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 goes on sale in Europe in 2011, the Spark in early 2010. The Ampera is an extended range electric vehicle based on the Voltec technology used in the Chevrolet Volt.

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Green Car Congress

FEBRUARY 17, 2011

The production version of the extended range electric vehicle Opel Ampera—the Chevy Volt’s European cousin—will make its world premiere at the Geneva Motor Show. Around 1,000 people across Europe have reserved an Ampera to date, with half of those being corporate customers. VAT) throughout Europe.

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Green Car Congress

APRIL 27, 2010

Engineers in Europe and the United States also use them to tune the vehicle’s overall driving experience. There’s still work to be done, but being able to drive an Opel Ampera off our pre-production line is a great accomplishment for the teams here and in Europe. Andrew Farah, Vehicle Chief Engineer for the Ampera.

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Electric Auto Association

MARCH 4, 2022

Efficiency can be expressed in miles per kilowatt-hour or kwh (common in US; higher is better), or kwh per mile (often done in Europe; lower is better). What most people care about in an EV is range, and the brute force approach taken by many legacy manufacturers is to extend range by including a bigger battery.

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Green Car Congress

JANUARY 11, 2010

GM Vice Chairman Bob Lutz, at a conference of the Society of Automotive Analysts on the eve of the North American International Auto Show, announced that GM will produce the Cadillac Converj extended-range electric vehicle. Earlier post.). Cadillac included the Converj concept car at the 2009 North American International Auto Show.

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Green Car Congress

OCTOBER 4, 2011

liter EcoBoost in Europe in Focus and C-MAX are exceeding expectations by 40%, according to Ford. The next generation of the Escape Hybrid’s powertrain moves to the five-passenger C-MAX Hybrid and features the first hybrid transmission and lithium-ion battery system Ford is building in-house. Since launch, sales of the 1.6-liter

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Green Car Congress

SEPTEMBER 10, 2020

Lucid Motors unveiled the Lucid Air battery-electric luxury sedan, which will start at less than US$80,000. With up to 1,080 horsepower available in a dual-motor, all-wheel-drive architecture, the Lucid Air is able to achieve quarter-mile times as quick as 9.9 seconds on a consistent, repeatable basis.

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Green Car Congress

AUGUST 17, 2009

In addition, Burke ran simulations on an extended range electric vehicle design, and on a fuel cell vehicle design. The sawtooth strategy has essentially two modes: charge depleting (operation in the electric mode with the engine off) and recharging (engine on at relatively high power to recharge the ultracapacitor or battery).

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Green Car Congress

OCTOBER 5, 2016

Development work on these continues; Audi, for example, is refining MLB evo—the second-generation of MLB and the foundation for the battery-electric e-tron quattro SUV due out in 2018. The average Golf diesel in Europe currently is <€30,000 (US$33,500), according to Volkswagen. Earlier post.) The charging will improve.

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Green Car Congress

MAY 24, 2018

Built for global markets in Nissan Barcelona plant, the upgraded model features a new 40 kWh battery, combining the features of the award-winning Nissan NV200 van with the best-selling Nissan LEAF. The 40 kWh battery allows customers to drive up to 301 km (187 miles) (city WLTP cycle) on a single charge.

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Green Car Congress

MARCH 20, 2009

The report gathers insights from demonstration participants at transit agencies in the United States, Europe, China, Japan and Australia, analyzes lessons learned, identifies key remaining challenges, and suggests potential roles for government in supporting commercialization.

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Green Car Congress

MARCH 6, 2012

The vehicle marks a number of firsts for Infiniti: first range-extender electric driveline; first mid-ship sports cart; first car the company has developed in Europe—and the first car it has built as part of a UK-government sponsored technology initiative. All this is wrapped within highly aerodynamic, light bodywork.

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Green Cars News

SEPTEMBER 10, 2009

Over longer distances the Prius Plug-in becomes a conventional petrol-electric hybrid and with this extended range, carbon dioxide (CO2) emissions are reduced to around 60g/km according to Toyota. Around 150 of these will be in Europe, another 150 in the US and 200 in Japan.

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Green Car Congress

AUGUST 30, 2009

GM is producing 2 vehicles a day with the goal of having a total of 76 vehicles available by the end of the summer; these vehicles will be used for validation testing ranging from fit and finish reviews, to durability testing to eventual crash testing. The Cadillac Converj extended-range electric vehicle Concept uses the Voltec platform.

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Green Car Congress

MARCH 3, 2010

The four-passenger, two-door mega city vehicle (MCV) car can drive 50 kilometers (31 miles) emission-free in city traffic on its 12 kWh battery pack before the range extender kicks in. A fully depleted battery can be recharged in approximately three hours from the 380 volt grid. Battery pack.

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Baua Electric

APRIL 10, 2024

The updated Mercedes-Benz model now includes a larger battery, offering future customers even more range. The EQS is an all-electric sedan that debuted as a concept in 2019 before hitting markets in Europe and the US in 2021 as a 2022 model-year EV. Have a look. So, expect the 2025 versions to exceed that number.

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Green Car Congress

JANUARY 8, 2010

Although lithium-ion cell and pack costs are expected to fall sharply by 2020, they are unlikely to drop enough to support widespread adoption of fully electric vehicles without a major breakthrough in battery technology, according to a new study by The Boston Consulting Group (BCG). million will be fully electric, 1.5

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Green Authority

SEPTEMBER 7, 2022

kg) and can cruise at 20 to 30 miles per hour (32-50 km/h). Motor, battery, and electric speed controller: These are the essential components that determine the performance of your ride. You have to balance the power of the motor and the battery size, so you get a decent range out of your converted skateboard.

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Green Car Congress

MAY 10, 2010

Electric car maker THINK released results of a customer survey that found that 50% of potential EV buyers responding would be willing to accept 70-80 miles range if it reduced the cost of the vehicle by $5,000. The survey also indicated that potential electric vehicle customers would be willing to pay more for extended range.

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Tony Karrer Delicious EVdriven

APRIL 21, 2009

At these prices, people are buying the "environmental feature" -- they want to be among the first owners of the worlds cleanest extended-range vehicles. PHEVs with "Good Enough to Get Started" batteries. We will have similar solutions available for better (but more expensive) nickel-metal hydride or lithium-ion batteries.)

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Green Car Congress

MARCH 30, 2009

Detroit Electric plans to begin sales in 2010; its plans call for selling more than 270,000 EVs in Europe, UK, China and the United States by 2012. The vehicles will be priced between US$23,000 and US$26,000 for a city range option and between US$28,000 and US$33,000 for an extended range option.

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Revenge of the Electric Car

OCTOBER 23, 2008

Lots going on with batteries now, as John O’Dell’s piece below illustrates. GM has been saying for a while now that they had picked their supplier for the LiIon battery in the Volt, but they weren’t prepared to announce who it was. but then contract with one or more additional battery makers to satisfy the demand.

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Green Car Congress

AUGUST 25, 2009

Opel will debut the new Astra at the 2009 Frankfurt Motor Show; the company will also showcase the Ampera, Opel’s implementation of the Voltec extended range electric vehicle architecture. An on-board gasoline/E85-fueled engine-generator extends the Ampera’s range to more than 500 km (311 miles).

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Tony Karrer Delicious EVdriven

APRIL 21, 2009

GM has announced plans for public sales in 2010, and almost every carmaker now says it will sell PHEVs or highway-speed battery electric vehicles (BEVs) sometime after 2010. Fisker $80,000 Karma series luxury 50-mile range series PHEV, S Sunset convertible version.Partnering with Quantum Technologies. Batteries not ready.

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