Green Car Congress

OCTOBER 26, 2021

TTTech Auto and Infineon Technologies have developed key components for a fail-operational electronic architecture for highly automated driving of SAE Level 3 and 4. Failover management mechanism developed under the European PRYSTINE project (Copyright TTTech Auto). —Stefan Poledna, CTO of TTTech Auto.

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Green Car Congress

SEPTEMBER 24, 2019

We hope the addition of a collar to the Boiling Springs project will encourage other companies to consider VPPAs as a method to secure renewable power and reduce climate-altering carbon emissions. —Ryan Harty, manager, Connected and Environmental Business Development, American Honda.

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Teslarati

JULY 15, 2024

Tesla has quietly added three new climate settings to its vehicles with a new Software Update, one of which will make phone calls more enjoyable without having to touch any controls. Tesla’s climate control system is one of the most robust and advanced in any vehicle available on the market.

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CleanTechnica EVs

MARCH 5, 2025

Todays EU Automotive Plan must mark a line in the sand for concessions on car industry climate targets, green group T&E has. continued] The post EU Auto Plan Is a Major Concession to Industry It Must Be the Last appeared first on CleanTechnica.

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CleanTechnica EVs

JULY 15, 2024

The auto industry can become a lead market for low-carbon steel production in Europe if lawmakers set content requirements. Steel made with green hydrogen and electric arc furnaces, or produced from scrap, can reduce the CO2 emissions of producing cars in Europe by 6.9 Mt in 2030, new analysis shows.

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Green Car Congress

JANUARY 21, 2022

The findings are a bellwether for any vehicle manufacturer aiming to remain competitive in the auto and truck industry of the future—96% of the survey respondents indicated a willingness to switch manufacturers if that’s what it took to get their desired electric vehicle configurations.

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Green Car Congress

AUGUST 25, 2023

First unveiled at Auto Shanghai in 2021, the EQB arrived on the US market in 2022, with the the 2022 EQB 300 4MATIC starting from $54,500 and the EQB 350 4MATIC from $58,050. Possible recommendations include the ECO driving program and D Auto as well as to switch to the ECO+ climate control function. Earlier post.)

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Green Car Congress

AUGUST 13, 2020

There are two ways that auto companies approach the development of electric vehicle batteries. To power those efforts, Volkswagen’s Engineering and Planning Center in Chattanooga will soon feature a high-voltage laboratory designed to develop and test electric vehicle cells and battery packs for upcoming models assembled in the United States.

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Green Car Reports

APRIL 26, 2021

Lashing out against proposals for upcoming Euro 7 emissions legislation, the CEO of the mammoth auto industry supplier Bosch last week called regulators “fixated” on EVs, and accused the EU of running a “technology monopoly” that chokes all other means of climate innovation. Amid new.

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Green Car Congress

MARCH 27, 2020

Further, according to the latest IHS Markit forecasts, the global auto industry will exerience an unprecedented and almost instant stalling of demand in 2020, with global auto sales forecast to plummet more than 12% from 2019 to 78.8 Europe autos demand for 2020 is set at 15.6 IHS Markit forecasts 2020 US auto sales to be 14.4

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Green Car Congress

JUNE 10, 2021

Hydrogen is seen as having a substantial technological advantage over battery electric vehicles in heavy-duty applications due to those vehicles’ duty-cycles, especially in Canada’s extreme climate conditions.

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Green Car Congress

JANUARY 14, 2019

unveiled the new 2020 Passat at the North American International Auto Show in Detroit today. To help keep occupants comfortable, Passat offers available heated front and rear seats, power driver’s seat with memory, and dual-zone Climatronic automatic climate control. Volkswagen of America, Inc., Together with the Beetle (21.5

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Green Car Congress

MAY 15, 2022

While a number of recent studies have examined how increasing greenhouse gas emissions are impacting global tropical cyclone activity, Hiroyuki Murakami examined the less studied and highly complex area of how particulate pollution in combination with climate changes is affecting tropical cyclones in different areas of the planet.

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The Truth About Cars

MARCH 27, 2024

NEW YORK -- Hyundai kicked off the 2024 New York International Auto Show by dropping the new Tucson and a refreshed Santa Cruz minitruck. The Santa Cruz gets an interior and exterior refresh, standard wireless Apple CarPlay and Android Auto, and the XRT trim gets beefed up a bit with all-terrain tires and front tow hooks.

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Green Car Congress

JANUARY 6, 2022

As global auto manufacturers continue to invest in electrified vehicle (EV) production, internal combustion engine (ICE) powertrains dominate future US intentions, with 69% of US consumers looking to retain the technology for their next vehicle, according to Deloitte’s 2022 Global Automotive Consumer Study report.

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Green Car Congress

SEPTEMBER 26, 2022

The two companies will work together, leveraging their respective strengths in research and development, technologies, processes, equipment, logistics and industry coordination to support their shared objectives of limiting the impacts of global climate change and reducing carbon emissions.

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Green Car Congress

MAY 13, 2019

Responding to the announcement, Helen Clarkson, CEO, The Climate Group, the international non-profit with a mission of accelerating climate action, said: Today’s announcement is a new start for the automotive industry to take on its full responsibility in tackling climate change.

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Cars That Think

JANUARY 17, 2025

In the early 1990s, Toyota saw that environmental awareness and tighter emissions regulations would shape the future of the automotive industry. The company aimed to create an eco-friendly, efficient vehicle that would meet future standards. In 1997 Toyota introduced the Prius to the Japanese market.

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Teslarati

JULY 1, 2024

“In order to meet the climate goals and strengthen Sweden’s competitiveness, it is crucial that electrification is accelerated.” The news also comes as Sweden’s largest auto union, IF Metall, continues its labor efforts against Tesla , in hopes to get the automaker to sign a collective bargaining agreement.

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Green Car Congress

FEBRUARY 25, 2021

To help the California Air Resources Board (ARB)—the state’s key organization in this area—to fight climate change by reducing GHG emissions, the Legislature has allocated more than $2 billion from the State’s Greenhouse Gas Reduction Fund (cap?and?trade trade fund) to CARB’s transportation programs since fiscal year 2013–14.

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Green Car Congress

MARCH 27, 2023

Available in XLE and Limited, all Mirai models are equipped with auto-leveling bi-beam LED headlights, multi-LED front and rear turn signal indicators, Daytime Running Lights (DRL) and clearance lights. The LED side marker lamps are etched with the Mirai logo.

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The Truth About Cars

FEBRUARY 26, 2025

Many in the auto industry have fought back against these proposals because they would force automakers and other companies to provide diagnostic tools and other resources to independent repair shops. If successful, the legislation would help individual repair shops gain access to automakers elaborate vehicle diagnostic tools and software.

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Green Car Congress

APRIL 8, 2021

Clean Energy Ventures , a $110-million venture capital firm investing in early-stage climate tech startups, is leading the investments in two battery startups: one in the upstream ( N th Cycle ) and one in the downstream ( Volexion ). million in funding from investors led by climate tech venture capital firm Clean Energy Ventures.

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Green Car Congress

APRIL 11, 2019

The Driving America Forward Act is supported by 60 organizations, including ABB Inc., ITC Holdings Corp., The Nature Conservancy, Toyota Motor North America, Union of Concerned Scientists, Volkswagen Group of America, and Volta.

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Energy Institute at HAAS

OCTOBER 7, 2024

The Inflation Reduction Act’s subsidies for electric vehicles provide moderate climate benefits and help US firms at the expense of foreign auto manufacturers, but are not a home run. Today’s … Continue Reading Will the IRA’s “Buy American” Tilt Help US Electric Vehicles?

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Clean Fleet Report

NOVEMBER 28, 2024

New Models Paint a Diverse Automotive Future The Los Angeles Auto Show (LAAS) for years has been the “green” auto show with most of the vehicle debuts electrified in some fashion. inch infotainment screen, Google built-in, wireless Apple CarPlay and Android Auto all standard. This includes a 10.2-inch inch display.

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Green Car Congress

SEPTEMBER 24, 2022

An essential key to achieving climate neutrality lies in linking of the energy and mobility sectors. The Volkswagen Group has made charging and energy a part of its core business in its NEW AUTO strategy. This relationship was initiated in 2020 and has already conducted projects related to operating reserve markets.

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CleanTechnica EVs

APRIL 20, 2023

Electric vehicles are well on their way to becoming popular in the auto industry, with automakers worldwide investing billions of dollars into going electric. Still, consumer interest may still have a ways to go to meet US climate goals, as a new poll shows that nearly half of US adults may be considering EVs for […]

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Creative Greenius

APRIL 25, 2021

That same year, in my role as founding organizer of climate action group, 350 South Bay Los Angeles, I was able to bring my skills and experience to a wider community and make the case for our need to switch to 100% fossil free transportation to stave off the impending climate crisis.

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Green Car Congress

AUGUST 24, 2022

The rapidly growing global battery cell business is a key pillar of Volkswagen’s NEW AUTO strategy, which aims to make Volkswagen the leading provider of more sustainable and software-driven mobility. The plan is to build up quickly highly standardized cell production capacities totaling 240 gigawatt hours per year in Europe alone.

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Green Car Congress

OCTOBER 15, 2020

Five of the 28 innovations will help protect the grid from wildfires/PSPSs, four of these five will provide climate and weather risk prediction to electric infrastructure and services, and one is a hard tech innovation to reinforce transmission lines. Leap Photovoltaics Inc.

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CleanTechnica EVs

OCTOBER 26, 2023

Traditional and new auto manufacturers are bringing more and more models to market. A global transition to electric transportation is underway, and momentum is growing.

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Green Car Congress

APRIL 27, 2022

Wide Operating Temperature: The low freezing points of the LiGas electrolyte enable lithium batteries to perform in the most extreme climates at temperatures as low -60 °C and up to +60°C.

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Green Car Congress

NOVEMBER 12, 2018

Since internal combustion engines will remain the primary mode of choice for mobility in the foreseeable future, both alternative (renewable) fuels and high-performance combustion concepts/ engines using fuels adapted for that purpose will be preferred for reducing the combustion impact on climate change.

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Green Car Congress

FEBRUARY 4, 2022

With regulations banning direct auto sales in many states, Ferry says that its direct leasing model presents a path to get more Americans in EVs on more flexible, customer-friendly terms. By prioritizing flexibility and simplicity, Ferry reduces the significant hurdles consumers have faced for years when seeking to lease an electric vehicle.

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Green Car Congress

JULY 27, 2019

The suite of in-built apps can be supplemented by smartphone mirroring, via Apple CarPlay or Android Auto. The service has been redeveloped for a greater focus on the user journey, with easy navigation to access charging functions, detailed vehicle status, climate control, security and location monitoring.

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Teslarati

JULY 11, 2024

The US DoE noted that the Domestic Manufacturing Auto Conversion Grants , which are designed to help automakers switch from the production of combustion-powered vehicles to electric cars, are funded through the Inflation Reduction Act. John Podesta, Senior Advisor to the President for International Climate Policy, welcomed the grant.

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