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JANUARY 31, 2020

In order to advance its fleet electrification and emissions reduction goals, the Sewerage and Water Board of New Orleans (SWBNO) has deployed six new XL plug-in hybrid electric Ford F-150 pickup trucks to its fleet. The trucks were unveiled during a ceremony at the SWBNO Central Yard on 28 January 28, which featured New Orleans Mayor LaToya Cantrell, as well as representatives from SWBNO and project partners including New Orleans Regional Planning Commission (RPC), Southeast Louisiana Clean Fuel

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Green Car Reports

JANUARY 29, 2020

The best move Toyota could possibly have made in conceiving a second-generation version of its Mirai fuel-cell vehicle was giving its design and engineering teams a clean slate. According to Yoshikazu Tanaka, the chief engineer of the Mirai, that’s exactly what happened. With a lukewarm reception in the U.S. to the previous car’s.

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Discover EV

JANUARY 29, 2020

Worldwide researcher, Ipsos, has released the results of its latest 'Global Mobility Navigator' study, which surveyed 20,000 people from around the globe on their attitudes to future powertrains and mobility. When it came to barriers to adoption of EVs, it was the usual three rearing their heads: cost, range and charging infrastructure. But cost was the biggest factor.

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Bikli Waligaadi

JANUARY 31, 2020

The ‘BijliWaliGaadi- Car No- E43’ won the e-BAJA SAE Event in an astounding way A guest post by VINOD DUBEY. The post Team E-ZIBA Racers from Shri Vishnu college of Engineering clinched the first place in SAEINDIA e-BAJA 2020 appeared first on Electric Vehicles_(India).

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JANUARY 31, 2020

Wright Electric announced the start of its electric propulsion development program for its flagship 186-seat electric aircraft, named Wright 1. In order to achieve the commercial flight capability of the Wright 1, Wright is engineering electrical systems at the megawatt scale by building a 1.5 MW electric motor and inverter at 3 kilovolts. Wright intends to conduct ground tests of its motor in 2021 and flight tests in 2023.

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Green Car Reports

JANUARY 27, 2020

Quick! List all the car factories in the U.S. that produce only electric vehicles. It’s a trick question, really, because today, there’s only one. That’s the Tesla assembly plant in Fremont, California, where the company’s three EV models are all built. On Monday, GM announced the U.S. will get another all-EV plant. The.

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Bikli Waligaadi

JANUARY 29, 2020

BorgWarner acquires Delphi Technologies in $3.3 billions BorgWarner acquires Delphi: The automobile sector is going through a major transformation and. The post BorgWarner acquires Delphi Technologies to hold grip into the Electrified Powertrain for EVs appeared first on Electric Vehicles_(India).

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Green Car Congress

JANUARY 29, 2020

Researchers from the Chinese Academy of Sciences and Tsinghua University have used a gallium, indium, tin and bismuth alloy to generate hydrogen, when placed in contact with an aluminum plate immersed in water. The hydrogen is then used in a PEM fuel cell. An open-access paper on their work appears in the Journal of Renewable and Sustainable Energy , from AIP Publishing.

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Green Car Reports

JANUARY 30, 2020

Three days before a Super Bowl ad that will introduce its first all-electric truck to the world, General Motors on Thursday released a few early details of the upcoming GMC Hummer EV. The truck will have a maximum power of 735 kilowatts (1,000 horsepower) and 11,500 foot-pounds of torque. And GMC says it will accelerate from 0 to 60 mph in 3.

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Discover EV

JANUARY 28, 2020

Is hydrogen a way of reducing our reliance on oil? Ben White speaks to some of the main protagonists that are maintaining the inertia behind the adoption of the fuel, explores the hurdles that stand in its way, and looks at the opportunities for success that are presenting themselves.

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JANUARY 31, 2020

The ‘BijliWaliGaadi- Car No- E43’ won the e-BAJA SAE Event in an astounding way A guest post by VINOD DUBEY. The post Team E-ZIBA Racers from Shri Vishnu college of Engineering clinched the first place in SAEINDIA e-BAJA 2020 appeared first on Electric Vehicles_(India).

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Green Car Congress

JANUARY 28, 2020

Ballard Power Systems announced that its proton exchange membrane (PEM) fuel-cell technology and products have now successfully powered Fuel Cell Electric Vehicles in commercial Heavy- and Medium-Duty Motive applications for an industry-leading cumulative total of more than 30 million kilometers (18.5 million miles) on roads around the globe. Ballard’s FCmove 8 th -generation fuel-cell module.

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Green Car Reports

JANUARY 30, 2020

Is a 400-mile EPA-rated range coming soon for the Tesla Model S? During the Q4 financial call Wednesday, Musk said that the Model S and Model X again have more range than Tesla is stating on the website. “We just haven’t gotten around to updating the EPA’s certified number,” he said. The Model S Long Range is currently.

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Discover EV

JANUARY 31, 2020

Anything that makes charging an EV simpler is a step in the right direction. Subscriptions to EV charging services are a notorious source of annoyance among drivers, so Audi's 'one card, one contract' system for e-tron owners will be a relief to many.

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JANUARY 29, 2020

BorgWarner acquires Delphi Technologies in $3.3 billions BorgWarner acquires Delphi: The automobile sector is going through a major transformation and. The post BorgWarner acquires Delphi Technologies to hold grip into the Electrified Powertrain for EVs appeared first on Electric Vehicles_(India).

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Green Car Congress

JANUARY 28, 2020

The US Department of Energy (DOE) Fuel Cell Technologies Office, in collaboration with the DOE Vehicle Technologies Office, has established technical targets for hydrogen and fuel cell technologies in long-haul tractor-trailer Class 8 truck applications. These targets will help guide early stage R&D and serve as benchmarks for tracking technology. Technical targets for advanced truck technologies are developed with input from the 21 st Century Truck Partnership (21CTP) and will be included in ne

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Green Car Reports

JANUARY 27, 2020

Ahead of the arrival of the Volvo XC40 Recharge later this year, the Swedish automaker has opened its order books “in select markets” that include the U.S. and Europe. Volvo reports that response to the Recharge has been strong, with tens of thousands of hand-raisers showing interest and “several thousands of firm orders.

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Discover EV

JANUARY 30, 2020

Arguably the SEAT Leon is the car that 'made' the brand on these shores. Since joining the range in 1999 the C-segment hatch has been a cornerstone of SEAT's success, but now in the all-new, fourth generation Leon is entering the electrified market with a PHEV powertrain option.

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Schneider Electric EVs

JANUARY 27, 2020

As fossil fuel emissions accelerate climate change, and natural disasters underscore the value of energy self-sufficiency, the case for solar power has never been stronger. Adoption is being driven as. Read more ». The post Climate change calls for energy self-sufficiency. Is going Solar enough? appeared first on Schneider Electric Blog.

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Green Car Congress

JANUARY 29, 2020

The results of a new analysis by the International Council on Clean Transportation (ICCT) show that, when combined with a trend toward higher methane leakage and combustion slip, there is no climate benefit from using liquefied natural gas (LNG) as a marine fuel—regardless of the engine technology. LNG is becoming popular for several reasons. First, it contains very little sulfur.

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Green Car Reports

JANUARY 26, 2020

The phrase “self-charging” has been quite the lightning rod among electric-vehicle enthusiasts—especially in Norway. Toyota’s Lexus luxury brand has continued—in Norway, and in the UK and elsewhere in Europe—to run an ad campaign describing its hybrids as “self-charging.” In this era of wireless.

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Discover EV

JANUARY 27, 2020

The second generation Toyota Mirai has been shown off to the world, and it's a bit of a stunner. It's also an important car, being one of just three fuel cell electric vehicles (FCEVs) available for people to buy commercially in the UK.

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Cars That Think

JANUARY 30, 2020

The launch of Apex.OS 1.0 makes autonomous car development simpler, safer, and more secure.

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Green Car Congress

JANUARY 28, 2020

Of the 11.1 billion tons of freight shipped by trucks in the United States in 2018, 7.3 billion tons (two-thirds) were shipped less than 100 miles. Another 1.8 billion tons were shipped between 100 and 249 miles and 1.2 billion tons between 250 and 499 miles. Source: US Department of Transportation, Bureau of Transportation Statistics and Federal Highway Administration, Freight Analysis Framework, version 4.5.1, 2019.

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Green Car Reports

JANUARY 27, 2020

Just do it. The old marketing slogan, it turns out, might be good advice for those considering leaping to an electric car. It’s essentially the conclusion AAA arrived at after examining the experiences of electric vehicle owners and the current state of ownership costs. In a survey of EV owners, the organization found that prior to EV.

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Green Cars News

JANUARY 28, 2020

The highly-anticipated Mercedes-Benz eVito, which offers a 92-mile average range and six hour charging time, 85 kW of power and 300 Nm of torque, goes on sale today.

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Cars That Think

JANUARY 29, 2020

The liquid crystal display blocks the sun in just the right spots.

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Green Car Congress

JANUARY 30, 2020

Energy major Total, through its wholly-owned subsidiary Saft, and Groupe PSA with Opel, intend to establish a joint venture named Automotive Cell Company (ACC) to develop EV battery manufacturing in Europe. The project will leverage cutting-edge R&D, notably provided by Saft, in order to produce EV batteries starting in 2023. The partners say that the technology used will offer the highest level of energy performance, both in terms of range and charging time, and a lower carbon footprint than th

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Green Car Reports

JANUARY 28, 2020

Doing away with a car and opting for more frequent use of ride-hailing services like Uber or Lyft might sound like the greener option for your household, but as data released in December by the state of California underscored, such services are adding to pollution, not reducing it. The average trip using such services creates 50 percent more.

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Green Cars News

JANUARY 30, 2020

DPD is tripling its fleet of all-electric vehicles, with the addition of 300 Nissan e-NV200s.

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Green Car Congress

JANUARY 26, 2020

GTI, a research, development and training organization focused on natural gas and energy markets, is launching a hydrogen technology center. GTI focuses its R&D efforts on the generation of clean hydrogen using hydrocarbon fuels that incorporate carbon capture and/or carbon sequestration in a cost-effective manner. These technology efforts are directed at both large-scale hydrogen production using natural gas feedstock, and smaller distributed hydrogen production for transportation or remote pow

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Green Car Congress

JANUARY 27, 2020

General Motors will invest $2.2 billion at its Detroit-Hamtramck assembly plant to produce a variety of all-electric trucks and SUVs. GM’s first all-electric truck will be a pickup with production scheduled to begin in late 2021. This will be followed soon after by the Cruise Origin, a shared, electric, self-driving vehicle unveiled by Cruise in San Francisco last week.

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Green Car Congress

JANUARY 30, 2020

In a commentary in the journal Joule , Rob McGinnis, founder and and CEO of Prometheus , a company that is developing technology to remove carbon dioxide from the air and turn it into fuels, discusses the technology advances that could lead to the potential price-competitiveness of renewable gasoline and jet with fossil fuels. Recent breakthroughs in separations and catalysis, along with long-trend reductions in solar and wind electricity costs, have significantly increased the potential for cos

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JANUARY 31, 2020

King County Metro (Metro)—the public transit authority of King County, Washington, which includes the city of Seattle—has agreed to purchase 40 sixty-foot battery-electric Xcelsior CHARGE heavy-duty transit buses from New Flyer, with plans to order an additional 80 battery-electric buses in the coming year. Upon execution of the purchase agreement with Metro, the order will be added to New Flyer’s backlog.

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