Green Car Congress

JANUARY 5, 2010

OnStar’s Mobile Application will use a real-time data connection to interact with the Volt and perform tasks from setting the charge time to unlocking the doors. OnStar’s Mobile Application allows drivers to communicate with their Volt from Droid by Motorola; Apple iPhone; and Blackberry Storm smartphones. Click to enlarge.

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Teslarati

JANUARY 2, 2023

The contactors that Rheinmetall will be supplying are designed for 900-volt architecture and will be introduced to the German automaker’s lineup by 2025. platform will use 900-volt. Mercedes first showed off their next-generation 900-volt architecture in January 2022 with its EQXX concept EV.

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Green Car Reports

OCTOBER 29, 2010

I took a short test drive yesterday in the Chevrolet Volt, GM’s range-extended vehicle that can go 25 to 50 miles on battery power before switching over to gas. The Volt will go into production in mid-November and hit dealerships a few weeks later, just in time to compete.

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Green Car Congress

FEBRUARY 2, 2021

Other automakers are still playing a product game. Bhargava and his co-authors compare the EV industry to various other platform-based products, such as smartphones, which are not nearly so useful without a mobile data network that delivers high-speed connectivity outside the home. billion developing the Chevy Volt.

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Green Car Congress

DECEMBER 11, 2017

Electromobility is the future ,” Albrecht Reimold, Member of the Executive Board for Production and Logistics at Porsche AG, said at a presentation of the new Panamera plug-in hybrid models. Preparations are underway in Zuffenhausen for the production of Porsche’s first purely battery-powered sports car, the Mission E.

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Green Car Congress

AUGUST 10, 2023

Offering a Cadillac-estimated 450 miles of range, the Escalade IQ features a curved pillar-to-pillar 55-inch total diagonal LED display, available Super Cruise driver assistance technology, and vehicle-to-home bidirectional charging technology with GM Energy’s available Ultium Home products. Factory ZERO was renovated and retooled with a $2.2-billion

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Green Car Congress

OCTOBER 21, 2013

PowerGenix, the developer of nickel-zinc (NiZn) rechargeable batteries ( earlier post ), has signed a product evaluation contract with HELLA, a Tier 1 supplier to major automotive manufacturers worldwide. Nickel-Zinc could offer some unique benefits in 48-volt systems. Marc Nalbach of HELLA. Earlier post.) Earlier post.)

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Plug In Partners

MAY 23, 2007

F or those who think that GM is not serious about its new PHEV , the Volt , here is a piece that makes you think they are: The Volt To Be Lutz's Legacy May 21, 2007 So, I heard General Motors’ Bob Lutz on National Public Radio’s “Wait. The Volt is the plug-in hybrid car GM showed at last January’s Detroit Auto Show.

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Green Cars News

JANUARY 17, 2011

There have been plenty of aspersions cast over the reliability of electric cars whether battery powered or range extended – so it’s interesting to see how the Chevrolet Volt will fair during its first winter as a production model.

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Green Car Congress

AUGUST 31, 2016

Power management company Eaton has introduced its new Bussmann series electric vehicle (EV) fuses designed to provide superior circuit protection while incorporating innovative technologies that promote a vehicle with higher performance and longer range.

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Green Car Congress

MARCH 21, 2009

The Gen 1 Volt 16 kWh pack, comprising more than 200 cells grouped into modules. They also delivered an update on the progress of the Volt’s development cycle. Undertray of the Volt, showing the integration of the T-. shaped battery pack as a structural element. The current state of the Volt. Click to enlarge.

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EV Central

OCTOBER 30, 2023

Nissan has revealed that it is plotting the introduction of an all-new affordable battery-electric pick- up truck that will sit beneath its current combustion-powered Navara. A second Nissan exec said the small pick-up wouldn’t be a rival for battery-powered trucks like the Rivian or the incoming Tesla Cybertruck.

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EV Central

APRIL 11, 2024

That explains why the first three vans will all benefit from an advanced 800-volt electrical architecture and will be capable of being of being DC fast charged at levels previously only reserved for the most expensive battery-powered passenger cars.

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Green Car Congress

JUNE 13, 2016

Shortly, smart will be the only automaker worldwide to offer its entire model range both powered by internal combustion engines or operating on battery power. Mercedes-Benz will put the first fuel-cell-powered vehicle with plug-in technology into series production: the GLC F-CELL. 48-Volt Battery.

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Green Car Congress

NOVEMBER 17, 2010

Ito said both vehicles are integral to what Honda is calling its Electric Mobility Network, an approach to reducing CO 2 emissions through a range of products, energy-management and energy-production technologies. When the Fit EV production model is introduced, it will be powered by a lithium-ion battery and coaxial electric motor.

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Los Angeles Honda Plug-in Plug 273

Green Car Congress

JANUARY 10, 2011

On the heels officially introducing the Focus Electric last week ( earlier post ), Ford revealed two next-generation hybrids—including its first production plug-in hybrid (PHEV)—at the North American International Auto Show in Detroit. Ford C-MAX Energi plug-in hybrid. Click to enlarge.

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Green Car Congress

SEPTEMBER 10, 2013

75 mph) on electric power alone, coupled with an all-wheel driving experience headlined by powerful acceleration and a dynamically-biased distribution of power through enthusiastically taken corners. The BMW i8 is the first BMW production model to be powered by a three-cylinder gasoline engine. Laser headlights.

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Green Car Congress

JULY 13, 2010

(CPI), a wholly owned subsidiary of LG Chem, as the supplier of lithium-ion battery packs for the 2011 Ford Focus Electric for the US market. CPI/LG Chem are also supplying the battery packs for the Chevrolet Volt. LG Chem and CPI will be localizing cell production at their new site in Holland, Mich. Earlier post.)

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Green Car Congress

DECEMBER 4, 2015

The Mission E battery-electric concept car made its premiere at the Frankfurt International Motor Show (IAA) in September. The production vehicle is now due to be launched at the end of the decade. The existing engine factory is also being expanded for the production of electric motors. Earlier post.)

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Green Car Congress

DECEMBER 3, 2021

After several years of development, Bosch is now starting volume production of silicon carbide (SiC) power semiconductors to supply automotive manufacturers worldwide. In the future, an increasing number of production vehicles will feature these chips. Picture: Bosch. The future for silicon carbide semiconductors is bright.

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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

AUGUST 25, 2011

General Motors and LG Group will jointly design and engineer future electric vehicles, expanding a relationship built on LG’s work as the battery cell supplier for the Chevrolet Volt and Opel Ampera extended-range EVs. For LG, the arrangement represents a widening of its portfolio as an automotive solution provider. Earlier post.)

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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. No word yet on which EVs will take part. (GM And that’s much cheaper than a new $1,300 kit.

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Green Car Congress

FEBRUARY 12, 2015

Should the Trail’ster find its way to production, fuel economy would be targeted at a 25-30 percent improvement in city driving and 5-10 percent in highway driving over the normally aspirated 2015 2.0-liter For traversing tough terrain, the Trail’ster has been raised more than two-and-a-half inches over the production Soul.

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Green Car Congress

NOVEMBER 23, 2015

Lithium-ion (Li-ion) batteries power much of our digital and mobile lifestyle. In conventional aqueous electrolytes, a protective interphase is absent because none of the decomposition products from water (H 2 , O 2 , or OH – ) can deposit in a dense solid state. Volts to ~ 3.0 C) and high (4.5 The work by Suo et al.,

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Clean Fleet Report

MARCH 2, 2023

Genesis engineers were able to use the same GV70 platform for both power plants without sacrificing interior space for people or cargo. Genesis showed a pre-production 2023 Electrified GV70 at the 2022 Los Angeles Auto Show. kWh lithium-ion battery. Wink, wink. The last one is no small thing.

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Green Car Congress

SEPTEMBER 5, 2019

They are at the cutting edge of Porsche E-Performance and are among the most powerful production models that the sports car manufacturer currently has in its product range. Less powerful variants of these all-wheel drive vehicles will follow this year. The top speed of both all-wheel-drive models is 260 km/h (162 mph).

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Green Car Congress

MARCH 3, 2009

GM Europe staged the world premieres of the Opel Ampera, the European cousin of the Chevrolet Volt, and the Chevrolet Spark mini-car, at the Geneva Motor Show. The Ampera is an extended range electric vehicle based on the Voltec technology used in the Chevrolet Volt. The Ampera goes on sale in Europe in 2011, the Spark in early 2010.

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Revenge of the Electric Car

JANUARY 13, 2010

He is reportedly in production on a sequel, “The Revenge of the Electric Car.” s and a prime mover behind the development of the Chevrolet Volt plug-in hybrid. He is reportedly in production on a sequel, “The Revenge of the Electric Car.” s and a prime mover behind the development of the Chevrolet Volt plug-in hybrid.

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Green Car Congress

NOVEMBER 2, 2015

Daimler has concluded customer field trials with eight pre-production Fuso Canter E-Cell electric trucks ( earlier post ) in Portugal. FUSO developed the battery-powered and locally emission-free Canter E-Cell at the Daimler Trucks Center of Competence for Hybrid Technology.

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Clean Fleet Report

MAY 13, 2021

LiveWire motorcycles are not really Harleys, the thought goes, although they will share engineering, production facilities, a supply chain and global logistics. But the battery-powered two-wheelers get separate showrooms, sales methodologies and marketing programs aimed at different target audience. Fine with me.

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EV Info

MARCH 26, 2021

A quick note on power compared to energy. The standard unit of electrical power is the watt, which is defined as a current of one ampere, at a voltage of one volt. More simply, volts x amps = watts. In the UK, the standard wall socket delivers 240 volts. Is controls all aspects of power generation and use.

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Green Car Congress

SEPTEMBER 30, 2009

MMC will also show 10 current production vehicles that qualify for eco-car tax incentives in Japan. Powered by the new Mitsubishi Plug-in Hybrid System, the Mitsubishi Concept-PX (plug-in hybrid crossover) MiEV (Mitsubishi innovative Electric Vehicle) returns fuel economy in excess of 50 km/liter (118 mpg US, 2.0L/100km) Charging mode.

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Green Car Congress

JULY 3, 2019

ZF is launching a product offensive for hybrid and electric vehicles, active chassis systems, integrated safety, and automated driving. It is laying the foundation for a new breed of battery-electric vehicles with its new 8-speed automatic transmission for hybridization. ZF is pursuing two directions in electromobility. Mild hybrids.

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Green Car Congress

APRIL 19, 2013

In hybrid mode fuel consumption (sub-cycle of the European ECE-R101 standard with discharged battery powered by just the TSI drive), the SUV consumes 6.9 The power electronics unit is integrated in the front engine compartment and operates at a voltage level of around 375 V. l/100 km (34 mpg US) of fuel.

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Green Car Congress

APRIL 23, 2015

The second-generation “Voltec” extended range electric powertrain applied in the MY2016 Chevy Volt ( earlier post ) marks a significant evolution in the electric drive technology platform from its first-generation origins. For the second-generation, GM wanted to enhance the electric performance of the Volt. liter range extender engine.

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Green Car Congress

SEPTEMBER 14, 2009

A production version of the E-Up! The 3+1 seater is driven by an electric motor with a peak power output of 60 kW (continuous power: 40 kW), and has a top speed of 135 km/h (84 mph). With a 230-Volt household outlet, maximum charge time is five hours. meters in length, the E-Up! is even more compact. is due in 2013.

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