CleanTechnica EVs

JANUARY 12, 2023

As the auto industry faces some of the harshest effects of the Federal Reserve’s rising interest rates to battle inflation, Tesla CEO Elon Musk and others are warning the public about the potential for a major financial crisis in the auto industry.

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Green Car Congress

JUNE 1, 2020

XL2 was founded by Audi and Capgemini to support the automotive industry in digital transformation tasks. Capgemini and Audi have launched a joint venture: XL2. Following regulatory approvals, the company was founded at the end of April.

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Green Car Reports

MAY 20, 2014

It''s also, amazingly, become California''s biggest auto-industry employer--edging out even Toyota. Tesla Motors is one of the youngest U.S. automakers, but has made a disproportionately large impact in the automotive media''s headlines over the last few years.

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Green Car Congress

OCTOBER 8, 2020

The auto industry has seen this need to improve familiarity in the past, with some advanced driver assist features such as ACC and even autonomous driving. Drivers will not only have the functional benefit of going green, they will also have the emotional benefit of owning a great looking vehicle with advanced technology.

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Green Car Congress

FEBRUARY 26, 2020

In light of new findings by the National Transportation Safety Board (NTSB) related to investigation of a fatal Tesla crash in 2018 related to Tesla Autopilot, Consumer Reports called for manufacturers to include key safety features in any vehicle that has an active driving assistance system and for the National Highway Traffic Safety Administration (..)

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Green Car Reports

AUGUST 5, 2014

The auto industry came very near to the precipice in 2009, and it agreed to significant new regulations to enable it to step back from the brink. Now, it turns out that it''s not only meeting, but actually beating, the required reductions in emissions. That means that, according to the U.S.

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Green Car Reports

AUGUST 5, 2014

Today on Green Car Reports: The auto industry is making good progress in meeting gas-mileage goals, why dealers are a bottleneck for electric-car sales, and the 2015 Chevrolet Colorado and GMC Canyon mid-size pickup trucks are on their way to showrooms. All this and more on Green Car Reports.

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Green Car Reports

FEBRUARY 2, 2024

Dealers think the Biden administration's EV policies are forcing the auto industry to move ahead of market demand, according to a new Automotive News survey. The publication's 2024 Dealer Outlook Survey compiled responses from 208 U.S. car dealers and dealership managers.

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Green Car Congress

NOVEMBER 19, 2021

The partners said the announcement is consistent with both companies’ commitment to build innovative business relationships to regain supply-demand balance for chips in the auto industry as well as efforts to further accelerate technology innovation for the US auto industry.

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Green Car Reports

NOVEMBER 12, 2018

The Tesla Model 3 is Green Car Reports' Best Car To Buy 2019. ” But that was the Model S—the shock to an auto industry that had dismissed its very premise. It’s the second time a Tesla product has won our annual award, which was captured by the Tesla Model S in 2013.

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Green Car Congress

DECEMBER 16, 2012

However, they noted, there are also many challenges associated with the use of biobased parts in the auto industry. Cost to manufacture is one of the main considerations. Other factors used to determine the best material for manufacturing parts for vehicles include: Part performance.

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Green Car Congress

OCTOBER 29, 2010

The 12 th Five-year Plan for China’s auto industry reportedly will make developing new-energy vehicles the top priority. People’s Daily. China is targeting annual new-energy automobile sales of 1 million units by 2015, according to the China Association for Automobile Manufacturers.

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Green Car Reports

MARCH 19, 2021

The Honda CR-V Hybrid is a quiet giant in the grand shift that’s happening in the auto industry. Yes, you might still be able to get non-hybrid versions of the Honda CR-V, or its rivals like the Toyota RAV4, Hyundai Tucson, or Ford Escape, but each year the portion of these that are selling as hybrids becomes a little larger.

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Green Car Congress

AUGUST 16, 2014

This development, together with stricter environmental policies, means a further strong push towards an increasing use of CFRP technology within the automotive industry.

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Green Car Congress

JANUARY 7, 2016

Although auto industry companies dominate the category, a number of more specialized technology and research institutions have amassed a noteworthy collection of self-driving vehicle-related patents. Toyota and Hyundai take the second and third places.

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Green Car Congress

FEBRUARY 22, 2010

China’s central government plans to implement a new policy in the first half of this year to encourage auto industry consolidation and further the development of Chinese-brand passenger vehicles, an official from the Ministry of Industry and Information Technology said at a recent news conference. China Daily.

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Green Car Congress

JULY 9, 2012

2012 Chinese Auto Industry Development Report. The fifth annual report on China’s auto industry—2012 Chinese Auto Industry Development Report—says that the next 20-30 years will be a “critical period” that will see the formation of a global new-energy vehicle industry.

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Green Car Reports

APRIL 19, 2024

Anticipated demand from the auto industry—as well as solar-panel manufacturing and data.

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Green Car Reports

MAY 7, 2024

While the survey is Michigan-specific, it's the traditional hub of the auto industry and probably represents a greater awareness.

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Green Car Congress

MARCH 20, 2020

Honda transmission and engine plants in North America that serve Honda auto plants also will suspend production for the same time period. Honda will suspend production for six days beginning 23 March, with current plans to return to production on 31 March. Honda will reduce production by approximately 40,000 vehicles during these six days.

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Green Car Congress

NOVEMBER 8, 2012

Thus, the Commission said it would work together with industry to develop a proposal on the European Green Vehicles Initiative under Horizon 2020, including a platform to develop clean and energy-efficient vehicle technologies, as announced in the 2010 Industrial Policy Communication.

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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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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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Teslarati

AUGUST 23, 2021

Tesla Giga Berlin received support from Green Party politicians over concerns about the automaker’s expected water consumption. On Monday, Green leader Anton Hofreiter visited Giga Berlin with the party’s General Manager Michael Kellner. Hofreiter inquired about the amount of water Tesla’s Gigafactory would need.

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Green Car Reports

JUNE 3, 2022

And Ford’s CEO sees EVs as the spark for a big industry consolidation. This and more, here at Green Car Reports. Is the auto industry headed for a big shakeout, and a price war over EVs? Toyota gets in the home energy storage business—albeit only in Japan, for now. In a financial.

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Green Car Congress

AUGUST 23, 2010

Americans' opinions of the automobile industry have posted a 15-point positive increase after reaching an all-time low last year, and now tilt more positive than negative for the first time in three years, according to a new Gallup poll. Click to enlarge.

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Green Car Congress

JULY 2, 2012

The study examines the employment impact of various “green” drive concepts, which from today’s perspective will be represented in the market in 2030. Each scenario assumes a different speed of transition from the combustion engine to various “green” technologies.

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Green Energy Consumers

JANUARY 4, 2022

There’s no doubt about it, 2021 was a rough year for the auto industry and consumers looking for a car. The industry has suffered from the chip shortage, other supply chain issues, and not to mention the Chevrolet Bolt battery issues resulting in a stop-sale.

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Green Car Congress

MARCH 10, 2014

At the Geneva Motor Show and now at the IT trade fair CeBIT in Hanover, Germany, Volkswagen Group executive management has begun to outline its “Future Tracks” program which will address, among other things, what Chairman of the Board of Management Prof. Dr. Martin Winterkorn calls an approaching new era of digitalization.

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Baua Electric

MARCH 2, 2024

With a mature manufacturing ecosystem, India is poised to contribute to global sustainable mobility solutions, fostering both domestic and international growth in the auto industry. A focus on sustainability has brought green hydrogen as a source of clean fuel under the spotlight. Views expressed are of the author.

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Green Car Congress

FEBRUARY 27, 2018

The UK automotive industry warned that the current anti-diesel agenda combined with the ongoing slow take-up of electric vehicles could mean industry misses its next round of CO 2 targets in 2021, with negative consequences for the UK’s own climate change goals.

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Green Car Reports

NOVEMBER 10, 2014

Our Best Car To Buy award can go one of several ways here on Green Car Reports. Those are cars that radically redefined what green transportation could be, changing the auto industry forever. DON''T MISS: Green Car Reports'' 2015 Best Car To.'

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Green Car Reports

JANUARY 3, 2018

Today, sales reports are coming in for last year—electric cars did well—and we explain why auto-company whining is nothing new. All this and more on Green Car Reports. Also, fossil fuels aren't the only source of climate chance, and we look at plug-in car insurance rates.

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Green Car Congress

NOVEMBER 21, 2017

Toyota Financial Services (TFS) issued its first euro-denominated unsecured Green Bond today, expanding its commitment to the sale of environmentally friendly vehicles. 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.

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Green Car Congress

JULY 31, 2011

In sync with its past annual auto studies, AlixPartners continues to predict that US auto sales will climb more slowly, and to a lower peak, than many others are predicting. Specifically, the firm estimates US auto sales will reach just 12.7 billion in 2010 profit on a net margin of 4.6% billion on a net margin of 4.3%—things

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CleanTechnica EVs

NOVEMBER 15, 2023

Tesla has jumped ahead of the auto industry in. Here’s a story from left field that we didn’t see coming! continued] The post Top Tesla Gigacasting Supplier Gets Acquired By GM! appeared first on CleanTechnica.

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Green Car Congress

SEPTEMBER 25, 2009

The auto industry in principle is not opposed to the introduction of such mid-level blends (i.e., The US Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) is current considering a request to allow more than the current limit of 10% ethanol in gasoline to increase overall ethanol consumption in the US fuel pool. Earlier post.) Earlier post.).

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