Green Car Congress

JULY 24, 2022

Amazon has begun deploying its custom electric delivery vehicles from Rivian for package delivery, with the electric vehicles hitting the road in Baltimore, Chicago, Dallas, Kansas City, Nashville, Phoenix, San Diego, Seattle, and St. Batteries that are light, resilient, and low cost in addition to lasting the lifetime of the vehicle.

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The Truth About Cars

MARCH 26, 2024

Unlike the quiet Chicago show -- so quiet I never bothered to write a recap -- there is an expectation of some news being made in the morning, though the afternoon looks light. We'll be all over the 2024 New York International Auto Show. News is already coming out, from Genesis and Kia and Infiniti.

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Green Car Congress

AUGUST 21, 2020

ComEd’s new fleet electrification plan calls for replacing all of its light duty vehicles with electrified vehicles (EVs and PHEVs) by 2030. By 2025, all of the company’s light duty vehicles (LDVs) approaching the end of their life cycle will be replaced with electric vehicles, and all LDVs will be electrified by 2030.

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The Truth About Cars

FEBRUARY 5, 2024

Lincoln equips an LED light bar, and lighting upgrades are available, including adaptive “bending light,” pixel LED headlights, speed-dependent lighting, and more. Lincoln hasn’t released pricing details yet, but it said the SUV will be built at its Chicago Assembly Plant.

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CleanTechnica EVs

MAY 17, 2022

Arcimoto along with JOCO, the world’s first light EV sharing platform for delivery drivers, have announced a pilot program in Manhattan to field test the Deliverator, a three-wheel EV designed by Arcimoto for local and last-mile delivery.

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Green Car Congress

JANUARY 10, 2017

A new study by Ryan Kellogg, a professor at the University of Chicago Harris School of Public Policy and author of the study, evaluates the current approach and proposes a novel, market-based alternative: indexing the standard to rise and fall with the price of gasoline.

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Teslarati

DECEMBER 19, 2023

You will solve for light and heavy-duty vehicle fleet infrastructure solutions at the lowest possible cost and enable electrification for entirely new industries across North America,” described Tesla in the ‘What to Expect’ section of the job post. In October, Tesla sold $100 million Supercharger hardware units to bp America.

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Green Car Congress

JUNE 4, 2020

The facility provides Excel with capabilities in light-duty and heavy-duty engine testing and capacity to test alternative fuels as well as advanced battery and hybrid drive systems. Ricardo Inc., For Excel, the Diagonal, Iowa company acquires a 30,000 sq. test facility in Van Buren Township, Mich., and retains roughly 30 of its employees.

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Baua Electric

APRIL 2, 2024

Then, while planning a trip to Chicago, Ms. In the Intercontinental Hotel, the 25-yard-long pool, built in 1929, is one of the oldest in Chicago and is surrounded by Greek-inspired marble decoration. It’s very open and light.” “Most hotel pools are too tiny or too crowded,” she said. Heisler, from Ann Arbor, Mich.,

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Green Car Congress

NOVEMBER 13, 2019

General Motors LLC (GM) - GM will partner with Oak Ridge National Laboratory (ORNL) to develop residual stress models for laser-welded dissimilar joints (HSLA/CE steel) for car light-weighting in a project titled “Simulation Tools for Characterizing Stress Distribution in Laser Welded Dissimilar Joints.”.

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Cars That Think

DECEMBER 3, 2021

In much of the world, December is a month of twinkling lights. Whether for religious or secular celebrations, the variety and functionality of lights have exploded in recent years, abetted by cheap and colorful LEDs and compact electronics. But decorative lights aren't new. His tree now boasted 120 lights and more colors.

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EV Match

FEBRUARY 2, 2021

EVmatch and Verde Energy Efficiency Experts are excited to announce a new partnership to deploy more EV charging stations in the Chicago area. EVmatch charging station near Chicago’s Albany Park neighborhood. Many of our clients in Chicago, especially property managers, have been requesting this technology. ” .

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Green Car Reports

FEBRUARY 10, 2010

The Chicago Auto Show is traditionally all about trucks, and in this slow year it's pretty light on green cars. A welcome exception comes from Korean maker Kia, who just unveiled their Ray plug-in hybrid concept car. The Ray points the way toward a stylish compact four-door sedan that's both expressive and efficient.

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Green Car Congress

AUGUST 22, 2012

The City of Houston currently has the third largest municipal hybrid fleet in the country, with approximately 50% of the City’s non-specialty, light-duty fleet having been replaced with hybrid vehicles. Zipcar’s FastFleet technology has already been adopted through similar initiatives in Washington, DC, Chicago and Boston.

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Baua Electric

APRIL 11, 2024

metro areas like New York, Chicago, and Detroit. Others include a design that tucks away inside the sidewalk during the day, and just adding sockets to street light poles, and letting drivers figure out the cable. Charging company Voltpost is preparing to roll out its lamppost EV chargers in major U.S. big cities as of yet.

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Green Car Congress

NOVEMBER 19, 2014

An active wastegate controls boost more precisely during light load operation to help save fuel. Ford Explorer is built in North America at Chicago Assembly Plant, as well as in Venezuela and now, Russia. liter EcoBoost employs an active oil control system to optimize pressure when less fluid is needed.

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Baua Electric

APRIL 15, 2024

per pound last Friday on Chicago Mercantile Exchange. Chile ‘s state-run copper miner Codelco is poised to improve production this year and begin to climb from its lowest dip in a quarter century, the head of Chilean copper studies center CESCO said ahead of a major industry conference that starts Monday. When prices hit USD 4.50

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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.

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Green Car Congress

DECEMBER 14, 2018

In the FT process, the purified syngas is processed through a fixed-bed tubular reactor where it reacts with a proprietary catalyst to form three intermediate FT products, a Heavy Fraction FT Liquids (HFTL) product, a Medium Fraction FT Liquids (MFTL) product and a Light Fraction FT Liquids (LFTL) product, commonly called Naphtha.

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Green Car Congress

AUGUST 27, 2010

A Chicago Fire Department firefighter using a hydraulic. International in Chicago. The workshop included classroom training as well as a live extrication exercise in which Chicago firefighters practiced door and roof removal before an audience of several hundred firefighters. International in Chicago. by Jack Rosebro.

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Cars That Think

NOVEMBER 29, 2023

Baer worked as a consultant for the Chicago-based toy company Marvin Glass. They decided to create their own light-up, pattern-matching game, but with more colorful buttons and pleasing musical notes. Fortunately, Baer and Morrison were in a position to do something about it. Morrison was a toymaker there.

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Green Car Congress

JULY 29, 2021

The US Department of Energy (DOE) is awarding $60 million to 24 research and development projects aimed at reducing carbon dioxide emissions from passenger cars and light- and heavy-duty trucks. (DE-FOA-0002420) University of Illinois at Chicago. University of California, San Diego. University of Pittsburgh. 1,250,000.

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Baua Electric

APRIL 11, 2024

The New York and San Francisco-based company is developing and deploying EV charging projects in US cities like New York, Chicago, Detroit, and others this spring. Image: Voltpost EV charging company Voltpost ‘s “first-of-a-kind” lamppost EV charger is now commercially available in major US metro areas.

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The Truth About Cars

APRIL 24, 2023

Toyota invited me to join other Chicago-area automotive journalists at one of the company’s offices in Chicago’s far western suburbs last week to sample the Crown and the redesigned Prius. I had a chance to wheel both cars on a short drive loop through the exurbs at the edge of the Chicago metro area.

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Green Car Congress

SEPTEMBER 18, 2014

ArcelorMittal has refined and extended these innovations to help meet the specific challenges facing the North American light truck market. The new steel solutions include advanced steel grades developed by ArcelorMittal’s research and development (R&D) teams in Maizières-lès-Metz and Montataire, France and East Chicago, Indiana.

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Cars That Think

DECEMBER 30, 2023

This 1980s earworm of a jingle touted a gadget to turn your lights, your TV, or any other electrical device on or off with the clap of your hands. In 1985, Peter Liljequist and Kou Chen filed a Canadian patent for an acoustic switch for turning lights and other appliances on and off. The Clapper!” 5,493,618 ) is a chatty marvel. “In

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Green Car Congress

MAY 10, 2016

The latest version includes, for the first time: gaseous hydrogen fuel cell vehicles; state-based (rather than national-based) fuel pricing, private station fuel pricing and fueling infrastructure costs.

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Green Car Congress

APRIL 17, 2012

ALTe Powertrain Technologies, developer of a range-extended plug-in electric hybrid powertrain for light commercial fleet vehicle applications, and Club Assist, a supplier of mobile, car electric and road services to motoring clubs worldwide, are partnering on a joint development project to study ALTe’s powertrain technology in Club Assist’s fleet.

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Green Car Congress

JUNE 14, 2018

The Chicago Transit Board awarded a $32-million contract to Proterra for the purchase of 20 new, all-electric buses. CTA expects to begin receiving the first buses by the end of 2018, which will begin service along one of CTA’s busiest bus routes—the #66 Chicago route.

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Green Car Congress

JANUARY 28, 2012

The following have received advanced Odyne hybrid systems under the Wisconsin Clean Transportation Program: Milwaukee County took delivery of four work trucks in December 2011 and January 2012 that will be used throughout Milwaukee County to maintain traffic signals and street lighting. Manufactured by DUECO, Inc. Manufactured by DUECO, Inc.

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Green Car Congress

APRIL 29, 2014

Light transportation is a key contributor to air pollution in this gridlocked metropolis, with large public health implications. In 2011, 40% of the city’s six million active light-duty vehicles—probably accounting for over one-half of all light-vehicle distance travelled—possessed bi-fuel capability. Resources.

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The Truth About Cars

JUNE 14, 2023

During that interim, Lincoln debuted a concept car at the Chicago Auto Show of 1989. Finished in monochromatic white and very aerodynamic shapes, the futuristic concept used a full-width light bar front and rear, a very thin C-pillar, and scalloped sides. The debut timeline pushed further into the future.

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Green Car Congress

AUGUST 1, 2016

In a new study from the US Department of Energy’s Argonne National Laboratory and the University of Illinois at Chicago, researchers report devising a new transition metal dichalcogenide (TMDC) nanoarchitecture for catalytic electrochemical reduction of CO 2 to carbon monoxide (CO) in an ionic liquid. Resources.

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Green Car Congress

MAY 7, 2012

DBT CEV, one of the largest electric vehicle charging infrastructure firms in Europe, and Matra, a leading manufacturer of Light Electric Vehicles are introducing the Bat’Lib system, a battery swapping station for e-bikes and e-scooters, at EVS 26 in Los Angeles. Bat’Lib station. Credit: DBT CEV/Matra. Click to enlarge.

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Green Car Congress

MARCH 16, 2019

The SEC’s investigation was conducted by Kevin Wisniewski, Jake Schmidt, Amy Flaherty Hartman, and Daniel Nigro of the Complex Financial Instruments Unit and the Chicago Regional Office, under the supervision of Jeffrey Shank and Daniel Michael, Chief of the Enforcement Division’s Complex Financial Instruments Unit.

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Green Car Congress

MARCH 16, 2018

Now, researchers at the University of Illinois at Chicago, with colleagues at Texas A&M University, have used a 3D conformal graphene oxide nanosheet (GOn) coating, confined into the woven structure of a glass fiber separator, which permits facile transport of Li-ions throughout its structure, while inhibiting lithium dendrite formation.

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Green Car Congress

MAY 21, 2015

AllCell Technologies, LLC, a Chicago-based Lithium-ion battery pack manufacturer for smart-grid, autonomous and light electric vehicle applications, and LG Chem Ltd. have developed a high performance long lasting Li-ion battery for material handling applications.

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