Green Car Congress

APRIL 7, 2014

Solutions for passenger ‘green’ cars with market maturity and infrastructure availability. Surplus electricity generated from renewables could be stored in batteries or could be converted via power-to-gas technology into synthetic methane (SNG), liquid fuels or hydrogen. Click to enlarge. Liquid Air. Earlier post.)

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Green Cars News

JULY 22, 2009

The FedEx fleet of hybrid-electric vehicles has leapt by more than 50 per cent from 172 to 264 after the company added 92 hybrid-electric trucks to its delivery fleet by converting existing models. Tags: Green cars Hybrid cars Latest news FedEx FedEx California hybrid-electric delivery trucks.

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Green Cars News

NOVEMBER 2, 2009

In last week’s edition of The Green Piece Column, we looked at the leaders in the green car race including the likes of Toyota, Honda, Volkswagen and Nissan. Of all the ‘upstart’ green car companies, Tesla is the closest to breaking out into the mainstream. REVA: An Indian company that markets the G-Wiz in the UK.

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Green Cars News

AUGUST 24, 2010

Forgive the patriot provoking headline – but yes, it’s true, the US Army will soon have a Canadian company to thank for part of its fleet. Tags: Electric cars Green cars Latest news Ancillary Power Vehicles Canada electric vehicles Rapid Electric Vehicles US Army.

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Green Cars News

MAY 11, 2009

One of the UK’s leading providers of cosmetic surgery has replaced its fleet with Proton GEN-2 ecoLogic dual fuel vehicles, the only vehicles available in the UK with a factory-fit LPG tank. With 15 clinics in the UK, each of the 12 vehicles in its fleet cover on average 100,000 miles per year.

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EV Adoption

APRIL 9, 2023

If Walmart/Sam’s Club converted (it likely can’t for many years due to lease contracts) all of their locations that Electrify America operates to the “Walmart network” overnight , it would become the fifth largest US DCFC network (based on the number of charging ports (connectors)).

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Green Cars News

DECEMBER 14, 2012

Indianapolis is to become the US’ first city to convert its entire municipal non-police fleet to electric and plug-in hybrids by 2025. On Wednesday, city mayor, Greg Ballard made history as he signed an executive order to make the switch to plug-in power within the next thirteen years. The mid-west city of Indianapolis is an [.].

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Green Cars News

JULY 18, 2009

Green cars are the order of the day for Scottish ministers after Labour urged chiefs to hand over £15million for a fleet of new eco-friendly council vehicles. Labour also wants ministers to switch to electric cars and the UK government will offer £3million for hybrid buses as well as a £30million fund for councils.

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Green Cars News

AUGUST 12, 2009

The company, which unveiled its IDEA concept series plug-in hybrid light commercial van in May, will now convert VW Transporter vans using the series hybrid Bright powertrain. The converted Transporter will come in cargo, cab chassis and passenger versions and will have a 22mile all-electric range.

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Green Cars News

JULY 28, 2009

Think and Ener1 will team with Zero Sports of Japan - Zero Sports has been chosen as one of the conversion partners for delivering electric vehicles as Japan Post aims to electrify its fleet of 22,000 delivery vehicles. Initially, the Japan Postal Service will convert 25 per cent of its fleet to electric drive.

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Green Car Congress

JANUARY 24, 2013

CO 2 emissions by the European new vehicle fleet will be reduced by some 30% during the period from 2006 to 2015—emissions will be below the threshold of 120 grams CO 2 /km for the first time by 2015. Ten SMA inverters and 5 transformers (rated at 1500 KVA each) convert the 9.58 MW of DC power to 7.6

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Green Cars News

NOVEMBER 8, 2011

Nine fleets and more than 160 vehicles have joined the Southeast Propane Autogas Development Programme that sees vehicles converted to run on propane gas as well as the installation of on-site fuelling stations.

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Green Cars News

FEBRUARY 9, 2011

Mazda has reported an increase in Mazda6 sales to UK fleets that intend to convert the car to liquefied petroleum gas (LPG). The car maker has also said it it set to receive more orders as more and more firms turn to green alternatives. Mazda6 LPG conversions have already joined the fleet of the LPG [.].

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Green Cars News

JUNE 23, 2011

Japanese manufacturer Toyota has become renowned for its hybrid models after the global success of the Prius – but the latest addition to its fleet has a very different look. The Toyota GRMN Sports Hybrid Concept II is a convertible mid-ship petrol electric hybrid concept that will make its first appearance at the 39th Nurburgring [.].

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Green Cars News

APRIL 30, 2009

A consortium led by Cranfield University has developed a retrofit plug-in hybrid conversion system that can be used to convert conventional internal combustion engines. The Affordable Add-on Zero Emissions Vehicle technology shows how it may be possible to convert the existing UK fleet into plug-ins via a through-the-road approach.

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Green Cars News

MARCH 10, 2011

Leading clean tech firm ITM Power has supplied two converted Ford Transit vans for the trial, which will see the vehicles join the airport’s existing fleet of airside vehicles. A trail of hydrogen fuel cell vans launched at Stansted Airport this week, as Britain’s greenest airport celebrated its 30th anniversary.

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Green Cars News

JUNE 27, 2009

It focuses on converting used chip fat from the site’s 38 canteens into fuel to run a diesel engine Peugeot Expert van. The support services company, which has made consecutive appearances on the Sunday Times Best Green Companies list, believes that the trial could save around £2,500 in fuel costs.

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Green Cars News

NOVEMBER 12, 2009

In addition to importing new electric vehicles to Iceland, it is working on developing systems to convert the current internal combustion engine car fleet into electric cars. Sales and marketing of the car is expected to begin in the second half of 2010 with customer deliveries at the end of the same year.

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Plug In Partners

AUGUST 4, 2006

New York to Convert 600 Hybrids to PHEVs New York Governor George E. Bruno today announced a new $10 million State program to convert vehicles in the State fleet to plug-in hybrids (PHEVs) and plans for the construction of a state-of-the-art alternative fuel research laboratory at the Saratoga Technology + Energy Park (STEP).

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Green Car Congress

SEPTEMBER 14, 2015

Winterkorn also announced that Group companies would introduce 20 more electric cars and plug-in hybrids by 2020—from compact cars to the next Phaeton and Audi A8. “ He said the Group already had the broadest plug-in fleet in the automobile world. Audi of America is hosting Green Car Congress at IAA.

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Tony Karrer Delicious EVdriven

APRIL 21, 2009

We Promote PHEV Conversion Programs: First CalCars in 2004, then a number of aftermarket companies, have converted over 200 cars — at first most were for fleets, but more and more are going to individual owners. Drivers of converted cars have received high levels of cooperation from dealer service departments so far.

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Green Car Congress

MARCH 25, 2009

The polyhedra aid the eye in seeing the ions grouped as (green) Fe/Mg-enclosing octahedra and (yellow) phosphate tetrahedra. Green Car Congress had the opportunity recently to have a discussion with Mark Donaghy, the Global Marketing Manager for Valence Technology, Inc., Click to enlarge.

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Green Cars News

JUNE 22, 2009

The police are set to be the latest ‘green’ driving converts. The manual provides police force driving schools with a framework which green driving techniques now form a part of. The manual provides police force driving schools with a framework which green driving techniques now form a part of.

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Green Cars News

AUGUST 11, 2009

If you listen to US President Barack Obama it has been a long time coming – his decision to pour $2.4billion of stimulus money to make America a global leader in electric and hybrid car development comes as the country plays catch up to the likes of Japan and even China in the green car race (see article ). “I Who misses out?

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Baua Electric

APRIL 20, 2024

This is our look back at the Week In Reverse—right here at Green Car Reports—for the week ending April 19, 2024. In a first drive of the 2025 Toyota Camry hybrid , we found that the hybrid system blends into the background—just like the rest of the car, which has now appropriately gone all-hybrid.

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Tony Karrer Delicious EVdriven

JANUARY 28, 2009

com Vigil to save last remaining 78 EV1 cars www.pluginamerica.com/saveev1.htm Brown and Shari Prange, 1993 "The Electric and Hybrid Electric Car", by Michael H. htm Advocates of the Th!

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Green Cars News

APRIL 29, 2009

Known as the Affordable Add-on Zero Emissions Vehicle (ADDZEV), the technology that has been developed demonstrates how it may be possible to convert much of the UK vehicle fleet into hybrid vehicles. Our target for ADDZEV was to demonstrate what could be achieved with the existing urban fleet.”.

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Green Cars News

JULY 1, 2009

Ford Motor Company’s global commitment to the development of Battery Electric Vehicles (BEVs) is reinforced with a British project including Ford demonstration models as part of the UK Government’s Ultra-Low Carbon Vehicle fleet announced this week. Prototype fleet.

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Green Car Congress

NOVEMBER 21, 2013

Hyundai began production of the ix35 Fuel Cell (the Tucson’s counterpart in Europe) at the company’s Ulsan manufacturing plant in Korea in January 2013; the first complete car rolled off the assembly line on 26 February 2013. In addition, the FC system is equipped with Toyota’s high-efficiency boost converter.

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Green Cars News

OCTOBER 13, 2009

Frank Thorpe, Business Development Manager, Go-Ahead London, said: “Go-Ahead are pleased to be working with the Mayor of London’s initiative to encourage the use and development of electric vehicles and we are committed to converting our entire bus support fleet in London to electric power as soon as possible.&#.

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Cars That Think

OCTOBER 26, 2021

John Voelcker has been reporting on cars and the automotive industry for almost as long as he's been driving. He's also a contributing editor to Car and Driver , and is the editor of Green Car Reports. But Nissan has announced that for North America, they too are converting over to CCS.

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Cars That Think

OCTOBER 26, 2021

John Voelcker has been reporting on cars and the automotive industry for almost as long as he's been driving. He's also a contributing editor to Car and Driver , and is the editor of Green Car Reports. But Nissan has announced that for North America, they too are converting over to CCS.

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Green Cars News

NOVEMBER 11, 2010

The company will buy 25,000 electric vehicles by 2015 for its own fleet in what is the largest ever single electric vehicle commitment. It will convert at least half of its [.]. Tags: Electric cars Green cars Latest news electric vehicle commitment electric vehicles GE General Electric Jeff Immelt.

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Green Car Congress

FEBRUARY 16, 2017

Mike O’Brien, Hyundai vice president of corporate and product planning, noted that the “green car market” in the US has declined a bit—about one hundred thousand units since its high in 2013 with 3.8% The Ioniq hybrid and electric platforms will be our future e-mobility foundation. Market background.

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Green Car Congress

FEBRUARY 16, 2017

Mike O’Brien, Hyundai vice president of corporate and product planning, noted that the “green car market” in the US has declined a bit—about one hundred thousand units since its high in 2013 with 3.8% The Ioniq hybrid and electric platforms will be our future e-mobility foundation. Market background.

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Green Car Congress

JULY 17, 2015

All we really need in addition to fleets of new paradigm vehicles are additional solar and wind generation sources. Virtually any car, truck or bus can be made or redesigned as a long-range PHEV. There are trucks and buses being converted commercially today. It is only a matter of economics motivated by incentives or taxes.

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Green Cars News

AUGUST 26, 2009

It will see its first demonstration electric vehicle housed on the university campus to evaluate the technology with the hope that the entire university fleet may eventually be converted to electric. In Australia, the company has formed a partnership with the University of Melbourne. Design of the facility is expected to begin in 2011.

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