Green Car Reports

APRIL 27, 2011

The history of the auto industry is littered with the carcasses of the cars and companies that didn't make it. But many concepts, development vehicles, one-offs, and other technology experiments preceded that first Prius. Modern hybrid-electric vehicles were first commercialized by Toyota, with its 1997 Prius (sold in the U.S.

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Green Car Congress

NOVEMBER 10, 2009

Cadillac included the Converj concept car at the 2009 North American International Auto Show. Cadillac needs as much excitement in its portfolio as possible, so I think it’s a good strategy for them,” said Rebecca Lindland, director of auto industry research at IHS Global Insight in Lexington, Mass. Earlier post.)

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Green Car Congress

OCTOBER 14, 2013

The facility will allow Ford to collaborate with battery cell manufacturers, suppliers, university researchers and startups to test new battery concepts on a small scale that could be replicated for full production. This is sorely needed, and no one else in the auto industry has anything like it. —Ted Miller.

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Green Car Reports

SEPTEMBER 2, 2011

With the 2011 Frankfurt Auto Show less than two weeks away the German auto industry is starting to really crank out the concept cars. Latest in the onslaught of new German metal is the Audi A2 concept. If you think the name sounds familiar then you aren't wrong. It was never sold in the U.S.

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Green Car Reports

MARCH 12, 2019

At the pace of the auto industry, and its five or six year cycles, it’s overdue. Last week Fiat revealed an all-electric Concept Centoventi, which envisioned a future EV that would offer a lot. Are you ready for a new generation of the Fiat 500e electric car?

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Green Car Congress

SEPTEMBER 20, 2009

EcoMotors International, a Khosla-funded startup working to commercialize a diesel opoc (opposed-piston, opposed-cylinder) engine ( earlier post ), has named auto industry veteran Donald Runkle as its new CEO. EcoMotors was founded in 2008 by Prof.

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Green Car Congress

APRIL 20, 2014

Furthermore, the Bentley Hybrid Concept opens a window on the broad-ranging potential of hybrid technology. China will be an integral part of the Group’s “Future Tracks” initiative, which addresses the nascent digitalization era in the auto industry. Earlier post.). All these vehicles are highly efficient and eco-friendly.

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Teslarati

OCTOBER 10, 2023

Ahead of an appearance at the Japan Mobility Show later this month, Nissan has unveiled its second vehicle concept it plans to digitally display at the expo. The Japanese automaker this week shared the Hyper Adventure electric vehicle (EV) concept, an automobile designed with outdoor enthusiasts in mind.

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CleanTechnica EVs

JANUARY 13, 2023

India’s electric car sector is now starting to show signs of life after the slow start compared to other markets, given how large India’s auto industry is. However, the electric car sector has been pretty slow. About 4 million cars across all drivetrains […].

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Green Car Congress

NOVEMBER 1, 2018

The facilities will be led by teams of industry-leading researchers, designers and engineers located in close proximity to automakers’ manufacturing sites in North America, China and Europe. As the facilities come online, cross-regional teams will be in place to ramp up product development in critical stages for the auto industry.

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Green Car Congress

FEBRUARY 17, 2016

China-based technology company LeEco and Aston Martin have signed a Memorandum of Understanding (MOU) towards the creation of a partnership that will develop a production version of the Aston Martin RapidE electric vehicle concept—a fully electric version of the Rapide S four-door sports sedan. Earlier post.). Earlier post.).

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Teslarati

APRIL 4, 2023

Genesis has unveiled the GV80 electric SUV concept, which shows an unusual next step in performance EVs for the brand. Now, Genesis has shown off its newest concept vehicle, which could define how the brand moves forward in the near future, the GV80. With this showing today, the company is on track to achieve just that.

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Green Car Congress

JANUARY 29, 2019

Jingju is a key component of a DiDi-BAIC strategic partnership formed in a growing alliance between DiDi and auto-industry players. DiDi started partnership programs with automakers and fleet operators in 2016, and launched the DiDi Auto Alliance, an industry-chain partnership network in April 2018.

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Green Car Reports

JANUARY 6, 2012

Next week's Detroit Auto Show promises to be the busiest and most influential in several years. With the auto industry continuing to recover slowly from its 2008 meltdown and Chinese sales rising, both U.S. and overseas automakers will launch new models and show off gleaming concept cars. The largest.

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Green Car Congress

SEPTEMBER 25, 2014

The investment positions Aleris to meet anticipated significant growth in North American automotive demand as the industry pursues broader aluminum use for the production of lighter, more fuel-efficient vehicles.

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Green Car Congress

SEPTEMBER 21, 2021

Schaeffler will increase the facility’s round-the-clock output capacity to 800,000 products a year by 2023, and has further plans to expand its annual output of finished products for premium partners in the auto industry to 1.8 million between 2026 and 2029.

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CleanTechnica EVs

MARCH 8, 2023

The concept of vehicles being intelligent devices is relatively new, and it has largely come as a result of Tesla’s contributions to the auto industry.

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Electrek

APRIL 3, 2023

As it transitions to fully electric, zero-emission vehicles, Volkswagen looks to maintain its position in the auto industry. Part of this plan includes transforming iconic brand names like the Golf and Tiguan to electric while adding new EVs to the lineup, such as VW’s new affordable ID 2all concept.

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Green Car Congress

JANUARY 5, 2012

Additionally, executives expect that hybrid fuel systems, battery electric power and fuel cell electric power will be the alternative propulsion technologies to attract the most auto industry investment over the next five years.

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Green Car Congress

FEBRUARY 18, 2014

ADEPT combines the two technologies, which have been demonstrated individually but not yet as an integrated system, applying the low voltage concept of ‘intelligent electrification’ for the first time to a diesel car. SR machines are ideally suited to this concept of low cost development, while reducing the cost of production components.

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EV Central

APRIL 14, 2025

MG is launching its IM Motors electric luxury sub-brand in Australia with two models, five variants and rhetoric thats super-heated even by the standards of auto industry marketing spiel. Only founded in December 2020, its first concepts were presented at the Shanghai auto show in 2021 and its first model went on-sale in 2022.

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CleanTechnica EVs

MARCH 3, 2022

Prior to the rise of Tesla, conventional wisdom held that it would be practically impossible for a startup company to challenge the behemoths of Big Auto. When economics professors explained the concept of barriers to entry, the auto industry was usually example #1.

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Revenge of the Electric Car

JANUARY 27, 2010

Better Place’s concept is for battery-swapping stations to complement a network of charge spots so that electric cars like partner Renault’s <RENA.PA> planned Zoe can extend their range without the need of an additional back-up engine that burns fossil fuel.&#. Reporting by Christiaan Hetzner; Editing by Greg Mahlich).

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Green Car Congress

SEPTEMBER 30, 2020

We don’t expect output figures in the auto industry to return to pre-crisis levels for at least two to three years. We will not be losing any technology segments through this but will adapt our site concept and consolidate capabilities.

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Green Car Reports

NOVEMBER 2, 2012

auto industry, buyers have been slower to catch on to the concept. After years of slow sales around a decade ago, Toyota has now sold over 4 million hybrids. And Honda recently passed its first million. But in the home of the U.S. According to the Detroit Free Press, research by Edmunds shows.

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Baua Electric

MARCH 24, 2024

Companies can implement an incentive and variable pay concept to manage compensation. The post Fast evolving auto industry needs befitting HR solutions | Autocar Professional appeared first on Bauaelectric Auto News. They should also address skill shortages, diversity, technology disruptions, and regulatory compliance.

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Green Car Congress

APRIL 2, 2009

In the long-term, Duvall said, EPRI sees about a 500 million ton CO 2 per year reduction for auto industry “ almost entirely due to replacement of gasoline with lower carbon electricity.”. The concept that Tony [Posawatz] used of a plug-in ecosystem is perfect for what we are trying to do. The charging pyramid. Source: EPRI.

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Green Car Congress

NOVEMBER 21, 2013

While the auto industry will never eliminate every potential driver distraction, we can develop new ways to keep driver attention and awareness where it needs to be—on the road ahead. These included the funding of two university research programs in addition to the DAR-V new-concept research vehicle. —Chuck Gulash.

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Green Car Congress

JUNE 14, 2023

This marks the start of one of the biggest industrial decarbonization projects worldwide, which at one stroke will avoid more than 3.5 million tons of directly reduced iron and can be seamlessly integrated into the existing steel mill due to its innovative concept. million metric tons of CO 2 per year in the future.

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Green Car Congress

DECEMBER 17, 2015

Once the technology was studied for Ford’s supercar concept, the team realized there were real-world applications for the new hybrid glass. Originally introduced in America by Henry Ford, the technology has been used in the auto industry for nearly a century. Click to enlarge. —Paul Linden. Earlier post.)

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Green Car Congress

APRIL 7, 2010

The Renault-Nissan Alliance knows how to work successfully in collaborative partnerships, and this experience is extremely valuable in today’s and even more tomorrow’s global auto industry. One main characteristic of the new architecture will be the rear wheel drive concept used by current smart vehicles.

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Green Car Congress

NOVEMBER 13, 2013

The way cars are used here, the ways in which cars interact with the environment, the way in which human beings reside in urban centers in China are profoundly going to seed the development of the auto industry in every other part of the world. World-leading theories and models leading to new TE concepts. Industrial partners.

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Green Car Congress

MARCH 13, 2009

Ener1 said that customer interest in its lithium-ion batteries from all segments remained strong in spite of distress the auto industry and current recessionary economic conditions. Early design concept development program with a European automotive company. Net loss in 2008 was $43 million, compared to a loss of $51.7

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Teslarati

APRIL 27, 2023

Besides Tesla’s evident impact on the auto industry switching to electric vehicles, its other significant contribution is to automotive design. Ford has patented a new gullwing door design, which likely takes a little inspiration from the Tesla Model X.

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Baua Electric

DECEMBER 3, 2024

After revealing its new Type 00 electric vehicle concept this week, Jaguar has been the center of the spotlight. Jaguar Type 00 luxury EV concept (Source: Jaguar) Jaguar welcomes attention over controversial luxury EV Rawdon Glover, appointed to lead the revamped Jaguar brand last year, welcomes the attention, for better or for worse.

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Revenge of the Electric Car

APRIL 12, 2010

2009 BMW Concept ActiveE. BMW will partner with composites expert SGL Group to construct a new plant in Moses Lake, Washington, that will manufacture lightweight carbon-fiber materials for auto industry applications. The most recent is the new ActiveE Concept, which was revealed at January’s Detroit Auto Show.

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Green Car Congress

MAY 13, 2016

Plasma oxidation can be used to produce all grades of carbon fiber from low-end industrial to high-end aerospace grades. Paulauskas developed the scientific concept for the plasma oxidation method eight years ago and worked with RMX Technologies to develop prototypes and demonstrate the technology at the lab scale. Click to enlarge.

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