Green Car Congress

NOVEMBER 9, 2012

Ford began production of the 2013 C-MAX Energi plug-in hybrid vehicle ( earlier post ) at Michigan Assembly in October, and the vehicles are heading for showrooms. A 240-volt station for home use and made by Leviton is available for purchase through a collaboration between Ford and the retailer Best Buy. Click to enlarge.

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Green Car Congress

AUGUST 28, 2013

Toyota’s next-generation Prius will deliver significantly improved fuel economy in a more compact package that is lighter in weight and lower in cost, according to Toyota Motor Corporation (TMC) Managing Officer Satoshi Ogiso. To truly have an effect, our industry must develop a diverse array of products that consumers are willing to buy.

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Blink Charging

NOVEMBER 2, 2023

The expansion of battery manufacturing facilities in states like Kentucky, Tennessee, Georgia, and Michigan will significantly boost North America’s battery production capacity, increasing from 55 Gigawatt-hours per year in 2021 to nearly 1,000 GWh/year by 2030. By keeping these manufacturing jobs in the U.S.,

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The Truth About Cars

MAY 11, 2023

Alfa Romeo has likewise been talking a big game about going all-electric, making me wonder how their holdover combustion vehicles are going to fare when nobody running the business wants you to buy them. Fuel economy is said to be 29 mpg on the highway and 23 around town. I am only human.)

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Green Car Congress

AUGUST 26, 2009

Greater Long Island Clean Cities Coalition’s Long Island Regional Energy Collaborative Promoting a Green Economy through Clean Alternatives. Clean Energy Coalition’s CEC Michigan Green Fleets Initiative. The project will increase the use of natural gas, electric and hybrid electric vehicles in 13 sites throughout Michigan.

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Teslarati

SEPTEMBER 25, 2023

President Joe Biden’s plans to visit Michigan in support of the strikes on Tuesday. billion battery manufacturing plant in Michigan, as detailed in a Monday afternoon report from Reuters. Just wanting enough money to pay my bills, buy groceries, and have enough for extras like taking my kid to the jump park.”–

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Cars That Think

JANUARY 28, 2023

A Pew Research Center survey taken in late 2021 of seventeen countries with advanced economies indicated that 80 percent of those surveyed were willing to alter how then live and work to combat climate change. The answer is perhaps some, but maybe not too much. He notes, “You must achieve all the goals, or you don’t win.

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Green Car Congress

JUNE 14, 2010

If we can again succeed like that, in a decade, we’ll look back and know that we got a great deal: safer, healthier, better lives, an economy no longer held hostage to petro-dictatorships and blindered, monopolistic companies, and a significant response to climate change. It’s under the hoods of the 250 million vehicles we drive today.

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The Truth About Cars

JULY 17, 2023

Safety standards have required the implementation of systems that often won’t fit into older/smaller designs and loopholes in the Corporate Average Fuel Economy (CAFE) standards have resulted in manufacturers sizing up models to exploit regulatory blind spots. This basically spelled the end of traditional economy cars on the market.

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Green Car Congress

FEBRUARY 19, 2009

Dr. Patil has an undergraduate degree from IIT, Bombay (India) and a PhD in Aerospace Engineering from the University of Michigan, Ann Arbor. power providers) to buy the battery and lease them to the customer we can make the lease payment very attractive in the end. (GM plans to handle module and pack assembly itself, earlier post.)

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Creative Greenius

JANUARY 19, 2009

Because they were so busy scamming people into buying planet-killing Hummers, Expeditions, Tahoes, Suburbans and other “the joke is on us&# vehicles, they ran their own business into the ground. All I ever heard them do was badmouth the small Honda car I drive and complain about CAFE fuel economy standards. Guess what?

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Green Car Congress

NOVEMBER 13, 2013

Dr. Huei Peng, Professor of Mechanical Engineering at the University of Michigan and the US Director of the US-China Clean Energy Research Center-Clean Vehicle Consortium, provided the predominantly Chinese audience at the SAE New Energy Vehicle Forum with a perspective on development efforts in the US. Zhixin Wu. A perspective on the US.

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Cars That Think

JANUARY 7, 2023

“Public policy implementation is hard even if everyone supports a policy,” says University of Michigan professor emeritus John Leslie King , who has studied policy management and administration for decades. economy away from dependence on fossil fuels like petroleum, coal and natural gas to 100 percent carbon-free electricity by 2035.

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Plug In Partners

AUGUST 25, 2008

We can do this,” he vowed in Michigan, the nation’s car capital, promising to spend $150 billion over 10 years on the effort. The plans include a $ 7,000 tax credit to drivers who buy advanced-technology vehicles and $4 billion in direct assistance to Detroit automakers to help them build hybrid vehicles in the U.S. “I

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Tony Karrer Delicious EVdriven

APRIL 19, 2009

When the world economy starts to grow again, all countries, and especially China and the U.S., More Most Popular Most Read Most Commented Editors Picks Obama: How to get business going More Is it time to buy American Express? Economic growth requires energy. will be competing for the same finite supplies of oil and gas.

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Tony Karrer Delicious EVdriven

APRIL 21, 2009

People will likely not buy plug-ins without big federal tax breaks." ( Reuters ) 11/29/06 [In response to GMs announcement at the LA Auto Show], Ford Group marketing manager Cisco Codina said the answer for now is full hybrids, like the latest version of its Ford Escape hybrid SUV unveiled at the show. ( People wont buy a full car.

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Tony Karrer Delicious EVdriven

APRIL 16, 2009

More from Fortune No party for Citis owners: You and me Is it time to buy American Express? Wang entered the automobile business in 2003 by buying a Chinese state-owned car company that was all but defunct. Berkshire Hathaway first tried to buy 25% of BYD, but Wang turned down the offer. " One more thing reassured him.

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Tony Karrer Delicious EVdriven

APRIL 22, 2009

Based in Watertown, Massachusetts, A123Systems has announced plans for a Michigan-based production facility. market share, the third-largest nameplate in Canada, unsurpassed 25 highway mile per gallon fuel economy and sales in more than 80 countries. About Chrysler LLC Chrysler LLC, headquartered in Auburn Hills, Mich.,

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Tony Karrer Delicious EVdriven

APRIL 28, 2009

It is aggressively in talks with Portland General Electric Plug-In Charging Stations , ( POR ) and other states including Michigan, and California that are scrambling to offer incentives. Duh, heres our $40K volt, buy it please? The first law of technology: "Never buy anything with a low serial number."

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EV Match

AUGUST 29, 2022

billion to add more than 6,000 union jobs at plants across Michigan, Ohio and Missouri, all part of Ford’s plan to up its EV sales numbers to 2 million a year, worldwide, by the end of 2026.

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Charged EVs

MAY 18, 2021

The reinvigoration of the body of interrelated federal and state fuel economy and emissions regulations will have major implications for the auto industry and the environment. If they know that the big companies, the ones in Michigan, are not going to object, or we’re splitting them, it will change how they come out with their rules.

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Charged EVs

SEPTEMBER 22, 2022

Like fuel economy standards, the new tax credit regime can be seen as a “technology-forcing” regulation. Likewise, the point of the new price targets and Buy American provisions isn’t to single out certain automakers for punishment, but rather to force all automakers to offer cheaper EVs, and to localize and clean up their supply chains.

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Green Car Congress

APRIL 10, 2010

A limit was imposed on emissions from the power plants, and utilities were allowed to buy and sell permits to comply. The three lawmakers plan to introduce legislation next month that would apply different carbon controls to individual sectors of the economy instead of setting a national target. Senators Lindsey Graham (R-S.C.),

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Baua Electric

SEPTEMBER 24, 2023

It can be unavoidable that order and federal officers would discuss with wooden strains and rallies, as they’ve in Michigan and Ohio, to turn their help for placing union contributors. The political elegance in Washington already inserted itself into automaker product making plans and buying with a swath of EV incentives and law.

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