The Truth About Cars

APRIL 3, 2025

kilowatt-hour battery lives under the trunk floor, right where the tire inflator kit used to be (dont worry, it just lives in a compartment to the left now). Notably, this means theres no space inside the cabin eaten up by a battery, as was the case with 2019s Crosstrek Hybrid.

Hybrid

EV Central

JUNE 21, 2025

The plug-in Ford managed the task using battery power alone, and this being Iceland, said battery was charged using hydro and geothermal power. The BYD Shark and GWM Cannon PHEVs with bigger batteries and longer range will make better sense to other plug-in ute shoppers, but again, that’s the freedom of choice.

Iceland

Clean Fleet Report

MAY 17, 2025

EVs have introduced more than just battery-powered motors; theyve brought in a whole new mindset. WallStreetZen explains why this shift is happening by pointing to how consumer behavior is adapting to new technologies, fluctuating fuel costs and evolving lifestyle priorities.

Future

Clean Fleet Report

MAY 10, 2025

Vehicle-to-Load (V2L) With a bi-directional onboard charger, the Vehicle-to-Load (V2L) function can power devices or charge electrical equipment, such as electric bicycles, scooters, camping equipment or even power necessities during a power outage.

Hyundai

InsideEVs

AUGUST 6, 2025

shift toward battery power, and the Trump administrations new tariffs are hammering every industry—especially the automotive sector. Americans are still in want of cheaper, more fuel-efficient cars, and most of these automakers are continuing their EV plans on a modified timeline. But as the U.S.

America

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FEBRUARY 7, 2021

To help France meet its sustainability targets, Bombardier will now convert AGC hybrid trains to full battery power. The effort is part of France’s strategy to eventually phase diesel power out of its national rail fleet. The range in battery mode will be at least 80 kilometers.

Battery Powered

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FEBRUARY 2, 2020

SINTEF, one of Europe’s largest independent research organizations, has been working with Asko and hydrogen fuel for almost ten years with the aim of reducing goods vehicle emissions. Battery power is in fact a more economical solution for light goods transport in urban areas.

Norway

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JULY 25, 2023

Austrian Federal Railways (ÖBB) has awarded Stadler a framework agreement for up to 120 battery-powered trains. The signing of the framework agreement and the initial order for 16 FLIRT battery is expected to take place in autumn 2023. The vehicles will be developed and built at Stadler’s headquarters in Bussnang (Switzerland).

Battery Powered

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JANUARY 28, 2020

The US Department of Energy (DOE) Fuel Cell Technologies Office, in collaboration with the DOE Vehicle Technologies Office, has established technical targets for hydrogen and fuel cell technologies in long-haul tractor-trailer Class 8 truck applications. The US market for Class 8 trucks is large and growing.

Hydrogen

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JANUARY 24, 2020

Norway-based energy company Equinor has contracted with Eidesvik Offshore for the Viking Energy supply vessel, which is being retrofitted to make it capable of covering long distances fueled by carbon-free ammonia. This is the first time an ammonia-powered fuel cell will be installed on a vessel. The Viking Energy.

Supplies

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NOVEMBER 27, 2019

Fuel cells. In yet another nod to developing sustainable powertrain solutions for the world’s commercial transportation systems, Freudenberg Sealing Technologies and FlixBus in Europe announced in October their intention to collaborate on a future project that will promote development of fuel-cell powered long-distance buses.

All-Electric

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SEPTEMBER 27, 2021

Wrightbus unveiled the new new single-deck GB Kite Hydroliner fuel-cell-powered bus and single-deck GB Kite Electroliner battery-powered bus last week at the Millbrook Proving Ground. The GB Kite Hydroliner is powered by a 70 kW or 100 kW Ballard FC Move fuel cell, paired with a 30 kWh or 45 kWh battery system.

Fuel

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APRIL 2, 2020

Mitsubishi Fuso Truck and Bus Corporation (MFTBC), part of the Daimler Trucks family, plans to start the series production of fuel-cell trucks by the late 2020s. At the 2019 Tokyo Motor Show in October, MFTBC unveiled the Vision F-CELL, a light-duty fuel-cell concept truck. The modular high-voltage battery provides from 13.8

Mitsubishi

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APRIL 6, 2017

Improving battery power to such as level would further enable hybridization to near-HEV levels as well as engine downsizing, thereby enabling fuel economy improvements beyond the current 10-15% MHEV limit. The BISG is connected to a 48 V (nominal battery) and also typically to a 12V powernet via a DC/DC convertor.

Battery Powered

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SEPTEMBER 17, 2020

Daimler Trucks unveiled the concept Mercedes-Benz GenH2 Truck, marking the beginning of a fuel-cell push by Daimler for the long-haul transport segment. Fuel cell system for GenH2. The range of the series-produced eActros on one battery charge will significantly exceed that of the prototype’s approximately 200 kilometers.

Mercedes

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APRIL 30, 2021

Daimler Truck AG and Volvo Group officially outlined their pioneering roadmap for the new fuel-cell joint venture cellcentric, as part of an industry-first commitment to accelerate the use of hydrogen-based fuel cells for long-haul trucks and beyond. cellcentric twin-fuel-cell system for heavy-duty application.

Volvo

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APRIL 12, 2022

Scania is currently working with Cummins to develop an initial 20 fuel-cell-electric trucks that will run on green hydrogen for the HyTrucks project. The fuel-cell-electric trucks will be built on Scania’s battery-electric vehicle platform and leverage Cummins’ PEM fuel cell systems and hydrogen fueling and storage solutions.

Fuel

Green Car Congress

MARCH 9, 2013

Transportation fuel mix in millions of oil-equivalent barrels through 2020. Diesel will surpass gasoline as the number one transportation fuel worldwide by 2020 and continue to increase its share through 2040, according to ExxonMobil’s recently published Outlook For Energy: A View To 2040. Source: ExxonMobil Outlook. Click to enlarge.

Gasoline

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SEPTEMBER 9, 2020

Freudenberg Sealing Technologies has launched the development of a special fuel cell system for heavy-duty trucks. The project’s first fuel cell system will be installed in a heavy-duty truck for real-world testing in the near future. During stop-and-go traffic or traffic jams, the battery loses significant power.

Fuel

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DECEMBER 20, 2020

Canadian Pacific plans to develop North America’s first hydrogen-powered line-haul locomotive. CP’s Hydrogen Locomotive Program will retrofit a line-haul locomotive with hydrogen fuel cells and battery technology to drive the locomotive’s electric traction motors.

Hydrogen

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JANUARY 3, 2023

Kalmar, part of Cargotec, is collaborating with Toyota Tsusho America and Ricardo in a project to develop fuel-cell-powered terminal tractors. As part of the project, a Kalmar customer in the US will trial two Kalmar Ottawa Terminal Tractors powered by fuel cell technology at their container terminal on the west coast.

America

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DECEMBER 11, 2011

Light duty vehicle fleet by type and average fuel efficiency. The vast majority will be hybrids that use mainly gasoline plus a small amount of battery power; these will make up more than 40 percent of the global fleet by 2040. By 2040, heavy duty fuel demand will be up about 60 percent versus 2010. Click to enlarge.

Personal

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SEPTEMBER 5, 2013

million in federal funding to 8 projects to advance the commercialization of American-made fuel cell buses for the transit industry. The awards come from FY2012 funds via FTA’s National Fuel Cell Bus Program, which has provided nearly $90 million since 2006 to speed the development of fuel cell technology. Consortia lead.

Cleveland

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MAY 12, 2022

Cummins and Daimler Truck North America (DTNA), the largest heavy-duty truck manufacturer in North America, are collaborating to upfit and validate Freightliner Class 8 Cascadia trucks with a Cummins hydrogen fuel cell powertrain for use in North America.

North America

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FEBRUARY 4, 2020

An interagency collaboration between the US Department of Energy (DOE) and the Department of Defense (DoD) will support an opportunity to address disaster mitigation through the use of an advanced fuel truck technology concept known as H2Rescue. Earlier post.). This vehicle is to be a Class 5 or Class 6 truck, heavy-duty vocational vehicle.

Fuel

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FEBRUARY 16, 2021

The program is coordinated by the National Organization of Hydrogen and Fuel Cell Technology NOW GmbH, that has accompanied and supported the project from the initial phase. A notable innovation of the Go4City project is the use of exchangeable and also reprocessable fuel cells, which is accompanied by a significant cost reduction.

Hydrogen

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MAY 1, 2018

Plug Power Inc. have delivered to FedEx Express its first North American fuel cell electric vehicle (FCEV) delivery van for on-road use. The Class-5 EGEN delivery van is built by Workhorse Group and charged by a Plug Power ProGen hydrogen fuel cell system (2 x 10 kW). The fuel cell range extended van stores 11.6

Plug-in

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JUNE 19, 2014

California-based US Hybrid Corporation has been awarded a contract by the Hawaii Center for Advanced Transportation Technologies (HCATT) for the design, integration and delivery of its H 2 Ride Fuel Cell Plug-In Shuttle Bus for operation by the County of Hawaii Mass Transit Agency’s (MTA) HELE-ON Big Island bus service. Earlier post.).

Hawaii

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SEPTEMBER 29, 2020

ZeroAvia recently completed the first hydrogen-fuel-cell-powered flight of a commercial-grade aircraft. While some experimental aircraft have flown using hydrogen fuel cells as a power source, the size of this commercially available aircraft shows that paying passengers could be boarding a truly zero-emission flight very soon.

Hydrogen

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NOVEMBER 20, 2014

Volkswagen unveiled the Golf Sportwagen HyMotion hydrogen fuel cell hybrid research vehicle demonstrator yesterday at the Los Angeles Auto Show ( earlier post ). The 100 kW fuel cell system (also applied in the A7) has a system power of 100 kW. The fuel cell and battery power an electric motor adapted from the e-Golf.

Hydrogen

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OCTOBER 26, 2021

The further enhanced prototype of the hydrogen-based fuel-cell truck Mercedes-Benz GenH2 Truck has received approval from German authorities for use on public roads. The project will also include comparative tests of the purely battery-electric Mercedes-Benz eActros with the catenary trucks and fuel-cell trucks from other manufacturers.

Fuel

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SEPTEMBER 11, 2022

million to further his group’s research related to fuel cells and advanced battery technologies. The funding comes from a cy-près distribution from the 2019 settlement of a consumer class-action lawsuit against Volkswagen Group over clean diesel marketing and fuel economy labeling.

Fuel

Green Car Reports

MAY 4, 2021

As buzz around synthetic fuels builds, the Europe-focused environmental group Transport & Environment (T&E) cautions that vehicles burning these supposedly greener fuels may cause more carbon-dioxide (CO2) emissions than battery-powered vehicles, and cost more as well.

CO2

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SEPTEMBER 25, 2022

Ballard Power Systems announced an order for 14 x 200 kW fuel cell modules from Siemens Mobility GmbH, a leading supplier in the development of alternative drives, to power a fleet of seven Mireo Plus H passenger trains. The modules will be used for Siemen’s Mireo Plus H trains.

Fuel

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OCTOBER 27, 2018

Ballard Power Systems will provide fuel cell modules to power four UPS delivery trucks as part of a project being managed by the Center for Transportation and the Environment (CTE) and partially funded by the California Air Resources Board (CARB). Ballard will provide fuel cell modules for primary propulsion of each truck.

California

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JUNE 16, 2021

Wabtec Corporation and General Motors will collaborate to develop and commercialize GM’s Ultium battery technology and HYDROTEC hydrogen fuel cell systems for Wabtec locomotives. The rail industry is on the cusp of a sustainable transformation with the introduction of batteries and hydrogen to power locomotive fleets.

Hydrogen

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JANUARY 18, 2023

After integrating its technology into a 5 kW drone in July 2021 and 100kW John Deere tractor in May 2022, Amogy has scaled its ammonia-to-power technology to 300 kW. Following an eight-minute-long fueling, the semi truck, having 900 kWh of total stored net electric energy, was tested for several hours on the campus of Stony Brook University.

Power