Green Car Congress

FEBRUARY 26, 2021

Nissan’s e-POWER system utilizes an on-board gasoline engine to provide electrical energy to the e-powertrain battery pack. The system comprises a gasoline engine with a power generator, inverter, battery and electric motor.

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Teslarati

MAY 25, 2023

While EV purists may regard hybrid and plug-in hybrid vehicles as combustion-powered cars, both segments still experienced growth last month. The SMMT’s data noted that plug-in hybrid electric car registrations saw a 33.3% increase last month, while hybrid electric vehicle registrations improved by 7.7%.

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Green Car Reports

OCTOBER 20, 2017

How Mazda plans to integrate plug-in hybrid and battery-electric vehicles into its range of increasingly efficient gasoline and diesel models is a topic that interests parts of the global auto industry.

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Green Car Congress

JUNE 14, 2011

Plug-in hybrids dominate market penetration in 2025 under CAR scenario IV (62 mpg CAFE standard). per gallon gasoline. per gallon gasoline. The global automotive industry has never been more competitive. new technologies will appear and be tested in auto markets all over the world. Source: CAR. Click to enlarge.

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Green Car Reports

JANUARY 7, 2015

Progress must be coming at a much faster pace than we thought: Conventional gasoline engines will power only a minority of the new cars sold just two years hence, according to a new report. That means more than half the vehicles sold will have hybrid, diesel, natural gas, or plug-in electric powertrains, right?

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Green Car Congress

APRIL 24, 2013

12V and 48V LC Super Hybrid technology demonstrators. The Advanced Lead-Acid Battery Consortium (ALABC) and Controlled Power Technologies (CPT) will introduce a low-carbon 48 volt LC Super Hybrid technology demonstrator at the International Vienna Motor Symposium this week. Click to enlarge. Earlier post.). Click to enlarge.

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Green Car Congress

AUGUST 24, 2009

Canadian government programs that offer rebates to hybrid vehicle buyers are failing to produce environmental benefits commensurate with the cost, according to a study by researchers at the University of British Columbia (UBC). If the intention of rebate programs is to replace gas guzzlers with hybrids, they are failing. Chandra et al.

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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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Green Car Congress

NOVEMBER 30, 2016

Although EPA’s technical analysis indicates that the standards could be strengthened for model years 2022-2025, proposing to leave the current standards in place provides greater certainty to the auto industry for product planning and engineering, the agency said.

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Teslarati

JUNE 13, 2022

There was a time when Toyota was one of the world’s greenest auto manufacturers. The company practically made hybrids mainstream with the Prius, but it has maintained a conservative stance on electric vehicles since then. The company has become a stern critic of the rapid transition to all-electric cars.

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Clean Fleet Report

SEPTEMBER 17, 2022

But for many people, one of the most important considerations is the cost of gasoline. While the initial purchase price of a fuel-efficient car may be higher, the savings on gasoline can quickly add up over time. As people become more conscious of the cost of gasoline, they are sure to have a profound impact on the automotive market.

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Green Car Reports

MARCH 15, 2010

While the auto industry in general offers an average incentive of more than $1,000 off the sticker price of any new vehicle, many buyers somehow assume this doesn't apply to hybrids. You can get money off pretty much any hybrid out there at the moment, since gasoline prices are far from the heights they reached in 2008.

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Green Car Congress

JANUARY 13, 2017

EPA further projects that the MY2022-2025 standards can be met largely through advances in gasoline vehicle technologies, such as improvements in engines, transmissions, light-weighting, aerodynamics, and accessories.

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Green Car Congress

MARCH 23, 2015

Professor Neville Jackson, Ricardo’s chief technology and innovation officer, presented the results of a research project carried out by the Automotive Council UK to establish a long-term (to 2050) transition from current gasoline and diesel fuels to a majority renewable energy portfolio. Summary of the roadmap to 2050. Click to enlarge.

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The Truth About Cars

MARCH 21, 2024

officials said automakers could comply with the emissions caps by selling a mix of conventional gasoline-burning cars, hybrids, electric vehicles or other types of vehicles, such as cars powered by hydrogen. Car companies that exceed the new restrictions could face substantial penalties. Don't lie and claim it is something it is not.

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Green Car Congress

AUGUST 10, 2009

Cackette was in effect suggesting that the future tailpipe emissions baseline (LEV III) for light duty passenger vehicles—both diesel and gasoline—was likely to be or to approximate CA SULEV/US Tier 2 Bin 2. We see dramatic downsizing and boosting [as] something that’s going to for gasoline engines especially. Paul Whitaker.

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Green Car Congress

MARCH 19, 2013

This first report (Phase I) examines only the impact of improving the efficiency of fossil-fueled vehicles, in which efficiency gains are delivered by the improvement of the internal combustion engine vehicle, including lightweighting, engine downsizing and hybridization. —“An Economic Assessment of Low Carbon Vehicles”.

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Green Car Congress

SEPTEMBER 27, 2011

Strategies to promote adoption of hybrid electric vehicles (HEVs) and plug-in hybrid electric vehicles (PHEVs) with small battery packs offer more social benefits (i.e., Although gasoline production and combustion produce significant emissions, battery and electricity production emissions. Michalek et al. Click to enlarge.

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Green Car Congress

AUGUST 6, 2013

Currently, SCE customers lease or own more than 12,000 plug-in electric vehicles (PEVs), both battery electric (BEVs, for about 35%) and plug-in hybrids (PHEVs, for about 65%)—about 10% of national EV sales. Electric (Battery) Hybrids Infrastructure Smart charging Smart Grid V2X' We’re talking about 480 volts—a big circuit.

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Green Car Congress

MARCH 17, 2010

This will include new investment in a host of incremental improvements to conventional gasoline powered internal combustion engines, from new controls for valves and timing, to variable speed transmissions and advanced electronics. It will also include entirely new systems like hybrid drive trains and advanced diesel engines.

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Green Car Congress

MAY 2, 2009

” [Note: In the first quarter of this year takes rates have been averaging around 8-12% for the Camry, Civic and Escape hybrid versions.]. ” Where hybrids get it wrong. Miller of Synovate lays out how a consumer might view a hybrid: We’re going to charge you more for this technology. Would you buy this vehicle?

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Revenge of the Electric Car

JUNE 1, 2010

China is starting a program to subsidize buyers of battery-powered and plug-in hybrids. BEIJING—China will subsidize buyers of battery-powered cars and plug-in hybrids under a pilot program aimed at keeping the country competitive in the global race to develop an electric-vehicle industry, but which also risks a public backlash.

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Plugs and Cars

MAY 4, 2008

RUSSERT: How long before our automobiles are off of gasoline oil and, and using something like an alternative fuel? And the technologies exist right now for plug-in hybrids. Tags: barak obama Plug-in Hybrids battery electric car. You know, we should continue to investigate the possibilities of electric cars.

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Green Car Congress

JULY 4, 2009

Volkswagen had begun exploring hybrid and electric drive technology in the 1990s. VW, Daimler subsidiary Daug and Varta developed a NimH battery in the early 90s, and the VW group put the Audi duo hybrid on the road in 1997. And the auto industry doesn’t hold back on announcements. We are witnessing an electro-hype.

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Revenge of the Electric Car

MAY 17, 2010

gasoline-powered vehicles could be delayed. Despite a surge in interest, electric cars may remain niche products in the world’s two largest auto markets. Similarly, in China, the sheer size of the auto industry and the country’s ambitious clean-energy goals suggest a potentially huge market for electric cars.

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Green Car Congress

FEBRUARY 14, 2009

A series of presentations at the SAE 2009 Hybrid Vehicle Technology Symposium held in San Diego (11-12 February) sketched a mixed outlook for mainstream consumer—i.e., not enthusiast or pioneer—adoption of coming plug-in hybrid electric vehicles (PHEVs), given current market conditions and consumer awareness and attitudes.

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Green Car Congress

FEBRUARY 18, 2009

The plans, updated in the context of a worsening sales outlook for the entire auto industry, outline a need for up to an additional $16.6 As required by the loan agreements signed in December 2008, GM and Chrysler submitted their updated restructuring plans showing a pathway to achieve financial viability to Congress on Tuesday.

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Plug In Partners

JANUARY 26, 2006

Editorial Trying to Find the Road Ahead Published: January 24, 2006 W ith its bonds downgraded to junk and its market share on the ropes, Detroit's auto industry almost looks to be in a free fall. At Detroit's auto show, it unveiled a Chinese car that Geely plans to upgrade and sell in the United States in 2008.

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Green Car Congress

JUNE 14, 2010

In a pre-response to that speech, having successfully advocated for plug-in hybrids like the forthcoming Chevy Volt, we propose that the President follow that speech up with a “realistic and conservative” roadmap to halve our oil use in 10 years. Well, America’s auto industry delivered over 100,000. We just had to do it.

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Revenge of the Electric Car

APRIL 20, 2010

Funny that this article cites “a shortage of public charging stations&# as the sole reason for auto makers scrapping electric vehicles in the 1990s. The Leaf is just the first of several all-electric and plug-in hybrid vehicles about to come on the market. By Dana Hull for the San Jose Mercury News.

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Plug In Partners

FEBRUARY 17, 2006

"That requires nothing less than a complete and radical change of mindset : not only for Ford Motor Company, where we are undergoing this transformation, but for the whole auto industry."

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Current EV

DECEMBER 22, 2019

Part of this effort includes the rise of Electric Vehicles (EVs), which are charged electronically for propulsion, as opposed to using any other energy source like gasoline. The EV sector includes HEVs (Hybrid Electric Vehicles), PHEVs (Plug-In Electric Vehicles), and BEVs (Battery Electric Vehicles). Driven largely in China, the U.S.,

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Green Cars News

JULY 3, 2009

In May 2008, Toyota saw its Prius hybrid car turn it towards profitability in America and it scrapped plans to build a sport utility truck plant in Tupelo, Mississippi and chose to build a Prius plant there instead. It could be argued then that America is still drunk on cheap gasoline. Leave a comment with your thoughts.

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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. In a Prius or Civic Hybrid at 50mpg, the trip would have cost about $30 in gas, tolls and parking in Sacto.

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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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Green Cars News

JUNE 21, 2009

In an interview with CBS News that did little to belie Musk’s reputation as a bold speaker, he also hit out at the Toyota Prius describing it as “not a true hybrid really&# and suggesting that the current Prius is “like, two per cent electric - it’s a gasoline car with slightly better mileage&#.

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Tony Karrer Delicious EVdriven

APRIL 22, 2009

Facebook Digg Reddit Newsvine More evidence that we are approaching an exciting new frontier in the automotive industry will be on display today on Capitol Hill. will be unveiling its IDEA, a 100 miles-per-gallon plug-in hybrid electric vehicle. Later, he went on to work at auto supplier Delphi Corp. The 100 m.p.g. Yep, a truck.

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