Green Car Congress

NOVEMBER 26, 2020

Groupe Renault is creating the REFACTORY in Flins, the first European circular economy site dedicated to mobility. The ReFactory aims to achieve a negative carbon balance by 2030—an objective in line with the Group’s ambition to achieve carbon neutrality in Europe by 2050.

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CleanTechnica EVs

MARCH 15, 2024

Volkswagen Group is moving forward with its plans for less expensive electric cars like the ID.1 The post Volkswagen & Skoda Are Moving Forward With Plans For Less Expensive Electric Cars appeared first on CleanTechnica. 1 and Skoda Epiq.

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Green Car Congress

MARCH 16, 2021

The Volkswagen Group presented its technology roadmap for batteries and charging up to 2030 today on its first “Power Day”. The goal of the roadmap is to reduce the complexity and cost of the battery significantly in order to make the electric car attractive and viable for as many people as possible.

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Electric Cars Report

APRIL 24, 2024

B–ON, the European provider of clean mobility solutions, and Chery Group, the leading Chinese automobile brand, have reached an agreement for a larger strategic partnership, including the formation of a joint venture and the launch of the new Pelkan electric light commercial vehicle.

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Green Car Reports

DECEMBER 1, 2015

Today, a group deal slashes prices on the Nissan Leaf electric car for a handful of customers, "quiet car" rules for hybrids and electric cars are delayed again, and Bill Gates and several other billionaires pledge to invest in clean energy. All this and more on Green Car Reports.

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Drive Electric

NOVEMBER 24, 2021

RE: Drive Electric Submission Land Transport (Clean Car) Amendment Bill. Drive Electric supports the Land Transport (Clean Vehicles) Amendment Bill (‘the Bill’) and encourages New Zealand to be ambitious. The interim Clean Car Discount, which is already in the market, is showing promising signs of success.

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CleanTechnica EVs

OCTOBER 26, 2021

It’s hard to take a gigantic oil tanker and transform it into an electric aircraft. It’s easier to just build an electric aircraft from scratch. Tesla had no easy task getting to where it’s gotten, but it can certainly be argued that Volkswagen (and Ford and GM and BMW, etc.) have had a harder task. […].

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Creative Greenius

JUNE 30, 2009

I attended today’s Bryan Cave Clean Tech Roundtable at the Broad Stage at Santa Monica College – thanks to my pal Donna Gentry. It attracted a lot of attention but so did his comments during the “Clean Technology in California: Opportunities and Challenges&# panel to start the day.

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CleanTechnica EVs

NOVEMBER 29, 2023

continued] The post Volkswagen Group Shines, But Volkswagen Disappoints — Europe EV Sales Report appeared first on CleanTechnica. Approximately 260,000 plugin vehicles were registered in October in Europe, +24% year over year (YoY). The overall market also grew.

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Green Car Congress

FEBRUARY 27, 2012

Percentage of consumers having extremely or very favorable views of 13 clean energy technologies, 2009-2011. Electric cars elicited the fourth highest percentage of favorable responses (55% in 2011, down from 62% in 2009) among the 13 topics covered in the survey. Data: Pike Research. Click to enlarge.

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CleanTechnica EVs

NOVEMBER 13, 2023

Tesla may have postponed its plans to produce electric cars in Mexico, but Volkswagen is stepping in to fill that. continued] The post Volkswagen Will Produce Electric Cars In Mexico appeared first on CleanTechnica.

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Green Car Congress

JUNE 8, 2017

Nichols met with officials of China’s leading automakers and battery manufacturers in an effort to expand cooperation and accelerate deployment of zero-emission cars, trucks and buses. Today, some 37 different battery-powered, plug-in hybrid, and fuel cell electric vehicle models are available in California.

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Green Car Reports

JANUARY 22, 2021

California Governor Gavin Newsom signed an executive order last September to have all new passenger car and truck sales in the state be all-electric by 2035.

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CleanTechnica EVs

JULY 19, 2023

Volkswagen Group's Innovation Hub in Knoxville, Tennessee, is working on a number of ways to make electric cars more efficient.

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CleanTechnica EVs

APRIL 20, 2022

BMW Group reboots its iconic 7 Series with the i7 xDrive60 electric car, aiming at demanding, discriminating drivers who care about the planet, too.

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CleanTechnica EVs

OCTOBER 26, 2021

Following up on our report on which automotive groups have been selling the most electric cars across 10 European markets, let’s look at which brands have been seeing the most sales (read: registrations).

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Green Car Congress

FEBRUARY 3, 2022

Forth and Mobility Development Group are creating a national partnership to launch the Affordable Mobility Platform (AMP), which will establish electric vehicle (EV) carsharing based at affordable housing sites in at least five states over the next two years. —Creighton Randall, CEO of Mobility Development.

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Green Car Reports

FEBRUARY 13, 2017

A prominent lobbying group believes environmental remediation funds from Volkswagen diesel settlements should be spent on new "clean" diesel vehicles. liter TDI cars approved last year requires VW to pay $2.7 The settlement for 2.0-liter billion into a trust, managed by a third party.

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CleanTechnica EVs

MARCH 16, 2024

continued] The post Cheap Electric Cars, Used Hertz EVs, Ford Supercharging — 15 Top CleanTechnica Stories appeared first on CleanTechnica. The constant stream of big cleantech stories has been flowing strong, and I’ve got about a dozen to highlight from the past couple of weeks as ones I wouldn’t want you to miss.

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CleanTechnica EVs

JANUARY 12, 2023

Volkswagen Group has big ambitions of becoming the top selling electric vehicle producer in the world. But the good news is that it’s sprinting toward that goal, and it’s already #1 in Europe and #4 in the USA. China’s the largest BEV market in the world — larger than the rest of the world combined […].

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CleanTechnica EVs

JUNE 16, 2023

You think of it being a moderately sized brand within the Volkswagen Group stable. (Or, However, the fact is, Škoda Auto does produce a lot of batteries for various Volkswagen Group vehicles — more than 500,000 to […] When you think of Škoda, you don’t think of it being a battery giant. Or, at least, I do.)

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CleanTechnica EVs

APRIL 25, 2023

A Car2Car project that explores the circular economy in car manufacturing is being led by BMW Group and is being funded by the German government.

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Teslarati

MARCH 8, 2024

The EMA has to be that reference that helps the main electric car companies to integrate into the Mexican market, if not also that the citizens themselves begin to abandon the use of combustion-based cars for an electric one,” said Wagner. EMA aims to promote clean air and reduce emissions over the next ten years.

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Green Cars News

DECEMBER 27, 2013

While we wait for sales of hydrogen and electric cars to really take off, there''s no doubt there has been some early success for one clean technology. Volkswagen Group of America is reporting that it has smashed the 100,000 sales barrier for its TDI clean diesel models across the VW and Audi brands[.].

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CleanTechnica EVs

SEPTEMBER 1, 2023

MAPVI), a new company under the automotive arm of the Ayala Group of Companies. This is the second BYD dealer in the country, and the first facility to open under Mobility Access Philippines Ventures, Inc. BYD Quezon City is owned and operated by Solar Transport and […]

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CleanTechnica EVs

JUNE 1, 2022

Electric Americas recently contacted CleanTechnica about their upcoming adventure, an electric road trip to promote planetary well-being — from Alaska to Patagonia. They are a small group of adventurers setting out on a clean energy mission, spanning the length of the Americas, quite a long zero-emissions adventure.

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CleanTechnica EVs

FEBRUARY 15, 2023

Just about every automaker on the planet is increasing its electric vehicle production to some degree in 2023, and BMW Group is no exception. In fact, BMW seems to be on a serious push to try to take more of the EV market. Naturally, it must know that its survival, and certainly its success, in […]

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CleanTechnica EVs

APRIL 15, 2023

At the groundbreaking ceremony for Kia’s specialized plant for purpose-built vehicle (PBV) production in Korea, Hyundai Motor Group recently declared its intention to rank among the top three EV manufacturers in the world by 2030 through the combined sales of Hyundai Motor, Kia, and Genesis electric models.

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Green Car Congress

OCTOBER 15, 2020

The California Sustainable Energy Entrepreneur Development (CalSEED) program announced that the fourth cohort of innovative clean energy concepts has been approved by the California Energy Commission (CEC); 28 companies out of 212 were selected to receive grants of $150,000 each. Details of the 28 companies awarded a total of $4.2

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CleanTechnica EVs

MAY 19, 2021

By Eoin Bannon There is a postcode lottery for electric car charging points in the UK, a new study shows, with ample infrastructure in some areas and a charging desert in others, particularly in the east and south-west of England. Green group Transport & Environment (T&E) has launched an interactive map […].

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CleanTechnica EVs

OCTOBER 29, 2021

Volkswagen Group held its 3rd quarter shareholder conference call this week, and CleanTechnica extended its in-depth video coverage of major producers of 100% battery-electric vehicles (BEVs) beyond Tesla for the first time by covering this call. Huge thanks and props to Chanan Bos for doing the large bulk of the work on this.)

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Clean Fleet Report

OCTOBER 21, 2021

2021 Is Here: Here Are the Top 10 Electric Car Companies. Picking the Top 10 electric car makers now involves making some choices as the number of vehicles available increases. The Model S is the best-selling plug-in car in the U.S. Almost two-thirds of the battery electric cars sold in the U.S.

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CleanTechnica EVs

DECEMBER 31, 2022

Volkswagen Group CEO Oliver Blume told investors recently that he and his management team have a 10-point plan for the future.

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CleanTechnica EVs

SEPTEMBER 5, 2021

Under some of our recent EV sales reports, readers requested charts and stats for automotive group sales, not just sales by model or even brand. It was even pointed out that this is the only comparison many people in the industry actually care about. Those seem like good points, so here’s an update on Sweden […].

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CleanTechnica EVs

NOVEMBER 24, 2022

Full electric cars accounted for 22% of new car sales in the Chinese market last month! Plugin vehicles continue to be all the rage in the Chinese auto market. They grew 75% year over year (YoY) in October.

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CleanTechnica EVs

NOVEMBER 11, 2021

My fellow writers have been doing something between name-calling and an ad-hominem attack on the German environmental groups that oppose Tesla's activities. If we want to actually climb higher up the pyramid, we need to look at what the environmental groups are actually arguing.

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CleanTechnica EVs

OCTOBER 24, 2022

This year at the annual EVIE (Electric Vehicle Innovation and Excellence) Awards held in London, Volkswagen Group UK was awarded the prestigious title of “OEM of the Year.”

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