Green Car Congress

DECEMBER 18, 2012

Global automotive Li-Ion battery production capacity is outstripping demand five-to-one as automakers refocus on hybrids and away from full electric vehicles, according to Dr. Menahem Anderman’s recently released xEV Industry Insider Report. Conversely, those of HEVs are in line with plans.

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Green Car Congress

SEPTEMBER 29, 2011

Micro-mild hybrids. CPT argues that currently the most cost-effective solution for reducing CO 2 emissions is modular micro-mild (MM) hybrid technology, based on highly boosted and radically downsized gasoline and diesel powertrains. LC Super Hybrid technology demonstrator. —Guy Morris.

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Green Car Congress

NOVEMBER 1, 2011

variant but with fuel economy of a strong hybrid. HyBoost achieves this by combining aggressive 50% downsizing of the engine with an electric supercharger for transient low-speed performance, and a micro-hybrid stop-start and energy recuperation systems, Boggs said. Micro-hybrid market. Click to enlarge. Downsizing the 2.0-liter

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Green Car Congress

MAY 24, 2011

We are in the decade of the hybrid electric vehicle despite the fact that most off-road and underwater vehicles are pure electric. The “ Electric Vehicles—Land, Sea & Air Europe 2011 ” conference and exhibition will take place in Stuttgart, Germany 27–28 June. by Dr. Peter Harrop, Chairman, IDTechEx.

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Green Car Congress

MARCH 19, 2020

The BMW Group plans to invest more than €30 billion up to 2025 in research and development to underscore its position as an innovation leader, said Oliver Zipse, Chairman of the Board of Management of BMW AG, at the company’s Annual Accounts Press Conference in Munich. This also expresses our confidence for the future business development.

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Green Car Congress

JUNE 11, 2009

Although Toyota has been working on Li-ion batteries for strong hybrids, and has had 126 Priuses equipped with Li-ion packs on the road for the past three years, NiMH cost performance wins compared to lithium for this application, Kuroda said. The results of the Li-ion testsing, he noted, are very promising.

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Green Car Congress

JUNE 11, 2009

Aymeric Rousseau, program manager at Argonne, presented a small slice of this wide study at the Advanced Automotive Battery Conference 2009 (AABC) this week in Long Beach. Camry hybrid) PHEV with a 4 kWh and an 8 kWh pack; and a series hybrid (extended-range electric vehicle, e.g., Volt) with a 12 kWh and a 16 kWh pack.

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Green Car Congress

MAY 20, 2019

The hybrid FSTAR (flying sprawl-tuned autonomous robot) will be introduced at the International Conference on Robotics and Automation 2019 in Montréal on 21 May. It was developed in the BGU Bio-Inspired and Medical Robotics Lab by Prof.

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EV Central

APRIL 12, 2023

Koji Sato speaks at a Tokyo press conference on April 7 2023 announcing Toyota’s ramped-up EV commitment. Sato stressed that Toyota’s BEV expansion would not come at the cost of hybrids , with which Toyota has enjoyed enormous sales success.

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Green Car Congress

FEBRUARY 4, 2009

Comparison of Fuel Consumption, Fun to Drive and System Cost of the different powertrain concepts. full hybrid (power-split) system delivered a 36% compared to the baseline. full hybrid (power-split) system delivered a 36% compared to the baseline. higher (better) than both the conventional vehicle and the full hybrid.

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Cars That Think

DECEMBER 21, 2022

The University of California and the Conference of Italian University Rectors (a consortium of state and non-state universities known as the CRUI) each recently signed what’s known as a read-and-publish agreement with IEEE. The cost of accessing IEEE Xplore content and the APCs will be covered by license fees paid by consortium members.

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Green Car Congress

NOVEMBER 12, 2013

BASF Battery Materials will discuss its latest improvements in Nickel Metal Hydride (NiMH) battery technology for grid energy storage applications at the 8 th International Renewable Energy Storage Conference and Exhibition (IRES 2013), being held 18-20 November 2013 in Berlin, Germany.

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Green Car Congress

JANUARY 25, 2016

ExxonMobil forecasts that by 2040, one of every four cars on the world’s roads will be a hybrid; conventional cars (primarily gasoline-powered) will still remain most popular to 2040. The company forecasts modest gains for plug-in electric cars, with cost and functionality remaining barriers.

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Green Car Congress

JUNE 11, 2016

A range of aftertreatment technology options are available to automakers seeking to achieve compliance with the impending EU Real Driving Emissions (RDE) regulations, according to the results of a Ricardo research project presented recently at the SIA Powertrain international conference and exhibition in Rouen, France.

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Green Car Congress

JULY 14, 2016

Outreach activities will include a website, representation at key national and international events and an annual community conference, held in conjunction with the Advanced Propulsion Centre Power Electronics Spoke. —Professor Mark Johnson, Principal Investigator, Faculty of Engineering at Nottingham.

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Green Car Congress

AUGUST 22, 2017

If the climate targets set by the Paris conference are to be achieved, CO 2 emissions from traffic worldwide will have to be reduced 50% over the next four decades, and by at least 85% in the advanced economies, Bosch notes. In this way, the cost of exhaust-gas treatment can be reduced, Bosch adds. Bottom: Fuel pathways. Source: Bosch.

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Green Car Congress

OCTOBER 12, 2018

Attaining environmental benefits and lower cost of ownership are driving more commercial fleets to electrify, according to a new study by UPS and GreenBiz. A lower total cost of ownership—factoring in both direct and indirect costs and savings over the life of the vehicle—is the second biggest driver, cited by 64% of respondents.

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Green Car Congress

APRIL 13, 2010

Among the findings of their study: The majority of gasoline reduction is due to increases in CS (charge-sustaining, i.e., conventional hybrid mode) fuel economy, not in the displacement of gasoline with electricity in CD (charge-depleting, i.e., electric-power) mode. —Axsen and Kurani. Increasing the percentage of PHEVs in the vehicle.

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Green Car Congress

NOVEMBER 19, 2015

Flanked by the Audi A3 Sportback e-tron ( earlier post ) on one side and the Audi concept e-tron quattro ( earlier post ) on the other, Audi of America president Scott Keogh used his press conference speech at the Los Angeles Auto Show yesterday to declare that the brand is targeting at least 25% of its US sales to be e-tron—i.e.,

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Green Car Congress

MARCH 11, 2014

Toyota Motor continues to lay the foundation for the introduction of its production fuel cell hybrid vehicle in 2015; the company began work on fuel cell technology in 1992. From March 2006 he was engaged in Plug-in Hybrid vehicle planning and development, and, in 2007, became planning and development leader for the Prius Plug-in project.

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Green Car Congress

JULY 1, 2015

At last week’s Low Carbon Vehicle Partnership conference in the UK—prior to the Battersea Formula E Grand Prix run over the weekend—Edmund King, the UK AA’s (Automobile Association) president argued that millions of second cars in households could relatively easily be electric vehicles. Slightly less concerned about charging time.

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Green Car Congress

OCTOBER 4, 2009

Toyota’s targeted cost reductions in fuel cell vehicles. In a news conference at the Japan National Press Club on Friday, Toyota Motor President Akio Toyoda said that the company plans to begin mass production of electric vehicles in the US in 2012, followed by US production of fuel cell vehicles in 2015. Source: Toyota.

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Green Car Congress

MAY 12, 2009

GE Chairman and CEO Jeff Immelt shows a sodium-metal halide battery cell at the press conference announcing the battery plant. GE says the planned facility will produce approximately 10 million sodium-metal halide cells each year—equivalent to 900 MWh of energy storage, or enough to support 1,000 GE hybrid locomotives. Earlier post.).

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Green Car Congress

NOVEMBER 12, 2015

A new Conference Board of Canada report finds that Canada is unlikely to achieve an 80% reduction in greenhouse gas emissions from 1990 levels by 2050. Further adoption of alternative vehicle technologies, such as hybrids, plug-in electric, natural gas and biofuels. —“A Long Hard Road”.

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Green Car Congress

JUNE 1, 2017

In a speech to the Society of Motor Manufacturers and Traders Connected Conference in London, the Business Secretary outlined plans to create a cluster of excellence in CAV testing along the M40 corridor between Birmingham and London.

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Clean Fleet Report

JUNE 24, 2022

If you spend most of the week huddled in a conference room or behind a computer, spend the rest of the day indoors, perhaps an expensive sports car is not your ideal possession. Because of this we don’t address issues such as long-term reliability or total cost of ownership.

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EV Connect

AUGUST 2, 2021

Tax credits for installing EV charging stations are available in a variety of forms, and many of them apply toward the cost of equipment and installation. Washington state offers tax credits for up to 50% of the costs of equipment and related costs. They include incentives for installing EV charging stations.

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Green Car Congress

SEPTEMBER 22, 2009

Stationary Fuel Cells and Hybrid Transit Buses Incremental Costs: The purchase of diesel-electric hybrid transit buses and stationary fuel cells for use in the statewide bus system in Connecticut. Statewide Paratransit Bus Hybrid Program: Purchase 31 paratransit hybrid buses to replace 31 gas and diesel vehicles.

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Green Car Congress

OCTOBER 23, 2009

The conference was sold out; it was also essentially a PowerPoint-free zone; the basic format relied heavily on brief introductory remarks from sets of speakers representing the diverse stakeholders, followed by questions from attendees. PG&E services the San Francisco area and Northern California. —Jon Lauckner. —Dan Ford.

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Green Car Congress

DECEMBER 1, 2011

The three-year project has a projected cost of €4.94 For vehicle applications, it is desirable to have devices with high energy density, high power density, long cycle and shelf life, and low cost. million (US$6.64 million); EU project funding is €3.58 million (US$4.82

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Cars That Think

SEPTEMBER 28, 2021

Instead, they spend much of their time on tasks like "conferring with colleagues, writing design specifications, and upgrading existing software stacks." Codex's creators suspect the system may "somewhat reduce the overall cost of producing software" by letting developers "write good code faster. But they doubt it will steal jobs.

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Green Car Congress

JUNE 19, 2009

Commercialization of those technologies must start in the next decade, noted ARB Executive Officer Tom Cackette in a presentation at the recent Advanced Automotive Battery Conference. Fuel cell system durability has improved and costs have been reduced through R&D, the ARB staff noted. Earlier post. ). Infrastructure.

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Green Car Congress

SEPTEMBER 22, 2009

The VTES technology can also help reduce soot and particulate emissions from diesel engines, particularly when the driver accelerates at low engine revs, which, in turn, creates an opportunity to reduce the size and cost of the diesel particulate filter (DPF). Mark Criddle, CPT senior engineering manager.

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Plug In Partners

SEPTEMBER 15, 2008

I t wasn't that long ago that I remember a Chrysler ad that bragged about how its new Charger, with the big V 8, was a hybrid. Company bosses are said to be keen to put this system into production but no firm decisions will be made until the cost of batteries is reduced." it burned gas and rubber.

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Plug In Partners

OCTOBER 8, 2008

W hen we started the Plug In Partner initiative, our primary objective was to create a nationwide campaign to urge automakers to accelerate development of plug-in hybrid vehicles. But don’t call them hybrids. The Volt is not a hybrid, and it’s not a plug-in hybrid. We’ve already heard about a potential Volt-based Pontiac.)

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Green Car Congress

NOVEMBER 19, 2014

The European Advanced Lead-Acid Battery Consortium (EALABC) is delivering a paper this week outlining the consortium’s approach to 48V hybridization at the 2 nd International Conference on Advanced Automotive 48V Power Supply Systems in Düsseldorf. —Allan Cooper. —Allan Cooper. Earlier post.)

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Tony Karrer Delicious EVdriven

APRIL 17, 2009

Add to Mixx Add to Newsvine Add to Connotea Add to CiteUlike Add to Furl Googlize this Add to Rojo Add to MyWeb Favorite Print E-mail The price of green: The Fisker Karma, on display at the New York Auto Show, is a plug-in hybrid that can run on batteries alone for 50 miles. Price: $87,000. The Karma can be refueled quickly.)

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