Teslarati

APRIL 4, 2023

Genesis has unveiled the GV80 electric SUV concept, which shows an unusual next step in performance EVs for the brand. Now, Genesis has shown off its newest concept vehicle, which could define how the brand moves forward in the near future, the GV80. With this showing today, the company is on track to achieve just that.

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Electrek

APRIL 3, 2023

As it transitions to fully electric, zero-emission vehicles, Volkswagen looks to maintain its position in the auto industry. Part of this plan includes transforming iconic brand names like the Golf and Tiguan to electric while adding new EVs to the lineup, such as VW’s new affordable ID 2all concept.

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Green Car Congress

FEBRUARY 10, 2012

Toyota will stage the world debut of the FT-Bh concept, an ultra-lightweight, full hybrid city car study, designed to achieve low emissions within an economically viable production framework, at the Geneva Motor Show.

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Green Car Congress

FEBRUARY 26, 2021

Nissan’s latest approach to engine development has raised the bar to world-leading levels, accelerating past the current auto industry average range of 40% thermal efficiency, making it possible to even further reduce vehicle CO 2 emissions. The STARC concept.

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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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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. AC Propulsion’s president, Tom Gage, explains the company’s vehicle-to-grid technology at a 2001 conference in Seattle.

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Green Car Congress

JUNE 11, 2015

Fraunhofer researchers have developed a laser arc method with which layers of carbon almost as hard as diamond can be applied on an industrial scale at high coating rates and with high thicknesses. So far PLD and HIPIMS are not suitable for industrial applications due to their low efficiency, Fraunhofer notes.

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Baua Electric

AUGUST 1, 2024

Nissan and Honda will work together to promote EV adoption with a focus on software-defined vehicles (SDVs). Like many rivals, the two believe that software (including autonomous driving, connectivity, and AI) will “determine the value of vehicles in the future.” BYD is breaking into Japan’s seemingly impenetrable auto industry.

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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. It will be used in more than a dozen vehicles to be sold in the US by 2025.

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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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Teslarati

APRIL 25, 2023

Honda appears ready to go full electric and dive into the increasing competition in the EV industry. 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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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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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.). Earlier post.).

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Green Car Congress

OCTOBER 25, 2017

At the Tokyo Motor Show, Mazda is introducing the KAI CONCEPT compact hatchback ( earlier post ), powered by the next-generation SKYACTIV-X spark-controlled compression-ignition (SPCCI) gasoline engine ( earlier post ), SKYACTIV-Vehicle Architecture and a more mature expression of the KODO design language. In a vehicle with a 2.0L

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Green Car Congress

NOVEMBER 1, 2018

the world leader in aluminum rolling and recycling, plans to establish a global network of Customer Solution Centers (CSCs) to accelerate collaborative innovation between Novelis and automakers for the next generation of vehicle design. Novelis Inc.,

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Green Car Congress

NOVEMBER 21, 2013

Toyota used the Los Angeles Auto Show as the forum at which to unveil a Driver Awareness Research Vehicle (DAR-V). Utilizing Microsoft technologies such as Kinect, the interactive systems integrated into the design of the vehicle display important, highly personalized information on the side window when the driver approaches the car.

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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. But many concepts, development vehicles, one-offs, and other technology experiments preceded that first Prius.

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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. —Gary Silberg.

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Clean Fleet Report

APRIL 1, 2021

The auto industry is not known as a second career for comedy writers. Jeep made real news with a new EV concept. Lexus revealed a concept electric crossover, the LF-Z, that looks ready to kick that division down the EV pathway. Genesis introduced an all-electric grand tourer concept that also appears ready to produce.

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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

FEBRUARY 20, 2015

Sandia National Laboratories, supported by the DOE’s Vehicle Technologies and Fuel Cell Technologies Offices, recently released the workshop report “Transitioning the Transportation Sector: Exploring the Intersection of Hydrogen Fuel Cell and Natural Gas Vehicles.”. Click to enlarge. Roles of fuel providers and utilities will shift.

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Green Car Congress

SEPTEMBER 30, 2020

We don’t expect output figures in the auto industry to return to pre-crisis levels for at least two to three years. We will not be losing any technology segments through this but will adapt our site concept and consolidate capabilities.

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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. Make the vehicles either larger or smaller.

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Baua Electric

JUNE 18, 2024

“Fisker has made incredible progress since our founding, bringing the Ocean SUV to market twice as fast as expected in the auto industry and making good on our promises to deliver the most sustainable vehicle in the world,” said a Fisker spokesperson. “We FTC: We use income earning auto affiliate links.

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Green Car Congress

MAY 7, 2009

European automotive suppliers and vehicle manufacturers have united to submit a series of R&D priorities to the European Commission to shape the European Green Car Initiative (EGCI), announced by the EU. The Green Car Initiative, a part of the European economic recovery plan, aims to allocate €5 billion (US$6.7

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Green Car Congress

OCTOBER 14, 2013

Advanced manufacturing methods will be used to make test batteries that replicate the performance of full-scale production batteries, allowing for faster implementation in future production vehicles. This is sorely needed, and no one else in the auto industry has anything like it.

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Green Car Congress

SEPTEMBER 25, 2014

The investment positions Aleris to meet anticipated significant growth in North American automotive demand as the industry pursues broader aluminum use for the production of lighter, more fuel-efficient vehicles. Aleris has served the automotive industry from its facility in Duffel for many years.

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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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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. New common architecture for small vehicles. All vehicles will clearly differ from each other in terms of product design.

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Green Car Congress

MAY 13, 2016

Plasma oxidation can be used to produce all grades of carbon fiber from low-end industrial to high-end aerospace grades. Paulauskas developed the scientific concept for the plasma oxidation method eight years ago and worked with RMX Technologies to develop prototypes and demonstrate the technology at the lab scale. Click to enlarge.

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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. Source: ALTe.

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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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Green Car Congress

DECEMBER 17, 2015

The Gorilla Glass hybrid is thinner and about 30% lighter than traditional laminate glass, and will improve Ford GT handling by lowering the vehicle’s center of gravity and positively impact acceleration, fuel economy and braking performance. The result is a windshield and rear engine cover approximately 32% lighter than competitive vehicles.

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Green Car Congress

FEBRUARY 18, 2014

Controlled Power Technologies (CPT) will deliver two technical papers at SAE World Congress in April on its SpeedStart torque assist and kinetic energy recovery system ( earlier post ) and TIGERS turbine integrated gas energy recovery system ( earlier post ) for 48V mild hybrid vehicles. Earlier post.) SpeedStart.

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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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Green Cars News

MAY 7, 2009

The European automotive industry has submitted clear research and development priorities to the European Commission in an effort to shape the European Green Car Initiative. Safety - Ensures the safety of vehicle concepts and types. Safety - Ensures the safety of vehicle concepts and types.

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Revenge of the Electric Car

JANUARY 27, 2010

Better Place’s concept is for battery-swapping stations to complement a network of charge spots so that electric cars like partner Renault’s <RENA.PA> planned Zoe can extend their range without the need of an additional back-up engine that burns fossil fuel.&#. Reporting by Christiaan Hetzner; Editing by Greg Mahlich).

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