Green Car Congress

NOVEMBER 8, 2018

The falling cost of batteries is set to drive a boom in the installation of energy storage systems around the world in the years from now to 2040, according to the latest annual forecast from research company Bloomberg NEF (BNEF). China, the US, India, Japan, Germany, France, Australia, South Korea and the UK will be the leading countries.

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Green Car Congress

MAY 21, 2015

Global Bioenergies, a developer of one-step fermentation processes for the direct and cost-efficient transformation of renewable resources into light olefins, and Cristal Union, the 4 th largest European beet producer, have formed IBN-One, a joint venture to build and operate the first plant in France converting renewable resources into isobutene.

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Green Car Congress

JANUARY 8, 2014

During 2014, the global plug-in electric vehicle (PEV) industry is poised to grow by 86% and will surpass more than 346,000 new vehicles sold, according to a new white paper—“ Electric Vehicles: 10 Predictions for 2014 ”—published by Navigant Research. By 2022, not even California will meet the 10% ZEV requirement.

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Baua Electric

APRIL 20, 2024

It was the first time that all three heads – the global CEOs of both the Renault and Nissan brands as well as the Alliance chairman – convened together outside of France or Japan. The arrest of Carlos Ghosn in 2018 dealt a significant blow to Renault-Nissan’s ambitions in India, a country Ghosn himself was a vocal advocate of.

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Green Car Congress

OCTOBER 20, 2015

trillion through 2018, but pressure from the Economic and Energy Ministries and Russian producers forced the Finance Ministry to consider alternatives with less negative impact on crude production. First, it has declined substantially relative to “hard” currencies, such as the US$, the Euro, British Pound, and the Swiss Franc.

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Cars That Think

JULY 20, 2021

In terms of travel time, the strike produced a net benefit to the system because the one-off time costs of the strike were less than the enduring benefits for this minority of commuters. China enters world markets as major exporter of industrial products. Photo-Illustration: Chad Hagen; Original Photo: Tao Images/Alamy.

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Cars That Think

AUGUST 16, 2021

Despite strong support from the FAA, the airline industry, and aerospace companies, the U.S. That continued until 2003, when British Airways and Air France retired their fleets, together amounting to just 12 aircraft. Senate ceased funding the development of a supersonic airliner in 1971.

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Green Car Congress

AUGUST 30, 2016

LeMond Composites, founded by three-time Tour de France champion Greg LeMond, has licensed a low-cost, high-volume carbon fiber manufacturing process developed at the US Department of Energy’s Oak Ridge National Laboratory (ORNL). Earlier post.) ORNL began accepting license applications in March 2016.

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Cars That Think

SEPTEMBER 4, 2022

The first public demonstrations of the technology occurred in late 2018, by NTT Docomo in Japan and Metawave , of Carlsbad, Calif. We’re partnering with CNRS Research and CentraleSupélec , both in France, among others. My opinion is that only RIS will be able to make these frequency bands commercially viable at a reasonable cost.

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Get Electric Vehicle

AUGUST 4, 2022

The rest of society will follow once the obstacles are resolved for the early adopters (in this example, range, cost, charging infrastructure, limited supply, and choice). But even the industry’s laggards, like BMW, want to produce 50% BEVs by 2030, pointing in the direction of continuous growth of the industry.

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Charged EVs

SEPTEMBER 28, 2021

ABB is currently providing UPS systems for Formula E’s broadcast center, and it provided 50-kilowatt chargers for the Jaguar I-Pace trophy, a racing series that was presented before the main Formula E races for two seasons from 2018 to 2020. The industry is still so young—I can’t tell you that in five years it’s going to be that way.

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Green Car Congress

NOVEMBER 17, 2015

A full charge on an industrial outlet thus takes less than two-and-half hours. 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. lb), corresponding to customer fuel costs of roughly €4 (as of October 2015).

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