Green Car Congress

NOVEMBER 20, 2013

In Germany—the only major market for electric vehicles in Europe without incentive programs—Ampera’s market share has grown to 10%. Currently the Opel Ampera is in third place among European e-car registrations with a market share of almost 10%. In the key EV market of the Netherlands, the Ampera has market share of 40%.

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Green Car Congress

JUNE 22, 2022

This material can help advance EV battery technology by contributing to occupant safety, weight reduction and higher efficiency for extended range. Transitioning from standard, 400-volt EV batteries to higher voltages offers the potential to shorten charging times, extend range and improve energy management within the vehicle.

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Green Car Congress

APRIL 13, 2021

This allows for extended range and 80% recharge in less than 30 minutes. The GL 65 energy cells (as well as the GL 60 cells) are manufactured by Leclanché in its production facility located in Willstätt, Germany. The cell materials allow for longer lifetime, high cycle life along with fast charge capability.

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Green Car Congress

JUNE 26, 2012

The extended-range electric vehicle Ampera is Europe’s Nº1 passenger electric-drive vehicle with more than 20% market share, according to Opel sales figures from May 2012. Based on the latest available figures, the Ampera is also the best-selling EV in Germany with a share of more than a third and Switzerland with 44%.

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Green Car Congress

OCTOBER 28, 2020

All Cayenne E-Hybrid models therefore meet the current range criterion that entitles owners to an “E” number plate and reduced company car tax in Germany. In Germany, the price of the Cayenne E-Hybrid starts at €90,447 (US$107,000). Cayenne E-Hybrid Coupé. All functions can be controlled via the Porsche Connect App as required.

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Green Car Congress

FEBRUARY 26, 2015

The remaining 11,797 was made up of extended?range range electric vehicles (EREVs) and plug?in to 15,361 units), followed by Germany (+70.2%, 13,118 units) and France (+29.8%, 12,488 units). Of these, pure battery electric vehicles (BEVs) represented about half of the total: 12,755 in Q4 2014, up from 8,418 in Q4 2013 (+51.5%).

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Green Car Congress

APRIL 18, 2016

Siemens will be contributing its E-Car Powertrain Systems Business Unit, employing around 500 people of which 370 are based in Germany and 130 in China. Its headquarters will be located in Erlangen, Germany. The company’s structures will be lean and adapted to global market requirements and the international competitive environment.

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Green Cars News

SEPTEMBER 12, 2012

Lithium-ion batteries (pictured) are seen as the key to success for electric vehicles thanks to their extended range and power capabilities: however, their safety has been called into question on the back of several electric car fires.

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Green Cars News

OCTOBER 31, 2011

The Audi A1 e-tron extended range electric vehicle is at the heart of a new fleet trial in Munich. Run by Audi, E.ON, Stadtwerke Munchen and Technische Universitat Munchen, the project will see 20 Audi A1 e-tron vehicles used to test charging infrastructure installed within the Munich city limits and outlying areas.

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Clean Fleet Report

APRIL 8, 2023

If you have an electric vehicle, vacations may include more planning, but the extended ranges available from many new EVs and an expanding charging infrastructure are making trips like these easier to take. Imagine the pictures of Germany you’d see on a postcard, and that’s what travelers get here.

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Green Car Congress

OCTOBER 13, 2016

BMW sees hydrogen-powered fuel-cell electric vehicle (FCEVs) offering the ideal combination of zero-emission motoring and everyday practicality when extended ranges and high running resistances are required. In the US and a number of European countries, demand is increasing at a faster pace than in Germany.

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Cars That Think

MARCH 18, 2022

Starting this year, thousands of battery-powered electric drive Volkswagen vehicles capable of both loading and offloading current—bidirectional charging, as industry calls it—have been rolling off production lines in eastern Germany.

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Green Car Congress

APRIL 20, 2009

SAIC engineers have been co-located at GM facilities in Germany and GM engineers have been co-located at SAIC facilities in China to produce the vehicles. China is also slated to become one of the first markets for the Chevrolet Volt extended-range electric vehicle in 2011.

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Green Car Congress

AUGUST 23, 2013

Fuel cells are seen as hitting 1% by 2025; extended range electric vehicles, 3%; and battery-electric vehicles, 4%. Axel Macher, head of Thermodynamics/Application V6 TDI at Audi in Neckarsulm, Germany. In Germany, Macher noted, the turbo is optimized for longer stretches of high-speed autobahn driving.

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Green Cars News

SEPTEMBER 21, 2010

Vauxhall’s electric commercial prototype, the Vivaro e-Concept is set to make its debut tomorrow (Wednesday, September 22) at the IAA Commercial Vehicle Show in Hanover, Germany.

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Green Cars News

NOVEMBER 11, 2010

The vehicle will go on sale for €42,900 – including national VAT – with Opel already taking reservations for the extended range vehicle. This means that in Germany, which [.]. The Chevrolet Volt is about to hit the roads in the US… and now more details have been revealed about its European counterpart, the Opel Ampera.

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Green Car Congress

JULY 8, 2015

Methanol-powered vehicles are one pillar of Geely Auto’s diversified new-energy strategy, which also encompasses ethanol, CNG, gasoline-electric hybrid, plug-in hybrid, pure-electric, and extended-range solutions. Methanol in China.

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Green Car Congress

OCTOBER 23, 2009

The BlueZero E-CELL with battery-electric drive featured a range of up to 200 kilometers (124 miles) using electric drive alone. With a charging capacity of 15 kW, the lithium-ion batteries in the BlueZERO E-CELL and the extended range E-Cell PLUS could store enough energy for a range of 50 kilometers (31 miles) within 30 minutes.

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Green Cars News

JUNE 12, 2009

Carmaker, Volkswagen has launched a new flex-fuel model which can operate on either petrol or LPG in Germany. The 55-litre petrol tank and the LPG tank, which has a usable volume of 43 litres and is built into the spare wheel well to save space, provide an extended range of more than 1,100 kilometres.

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Baua Electric

MARCH 19, 2024

The head of online business at Volvo Germany, Alex Zurhausen, says customers are waiting because they have “the right products at the right time.” In Germany, the wait time for Volvo’s most affordable EX30 is up to four months. It will be available in a single-motor extended range and a motor performance model.

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Green Car Congress

AUGUST 13, 2021

Bosch also uses its production know-how in its own plants: at its plant in Eisenach, Germany, Bosch is now launching full-scale production of second-generation 48-volt batteries. Battery production at Webasto’s plant in Schierling, Germany, serves as a blueprint for new production facilities such as the one in Dangjin, Korea.

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Tony Karrer Delicious EVdriven

APRIL 21, 2009

At these prices, people are buying the "environmental feature" -- they want to be among the first owners of the worlds cleanest extended-range vehicles. Today youd do it to be one of the first to drive the worlds cleanest extended range vehicle; in the future, youll do it because its an obvious and affordable win!

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Green Car Congress

OCTOBER 20, 2014

miles) in extended range. Amtek Tekfor Holding GmbH; Siemens AG; Texas Instruments Germany GmbH; and TÜV SÜD AG. The superior insulating properties also reduce demands on the car’s heating and air conditioning (HVAC) system and make possible up to 15 additional kilometers (9.3 TU_Muenchen.

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Green Car Congress

NOVEMBER 22, 2012

That equates to some 20,000 accidents a year in Germany alone. If the camera fails to spot any road signs showing a speed limit or a speed limit is lifted, the legal speed limits based on the navigation data are shown instead, such as a maximum speed of 100 km/h on country roads in Germany or 50 km/h in built-up areas.

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Green Car Congress

FEBRUARY 28, 2012

The A3 e-tron BEV pilot program will run in the San Francisco, Los Angeles, Washington DC, and Denver markets throughout the year and provide actionable feedback and telematics data to Audi engineering teams in the US and Germany. In April 2011, Audi introduced a four-seat A3 e-tron concept plug-in hybrid vehicle in Shanghai. Earlier post.).

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Green Car Congress

SEPTEMBER 16, 2009

Better Place announced it is working with Continental of Germany, Flextronics, Intel, Microsoft, and TÜV Rheinland on different aspects of its EV services platform and infrastructure: Flextronics for charge points; Continental, Microsoft and Intel for the in-car computing platform AutOS; and TÜV Rheinland for safety certification.

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Revenge of the Electric Car

OCTOBER 23, 2008

MIT spinoff A123 was a personal favorite, also Germany’s Continental was in the running, but it was LG Chem subsidiary and Detroit based Compact Power, Inc. The Volt, which GM prefers to call an extended-range electric vehicle, doesn’t use its internal combustion engine for propulsion, relying entirely on an electric drive system.

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EV Adoption

FEBRUARY 22, 2021

5, will start production in Germany in the second half of 2021. Karma also teased a GX-1 Series, an SUV to be built on a new global platform, in both battery electric and extended-range EV versions and with deliveries expected in 2022. – 17, via Ford press release. VW’s next electric SUV, the ID.5 22, via GreenCarReports.

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Green Cars News

SEPTEMBER 16, 2009

The aim of Better Place is as straightforward as it is admirable – it wants to help the industry overcome the obstacles of extended range, price and impact on the grid.

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Tony Karrer Delicious EVdriven

APRIL 28, 2009

Competition is going to force them to produce a comfortable, usable, extended range EV for that price, and I will just have to wait. ↓ ↑ report 7 jharlan 2:20PM (4/25/2009) You know, I still just have no use for a toy car at a real car price. o well I guess they think all yanks hate diesels.

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Tony Karrer Delicious EVdriven

APRIL 22, 2009

The head of Chryslers ENVI division, Lou Rhodes, told AutoblogGreen this morning that Chrysler is marketing this battery-only version of the van to commercial fleet customers who typically have shorter range requirements. The extended-range version will be focused on retail customers.

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Tony Karrer Delicious EVdriven

APRIL 21, 2009

General Motors Chevy Volt series PHEV, which it calls "extended range electric vehicle" (EREV), part of "E-Flex" multi-fuel platform. (Several after-market companies have done PHEV conversions of the Ford Escape hybrid and one has done a retrofit of the F-150 pickup -- see Where PHEVs Are and ICE-Conversions.) Plans Saturn Vue PHEV-10.

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Tony Karrer Delicious EVdriven

APRIL 16, 2009

For extended range I guess one could carry a fairly modest generator set in the trunk to avoid ever being stranded. Jason ↓ ↑ report 7 jharlan 10:41PM (4/09/2009) Home recharge with your home solar recharge station would be the most desirable for commuting from the suburbs.

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