Green Car Congress

APRIL 7, 2010

The Renault-Nissan Alliance and Daimler AG today announced a broad strategic cooperation that also involves equity exchanges that result in giving the Renault-Nissan Alliance a 3.1% stake in Nissan. Carlos Ghosn, Chairman and CEO of the Renault-Nissan Alliance. The result of the equity exchanges. Click to enlarge.

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Green Car Congress

JULY 30, 2009

Lithium-ion automotive battery producer EnerDel and Nissan Motor Co. EnerDel, Nissan and ANL are not disclosing a great deal of information about the R&D project at this point. Tags: Batteries. are teaming up to co-fund research at Argonne National Laboratory (ANL) on a new electrolyte for lithium-ion batteries. 2005.12.017.

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Green Car Congress

FEBRUARY 13, 2010

NEC Tokin will concentrate its management resources on the growth of its electronics component business, including capacitors and EMC, and promoting the development of products that drive awareness of energy markets that are environmentally friendly, including lithium-ion capacitors, magnetic materials and piezoelectric sensors. Earlier post.)

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Green Car Congress

NOVEMBER 6, 2009

they use all the economic, environmental and social resources considered in a value-creating way. A carmaker creates positive (or negative) Sustainable Value if it earns a higher (or lower) return than its peers with its available economic, environmental and social resources. Click to enlarge. Click to enlarge.

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Green Car Congress

APRIL 25, 2010

Chery is continuing to leverage global resources and is making great strides in building core technological competitiveness, as well as actively following government policies to reduce greenhouse gases and emissions. —Dr. Tags: Brief. Fuel savings and emission reduction are the new themes for China’s auto industry.

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Green Cars News

JUNE 22, 2009

Japanese car manufacturer Nissan continues to make progress on its Nissan Green Program 2010 mid-term environmental plan and has now announced an update in its status - along with the announcement of a clean-diesel engine for the Japanese market. Now it will introduce a clean-diesel engine into the Japanese market in spring 2010.

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Green Car Congress

JANUARY 15, 2010

The chargers will incorporate TEPCO’s patented technology and be capable of charging vehicles such as the Nissan Leaf, Mitsubishi i-MiEV and Plug-In Stella by Subaru within less than half an hour. Tags: Electric (Battery) Infrastructure Plug-ins. Earlier post.).

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Plugs and Cars

DECEMBER 11, 2009

The California Air Resources Board (CARB) met on Thursday to discuss the Zero Emission Vehicle regulation and the revisions staff was tasked with exploring for 2015 and beyond. The Nissan rep touted the imminent LEAF, although without the enthusiasm of the Nissan employees I've met over the recent months.

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Green Cars News

OCTOBER 7, 2009

The Canadian province of British Columbia is set to play host to the Nissan Leaf after Renault–Nissan Alliance and hydro-electric company, BC Hydro announced a partnership with the province’s government to help launch Nissan’s Canadian zero-emission transportation program.

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Green Car Congress

NOVEMBER 19, 2009

INL is also a principle participant with eTec and Nissan in coming deployment of deployment of 4,700 battery-electric Nissan Leaf vehicles in 5 greater metropolitan statistical areas. The eTec/Nissan project will document more than 70 million miles of electric drive vehicle operations and more than 1.8 Earlier post.) Oregon E.V.

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Green Car Congress

AUGUST 2, 2009

He found that: US manufacturers tend to be above the median in terms of their passenger vehicle fuel efficiency conditional on weight and engine power, and are among the top for light duty trucks; Honda is the most efficient manufacturer for passenger cars, followed sequentially by Toyota, GM and Nissan. Tags: Fuel Efficiency.

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Green Car Congress

NOVEMBER 22, 2013

of total vehicle sales by 2020, the more significant story is the rapid expansion of strong-hybrid vehicles led by Toyota, Ford, and Honda, followed by Hyundai, Nissan and others. The future of the market is particularly dependent on government policies, with that of the California Air Resources Board (CARB) being the most important driver.

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Green Car Congress

AUGUST 12, 2009

In March, SDG&E announced it would collaborate with Nissan to help develop the market for zero-emission electric vehicles and charging infrastructure in the San Diego region. million eTec/Nissan charging and EV rollout. Tags: Infrastructure Plug-ins. San Diego is one of the regions covered in the $99.8-million

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Green Car Congress

JUNE 25, 2010

The CEA has multidisciplinary expertise in several key areas of sustainable mobility and will draw upon all its resources in the area of technological research. Tags: Connected vehicles Electric (Battery) Engines Research Vehicle Manufacturers. The CEA will provide input and suggestions to help Renault reach these objectives.

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Plugs and Cars

OCTOBER 4, 2007

Puregreencars.com reports Renault's (and Nissan's) Carlos Ghosn sees electric city cars in their future. Seems like further confirmation of my previous Nissan post (cnet), and the rumors of a renewed interest by European automakers in electric city cars. Tags: renault electric city cars carlos ghosn cafe.

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Tony Karrer Delicious EVdriven

APRIL 28, 2009

Tennessee, Nissan and TVA forge a path for electric car By G. Phil Bredesen spent part of Earth Day last week test-driving a Nissan prototype all-electric vehicle at the automakers U.S. Coming to public in 12 Nissans first electric car is to go into corporate and government fleets beginning in late 2010.

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Green Car Congress

OCTOBER 6, 2010

About 60 vehicles will be used in the trial and have been provided by Blade Electric Vehicles, Toyota, Mitsubishi, Nissan and EDay Life. Tags: Australia Conversions Electric (Battery) Fleets Trials. million) trial. Earlier post.). It will use lessons from. the trial to predict what Victoria’s electric vehicle future. might look like.

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Green Car Congress

SEPTEMBER 25, 2009

Tags: Engines Ethanol Fuels Policy. Direct DOE to re-prioritize its 2010 Program Spending to provide this $17 million to complete the test program. Mid-Level Blend Ethanol: Challenges, Opportunities & Testing Follow Through (Joint IEPR and Transportation Committee Workshop on Transportation Fuel Infrastructure Issues, April 2009).

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Green Car Congress

DECEMBER 4, 2009

Tags: Emissions Engines Fuel Efficiency Heavy-duty Hybrids Policy Standards Vehicle Manufacturers. Daniel Ustian, Chairman, President, and CEO of Navistar, extended an invitation to the eighth Global Commercial Vehicle Industry Meeting in the USA in 2010. World Forum for the Harmonization of Vehicle Regulations. (WP Globalautoregs.com.

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Green Car Congress

JULY 22, 2009

Current members include Bendix, Bosch, Continental Automotive Systems, FIA Foundation for the Automobile and Society, Ford Motor Company, General Motors, Nissan Technical Center North America, and Toyota Motor Engineering and Manufacturing North America. Tags: Fuel Efficiency Market Background Sales.

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Green Car Congress

JANUARY 22, 2012

The general principle of RFID positioning is to use signal strength by multiple RFID readers and tags to triangulate vehicle position. Auto OEMs participating include Audi; BMW; Chrysler; Coda; Daimler; Fisker; Ford; GM; Honda; Mitsubishi; Nissan; Phoenix; and Toyota. Bus manufacturers Volvo and Proterra are also participating.

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Green Car Congress

JULY 16, 2009

In March, SDG&E announced it would partner with Nissan Motor Co. Tags: Conversions Hybrids Plug-ins. to help develop the market for zero-emission electric vehicles and charging infrastructure in the San Diego region. Earlier post.).

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Green Car Congress

NOVEMBER 9, 2010

Motors; Honda R&D Americas; Nissan Technical Center North America; and Toyota. Tags: Brazil China Europe India Japan Other Asia Policy Russia Sustainability. Current members of this research consortium are: Autoliv Electronics; Bosch; FIA Foundation for the Automobile and Society; General.

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Plugs and Cars

NOVEMBER 17, 2010

Nissan LEAF buyers are excluded. I think it makes sense for public resources to drive the early rollout. Tags: chargepoint america coulomb technologies aerovironment public charging clipper creek leviton. ChargePoint America is looking for hosts for charge stations. Ecotality's EV Project got an exclusive.) But for whom?

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Plugs and Cars

JUNE 4, 2009

Nissan appears intent on opening up a market for mid-price range electric cars within two years. It hasn’t led to an immediate abandonment by the automakers of this long over-subsidized initiative, but it will help put a stopper in the drain on resources accelerated under President Bush. Here's my June column. No plug, no deal!

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Green Car Congress

SEPTEMBER 16, 2010

Six automotive manufacturers (General Motors, Ford, Chrysler, Toyota, Honda, Nissan) were identified as representing the overwhelming majority of vehicles sales for the study period (87.5%), and the top selling platforms of these manufacturers thus became the focus of the Ricardo study. Tags: Ethanol Fuels Policy. —Ricardo, Inc.

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Green Car Congress

NOVEMBER 16, 2009

Carlos Ghosn, President & CEO, Nissan Motor Company, Ltd. Tags: Electric (Battery) Policy. Molinaroli, Chairman, Johnson Controls-Saft and President, Johnson Controls Power Solutions. Reuben Munger, Chairman, Bright Automotive, Inc. Frederick W. Smith, Chairman, President & CEO, FedEx Corporation. Electrification Roadmap.

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Plug In Partners

NOVEMBER 3, 2008

PHEV s allow for optimization of readily available clean-energy resources and represent a sustainable transportation solution that can be delivered today. Ford , Chrysler , Volvo Nissan , Subaru and VW have all indicated they will be bringing plug-in hybrids to the showroom floor for sale within the next few years.

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Green Car Congress

JULY 20, 2009

Nissan is developing an inductive charging system capable of transmitting power wirelessly over longer distances, and is exploring scaling it up for use with its electric car. Inductive charging with a paddle-type connector was used in a number of earlier EVs, notably GM’s EV1, the Nissan Hypermini EV, and the Toyota RAV4. Science Vol.

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Creative Greenius

SEPTEMBER 23, 2015

So far GM, Toyota, Nissan, VW, Mitsubishi, have all announced plug in vehicles they will have for sale in 2010. And start speaking up and speaking out against patently stupid and dangerous ideas like drilling for more oil domestically or using our abundant coal resources. Filed under: environment Tagged: 350.org

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Green Cars News

OCTOBER 30, 2009

The largest ever study of the sustainability of car manufacturing of 17 of the world’s leading car companies found that Asian car manufacturers are outperforming their North American, and many of their European competitors, in using their economic, environmental and social resources more efficiently. billion from 1999 to 2007.

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Green Car Congress

JUNE 22, 2009

Nissan Motor Co., provided an update on its progress under the Nissan Green Program 2010 (NGP 2010) mid-term environmental plan. Nissan also announced the introduction of an automatic transmission (AT) model with a clean-diesel engine in the Japanese market, planned for spring 2010. Recycling Resources. Raleigh, N.C.

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Green Car Congress

MAY 29, 2009

Ten years into their Alliance, Renault and Nissan are taking the cooperation to a higher level. Since 1999, Renault and Nissan have achieved and developed an alliance that has created significant value for the two companies. —Carlos Ghosn, Chairman and CEO of the Renault-Nissan Alliance. billion (US$2.1

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Green Car Congress

MAY 7, 2009

The Renault-Nissan Alliance has formed a partnership with the Energy Market Authority (EMA), the Land Transport Authority (LTA) and the Economic Development Board (EDB) of Singapore to explore the development of Zero Emission Vehicles Program. Tags: Brief.

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Tony Karrer Delicious EVdriven

APRIL 21, 2009

Our PRIUS+ Project Photos PHEV Resources Global Warming Take Action News and Events Contact Us Latest from CalCars-News: [ see all latest ] How CalCars Green-Tuned an 04 Prius into a PRIUS+ Plug-In Hybrid! See our Resources page for links to the main online discussion groups.) Tags: evdriven.

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Tony Karrer Delicious EVdriven

APRIL 30, 2009

and Nissan MotorCo., Tags: evdriven. We understand the situation, in terms of government andincentives,” Fukui said April 23 in Detroit. Naturally, we’regoing to have to accommodate that too.” General Motors Corp., Toyota Motor Corp. and startups Tesla Motors Inc. and Fisker Automotive Inc.,are

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Tony Karrer Delicious EVdriven

APRIL 21, 2009

According to Ceder, the compound, known as lithium iron phosphate (LiFePO4), has a crystal structure that creates “perfectly sized tunnels for lithium to move through,&# allowing the team to reach “ridiculously fast charging rates.&# » See also: Nissan Planning Electric Car Battery Plant in Portugal » Get Gas 2.0

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