Clean Fleet Report

APRIL 1, 2021

The auto industry is not known as a second career for comedy writers. 4 battery electric crossover and the corporate commitment to EVs. —and Jeep made real news with a new EV concept. Kia showed off its coming EV6 that ups the design game for an electric crossover. It happens every year.

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CleanTechnica EVs

MARCH 3, 2022

Prior to the rise of Tesla, conventional wisdom held that it would be practically impossible for a startup company to challenge the behemoths of Big Auto. When economics professors explained the concept of barriers to entry, the auto industry was usually example #1.

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Teslarati

APRIL 25, 2023

At the same time, Honda plans to increase its annual sales of electric motorcycles to 3.5 With the popularity of electric vehicles continuously rising, legacy automakers like Honda are reevaluating their place in the general auto industry. The e:N SUV xù concept model was unveiled at Auto Shanghai this month.

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Green Car Congress

FEBRUARY 17, 2016

China-based technology company LeEco and Aston Martin have signed a Memorandum of Understanding (MOU) towards the creation of a partnership that will develop a production version of the Aston Martin RapidE electric vehicle concept—a fully electric version of the Rapide S four-door sports sedan. Earlier post.).

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Green Car Reports

APRIL 27, 2011

The history of the auto industry is littered with the carcasses of the cars and companies that didn't make it. Modern hybrid-electric vehicles were first commercialized by Toyota, with its 1997 Prius (sold in the U.S. starting in 2000).

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Teslarati

APRIL 27, 2023

Besides Tesla’s evident impact on the auto industry switching to electric vehicles, its other significant contribution is to automotive design. Despite all of its vehicles now being on the market for numerous years, they maintain a futuristic essence to them.

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Clean Fleet Report

AUGUST 1, 2023

People still associate EVs with earlier electric vehicles and hybrids of yesteryear. This targets a market the EV industry has been trying to hit for some time. Most EV owners are eco-conscious individuals who care about the planet and want to drive an electric car.

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Plug In India

FEBRUARY 8, 2022

By Abhishek & Kamlesh ​ In this episode of Electric Car Watch, we will talk about India’s most talked about EV startup, Ola Electric and their electric car plans, their large investment in Coventry, UK and also the challenges in creating an electric car from the scratch. Very cool looking, I must add.

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Teslarati

DECEMBER 4, 2023

Talk of wireless charging roads for electric vehicles (EVs) has been underway for the past several years, but the first U.S. We are the birthplace of the auto industry, and the home of the first mile of concrete road and the first three-way traffic signal. project to feature the technology has now been completed.

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Green Car Congress

JANUARY 29, 2019

Didi Chuxing, the world’s leading one-stop transportation platform, announced a new joint venture with Beijing Electric Vehicle Co., BAIC-Xiaoju New Energy Auto Technology Co. Jingju is a key component of a DiDi-BAIC strategic partnership formed in a growing alliance between DiDi and auto-industry players.

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Green Car Congress

NOVEMBER 10, 2009

The Detroit News reported that GM has decided to produce the Cadillac Converj, an extended range electric vehicle derived from the Voltec platform. Cadillac included the Converj concept car at the 2009 North American International Auto Show. Cadillac Converj Concept Introduction at 2009 NAIAS. Earlier post.)

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Clean Fleet Report

JANUARY 13, 2023

And the auto industry had to respond to policy issues. Energy shortages in the late 1970s and 1980s led to the auto industry going from big energy-draining automobiles to smaller, more fuel-efficient vehicles. Electric vehicles have been around for a long while. My preference is the electric bicycle.

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Green Car Congress

FEBRUARY 16, 2009

The Eberspächer Group developed both an electric heater and a custom-engineered fuel-powered heater specifically for the “iChange” project. Both systems are designed to meet the specific requirements of electric vehicles. electrical system, maintaining the battery capacity entirely for driving purposes. Rinderknecht.

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Green Car Congress

JULY 17, 2015

The PHEV (Plug-in Hybrid Electric Vehicle), a subset of the electric car, combines a primary electric motor with a much smaller back-up engine fueled with a hydrocarbon/biofuel mix. (In In this paper PHEV refers solely to the long-range PHEV of 60 miles (100 km) electric-only range.) CTO Efficient Drivetrains Inc.

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Green Car Congress

OCTOBER 26, 2009

A Bloomfield, Michigan startup is developing light- and medium-duty series plug-in hybrid electric vehicle powertrain systems—initially as conversions, but ultimately extending to an OEM basis. ALTe already has Gen 1 proof-of-concept systems running in a Crown Vic taxi equipped with a 20 kWh Li-ion battery pack.

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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. Ed Cook, former president USW Local 3069 The U.S.

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Green Car Congress

JANUARY 5, 2012

In polling 200 C-level executives in the global automotive industry for the 2012 automotive survey, KPMG found that executives in the US and Western Europe expect even less consumer adoption, projecting e-vehicles will only account for 6-10% of global annual auto sales.

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EV Central

SEPTEMBER 21, 2022

A survey commissioned by the electric vehicle maker Polestar has found 34 per cent of Australian drivers support a ban on petrol and diesel cars by 2030. Polestar boss Thomas Ingenlath with the Precept concept, which is heading for production as the Polestar 5. Push that deadline out to 2035 and the figure climbs to 48 per cent.

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Cars That Think

JULY 13, 2023

Stanley Whittingham , who created the lithium-ion concept, and Akira Yoshino , who developed the anode chemistry that was used in Sony’s first lithium-ion battery. His second, lithium manganese oxide, is used in power tools, medical devices, and some electric vehicles. His first was lithium cobalt oxide. Stanley Whittingham.

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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

MARCH 11, 2023

They wanted to see whether an electric vehicle could feed electricity back to the grid. The company’s president, Tom Gage , dubbed the system “vehicle to grid” or V2G. And with the revival of the EV, the V2G concept was reborn. General Motors’ Impact debuted at the 1990 Los Angeles Auto Show.

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Green Car Congress

NOVEMBER 13, 2013

The details of that specific situation may result in an electric vehicle parc somewhat different than in Western countries, other speakers noted, and may indeed—given the obvious scale of the China market—herald a major transformation in transportation, including the type and role of personal vehicles, others suggested.

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EV Adoption

MARCH 31, 2021

This past week not only had the usual automaker electrification declarations and teases of EVs to come such as the Kia EV6 and Lexus LF-Z concept EV, but we had a huge April Fools’ joke from Volkswagen. According to the Asian auto industry gurus at ZoZo Go , it’s the strongest product debut in the history of four-wheeled vehicles.

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Revenge of the Electric Car

JANUARY 27, 2010

. “Better Place, an infrastructure provider for electric cars founded by former SAP <SAPG.DE> executive Shai Agassi, has raised $350 million in fresh equity as part of a second round of financing. HSBC invested $125 million of its own funds in the company, giving it an equity stake of roughly 10 percent in Better Place.

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Current EV

MARCH 3, 2020

Both won prestigious awards and added impetus to the public’s perception that e-mobility is where the auto industry is headed. BMW was quickly branded as one of the Electric Vehicle Movement’s leaders. BMW’s website sales pitch: “Concept i4 is the new, electric dimension of the Ultimate Driving Machine.

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Charged EVs

MAY 31, 2022

Upcoming electric passenger vehicles and light trucks from GM get most of the attention, but its new commercial EV brand is a quiet and very serious push too. Many US drivers now have a vague idea that General Motors is doing something with electric vehicles. The BrightDrop Zevo 600. Photo courtesy of BrightDrop.

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Green Car Congress

FEBRUARY 20, 2015

Organized by Sandia, the American Gas Association, and Toyota, the workshop included participants from the auto industry, freight delivery fleets, gas suppliers, gas storage developers, utilities, academia, industry associations, national laboratories, and federal and state governments. Click to enlarge.

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Green Car Congress

APRIL 2, 2009

GM’s Britta Gross, Director of Electric Vehicle Infrastructure Commercialization will participate in a webchat tomorrow to field questions about the development of the plug-in ecosystem. The concept that Tony [Posawatz] used of a plug-in ecosystem is perfect for what we are trying to do. Date: Friday, 3 April. Source: EPRI.

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Baua Electric

JANUARY 13, 2024

What are your thoughts on electric vehicle (EV) incentives by virtue of the FAME subsidy getting further extended? Battery swapping in 2w- and 3ws would automatically make EVs affordable and we will see a phenomenal change happening with the swapping concept coming to life.

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Green Car Congress

JULY 4, 2009

Cautioning that the development and commercialization of the electric car is “ not a sprint, but a marathon ”, Volkswagen AG Chairman of the Board of Management Prof. Dr. Martin Winterkorn said that Volkswagen would introduce its first electric vehicles based on the up! VW and the electric car. Earlier post.).

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Revenge of the Electric Car

APRIL 12, 2010

2009 BMW Concept ActiveE. BMW MegaCity Urban Electric Car To Be Built of Carbon Fiber. We don’t know what it looks like yet, but another detail emerged yesterday on BMW’s upcoming tiny MegaCity urban electric vehicle: It will be built out of carbon fiber that is partly made in the U.S. Europe, and U.K.

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Green Car Congress

MARCH 13, 2009

As part of its report on fourth quarter and year-end 2008 results, Ener1 outlined its EnerDel unit’s customer programs underway for its lithium-ion battery technology in applications spanning hybrids, plug-in hybrids (PHEVs) and full electric vehicles. Early design concept development program with a European automotive company.

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Green Car Congress

APRIL 7, 2010

The new partners have agreed upon, and will implement with immediate effect, specific projects in the areas of a new common architecture for small vehicles; engines; and light commercial vehicles. All vehicles will clearly differ from each other in terms of product design.

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Revenge of the Electric Car

FEBRUARY 3, 2010

“This could propel them into a more prominent position in the auto industry,&# Menlow said. The IPO would be a first among electric car companies, which have shown life in recent years in response to high oil prices. The all-electric vehicle gets 160 to 300 miles on a single charge.

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Get Electric Vehicle

MAY 28, 2022

A recent report from the Environmental Defense Fund indicates that electric vehicle sales volumes are growing at a rapid pace, signalling an epochal shift in the auto industry over the next decade. Despite that and other numerous issues, the electric vehicle sector has gained traction in the previous year.

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Revenge of the Electric Car

NOVEMBER 3, 2008

They may still harbor love for the concept, but the realities of the marketplace have proven that technology a non-starter. The Smart Garage concept has become RMI’s means to describe the integration of the grid and the electric vehicle. Please click here to make a secure, online donation to the Smart Garage Initiative.)

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Green Cars News

NOVEMBER 10, 2009

According to reports in the Detroit News , General Motors has decided to produce the Cadillac Converj, which will be an extended range electric vehicle derived from the Voltec platform. The concept car originally made its debut earlier this year at the North American International Auto Show.

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