Green Car Congress
APRIL 5, 2013
will begin a refurbishment program on the generators and motor controllers used in the Denver Regional Transportation District’s (RTD’s) fleet of hybrid buses. The 30 hybrid buses have covered more than a million miles in daily service since 2004. UQM Technologies, Inc. Earlier post.)
Green Car Congress
MARCH 9, 2009
Colorado start-up Lightning Hybrids will unveil the prototype of its hydraulic hybrid four-seat sports sedan at the Denver Auto Show 1-5 April. This will also mark the public debut for the hydraulic hybrid drivetrain. Lightning Hybrids is also developing the LH3, a three-wheel commuter vehicle using the same drivetrain.
Green Car Congress
JULY 19, 2016
THE US Department of Energy (DOE) National Renewable Energy Laboratory (NREL) has installed its second fuel-efficient, hydraulic hybrid system on a vehicle for the lab’s 632-acre campus in Golden, Colo. The hydraulic hybrid system is made by Colorado-based Lightning Hybrids.
Green Car Congress
DECEMBER 14, 2011
Ford’s Michigan Assembly Plant is starting production of the 2012 Focus Electric ( earlier post )—a five-passenger, battery-electric car Ford expects will achieve more than a 100 miles per gallon equivalent (MPGe) fuel economy rating. When C-MAX Hybrid launches, Ford becomes North America’s largest maker of hybrid transmissions.
The Truth About Cars
MARCH 18, 2024
Honda beat everybody to the production gasoline-electric hybrid game in the United States, putting the Insight in showrooms in 1999. Toyota followed with the Prius a year later, but it took GM until 2006 to introduce its first true gasoline-electric hybrid here. A 2007 Saturn Vue Green Line hybrid in a Colorado wrecking yard.
Green Car Congress
NOVEMBER 15, 2010
Ford Motor Company has named the first markets that will sell the Focus Electric, Ford’s all-electric passenger car: Atlanta; Austin and Houston, Texas; Boston; Chicago; Denver; Detroit; Los Angeles; San Francisco; San Diego; New York; Orlando, Fla.; Production will occur on the same line as the gasoline version of the Focus.
Green Car Congress
NOVEMBER 2, 2011
Availability of the Focus Electric will expand next year to the remaining 15 launch markets as production ramps up. The 19 launch markets include: Atlanta, Austin and Houston, Texas; Boston, Chicago, Denver, Detroit, Los Angeles, San Francisco, San Diego, New York, Orlando, Fla., Phoenix and Tucson, Ariz.; Portland, Ore.; Richmond, Va.,
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