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Building an Electric Dragster
Electric Cars are for Girls
DECEMBER 28, 2018
Looking to put a EV dragster together for bracket racing. I currently have a dragster front half and was wondering where to start to figure what motor
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Building a Electric Land Rover
Electric Cars are for Girls
MARCH 14, 2019
I'm looking to build a EV Land Rover using a 90 kw motor. It is my first time doing this and I'm doing it as a personal project. I would like some advice
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Rivian might build upcoming Ford electric SUV
Green Car Reports
AUGUST 14, 2019
Rivian will likely be entrusted to build an upcoming Ford electric SUV, due early within the next few years, at the startup’s former Mitsubishi assembly plant in Normal, Illinois. "It
Toyota to build prototype city of the future, powered by hydrogen fuel cells
Green Car Congress
JANUARY 7, 2020
At CES, Toyota revealed plans to build a prototype “city” of the future on a 175-acre (0.71 Building a complete city from the ground up, even on a small scale like this, is a unique opportunity to develop future technologies, including a digital operating system for the city’s infrastructure.
Build Your Own Electric Car
Electric Cars are for Girls
SEPTEMBER 2, 2011
You can build your own electric car. It's not rocket science, and there are conversion kits available
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DIY Electric Car
DECEMBER 17, 2011
I collected the car last weekend and, having not seen it in the flesh, i was very pleased with what I'd bought. It's a MK2 golf with 9'' ADC motor fitted, battery tray up front and one sunk into the rear where the fuel tank was. It needs a reasonable amount of attention but is a greater starter project for my first EV. The lights, etc run from a dedicated 12V battery (missing) and all the wiring is there so it should just be a matter of sticking the battery in.
VW Project e-Bus electric Microbus builds Buzz with e-Golf transplant
Green Car Reports
DECEMBER 1, 2019
Volkswagen and powerhouse EV West partnered up to build this all-electric Type 2 bus to whet our appetites for the real thing, which is still a couple of years away. This build is equal parts original Type 2 and.
Breaking News Too Late For @LATimes Print Edition Radically Changes LAX Expansion Story #JoeTakesOnTheNews
Creative Greenius
APRIL 6, 2019
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@LATimes Snooze-Worthy Story About Studio Opportunavores Cashing In Ignores Climate Reality Again #JoeTakesOnTheNews
Creative Greenius
MARCH 24, 2019
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El Segundo’s @LATimes Forced To Cover Climate Crisis When Politicians Shove It Up Their To-Do List #JoeTakesOnTheNews
Creative Greenius
APRIL 30, 2019
Done deal: Ohio company aims to build electric work trucks at former GM plant
Green Car Reports
NOVEMBER 8, 2019
General Motors has officially sold its Lordstown, Ohio, assembly facility—for an undisclosed amount—to a company that will build electric pickups.
Ladies & Gentlemen, Joe Galliani Has Left The Building.
Creative Greenius
SEPTEMBER 20, 2017
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GM builds new electric architecture for EVs, self-driving cars
Green Car Reports
MAY 21, 2019
As future cars go electric, self-driving, and more connected with the outside world, they're going to faster connectivity inside the vehicle. To that end, General Motors just introduced a new electronic platform for its vehicles that it says can carry 4.5
Audi building 160,000 m2 photovoltaic system for Gy?r, Hungary plant
Green Car Congress
FEBRUARY 18, 2019
Together with E.ON, Audi is building a solar energy park on the roofs of the two logistics centers of its plant in Gy?r This will create Europe’s largest photovoltaic system installed on a building at the Audi Hungaria plant in Gy?r.
Hey Google! Lets Reinvent Detroit Together Using Our Creative Greenius Before The Opportunivors Scavenge It
Creative Greenius
JULY 27, 2013
Detroit has public transportation, an effective freeway system, rail lines, a modern airport, and uniquely for the USA – land and buildings available for pennies on the dollar. One of the houses Power House Productions is transforming in Detroit – and none too soon.
How many Mustang Mach-E electric SUVs will Ford build? We’ve got numbers
Green Car Reports
NOVEMBER 29, 2019
In presentations before and during the launch of the 2021 Ford Mustang Mach-E, the company said several times that the electric SUV that expands its pony-car range wasn’t a compliance car.
Building An Electric Car
Electric Cars are for Girls
FEBRUARY 20, 2010
I've been considering for a while on building an all electric car. I live in an area where I have to drive to get pretty much anywhere, and decided the
GM Plans to Build Electric Cadillacs?
Electric Cars are for Girls
AUGUST 17, 2011
This sounds like an interesting new twist on the Chevy Volt saga. Electric luxury cars on the horizon. Count me in
BMW Group to build future MINI E vehicles in China with Great Wall Motor
Green Car Congress
NOVEMBER 29, 2019
The BMW Group and Great Wall Motor have launched a new joint venture—Spotlight Automotive Limited—and are building a joint plant in China, where the BMW Group will produce future fully-electric models of its MINI brand.
FCA to build battery assembly plant in Turin
Green Car Congress
OCTOBER 25, 2019
FCA will build a new battery assembly complex in Turin as part of its overall e-mobility strategy. A complete battery assembly center will be created in a specially designed building, with the potential to be expanded for future projects. The announcement comes a few months after FCA said it would build a new electric-powered Fiat 500 at the Mirafiori plant starting in the second quarter of 2020.
VW is planning to build 50 million electric vehicles
Green Car Reports
NOVEMBER 13, 2018
But its plans look even more bullish on electric cars, considering the number of vehicles it's now supposedly signed up to build over a longer. Volkswagen already had ambitious goals to ramp up electric-vehicle production to a rate of up to three million EVs annually by 2025, and potentially hit 10 million vehicles around 2027 if all goes right. Batteries VW MEB architecture
Mercedes-Benz moves to build battery supply chain in Europe
Green Car Reports
JANUARY 23, 2019
A key obstacle to getting more electric cars on the road at the moment may be building up a big enough supply of batteries to power them. So far, the only automaker with a large enough supply of batteries to produce electric cars in large volumes is Tesla. Volkswagen has also announced a $10 billion investment in electric-car batteries, but those. Mercedes-Benz lithium-ion batteries
Stora Enso building €10M pilot plant to produce hard carbon from lignin; electrode materials
Green Car Congress
JULY 28, 2019
Stora Enso is investing €10 million to build a pilot facility for producing bio-based carbon materials based on lignin. Lignin is one of the main building blocks of a tree. With the pilot facility we will continue to build on our long-term work in extracting lignin from biomass to create more value from it.
Volvo to build electric XC90 and its battery packs in South Carolina in 2022
Green Car Reports
JANUARY 20, 2020
Volvo revealed in October, amid the preview of the upcoming XC40 Recharge electric crossover, that an electric version of its next-generation XC90 SUV will be built at Volvo’s plant in Ridgeville, South Carolina, near Charleston.
Elio Motors to buy engines, abandons building its own
Green Car Reports
SEPTEMBER 27, 2018
Elio Motors, which has been struggling since 2009 to build its own ultra-cheap, small, fuel-efficient, three-wheeled car, announced Thursday that it will source an engine from a major automaker. Previously, the company planned to build its own 3-cylinder engine with up to 55 horsepower for its projected 84-mpg three-wheeler.
Nio looks to shed other businesses to keep building cars
Green Car Reports
AUGUST 12, 2019
After laying off 70 workers and closing an office in the U.S., Chinese automaker Nio is searching its cupboards for cash. EV sales have foundered in China this year after generous subsidies expired. and several companies have delayed or abandoned expansion plans.
Volkswagen to build MEB EVs in Chattanooga beginning in 2022; $800M investment in plant
Green Car Congress
JANUARY 14, 2019
In addition to Chattanooga, Volkswagen is building the first dedicated EV production facility in Zwickau, Germany, starting MEB production by the end of 2019. Volkswagen is building up the production capacity needed to sell more than 1 million electric cars per year by 2025.
OXIS Energy to build Li-sulfur battery plant in Brazil; initial capacity 2M cells/year
Green Car Congress
FEBRUARY 14, 2019
CODEMGE’s US$60-million investment will go towards the building of the plant in Belo Horizonte with Phase 1 having a cell capacity of 2 million cells per annum.
Honda and Isuzu join forces to build fuel-cell commercial trucks
Green Car Reports
JANUARY 15, 2020
Honda and Isuzu Motors have signed an agreement to work together in developing commercial trucks powered by hydrogen fuel cells, the companies announced Wednesday. This would be the first time that Honda has provided its fuel cells to another company or given them access to fuel-cell vehicle development. It might also be the first time Honda. Infrastructure
Build An Electric Car for about $2200
Electric Cars are for Girls
JUNE 1, 2009
Paul Holmes discovered he could build an electric car for about $2000. In this interview, we'll talk about how he built his electric car.and why
Quiet launch: Daimler builds first electric heavy-duty semis for fleet test
Green Car Reports
AUGUST 14, 2019
Tesla might have been the first to generate a lot of fanfare over an all-electric Semi, but it’s not the first to actually place an electric Semi with customers for full-time use. That nod would go to Daimler Trucks North America.
Fiat Chrysler lays groundwork to build electrified Jeep models
Green Car Reports
FEBRUARY 26, 2019
With a $4.5 billion investment in manufacturing in Michigan announced Tuesday, Fiat Chrysler Automobiles will put some big plans in motion to electrify its entire future Jeep lineup. That is likely to include a new Jeep Grand Cherokee plug-in hybrid, based on an all-new Grand Cherokee planned to debut in early 2021, although FCA would not confirm.
Build My Dreams, BYD
Plugs and Cars
DECEMBER 16, 2008
The announcement that BYD, the Chinese battery giant turned automaker, has actually begun selling its plug-in hybrid, is pretty big news. Shares rose about 15% on the Hong Kong stock exchange Monday. Earlier this year Warren Buffet invested over $200 million in the company (10% share).
Mercedes joins forces with BMW to build an electric ecosystem
Green Car Reports
MARCH 1, 2019
Making electric cars accessible to more people requires developing an ecosystem that would help drivers charge, and occasionally get to destinations that might not yet be ideal for an electric car—like a long road trip. To bridge those gaps for buyers of its upcoming EQC and other electric cars to follow, Mercedes-Benz announced last week. Car Sharing
German RV maker builds electric camping trailer
Green Car Reports
AUGUST 29, 2018
Electric cars are great for efficiency. They're less adept at pulling heavy loads at highway speeds and the extra power needed to pull a trailer can quickly drain batteries. That means more charging, more travel time, and less vacation time. Now German RV maker Dethleffs has a solution for those who want to make a commitment to the environment by
Dyson plans to build electric-car test track in Britain
Green Car Reports
AUGUST 31, 2018
In another step to show it's serious about building an electric car, Dyson, the British vacuum-cleaner maker, has laid out plans to build a test track in Britain. Reuters reported Thursday that Dyson plans to build a vehicle test track at a former World War II airfield in Wiltshire, England, to go along with previously announced plans for an.
2nd-life Chevrolet Volt batteries help power new IT building
Green Car Congress
JUNE 16, 2015
A new solar array and two wind turbines feed the administration building’s circuit breaker panel, where the five Volt batteries work in parallel to supply power to the building, delivering net-zero energy use on an annual basis.
Ford will use VW platform to build an electric car for Europe
Green Car Reports
JULY 12, 2019
In addition to its own efforts to build electric cars, Ford will build a new electric car for the European market based on Volkswagen’s mass-market MEB platform. Ford and Volkswagen announced jointly on Friday that VW will share its MEB affordable electric car architecture with Ford, while VW will join Ford's Argo self-driving effort.
Hitachi, Mitsubishi Motors and ENGIE testing plug-in vehicles as renewable energy storage for office buildings
Green Car Congress
MARCH 29, 2018
Mitsubishi Motors and ENGIE are partnered in a project to explore the potential for electric vehicles to act as a means of energy storage for an office building. This leads to intelligent and more efficient microgrids that can interact with building energy management systems (BEMS).
CES: Fisker Ocean gets a $37,499 price tag, but still no word on batteries or build site
Green Car Reports
JANUARY 6, 2020
Henrik Fisker's latest startup vehicle brand took to the pre-CES scrum Sunday with what it says is a production version of the Ocean crossover. What Fisker hasn't confirmed yet are where the Ocean will be built, or which company will supply the batteries to provide its 300-mile electric range.
Daimler, partners building next-gen additive manufacturing process pilot production line for spare parts
Green Car Congress
MAY 2, 2019
NextGenAM partners Premium AEROTEC, EOS and Daimler are building a pilot production line for a next-generation automated additive manufacturing (AM) process. During the build process, the manufacturing status can also be retrieved on a mobile device, independent of location.
GM CEO confirms plans to build Chevy or GMC electric pickup truck
Green Car Reports
APRIL 30, 2019
General Motors CEO Mary Barra confirmed Tuesday in a call with investors what rumors had long predicted: The automaker will build an electric pickup. Barra didn't specify when the pickup would appear, or whether it would be branded as a GMC or Chevrolet. Rumors swirled earlier this year that GM may invest in EV startup Rivian, but that never. Pickups General Motors
Ford adds 2nd North American site to build BEVs
Green Car Congress
MARCH 21, 2019
The plant investment also includes funding to build the next-generation Mustang and is part of a $900-million investment in Ford’s operations in southeastern Michigan. Ford also announced it is building its next-generation North American Transit Connect small commercial and passenger van in Mexico, starting in 2021. This builds on Ford’s recent announcements to exit the heavy truck business in Brazil, restructure its operations in Europe and improve results in China.
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