Green Car Congress
JANUARY 24, 2020
Norway-based energy company Equinor has contracted with Eidesvik Offshore for the Viking Energy supply vessel, which is being retrofitted to make it capable of covering long distances fueled by carbon-free ammonia. The vessel will transport supplies to installations on the Norwegian continental shelf (NCS). The Viking Energy. (Photo: Eidesvik Offshore).
Green Car Reports
JANUARY 23, 2020
The UK-based electric-vehicle startup Arrival has already earned plenty of attention over the past couple of years for its refreshingly different, futuristic and eye-catching electric commercial-vehicle designs. As much as the designs are a standout—the company’s Royal Mail vans, for instance—the nature of the $110 billion.
Plug N Drive
JANUARY 23, 2020
Effective February 1, 2020, Ontario residents qualify for a new incentive of $1,000 if they scrap their old gas car and replace it with a used electric car. This program is being offered to encourage drivers to make the switch to low carbon transportation and reduce air pollution. The Scrappage Incentive is in addition to the Used EV Incentive program that launched in April 2019, which provides $1,000 off the purchase of a used fully electric or plug-in hybrid electric car.
Discover EV
JANUARY 20, 2020
We might only be a couple of weeks into 2020, but already there is much to look forward to in terms of high-profile EV launches this year. In fact, over the next 11-and-a-bit months the choice of EVs in the UK is going to experience an unprecedented uplift.
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Green Car Congress
JANUARY 20, 2020
by Michael Sivak, Sivak Applied Research. Total vehicle miles traveled (VMT) by all vehicles in the United States vary greatly across the individual states. The latest annual data from the Federal Highway Administration show that in 2018 the maximum (348,796 million miles in California) was 94.5 times greater than the minimum (3,691 million miles in the District of Columbia).
Green Car Reports
JANUARY 24, 2020
Volkswagen AG has been fined a total of C$196.5 million ($150 million) for the environmental effects of dirty diesel vehicles that were part of the automaker’s diesel scandal. That’s a very small amount of the U.S. penalty, which included $2.7 billion of compensation for environmental impact and $2.0 billion of funding over 10 years.
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Discover EV
JANUARY 24, 2020
Kia has laid out its strategy for the next five years and it's one that will see both a growing model line-up of electrified vehicles, and ambitious goals for how many of these it will sell. However, this transition doesn't come without trade-offs, as the company is looking to bankroll it by selling more combustion-powered SUVs.
Green Car Congress
JANUARY 24, 2020
E-Trucks Europe , a manufacturer of electric-hydrogen hybrid commercial vehicles, has ordered five HyRange fuel cell systems from Proton Motor. The five hydrogen fuel cell systems will be used to outfit electric refuse trucks as part of the EU project REVIVE (Refuse Vehicle Innovation and Validation in Europe). The tender, which runs from 2018 to 2021, aims to build and put into operation 15 electric vehicles for the collection of waste in Europe.
Green Car Reports
JANUARY 20, 2020
New Jersey made a big move last week to back up its Garden State motto, with one of the greenest state plans for encouraging electric vehicles in the nation. The legislation, passed last Monday and then signed by New Jersey governor Phil Murphy on Friday, Under it, a state program, which takes effect immediately, allocates $300 million over 10.
Spark Powered
JANUARY 22, 2020
“It’s a conceptual billboard that [is designed to] arrest people for a moment,” says Doucet. “At its lowest point of impact, it would make people question, ‘Why aren’t there electric commuter planes?’ At the highest impact, producers of short-haul flights, everyone from Airbus and Boeing to your Bombardiers and Gulfstreams, [ are realizing that] beginning an R&D program might be of medium- and long-term interest to their businesses.
Discover EV
JANUARY 24, 2020
Arguably the brand that has done the most for the profile of EVs is Tesla. For many people Tesla is almost a byword for 'electric car', and the brand has had pretty significant success in recent years, led by the Model S and followed-up with the Model X and Model 3. The Model Y sits between the latter two in the line-up, but what can we expect from it?
Green Car Congress
JANUARY 22, 2020
OXIS Energy has successfully tested its Lithium-sulfur (Li-S) battery cell prototypes at 471Wh/kg and is confident of achieving 500Wh/kg in the next 12 months. Consistently shipping cells at 400Wh/kg to its clients in Europe, the US and Japan, OXIS is collaborating with major European chemical partners to develop an advanced lithium metal protection mechanism to ensure a significant improvement in the Lithium Sulfur (Li-S) life cycle.
Green Car Reports
JANUARY 20, 2020
Volvo revealed in October, amid the preview of the upcoming XC40 Recharge electric crossover, that an electric version of its next-generation XC90 SUV will be built at Volvo’s plant in Ridgeville, South Carolina, near Charleston. Now Volvo has confirmed a battery plant will be part of a plant expansion to accommodate it and other.
Spark Powered
JANUARY 20, 2020
Arrival has been a “stealth” startup. taking $100M from quiet donors. They have pulled back the veil. sort of. they’ve created a beautiful delivery van but are sparse on the details. [link]. The post Arrival EV Delivery Vans appeared first on Spark Powered.
Discover EV
JANUARY 24, 2020
With a 31 mile range, 300hp and four-wheel drive the quickest and greenest version of DS Automobile’s SUV sounds good on paper. We drive the long-awaited plug-in variant of the 7 CROSSBACK to see if it’s worth the rather steep £47,725 price tag.
Green Car Congress
JANUARY 22, 2020
The Hydrogen Council has published a new report, Path to Hydrogen Competitiveness: A Cost Perspective , demonstrating that the cost of hydrogen solutions will fall sharply within the next decade, sooner than previously expected. As scale-up of production, distribution and equipment manufacturing continues, cost is projected to decrease by up to 50% by 2030 for a wide range of applications, making hydrogen financially competitive with other low-carbon alternatives and, in some cases, even convent
Green Car Reports
JANUARY 19, 2020
The larger-scale electrification of big, task-oriented municipal vehicles like fire trucks, ambulances, and even dump trucks is bound to happen eventually. Sometimes, the bluntest, heaviest tool for the job really isn’t the best one for the task anyway. And a startup called Tropos Motors aims to prove exactly that point—by making.
Supercharged EV
JANUARY 22, 2020
From a bloomberg survey : the M3 drivers main age category is 30 to 40 years old. A car for millenials and Generation Xers !!
Discover EV
JANUARY 21, 2020
Toyota’s latest RAV4 may have been launched nearly a year ago, but in that time its proven just how effective the brand’s gamble on hybrids has been. Of 130,000 new RAV4s ordered since launch in western Europe, 115,000 of them have been hybrids. Now, the D-segment SUV is getting the PHEV treatment.
Green Car Congress
JANUARY 24, 2020
WeShare, Volkswagen and ŠKODA’s free-floating electric car sharing service, is to expand into seven more cities in Germany and other European countries in 2020. Prague and Hamburg in the spring are to be followed by Paris, Madrid, Budapest, Munich and Milan in the course of the year. In all these cities, WeShare will be offering an all-electric fleet with a total of about 8,400 electric vehicles.
Green Car Reports
JANUARY 24, 2020
The Mercedes-Benz EQC electric SUV was originally supposed to be on U.S. streets and highways by now. Daimler called the decision to delay sales in the U.S. until 2021 a strategic one, so it could focus on Europe. Yet based on a report from Reuters, citing sales figures, Mercedes has struggled to sell a fraction of what it intended, even there.
Spark Powered
JANUARY 23, 2020
This drone uses feathers to control its flight. [link]. The post Pigeon Bot appeared first on Spark Powered.
Discover EV
JANUARY 20, 2020
Ford is speeding up its drive into electrified vehicles with a €42m investment in its Valencia manufacturing plant. Bringing the facility bang up to date will gear it up for production of the forthcoming S-MAX and Galaxy self-charging hybrids.
Green Car Congress
JANUARY 23, 2020
Bosch has increased its stake in solid-oxide fuel-cell (SOFC) developer Ceres Power from 3.9% to around 18%. The stake increase is achieved through a subscription by Bosch for new Ceres Power shares, as well as the purchase of further shares from existing shareholders. Bosch’s total investment will be approximately €90 million (US$100 million). To enhance the strategic investment and the strength of the partnership, under the terms of the transaction, Bosch is granted the right to appoint a Non-
Green Car Reports
JANUARY 24, 2020
If you thought the idea of a Sony electric car at CES 2020—hypothetical as it might be—earlier this month was wild, what about the idea of Fiat Chrysler working together with Foxconn to develop electric cars? Yes, that’s the same Foxconn that’s probably best known for making the iPhone you hold close—and maybe the one.
Green Cars News
JANUARY 22, 2020
Jaguar Land Rover and Northumbria Healthcare NHS Foundation Trust have announced public sector staff across the country will be able to lease Jaguar’s all-electric I-Pace over a three-year period.
Discover EV
JANUARY 23, 2020
In August last year Transport Secretary, Grant Shapps, announced that the government was putting an additional £2.5 million into the fund for installing charge points on residential streets. That input of cash topped the fund up to £5 million, and now the government has rounded that up to a healthy £10 million.
Green Car Congress
JANUARY 20, 2020
In the Bergedorf quarter of Hamburg, a container with a total capacity of approximately 500 kWh has been connected to the depot charging network at the Verkehrsbetriebe Hamburg-Holstein (VHH) depot. There, MAN Truck & Bus and VHH want to work together to test how used batteries behave after initial use in vehicles and as a stationary energy storage system, under real-world operating conditions.
Green Car Reports
JANUARY 22, 2020
The California-based mobility-services company Canoo has officially opened its waitlist. Canoo will be an automaker by some definitions, with a set of unique, futuristic vehicles; but it diverges from conventional automakers in nearly all other respects. Through an all-inclusive monthly subscription fee—wrapping in maintenance, insurance.
Cars That Think
JANUARY 20, 2020
This one will go into cars driven by human beings.
Green Cars News
JANUARY 24, 2020
Renault’s INCIT-EV project has announced it will begin trialling the use of contactless induction technology to charge electric vehicles on the move.
Green Car Congress
JANUARY 24, 2020
The US Department of Energy (DOE) announced up to $133 million in funding to support new and innovative advanced vehicle technologies research. Funded through the Office of Energy Efficiency and Renewable Energy, this funding opportunity ( DE-FOA-0002197 ) supports projects in advanced batteries and electrification in support of the recently announced DOE Energy Storage Grand Challenge ( earlier post ).
Green Car Reports
JANUARY 21, 2020
Outdoorsy, crunchy, and active are surely among the descriptors that Subaru has carefully cultivated into its brand identity and owner base over the years. And while those sound like an ideal jumping point for going electric, Subaru still needs to assure its loyal owner base that leaving its trusty Boxer engines for an all-electric future is a.
Supercharged EV
JANUARY 22, 2020
French journalists ( Caradisiac ) drove around Paris every EV on the market till the battery dies. The result : TESLA Model 3 achieved an amazing 772 km with a single charge.
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