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Austin Adds 171 EVs & 427 New Flyer Chargers, Tesla Megastructure,  Electric F-150 Lightning Reservations, Volvo Lifecycle Analysis, Electric Trucks

EV Obssesion

Electric Buses, Trucks, Vans Austin’s CapMetro selects NFI for Nation’s largest electric vehicle procurement with up to 171 EVs and 427 chargers from New Flyer Citroën launches New ë-Berlingo Electric in the UK Volvo Cars’ sales up 12.6 per cent in the first 10 months of 2021, share of electrified cars exceeds 25% of all […].

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Texas study finds PHEV use could increase ozone at night, decrease ozone during the day

Green Car Congress

A study by researchers at the University of Texas found that in general, use of plug-in hybrid electric vehicles (PHEVs) can lead to an increase in ozone during nighttime hours (due to decreased scavenging from both vehicles and EGU stacks) and a decrease in ozone during daytime hours. The results are less clear in Dallas and Houston.

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Tesla Model 3 leads charge of UK’s ‘most successful year for EV uptake’

Teslarati

” The sedan, which was the Austin, Texas-based company’s first mass-market car, was the best-selling EV in the highly competitive market, but more impressively, it was the second-best-selling vehicle overall, only trailing the Corsa from Vauxhall, which has been built since 1982.

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Update: Top 10 Electric Cars

Clean Fleet Report

2021 Is Here: Here Are the Top 10 Electric Car Companies. Picking the Top 10 electric car makers now involves making some choices as the number of vehicles available increases. The Model S is the best-selling plug-in car in the U.S. Almost two-thirds of the battery electric cars sold in the U.S. had Tesla badges on them.

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Over 200,000 Pure Electric Vehicles to hit UK roads in 2021

Drive Electric

We use our own model built from intelligence of the UK market to forecast registrations of battery electric cars and vans. The figure does not include plug-in hybrids (PHEVs). We’re predicting at least 200,000 new electric vehicles (EVs) will be registered in the UK in 2021.

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Plug In 2008

Plug In Partners

T he Plug in 2008 National PHEV Conference in San Jose by most accounts was a big success. Seamless integration of PHEVs into the electric grid will require close collaboration between the automobile and electric sectors.” The entire PHEV environmental assessment is available on the EPRI website. Sacramento Municipal Util.

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PIP Declares Victory

Plug In Partners

Here's the press release: PLUG-IN PARTNERS DECLARES VICTORY In January 2006, Austin Energy launched the national Plug-In Partners campaign, a grassroots effort to demonstrate to automakers that there is sufficient demand to support the mass production of flexible-fuel plug-in hybrid electric vehicles. PHEV s address all needs.