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ALTe Developing Series Plug-in Hybrid Powertrains for Conversion and OEM Applications

Green Car Congress

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. In the Crown Victoria, the proof of concept powertrain conversion systems improve fuel economy from 80%-200% from the base 4.6L

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New Ford Escape launching with two new EcoBoost engines with standard Auto Start-Stop

Green Car Congress

SYNC 3 features faster performance, conversational voice recognition, intuitive smartphone-like touch screen and easier-to-understand graphical interface. An indicator light provides a warning in the side mirror corresponding to the side on which the vehicle is approaching.

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It’s a green light for electric vehicles! Aussie CO2 standard tough on Toyota, SUVs and utes

EV Central

Previewed in an Impact Analysis published on Sunday (February 4), the newly renamed National Vehicle Efficiency Standard (NVES), will impose tough CO2 emissions limit on passenger vehicles, SUVs, utes and vans that ramp up around 12 per cent per year from 2025 to 2029 under the government’s preferred model.

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BrightDrop: GM’s silent push into electric commercial vehicles

Charged EVs

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. BrightDrop offers a fascinating window into the breadth of GM’s EV plans, though even many people in the auto industry know little about it. The BrightDrop Zevo 600.

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The EV Transition Is Harder Than Anyone Thinks

Cars That Think

percent of new light-duty vehicle sales, with 66,416 battery-electric vehicles (BEVs) and 14,143 plug-in hybrid vehicles (PHEVs) sold. Shifting the auto industry, an apex industry supporting a host of others to meet a new knowledge economy around EVs will be no easy task.”

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A 100 m.p.g. truck? A Bright IDEA | Freep.com | Detroit Free Press

Tony Karrer Delicious EVdriven

For years now, inventors and sellers of electric car conversion kits have been blasting traditional automakers for not providing the 100 m.p.g. Three years ago, the magazine Popular Mechanics even wrote an article prodding the auto industry for not building the 100 m.p.g. • BRIGHT AUTOMOTIVE: Unwrapping the 100 m.p.g.

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Cleantech Blog: Smart Grids and Electric Vehicles

Tony Karrer Delicious EVdriven

Cleantech Crunched Top 10 Low Carbon Footprint Cars (and one SUV) for. EPA declares CO2 a “threat to public health&# Alternative Energy Stocks The Time is Right for Gas-guzzler to Dual-mode EV Conversions Joel Makower: Two Steps Forward The Seven Sins of Greenwashing: Is Everybody Lying? 2) Chevy Volt (2) China (2) ECOD3.SA

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