Green Car Congress

JANUARY 13, 2017

The standards are projected to result in average fleet-wide consumer fuel economy sticker values of 36 miles per gallon (mpg) by model year 2025, 10 mpg higher than the current fleet average. Top: Footprint-based CO 2 (g/mile) light truck standards curves. Bottom: Footprint-based CO 2 (g/mile) passenger car standards curves.

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Green Car Congress

JULY 3, 2017

Examples of this are: Advanced data transmission and hardware solutions, combined under the heading of “paperless factory”, now replace paper documentation. This enables for example the electronic documentation of data, such as the torque, for quality assurance.

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Green Car Congress

FEBRUARY 1, 2013

The US Department of Energy (DOE) released the EV Everywhere Grand Challenge Blueprint , which describes plug-in vehicle (PEV) technology and deployment barriers, and provides an outline for DOE’s technical and deployment goals for electric vehicles to 2022. Reducing the cost of electric drive systems from $30/kW to $8/kW.

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Charged EVs

DECEMBER 14, 2021

The startup carmaker Rivian was founded a decade ago by RJ Scaringe, but it didn’t go public with its electric pickup truck and SUV until the 2018 Los Angeles Auto Show. Three years and one global pandemic later, the company is now starting to deliver production versions of its 2022 R1T electric pickup truck to paying customers.

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F-150 Land Rover Colorado Los Angeles 108

Green Car Congress

MARCH 2, 2013

The document is a detailed draft technical review of potential environmental impacts associated with the segment of the pipeline in the US, including: impacts from construction, impacts from potential spills, impacts related to climate change, and economic impacts. Source: Draft SEIS. Click to enlarge.

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Climate Change Oil-Sands Nebraska Climate 250

Green Car Congress

NOVEMBER 10, 2014

In a recent article posted on the US Department of Energy (DOE) website, Jesse Schneider (BMW), the lead of the SAE hydrogen fueling standards SAE J2601, noted the importance of releasing the standards now, due to the impending deployment of fuel cell electric vehicles (FCEVs) by the automotive companies. Source: Jesse Schneider.

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Green Car Congress

MAY 7, 2010

Conversion systems allow vehicles to run on alternative fuels; most conversions involve switching gasoline or diesel vehicles to operate instead on a gaseous fuel such as natural gas or propane; an alcohol fuel; or electricity. 1 This example is for Light-duty Tier 2 vehicles which have a useful life of 10 years or 120,000 miles.

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Plug In Partners

APRIL 2, 2008

Water Supply, Researcher Says By Jennifer Bogo Popular Mechanics March 7, 2008 "A 30-mile commute in a gasoline-powered car would require the withdrawal of 18.9 The same commute in a plug-in hybrid electric vehicle (PHEV), meanwhile, would take a whopping 318 gallons. And what about the water used to refine gasoline?

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Open Source Civic EV Kit

APRIL 7, 2008

After spending the past year and a half converting a Porsche 914 to an electric vehicle, I decided to expand my horizons by designing an open-source electric vehicle (EV) conversion kit for a commonly used car. This project started about a month ago when I became co-chair of the Oregon Electric Vehicles Association.

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Plugs and Cars

NOVEMBER 25, 2013

He has come to like the car so much that the fact that now it is costing him closer to his gasoline past doesn’t seem to get him down. After a while driving electric became it’s own reward. Bill lives a good 60 miles from San Francisco, so he needs to get some juice to make his trip home after work. That’s really too bad.

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Green Car Congress

JUNE 8, 2015

In 2014, Volkswagen of America announced that starting with the launch of the zero-tailpipe emissions battery-electric 2015 e-Golf ( earlier post ), it would invest in projects to offset the carbon emissions created from the e-Golf on a full lifecycle basis: production, distribution and up to approximately 36,000 miles (57,936 km) of driving.

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Tony Karrer Delicious EVdriven

JANUARY 28, 2009

Current Hybrids are natural donor platforms because they already have most of the needed electric propulsion components, so the conversion process deals primarily with integrating larger battery packs.A PriusPlus documentation process : CalCars Open Source documentation. PiPrius : Open Source documentation and kits.

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Tony Karrer Delicious EVdriven

APRIL 21, 2009

See also: Electric Auto Assn. On the highway, it runs just like any other Prius, with the gasoline engine doing most of the work -- and the extra batteries kicking in to improve performance at ALL speeds. Two EDrive/EnergyCS prototypes: (100+ mpg plus electricity, 30-mile range, with lithium-ion batteries.

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Green Car Congress

JULY 19, 2012

Set a target of reducing the carbon intensity of gasoline and diesel by 10 to 15 percent by 2030. Create separate fuel pools for gasoline and diesel. Although electricity, hydrogen, and natural gas currently account for less than 1 percent of total transportation fuel use in the United States, their use will be expanding.

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Green Car Congress

SEPTEMBER 15, 2014

miles) purely electrically. All three hybrid S-Class models have environmental certificates documenting the models’ environmental performance from development through to recycling, across the entire lifecycle; the performance is certified to internationally recognized standards by independent experts. Electric motor.

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Plug-in Mercedes Plug Hybrid 225

Green Car Congress

SEPTEMBER 14, 2011

natural gas drive (due to be in production by next year’s Frankfurt show); the electric e-up! production version slated for 2013); the NILS single-seat electric vehicle; buggy up! emits 79 g/km CO 2 / So far, no one has documented such low emissions in a small car with CNG natural gas drive, Volkswagen says.

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Baua Electric

APRIL 20, 2024

The Kentucky-made three-row Toyota electric SUV that the automaker has been underscoring is on the way has taken on an intriguing twist with new info: that it’s reportedly a Toyota Highlander EV. bound fully electric luxury convertible will come from Italy. Rivian charging grades for trip planning – Software Update 2024.11.01

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Camry Hybrid Highlander Prius Hybrid 52

Green Car Congress

FEBRUARY 1, 2014

The document is posted on State’s Keystone project site , which it has run since the beginning of the Keystone XL Presidential permit process in 2008. Varying pipeline availability has little impact on the prices that US consumers pay for refined products such as gasoline or for heavy crude demand in the Gulf Coast.

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Revenge of the Electric Car

JANUARY 22, 2009

3Prong Power converts existing Toyota Priuses into plug-in hybrids that can run entirely on electricity. Some immediately - such as the requirement for somewhere between 20-100,000 dollars in testing - but it’s the 10 year 150,000 mile warranty on the batteries themselves that’s the dealbreaker. Photograph by Chris Duffey.

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EV Connect

APRIL 25, 2022

to expand the nation’s electric vehicle (EV) charging infrastructure. They want to be sure they can charge their electric cars with a generator or backup battery so they can always get power in a pinch. So can you use a backup battery or another power source to recharge your electric vehicle? In short, yes.

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Green Car Congress

NOVEMBER 16, 2011

Further documents will be released on 7 December. The proposed new standard drops greenhouse gas emissions to 166 grams per mile, a reduction of 47% from current levels. It is designed to parallel the national greenhouse gas and fuel economy standards rule the U.S.

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Clean Cleaning California Fuel 218

Green Car Congress

SEPTEMBER 21, 2009

The 250 g/mile of CO 2 equivalent emissions limit by EPA is equivalent to 35.5 NHTSA details the modeling and the projections in the “Preliminary Regulatory Impact Analysis”, and the NHTSA/EPA “Draft Joint Technical Support Document”. Improved accessories (IACC): may include high efficiency alternators, electrically driven (i.e.,

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2016 MPG Fuel Economy EPA 210

Green Car Congress

DECEMBER 13, 2009

Range is 220 km (137 miles) on the EEC urban cycle, with a maximum speed of 45 km/h (28 mph). However, the team concluded, a pneumatic–combustion hybrid is technologically feasible, inexpensive and could eventually compete with hybrid electric vehicles. The AirPod, equipped with a 4.5 Resources.

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Tony Karrer Delicious EVdriven

APRIL 21, 2009

We also think that with more people realizing that global warming is our greatest challenge, and that evolving the transportation sector to zero-carbon via cellulosic ethanol plug-in hybrids plus electricity from renewable sources may be our best strategy, the discussions about payback are a narrow answer to big questions.

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Tony Karrer Delicious EVdriven

APRIL 21, 2009

GM has announced plans for public sales in 2010, and almost every carmaker now says it will sell PHEVs or highway-speed battery electric vehicles (BEVs) sometime after 2010. This is from "Commercializing Plug-In Hybrids" (pdf), the current CalCars 24-slide presentation about PHEVs available along with other documents at CalCars Downloads.

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Teslarati

APRIL 24, 2024

We believe this is not the right strategy, and electric vehicles will ultimately dominate the market. So we now have over 300 billion miles that have been driven with FSD v12. And we’re really headed for an electric vehicle, and an autonomous future. And that percentage is increasing with each passing week.

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