Green Car Congress

JULY 10, 2018

Hyundai Motor Group and Baidu signed a memorandum of understanding (MOU) for Internet of Vehicles (IoV), signaling their commitment to strengthening cooperation on next-generation connected car technologies. The newly-signed MOU will see the existing partnership reinforced to accelerate development of innovations in vehicle connectivity.

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Green Car Congress

JUNE 10, 2022

Through the ‘always-on’ technology, which works without the need for mobile connectivity, new and existing customers will be able to navigate to any precise location in the world using just three words. million vehicle-level updates and more than three million engine control unit updates as part of its always-on, always-connected capability.

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Green Car Congress

NOVEMBER 7, 2017

The plan is available to owners of certain units of Toyota connected cars, and uses driving data gathered via telematics technologies to adjust insurance premiums based on the level of safe driving every month. The service is scheduled to go on sale on 15 January 2018, while insurance liability is scheduled to commence in April 2018.

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Green Car Congress

OCTOBER 5, 2021

Geely plans to utilize commercial satellites to support high-speed data connectivity, highly precise navigation, and cloud computing capabilities in future vehicles. Geely’s entry into the commercial satellite business is part of the Group’s transformation into a global mobility technology enterprise.

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Green Car Congress

JUNE 19, 2019

In a comprehensive joint study, Henkel and RLE International have examined and validated the potential of high-performance structural foam for lightweighting in automotive body and closure parts. —David Caro, Head of Global Engineering, OEM Design, Automotive & Transportation at Henkel.

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Green Car Congress

FEBRUARY 7, 2018

As the first fully connected integral system solution, the third generation of the Sprinter demonstrates the development of the division from purely a vehicle manufacturer into a provider of complete transport and mobility solutions, the company said. This makes the Sprinter an integral part of the value chain. billion (US$3.1

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Green Car Congress

NOVEMBER 7, 2018

Connected and communicating vehicles are now the norm. Gerald Artner constructed an antenna box from carbon-fiber-reinforced polymer material which could be installed in the front part of the roof, close to the windshield. In the future, data exchange will play an even greater role in road transport, not least to improve road safety.

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Green Car Congress

OCTOBER 4, 2017

Ford reaffirmed its 2017 full-year financial guidance and said its 2018 outlook will be provided in January. Specifically, Ford is: Accelerating the introduction of connected, smart vehicles and services customers want and value. By 2019, 100% of Ford’s new US vehicles will be built with connectivity.

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Green Car Reports

JULY 11, 2022

Back seat of your 2017 or 2018 Hyundai Ioniq Hybrid or Plug-In Hybrid warming passengers’ buns? You’ll want to get that looked at right away—and it’s part of a new recall announced Friday. In the affected vehicles, a loose connection between contacts in these.

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Green Car Congress

SEPTEMBER 23, 2016

Chevrolet has introduced the all-new 2018 Equinox compact SUV with a choice of three turbocharged engines—including the segment’s first turbo-diesel in North America. The 2018 Equinox goes on sale in the first quarter of 2017 in North America and rolls out to approximately 115 additional global markets later in the year.

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Green Car Congress

MAY 15, 2018

Kia Motors will introduce its first 48V diesel mild-hybrid powertrain in the second half of 2018. The Kia Sportage will be the first model to offer the new EcoDynamics+ diesel mild-hybrid powertrain later in 2018. The new third-generation Kia Ceed will be the second among a range of Kia models to offer the new powertrain from 2019.

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Green Car Congress

JULY 10, 2013

Sprint is the first mobile carrier to use IBM MessageSight, a full-featured messaging appliance specifically designed for machine to machine (M2M) and mobile environments, to deliver a more personalized, responsive connected car experience. The connected car is part of the M2M space being targeted by mobile carriers such as Sprint.

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Green Car Congress

JULY 24, 2018

Kia Motors’ upgraded 2018 Kia Sportage ( earlier post ), the brand’s global best-selling vehicle, offers a 2.0-liter The 48V diesel mild-hybrid unit is the first to be launched as part of Kia’s global powertrain electrification strategy. The 2018 Sportage is available in Europe and Korea with Kia’s new 1.6-liter,

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Charged EVs

AUGUST 28, 2023

Part 2: No, NACS is not today’s Tesla connector Part 3: Why Tesla’s NACS is unlikely to kill CCS Part 4: Behind the scenes as seven automakers counter Tesla’s Superchargers EV charging is changing, but much remains to be settled A flurry of news over less than a year permanently altered the US landscape for EV charging.

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Green Car Congress

SEPTEMBER 29, 2022

The next-generation BMW voice assistant will be built on Alexa technology, according to Stephan Durach, Senior Vice-President Connected Company and Development Technical Operations BMW Group, and Dave Limp, Senior Vice President of Devices and Services, Amazon, at Amazon’s annual Devices and Services launch event.

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Green Car Congress

JUNE 2, 2017

The joint venture also includes the development and production of components for new energy vehicles (NEV), the development of vehicle connectivity and automotive data services. It is planned that the new joint venture with JAC should produce its first jointly developed electric vehicle in 2018. million electric vehicles in 2025.

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Green Car Congress

OCTOBER 20, 2014

liter diesel engines (code-named Panther ) in a wide range of outputs due to be applied in commercial vehicles starting in 2016 and in cars starting in 2018. Ford is creating 318 new jobs connected with this investment. This latest diesel engine program at Ford Dagenham is part of a £1.5-billion Earlier post.) million (US$14.3

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Green Car Congress

DECEMBER 15, 2022

Around 160,000 units of Audi’s first electric model have been delivered since 2018. Body and chassis of the Audi Q8 e-tron are connected. From 2025, production at all Audi plants will be carbon neutral as part of the company-wide environmental program Mission:Zero. 2018 saw the birth of the Audi e-tron.

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Teslarati

APRIL 7, 2024

The research looks at carbon emission trends between 2018 and 2022, utilizing data from 50 air-quality sensors throughout the Bay Area, as detailed in a report published in the Environmental Science and Technology journal on Thursday. That’s the big win,” Cohen added.

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Green Car Congress

FEBRUARY 27, 2019

The sports car manufacturer is launching the second open innovation competition for digital development together with Berlin-based connected car application programming interface (API) platform High Mobility. Porsche launched the first open innovation competition for digital developments in February 2018.

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Green Car Congress

MARCH 28, 2017

The companies are to start using battery-electric vehicles in the logistics provider’s normal operations in a pilot phase in Stuttgart and Hamburg in early 2018. Electric mobility plays a key role as part of our long-term strategy for climate and environmental protection.

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Green Car Congress

JUNE 12, 2020

The first of three new GreenPower EV Star shuttles will be put into service beginning Monday, 15 Jun 2020 as part of Electrify America’s more than $40 million Green Cities investments in Sacramento. —Richard Steinberg, Senior Director Marketing, Communications and Green Cities at Electrify America. —Richard Steinberg.

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Green Car Congress

SEPTEMBER 10, 2021

As a part of the agreement, Lightning Energy will sell ABB’s DC fast-charging systems under the Lightning Energy brand. The fully interoperable DC fast chargers, designed and built by ABB, are equipped with around-the-clock connectivity to enable comprehensive remote services and compatibility with every individual fleet charging system.

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Green Car Congress

APRIL 2, 2021

Ørsted proposes to connect the GW electrolyzer directly to a new 2 GW offshore wind farm in the Dutch North Sea. The offshore wind farm could be built in one of the zones in the southern part of the Dutch exclusive economic zone that has already been designated for offshore wind development.

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EV Connect

JULY 8, 2021

The Challenge As part of their climate action plan, Union College laid out different sustainable initiatives and objectives, which included installing a 2 dual port electric charging stations on campus in 2016. Whenever we reach out to EV Connect about a specific issue we get a response in less than 24 hours.” It’s a good relationship.

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Green Car Congress

JULY 25, 2019

As part of this agreement, Toyota will invest US$600 million in DiDi and a joint venture, which the two companies will establish with GAC Toyota Motor Co., Toyota Motor Corporation (Toyota) concluded an agreement with Didi Chuxing (DiDi) to expand collaboration in Mobility as a Service (MaaS) in China.

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Green Car Congress

FEBRUARY 22, 2020

Lab1886 and Daimler Trucks, together with Fraport AG, demonstrated the operation of self-driving snow-clearing vehicles in non-public closed areas for the first time in October 2017 as part of a pilot project on the site of the former Pferdsfeld air base.

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Green Car Congress

OCTOBER 30, 2020

The K5 Blazer-E is a functional proof of concept of the upcoming Electric Connect and Cruise package Chevrolet Performance plans to sell in the second half of 2021. Chevrolet first previewed the eCrate conversion concept with the Chevrolet eCOPO Camaro in 2018 ( earlier post ), followed by the Chevrolet E-10 in 2019.

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Green Car Congress

JANUARY 5, 2019

per gallon (gal) in 2018, 30 cents/gal (13%) higher than in 2017 and 57 cents/gal higher than in 2016. gal at least once in 2018. The national price for gasoline declined for 12 weeks in a row at the end of 2018, which marked the longest consecutive weekly drop since the 17-week decline from October 2014 through January 2015.

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Green Car Congress

JANUARY 20, 2020

In the Bergedorf quarter of Hamburg, a container with a total capacity of approximately 500 kWh has been connected to the depot charging network at the Verkehrsbetriebe Hamburg-Holstein (VHH) depot. One objective of the project is to develop a flexible battery storage concept which allows for the replacement of batteries.

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Green Car Congress

NOVEMBER 29, 2018

The construction of the JAC Volkswagen R&D center will start before the end of 2018 and will focus on key areas such as connectivity, autonomous driving and other future strategic directions. Since the joint venture was created in 2017, SEAT has been contributing its know-how in the areas of design and R&D.

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Green Car Congress

JULY 18, 2019

Groupe Renault and Jiangling Motors Corporation Group (JMCG) announced the official establishment of their joint venture to further promote the development of the EV industry in China, following a first agreement on 20 December 2018. This cooperation is part of the overall strategy of JMCG and Groupe Renault.

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Green Car Congress

JANUARY 19, 2020

The Spanish company currently has two duo trailer routes that link the Martorell factory with Teknia in Azuqueca de Henares (Madrid) for the delivery of interior finish parts, and with Global Laser in Ribera Baja (Álava) for the transport of sheet metal components, which began a few weeks ago.

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Green Car Congress

FEBRUARY 18, 2020

The initiative is called “eTruck Charging Initiative” and is part of the E-Mobility Group’s holistic approach to provide truck customers with the best possible entry into e-mobility. The close dialog between the main players is also intended to speed up previously lengthy and complex planning and application processes for network connections.

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Green Car Congress

JANUARY 25, 2018

On the heels of an quarterly report marked by an underwhelming profit, and amid a general “lack of fitness” according to CFO Bob Shanks, Ford Motor announced that it is accelerating and expanding its activities in 2018 to deliver a broad suite of mobility products and services to personal vehicle owners, fleet owners and cities globally.

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Green Car Congress

JUNE 29, 2018

Herein, we propose a novel lithium ion/oxygen hybrid battery system by parallel connection of LIB and LOB, which possesses the characteristics of both LIB and LOB, compensating the disadvantages of one another. The two cathodes are connected together by the external circuits as the cathode of the battery system, and share a common anode.

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Green Car Congress

JANUARY 10, 2020

The chargers are to be rolled out in 24 countries by the end of 2020 as part of the second phase of the IONITY network expansion. ABB was already commissioned in 2018 as technology partner to deliver 340 high-power chargers to IONITY and was the first to market in Europe with 350 kW chargers featuring liquid cooled cables.

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