Green Car Congress
MARCH 10, 2019
At the 2019 Geneva Motor Show, BMW announced the market launch of a plug-in hybrid variant of the globally popular BMW X3. This makes it the first model of the brand to be offered with both a conventional combustion engine and a plug-in hybrid system—with the addition of a purely electrically powered version in 2020. BMW Group electrified vehicles.
Green Car Reports
MARCH 12, 2019
Are you ready for a new generation of the Fiat 500e electric car? At the pace of the auto industry, and its five or six year cycles, it’s overdue. And from a report released last week, it could arrive around this time next year. Last week Fiat revealed an all-electric Concept Centoventi, which envisioned a future EV that would offer a lot.
Electric Cars are for Girls
MARCH 13, 2019
As exciting as a DIY electric conversion sounds, many people don't have the time, skills, and/or inclination to convert a vehicle themselves.
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Green Car Congress
MARCH 12, 2019
Air pollution could be causing double the number of excess deaths a year in Europe than has been estimated previously, according to a study published in the European Heart Journal. Using a new method of modeling the effects of various sources of outdoor air pollution on death rates, the researchers found that it caused an estimated 790,000 extra deaths in the whole of Europe in 2015 and 659,000 deaths in the 28 Member States of the European Union (EU-28).
Green Car Reports
MARCH 12, 2019
A lot has been made of Tesla's next upcoming model for consumers, the Model Y SUV. Only, it turns out it may not be the next model that goes on sale. Another Tesla just opened for reservations, four days before the company is scheduled to open orders for the Model Y: the Tesla Semi truck. The company has been testing the Semi since late 2017, and.
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Green Car Congress
MARCH 12, 2019
Rechargeable lithium metal batteries with increased energy density, performance, and safety may be possible with a newly-developed, solid-electrolyte interphase (SEI), according to Penn State researchers. The SEI is key to the stabilization of lithium metal anodes for rechargeable batteries; however, the SEI is constantly reforming and consuming electrolyte with cycling.
Green Car Reports
MARCH 14, 2019
The Wankel rotary, the peculiar pistonless internal combustion engine design that Mazda built so much of its heritage around, may see a resurgence after all. Earlier reports and remarks from Mazda executives have suggested that while the rotary will make a comeback, it will be relegated to what’s essentially an emergency generator—a.
Electric Cars are for Girls
MARCH 15, 2019
I intend converting a VW sedan to electric, but live in a hot climate. Is it possible/practical to have A/C.
Green Car Congress
MARCH 14, 2019
Researchers have identified two strains of diesel-degrading bacteria in pristine Antarctic soil and their optimal working conditions. This insight could potentially inform bioremediation efforts in the region. An open-access paper on the work appears in the journal Microbial Cell Factories. Pollution from petroleum hydrocarbons such as diesel, which is widely used for heating, transportation and power generation poses a threat to wildlife in Antarctica.
Green Car Reports
MARCH 14, 2019
Tesla’s Thursday night reveal event for the 2020 Tesla Model Y electric crossover SUV, just as previous events from the automaker, was raucous and packed with enthusiastic fans, including many who appeared to relish everything uttered by CEO Elon Musk. What made this event a bit of a departure—and perhaps a sign of the times—was.
EV Driver
MARCH 12, 2019
A lot has happened since 2019 started and one of the most exciting things has got to be Charlie’s recent trip to India to represent EV Driver at various electric mobility conferences around the country. Of course we couldn’t resist questioning him no end on everything he got up to and what the EV community is like in India. We managed to narrow it down (with great difficulty) to these questions - so if you’re as interested to hear about Charlie’s India experience as we were, please read on….
Green Car Congress
MARCH 13, 2019
New Flyer of America Inc. and New Flyer Industries Canada ULC, subsidiaries of NFI Group Inc. (“NFI”), the largest bus manufacturer in North America, unveiled the Xcelsior CHARGE H2—ts fuel cell-electric heavy-duty transit bus—and announced that both the forty-foot and sixty-foot model have successfully completed the Federal Transit Administration (FTA) Model Bus Testing Program at Altoona, Pennsylvania (Altoona Testing).
Green Car Reports
MARCH 13, 2019
VW has been busy putting logistics in place to build as many as 15 million examples of 50 new electric models (across its portfolio of brands) by 2028. At its annual conference at its headquarters in Wolfsburg Tuesday, the company upped that commitment to 22 million cars among 70 new electric models in a second wave of models based on its new MEB.
Green Cars News
MARCH 15, 2019
Hot hatchbacks have evolved massively over the last decade or so but, for them to work effectively, they must provide what they always have – power and practicality in equal measure.
Creative Greenius
MARCH 12, 2019
Green Car Congress
MARCH 12, 2019
Nissan and NTT DOCOMO, INC. are putting Nissan’s Invisible-to-Visible technology through its field test in a moving vehicle, using DOCOMO’s fifth-generation mobile communications connectivity. The technology, first revealed at the CES trade show in Las Vegas in January, is being tested at Grandrive, Nissan’s proving ground in Yokosuka, Japan. Invisible-to-Visible, or I2V, is a future Nissan Intelligent Mobility technology that merges the real and virtual worlds. ( Earlier post.
Green Car Reports
MARCH 12, 2019
Concept cars are relatively easy to build—particularly concepts of cars that may exist only on paper or as clay and foil design studies. That has given rise to a host of new concepts launched as online crowd-funded endeavors of various levels of seriousness and potential. One is Sono Motors, a German effort to build an electric car assisted.
Green Cars News
MARCH 15, 2019
Looking for a new car? Would you like to win £10,000 while doing so? New car marketplace Leasing.com is offering you the chance to win £10,000 in cash by finding your next new car through the website.
Creative Greenius
MARCH 11, 2019
Green Car Congress
MARCH 12, 2019
New research led by a team from the Department of Energy’s Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory (Berkeley Lab) uncovers how a beneficial insect common to the Eastern US, the long-horned passalid beetle ( Odontotaenius disjunctus ), has a hardy digestive tract with microbes to thank for turning its woody diet into energy, food for its young, and nutrients for forest growth.
Green Car Reports
MARCH 14, 2019
As more and more long-range electric cars such as the Audi e-tron quattro, the long-range Nissan Leaf Plus, and the Kia Niro and Soul EVs make their way onto the market, some are starting to offer great deals. Every month, our partners at CarsDirect.com sift through all the deals offered that month to find those that represent the best long-term.
Discover EV
MARCH 14, 2019
The world’s first and only petrol-electric hybrid supercar at the time of its launch, the i8 proved a showcase for BMW’s state-of-the-art technology and a true game changer
Green Cars News
MARCH 13, 2019
Nissan’s premium Infiniti brand is set to be pulled from Western European markets by 2020, with the company focusing its efforts on the North American and Chinese markets instead.
Green Car Congress
MARCH 15, 2019
The new Volkswagen Golf Variant TGI with three natural gas tanks. Golf Variant 1,5 TGI fuel consumption natural gas CNG in kg/100 km: urban 4.7 /extra-urban 3.0 / combined 3.6; CO2 emissions in g/km: 99; efficiency class: A+. ›. No need to compromise on space: Golf Variant TGI1 with space-saving natural gas tanks as integrated underfloor solution ›.
Green Car Reports
MARCH 14, 2019
Ethanol is known as an alternative fuel, and is even renewable. But that doesn't always make it clean. The Environmental Protection Agency, after proposing watered down emissions and fuel economy standards for cars, has now released a proposal to increase the amount of ethanol blended into pump gas year-round, including selling E15 in the summer.
Discover EV
MARCH 14, 2019
With the exception of a bigger battery and the introduction of a sportier model, the i3’s mid-life update hasn’t been revolutionary, but that’s no bad thing.
Green Cars News
MARCH 13, 2019
The Citroen C5 Aircross is a rival for the Nissan Qashqai that stands out from the crowd thanks to quirky looks and a driving experience that's very much focused around comfort.
Green Car Congress
MARCH 15, 2019
Penske Truck Leasing has taken delivery of its first FUSO eCanter elctric light-duty truck from Daimler. Penske received its fully electrified Freightliner eM2 truck from Daimler Trucks North America in the US end of last year. ( Earlier post.). Penske plans to operate the light duty trucks from FUSO for urban delivery in California. As an experienced truck manufacturer and through the backing of its parent Daimler Trucks, FUSO can demonstrate its ability of supporting the operation of eCanter t
Green Car Reports
MARCH 15, 2019
Tesla CEO Elon Musk prefaced his introduction of the company’s more affordable upcoming electric SUV, the Model Y, Thursday night, by noting how hard achieving at-scale mass production of Model X has been—and what a difficult year 2018 had been for him and Tesla. “It was pretty tight; it was a hard one,” said Musk.
Discover EV
MARCH 15, 2019
When it comes to company cars, diesel is no longer the default choice, with cleaner plug-in hybrid models attracting lower Benefit-in-Kind.
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