Green Car Congress

AUGUST 28, 2009

The first of around 200 vehicles will be delivered to customers in Europe and the USA at the beginning of next year. Mercedes-Benz’ stated position is that the development of electric cars with battery and fuel cell drives for local zero-emission driving is a means of supplementing vehicles with high-tech internal combustion engines.

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Mercedes Hydrogen Fuel Vehicles 236

Qnovo

JANUARY 1, 2022

The geopolitical divorce between the USA and China, and to some lesser extent between western economies and China, accelerates. With electricity, there is no physical energy traversing oceans the way oil tankers did. China’s policies for economic and technologic independence are well publicized. Therein lies the conflict.

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United States Manufacturer China Lithium Ion 52

Green Car Congress

SEPTEMBER 1, 2021

Development of this lithium-ion battery was inspired by technologies that have already proven themselves under the conditions in the Mercedes-AMG Petronas F1 team's Formula 1 hybrid racing cars. In the European Union the system is active up to 20 km/h (12 mph), in the USA up to the equivalent of approx. 30 km/h (18 mph).

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Mercedes Hybrid Production MPH 221

Tony Karrer Delicious EVdriven

APRIL 16, 2009

A PUMA runs on lithium ion batteries, can reach 35 miles per hour, and can travel up to 35 miles between charges. It includes some high-tech touches, including GMs wireless OnStar communications technology that lets a passenger locate other drivers in a city. He started at CNET News in 2002, covering IT and Web development.

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GM Green 2009 Vehicles 48

Plug In India

NOVEMBER 23, 2021

Ford is creating Ford Ion Park, a global center of battery excellence comprising more than 150 experts in battery chemistries, testing, manufacturing and value-chain management who will boost battery range and lower costs to customers and Ford. They announced their new cell format called the IonBoost lithium ion. Think about it.

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Ford Electric Cars Cars F-150 52

Tony Karrer Delicious EVdriven

APRIL 16, 2009

Cleantech Blog Cleantechblog.com, the premier cleantech site for commentary on news and technology relating to clean tech, greentech, energy, climate change and carbon, and the environment. Annual use of an EV should be less than the average cost of $8,000 per year for using a gasoline in many countries including the USA. Email Neal.

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Grid Electric Vehicles Vehicles Oil-Sands 28