Green Cars News

JUNE 30, 2009

It was a clear winner in our poll to determine the ‘Green Car Manufacturer of the Year’ in 2008 – but 2009 has been much more difficult for Toyota. The Prius came under fire in The Washington Post , which openly questioned its manufacturing process as explained in our article ‘ Could the Prius be harmful to the environment? ’.

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Plug In Partners

JANUARY 11, 2008

E ven as the President of Honda says he doesn't think that Plug-ins make sense, a new car company in China announces their plans to build one and Hyundai says it is considering developing a plug-in hybrid car. Tags: manufacturers. But the real win is to plug these cars into renewable energy sources like wind and solar.

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Green Cars News

AUGUST 4, 2009

It seems a spark is needed to get us back to the showrooms – so are the leading manufacturers right to put their faith in green cars? Honda too has pinned its recovery hopes on green cars, pushing both hybrid and hydrogen fuel cell technology. Averting a slump. However, the company’s bright spark remains its green efforts.

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Green Cars News

JULY 9, 2009

However, just how wise is this move with no guarantee yet that the manufacturers will earn a return on their investment? However, manufacturers have not yet been able to develop a battery pack that costs less than $20,000-$30,000 and that is why electric vehicle price tags continue to approach $50,000.

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Green Cars News

SEPTEMBER 9, 2009

Korean car manufacturer Kia is the latest carmaker to add their weight behind a joint ‘Letter of Understanding’ being sent out to governments, energy companies and other organisations to develop accessible hydrogen infrastructure for future fuel cell electric vehicles.

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Green Cars News

JUNE 28, 2009

It may want to develop green cars, but Toyota’s manufacturing plans could mean the destruction of some of Japan’s famous rice paddies. It wants to build a research centre there to fine-tune its vehicles. Tags: Green cars Green credentials Latest news Toyota Japanese rice paddies Toyota Prius.

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Green Cars News

JULY 3, 2009

This failure, it believes, has prompted US car manufacturers to lose market share to foreign rivals and particularly those from Japan such as Toyota and Honda. Tags: Green cars Latest news auto industry profits gas prices petrol prices US auto industry. It could be argued then that America is still drunk on cheap gasoline.

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Clean Fleet Report

OCTOBER 21, 2021

Tesla is described as disruptive technology, but in reality the company has done what auto companies have done for a little more than a century—build great cars and match them up with owners who appreciate them. Now on the market is the second generation Mirai , a fuel-cell sedan with a 350-mile range and a $57,000 price tag.

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Green Car Congress

JUNE 19, 2009

Honda’s Clarity, with 350 bar compressed gas storage is achieving a 280-mile range, and the 2009 Toyota FCHV using 700 bar storage has a state range of 480 miles (on the 10-15 cycle). million to build a hydrogen fueling station that could support 1,500 FCVs, or $1,500 per vehicle. gallon of gasoline in today’s vehicles.

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Green Cars News

SEPTEMBER 15, 2009

Director at the ETA, Andrew Davis, said: “Car makers can build green cars, but they need us to buy them. Manufacturer/ranking 2007/ Average CO2 in 2008(g/km). Honda / 6 / 154. Tags: Green credentials drivers ETA Europe green credentials. VW Passat). Latvia / 181 / 183. Ranking in 2008. Fiat/ 2/ 138. Ford / 8 / 152.

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Green Car Congress

APRIL 30, 2010

ARPA-E’s first solicitation awarded $151 million to 37 projects aimed at transformational innovations in energy storage, biofuels, carbon capture, renewable power, building efficiency, vehicles, and other areas. will lead an effort to develop ultra-high energy low cost lithium-ion batteries enabled by disruptive new manufacturing processes.

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Green Cars News

NOVEMBER 2, 2009

In last week’s edition of The Green Piece Column, we looked at the leaders in the green car race including the likes of Toyota, Honda, Volkswagen and Nissan. Tags: Electric cars Latest news NICE Car Company Tata Tesla Motors The Green Piece axiam mega BYD Auto Fisker green piece Tesla Roadster. Tesla Motors. Fisker Automotive.

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Green Cars News

SEPTEMBER 8, 2009

The company was created from the old GM’s strongest operations and was reborn with a clear focus on building better and more environmentally friendly vehicles. Tags: Chevrolet Electric cars The Green Piece general motors GM green piece. How GM hopes to recover. Faye Sunderland.

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Green Cars News

AUGUST 26, 2009

Answer: SMMT has members from all across the industry including electric commercial vehicle manufacturers such as Tanfield and Modec. The UK has the opportunity to be at the heart of the low-carbon agenda and to take the lead in ensuring that our manufacturing base is well placed to take advantage of the upturn when it comes.

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The Truth About Cars

APRIL 24, 2023

By the second half of the 1950s, sales of small European cars in North America—mostly Volkswagen Beetles but also machinery from Britain , France and Italy —had grown large enough to alarm American manufacturers. By the 1950s, however, small manufacturers were being crushed by GM, Ford and Chrysler.

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Green Cars News

SEPTEMBER 29, 2009

He went on to state that it is “not enough to build niche vehicles that only a few can afford to buy or fulfil only a small subset of customer needs.”. In October 2007, Honda Motor Company Chief Executive Takeo Fukui said plug-in technology offered too few environmental benefits to be worth pursuing by the Japanese manufacturer.

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Tony Karrer Delicious EVdriven

JANUARY 15, 2009

Honda Civic :Mike Chanceys conversion. Honda EV+ :Life with the new Honda EV. GM/SaturnEV-1 : Join Kris Trexler on his "ChargeAcross America" GM/SaturnEV-1 : Peter Ohlers new EV. HondaAccord : Bob Taylors conversion. HondaCRX : Chris sold his CRX and got an EV-1. Battery chargers and DC/DC converters.

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Green Car Congress

FEBRUARY 24, 2010

Pike identifies five automakers as leaders in FCVs: Daimler AG, Honda, General Motors, Hyundai, and Toyota. These manufacturers are currently operating the largest fleets of FCVs and have done so the longest. Tags: Brief. Dave Hurst, Pike Research. billion annually by 2020.

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Tony Karrer Delicious EVdriven

APRIL 19, 2009

So far, Asian manufacturers are leaving U.S. auto manufacturers. Battery technology has been the domain of consumer electronics manufacturers, and that industry migrated out of America decades ago. There is a model that may point to the way to build a new battery industry: the early days of the microprocessor. government.

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Revenge of the Electric Car

JULY 14, 2009

Some think Nissan is taking a gamble by rapidly moving into mass marketing of EVs, comparing the company’s approach to Toyota and Honda’s approach of “wait and see how the market materializes for EVs, then jump in.&# I think it’s Toyota and Honda that are doing the gambling. manufacturing complex.

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Tony Karrer Delicious EVdriven

APRIL 19, 2009

Exclusive rights are granted to Harman Becker to manufacture the latest technology solutions for the worldwide vehicle OEM market. Lotus Engineering, which has over twenty years of experience in Active Noise Control technologies will assist manufacturers with system performance optimisation. "We

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Green Car Congress

NOVEMBER 18, 2010

Hyundai is also only one of four global car manufacturers building their own unique six-speed automatic transmissions. kg) lighter than the five-speed automatic found in Honda Civic. Tags: Engines Fuel Efficiency. Hyundai now has its own six-speed automatic transmissions in its small, medium and large FWD cars.

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Green Cars News

SEPTEMBER 18, 2009

Open source allows multiple manufacturers to cooperate in developing not just the standards but critically the entire supply chain. Our service also bundles the fuel, so we have a direct interest in reducing consumption, whereas manufacturers who sell cars have no direct financial concern about this.

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Tony Karrer Delicious EVdriven

APRIL 16, 2009

Corporate Average Fuel Economy (CAFE) rules are, as the name implies, based on an average fuel economy of all the vehicles a manufacturer sells. The carmaker recently announced a deal with battery maker A123 Systems to manufacture lithium-ion battery packs for the full line of electric-powered cars Chrysler hopes to make.

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Tony Karrer Delicious EVdriven

JANUARY 28, 2009

Warranty: In performing some of these modifications you may void your warranty with the vehicles manufacturer. Full , Mild , Weak , Series, Parallel, Series-Parallel, The Honda configuration such as that in the Insight is a Parallel system, in that the ICE and Motor contribute motive power in parallel. Tags: ev evdriven.

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Green Car Congress

NOVEMBER 19, 2010

Car manufacturers: BMW AG, Daimler AG, Ford, General Motors LLC, Honda R&D, Hyundai Motor Company, Kia Motors Corporation, Nissan, Renault, Toyota Motor Corporation, Volkswagen. Equipment car manufacturers : Intelligent Energy Holdings plc, Powertech. Medium- or heavy-duty vehicles were not included. Total Raffinage Marketing.

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EV Central

NOVEMBER 25, 2022

5 million government grant was awarded in the 2020/2021 budget to help set up Adelaide-based manufacturing facilities. BYD – Chinese car maker (the name means Build Your Dreams) has huge plans for Australia, including a range of SUVs and a sports sedan. Arriving 2022. It could kick off with a sleek electric ute.

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Green Cars News

SEPTEMBER 1, 2009

Those were the words of Henry Li, head of Build Your Dreams (BYD) Auto’s export and trade division, as he spoke about the staggering growth of his company which launched one of China’s first electric saloon cars earlier this year. “We are not trying to save the world, we are making money.”. Now, BYD is set to conquer America. Our verdict.

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Revenge of the Electric Car

OCTOBER 25, 2008

The biggest obstacle for those who would prefer an alternative has been lack of purchasable plug-in electric vehicles since 2003 when auto manufacturers ceased production of plug-in EVs like the GM EV1, Honda EV Plus, and Toyota RAV4-EV. A 500-unit, limited-production MINI E series will be manufactured through the end of 2008.

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Tony Karrer Delicious EVdriven

APRIL 21, 2009

Small long-term evaluation program, including modeling of vehicle-to-grid building benefits and economics, begun with Southern California Edison, joined by EPRI, other utilities, US DOE. 2010 Prius designed to be manufactured with NiMH or Lithium batteries. 10/23/07 Honda Motor Co. Establishing dealer network.

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Tony Karrer Delicious EVdriven

APRIL 20, 2009

Neutral catachip @ Apr 19th 2009 4:29PM Now only if electronics manufacturers could do the same thing. I imagine there will be tax incentives to build green generators when were at that stage. There are a few phone manufacturers that havent switched yet. They will have to access how much it will cost them to switch.

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Tony Karrer Delicious EVdriven

APRIL 28, 2009

Subscribe Green News Events Manufacturers Region New Cars Used Cars Filed under: EV/Plug-in , Chrysler , Dodge , AutoblogGreen Exclusive , SAE World Congress Dodge Circuit EV First Drive: electric car makes grand promises on Earth Day by Sebastian Blanco on Apr 22nd 2009 at 7:48PM Two months ago we went for a ride in the Dodge Circuit EV.

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Tony Karrer Delicious EVdriven

APRIL 21, 2009

is hoping to launch the Volt in late 2010 with a price tag of about $40,000. People are scared that they’ll get stuck and have no way of charging the batteries, hey I have an idea why not build a wind turbine on the roof that way as you drive the turbine spins and charges the battery. — Tony 11. — Sean 13.

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Tony Karrer Delicious EVdriven

APRIL 22, 2009

Subscribe Green News Events Manufacturers Region New Cars Used Cars Filed under: EV/Plug-in , Chrysler Chrysler unveils new electric minivan for the US Postal Service by Sam Abuelsamid on Apr 22nd 2009 at 10:05AM Chrysler U.S. Line breaks and paragraphs are automatically converted — no need to use or tags. Follow us on Twitter!

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Tony Karrer Delicious EVdriven

APRIL 28, 2009

Price tag: about $25,000, made from 95% recyclable materials with a top speed of 65 miles per hour and range of 110 miles per charge. Kulongoski, Oregon as the electric-car manufacturer may be eyeing the “green” city of Portland. The Renault-Nissan Alliance is building fleet charging stations in Portland and Phoenix.

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Tony Karrer Delicious EVdriven

APRIL 21, 2009

Cheap to run but expensive to buy, they offer theprospect of low or zero carbon emissions, but manufacturers won’t sell themunless motorists want to buy them – and motorists won’t buy unless the priceis right and there are enough places to charge the batteries. Tags: evdriven. VAT number GB 243 8054 69.

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Tony Karrer Delicious EVdriven

APRIL 16, 2009

It is thought that the cars that Renault is building to function with the Better Place model will have the ability to have its power supply swapped and the newly announced Tesla Model S is said to also incorporate this concept. Like shopping malls for example, or very nearly any manufacturer or industrial consumer.

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