Green Car Congress

MARCH 5, 2022

Light-duty vehicles, including sedans, SUVs, and pickup trucks, are currently responsible for 58% of US transportation sector emissions. Pickup trucks accounted for 14% of light-duty vehicle sales in the United States in 2020, and the market share of both pickups and SUVs has grown in recent years. Maxwell Woody et al.

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Green Car Congress

SEPTEMBER 17, 2022

Bosch is starting volume production of a new drive unit consisting of an electric motor and an integrated inverter for light commercial vehicles. The inverter controls the electric motor and provides the connection to the high-voltage battery.

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Green Car Congress

SEPTEMBER 8, 2023

In the second quarter of 2023 (2Q23), hybrid, plug-in hybrid, and battery-electric vehicles collectively accounted for 16% of light-duty vehicle sales in the United States, according to data from Wards Intelligence presented by the US Energy Information Administration (EIA).

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Electrek

MARCH 12, 2025

A new niche EV brand, Longbow, has emerged into the public eye, hailing itself as the first-ever British electric sports car manufacturer. It has unveiled its first two featherweight models, inspired by British automotive icons and designed with real-road performance and the overall driver experience in mind.

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Teslarati

OCTOBER 28, 2024

The images from the rear and rear quarter panel suggest there is a light bar, bringing a major change to the overall look and aesthetic of the Tesla Model Y that is currently offered. ” This brings up the question of when Model Y’s Refresh could make it to the United States.

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Green Car Congress

JUNE 5, 2023

Researchers from Tokyo Tech have developed a tin-based metal–organic framework (MOF) that can photocatalytically reduce carbon dioxide (CO 2 ) into formate under visible light. A popular method for carrying out such conversions is to use visible light for driving the photoreduction of CO 2 via photocatalysts. 202305923

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Cars That Think

MARCH 5, 2025

At the time, about a decade ago, I was helping to refine a system for fabricating chips using extreme ultraviolet (EUV) light. To produce EUV light, we would focus an intense laser pulse onto 30-micrometer-wide droplets of tin flying through a chamber filled with low-density hydrogen.

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Green Car Congress

APRIL 11, 2023

The report— “2023 North American Light Vehicle Aluminum Content and Outlook ”—released by the Aluminum Association indicates that demand for more sustainable transportation will help drive an increase in market share for aluminum content by nearly 100 net pounds per vehicle (PPV) from 2020 to 2030.

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Green Car Congress

MARCH 24, 2023

The e-bus cabin is also provided with the adaptive light: it depends on the time of the day and changes from cold light to warm one. The new electric buses are equipped with four validators instead of three, making it more convenient for the passengers to pay. This is the largest purchase of this type of transport in Europe.

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Green Car Congress

DECEMBER 19, 2022

The new guideline builds off the success of the first light-duty SAE J2954 standard published in 2020. Additionally, SAE J2954 published an updated version 2 of its SAE J2954 light-duty standard for wireless power transfer for electric vehicles. Dynamic charging Kenworth at Utah State Test Track. SAE J2954 functional diagram.

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Green Car Congress

AUGUST 30, 2022

Syzygy has developed platform reactor technology that uses light from ultra-high-efficiency LEDs to power chemical reactions by removing the need for heat from burning fuel, which is how traditional carbon-intensive chemical reactors are powered. Earlier post.).

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Green Car Congress

FEBRUARY 20, 2022

Both the lighting in the passenger compartment and external lighting have been designed using LED technology. The vehicle interior will also feature two bays for passengers in wheelchairs. The Trollino 24 is a five-door-model with a 2-2-2-2-2 door layout.

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Cars That Think

MARCH 25, 2025

Optical Modulators One fundamental difference between Broadcoms scheme and Nvidias is the optical modulator technology that encodes electronic bits onto beams of light. In the former, light traveling through a waveguide is split into two parallel arms. And so electronic bits can be encoded onto the light.

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Green Car Congress

NOVEMBER 18, 2021

SEVEN is easily identified at night by IONIQ’s signature Parametric Pixel lights that deliver a Welcome Light Sequence on start-up. Then, integrated sanitizing UVC lights help clean the living space of bacteria and viruses. UVC Sterilization activates once the vehicle is vacated of its passengers.

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Green Car Congress

MARCH 17, 2022

Some of the special design statements are upper light elements made of exclusive crystal glass and the illuminated contour of the kidney grille. In addition to the BMW Curved Display, a new type of light and function strip on the instrument panel and the doors provides a visual and haptic quality.

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Green Car Congress

OCTOBER 4, 2022

This is thin and light enough for its radiant cooling effects to be applied to vehicles such as cars, trains and airplanes. Our hBN-acrylic paint demonstrates comparable cooling performance with recent best technologies, and the thinness and light weight reduce barriers toward many practical applications. millimeters thick.

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Green Car Congress

APRIL 7, 2022

The cleaner engine is able to deliver ultra-low NO x by managing exhaust gas temperatures to ensure rapid catalyst light-off and by maintaining aftertreatment temperatures at optimum operating conditions in all driving conditions.

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Green Car Congress

DECEMBER 18, 2021

General Motors has begun deliveries of its first next-generation electric vehicles, the GMC HUMMER EV Edition 1 Pickup and BrightDrop EV600 light commercial vehicle, both built on the Ultium Platform.

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Green Car Congress

MAY 18, 2022

This will include infrastructure development and vehicle fleets to accelerate the expansion of hydrogen mobility for both light- and heavy-duty vehicles. Initially the focus will be on buses, light commercial vehicles and cars, with a further aim to accelerate the heavy-duty truck segment.

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Green Car Congress

JANUARY 27, 2022

The alliance also advances Carrier’s broader zero-emission transport refrigeration solutions, with the availability of electric options for trailer, truck, and light commercial vehicle customers before the end of 2022, helping address upcoming emissions regulations.

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Green Car Congress

JANUARY 25, 2023

million light duty vehicles annually), as well as its first high-volume Semi factory. Tesla will invest an additional $3.6 billion in Nevada to continue growing Gigafactory Nevada with two new factories: a 100 GWh 4680 cell ( earlier post ) factory (with capacity to produce enough batteries for 1.5

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Green Car Congress

JUNE 13, 2023

General Motors plans to invest $632 million in Fort Wayne Assembly to prepare the plant for production of the next-generation internal combustion engine (ICE) full-size light-duty trucks. This investment will enable the company to strengthen its industry-leading full-size truck business.

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CleanTechnica EVs

MARCH 25, 2025

Looking at the initial limited-lighting images of the vehicle, I thought perhaps it was a play on “asteroid” and outer space focused, especially with the sort of Mars orange in the lighting. First of all, we have to start with the name. Maybe they were trying to tie in Elon.

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Green Car Congress

JULY 27, 2021

The rule only applies to new light- and medium-duty vehicles for sale in Minnesota. The zero-emission vehicle (ZEV) standard requires automobile manufacturers to deliver more vehicles with ultra-low or zero tailpipe emissions for sale in Minnesota, including electric vehicles (EVs) and plug-in hybrid models.

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Green Car Congress

JUNE 10, 2022

The buses are fitted with the newest generation LED headlights with daytime driving lights. The large rear window lets in plenty of natural light. Also at the rear, the newest generation LED lights have been used. Large side windows enhance the amount of natural light coming into the bus, contributing to a bright interior.

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Green Car Congress

JANUARY 4, 2023

Source: David Gohlke, Yan Zhou, Xinyi Wu, and Calista Courtney, Argonne National Laboratory, Assessment of Light-Duty Plug-in Electric Vehicles in the United States, 2010–2021, ANL-22/71, 2022. Based on current plans, Kentucky, Tennessee, Georgia, and Michigan will see the highest growth in battery manufacturing capacity.

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Green Car Congress

MAY 22, 2022

Nissan Motor and Mitsubishi Motors unveiled their first jointly developed light electric vehicles (EVs)—the Sakura and the eK X EV (pronounced “eK cross EV”), —in Japan. The line-off ceremony took place at the Mitsubishi Motors’ Mizushima Plant in Kurashiki City, Okayama Pref., Japan, where the vehicle is produced.

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Green Car Congress

MAY 10, 2023

This project will complete key engineering design and demonstration tests to enable cost-competitive, carbon-neutral production of synthetic jet fuel and diesel using nuclear energy from existing light water reactors.

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Green Car Congress

NOVEMBER 4, 2021

For atmospheric interior lighting, the Ambient Lighting feature offers a choice of up to 30 colors. Light in the cockpit helps by providing visual warnings. The new ID. software 3.0 features various improvements including natural voice control (“Hello ID”.) 5 GTX will launch in Europe in early 2022. With the ID.5

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Green Car Congress

DECEMBER 16, 2022

The e-bus cabin is also provided with the adaptive light: it depends on the time of the day and changes from cold light to warm. The new eco-buses are equipped with four validators instead of three, thus it will be more convenient for the passengers to pay easier and faster for the daily trips.

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Green Car Congress

DECEMBER 21, 2021

The jubilee e-bus decorated with neon lights will operate in the south of the city. The 900 th electric bus has hit the streets of Moscow; in November 2020, the city had launched its 500 th electric bus ( earlier post ). The vehicle was assembled at the SVARZ eco-plant by KAMAZ, which was opened in April ( earlier post ).

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Green Car Congress

MARCH 18, 2022

Motor gasoline meets on-road passenger light-duty vehicle (LDV) travel demand, while diesel consumption meets our assumed increases in medium- and heavy-duty freight truck travel. In the Reference case, petroleum and other liquids (mainly motor gasoline and distillate fuel oil) are the primary fuels consumed in the US transportation sector.

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Green Car Congress

JULY 6, 2022

The new electric motor is clean, light, and efficient and can be assembled without the use of rare earths by customer request. Despite its very compact and light design, its continuous output is more than 90% of its peak output. The traction motor can run indefinitely with high performance due to its new cooling concept.

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Green Car Congress

APRIL 18, 2023

Along with innovation from engine manufacturers and public policy supporting lower carbon fuels, renewable gasoline blends are intended to reduce the carbon intensity of light- and medium-duty vehicles already on the road.

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Green Car Congress

DECEMBER 31, 2022

The hulls, traction electric motors, climate control systems, GLONASS systems, glazing of the vessel, skin panels, bike parking, automated ramp, vessel lighting control system, side doors and all control software are all Russian-made. Tests are carried out every day to check reliability and safety.

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Green Car Congress

JUNE 14, 2023

Previously, enabling a light weight fast-charging vehicle was not possible without compromising its lifetime and so people have been relying on costly and large battery packs in the vehicle. Unlocking the challenges faced by electric vehicle designers has been key to the development of our breakthrough fast-charging batteries.

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Green Car Congress

AUGUST 17, 2022

They will exclusively feature the unique ‘Sky’ blue exterior, light leather interior and 21-inch wheels of the original Polestar O? To celebrate the launch, 500 numbered units of a special ‘LA Concept’ version, the ‘Polestar 6 LA Concept edition’, are planned to be produced.

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