Green Car Congress

AUGUST 8, 2020

Bentley Motors has launched a three-year research study on electric vehicle powertrains, utilizing a fully integrated, free from rare-earth magnet e-axle that supports electric vehicle architectures. This reinforces Bentley’s ambition to lead sustainable luxury mobility and introduce the first fully electric Bentley by 2026.

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Green Car Congress

NOVEMBER 19, 2020

By the end of 2022, each of our German plants will be producing at least one fully electric vehicle. The future assembly and its production processes will be designed for a new cluster architecture geared towards electric drive trains. Rendering of the new assembly hall. —Milan Nedeljkovi?, —Milan Nedeljkovi?.

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Green Car Congress

JUNE 22, 2020

The CTVs will serve Ørsted’s Hornsea Two offshore wind farm, which will be located approximately 55 miles off the Yorkshire coast in the North Sea when it enters operation in 2022. Danfoss Editron specializes in hybrid and electric powertrain systems for off-highway and marine markets.

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Green Car Congress

JULY 1, 2022

Next year, the next generation of the MINI Countryman will be manufactured at the same location—with a fully electric drive, among other things. In this way, the electric mobility expertise of the workforce, which has been built up over the past years, will be used and advanced further.

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Green Car Congress

JUNE 8, 2020

Until recently, the Chengdu plant already sourced 70% of its electricity from renewable sources. Under the new contract, around 65% of the electricity supply comes from hydropower, while the remainder comes from solar power, wind power and other renewable sources. The new contract addresses the last 30%.

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Green Car Congress

MARCH 1, 2022

We are developing advanced fully electric vertical and short takeoff and landing (eV/STOL) vehicles using DSS enabled by CFJ, which will make urban transportation and eCommerce economically viable. The picture above shows the micro-compressors embedded inside a CFJ wing that was recently tested in a DARPA funded wind tunnel experiment.

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Green Car Congress

FEBRUARY 14, 2023

Renault and Nissan announced a new long-term vision for India, increasing production and R&D activities, introducing electric vehicles, and transitioning to carbon-neutral manufacturing. Chennai Plant already sources more than 50% of its electricity from renewables, including solar, biomass and wind.

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Green Car Congress

DECEMBER 16, 2021

Electricity tariffs and algorithms already make it possible to charge the car at the point at which a lot of renewable energy is available. This means, for example, that wind turbines won’t need to be shut down because there isn’t anyone using them. million electric cars for a year.

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Green Car Congress

DECEMBER 19, 2021

Now five fully electric-powered eCitaro buses are following. The electricity used is already coming from hydroelectric and wind power. BSAG received 65 Mercedes-Benz Citaro (solo and articulated buses as well as Citaro G hybrid buses) this year and the last. BSAG wants to achieve 50% climate-neutral operations by 2025.

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Green Car Congress

SEPTEMBER 22, 2021

The fully electric vehicle is equipped with fixed wings, a V-shaped tail, and eight electrically powered propellers as part of its distributed propulsion system. Furthermore, Airbus has used extensive subscale flight testing and wind tunnel campaigns and has leveraged its computing and modelling power.

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Green Car Congress

MAY 17, 2023

Mercedes‑Benz Vans will also expand the portfolio of ex-factory camper vans with a new model line of fully electric midsize and large camper vans, based on VAN.EA. The worldwide courier, express and parcel services market with an annual growth of 6‑8% per year is a strong driver for a fully electric intra- and inter-urban mobility.

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Green Car Congress

NOVEMBER 4, 2021

CNH Industrial has entered into an exclusive, multi-year licensing agreement for electrification technologies with Monarch Tractor , a US-based AgTech company specializing in fully electric autonomous tractors.

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Green Car Congress

MAY 18, 2018

R Pikes Peak ( earlier post )—the brand’s first fully-electric racing car—specifically to tackle the famous hill climb. The goal at the race, which takes place on 24 June in Colorado Springs, CO, is to break the record in the class for electric prototypes, which currently stands at 8:57.118 minutes. R Pikes Peak.

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Green Car Congress

JUNE 25, 2020

billion in electric vehicles through 2022, introducing zero-emission versions of some of its most popular nameplates on the way, including the Mustang Mach-E, which starts arriving in dealerships this year, as well as a Transit Commercial EV and fully electric F-150 coming within 24 months. Ford is investing more than $11.5

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Green Car Congress

SEPTEMBER 6, 2021

With the Concept EQS, Mercedes-Maybach is providing a clear preview of the first fully electric series-production model for the luxury brand. The magnets—and thus the rotor—follow the rotating alternating current field in the stator windings. The electric motors are permanently excited synchronous motors (PSM).

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Mercedes Concept Wind Battery 259

Green Car Congress

APRIL 17, 2019

R in the wind tunnel. R as the racing spearhead of the future fully-electric production vehicles from the ID. family, the high potential of electric drive is combined with the emotion and fascination of motorsport. R’s aerodynamics in the wind tunnel, initially with a 1:2 model. Volkswagen ID. With the ID.

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Green Car Congress

JULY 16, 2020

Northvolt will obtain 100% of the energy needed to produce the battery cells regionally in northern Sweden and exclusively from wind and hydroelectric power. More than half of the 25 models will be fully electric. The BMW Group will have 25 electrified models in its line-up by 2023.

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Green Car Congress

JULY 30, 2020

This applies in particular to energy-intensive production of battery cells for electric vehicles. Up to 40% of a fully-electric vehicle’s CO 2 emissions come from battery cell production alone. Umicore will contribute to development of a sustainable battery cell in Europe.

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Green Car Congress

NOVEMBER 4, 2022

Currently, there are three options for this: a second use in the vehicle after factory repair (2nd use); a second battery life (2nd life), for example as buffer storage of solar or wind power installations; and finally, the recovery of battery raw materials for new batteries in the sense of recycling.

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Green Car Congress

SEPTEMBER 19, 2020

that will be capable of housing a fully-electric fleet of 120 buses and charging infrastructure, as part of the MBTA’s broader plans to design facilities to serve a zero-emissions e-bus fleets. Enel distributes electricity through a network of more than 2.2 GW powered by wind, hydropower, geothermal and solar energy.

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Green Car Congress

MAY 12, 2017

Our synchronous reluctance assisted permanent magnet (SRPM) technology allows Visedo to deliver the market’s most efficient hybrid and fully electric solutions that are also smaller and lighter than our competitors. Machine efficiency at lower speeds is also good.

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Green Car Congress

FEBRUARY 21, 2018

A SPORT mode gives the driver more direct control for greater driving enjoyment on winding roads. The brakes of the concept responsively and precisely control the driving forces with the help of electric calipers that supersede the conventional hydraulic caliper. e-EVOLUTION Concept.

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Green Car Congress

JANUARY 26, 2017

The more than 6,000 Teslas in the Netherlands account for nearly half of the total number of fully electric cars in the country. With a combined peak capacity of around 60 MW, these cars have the potential to accelerate the integration of solar and wind power. Consequently, they also contribute to emission-free mobility.

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Green Car Congress

JULY 24, 2020

As this proportion grows, however, the basic dilemma associated with these renewable energy sources remains: first, electricity cannot always be supplied when it is required and second, on sunny days and in high-wind conditions, there is often a lack of capacity for storing the energy generated.

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Green Car Congress

SEPTEMBER 28, 2021

Part of Ford’s more-than-$30 billion investment in electric vehicles through 2025, this investment supports the company’s longer-term goal to create a sustainable American manufacturing ecosystem, and to accelerate its progress towards achieving carbon neutrality. Ford Blue Oval City.

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Green Car Congress

JANUARY 19, 2019

Unlike the US classic on Pikes Peak, which starts at an altitude of more than 9,000 feet and ends at 14,115 feet, the Nordschleife winds its way through the Eifel region at between 1,050 and 2,024 feet above sea level. The current record for fully-electric vehicles stands at 6:45.90 I know the track very well, but the ID.

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Green Car Congress

JULY 13, 2021

In 2019, Amazon announced plans to obtain 100,000 electric delivery vehicles. UPS has ordered 10,000 of them and FedEx plans to be fully electric by 2040. A vehicle charged from solar or wind energy and a vehicle charged from a coal- or natural gas-fired power plant will have very different environmental impacts.

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Green Car Congress

NOVEMBER 5, 2019

These include fully-electric systems, as well as a gasoline-generated EV system (known as e-POWER at Nissan, earlier post ) in which a gasoline engine generates electrical power stored in a battery (series hybrid), which can then be delivered to all four wheels through a pair of high-output electric motors. Earlier post.)

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Green Car Congress

NOVEMBER 3, 2017

In a new report (its fourth on electric car adoption) the Boston Consulting Group forecasts that a combination of hybrid and fully electric powertrains will cut the global market share of pure internal combustion engines (ICEs) by about 50% by 2030.

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Green Car Congress

SEPTEMBER 2, 2020

Results for the electricity production chains: Renewable electricity production results in significantly lower impacts, compared to fossil fuel based generation except in the impact categories Land Use and Abiotic Resource Depletion (in most cases due to the footprint of and materials used in generation equipment).

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Green Car Congress

DECEMBER 23, 2014

The aircraft will take off and land under electric power with the bio-diesel engine used in-flight to recharge the batteries and to provide increased cross country performance. The aircraft will employ solar skin panels and wind turbine technology for energy recovery. The combustion engine then runs at its most efficient point.

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Green Car Congress

MAY 16, 2018

In Germany, Mercedes-Benz Cars has eight vehicle and powertrain plants (Bremen, Rastatt, Sindelfingen, Berlin, Hamburg, Kamenz, Kölleda, Stuttgart-Untertürkheim), which either purchase electricity or operate their own power plants. This corresponds to about three quarters of the required electricity in the German plants.

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Green Car Congress

JANUARY 18, 2012

The Council’s recommendations for energy policy, which reflect current policy discussions in Congress and within the administration, are aimed to achieve energy resilience and diversity. will also require cooperation among industry participants, regulators and environmental advocates.

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Green Car Congress

AUGUST 31, 2017

One new feature in the nanoFlowcell 48VOLT drive is the innovative 45-phase low- voltage motors that deliver high power paired with a minimal cross-section for the electric wiring. A solid aluminium mesh structure replaces the complicated copper windings found in conventional electric motors.

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Green Car Congress

SEPTEMBER 17, 2017

Honolulu will receive funding for Gillig battery electric buses with depot chargers in the Honolulu area as their inaugural project to transition their fleet to zero emission. Project partners are Oahu Transit Services, Gillig, Hawaiian Electric Company and the Center for Transportation and the Environment.

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Green Car Congress

JUNE 13, 2011

The University of California, Davis and the BMW Group released the largest publicly available study of electric-car users yet conducted, including more than 120 families who drove the fully electric MINI E automobile more than 1 million miles in California, New York and New Jersey from June 2009 to June 2010.

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Green Car Congress

SEPTEMBER 24, 2015

Audi already has developed a wealth of IP on quattro four-wheel drive, torque vectoring and electric drive systems. The new e-tron quattro marks the company’s combination of all of those elements into a fully-electric quattro drive. Audi hosted Green Car Congress at the IAA in Frankfurt. —Siegfried Pint.

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