Green Car Congress

JULY 27, 2021

Since the introduction of General Motors’ fleet telematics solution, OnStar Vehicle Insights, fleet managers have received nearly 3.5 OnStar Vehicle Insights can now be used with most non-GM vehicles via a plug-in adapter. Daily Trip Summaries: Allow drivers to maintain and reference trip history in an organized manner.

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Green Car Congress

JULY 25, 2023

of all electric vehicle (EV) public charging ports in the first quarter of 2023 (Q1), according to the US Department of Energy (DOE). DC fast charging allows for the rapid charging of EVs and refers to chargers that deliver direct current (DC) at power levels of 50 kW or more. DC fast charging accounted for 21.5%

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CleanTechnica EVs

JULY 25, 2023

of all electric vehicle (EV) public charging ports in the first quarter of 2023 (Q1). DC fast charging allows for the rapid charging of EVs and refers to chargers that deliver direct current (DC) at power levels of 50 kilowatts or more. The availability of DC fast charging is […] DC fast charging accounted for 21.5%

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Green Car Congress

MARCH 15, 2019

Volkswagen has added the Golf Variant TGI to its lineup of newly enhanced natural gas vehicles, including the Polo TGI and Golf TGI. Both can be added to fuels or are available as pure biofuels. Powerful: 96 kW (130 hp) output provided by the new 1.5-litre litre TGI four-cylinder engine ›.

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Green Car Congress

APRIL 13, 2023

The US Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) announced two new proposed federal emissions standards spanning light-, medium- and heavy-duty vehicles for model year 2027 and beyond. The light-duty vehicle category includes passenger cars and light trucks consistent with previous EPA criteria pollutant and GHG rules.

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Green Car Congress

SEPTEMBER 3, 2023

As an all-electric vehicle, the new MINI is available in the Cooper E variant and as the Cooper SE, featuring higher output and range. Within the new MINI family, “Cooper” refers to all MINI 3-door and 5-door models, and also the MINI Convertible. It is no longer used as an engine specification.

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Green Car Congress

JANUARY 27, 2022

Customers have ordered all eight of E-Transit’s available configurations, including three roof heights and three lengths, plus the only all-electric van chassis cab and cutaway models. The high-roof, extended wheelbase configuration, referred to as the “jumbo” model, is the most popular. F-150 Lightning Pro arrives this spring.

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Green Car Congress

FEBRUARY 23, 2013

Michelin and Siemens, in cooperation with research partners at Karlsruhe Institute of Technology (KIT) and the Fraunhofer Institute for Systems and Innovation Research ISI, are launching a project to demonstrate that the total cost of electric vehicles can be less than that of a conventional combustion-engined car.

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Green Car Congress

DECEMBER 18, 2020

Battery electric trucks should be the baseline for hydrogen fuel cells electric vehicle (HFCEV) comparisons, rather than any internal combustion engine alternative. The future acceleration of HFCEVs is likely not about the vehicles and fueling but resides mostly on the creation and distribution of the hydrogen itself.??.

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Baua Electric

NOVEMBER 18, 2023

the adoption of electric vehicles (EVs) in India has been gaining momentum, driven by various factors such as environmental concerns, government initiatives, and advancements in technology. These incentives are intended to make electric vehicles more affordable and encourage their adoption.

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Teslarati

JULY 21, 2022

In previous quarters, Tesla’s Update Letters have only listed the words “future product” when referring to upcoming projects that are in development. This changed in the Q2 2022 Update Letter, as Tesla indicated that the next vehicle it would be developing after the Cybertruck, Tesla Semi, and Roadster would be the Robotaxi. .

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Green Car Congress

MARCH 31, 2022

Mercedes-Benz has been awarded a far-reaching contract for road monitoring through vehicle data by the Netherlands’ Ministry of Infrastructure and Water Management (Min I&W). The raw material for this is anonymized data from car-to-X or other systems from intelligent, connected Mercedes-Benz vehicles.

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Green Car Congress

JUNE 3, 2022

Renesas Electronics Corporation introduced an AUTOSAR-compliant complex device driver (CDD) software module for designers of automotive battery management systems (BMS) in electric vehicles (EVs). The new CDD software and the Renesas BMS reference design hardware kit (ISL78714BMS5XBEKIT1Z) are available now to qualified customers.

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Batteries Battery Li-ion Kits 243

Green Car Congress

AUGUST 1, 2023

In Europe this vehicle, based on Honda’s new e:N Architecture F, will be marketed under the name e:Ny1. So far, the EMR3 was chosen for 8 vehicle brands and demand continues to be strong. The Japanese car maker refers to the drive unit as a “3-in-1 drive unit”. Earlier post.)

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Teslarati

MAY 1, 2024

The change is relatively significant as the Referral Program has helped owners gain points to redeem anything from early Cybertruck delivery dates to Tesla merchandise for themselves, all by convincing others to do anything from test drive to purchase a vehicle. Tesla’s Referral program ended April 30th.

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Green Car Congress

OCTOBER 7, 2016

Autotalks, supplier of automotive-grade V2X communication processors and RF transceivers, and Cohda Wireless, provider of V2X - Vehicle-to-Vehicle, Vehicle-to-Infrastructure, and CAV - Connected Autonomous Vehicles software, announced a partnership at ITS World Congress 2016 in Melbourne.

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Green Car Congress

OCTOBER 12, 2021

Introduced at Automotive Circle’s annual EuroCarBody conference, the study’s aluminum top hat achieved 42% weight savings compared to the reference top hat of the current Audi e-tron electric SUV, which uses advanced (AHSS) and ultra-high-strength steels (UHSS). Additional details on the top hat study are available at.

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Green Car Congress

JANUARY 4, 2017

has introduced a new variant of its connected car reference platform using the flagship Gigabit Class Qualcomm Snapdragon X16 LTE modem to help car manufacturers deliver the high-speed, high-quality and reliable connectivity required for advanced telematics and connected vehicle services—supporting peak download speeds up to 1 Gbps.

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Green Car Congress

FEBRUARY 22, 2018

a subsidiary of Qualcomm Incorporated announced advances in Cellular Vehicle-to-Everything (C-V2X) communication technology testing as the first step of 5G deployment for automotive applications with direct communication between vehicles. The 9150 chipset wil be available for commercial sampling in the second half of this year.

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Green Car Congress

DECEMBER 16, 2013

Energy consumption by light-duty vehicles in the United States, AEO2013 and AEO2014, 1995-2040 (quadrillion Btu). LDV energy consumption declines in AEO2014 Reference case from 16.0 quadrillion Btu in 2040 in the AEO2013 Reference case. As a result, annual increases in vehicle miles traveled (VMT) in LDVs average 0.9%

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Oil Light Energy Vehicles 290

Green Car Congress

SEPTEMBER 20, 2019

Audi has set the goal of successively reducing vehicle-specific CO 2 emissions by 30% by 2025 compared with reference year 2015 and over the entire product lifecycle. Audi opened its electric initiative with the introduction of e-tron, which has been available at dealerships since March. Earlier post.). Earlier post.).

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Teslarati

MAY 1, 2021

For those who aren’t aware, Tesla was required to create and install a PWS in its vehicles due to an NHTSA mandate that set requirements for electric vehicles to make noise when traveling at a speed below 19 MPH. The reasoning was based on the safety of pedestrians who would be walking near an electric vehicle.

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Teslarati

NOVEMBER 23, 2023

Just recently, observations from Tesla watchers indicated that the owner’s manual on Tesla China’s website featured references to FSD Beta. This was short-lived, however, as Tesla China’s owner’s manual was updated to remove references to the advanced driver-assist system. Don’t hesitate to contact us with news tips.

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Green Car Congress

MAY 30, 2020

Artemis will focus on new technologies for electric, highly automated driving with a specific model reference. Resources and technologies of the entire Volkswagen Group are potentially available for this. BUZZ at VW Commercial Vehicles.

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Teslarati

DECEMBER 20, 2023

With the feature in place, a vehicle could illuminate areas depending on speed and driving conditions, increasing driver safety and visibility. All Tesla models since 2020 have been equipped with LED matrix headlights, but none of the vehicles have been released with adaptive headlights as a dedicated feature.

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Green Car Congress

JANUARY 23, 2018

An influx of plug-in electric vehicles (PEVs) charging without coordination could prove challenging to the nation’s electric grid, according to research conducted by the US Department of Energy’s National Renewable Energy Laboratory (NREL). million vehicles—does not significantly impact the aggregate residential power demand.

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Green Car Congress

SEPTEMBER 1, 2021

Real-time mobile communications will now be available with immediate effect for vehicle development at the site. When installing 5G at the Weissach Development Center, the partners focused on secure and instantaneous transmission between vehicles and digital devices.

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Green Car Congress

APRIL 2, 2021

During Volkswagen’s recent Power Day ( earlier post ), the company referred to a long-term strategy of using high-manganese cathodes for its volume segment. High-manganese cathodes could refer to several different materials, and so it is unclear as to the specific material Volkswagen were referring to. Source: IDTechEx.

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Green Car Congress

JANUARY 15, 2015

Johnson Controls and its partners are working to reduce the use of metals in vehicle seat structures by replacing them with multi-material systems in the CAMISMA (carbon-amide-metal-based interior structure using a multi-material system approach) research project. CAMISMA seat prototype is 40% lighter than conventional seats. Resources.

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Green Car Congress

JUNE 23, 2017

A new report from the International Council on Clean Transportation (ICCT) estimates Consumer benefits of increased efficiency in 2025-2030 light-duty vehicles in the US. Those who finance their vehicles will see a net positive cash flow—again, specific to the additional cost of technology—starting immediately.

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Green Car Congress

OCTOBER 19, 2022

OrangeBox unifies these current and emerging external wireless interfaces into a single, security-enhanced connectivity domain controller, which then connects to the secure vehicle gateway through NXP high-speed Ethernet. The OrangeBox automotive development platform is expected to be available to customers in 1H 2023.

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Green Car Congress

JANUARY 7, 2013

A recent study found that an aluminum electric vehicle can cost up to €635 (US$829) less than that its steel counterpart despite the higher cost of aluminum, given equivalent range targets. A C-segment crash reference vehicle (Volkswagen Golf) with steel unibody and internal combustion engine served as the basis for this study.

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Green Car Congress

JUNE 5, 2019

The solution delivers reference software for camera obstacle detection (COD), LiDAR obstacle detection (LOD), and road feature detection (RFD)—three key recognition areas for sensor-based Level 2+ autonomous vehicle systems. —Tim Grai, Director of Automotive Advanced Systems Innovation Department, Renesas.

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Green Car Congress

MAY 4, 2021

The SAE Levels range from no driving automation at Level 0 to full driving automation at Level 5, in the context of motor vehicles and their operation on roadways. Definitions for vehicle types have been grouped together by Conventional Vehicle, Dual-mode Vehicle and ADS-dedicated Vehicle.

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Teslarati

MARCH 21, 2024

Software Update: “Your vehicle can now automatically park — and parallel park — in designated spaces. To start parking, stop the vehicle, press Start, and release the steering wheel so it can move freely. To start parking, stop the vehicle, press Start, and release the steering wheel so it can move freely.

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Green Car Congress

APRIL 1, 2023

The American National Standards Institute (ANSI) released for public review and comment a draft of the Roadmap of Standards and Codes for Electric Vehicles at Scale developed by the Institute’s Electric Vehicles Standards Panel ( EVSP ). Earlier post.) Medium- and heavy-duty EVs are also covered.

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Green Car Congress

DECEMBER 22, 2022

No bus/coach manufacturer has yet succeeded in developing a battery-powered coach that can cover workable ranges as well as availability for a wide variety of operating conditions. The objective of the ELCH project is the development of a modular drivetrain and two emission-free and practical demonstration vehicles in the next four years.

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