Green Car Congress

MAY 20, 2022

Its hybrid electric and hydrogen powertrain aims to reduce downtime related to energy recharging while reducing the carbon footprint, including the battery. Renault Scénic Vision is zero emission in production and in use with a 75% smaller carbon footprint than a conventional battery electric vehicle.

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Green Car Congress

FEBRUARY 3, 2023

France-based Forsee Power is sourcing very high energy density NMC cells to be integrated into its battery systems from Chinese battery cell manufacturer CALB. It specializes in cells for electric vehicles and energy storage systems. CALB is planning to grow its production capacities to 500 GWh by 2025.

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Green Car Congress

DECEMBER 3, 2018

A new European Joint Research Center (JRC) analysis on the deployment of electric vehicles (EV) in Europe concludes that although the sector evolved significantly between 2010 and 2017, progress is still small to be characterized as full-scale commercialization. In 2010, electric vehicles still represented a niche market.

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Green Car Congress

MAY 27, 2021

The new PEUGEOT e-EXPERT Hydrogen includes a new mid-power plug-in hydrogen fuel cell electric system, specific to STELLANTIS. Based on the EMP2 (Efficient Modular Platform), the new PEUGEOT e-EXPERT Hydrogen is a fully electric vehicle, combining two on-board sources of electrical energy.

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Green Car Congress

OCTOBER 7, 2011

The Compagnie Nationale du Rhône (CNR), France’s leading producer of 100% renewable electricity, and Renault signed a partnership agreement at the Lyon International Motor Show. Offers for supplying green electricity by CNR at Renault’s production sites.

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Green Car Congress

SEPTEMBER 8, 2020

The R&D center in Bordeaux and the pilot site in Nersac (France) have already started in order to develop the new high-performance lithium-ion technologies. At the end of this R&D phase, mass production could be launched in two “gigafactories”, in Douvrin (France) and Kaiserslautern (Germany).

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Green Car Congress

JULY 22, 2011

As the price of R134a refrigerant continues to rise, Delphi has introduced four air conditioning (A/C) recharging stations to its service portfolio that utilize an efficient method of recovering as much refrigerant from the car as possible to help garages lessen their refrigerant costs, while helping to protect the environment.

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Green Car Congress

OCTOBER 2, 2009

Jean-Louis Borloo, France’s Minister for Ecology, Energy, Sustainable Development and the Sea, presented a national 14-point plan designed to accelerate the development and subsequent commercialization of electric vehicles and plug-in hybrids in France. Tags: Batteries Electric (Battery) Europe Plug-ins Policy.

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Green Car Congress

MARCH 22, 2019

Groupe Renault is beginning the first large-scale pilot schemes in alternating-current, vehicle-to-grid (V2G) charging in electric vehicles. Groupe Renault places the reversible charger inside vehicles, so it just requires a simple, inexpensive adaptation of the existing charging terminals to implement V2G charging.

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EV Central

FEBRUARY 22, 2024

Sales of electric vehicles and plug-in hybrids globally leapt by 69 per cent to an incredible 1.1 According to Rho Motion, which provided the latest stats, EV sales in Germany and France have fallen by as much as 50 per cent after subsidies were either scrapped or reduced in the European regions.

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Green Car Congress

NOVEMBER 26, 2020

Groupe Renault plans to set up an 8,500 m 2 Factory VO (Used Car Factory) in Flins, with the capacity to refurbish more than 45,000 second-hand vehicles per year, from September 2021. Electric vehicles batteries are at the heart of the transformation of the automotive industry because of their potential applications.

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Green Car Congress

JUNE 14, 2019

Honda’s new compact electric vehicle, the Honda e, is the first Honda to be built on a dedicated EV platform, designed from the ground up to deliver excellent Honda driving dynamics. The Honda e platform has been developed with a focus on urban environments to offer a rewarding, responsive driving experience.

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Green Car Congress

APRIL 13, 2013

Toyota Motor Corporation (TMC) has completed its three-year plug-in hybrid vehicle (PHV) demonstration project jointly carried out with Électricité de France (EDF) and the City and the Urban Community of Strasbourg in France. For example, Toyota said, take a user that recharges 1.6 times a day. times a day.

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Green Car Congress

AUGUST 30, 2021

Indeed, electric models will soon become essential for those wishing to access city centers facing traffic restrictions such as the low emissions zones (LEZ) that are popping up Europe-wide. For example, of the 47,500 private hire vehicles registered in France, 75% of them are in Paris and the greater-Paris area (2020 figures from Stacian).

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Green Car Congress

JANUARY 26, 2015

Symbio FCell has delivered the first five Renault Kangoo ZE Light commercial vehicles (LCVs) powered by its hydrogen Fuel Cell Range-Extender, as part of a full fleet project led by the Conseil Général de la Manche which will ultimately deploy 40 vehicles. La Manche is a département in West Normandy, France. Earlier post.)

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Green Car Congress

JANUARY 3, 2020

The Riwald Dakar Team and their driver Gert Huzink are the only participants entering Dakar 2020 with a hybrid electric vehicle. In addition to demonstrating the partners’ commitment to sustainability, the first tests show that this pioneering vehicle could come out on top at the finish line.

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Green Car Congress

JUNE 22, 2009

Renault and EDF strengthened their collaboration on zero-emission electric vehicles with an agreement on power line communication (PLC) enabling communication between charging terminals and electric vehicles. Renault will carry out integration tests of this system with its future vehicles.

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Green Car Congress

OCTOBER 22, 2012

Electric cars will become more integrated into the intelligent traffic infrastructure and energy networks of the future than conventional combustion engines, with modern Information and Communication Technologies (ICT) forming the backbone for the integration of electric vehicles into these networks, the partners note.

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Baua Electric

MARCH 18, 2024

Professors Frances Sprei of Sweden’s Chalmers University and Willett Kempton of the University of Delaware are EV technology and usage experts. The article points out that the problem with using the old “monitor gauge” model is that EV recharging and gasoline refueling require different strategies.

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Green Car Congress

FEBRUARY 15, 2022

Umicore, a global materials technology group, is a pioneer in the recycling of rechargeable batteries; its battery recycling plant in Hoboken, Belgium, has an annual capacity of 7,000 tons of lithium-ion (Li-ion) batteries and battery production scrap, the equivalent of 35,000 electric vehicle (EV) batteries.

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Green Car Congress

JULY 28, 2010

Earlier this year, Nissan Nissan North America (NNA) selected AeroVironment to supply electric vehicle home-charging stations and installation services supporting the introduction of the LEAF. Aker Wade: Level III networked fast charging stations for electric vehicles worldwide. Source: Ecotality. Click to enlarge.

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Green Car Congress

DECEMBER 8, 2009

PSA Peugeot Citroën is presenting a demonstrator equipped with the FiSyPAC (Fiabilisation système pile à combustible) hydrogen fuel cell range extender system at the “Toute la lumière sur l’hydrogène énergie” show in Lyon, France, from 7-11 December. The event is designed to showcase hydrogen as a fuel source. kg of hydrogen at 700 bar.

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Green Car Congress

JULY 10, 2015

billion (sales) global chemical company and France’s leading chemicals producer, and Hydro-Québec, through its new subsidiary SCE France, are partnering to create a joint laboratory for research and development in the energy storage sector. Arkema, a €7.5-billion Earlier post.). Hydro-Québec invests $100 million in research every year.

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Green Car Congress

MARCH 8, 2011

a designer and manufacturer of lithium-iron-phosphate battery packs, recently signed an agreement worth more than US$250 million with German and French electric vehicle manufacturer Mia Electric, to provide 8 kWh battery packs for three new vehicle models until 2016. Evida Power, Inc.,

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Green Car Congress

AUGUST 14, 2012

Three Nissan LEAF electric vehicles drove 12,500 km (7,767 miles) through ten countries in 42 days supported by France-based DBT CEV’s fast charging technology as part of the 2012 Oranje Trophy. The CHAdeMO-compliant (Rev.0.9) DC quick charger has an output voltage range of DC50 ~ 500V and current range of up to 125A.

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Green Car Congress

JUNE 24, 2019

The challenges set out in the letter are: The metal resource needed to make all cars and vans electric by 2050 and all sales to be purely battery-electric by 2035. Extrapolated to 2 billion cars worldwide, the energy demand for extracting and processing the metals is almost 4 times the total annual UK electrical output.

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Green Cars News

OCTOBER 4, 2009

The green car race is not restricted to vehicle manufacturers desperate to steal a march on their rivals – it’s also apparent that some of the leading nations are battling to be the first to have infrastructure in place for the electrification of the automobile. It is hoped to have 100,000 vehicles by 2015.

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Green Car Congress

APRIL 4, 2014

Logistics specialist STEF has been testing an experimental 16 tonne all-electric vehicle under actual operating conditions for Carrefour France. Developed by Renault Trucks on a Midlum vehicle chassis in partnership with PVI and IFP Énergies nouvelle, the truck covered 16,000 km and delivered 600 t of goods.

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Green Car Congress

JUNE 18, 2014

Scaleo chip, a fabless semiconductor company specializing in automotive electronics, and IFP Energies nouvelles (IFPEN) announced the “FlexHybrid powered by OLEA”, the first plug-in hybrid electric vehicle (PHEV) driven by OLEA microcontrollers. FlexHybrid has an all-electric range of 30 km (18.6 Earlier post.)

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Teslarati

AUGUST 15, 2022

At the same time, the company has already made significant strides in expanding to European countries such as France and the UK. However, the site remains relatively barebones; all units are in metric, range estimates use China’s CLTC estimate, and there is no information about when these vehicles will be available for purchase/order.

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Green Car Congress

NOVEMBER 1, 2017

Many of the new EU member states with a low ECV market share merely offer an exemption from the annual circulation tax for electric vehicles. ECV market share of 5 biggest EU car markets in 2016. ECV Units sold. GDP per capita. United Kingdom. Lowest ECV market share in EU in 2016. ECV Units sold. GDP per capita.

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Green Car Congress

SEPTEMBER 1, 2009

In July, ReVolt and BASF entered a joint-development agreement to speed the development and commercialization of ReVolt’s rechargeable zinc-air battery system. Research on material combinations has addressed issues historically related to the metal-air technology: power, lifetime and rechargeability. Earlier post.) million in ReVolt.

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Green Car Congress

FEBRUARY 23, 2013

Michelin and Siemens, in cooperation with research partners at Karlsruhe Institute of Technology (KIT) and the Fraunhofer Institute for Systems and Innovation Research ISI, are launching a project to demonstrate that the total cost of electric vehicles can be less than that of a conventional combustion-engined car.

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Green Car Congress

SEPTEMBER 24, 2010

Renault today signed a letter of intent on Electric Vehicles (EVs) with the Nord-Pas-de-Calais region in France. This agreement marks the starting point of a study heralding a Regional Plan for the Development of Electric Vehicles for Businesses and Consumers.

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Green Car Congress

SEPTEMBER 22, 2010

At the International Commercial Vehicle Show in Hanover, Renault is premiering the definitive version of Kangoo Express ZE (Zero Emission), the first all-electric van developed and built by a vehicle manufacturer. Earlier post.). It shows the remaining range and number of kWh, as well as real-time and average consumption.

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Green Cars News

JUNE 20, 2009

France is continuing to establish itself as one of the leading green forces in Europe and now the French environment agency ADEME has awarded €57million via its technology demonstrator to 11 low carbon vehicle projects. Forewheel: Presented by Michelin, Heuliez and CEA, this develops weight optimised electric vehicles.

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Green Charging

MARCH 8, 2021

Although it’s not quite extensive, the Shell recharge network currently run by Allego has the advantage of having available areas for expansion and substantial financial backing. Besides, with more than 2,700 charge points in the United Kingdom, Ubitricity is the country’s largest public electric charging network.

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