Green Car Congress

JUNE 30, 2016

— was presented at the Low Carbon Vehicle Partnership Conference at the Olympic Park in London. Full automation could help accelerate the transition to low carbon vehicles by reducing the practical difficulties often anticipated with these vehicles such as refueling/recharging.

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Green Car Congress

DECEMBER 17, 2009

Pedal backwards, and the regenerative braking is engaged, helping to recharge the system’s batteries; pedal fast, and you get the extra boost of power. The system was demonstrated in Copenhagen on 15 December for the benefit of conference attendees, and for a gathering of 400 city mayors from around the world.

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MIT Climate Change Kits Recharge 186

Green Car Congress

JANUARY 28, 2010

The THINK EV-Ready Cities Index was presented by THINK CEO Richard Canny at the Electric Drive Transportation Association Annual Conference and Meeting at the Washington Auto Show. Since EVs are a unique solution for congested urban environments, we are taking a city-by-city approach rather than a national or state-by-state approach.

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San Diego San Francisco Los Angeles Think City 231

Green Car Congress

OCTOBER 21, 2009

The findings were released at The Business of Plugging In conference in Detroit today. The socio-economic characteristics of the household, its geographic location, and recharging capabilities. The survey also sowed the significant influence of hybrid vehicles in signalling people’s commitment to a clean environment.

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Michigan Plug-in Cost Of Plug 218

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. Infrastructure, recharging and business models. —Jon Lauckner.

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Plug-in Plug Industrial Industry 210

Green Car Congress

MAY 13, 2009

The Better Place automated battery switch replaces a depleted EV battery with a fully charged one in just a few minutes, allowing consumers to drive their EVs on long distance trips without actually recharging en route. The lift platform doesn’t actually touch the car, said Better Place CEO Shai Agassi during the press conference.

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Batteries Battery Japan Nissan 150

Creative Greenius

AUGUST 5, 2009

Your Creative Greenius will be covering the 2009 Plug-In Conference coming up next week from August 10-13 and I’ll see the Leaf up close and personal and talk to the Nissan people. Tags: electric cars environment plug-in cars BMW Mini-E Bob Lutz BYD Chevy Volt Chrysler Ford GM Nissan Leaf Plug-In America Warren Buffett.

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Plug-in Plug Re-Charge Chrysler 191

Plug In Partners

JUNE 11, 2008

Japan and Europe by 2010 , under a widespread "green" strategy outlined today.The ecological gas-electric vehicles, which can be recharged from a home electrical outlet , will target leasing customers, Toyota Motor Corp. more ) M eanwhile, in the United States, the political environment to support plug ins continues to grow. "On

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Plug-in Toyota Plug Nickel Metal Hydride 100

Cars That Think

MARCH 11, 2023

AC Propulsion’s president, Tom Gage, explains the company’s vehicle-to-grid technology at a 2001 conference in Seattle. Slutzky and other proponents of EV power have been pressing for a more favorable regulatory environment, including access to the subsidies that states such as California offer to users of stationary storage batteries.

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Grid Power Powered Vehicles 139

Plug In Partners

JUNE 27, 2006

Local In Austin , Mayor Will Wynn and the City Council, along with Austin Energy , are holding a press conference and speaking event with James Woolsey and Chelsea Sexton , formerly with GM and featured in the feature film, Who Killed the Electric Car ? The press conference will be at 3:00 pm at Austin City Hall. Mr. Woolsey and Ms.

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Kansas City Minnesota Oklahoma Austin 100

Green Car Congress

SEPTEMBER 22, 2009

The project includes quick-charging stations at this terminal layover in route to recharge bus batteries. Grid sourced electrical energy used to recharge the bus batteries will be augmented with solar energy collected with panels procured and installed under this project. City of Santa Clarita, California: $4,620,000.

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Emissions Gas Energy Maintenance 256

Green Car Congress

AUGUST 30, 2009

The morning session started out with an hour long press conference, the highlight being the unveiling of the Volt’s 230 mpg preliminary EPA city fuel economy finding ( earlier post ), as well as a tour showing selected elements from the studios of the four GM North American brands: Chevrolet, GMC, Buick and Cadillac. Earlier post.).

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GM Buick Fuel Economy Economy 262

Green Car Congress

MAY 4, 2015

The Route extended range electric powertrains incorporate a range-extending genset designed to recharge the high-power battery pack (currently from A123 Systems) and Wrightspeed’s own geared traction drive (GTD) ( earlier post ). On the other hand, a big rig in an urban environment is just horrible at fuel efficiency, Wright said.

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Range Extended Range Gas-Electric Electric 150

Green Car Congress

DECEMBER 6, 2012

Both Froman and Phillipe Jean, head of unit, sustainable mobility and automotive industry, in the European Commission’s Directorate-General for Enterprise and Industry, urged support for two informal working groups on EV safety and the environment that the U.S. 29 of UN-ECE).

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Standards Electric Vehicles Vehicles Grid 252

Creative Greenius

AUGUST 13, 2009

Here’s what the brainiacs at General Motors sent the premier EV car conference on the West Coast. At least GM sent this nifty printed banner explaining all about the new J1772 industry standard recharging plug. There were at least four exhibitors at this year’s conference directly addressing the fleet market.

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i-MiEV 2009 Plug-in Volt 170

Creative Greenius

JUNE 11, 2009

Howard’s team is holding a conference on June 24th for city managers throughout the county that I’ll be attending. This Friday, June 12, I’ll be attending the EcoMotion Palm Desert AB 811 Conference specifically to cover it for this Creative Greenius blog. Ted Flanigan, EcoMotion.

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Solar Energy Power Powered 170

Tony Karrer Delicious EVdriven

APRIL 21, 2009

Volvo Ford-owned company exploring PHEVs "ReCharge" flex-fuel series 60-mile concept PHEV w/wheel motors. announced a partnership with utility Southern California Edison to test a fleet of rechargeable electric vehicles and said it expected to sell such plug-in hybrids within the next decade if battery technology keeps pace.

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Plug-in Plug Hybrid PHEV 45

Green Car Congress

JULY 4, 2020

Demand for raw materials used in the production of electric car batteries is set to soar, prompting the UN trade body, UNCTAD (United Nations Conference on Trade and Development), to call for the social and environmental impacts of the extraction of raw materials, which include human rights abuses, to be addressed urgently.

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Batteries Battery Zambia Production 545

Green Car Congress

JULY 17, 2015

The pure electric vehicles, for reserve, must carry heavy and expensive batteries—which add expense as well as weight—and must have access to high-powered recharging stations [ 1 ]. Furthermore, even the older version PHEV can recharge at a slow rate using local solar, wind, water-derived or other net zero CO 2 fuel.

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PHEV Plug-in Renewable Energy 150

Tony Karrer Delicious EVdriven

APRIL 16, 2009

If youre a stickler for electric vehicles, there is an electric scooter that will travel up to 60 miles and can be recharged in 3 hours. My Vespa scooter gets 100 miles to the gallon and can carry two people and two bags of groceries under the seat. Thats double the milage of a Prius and a lot more fun! You can buy it now. Video Web 2.0

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GM Green 2009 Vehicles 48

Tony Karrer Delicious EVdriven

APRIL 16, 2009

Cleantech Blog Cleantechblog.com, the premier cleantech site for commentary on news and technology relating to clean tech, greentech, energy, climate change and carbon, and the environment. Ontological Shock An Open Letter to Fred Krupp Report from GridEcon Conference SGS Climate Change Head on the First Carbon Credit. SZ (1) 6753.T

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Grid Electric Vehicles Vehicles Oil-Sands 28

Tony Karrer Delicious EVdriven

APRIL 30, 2009

Local Weather Transportation/Traffic Education Environment Politics Real Estate Joel Connelly Webtowns/Neighborhoods Obituaries Special Reports Corrections US/World U.S. Dan Davids, president of Plug In America , drove his plug-in Toyota RAV4 to Tuesdays news conference and lauded Nissans announcement. Washington, D.C.

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Seattle Nissan Electric Cars Cars 67

Cars That Think

AUGUST 20, 2022

Can EVs be good enough—and can manufacturers roll them out fast enough—to meet the goals set in 2021 by the 26th United Nations Climate Change Conference (COP26)? A couple of hours at home is sufficient to recharge from a typical daily commute, while overnight charging is needed for longer trips.

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Electric Vehicles Vehicles West Virginia Electric 101

Tony Karrer Delicious EVdriven

APRIL 16, 2009

It was started by a chemist and government researcher named Wang Chuan-Fu in 1995 (same year as Yahoo) to make rechargeable batteries, which it learned to do very well. Much as I admire the Obama administration’s energy and environment team, there’s no way that the U.S. BYD is an amazing company. China’s commitment to clean energy.

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