Green Car Congress

JANUARY 11, 2010

A century after the invention of the automobile, we must re-invent it with powertrains that significantly reduce or eliminate the use of conventional petroleum fuels. One of many alternatives is through what is commonly called the electrification of the automobile. And then there is range.

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Green Car Congress

AUGUST 28, 2013

Toyota has stepped up its research, development and production capacity of both NiMH and Li-ion batteries and will use these technologies where appropriate in its expanding focus on electrification of the automobile. We have also heard from owners that they would like a more convenient charging operation. —Satoshi Ogiso.

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Green Car Congress

OCTOBER 17, 2019

It can be driven a range of approximately 100 km on a single charge, reach a maximum speed of 60 km/h, and features an extremely short turning radius. This includes examining every step of the battery’s life, from manufacture through sale, resale or re-use, and recycling to maximize its value.

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Green Car Congress

JANUARY 19, 2012

By ensuring the network is receptive the EnerGstor system minimises the waste heat produced; Eliminate or reduce the need for vehicle or wayside resistors: By increasing the instances of re-using regenerated energy, EnerGstor technology substantially reduces the need for resistors on board vehicles or on the wayside.

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Green Car Congress

JULY 31, 2013

PowerGenix, the developer of high-performance, automotive Nickel-Zinc (NiZn) batteries, has entered into an innovation contract with PSA Peugeot Citroën Automobiles under which PSA will conduct a comprehensive evaluation of the use of PowerGenix’s NiZn batteries as a replacement for lead-acid in stop-start vehicles.

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Green Car Congress

FEBRUARY 22, 2010

Boston-Power is bringing to the transportation industry a game-changing lithium-ion battery that delivers unmatched levels of high energy density, safety, low cost, fast charge and environmental sustainability. We’re thrilled to add him to our team. —Bob Purcell. The company says it has had zero field failures so far.).

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Green Car Congress

SEPTEMBER 17, 2010

Saab Automobile will debut the Saab 9-3 ePower battery-electric vehicle at the upcoming Paris Motor Show. A separate 12-volt battery, for the lights and cabin ancillaries, is also charged from the battery pack via a current transformer. The pack is intended to support re-charge cycles equivalent to about ten years average use.

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Green Car Congress

MAY 6, 2020

—Eric-Mark Huitema, Director General of ACEA, the automobile manufacturers’ association. Start the announced pilot for charging and alternative fuels infrastructure without further delay. Support up- and re-skilling of the labor force. Targeted measures will need to be taken to trigger demand and investment.

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Green Car Congress

JUNE 5, 2009

FHI), the maker of Subaru automobiles, launched its Subaru Plug-in STELLA electric vehicle (EV). The EV can be re-charged up to 80% of its capacity in 15 minutes using the quick charging system (3-phase 200VAC, 50 kW); a full recharge takes 8 hours with 100VAC household power or 5 hours with 200VAC. Click to enlarge.

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Green Car Congress

OCTOBER 21, 2013

Micro hybrid vehicles are traditional gasoline- or diesel-powered cars with automatic, battery-powered stop-start systems that shut off the engine while the vehicle is at rest and restart it upon re-engaging the gas pedal. In 2011, PowerGenix delivered its first production prototype product for the micro-hybrid stop-start market.

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Green Car Congress

JULY 25, 2016

Such as the person in charge and the team manager, or straight from the person responsible to the executive board. … At the same time, the bottom line is that all of these business models are based on the hardware, the automobile. We have to be prepared to constantly re-examine our core business and adapt it to market demands.

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Green Car Congress

DECEMBER 23, 2015

Bain advises the German automobile manufacturers to work together at a local battery production, ideally including cell production, through consortia similar to Audi, BMW and Mercedes’s acquisition of Nokia Here digital maps and related services. Build the charging infrastructure.

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Green Car Congress

JULY 21, 2014

Hinze is the engineer in charge of the rollout of the e-Golf and e-up!). As the number two OEM in the automobile business in the world, it only makes sense for us if we see a certain volume behind it. The Golf offers the CCS charging system, enabling both AC and DC fast charging. per 1,000 (Golf BlueMotion) to 6.5

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Green Car Congress

MARCH 15, 2011

note the potential of each technology and explain what advances must occur with each if they’re ultimately to be deployed. High discharge rates or high current densities are important, although the state-of-charge (SOC) of the storage system typically will not move over a wide range. In their study, Yang et al. Click to enlarge.

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Green Car Congress

OCTOBER 29, 2016

The goal of the ZEV standard is to incentivize automobile manufacturers to build more models and use increasingly efficient low-carbon technology. Those manufacturers will have the option of purchasing credits to avoid paying the regulatory charges set out in the regulation or hold the credits for their future needs.

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Green Car Congress

SEPTEMBER 24, 2010

We’re focused on the customers’ most critical issue—smaller packaging. To address this trend and help our customers to achieve their fuel economy and emissions goals, we’re developing new alloys, manufacturing processes and original valve designs to meet their needs. —Dave Genise. Tiggo, 1.3S

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Green Car Congress

JUNE 4, 2010

As a result, automobile manufacturers are able to create packages of technologies that can meet cost and effectiveness targets in small, incremental steps. Variable compression ratio, camless valve trains, and homogeneous-charge compression ignition were all given careful consideration during the course of this study.

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Green Car Congress

OCTOBER 5, 2016

Since January 2016, the MEB has been under the direction of Christian Senger, who was previously in charge of Automotive Systems and Technology at Continental AG. The charging will improve. Volkswagen hosted Green Car Congress for background briefings in Wolfsburg and Berlin, and at the Paris Motor Show. Earlier post.).

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Green Car Congress

MAY 6, 2009

The zero-emission Focus battery-electric vehicle, which is being developed in partnership with Magna International, features a high-voltage electric motor powered by a high-capacity lithium-ion battery pack and charged by plugging in to a 110-volt or 220-volt outlet. Ford President and CEO Alan Mulally.

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Green Car Congress

JUNE 28, 2016

Under the terms of the proposed class settlement, eligible owner class members who choose the Buyback Program will receive a payment equal to the September 2015 National Automobile Dealers Association (“NADA”) Clean Trade-In value of the car (before the emissions conduct became public), adjusted for their options and mileage. Vehicle Buyback.

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Audi Diesel Emissions EPA 150

Green Car Congress

SEPTEMBER 30, 2011

Energy Plant Design The University of California, Los Angeles, will re-engineer. for climate control in automobiles. vehicles (EVs) without draining the electric battery, in effect, extending the driving range of EVs per electric charge. electrical battery is being charged. automobile market. This will allow a.

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Green Car Congress

JUNE 19, 2015

However, the report authors found, the agencies should re-examine certain issues such as consumer behavior and the effectiveness of certain technologies in an upcoming mid-term review. In addition, the report found, evidence suggests that the standards will lead the nation’s light-duty vehicle fleet to become lighter but not less safe.

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Tony Karrer Delicious EVdriven

APRIL 16, 2009

Most days, most cars are going to have lots of extra battery capacity,” said Mr. Kempton, noting that on average, American automobiles get driven for just one hour each day. He envisioned “hundreds of thousands” of charging spots, as well as a number of stations where drained batteries could be exchanged for fresh ones.

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Tony Karrer Delicious EVdriven

APRIL 21, 2009

Ford spokesman in Wards Auto ) 6/9/06 "So, Mr. Ford is saying we’re looking into it. The electrification of the automobile is inevitable." This is different from anything Ive ever seen in my 40 years in the automobile industry." ( Detroit Free Press ). Hes confident that challenge can be met, though. ( This is unusual.

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Tony Karrer Delicious EVdriven

APRIL 16, 2009

The four-door sedan will deliver 40 miles on a charge; a small gasoline engine will recharge the battery as it approaches depletion, extending its range by as much as 200 miles. Posted by: canderson | Apr 13, 2009 5:02:50 PM The EV1 gave drivers 80 miles on a charge. takes time to build this new market and re-coup their investment.

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