Green Car Reports

JUNE 19, 2013

Tired of plugging in your Nissan Leaf or Chevrolet Volt electric car to recharge every night? Yearn for the simplicity of simply parking over a charging pad and walking away? Bosch Automotive Service Solutions feels your pain.

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Revenge of the Electric Car

DECEMBER 28, 2009

GM to invest $700m in Volt rechargeable electric car. By Richard Kessler for Recharge News. GM to invest $700m in Volt rechargeable electric car. owned by a major automaker to produce an electric car,” says Jon Lauckner, vice president of global product planning.

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EV Connect

NOVEMBER 22, 2021

If you know anything about how electric cars work, you know that they operate via a lithium-ion battery. The battery is recharged by plugging the car into an EV charging station. But did you know there are different types of electric car plugs, and each one has different capabilities, costs and charging speeds?

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Clean Fleet Report

OCTOBER 21, 2021

2021 Is Here: Here Are the Top 10 Electric Car Companies. Picking the Top 10 electric car makers now involves making some choices as the number of vehicles available increases. The Model S is the best-selling plug-in car in the U.S. Almost two-thirds of the battery electric cars sold in the U.S.

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Green Car Reports

OCTOBER 18, 2010

Finally, after almost four years, we've driven the 2011 Chevrolet Volt in a variety of conditions, talked over our impressions, and reached a conclusion: Yes, the 2011 Volt electric car is a real car. It may be propelled by electricity. It may plug into a wall socket or a special garage recharger to "refuel."

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EV Life

FEBRUARY 18, 2020

Electric Car Charging Stations. If you’re thinking about driving an electric car but are concerned about the battery range not being long enough, you’re not alone. Fortunately, most people’s range anxiety can be cured by actually driving an electric car. Level 2 charger (240 volts). Do you own a home?

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EV Connect

AUGUST 28, 2023

We can’t expect the market to move en masse towards electric until the public recharging network matches the landscape for petrol-powered vehicles. To put that in context, we need to explore the cost of charging an electric car at a public charging station, and see how businesses can reduce EV charging station costs.

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Green Car Reports

FEBRUARY 1, 2017

Those unfamiliar with electric cars often don't know that several different types of battery charging exist. Overnight recharging at home can be done either with 120-volt household current or, for longer-range cars, with a 240-volt charging station installed by the car owner.

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Plug In India

FEBRUARY 23, 2023

By Kamlesh We managed to recharge the car from 40% to 60% in 15 minutes! This o nly consumed five units of electricity! The efficiency and the frugality of this car is amazing! I love this car! and a highway trip on a small electric car! Since the Nexon EV was launched - where are small electric cars?

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Green Car Reports

MARCH 29, 2016

Electric cars all come with a 120-volt charging cable that can charge the battery from a household socket if there are no other options. But sooner or later, most battery-electric car owners will want a 240-volt Level 2 charging station that can recharge the car as much as four times faster.

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Green Car Reports

FEBRUARY 26, 2016

One of the more daunting perceived obstacles to driving a plug-in electric car seems to be the need for a home charging station. While plug-in hybrids can be recharged overnight using their 120-Volt charging cords, battery-electric drivers should really have access to a 240-Volt Level 2 charging station.

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EV Life

JANUARY 1, 2020

Electric Car Charging. One of the biggest shifts from driving a gas car to an electric car is how the vehicle is refueled through electric car charging. Think about charging an electric car as similar to charging your smartphone, which like an electric car, is powered by lithium ion batteries.

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Green Car Reports

MAY 26, 2011

The 2011 Chevrolet Volt may be an extended-range electric car--or a plug-in hybrid, take your pick--but it's designed to promote the use of gasoline. In the case of owners who have short daily commutes and plug in their cars regularly to recharge at night, the Volt’s 25-to-40-mile range may be all they need each.

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Green Car Reports

JULY 27, 2011

As Chevrolet very often point outs in marketing its 2011 Volt extended-range electric car, more than 70 percent of U.S. That means that if you recharge a Volt every night, and cover less than that distance daily, your car might never, ever need to switch on its range-extending gasoline engine to generate.

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Setec Powerr

DECEMBER 6, 2022

And hybrid electric vehicles do not need to be recharged; the batteries are automatically charged as the vehicle is driven through processes such as braking. So hybrid electric cars are a good choice for some drivers who want to try an electric car but prefer to drive in a way almost identical to a conventional fuel car drive.

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Green Car Reports

OCTOBER 12, 2010

For some reason, while none of us think twice about plugging in our mobile phones to recharge overnight, the prospect of plugging in a car makes some people very nervous. On yesterday's test drive of a 2011 Chevrolet Volt range-extended electric car, we visited the Detroit-Hamtramck factory where Volts are now being built.

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Green Car Congress

MAY 8, 2020

ŠKODA has previewed the ENYAQ iV, the first ŠKODA production model based on Volkswagen Group’s MEB modular electric car platform. The all-electric SUV is set to be built at ŠKODA’s main plant in Mladá Boleslav, making it the first MEB-based Volkswagen Group vehicle in Europe to be produced outside Germany.

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Clean Fleet Report

JUNE 30, 2022

EV chargers come in three different charging levels , each with varying costs, charging speeds and probable locations: Level One: the first level—a common household plug—operates at 120 volts and can add three to five miles of range per hour. Weight is also a big deal for electric cars. Use an EV Travel App. Pack Light.

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Green Car Reports

NOVEMBER 4, 2014

The ability to recharge 80 percent of an electric car''s battery in 20 to 30 minutes--known as DC fast-charging--is a critical element in expanding public acceptance of cars powered by batteries. But unlike the universal standard for conventional 240-Volt charging, the U.S.

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Green Car Congress

MARCH 23, 2018

Cuomo announced that more than 5,750 consumers have received rebates to buy electric cars in New York since the State’s Drive Clean Rebate was launched one year ago. The initiative provides residents with a rebate of up to $2,000 for the purchase or lease of a new electric car from participating dealers. Earlier post.)

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Setec Powerr

NOVEMBER 21, 2022

Today’s electric cars are like mobile phones, not only in terms of software, but also in terms of hardware. Batteries are a vital part of electric cars and mobile phones, and once they run out of power, they will make it impossible for you to move. And what about cars? The United States uses a 120-volt grid.

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Green Car Congress

MARCH 13, 2009

Siemens Corporate Technology , Siemens’ research organization, supplied the drive systems for the prototypes of two electric cars shown at the Geneva Motor Show. The Swiss concept car manufacturer Rinspeed presented its electric car iChange before the Geneva Motor Show. The powertrain components for the eRUF.

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Green Car Congress

DECEMBER 14, 2011

Ford’s Michigan Assembly Plant is starting production of the 2012 Focus Electric ( earlier post )—a five-passenger, battery-electric car Ford expects will achieve more than a 100 miles per gallon equivalent (MPGe) fuel economy rating. 1 gallon of gasoline=33.7

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Plug In Partners

AUGUST 30, 2007

could reportedly produce up to 60,000 Volt electric cars in 2010 , its first anticipated year on the market. The car, expected to run 40 miles without recharging, will cost less than $30,000. "If That would make the Volt its best selling high mileage car behind the Chevrolet Aveo.

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Cars That Think

MARCH 30, 2023

Faster pit stops could also help unlock sales for electric two-wheelers, which have been slow to catch on due to dawdling charge times and limited riding range. The battery pack holds more energy than the 22 kWh pack in BMW’s original i3 electric car that debuted in 2012. That’s really the direction we need to go with this.”

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Green Car Reports

DECEMBER 16, 2016

Charging at home is by far the most common way that electric-car owners in the U.S. recharge their vehicles today. Most automakers selling electric cars offer 240-volt Level.

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Green Car Reports

NOVEMBER 23, 2009

Over the next 12 months, carmakers will introduce several new plug-in electric vehicles. One question that's frequently asked of GreenCarReports.com--and many others too: Does recharging electric cars pose a threat to the electricity grid?

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All Cars Electric

APRIL 22, 2011

No one knows the ins and outs of electric-car usage like the early adopters, especially those who've already taken delivery of a 2011 Nissan Leaf or a 2011 Chevrolet Volt. (Or

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Cars That Think

JULY 13, 2023

Goodenough was awarded the 2012 IEEE Medal for Environmental and Safety Technologies for discoveries that “paved the way for development of the rechargeable lithium-ion battery technology.” It later became the chemistry of choice for early electric cars including the 2008 Tesla Roadster. to 4 volts.

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Green Car Congress

DECEMBER 29, 2011

The technology provides a 30-minute recharge for all-electric cars such as the Nissan Leaf and Mitsubishi i-MiEV. The charging station will include a Level 2 “medium-speed” charging pedestal to serve other electric vehicles such as the Ford Focus and Chevy Volt.

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Green Car Congress

JANUARY 7, 2011

Other general findings about EVs included: 59% said they don’t know enough about electric vehicles to consider one as their next purchase; 55% said that an electric car is a “good choice for a second car within my household, but not a good choice for my primary vehicle.”

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Green Cars News

OCTOBER 23, 2012

Drivers opting for plug-in hybrid cars or ‘range-extended’ models are recharging their cars more frequently than drivers of fully electric cars as they try appear to be maximising their cheaper, electric range, new data suggests.

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Green Car Congress

MARCH 31, 2021

The basis for the high performance of the AMG 400-volt battery is the innovative direct cooling: For the first time, the 560 cells are cooled individually; they are thus permanently surrounded by a high-tech coolant based on an electrically non-conductive liquid. All-battery-electric AMG vehicles soon to enter series production.

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Clean Fleet Report

APRIL 16, 2024

Ready to rock Gear Shifts and On-Throttle Sounds Hyundai engineers have addressed what many EV-naysayers have been whining about—electric cars are too quiet. Going into the center touchscreen are N e-shift and N Active Sound+ settings that make the Ioniq 5 N sound oh-so like a gasoline engine-powered car.

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Green Car Congress

NOVEMBER 20, 2014

The power electronics also integrate a DC/DC converter, which converts energy from the high-voltage battery to 12 volts to supply the 12-volt electrical system. The 12-volt battery is also mounted at the rear. Bottom: On recharge, energy will flow from the fuel cell through the tri-port converter to the battery.

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Revenge of the Electric Car

APRIL 1, 2010

Microsoft’s Hohm to Manage Ford’s Electric Cars. manage off-hours home electrical usage? In the case of electric cars, time-shifting the recharge to late at night is important because recharging effectively a home’s daytime energy usage. manage off-hours home electrical usage?

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Green Car Congress

MARCH 13, 2010

The front transverse internal combustion engine is coupled to a generator and recharges the 11.47 Full recharging of the battery pack takes three hours using a 240-volt outlet at 13A. Phantom view of EMAS drive system elements. Click to enlarge. Earlier post.) kWh lithium-ion battery pack. The 370V pack comprises 100 31Ah cells.

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