Charged EVs

OCTOBER 27, 2024

Since then, in North America, Honda has sold two pure EVs in tiny numbers: the 2013-2014 Honda Fit EV (82 miles of EPA range) and the 2017-2019 Honda Clarity Electric midsize sedan (89 miles of range). A spacious five-seat utility vehicle, it’s EPA-rated at 273 to 296 miles of range. Both were purely compliance cars.

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Green Car Congress

APRIL 22, 2009

Rather than make incremental changes to the amount of ethanol blended with gasoline, a better investment would be to expand the E85 infrastructure. The original testing involved 13 cars and they drove an average of 500-1,000 miles. The average vehicle on the road is 9 years old and needs to drive well past 100,000 miles.

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Green Car Congress

NOVEMBER 14, 2017

Terrafugia will also benefit from the Geely Group’s significant expertise and track record of innovation within the global auto industry. It will run on premium unleaded automotive gasoline, fit in a standard construction single-car garage, and convert between flight and drive modes in less than one minute.

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Green Car Congress

SEPTEMBER 27, 2011

Although gasoline production and combustion produce significant emissions, battery and electricity production emissions. Conversely, in a pessimistic scenario using low gasoline prices, shorter battery life, coal-powered charging, and ANL 2015 cost estimates, plug-in vehicles could produce more damages at substantially higher cost.

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Green Car Congress

NOVEMBER 30, 2016

The final standards are projected result in an average industry fleet-wide level of 163 grams/mile of CO 2 in model year 2025, which is equivalent to 54.5 This will enable long-term planning in the auto industry, while also benefiting consumers and the environment.

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Green Car Congress

APRIL 24, 2013

l/100km) and 130 g/km on the NEDC New European Drive Cycle and significantly more miles per gallon in real world driving, while delivering the performance and driveability of a 2-liter class vehicle. Click to enlarge. —Nick Pascoe, CPT chief executive. Click to enlarge.

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Green Car Congress

JANUARY 13, 2017

The standards are projected to result in average fleet-wide consumer fuel economy sticker values of 36 miles per gallon (mpg) by model year 2025, 10 mpg higher than the current fleet average. Top: Footprint-based CO 2 (g/mile) light truck standards curves. Bottom: Footprint-based CO 2 (g/mile) passenger car standards curves.

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Green Car Congress

OCTOBER 10, 2015

The first phase lowers the PM standard to 3 mg/mile starting with MY 2017 vehicles. In the past, gasoline vehicles have had very low PM emissions—typically less than 1 mg/mi—as have diesel vehicles since the introduction of diesel particulate filters (DPFs). Earlier post.)

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Green Car Congress

NOVEMBER 21, 2017

TFS introduced the auto industry’s first Asset-Backed Green Bond in 2014; this latest issuance is the fourth Green Bond the company has issued. The TFS Green Bond program is unique in the auto industry and enhances Toyota’s reputation for leadership in green innovation across industries.

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Cars That Think

JANUARY 6, 2025

What they got wrong was assuming that all of those vehicles would run on battery power alone, with gasoline-electric hybrid technology bound for the technological scrap heap. Those numbers are a disappointment to automakers and regulators, who have looked to PHEVs as a bridge technology between gasoline vehicles and pure EVs.

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Green Car Reports

JANUARY 12, 2018

Today, we've got a Chevy Bolt EV without a steering wheel, an update on available 2018 diesel vehicles, an analysis of the per-mile costs of electricity versus gasoline, and predictions by auto-industry execs. All this and more on Green Car Reports.

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Green Car Congress

AUGUST 6, 2013

Because California leads the nation in EV adoption, other utilities and stakeholders in the auto industry may find the information from the white paper useful, SCE suggested. But I’m not sure fast charging really compensates for that—the cost to fuel the vehicle will be more expensive or comparable to gasoline.

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Electric Auto Association

MAY 3, 2022

Submitted to the Ohio Senate Energy and Public Utilities Committee in support of Senate Bill 307: Accelerating Ohio's Auto Industry By Tim Benford, president of Drive Electric Dayton. My EV battery is warrantied for a minimum of 100K miles and eight years.

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Revenge of the Electric Car

APRIL 20, 2010

The four-door Nissan Leaf will go on sale later this year at a cost of about $20,000 after a federal tax credit and state rebate, a price low enough that auto industry analysts say it will attract consumers who have never considered driving electric vehicles before. The Leaf has a range of 100 miles.

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Plugs and Cars

JUNE 2, 2007

Dan Kalb of the Union of Concerned Scientists and Bonnie Holms-Gen of the Lung Association were there to lend their voices of protest against the auto industry's continuing legal assault on California. It's about 90 miles from my house in San Francisco to the Capitol in Sacramento.) And I was there representing Plug In America.

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Green Car Congress

JULY 4, 2009

However, Winterkorn said, VW, and the German auto industry in general, abandoned the early advantage and work in electromobility. And the auto industry doesn’t hold back on announcements. Volkswagen is now committed to electromobility, he said, but noted that “ electro ” is not enough. “ We are witnessing an electro-hype.

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Clean Fleet Report

JULY 18, 2023

Their design (except for the Ford Lightning and other electric truck competitors) isn’t conducive to carrying a gooseneck trailer on the highway for 100 miles. Internal combustion engine (ICE) vehicles lose efficiency when they tow by getting fewer miles per gallon (mpg), but the loss is worse for EVs. What’s the Solution?

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Green Car Congress

JUNE 23, 2009

Further, the report finds that the existing culture within the domestic auto companies systematically underestimates the value of fuel economy, which has crippled profitability. Our domestic auto industry, in its modern incarnation, has never been able to execute an excellent portfolio, only isolated successes. Fuel Economy.

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Clean Fleet Report

NOVEMBER 23, 2021

350-mile driving range (est.). 250-mile driving range. 340-mile driving range. 350-mile driving range. The top trim levels of Ocean Extreme and Ocean One will be equipped with the SolarSky roof, which Fisker estimates could supply annually up-to 2,000 miles of driving range through solar charging that feeds the battery.

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Green Car Congress

FEBRUARY 5, 2009

In the report, DOE says that it has made significant progress in: Reducing the projected cost of hydrogen production from distributed natural gas (assuming widespread deployment) from $5 to $3 per gallon gasoline equivalent (gge). The 2015 cost target was $2-$3/gge. centralized hydrogen production and delivery systems—have slipped.

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Charged EVs

DECEMBER 14, 2021

Most already had gasoline pickups or SUVs, and some had Teslas, but for an electric vehicle, they wanted a truck—not one of the compact hatchbacks that made up the market of non-Tesla EVs. Rivian started its media drive on off-road trails, covering 60 miles and several hours at elevations of 9,000 to 12,000 feet. Stay tuned.

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Baua Electric

SEPTEMBER 13, 2024

Ferrari e-building Adolfo Urso, Italy’s industry minister, said a planned intermediate assessment of progress toward meeting the stricter emissions rules that underpin the internal-combustion ban should be moved forward from 2026 to next year, declaring that the EU needs a “pragmatic vision” for the future of the auto industry.

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Baua Electric

JUNE 7, 2024

GMC Hummer EV Calculated out, that equates a battery electric vehicle with a gasoline-powered vehicle that gets about 300 miles per gallon—allowing automakers until then to effectively produce hundreds more gasoline vehicles for every one EV , and incentivizing PHEVs.

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Green Cars News

JULY 3, 2009

It believes that many of the domestic industry’s problems stem from an underestimation of US consumer demand for green cars. It could be argued then that America is still drunk on cheap gasoline. Tags: Green cars Latest news auto industry profits gas prices petrol prices US auto industry.

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Baua Electric

FEBRUARY 11, 2025

Scout Traveler SUV concept Why does Scout EV peg 350 miles of range? Why did Scout decide that 350 miles is enough for the BEV, while Rivian, for instance, pushes to 410 or 420 miles and the Chevy Silverado EV and Cadillac Escalade IQ push it out to 460 miles? Or its maxed out by the existing space of the ladder frame.

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Tony Karrer Delicious EVdriven

APRIL 21, 2009

Dont PHEVs just shift pollution from gasoline cars to power plants? The enthusiasm for ethanol ("flex-fuel" cars use E85, which is 85% ethanol and 15% gasoline) is welcome. But it works best if we use plug-in hybrids to power most of our miles electrically. We are not exploring PHEV versions of gasoline-only (non-hybrid) cars.

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Baua Electric

OCTOBER 27, 2024

Since then, in North America, Honda has sold two pure EVs in tiny numbers: the 2013-2014 Honda Fit EV (82 miles of EPA range) and the 2017-2019 Honda Clarity Electric midsize sedan (89 miles of range). A spacious five-seat utility vehicle, it’s EPA-rated at 273 to 296 miles of range. Both were purely compliance cars.

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Tony Karrer Delicious EVdriven

APRIL 21, 2009

While the Volt holds promise, it is currently projected to be much more expensive than its gasoline-fueled peers and will likely need substantial reductions in manufacturing cost in order to become commercially viable,” the task force noted in its recent assessment of GM’s restructuring plans. .&# and Chrysler. Whatever B.C.G.’s

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Tony Karrer Delicious EVdriven

APRIL 21, 2009

Fisker $80,000 Karma series luxury 50-mile range series PHEV, S Sunset convertible version.Partnering with Quantum Technologies. Company says its focusing on gasoline and hydrogen. Volvo Ford-owned company exploring PHEVs "ReCharge" flex-fuel series 60-mile concept PHEV w/wheel motors. Establishing dealer network.

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Tony Karrer Delicious EVdriven

APRIL 22, 2009

The aggressive plans illustrate Chinas growing commitment to electrified vehicles and its strategy to support auto makers developing various types of electric cars and components with research subsidies. Among the most notable: a gas-electric hybrid Shanghai Automotive Industry Corp. Gasgoo.com | ?? | in late 2010. Prius hybrid.

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Green Car Congress

MARCH 7, 2013

The auto industry should play a central role in the energy discussion, Akerson noted, because light-duty vehicles account for about 60% of total transportation energy usage in the United States. More efficient gasoline engines. The death of the V-8 has been greatly exaggerated, Akerson said. Natural gas as a vehicle fuel.

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Green Car Congress

JULY 17, 2015

(In this paper PHEV refers solely to the long-range PHEV of 60 miles (100 km) electric-only range.) Though the PHEV combines the two types of energy and power, it is not merely a temporary “transition” between gasoline and diesel cars to pure electric cars. Engineering Advantages of the PHEV.

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Green Car Congress

JUNE 14, 2010

Well, America’s auto industry delivered over 100,000. That helped us become the world’s greatest industrial power. Over time, we can conserve by reducing the miles we drive. It helps that the auto industry will be building more efficient new vehicles. It’s a 21st-century equivalent of what we did in 1942.

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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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Cars That Think

JANUARY 23, 2023

One Bloomberg study found 341 miles was the average range desired, while Deloitte Consulting’s 2022 Global Automotive Consumer Study found US consumers want to be able to travel 518 miles on a fully charged battery in a BEV that costs $50,000 or less. Studies differ about far drivers want to be able to go between charges.

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Cars That Think

FEBRUARY 24, 2025

His first job at the automaker had been inside a 1920s wood-paneled building in Dearborn, Mich.just a few miles from the historic home of founder Henry Fordwhere hundreds of power-train engineers toiled away on generations of Ford engines. Thats the sort of project where the gasoline in your blood starts pumping, he would say years later.

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Charged EVs

MAY 31, 2022

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. Production of the gasoline Equinox at CAMI will end in April, and the first Zevo 600s should come off the lines seven months later, in November. The BrightDrop Zevo 600.

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