Green Car Congress

DECEMBER 26, 2011

Toyota Motor Corporation (TMC) launched the Aqua gasoline-electric compact hybrid—to be marketed as the Prius c in the US—in Japan. A cooled Exhaust-Gas Recirculation (EGR) system improves efficiency in the high-expansion-ratio Atkinson cycle engine. The Aqua hybrid. Click to enlarge. The Aqua features a small 1.5-liter

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Teslarati

JANUARY 14, 2022

Dan Kanninen, an electric vehicle driver and former White House liaison at the Environmental Protection Agency, recently shared his personal experience during the I-95 traffic catastrophe, which resulted in about 48 miles of the interstate being closed due to ice and snow. Don’t hesitate to contact us with news tips.

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Green Car Congress

APRIL 11, 2018

The 212 kW / 840 kWh battery, supplied by Tesla, will be integrated with the wind farm and configured to help manage internal electricity demands of turbines when wind isn’t blowing. The farm has 10 turbines with the capacity to generate 25 MW of wind energy—enough to power about 6,700 average homes annually.

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Baua Electric

APRIL 5, 2024

It’s that time of year again, time for events across the country to show off electric vehicles at Drive Electric Earth Month. Drive Electric Earth Month is an offshoot of Drive Electric Week , a long-running annual tradition hosting meetups mostly in the US, but also occasionally in other countries. April 20, 8am-12pm.

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Clean Fleet Report

JUNE 28, 2022

This year there were six fully electric vehicles in the lineup, so my wife Judy and I aimed our focus–and our cameras—on those models to get a feeling for the quickness, comfort, styling and silence that EVs offer drivers. The Electric Lineup. But it was the layout of the driver’s information dashboard that bothered us the most.

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Charged EVs

MAY 7, 2024

The Ram ProMaster is a Fiat design dating to 2014, but it now offers an up-to-date electric powertrain. In January, Stellantis said its Ram truck brand would start selling the ProMaster EV, a battery-electric model of the ProMaster van that it restyled and updated for 2023. Got all that? All-wheel drive is not offered.

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Green Car Congress

JUNE 18, 2009

The California Air Resources Board has equipped two battery-powered electric vehicles to take ground level readings of greenhouse gases throughout the state. The data will also provide information as to how these compounds disperse when released. While California’s population is less than 0.5%

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Green Car Congress

DECEMBER 1, 2016

Exceeding its initial program targets, the plug-in 2017 Chrysler Pacifica Hybrid ( earlier post ) has earned an electric-mode fuel economy rating of 84 miles-per-gallon-equivalent (MPGe) from the US Environmental Protection Agency (EPA). The score relates to a vehicle’s combined performance on fuel economy and greenhouse-gas emissions.

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Baua Electric

MAY 7, 2024

The Ram ProMaster is a Fiat design dating to 2014, but it now offers an up-to-date electric powertrain. In January, Stellantis said its Ram truck brand would start selling the ProMaster EV, a battery-electric model of the ProMaster van that it restyled and updated for 2023. Got all that? All-wheel drive is not offered.

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Cars That Think

MARCH 18, 2022

Starting this year, thousands of battery-powered electric drive Volkswagen vehicles capable of both loading and offloading current—bidirectional charging, as industry calls it—have been rolling off production lines in eastern Germany. The ratio of marketing and expectations to intake of real-world information is still steep.

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Green Car Congress

OCTOBER 27, 2009

Australia’s CSIRO and Victorian energy distributor SP AusNet have begun a three-month road trial of plug-in hybrid electric vehicles (PHEVs). CSIRO engineers modified Toyota Prius hybrids by removing the OEM battery pack and installing a larger 6 kWh, 30 Ah NiMH battery pack (five times the capacity of the original 1.2

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Green Car Congress

MARCH 10, 2013

As the percentage of electricity supply from wind and solar increases, grid operators will need to employ strategies and technologies, including energy storage, to balance supply with demand given the intermittency of the renewable supply. The Stanford study considered a future US grid where up to 80% of the electricity comes from renewables.

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Green Car Congress

NOVEMBER 20, 2014

kWh lithium-ion battery pack (from the Jetta Hybrid), which stores the kinetic energy recovered from regenerative braking; assists in the starting phase of the fuel cell; and adds a dynamic boost to the maximum acceleration of the Golf SportWagen. The fuel cell and battery power an electric motor adapted from the e-Golf.

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Green Car Congress

DECEMBER 5, 2012

The US Energy Information Administration released its Annual Energy Outlook 2013 (AEO2013) Reference case (the Early Release ), which highlights a growth in total US energy production that exceeds growth in total US energy consumption through 2040. The United States becomes a net exporter of natural gas earlier than estimated a year ago.

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Get Electric Vehicle

APRIL 18, 2022

When most of us consider ways to reduce carbon emissions in the transportation sector, we immediately think of electric cars or vehicles in general, and in that case, we are right to a greater extent.  As we have quoted several times electric cars are great but battery-operated electric cars have a few disadvantages as well.

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Green Car Congress

DECEMBER 11, 2013

electric mail delivery vehicles under real working conditions. This system is expected to double the range of the electric cars used for postal delivery. This modular system reduces production costs and address the power requirement portfolio of diverse vehicle markers. Electric (Battery) Fleets Fuel Cells'

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Electric Vehicles India

OCTOBER 1, 2021

Fire risks associated with li-ion batteries & safety. The demand for lithium-ion battery-powered road vehicles continues to increase around the world day by day. Electric vehicles have now proven to reduce emissions and operate more efficiently than vehicles driven by fossil fuels. Fire risks with li-ion batteries.

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Green Car Congress

MAY 5, 2010

The Net-Zero Neighborhood is based on local generation using renewables; distributed energy storage in proportion to the population; electric transportation as an integral part of energy storage; energy becoming a consumer commodity that is bought and sold in a local marketplace; and a new jobs base in the form of local energy service providers.

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Green Car Congress

MAY 26, 2010

The introduction of electric vehicles on a large scale in the UK can only have a beneficial effect on CO 2 emissions if low-carbon electricity, universal broadband provision and smart grids are in place to support the transition, according to a new report published by the UK Royal Academy of Engineering.

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Drive Electric

AUGUST 25, 2022

Adapted from information provided by AutoTrader UK. With almost 50,000 plug-in vehicles registered in New Zealand as of August 2021, it’s clear that our nation is committed to a large-scale transition to electric transport. DRIVING AN ELECTRIC VEHICLE WITH A DISABILITY. IN THIS GUIDE, WE COVER: Accessibility on the road.

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Clean Fleet Report

MAY 26, 2021

Momentum is accelerating in the necessary transition from a fossil-fuel-burning automotive fleet to electric vehicles (EVs). This transition will have a big impact on how utility companies deliver the energy needed to charge all of these new battery-powered cars. This helps utilities manage the impact on the electrical grid.

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Cars That Think

MARCH 11, 2023

They wanted to see whether an electric vehicle could feed electricity back to the grid. The concept behind V2G had gained traction in the late 1990s after California’s landmark zero-emission-vehicle (ZEV) mandate went into effect and compelled automakers to commercialize electric cars. AC Propulsion’s experiment was timely.

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Green Car Congress

FEBRUARY 11, 2014

The California Air Resources Board released the draft proposed first update to the AB 32 Scoping Plan, which guides development and implementation of California’s greenhouse gas emission reduction programs. The Air Resources Board is required to update the Scoping Plan every five years.

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Green Car Congress

APRIL 19, 2013

The CrossBlue Coupé is powered by a plug-in hybrid system comprising a V6 turbo direct gasoline injection engine (TSI) and two electric motors; maximum system power is as much as 305 kW (409 hp). They include the lithium-ion battery in the center tunnel as well as the front E-motor with 40 kW and the rear E-motor with 85 kW.

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Cars That Think

OCTOBER 26, 2021

Pause for a moment to look at the smoke detector in the room where you're sitting and think about the last time you changed its battery. A sensor network that could monitor an entire forest, or a gas pipeline, or any critical infrastructure, would need thousands or even millions of sensors—and batteries.

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Current EV

SEPTEMBER 7, 2020

By John Coulter, CURRENT EV CMO In its new Prime, Toyota offers a RAV4 green version that employs a hybrid drivetrain relying on a gas engine and electric motors that draw power from a plug and regenerative braking. There are 2 Prime trims, SE and XSE, both equipped with All-Wheel Drive and a fully-electric hybrid powertrain.

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Green Car Congress

DECEMBER 20, 2013

The areas of interest outlined in the notice of intent (NOI) fall into two broad categories: technologies to advance plug-in electric vehicles; and technologies to improve fuel efficiency, including dual-fuel, fuel properties (e.g., Some specific goals include: Cutting battery costs from their current $500/kWh to $125/kWh. l/100 km).

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Green Car Congress

SEPTEMBER 19, 2011

The Hybrid Synergy Drive system in the Prius v uses two high-output motors, one 60 kW (80 hp) unit that mainly works to power the compact, lightweight transaxle and another smaller motor that mainly works as the electric power source. The moonroof has an electrically operated shade system with a jam protection function.

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Green Car Congress

JUNE 24, 2013

two-cylinder diesel, 20 kW electric motor and 5.5 l/100 km) with CO 2 emissions of 21 g/km and an all-electric range of 31 miles (50 km) as well as a total range of 310 miles (499 km). In all-electric mode, the XL1 requires less than 0.1 Comparison of electric drive fuel consumption (kWh/100 miles). The hybrid power unit.

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Green Car Congress

MARCH 19, 2009

billion in federal funding from the American Recovery and Reinvestment Act of 2009 (ARRA) in support of the development of advanced electric drive vehicles (EDVs) including plug-in hybrid electric (PHEV), electric vehicles (EV), and fuel cell vehicles (FCV). Electric Drive Vehicle Battery and Components.

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Green Car Congress

NOVEMBER 17, 2015

TDI quattro plug-in hybrid ( earlier post ); the Audi A7 h-tron quattro fuel cell vehicle ( earlier post ); the Audi e-tron quattro concept battery-electric SUV ( earlier post ); the Audi TT clubsport turbo concept ( earlier post ); the Audi RS 5 TDI competition concept ( earlier post ); and the Audi R18 e-tron quattro ( earlier post ).

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Clean Fleet Report

JULY 26, 2023

New to the World of Electric Cars? As the world transitions towards a greener and more sustainable future, electric cars have emerged as a promising solution to reduce carbon emissions and combat climate change. What Is an Electric Car? Hybrid Electric Vehicles (HEVs): Unlike PHEVs, HEVs cannot be charged externally.

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Green Car Congress

MAY 6, 2022

million in funding for Pacific Gas and Electric Company (PG&E) to develop three new pilot programs to test how bidirectional electric vehicles (EVs) and chargers can provide power to the electric grid and other benefits to customers. The California Public Utilities Commission (CPUC) has approved $11.7

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Cars That Think

NOVEMBER 30, 2023

Other research thrusts include ones based on powering planes with ammonia, hydrogen, or electricity. In a major effort in the United States, NASA and industry partners are advancing flight demonstrators to develop electrically powered propulsion systems. Why Hybrid Electric?

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Green Car Congress

OCTOBER 5, 2017

The engine is paired with two Honda-developed electric motors—a propulsion motor and a generator/starter motor—that are the first drive motors in the world to use permanent magnets containing no heavy rare-earth metals. The new hybrid powertrain features a 2.0-liter 2018 Honda Accord Hybrid. EV Drive Operation.

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Tony Karrer Delicious EVdriven

APRIL 22, 2009

As a subscriber, you can receive our free weekly China Auto News, which keeps you informed the latest developments of Chinas automobile industry. The government sees environmental upsides and a chance for its car makers to gain ground on foreign rivals, since electric vehicles are simpler to engineer than gasoline-engine ones.

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Green Car Congress

OCTOBER 20, 2014

consortium ( earlier post ) are showcasing their new lightweight urban electric vehicle at eCarTec in Munich. year project was funded under the priority program “Key Technologies for Electric Mobility - STROM” of the German Federal Ministry for Education and Research (BMBF) with a total budget of €10.8 The electric motor in Visio.M

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