Green Car Reports

SEPTEMBER 17, 2013

Today on Green Car Reports, we correct the math in Forbes magazine, GM says it wants to build a Tesla competitor, and Jewish holidays cause clean air. All this and more on Green Car Reports. General Motors says it''s developing a $30,000 electric car with 200 miles of range; sounds like Tesla competition to us.

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Green Cars News

MAY 2, 2009

If you are wondering what the buzz words of 2009 will be, then look no further than “green cars&#. Indeed there are five articles within the edition looking at the efforts that are being made to market a commercially successful electric car. What have you made of media reports on green cars?

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Green Cars News

JUNE 8, 2009

The race to be named green car of the year 2009 is over and the winner is… the Volvo S40. The vehicle beat out 23 other contenders to the top accolade at the What Car? Green Awards, which are held in association with Michelin and Warranty Direct. V6 was the best green luxury car.

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Green Cars News

OCTOBER 20, 2010

The firm’s commercial vehicle arm picked up two awards for its development of alternative fuel technology, from leading Irish specialist publication ‘Fleet Transport Magazine’. The two ‘Green Commercial of the Year’ awards given as part of this year’s Fleet Transport Awards, recognise [.].

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Green Cars News

DECEMBER 7, 2009

Audi will not position itself as a ‘green brand’, the carmaker’s boss told Autocar today. In a interview with the motoring magazine, Rupert Stadler, Audi’s Chairman said that the company would always build as efficient vehicles as possible but would not necessarily market itself as a green brand, unlike its rival, BMW.

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Green Car Congress

FEBRUARY 26, 2010

Perspective by Chris Hill, Manager, Central Fleet for the City of Hamilton, Ontario, Canada, and author of Hamilton’s Green Fleet Implementation Plan. [Mr. Hill is currently chair of the Ontario Chapter of NAFA Fleet Management Association, and a Green Party candidate for Canada’s Parliament in the next general election.

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Green Cars News

AUGUST 21, 2013

Renault’s electric supermini, the ZOE has won a prestigious award from trade magazine BusinessCar, claiming the Green category in the 2013 Fleet Technology Awards, known informally as ‘The Techies’. Respected among the business world, the awards are the only ones in the industry that reward tech[.].

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Green Cars News

JULY 8, 2014

Sponsored by ALD Automotive and Shell FuelSave and organised by Fleet World Magazine, the latest edition of the[.]. Green credentials' The annual MPG Marathon is to return for its fourteenth year this October as it tours the Breacon Beacons in the hope of bettering last year’s impressive fuel economy record of 88.69mpg.

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Green Cars News

AUGUST 16, 2018

Many, many years ago, in 2011, long before I got into the wonderful world of automotive writing, I was ever-so-briefly a freelance magazine journalist in the hermetic tattoo industry.

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Green Cars News

JULY 30, 2009

EnerDel and Argonne have also co-operated on the development of the lithium titanate battery chemistry, for which they shared the research and development 100 Award for excellence in technology from R&D Magazine. Tags: Green cars Latest news Lithium-ion batteries Nissan Argonne National Laboratory electrolyte EnerDel.

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Green Cars News

JULY 9, 2009

According to Ron Cogan, founder and editor of the Green Car Journal , the Obama administration is betting heavily on technology and that electric cars are not an exclusive answer to future transportation challenges and consumers will not be willing to buy them at all costs.

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Green Cars News

APRIL 8, 2017

Read a magazine from the 1930s, ’50s or any other period and The rate of change and evolution within the automotive world has always been fast-paced.

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Green Cars News

DECEMBER 1, 2009

Slow, clunky, even potentially “life-threatening” – these are just a handful of the insults that have been thrown the way of electric car maker REVA and particularly its G-Wiz model. According to Chetan Maini, the man behind the company, the factory represents the first mass production of a green car. Leaders of the pack.

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Green Cars News

SEPTEMBER 26, 2014

According to one of Britain’s biggest motoring magazines, BMW is working on a faster version of the i8 hybrid to be released in time for the German brand’s 100th anniversary in 2016. Hybrid cars BMW Editor Pick' Considering the i8 already has 357bhp and sprints to 62mph in 4.4 seconds and hits the electronic buffers at 155mp[.].

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Green Cars News

AUGUST 12, 2009

A company supplying retro-fit hydrogen systems for cars has come under fire this week after the Advertising Standards Authority (ASA) ruled that an advertisement for its product was misleading. Tags: Green credentials advert ASA magazine Waterboost.

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Green Cars News

MAY 26, 2009

According to Japan’s Best Car magazine, the car, referred to as FF-S2000, will be powered by Honda’s 3.5litre V6 engine and will also use Honda’s all-wheel drive system. It would be Honda’s first direct injected production engine. Bear in mind however, that none of these details are official currently.

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Green Cars News

AUGUST 26, 2010

The drive system – this time in eco:Drive Fleet form scooped the Green Development prize in the BusinessCar Techies 2010, announced yesterday by BusinessCar magazine. Fiat has added to its environmental accolades with a new award announced for its eco:Drive fuel-saving technology.

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Green Cars News

FEBRUARY 22, 2013

And yet new research by Scientific American shows that electric car sales are actually performing better than hybrids did were when they were first introduced. In producing a graph, the US magazine shows the relative sales of [.].

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Green Cars News

JUNE 16, 2010

An investigation by E&T Magazine suggests that long-term limitations in battery technology could restrict electric cars to under a 100-mile range-while rapid charging could limit the battery life to two years. Tags: Electric cars battery E&T Institute of Engineering and Technology magazine range technology.

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Green Cars News

APRIL 23, 2014

The UK is to trial wireless charging of moving electric cars, on public roads to test how it would stand up to vibration and weather conditions and the cost to maintain it. According to Engineering and Technology Magazine, a spokesperson of the Highways Agency confirmed previous off-the-cuff comme[.]. Electric cars Editor Pick'

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Green Cars News

MARCH 26, 2013

The UK’s motor industry trade body is looking to forge a partnership between carmakers and the government for an ad campaign to promote the benefits of electric cars, according to Marketing Magazine.

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Green Cars News

FEBRUARY 15, 2011

That’s the question Car Magazine posed for itself as they took on a challenge to prove the real world fuel efficiency of a readily-available-in-Europe, diesel model and [.]. What happens when you take a right-hand drive, diesel Golf Bluemotion to the land where petrol is king and attempt to drive it across the width of country?

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Green Cars News

OCTOBER 11, 2012

The inaugural Attitude Magazine Awards will be electric thanks to sponsorship by the Renault Twizy. The tiny two-seat quadricycle will sponsor the Culture Award at the magazine’s new award ceremony. This award will seek to acknowledge the an outstanding performer from across the creative industries.

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Green Cars News

JUNE 7, 2012

Premium car maker Audi is planning a u-turn on some of its electric car plans according to automotive magazine, Car. According to the British mag, Audi has cancelled its plans to produce a battery-powered A2 model and is likely to axe plans for the A1 e-tron hybrid.

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Green Cars News

AUGUST 24, 2012

Nissan has teamed up with Elle magazine to produce a special limited edition of the popular city car. The £12,000+ Micra Elle is based on the middle Acenta trim and comes with a choice of two 1.2L three-cylinder engines – a 80PS petrol or a punchier 98PS diesel. With carbon emissions of 99g/km and 115g/km [.].

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Green Cars News

FEBRUARY 15, 2012

Organised by Fleet World magazine, [.]. The 208 will launch this June with six sub-99g engines – five of which are diesel – with the cleanest option slashing CO2 emissions to 87g and an average fuel consumption of 76mpg.

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Green Cars News

MAY 10, 2012

The Chevrolet Volt has been named Eco Car of the Year by Diesel Car magazine. While Citroen might bemoan this anomaly, the French car maker [.]. The range-extended model won the prize along with sister-model, the Vauxhall Ampera.

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Green Cars News

JANUARY 27, 2012

BMW is planning a third electric model for its new ‘i’ ‘Born Electric’ range, according to Germany’s Autobild magazine. It is believed that the car maker could be planning a to launch an i5 compact MPV model in 2015 to complement its first two electric models; the i3 electric supermini and the i8 plug-in hybrid [.].

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Green Cars News

JANUARY 19, 2012

Organised by Fleet World magazine [.]. With interest in hybrid and electric technology gathering pace amongst fleets, the EV and Low CO2 Fleet Show will aim to demonstrate the benefits of EVs and vehicles with diminished tailpipe output.

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Green Cars News

FEBRUARY 3, 2010

The world’s most expensive car is a biofuelled-car, a list from US magazine Forbes reveals. The annual list published by the magazine reveals that the US$2.21 million Koenigsegg Trevita is the most expensive car in the world.

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Green Cars News

FEBRUARY 28, 2011

EV supporters have hit back on a report from consumer magazine Which? over allegations that electric cars are no cleaner than their combustion counterpart.

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Revenge of the Electric Car

MAY 17, 2010

Electric-car ventures made up nearly 40. billion invested in 180 green-technology companies. car’s introduction. •In Electric-car ventures made up nearly 40 percent of $1.9 Chinese green-car subsidies on hold. By Jaeah Lee for the Christian Science Monitor. percent of $1.9 Investors, too, are excited.

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Green Cars News

JUNE 25, 2010

Spanish magazine Actualidad Económica, a leader in the fields of economics and business dubbed the electric vehicle as one of the top ideas of the year as part of its annual awards. NK award best idea electric car production Think. Presenting the [.].

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Green Cars News

SEPTEMBER 23, 2009

Paul who writes for TheGreenCarWebsite.co.uk, has been shortlisted for the prestigious ‘Green Motoring Journalist of the Year Award’, so good luck to him and we will of course inform you of how it goes on the night of the awards. Tags: Green credentials fleets GreenFleet awards Guild Hall. G Factor Conference & Exhibition.

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Green Car Congress

JULY 19, 2011

Connected vehicle environmental applications both generate and capture environmentally relevant real-time transportation data and use this data to create actionable information to support and facilitate “green” transportation choices. Green potential. Ford hosted Green Car Congress at the Forward with Ford event in June.).

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Green Cars News

NOVEMBER 2, 2009

The used car label is also available to motor industry information providers, with HPI the first company to provide its own approved version. The used car label has been warmly welcomed by both the AA and What Car? Tags: Green credentials smmt AA fuel economy label RMI sadiq khan used cars.

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Green Cars News

NOVEMBER 20, 2009

However Paul Deighton, chief executive of London’s organising committee, told the magazine: “We didn’t want a big fleet of electric vehicles. We’re only just over two years or so away from the games and time is running out to create a viable network.&#.

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