Green Car Congress

JANUARY 24, 2013

MW solar park at Chattanooga is owned and operated by Silicon Ranch; VW has signed a 20-year power purchase agreement. The Volkswagen Chattanooga Solar Park has a peak output of 9.5 The power will be used directly in production; solar power will provide up to 12.5% The Chattanooga Solar Park.

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Green Car Reports

DECEMBER 7, 2019

And why again is Toyota so committed to hybrids and not electric cars? This is our look back at the Week In Reverse—right here at Green Car Reports—for the week ending December 6, 2019. Sono Motors is aiming to make a compact car powered mostly by solar panels. We asked.

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Green Car Reports

OCTOBER 13, 2015

The proliferation of home solar power systems has some utilities worried about potential damage to their business models. And charging an electric car with renewable energy from solar panels remains the low-carbon ideal for many green-car buyers.

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Green Cars News

JULY 5, 2013

Think solar powered cars and you''re probably picturing something futuristic. However, the Solar Team Eindhoven is ready to change that perception with the world''s first solar-powered family car. Latest News Green cars' Stella (pictu[.].

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APRIL 25, 2024

It’s ultimately part of GM’s big energy play that sees EVs becoming home power banks and more. Trucks like the Silverado EV are literally huge mobile battery packs, with this truck’s massive 205-kwh capacity the equivalent of 15 Powerwalls; even making a small portion of the pack available should be enough to power an American home for days.

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Green Cars News

NOVEMBER 28, 2012

The World Solar Challenge is a marathon race across Australia, from Darwin in the North to Adelaide in the South, that sees around 40 teams design and build solar-powered cars, each intent on getting to the finish line first. For the last twelve years or so, since the arrival of BP’s Quiet Achiever, design for [.].

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Green Car Reports

OCTOBER 20, 2015

Today, we drive the 2016 Scion iA subcompact sedan, Honda tests solar-powered electric-car charging in the Marshall Islands, and some digging reveals that Volkswagen thought electric cars were the future, back in 2007. All this and more on Green Car Reports.

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Green Cars News

APRIL 3, 2014

Jaguar Land Rover has finished building the UK’s largest rooftop solar panel array at the company’s new Engine Manufacturing Centre in Staffordshire. Land Rover Solar Jaguar' The facility has been designed with sustainability in mind and has been awarded an ‘Excellent’ rating by BREEAM. The array is made up of more than [.].

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Green Cars News

JANUARY 9, 2013

A company that provides sustainable charging to electric cars is expanding nationwide, in a bid to get EV owners charging from solar power. The firm uses sustainably [.].

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Baua Electric

MAY 1, 2024

offices will spearhead localized hydrogen tech and products for light-duty and heavy-duty vehicles, stationary power generation, port vehicles, and more, Toyota says. It already has Toyota’s largest dynamometer, a scalable test bench, and a hydrogen fueling station good for both types of vehicles.

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Green Car Reports

JUNE 13, 2016

Today, the Mercedes-Benz GLC F-Cell is a hydrogen fuel-cell vehicle that also plugs in like an electric car, Tesla CEO Elon Musk chimes in on Model S suspension issues, and Toyota plans a massive solar-power system for its new Texas headquarters. All this and more on Green Car Reports.

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Green Cars News

JULY 29, 2011

It seems that solar power is the hot topic among the green car industry – with General Motors the latest to make a huge investment in the technology.

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Green Cars News

JANUARY 2, 2014

Ford is to reveal a new solar-powered hybrid concept vehicle at the International CES in Las Vegas next week. Based on the C-Max plug-in hybrid, the new Solar Energi Concept can achieve its full electric driving range from solar power alone under the right circumstances (when it is left in the sun f[.].

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Green Cars News

JUNE 28, 2009

Reports have once again emerged that Japanese car manufacturer Toyota is to develop a car that will be charged solely by solar power. At its factory in Japan, Toyota has already been using rooftop solar panels to produce enough electricity to power 500 homes.

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Green Cars News

MAY 29, 2009

about police forces across the USA adopting various green cars. So another day, another story - except this time, the police force in question isn’t simply replacing its fleet with hybrid or natural gas cars. No, it’s going solar. We’ve featured a number of news stories here at TheGreenCarWebsite.co.uk

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Green Cars News

FEBRUARY 7, 2012

Japanese carmaker Honda has ramped up its efforts with solar power by introducing a 9kW capacity solar power generation system at its Adachi Odai location in Tokyo.

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Green Car Congress

APRIL 7, 2014

Solutions for passenger ‘green’ cars with market maturity and infrastructure availability. The most important source of decarbonized energy in 2050 will come from electricity produced from renewable sources like wind, solar and hydroelectric and used in plug-in vehicles, the report notes. Click to enlarge. Liquid Air.

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Green Cars News

AUGUST 2, 2012

Mitsubishi has proven that it’s more than just its vehicles that are green – by introducing a solar electric generating system on the roof of its UK headquarters in Cirencester, Gloucestershire (pictured). Made up of 196 electric solar panels, the installation can generate 40,050kilowatt hours of energy.

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Green Cars News

SEPTEMBER 25, 2012

Electric car maker Tesla revealed plans for a network of superchargers across the US which will allow its new Model S to recharge quickly from pure, clean solar power.

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Green Cars News

APRIL 7, 2014

A leading supplier of electric car charging infrastructure, ABB, has announced it will support a record-breaking world first attempt to fly around the world in a solar-powered plane next year. The Swiss firm will support the Solar Impulse team as it prepares for its for its journey around the worl[.].

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Green Car Reports

JUNE 17, 2014

Today on Green Car Reports: The status of Tesla Motors electric-car battery swapping, Nissan e-NV200 battery-pack details, and a hydrogen fuel-cell terminology question. All this and more on Green Car Reports. Are vanadium flow batteries the solution to "too much" solar power? Would it.'

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Green Car Reports

MARCH 28, 2015

This is our video look back at the Week In Reverse--right here at Green Car Reports--for the week ending on Friday, March 27, 2015. Friday we wrote about one car buyer''s experience in a Tesla. Why did one buyer call visiting his local Chevy dealer "a trip down memory lane"? The Week In Reverse'

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Green Cars News

AUGUST 18, 2011

Roads which have the power to melt snow and ice or power the vehicles which run on them could be a step closer as US firm Solar Roadways announces it has been granted $750,000 from the Federal Highways Administration to produce a prototype version of just such a road. Idaho-based Solar Roadways came up with [.].

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Green Cars News

AUGUST 6, 2010

Canada has got its first solar-powered car wash this week, as Skogies car wash in British Columbia unveils its new greener car cleaning system. RCI Solar, a US company, supplied the solar system which powers the water heating system to help get a better clean.

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Green Cars News

JULY 3, 2009

Now it seems that solar power may be taking the lead in the USA. Interior Secretary Ken Salazar has revealed that his department is studying whether 670,000 acres of federal lands in six western states are suitable for the construction of large-scale solar power projects, according to reports in Yale Environment 360.

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Green Car Reports

FEBRUARY 16, 2017

Today, we have confirmation of the all-electric Kia Niro EV, pros and cons of automaker subsidization of electric-car fast charging, and why Toyota thinks plug-in hybrids will catch on more quickly than battery-electric cars. All this and more on Green Car Reports. Solar power hit a new high in the U.S.

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Green Cars News

MARCH 16, 2010

Bicycle enthusiasts in Japan could soon be cycling on solar power after Sanyo Electric installed two solar parking lots for hybrid bikes in Setagaya, Tokyo. The parking lots incorporate solar panels and lithium-ion battery systems with Sanyo also providing 100 electric hybrid eneloop bikes.

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Green Cars News

NOVEMBER 9, 2009

Solar power could become cheaper and a more practical energy solution thanks to research into specially designed fibre optics. However, only the ends of the fibres must be exposed – they funnel the light elsewhere for power generation. This is truly a three dimensional solar cell.”.

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Green Cars News

AUGUST 10, 2011

Ford has teamed up with SunPower to offer rooftop solar panels to its customers of the forthcoming Focus Electric due to begin roll out in the US from the end of this year. The solar system will on average be able to provide households with enough clean electricity to allow the Focus EV to drive [.].

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Green Cars News

APRIL 14, 2014

Creating greener electricity to power our homes and cars is something we’re all looking for. Now a new novel way to produce both solar energy and biofuel has been revealed by scientists at Stanford University, which could effectively double the productivity of a solar farm. Biofuels Solar' Plants such as agave,[.].

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Green Cars News

JUNE 18, 2014

Mini has installed one of the largest, roof mounted solar farms in the UK; at its bodyshop plant in Oxford. The new solar array, consisting of over 11,500 solar panels and covering an area the size of five football pitches, can generation over 3 MW – enough to power over 850 households.

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Green Cars News

MARCH 15, 2010

Business Minister Ian Lucas switched on the UK’s first publicly-available solar-powered electric vehicle charging point at Gateshead Civic Centre today as he visited one of the country’s leading low carbon economic area.

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Green Cars News

NOVEMBER 25, 2013

SEAT has taken the lead in solar power generation, installing the biggest solar panel array in the automotive industry, with a staggering 53,000 panels now fitted at its Martorell manufacturing plant. SEAT Solar' Covering 270,000 square metres-equivalent to 40 football pitches-the new installation is expected[.].

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Green Cars News

JANUARY 28, 2010

Honda has begun testing a solar-powered hydrogen refuelling device for home use, in the hope that the prototype could help solve a global lack of refuelling infrastructure for hydrogen cars. The carmaker, which is leasing its FCX Clarity hydrogen-fuel cell car in California, is now testing the solar-powered pump at it U.S.

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Green Cars News

MAY 29, 2011

With more than a 25 year lifespan, the GE Electric Vehicle Solar Carport has made its debut in Plainville, Connecticut. The company has teamed up with Inovateus Solar LLC, a national solar power distributor and integrator, to install the carport.

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Green Cars News

JANUARY 25, 2013

That is what Volkswagen has done by creating a huge solar park (pictured) at its US plant in Chattanooga, Tennessee. It is the largest solar facility operated by an automaker in the USA – the new Volkswagen Solar Park will have [.].

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Green Cars News

AUGUST 14, 2013

A new electric car prototype hopes to overcome the issue of electric cars only being as green as the electricity that drives them. Able to drive up to 20km (12 miles) on solar power generated via the car’s own on-board solar panels, the new P-MOB car could ensure that short journeys are completely g[.].

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