Green Car Congress

MARCH 12, 2010

Michigan-based electric powertrain company ALTe LLC ( earlier post ) revealed its demonstrator Ford F-150 range-extended electric vehicle conversion at the 2010 National Truck Equipment Association (NTEA) Work Truck Show and Green Truck Summit. Tags: Conversions Electric (Battery) Hybrids Plug-ins. Click to enlarge. John Thomas.

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Baua Electric

JANUARY 13, 2024

And Kia revealed a new global family of PBV concept electric vans that will provide a modular basis for last-mile delivery, cargo operations, and even robotaxis. As University of Michigan researchers recently highlighted, it depends on where you live. As the market norm approaches 300 miles, is that enough? According to the U.S.

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Baua Electric

JUNE 21, 2023

billion in federal investment to create unutilized, high-speed chargers on 7,500 miles (12,070 km) of the family’s busiest highways. Others states like California, Iowa and Michigan are reviewing the moving charging marketplace. The Federal Freeway Management on Tuesday said the trade used to be impulsively evolving.

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Green Car Congress

AUGUST 28, 2019

The study looked at a variety of factors that can affect the relative performance of these vehicles, including the role of low temperatures in reducing battery performance; regional differences in average number of miles driven annually; and the different mix of generating sources in different parts of the US. Di Wu, Fengdi Guo, Frank R.

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Green Car Congress

AUGUST 19, 2014

Results of a lifecycle analysis by a team at the University of Michigan suggest that multiple types of natural gas-powered vehicles—i.e., in this study the environmental impacts of delivering driven vehicle miles are compared for three different vehicle fleets, each powered either directly or indirectly by natural gas.

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Electric Auto Association

APRIL 19, 2021

Road rallies were held in Juneau, Alaska , where local and state elected officials riding the city’s first electric bus led the way, and in Muskegon, Michigan , where 70 participants in 40 cars, motorcycles, and a golf cart, navigated a 150-mile circuit from Muskegon to Holland to Grand Rapids and back to Muskegon.

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Green Car Congress

APRIL 7, 2011

ALTe Powertrain Technologies, the Michigan-based developer of a Range Extended Electric Powertrain ( earlier post ), is forming a partnership with Manheim, the automotive industry’s leader in remarketing services, regarding the installation of ALTe retrofit range-extended electric powertrains in fleet vehicles.

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Green Car Congress

MAY 7, 2010

Conversely, Florida had its coolest, while South Carolina, Georgia, Alabama, Mississippi, Louisiana and Texas’ average temperature ranked among their 10 coolest. Conversely, it was Oregon’s tenth-wettest April on record. The dryness in Michigan has persisted throughout 2010, becoming the second driest January-April period on record.

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Clean Fleet Report

DECEMBER 1, 2021

Chevrolet made the radical decision to have the 2021 Corvette, or C8 as aficionados call it, become a mid-engine sports car, abandoning the front engine design that began when the first Corvette rolled off the line in Flint, Michigan, on June 30, 1953. In 387 miles driving through Southern California, Clean Fleet Report averaged 20.6

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Green Car Congress

AUGUST 26, 2009

Clean Energy Coalition’s CEC Michigan Green Fleets Initiative. The project will increase the use of natural gas, electric and hybrid electric vehicles in 13 sites throughout Michigan. Fleets include transportation authorities, cities, school districts, the University of Michigan, FedEx, and Meijer. Total DOE award: $14,983,167.

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Green Car Congress

NOVEMBER 16, 2010

AMP, a company engaged in the conversion of new vehicles to full battery-electric drive, unveiled its all-electric conversion of the GM Chevrolet Equinox earlier this year. million Michigan homes and businesses. Earlier post.) In February, Remy International, Inc. Earlier post.).

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Green Car Congress

JUNE 13, 2014

Their series-parallel plug-in hybrid Malibu excelled at GM’s Proving Grounds in Milford, Michigan, earlier this month, where it was put through a series of strenuous technical and safety tests similar to those used for real-world production vehicles. The OSU team’s design achieved 50 miles per gallon gas equivalent (MPGGE) (4.7

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Green Car Congress

AUGUST 5, 2009

Companies and universities in Michigan are receiving more than $1 billion of the grants. Large automakers based in Michigan, including GM, Chrysler, and Ford, will receive a total of more than $400 million to manufacture thousands of advanced hybrid and electric vehicles as well as batteries and electric drive components. Technology.

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Cars That Think

JANUARY 7, 2023

“Public policy implementation is hard even if everyone supports a policy,” says University of Michigan professor emeritus John Leslie King , who has studied policy management and administration for decades. Unfortunately, between 2010 and 2020, only 18,000 miles of new transmission lines were added to the US grid.

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Green Car Congress

APRIL 30, 2010

Novel Biological Conversion of Hydrogen and Carbon Dioxide Directly into Biodiesel. Johnson Matthey will investigate the catalytic conversion of this microbial biodiesel into additional fuel molecules, most importantly jet fuel. Hydrogen-Dependent Conversion of Carbon Dioxide To Liquid Electrofuels By Extremely Thermophilic Archaea.

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Green Car Congress

MAY 30, 2014

The basic principle in the TIGAS process is the integration of methanol/dimethylether synthesis and the subsequent conversion into gasoline in a single synthesis loop. Around 7,770 gallons have been sent to a blending facility in Michigan to prepare it for a fleet test at the Transportation Research Center in East Liberty, Ohio.

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Tony Karrer Delicious EVdriven

APRIL 22, 2009

will be unveiling its IDEA, a 100 miles-per-gallon plug-in hybrid electric vehicle. For years now, inventors and sellers of electric car conversion kits have been blasting traditional automakers for not providing the 100 m.p.g. • MORE: "How to Build a 100 Mile-Per-Gallon Car. The 100 m.p.g. Right Now can be seen here.

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Green Car Congress

SEPTEMBER 30, 2011

Concentrating Solar Power/Nuclear: High Efficiency Solar Electric Conversion Power Tower Abengoa Solar will develop a high efficiency solar-electric. conversion tower that utilizes new system architecture. unprecedented solar-to-fuel conversion efficiencies of more. Michigan State. University of Michigan).

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Green Car Congress

NOVEMBER 17, 2014

For light-duty vehicles this means providing a driving range of more than 300 miles (500 km), while meeting packaging, cost, safety, and performance requirements to be competitive with current vehicles. By 2020, the sub-program has the following targets for automotive hydrogen systems: 1.8 kWh/kg system (5.5 kWh/L system (0.040 kg H 2 /L). $10/kWh

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Creative Greenius

JUNE 11, 2009

To put that in perspective for you, if Los Angeles County were a state, it would rank ninth in population behind the states of California, New York, Texas, Florida, Pennsylvania, Illinois, Ohio, and Michigan. Plug In Conversions Corp. The car is no longer limited to 34 miles per hour, all-electric.

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Cars That Think

JANUARY 19, 2022

To get a better understanding of the current state of rail in the United States and how Parallel Systems might fit in with that, we spoke with Nick Little , Director of the Railway Management Program at the Eli Broad College of Business at Michigan State University. What kind of feedback have you gotten from the rail industry so far?

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Tony Karrer Delicious EVdriven

APRIL 21, 2009

Fisker $80,000 Karma series luxury 50-mile range series PHEV, S Sunset convertible version.Partnering with Quantum Technologies. Several after-market companies have done PHEV conversions of the Ford Escape hybrid and one has done a retrofit of the F-150 pickup -- see Where PHEVs Are and ICE-Conversions.)

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Spirit of DC - PHEV3A

AUGUST 3, 2009

EV conversion technologies have now made these types of vehicles possible and available through affiliates of the EAA, such as CalCars and Plug-in Supply. The PHEV All Around America EVducational Tour highlighted Plug-ins, both pure electrics and PHEVs.

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Tony Karrer Delicious EVdriven

APRIL 22, 2009

However, because of the duty cycle used by the Postal Service, which generally amounts to only about 18-20 miles per day on a fixed route, these vehicles are being built without the range extender seen on the concept. Based in Watertown, Massachusetts, A123Systems has announced plans for a Michigan-based production facility.

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Tony Karrer Delicious EVdriven

APRIL 16, 2009

BYDs plug-in, called the F3DM (for "dual mode"), goes farther on a single charge - 62 miles - than other electric vehicles and sells for about $22,000, less than the plug-in Prius and much-hyped Chevy Volt are expected to cost when they hit the market in late 2010. he says - but he would not let go of more than 10% of BYDs stock.

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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.

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Baua Electric

MARCH 18, 2024

2023 Buick Envista (China spec) “They won’t sell any cars over here,” said Trump, picking up the conversation a short time later. The Dophin Mini starts at about $21,000 in 190-mile form or $23,000 with 252 miles of range.

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