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JULY 9, 2012

China has made progress with automotive energy-saving technologies over the past 10 years through implementing passenger car fuel consumption limits and the use of fiscal policy to encourage the purchase of small cars, the government statement noted. 2012 Chinese Auto Industry Development Report. L/100km (40 mpg US) or less.

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Green Car Congress

JANUARY 7, 2016

The report, which analyzes global patent activity in the field of self-driving automobiles over the last five years, identifies the global leaders in the development of the technologies and also makes predictions about the future of driverless cars. Carnegie Mellon University and MIT have four and seven unique inventions, respectively.

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Green Car Congress

NOVEMBER 6, 2009

A survey of the sustainability performance of 17 of the world’s leading automakers has found a mixed pattern when it comes to the sustainability performance of most of the car manufacturers. Frank Figge of Queen’s University Belfast and Dr. Tobias Hahn of Euromed Management School Marseille. Click to enlarge. Click to enlarge.

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Green Car Congress

JANUARY 24, 2010

a spin-off from Keio University (home of the Ellica, earlier post ), announced that 34 companies and municipalities, including automakers Mitsubishi Motors Corp. will form a consortium to develop a new electric car prototype, with mass-market sales being the end goal. SIM-Drive Corp. , and Isuzu Motors Ltd.,

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Green Car Congress

FEBRUARY 29, 2012

Stressing the power of “ and ” rather than “ or ”, he asserted that: The automobile is unsustainable without transformational change. Burns referenced GM’s ENV concept ( earlier post ) which, he said, is 15 times more efficient than an auto and uses 1/10 as many parts. There is a transformation opportunity surfacing.

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Green Car Congress

DECEMBER 16, 2012

A study by researchers at Iowa State University has determined that the automotive industry has a very large potential to utilize biobased materials. Their report, “Biobased Automobile Parts Investigation”, was developed for the USDA Office of Energy Policy and New Uses. —“Biobased Automobile Parts Investigation”.

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Green Car Congress

DECEMBER 12, 2017

For the last 18 months, a fleet of 6 methanol-fueled versions of the Geely Emgrand 7 cars have been in Iceland. In the recently concluded first phase of the fleet test, the cars were driven roughly 150,000 kilometers (93,000 miles). Geely is a shareholder ($45.5-million Earlier post.). It features a 1.8-liter,

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Green Car Congress

OCTOBER 24, 2011

Number of cars (world and US), amount of gasoline consumed, amount of ethanol equivalent required for a neat ethanol fleet, ethanol and electricity to power hybrid fleet, and sugar cane area for hybrid fleet. l/100km), which corresponds to the efficiency of a commercially available automobile assuming 19.55 Click to enlarge.

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Green Car Congress

AUGUST 30, 2011

These university-industry partnerships will receive more than C$16 million (US$16.4 Partners: Simon Fraser University and Future Vehicle Technologies Inc. This project builds on an existing collaboration between Simon Fraser University and Future Vehicle Technologies Inc. million) in total project support. This includes C$6.5

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Green Car Congress

MARCH 10, 2016

Eight university teams will take part in the competition at the Audi museum mobile in Ingolstadt. Taking basic software supplied by Audi as the starting point, the teams have created their own software architecture to process the sensor data, interpret situations correctly and control the car accordingly. in) and four meters (13.1

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Green Car Congress

JULY 23, 2014

ALMMII is a public-private partnership led by Ohio-based manufacturing technology nonprofit EWI, the University of Michigan and Ohio State University. The last tenant of the 107,000-square-foot property was Mexican Industries, which made plastic moldings for the auto industry until filing for bankruptcy in 2001.

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Green Car Congress

JANUARY 25, 2013

John DeCicco at the University of Michigan argues that to reduce transportation sector greenhouse gas emissions, the proper policy focus should be upstream in sectors that provide the fuel, rather than downstream on the choice of fuels in the automobile. —“Factor Analysis of Greenhouse Gas Emissions from Automobiles”.

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Cars That Think

MARCH 11, 2023

The concept behind V2G had gained traction in the late 1990s after California’s landmark zero-emission-vehicle (ZEV) mandate went into effect and compelled automakers to commercialize electric cars. In the early years of the automobile, battery-powered electric cars were competitive with cars fueled by gasoline and other types of propulsion.

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Cars That Think

MARCH 16, 2024

Early government investment in charging infrastructure went a long way toward soothing the range anxiety that made car buyers in other places reluctant to make the switch to battery power from gasoline or diesel. Globally, according to research by the Rocky Mountain Institute , EVs will comprise two-thirds of the world’s car sales by 2030.

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Green Car Congress

JUNE 16, 2009

A survey by the Japan Automobile Manufacturers Association (JAMA) focused on the “entry generation” of vehicle buyers found that while there has not been any definitive major shift in terms of the basic appeal of cars, fewer young people today have strong feelings towards car ownership.

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Cars That Think

AUGUST 1, 2022

There, sales of EVs as part of the overall automobile market rose from 10 percent in 2020 to 17 percent in 2021, with 2.3 He documents how engineers Wally Rippel , Alan Cocconi, and Paul Carosa founded AC Propulsion in the early 1990s and produced a two-seater sports car called the Tzero, which featured bidirectional charging capability.

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Green Car Congress

MARCH 30, 2012

There is significant potential for the expansion of bio-based automotive parts and components manufacturing in the US Great Lakes region, according to a newly-released study conducted by the Center for Automotive Research (CAR), a nonprofit research organization based in Ann Arbor, Michigan. Bio-based materials background. Commercialization.

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Green Car Congress

OCTOBER 9, 2015

Jaguar Land Rover and the UK’s Engineering and Physical Sciences Research Council (EPSRC) are jointly funding an £11-million (US$17-million) research program to develop fully autonomous cars. The research will take place at ten UK universities and the Transport Research Laboratory.

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Green Car Congress

OCTOBER 23, 2015

Potentially unsafe mental distractions for drivers can persist for as long as 27 seconds after dialing, changing music or sending a text using voice commands, according to a pair of new studies for the AAA Foundation for Traffic Safety by University of Utah researchers. AAA formerly was known as the American Automobile Association.

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Electric Auto Association

OCTOBER 4, 2022

In 1993, Cox went from Bellcore, a breakoff from Bell Labs, to Stanford University, where he served as a professor of electrical engineering. It was not just a toy; it was a useful car,” Cox said. “I Too bad the cars were no longer available by then.” It was a great joy for us to drive the EV-1 whenever we could.

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Electric Auto Association

AUGUST 2, 2022

Over three decades later, Martinson reinvented himself, earning an Executive Master of Sustainability Leadership (EMSL) from the School of Sustainability at Arizona State University. I drove that car as my daily driver for 3 years and recognized that this was going to be the future of the automobile,” he said. “It

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Green Car Congress

JULY 20, 2015

The University of Michigan has opened Mcity, the first large controlled environment specifically designed to test the potential of connected and automated vehicle technologies that will lead the way to mass-market driverless cars. State Farm Mutual Automobile Insurance Company. Ford Motor Co. General Motors Co. Honda Motor Co.,

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Cars That Think

APRIL 17, 2022

This inexpensive inertial-measurement sensor was the first such device to be incorporated into automobiles, enabling electronic stability-control (ESC) systems to detect skidding and operate the brakes to prevent rollover accidents. 1972, University of California, Los Angeles, both in electrical engineering; Ph.D., 1969, and M.S.,

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Electric Auto Association

OCTOBER 28, 2021

Meet the 17 Electric Auto Association members nominated for the National Board BY APRIL BOLDUC: PRESIDENT OF THE ELECTRIC AUTO ASSOCIATION It’s the most board candidates in our history. I am a "car guy" from Detroit and have worked in the auto industry from both a construction and facility service standpoint.

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Electric Auto Association

NOVEMBER 1, 2022

His presentation won him an engineering scholarship to Duke University. It was like the early days of the automobile industry when everything was so scattered,” Smith explained. Gerhardt and Martin currently work with Appalachian State University and Alamance Community College.

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Green Cars News

JUNE 16, 2009

The Japan Automobile Manufacturers Association (JAMA) conducted a survey that focused on the “entry generation&# of vehicle buyers and reports that fewer young people today have strong feelings about car ownership. Fewer individuals in this generation own cars contributing to a trend in shared vehicle use among families. -

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Green Car Congress

AUGUST 30, 2009

The 1979 Iranian crisis and related oil price shock accelerated Brazil’s conversion of its gasoline supply and automobile fleet. Automobile manufacturers were given tax breaks to produce cars that ran on hydrous ethanol, and, by 1980, every automobile company in Brazil was following this lead. of water.

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Electric Auto Association

OCTOBER 28, 2021

Meet the 17 Electric Auto Association members nominated for the National Board BY APRIL BOLDUC: PRESIDENT OF THE ELECTRIC AUTO ASSOCIATION It’s the most board candidates in our history. I am a "car guy" from Detroit and have worked in the auto industry from both a construction and facility service standpoint.

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Green Car Congress

DECEMBER 29, 2009

The ColognE-Mobil large-scale battery electric vehicle (BEV) field trial in Germany will launch on 4 January 2010, bringing together four partners—the Ford-Werke GmbH, RheinEnergie AG, the city of Cologne and the University of Duisburg-Essen (UDE)—in a project to test electrical mobility in all its aspects under everyday conditions.

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Clean Fleet Report

JANUARY 20, 2024

Italian Under the Skin Scratch the surface of the 2024 Dodge Hornet R/T and you will find the Alfa Romeo Tonale, with Dodge and Alfa Romeo two of 16 Stellantis automobile brands sold throughout the world. The latter was on our tester and got a few “nice car” and “cool color” shout-outs. All the goods The 10.25-inch

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Green Car Congress

JANUARY 7, 2011

When asked to name an alternative fuel technology other than gasoline powered automobiles, 56% said electric vehicles while nearly a third identified gasoline-electric hybrids. This research is instructive for auto manufacturers, dealers and other stakeholders as to current consumer perceptions that should either be corrected or reinforced.

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Green Car Congress

MARCH 18, 2022

Audi introduced the Audi A6 Sportback with an electric drive system almost a year ago at the Shanghai Auto Show in April 2021 ( earlier post ). The production-oriented A6 Avant e-tron concept car now illustrates the synthesis of pioneering drive technology and Audi’s traditional design world: the Avant (i.e., the wagon format).

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Green Cars News

OCTOBER 30, 2009

A focus on tailpipe CO2 emissions has distracted away from the impact of car production, suggests Professor Frank Figge who co-authored the ‘Sustainable Value in Automobile Manufacturing’ study. The survey attempts to close this gap.”. It is the first value-based method for assessing corporate sustainability performance.

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Plugs and Cars

NOVEMBER 28, 2006

Who Killed the Electric Car opens across America EAA chapters turn out for openings Summer 2006 has been all about “Who Killed the Electric Car?” Audiences across the country have remained in their seats slackjawed at the tragedy portrayed for Q & A sessions with the filmmakers and electric car activists. Sierra Club.

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Cars That Think

OCTOBER 1, 2021

Welcome to the planet's grandest high-stakes poker game, one where the players at the table are auto manufacturers frantically raising the ante in their financial commitments, betting tens of billions and their very survival on their electric vehicle development decisions.

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Plug In Partners

JANUARY 26, 2006

In the 1990s, as a mechanical-engineering professor at the University of California here, Dr. Frank produced another shocker. He yanked big engines out of American cars and replaced them with electric motors that worked in tandem with much smaller gasoline engines. Hybrid automobiles work with two engines.

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Green Car Congress

JULY 26, 2013

ZF Friedrichshafen AG has officially opened its new plant for automatic passenger car transmissions in the US. The new 9-speed transmission is specially designed for passenger cars with front-transverse engines. The first use of interlocking dog clutches in a passenger car powershift transmission. Click to enlarge. Source: ZF.

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