Green Car Congress

FEBRUARY 9, 2023

The 2024 Toyota Grand Highlander made its world premiere before the opening day of the Chicago Auto Show. It is available in three powertrains across three grades: the 2.4L turbo gas engine, the 2.5L hybrid with a manufacturer-estimated 34 combined MPG, and the 362 hp Hybrid MAX. With a 0-60 time of 6.3 of towing capacity.

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Green Car Congress

JANUARY 21, 2011

Taxi Medallion Management in Chicago has purchased 12 Ford Transit Connect Taxis running on compressed natural gas (CNG) for its fleet. The cabs will be affiliated with Yellow Cab Chicago and bear the company’s logo and color. The Ford dealership, Packey Webb Ford, of Downers Grove, Ill.,

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Green Car Congress

FEBRUARY 9, 2018

Hyundai unveiled the redesigned 2018 Sonata Hybrid and Plug-in Hybrid models at the Chicago Auto Show. It is possible for Sonata Hybrid to operate solely on electric power at speeds up to 75 mph by decoupling the gasoline engine from the rest of the drivetrain. The transmission uses an electric oil pump, which helps improve efficiency.

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Green Car Congress

APRIL 29, 2014

A study by a pair of researchers at Northwestern University found that when fuel prices drove residents of São Paulo, Brazil, to switch from ethanol to gasoline in their flexible-fuel vehicles, local ozone levels dropped 20%. At the same time, nitric oxide and carbon monoxide concentrations tended to go up. —Salvo and Geiger.

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Green Car Congress

FEBRUARY 2, 2010

Taxi Affiliation Services (TAS), which operates Yellow Cab Chicago, has awarded Clean Energy Fuels Corp. Yellow Cab Chicago and its affiliates plan an initial deployment of 100 new CNG taxis. Clean Energy partnered with Yellow Cab Chicago to apply for and secure $1.5

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Green Car Reports

FEBRUARY 7, 2013

Kia Motors America has today unveiled a new 5-door version of the Forte at the 2013 Chicago Auto Show. liter gasoline direct injection, turbocharged. The sleek five-door hatchback has what Kia describes as 'European styling', and goes head-to-head with cars like the Ford Focus with its hatchback practicality.

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Green Car Congress

AUGUST 21, 2020

ComEd’s current fleet of 3,000 vehicles includes 1,400 biodiesel-fueled line trucks and another 430 units that are capable of running on high-level ethanol-gasoline blends, or E85. More than 200 of its vehicles have electric hybrid or plug-in hybrid electric systems and another 10 are all-electric vehicles.

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Green Car Congress

SEPTEMBER 30, 2016

the world’s largest package delivery company and a provider of supply chain management solutions, placed 50 Lightning Hybrids hydraulic hybrid delivery trucks in the Chicago metro area. United Parcel Service, Inc., The first of the hydraulic hybrid systems were commissioned last week.

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Green Car Reports

FEBRUARY 8, 2018

The hybrid Sonata follows the updated conventional gasoline. The 2018 Hyundai Sonata Hybrid falls into the latter category, with new front and rear styling, changes to the interior and dashboard, and numerous added safety and connectivity features.

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Green Car Congress

MAY 20, 2016

The vehicles, existing Workhorse walk-in vans with GM gasoline engines and equipped with the Lightning Hybrids Energy Recovery System (ERS), are in service on the streets of Chicago and were partially paid for by the Drive Clean Chicago voucher program for clean vehicles.

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Baua Electric

JANUARY 17, 2024

Just yesterday, we reported on dead Tesla vehicles piling up at supercharger stations across Chicago. But it mainly gets attention because it’s a new technology and it fails for different reasons than gasoline vehicles in the cold.

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Baua Electric

APRIL 11, 2024

A grille that attempts to mimic that of the gasoline S-Class is also part of the revamp. metro areas including New York, Chicago, and Detroit. A significant number of U.S. curbside EV chargers appears to soon be on the way. Voltpost announced plans to roll out its lamppost-based EV chargers in major U.S.

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Green Car Congress

FEBRUARY 10, 2014

Kia Motors America (KMA) unveiled the 2014 Optima Hybrid mid-size sedan at the Chicago Auto Show last week. The 2014 Optima Hybrid builds upon the advancements of its gasoline-powered sibling, which went on sale in late-fall of last year. The LX model achieves an EPA estimated 36 mpg city, 40 mpg highway and 38 mpg combined (6.5,

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Baua Electric

JANUARY 8, 2024

San Francisco and Los Angeles were the most expensive city for both EVs and gasoline cars. But the cheapest cities for EVs were Atlanta, Chicago, and Cleveland, while the cheapest cities for gasoline cars were Houston and Dallas. There was some crossover, however.

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Green Car Congress

NOVEMBER 23, 2019

These kilometers have predominantly been driven by gasoline and diesel cars, exacerbating the air pollution crisis in European cities. The analysis estimates that in London and Paris alone, the emissions of Uber taxi services could be as high as 515 kilotonnes of CO 2 —more than one half a megatonne.

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Green Car Congress

FEBRUARY 8, 2018

Ford unveiled the redesigned Transit Connect Wagon at the Chicago Auto Show. liter four-cylinder gasoline engine with direct injection with Auto Start-Stop as standard equipment, or the new 1.5-liter The wagon, which comes in 5- or 7-passenger models, offers a choice between a new 2.0-liter Ford is targeting the 1.5L

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Plugs and Cars

APRIL 12, 2007

AP reports: Gasoline futures rose 3.31 cents to settle at $2.280 on the Chicago Board of Trade. Tags: ethanol crude oil gasoline. cents to settle at $2.1918 per gallon on the New York Mercantile Exchange. Meanwhile, alternative fuel ethanol hit a 7-month high, corresponding to an overall rise in gas prices since last August.

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Green Car Congress

SEPTEMBER 14, 2012

ROUSH CleanTech unveiled a propane autogas fueled shuttle bus converted by new industry partner, Green Alternative Systems (GAS), at the 2012 BusCon Expo this week in Chicago, Ill. The propane shuttle bus. Click to enlarge.

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Green Car Congress

MAY 11, 2017

Motiv’s powertrain replaces the diesel or gasoline engine on a standard chassis. The new all-electric buses will be powered by Motiv’s all-electric powertrains, which are both designed and manufactured in California, supporting local manufacturing jobs.

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Teslarati

JUNE 28, 2022

As noted by Uber in a recent press release , drivers in 30+ cities such as Los Angeles, Houston, Boston, Chicago, Atlanta, and Miami are able to rent a Tesla through its partnership with Hertz. When I had a gas car, I would spend $25-30 dollars a day (on gasoline). It also saves him a lot on gas.

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Green Car Congress

JANUARY 23, 2019

Gevo is focused on the development and production of mainstream fuels like gasoline and jet fuel using renewable feedstocks that have the potential to lower greenhouse gas emissions at a meaningful scale and enhance agricultural production, including food and other related products. Patrick Gruber, CEO of Gevo.

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Green Car Congress

FEBRUARY 7, 2013

liter gasoline direct-injected (GDI) turbocharged four-cylinder engine at the Chicago Auto Show. Kia Motors America (KMA) unveiled the new Forte 5-door SX equipped with a new 1.6-liter With output of 201 hp (150 kW) and torque of 195 lb-ft (264 N·m of torque, the Forte 5-door SX is the most powerful Forte from KMA to date.

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Green Car Reports

MARCH 14, 2016

And for the 2017 model year, the Optima Hybrid model gets the same upgrades as the gasoline versions launched for 2016. Unveiled last month at the 2016 Chicago Auto Show, the 2016 Kia Optima Hybrid uses the new Optima.

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Green Car Congress

JANUARY 13, 2011

Lifecycle GHG emissions of renewable gasoline from the IH 2 process (GTI RG) compared to petroleum gasoline and diesel. for GTI’s Integrated Hydropyrolysis and Hydroconversion (IH 2 ) technology, which converts biomass directly into cellulosic gasoline and diesel hydrocarbon blendstocks. Source: GTI. Click to enlarge.

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Green Car Congress

NOVEMBER 4, 2011

The milestone vehicle, deployed in Chicago, uses compressed natural gas technology (CNG), and is one of 165 AFVs deployed by AT&T in Illinois. The vehicles are part of AT&T’s planned 10-year initiative to invest up to $565 million to replace approximately 15,000 fleet vehicles with alternative fuel models through 2018.

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Green Car Congress

MAY 21, 2011

In a paper in the journal Biofuels, Bioproducts and Biorefining , Professor John Regalbuto, Department of Chemical Engineering at the University of Illinois at Chicago, describes what he calls “ a real sea change ” in the direction of US federal funding for biomass conversion into biofuels. Regalbuto, J. doi: 10.1002/bbb.298.

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Green Car Congress

APRIL 18, 2012

The Gas Technology Institute (GTI) hosted an open house at its new Pilot-Scale IH 2 Plant in Chicago, Illinois to demonstrate the successful efforts to broaden biomass-to-liquid hydrocarbon fuel conversion. Earlier post.). billion gallons. —David Carroll, GTI President and CEO.

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Green Car Congress

MARCH 19, 2010

Argonne National Laboratory, near Chicago, will host on 3-4 May 2010 the symposium “ Beyond Lithium Ion: Computational Perspectives ” to discuss research opportunities in electrochemical energy storage, specifically, lithium-air batteries for transportation.

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Green Car Congress

NOVEMBER 15, 2010

Ford Motor Company has named the first markets that will sell the Focus Electric, Ford’s all-electric passenger car: Atlanta; Austin and Houston, Texas; Boston; Chicago; Denver; Detroit; Los Angeles; San Francisco; San Diego; New York; Orlando, Fla.; Production will occur on the same line as the gasoline version of the Focus.

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Green Car Congress

JUNE 10, 2013

Extensive implementation of extraction technology from 2008 to 2012 has seen the industry record a nearly five-fold increase in corn oil production, according to a study by the University of Illinois at Chicago.

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Green Car Congress

APRIL 20, 2011

liter EcoBoost engine, combining a turbocharger with gasoline direct injection. The new Taurus will be manufactured at Ford’s Chicago Assembly Plant. The 2013 Ford Taurus will become the first car in Ford’s North American lineup to offer the advanced 2.0-liter It is expected to deliver highway fuel economy of at least 31 mpg US (7.6

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Green Car Congress

FEBRUARY 12, 2015

Kia Motors America (KMA) unveiled the Trail’ster e-AWD concept at the 2015 Chicago Auto Show. the two power sources (front gasoline engine and rear electric motor) meet “through the road,” as opposed to inside the transmission with a common mechanical driveline connection. liter gasoline Soul. liter gasoline Soul.

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Green Car Congress

FEBRUARY 7, 2020

At the Chicago Auto Show, Hyundai introduced its new 2020 Sonata Hybrid, featuring up to 686 miles of driving range and an EPA-estimated 52 mpg combined fuel economy rating on the Blue trim. This is the first time the Sonata Hybrid has been shown in North America. The new Sonata Hybrid goes on sale this spring and is built in Asan, Korea.

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Green Car Congress

MARCH 6, 2009

During the Work Truck Show in Chicago, California-based Electric Vehicles International (EVI) has introduced a line of electric and hybrid Class 3-6 commercial vehicles to the US market. For a hybrid configuration, LNG, CNG or gasoline engine options are available. eviLightTrucks.

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Green Car Congress

FEBRUARY 24, 2010

The companies expect to break ground on the first Dallas-Fort Worth station in the third quarter of 2010, which will be followed with projects in Austin, Baton Rouge, Chicago, Indianapolis, Lake Charles, New Orleans, Orlando, Phoenix, San Antonio and St. Tony Dale, Ferrellgas national director of engine fuels/Autogas.

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Green Car Congress

JANUARY 3, 2017

Our investments and expanding lineup reflect our view that global offerings of electrified vehicles will exceed gasoline-powered vehicles within the next 15 years. —Mark Fields, Ford president and CEO. Two new, pursuit-rated hybrid police vehicles.

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The Truth About Cars

OCTOBER 19, 2023

While your author has not driven that particular model, others have said the powertrain lacked refinement and often failed to transition between gasoline and electric power in a smooth manner. It doesn’t exactly sound like something you’d want from a luxury vehicle.

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