The Truth About Cars

JULY 17, 2025

Two more groups of media are going through this program after us. If the scratches on this vehicle don't self-heal, Land Rover will re-wrap the panels before the next group arrives. And because it’s factory-installed, you can even order just one panel—like a single door panel—and have it replaced as an accessory.

Land Rover

Baua Electric

JULY 23, 2025

This fact is underpinned by the availability of large volumes of older petrol and diesel vehicles from multiple manufacturers. In particular, Volvo, Saab, and Volkswagen Group (VW) estates, such as the Passat and Skoda Octavia, prove popular used-car choices. Key to their appeal includes reliability and robustness.

Cars

Discover EV

JULY 16, 2025

It’s not cheap, and it’s definitely not compact, but if you’re in the market for a luxury EV that blends performance, comfort, and cutting-edge tech, the i7 sets the bar pretty high. Thanks to 195kW DC charging capability, a 10–80 per cent charge takes just over 30 minutes.

BMW

Clean Fleet Report

JUNE 9, 2025

The second-row passengers get a climate control panel and adjustable vents, reading lights, storage pockets, charge ports and cup holders. The $1,550 destination charge is included in all prices. He went on to say, “It is a new category for Volkswagen that will be introducing and re-introducing people to the brand.”

Re-Charge

Charged EVs

MAY 23, 2025

Q&A with Group 14s CEO Silicon-anode batteries , like those produced by Group 14, offer significantly higher energy density and extremely fast charging times compared to traditional graphite-based lithium-ion batteries, promising to fundamentally change EV technology. It is all about the pace of scaling.

Industrial

CN EV Post

JULY 20, 2025

Though you’re arriving years late to a discussion that’s been thoroughly dissected in this group by people who actually follow the industry. Just look at the sharp decline in swap capable vehicle sales compared to fast-charging EVs. You're welcome. In reply to Corey. Hey Corey, Welcome !!

Re-Charge

Green Car Congress

NOVEMBER 26, 2020

Groupe Renault is creating the REFACTORY in Flins, the first European circular economy site dedicated to mobility. The ReFactory aims to achieve a negative carbon balance by 2030—an objective in line with the Group’s ambition to achieve carbon neutrality in Europe by 2050. RE-TROFIT: To extend significantly the life of vehicles.

Economy

Green Car Congress

FEBRUARY 10, 2021

Hyundai Motor Group has revealed TIGER (Transforming Intelligent Ground Excursion Robot), the company’s second Ultimate Mobility Vehicle (UMV) ( earlier post ) and the first designed to be uncrewed. TIGER is being developed by Hyundai Motor Group’s New Horizons Studio, headquartered in Mountain View, California.

Hyundai

Green Car Congress

FEBRUARY 12, 2021

Setting targets will send a strong signal to consumers that the number of public charging points will keep pace with the surging sales of electric vehicles which Europe is witnessing, the letter said. But the success of this huge effort is seriously threatened by the delayed installation of charging infrastructure in the EU.

Re-Charge

Green Car Congress

JUNE 4, 2021

Renault Group and Plug Power launched their joint venture HYVIA, as outlined in the memorandum of understanding (MOU) agreement signed in January. The joint venture is equally owned by the two partners and is chaired by David Holderbach, with more than 20 years of experience in strategic, product and international sales at the Renault Group.

Hydrogen

Green Car Congress

JULY 22, 2021

In June, Porsche announced an investment in its new joint venture company Cellforce Group GmbH. The new high-performance cells will use silicon as the anode material and BASF HED NCM cathode active materials to contribute to high-performance battery cells for fast charging and high energy density. Earlier post.).

Porsche

Green Car Congress

AUGUST 29, 2022

BMW Group and H2 Green Steel have signed a final contract on the delivery of CO 2 -reduced steel. The agreement addresses BMW Group’s upstream scope 3 emissions and includes recycling and end-of-life management measures. The plant will be fully integrated, with hot charging at each step along the production flow. Earlier post.).

BMW

Green Car Congress

APRIL 15, 2021

Truck makers and environmentalists have joined forces to push for the deployment of 11,000 charging points for electric trucks across the EU by 2025, rising to 42,000 by 2030. However, our customers will not invest in these vehicles unless they can charge and re-fuel them easily as they deliver goods from one country to another.

Emissions

Green Car Congress

DECEMBER 8, 2022

Volkswagen will make an initial investment of some €460 million in its Wolfsburg factory at the Group headquarters by the beginning of 2025. The platform will enable faster charging speeds and longer ranges. It will be based on the future Group-wide Scalable Systems Platform (SSP).

Convert

Green Car Congress

AUGUST 4, 2015

The BMW Group Technology Office, together with Pacific Gas and Electric Company (PG&E), have launched an 18-month pilot of the BMW i ChargeForward Program in the San Francisco Bay Area. The program is now issuing calls to participating BMW i3 drivers in the Bay Area to request the interruption of the charging of their EVs for one hour.

BMW

Green Car Congress

SEPTEMBER 8, 2009

According to a new survey from Pike Research, 48% of prospective US consumers would be “extremely” or “very” interested in purchasing a PHEV with a 40-mile range on a single charge (PHEV40), given electricity cost equivalent of $0.75 However, willingness to pay for such fast charging outlets was limited.

Purchase

Green Car Congress

NOVEMBER 6, 2012

NRG will pay to install a minimum of 200 fast charging “Freedom Stations”—110 in the Los Angeles Basin; 55 in the San Francisco Bay Area; 15 in the San Joaquin Valley; and 20 in San Diego County—that will be available for use by anyone with an electric vehicle for a minimum five year period. Earlier post.).

San Diego

Green Car Congress

JANUARY 25, 2010

We’re in the process of improving the logistics around the installation with the goal of installing a switch system—a complete station—in less than one week. We’re now in the final stages of shopping out the construction of these machines&mash;we’re still 18 months away from a full operating network.

Israel

Green Car Congress

JULY 19, 2022

Renault Group and Phoenix Mobility , a Grenoble-based company specializing in the conversion of commercial vehicles to electric power, have signed a letter of intent to form a strategic partnership for the development and commercial operation of a retrofit kit, the first of its kind in the French LCV market.

Phoenix

Green Car Congress

MARCH 31, 2022

Aligned Graphite Technology improves the performance of the negative electrode in a lithium-ion battery by re-orienting the graphite particles thereby enabling an up to 50% faster charging of batteries and lower cell resistance. These electrodes are a drop-in replacement for next-generation, fast-charging lithium-ion batteries.

Lithium Ion

Green Car Congress

NOVEMBER 26, 2010

These values are comparable to those of NiMH batteries, the researchers note, but the new supercapacitor offers the ability to be charged or discharged within seconds or minutes. ” The group, led by Bor Jang of Nanotek Instruments, reported in 2006 that graphene can be used as a supercapacitor electrode material.

NiMH

Green Car Congress

MARCH 13, 2019

and New Flyer Industries Canada ULC, subsidiaries of NFI Group Inc. (“NFI”), This makes the Xcelsior CHARGE H2 the first sixty-foot fuel cell-electric bus to complete Altoona, and establishes New Flyer as the only manufacturer to offer both a forty-foot and sixty-foot fuel cell-electric model that qualifies for federal funding.

San Diego

Green Car Congress

SEPTEMBER 27, 2019

Professor Dahn and his research group is Tesla’s battery research partner, following an agreement signed in 2015. Over the last 10 years the Dalhousie research group has tested a wide variety of Li-ion cells with various positive electrodes, negative electrodes and electrolytes. V as 100% state of charge. Earlier post.).

Li-ion

Green Car Congress

MAY 7, 2012

With a 10 kW charger on-board (SAE J1772 connector), charging time of the large pack is approximately six hours on a 240V/40A charger. Compared with the gasoline-powered RAV4, Toyota re-styled the front bumper, upper and lower grill, side mirrors, rear spoiler, and under body design to maximize air flow around the vehicle.

Toyota

Green Car Congress

MARCH 1, 2011

The Li-ion cells use a nickel cobalt manganese chemistry with a gravimetric capacity of around 230 Wh/kg, a high energy density which is important in achieving an acceptable range between re-charges. A fourth induction charger is also fitted to enable wireless charging, a technology being trialled in Phantom EE.

Charging

Green Car Congress

JANUARY 20, 2020

In the Bergedorf quarter of Hamburg, a container with a total capacity of approximately 500 kWh has been connected to the depot charging network at the Verkehrsbetriebe Hamburg-Holstein (VHH) depot. This includes improved utilization of the network and cushioning of peak loads when charging electric buses (peak shaving).

Energy Storage

Green Car Congress

SEPTEMBER 20, 2015

On Friday, the US Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) and California Air Resources Board (ARB) charged that, based on ARB testing, Volkswagen and Audi passenger cars equipped with 2.0L On Sunday, Volkswagen Group CEO Prof. Earlier post.). Volkswagen has ordered an external investigation as well.

EPA

Green Car Congress

JUNE 17, 2013

The EADS Group—comprising Airbus, Astrium, Cassidian and Eurocopter—is demonstrating at the Paris Air Show 2013 a number of initiatives in the field of electric and hybrid propulsion, which it calls its “E-aircraft projects”. By re-energizing the wake, the overall aircraft drag is reduced. Click to enlarge.

Hybrid

Green Car Congress

AUGUST 31, 2012

The electric vehicles built under this agreement are designed for 100 miles of range on a single charge and have a maximum gross vehicle weight of 19,500 lbs. —Colin Manners, Director, Kodiak Capital Group, LLC. AMP Holding, Inc., the parent company of AMP Electric Vehicles Inc.,

Tax Credit

Green Car Reports

JULY 23, 2014

If you own an electric car today though, the price you''re paying for electricity is equivalent to about 75 cents per gallon. According to a study by the Northeast Group (via Charged EVs), 25 utilities in 14 states currently offer electricity rates.' The last time you could buy a gallon of gasoline in the U.S.

Gasoline-Electric

Green Car Congress

MARCH 21, 2010

This next-generation Sunstang is based on the team’s re-evaluation of the solar-powered vehicle paradigm. Rather than trying to use solar cells to provide power directly to the vehicle, the new Sunstang will use a removable battery system which will be recharged by a residential solar charging stations.

Solar

Green Car Congress

APRIL 15, 2013

The memory effect of the battery is written in a cycle with partial charging (here, 50% of the battery’s storage capacity) followed by complete discharge. In the subsequent cycle, the memory effect is evident through an overvoltage (small “bump”) at precisely the same point at which the partial charging cycle terminates.

Li-ion

Green Car Congress

SEPTEMBER 6, 2018

Covered vehicles include new buses, trucks, locomotives, ferries, tug boats, and cargo handling equipment, as well as the availability of electric vehicle charging equipment statewide. In addition, New York will replace or re-power older, high-polluting diesel-powered trucks, school buses, and equipment with cleaner vehicles and equipment.

New York

Green Car Congress

AUGUST 2, 2014

The CD-300 features common rail technology, direct injection, turbo charging, liquid cooling, and an advanced reduction gear system. in Beijing to act as the marketing, sales, service, and distributor of the products and services offered by the different members of the Continental Motors Group (CMG). Mattituck Services, Inc.;

Diesel

Green Car Congress

MARCH 11, 2014

Re-emphasizing the general technology points that have emerged over the past few months at different events while adding a bit more detail, Yoshikazu Tanaka, Product General Manager of the Product Planning Group, said at the Geneva show that Toyota’s current fuel cell (FC) system features an output power density of 3.0

2015

Green Car Congress

JANUARY 19, 2011

Chrysler Group LLC and the US Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) are working together to determine the possibility of adapting a hydraulic series hybrid system for application in large passenger cars and light-duty vehicles. following a meeting with Sergio Marchionne, Chrysler Group CEO, and Lisa P. Earlier post.)

Chrysler

Green Car Congress

JANUARY 5, 2015

At the Consumer Electronics Show in Las Vegas, BMW announced the BMW i ChargeForward Program—a pilot study to be undertaken by the BMW Group Technology Office, together with Pacific Gas & Electric Company (PG&E). Grid efficiency through managed charging, combined with a used EV battery “second-life” system.

Grid