Green Car Congress

FEBRUARY 23, 2017

The Auto Alliance represents 77% of all car and light truck sales in the United States, including the BMW Group, Fiat Chrysler Automobiles, Ford Motor Company, General Motors Company, Jaguar Land Rover, Mazda, Mercedes-Benz USA, Mitsubishi Motors, Porsche, Toyota, Volkswagen Group of America and Volvo Car USA. Background.

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Baua Electric

MARCH 23, 2024

The auto industry is electrifying, and all new cars will be electric in the relatively near future. And yet, the auto industry – which is responsible for more pollution than any other sector, at least in rich countries – still lobbies to worsen emissions reduction targets, even when those targets were already pushed back to begin with.

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Green Car Congress

APRIL 2, 2018

Negative reaction to the widely expected announcement was voluminous and vociferous: Ceres: “Rolling back the Corporate Average Fuel Economy (CAFE) and emissions standards will undermine the global competitiveness of the US auto industry. The Aluminum Association, whose member companies invested more than $2.6 Earlier post.)

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Baua Electric

FEBRUARY 7, 2024

As the second-most populous country in the world and one of the largest consumers of fossil fuels, India is making significant strides in adopting electric vehicles (EVs) as a solution to combat climate change and reduce air pollution. Moreover, electric autos contribute to reducing greenhouse gas emissions and air pollution.

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Green Car Congress

JULY 17, 2014

The study also examined policy on low carbon fuels, where changes in direction and the complexity of fuel and infrastructure investments in general have provided a less stable investment climate for the companies concerned. This is felt particularly strongly in biofuels where investments have stalled to a large extent.

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Green Car Congress

MAY 17, 2009

The bill is structured into four primary titles: Title I: Clean Energy; Title II: Energy Efficiency; Title III: Reducing Global Warming Pollution (the cap-and-trade bill); and Title IV: Transitioning to a Clean Energy Economy (which also includes a section on adapting to climate change). Electric Vehicle Infrastructure.

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Cars That Think

MARCH 11, 2023

In 2001, a team of engineers at a then-obscure R&D company called AC Propulsion quietly began a groundbreaking experiment. The company’s president, Tom Gage , dubbed the system “vehicle to grid” or V2G. And the auto industry had just canceled the battery EV. Electric Car tzero 0-60 3.6

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Plug In Partners

FEBRUARY 17, 2006

Feb 17, 2006 SYNOPSIS: Lewis Booth acknowledged the importance of climate change and the responsibility to take action, calling for greater support for a more holistic approach to the challenges raised by sustainable mobility. Ford Europe Executive Calls for Increased Momentum Behind CO2 Reduction Ford Motor Co.

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Green Car Congress

MARCH 19, 2013

For example, EU companies that supply fuel-efficient start-stop mechanisms would benefit from an increase in revenue, due to an increase in demand for their products. The impact in Phase II are typified by higher costs of technology and greater avoided fuel costs. —“An Economic Assessment of Low Carbon Vehicles”.

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Green Car Congress

JUNE 14, 2010

We now have a sprinkling of promising companies working to get funded to convert gas-guzzlers. Well, America’s auto industry delivered over 100,000. That helped us become the world’s greatest industrial power. It helps that the auto industry will be building more efficient new vehicles. We just had to do it.

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Cars That Think

JANUARY 10, 2023

Looking ahead, Stuttgart will likely continue to be the heart of the German auto industry, but how long will the IC engine remain the heart of the automobile? Even the most successful manufacturers must adapt to changing conditions. Why would companies known for their engines turn to outsiders to make their cars go?

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Cars That Think

MARCH 28, 2023

But given the sheer tonnage of lithium, cobalt, and other raw materials needed for EV batteries, that figure is overly optimistic, suggests the mineral market analysis company Benchmark Mineral Intelligence, unless nearly 300 new mines and supporting refineries open by then. Technological change is hard, social change even harder.

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Green Cars News

AUGUST 5, 2009

“But with the twin challenges of mitigating the effects of climate change and increasing energy security, it is all the more important that these efforts are given a clear focus.

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EV Central

FEBRUARY 4, 2024

Known as ‘Option B’, it is significantly tougher than the auto industry itself proposed via its representative body, the Federal Chamber of Automotive Industries (FCAI), has higher fines for breaching emissions limits and rejects aids known as ‘Super Credits’. Toyota LandCruiser 300-Series: in the passenger vehicle segment.

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Green Car Congress

FEBRUARY 4, 2011

A new study sponsored by Indiana University concludes that President Obama’s vision of one million plug-in electric vehicles (PEVs) on US roads by 2015 will require concentrated efforts action from all stakeholders— the auto industry, federal government, the scientific community, and consumers—to be realized.

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Green Car Congress

OCTOBER 23, 2015

There have been and continue to be a number of market drivers forcing this evolution: concerns over health effects, congestion, consumption of petroleum-based fuels, climate change, an ever more rapidly increasing population and what appears to be an inexorable movement toward large-scale urbanization. Earlier post.).

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Electric Auto Association

SEPTEMBER 5, 2022

California is expected to prohibit the sale of new gasoline-powered cars by 2035, a groundbreaking move that could seriously affect the effort to fight climate change and accelerate the global transition toward electric vehicles (EVs). Many auto industry watchers were intrigued by Agassi's novel concept.

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Cars That Think

DECEMBER 23, 2022

As mentioned, pure EV automakers and EV charging companies would like ICE vehicles to be banned by 2030 in the U.S., Colored lines, keyed in the legend, indicate the available circuit capacity in megawatts. Automakers divided Automakers are also split over governmental EV policies in the U.S. and elsewhere. for obvious reasons.

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Tony Karrer Delicious EVdriven

APRIL 21, 2009

About $750 million is needed for near-term Volt development, according to the company. Short sighted company with a CEO that should have been fired long ago. the viability of GM as a company. They are evidently conspiring with the oil companies otherwise why else would they destroy the EV1s. rolls toward bankruptcy.

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Green Car Congress

JULY 17, 2015

It solves the storage problems faced by the electric utility companies in absorbing and adapting to the highly variable power and energy generated by solar and wind. One PHEV company, Efficient Drivetrains Inc., Since it can refuel from a standard household outlet and from a gasoline station, it needs no new infrastructure.

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EV Match

AUGUST 29, 2022

The recently passed Inflation Reduction Act (IRA) is arguably the most significant piece of climate legislation the United States has ever seen, including significant investments in clean energy and consumer incentives to accelerate electric vehicle (EV) adoption. How the IRA will help tackle climate change.

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Tony Karrer Delicious EVdriven

APRIL 21, 2009

Audi Volkswagen-owned company exploring PHEVs Metroproject Quattro Sub-compact PHEV Concept Car shown October 2007; PHEV of A1 Sportback under consideration Bright Automotive For-profit spin off from Rocky Mountain Institute designing lightweight PHEVs, successor to RMIs 1990s "Hypercar" concept. Batteries not ready. No announced plans.

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Charged EVs

JANUARY 18, 2023

Traceability is becoming a critical function in the EV industry, thanks to the “Buy American” requirements of the Bipartisan Infrastructure Law (BIL) and Inflation Reduction Act (IRA), and similar provisions in the EU’s new Battery Directive. Bureau Veritas is one of the largest TIC (test, inspection and certification) companies.

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Baua Electric

JANUARY 10, 2024

They’ve also offered a chance for reinvention in an industry synonymous with pollution and environmental damage — the mining industry has sought to present itself as a solution to climate change, supplying the materials needed to break humanity’s addiction to fossil fuels. and General Motors Co. Sigma Lithium Corp.

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Tony Karrer Delicious EVdriven

APRIL 16, 2009

Cleantech Blog Cleantechblog.com, the premier cleantech site for commentary on news and technology relating to clean tech, greentech, energy, climate change and carbon, and the environment. Ontological Shock An Open Letter to Fred Krupp Report from GridEcon Conference SGS Climate Change Head on the First Carbon Credit.

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Tony Karrer Delicious EVdriven

APRIL 16, 2009

BYD is an amazing company. As if that were not enough, I’m hearing now that BYD is on the verge of a breakthrough in the solar power business and that the company has big plans to make rechargeable batteries at a utility scale to store energy from intermittent, renewable sources like wind and solar. Not so this time around.

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Tony Karrer Delicious EVdriven

APRIL 16, 2009

But GM says it wont get the money until the Obama administration is satisfied the company is financially viable. GM killed that car because of back room deals with oil companies, and now they expect us to believe that they are just so cutting edge now? Gotta love a company that blows nearly 2 billion a year on PR and advertising!

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Baua Electric

MAY 12, 2024

News came out on Friday that President Biden is set to quadruple tariffs on Chinese EVs to protect the US auto industry from the rapid growth of Chinese EV manufacturing. The global auto industry is in a time of flux. Cars are changing quickly, as is car manufacturing. But that sort of sentiment is popular.

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