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Wärtsilä and Grieg to build green ammonia-fueled tanker

Green Car Congress

The technology group Wärtsilä and Grieg Edge, the innovation hub of Norwegian shipping group Grieg Star, are jointly running a project to launch an ammonia-fueled tanker producing no greenhouse gas emissions by 2024. The MS Green Ammonia project is the result of a Nordic industrial collaboration group founded from the Zeeds (Zero Emissions Energy Distribution at Sea) initiative.

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Ford Mustang Mach-E: Green Car Reports’ Best Car To Buy 2021 finalist

Green Car Reports

The idea of applying the Mustang’s pony car heritage to Ford’s first widely available electric vehicle, the Mach-E, might seem like sacrilege to some, or the smartest product decision of the decade to others. Whether you come out on either side of that, or somewhere in the middle like us, the Mustang Mach-E takes electric cars.

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Apple iCar: The Next Big Thing?

The Truth About Cars

Apple has targeted 2024 to produce a passenger vehicle that could include proprietary self-driving and battery technologies, according to Reuters. Project Titan, The iPad creator’s automotive effort, started in 2014 with the goal of Apple designing its own vehicle. Apple later scaled back the effort to shift its focus elsewhere. Doug Field, an Apple veteran […].

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Why EV charging should be on your 2021 ‘To-Do List’

EV Box

At EVBox, we’re looking forward to a new year full of opportunities to accelerate the shift to electric transportation across the globe. And what kind of opportunities do we expect to see coming down the pike?

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How serious is Norway about climate change? So much that its streetlights self-dim

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CP announces hydrogen-powered line-haul locomotive pilot project

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Canadian Pacific plans to develop North America’s first hydrogen-powered line-haul locomotive. CP’s Hydrogen Locomotive Program will retrofit a line-haul locomotive with hydrogen fuel cells and battery technology to drive the locomotive’s electric traction motors. Line-haul locomotives move freight and passenger cars between yards and terminals. These are high-powered units—total rated power of more than 1,715 kW (2,300 horsepower) in Canada—that travel long distances and spend much

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Electric self-driving Apple car reportedly to use next-level battery tech in 2024

Green Car Reports

Apple is planning to launch an electric car in 2024 with radical new battery tech, Reuters reported Monday. Despite an apparent slowdown in what is sometimes referred to as "Project Titan," the iPhone maker is moving ahead with plans for a complete car that will be sold to consumers, according to the report, which cited anonymous sources familiar.

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3 Reasons an Electric Vehicle is the Perfect Present

EV Match

It’s hard to miss the corny holiday car commercials this time of year. As if one partner would buy two new cars – a significant purchase – for her and him as a complete surprise. The fact that car companies air these commercials year-after-year means they’re at least somewhat effective. So if you’re finding yourself persuaded to buy a car this holiday season, let it be electric.

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KIT studying production of MEAs for heavy-duty fuel cell vehicle systems

Green Car Congress

The EU plans to extend its climate goal of reducing CO 2 emission of new vehicles by 37.5% until 2030 to heavy-duty vehicles. In 2019, 409,801 commercial vehicles were registered in Germany, of these, 38,620 semitrailer trucks. So far, they have not been subject to any CO 2 reduction requirements. Within the KliMEA project, researchers at Karlsruhe Institute of Technology (KIT) will study drive systems of heavy duty vehicles and fuel cell technology to find ways how future production of fuel cel

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$3,000 DIY electric Mini Cooper is a fun exception among conversions

Green Car Reports

The 2020 Mini Cooper SE offers an all-electric powertrain from the factory, but YouTuber Rich Benoit took a different path to an electric Mini. Benoit's Rich Rebuilds YouTube channel gained popularity focusing on Tesla rebuilds, but recently its star has been branching out. As documented in a series of videos, he bought a non-running.

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2020 Peugeot e-208 GT review

Discover EV

The e-208 looks just as stylish inside and out as it’s conventional powered siblings, and is good fun to drive but it’s niggling frustrations put it on a par with its very close cousin – the Corsa-e.

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Faurecia and Accenture partner on products and services for connected and autonomous vehicles

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Why EV charging should be on your 2021 ‘To-Do List’

EV Box

At EVBox, we’re looking forward to a new year full of opportunities to accelerate the shift to electric transportation across the globe. And what kind of opportunities do we expect to see coming down the pike?

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Toshiba develops new magnetic material that delivers improved motor energy conversion efficiency

Green Car Congress

Toshiba Corporation has developed a new magnetic material with characteristics that deliver major improvements in motor efficiency at minimum cost, and with the potential to win significant reductions in power consumption. The company says the material is suitable for train drive systems, automobiles, robots and other applications requiring high reliability.

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Polestar 2: Green Car Reports’ Best Car To Buy 2021 finalist

Green Car Reports

Take a performance heritage, a focus on sustainability, Swedish engineering at the core, and an interface that’s all about “Hey Google,” and you’ll end up with a beeline to the Polestar 2. The Polestar 2 is probably the closest comparison to the Tesla Model 3 yet—although probably to the delight of many, it’s a.

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Co Charger helps EV owners share their home chargers

Discover EV

One of the biggest barriers to the widespread adoption of EVs is the fact that around 40 per cent of the population does not have off-street parking where they could install a home charger. Co Charger has been founded to solve this issue, linking those who have chargers, with those who need to use one.

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ExxonMobil announces 6th oil discovery offshore Guyana with Ranger-1; Guyana may move from non-producer to regional powerhouse

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Why Open Standards Matter: Don't Get Locked In Like a Sneaky Timeshare

EV Connect

Want to keep up with the times and prepare for the future? Adding EV charging stations to your property accomplishes both. It is no coincidence that governments, automakers, and commercial real estate companies across the country are investing serious money into EV infrastructure. Don’t Let Hardware Dictate Your Software When considering EV charging station companies, many businesses make the mistake of focusing on the station itself (the hardware) without considering the brains inside of it (th

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Twin Rivers (CA) Unified School District receives 10 additional LionC electric school buses

Green Car Congress

The Lion Electric Company (Lion), a manufacturer of purpose-built all-electric medium and heavy-duty urban vehicles, has delivered 10 battery-electric LionC school buses to the Twin Rivers Unified School District in Sacramento, California. With these new buses, Twin Rivers is now operating the largest zero-emission school bus fleet in North America, with 40 all-electric school buses in its fleet.

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Another fuel-cell outage hampers Bay Area fuel-cell drivers

Green Car Reports

Yet another hydrogen shortage has befallen Bay Area drivers of fuel-cell vehicles—and this one has been attributed to a hurricane. Yes, we know hurricane season is over, and hurricanes don’t reach California. This only serves to underscore the absurd state of the hydrogen distribution network, which is dependent on trucking liquid.

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Renault ZOE Venture Edition added to line-up

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The ever-popular Renault ZOE has gained a new trim level, adding more choice and an additional price point into the model range. Bringing with it a reasonable level of equipment along with the tried-and-tested R110 powertrain and decent range, the Venture Edition should prove a popular choice.

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Review: Alfa Romeo Stelvio Quadrifoglio

Green Cars News

As the BMW X3 is to the BMW 3 Series, so the Alfa Romeo Stelvio is to the Alfa Romeo Giulia

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Building materials recycler switches fleet to Neste renewable diesel

Green Car Congress

Since forming in 2013, Argent Materials, a San Francisco Bay Area recycler of concrete and asphalt, and supplier of aggregate such as crushed rock, entry, cutback, sand, backfill and base rock for construction projects, has diverted more than a billion pounds of waste from local landfills. As a result, Argent has offset more than 97 million pounds of carbon from the atmosphere and removed a half-million pounds of trash from the streets of Oakland, California.

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Startup aims to be a Carfax for EVs, with battery health reports

Green Car Reports

Carfax vehicle-history reports aim to expose any hidden faults in used cars, such as damage from crashes. Seattle-based startup Recurrent now plans to provide a similar service focusing specifically on EV battery health. "Battery health is the new odometer for electric vehicles, and we're bringing transparency to it," Recurrent CEO Scott Case said.

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2020 Vauxhall Corsa-e review

Discover EV

If you’re considering making the switch to an EV, the Vauxhall Corsa-e boasts decent range, impressive technology and an ease of use and familiarity that will appeal to those who are also a little risk-averse.

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The cars we’re most looking forward to in 2021

Green Cars News

The end of 2020 is nigh, and if you’re anything like us, we can’t wait

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Wilhelmsen-led Topeka project awarded $25M to develop two liquid-hydrogen-fueled roro vessels

Green Car Congress

The Wilhelmsen-led Topeka project, which aims to construct the first zero-emission hydrogen vessels, has been awarded NOK 219 million (US$25 million) by the Norwegian government-owned organization Enova. These funds will enable Wilhelmsen to further develop the technology and additional infrastructure required to support the maritime industry’s ambitions towards zero emission fuels.

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VW is launching ID.4 electric SUV on up-front value and ownership costs, not tech potential

Green Car Reports

Those who consider Tesla vehicles are likely to encounter the selling point—either from fans or at stores—that their vehicle won’t be out-of-date, and that there’s value in its upgradability over time. While that argument might help sell vehicles to tech mavens, families are still going to be focused on the hard and fast.

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Kia Sorento PHEV added to line-up

Discover EV

Kia has added a plug-in version of its Sorento SUV to the model range. Sharing the architecture and powertrain with the recently revealed Hyundai Tucson, it is now the most efficient and fastest Sorento, but also the most expensive.

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A Look Back at 2020—The Year in EVs

Plug in America

It’s not a simple thing to speak of 2020—and just talk about EVs. It is the year that everyone hates and prays for it to end. It is the year that most people will always cite as the worst one in their lives. It’s the year that one in a thousand Americans died from a pandemic, tens of millions were pushed into poverty, and millions protested the racism lurking in the heart of America.

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Volkswagen ends e-Golf production in Dresden in preparation for ID.3 launch

Green Car Congress

The last e-Golf has rolled off the production line at the Transparent Factory in Dresden. A total of 50,401 vehicles have been manufactured in Dresden since March 2017. At the beginning of the new year 2021, the production area of the Transparent Factory will be reconstructed for three weeks before the first ID.3 series vehicles roll off the assembly lines in Dresden at the end of January.

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Toyota solid-state tech; battery-price plunge; Mach-E, Mirai, Q5 PHEV all driven: The Week in Reverse

Green Car Reports

Which global automaker started a new brand for hydrogen fuel-cell tech? Which EV startup plans to make an electric RV? This is our look back at the Week In Reverse—right here at Green Car Reports—for the week ending December 18, 2020. It’s been an unusual week, from the standpoint of seat time in new vehicles. We published first.

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Mercedes-Benz confirms the six model EV offensive

Discover EV

Mercedes has confirmed the vehicles that will make up its EV product offensive. It will expand its battery electric EQ line-up with six new variants over the next two years, with cars ranging from SUVs to executive saloons being produced in the USA, Europe and China as part of “Ambition 2039” strategy.

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Audi e-tron vs Jaguar I-Pace: Electric SUVs compared

Green Cars News

The car is finally entering its electrified era

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Bremen orders five Mercedes-Benz eCitaro buses with solid-state batteries

Green Car Congress

Bremen’s public transport provider Bremer Straßenbahn AG (BSAG) has ordered five new Mercedes-Benz eCitaro electric buses equipped with solid-state batteries. Delivery of the locally emission-free eCitaro buses will take place in early 2022. The batteries combine a very high energy density with a particularly long service life. Seven battery packs offer a total capacity of 441 kWh and thus ensure a large range of autonomy.

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Apple car, Lexus motor tech, hydrogen fuel-cell tax credit: Today's Car News

Green Car Reports

Apple's reportedly working on an electric car. Lexus detailed new motor technology. The federal tax credit for hydrogen fuel-cell vehicles was extended. This and more, here at Green Car Reports. Apple is reportedly planning to launch an electric car with game-changing battery technology, Reuters reported on Monday. The car is said to arrive in.

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Nissan introduces all-new Note e-POWER AWD in Japan

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Nissan launched the all-new Note e-POWER AWD compact car, with dual electric motors that give the driver enhanced control and acceleration. The car comes exclusively with Nissan’s e-POWER electrified powertrain—a non-plug-in series hybrid configuration ( earlier post )—and is scheduled to go on sale in Japan in early 2021. The introduction of the all-wheel-drive model follows last month’s launch of the two-wheel-drive Nissan Note.

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