Green Car Congress

OCTOBER 30, 2009

SGL Group and BMW Group have formed a 51:49 joint venture to manufacture carbon fibers and fabrics for the automotive industry. This joint venture with the BMW Group is a milestone for the use of carbon fibers on an industrial scale in the automobile industry.

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Green Car Congress

AUGUST 6, 2013

The automobile industry has said that without additional government subsidies they can only sell 600,000 electric cars by 2020 at best. Enthusiasm in some areas has been tempered by slow EV uptake. In Germany, for example, consumers bought 2,100 EVs in 2012—less than 0.1 percent of total car sales.

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Green Cars News

AUGUST 21, 2009

This program has been a lifeline to the automobile industry, jump starting a major sector of the economy and putting people back to work,” Secretary LaHood said. “At Now we are working toward an orderly wind down of this very popular program.”.

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Cars That Think

NOVEMBER 25, 2021

They're a way to potentially free up precious street space, provide alternatives to automobiles and reduce energy consumption and harmful emissions. Exact figures on industry sales are hard to pin down; yet The New York Times quoted experts saying Americans bought roughly 500,000 e-bikes in 2020, compared to about 210,000 plug-in automobiles.

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Motorcycles Cars Motor Motors 145

Get Electric Vehicle

MARCH 6, 2021

As we discussed in the previous blogs the global automotive industry is going through a huge shift which is, from IC engine-powered vehicles to electric-powered vehicles. This shift made the automotive industries in all sectors revisit their strategy for Electric vehicles and made electrical vehicles their top priority for the coming years.

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India Electric Vehicles Vehicles Electric 95

Green Car Congress

NOVEMBER 24, 2010

The electric power generated will supplement fluctuating power from wind farms and solar facilities. Partnership with LichtBlick is in line with our component strategy, which is to develop future-oriented business areas closely related to the automobile industry. We intend to change the German energy landscape fundamentally.

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Green Car Congress

JUNE 12, 2015

solar and wind), water and CO 2 to produce liquid or gaseous fuels with a very low carbon intensity. In June 2013, Audi commissioned a power-to-gas facility in the north German town of Werlte, thus becoming the first automobile manufacturer to develop a chain of sustainable energy sources. Earlier post.) Earlier post.) Earlier post.).

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Audi Renewable Fuel Carbon 150

Green Car Congress

OCTOBER 28, 2015

Increased agility is achieved by harmonizing a more aggressive Direct Yaw Control setting that works in concert with the magneto-rheological dampers, Agile Handling Assist, and the Electric Power Steering System—perfect for a spirited drive on a winding road. Carbon Fiber Core Floor.

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Acura Hybrid Lithium Ion Engine 150

Green Car Congress

NOVEMBER 11, 2010

The German Automobile Industry Association is working together with automotive manufacturers on uniform cell standards, Audi said. Many factors have to be taken into account, Audi noted, for example, the fan conveying the air must not be so loud as to disturb the acoustics in the interior.

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Cars That Think

JUNE 21, 2022

The global market for these magnets is expected to reach $20 billion a year within a couple of years, as the automobile industry shifts towards electric vehicles and as utilities turn increasingly to wind turbines to meet growing demand. Today, some 95 percent of permanent magnets are neodymium-iron-boron.

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Tony Karrer Delicious EVdriven

APRIL 16, 2009

If our country is going to spend money like a drunk sailor we should have spent it on building renewable energy power plants like Wind and Geothermal. Denmark did that with Wind Power and now most of their energy comes from wind rather than oil, natural gas, or coal. GM would only lease them. it is over, the media!,

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