Green Car Congress

JULY 19, 2013

The goal is a commercial pre-product by the end of the project in September 2016. The Batteries2020 project approach is based on three parallel strategies: 1) highly focused materials development; 2) understanding aging and degradation phenomena; and 3) routes to reduce battery cost, including second-life use. million (US$7.8

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Green Car Congress

OCTOBER 11, 2011

In a recent interview with Green Car Congress , Mark Oberle Senior Vice President, Corporate Affairs, Celanese, noted that while the industrial ethanol market is a smaller market than fuel ethanol on a global basis, it is very close to what the company does today. Earlier post.). Really, half of the market is in China today.

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Baua Electric

MARCH 10, 2024

This is our look back at the Week In Reverse—right here at Green Car Reports—for the week ending March 9, 2024. With the price cut, the Blazer EV will cost $50,195, or just $42,695 to households who can take advantage of the $7,500 tax credit. Nissan also confirmed that the 2024 Ariya costs a lot less than the 2023 model.

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Green Car Congress

JUNE 25, 2012

XL Hybrids’ hybrid electric powertrain is a low-cost, low-risk, bolt-on, post-transmission parallel hybrid technology designed for Class 1–3 commercial vehicles that integrates seamlessly with the conventional internal combustion engine and transmission. Our focus has always been from day one to be cost-effective. Both the 2.0

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Green Cars News

MAY 9, 2009

Despite the commitment it is expected that the introduction of green cars involve slow progress. Currently there are just over 2,100 hybrid and 2,600 compressed natural gas cars in the region according to a report in the Straits Times - this is less than one per cent of the total car population of around 550,500.

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Green Cars News

JULY 26, 2009

So how does Ford plan to make itself green? Here is an outline of its plans through to the 2012 model year: Introduction of electric and hybrid vehicles: Ford hopes to introduce an electric Transit Connect Commercial Van in 2010; along with an electric Focus in 2011 and the next generation of full hybrid models by 2012.

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Green Car Congress

APRIL 29, 2010

A key element of the new offering will be a new MCU (motor controller unit), Fenton told Green Car Congress. Enova offers electric drive solutions for both hybrid and all-electric applications, with a focus on medium and heavy-duty commercial vehicle fleets.

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Green Cars News

JUNE 6, 2011

The US Department of Energy is looking to slash the costs of electric vehicle supply equipment by using a funding opportunity for up to $12million to develop and make available in three years a smart-grid capable level two system at half of the current costs commercially available.

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Green Car Congress

NOVEMBER 9, 2011

million and commercial revenue was $4.6 million in commercial revenue in the third quarter of 2010, and to transportation revenue of $24.4 million, no grid revenue and commercial revenue of $5.2 Commercial revenue was $12.9 Cost reduction in the 20Ah cell. Cost reduction. million; grid revenue was $20.5

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EV Adoption

APRIL 9, 2023

Home Depot/Lowes Target Their Commercial Accounts: Walmart’s planned charging network could trigger a move by big-box retailers, such as Home Depot and Lowes, propelling them to build a fast charging network at their stores (to be designed especially for their commercial accounts – where they will increasingly add electric trucks to their fleets).

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Green Car Congress

NOVEMBER 24, 2015

The unthrottled nature of the compression ignition process provides high engine efficiency while achieving compliant exhaust emissions with conventional, low-cost aftertreatment. This—in addition to the opposed engine architecture—could increase fuel efficiency by 40-50% over the comparable spark-ignited gasoline engine, Achates said.

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Plugs and Cars

OCTOBER 4, 2009

Much has been made of late of Toyota and other automakers claims they will commercialize hydrogen fuel cell vehicles in 2015. Toyota aims to chop the present-day cost of fuel cell vehicles by 90%. Of course, we've heard these promises/predictions before. But Toyota's announcement itself should sow seeds of doubt. In 5 years.

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Green Cars News

OCTOBER 26, 2012

Volvo Trucks is launching a Fuel Advice service that helps haulage firms reduce their fuel costs by up to 5 per cent. The new Fuel Advice service will provide haulage companies with a personal fuel adviser who will help hauliers to cut fuel costs and maintain these cost cutting improvements in the long term. With [.].

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Green Cars News

FEBRUARY 18, 2010

A lack of recharging infrastructure and short driving ranges aren’t the only hurdles that electric cars have to overcome if the car industry is to see a wide adoption of these vehicles. Tags: Electric cars battery CAP cost electric car residual values.

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Green Cars News

FEBRUARY 28, 2013

Air pollution has hidden economic and health costs; causing some 3 million sick days and 350,000 premature deaths in Europe each year, according to the European Environment Agency (EEA).

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Green Car Congress

NOVEMBER 2, 2011

In an interview with Green Car Congress , Yankitis noted that similar issues and questions keep popping up with development and planning officials. Charging units may be in a little different location [further from the building entrance] due to cost; but consumers need to be able to find the charger. Update building codes.

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Green Car Congress

APRIL 22, 2016

The 2016 Chevrolet Volt with an electric range of 53 miles [ 2 ] is the first commercial car that almost qualifies as a PHEVLER. Electric fuel cost is a fraction of gasoline or diesel fossil fuel cost, even at a time when petroleum prices are temporarily reduced due to geopolitical manipulations and manufacturing costs.

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Green Cars News

APRIL 28, 2009

Smoke emissions produced by turbocharged diesel engines under heavy load conditions - such as when accelerating from low engine speeds and other similar transient manoeuvres - can be all but eliminated by a relatively simple and low cost electric supercharger says automotive CO2 reduction specialist, Controlled Power Technologies (CPT).

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Green Cars News

JUNE 15, 2010

The world’s third largest chemical company INEOS has received an offer of a £7.3million grant towards the construction costs of the first commercial plant that would use its waste-to-ethanol technology.

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Green Cars News

OCTOBER 14, 2009

The huge push state side to embrace green cars may adopt a distinctly British influence when Zytek, a specialist in electric vehicle drivetrains, provides its advanced technology for a new US Government-backed electric commercial vehicle programme.

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Green Cars News

FEBRUARY 4, 2013

Businesses around the UK could save around £50 million each year-simply by taking the unnecessary weight out of the back of their vans. According to new research from the Energy Saving Trust, businesses that operate fleets of light goods vehicles (up to 3.5 tonnes), could collectively save this staggering sum simply by lightening their load [.].

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Green Cars News

APRIL 27, 2010

Vehicle mass could be slashed by 38 per cent – for just a three per cent increase in component costs. That’s the result of a detailed study by Lotus Engineering as it attempted to develop a commercially viable mass reduction strategy for mainstream passenger vehicles.

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Green Cars News

JANUARY 17, 2012

The government’s plug-in car grants scheme is to be extended to vans, with buyers of electric commercials to be allowed to claim up to £8,000 off their new EV. Announced this morning by Transport Minister Norman Baker, the new scheme for vans will allow owners to receive 20 per cent off the cost of a [.].

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Green Cars News

FEBRUARY 27, 2013

Public sector fleets have just weeks left to claim grants worth more than £3,400 towards the cost of a new hybrid commercial vehicle.

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Green Car Congress

MAY 9, 2010

The strategy builds on the existing 2007 strategy to reduce CO 2 emissions from passenger cars and light-duty commercial vehicles, and complements ongoing and planned activities to decarbonize transport and to reduce their environmental impacts. The global car fleet is predicted to grow from 800 million to 1.6 Resources.

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Green Car Congress

OCTOBER 25, 2012

Pinnacle Engines, initially targeting lower power applications (such as tuk tuks and scooters) in developing markets in its commercialization strategy, has signed a licensing and joint development agreement with a major, as yet unnamed, Asian vehicle OEM, with products now expected to be available in early 2014. Improvement during CDC: 28.7%.

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Green Cars News

AUGUST 25, 2009

It will be used to test the commercial viability of wind turbines, while a locally developed wind generator is also near completion. Beginning next year, and continuing until 2020, the government also hopes to cover 30-80 per cent of the cost of buying and installing hydrogen fuel cells to heat homes.

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FEBRUARY 7, 2021

And then this past week, GM released its humorous “ No Way Norway ” EV commercial featuring Will Ferrell. At the end of the commercial, GM shares a significant EV promise: “30 new EVs by 2025.” ” Source: GM Norway Super Bowl TV Commercial. What would be the average sales volume per model per year?

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Green Cars News

OCTOBER 27, 2011

The eco-project based in Long Sutton, Lincolnshire made use of Ford’s light commercial vehicle for the day, to show how it can cost as little as £50 to live with it. Britain’s self-proclaimed ‘greenest community’ is making good use of the all-electric drive of a new Ford Transit Connect EV. The van was put to [.].

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Green Cars News

FEBRUARY 1, 2012

According to a new study by the Centre for Transportation and Logistics, electric commercial vehicles could cost nine-12 per cent less to run than trucks powered by diesel when vehicle-to-grid revenue is accounted for.

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Green Cars News

OCTOBER 12, 2009

The race is on to bring fuel cells to commercialisation after the UK Carbon Trust launched the Polymer Fuel Cells Challenge that could see the mainstream cost-effective production of fuel cell powered cars and buses, as well as providing electricity and heat for both homes and businesses.

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Green Cars News

NOVEMBER 10, 2010

Hydrogen-powered fuel cell electric cars (FCEV) are ready for commercial scale-up and could fast become cost-competitive with traditional petrol and diesel cars according to a new comprehensive study of the technology.

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Green Cars News

OCTOBER 26, 2009

Bright Automotive Inc has launched eSolutions in an effort to accelerate worldwide electrification and overall platform efficiency and at the heart of the new programme is a newly announced contract from the US Army TACOM to conduct a demonstration project on a low-cost plug-in hybrid electric solution for non-tactical military vehicles.

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Green Cars News

AUGUST 12, 2009

The ecoFLEX version of the Vivaro represents Opel/Vauxhall’s low fuel consumption and reduced CO2 line that includes special injection nozzles and modified engine management to show how fuel consumption can be reduced with relatively low-cost intelligent technology. Meanwhile, the Combo ecoFLEX commercial van with its 1.3

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Green Cars News

AUGUST 18, 2009

Even though the technologies for lipids extraction from micro algae to biodiesel are currently infeasible from cost and energy standpoints, they believe that anaerobic digestion of biomass to methane is a commercial reality.

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Green Cars News

OCTOBER 19, 2009

A bus company on the Isle of Wight has launched its own version of the car scrappage scheme, offering motorists free travel on its buses for a year in exchange for their old banger. The government funded Car scrappage is a scheme that does nothing to tackle the fact that we have to encourage people to use their cars less.

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Green Cars News

APRIL 18, 2009

The Chevrolet Volt may have been branded too expensive to be commercially successful by the Obama administration’s taskforce, but its supporters are having none of it. Tags: Chevrolet Green cars Latest news general motors Chevrolet Volt.

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