Green Car Congress
APRIL 23, 2020
UK-based Faradion Ltd., the leader in sodium-ion (Na-ion) battery technology, has received its first order from ICM Australia for high-energy sodium-ion batteries for use in the Australian market. Faradion’s sodium-ion technology provides similar performance to conventional chemistries, while replacing expensive materials such as cobalt and lithium with far more abundant sodium.
Green Car Reports
APRIL 24, 2020
With Kia’s Plan S, revealed in January, the South Korean brand became much more committed about going electric and committing to a significant volume of electric vehicles in the future. Under the plan, Kia will invest $25 billion by the end of 2025, with global aims to introduce 11 new Kia EVs by 2025 and sell 500,000 electric vehicles.
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Discover EV
APRIL 24, 2020
MG has already proven itself a worthy competitor at the cheaper end of the EV market with its popular ZS EV. The brand has now confirmed that it will expand its range of all-electric vehicles wit the introduction of the MG 5 – a C-segment estate. Like the ZS EV, it's not going to set the world alight in terms of specifications, but it should be affordable.
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Green Car Congress
APRIL 22, 2020
Researchers at the Department of Energy’s Oak Ridge National Laboratory (ORNL) in late February demonstrated a 20-kilowatt bi-directional wireless charging system installed on a UPS medium-duty, plug-in hybrid electric delivery truck. The project is the first of its kind to achieve power transfer at this rate across an 11-inch air gap, advancing the technology to a new class of larger vehicles with higher ground clearance.
Green Car Reports
APRIL 20, 2020
General Motors and DTE have partnered for what is claimed to be the largest renewable energy investment yet in the automaker’s home state of Michigan—allowing GM to assemble its upcoming electric vehicles, like the GMC Hummer EV, with clean power. Through the investment in an additional 500,000 megawatt-hours of solar.
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APRIL 23, 2020
Land Rover has brought a new plug-in hybrid powertrain to both the Range Rover Evoque and the Land Rover Discovery Sport. Offering extremely low emissions and usable and real-world electric range, the two most popular cars for the brand can now be had with zero emissions capability for the first time.
Green Car Congress
APRIL 24, 2020
WiTricity’s technology for wireless power transfer over distance was central to a next-generation electric mobility demonstration in Osaka, Japan, led by DAIHEN Corporation, a global leader in electric power transmission. Partners since 2016, DAIHEN licensed WiTricity’s technology to commercialize wireless charging stations for electric vehicles (EVs) and for automatic guided vehicles (AGVs) in factory and industrial settings.
Green Car Reports
APRIL 19, 2020
Starting next year, the Karma Revero will get closer than it ever has to rivaling the Tesla Model S. Ironically, that will mean retiring the range extender that was once broadly sized up as the Revero’s ace card—back when, in an earlier existence, it was called the FIsker Karma. Karma Automotive announced Thursday that about a year.
Green Cars News
APRIL 23, 2020
An icon has been reborn, with the all-new third generation Fiat 500 becoming the first fully electric car from Fiat Chrysler Automobiles.
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APRIL 20, 2020
High-profile car designer and second-stab brand owner, Henrik Fisker, is promising a lot from the forthcoming Ocean SUV. In standard guise it's set to be a luxurious and eco-friendly car, but not content with that, the company has released renderings of a 'Force-E', rugged off-road variant. Is Fisker looking to intrude on the Tesla Cybertruck's space, or is it just a hashed-together marketing ploy?
Green Car Congress
APRIL 23, 2020
Ten years after ArcelorMittal introduced the first S-in motion study for fuel-powered vehicles ( earlier post ), it is launching a new set of S-in motion solutions for battery electric vehicles (BEVs). To visualize the smart BEV steel solutions, an online 3D car configurator is now available. The configurator shows how ArcelorMittal’s range of advanced high strength steels (AHSS) and smart solutions can be deployed to meet the lightweighting, safety, cost, and sustainability performance targets
Green Car Reports
APRIL 22, 2020
Lordstown Motors confirmed that it will delay the launch of its Endurance electric pickup truck due to the ongoing coronavirus pandemic. The company had originally targeted December 2020 for the start of deliveries, but that has now been pushed back into 2021. "Like most companies, the pandemic has caused us to tweak our plans," Lordstown Motors.
Green Cars News
APRIL 20, 2020
Elon Musk has been leaking further details on the divisive Tesla Cybertruck, a sci-fi-inspired all-electric pick-up, via Twitter this week
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APRIL 23, 2020
The coronavirus pandemic has thrown many aspects of our daily lives into turmoil. Restrictions aimed at combating the spread of the virus were introduced in mid-March, including a ban on all non-essential travel, so there hasn’t been much scope for using the car. Understandably, the appetite for buying big ticket items such as new cars […]. The post EV Market Report Summary: Q1 2020 appeared first on GUL.
Green Car Congress
APRIL 21, 2020
The technology group Wärtsilä has been granted €1 million in funding by Business Finland, a state-run public agency for funding important research projects, to support research in the field of Power-to-X (P2X) technology. Wärtsilä’s X-Ahead project is aimed at developing deep expertise of both the technical and business potential of Power-to-X, which will be used to promote a carbon-neutral economy for Finland.
Green Car Reports
APRIL 21, 2020
The original Tesla Roadster marked a milestone for electric cars. It proved that electric cars could be sporty and desirable, paving the way for Tesla's later, higher-volume models. Given Tesla's later successes, it is easy to forget how surprising the first-generation Roadster was when it first went on sale in 2008. Jay Leno's test drive from.
Discover EV
APRIL 22, 2020
The first generation of the Vauxhall Mokka X has been extremely successful for the brand. Making the most of the competitive small SUV market, it sold in droves until it was pulled in 2019. Now, Vauxhall has teased the new-generation car and, aside from dropping the 'X' from the name, the big news is that it has confirmed a fully-electric version.
Green Cars News
APRIL 22, 2020
Vauxhall has revealed the first pictures of a camouflaged second-generation Mokka, which will have a fully-electric version as well as traditional combustion-engined versions.
Green Car Congress
APRIL 18, 2020
MAN Energy Solutions has won the order to supply six MAN B&W 9S50ME-C9.6 Tier II-compliant main engines for three 238-meter hybrid RoRo vessels intended for operation in the Baltic Sea. The customer is Finnlines, the Finnish shipping company and part of the Grimaldi Group. The vessels will have a cargo capacity of 5,800 lane meters plus 5,600m 2 of car decks and a capacity of about 300 TEU on the weather deck.
Green Car Reports
APRIL 23, 2020
Shortly after announcing a joint effort with Volvo Trucks to develop hydrogen fuel-cell commercial vehicles, Mercedes-Benz parent Daimler confirmed that it will end fuel-cell development for passenger cars. That means the end of production for the Mercedes-Benz F-Cell crossover, which was only sold in small numbers, and not in the United States.
Green Car Congress
APRIL 19, 2020
Researchers at the Scripps Institution of Oceanography and Jacobs School of Engineering at the University of California, San Diego and their colleagues have designed 3D-printed, coral-inspired structures capable of growing dense populations of microscopic algae. The National Science Foundation-funded work, reported in an open-access paper in the journal Nature Communications , could lead to compact, more efficient bioreactors for producing algae-based biofuels.
Green Car Congress
APRIL 19, 2020
Researchers led by Prof. Jian Liu and Prof.Zhongshuai Wu from the Dalian Institute of Chemical Physics (DICP) of the Chinese Academy of Sciences have developed Fe 1-x S-decorated mesoporous carbon spheres as a cathode material for lithium-sulfur batteries. Fe 1?x S?NC has a high specific surface area (627 m 2 g ?1 ), large pore volume (0.41 cm 3 g ?
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APRIL 22, 2020
Researchers at Idaho National Laboratory have developed a new electrode material for a protonic ceramic electrochemical cell (PCEC) that can efficiently convert excess electricity and water into hydrogen. The triple conducting oxide of PrNi 0.5 Co 0.5 O 3-? perovskite was developed as an oxygen electrode, and presents superior electrochemical performance at 400~600?
Green Car Congress
APRIL 24, 2020
Ford Performance has unveiled a one-off Mustang Cobra Jet factory drag racer with all-electric propulsion. The battery-powered Mustang Cobra Jet 1400 prototype is purpose-built and projected to deliver more than 1,400 horsepower and more than 1,100 lb-ft (1,491 N·m) of instant torque to demonstrate the capabilities of an electric powertrain in one of the most demanding race environments.
Green Car Congress
APRIL 18, 2020
On behalf of the Australian Government, the Australian Renewable Energy Agency (ARENA) has opened the $70-million Renewable Hydrogen Deployment Funding Round to help fast track the development of renewable hydrogen in Australia. As announced in November last year, the funding round is expected to play a significant role in supporting commercial-scale deployments of renewable hydrogen in Australia and facilitate cost reductions in production in order to achieve the goal of ‘H2 under $2’.
Green Car Congress
APRIL 24, 2020
The new Range Rover Evoque and Land Rover Discovery Sport premium compact SUVs are now available with plug-in hybrid electric vehicle (PHEV) technology, with an electric-only range of up to 66 km (41 miles) and CO 2 emissions as low as 32 g/km. Range Rover Evoque PHEV. Badged P300e, both the new Range Rover Evoque and Land Rover Discovery Sport plug-in hybrids are based on Land Rover’s Premium Transverse architecture, which was designed from the outset to accommodate plug-in and mild-hybrid tech
Green Car Congress
APRIL 21, 2020
As COVID-19 continues to spread worldwide, the pandemic is having an unprecedented impact on the global economy and commodity markets, including cobalt. With countries imposing prevention and control measures against the virus, a number of cobalt-producing operations have been temporarily closed for maintenance since March. Roskill has so far recorded the closure of 21 operations as a result of the outbreak, including: Vale’s Voisey’s Bay and Glencore’s Sudbury in Canada; Ambatovy in Madagascar;
Green Car Congress
APRIL 20, 2020
The first VOCSN V+Pro critical care ventilators produced by General Motors and Ventec Life Systems in Kokomo, Indiana ( earlier post ) are being delivered by UPS to Franciscan Health Olympia Fields in Olympia Fields, Illinois and Weiss Memorial Hospital in Chicago at the direction of the Federal Emergency Management Agency. With ventilators and face masks now in production, GM is expanding its manufacturing of personal protective equipment, including latex-free face shields, protective gowns and
Green Car Congress
APRIL 20, 2020
A study by an international team of researchers led by Aalto University finds that less than one-third of the world’s population could currently meet their demand for food with food produced in their local vicinity. The paper is published in the journal Nature Food. Globalization has revolutionized food production and consumption in recent decades and cultivation has become more efficient, and as a result, many people’s diets have diversified and food availability has increased in various parts
Green Car Congress
APRIL 19, 2020
Volkswagen will unveil a refreshed Tiguan SUV later in 2020, featuring new front and rear styling, a redesigned interior and new powertrains, including a plug-in hybrid version for the European market. As far back as 2016, Volkswagen unveiled a Tiguan PHEV concept, based on the second-generation Tiguan. ( Earlier post.). Design sketch of the new Tiguan.
Green Car Congress
APRIL 20, 2020
Researchers from Texas A&M University, in collaboration with scientists in the Air Force Research Laboratory, have developed guidelines that allow 3D printing of martensitic steels into very sturdy, defect-free objects of nearly any shape. A paper on their work is published in the journal Acta Materialia. Steels are made of iron and a small quantity of other elements, including carbon.
Green Car Congress
APRIL 20, 2020
Canada-based NextSource Materials Inc. executed a Letter of Intent (LOI) with its Japanese offtake partner and a leading Chinese processor of graphite anode material to collaborate on the construction of a value-add, battery anode plant in a jurisdiction that is proximal to the Company’s Molo graphite project in Madagascar. Source: NextSource Materials.
Green Car Congress
APRIL 21, 2020
ABB will supply high voltage-capable chargers for the Volvo LIGHTS project. ( Earlier post.) ABB’s charging systems can charge any electric vehicle (EV) battery at up to 920 VDC, enabling faster charge times and greater commercial fleet utilization for this project. The Volvo LIGHTS project is a partnership among the Volvo Group, Volvo Trucks, and Greenlots along with several more industry leaders and stakeholders in transportation and electrical charging infrastructure.
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