Green Car Congress

JULY 8, 2014

Powertrain of the Volvo XC90 Twin Engine PHEV. For the all-new XC90 seven-seater, the top of the range “Twin Engine” will be a plug-in hybrid (PHEV) and carry a T8 badge. Engines Hybrids Plug-ins' The battery pack is located in the center of the vehicle. Click to enlarge. Earlier post.). Click to enlarge.

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Green Car Congress

MARCH 27, 2013

Mitsubishi Motors reported two separate incidents with Li-ion battery packs: one, a fire in a i-MiEV battery pack at the Mizushima battery pack assembly plant; the other, heating and melting in a pack installed in an Outlander plug-in hybrid electric vehicle. Earlier post.).

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Green Car Congress

MAY 17, 2015

With the 2016 XC90 ( earlier post ) heading to dealerships across the US, Volvo Cars gave media an opportunity to experience the next generation of its full-size luxury SUV—in both its conventional T6 and plug-in hybrid T8 Drive-E Twin Engine forms—in and around Los Angeles. Luxury plug-in hybrid SUVs coming to US market.

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Green Car Congress

AUGUST 19, 2021

Owners’ ability to recharge their vehicle’s battery is a key factor in the broader adoption of EVs, particularly among those who can’t install a private home charger or don’t have access to residential charging, such as city dwellers who reside in multiple-occupancy buildings.

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Green Car Congress

JANUARY 20, 2011

Mitsubishi Motors Corporation (MMC) plans to introduce eight hybrid (HEV), plug-in hybrid (PHEV), and battery-powered (BEV) models by fiscal year 2015 in anticipation that demand for low-carbon, fuel-efficient automobiles will expand worldwide. The vehicle is expected to carry a MSRP of $29,995 before taxes and incentives.

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Green Car Congress

OCTOBER 26, 2009

Rendering of the Gen 2 series plug-in hybrid powertrain under development. A Bloomfield, Michigan startup is developing light- and medium-duty series plug-in hybrid electric vehicle powertrain systems—initially as conversions, but ultimately extending to an OEM basis. Gen1 System installed in a Crown Vic. Source: ALTe.

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Green Car Congress

AUGUST 5, 2014

Separately, Audi of America, also part of the larger Volkswagen Group, also announced its own carbon offset program for the Audi A3 Sportback e-tron plug-in hybrid (PHEV) ( earlier post ) with 3Degrees, as well as SunPower and Bosch partnerships. Volkswagen of America, Inc. 3Degrees and carbon offsets.

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Green Car Congress

APRIL 19, 2010

A new market study from ABI Research, “ Plug-in Vehicle Infrastructures ” projects a fast-growing market for charging station infrastructure, with worldwide revenues reaching $11.75 billion for the installation of 3 million charging stations by 2015, up from just over 20,000 stations installed in 2010.

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Green Car Congress

MAY 30, 2014

and Mitsubishi Motors Corporation have jointly established a new company, Nippon Charge Service, LLC, to promote the installation of chargers for plug-in electric vehicles (PHVs, PHEVs, EVs). The goal is to help build a charging network that offers more convenience to drivers in Japan. Honda Motor Co.,

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Green Car Congress

OCTOBER 23, 2009

As one of the speakers put it to the attendees, the bulk of which came from Southeast Michigan, plug-in vehicles will a major career path for most of the people in the room. “I’m very encouraged that carmakers now see as allies the utilities, plug-in advocates, community and regional efforts like ProjectGetReady.”

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Green Car Congress

MARCH 8, 2018

Polestar, Volvo Cars’ new electric performance brand, introduced the Polestar 1 plug-in hybrid to the public for the first time at the Geneva Motor Show. The European debut follows its global media reveal in Shanghai, China, in late 2017. Earlier post.). Two electric motors drive the rear wheels. —Thomas Ingenlath.

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Green Car Congress

JULY 5, 2012

The government of China—now the world’s largest automotive market—has made vehicle electrification central to its plan for growing the automotive market both domestically and internationally, and accordingly has created many national and local incentives for plug-in electric vehicle (PEV) purchases. Source: Pike Research.

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Baua Electric

FEBRUARY 2, 2024

EVs, PHEVs, and hybrids made up 16.3% higher than in 2022, when hybrid, plug-in hybrid, and BEV sales made up 12.9% The second half of 2023 saw the highest share of hybrids, plug-in hybrids, and BEVs of total LDV sales at 17.9%. of total light-duty vehicle (LDV) sales in the US in 2023 – Tesla’s price cuts were a big reason.

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Green Car Congress

DECEMBER 26, 2009

Toyota Industries Corp (TIC) has developed a solar charging station for plug-in hybrid vehicles (PHVs) and electric vehicles (EVs). The municipal government of Toyota City, Aichi Prefecture plans to build 21 such stations at 11 locations such as the municipal office and branch offices. kW solar panel in an 8.4 kW solar panel in an 8.4

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Blink Charging

JUNE 13, 2023

But it’s not just private businesses that are installing EV charging infrastructure. Why Install EV Charging? As Andrew Light points out, installing EV charging stations can provide municipal employees with real-world experience to help them answer questions and conduct outreach and education for local residents.

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Green Car Congress

NOVEMBER 29, 2017

The new powertrain line—the EDI PowerDrive 8000—will be available in the first half of 2018 in both all electric and plug-in hybrid form factors (PHEV). To speed market introductions, EDI can also install the powertrain systems and perform vehicle integration as a service for OEMs.

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EV Adoption

SEPTEMBER 19, 2021

To install 4-180 kW chargers can easily cost roughly $500,000-$800,000 depending on the hardware chosen. The intent of this article is not to debate whether taxpayer money should be used to build out EV charging infrastructure, but rather ask: “What is the best use and return on the investment of taxpayer dollars?”.

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Green Car Congress

SEPTEMBER 12, 2011

trafficThis scenario is currently less desirable to automotive manufacturers, but provides an additional resource benefit to PHEV/BEVs by theoretically doubling their capacity value to the grid. V2GFull varies not only the charging of the vehicle battery, but also can vary the discharging of the battery back into the power grid.

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Green Car Congress

OCTOBER 2, 2009

Jean-Louis Borloo, France’s Minister for Ecology, Energy, Sustainable Development and the Sea, presented a national 14-point plan designed to accelerate the development and subsequent commercialization of electric vehicles and plug-in hybrids in France. Supporting the installation of charging systems in condominiums. billion (US$2.2

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Green Car Congress

FEBRUARY 25, 2009

Rocky Mountain Institute (RMI) launched Project Get Ready , an initiative that emerged from its Smart Garage Summit in October 2008 and that is intended to help communities prepare for plug-in vehicles including full battery electric, plug-in hybrid electric, and converted hybrid or internal combustion vehicles.

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Green Car Congress

NOVEMBER 2, 2015

More than two and one-half years after the car was first announced ( earlier post ) and more than one year after sales began in Germany and Central Europe ( earlier post ), the US-spec version of the Audi A3 Sportback e-tron plug-in hybrid will begin arriving in US showrooms in the next few weeks. seconds—comparable to the 7.4

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Green Car Congress

OCTOBER 31, 2014

Consumer benefit and new vehicle share for US states with largest total battery electric and plug-in hybrid electric incentives. Total benefit and electric vehicle sales share for the ten states with the highest sales share of BEVs and PHEVs. Source: ICCT. Click to enlarge. Source: ICCT. Click to enlarge.

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Blink Charging

DECEMBER 14, 2023

Convenience stores, fuel stations, and truck stops are essential to building range confidence among EV drivers. In addition, Blink recommends having at least one L2 charger to accommodate plug-in hybrid electric vehicles (PHEVs) and older EVs that cannot use DCFCs to charge.

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Blink Charging

JUNE 13, 2023

But it’s not just private businesses that are installing EV charging infrastructure. Why Install EV Charging? As Andrew Light points out, installing EV charging stations can provide municipal employees with real-world experience to help them answer questions and conduct outreach and education for local residents.

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Green Car Congress

JULY 15, 2014

USABC is a consortium participated by the US Department of Energy and top three US carmakers of GM, Ford and Chrysler aimed at developing high performance batteries to be installed in electric cars and hybrid cars. Earlier post.) Earlier post.) In 2012, however, the partners announced they were disbanding the joint venture. Earlier post.)

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EV Central

DECEMBER 13, 2022

Most plug-in hybrids – PHEVs – are marketed as almost-EVs. The new Mercedes-AMG C63 S E Performance isn’t this sort of PHEV. The new Mercedes-AMG C63 S E Performance isn’t this sort of PHEV. So the new one has a turbo four-cylinder engine teamed with plug-in hybrid tech.

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Green Car Congress

MAY 22, 2013

The National Academies has issued a pre-publication version of an interim report on Overcoming Barriers to Electric-Vehicle Deployment. A final, comprehensive report will be published in late summer 2014. It also begins an initial discussion of the pros and cons of the possible roles.

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Green Car Congress

FEBRUARY 10, 2015

Volkswagen of America will invest $10 million by 2016 to support the build-out of electric vehicle charging infrastructure in the US, said Jörg Sommer, vice president, product marketing and strategy. Volkswagen will also invest to support installation of charging stations in certain dealer locations. Earlier post.) Earlier post.)

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Green Car Congress

MAY 29, 2014

Eight partnering states released their Multi-State ZEV Action Plan as the first promised milestone for the bi-coastal collaboration to pave the way for increasingly large numbers of zero emission vehicles: plug-in hybrid electric vehicles (PHEVs), battery electric vehicles (BEVs), and hydrogen-powered fuel cell electric vehicles (FCEVs).

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Green Car Congress

JANUARY 13, 2012

The XC60 Plug-in Hybrid Concept was introduced at the Detroit Auto Show. The direction for the US was underscored by the unveiling of the XC60 gasoline-electric Plug-in Hybrid Concept at the show. The engine in the XC60 Plug-in Hybrid Concept has no conventional starter motor or alternator. Click to enlarge. Earlier post.)

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Green Car Congress

JUNE 26, 2018

eMobility is poised to capitalize on a global vehicle electrification market projected to grow to 15 million pure battery-electric vehicles and another 30 million hybrids, from mild to plug-in, by 2030. Customers using Eaton hybrid systems have collectively accumulated an estimated 2 billion miles of clean, reliable service.

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Green Car Congress

FEBRUARY 7, 2013

The Action Plan details concrete actions that state agencies are taking to help accelerate the market for plug-in electric vehicles and fuel cell electric vehicles. Make it easier to locate and install public PEV infrastructure. The Governor’s Executive Order specifically directs collaboration with these two organizations.

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Green Car Congress

AUGUST 6, 2013

Currently, SCE customers lease or own more than 12,000 plug-in electric vehicles (PEVs), both battery electric (BEVs, for about 35%) and plug-in hybrids (PHEVs, for about 65%)—about 10% of national EV sales. We’re finding a very low incidence of infrastructure upgrade required because of plug-ins. Click to enlarge.

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Green Car Congress

JULY 17, 2015

The PHEV (Plug-in Hybrid Electric Vehicle), a subset of the electric car, combines a primary electric motor with a much smaller back-up engine fueled with a hydrocarbon/biofuel mix. (In In this paper PHEV refers solely to the long-range PHEV of 60 miles (100 km) electric-only range.) It is much more than that.

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Green Car Congress

SEPTEMBER 13, 2014

The 70 Toyota vehicles will be available for short city trips in 27 charging stations installed and operated by Sodetrel—including for one-way trips from one station to another. A total of 120 charging points for the project and 41 for other plug-in vehicles will be added to the city’s transport infrastructure. Click to enlarge.

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Blink Charging

FEBRUARY 9, 2023

According to the Bureau of Transportation Statistics , electric vehicle sales, including plug-in hybrid electric (PHEV) and battery electric vehicles (BEV), increased from just over 17,000 in 2011 to 632,883 in 2021. How many EV chargers are currently installed in the United States? In fact, BEVs accounted for 3.2%

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Green Car Congress

MARCH 15, 2017

This Consent Decree is intended to fully mitigate the calculated environmental harm done by VW’s 2.0L diesel cars. There are four elements of the Consent Decree, each described in a separate appendix. VW will implement these investments in four $200 million 30-month cycles. VW California ZEV Investment Plan: Cycle 1.

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