Green Car Congress

APRIL 12, 2022

Mercedes-Benz plans to cover more than 70% of its energy needs through renewable energy by 2030 by rolling out solar and wind power at own sites as well as through further Power Purchase Agreements. Further models will follow for certain markets around the globe: the EQS SUV, the EQE SUV and the EQT.

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Green Car Congress

JANUARY 29, 2021

In the coming years, GM plans to offer an EV for every customer, from crossovers and SUVs to trucks and sedans. The company is implementing plans today to reduce the impact associated with its supply chain while supporting grids and utilities to power electric vehicles with renewable energy.

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Green Car Congress

AUGUST 23, 2023

Kia released more details of the Kia EV9, its first three-row seat electric flagship SUV, which is comparable in external dimensions to the Telluride. At launch, the EV9 will be available in Light, Wind, Land, and GT-Line trim levels, offered in two battery sizes and rear-wheel drive or dual-motor AWD configurations. earlier post ).

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Blink Charging

SEPTEMBER 8, 2023

The Environmental Protection Agency notes that in recent years, trends in the vehicle market shifted from smaller sedans and wagons to SUVs and pickup trucks, with SUVs making up 45% and pickups making up 15% of the model year 2021 light-duty vehicle market in the United States. Let’s not forget our carbon footprint.

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Baua Electric

JANUARY 15, 2024

A Tesla Model Y owner decided to build his own solar roof that can add over 20 miles of range to the electric SUV per day. But this project is more about finding a way to charge the Model Y through solar power off-grid than making a more efficient vehicle that can benefit from a solar roof, like the Aptera.

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EV Central

FEBRUARY 2, 2023

That’s the 27,000km odyssey, in a Nissan Ariya electric SUV , planned by husband-and-wife team Chris and Julie Ramsey. The Ariya will be towing a prototype portable renewable energy unit, which includes a packable and lightweight wind turbine and solar panels. Extreme EV charging Right, let’s talk about charging.

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Driivz

JUNE 22, 2022

BEVs fueled on today’s average grid electricity are 105-124 g CO2/km. BEVs fueled by a fully renewable grid go down to 41 g CO2/km. Electrification of light-duty road vehicles — cars, SUVs, and small trucks — will address more than half of the sector’s CO2 emissions. The post What is Decarbonization? appeared first on Driivz.

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Driivz

MARCH 1, 2022

In the US , the contribution is 28%, with light-duty vehicles – cars, SUVs, and small trucks – responsible for 59% of transportation emissions and 17% of all US emissions. In the US, 36% of electricity is generated using renewables, including wind, solar, and hydropower, as well as non-CO2-emitting nuclear power.

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Green Car Congress

AUGUST 13, 2010

With this solar energy system, we will be able to gain vital understanding about the integration of renewable power, smart-grid technologies and energy storage at an industrial facility. This project is a part of the transformation of Michigan Assembly from a large SUV factory to a modern, flexible, and sustainable small car plant.

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Green Car Congress

DECEMBER 12, 2013

from a factory that produced full-sized trucks and SUVs to the world’s first and most flexible manufacturing facility for multiple electrified vehicles. Lead organization. Description. Ford Motor Company. Ford transformed its Michigan Assembly Plant (MAP) in Wayne, Mich., The project allows the company to increase US production.

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Clean Fleet Report

DECEMBER 21, 2021

That will shift next season as Subaru will introduce an electric Nitro Rallycross Supercar based on a compact SUV chassis. The 600-horsepower turbocharged all-wheel drive Supercars showed the other teams what podium finishes look like throughout the 2021 season. Its prototype FC1-X was shown at Glen Helen. Next Year’s RallyCross Series.

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Green Car Congress

AUGUST 22, 2017

Despite an increase in light-duty truck and SUV sales, these vehicle types only accounted for 1.9 million MTCO 2 e) actually outpaced that of light-duty trucks and SUVs. Effective grid management to incorporate this level of renewables remains a key challenge for the state. million MTCO 2 e of the 4.9 due to the drought.

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Qnovo

DECEMBER 30, 2019

Increasingly, they are making inroads in transportation and grid storage applications. The number of available electric-vehicle (EV) models jumped from about ten in 2015 to over 75 in 2020, including categories of sports cars, sedans, SUVs and light trucks. Automotive companies and their supply chain are inexorably transforming.

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Green Car Congress

SEPTEMBER 24, 2015

Audi’s e-tron quattro battery-electric SUV concept, which made its formal debut at IAA in Frankfurt ( earlier post ), is a strong indicator of Audi’s series-production electric SUV due in 2018—especially in terms of the powertrain. The e-tron quattro SUV can “ turn like a hunting dog after a rabbit.”

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EV Central

SEPTEMBER 30, 2022

The Mercedes-Benz EQS is the brand’s first electric SUV that is built on a bespoke EV architecture – and we’ve driven it. Utilising the underpinnings of the EQS sedan , the made-in-America EQS SUV adds a wagon body that is about 20cm higher. Mercedes-Benz EQS450 4Matic SUV. Mercedes-Benz EQS450 4Matic SUV.

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Plugs and Cars

JULY 31, 2008

One week earlier, former Vice President Al Gore issued his well-received challenge to make the American grid 100% renewable in ten years. Meanwhile, GM is hedging its bets by continuing to invest in the dream of cheap, cellulosic ethanol and the hallucinogenic pipe dream of hydrogen fuel cell SUVs.

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Clean Fleet Report

JANUARY 23, 2024

A Bona Fide Third Row in an Electric SUV Combine the Kia Telluride three-row SUV and the Kia EV6 crossover and you get the all-new, all-electric 2024 Kia EV9 three-row SUV. seconds Top speed: 115 mph Curb Weight: 5,324 pounds Max Towing: 2,000 pounds Wind and Land 280 miles AER (with optional 20-inch wheels) 99.8

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Green Car Congress

JUNE 29, 2015

If you drive an SUV in Southern California those miles cost over 30 cents each.). They had better think seriously about financing solar and wind arrays. During the midday hours, many grids will experience negative pricing as solar PV floods the market to the extent that the power cannot be stored. Cumulative EV Sales Worldwide.

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Plugs and Cars

JUNE 4, 2009

The plan calls for 39 mpg for cars and 30 mpg for light trucks and SUVs by 2016; no automaker lawsuits; and California subscribes to the national program through 2016. As high officials of CalEPA and CARB got wind of Chu’s analysis of H2 and FCVs, they reportedly went to DC and lobbied furiously if unsuccessfully to pull him back.

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Baua Electric

JANUARY 3, 2024

The 2024 Kia EV9 comes in Light, Wind, Land, and GT-Line trim levels, and so far Green Car Reports has only driven the top-spec GT-Line, offering up 379 hp and 516 lb-ft of torque in its all-wheel-drive layout. The great range numbers come thanks to a lot of work with the wind tunnel. coefficient of drag.

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Green Car Congress

JULY 3, 2015

In the climate-targeted scenarios, they assumed that electrified vehicles receive their electricity from an 80% decarbonized electricity grid. They considered state-specific contributions from nine generating technologies: coal, oil, natural gas, hydro, biogas, geothermal, nuclear, wind, and solar. billion gallon) and 4540 PJ (56.4

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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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Get Electric Vehicle

SEPTEMBER 25, 2023

Companies Will Have More Affordable EVs Their Lineup As major automakers around the world develop their nascent EV lines, dozens of new EV vehicles including new premium models, middle-market sedans, SUVs, and pickup trucks will make their debuts in global markets in 2023 and 2024.

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Clean Fleet Report

APRIL 9, 2021

In a world obsessed with crossovers and SUVs, this is a car that looks like a tall sedan but actually provides hatchback practicality, including a fold-up panel for grocery bags that includes hooks and a strap. The Polestar logo looks like two boomerangs and is not at all like the familiar Volvo ironmark. Test Runs on Freeway and Back Roads.

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EV Central

JULY 2, 2023

The Kia EV9 electric SUV is the latest in the expanding EV-branded family of electric cars. It’s also by far the largest, utilising the 800-Volt E-GMP architecture in a large SUV body designed to accommodate up to seven people. It will instantly catapult Kia into the luxury SUV air occupied by big name luxury brands.

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Cars That Think

OCTOBER 5, 2021

The grids were divided among the village's monastery, dormitories at the elementary school, and a small computer lab built by GHE that doubles as an Internet café for travelers. The team traveled the first leg of the trip to Lingshed in an SUV. The two-lane road heading out of town is winding but relatively smooth," Kumagi wrote.

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Baua Electric

MARCH 14, 2024

Volvo spokesperson Russell Datz confirmed to Green Car Reports that “it’s not currently in Volvo’s plans to offer LFP batteries in the U.S.” 2025 Volvo EX30 Small car, big battery footprint—by weight, and by CO2 It’s not unusual that the battery pack in the EX30 constitutes nearly a quarter of its curb weight.

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Plug N Drive

JUNE 30, 2021

With most of Canada’s electricity coming from low-emitting hydro and nuclear sources and growing solar and wind generation, the greenhouse gas emissions reduction opportunity is huge. If an EV battery is not repurposed, it can be recycled, with the raw materials removed and reused, reducing the environmental footprint further.

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Green Car Congress

NOVEMBER 7, 2014

Whilst hydrogen today is extracted from natural gas and is already a global, multi-billion dollar industry used in a wide range of industrial applications, it is also produced from renewable sources like solar, wind or biogas without the need to use fossil fuels. Of course, this also has the merit of producing so-called “green hydrogen”.

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Cars That Think

OCTOBER 29, 2021

Lucid's wind-tunnel testing isn't yet independently confirmed. The Lucid also integrates its onboard "Wunderbox," a charging unit designed to allow the bi-directional, vehicle-to-grid (V2G) or vehicle-to-vehicle charging of the future. But engineers expect a 0.21 The company hopes to build 20,000 Airs next year, generating $2.2

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Green Car Congress

NOVEMBER 17, 2015

TDI quattro plug-in hybrid ( earlier post ); the Audi A7 h-tron quattro fuel cell vehicle ( earlier post ); the Audi e-tron quattro concept battery-electric SUV ( earlier post ); the Audi TT clubsport turbo concept ( earlier post ); the Audi RS 5 TDI competition concept ( earlier post ); and the Audi R18 e-tron quattro ( earlier post ). “EV”

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Tony Karrer Delicious EVdriven

APRIL 16, 2009

Cleantech Crunched Top 10 Low Carbon Footprint Cars (and one SUV) for. Solar, Wind and Biofuels Grew 53 Percent in 2008 Green Education = Environmental Religion? . 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.

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EV Central

DECEMBER 20, 2022

The downside is the drive lasted only five laps of the Haunted Hills race track in Victoria’s LaTrobe Valley on a day when the weather gods decided too much rain, wind and frigid air was never enough. And yep, it’s not an SUV, there’s no black cladding or raised ride heights here.

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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. The project is partly funded by the government of Denmark.

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Tony Karrer Delicious EVdriven

APRIL 21, 2009

A January 2007 Pacific National Laboratory study shows that if we woke up tomorrow and all our vehicles could plug in, todays grid could support more than three-quarters of them charging at night without building a single power plant. But its monumentally less pollution , even on the national (half-coal) grid.

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Tony Karrer Delicious EVdriven

APRIL 28, 2009

The true impact of electric vehicles should consider the make-up of the power grids where these cars will be used. What I do want is an SUV, cross- over or truck that will meet all of my needs and at the same time be fuel efficient or flex fuel to reduce emissions and dependence on foreign oil.

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Tony Karrer Delicious EVdriven

APRIL 16, 2009

If our country is going to spend money like a drunk sailor we should have spent it on building renewable energy power plants like Wind and Geothermal. Denmark did that with Wind Power and now most of their energy comes from wind rather than oil, natural gas, or coal. We are facing a big problem with global warming.

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