely started ripping out our gas boilers to make way for the expensive and inefficient heat pumps the Government is telling us to buy, or building the costly new power stations that will be needed to charge the electric cars we will all soon require. Energy Solutions.

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Green Car Congress

NOVEMBER 12, 2012

The cost of fossil-fuel subsidies has been driven up by higher oil prices; they remain most prevalent in the Middle East and North Africa, where momentum towards their reform appears to have been lost. in the buildings sector and more than half in industry—still remains untapped, according to the report. If action to reduce CO 2.

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Green Car Congress

NOVEMBER 16, 2015

Magnetocaloric materials have great potential to lower the energy consumption and carbon footprint of technologies used in building cooling, refrigeration, and gas liquefaction. Electric drive vehicle batteries. The North American market has the most stringent emissions regulations for the passenger car sector.

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Green Car Congress

DECEMBER 5, 2012

quadrillion Btu in 2025, due to incorporation of the model year 2017 to 2025 GHG and CAFE standards for LDVs. annual average refiners' acquisition cost of imported crude oil, which is more representative of the average cost of all crude oils used by domestic refiners. quadrillion Btu in 2011 to 14.0 mpg in 2025. mpg in 2025.

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Clean Fleet Report

MAY 12, 2023

Flash Drive: 2023 VinFast VF 8 The First Car Vietnamese Car Comes To North America When Vietnam’s largest company, the VinGroup, announced in 2017 they were entering the automobile manufacturing business, it probably didn’t get too much notice. Because of this we don’t address issues such as long-term reliability or total cost of ownership.

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Charged EVs

FEBRUARY 23, 2021

Val Miftakhov got into the EV game in 2010 when he founded eMotorWerks, which created an innovative smart charging solution and was acquired by the Enel Group in 2017. Charged : You’ve done some pilot programs with battery-electric planes, but your long-term idea is to build fuel cell aircraft, correct? So, that’s a lot of what we do.

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Clean Fleet Report

FEBRUARY 6, 2023

The only choice For the all-wheel drive version, which Clean Fleet Report had for a week, the transmission is part of the Honda Real Time AWD with Intelligent Control. various parts are sourced from Canada and Mexico, with the final assembly point of Celaya, Guanajuato, Mexico. The HR-V is a true international crossover.

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Electric Auto Association

OCTOBER 28, 2021

About Joe: Joe has driven electric since 2017 with two BMWs: i3 REX and X5 40e. He has spent the better part of the last decade developing EV pilot projects, leading clean transportation research, and evaluating EV programs. I have talked about the total cost of ownership for EVs compared with both hybrid and traditional ICE vehicles.

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Cars That Think

FEBRUARY 15, 2022

Neural implants —devices that interact with the human nervous system, either on its periphery or in the brain—are part of a rapidly growing category of medicine that’s sometimes called electroceuticals. We just needed to build a device.”. Beatrice de Gea/The New York Times/Redux. Ringo Chiu/ZUMA Press/Alamy.

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