Green Car Congress
DECEMBER 9, 2020
INEOS Automotive has acquired the manufacturing facility at Hambach from Mercedes-Benz and will start to build its Grenadier 4x4 there in late 2021. The acquisition secures the future of the site and safeguards many jobs that might otherwise have been lost. Manufacturing at Hambach ensures that INEOS remains on track to meet its plans to deliver the Grenadier to customers in early 2022.
Green Car Reports
DECEMBER 9, 2020
Volkswagen-backed startup QuantumScape on Tuesday revealed new data showing the capabilities of its solid-state battery tech. Several companies are working to develop solid-state batteries, which use a solid electrolyte instead of the liquid or gel used in current lithium-ion battery cells. But QuantumScape claims to be ahead of competitors in.
Green Car Congress
DECEMBER 9, 2020
Optimal Electric Vehicles and Olathe Ford, one of the nation’s largest Ford Commercial Vehicle Centers (CVCs), announced a new partnership in the sales and distribution of Optimal-EV’s E1 series battery-electric cutaway chassis platform. Under the partnership terms, Optimal will supply Olathe E1 Battery Electric Chassis for sales and distribution to Olathe’s customer base in the market segments of school buses, commercial trucks and buses, ambulance, recreational vehicles, and fleet trucks.
Green Car Reports
DECEMBER 9, 2020
Earlier this month, Portland General Electric and Daimler Trucks North America, which is headquartered in Portland, established a charging testbed for medium- and heavy-duty electric trucks. Like the original “Electric Avenue” for electric-car charging (I attended the dedication in 2011), Daimler and PGE say that the effort, nicknamed.
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Green Car Congress
DECEMBER 9, 2020
World’s green hydrogen leaders unite to drive 50-fold scale-up in six years. World’s biggest green hydrogen project developers and partners come together to launch Green Hydrogen Catapult initiative New initiative aims to drive down costs to below $2 per kilogram, to transform energy across most carbon intensive industries, accelerating race to zero emissions Founding partners include.
Green Car Reports
DECEMBER 9, 2020
Real-world emissions of plug-in hybrids on European roads are significantly higher than automakers claim, according to a report released earlier this month by the environmental group Transport & Environment. While real-world emissions are always dependent on how often owners plug in, many plug-in hybrids "lack the necessary EV power, range.
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Green Car Reports
DECEMBER 9, 2020
Ineos Automotive confirmed on Tuesday that it’s acquired the Daimler AG facility in Hambach, France that builds Smart EQ Fortwo electric cars—for building throwback SUVs that are gasoline, diesel, and perhaps hydrogen fuel-cell powered. The plant, which has been nicknamed Smartville and has made future-leaning cars from the city-car.
Green Car Congress
DECEMBER 9, 2020
In a new report—“ Full Hybrid Electric Vehicle Markets 2021-2041 ”—IDTechEx forecasts that market value for hybrid electric vehicles will peak at $792 billion in 2027. Hybrid electric vehicles (HEVs) have seen significant growth in sales over recent years, and the HEV market is set to increase in 2020 despite the implications of COVID-19 on the global automotive industry.
Green Car Reports
DECEMBER 9, 2020
Plug-in hybrids might be polluting a lot more than the emissions-test numbers suggest. Portland is re-upping on the Electric Avenue concept, but for big electric trucks this time. Daimler’s Smart plant sale will enable something that’s not small and not electric. And could solid-state battery tech arrive by the middle of the decade?
Green Car Congress
DECEMBER 9, 2020
Enerkem, with a group of strategic partners including major investor Shell, along with Suncor and Proman, and Hydro-Québec supplying green hydrogen and oxygen, and with the support of the Québec and Canadian governments, is proposing the construction of a biofuel plant in Varennes, in the Greater Montréal area. Varennes Carbon Recycling (VCR) will produce biofuels and renewable chemicals made from non-recyclable residual materials as well as wood waste.
Go Ultra Low
DECEMBER 9, 2020
On Saturday 12 December, the UK and UN will host the Climate Ambition Summit to encourage world leaders to come together to urgently tackle climate change. We caught up with our partners at ZipCar to find out why they think car sharing can help create a greener future and tackle climate change… An unintended consequence […]. The post Can the Coronavirus crisis be an opportunity for change?
Green Car Congress
DECEMBER 9, 2020
by Michael Sivak, Sivak Applied Research. In a recent article , I showed that, adjusted for population and inflation, e-commerce retail sales during the second quarter of 2020 increased by 43.3% compared with second-quarter sales of 2019. In comparison, traditional retail sales decreased by 10.1%. This brief study extends the analysis through the third quarter of 2020.
Discover EV
DECEMBER 9, 2020
Audi is adding yet another PHEV to its model range – this time in the form of the Q3 45 TFSI e in both regular and Sportback guise.
Cars That Think
DECEMBER 9, 2020
It says it's just joining forces with the buyer, Aurora, but that still leaves one less player in the game.
Discover EV
DECEMBER 9, 2020
The new DS 4 is set to bring the next generation of platform, technology and powertrains to DS's model line-up.
Green Cars News
DECEMBER 9, 2020
Details of the all-new Dacia Sandero have been confirmed, with the small hatchback set to arrive in the UK early next year.
Discover EV
DECEMBER 9, 2020
The PSA Group has launched a new breed of medium-sized electric vans, which offer a choice of battery pack sizes without compromising on performance and features – we drive the Citroën ë-Dispatch
Green Cars News
DECEMBER 9, 2020
Jaguar has unveiled a revised version of the potent F-Pace SVR
Green Car Congress
DECEMBER 9, 2020
QuantumScape Corporation, a Volkswagen Group-backed developer of next-generation solid-state lithium-metal batteries for use in electric vehicles (EVs), released performance data demonstrating that its technology addresses fundamental issues holding back widespread adoption of high-energy density solid-state batteries, including charge time (current density), cycle life, safety, and operating temperature.
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