Green Car Congress

SEPTEMBER 13, 2023

The building materials company has taken delivery of two all-electric iONTRON mixer trucks from Putzmeister , which will become part of the Berlin truck mixer fleet. The iONTRON eMixer is fully electrically powered, reducing carbon emissions by up to 100% depending on the local electricity mix.

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EV Central

AUGUST 18, 2023

I don’t know about you, but when I picture climate warriors – the kind who’ll chain themselves to things, get arrested, become Senators and then realise that changing the system is about as effective as attempting to save polar bears by sleeping naked on ice – I don’t see them driving Bentleys that cost $456,000.

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Green Car Congress

NOVEMBER 19, 2020

This is a tangible manifestation of our determination to take a leading role in heavy vehicle electrification, which is needed to fulfil our commitment to science-based climate targets. The laboratory will primarily focus on battery performance and lifespan evaluation in varying climate conditions from -40 °C to 70 °C. million (€15.5

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The Truth About Cars

SEPTEMBER 20, 2023

It’s no secret that Volvo wants to become a completely climate-neutral company, and the automaker has promised to go fully electric by the end of the decade. Despite not selling diesels here, Volvo announced its decision earlier this week at Climate Week in New York City.

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Green Car Congress

FEBRUARY 15, 2019

Cummins will provide powertrain technology, including the batteries, for the Kalmar Electric Terminal Tractor (KT2E). Kalmar has already launched the fully electric Kalmar Ottawa electric terminal tractor (OT2E) in the US in 2018. Kalmar T2 terminal tractor with container. Earlier post.). Earlier post.).

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Green Car Congress

APRIL 29, 2021

In Berlin, Volkswagen presented its first fully electric high-performance model: the ID.4 4 GTX is the first model based on the modular electric drive matrix (MEB) to feature dual-motor all-wheel drive. It has set itself the target of increasing the proportion of sales of purely electric vehicles in Europe to 70% by 2030.

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Teslarati

FEBRUARY 4, 2024

Luxury sports car maker Lamborghini plans to go all-electric in the coming years, and now the automaker has set another climate goal for itself by pledging to reduce CO2 emissions across its operations.

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Green Car Congress

JUNE 13, 2016

Later this year, Mercedes-Benz will add the seventh and eighth plug-in hybrids to its line up. The hybrid (plug-in and conventional) portfolio from Mercedes-Benz currently comprises 13 models. The hybrid (plug-in and conventional) portfolio from Mercedes-Benz currently comprises 13 models. Earlier post.) Click to enlarge.

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Green Car Congress

JULY 28, 2020

I firmly believe the fight against climate change and how we use resources will decide the future of our society—and of the BMW Group. We have made a very clear commitment to the Paris Climate Agreement. Product strategy: fully-electric models in high-volume series. For a fleet of around 2.5

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Green Car Congress

JULY 15, 2020

The BMW X3 is the first model to be available with a gasoline or diesel engine, plug-in hybrid drive system or all-electric drive system. The integrated management system for the climate and heating system also ensures need-based heating of the interior and optimal cooling of the high- voltage battery.

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Green Car Congress

FEBRUARY 12, 2020

Guests experienced the fully electric trucks firsthand for the first time, and learned more about electromobility and its role in freight movement solutions. million from CARB as part of California Climate Investments (CCI). Earlier post.) The Volvo LIGHTS project was made possible by an award to South Coast AQMD of $44.8

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Plug N Drive

MAY 1, 2024

Presently, there are well over 700,000 electric and hybrid electric vehicles on Canadian roads and over 70 different EV models available, with more on the way at increasingly affordable prices. With over 83 percent of Canada’s electricity coming from non-emitting sources (e.g.,

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Green Car Congress

JULY 5, 2017

Volvo Cars announced that every Volvo it launches from 2019 on will have an electric motor, marking the historic end of cars that only have an internal combustion engine (ICE) and placing electrification at the core of its future business. It aims to have climate neutral manufacturing operations by 2025.

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Green Car Congress

FEBRUARY 5, 2019

Train and certify 80% of its employees as GoGreen specialists and involve them in its environmental and climate protection activities. These new vehicles add to the company’s already robust alternative fuel vehicle (AFV) fleet, which includes fully electric, hybrid-electric, compressed natural gas (CNG) and clean diesel.

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Green Car Congress

NOVEMBER 20, 2014

Volkswagen unveiled the Golf Sportwagen HyMotion hydrogen fuel cell hybrid research vehicle demonstrator yesterday at the Los Angeles Auto Show ( earlier post ). The Li-ion battery steps in and supplies energy to the electric motor instead, allowing the car to move off. Passat HyMotion in LA. Click to enlarge. The drivetrain and MQB.

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Plug N Drive

JUNE 4, 2024

Online Nomination Form. • Mike Brigham Used Electric Vehicle Dealership Award – for car dealerships excelling in the sale and promotion of used fully electric or plug-in hybrid electric cars.

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Baua Electric

JANUARY 18, 2024

Now, Toyota has entered their sights largely due to the company’s refusal to take electric vehicles seriously, its reliance on gas-powered hybrids, and its marketing campaigns that exist to create confusion about electric vehicles and channel consumers into dirtier fossil-powered vehicles.

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Green Car Congress

JULY 16, 2020

To make an effective contribution to climate protection, we aim to improve our products’ overall environmental balance—from resources to recycling. This applies in particular to energy-intensive production of high-voltage batteries for electric vehicles. More than half of the 25 models will be fully electric.

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Green Car Congress

MARCH 5, 2010

Drivetrain of the Audi A8 parallel hybrid. Audi presented the A8 parallel hybrid as a technology concept at the Geneva Motor Show. The technology architecture of the A8 hybrid previews that of the production Q5 hybrid, due to reach the market in late 2010/early 2011, Audi said. During electrical—i.e. Earlier post.)

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Teslarati

JUNE 13, 2022

The company practically made hybrids mainstream with the Prius, but it has maintained a conservative stance on electric vehicles since then. Today, Toyota lags behind its American and South Korean competitors in battery-electric cars, and its hydrogen-powered sedan, the Mirai, remains a niche vehicle. .

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Green Car Congress

APRIL 21, 2016

The Swedish company plans to achieve this aim by offering at least two hybrid versions of every model in its range and releasing the first all-electric car in 2019. The focus point of this strategy is the introduction of plug-in hybrid variants across the entire range of SPA- and CMA-based cars.

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Green Car Congress

JANUARY 15, 2010

Vision Industries Class 8 zero-emission hydrogen fuel cell hybrid-electric truck at the Port of Los Angeles. The Port of Los Angeles is entering into negotiations with Los Angeles-based Vision Industries for the purchase and evaluation of Vision’s Tyrano hydrogen fuel cell hybrid-electric trucks. Photo: Business Wire).

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Green Car Congress

SEPTEMBER 11, 2012

Hybrids remain below 2% of total vehicle output. China, for instance, wants to put 5 million plug-in hybrid-electric and fully electric vehicles on its roads by 2020, which could account for more than 40% of the global EV fleet that year. million in 2010 to 76.8 Global sales of passenger vehicles increased from 75.4

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Electric Auto Association

DECEMBER 6, 2021

Nissan E-ambition Nissan announced Ambition 2030 , a $17 billion plan to build 15 fully electric vehicle (EV) models by 2030. Electric truck. EV chargers Take it with you British start-up ZipCharge introduced Go , its portable EV charger, at the COP26 climate conference in Glasgow. Nissan concept car. The Hyundai Seven.

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Green Car Congress

OCTOBER 9, 2019

The editorial addresses important issues in the current politically charged discussions of global warming and climate-change alarm. … We are certainly in revolutionary times, but it is clear that power generation sources will not become fully renewable and transport will not become fully electric for several decades, if ever.

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Green Car Congress

APRIL 2, 2009

The on-road transportation (ORT) and power generation (PG) sectors are major contributors to CO 2 emissions and a host of short-lived radiatively-active air pollutants, including tropospheric ozone and fine aerosol particles, that exert complex influences on global climate. database) from another global inventory for the year 1996.

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Green Car Congress

OCTOBER 10, 2018

The Council agreed to adjust the Commission proposal on an incentive mechanism for zero- and low-emission vehicles such as fully electric cars or plug-in hybrid vehicles as regards passenger cars. The CO 2 reduction effort will be distributed among manufacturers on the basis of the average mass of their vehicle fleet.

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Green Car Congress

SEPTEMBER 2, 2020

The findings from this vehicle LCA study , the production of which was led by Ricardo and funded by the European Commission, DG Climate Action, confirm the significant environmental benefits of electrified powertrains (particularly of battery electric vehicles) for all of the road vehicle types assessed. —Nikolas Hill.

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Green Car Congress

MAY 4, 2017

The chargers are based on OppCharge , an open interface for the automated charging of electric buses from any manufacturer, and use a pantograph on the infrastructure to connect the bus to the charging point. With tests set to start in the final quarter of 2017, the two ABB HVC300P fast-chargers will charge six fully-electric Scania buses.

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Clean Fleet Report

JULY 6, 2022

This includes battery electric vehicles (BEV; plug-in hybrid electric vehicles (PHEV); hybrid electric vehicles (HEV); and hydrogen fuel cell electric vehicles (FCEV). million fully electric vehicles in the U.S. BEV (Battery Electric Vehicles). PHEV (Plug-in Hybrid Electric Vehicles).

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Baua Electric

APRIL 11, 2024

That still means however that the country’s car manufacturing sector must switch to producing fully-electric vehicles, as part of the UK government’s overall goal to reach net zero carbon emissions by 2050 and help tackle climate change. Also Read : Will Ferrari EV get Ferrari-made batteries?

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Green Car Congress

MARCH 19, 2018

Other technologies—such as efficiency improvements in gasoline engines as well as the rollout of hybrid electric power trains—offer more compelling and cost-effective pathways to reducing CO 2 emissions from European passenger cars, the ICCT says. For instance, hybrid electric vehicles and diesel cars in the small (e.g.,

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Electric Vehicles India

NOVEMBER 27, 2021

Kia unveils new Niro compact electric SUV. Kia a South Korean automaker has unveiled its next-generation Niro compact fully-electric SUV. A few days ago the carmaker had taken its Kia EV9 concept (an all-electric SUV) to the Los Angeles auto show to display. Kia Niro may also have separate controls for climate settings.

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Teslarati

FEBRUARY 17, 2022

The program is the most comprehensive EV recycling process globally, which aims to establish safe, efficient, and effective recovery pathways for end-of-life electric and hybrid-electric vehicles. Volvo’s XC40 Recharge EV is the beginning of the company’s trek to be climate neutral by 2040 and fully-electric by 2030.

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Baua Electric

FEBRUARY 29, 2024

These batteries will allow it to function as a fully electric vehicle without putting its fuel cell into operation. According to the carmaker, it will offer range of up to 434 kms in the hydrogen fuel modem while the electric-only mode will offer around 47 kms of range. It gets features like a 9.0-inch

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Baua Electric

APRIL 21, 2024

Autopia is one of the longer-running attractions at the Anaheim, California, Walt Disney Co. theme park and it undoubtedly has a role in nurturing auto enthusiasm for kids.

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Green Car Congress

FEBRUARY 5, 2018

Our in-depth analysis shows that even if every light-duty vehicle in the world was fully electric by 2040, the demand for liquids could still be similar to levels seen in 2013. increasing hybrids and electric vehicles) play a much smaller role in limiting energy demand for light-duty vehicles. Source: ExxonMobil.

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