Green Car Congress

AUGUST 7, 2020

After about a year of intensive practical use by ten customers in Germany and Switzerland, eight of the purely battery-powered Mercedes-Benz eActros trucks are now successively going to new customers in Germany, Belgium and the Netherlands. Lithium-ion batteries with 240 kWh supply the energy for the eActros.

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Green Car Congress

SEPTEMBER 10, 2018

Winnebago is displaying the vehicle in San Francisco, at both CALSTART’s Global Commercial Vehicle Drive to Zero Workshop on September 11 th and the Global Climate Action Summit 12-14 September 2018. Motiv Power Systems all-electric/zero-emissions EPIC chassis, removing the need to idle an engine.

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All-Electric Vehicles San Francisco Cleveland 240

Green Car Congress

AUGUST 17, 2018

Rolls-Royce has been delivering energy storage systems since 2010, however the actual energy storage units were previously supplied by an external party. Illustration of a ship system setup with batteries. SAVe Energy can be applied to several areas including peak shaving, spinning reserve and battery-powered vessels.

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Li-ion Energy Energy Storage Batteries 218

Green Car Congress

JANUARY 23, 2017

Germany-based Li-ion manufacturer AKASOL ( earlier post ) has signed a contract for the supply of Li-ion batteries to an unnamed international commercial vehicle manufacturer in Scandinavia for its entire electric bus fleet through 2023. The first series production buses fitted with AKASOL-battery systems are expected in 2018.

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Baua Electric

APRIL 21, 2024

Creatara Mobility Pvt Ltd, a New Delhi-based startup, was founded in 2018 by two IIT Delhi graduates, Vikas Gupta and Ringlarei Pamei. After several years of groundwork, the company recently announced the completion of pre-production models of their 72V battery-powered lifestyle e2ws. Have these products actually been launched?

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India Design Production Lithium Ion 40

Green Car Congress

MAY 18, 2018

In 2007 smart launched a battery-powered vehicle as a pioneer in e-mobility and has been producing electric smarts in series since 2012. In Germany the smart brand is the market leader among all-electric vehicles in the first quarter of 2018.

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Mercedes Germany France Hungary 207

Green Car Congress

DECEMBER 20, 2017

The technology group Wärtsilä will supply two Wärtsilä HY 2 hybrid power modules for a new escort tug being built for the Swedish port of Luleå located on the Gulf of Bothnia in the northern end of the Baltic Sea. It will be capable of operating on battery power when in transit. Earlier post.). Click to enlarge.

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Hybrid Re-Charge Energy Storage Mariner 150

Green Car Congress

APRIL 11, 2018

The 212 kW / 840 kWh battery, supplied by Tesla, will be integrated with the wind farm and configured to help manage internal electricity demands of turbines when wind isn’t blowing. The farm has 10 turbines with the capacity to generate 25 MW of wind energy—enough to power about 6,700 average homes annually.

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Wind South Dakota Batteries Battery 150

Cars That Think

DECEMBER 25, 2022

And while coal plants still supplied over half of Australia’s power in 2021, change is afoot. The other glimmer of reality is a project in Gladstone to build one of the world’s largest electrolyzer-manufacturing plants, which promises to provide a local source of equipment amid ongoing chaos in global supply chains.

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Australia Hydrogen Green Renewable 145

Green Car Congress

FEBRUARY 9, 2010

Oil price and supply dependencies will continue the search for alternative fuel sources, and battery powered vehicles can have a significant impact on that equation. We expect that HEV, PHEVs and BEVs will reach total cost of ownership parity by 2010, 2016 and 2018 respectively.

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Green Car Congress

OCTOBER 5, 2017

The 2018 Accord is the 10 th generation of Honda’s perennially best-selling midsize sedan. 2018 Honda Accord Hybrid. The 2018 Accord Hybrid’s third-generation i-MMD system utilizes a 2.0-liter Click to enlarge. As before, the Accord two-motor system operates without the need for a conventional automatic transmission.

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Revenge of the Electric Car

NOVEMBER 19, 2009

. “A coalition of auto makers, battery manufacturers, utility operators and shipping companies wants the U.S. to offer tax credits for buying all-electric plug-in vehicles as part of a $128 billion program to get seven million such cars on the road by 2018.

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My Electric Car

AUGUST 21, 2020

Nonetheless, hydrogen fuel cell cars are, like pure battery powered cars, classed as Zero Emission Vehicles (ZEV). Hence its supply would not be cheap, renewable nor sustainable in the long term. 2018) Where Are We Heading With Electric Vehicles? So why haven’t FCEV becoming as prolific as other electric cars?

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Get Electric Vehicle

APRIL 18, 2022

Unlike battery-powered electric vehicles, FCEVs can go over 500 kilometers on a full tank of hydrogen and can be refueled in 2-3 minutes, exactly like regular petrol/diesel cars. Unlike Lithium, hydrogen is the most plentiful element in the universe ( Lithium is the key component in electric vehicle batteries).

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Hydrogen Green Cars Gas-Electric 40

Green Car Congress

APRIL 18, 2017

The production version will come in 2019 as Audi’s second battery-electric offering, following the introduction of the production version of the Audi e-tron SUV ( earlier post ) in 2018. This is done by siting a charging pad with integral coil on the floor where the car is to be parked, and connecting it to the power supply.

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Audi Concept 2019 Motor 150

Green Car Congress

SEPTEMBER 17, 2020

Daimler Trucks also presented for the first time a preview of a purely battery-powered long-haul truck, the Mercedes-Benz eActros LongHaul, which is designed to cover regular journeys on routes that can be planned in an energy-efficient manner. Battery power will be rather used for lower cargo weights and for shorter distances.

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Mercedes Concept Fuel Batteries 418

Green Car Congress

APRIL 18, 2023

Dürr planned and built the paint shop as a general contractor and supplied systems for the final assembly process. a regenerative thermal oxidizer (RTO) that can be operated auto thermally—in other words, without a primary energy supply for the burner—disposes of the booth exhaust air. The Oxi.X, Zorlu Holding A.Ş.

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The Truth About Cars

AUGUST 10, 2023

Despite elevated fuel prices, aggressive marketing, and most companies vowing to transition toward building electrified automobiles exclusively, America has an EV supply of more than 100 days on dealer lots. share of battery electric vehicles has grown from a negligible fraction of a percent to over 6 percent between 2018 and 2023.

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Green Car Congress

NOVEMBER 17, 2015

Covered in greater detail in an earlier post , the battery-electric e-tron quattro concept provides a very close foreshadowing of the production model to follow in 2018. Aerodynamically-optimized design with a drag coefficient of 0.25, the electric e-tron quattro drivetrain delivers up to 370 kW of power output.

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