Green Car Congress

JANUARY 3, 2023

The 1969 Bronco was customized from the ground up by Los Angeles-based Zero Labs Automotive , an automotive and industrial design, technology and engineering firm specializing in electric vehicle conversions.

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EV Central

OCTOBER 26, 2023

The outrageous BYD Yangwang U8 luxury SUV is headed for Australia. 2024 BYD Seal U electric SUV appears as Australian launch looms 2023 Yangwang U8. That means the U8 will be potentially $100,000-plus more expensive the Toyota LandCruiser and Nissan Patrol large SUV stalwarts.

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Green Car Congress

APRIL 18, 2019

BYD debuted its E-SEED GT concept car and Song Pro SUV alongside its all-new e-series models at the Shanghai International Automobile Industry Exhibition. Presently, we stand at the intersection of old and new kinetic energy conversion for mobility, but also a new starting point for high-quality development. E-SEED GT concept.

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Green Car Reports

NOVEMBER 24, 2022

This Thanksgiving weekend, as families take to the highways to visit friends or family, EVs are more likely than ever to be part of the dinner conversation. With the introduction of electric trucks like the F-150 Lightning and even off-road-capable SUVs like the Rivian R1S, and affordable options like the Chevrolet.

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Baua Electric

JANUARY 30, 2024

The ICE to EV conversion, or the Repowering business at Kalyani Powertrain, is pivotal. They plan to ramp up the Group’s three business verticals – electric motorcycles (Tork Motors), power electronics, and ICE to EV conversion of commercial vehicles, and to kick off a new traction drives business vertical.

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Green Car Congress

APRIL 16, 2012

a plug-in hybrid conversion company, says it ia delivering sub-assemblies and components for commercializing its parallel hybrid conversion system on a Ford 350 class 3 truck. The conversion process itself entails the change-out of the rear axle; the engine and transmission are untouched. HPEV, Inc.,

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Green Car Congress

OCTOBER 26, 2009

A Bloomfield, Michigan startup is developing light- and medium-duty series plug-in hybrid electric vehicle powertrain systems—initially as conversions, but ultimately extending to an OEM basis. In the Crown Victoria, the proof of concept powertrain conversion systems improve fuel economy from 80%-200% from the base 4.6L

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Green Car Reports

MARCH 24, 2020

Jaguar Land Rover plans some larger electric SUVs. Volkswagen is teasing us again with a Microbus conversion—this time, one you might potentially be able to buy. And the Polestar 2 is now being made in China and mostly on schedule. This and more, here at Green Car Reports.

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Green Car Congress

JULY 11, 2021

Alumobility, a non-profit organization focused on solutions to advance the adoption of aluminum automotive body sheet, announced the results of its technical study demonstrating affordable lightweighting through the proposed conversion of a mass-produced C-segment SUV passenger door from steel to aluminum.

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EV Central

SEPTEMBER 5, 2023

Subaru has outlined just where it thinks its incoming Solterra will outshine its core competitors, promising that its new electric SUV will be every bit as off-road ready as models like the Outback and Forester. If this is a Subaru SUV, then does it meet that grade? We are focused on what an owner expects from a Subaru model.

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Green Car Congress

NOVEMBER 28, 2020

The battery-electric SUV is the first ŠKODA series production model based on the Volkswagen Group’s Modular Electrification Toolkit (MEB). This means our new SUV also places entirely different demands on manufacturing processes and production sequences than models with combustion engines. Earlier post.).

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Baua Electric

JULY 17, 2023

Fisker, an electrical car production startup founded in the US, has mentioned it is going to assemble its Republic of India debut throughout the nearest few months with its flagship Ocean electrical SUV. As soon as introduced, Fisker will promote best restricted version of the electrical SUV, all of which might be imported.

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Green Car Congress

MAY 21, 2022

4’s start-up is on schedule, despite the global challenges during the two-year conversion phase. Six new production halls and five new conveyor bridges and logistics buildings over a total area of some 125,000 square meters have been created as part of the plant’s conversion. Following its market launch in early 2021, the ID.4

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Green Car Congress

NOVEMBER 28, 2017

Volkswagen Group of America announced it will introduce a new battery-electric compact SUV in the US in 2020. The new SUV will be based on the I.D. The new SUV will offer a range of more than 200 miles. At Volkswagen this is the greatest technological conversion since the changeover from the Beetle to the Golf.

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Green Car Congress

JUNE 27, 2020

After a conversion phase lasting several weeks during the summer, the first electric vehicles will be produced there at the end of the year; alongside the ID.4, 4, an SUV from the sister brand Audi is also planned. The investments for conversion amount to around €1.2 Series production of the ID.3 4 will follow this summer.

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CleanTechnica EVs

SEPTEMBER 29, 2022

A couple months ago, when the Silverado EV was announced, I got into an interesting conversation with Jo Borrás, one of my colleagues here at CleanTechnica. In an article, I called the Silverado EV a unibody, like the Honda Ridgeline or the Ford Maverick. He told me I had made a rookie mistake calling it […].

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Green Car Congress

DECEMBER 7, 2020

The company, based in Silverstone, England will create an initial run of 50 of the luxury SUVs built in the ‘classic era’ between 1970 and 1994. Every car by Lunaz goes through a full bare metal restoration and re-engineering process ahead of conversion to the company’s proprietary electric powertrain.

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Green Car Congress

DECEMBER 10, 2009

The County of Alameda recently entered into a partnership with ElectraDrive for a pilot conversion of one of its fleet Dodge Dakotas to extended-range electric drive. Products are targeted at pickups, vans, SUVs and large sedans. The vehicle is expected to enter road-testing around the middle of 2010.

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The Truth About Cars

NOVEMBER 13, 2023

That said, a recent Toyota trademark application in Japan spotted by Land Cruiser forum members has sparked heated conversation around what might be coming. Toyota offers it in a few configurations, but the SUV comes powered by a turbocharged hybrid four-cylinder engine instead of the V8 we last saw.

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Green Car Congress

JULY 3, 2020

The all-new 2021 Ford F-150 pickup and the soon to be delivered all-electric Mustang Mach-E SUV are the first Ford vehicles available with the technology. By taking advantage of cloud-based voice processing, SYNC 4 can understand conversational requests, such as “Find me the best Thai restaurant” and offer data-based suggestions to drivers.

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Green Car Congress

FEBRUARY 7, 2022

Therefore, it is not surprising that in 2020, the first year of the pandemic, the annual miles driven per car or light truck (SUV, pickup truck, or van) decreased substantially. Conversely, to the extent that some non-telecommuters do drive a car, they pull the 2020 mileage of cars up.

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Green Car Congress

JANUARY 20, 2010

AC Propulsion and AutoPort , an automotive conversion, restyling and processing company, will partner in engineering, development and conversion to provide an Electric Vehicle conversion prototype and report for the United States Postal Service.

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Green Car Congress

MARCH 16, 2021

All vehicle types are at or near record low CO 2 emissions; however, market shifts away from cars and towards sport utility vehicles (SUVs) and pickups have offset some of the fleetwide benefits.

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Teslarati

JUNE 25, 2022

The “Bay to Birdwood Run” has announced that starting this year, electric conversion vehicles will be allowed to participate in the rally. Some of the first players in the conversion space include Zelectric Motors and EV4U Custom Conversions, both started in the 2000s and offer conversion services for a variety of vehicles.

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The Truth About Cars

OCTOBER 13, 2023

An outfit called Flex has apparently been slinging these types of conversions for some spell but is now expanding its presence into America through a location in San Diego. & Arguments have raged for eons about the effectiveness of these types of conversions in which an older car’s visage is pasted onto a modern machine.

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EV Obssesion

SEPTEMBER 8, 2021

Ford builds Mustang Mach-E police concept SUV is a green solution for UK’s forces Unveiled today at the Emergency Services Show Ford and Safeguard SVP also displaying five-tonne Transit conversion BIRMINGHAM, U.K.,

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Green Car Congress

JANUARY 26, 2021

In his remarks, the President provided no further details on the fleet conversion to EVs, such as timing and spending plans. Passenger vehicles (low-speed EVs, sedans, vans and SUVs) account for 224,227 units (35%). The Executive Order itself focuses on processes, procedures and metrics, and is not a roadmap for investment plans.

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Green Car Congress

JANUARY 7, 2021

4 electric SUV. 4 electric compact SUV, Volkswagen opted for a different strategy: coasting takes priority because conversion of energy inevitably leads to losses. 4 is Volkswagen’s first all-electric SUV and the brand’s first electric world car. In the case of the new ID.4 The limit has been set at 0.13

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Green Cars News

NOVEMBER 30, 2010

As part of a national electric vehicle project in Iceland, AMP Holding Inc has signed a letter of intent with Northern Lights Energy to introduce all-electric SUVs into the country. Tags: Electric cars Green cars Latest news AMP AMP electric car conversions electric SUVs Iceland Northern Lights Energy.

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Green Car Congress

JUNE 1, 2018

At the Movin’On 2018 mobility summit in Montreal, hydrogen fuel-cell company Symbio intoduced a 40-kW fuel cell system—H2Motiv L—targeting range-extending conversion applications for heavy-duty electric vehicles. Auxiliary functions are optimized for system operation (power conversion, cooling, preheating, air compression).

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Green Car Congress

JULY 21, 2021

Advocacy group Coltura has published a report that finds converting the biggest users of gasoline to EVs in the next ten years is critical to reaching climate goals and that present EV policies are poorly suited to accomplishing that conversion. The top 20% of gasoline users burn 48%.

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Green Car Congress

MARCH 26, 2015

Keeping pace with its announced intention to roll out 10 plug-in hybrids by 2017 ( earlier post ), Mercedes-Benz introduced the new GLE550 e 4MATIC plug-in hybrid (PHEV) along with the other members of the new GLE family of full-size SUVs. The GLE550 e is Mercedes-Benz’ first plug-in hybrid SUV. Mercedes’ new SUV nomenclature.

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Green Car Congress

OCTOBER 14, 2020

The tremendous ground clearance is made possible by the conversion to portal axles: unlike conventional axles, the wheels are not at the height of the axle centre, but are instead situated much lower down on the axle hubs owing to the portal gears. Or conversely, the entire vehicle moves up.

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Green Car Congress

AUGUST 21, 2020

Volkswagen has begun series production of the brand’s first all-electric SUV, the ID.4, 4, Volkswagen is adding an all-electric vehicle to its offering in the compact SUV class, the world’s largest growth segment. All conversion work will be completed as scheduled this year. 4, in Zwickau. The world premiere of the ID.4

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The Truth About Cars

SEPTEMBER 27, 2023

Despite electrification taking over the national conversation, the automotive world isn’t going electric overnight. & The two SUVs are currently sold with 5.7- Car and Driver’s reporting showed that dealers’ databases only show the Hurricane, however, so there’s a chance the SUV retains its larger engines for 2024.&

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Teslarati

NOVEMBER 16, 2023

During his conversation with the podcast host, Johnson revealed that he actually does not know much about Tesla’s offerings, though he showed a lot of interest in the Cybertruck. The Rock responded by stating that people who own Teslas seem very happy with them, and he also asked if the EV maker makes SUVs or pickup trucks.

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Electrek

OCTOBER 4, 2021

Mazda invited us out for a drive of its upcoming MX-30 electric compact SUV, and some conversations with Mazda’s Irvine R&D folks. We have a lot of thoughts to share about the car and the future of Mazda’s EV programs. more… The post First Drive: The 2022 Mazda MX-30 misses the market, but does it matter?

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