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Hyundai And Kia Target # 2 Slot In Green Vehicles By 2020

Green Car Reports

While they had to backpedal on misstated gas-mileage figures over the last couple of years, Hyundai and Kia are moving forward with ambitious green-car plans regardless. The corporately-conjoined Korean carmakers are aiming for the global number two slot in green vehicles by 2020 (after hybrid powerhouse Toyota, presumably).

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Best Car To Buy 2023: Green Car Reports names 5 finalists

Green Car Reports

It’s that time of the year—the time when Green Car Reports rounds up the latest green vehicles, and decides which one is the best. One of these will be named Best Car To Buy on Jan. 4, 2023, and to kick off the competition, we’ll explore each of these models in greater depth over the next couple of weeks.

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Corporations Confront Obstacles In The Transition To Green Vehicle Fleets

CleanTechnica EVs

EVs have the potential to significantly improve fleet efficiency and reduce vehicle operation and maintenance costs. At the same time, EVs provide a simple solution to satisfy key company goals for acquiring alternative fuel vehicles and low greenhouse gas emitting vehicles.

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California Energy Commission adopts $100M investment plan for 2013-2014 for green vehicles and fuels

Green Car Congress

The California Energy Commission unanimously adopted the 2013-2014 Investment Plan Update to support the development and use of green vehicles and alternative fuels.

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Purolator deploys fully electric delivery vehicles in Vancouver; Motiv Power Systems

Green Car Congress

Purolator will continue to introduce new types of advanced-technology vehicles to its existing fleet of 315 hybrid-electric vehicles to improve delivery performance and safety and to reduce the organization’s overall GHG emissions.

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Start-Up Electric Car Company Green Vehicles Folds, Costs City $500,000

All Cars Electric

Consider today's collapse of electric car company Green Vehicles an object lesson in why it's a bad idea for cities to invest in the risky business of start-up car companies--perhaps especially start-up electric car companies.

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UK to invest £200M in fleet of zero-emission heavy-duty trucks

Green Car Congress

This could see hundreds more zero-emission HGVs rolled out across the nation and save the industry money, due to overall running costs of green vehicles being cheaper than gasoline and diesel equivalents.

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Bring your Green Vehicle to Brookline, MA - October 21!

Electric Cars are for Girls

The Larz Anderson Auto Museum on Sunday October 21, 2012 will be hosting our second annual Green Day: Bringing Technology and People Together through Green Innovations - a family friendly event to promote green driving and living in Massachusetts.

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Kia outlines 5-year plan for more green vehicles; Optima PHEV, Niro hybrid, FCV; $10.2B investment

Green Car Congress

Kia Motors outlined its mid- to long-term plans for the development of a greatly increased range of environmentally friendly vehicles, with the goal of becoming a leader in the low-emissions car market by 2020.

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Bring your Green Vehicle to Brookline, MA - October 21!

Electric Cars are for Girls

The Larz Anderson Auto Museum on Sunday October 21, 2012 will be hosting our second annual Green Day: Bringing Technology and People Together through Green Innovations - a family friendly event to promote green driving and living in Massachusetts.

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California Energy Commission adopts $100M investment plan update for 2012-2013 to increase use of green vehicles and alt fuels

Green Car Congress

The California Energy Commission unanimously adopted a 2012-2013 Investment Plan Update to increase the use of green vehicles and alternative fuels. The investment plan update was developed with the input of the ARFVT Program Advisory Committee, stakeholders and the public.

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2018 LA auto show preview: 10 green-vehicle intros that matter

Green Car Reports

Most of the major auto shows, like the Los Angeles auto show, have always had two components: news-making and car-selling. And it’s the second part—the public days—that thrives today. People are attending traditional, consumer-focused auto shows in record numbers.

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Volkswagen Group, SAIC and FAW to increase cooperation on green vehicles in China

Green Car Congress

The Volkswagen Group will cooperate more closely with its Chinese joint venture partners SAIC Motor Co. and First Automotive Works (FAW) Group in the field of forward-looking technologies, according to joint declarations signed in Berlin on Friday by Prof.

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California auto sales: EVs and hybrids surged in 2020 as PHEVs plunged

Green Car Reports

California is the trend-setter for green vehicles in the U.S. It’s also far and wide the nation’s largest market for electric vehicles—and for plug-in hybrids. in many respects. Despite the state’s efforts, PHEVs haven’t been gaining market ground in recent years.

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OECD paper presents and analyzes policies and programs to foster market growth of green cars

Green Car Congress

Given the specific barriers, suggests author Andrea Beltramello, there is a role for government to support the development and diffusion of green vehicles, including through policies to strengthen the markets for green cars. —“Market Development for Green Cars”. Today, the OECD has 34 member countries.).

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Green Vehicles dives off cliff into bankruptcy, Salinas wants their money back

National Green Transportation

It was with great sadness that Green Vehicles CEO Mike Ryan penned a blog post on July 12 abruptly announcing that Green Vehicles had run out of money and was shutting down. Reports today (July 21) from local news.

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Golf Bluemotion named Green Vehicle of the Year

Green Cars News

The Volkswagen Golf Bluemotion has been named the Green Vehicle of the Year at the 2011 ACFO awards. mpg on a combined cycle, allowing its Bluemotion model to claim the green accolade. [.]. The Golf, a four-time ACFO Car of the Year winner was this year recognised for the excellent fuel economy of up to 74.3

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Green Vehicles, Leyden Energy launch partnership at Salinas factory

National Green Transportation

In a Nov 19 press release revealed a new chapter in the history of electric motorcycle maker Green Vehicles: a new redesign of their Triac, the impending opening of their factory, and a new partnership with battery maker Leyden Energy.

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Shanghai hosts Green Vehicle Expo

Green Cars News

China is once again to play host to the ‘green scene’ as the Green Vehicle Expo heads to Shanghai. The expo which will feature a host of green car technologies including electric, hybrid, fuel cell and solar vehicles opens at the Shanghai Exhibition Center, this Thursday (June 17, 2010) and runs until Saturday (June 19, [.].

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2019 Kia Niro EV rated at 239 miles, on sale soon

Green Car Reports

The Niro, which Kia describes as a “multi-function crossover format,” is built on a dedicated green-vehicle platform shared with the. Among the most important ones: With a large 64-kwh battery pack, it will offer an EPA-rated range of 239 miles.

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Tesla Texas, BYD Han EV, Rivian delay, battery supplies, the end of small cars: The Week in Reverse

Green Car Reports

This is our look back at the Week In Reverse—right here at Green Car Reports—for the week ending July 24, 2020. The biggest series of stories of the week for the green-vehicle sector came out of.

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Venza and Model Y driven, Cadillac Lyriq revealed, Cybertrucks for all: The Week in Reverse

Green Car Reports

This is our look back at the Week In Reverse—right here at Green Car Reports—for the week ending TKTKTK, 2018. We drove two important green vehicles this week—both popular-sized crossovers but for. Which EV already confirmed for the U.S. reportedly might not arrive at all?

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Green Vehicles, Leyden Energy launch partnership at Salinas factory

National Green Transportation

In a Nov 19 press release revealed a new chapter in the history of electric motorcycle maker Green Vehicles: a new redesign of their Triac, the impending opening of their factory, and a new partnership with battery maker Leyden Energy. Do you like this story?

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Singapore introducing stiff new feebate scheme for low carbon cars

Green Car Congress

Singapore will implement a new Carbon Emissions-Based Vehicle Scheme (CEV) on 1 January 2012, providing rebates to qualified new cars, taxis, and imported used cars with low carbon emissions, and imposing an equivalent surcharge on higher emitting vehicles.

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Europe reveals strategy for green vehicles

Green Cars News

In an effort to encourage the development and uptake of green vehicles including heavy and light duty vehicles, two- and three-wheelers and quadricycles, the European Commission has released a new strategy.

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Green Vehicles closes it doors as funding dries up

Green Cars News

Green car start-up, Green Vehicles has folded as the firm failed to secure further investment. The Salinas, California based firm started in 2007, had two electric vehicle prototypes which were supposed to be going into full production later this year. Despite $2.5

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Johammer Electric Motorcycle: World's Weirdest Way To Go Green

Green Car Reports

There are two types of green vehicle fans in this world: Those who wish you to know they''ve picked the latest green vehicle, and those that don''t. Anyone who chooses Austrian firm Johammer''s electric motorcycle will peg themselves firmly in the former category. And we.'

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Green Car Reports Best Car To Buy 2018: Chrysler Pacifica Hybrid plug-in minivan

Green Car Reports

In 2011, Green Car Reports launched an award for the new car, or family of cars, that represented the best green vehicle introduced for the model year. The Nissan Leaf won that year because it was the sole affordable battery-electric vehicle on the market.

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Renesas Electronics and TSMC announce 28nm MCU collaboration for next-generation green and autonomous vehicles

Green Car Congress

To meet ever stricter emission regulations, fuel-efficient engines for next-generation green vehicles require powerful computing performance to implement new combustion systems as well as robust and large-capacity on-chip flash memory to accommodate larger firmware programs.

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Lease A Green Vehicle, Get Rebate Yourself--In CO, Anyway

Green Car Reports

A bill signed in Colorado will now allow lessees to claim any tax credits for hybrid cars and electric vehicles, rather than the lessor. Previously, the state had allowed banks or finance companies to choose whether claim the credits themselves on lease vehicles, or to pass the credits on to the lessee.

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Transport for London to pour £67million into green vehicles

Green Cars News

The company is hoping to award a framework agreement for the supply and maintenance of EC whole vehicle type approved vehicles and the tender will be divided into five lots. It is expected that [.].

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BMW Green Vehicles, Including Megacity Electric, Named 'i'

Green Car Reports

The BMW "MegaCity" carbon-fiber all-electric car, scheduled for launch in 2013, may be the most radical BMW in decades. BMW had confirmed that this first production electric car to wear the BMW badge would be the first of a sub-brand within the make, much as its "M" series of performance editions is. Now, in perhaps a slightly "D'oh!" moment, BMW.

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Hyundai and Kia EVs may just avoid "compliance car" stigma, but is that enough?

Green Car Reports

The Kia Niro EV that we drove earlier this week is one of the year’s best new green vehicles, and a great long-range electric car. However, unless you happen to live in one of several specific states and regions, the chances that you’ll see one are quite low.

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Hyundai-Kia electric-car production to soar to 50,000 next year

Green Car Reports

The production increase comes amid the combined automaker's goal to become the second largest maker of green vehicles (hybrids, plug-in hybrids, and electric cars) by 2020. Korean siblings Hyundai and Kia will aggressively increase production of electric cars next year, according to a report in the Korean press.

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NY to award $18.9M to increase number of electric buses in state

Green Car Congress

Responses to the RFI, which are due by 21 January 2021, will be used to develop a solicitation for electric and hybrid buses with the goal of providing transit authorities with options for purchasing green vehicles for their fleets.

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Tesla China: Top gov’t meeting confirms NEV purchase tax exemption extension

Teslarati

China’s NEV purchase tax exemption program and the country’s other incentives are among the reasons why China has emerged as the world’s largest electric vehicle market. The NEV purchase tax exemption, which was launched in 2014, allowed most consumers who purchase green vehicles to save about RMB 10,000 (around $1,500).

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Airbiquity to provide connected vehicle services for Ford electric vehicles

Green Car Congress

to provide telematics services for electric vehicles (EVs) globally. In November 2010, Airbiquity had announced today that its Green Vehicle solution would be generally available in Europe in January 2011. In April 2010, Airbiquity formed a strategic partnership with Hitachi Automotive Systems, Ltd. Emission Reporting.

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Polaris Slingshot: Is A 173-HP, $20K '3-Wheeled Motorcycle' A Car?

Green Car Reports

Three wheeled vehicles get a lot of attention from hardcore fans of performance cars. They also get plenty of attention from hardcore fans of green vehicles--as they share many of the same desirable characteristics, like an aerodynamic teardrop shape with surprising stability, and light weight.

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Feature: Going Green on Car Care, Repair and Insurance

Clean Fleet Report

You’ll be happy to hear that auto insurance companies are competing for green customers by offering discounts. We’ll show you how to minimize your carbon footprint from the vehicle you drive in its care, repairs and maintenance. Green Vehicles. Electric cars are on the leading edge of the green vehicle spectrum.

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South Korea EV registration jumps in 2022

Teslarati

South Korea has not seen the EV boom of the Chinese car market , more closely resembling the Japanese market, where electric vehicles have yet to catch on. Currently, only 5.96% of all vehicles in South Korea are considered “green vehicles” (hydrogen, hybrid, PHEV, or full-electric).

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Nine New Projects Announced For Clean Vehicles In National Parks

Green Car Reports

Department of Energy''s (DOE) Clean Cities program and the National Park Service (NPS) recently announced nine new projects to deploy green vehicles within nine of the 13 national parks. If you''re planning a summer vacation to a U.S. national park this summer, you may start to see a few changes when you get there. The nine.'

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Hyundai Plans Hybrids, Electric Cars & More: 5 Questions With Green R&D Head Ki-Sang Lee

Green Car Reports

And the company has big plans for expanding its lineup of green vehicles, as we learned in an interview last week with Ki-Sang Lee, a senior vice president who''s head of its R&D Center for.'

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Drivers from the world’s poorest cities who keep their windows down are exposed to 80% more air pollution

Green Car Congress

To be blunt, we need as many cars as possible off the road, or more green vehicles to reduce air pollution exposure. Car cabin filters were more effective in removing pollution than fine particles, suggesting that if new cars had more efficient filters, it could reduce the overall exposure of car commuters.

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