The Truth About Cars

APRIL 30, 2025

Despite being most famous for its long history building parts for combustion-engine vehicles, ZF has a diverse portfolio and started pivoting more of its efforts toward electronics in recent years. But the prospect of having a range-extended EV with a direct-drive system using gasoline is certainly interesting.

Range

Clean Fleet Report

MAY 4, 2025

The companys electric-powered step van is designed for last mile deliveries with an all-electric driving range of 130 miles. Blue Bird uses the Roush CleanTech ultra-low emission propane technology that they say has accumulated more than three billion miles with 3,000 fleets in North America.

Kenworth

Clean Fleet Report

MARCH 24, 2025

We didnt measure efficiency during our short time in the Optiq, but Cadillac estimates the all-electric range to be 302 miles. With no gasoline engine, the Optiq eliminated delays and hesitations that can come from the air-spark-fuel demand under hard acceleration. 101 as we crossed the Golden Gate Bridge into Marin County.

Cadillac

Clean Fleet Report

MARCH 29, 2025

Toyotas hybrid system automatically switches between the electric drive mode, combined electric motor and gasoline engine, and gasoline-only engine power. In 226 miles of driving, mostly in the Normal drive mode, on highways in Southern California we averaged 41.4 Your numbers may differ.

Toyota

Clean Fleet Report

JUNE 15, 2025

liter non-turbocharged 4-cylinder gasoline engine and two electric motors (front and rear), the total system puts out 304 horsepower and 233 pound-feet of torque. Running on 91 octane, the fuel economy is rated at 35 mpg on gasoline alone in city and highway tests with 37 all-electric miles when fully charged.

Lexus

Charged EVs

JANUARY 24, 2025

Each bus can travel approximately 230 miles on a charge, and it takes four hours to fully recharge the bus. Eagle designed the RTT series A/C electric line of tow tractors with extensive input from GM operators, as well as safety and manufacturing engineers.

Solar

Clean Fleet Report

JULY 23, 2025

Initially available with only a gasoline engine, we drove the most fuel-efficient Tucson, a plug-in hybrid. Hyundai began offering gasoline-electric hybrid models and plug-in hybrids in 2024. liter 4-cylinder engine, producing 178 horsepower and 195 pound-feet of torque. We were able to extend it to just under 40 miles.

Tucson

The Truth About Cars

APRIL 28, 2025

Driving range is supposed to be about 150 miles, which almost tragically makes this an errand vehicle with the ability to do some light work within the nearest county. kWh battery that increases its max range to 240 miles. The base-ranged Slate Truck could still make a viable urban vehicle and even serve a commercial purpose.

Ford

Baua Electric

MARCH 9, 2025

Both have turbocharged 4-cylinder engines with electric motors acting as go-betweens in the power flow with traditional hydraulic automatic transmissions, plus relatively small batteries to store energy from regenerative braking and release it to boost power and efficiency. kwh lithium-ion battery pack. Its powered by a 278-hp, 2.4-liter

Hyundai

Clean Fleet Report

MAY 24, 2025

It was a gasoline-powered subcompact crossover, sold in the U.S. mile racetrack with over 200 feet of elevation change and a half-mile back straight. The track-ready consumer model coming to America next year shares the basic specifications a 3-cylinder turbocharged engine, automatic or manual transmission and all-wheel drive.

Lexus

The Truth About Cars

JULY 18, 2025

Though it was a nod to modernity, fully independent suspension was also a way for engineers to create more interior room in a car with much smaller exterior dimensions. The engine was also smaller, as the big block era faded from view. Also borrowed from the 1978 Seville was a much worse diesel engine option.

Cadillac

Clean Fleet Report

FEBRUARY 16, 2025

The EPA rates the all-electric driving range at 295 miles, which was spot-on to our results, where we averaged a respectable 3.2 miles per kilowatt-hour. If you miss the sounds of a gasoline engine, simulated engine sounds can be set in the infotainment screen. Oh well, to each their own. The on-board 11.0

BMW

Clean Fleet Report

JUNE 17, 2025

These vehicles get N exclusive badging, modified engines, custom gearboxes, aerodynamic upgrades and variable suspension systems. In a week we put on 434 miles of Southern California freeway driving, taking us from Dana Point to Hollywood to Palm Springs and back. miles per kilowatt hour, which is what non-performance EVs get.

Hyundai

Clean Fleet Report

APRIL 3, 2025

Our drive route took us from the secluded Canyon Ranch wellness retreat in Woodside, south to Hollister and then north along the coast through Santa Cruz, covering 175 miles back to Woodside. liter Subaru boxer engine, which runs on 87 octane, is mated to a hybrid system with two electric motors, powered by a 1.1 So what did we learn?

Hybrid

The Truth About Cars

APRIL 3, 2025

Full disclosure: Subaru put me on a plane to San Francisco, put me up in a literal tree house, and gave me access to 250-odd miles of California redwood forests and coasts, an off-road course, and two competitors to test the new Forester Hybrid.) The hybrid system is the big news here.

Hybrid

Clean Fleet Report

JULY 12, 2025

seconds AER: 270 miles R1T Dual Dual Motor AWD, Horsepower: 655 Torque: 829 lb-ft. seconds AER: 329 miles R1T Tri Tri-Motor AWD Horsepower: 850 Torque: 1,103 lb.-ft. seconds AER: 371 miles R1T Quad* Quad-Motor AWD Horsepower: 1,198 Torque: 1,103 lb.-ft. kW per mile (which is not as bad as the GMC Hummer 3X pickup at 1.3)

All-Electric

Baua Electric

FEBRUARY 2, 2025

To reconcile all this, its prepared by committing to a new template for making both EVs and gasoline models, all on the same production line. It has the capability to make hundreds of EVs per day, or many hundreds of gasoline modelsdepending on demand. This sea change in how it makes vehicles could keep its oldest U.S.

Honda

Clean Fleet Report

APRIL 17, 2025

Using a Green Ambulance for Patient Transport and Services DocGo specializes in what its representatives consider last-mile options, bringing offerings such as wound care services, vaccinations, health tests and IV support to people in their homes or other convenient locations. Some automobiles can operate on 85% ethanol.

Fleet

Clean Fleet Report

JUNE 22, 2025

Polestar’s First Dedicated EV Platform Delivers Polestar has released three models in America, with variants, beginning with the company’s last gasoline engine propelled car, the limited production sublime 2021 Polestar 1 plug-in hybrid. In the 486 total miles we drove during our week we averaged 33.5 kWh per 100 miles.

Motors

The Truth About Cars

JULY 21, 2025

If a person has spent most of their life driving a combustion engine car, their brain anticipates acceleration after the rev of the engine, a warning that they are about to experience a change in speed. Other studies claimed it was engine noise that was the determining factor.

Environment

Clean Fleet Report

MAY 10, 2025

of torque for a 200 mile all-electric driving range (AER). kWh Long Range battery DC Fast Charging 10-80%: 43 minutes Add approximately 100 miles in 15 minutes The Kona Electric was easy to charge using the MyHyundai with Bluelink app that offers plug-and-charge at these public charging networks.

Hyundai

Energy Institute at HAAS

JUNE 16, 2025

Skip to content Menu Home About Contributors Open Menu Overlay Energy Institute Blog Research that Informs Business and Public Policy Posted 2 hours ago by Maximilian Auffhammer Uncategorized Taxing the Distance What if we taxed miles not gallons? But they consume less or no gasoline. We argue in favor of weight based per mile tax.

Tax

Green Car Congress

APRIL 20, 2022

By shifting the biggest gasoline users into ZEVs first, AB 2816 also reduces the total number of ZEVs that would be needed to reach the state’s near-term target of cutting light-duty vehicle emissions in half by 2030. California’s biggest gasoline users currently are on track to be the last people to switch to ZEVs.

Gasoline

Green Car Congress

JANUARY 18, 2018

liter Opposed-Piston Gasoline Compression Ignition (OPGCI) engine. The OP engine produces 270 hp and 480 lb-ft (651 N·m). The Achates Power Opposed-Piston (OP) Engine is engineered to achieve superior thermal efficiency by virtue of its lower heat losses, improved combustion, and reduced pumping losses.

F-150

Green Car Congress

AUGUST 4, 2022

Blue Bird Corporation will offer a factory-certified electric repower program on select gasoline- and propane-powered Blue Bird school buses. Blue Bird customers can future-proof their school bus fleet by purchasing gasoline- or propane-powered vehicles and converting them easily and cost-effectively to zero-emission, electric buses later.

Gasoline-Electric

Green Car Congress

SEPTEMBER 30, 2021

liter turbocharged, four-cylinder engine and TorqueFlite eight-speed automatic transmission. The 4xe PHEV technology targets an estimated 25 miles (40 km) of all-electric range and 57 MPGe and offers: 375 hp and 470 lb-ft of torque. liter turbocharged I-4 engine is part of Stellantis’s Global Medium Engine family.

Jeep

Green Car Congress

FEBRUARY 22, 2018

The researchers assessed the gaseous, particulate, and genotoxic pollutants from two current technology gasoline direct injection vehicles when tested in their original configuration and with a catalyzed gasoline particulate filter (GPF). LEVIII will begin a four year phase-in of a tighter 1 mg/mile starting in 2025. Yang et al.

Gasoline

Green Car Congress

JUNE 29, 2015

During the late innings of the ICE-age (as in the Internal Combustion Engine age) it has become clear that feeding gasoline and diesel to the next billion new cars is not going to be easy, or cheap. By contrast, at 25 miles per $3 gallon of gasoline, those miles cost 12 cents each. by Henry Hewitt for Oilprice.com.

Miles

Green Car Congress

OCTOBER 19, 2021

Using current technologies, all evaluated biofuel, battery electric, and hydrogen fuel cell vehicle pathways offer significant C2G GHG emissions reduction compared to the current gasoline internal combustion engine vehicle.

Gasoline-Electric

Green Car Congress

SEPTEMBER 27, 2022

The 2023 Mitsubishi Outlander PHEV, the next generation of the world’s best-selling plug-in hybrid electric vehicle (PHEV), is rated to offer 38 miles of all-electric range from a 350-volt, 20kWh lithium-ion battery pack mounted below the floor and between the wheels for a low center of gravity, but minimal loss of ground clearance.

Mitsubishi

Green Car Congress

JANUARY 10, 2020

A new study by a team at the National Renewable Energy Laboratory (NREL) concludes that a high-pressure, scalable, intra-city hydrogen pipeline system could improve the economics and logistics of hydrogen delivery, making it potentially cost-competitive with gasoline. The authors assumed a total pipeline length of 38 miles (4.8

Hydrogen

Green Car Congress

MARCH 4, 2020

liter turbocharged direct injection engine (EA888 evo4). The four-cylinder engine is coupled with a 6-speed manual gearbox as standard. The Golf GTD engine delivers maximum torque of 400 N·m even at very low engine speeds. The new Golf GTI is powered by a 180 kW (245 PS) 2.0-liter The Golf GTD features a 2.0-liter,

Diesel

Green Car Congress

OCTOBER 22, 2020

liter four-cylinder engine with 96 kW / 130 PS and three natural gas fuel tanks. The engine of the quasi-monovalent drive system is powered primarily with CNG (Compressed Natural Gas), but can also run on gasoline. kg and permits a driving radius of a good 400 kilometers (249 miles) in the WLTP cycle. The new 1.5L

Gas

Green Car Congress

AUGUST 12, 2022

HP Taxis, Prins Alternative Fuel Systems and SBL-Automotive revealed [link] of the plug-in hybrid range-extended electric LEVC TX taxi and VN5 van allowing the range extender engine to run on LPG and CNG and their renewable counterparts of biopropane and biomethane. For CNG/biomethane the engine bay layout is similar. Bi-fuel ECU.

Taxi

Green Car Congress

DECEMBER 11, 2021

The California Air Resources Board approved a measure that will require most newly manufactured small off-road engines (SORE) such as those found in leaf blowers, lawn mowers and other equipment be zero emission starting in 2024. Older models on store shelves can also be purchased even if they are gasoline-powered.

Emissions

Green Car Congress

JANUARY 29, 2020

billion in fourth generation of the Leon to bring it to market with more efficient engines, next levels of connectivity and driving assistance, dynamism and eye-catching aesthetics to the market. The two lower output engines which produce 66kW/90PS and 81kW/110PS of power are 1.0 litre units as well as the 1.5 liter TDI units.

Plug-in

Green Car Congress

DECEMBER 14, 2018

Hyundai has taken two out of the ten spots in the 2019 WardsAuto 10 Best Engine competition with the all-new 2019 NEXO FCEV fuel cell vehicle and 2019 Kona Electric CUV. This marks the tenth time Hyundai has earned a WardsAuto 10 Best Engine recognition since the awards’ annual inception in 1995. Earlier post.) Kona Electric.

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