The Truth About Cars

OCTOBER 5, 2023

In 2017, General Motors sold Opel and Vauxhall to Frances PSA Group — which later merged with Fiat Chrysler to form Stellantis — basically ending its involvement with the European market. Assuming things go well, GM wants to expand Cadillac EV sales to France and Sweden before deciding which country to tackle next.

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Green Car Congress

OCTOBER 27, 2019

Daimler Trucks & Buses, one of the world’s largest commercial vehicle manufacturers, aims to offer only new vehicles that are CO 2 -neutral in driving operation (“tank-to-wheel”) in the triad markets of Europe, Japan and NAFTA by 2039. Truly CO 2 -neutral transport only works with battery-electric or hydrogen-based drive.

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Green Car Congress

MAY 26, 2022

A study of a 2017 Toyota Mirai fuel cell by Argonne National Laboratory found fuel cell stack efficiency below 50% and fuel cell system efficiency dropping below 40% at high loads. Combustion and Propulsion Systems, Chalmers University of Technology, Gothenburg, Sweden. Aramco Americas.

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Green Car Congress

DECEMBER 21, 2016

buses from other manufactures can also be charged. In October, ABB inaugurated the first bus charging station next to Volvo’s electric bus depot in Arendal, Sweden. The buses extend their reach and flexibility when needed with a small diesel engine. ABB’s fast chargers are based on the open Interface OppCharge—i.e.,

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Green Car Congress

OCTOBER 5, 2010

Volvo’s current plug-in architecture of choice is shown on its V70 diesel PHEV prototypes: combining a front-wheel drive engine (diesel initially) with an axle-integrated rear-wheel drive electric motor, powered, in the case of the V70 PHEV, by an 11.3 The next step would be [around] 2016, 2017, 2018. Earlier post.).

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Green Car Congress

SEPTEMBER 25, 2015

The updated study closely follows on revelations that a similar gap in NO x emissions from diesel passenger vehicles was, at least in the case of Volkswagen, deliberately engineered, and as the European Commission prepares to adopt an improved test procedure that would produce more realistic vehicle test results. Source: ICCT.

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Green Car Congress

JULY 23, 2018

Making conventional gasoline and diesel vehicles more expensive to run—through increased fuel or carbon taxes—is not enough to incentivize the majority of consumers to change. In Norway, for example, 40% of passenger cars sold in 2017 were either battery-electrics or plug-in hybrids. McCollum et al. Click to enlarge.

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Baua Electric

APRIL 28, 2024

In 2017, after taking charge of the Tata Group, Natarajan Chandrasekaran had mooted the ‘UniEVerse’ initiative, keeping sustainability at its core. Tesla was rapidly expanding its reach and portfolio, and the Volkswagen Group — hurt from the ‘diesel gate’ scandal — had committed huge resources to pivot to electric cars.

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Clean Fleet Report

APRIL 9, 2021

It was established in 2017 and is based in Gothenburg, Sweden, where Volvo has been for a long time (although the Polestar 2 is built in China). Any emissions for an EV come not from a tailpipe but from manufacturing, transportation and how the electricity to move it is produced. Still a bit of a mystery.

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Green Car Congress

OCTOBER 12, 2017

This electric powertrain is designed in a way that means that it can be used to drive future distribution trucks and city buses manufactured by the Volkswagen Truck & Bus brands as a universal modular element. The vehicle will be shipped to selected customers by the end of 2017. The VW I.D.

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Electric Auto Association

OCTOBER 6, 2021

Further, according to a report from the Union of Concerned Scientists (UCS), gasoline and diesel ICE vehicle technologies fueled on a fossil/biofuel mix emit approximately 245–253 g CO2 eq./km So, how clean is EV battery manufacturing? This 2017 study has been used by anti-EV commentators to discredit the climate performance of EVs.

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Electric Auto Association

OCTOBER 6, 2021

Further, according to a report from the Union of Concerned Scientists (UCS), gasoline and diesel ICE vehicle technologies fueled on a fossil/biofuel mix emit approximately 245–253 g CO2 eq./km So, how clean is EV battery manufacturing? This 2017 study has been used by anti-EV commentators to discredit the climate performance of EVs.

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