Green Car Congress

DECEMBER 22, 2021

The available Pro Power Onboard feature enables the 2022 Ford F-150 Lightning and F-150 PowerBoost Hybrid trucks to function as power sources on wheels with multiple uses. When connected to an F-150 Lightning or F-150 PowerBoost Hybrid with the optional 9.6 kW (F-150 Lightning) or 7.2

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Green Car Congress

SEPTEMBER 20, 2021

When paired with the new i-FORCE MAX system, the result is a combined hybrid performance output of 437 horsepower and 583 lb-ft (790 N·m) of torque. During towing applications, the hybrid system provides additional power and torque. The new, base twin-turbo 3.5-liter All-New Toyota Audio Multimedia.

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Green Car Congress

JUNE 5, 2014

times those of hybrids over the period, according to the data. When looking only at cars and SUVs over that period, diesel registrations in the US increased 30% from 640,779 units to 833,324 units; registrations of hybrid cars and SUVs climbed 65% from 1,714,966 units to 2,821,599. Hybrid car and SUV registrations were 3.4

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Electrek

MAY 5, 2021

The new wind, solar, and hybrid projects announced today represent more than 1.5 The five new projects under construction in Texas, Illinois, and Oklahoma will generate over 4.1 The five new projects under construction in Texas, Illinois, and Oklahoma will generate over 4.1

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Green Car Reports

SEPTEMBER 11, 2017

Today, we've got news on a pair of Honda hybrids, a remarkable announcement on the future of cars out of China, an explanation of how Texas exacerbated its hurricane damage, and a philosophical question about the 2018 Nissan Leaf. All this and more on Green Car Reports. Over the weekend, we ran down last week's top green-car stories.

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Green Car Congress

FEBRUARY 10, 2016

UPS has expanded its agreement with Clean Energy Fuels to use up to 500,000 gallon equivalents of renewable liquefied natural gas (RLNG) annually in Texas. Its fleet includes more than 6,840 all-electric, hybrid electric, hydraulic hybrid, CNG, LNG, propane and light-weight fuel-saving composite body vehicles. Earlier post.).

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Green Car Congress

MARCH 4, 2021

With the fully electric Mustang Mach-E, Ford F-150 PowerBoost Hybrid and Escape and Explorer hybrids, overall electrified vehicle sales rose 56.1% Thanks to the all-new F-150 and F-150 PowerBoost Hybrid, F - Series retail share expanded an estimated 5 full percentage points in the full-size pickup segment, Ford said.

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Green Car Congress

NOVEMBER 20, 2014

placed its third order for Autocar E3 hybrid refuse trucks that feature Parker’s fuel-saving RunWise Advanced Series Hybrid Drive System. The additional purchase of 29 new hybrid trucks brings the total fleet to 64. The hydraulic hybrid technology can reduce fuel consumption by up to 50%. Miami-Dade County, Fla.,

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Green Car Congress

APRIL 26, 2013

During this same period, hybrid car and SUV registrations increased from 1,714,966 to 2,290,903—a 33.58% increase. There currently are 27 diesels available in the US market compared to 46 hybrids. 2012 Most Diesel Passenger Vehicles (Cars, SUVs, Pickup Trucks and Vans): Texas 775,395; California 572,303; Florida 292,692.

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Clean Fleet Report

JULY 20, 2022

Clean Fleet Report was in Austin, Texas, in mid-July 2022, for the press reveal of the 2023 Crown. The 2023 Crown comes with either a standard hybrid or the Max hybrid powertrain with standard all-wheel drive (AWD). liter engine combined with the Toyota Hybrid System that produces 236 horsepower and returns 38 miles per gallon.

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Green Car Congress

MARCH 6, 2017

Researchers with the Department of Mechanical Engineering at Texas A&M University, led by Dr. Ying Li, associate professor of mechanical engineering, are developing a photocatalyst to convert CO 2 into renewable hydrocarbon fuels. The first step of the process involves capturing CO 2 from emissions sources.

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Green Car Reports

SEPTEMBER 2, 2016

Your mission, should you decide to accept it, is to locate and purchase or lease a Chevrolet Volt plug-in hybrid somewhere in the heart of Texas oil country. But first, a bit of perspective: in 2005 I had set out to purchase a Mercury Mariner Hybrid. Hoping to make Tom Cruise proud, I accepted the mission.

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Green Car Reports

JUNE 22, 2022

are made in either California or Texas. The Kentucky-built Corsair, which is offered in a plug-in hybrid Corsair Grand Touring, was ranked third. Tesla vehicles took four of the top six spots in the 2022 American-made Index, from Cars.com. The Tesla Model Y and Model 3 took the top two spots, as all of those models for the U.S.

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Green Car Congress

OCTOBER 11, 2016

UPS will add 200 new series hybrid electric delivery trucks to the company’s growing alternative fuel and advanced technology fleet. will be deployed beginning in January 2017 starting in Arizona, Texas, Nevada, Mississippi, Alabama, Georgia and Florida, and, possibly in other states as well. Earlier post.).

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Green Car Reports

APRIL 29, 2014

arm from Torrance, California, to Plano, Texas. Left unaddressed in the announcement was the fact that the Japanese carmaker, known for its green image and its pioneering Prius hybrid range of 50-mpg cars, is moving from a state that has aggressively cut auto emissions.'

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Green Car Congress

FEBRUARY 22, 2013

Researchers from The University of Texas at Arlington are developing a new process for photoelectrosynthesis of methanol—the conversion of carbon dioxide to methanol using sunlight and hybrid CuO–Cu 2 O semiconductor nanorod arrays. Ghazaleh Ghadimkhani, Norma R. 49, 1297-1299 doi: 10.1039/C2CC38068D.

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Green Car Congress

APRIL 22, 2011

A study by researchers at the University of Texas found that in general, use of plug-in hybrid electric vehicles (PHEVs) can lead to an increase in ozone during nighttime hours (due to decreased scavenging from both vehicles and EGU stacks) and a decrease in ozone during daytime hours. Tammy Thompson, (now at MIT), lead author.

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Green Car Congress

NOVEMBER 12, 2013

Parker Hannifin Corporation announced that its fleet of Autocar E3 refuse trucks equipped with Parker’s hydraulic hybrid RunWise Advanced Series Hybrid Drive System ( earlier post ) is approaching one million miles of operation. We are very pleased with the progress we have made and excited for the future of hydraulic hybrid vehicles.

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Baua Electric

JANUARY 30, 2024

A startup called Revoy offers an interesting transitional solution—the Revoy EV is basically a small trailer full of batteries that attaches to a diesel semi-truck to effectively turn it into a hybrid. At Revoy’s swapping station in Dallas, the Revoy EV, with a pre-charged battery, is attached between a tractor and a semi-trailer.

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Green Car Reports

APRIL 29, 2014

Today on Green Car Reports: We drive the sexy 2015 BMW i8 plug-in hybrid, we learn the U.S. price of the 2014 Mercedes-Benz B-Class Electric Drive, and Toyota moves to (not very green) Texas. All this and more on Green Car Reports. The Ebuggy electric-car trailer boosts range by 300 miles, but is that worth sacrificing one''s dignity?

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Green Car Congress

JULY 20, 2023

Researchers from the University of Bialystok (Poland), the University of Texas at El Paso (UTEP) and colleagues have achieved the highest specific capacitance value reported of 638 F g −1 in aqueous acidic solutions by combining spherical carbon nanostructures with covalent triazine-based frameworks. —Hryniewicka et al.

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Green Car Congress

SEPTEMBER 21, 2021

Honda’s initial approach to selling the Prologue will be regional, focusing on California and the ZEV states, including the BEV-friendly sunbelt states of Texas and Florida. Led by CR-V Hybrid and Accord Hybrid, Honda just recorded its best-ever first-half year of electrified vehicle sales.

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Green Car Congress

NOVEMBER 6, 2017

Porsche has earned a third consecutive Manufacturers’ World Championship title with the 919 Hybrid. The Porsche 919 Hybrid has netted six world championships, three outright Le Mans wins, a total of 17 race wins including seven double victories, 19 pole positions and twelve fastest race laps from 33 races. Season 2017 Porsche LMP team.

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Green Car Reports

AUGUST 31, 2016

Texas is the land of pickups and SUVs, of oil wells and full-day drives from your Texas home to Grandma’s Texas home. Your everyday driver had better be your highway car, because every drive involves a highway.

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Green Car Congress

JULY 14, 2016

Researchers at the University of Georgia (UGA) have crossed American sweetgums with their Chinese cousins, creating hybrid sweetgum trees that have a better growth rate and denser wood than natives, and can produce fiber year-round. The new hybrid varieties are already being sold commercially by ArborGen Inc., —Scott Merkle.

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Green Car Congress

DECEMBER 10, 2012

Vision Industries Corporation, Environmental Defense Fund (EDF), Air Products and project partners were recently awarded $500,000 from the Texas Emission Reduction Program (TERP) partially to fund the building of the first public hydrogen fueling station in the state.

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Green Car Congress

JULY 24, 2013

Saft has been awarded a contract by MJ EcoPower Hybrid Systems to supply lithium-ion batteries for four new hybrid-powered mobile RTG (Rubber Tired Gantry) cranes serving Houston Harbor in Texas.

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Green Car Congress

FEBRUARY 17, 2009

Texas state Senator Kip Averitt, R-Waco has filed an omnibus clean-air and energy bill that would give a $4,000 state subsidy to plug-in hybrid electric vehicle (PHEV) buyers. Rick Perry first proposed a tax credit of $5,000 for plug-in hybrids buyers in his State of the State speech last month. Houston Chronicle.

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Green Car Congress

DECEMBER 2, 2021

The free service will feature five hybrid Lexus RX 450h vehicles and one wheelchair-accessible Polaris GEM fully electric vehicle and is available Monday through Friday from 8 a.m. – May Mobility conducts shuttle services in Grand Rapids, Michigan; Arlington, Texas; Hiroshima, Japan; and Ann Arbor, Michigan, as well.

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Green Car Congress

NOVEMBER 12, 2021

Prabhakar Patil, former CEO, LG Chem Power, and Chief Engineer of Hybrid Technologies, Ford Motor Company. He served as Chief Engineer for Ford’s hybrid technologies during 2003 and was also Chief Engineer for the Ford Escape Hybrid from 1998 to 2003. Dr. Arumugam “Ram” Manthiram, Professor, University of Texas at Austin.

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EV Obssesion

DECEMBER 30, 2021

Electric cars — and electrified or hybrid cars! The post Electric Car FAQs: Is It Still Worth Buying A Hybrid? — are mostly like regular cars. You step on the pedal on the right and the car goes, you turn the wheel and the car turns, and the only real difference is what kind of fuel goes in it.

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Green Car Congress

OCTOBER 14, 2014

is developing the first North American designed and built 60-foot battery-electric/fuel cell hybrid bus that will operate in daily service. When braking, the motor acts as a generator to recover energy, just like in conventional hybrid vehicles. Electric (Battery) Fuel Cells Heavy-duty Hybrids Hydrogen' New Flyer Industries Inc.

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Green Car Congress

OCTOBER 4, 2012

If the grant is awarded, Vision Industries would supply a 20 Class 8 Tyrano fuel-cell-hybrid trucks to be deployed in the Houston-Galveston-Brazoria non-attainment area. This award is conditional upon, among other things, final negotiations with the Department of Energy and the Air Quality Board of the State of Texas. Earlier post.).

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Teslarati

NOVEMBER 27, 2023

It should be noted that BYD’s NEV lineup includes all-electric vehicles, EVs with range extenders, and plug-in hybrids. BYD’s six millionth NEV was the Fang Cheng Bao Leopard 5, a plug-in hybrid SUV produced at the Zhengzhou factory. By discontinuing its combustion-powered cars, BYD was able to focus solely on NEVs.

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EV Obssesion

MAY 3, 2021

You can always tell when you cross the state line–the roads are smoother in Mississippi, Texas, and Arkansas. For hybrid owners, that […]. Louisiana is well known for having severely bad roads. Recently, there was a bill proposed to increase gasoline taxes and tax EV owners $400 per year to own an EV in the state.

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Green Car Congress

DECEMBER 23, 2009

has launched a new initiative to convert its 170-vehicle fleet to hybrid and clean diesel vehicles. headquartered in Dallas, Texas, is an independent refiner and marketer of petroleum products, operating primarily in the South Central, Southwestern and Western regions of the United States. Independent refiner Alon USA Energy, Inc.

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Green Car Congress

AUGUST 22, 2012

partnering with with the City of Houston, Texas, to launch a municipal electric vehicle (EV) fleet sharing program: Houston Fleet Share. The City of Houston currently has the third largest municipal hybrid fleet in the country, with approximately 50% of the City’s non-specialty, light-duty fleet having been replaced with hybrid vehicles.

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