Green Car Congress

OCTOBER 9, 2013

The company expects to sell 3,000 units per month in Japan. Sales will begin on 21 November, starting with the gasoline engine and a hybrid models, to be followed by a diesel version. This will make Mazda the first domestic automaker to offer gasoline, diesel and hybrid versions of a single model in Japan. liter gasoline engine.

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Green Car Congress

AUGUST 30, 2009

In 1975, General Ernesto Geisel, then-president of Brazil, ordered the country’s gasoline supply mixed with 10% ethanol. The level was raised to 25% over the next five years, which was intended to maintain a constant Brazilian gasoline supply for an ever-increasing demand.

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Green Car Congress

MAY 22, 2012

The company reached the 3-million mark with its hybrids in February 2011. The second-generation Prius followed in 2003 along with the expanded use of TMC’s hybrid system on such vehicles as minivans, SUVs, rear-wheel-drive sedans and compact hatchbacks. Of these, the original Prius (liftback) accounts for 65.8% Click to enlarge.

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Green Car Congress

SEPTEMBER 15, 2020

The BMW X3 is the first model available with highly efficient gasoline and diesel engines incorporating 48-volt mild-hybrid technology, with a plug-in hybrid drive train, or as a pure electric model. By producing high-voltage batteries where they are needed, the company is able to minimize transportation and thus contribute to sustainability.

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Green Car Congress

AUGUST 5, 2011

Faced with flagging demand for gasoline and other petroleum products in their respective home markets, the two giants will invest a total of around 120 billion yen [US$1.5 The companies reportedly will form two joint ventures: In petrochemicals, the JX Holdings Inc. Korea—JX Nippon Oil & Energy Corp. and SK Innovation Co.—will

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Green Car Congress

MAY 14, 2012

Opel’s first new engine for a revamped portfolio is a turbocharged 1598 cc, four-cylinder gasoline unit with direct injection and Start/Stop. Opel is fundamentally renewing its engine range over the next 12 months with the launch of three completely new gasoline and diesel families intended to replace the core of the current portfolio.

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Green Car Congress

JUNE 27, 2013

The number ‘8’ Toyota hybrid which took second-place in the race required 43 minutes and 20.111 seconds for 30 stops but, due to a fuel tank capacity of 76 liters, was able to refuel up to 2,280 liters of gasoline. Audi was not only faster, but the entire race car including its TDI powertrain was more efficient as well, the company concluded.

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Green Car Congress

MAY 24, 2012

billion) since 2009, the year the company announced it would build a second plant. “”, continued Reithofer. BMW AG has been producing BMW 3 Series and 5 Series models for the Chinese market with its long-standing joint venture partner, Brilliance, in Shenyang since 2003. billion (US$1.9 —Norbert Reithofer.

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Green Car Congress

OCTOBER 4, 2013

Butamax Advanced Biofuels LLC, the biobutanol technology company formed as a joint venture between DuPont and BP, and Highwater Ethanol LLC, a producer of first-generation corn ethanol, have begun to retrofit Highwater’s ethanol plant in Lamberton, Minnesota for the production of bio-isobutanol. of the hydrocarbon gasoline.

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Green Car Congress

MARCH 19, 2014

The Department of Energy’s Pacific Northwest National Laboratory (PNNL) has joined H 2 USA: a consortium of automakers, energy companies, government laboratories, and others that aims to accelerate the rollout of an infrastructure for hydrogen-powered vehicles and related technologies. Earlier post.).

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Green Car Congress

MAY 10, 2012

The 2012-2013 plan update allocates $100 million to encourage investments in the following areas: $20 million to help develop and produce biofuels, including gasoline and diesel substitutes, and biomethane. million for E85 fuel (85 percent ethanol, 15 percent gasoline) and $1.5 11 million for hydrogen cell fueling stations.

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Green Car Congress

FEBRUARY 14, 2017

The Toyota Hybrid System (THS), which was incorporated in the first generation Prius, evolved into THS II in 2003, and was thereafter rolled out in a wide range of Toyota vehicles. As the number of companies developing and launching hybrid vehicles increased, so a new segment of “hybrid vehicles” was established. thousand vs. 266.2

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Green Car Congress

AUGUST 15, 2016

Infiniti said that the new four-cylinder turbocharged gasoline VC-T engine has been in development for more than 20 years. Nissan, in a 2003 paper, said that its multi-link geometry resolved those previous issues. liter turbo gasoline engine with a high level of efficiency at the same time. Takahashi, N., and Hiyoshi, R.

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Revenge of the Electric Car

MAY 12, 2009

However, by the time I began shopping for an all-electric car, in 2003, the EV1 had already been yanked from showrooms as if the car had never existed. When the car companies collectively, and, to some, diabolically, decided to take these cars back, the electric vehicles disappeared. But not mine. I have the pink slip.

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Green Car Congress

OCTOBER 24, 2017

The company already produces electrified vehicles at ten locations worldwide. The company plans to sell 100,000 electrified vehicles worldwide by the end of the year. The Dadong plant in the northeast of the city opened in 2003 and currently produces the BMW 5 Series Long-Wheelbase Version. Shenyang production facility.

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Green Car Congress

JULY 27, 2017

Royal Mail—since 2003 a quoted company with shares traded on the LSE—is the UK’s designated Universal Postal Service Provider. The lithium-ion battery pack is fitted under the load floor, ensuring there is no loss of load space compared with gasoline and diesel-powered Partner L2 models.

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Plugs and Cars

MAY 12, 2009

However, by the time I began shopping for an all-electric car, in 2003, the EV1 had already been yanked from showrooms as if the car had never existed. When the car companies collectively, and, to some, diabolically, decided to take these cars back, the electric vehicles disappeared. But not mine. I have the pink slip.

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Cars That Think

DECEMBER 4, 2023

according to a 2023 study citing recent data from the National Transportation Safety Board and the Bureau of Transportation Statistics , gasoline-powered, internal-combustion engine (ICE) cars were involved in about 1,530 fires per every 100,000 sold. Speaking of fires in cars fueled by gasoline or diesel, he says, “It’s an everyday event.

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Green Car Congress

MARCH 8, 2009

The RBAEF project, which was launched in 2003, is the most comprehensive study of the performance and cost of mature technologies for producing energy from biomass to date. a company commercializing a cellulosic ethanol production process, is co-author of five of the eight papers in the special issue. Laser et al.

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Green Car Congress

FEBRUARY 15, 2011

Challenges and issues discussed in this report include: To compete with advancing gasoline/diesel engines, EV traction batteries have to be much more than twice as energy dense as lithium-ion ever will be, at least three times cheaper, and last much longer before replacement.

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Green Car Congress

AUGUST 3, 2012

Fay says that the company is planning to sell the full complement of 2,600 RAV EVs in California, plus 30,000 Prius plug-in hybrids and to introduce iQ EV urban car sharing programs to achieve ZEV compliance. Compared with the gasoline-powered RAV4, at 0.35 Cd, RAV4 EV achieves the lowest coefficient of drag of any SUV in the world.

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Revenge of the Electric Car

JANUARY 22, 2009

The company launched last month at Green Motors in Berkeley, California. The same state agency that drove the electric car off a cliff is now poised to wreck a new Berkeley company that triples the gas mileage of a Toyota Prius. “Acting too soon will shut off innovation and will kill companies that are just getting started.&#.

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Plugs and Cars

NOVEMBER 8, 2007

Oil companies shut out of electric markets are exploring biofuels and hydrogen as potential markets they could control. That which they don't kill (EVs in 2003) they hope to delay (FCVs in 2008). Carmakers are desirous of delaying the inevitable but problematic move to electric drive.

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Tony Karrer Delicious EVdriven

APRIL 16, 2009

Why hes banking on an obscure Chinese electric car company and a CEO who - no joke - drinks his own battery fluid. MidAmericans David Sokol, BYDs Wang, and company advisor Li Lu flew with Sokol from Detroit to Omaha so that Wang could meet Buffett in person. EMAIL | PRINT | SHARE | RSS DIGG FACEBOOK DEL.ICIO.US

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Green Car Congress

OCTOBER 20, 2014

Europe has gasoline taxes over $4 per gallon and still finds the need to adopt aggressive performance standards for cars to reduce GHGs and oil use. The initial sales requirement was 2% of car sales in 1998 (representing about 20,000 vehicles at the time), increasing to 5% in 2001 and 10% in 2003.

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Clean Fleet Report

APRIL 12, 2024

The e:FCEV advances Honda’s emissions goals as the company marches to 100-percent zero emission vehicles (battery electric or fuel cell electric) by 2040. For all operations, the company aims to reach carbon neutrality by 2050. Hydrogen prices fluctuate in a broader range than gasoline or electricity. Two (or is it three?)

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Baua Electric

OCTOBER 11, 2024

While buyers of gasoline- and diesel-powered automobiles in the state have had to pay a 6.625% sales tax, EV owners have been exempt as part of the Drive Green NJ program.

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Tony Karrer Delicious EVdriven

APRIL 21, 2009

Scientist have confirmed that unlike gasoline cars, plug-ins will get cleaner as they get older -- because our power grid is getting cleaner. The comparison keeps being raised, though studies are conclusive: The "well-to-wheel" emissions of electric vehicles are lower than those from gasoline internal combustion vehicles.

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Tony Karrer Delicious EVdriven

APRIL 30, 2009

Honda, which began leasing hydrogen fuel cell FCX Claritysedans in Los Angeles last year, still sees hydrogen as the bestlong-term alternative to gasoline as a fuel that can cut carbonexhaust tied to global warming, President Takeo Fukui said in aninterview. in Japan’s Kyoto prefecture to make packsfor gasoline-electric hybrid cars.

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Get Electric Vehicle

MARCH 9, 2021

They were not considered to be fit for what is expected from a conventional gasoline vehicle. Giant companies were paying no or very little attention in the electric vehicle market and they were still focusing on developing new IC engine-powered models. The Beginning (2003). Yes, he founded SpaceX but not Tesla motors.

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Revenge of the Electric Car

OCTOBER 25, 2008

During the past couple of years the American driving public has witnessed how dependent they are of gasoline, and vulnerable to rapidly increasing energy prices. Production of the approximately 500 cars will take place at the company’s Oxford and Munich sites and is scheduled for completion before the end of 2008.

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Green Cars News

MAY 18, 2009

However, Hanks was quick to point out that this was not the case in his response: “By the time I began shopping for an all-electric car, in 2003, the EV1 had already been yanked from showrooms as if the car had never existed. The original piece by Peter J Boyer assumed that Hanks had at one time owned the EV1 briefly touted by GM.

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Tony Karrer Delicious EVdriven

APRIL 21, 2009

Despite this, a 2003 EPRI study , assuming only $2/gallon gas , zero buying incentives, and a PHEV premium of $3-$5,000 more than standard hybrids, shows that the total lifetime cost of ownership for a PHEV will be lower than that of any other vehicle type -- so the payback will be there. What do car companies say about PHEVs?

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Blink Charging

JUNE 23, 2023

In Deloitte’s Global 2022 Gen Z and Millennial Survey , Gen Z (born 1995-2003) and Millennials (born 1983-1994) ranked climate change in their top concerns after the cost of living. Some companies offer a benefit to employees who buy or lease an electric vehicle.

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Blink Charging

JUNE 23, 2023

In Deloitte’s Global 2022 Gen Z and Millennial Survey , Gen Z (born 1995-2003) and Millennials (born 1983-1994) ranked climate change in their top concerns after the cost of living. Some companies offer a benefit to employees who buy or lease an electric vehicle.

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Tony Karrer Delicious EVdriven

APRIL 21, 2009

On the highway, it runs just like any other Prius, with the gasoline engine doing most of the work -- and the extra batteries kicking in to improve performance at ALL speeds. If you know a decisionmaker at a company or institution that needs a best-available hybrid mini-fleet, especially Prius or Ford Escape, send them to us.

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Electric Auto Association

JANUARY 5, 2023

When Straubel—also known for his 1984 Porsche 944 EV conversion—left Tesla, he founded Redwood Materials , a leading lithium battery recycling company in Carson City, Nevada. Chapter member Ian Wright cofounded Tesla then later founded Wrightspeed, a company that built large hybrid trucks in San Jose. After that, the word spread fast.”

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