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

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. Cost benefit analysis. Based on the results, Argonne also modeled out the cost-benefit of the different configurations. Aymeric Rousseau et al.

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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. Driven by new CEO Koji Sato, the new Toyota plan calls for 1.5

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Green Car Congress

MARCH 11, 2014

From the perspective of mobility zones based on travel distance, hybrid and plug-in hybrid vehicles can match the everyday usability of a current gasoline car, and become mainstream environmentally friendly vehicles. Toyota is also considering integrating a boost converter on the stack itself, McClory said at the SAE conference.

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Blink Charging

DECEMBER 20, 2023

Site assessment View Blink’s EV Site Assessment Guidelines The second step is to conduct a site assessment with your EV expert and/or electrical contractor to determine your needs and the best course of action to take while keeping costs as low as possible. C climate-aligned future.” Currently, there are over 4.2

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Green Car Congress

APRIL 3, 2017

These new requirements increase the importance of having a reliable, robust infrastructure for train to ground communications, as more and more services add pressure to the bandwidth needed to support them, increasing the cost of LTE significantly. It can also be provided by Wi-Fi networks, when available, at train stations and yards.

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Green Car Congress

DECEMBER 18, 2012

Anderman is founder and chairman of the Advanced Automotive Battery Conference (AABC); the 13 th annual conference is scheduled for February 2013 in Pasadena, California. As a result, production plans for EVs and plug-in hybrid electric vehicles (PHEVs) for the next 4-5 years are being slashed. million units in 2012 to about 4.1

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Cars That Think

JULY 14, 2023

In order for hydrogen to be a viable source of clean energy, the cost of electrolysis needs to be much lower. Sharaf Alsharif, a researcher at the Oldenburger OFFIS Institute for Information Technology in Oldenburg, Germany, believes digital twins could help bring down the cost of clean hydrogen production.

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Green Car Congress

JUNE 11, 2009

Toyota has been able to bring down the cost of the NiMH pack in the Prius “dramatically”, he said. We believe that cost must come down more to win the competition. The results of the Li-ion testsing, he noted, are very promising. The new Prius is in competition with the Honda Insight. The price of vehicles has been set low.

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Green Car Congress

FEBRUARY 11, 2016

million to develop an advanced smart charging technology that maintains plug-in electric vehicle consumer needs while reducing charging loads, to achieve electricity grid benefits. The California Energy Commission is awarding the University of California, Berkeley $1.5

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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

JANUARY 25, 2016

The company forecasts modest gains for plug-in electric cars, with cost and functionality remaining barriers. Global energy demand will increase 25% between 2014 and 2040, driven by population growth and economic expansion, ExxonMobil forecasts in the 2016 edition of its annual The Outlook for Energy. Source: ExxonMobil.

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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. At the AABC 2008 conference, Robert King from GE Global Research outlined requirements and challenges for hybrid locomotive batteries, including: 1,300 kW continuous chare/discharge power. Click to enlarge.

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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. Canada’s road transport emissions were 40% higher in 2013 than in 1990. The report finds that an additional 9.7–15.0 Mt short of the 80-by-50 goal. —“A Long Hard Road”.

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Tony Karrer Delicious EVdriven

APRIL 21, 2009

We noted in December that the Society of Automotive Engineers, or SAE, was working to update standards for the interface between plug-in electric cars and the grid, and planned to agree on a set within months. And for this ecosystem to be robust, there must be commonality, especially when owners are plugging into the electrical grid.

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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. We think the Volt will stay the test of time," said Tony Posawatz, vehicle line director for the plug-in car unveiled in production form here today.

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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

SEPTEMBER 29, 2011

For a 15-25 percent reduction in CO 2 emissions using micro-mild hybrid technologies we have established an incremental cost to the manufacturer of between €750 and €1500. Electric supercharging at 48 volts extends that envelope of torque enhancement. In other words adding a useful 42kW boost for low speed overtaking and hill climbs.

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Green Car Congress

JULY 17, 2015

The PHEV (Plug-in Hybrid Electric Vehicle), a subset of the electric car, combines a primary electric motor with a much smaller back-up engine fueled with a hydrocarbon/biofuel mix. (In Andrew Frank is a significant industry dignitary credited as being the “Inventor” (or “Father”) of the modern day Plug-in Hybrid Electric Vehicle.

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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. It takes the Volt about 9 seconds.)

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Green Car Congress

FEBRUARY 24, 2016

A paper by a team from the University of Chicago and MIT suggests that technology-driven cost reductions in fossil fuels will lead to the continued use of fossil fuels—oil, gas, and coal—unless governments pass new taxes on carbon emissions. Their analysis is published in the Journal of Economic Perspectives.

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Green Car Congress

MAY 24, 2011

The “ Electric Vehicles—Land, Sea & Air Europe 2011 ” conference and exhibition will take place in Stuttgart, Germany 27–28 June. The company is also producing a US variant of the conference in San Jose, California in November. by Dr. Peter Harrop, Chairman, IDTechEx. Largest sector by value.

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Clean Fleet Report

JUNE 24, 2022

These prized possessions go for multiple thousands of dollars and cost more in maintenance costs. 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. Let your lifestyle mirror your car choice.

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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. Earlier post.). Earlier post.). This assessment was the basis for his decision to apply the funding in that area elsewhere. Earlier post. ).

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Green Car Congress

AUGUST 1, 2009

The European Commission has published 53 calls for. proposals in various thematic areas of the Seventh Research Framework Program. FP7), including six calls for transport with funding of approximately €243 million (US$344 million). Within that, projects for the European Green Cars Inititative are to receive an indicative (i.e., billion (US$5.8

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Green Car Congress

APRIL 29, 2009

I’m not against that and we should be exploring it but there are a lot of challenges—the primary one being the cost of these vehicles and there are infrastructure issues as well ,” cautioned Heywood. Organized by Shane Chang at Honda Research Institute USA Inc., Winner of the 2004 Dale Prize for Excellence in Urban Planning. Earlier post.)].

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Tony Karrer Delicious EVdriven

APRIL 21, 2009

About CalCars Plug-In Hybrids FAQ How to Get a PHEV Where PHEVs are Carmakers Say. 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?",

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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. The Federal Transit Administration reviewed more than $2 billion in applications for these funds. The DOT is making $48.1 Of that, $26.5

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Charged EVs

SEPTEMBER 19, 2023

Anyone who would deploy any kind of large-scale EV charging project needs to work closely (and early) with their local electrical utility. This can be a complex undertaking, especially for companies that work in different regions, as there are around 1,600 utilities in the US, subject to a wide variety of different state and local regulators.

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Plug in America

OCTOBER 13, 2023

Fran Pavely, the author of landmark global warming legislation, led off our press conference. Disappointed but undeterred, we went to work and launched National Drive Elect ric Week (originally called National Plug In Day), thinking we would have had a better chance of coverage h ad our parade been part of a nationwide observance.

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Electric Auto Association

OCTOBER 28, 2021

I have had memberships in the EAA, Tucson EAA, and West Michigan EV and Plug-in Vehicle Enthusiasts. Meet the 17 Electric Auto Association members nominated for the National Board BY APRIL BOLDUC: PRESIDENT OF THE ELECTRIC AUTO ASSOCIATION It’s the most board candidates in our history. What type of leadership makes you thrive?

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Electric Auto Association

OCTOBER 28, 2021

I have had memberships in the EAA, Tucson EAA, and West Michigan EV and Plug-in Vehicle Enthusiasts. Meet the 17 Electric Auto Association members nominated for the National Board BY APRIL BOLDUC: PRESIDENT OF THE ELECTRIC AUTO ASSOCIATION It’s the most board candidates in our history. What type of leadership makes you thrive?

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Green Car Congress

JULY 19, 2011

At the “Forward with Ford” event held in June—a conference exploring the linkage of Ford vehicles and technologies to global consumer trends—the company showcased its work on vehicle-to-vehicle (V2V) communications with a focus on crash avoidance. Click to enlarge.

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Plug in America

NOVEMBER 1, 2023

The cost of an e-bike ranges from $500 to thousands of dollars, with the average price around $2,500, according to the National Conference of State Legislatures. Currently, a proposal in California would create a substantial incentive for consumers to apply to the purchase of an electric motorcycle and reduce their out-of-pocket costs.

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EV Connect

MAY 17, 2021

The plummeting costs of technology haven’t hurt either — Ceres reported that electric vehicle battery costs , alone, dropped by 80% from 2012 to 2020. The plummeting costs of technology haven’t hurt either — Ceres reported that electric vehicle battery costs , alone, dropped by 80% from 2012 to 2020.

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Creative Greenius

JUNE 11, 2009

We’ve now got some Mo going with: California solar loan financing that will eliminate the big up front cost of solar. That’s just one reason I spent 12 hours on behalf of the South Bay Environmental Services Center talking to people at the Palos Verdes Street Fair last weekend. It’s a slam dunk.

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Green Car Congress

AUGUST 11, 2009

At the US average cost of electricity (approximately 11 cents per kWh), GM calculates that a typical Volt driver would pay about $2.75 For plug-in vehicles that require some assist from the engine for propulsion or as a generator for the test cycles (i.e., for electricity to travel 100 miles, or less than three cents per mile.

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