Green Car Reports

JULY 10, 2023

The Jaguar I-Pace was the very first entry of what now feels in many respects like the core of the EV market: compact fully electric crossovers with roomy interiors, leading-edge cabin tech, and a luxury car price tag. I-Pace in October 2018. Jaguar delivered its first U.S.

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Green Car Congress

NOVEMBER 3, 2021

Volvo Cars has published a lifecycle analysis report on its second fully electric car, the C40 Recharge, which shows the potential CO 2 reductions if a car is built and charged using clean energy sources. When charging with electricity generated through fossil fuels, that difference becomes much smaller.

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Green Car Congress

NOVEMBER 2, 2020

Nissan will introduce nine models in China by 2025 that will either be fully electric or hybrid. Nissan currently plans to increase the sales ratio of electric vehicles in China from 2% in fiscal year 2018 to 23% by 2023, but the company could raise the goal further as it reviews sales strategy over the next five years.

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Green Car Congress

NOVEMBER 29, 2019

The BMW Group and Great Wall Motor have launched a new joint venture—Spotlight Automotive Limited—and are building a joint plant in China, where the BMW Group will produce future fully-electric models of its MINI brand. At that point, the BMW Group will offer five fully-electric production vehicles.

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Green Car Congress

OCTOBER 10, 2018

The European Council agreed on setting a target of a 35% average reduction in CO 2 emissions form new cars by 2030. Average CO 2 emissions of new passenger cars registered in the EU will have to be 15% lower in 2025 and 35% lower in 2030, compared to the emission limits valid in 2021. The benchmark for cars for 2030 was raised to 35%.

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Green Car Congress

FEBRUARY 17, 2016

China-based technology company LeEco and Aston Martin have signed a Memorandum of Understanding (MOU) towards the creation of a partnership that will develop a production version of the Aston Martin RapidE electric vehicle concept—a fully electric version of the Rapide S four-door sports sedan. Earlier post.).

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Green Car Congress

JANUARY 27, 2014

Thriev , a company offering zero-emission, chauffeured cars to corporate and private users in London, is adding 20. BYD e6 electric cars to the fleet. Last month, the Mayor of London announced that from 1 January 2018, all new taxis would have to be zero-emission capable in order to gain an operating licence.

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APRIL 18, 2024

As one of the first legacy automakers to commit to an all-electric future, Volvo is already making massive strides to reduce its carbon footprint. In fact, Volvo’s last diesel-powered car rolled off the production line last month as the automaker looks toward a cleaner future.

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Green Car Congress

MAY 27, 2020

After the second plant—designed from the outset to be CO 2 -neutral—went into operation in 2018, the Mercedes-Benz subsidiary successively increased its production capacities and volumes. The annual production volume will soon exceed half a million battery systems for hybrid, plug-in hybrid and purely electric vehicles.

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Green Car Congress

DECEMBER 4, 2017

MOIA is presenting the electric van and its ride pooling ecosystem with the mission “One Million Cars off the Road” at TechCrunch in Berlin (4-5 December). As MOIA’s first project, the entire ecosystem—including the newly designed electric van—will launch in Hamburg at the end of 2018.

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Green Car Congress

JUNE 4, 2019

once again underlined the performance capabilities of Volkswagen’s electric drive. The 500 kW (680 PS) electric race car is the racing flagship of the future fully electric ID. Just three weeks later, he achieved a new best time for electric cars of 43.86 With an average speed of 206.96 mph), the ID.R

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Green Car Congress

AUGUST 1, 2018

The number of car2go customers has increased by 10% in the first six months of 2018 to a global total of 3.3 During the first six months of the year, the 14,000 car2go vehicles were driven a total distance of more than 90 million kilometers (56 million miles) worldwide, with around 10% of this total being driven with the 1,400 electric cars.

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Green Car Congress

SEPTEMBER 25, 2018

The Nissan Note e-POWER NISMO S has gone on sale in Japan, offering buyers of the country’s best-selling car more power and sportiness. The Nissan e-POWER powertrain is driven by an electric motor that’s powered by a gasoline engine—i.e, The role of the gasoline engine is strictly to generate electric power.

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Green Car Congress

JULY 15, 2022

The BMW M Hybrid V8 is powered by the P66/3 eight-cylinder turbo engine with supplementary electric drive. The combustion engine is based on the DTM unit used in the BMW M4 DTM in 2017 and 2018. The normally-aspirated P66/1 eight-cylinder engine used in the 2017 and 2018 seasons in the BMW M4 DTM was the one that got the nod.

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Green Car Congress

APRIL 6, 2022

The strategic group of investors consists of automotive venture capital from BMW i Ventures, Volvo Cars Tech Fund and Porsche Ventures—alongside Airbus Ventures, Generali, and existing investors—collectively adding new competencies to help fuel Bcomp’s growth. Starting with the iFE.20

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Green Car Congress

OCTOBER 10, 2019

Porsche is looking to enhance its scope as a sports car manufacturer by becoming a leading brand for premium mobility. Boeing, Porsche and Aurora Flight Sciences, a subsidiary of Boeing, are developing a concept for a fully electric vertical takeoff and landing vehicle (VTOL). Porsche, will implement and test a prototype.

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Green Car Congress

DECEMBER 7, 2018

The brand currently has two fully-electric cars in its program. Work on converting the Zwickau plant to be run exclusively as an electric mobility site is already underway, and in addition the plants in Emden and Hanover will switch to the production of electric vehicles from 2022. With the fully-electric ID.1

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Green Car Congress

AUGUST 30, 2021

Mobilize will unveil Limo, a 4.67m four-door fully-electric sedan, specifically designed for for taxi/private hire (PHV) drivers and fleet, at Munich IAA Mobility 2021. Ltd (JMCG) in 2018. Ltd (JMCG) in 2018. Available solely on subscription, the offer will include packages and à la carte mobility solutions.

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Electric Vehicles India

FEBRUARY 6, 2023

Volvo Cars will unveil its new small all-electric SUV in 2024-2025. The range-topping EX90 SUV will also join the portfolio Swedish luxury car maker Volvo Cars plan to retrofit a small SUV in the next 12 to 18 months. It is a great city car and also a highway car.

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Green Car Congress

JUNE 13, 2018

With the 2018 Pikes Peak International Hill Climb now less than two weeks away, Volkswagen outlined the drivetrain technology in the I.D. R Pikes Peak, its first fully-electric racing car. They feed energy to two separate high-performance electric motors for the front and rear axles. Earlier post.).

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Green Car Congress

JUNE 7, 2020

American shipbuilding company Vigor Fab LLC has selected ABB as the hybrid-electric propulsion and energy storage system provider for the newest additions to the Washington State Ferry fleet—the largest US ferry system. With the addition of newer-built, clean energy ferries to the fleet, fuel consumption is projected at 9.5

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Teslarati

SEPTEMBER 8, 2023

Battery-electric vehicles (BEVs) are gaining traction in auto markets across the world, and new data shows that U.S. As new car sales bans loom in some areas, early BEV adoption data from the California auto market seems promising — and some think the rest of the country could be right behind the state. If the U.S.

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Green Car Congress

MAY 18, 2018

Mercedes-Benz Cars is expanding its production capacities for electric cars in Europe. The Hambach plant in France, which currently produces smart brand electric vehicles, will produce a compact electric car of the new product and technology brand EQ. Annette Winkler, Head of smart.

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Green Car Congress

JANUARY 24, 2020

Volvo Cars has opened order books for the XC40 Recharge P8 AWD ( earlier post ), the company’s first fully electric car which is based on the best-selling SUV, in selected markets. The Recharge car line is the name for all Volvos with a fully electric and plug-in hybrid powertrain.

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Green Car Congress

MARCH 7, 2019

Every Kia vehicle on show in Geneva employs the brand’s mild-hybrid, hybrid, plug-in hybrid, or electric vehicle technology. Electrification is a key element of Kia’s European and global growth strategy, with one in eight Kia cars sold in Europe today featuring an electrified powertrain.

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Green Car Congress

DECEMBER 15, 2020

Six electric product launches by 2022 underscore the strength and competence of our Mercedes-Benz production sites worldwide. The production network will have a total of six Mercedes-EQ car locations. Compact car class customers can look forward to two fully electric compact SUVs in the EQA and EQB in 2021.

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Green Car Congress

DECEMBER 16, 2021

Here, encrypted and secure communication in accordance with the ISO 15118 standard will be started between the car and charging station as soon as the customer plugs in the charging cable. Electricity tariffs and algorithms already make it possible to charge the car at the point at which a lot of renewable energy is available.

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Green Car Congress

SEPTEMBER 24, 2015

Audi’s e-tron quattro battery-electric SUV concept, which made its formal debut at IAA in Frankfurt ( earlier post ), is a strong indicator of Audi’s series-production electric SUV due in 2018—especially in terms of the powertrain. Regulators want to ensure that the car will drive straight, Pint said.

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Teslarati

AUGUST 4, 2023

California continues to dominate the nation’s electric vehicle sales volume as the state achieved a first in the second quarter of the year. Governor Gavin Newsom announced this week that, for the first time, California had sold one EV for every four cars sold in the last quarter. million units. I’d love to hear from you!

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Green Car Congress

JULY 25, 2017

The BMW Group announced that the new battery-electric MINI will be a variant of the brand’s core 3-door model. This fully electric car will go into production in 2019, increasing the choice of MINI powertrains to include gasoline and diesel internal combustion engines, a plug-in hybrid ( earlier post ) and a battery electric vehicle.

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Green Car Congress

NOVEMBER 18, 2020

The report is based on sales data from the California New Car Dealers Association (CNCDA). Applying the same weighting formula used by Department of Finance to calculate the California consumer price index to the individual components, prices for used cars and trucks increased only 0.4% between 2018 and 2019 in California, and 1.0%

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JUNE 18, 2020

Electric cars are becoming an attractive business proposition for high-mileage vehicle operators such as ride-sharer Uber in key EU capitals such as Paris, Berlin, Madrid and Lisbon, a new study by research and campaign group Transport & Environment (T&E) has found. —Yoann Le Petit, new mobility expert with T&E.

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Green Car Congress

MARCH 22, 2018

SEAT, a member of the Volkswagen Group, will introduce its first fully electric vehicle in 2020. The EV launch comes as part of a product offensive, in which SEAT will launch one new car every six months until 2020. The first two vehicles will be the SEAT Tarraco and the CUPRA Ateca, which are going on sale at the end of 2018.

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Clean Fleet Report

JUNE 26, 2022

Memories fade over time, but the day you buy your first electric vehicle will stay with you, maybe forever. CFR: Tell us about the research and shopping experience and the purchase decision process, such as when did you buy or lease the Prius Prime, when did you begin researching new cars, and what dealer did you go with?

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Green Car Congress

MARCH 28, 2019

SEAT, a member of the Volkswagen Group, presented its electric strategy which, until the beginning of 2021, includes six electric and plug-in hybrid models. In 2018 SEAT obtained the best results in its history. The CUPRA Leon and the CUPRA Formentor will also have a plug-in hybrid variant. more than the previous year.

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Green Car Congress

APRIL 24, 2018

On the eve of the 2018 Beijing International Automotive Exhibition, Volkswagen Group announced that it its joint-venture partners will invest around €15 billion ($18.3 We will be starting local production of battery-electric cars in at least six factories by 2021 in China. The car will provide features such as A.I.

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Green Car Congress

DECEMBER 1, 2020

We want to continue demonstrating the brand’s slogan ‘Vorsprung durch Technik’ in international top-level motorsport in the future and develop innovative technologies for our road cars. In 2012, Audi achieved the first victory of a hybrid racing car in the Le Mans 24 Hours. The toughest rally in the world is the perfect stage for this.

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