Green Cars News

OCTOBER 6, 2009

Regular readers of The Green Piece Column will recall our article on the scrappage scheme back in June, where we put forward the idea that the scheme be tied to the greenest cars. per cent sales decline in March, which was reversed into a six per cent rise in August. The industry was teetering with a 30.5

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Green Cars News

JULY 5, 2009

He believes that within a decade, Volkswagen will offer “significant numbers&# of pure electric cars at affordable prices that offer the range expected by customers. In terms of VW and the electric car, Winterkorn says it estimates a global share of 1-1.5 per cent in pure electric vehicles in 2020.

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Green Cars News

AUGUST 25, 2009

With several of the world’s top motor shows having been cancelled due to the global economic crisis, Frankfurt has become the showcase for the hottest new concept vehicles from the world’s leading car manufacturers. However, the event will also have a distinctly green theme. litre turbodiesel engine that goes on sale in October.

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Green Cars News

APRIL 21, 2009

Central to the policy of investment into electric cars, was the announcement of subsidies worth up to £5,000 to be given to buyers of electric cars. It creates a sales vacuum for EVs already on the market and endangers existing EV companies that are already stressed as a result of the recession.

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Green Cars News

JULY 13, 2009

Honda’s new CEO, Takanobu Ito has today announced plans to begin sales in Japan of the CR-Z sports hybrid model in February 2010. The start date for EU sales of the new hybrid coupe will be released towards the end of 2009.

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Green Cars News

OCTOBER 30, 2009

A focus on tailpipe CO2 emissions has distracted away from the impact of car production, suggests Professor Frank Figge who co-authored the ‘Sustainable Value in Automobile Manufacturing’ study. Asian carmakers are still outperforming their Euorpean and American counterparts in environmental sustainability, a new report finds.

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Green Car Reports

JANUARY 23, 2021

Sales of what kind of vehicle offset the global CO2 reductions of EVs in 2020? This is our look back at the Week In Reverse—right here at Green Car Reports—for the week ending January 22, 2021. We published two hands-on.

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Green Car Congress

SEPTEMBER 25, 2015

In 2006, Honda was the first auto company to voluntarily and publicly announce targets for the reduction of its CO 2 emissions for its products and operations globally. Honda hosted Green Car Congress for the media briefing in Marysville. Source: Honda North America. Click to enlarge. Click to enlarge.

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Green Cars News

JULY 20, 2009

This is good news not just for the North East, but for the whole of the UK, helping to attract foreign investment and securing UK’s place as a global leader in high-tech manufacturing and automotive industries. The introduction of EV will allow the reduction of CO2 emissions and fossil fuel energy dependence on the exterior.

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Tony Karrer Delicious EVdriven

APRIL 21, 2009

Our PRIUS+ Project Photos PHEV Resources Global Warming Take Action News and Events Contact Us How Carmakers are Responding to the Plug-In Hybrid Opportunity If you ask, "have major auto-makers come around on PHEVs?", Committed to sales of 10,000 or more vehicles in late 2010, with increasing production in 2011.

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EV Adoption

MARCH 15, 2021

.” – March 10, via Green Car Reports. Honda of America sales chief Dave Gardner told reporters one of the electric SUVs will be from the Honda brand, while the other will be an Acura. Dave Gardener, Sales Chief – Honda of America. – March 15, Green Car Reports. Kia EV6 | Source: Kia.

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Tony Karrer Delicious EVdriven

APRIL 16, 2009

Lutz, who retired earlier this year, called the car Detroits "moon shot" and an attempt to wrest the mantle of innovation back from the Japanese. Lutz is a man given to hyperbole — called global warming "a crock of shit" — but in this case, hes right. AND the Detroit car companies were laughing.

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