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Wärtsilä to design and equip two zero-emissions battery-powered ferries

Green Car Congress

The orders with Wärtsilä for the design and the equipment were placed in April 2020. The equipment is scheduled for delivery to the yard in the beginning of 2021 and the ships are expected to commence commercial operations in autumn 2021. Included in the design concept is the optimization of energy consumption.

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What Does GM’s “30 New EVs By 2025” Promise Mean for the US Market?

EV Adoption

since the 2020 low on March 18 (as of February 5). On January 28 GM announced that it plans (aspires) to exclusively offer electric vehicles by 2035, ending production of its cars, trucks and SUVs with diesel- and gasoline-powered engines. At the end of the commercial, GM shares a significant EV promise: “30 new EVs by 2025.”

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This Dutch City Is Road-Testing Vehicle-to-Grid Tech

Cars That Think

Volkswagen , Nissan , and Hyundai have moved to produce the kinds of cars that can use such bidirectional chargers—alongside similar vehicle-to- home technology , whereby your car can power your house, say, during a blackout, as promoted by Ford with its new F-150 Lightning. Kempton and Letendre’s. In the UK, experiments are.

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Naysayer Alert – the hydrogen red herring

My Electric Car

Recent developments in lithium ion batteries, and the consequential range improvements of EVs has significantly dampened enthusiasm for hydrogen fuel cells. Little seems developed in any wide commercial sense and certainly not to the extent of the pure electric car. 2020) [11]. Electrek [link] accessed 19/5/2020.

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How Carmakers Are Responding to the Plug-In Hybrid Opportunity

Tony Karrer Delicious EVdriven

This is from "Commercializing Plug-In Hybrids" (pdf), the current CalCars 24-slide presentation about PHEVs available along with other documents at CalCars Downloads. Partnering with Alcoa, Duke Energy, Google.org, Johnson Controls Indiana startup plans to unveil vehicle May 2009 at EVS-24 in Norway; mass production in 2012.

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