Green Car Reports

SEPTEMBER 28, 2017

Every one of the modern electric cars on the market for almost seven years requires plugging in a cord to recharge the battery using grid electricity. Inserting the cord into the socket takes just a few seconds, and most cars today are charged overnight.

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Green Car Congress

JANUARY 17, 2012

Mercedes-Benz Vito E-CELL. The 100 battery-driven electric Mercedes-Benz Vito E-CELL vans ( earlier post ) in use in Berlin and Stuttgart have covered 650,000 km (404,000 miles). The batteries of Vito E-CELL vans are recharged at these locations outside of operating hours. Click to enlarge. Manufacturing and model variants.

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Green Car Congress

OCTOBER 5, 2010

The average cost to trial participants for recharging at home is between 25p and £1 (US$0.40 While there are technical challenges ahead—such as extending vehicle range and making provision for an increased demand on the national grid—our results show that even current EVs are more than capable of meeting users’ day-to-day needs.

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Green Car Congress

SEPTEMBER 10, 2009

Mercedes-Benz will present the Vision S 500 Plug-in HYBRID at the 63 rd IAA in Frankfurt. Thomas Weber, member of the Board of Management of Daimler AG with responsibility for Group Research and Mercedes-Benz Cars Development. kW takes about four-and-a-half hours to recharge a completely discharged battery. Click to enlarge.

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Driivz

APRIL 3, 2024

This software facilitates installing new charging stations, managing charging sessions, regulating draw from the grid, handling different billing scenarios and processing payment for charging, and most importantly, ensuring a seamless user experience for EV drivers regardless of locale or currency. Reduces costs and increases ROI.

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Green Car Congress

AUGUST 31, 2017

More than ten new electric cars are set to go into series production at Mercedes-Benz Cars by 2022, from the smart to the large SUV. With the smart vision EQ fortwo, we are giving a face to the themes with which Mercedes-Benz Cars describes the vision of future mobility within the CASE strategy. —smart CEO Annette Winkler.

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Green Car Congress

OCTOBER 10, 2018

By 2022, Mercedes-Benz’ entire product range will be electrified. As part of the drive to the last option, Mercedes-Benz is putting the GLC F-CELL—a plug-in hybrid combining a 13.5 As part of the drive to the last option, Mercedes-Benz is putting the GLC F-CELL—a plug-in hybrid combining a 13.5 kWh battery (gross, 9.3

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Green Car Congress

SEPTEMBER 15, 2014

With order-taking having begun in July ( earlier post ), and first customer deliveries slated for this month, Mercedes-Benz has provided more detail on its top-end S 500 PLUG-IN HYBRID, the third hybrid model in the new S-Class (the others being the S 400 HYBRID and S 300 BlueTEC HYBRID). Earlier post.). seconds and can drive up to 33 km (20.5

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EV Central

OCTOBER 25, 2022

Volvo has some of the most aggressive goals when it comes to brand-wide electrification, and the new C40 Recharge is a big step in its electric charge towards zero emissions. Its official name is the Volvo C40 Recharge Pure Electric, and it’s available as either a single motor or dual motor (the latter is called the Twin).

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EV Central

JULY 7, 2023

READ MORE: The electric year ahead: Every EV coming to Australia in 2023 READ MORE: The five best family EVs under $100K: From Tesla and Hyundai to Kia and Mercedes-Benz READ MORE: Can the Model Y outsell the HiLux and Ranger? At its most efficient, BMW says the iX1 can recharge its battery from 10-80 per cent in 29 minutes.

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Clean Fleet Report

APRIL 9, 2021

These should diminish as more and more of the grid uses power from renewable sources, such as solar and wind, and as the manufacturers themselves use green energy—some, including GM, already do. Mercedes-Benz is rolling out its EQ models and that brand has huge luxury equity. News: Mercedes EQC 400 EV Debuts.

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Green Car Congress

JULY 17, 2015

At present, PHEV technology alone is equipped to improve the current electric grid. The car can refuel during periods of low demand on the grid, and if equipped with a bi-directional charger, can actually replenish the grid with excess energy gleaned from a renewable resource. Appendix D: Vehicle Driving Statistics. slow charge.

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Cars That Think

MARCH 28, 2023

Not likely, counter Mercedes-Benz’s chief technology officer Markus Schäfer and Renault Group CEO Luca de Meo. EV owners should be urged to charge at night to save not only money and the power grid but “ the world ,” a news headline cries out. EVs will/will not cause massive unemployment among autoworkers. Join the crowd.

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Tony Karrer Delicious EVdriven

APRIL 21, 2009

Plug-In Hybrids Are Cleaner (Even on a Coal Grid) [ to top ] This entire section is finally obsolete -- because we now have a definitive study by the Electric Power Research Institute and the Natural Resources Defense Council. Only PHEVs and battery EVs get cleaner as they get older - because the electric grid gets cleaner every decade.

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Drive Electric

FEBRUARY 24, 2021

It will be built on the new E-GMP platform giving the car a superb range of 250+ miles, ultra-fast charging while keeping maximum space in the vehicle and also supports vehicle to grid charging. Mercedes EQA. Following on from the Mercedes EQC , the EQA is the first all-electric member of the compact car vehicle from Mercedes-Benz.

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Cars That Think

OCTOBER 29, 2021

Next year brings an acid test, a single-motor, 480-hp Air Pure for $78,900 — about $12,000 less than a Tesla Model S Long Range, and $31,000 less than Mercedes-Benz' electric EQS. Lucid actually sees the Air's main showroom targets as flagship European ICE sedans like the Mercedes S-Class, not Tesla's Model S.

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Green Car Congress

AUGUST 30, 2009

Consumer Reports rates the Buick Enclave higher than vehicles from Toyota, Volvo, Infiniti, Audi, BMW and Mercedes Benz in the Luxury- Full Size SUV category. GM produces several successful vehicles: The Chevy Malibu has won several car of the years awards and is recommended by Consumer Reports. Earlier post.).

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Drive Electric

FEBRUARY 8, 2021

to fully charge the 80kWh Mercedes EQC with an electricity cost of 14p per kWh. There’s another simple equation for working out how long it takes to recharge a car battery: Charge time = battery size ÷ charger speed. Mercedes EQC. That’s why the government has banned the sale of petrol and diesel cars from 2030. Hyundai IONIQ.

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Clean Fleet Report

JANUARY 23, 2024

With a few pulls of the left side steering wheel paddle, the brake regeneration force reaches the maximum setting and you are in iPedal, where regenerative braking uses the motors to recharge the battery when slowing or coasting, converting kinetic energy into electric energy, which is stored in the battery.

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Tony Karrer Delicious EVdriven

APRIL 16, 2009

Vehicle to Grid [V2G] technology is a bi-directional electric grid interface that allows a plug-in to take energy from the grid or put it back on the grid. Smart Grid City will use a realtime high-speed two-way communication throughout the distribution grid. Smart meters and substations will be integral.

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Tony Karrer Delicious EVdriven

APRIL 21, 2009

Daimler/Mercedes Took over Daimler/Chrysler Sprinter PHEV program. Small long-term evaluation program, including modeling of vehicle-to-grid building benefits and economics, begun with Southern California Edison, joined by EPRI, other utilities, US DOE. Showed BlueZERO E-CELL PLUS series PHEV concept in December 08.

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Revenge of the Electric Car

FEBRUARY 8, 2010

Coulomb envisions a landscape transformed by cutting-edge charging stations — a kind of “smart grid&# of Web-networked stations that will communicate with drivers about their availability. Better Place, orchestrating its efforts with French carmaker Renault, will essentially rent out switchable batteries to extend range.

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Tony Karrer Delicious EVdriven

APRIL 16, 2009

Also, besides giving you the ability to charge at night when most utility rates are lower, future vehicle-to-grid (V2G) technology may allow you to sell some of your stored energy back to the utilities. The demands on the grid would require a lot of infrastructure work without some sort of "energy reservoir" in place.

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