Green Car Congress

OCTOBER 28, 2019

Ford is extending its European plug-in hybrid electric vehicle (PHEV) trial to Cologne. The study, which is also testing Ford PHEVs on the streets of London and Valencia, Spain, aims to better analyse and show the real-world benefits of such vehicles for the environment and for commercial vehicle owners and operators.

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Green Car Congress

SEPTEMBER 7, 2012

In an event held at The Royal Ballet School in London, Land Rover introduced the new Range Rover, the fourth generation of the SUV. The new Range Rover offers a choice of three engines (one gasoline and two diesel); a high-efficiency diesel hybrid model will be coming in 2013, with target CO 2 emissions of 169 g/km. Click to enlarge.

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Green Car Congress

JULY 26, 2017

Among the many policy and funding details in the UK Plan for Tackling Roadside Nitrogen Dioxide Concentrations , produced by Defra and the Department for Transport is the cessation of the sale of all new conventional gasoline and diesel cars by 2040. Source: UK plan for tackling roadside NO 2. Click to enlarge.

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The Truth About Cars

SEPTEMBER 22, 2023

Hyundai is offering customers willing to buy an all-electric vehicle a Level 2 home charger for no extra cost. That makes the $33,550 (before any federal tax credits or state incentives) Kona Electric the most affordable way to take advantage of the deal. That has undoubtedly played a role in why sales growth seems to be slowing down.

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Green Car Congress

OCTOBER 9, 2014

Toyota earlier this month announced that the UK will be one of the first markets for its FCEV when it goes on sale next year. This will include mobile stations as well as those on stand-alone sites and integrated into conventional gasoline stations (forecourts). £2 Of the £11 million, £7.5 million (US$5.6 million) from industry.

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Green Car Congress

SEPTEMBER 23, 2010

can be achieved over a broad range of vehicles in part by optimizing the control of heat energy from conventional gasoline and diesel engines. Other consortium members include Ford, IAV, BP, University of Nottingham and Imperial College London. HyBoost also includes our VTES electric supercharger.

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Green Car Congress

OCTOBER 8, 2009

Daimler AG selected its plant in Hambach, France as the location of future large-scale series production of the smart fortwo electric drive. The company had earlier announced it would begin limited series production of some 1,000 units of the smart fortwo electric drive at Hambach this November. Earlier post.)

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Green Car Congress

JULY 30, 2013

In a simultaneous—and video linked—unveil in New York, London and Beijing, BMW introduced the production version of its i3 battery-electric vehicle on Monday. With a renewable electricity mix, that increases to about 50%. Earlier post.) earlier post ), but gain their advantage in the use phase.

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Green Car Congress

APRIL 24, 2013

The Mayor of London, Boris Johnson, confirmed his decision to introduce a new Ultra Low Emission Discount (ULED) for the Congestion Charge scheme in the city. One of the aims of making the changes is to help tackle the increasing dieselization of London’s car fleet. Earlier post.)

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Green Car Congress

SEPTEMBER 7, 2009

Data for some components are available, e.g., for urban transportation or electricity. The cities/metro areas studied were: Los Angeles County; Greater Toronto; Geneva Canton; Greater Prague; Cape Town; Denver City and County; New York City; Greater London; Barcelona; and Bangkok. Reviews by Decker et al. and Kennedy et al.

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Green Car Congress

AUGUST 3, 2016

There will be more public locations to charge electric cars in the UK than there are gasoline stations by the summer of 2020, according to new analysis by Nissan. Central London has nearly half as many gasoline stations per car as the Scottish Highlands; only four remain within the congestion-charge zone.

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Cars That Think

MARCH 29, 2022

Which brings us to the Ferrari’s secret sauce: electricity. But even now, years before EVs can finally put ICEs out of business, automakers are finding that electricity provides performance benefits that are too good to pass up. liter V-8 generates 780 metric horsepower; another 220 hp comes from the plug-in hybrid’s electric motors.

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Wallbox

JANUARY 4, 2021

While there’s no doubt that the ongoing COVID-19 pandemic has set back the automotive industry in what was to be a crucial year for the electric vehicles (EVs) market , EVs have an important role to play in reshaping the future as many people are already lobbying for sustainable ways to rebuild the economy when the pandemic ends.

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Green Car Congress

OCTOBER 16, 2009

Two of those, one by consultancy Element Energy and a second by AEA Technology, explored the characteristics of EV buyers, technology, utilization, and prospects for market adoption of battery electric vehicles and plug-in hybrid electric vehicles. Electric vehicles and trip types. Utilization.

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Revenge of the Electric Car

MARCH 9, 2009

More electric trucks! Along with Tedd Abramson’s Zero Truck in San Diego and Smith Trucks in London, we now have EVI (I keep wanting to write that as EV1:~). The more the merrier, the market for these is going to explode soon with Obama’s stimulation plan, and its tax of $7,500 to $15,000 for electric trucks.

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Tony Karrer Delicious EVdriven

APRIL 19, 2009

Until then, we can always program the ESS to make what Lotus refers to as "more futuristic sounds for electric vehicles [that] can be created using sampled sounds and generated waveforms." This is especially important for electric and hybrid vehicles which can be difficult to hear at lower speeds due to their drive mechanism.

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EV Adoption

JUNE 12, 2022

So if my math and estimates are close to correct, roughly 27 million households living in single-family homes cannot pull into their garage and plug in and charge an electric vehicle. I mpact on Sales In Cold Weather Regions. They include Urban Electric , Trojan Energy , and Rolec. Image Source: Urban Electric.

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Plugs and Cars

MAY 13, 2008

Electric cars are in the news almost daily. In perhaps the biggest news, on May 13 amidst a generally downbeat report, Nissan announced a serious, forward-looking effort to make electric cars an important part of their automotive portfolio. Sales and profits are declining for automakers in established markets. "It GM lost $3.25

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Cars That Think

AUGUST 20, 2022

The total cost of purchasing and driving one—the cost of ownership—has fallen nearly to parity with a typical gasoline-fueled car. With all this, consumers and policymakers alike are hopeful that society will soon greatly reduce its carbon emissions by replacing today’s cars with electric vehicles. EVs have finally come of age.

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Tony Karrer Delicious EVdriven

APRIL 16, 2009

The EDISON (Electric Vehicles in a Distributed and Integrated Market using Sustainable Energy and Open Networks) research consortium will seek to match power generation from wind turbines on the island of Bornholm, Denmark, with the power consumption of charging plug-in electric cars.

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