Cars That Think

FEBRUARY 12, 2024

E-bikes are today a growing component of the global transition away from fossil fuels—possibly more than the car-and-truck-focused sustainability crowd appreciates. E-bikes’ rapid growth in recent years stems in part from their simple solution to the range issue that big, hulking cars typically don’t offer.

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Green Car Congress

MARCH 5, 2019

—Felipe Munoz, JATO’s global analyst. At the same time, the sales growth of diesel cars fell from +7% to +1%. The average emissions for diesel cars continued to be lower than their gasoline counterparts (3.2 However, this market is still strongly dependent on gasoline cars, which make up 76% of the market.

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The Truth About Cars

FEBRUARY 9, 2024

A specter of EV charging prices eventually going the way of gasoline prices, complete with dynamic pricing and unpredictable costs. Images: Sundry Photography/Shutterstock; S&P Global] Become a& TTAC insider. The latest? You know – things with which drivers of ICE-powered vehicles have been dealing for decades.

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Cars That Think

DECEMBER 4, 2023

Cars catch fire. Electric vehicles are no exception. according to a 2023 study citing recent data from the National Transportation Safety Board and the Bureau of Transportation Statistics , gasoline-powered, internal-combustion engine (ICE) cars were involved in about 1,530 fires per every 100,000 sold. In the U.S.,

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Green Car Congress

MAY 28, 2021

If a ban were introduced on the sale of new gasoline and diesel cars, and they were replaced by electric cars, the result would be a significant reduction in lifecycle carbon dioxide emissions primarily due to reduced tailpipe CO 2 emissions, according to a new lifecycle study by researchers at Chalmers University of Technology, Sweden.

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Green Car Congress

SEPTEMBER 25, 2018

The Nissan e-POWER powertrain is driven by an electric motor that’s powered by a gasoline engine—i.e, The 100% electric motor drive system treats drivers to powerful acceleration, quiet operation and exceptional fuel efficiency. The role of the gasoline engine is strictly to generate electric power.

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Green Car Congress

NOVEMBER 22, 2017

Plug-in electric vehicles sales surged to a record in the third quarter, largely driven by strong demand in China, according to a new report from Bloomberg New Energy Finance (BNEF). China accounted for more than half of global sales as its market for electric cars doubled amid government efforts to curb pollution.

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Green Car Reports

DECEMBER 6, 2017

Despite a bit of typical oil-company bluster, Exxon may be a little bit worried about electric cars. According to Energy Voice, Exxon vice president Jeff Woodbury said recently that EV demand isn't strong enough to put a dent in demand for gasoline. Not a lot, perhaps, but if you read between the lines, then maybe a smidge.

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Green Car Congress

MAY 16, 2018

All new Volvo models launched from 2019 will be available as either a mild gasoline hybrid, plug-in gasoline hybrid or battery electric vehicle. Volvo Cars was the first traditional car maker to commit to all-out electrification in July 2017. —Håkan Samuelsson, president and chief executive of Volvo Cars.

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Green Car Reports

OCTOBER 4, 2016

The questions of whether and when sales of plug-in electric cars will resume their climb after a static 2015 are much on the minds of green-car advocates these days.

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Get Electric Vehicle

MARCH 15, 2021

We have been telling you the benefits and advantages of electric vehicles and the positive impact they are going to make on our economy and environment. Facts such as The Tesla stock being the ‘HOT’ one in the market right now, Elon Musk rises to the richest person in the world, Governments providing incentives for electric vehicles , etc.

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Green Car Congress

SEPTEMBER 22, 2019

The Paris Agreement calls for global warming to be limited to 2 ?C Electromobility is just now picking up momentum; further, electric cars are only as emissions-free as the production of electricity that charges their batteries. First, apply electricity generated from renewable sources to obtain hydrogen from water.

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Green Car Congress

APRIL 30, 2020

The outbreak of COVID-19 has already impacted the automotive industry significantly, according to JATO Dynamics, a leading provider of global automotive data and insight. Global vehicle sales totalled 5.55 —Felipe Munoz, JATO’s global analyst. million units in March 2020, down by 39% from March 2019. million units.

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Green Car Reports

OCTOBER 20, 2017

How Mazda plans to integrate plug-in hybrid and battery-electric vehicles into its range of increasingly efficient gasoline and diesel models is a topic that interests parts of the global auto industry.

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Green Car Congress

MARCH 4, 2020

—Felipe Munoz, global analyst at JATO Dynamics. This was in part caused by marked changes in attitude and regulations around the use of diesel fuels which has had the unintended consequence of pushing people to drive higher-CO 2 -emitting gasoline vehicles. These cars can make a huge difference to consumer attitude.

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Green Car Congress

JUNE 10, 2020

Standard production of the BMW core brand’s first pure electric model will get underway at the BMW Brilliance Automotive joint venture (BBA) in China in late summer as planned: BBA Plant Dadong will produce the first Sports Activity Vehicle (SAV) with a pure electric drive train for the global market.

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Green Car Congress

JANUARY 1, 2011

Key developments in the transportation sector that they note include: Positive for gasoline demand: Strong Chinese car growth in 2010, particularly in the first half of the year, with vehicle sales up 30% year-on-year (YoY) through the first eleven months of 2010. gallon gasoline. Click to enlarge.

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Green Car Reports

JULY 17, 2015

Gasoline prices remain low and sales of plug-in electric cars this year are only about equal to last year's levels. That's led to a number of articles from general media outlets (some of them rather lacking in context) questioning whether electric-car sales have stalled or whether plug-in cars have failed in the marketplace.

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Green Car Congress

JUNE 12, 2014

If we clear a path to the creation of compelling electric vehicles, but then lay intellectual property landmines behind us to inhibit others, we are acting in a manner contrary to that goal. …At At best, the large automakers are producing electric cars with limited range in limited volume. We couldn’t have been more wrong.

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Green Car Congress

FEBRUARY 15, 2011

of the global car parc (2 billion units) projected for then. of the global car parc (2 billion units) projected for then. “Without decisive fiscal and investment policies on a global scale, private road transport’s absolute volume and share of greenhouse gas emissions will continue to rise.”

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Green Car Reports

JULY 28, 2017

Today, a pair of diesel approvals from the EPA, all the details on the startling and very cool Bollinger B1 all-electric utility truck, grim news about climate scientists, and a question to mull: are gasoline cars doomed to suffer the fate of the horse? All this and more on Green Car Reports.

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Green Car Congress

AUGUST 28, 2019

Researchers at MIT and the Ford Motor Company have found that depending on the location, lightweight conventional vehicles could have a lower lifecycle greenhouse gas impact than electric vehicles, at least in the near term. Their paper is published in the ACS journal Environmental Science & Technology. —Wu et al.

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Green Car Reports

AUGUST 7, 2012

Electric cars that plug into wall sockets to charge batteries that store energy to power them are still an unknown quantity to most car buyers globally.

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Green Car Congress

NOVEMBER 3, 2020

JATO Dynamic’s data for 27 markets in Europe shows that the total number of electrified cars registered in September (encompassing pure electric, plug-in hybrids, full hybrids and mild hybrids) was higher than the number of registrations for diesel cars. —Felipe Munoz, Global Analyst at JATO Dynamics.

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Green Car Reports

AUGUST 13, 2014

Electric cars are far cheaper to run than gasoline cars on a per-mile basis--and depending on the assumptions, they can be cheaper over their entire life too. And gasoline and diesel vehicles will get steadily more fuel-efficient through 2025 under a variety of global regulations.

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Green Car Reports

MAY 24, 2016

China already aims to cut its horrific urban air pollution by aggressively promoting electric cars and implementing stricter fuel-economy standards over the next few years. New fuel-quality standards for gasoline and diesel will be enacted in.

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Green Car Reports

SEPTEMBER 20, 2017

China's announcement 10 days ago that it was assessing a timetable for ending sales of new cars with gasoline or diesel engines continues to reverberate.

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Green Car Congress

FEBRUARY 2, 2021

Electric vehicles cannot succeed without developing a nationwide network of fast-charging networks in parallel with the cars. Other automakers are collectively investing $200 billion in their new electric models. General Motors, the researchers said, spent $1 billion developing its first electric car, and another $1.2

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Green Car Congress

APRIL 25, 2018

Volvo Cars aims for fully electric cars to make up 50% of its sales by 2025, the company announced in Beijing. The announcement builds on Volvo Cars’ 2017 announcement that all new models released from 2019 will be available as either a mild-hybrid, plug-in hybrid or battery-electric vehicle.

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Green Car Congress

DECEMBER 10, 2014

As the world population increases by the estimated 30% from 2010 to 2040, ExxonMobil sees global GDP rising by about 140%, but energy demand by only about 35% due to greater efficiency. The Outlook for Energy provides ExxonMobil’s long-term view of global energy demand and supply. Click to enlarge. Outlook for Energy.

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Green Car Reports

SEPTEMBER 1, 2016

Energy infrastructure is key to any serious effort to make zero-emission vehicles practical for mass-market car buyers. The world has spent more than a century building an efficient, global distribution and delivery system for gasoline and diesel fuel, and any new energy source requires the same.

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The Truth About Cars

JANUARY 29, 2024

Electric vehicle subsidies went from temporary to indefinite and combustion bans have gone from right around the corner to anyone’s guess. & As things currently stand, the European Union has plotted banning the sale of new combustion-engine cars by 2030. .& percent of all new car registrations were electric vehicles.

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Green Car Congress

MAY 21, 2018

The electrification of road transport will move into top gear in the second half of the 2020s, due to tumbling battery costs and larger-scale manufacturing, with sales of electric cars surging to 28%, and those of electric buses to 84%, of their respective global markets by 2030. Annual global light duty vehicle sales.

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Green Car Congress

DECEMBER 23, 2020

Current market research indicates that internal combustion engine sales peaked in 2018 and that from now on sales of electric cars will slowly overtake cars running on fossil fuels. Particularly, this last point is important if we are serious about CO 2 mitigation and climate justice.

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Baua Electric

JUNE 14, 2024

Many Chinese makers of electric cars are introducing advanced assisted driving features on their mass-production cars. The world’s largest experiment in driverless cars is underway on the busy streets of Wuhan, a city in central China with 11 million people, 4.5 No other country is moving as aggressively.

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Green Car Congress

JUNE 15, 2011

As a result, BCG concludes, the electric car faces stiff competition from ICEs (internal combustion engines) and, based solely on total cost of ownership (TCO) economics, will not be the preferred option for most consumers. BCG expects pack costs for OEMs will fall to ~$360-440 per kWh by 2020. Source: BCG. Click to enlarge.

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Green Car Congress

APRIL 20, 2018

Nissan announced that it plans to launch three new electric vehicles and five e-POWER models in Japan by the end of fiscal 2022 (31 March 2023). e-POWER technology features a small gasoline engine that charges a high-output battery, eliminating the need for an external charging source. 100,000 LEAFs sold in Japan.

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