Green Car Congress

FEBRUARY 2, 2022

Ford is partnering with solar company Sunrun to enhance home energy management, leveraging the onboard battery capability of the all-electric F-150 Lightning. The F-150 Lightning extended-range battery system can store 131 kWh and deliver up to 9.6

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Green Car Congress

MAY 5, 2023

British EV technology company Electrogenic, known for its classic car EV conversions, has expanded its range of drop-in conversion kits with a cost-effective plug and play solution to electrify the classic Mini.Electrogenic’s kit converts the automotive icon to electric drive from just £15,000 (US$18,800) plus VAT.

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Green Car Congress

MAY 20, 2021

Ford unveiled the F-150 Lightning battery-electric pickup. F-150 Lightning offers a standard-range battery targeting 230 miles of EPA-estimated range and an extended-range battery targeting 300 miles of EPA-estimated range. 2022 Ford F-150 Lightning Platinum, Lariat, XLT.

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Green Car Congress

NOVEMBER 13, 2020

Much of the drive to lightweight BEVs comes from a desire to extend range. Platform design: BEVs are increasingly being designed around shared rolling frames or platforms that contain the batteries, drive systems, and in some cases structural elements of the cars.

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Green Car Congress

JUNE 8, 2016

At this week’s WasteExpo2016, Mack Trucks, one of North America’s largest manufacturers of heavy-duty Class 8 trucks, engines and transmissions, will showcase Wrightspeed’s The Route turbine-based extended range electric powertrain ( earlier post ) applied in a refuse truck.

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Green Car Congress

JUNE 23, 2022

The system will be an on-board power source with scalable power offerings and will complement the Rolls-Royce Electrical propulsion portfolio, enabling extended range on sustainable aviation fuels and later as it comes available through hydrogen combustion. —Rob Watson, President – Rolls Royce Electrical.

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Green Car Congress

JULY 18, 2023

Ford is cutting the prices on its entire F150 Lightning electric pickup truck lineup, with reductions ranging from $9,979 for the Pro to $6,079 for the top-of-the-line Platinum Extended Range.

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Green Car Congress

FEBRUARY 18, 2021

Dutch battery tech scale-up E-magy, a designer and manufacturer of nano-sponge silicon material for advanced lithium-ion batteries ( earlier post ), has secured an additional €5 million of funding. E-magy plans to start production at the new facility in 2023. Silicon is abundantly available and environmentally benign.

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Green Car Congress

JANUARY 29, 2023

Solid-state battery company Ilika Technologies is leading a 24-month, £8-million (US$9.9-million) million) Faraday Battery Challenge collaboration project. The solid electrolyte is not only safer but also results in a higher cell-to-pack ratio, lighter vehicles, higher energy and power density, extended range and fast charging.

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Green Car Reports

MAY 24, 2021

Optioned with the extended-range battery that will allow a targeted EPA range of 300 miles, the F-150 Lightning will cost just $49,974 in its base Lightning Pro work-truck guise, Ford revealed Monday morning.

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Green Car Congress

AUGUST 10, 2022

Ford is reopening order banks for the next wave of reservation holders of the popular F-150 Lightning electric pickup truck, adding new improvements including boosting its standard range battery models to an EPA-estimated targeted range of 240 miles and adding Pro Trailer Hitch Assist technology. XLT High / Extended Range.

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Green Car Congress

AUGUST 31, 2021

Wrightspeed and Matthews Specialty Vehicles are teaming up to develop, convert, and deliver battery-powered and range-extended electric buses, trucks, and specialty vehicles with industry-leading performance, efficiency, and total cost of ownership.

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Green Car Congress

APRIL 1, 2020

Karma, the Southern California-based creator of luxury electric vehicles and high-tech incubator, said the first showcase of the highly-flexible platform currently supports the company’s 2020 Revero GT extended-range electric vehicle (EREV). We can deliver a wide range of configurations dependent on the builder’s priority.

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Green Car Congress

JULY 29, 2022

Targeted performance and capability: 452 horsepower, 775 lb-ft of torque5, 7,700-pound towing capacity and 2,235 maximum payload with a standard-range battery, and sub-four-second 0-60 mph acceleration, 580 horsepower, 775 lb-ft of torque, and 10,000-pound towing capability with the extended-range battery.

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Green Car Congress

AUGUST 10, 2021

Working with FedEx Ground operators, who operate every day within FedEx’s global delivery and logistics network, both validates our business model and our innovative, cost-efficient, zero emission and operationally ready products, which are tailored for commercial fleets focusing on last-mile delivery.

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Green Car Congress

JUNE 29, 2018

A team at Sichuan University in China is proposing a novel lithium-ion/oxygen hybrid battery system that exploits the advantages and minimizes the disadvantages of both lithium-ion batteries (LIB) and lithium-oxygen batteries (LOB). Due to the ultra-high capacity (3860 mAh g -1 ) and the lowest electrochemical potential (-3.04

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Green Car Congress

FEBRUARY 4, 2010

The SOLO will be a lightweight electric crossover with an on-board 30 kW Capstone microturbine that will charge the crossover’s batteries and super capacitors while in operation or at rest. According to Velozzi, the cars will operate on 100% battery power in zero-emissions mode for a range of up to 200 miles. Earlier post.).

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Green Car Congress

AUGUST 4, 2017

Canada-based Loop Energy’s fuel cell range extender system ( earlier post ) is fully functional and operating in a heavy-duty terminal tractor (or yard truck) with partner China National Heavy-Duty Truck Company (CNHTC).

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Green Car Congress

JULY 11, 2011

In both cases, the standard battery pack has been somewhat reduced in size to make room for the combustion engine and its fuel tank. Battery cost and size mean that all-electric cars still have a relatively limited operating range. Technical concept II: Volvo C30 with parallel-connected range extender.

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Teslarati

JULY 17, 2023

Citing increased plant capacity , production scaling, cost reductions, and improving raw battery material costs, Ford said it was able to reduce the price of the F-150 Lightning to make it more affordable to customers. At one point, Ford expected the Pro to be just below $40,000.

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Baua Electric

APRIL 9, 2024

The 2024 Ford Mustang Mach-E now goes up to 320 miles in its rear-wheel-drive form with the 91-kwh (usable) Extended Range battery pack, according to Ford, in numbers that haven’t yet been confirmed with the EPA, or up to 250 miles with the 72-kwh Standard Range pack—both up 20 miles versus 2023. seconds to 60 mph.

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The Truth About Cars

OCTOBER 3, 2023

It has an extended range (320-mile) battery, popular equipment, and a price tag right at $70,000.& Essentially an XLT with a few more tech tricks, the Flash packs that 131 kWh extended-range battery, available Ford BlueCruise, and throws in the 15.5-inch & Why the Flash?

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Green Car Congress

AUGUST 16, 2012

GM China Advanced Technical Center’s Cell Fabrication Lab in Shanghai recently produced its first batch of battery cells. Researchers will be able to complete a series of processes, including battery material preparation, battery material coating, battery cell fabrication and battery cell performance testing.

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Green Car Congress

MAY 10, 2021

These companies are now leveraging their complementary capabilities to bring the sustainability, efficiency and cost advantages of green hydrogen to more cities in North America and beyond.

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Green Car Congress

APRIL 24, 2020

Together with Karma’s new Silicon Carbide (SiC) high-density inverter ( earlier post ), the platform features a flat-floor battery for optimal weight distribution that could provide up to 400 miles of pure-electric range. Earlier post.). The platform is targeted to achieve an impressive 0 to 60mph acceleration in less than 1.9

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EV Central

JULY 10, 2023

GWM has joined the electric vehicle price fight, slashing the price of its Ora battery electric small car by $4000 to reset it below the magic $40,000 mark. The new $39,990 price for the Ora Standard Range pitches it head-to-head with the $38,890 BYD Dolphin and the $39,990 MG4 Excite 51 , as China’s EV price war heats up.

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Green Car Congress

DECEMBER 8, 2016

million from Innovation, Science and Economic Development Canada (ISED) in Vancouver-based Nano One to support the development of advanced battery technology for electric vehicles. Nano One produces low-cost high-performance energy storage materials for batteries as well as a wide range of advanced nanostructured composite materials.

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Teslarati

NOVEMBER 5, 2021

Using the same 2170 cells that are powering vehicles like the Tesla Model 3 and the Rivian R1T, Lucid’s six Air sedan variants have seized the top six spots in the EPA’s range rankings. As per IEEE , Rawlinson calls such strategies as “dumb range.”

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Green Car Congress

JUNE 25, 2018

Three projects demonstrate zero-emission cargo-handling equipment: Fuel-cell powered top loader with wireless inductive charging at the Port of Los Angeles (Project cost: $8.8 Three battery-electric top handlers and two zero-emission yard trucks (fuel cell and battery-electric) at the Port of Long Beach (Cost $8.3

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Green Car Congress

JUNE 29, 2018

A team at Sichuan University in China is proposing a novel lithium-ion/oxygen hybrid battery system that exploits the advantages and minimizes the disadvantages of both lithium-ion batteries (LIB) and lithium-oxygen batteries (LOB). Due to the ultra-high capacity (3860 mAh g -1 ) and the lowest electrochemical potential (-3.04

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Green Car Congress

OCTOBER 23, 2021

million US Department of Energy (DOE) Award for the development of a Scalable Ultra Power-dense Extended Range (SUPER) inverter. BorgWarner is the recipient of a $4.97 Earlier post.). BorgWarner is leading this 39-month project and working with Infineon Technologies Americas Corp., PolyCharge America, Inc., Wolfspeed, Inc.

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Green Car Congress

APRIL 11, 2013

XGS), a manufacturer of graphene platelets, has launched silicon anode materials for Li-ion batteries, with immediate availability. Rob Privette, VP Energy Markets for the company, said that the exact performance of the new anode materials will depend on the specific battery formulations used by cell manufacturers. Batteries'

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Green Car Congress

JANUARY 6, 2020

After the US federal tax credit is applied, the cost of the Fisker Ocean drops to a starting price of US$29,999 (US). The Ocean all-electric SUV will come standard with an extended range (target of approximately 250 to 300 miles, depending on driving conditions), enabled by an approx. 80 kWh lithium-ion battery pack.

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Green Car Congress

MAY 13, 2012

an energy storage startup co-founded and led by Rob Ferber, a former Science Director at Tesla Motors who worked on the Tesla Roadster battery system, has launched a new cloud-based service for traction battery design for electric vehicle manufacturers. ElectronVault Inc., —Linda Maepa, COO and co-founder of ElectronVault.

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Green Car Congress

NOVEMBER 27, 2012

The facility, which is part of the GM China Advanced Technical Center, is engaged in research on battery technology and lightweight materials. We believe the further development of lithium-ion battery technology is possible through improvements in cell chemistry, cell and pack design, and optimization of thermal management.

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Green Car Congress

FEBRUARY 17, 2013

The Robust Affordable Next Generation EV-Storage (RANGE) program’s goal is to enable a 3X increase in electric vehicle range (from ~80 to ~240 miles per charge) with a simultaneous price reduction of > 1/3 (to ~ $30,000). Ceramic and other solid electrolyte batteries.

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InsideEVs

MAY 24, 2021

The Extended-Range Battery will cost $10,000 more. It will start at $39,974.

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