Green Car Reports

MAY 24, 2019

Audi on Thursday announced a dramatic expansion of its plans to develop electric and plug-in cars.

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Green Car Reports

DECEMBER 18, 2014

The environmental impact of plug-in electric cars continues to be the subject of significant discussion and debate among those less familiar with the technology and its impacts.

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Green Car Reports

NOVEMBER 6, 2017

When electric cars first arrived in 2011, it was a reasonable question: Aren't you just shifting emissions from the tailpipe to the smokestack? It's not.

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Green Car Congress

SEPTEMBER 29, 2017

Cuomo announced that the state has seen a 74% increase in electric car sales over the same time period last year, resulting from the Drive Clean Rebate initiative launched on 21 March 2017. The Drive Clean Rebate provides New York residents with a rebate of up to $2,000 for the purchase of a new plug-in car from participating dealers.

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Green Car Reports

OCTOBER 17, 2019

As Volvo sees it, plug-in hybrids are the path toward achieving one of its high-aiming carbon-reduction goals—making fully electric cars half of its sales by 2025. But it also knows that plug-in. To do so, the automaker plans to nudge its portion of PHEVs in the U.S.

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Green Car Congress

MAY 13, 2019

Daimler AG aims to have a carbon-neutral new passenger car fleet by 2039, said Ola Källenius, the future Chairman of the Board of Management of Daimler AG, and currently still responsible for Group Research & Mercedes-Benz Cars Development as a member of the Board of Management. Our current focus is on battery-electric mobility.

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Green Car Reports

FEBRUARY 25, 2013

Two of the most exciting electric vehicles due over the next few years both originate from German automaker, BMW. The i3 city car and i8 sports car are both clean-sheet designs, developed from the ground up as plug-in vehicles.

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Green Car Reports

JULY 27, 2017

For years, electric-car skeptics raised concerns about what was cleverly dubbed "The Coal Tailpipe": the idea that plug-in vehicles produced just as many harmful emissions as gasoline cars, but in a different place.

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Green Car Reports

SEPTEMBER 10, 2018

The Nissan Leaf and Mitsubishi Outlander PHEV fight for plug-in hybrid and electric car sales dominance in Canada. California plans to go carbon-free for electricity by 2045. And we ask what the most exciting electric car coming in 2019 may be. All of this and more on Green Car Reports.

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Electric Cars Report

SEPTEMBER 5, 2023

Toyota has reached another milestone in its progress towards a zero carbon future with the unveiling of a prototype hydrogen fuel cell electric Hilux.

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My Energi

DECEMBER 22, 2020

Electric Car Grant. There are many different Government grants available to support, drive and encourage the transition from petrol and diesel vehicles over to plug-in electric vehicles. Electric Vehicles don’t release carbon and dangerous gasses into the atmosphere and therefore are much better for the environment.

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Green Car Reports

MARCH 23, 2018

Our counterparts in Norway have exactly the same challenges in winter—but they're far further along in adopting plug-in electric cars, to slash the carbon footprint of the.

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Green Car Congress

JANUARY 27, 2011

At the 2011 Geneva Motor Show, Volvo Cars will unveil the V60 diesel Plug-in Hybrid—a virtually production-ready car with carbon dioxide emissions below 50 g/km, which translates into fuel consumption of some 1.9 The front wheels of the V60 Plug-in Hybrid will be driven by a five-cylinder 2.4-liter

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Green Car Congress

MARCH 5, 2020

Volvo Cars formally inaugurated a new battery assembly line at its Belgian manufacturing plant in Ghent, where it will start building its first fully electric car, the XC40 Recharge P8, later this year. The XC40 Recharge P8 is the first of a family of fully electric Volvos. Volvo XC40 Recharge powertrain.

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Green Car Reports

OCTOBER 14, 2014

One case in point is carbon fiber, which is light and strong, but also expensive. Now, a research firm partially funded by BMW--which uses large amounts of carbon fiber in its i3 electric car and i8 plug-in hybrid--claims to be on the verge of slashing this material''s.'

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Green Car Reports

MARCH 27, 2014

One advantage to plug-in electric cars is that they can operate with no carbon footprint if the electricity used to recharge them is generated from renewable sources. Burning liquid fuels, on the other hand, will always generate carbon emissions.

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Drive Electric

MARCH 25, 2021

If you’re looking at electric cars , environmental impact is probably high on your list of priorities. There are plenty of benefits of making the switch to driving an electric vehicle (EV). Are electric cars better for the environment? Here we look at how and why EVs can play a major role in your company fleet.

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Green Car Reports

FEBRUARY 10, 2016

Battery-electric cars produce no direct carbon emissions from driving, but those are not the only potential source of emissions related to these vehicles. The lifetime carbon emissions of electric cars seem to be the question that launches a thousand studies.

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Green Car Reports

APRIL 20, 2015

The BMW i3 electric car and i8 plug-in hybrid sport coupe are audacious examples of advanced technology in many ways. Not the least of it are body shells made of carbon-fiber reinforced plastic (CFRP) mounted atop an aluminum rolling platform carrying the powertrains and crash structures.

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Baua Electric

FEBRUARY 5, 2024

The millionth battery electric vehicle (BEV) reached the road in the UK in January 2024, while the new car market grew 8.2% The first month of the year saw 142,876 new cars registered, an increase of 10,882 units on January 2023, making last month the strongest January for the UK market since the pandemic struck in 2020.

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Green Car Reports

FEBRUARY 3, 2017

Electric cars are simply nicer and calmer to drive than conventional cars, and as their prices fall, that may be what will lure mass-market buyers over time. But they have undeniable benefit of lowering wells-to-wheels carbon emissions per mile driven, and they can also be powered entirely on renewable energy.

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Green Car Reports

OCTOBER 9, 2014

The BMW i3 electric car takes risks, and not just with its plug-in powertrain. A radical design and carbon-fiber-reinforced plastic body shell make the i3 unlike most other cars on the road.

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Electric Cars Report

DECEMBER 8, 2022

In a world of dramatically varying customer needs and market environments, Toyota’s approach to carbon neutrality is to develop and offer multiple technologies to support customers on their individual journeys to zero emissions.

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CleanTechnica EVs

DECEMBER 23, 2023

Sales of hybrid cars is way up this year as people look for ways to lower their carbon footprint without needing to plug in. The post Hybrid Sales Soar While EV Sales Plateau appeared first on CleanTechnica.

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Setec Powerr

APRIL 26, 2023

The global push towards sustainable energy and reducing carbon emissions has given rise to the popularity of electric vehicles (EVs). One such incentive is the electric car tax credit, designed to help offset the initial cost of EVs for buyers. Section 1: Overview of the Electric Car Tax Credit in 2023 1.1

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Green Car Reports

JUNE 11, 2015

The 2016 BMW 7-Series has now been announced, and among the dizzying array of models and trim packages is a plug-in hybrid version. That makes the awkwardly-named 2016 BMW 740e xDrive the fifth plug-in car from the Bavarian company.

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Green Car Reports

JUNE 28, 2017

Electric vehicles shouldn't be considered all-out carbon footprint saviors, but they can legitimately be viewed as the great minimizers. The benefits of electric vehicles over those with internal-combustion engines are vast, but a strange new study is making rounds that claims electric cars are worse for climate-change emissions.

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Green Car Reports

MAY 9, 2016

It's a very reasonable question: electric cars themselves have no tailpipe emissions, but what about the power plants used to recharge them? After more than a dozen studies and five-plus years of plug-in car sales, we know the answer.

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Green Car Reports

OCTOBER 3, 2014

The environmental impact of plug-in electric cars is a source for much debate these days. They use less energy on a wells-to-wheels carbon basis than the vast majority of new cars sold in North America, even if they''re recharged on coal-heavy electric grids.

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Green Car Reports

MARCH 15, 2018

At its annual media briefing on Wednesday, Volkswagen Group executives said the costs of meeting new emission tests in the EU, lowering carbon emissions globally, and launching multiple new electric models would eat into the company's profits. With the company's diesels in disfavor even in Europe and unlikely to reappear in.

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Green Car Reports

JUNE 17, 2015

Several European countries--including Norway, The Netherlands, and France--aggressively promote electric cars as a way to reduce vehicular carbon emissions. But despite its large domestic car industry, Germany is not among them.

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Green Car Reports

SEPTEMBER 11, 2017

Although electric cars do not emit exhaust, it's widely recognized that the electricity to charge their batteries often still comes from fossil fuels. For most.

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Green Car Reports

APRIL 20, 2015

We lead off today with two big luxury car stories. The Cadillac CT6 plug-in hybrid debuts at the 2015 Shanghai Auto Show, while the next BMW 7 Series will adopt carbon-fiber technology from the i3 electric car. All this and more on Green Car Reports. Today in Car News' Catch up on last week''s.

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Green Car Reports

NOVEMBER 10, 2017

Today, we've got some far-out stories, from the hydrogen-powered Tesla to the flying drone that recharges your electric car while it's in motion. There's also a death notice for a plug-in hybrid, stiff new rules from the EU, and possible good news from the U.S. All this and more on Green Car Reports.

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Green Car Reports

MARCH 31, 2016

Buyers have many different reasons for choosing a plug-in electric car. A new campaign urging North American drivers to make their next car an electric vehicle inadvertently highlights the challenge. DON'T MISS: Green Car People: Who Buys.

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Green Car Reports

JANUARY 30, 2018

The subject of carbon dioxide emissions is hardly a simple one, especially when it comes to electric cars. They may not have tailpipes, but the electricity generated in order to keep them going has to come from somewhere.

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Green Car Reports

JANUARY 12, 2018

Juxtaposed against a growing electric-vehicle market in China and increasingly stringent global carbon-emission limits, a survey by KPMG has revealed a majority of global auto executives believe electric vehicles are a fool's errand.

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