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VW Passat hybrid to prove low cost solution to CO2

Green Cars News

Teaming up with Advanced Lead Acid Battery Consortium (ALABC), the organisations are to install ‘micro-mild’ hybrid technology into the family saloon model to prove the significant CO2 reductions possible at relatively low [.].

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Climate impact of lithium-ion batteries & how to measure it 

Electric Vehicles India

Lithium-ion batteries are something which everyone prefers over lead-acid batteries, since the last ten years its been seen used mostly mobiles to every electronic appliance. This means a battery’s CO2 footprint will be regarded the same no matter if it will allow 500 charge and discharge cycles or 5,000.

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Welsh University forms battery partnership

Green Cars News

The University of Glamorgan will team with advanced material company Atraverda to produce a commercially viable bi-polar lead-acid battery. Tags: Green cars Latest news Atraverda bi-polar lead acid batteries University of Glamorgan.

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Super Hybrid set for Geneva debut

Green Cars News

To be more precise, it’s the LC Super Hybrid, which has been conceived by the Advanced Lead-Acid Battery Consortium and Controlled Power Technologies. Together they have created a car that can achieve a significant reduction in CO2 emissions thanks to using the [.]. Is it a bird… is it a plane… no, it’s a super hybrid.

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HyBoost project could cut emissions by 40 per cent

Green Cars News

A new project has set the ambitious goal of reducing carbon dioxide (CO2) emissions by 30-40 per cent. The research is being led by Ricardo, with partners including Controlled Power Technologies, Ford, Imperial College London, Valeo and the European Advanced Lead Acid Battery Consortium.

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First retro-fit plug-in hybrid system to help the unconverted

Green Cars News

Designed to operate as a ‘Plug-In Hybrid Electric Vehicle’ (PHEV), the development team retained the existing conventional front-wheel-drive system of the Combo but added an electric drive, powered via Exide’s low cost advanced lead acid batteries, to the rear wheels.

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2020 Electric Vehicle Industry Report Card and trends for the new year

Plug In India

For example, there is no news from Tork motorcycles. Companies like Mahindra logistics plan to use cargo loader vehicles supplied by Mahindra Electric and Kinetic Green. Their electric vehicles have completed 250 million km, which are oil and emission fee transportation, saving 25,000 metric tons of CO2 which is very impressive.

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