Clean Fleet Report

OCTOBER 19, 2022

Many people credit General Motors with the first hydrogen-powered vehicle in 1966, which looks like a solid-color version of Fred’s Mystery Machine. Other companies, led by Toyota and Honda, focused on fuel cell vehicles that converted hydrogen to electricity on board so were essentially electric vehicles.

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Hydrogen Vehicles Alternative Fuels Toyota 88

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. Comparison of yields of ethanol vs other reduced products.

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Universal GM Conversion Fuel 255

Green Car Congress

SEPTEMBER 28, 2009

The production-intent fuel cell system can be packaged under the hood in about the same space as a four-cylinder engine; by contrast, the first generation system in the Equinox (with the fourth-generation stack) is about the size of a file cabinet, says Charles Freese, executive director of GM Fuel Cell Activities. Earlier post.)

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GM 2015 Engine Fuel 262

Clean Fleet Report

AUGUST 24, 2021

General Motors, the parent company of Cadillac, announced by the year 2035 they will only be selling zero-emission vehicles. To stress its commitment, Cadillac will not be selling any internal combustion vehicles, gasoline for diesel, by 2030. Driving Cadillac into the future. Interior Technology. Reaching the Lyriq Buyer.

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Cadillac Escalade General Motors SUV 103

Cars That Think

MARCH 11, 2023

Around the same time, however, General Motors and other automakers were in the process of decommissioning their battery EV fleets, the key component of V2G. In the early years of the automobile, battery-powered electric cars were competitive with cars fueled by gasoline and other types of propulsion. Electric Car tzero 0-60 3.6

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Grid Power Powered Vehicles 139

Green Car Congress

JULY 12, 2013

Describing its product goals and tracking progress toward its 2020 manufacturing priorities in its 2012 Sustainability Report , General Motors reaffirmed its commitment to further reduce the energy used and the environmental impacts of building and operating an automobile. Earlier post.). MWh per vehicle.

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GM MPG Manufacturer 2017 275

Green Car Congress

OCTOBER 15, 2009

The Coskata process can produce more than 100 gallons of ethanol per ton of dry, ash-free biomass material at a cost competitive with expected gasoline prices—around $1.00 Actual production cost will vary, either below or above $1.00 We will have the lowest production cost of ethanol in the industry. Earlier post.). “We

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Commercial Oil-Sands Water Gasoline 150

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 137

Green Car Congress

MAY 17, 2012

The Coordinating Research Council (CRC) is a non-profit organization that directs, through committee action, engineering and environmental studies on the interaction between automotive/other mobility equipment and petroleum products. Background. More specifically: The CRC failed to establish a proper control group.

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2001 2009 Engine Industrial 199

Green Car Congress

AUGUST 10, 2011

This project will enable diesel-like efficiency and increased maximum power output in a gasoline engine by using a secondary fuel to suppress engine knock under high load. This project will develop and demonstrate dry process electrode fabrication to reduce cost of EV and PHEV’s innovations in lithium ion battery production.

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Carbon Fiber Lithium Ion Li-ion Vehicles 268

Green Car Congress

SEPTEMBER 18, 2015

The US Department of Energy (DOE) is awarding nearly $55 million for 24 projects to develop and deploy advanced vehicle technologies, supporting the Energy Department’s EV Everywhere Grand Challenge to make plug-in electric vehicles as affordable to own and operate as today’s gasoline-powered vehicles by 2022. General Motors.

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Fuel Carbon Fiber Lithium Ion Vehicles 150

Green Car Congress

JANUARY 15, 2013

ELR production begins in the US in late 2013 in limited numbers, said Bob Ferguson, Cadillac global vice president. The ELR EREV powertrain combines a drive motor (117-135 kW); a generator motor (55 kW) and a 1.4L gasoline-powered range-extender generator. Earlier post.) Powertrain.

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Extended Range Cadillac 2014 Range 244

Clean Fleet Report

JULY 21, 2022

General Motors Debuts Another Electric SUV. Developed from the ground-up as a fully electric SUV using the Ultium Platform Built in Ramos Arizpe, Mexico, alongside the gasoline-powered Blazer Front, rear and all-wheel Drive options Four Blazer EV trims: 1LT, 2LT, RS and SS. Until then, here are some Blazer EV highlights.

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Chevrolet General Motors GMC Hummer 105

Cars That Think

DECEMBER 11, 2022

After moving to a home much further away from their respective workplaces, each would have become part of the gasoline “superusers” club. motorists who, according to a study by the environmental group Coltura , drive 30,000 miles or more a year and use an estimated 32 percent of all gasoline. Club members make up the 10 percent of U.S.

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Gasoline Convert Wyoming F-150 86

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. I never liked automobiles because I don’t like burning gasoline. I never liked automobiles because I don’t like burning gasoline.

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EV1 Los Angeles Hydrogen GM 100

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. Hydrogen emissions sourced from biogas are a tiny fraction of equivalent gasoline vehicle emissions.

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Tucson Honda Hyundai Concept 324

Baua Electric

MAY 4, 2024

Which automaker is adding hybrid production at its U.S. production of more hybrid models , as part of an effort to expand the range of hybrid trims of its gasoline vehicles. Toyota’s H2HQ will showcase a flexible microgrid and lead the application of fuel cells in trucks, stationary power generation, and more.

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Acura Jeep Plug-in Hybrid 52

Green Car Congress

SEPTEMBER 30, 2011

substantial increase in production of fuel per acre of planted. streamline the process by which green plants convert carbon. production of oil, which is stored in seeds and is convertible to. Synthetic Crop for Direct Biofuel Production through Rerouting the Photosynthesis Intermediates and Engineering.

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Energy Clean Cleaning Grid 294

Cars That Think

APRIL 23, 2022

highlights the small-but-growing phenomenon of people converting fossil-fueled cars to run on electricity. That’s three times the output of the Buick-based Rover V-8 that first powered these trucks in 1979, and nine times that of the anemic 50-hp gasoline engine the Rover boasted at its birth, in 1948.

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Land Rover Tesla Conversion Ferrari 101

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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Prius Plug-in Plug Gasoline-Electric 100

Green Car Congress

OCTOBER 26, 2009

will develop a commercially viable process for the production of bio-butanol, an advanced biofuel, from seaweed (macroalgae). Seaweed is a potentially sustainable source of biomass for the production of fuels, expanding and building opportunities for bio-butanol as a fuel and fuel extender. Earlier post.) MacroAlgae Butanol.

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Energy Grant Low Cost Li-ion 231

Green Car Congress

APRIL 10, 2013

liter gasoline and diesel engines, together with next generation five- and six-speed gearboxes. They will be joined by the end of this year by a new small-displacement gasoline engine family. SIDI Turbo gasoline engine. The new Cascada mid-size convertible is the first Opel model available with the new engine.

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Engine 2016 Fuel Economy Fuel 287

Revenge of the Electric Car

MARCH 11, 2009

Today, electric vehicles and plug-in cars are a niche product. One example is the much-publicized Chevy Volt, a plug-in hybrid due out in 2010 that ailing General Motors is staking its future on. In addition, consumers and businesses would be eligible for a $2,000 rebate after converting a gasoline-powered vehicle to a plug-in.

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Florida Tax Electric Cars Tax Credit 124

Tony Karrer Delicious EVdriven

APRIL 21, 2009

In late 2008, BYD started selling the first production PHEV in China. Weve kept the summary table below generally up-to-date for passenger PHEVs, but not for BEVs, motorcycles or larger vehicles like buses and trucks. Several dozen prototypes on 15-passenger van since 2004; now in second generation development; no production plans.

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Plug-in Plug Hybrid PHEV 45

Revenge of the Electric Car

MARCH 11, 2009

Today, electric vehicles and plug-in cars are a niche product. One example is the much-publicized Chevy Volt, a plug-in hybrid due out in 2010 that ailing General Motors is staking its future on. In addition, consumers and businesses would be eligible for a $2,000 rebate after converting a gasoline-powered vehicle to a plug-in.

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Florida Tax Electric Cars Tax Credit 100

Green Car Congress

APRIL 23, 2015

In designing the second-generation system, GM engineers built on the knowledge and data gained from the first-generation Volt. GM took a blank-sheet approach to designing the second-generation system. 2015) “Next Generation Voltec Electric Machines; Design and Optimization for Performance and Rare-Earth Mitigation,” SAE Int.

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Volt GM 2016 Extended Range 150

EV Adoption

MARCH 31, 2021

Converting this to estimated EPA range suggests range of roughly 282 miles. New Chinese Mini EV flying off the lots – Chinese customers took delivery of 200,000 Wuling Hongguang Mini EVs in the vehicle’s first 200 days of production. The EV6, will come with two battery pack options, a 58 kWh pack or a 77.4

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Kia Jeep Lexus Re-Charge 52

Tony Karrer Delicious EVdriven

APRIL 28, 2009

Think Global was formerly known as Think City, a prior Ford Motor Company ( F ) acquisition and part of a now-defunct Think division at Ford. The Think City was short-lived in the States with production halting in 2002 after just 1005 cars had been assembled. Think has even shown a convertible prototype.

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Manufacturer Electric Cars Cars i-MiEV 34

The Truth About Cars

FEBRUARY 20, 2024

The Alliance for Automotive Innovation, a trade group representing General Motors, Ford Motor Co., Stellantis, Toyota Motor Corp., regulators have actually been discussing the possible implementation of new items that may force automakers to add novel filters on every new gasoline-powered vehicle sold.

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Emissions EPA Fuel Economy Standards 111