Green Car Congress

JULY 15, 2010

Mitsubishi Motors Australia Limited (MMAL) has three times as many applicants to lease the i-MiEV electric vehicle as available vehicles at this point, according to MMAL’s CEO and president, Masahiko Takahashi. “ Tags: Brief. We could not have wished for a better response ,” Takahashi said. Department of Environment.

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Green Car Congress

JANUARY 14, 2010

A123 Systems has entered a battery supply agreement with Fisker Automotive to supply battery systems for the Fisker Karma Plug-in Hybrid Electric Vehicle (PHEV). The Karma—an extended-range electric vehicle—is scheduled to be launched in late 2010. Tags: Batteries Hybrids Plug-ins. Earlier post.).

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Teslarati

JULY 13, 2021

The documents reveal some of the more detailed specifications of the all-electric crossover, including Tesla’s use of LFP batteries in the vehicle, the battery chemistry the automaker planned to transition its Standard Range vehicles to. Customers could order the vehicle as early as last week.

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Teslarati

APRIL 30, 2023

Chinese electric vehicle manufacturer NIO appears to be preparing to capture some market share from mainstream automakers like Volkswagen. According to recent reports, NIO plans to launch a competitively priced model for the European market at a price tag below 30,000 euros (about $33,060).

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Teslarati

JULY 5, 2023

The China Passenger Car Association (CPCA) recently released its monthly report, revealing that electric vehicle maker Tesla was able to sell an impressive 93,680 cars over the month. Tesla’s results suggest that concerns surrounding supply chain disruptions and weak consumer demand for electric cars are gradually dissipating.

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Green Car Congress

JULY 26, 2010

Eaton Corporation is collaborating with the Electric Power Research Institute (EPRI) and the Tennessee Valley Authority (TVA) on a prototype integrated solar-assisted electric vehicle charging station to be erected at EPRI’s research laboratory in Knoxville, Tenn. Tags: Brief. kW capacity).

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Green Car Congress

JULY 28, 2010

billion in rebates to buyers of natural gas-powered vehicles, from light- to heavy-duty; and $400 million to support the deployment of plug-in vehicles in targeted communities. Heading into the weekend, the bill only dealt with oil spills, natural gas vehicles, Home Star and land and water. Plug-in vehicles.

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Green Car Congress

NOVEMBER 10, 2009

Accenture has identified 12 technologies that it concludes have the potential to disrupt the current views of transport fuels supply, demand and GHG emissions over the next 10 years. Technologically, the algae industry is very fragmented—possibly the most fragmented of all of the industries covered in this report, Accenture noted.

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Green Car Congress

MARCH 26, 2010

The Nikkei reports that Mazda Motor Corp. will introduce as early as 2013 a mid-size hybrid vehicle based on core components supplied by Toyota Motor Corp. The hybrid systems for Mazda will be supplied by Toyota group parts manufacturers at an initial rate of tens of thousands of units a year. Tags: Brief.

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Green Car Congress

SEPTEMBER 26, 2010

The Nikkei reports that Mitsubishi Motors Corp. LG Chem will first supply lithium-ion batteries for electric prototype vehicles on which Mitsubishi Motors is working. The Nikkei report notes that this may become the first case of a Japanese automaker producing electric cars incorporating lithium-ion batteries made overseas.

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Green Car Congress

NOVEMBER 23, 2010

The Nikkei reports that Toshiba aims to apply its samarium-cobalt (SmCo) magnets to consumer electronics within one year and also hopes to commercialize them for electric vehicles. Tags: Brief. Prices will also be lower due to the reduced use of expensive cobalt.

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Green Car Congress

OCTOBER 6, 2010

Premier John Brumby launched the Australian state of Victoria’s Electric Vehicle Trial, with more than 50 organizations and 180 households to participate in the five-year, A$5-million (US$4.9-million) About 60 vehicles will be used in the trial and have been provided by Blade Electric Vehicles, Toyota, Mitsubishi, Nissan and EDay Life.

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Teslarati

OCTOBER 7, 2022

To further help manage supply constraints and provide more predictable order-to-delivery times for all of our customers, we are pausing retail orders on the Select model. The Ford Mustang Mach-E now starts at $54,975, matching the recently increased $50k price tag of the Ford F150 Lightning.

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Baua Electric

MARCH 5, 2024

British automaker Jaguar – set to become an EV-only brand next year – is officially ending production of its ICE vehicles by June and stepping into a new era of very expensive but powerful EVs. Jaguar is looking for a fresh start, and that means the I-Pace is dying too, along with its current crop of gas- and diesel-powered road vehicles.

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Green Car Congress

JULY 28, 2010

Earlier this year, Nissan Nissan North America (NNA) selected AeroVironment to supply electric vehicle home-charging stations and installation services supporting the introduction of the LEAF. Aker Wade: Level III networked fast charging stations for electric vehicles worldwide. Blink residential unit. Source: Ecotality.

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Green Car Congress

JULY 20, 2010

At the Clean Energy Ministerial in Washington, DC, 19-20 July, ministers reaffirmed their commitment to previously-announced targets for the deployment of electric vehicles, which the International Energy Agency (IEA) estimates will create global market momentum leading to at least 20 million electric vehicles on the road worldwide by 2020.

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Green Car Congress

JANUARY 17, 2010

A series of recent reports—one from the National Research Council (NRC) ( earlier post ) and another from the Boston Consulting Group ( earlier post )—concluded that an expected continuing high cost of lithium-ion batteries will dampen mass market adoption of plug-in vehicles. Earlier post.).

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Green Car Congress

AUGUST 12, 2010

The Detroit Free Press reports that Chrysler is looking for a new battery supplier after A123 Systems withdrew from the Fiat 500 electric vehicle project after the battery maker reported a second-quarter loss of $34.2 Tags: Brief. million, compared with a loss of $21.9 million a year earlier.

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Green Car Congress

JULY 7, 2010

The first EC-funded European Lighthouse Project (LHP) for hydrogen fuel cell cars will launch in Oslo, Norway in 2011 with 17 hydrogen fuel cell vehicles and a large scale hydrogen refuelling station by H2 Logic. Results will be disseminated through a set of public reports. Tags: Europe Fuel Cells Hydrogen. Earlier post.)

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My Energi

NOVEMBER 16, 2022

Even prior to the catastrophic impact caused by Russia’s invasion of Ukraine, prices were creeping up and unprecedented demand was beginning to put pressure on available supply. In addition, installers nationwide have been reporting enquiry surges of more than 1,000%. In 2021 alone, wholesale costs soared by upwards of 250%.

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Green Car Congress

APRIL 5, 2010

Kyodo News reports that the Renault-Nissan Alliance has basically agreed on a capital and business tie-up deal with Daimler AG, citing unnamed sources familiar with the matter. Daimler is also considering supplying large-displacement gasoline and diesel engines to Nissan, Japan’s third-largest automaker which is owned 44.3

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Green Car Congress

SEPTEMBER 14, 2009

Scheduled to go online in 2011, the Horiba test system will be able to accommodate tracked vehicles weighing up to 44 tons and 10-wheeled trucks weighing up to 33 tons. When completed, PEVEL will be the largest environmental chamber for combat and tactical vehicle testing in the world. Tags: Brief. Earlier post.)

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Green Car Congress

SEPTEMBER 24, 2009

Standards will support interoperability of all the various pieces of the system, ranging from large utility companies down to individual homes, electronic devices and plug-in electric vehicles (PEVs). Plug-in electric vehicles. The action plan defines data standards to enable the charging of plug-in electric vehicles (PEVs).

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Green Car Congress

AUGUST 18, 2009

The Nikkei reports that Toyota Motor Corp. will procure batteries for hybrid vehicles from Sanyo Electric Co. Toyota plans to receive supplies of lithium ion batteries, which have higher output and capacity than the nickel-metal hydride batteries now used in the Prius and other hybrids. Tags: Brief.

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Green Car Congress

JULY 16, 2009

The Nikkei reports that Toyota Motor Corp. will supply core components for the hybrid vehicle Mazda Motor Corp. The leading plan calls for Toyota to supply the components as a bundled hybrid system. The report says that Mazda will apply the Toyota components in midsize passenger vehicles.

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Green Car Congress

APRIL 11, 2010

The Nikkei reports that Honda Motor Co. The battery, to be supplied by Toshiba, has a long life&mash;more than 6,000 charge-discharge cycles—and can be charged at high speed. For Toshiba, this represents the first big deal for its vehicle batteries, a product category it hopes to beef up. Tags: Brief. Yamaha Motor Co.,

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Green Car Congress

NOVEMBER 3, 2009

The Nikkei reported that Nissan Motor Co. will build a joint-venture lithium-ion battery plant in France in 2012 to supply Renault. In addition to batteries, Nissan and Renault plan to work together on motors and other key components of electric vehicles to bring down production costs. Automotive Energy Supply Corp.,

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Green Car Congress

APRIL 7, 2010

The initiative is sponsored by the Carbon Disclosure Project (CDP), which established the disclosure and reporting framework used by 2,500 of the world’s largest companies to report carbon emissions. Ford has reported to the CDP on its successful efforts to reduce its carbon footprint since 2003.

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Green Car Congress

JUNE 1, 2010

The new technology offers improved cost, performance and efficiency of hybrid and electric vehicle powertrains; applications include hybrid, plug-in hybrid and all-electric vehicles, range extenders, auxiliary power units (APU) and integrated starter-generator (ISG) systems. Tags: Motors. EVO Electric Ltd. , kg/kW nominal).

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Green Car Congress

MAY 8, 2009

EnerDel and Fisker, the independent American carmaker developing a line of plug-in vehicles for the global market, have signed a letter of intent for a potential long-term battery supply agreement. The Fisker Karma is scheduled to be the first OEM plug-in hybrid electric vehicle (PHEV) on the US market in June 2010.

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Green Car Congress

JULY 31, 2009

Projected consumption assumes efficiency improvements in powertrain and vehicle are offset by increases in performance, size and weight. Improvements result from an optimistic scenario achieving doubling of new vehicle fuel economy in 2035 from today’s value. Source: America’s Energy Future, Fig. Click to enlarge.

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Green Car Congress

MARCH 30, 2010

The Nikkei reports that Toyota Motor Corp. Panasonic EV supplies most of its output to Toyota. Panasonic EV is planning to triple annual production capacity at its Miyagi factory to enough nickel-metal hydride batteries for 300,000 hybrid vehicles. million vehicles, an increase of 40% from the end of last year.

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Green Car Congress

FEBRUARY 21, 2010

The Nikkei reports that GS Yuasa Corp. Orders for the i-MiEV, which begins general sales in Japan this April, have been so good that the automaker decided to increase its planned output of the vehicle, according to the report. Tags: Brief. s i-MiEV electric car by 50% from previous plans.

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Green Car Congress

JULY 23, 2010

This could be the first passenger vehicle application of the new refrigerant in the US, which has 99.7% HFO-1234yf, supplied by Honeywell, breaks down faster in the atmosphere than the refrigerant currently used (R-134a). The new regulation requires an overall 40% improvement in overall US fleet average vehicle fuel economy by 2016.

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Green Car Congress

MAY 26, 2010

The introduction of electric vehicles on a large scale in the UK can only have a beneficial effect on CO 2 emissions if low-carbon electricity, universal broadband provision and smart grids are in place to support the transition, according to a new report published by the UK Royal Academy of Engineering.

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Green Car Congress

APRIL 30, 2010

and the Tokyo Institute of Technology are developing a smart charging system to exploit wind power produced at night to charge electric vehicles. It collects data both on power generation and electric vehicle recharging. Power supplied to a charging vehicle can be stopped and restarted in increments of one second.

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Green Car Congress

JULY 9, 2009

The Nikkei reports that Mitsubishi Motors Corp. MMC) and PSA Peugeot Citroën Group will expand their EV partnership to develop plug-in hybrid vehicles. In May, MMC and PSA signed a Memorandum of Understanding regarding collaboration on electric vehicles based on the i MiEV electric vehicle currently under development by MMC in Japan.

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