InsideEVs

JULY 31, 2025

Photo by: Lamborghini Rob Stumpf By : Rob Stumpf Jul 31, at 10:00am ET Facebook X LinkedIn Flipboard Reddit WhatsApp E-Mail Share Comment I can remember a few years ago when buying a hybrid meant that you were buying an economy car. Hybrids can be fun. And now, its boss confirms: hybrids were the right move at exactly the right time.

Prius

InsideEVs

AUGUST 4, 2025

It’s a big number that will send shock waves to others in the industry,” said financial analyst Dan Ives of Wedbush Securities. With 400-kilowatt maximum charging, drivers will be able to add roughly enough range to get from New York to Washington, DC, after 10 minutes of plugging in. It’s not a good day for Tesla.” surged by 45.3

Tesla

Electrek

JULY 25, 2025

Plug-in hybrids (PHEVs) also saw higher demand, with sales rising 56% to 138,633. Comments Expand Close comments Expand Close comments Guides Volkswagen Volkswagen Group Author Peter Johnson EVPeteJohnson Peter Johnson is covering the auto industry’s step-by-step transformation to electric vehicles. Volkswagen ID.4

Germany

InsideEVs

AUGUST 6, 2025

On the other hand, used car sales giant Carvana says that it’s had its best sales yet of plug-in hybrid and EV models. Today, we’re learning that regulatory rollbacks have made a way for the big three to make gas guzzlers again, while Honda feels the full weight of how EV investments and tariffs. Let’s hop to it, folks.

America

The Truth About Cars

AUGUST 8, 2025

We've been in 12:18 the auto industry in one form or another for so many years. One of our clients, uh, plug, 14:14 their CEO is Jimmy Douglas. I think there was a discussion early on 19:11 in the industry about the ability of what hybrids could bring to the table. 12:10 Use it as an opportunity so they know.

Tax Credit

InsideEVs

AUGUST 13, 2025

Followers should check out Xpeng’s G7 SUV, Li Auto’s i8 electric minivan or even Tesla’s Model Y, he said.” Now, is this camaraderie for China’s auto industry? “If you need to buy a car quickly, other China-produced new energy vehicles are pretty good,” he wrote on social media in July. 100% What Happens On October 1st?

America

InsideEVs

AUGUST 11, 2025

That kicks off this Monday edition of Critical Materials , our morning roundup of industry and technology news. tariffs, and Chinas hybrid sales are falling—but not for the reason you might think. Plug-in sales increased by 60% in developing countries as a whole in 2024, according to the International Energy Agency.

America

Green Car Congress

OCTOBER 26, 2009

Rendering of the Gen 2 series plug-in hybrid powertrain under development. 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. Source: ALTe. Click to enlarge.

Conversion

Green Car Congress

JULY 9, 2012

China’s State Council has published a plan to develop the domestic energy-saving and new energy vehicle industry, which includes battery-electric vehicles, plug-in hybrid vehicles and fuel cell vehicles. 2012 Chinese Auto Industry Development Report. Fuel cell stack research.

Auto Industry

Green Car Congress

JULY 20, 2010

Organizations representing auto manufacturers, electric utilities and the electric drive industry are calling on President Obama to establish a new National Electric Fuel Task Force to help accelerate the adoption of plug-in electric vehicles and the necessary infrastructure. Tags: Electric (Battery) Plug-ins Policy.

Obama

Green Car Congress

DECEMBER 24, 2009

The United States Advanced Battery Consortium LLC (USABC)—an organization whose members are Chrysler Group LLC, Ford Motor Company and General Motors Company—is seeking requests for proposal information (RFPIs) for four projects related to advanced battery development for hybrid electric, plug-in hybrid electric and electric vehicles.

Energy Storage

Green Car Reports

MAY 28, 2020

billion) bailout package to help the auto industry recover from the coronavirus pandemic, and electric cars will be an important part of it. The aid package, as reported by Automotive News Europe, includes more generous incentives for electric cars and plug-in hybrids, as well as a.

Plug-in

Green Car Congress

APRIL 23, 2014

HELLA is working with Paul Vahle GmbH to develop wireless (inductive) charging systems for plug-in vehicles. As wireless charging has become more available and easy to use, it also might allow automakers to reduce battery size and weight on electric and hybrid electric vehicles. Earlier post.) Earlier post.).

Plug-in

Green Car Congress

JULY 2, 2012

The researchers defined six different drive concepts and their components as essential for the future and examined them in detail: the mild hybrid; the full hybrid including its plug-in version; the range extender; all-electric vehicles with battery or fuel cell; as well as vehicles with combustion engines.

Auto Industry

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.

Concept

Green Car Congress

APRIL 20, 2014

The Porsche Panamera S E-hybrid plug-in hybrid ( earlier post ) is already in the showrooms in China; the Group will launch two further plug-in hybrid vehicles there next year with the Audi A3 e-tron ( earlier post ) and the Golf GTE ( earlier post ). earlier post ) and e-Golf ( earlier post ) models.

2018

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. GM is focused on the first two pillars: leading plug-in technology vehicles and the enabling technologies. Tony Posawatz. Earlier post.).

Plug-in

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. In China , Europe , and the United States , buyers are converging on hybrids, whose sales growth is outpacing that of pure EVs. million, accounting for 10.6

Plug-in

Green Car Congress

FEBRUARY 27, 2018

AFV registrations consistent of hybrid electric vehicles (HEVs); plug-in hybrid electric vehicles (PHEVs); battery electric vehicles (BEV); and fuel cell electric vehicles (FCEV). Given hybrid vehicles outsell battery electric vehicles by a factor of 2.5 Alternatively fueled vehicles (AFV) registrations rose by 34.8%

2017

Green Car Congress

FEBRUARY 17, 2012

The goal of USCAR is to further strengthen the technology base of the domestic auto industry through cooperative research and development. The Grid Interaction Tech Team helped to identify and address roadblocks that would prevent successful commercialization of all types of plug-in electric vehicles.

Plug-in

Green Car Reports

JUNE 10, 2020

Although the cheap low-interest or no-interest financing deals for new vehicles have mostly gone away, as the auto industry recalibrates supply to a new coronavirus-recovery norm for demand, many of them are still good through June in the green-car sector—leading to some standout deals for electric cars, plug-in hybrids, and hybrid vehicles. (..)

Plug-in

Green Car Congress

OCTOBER 10, 2014

USABC seeks proposals the resulting technology from which will have the capability of meeting or approaching its technology targets for commercialization by 2020 for the following applications: 12-volt start-stop vehicles ( RFPI ); emerging 48-volt mild-hybrid electric vehicles (HEVs) ( RFPI ); plug-in hybrid electric vehicles (PHEV) ( RFPI ); and.

PHEV

Green Car Congress

NOVEMBER 7, 2021

positioning BYD as a dominant player in China’s plug-in hybrid vehicles market. The first ten months of the year saw drops in different levels of sales in the auto market, owing to chip shortages across the auto industry. Globally, the DM-i model also holds an important position.

BYD

Green Car Reports

DECEMBER 4, 2014

In the auto industry, it''s generally assumed that as gas prices drop, so do sales of green cars. Most consumers consider switching to more fuel-efficient, hybrid, or plug-in electric cars because of their anticipated lower fuel costs--but if gas is already inexpensive, the math doesn''t look as good.

Prius

Green Car Congress

AUGUST 16, 2012

Plug-in electric vehicles will play a critical role for the global auto industry to cope with issues related to fuel supply and environmental sustainability. China, the largest auto production and consumption market, has explicitly made alternative energy vehicle development a state strategy. Earlier post.).

GM

Green Car Congress

JANUARY 19, 2010

million in private equity funding to develop plug-in hybrid cars. million US Department of Energy conditional loan that will, in part, help speed completion of the Fisker Karma, the company’s first plug-in hybrid. Fisker Automotive last week secured access to an additional $115.3 Earlier post.).

Fisker

Green Car Congress

SEPTEMBER 6, 2010

Wang said when delivering a speech at the 2010 International Forum on the Development of the Chinese Automotive Industry that fostering and developing alternative-energy automobiles will aid in the long-term development of the auto industry. Fourth, fuel economy should reach high international standards, he said.

2020

Green Car Congress

OCTOBER 25, 2013

For McMaster, the project partnership is one of three new partnerships with Chrysler, the federal government and other auto industry leaders worth a combined $24 million. Much of their work will be done at MARC, a $26-million facility where teams will be able to develop, design and test an electric or hybrid car.

Chrysler

InsideEVs

AUGUST 26, 2024

auto industry officials want to ease off the China tariffs. Plus, Honda is trying to figure out what to name its EVs and some U.S.

Plug-in

Green Car Congress

NOVEMBER 3, 2010

Progress Energy is one of 10 utilities that have partnered with Ford to test 20 plug-in hybrid Ford Escapes to obtain data on durability, reliability and safety of the new battery technology. This will include installing about 600 stations across the company’s territory in the Carolinas and Florida.

North Carolina

Green Car Congress

JUNE 14, 2011

Plug-in hybrids dominate market penetration in 2025 under CAR scenario IV (62 mpg CAFE standard). Source: CAR. Click to enlarge.

Fuel Economy

Plugs and Cars

MARCH 23, 2007

Interest in plug-in cars of all sorts is real and growing. The auto industry has disappointed before when it comes to green technology. took an image beating when it backed away from a pledge to put 250,000 hybrids on the road by 2010. Tags: GM electric car plug-in hybrid chevy volt fuel cell.

Volt

Green Car Congress

JANUARY 5, 2012

Additionally, executives expect that hybrid fuel systems, battery electric power and fuel cell electric power will be the alternative propulsion technologies to attract the most auto industry investment over the next five years. 65% predict increased investment in hydrogen fuel cell technology.

Global

Green Car Congress

SEPTEMBER 8, 2014

The University of California, Davis, and the China Automotive Technology and Research Center (CATARC) have entered a new agreement to work together to help speed the commercialization of plug-in and fuel cell electric cars in China. China Fuel Cells Plug-ins Policy'

Davis

Plugs and Cars

JULY 13, 2007

Big time neo-Con Frank Gaffney and Arnold supporter actor Rob Lowe took their advocacy for plug-in hybrids to Massachusetts liberal Democrat Ed Markey's House Select Committee on Energy Independence and Global Warming yesterday. The Detroit Free Press story headline tells the tale: House talk on plug-in cars erupts Mich.

Detroit

Revenge of the Electric Car

JANUARY 27, 2009

This new company, Bright Automotive , is founded by ex-GM EV1 people, and the super efficient Rocky Mountain Institute to make plug-in hybrids in Indiana. Andy Frank makes the observation that parallel hybrids (Toyota Prius) are cheaper than series hybrids (Chevy Volt). I’m still not convinced. by: Michael Kanellos.

Plug-in

EV Central

NOVEMBER 22, 2022

Alfa Romeo’s new Tonale Plug-in Hybrid Q4 is the first ever vehicle from the venerable Italian car maker with a charging port. Until the Tonale Plug-in Hybrid Q4, Alfa Romeo produced zero electrified models. The snappy name neatly sums up the objective. Background check. With a turbo 1.3-litre Consumption is 1.1

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