EV Central

MARCH 20, 2024

Then there’s the cost of converting it to right-hand-drive for our market. That said, an EV RHD conversion is a much simpler job than one on a combustion vehicle. ” Globally, General Motors has said everything it produces will be electric by 2035. . Its Cadillac brand will be all-electric by 2030.

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Green Car Congress

MARCH 22, 2011

The conversion of biomass to cellulosic ethanol is the most efficient and productive use of biomass to create a high-octane, environmentally friendly transportation fuel, according to a perspective paper published in the Journal of Chemical Technology & Biotechnology. Conversion pathways. Source: Datta et al. Click to enlarge.

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Green Car Congress

JANUARY 12, 2010

Converting biomass to renewable fuels via a pyrolysis pathway. The US Department of Energy has selected UOP, a Honeywell company, for negotiation of a $25 million award to build a demonstration unit in Hawaii to convert cellulosic biomass into renewable hydrocarbon transportation fuels. Source: UOP. Click to enlarge. Earlier post.).

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EV Central

OCTOBER 27, 2023

GMC Hummer EV 2021 GMC Hummer EV pickup truck While General Motors is making a massive commitment to EVs and has teased an electrified Chevrolet pick-up to go head-to-head with the F-150, the one concrete indication we have seen so far of its battery electric pick-up capabilities is the GMC Hummer SUT.

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Green Car Congress

JUNE 4, 2009

a leading manufacturer of engine components that converts vehicles to operate on cleaner gaseous fuels, such as propane. IMPCO’s bi-fuel system is a certified engine conversion for the following vehicles: 2007 5.4L CleanFUEL North America, Inc. has signed a distribution agreement with IMPCO Technologies, Inc. 2008 and 2009 3.5L

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Green Car Congress

JULY 16, 2009

One of SDG&E’s converted PHEVs. SDG&E tested the performance of two 2007-model Prius hybrids and then converted them into plug-in hybrids, using a Hymotion 5 kWh lithium-ion battery conversion kit. Tags: Conversions Hybrids Plug-ins. Click to enlarge. Earlier post.)

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Green Car Congress

AUGUST 30, 2011

Project: Development of a Multi-Chamber Catalytic Converter. Concern over pollutants in vehicle exhaust has led to the development of the catalytic converter, which is a key component of exhaust gas mitigation systems. These university-industry partnerships will receive more than C$16 million (US$16.4 million) in total project support.

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Green Car Congress

AUGUST 10, 2011

This project will develop a novel low cost route to carbon fiber using a lignin/PAN hybrid precursor and carbon fiber conversion technologies leading to high performance, low-cost carbon fiber. Advanced power electronics and electric motor (PEEM) technology. General Motors LLC. General Motors, LLC.

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Green Car Congress

NOVEMBER 12, 2009

In September, Reva announced a joint venture with General Motors India to provide the electric powertrain and energy management systems for the new Chevrolet Spark and a new 30,000 unit Reva assembly plant is under construction in India. Earlier post.)

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Charged EVs

MAY 31, 2022

Many US drivers now have a vague idea that General Motors is doing something with electric vehicles. That line was located at a US “supplier partner” that is building low volumes of the Zevo 600 while GM converts its CAMI plant in Ingersoll, Ontario, for mass production of Zevo 600 vans.

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Commercial Vehicles GMC GM 136

Green Car Congress

MAY 30, 2009

Canada-based international auto supplier and contract assembler Magna International, now with a Memorandum of Understanding for the acquisition of Opel from General Motors ( earlier post ), sees vehicle electrification as one of its key strategic initiatives. The platform is ready for use, for every OEM specifically to design.

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Clean Fleet Report

MAY 23, 2021

General Motors uses these on its heavy-duty Chevrolet and GMC pick-ups as they can handle the stopping needs when towing as well as dissipate heat under repeated use. Changes are coming from General Motors, which has announced a commitment to 30 new global electric vehicles by the year 2025. Upscale, Techie Interior.

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Green Car Congress

JANUARY 26, 2022

General Motors will invest more than $7 billion in four Michigan manufacturing sites, significantly increasing battery cell and electric truck manufacturing capacity. Production of the Chevrolet Bolt EV and EUV will continue during the plant’s conversion. This is the single largest investment announcement in GM history.

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Green Car Congress

OCTOBER 15, 2009

It first gasifies the feedstock to syngas (CO and H 2 ), then uses proprietary microorganisms—licensed from Oklahoma State University and the University of Oklahoma—to convert simultaneously both CO and H 2 into ethanol. Scale up lots of times makes things better—there is more residence time to convert the gas into ethanol.

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Tony Karrer Delicious EVdriven

APRIL 21, 2009

And were gratified that General Motors recognizes this study as validation of its decision to evolve to the electrification of transportation. PHEV conversions are emerging at a frenzied rate (see the frequency of CalCars-News postings), to the point where its no longer feasible to track every instance of a PHEV.

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Green Car Congress

SEPTEMBER 30, 2011

streamline the process by which green plants convert carbon. production of oil, which is stored in seeds and is convertible to. plants, and it is a liquid that can be extracted readily, separated, and converted into biodiesel fuel. converted into a fuel mixture that is comparable to diesel or. University, General.

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Cars That Think

APRIL 23, 2022

highlights the small-but-growing phenomenon of people converting fossil-fueled cars to run on electricity. For this baby-blue Rover, the conversion includes a powerful electric drive unit from a. There, more than 60 employees and two production lines will have the capacity for 100 conversions a year. Each of E.C.D.’s

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Revenge of the Electric Car

JANUARY 21, 2009

Paine was one of the first to lease a General Motors EV1 in 1997 — only to get the car wrenched away from him five years later when he took it in simply to get a brake light fixed. January 2009 | Conversations The Electric Car Returns (and This Time It’s Personal). In Who Killed the Electric Car?, In Who Killed the Electric Car?,

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The Truth About Cars

JANUARY 5, 2024

The newly established company planned to introduce a whole line of PHEV vehicles, and their industry connection for completed passenger vehicles to convert (Lutz) was already in place. The same basic principle was used by the VIA powertrain, and would electrify current General Motors vehicles.

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Green Car Congress

JULY 2, 2014

Using information gleaned from these studies, HCI successfully converted a Chevrolet S-10 pick-up truck to a “tri-fuel” vehicle, which utilized gasoline, natural gas, and hydrogen/natural gas blends. These blends were patented in 1990 for spark- and compression-ignition engines.

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Revenge of the Electric Car

JANUARY 22, 2009

3Prong Power converts existing Toyota Priuses into plug-in hybrids that can run entirely on electricity. The company launched last month at Green Motors in Berkeley, California. They convert Toyota Prius hybrids into mostly electric vehicles that get 100 to 150 miles per gallon. Paul Guzyk and Daniel Sherwood of 3Prong Power.

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Tony Karrer Delicious EVdriven

APRIL 16, 2009

NewsVine StumbleUpon Mixx Text Size By SHARON TERLEP General Motors Corp. Manage Email preferences Companies within this Article General Motors Corp.( The quality of conversations can deteriorate when real identities are not provided. is teaming with Segway Inc., GM ) 1.86 -0.08 is teaming with Segway Inc.,

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Tony Karrer Delicious EVdriven

APRIL 22, 2009

For years now, inventors and sellers of electric car conversion kits have been blasting traditional automakers for not providing the 100 m.p.g. In the 1990s, Waters led development of the battery pack for General Motors Corp.s .  will be unveiling its IDEA, a 100 miles-per-gallon plug-in hybrid electric vehicle. The 100 m.p.g.

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Green Car Congress

OCTOBER 26, 2009

RTI International will work with ADM, Albemarle and ConocoPhillips to develop a novel single-step catalytic biomass pyrolysis process with high carbon conversion efficiency to produce stable bio-crude oil with low oxygen content. The R&D seeks to be a major contributor to future-generation direct-solar fuel technologies.

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Green Car Congress

JUNE 12, 2012

reduce lighting energy use by 75%, electric drive motor energy use for consumer applications by 50%, electric motor energy used for transportation. General Motors LLC, Development of Energy Efficient Integrated Die Casting Process for Large Thin-Walled Magnesium Applications. Use of GaN holds the potential to.

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EV Central

NOVEMBER 25, 2022

General Motor eCrate conversion kits – by late 2021 GM plans to offer battery and motor kits for classic cars, allowing an easy EV conversion. Roev EV conversions – Aussie company Roev will offer EV conversions of existing Ford Ranger and Toyota Hilux models.

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Tony Karrer Delicious EVdriven

APRIL 21, 2009

Several dozen prototypes on 15-passenger van since 2004; now in second generation development; no production plans. Fisker $80,000 Karma series luxury 50-mile range series PHEV, S Sunset convertible version.Partnering with Quantum Technologies. 10/31/07 [General Motors Corp. Establishing dealer network. Newsweek ).

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Green Car Congress

APRIL 23, 2015

The piston bowl was developed to enable spray-guided direct injection to improve combustion system performance and robustness for catalytic converter light-off. Conversely, engine cold-start at high altitudes dictates an early park position of the intake camshaft, increasing the effective compression ratio of the engine. Jurkovic, S.,

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Tony Karrer Delicious EVdriven

APRIL 20, 2009

Automakers agree on common plug to recharge electric vehicles by Darren Murph , posted Apr 19th 2009 at 4:24PM Just hours after General Motors put forth a proposal for a standardized plug for electric vehicles , in flies this. Line breaks and paragraphs are automatically converted — no need to use or tags. In a word, no.

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Green Car Congress

JANUARY 21, 2013

Earlier this month, Volkswagen and Eaton executives met with a small group of journalists at the VW Electronics Research Laboratory in Belmont, California, to discuss VW’s partnership with Eaton on AC and DC charging, followed by a broader conversation about VW’s plans for vehicle electrification over the next several years. Click to enlarge.

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