Green Car Congress

JANUARY 25, 2012

C40 is about action, and I commend Bogota for taking this decisive step to implement innovative new transport policies that will improve the quality of life in the city and address climate change. —Jay Carson, CEO, C40 Cities Climate Leadership Group. Bogota’s project will improve local air quality and noise pollution.

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Cars That Think

AUGUST 24, 2022

This beautifully outfitted room is the newly restored Control Room A at the Battersea Power Station in London. For half a century, the electric power hub controlled the flow of current that met one-fifth of London’s electricity demand. Enjoy the latest images, and if you have suggestions, leave a comment below. James Parsons.

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Green Car Congress

APRIL 1, 2014

Besides Brazil, the BYD electric bus has been tested since 2011 in several cities around the world such as Los Angeles and New York (USA), Bogota (COL), London (GB), Copenhagen (DEN) and Oranjestad (Aruba). Companies in Rio have tested other alternative fuel buses including hybrids, diesel from sugar cane, biodiesel, also CNG buses.

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Green Car Congress

OCTOBER 9, 2014

There are currently 12 industry participants in UKH 2 Mobility together with 3 UK government departments—the Department for Business, Innovation and Skills, the Department for Transport and the Department for Energy and Climate Change—and Transport Scotland, Welsh Government and the Greater London Authority.

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Green Car Congress

JUNE 24, 2015

Ford Motor Credit Company announced today Peer-2-Peer Car Sharing—a pilot program for select customers in six US cities and in London. US customers participate through the Web-based, mobile-friendly software of ride-share company Getaround, while London drivers connect through a similar rental system of easyCar Club.

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Cars That Think

DECEMBER 9, 2022

CoRL 2022 : 14–18 December 2022, AUCKLAND, NEW ZEALAND ICRA 2023 : 29 May–2 June 2023, LONDON RoboCup 2023 : 4–10 July 2023, BORDEAUX, FRANCE RSS 2023 : 10–14 July 2023, DAEGU, KOREA IEEE RO-MAN 2023 : 28–31 August 2023, BUSAN, KOREA Enjoy today’s videos! We also post a weekly calendar of upcoming robotics events for the next few months.

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Green Car Congress

SEPTEMBER 16, 2009

At the 2009 Frankfurt Motor Show, Ford of Europe revealed the first of a fleet of Battery Electric Vehicle (BEV) prototypes based on the Ford Focus ( earlier post ), and specially developed to participate in the UK Government’s Ultra-Low Carbon Vehicles demonstration initiative next year. The Focus BEV prototype. Click to enlarge.

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Green Car Congress

JANUARY 22, 2010

In addition to helping to meet UK and EU climate change targets, we anticipate this research and development work will create significant market opportunities for UK-based companies. TRW Conekt (lead), Tata Motors European Technical Centre, Brook Crompton. Ricardo UK Ltd (lead), Lontra, Ford Motor Company. EDS TurboClaw.

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Cars That Think

AUGUST 24, 2023

Having these [stations] in place will help fight climate change.” The London Stock Exchange identified GVE as one of the fastest-growing private companies in Africa in 2019. He helped maintain, repair, and test the company’s generators, motors, pumps, and other field equipment.

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The Truth About Cars

SEPTEMBER 22, 2023

government “climate advisers” spent June criticizing leadership for being “worryingly slow” on progressing climate goals. Adhering to the preexisting climate agenda did them no favors in two special elections held over the summer. But let’s get a few more takes just for fun. The& Associated Press & made mention that U.K.

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Green Cars News

SEPTEMBER 21, 2009

Television presenter and Camden resident Gail Porter will open Camden Council’s special Green Motor Show where residents and businesses can discover a whole range of eco-friendly vehicles. The Camden Council Green Motor Exposition (GME) will take place at Triton Square Plaza from 10am to 4pm on Thursday 24 September.

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Green Car Congress

NOVEMBER 17, 2010

Toyota Motor Sales (TMS), USA, unveiled the second-generation Toyota RAV4 EV demonstrator vehicle at the Los Angeles Auto Show. Tesla Motors is supplying the battery and other related components. a 100-mile (161 km) range, based on actual road driving patterns under a wide range of climates and conditions. Click to enlarge.

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Green Car Congress

SEPTEMBER 10, 2009

Increasing the market acceptance of low carbon vehicles will contribute to achieving UK and EU climate change targets, whilst creating significant market opportunities for UK-based companies. Led by Nissan Motor Manufacturing (UK) Ltd and the University of Sheffield. High efficiency digital hydraulic motor for kinetic energy recovery.

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Electric Auto Association

NOVEMBER 1, 2022

Far-flung and growing… Before the pandemic, the NBEAA met in person at Thunderstruck Motors , an EV parts and conversion shop in Santa Rosa with a decades-long association with the chapter. A lot of people care very deeply about climate change, and many are engineering-oriented and have a fascination with electric cars.

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Green Car Congress

JUNE 24, 2009

Each of the six vehicle manufacturers—Jaguar/Land Rover, Mitsubishi/Colt, Mercedes Benz/Smart, Tata Motors, LTI and Microcab Industries—are contributing vehicles towards the low carbon scheme, which includes a mix of fully electric vehicles, plug-in hybrids and hydrogen fuel cell cars. London South East Bid. EEMS Accelerate.

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Green Cars News

JUNE 3, 2009

London Mayor Boris Johnson’s recently announced Electric Vehicle Delivery Plan is a highly positive step towards kick-starting the large-scale adoption of electric vehicles and boosting consumer confidence, according to electric quadricycle manufacturer and distributor Aixam Mega. The average journey in London is just four miles.

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Green Car Congress

SEPTEMBER 7, 2020

At launch, Volta Trucks will be the first full-electric large commercial vehicle manufacturer in Europe to use an innovative e-Axle to drive the rear wheels, rather than the conventional electric motor and driveshaft set up used by the small number of other electric truck manufacturers.

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Green Cars News

JUNE 22, 2009

All this is made possible by a powerful 30kW electric motor which is built for us by Zytek Automotive. Boris Johnson, the Mayor of London, said: “It is absolutely fantastic to see manufacturers like smart leading the way to make the electric vehicle an easy choice for Londoners. The smart ed has its own charger on board.

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Green Car Congress

MARCH 8, 2017

Bentley Motors unveiled the EXP 12 Speed 6e concept at the 2017 Geneva International Motor Show. The EXP 12 Speed 6e is a concept to show that Bentley is defining electric motoring in the luxury sector, with the appropriate technology, high quality materials and refinement levels you’d expect from a true Bentley.

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Green Car Congress

FEBRUARY 22, 2017

A 60 kW (81 hp), electric motor runs at the rear of the smart electric drive and transmits 160 N·m of torque via a single fixed gear ratio to the wheels. The electric motor is a separately excited three-phase synchronous motor. The market launch will start in the spring of 2017. Powered by a 17.6 kWh/100 km.

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Tony Karrer Delicious EVdriven

APRIL 16, 2009

Of that, 58% of the emissions are caused by motor cars." Last week Boris Johnson, the London mayor, announced his intention to make the capital a showcase for electric car technology by putting 100,000 electric cars on the roads. Police delete London tourists photos to prevent terrorism 4. My Web del.icio.us

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Tony Karrer Delicious EVdriven

APRIL 30, 2009

Policy (Update2) Share | Email | Print | A A A By Alan Ohnsman April 27 (Bloomberg) -- Honda Motor Co. , General Motors Corp., Toyota Motor Corp. and startups Tesla Motors Inc. While GM, Toyota and Hyundai Motor Co. the only companyselling hydrogen-powered cars to U.S. policy shifts to favor battery-powered autos.

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Green Car Congress

NOVEMBER 19, 2009

Updated Volvo hybrid refuse truck in London. The new refuse truck will be tested by Veolia Environmental Services in central London. The hybrid system used in the refuse truck is a version of Volvo’s I-SAM (Integrated Starter, Alternator, Motor) parallel hybrid system. Click to enlarge.

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Green Car Congress

JULY 26, 2013

International agreements on the need to combat climate change, the fluctuating but generally rising costs of marine fuels which account for a large proportion of the running costs of a ship, and developments on a number of other fronts have led many in the industry to question whether the present methods of ship propulsion are sustainable.

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Cars That Think

MARCH 29, 2022

Call it Peak ICE—the last hurrah of a technology that governments are ushering off the stage to combat climate change. liter V-8 generates 780 metric horsepower; another 220 hp comes from the plug-in hybrid’s electric motors. Ferrari As Ferrari’s first plug-in hybrid, the SF90 integrates a trio of electric motors. km circuit.

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Green Car Congress

JUNE 29, 2011

At an event held at the Royal Automobile Club, Pall Mall, London Gordon Murray Design unveiled its latest ultra-compact electric city vehicle, the T.27 27, which are key to meeting our climate change goals. Specs for the T.27. The car will make its public road debut at the RAC Future Car Challenge on 5 November 2011. Click to enlarge.

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Green Car Congress

JUNE 9, 2010

Phase one started with the placement of 100 electric drive units in London in 2007. The phase-two smart fortwo electric drive vehicles arriving in the United States this year are full electric vehicles, powered by a 30 kW drive motor and a 16.5 Phase three will be series volume production starting in the 2012 model year.

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Green Car Congress

MAY 9, 2013

The UK Centre for Low Carbon Futures published a multi-partner research report— Liquid Air in the energy and transport systems: Opportunities for industry and innovation in the UK —and presented the results at a a conference at the Royal Academy of Engineering in London. The Dearman engine.

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EV Central

JULY 25, 2022

Stories about this TikTok were sent to me by many of the EV-deniers who haunt me online – the same ones who think climate change is just weather, it would be nice if summer was a bit warmer anyway, and windmills are blowing 5G chips up all of our rectums. How hard could it actually be, I thought?

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Wallbox

JANUARY 4, 2021

Keep in mind that repairing or replacing the motor of a fuel car can cost up to $10.000 and, all things considered, EVs simply require fewer visits to workshops and are much cheaper to own. The reason for this is that electric motors are much simpler than internal combustion engines. Are EVs as fast as fuel cars?

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Cars That Think

SEPTEMBER 23, 2023

But the shallow waters east of London are already packed with wind turbines. To arrest the accelerating pace of a changing climate, the world needs a lot more clean energy to electrify heating, transportation, and industry and to displace fossil-fuel generation. Scotland’s deeper waters are therefore the U.K.’s s next frontier.

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Baua Electric

JANUARY 10, 2024

last year put itself up for sale after a slump in the cobalt price left it struggling to finish key projects in the Democratic Republic of Congo, and London-based Horizonte Minerals Plc scaled back work on its Brazilian nickel mine as it searches for funds to complete construction, and announced an emergency USD 20 million financing late last year.

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Tony Karrer Delicious EVdriven

APRIL 16, 2009

And in a true smart grid, electric cars will not only be able to draw on electricity to run their motors, they will also be able to do the reverse: send electricity stored in their batteries back into the grid when it is needed. In effect, cars would be acting like tiny power stations. While utilities such as E.ON

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Cars That Think

APRIL 25, 2022

Even that piddling storage and range rapidly degraded, especially in the southwestern United States and other searing climates, leaving customers howling. (It Those energy-poor packs brought just 24 kilowatt-hours of storage and a 117-kilometer (73-mile) driving range. Low-cobalt batteries have been the response.

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Tony Karrer Delicious EVdriven

APRIL 16, 2009

Credit: GM) General Motors and Segway plan to take a two-wheel concept vehicle for a spin around New York City on Tuesday. Minus two when people realize that if theyre going to get stuck in traffic, they might as well do so in the climate controlled comfort of a car. I couldnt use it for 9 months out of the year.

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Cars That Think

AUGUST 20, 2022

Our 2020 study , published in Nature Climate Change , found that manufacturing a typical EV sold in the United States in 2018 emitted about 7 to 12 tonnes of carbon dioxide, compared with about 5 to 6 tonnes for a gasoline-fueled vehicle. Congestion charges have been levied in Stockholm and London to limit car traffic.

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