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The Truth About Cars
AUGUST 31, 2023
Meanwhile, CAFE loopholes added during the Obama administration have encouraged the automotive industry to prioritize larger combustion vehicles , resulting in a majority of modern-day automobiles being far heavier than their predecessors. The average age of cars on U.S. Novel safety requirements also contribute to this trend.
Green Car Congress
NOVEMBER 17, 2010
VMT Technologies, a development and licensing company headquartered at the Novell Technology Center in Provo, Utah, has received purchase orders worth up to $480 million from two EV manufacturers—Vision Motor Cars and Leo Motors—for the VMT Universal Transmission for application in their vehicles. Earlier post.).
Green Car Congress
MAY 17, 2009
The bill charges state regulatory authorities and non-regulated utilities to ensure that the charging infrastructure is “interoperable with products of all auto manufactures to the extent possible” and to consider adopting minimum requirements for the deployment of the charging infrastructure. Tags: Plug-ins Policy.
Green Car Congress
SEPTEMBER 3, 2010
A new economic analysis in an issue brief from the Consumer Federation of America (CFA) is recommending that the Obama Administration set a fleet-wide car and light truck fuel economy standard of 60 mpg (3.92 Tags: Fuel Efficiency Policy. L/100km) by 2025. —report author Mark Cooper, CFA Director of Research. Earlier post.).
Plugs and Cars
JUNE 4, 2009
I write a column for the Electric Auto Association newsletter, Current EVents. Plug-in cars are inevitable. Nissan appears intent on opening up a market for mid-price range electric cars within two years. In the past industry ultimately called the shots. It is consumers who are driving the demand for plug-in cars.
Green Car Congress
APRIL 29, 2009
the session counted among its panelists: Professor John Heywood, Sun Jae Professor of Mechanical Engineering and Director of the Sloan Auto Laboratory at MIT. Corporate Average Fuel Efficiency (CAFE) challenge. CAFE mpg US (cars / trucks). CAFE (L/100km) (cars / trucks). Earlier post.)]. Earlier post.)].
Plugs and Cars
APRIL 16, 2007
Bob Lutz, GM CEO, sat down to chat with some bloggers at the NY Auto Show, and PODTECH has the video. Simply the latest industry stalling tactic. If you've got hundreds of millions of trouble-free NiMH miles in hybrids and electric cars, why bet the bank on relatively untested if promising lithium? Well worth a listen.
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