Green Car Congress

NOVEMBER 4, 2019

Researchers at the US Department of Energy’s (DOE) Argonne National Laboratory have reported that a new photo-excitation mechanism can speed up the charging of lithium-ion batteries by a factor of two or more. An open-access paper on their work appears in Nature Communications. A serious limitation [of lithium-ion batteries], however, is the slow charging rate used to obtain the full capacity.

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Green Car Reports

NOVEMBER 4, 2019

Fiat-Chrysler Automobiles has finally found a suitor—and in it, a partner in mobility and electrification. FCA and France's Groupe PSA (which operates the Citroën, DS, Opel/Vauxhall and Peugeot brands) announced Thursday that they have reached an agreement to merge operations, creating the fourth-largest automaker in the world with an.

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Green Car Congress

NOVEMBER 4, 2019

ABB officially opened a new plant for energy storage systems for mobility applications today in Baden, Switzerland. The energy storage systems will be used in railways, e-buses/trolleybuses and e-trucks. The facility represents an important investment in Switzerland as a production location. ABB has already received orders for energy storage systems from several vehicle manufacturers from different countries.

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Green Car Reports

NOVEMBER 4, 2019

A coalition of 166 representatives sent a letter to the U.S. House leadership Wednesday to show support for reforming clean energy tax policies. One key element of the plan is an expansion of the federal EV tax credit Proponents of reform are calling for an increase in the existing cap of 200,000 eligible sales per manufacturer to 600,000, with a.

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Green Car Congress

NOVEMBER 4, 2019

The US Department of Energy’s (DOE) Office of Fossil Energy (FE) announced $4 million in federal funding for national laboratories to collaborate with international partners on seven projects out of the 12 that were selected as a part of the Accelerating Carbon Capture and Storage Technologies (ACT) Initiative. The ACT Initiative is a consortium of ten European countries—France, Germany, Greece, the Netherlands, Norway, Romania, Spain, Switzerland, Turkey, the United Kingdom—and the

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Green Car Reports

NOVEMBER 4, 2019

Transmissions will soon be history at Infiniti. Electric motors will exclusively power the drive wheels of future models, and all or nearly all versions will have all-wheel drive. Yet charge ports won’t be all that common, and most of the vehicles will still have a fuel tank, a tailpipe, and an engine under the hood. Confused? That’s.

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Green Car Reports

NOVEMBER 4, 2019

Infiniti, Nissan’s luxury brand, is on the verge of its 30th birthday and already in the midst of what sounds like serious midlife crisis territory. For one, it’s giving up on Western Europe and Australia, among other markets, and focusing in on the U.S.—where it originally launched, in 1989—and China, where the brand sees.

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Green Car Congress

NOVEMBER 4, 2019

Energy efficiency has tremendous potential to boost economic growth and avoid greenhouse gas emissions, but the global rate of progress is slowing, according to a new report by the International Energy Agency. Global primary energy demand rose by 2.3% in 2018, driven in large part by the People’s Republic of China, India and the United States, which were responsible for 70% of demand growth.

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Green Car Reports

NOVEMBER 4, 2019

Some members of Congress are helping keep EV tax credit reform on the table. NHTSA has a long list of questions for Tesla. PSA and FCA could merge into a greener, more electrified company. And Infiniti reveals more about its plan for the future. This and more here at Green Car Reports. Just before the 30th anniversary of its original launch in the.

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Discover EV

NOVEMBER 4, 2019

Research by charging point experts, Zap-Map, has shed new light on people's EV charging habits, demonstrating that electric car drivers are increasingly favouring fast chargers, whilst also charging their cars more regularly.

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NOVEMBER 4, 2019

Following the full launch of its ID.3, Volkswagen has teased its second all-electric model – the ID.

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Green Car Congress

NOVEMBER 4, 2019

Nanalysis Scientific Corp. has entered into a collaboration agreement with Robert Bosch GmbH jointly to develop products for the growing industrial Nuclear Magnetic Resonance (NMR) market for applications such as on-board fuel analyzers for cargo ships, driven by new international environmental standards against dirty fuels. Bosch will distribute the products.

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