Green Cars News

SEPTEMBER 21, 2009

Now at the Frankfurt Motor Show Ford has announced a new family of petrol engines offering the opportunity to down size engine capacity without suffering a reduction in performance. In fact, fuel consumption and CO2 emissions are reduced by up to 20 per cent compared to a conventional petrol engine. litre and 2.0

Petrol

EV Connect

JUNE 25, 2024

The cost of BEVs can range from $30,000 - $100,000. Instead, you’re compromising on the performance of both and will have to settle for a less powerful petrol-driven engine and an electric motor with a lower driving range. While that is a very steep spread, popular vehicles like Tesla or the Chevy Bolt start under $40,000.

Electric Vehicles

Baua Electric

JULY 18, 2024

Gupta highlighted that Auto LPG, described as a ‘Net Zero Hero,’ generates 20% less CO2 than petrol and 60% less than diesel. Gupta highlighted that Auto LPG, described as a ‘Net Zero Hero,’ generates 20% less CO2 than petrol and 60% less than diesel.

Auto

Baua Electric

SEPTEMBER 4, 2024

A new survey conducted by YouGov has showed that belief in EV myths is holding back adoption, with most petrol car drivers scoring just a 2/10 in a quiz about how electric cars work. Out of the petrol drivers surveyed, a majority of them, 57%, were only able to answer 2 out of 10 questions correctly, and 90% got less than half correct.

Petrol

Drive Electric

MAY 25, 2021

It’s also affected by things like whether you have the vehicle full-time and if you pay anything towards the cost of purchase. The amount of company car tax due is also based on what type of fuel the vehicle uses and its CO2 emissions. As you can see, EVs offer enormous savings on company car tax compared to petrol and diesel models.

Tax

Wallbox

JUNE 30, 2021

To learn from its experience, let’s look back through Norway’s 30-year journey to becoming an EV giant: it all started with a mission to curb the country’s CO2 emissions. Curbing CO2 Emissions with Electric Transport. Furthermore, this doesn’t factor in the savings on lower running costs as well as cheaper ‘fuel’ costs per kilometer.

Norway

Push EVs

JANUARY 5, 2023

Petrol vehicles also saw a relative sales surge ahead of increased emissions taxes. PHEV’s relatively low share was not due to their fall in volume, rather that the volume of BEVs and petrol vehicles were much higher than usual. Petrol vehicle volumes were 4x to 5x recent seasonal norms. The first is a weight tax of 12.5

Norway

Green Cars News

JUNE 21, 2009

Describing himself as anti-tax but pro-carbon tax, Tesla Motors founder Elon Musk risked the backlash of US motorists by declaring that petrol should probably cost $10 a gallon.

Price

Green Cars News

JULY 22, 2009

According to Michigan’s Transportation Research Institute, both the unemployment rate and the cost of petrol influenced buyers’ decisions with regards to the fuel economy of their vehicles.

Fuel Economy

EV Central

MARCH 20, 2024

Then there’s the cost of converting it to right-hand-drive for our market. The recently proposed National Vehicle Efficiency Standard (NVES) – imposing tough CO2 emissions limit on passenger vehicles, SUVs, utes and vans – will likely expedite the arrival of all manner of new EVs. Price is also a factor.

Silverado

Baua Electric

MAY 17, 2024

With a range of 372 miles / 595 kilometres on a full tank of hydrogen plus a further 37 miles / 59km of battery range (according to the WLTP test cycle) and a refuelling time akin to that of a petrol or diesel car, the CR-V e:FCEV is built in Ohio at Honda’s Performance Manufacturing Centre.

Honda

Baua Electric

MARCH 23, 2024

According to a study by the NITI Aayog, India may adopt clean technology, through EVs, to lower logistics costs by four percent of its GDP and avoid 10 gigatons of Co2 emissions by 2030. Advantages of EVs When it comes to operating costs, using EVs is more advantageous than using vehicles powered by ICE.

Future

Drive Electric

JANUARY 14, 2022

The RAC Foundation reports it currently costs – on average – around £80 to fill up a vehicle with petrol or diesel (based on a 55 litre fuel tank). It’s more expensive to fill up with petrol once, than it is to charge an electric car eight times. An EV with a 50kWh battery? £7 7 worth of electricity.

Electric Cars

Push EVs

MAY 9, 2023

All other powertrains lost volume YoY, with petrol-only vehicles at their 2nd lowest volume of the modern era (just 112 units), and 3rd lowest share ever, just 1.25% of the auto market. Looking at unit volumes, against the background of a 7.7% overall market drop YoY, BEVs grew volume by 3.7% to 7,471 units.

Norway

EV Central

JULY 5, 2024

It’s got more gear and a better interior ambience than the Luxury without copping the extra mechanical weight and cost of the Sports Luxury AWD combined with little bare evidence of a performance advantage. litre three-cylinder petrol-electric Output: 67kW/120Nm (electric motor: 69kW/185Nm) Combined output: 100kW Transmission: e-CVT Fuel: 3.8L/100km

Lexus

Drive Electric

FEBRUARY 1, 2022

(Calculated using UK average energy cost of 14p per kW – find out more about how much it costs to charge an electric car ). Cost per mile : As little as 3.4p calculated using UK average energy cost of 14p per kW). The EQA weighs 2040kg, which is more than the petrol model, but ride quality is good on smooth roads.

Mercedes

Get Electric Vehicle

MAY 29, 2021

According to BloombergNEF estimates, larger vehicles such as hybrid sedans and SUVs would be as inexpensive to manufacture as petrol and diesel models by 2026, with compact cars crossing the threshold the following year. The study conducted by BloombergNEF is specific to Europe where the CO2 regulations are and going to very stringent.

Electric Vehicles

Plug In India

FEBRUARY 22, 2022

Because we are sick and tired of listening to petrol heads who complain about batteries. Have you ever heard of a similar effort to take the exhaust smoke from pollution cars and then try to create petrol? And we are glad JB left Tesla to start this important company. Have you seen any such company do that? So there you go.

India

Drive Electric NZ

JUNE 19, 2023

It is rapidly becoming clear that electric vehicles will replace petrol and diesel ICE vehicles in most use cases. New Zealand currently has 4 million passenger cars in its fleet, the vast majority of which are fuelled by petrol and diesel. It is significantly more cost effective to install charge points in new builds.

Climate Change

Drive Electric NZ

NOVEMBER 24, 2021

We would recommend signalling a phase-out date for new petrol vehicles between 2030 and 2032, and confirming that in law in 2024/2025. On the demand side, an ICE phase-out is easy to communicate to consumers, which will increase the perception that petrol-powered vehicles are becoming socially unacceptable.

Emissions

Get Electric Vehicle

JANUARY 6, 2023

It will be equivalent to opening a petrol pump with unlimited and long-term business potential in India. Companies and entrepreneurs are rapidly adopting digital means of conducting businesses to stop the loop of increasing pollution and limit the use of natural resources, both of which increase CO2 emissions in our environment.

India

My Energi

APRIL 13, 2021

It’s estimated that UK households waste 4.5million tonnes of food every year , which creates greenhouse gases 21 times more damaging to the environment than CO2 when left to rot in landfill. What’s not to like? Rather than buying on the day, plan your meals, write a list and stick to it! Invest in sustainable products.

Green

Baua Electric

MAY 17, 2024

litre Z-series powertrain, which now features a three-cylinder layout for the petrol engine, christened Z12E, a downsize from the outgoing 1.2-litre, MSIL says the move is to achieve better fuel, as well as thermal efficiency, thereby reducing the overall CO2 emissions, which have gone down by up to 12 percent. Taking the game forward.

Suzuki

Baua Electric

AUGUST 22, 2024

But after stating this target, VDA says its most interesting sentence, from which this article got its title: “In the interests of climate protection, fossil fuels should no longer be allowed to be sold at German petrol stations from 2045 onwards.”

Auto

EV Info

MARCH 26, 2021

With two Electric cars, at the time a Nissan Lean and Mitsubishi Outlander, we use a considerable amount of electricity but not much petrol, so already we were a reasonable way down the less CO2 road. According to the Department for Business, the average cost for standard electricity in the UK in 2020 was 17.2p/kWh.

Solar

Drive Electric

JUNE 1, 2021

Cost per mile: As little as 4p per mile (calculated using UK average energy cost of 14p per kW). The dashboard looks similar to that in other petrol and diesel models, and the overall interior is a very upmarket environment. CO2 emissions (WLTP): 0 g/km. Charging speed: 0 to 80% in 30 minutes (at a 150kW charge point).

Audi

Tony Karrer Delicious EVdriven

APRIL 17, 2009

Photo: CC DigitalK) Profile-raising Hjalmar readily admits that major CO2 reductions will not realistically be achieved by the introduction of electric Lotus Elises. The cost of ownership for EVs is still quite high. The cost of batteries is not a problem when this is organized in the right way.

Hybrid

Get Electric Vehicle

JUNE 7, 2023

Here are some of the key advantages of electric vehicles: Environmental Benefits: EVs produce zero tailpipe emissions, meaning they do not release pollutants like carbon dioxide (CO2), nitrogen oxides (NOx), particulate matter, and other harmful gases into the atmosphere. A petrol car has an efficiency of 28%.

Electric Vehicles

Tony Karrer Delicious EVdriven

APRIL 21, 2009

Plug-in hybrid electric vehicle technologies are not yet competitive due primarily to the high cost of advanced batteries. Ford and SCE will explore whether these batteries have other uses that could reduce their cost to consumers. "By partnering with these two industries. Joint Press Release ) 4/4/07 Ford Motor Co. unit, said. "We

Plug-in

Tony Karrer Delicious EVdriven

APRIL 16, 2009

At current transportation battery prices, that is well beyond the cost of spinning reserve. On the other hand, the cost of a used transportation battery will be set by the next cheapest form of scalable dispatchable storage such as air pressure storage less the battery recycle value. — AH2 14.

Grid

EV Central

AUGUST 10, 2022

As well as lowering the costs of refuelling and servicing, there’s less time in shuffling cars around due to their simpler operation and the relative ease of recharging. Electric cars are more expensive to buy than petrol-powered alternatives, but there are big benefits in lower running costs. EVs to change the rental car model.

Fleet

My Electric Car

AUGUST 21, 2020

In addition, it is subject to similar refining, storage and distribution costs currently associated with petrol and diesel, including upstream CO2 emissions where the electricity required is usually generated from fossil fuels. Fourth, like all fossil fuels hydrogen is highly volatile, far more so than petrol.

Hydrogen

EV Adoption

MARCH 15, 2021

GM To Develop Solid State Batteries With SolidEnergy Systems – General Motors has signed a deal with a Massachusetts Institute of Technology spinout for joint development of next-generation electric vehicle batteries that are expected to cut the cost of the technology by 60%. – March 10, Politico.

Kia

Tony Karrer Delicious EVdriven

APRIL 16, 2009

It is simply the cost of doing business. "On some products, the costs, particularly in advanced technologies, are high," he said in a lengthy interview with Automotive News (free subscription required). Generating electricity from wind and geothermal rather than a CO2 producing sources would help alleviate that problem.

Volt

EV Central

APRIL 26, 2025

Happy pumping petrol. By that he meant he would scrap penalties imposed on vehicles that exceeded CO2 limits imposed under Australia’s new NVES scheme. This will mean Australians can continue to access cost-of-living relief by shifting to cleaner, more affordable cars. Peter Dutton.

Climate

EV Central

APRIL 26, 2025

Happy pumping petrol. By that he meant he would scrap penalties imposed on vehicles that exceeded CO2 limits imposed under Australia’s new NVES scheme. This will mean Australians can continue to access cost-of-living relief by shifting to cleaner, more affordable cars. Peter Dutton.

Climate