Green Car Congress

DECEMBER 18, 2021

General Motors has begun deliveries of its first next-generation electric vehicles, the GMC HUMMER EV Edition 1 Pickup and BrightDrop EV600 light commercial vehicle, both built on the Ultium Platform.

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Green Car Congress

JULY 23, 2013

In August 2011, Ford and Toyota signed a memorandum of understanding (MOU) on the joint development of a new rear-wheel drive hybrid system for light trucks and SUVs. Earlier post.)

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Green Car Congress

NOVEMBER 18, 2020

The MINI brand presented the MINI Vision Urbanaut—a digital concept vehicle intended to provide an example of MINI’s possible future directions. MINI sees its future self primarily as an enabler of and companion for unforgettable times—what we might call ‘MINI moments’. —Oliver Heilmer, Head of MINI Design.

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Green Car Congress

APRIL 2, 2018

The US Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) Administrator Scott Pruitt announced the completion of the Midterm Evaluation (MTE) process for the greenhouse gas (GHG) emissions standards for cars and light trucks for model years 2022-2025, and his final determination that the current standards are not appropriate and should be revised.

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Green Car Congress

JULY 19, 2022

We are taking the time to create a safe, light-weight commercial eVTOL that provides our future passengers with the security and comfort they find in their own cars. Supernal is partnering with Hyundai Motor Group’s top automotive designers to develop our eVTOL vehicle for manufacturability and wide-spread public acceptance.

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Green Car Congress

JUNE 4, 2014

Ford Motor Company unveiled its Lightweight Concept vehicle, which uses advanced materials to explore future weight-reduction solutions that could improve performance and fuel efficiency while reducing CO 2 emissions. There’s not a one-size-fits-all approach to light-weighting. Ford Lightweight Concept. Click to enlarge.

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Cars That Think

OCTOBER 4, 2023

Transcript Stephen Cass: Hello and welcome to Fixing the Future , an IEEE Spectrum podcast, where we look at concrete solutions to some big problems. And with extreme ultraviolet lithography, you are using a wavelength of light that’s only 13 and a half nanometers long. I’m your host, Stephen Cass , a senior editor at IEEE Spectrum.

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Green Car Congress

OCTOBER 7, 2022

Prologue’s generous dimensions and roomy interior position the SUV alongside the Passport in Honda’s light truck lineup. In this way, the company’s increasing hybrid sales volume will help grow a future EV customer base. 2027: Begin sales of a new series of affordable EVs co-developed with GM, also produced by Honda in North America.

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Green Car Congress

AUGUST 22, 2011

Ford and Toyota are collaborating as equal partners on the development of an advanced new hybrid system for light trucks and SUVs. Both companies have been working independently on their own future-generation rear-wheel drive hybrid systems. This rear-wheel-drive hybrid system will be based on an all-new architecture.

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Green Car Congress

MARCH 17, 2020

The results of these tests showed the following: There is no copper corrosion in methanol gasoline blends, just some light tarnish. In total, 203 properties were analyzed in the laboratory, for a total of 3,857 tests. Density values of the different blends are within the European standards limits.

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Teslarati

OCTOBER 15, 2023

Tesla added new ambient lighting to the upgraded Model Y, similar to the lighting strip that can be found in the recently refreshed Model 3 Highland. The automaker has also removed the wood trim in the Model Y with the addition of an ambient lighting strip. Other updates include a slightly faster acceleration time of just 5.9

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Green Car Congress

APRIL 3, 2017

In separate presentations at the 2017 SAE High Efficiency IC Engine Symposium in Detroit, R&D executives from GM and Ford each stressed the importance of improved, advanced fuels—among other technology developments—for their future engine efficiency gains and for long-term CO 2 emissions goals. An enabler is more reactive fuels.

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Green Car Congress

SEPTEMBER 24, 2013

Chrysler writes that its has “ made the development of more fuel-efficient vehicles a priority to meet retail consumer preferences, comply with future regulations and as part of our commitment to sustainability. ”. “We Chrysler said it will deploy electric power steering across the entire lineup in future years. Axles and Drivelines.

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Green Car Congress

JANUARY 3, 2021

We present here not merely a catalyst with higher activity than other nickel catalysts that we tested, for an important renewable energy fuel, but also a broader strategy toward using affordable metals in a broad range of reactions. The Molecular Foundry and the Advanced Light Source are DOE Office of Science user facilities at Berkeley Lab.

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Baua Electric

MARCH 7, 2024

In the future, the company plans to scale up production of second-generation products for EV applications. Stellantis’s Dare Forward 2030 strategic plan calls for the company to reach 100% passenger car EV sales in Europe and 50% passenger car and light-duty truck EV sales in the US by 2030.

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Green Car Congress

APRIL 12, 2021

The M 2 FCT team outlined the current and future prospects and challenges of hydrogen fuel cells for heavy-duty vehicles, including trucks, buses, trains, and marine applications, in a recent Nature Energy study. Earlier post.).

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Green Car Congress

AUGUST 22, 2017

However, although the state has made considerable progress decoupling economic growth from greenhouse gas (GHG) emissions, the rate of emissions decline appears to be slowing, due in part to a spike in transportation emissions attributed to an increase from light-duty vehicles. in emissions from on-road vehicles. million MTCO 2 e of the 4.9

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Green Car Congress

AUGUST 13, 2020

Electric vehicles are the next frontier in the clean energy transition, and we are committed to making charging EVs easy, convenient and affordable for customers. In addition to helping customers who own EVs charge up at home and on the go, its programs aim to give all customers access to clean, affordable, electric transportation.

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Green Car Congress

JULY 21, 2011

There is a growing recognition that the lightest weight and most affordable vehicles in the future will not be made from one material, but many different ones. Daehn notes a pressing need to reduce the mass of all classes of wheeled vehicles, including light automobiles, trucks, and passenger busses. —Glenn Daehn.

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Green Car Congress

DECEMBER 9, 2010

million units by the end of 2010, fuelled by an increasing number of affordable small cars and demand from less penetrated segments, such as rural areas. BMI believes this will provide some insulation against rising costs, but cautions that it will depend on the future movement of input prices.

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Baua Electric

MARCH 30, 2024

However, this challenge can be overcome by battery leasing, which not only addresses affordability but also enhances faster adaptability within the EV ecosystem. Battery leasing presents an effective alternative for consumers, offering a pathway to access high-quality battery packs at affordable rates.

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Baua Electric

JANUARY 19, 2024

Toyota wants to bring the Land Cruiser brand into the electric future with two new EVs. One will be a range-topping luxury EV, while the other will be a more affordable, city-focused variant. Humphries said Toyota was looking for “more affordable” Land Cruiser options as it moves toward electric.

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Green Car Congress

AUGUST 2, 2012

Projected range of impact of demand, fuel efficiency improvements, and alternative fuel-vehicle systems on light-duty fleet GHG emissions. On a stand-alone basis, all light-, medium-, and heavy-duty vehicles have the potential to reduce per-mile GHG emissions by at least 40% in 2050, relative to 2005 average fleet levels. Source: NPC.

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Green Car Congress

JULY 26, 2022

Such powerful magnets would more easily fit within the tight space inside spherical tokamaks, which are shaped more like a cored apple than the doughnut-like shape of conventional tokamaks, and are being explored as a possible design for future fusion power plants. —Yuhu Zhai, a principal engineer at PPPL and lead author.

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Green Car Congress

JANUARY 6, 2023

The 1500 Revolution BEV Concept features self-leveling capability and rides on 24-inch wheels with center caps that light up and stay in place. New intelligent safety systems and smaller, more powerful electric motors afforded the design team the ability to shift the cabin forward and increase cabin length.

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Green Car Congress

MARCH 27, 2020

For the past four years, the Co-Optimization of Fuels & Engines (Co-Optima) National Laboratory consortium has focused research efforts primarily on turbocharged (boosted) spark-ignition (SI) engines for light-duty vehicles. Of the fuel properties investigated, these six were found to have the most impact on engine efficiency and emissions.

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Green Car Congress

NOVEMBER 5, 2019

Kia Motors has revealed its new Futuron Concept, an all-wheel drive SUV coupe which proposes new designs for future electric vehicles. The Futuron name itself is a portmanteau of ‘future’ and ‘on’, hinting at the switched-on, electric nature of future SUV designs from the brand.

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Teslarati

MARCH 9, 2024

The automaker also said on Friday that it has updated the Blazer EV’s software to include improvements to the user interface of the driver information center, noting customizable ambient lighting capabilities, and an updated battery percentage display. GM also plans to utilize the division on all of its future vehicles.

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Green Car Congress

MAY 14, 2021

The Clean Cars 2030 package passed the legislature as an amendment to E2SHB 1287 —a bill mandating electric utility preparation for an all-EV future. On Thursday, Washington state Governor Jay Inslee vetoed legislation that would have set the first state-legislated 2030 phaseout target for automotive combustion engines in the country.

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Teslarati

JANUARY 8, 2024

The South Korean automaker plans to go “Beyond Mobility” with its future Platform Beyond Vehicle (PBV) strategy. It released affordable and smaller cars, a noticeable difference from the cars its competitors sold, like the Ford F-150 Lighting and the GM Hummer. At CES 2024, the automaker presented the Kia Concept PV5.

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Green Car Congress

JANUARY 4, 2019

Achates Power can make a positive impact on the future of transportation and industrial power by providing a superior option to deliver high efficiency and low emissions across current and future markets. The OP Engine will have a dramatic and immediate impact for our customers and for the environment.

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Green Car Congress

APRIL 18, 2014

Light-duty VMT is beginning to decouple from traditional drivers. The most recent of these In Focus articles explores the impact of demographics and behavior on light-duty vehicle (LDV) energy demand. Source: EIA. economic Click to enlarge. The roll-out began on 7 April and will conclude on 30 April. VMT sensitivity analysis.

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Green Car Congress

MARCH 25, 2021

Demonstration and validation of this technology will establish a platform for widespread commercialization in the immediate future. This is approximately equivalent to the same amount of fuel used each year by 20,000 light-duty vehicles. To support commercialization activities to expand the use of hydrogen in the rail sector.

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Green Car Congress

JANUARY 25, 2023

Annual lithium demand reduction for us passenger transport as a function of best and worst cases for future vehicle ownership rates, vehicle design, and recycling in 2050. Even if the car-centricity of the US transportation system continues, limiting the size of EV batteries alone can cut lithium demand by as much as 42%. 2°C of warming.

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Green Car Congress

DECEMBER 5, 2022

Developing this project will guarantee the future of industrial employment in Andalusia, generating 10,000 jobs, including direct, indirect, and induced. It also has one of the highest wind and solar photovoltaic power generation and production capacity in Europe, and at the lowest cost.

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Green Car Congress

JANUARY 15, 2018

The first result of this agreement is the demonstration vehicle that will be shown at the 2018 North American International Auto Show (NAIAS): a light-duty truck with an Opposed-Piston Gasoline Compression Ignition (OPGCI) Engine. six-piston) light-duty version of its opposed piston engine (OPE) in both diesel- and gasoline-fueled versions.

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Green Car Congress

JUNE 11, 2018

Consequently, demand for personal vehicles has recently skyrocketed and this trend is likely to continue in the near future. ?We Furthermore, the number per capita of light-duty vehicles (cars, pickup trucks, SUVs, and vans), which represent a vast majority (92%) of all vehicles in the United States, appears to have leveled off.

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