Green Car Congress

OCTOBER 1, 2013

XL Hybrids’ third-generation inline post transmission motor and system components. XL Hybrids, Inc., developer of a low-cost hybrid electric powertrain designed specifically for class 1 to 4 commercial fleet use ( earlier post ), unveiled its third-generation XL3 product release for model year 2014 vehicles. Click to enlarge.

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Green Car Congress

MARCH 5, 2014

UPS plans to purchase 1,000 propane package delivery trucks and install an initial 50 fueling stations at UPS locations. UPS currently operates nearly 900 propane vehicles in Canada. This includes all-electric, hybrid electric, hydraulic hybrid, CNG, LNG, propane, biomethane, and light-weight fuel-saving composite body vehicles.

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Green Car Congress

APRIL 10, 2011

On the heels of announcing it had purchased the first fully electric small delivery vehicles, Canada Post added the first all-electric step vans in Canada to its fleet. Canada Post has the largest delivery fleet in Canada—more than 7,300 vehicles traveling more than 79 million kilometers (49 million miles) a year.

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Green Car Congress

APRIL 25, 2022

Global automotive and industrial supplier Schaeffler has signed a five-year contract with Norwegian company REEtec AS for the purchase of rare earth oxides. The aim is to make electric motors for hybrid modules, hybrid transmissions and all-electric axle drives even more sustainable.

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Green Car Congress

JUNE 20, 2010

Ontario, Canada individuals, businesses, and organizations that purchase or lease a new plug-in hybrid electric or battery electric vehicle after 1 July 2010 may be eligible for a rebate between C$5,000 and C$8,500 (US$4,900-8,300). Rebates will only be made available to the first 10,000 applicants who qualify. Kathleen Wynne.

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Green Car Congress

NOVEMBER 27, 2019

NFI, the parent company of New Flyer Industries Canada ULC and New Flyer of America Inc., We are prepared to deliver a 100 percent battery electric coach that performs the same or better than our current clean diesel, hybrid and CNG models. —Ian Smith, MCI president. MCI will send its D45 CRTe LE CHARGE to Altoona, Pa.,

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Green Car Congress

NOVEMBER 12, 2015

A new Conference Board of Canada report finds that Canada is unlikely to achieve an 80% reduction in greenhouse gas emissions from 1990 levels by 2050. Canada is making progress reducing its GHG emissions and will continue to do so for the next decade. The challenge is that we are not moving fast enough.

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Plug N Drive

MARCH 20, 2024

March 20, 2024, Toronto, Ontario – Plug’n Drive, a non-profit organization dedicated to advancing the adoption of electric vehicles (EVs) across Canada, proudly announces the appointment of Ottawa-based Tracy Walden to the newly-created role of Vice President of Communications.

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Green Car Congress

APRIL 20, 2020

Canada-based NextSource Materials Inc. As announced in October 2018, NextSource signed a 10-year offtake agreement with a prominent Japanese trading company to purchase 20,000 tonnes per year of Molo SuperFlake graphite for use in battery anode applications for electric and hybrid vehicles. Source: NextSource Materials.

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Green Car Congress

SEPTEMBER 16, 2013

Ford Motor Company is installing a new workplace plug-in vehicle charging network at nearly every Ford facility in the US and Canada. Ford employees will be able to charge the all-electric Focus Electric, as well as Ford’s two plug-in hybrids—the Fusion Energi and C-MAX Energi—at the charge stations.

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Baua Electric

APRIL 4, 2024

Ford promises more hybrids but is delaying several key EVs. And will EV sales hold up with the phaseout of incentives in Canada’s EV hotbed? Ford has delayed its next-generation electric pickup and 3-row electric SUV , while stepping up plans to offer hybrids, in a plan detailed Thursday. Are EV rejectors behind the times?

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Green Car Congress

AUGUST 24, 2009

Canadian government programs that offer rebates to hybrid vehicle buyers are failing to produce environmental benefits commensurate with the cost, according to a study by researchers at the University of British Columbia (UBC). If the intention of rebate programs is to replace gas guzzlers with hybrids, they are failing.

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Green Car Congress

NOVEMBER 20, 2018

New York State announced a series of broad-scale initiatives to encourage the purchase and to increase the convenience and accessibility of electric vehicles (EV). Drive Clean Rebate Initiative Supporting the Direct Purchase of 11,000 EVs. To date, more than 11,000 rebates have been approved for New Yorkers to purchase electric cars.

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Green Car Congress

MARCH 8, 2010

According to a new Accenture study of 1,800 consumers in Germany, France, Italy, Canada and the US, while interest in hybrid and electric vehicles may be growing, consumers do not see fuel savings as the only purchasing factor and are demanding more from automakers. More likely to purchase a hybrid in the next two years.

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Green Car Congress

OCTOBER 3, 2011

The HDS 300 features the same benefits as its HDS 200 counterpart, now in service in the US and Canada. The integrated hybrid power system maximizes a fleet owner’s operational budget due to its superior efficiency and low maintenance costs. The traction motor is the sole source of propulsion for the vehicle and is sized accordingly.

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Baua Electric

JULY 25, 2023

Alternative eminent manufacturers additionally posted sturdy performances in June, with Hyundai, Chevrolet and Toyota every delivery greater than 1,000 eligible battery-electric and plug-in hybrid automobiles. The sped up past of ZEV purchases has put Canada on past to destroy its iZEV tally from 2022.

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Baua Electric

MAY 31, 2023

Atlantic Canada’s biggest auto dealership workforce is getting out of the older electrical car trade, bringing up “lack of demand of EVs in the market.” On July 26, 2021, Steele purchased All EV Canada, which shares most effective older EVs — nearly all of them Teslas. Steele Auto Team of Dartmouth, N.S.,

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Green Car Congress

JANUARY 10, 2013

Marubeni Corporation has signed a three-year distributorship agreement for lithium carbonate with Canada Lithium Corp. The Agreement provides for Marubeni to exclusively distribute Canada Lithium’s battery-grade lithium carbonate in Japan.

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Green Car Congress

JULY 9, 2013

Researchers in Canada and the US found that there was a 23% increase in demand for PEVs when buyers of conventional cars were offered a green electricity program together with an electric vehicle. We found that combining, for example, a solar-cell system installation with the sale of a PEV made it a more attractive purchase.

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Green Car Congress

JUNE 4, 2012

Fisker of Montreal, the first Fisker retailer in Québec and the fourth in Canada, was formed by local businessmen Gad Bitton, president of Holand Automotive Group, and Norman Hébert, president and CEO of Groupe Park Avenue. Fisker Automotive will begin selling its extended range electric luxury cars in Montreal, Québec.

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Green Car Congress

OCTOBER 17, 2012

The same hydrogen pipeline also supplies a hydrogen filling station adjacent to the TMS campus used to fuel Toyota’s and other manufacturers fuel cell hybrid vehicle fleets. To mitigate emissions from the reformation process, hydrogen used on Toyota’s campus will be offset with the purchase of landfill generated renewable bio-gas.

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Green Car Congress

AUGUST 26, 2022

Canada-based rare earths processor Neo Performance Materials ( earlier post ) will acquire from Hudson Resources an exploration license covering the Sarfartoq Carbonatite Complex in southwest Greenland. The Sarfartoq Project also is a key element of Neo’s “Magnets-to-Mine” vertical integration strategy.

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Green Car Congress

MARCH 21, 2019

A total of 27 countries—including Sweden, Canada and the United Kingdom—saw the fuel economy of their fleets stagnate or worsen from 2015 to 2017. In advanced economies with fleets which have the worst fuel economy, such as the US and Canada, the average fuel consumption runs between 7.9 per year between 2015 and 2017.

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Green Car Congress

NOVEMBER 21, 2017

The order was supported by the Federal Gas Tax Fund, through which the Government of Canada provides funding for municipal infrastructure, including public transit. With 320 hp / 1,000 lb-ft torque and near-zero NO x , the L9N is very suited for urban transit, refuse, and truck applications. The funds are administered in B.C.

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Plug N Drive

AUGUST 10, 2020

Through this program, Ontario drivers qualify for $1,000 toward the purchase of a used fully electric or plug-in hybrid electric vehicle. The person I bought my EV from was replacing it with a new one, so it not only helped me make my purchase, it also helped the EV market gain momentum.”. Brigham Foundation.

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Green Car Congress

FEBRUARY 6, 2018

Thirty-seven percent of Southeast Asian consumers planning to buy a car are open to purchasing an electric vehicle, according to a Nissan-commissioned study by Frost & Sullivan. Across the region, two out of three consumers identified safety standards as the most important factor if purchasing an electric vehicle.

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Green Car Congress

JUNE 19, 2018

in Vancouver, Canada, and Tamworth, United Kingdom. The initiative will help UPS reach its 2020 goal of one in four new vehicles purchased being an alternative fuel or advanced technology vehicle. UPS currently operates more than 50 natural gas fueling stations strategically located across the US, and, outside the U.S.

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Green Car Congress

JUNE 22, 2011

EV Connect has entered into an exclusive services agreement with Fisker Automotive, makers of the Karma premium plug-in hybrid. EV Connect’s automated system is fully integrated with Fisker Automotive’s CRM solution, jumpstarting the EVSE purchase order at the retailer.

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Green Car Congress

MARCH 30, 2011

That’s why we’ve already doubled the number of alternative vehicles in the federal fleet, and that’s why, today, I am directing agencies to purchase 100% alternative fuel, hybrid, or electric vehicles by 2015. The fleet of cars and trucks we use in the federal government is one of the largest in the country. —President Obama.

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Green Car Congress

AUGUST 21, 2017

Canada-based GreenPower Motor Company ( earlier post ) and its California factory direct dealer, School Bus Sales of California, have secured commitments for eleven batteery-electric Synapse 72 school buses from six different school districts in South Coast and North Coast California districts. Synapse Shuttle.

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Green Car Congress

DECEMBER 9, 2010

As a result, the UL Recognized components are now available for use in charging stations and vehicle-side charging applications in the US and Canada. The focus groups comprised current hybrid vehicle owners interested in purchasing an EV or PHEV as their next vehicle.

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Baua Electric

APRIL 19, 2024

It’s all organized by Plug In America, the Sierra Club, the Electric Vehicle Association, EV Hybrid Noire, and Drive Electric USA. This month, there are 180 events registered across the US and 2 in Canada (including one online webinar about things to consider when purchasing an EV ).

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Green Car Congress

JULY 15, 2009

The government of Ontario (Canada) is targeting a vehicle parc with one out of every 20 vehicles (5%) having electric drive by the year 2020 ( “1 in 20 by 2020” ). The high-end of the rebate would be the highest in Canada and amongst the highest in the world. Tags: Canada Plug-ins Policy. Earlier post.).

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Plug N Drive

JANUARY 23, 2020

The Scrappage Incentive is in addition to the Used EV Incentive program that launched in April 2019, which provides $1,000 off the purchase of a used fully electric or plug-in hybrid electric car. The Scrappage Incentive program is delivered through a partnership between Plug’n Drive and the Automotive Recyclers of Canada (ARC).

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The Truth About Cars

JANUARY 29, 2024

& While the EU does tend to lump plug-in hybrids into EV sales tabulations, the region is still outpacing the United States and Canada in terms of both PHEV and BEV volumes. Electric automobiles tend to be purchased by wealthier individuals as a secondary vehicle and (with notable exceptions) trade at much higher prices.

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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. Customers will also be able to purchase the Polestar 1 outright if desired. The European debut follows its global media reveal in Shanghai, China, in late 2017. Earlier post.).

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Teslarati

APRIL 5, 2022

In 2022, Chrysler Pacifica Plug-In Hybrid EVs and Volkswagen ID.4 billion lithium-ion battery factory in Canada with LG Energy Solution in late March. In 2021, Hyundai issued another recall for the Kona and one for the Ioniq. 4 vehicles utilizing LGES cells were issued recalls.

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