Green Car Congress

NOVEMBER 12, 2014

Toyota is sponsoring the Onramp Challenge , a weekend-long codefest and conference taking place 6-7 December at the San Mateo County (California) Event Center, which will feature competition, cars, and collaboration, all under the theme of “exploring the future of the driving experience.”.

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Green Car Congress

SEPTEMBER 9, 2012

At a conference in Chengdu, China, Toyota Toyota Motor Executive Vice President Atsushi said that the company is targeting selling 1.5 It will build new joint-venture factories, boosting local production capacity to around 1.5 Toyota’s share of the Chinese passenger car market slipped from 10.3%

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Green Car Congress

JANUARY 8, 2015

Toyota fuel cell bus. Toyota Motor Corporation and Hino Motors, Ltd. The new bus was developed jointly by Toyota and Hino based on a Hino hybrid non-step route bus and is equipped with the Toyota Fuel Cell System developed for the Mirai fuel cell vehicle. Click to enlarge. have built a new version of their fuel cell bus.

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Green Car Congress

JUNE 4, 2012

The team of the University of Maryland is the winner of the 2012 Hydrogen Student Design Contest, announced on Sunday by the US Department of Energy at the Young Scientist Symposium of the World Hydrogen Energy Conference 2012 in Toronto, Canada. We’re very glad to already have sponsorship from Toyota and Mercedes Benz.

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Baua Electric

MARCH 18, 2024

Amid a flood of new competition, Ford is shifting plans to build more affordable electric vehicles. Ford’s CEO Jim Farley reiterated his concerns over the low-cost overseas rivals during a Wolfe Research conference last month. The American automaker’s leader admitted larger EVs, like the F-150 Lightning , are expensive to build.

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Green Car Congress

NOVEMBER 4, 2010

The investment builds upon a multi-year collaboration of the two companies to accelerate the market expansion of the electric vehicle. Panasonic aims to be the number one Green Innovation Company in the Electronics Industry by 2018, the 100 th anniversary of our founding.

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Baua Electric

APRIL 15, 2024

The ongoing tensions between Italy and Alfa Romeo’s parent company Stellantis reached a head last week when the Italian government told the automaker that naming its upcoming Alfa Romeo EV the Milano was against the law because the car will be built in Poland. Things must have gotten a bit hairy.

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Green Car Congress

APRIL 8, 2016

As connected vehicles include more low-cost, high-resolution sensors, cars will capture and upload this data to a central, cloud-based repository so that automotive companies, such as HERE, can crowdsource the information to build highly accurate, real-time precision maps.

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Baua Electric

MAY 13, 2024

Subaru and Toyota are building on their partnership with plans to build three new electric crossovers. The company said that teaming up with Toyota will help minimize the “huge risk” of building EVs alone. Subaru will build one of the three new EVs at its Yajima plant in Japan to supply to both automakers.

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Baua Electric

JANUARY 4, 2024

2023 Ford F-150 Lightning (Source: Ford) As demand continues building for the Lightning electric truck, Ford spokesperson Martin Gunsberg told Electrek the company is “making adjustments to pricing, production, and trim packages.” Ford, like Toyota, is leaning into its hybrids amid rising EV competition.

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Green Car Congress

NOVEMBER 10, 2014

It also provides market development support, such as hosting webinars, sponsoring conferences, etc. Seven automakers have announced plans to sell or lease FCEVs—some as early as this year—and several of these auto companies have also entered partnerships to support this launch—e.g., Earlier post.) Earlier post.)

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Baua Electric

JUNE 8, 2024

2025 Toyota Crown Signia And do you want a roomy, gasoline-fueled hybrid station wagon that can get nearly 40 mpg? 2024 Jeep Wagoneer Separately, last week, the CEO of Stellantis, Jeep’s parent company, told media at an investor conference last week that a $25,000 Jeep EV is coming to the U.S.

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Creative Greenius

JANUARY 17, 2009

Only the car company’s are still waiting and still making and selling cars that contribute to global warming. If everyone could hear Ed talk about the smart grid and how plug-in cars make it possible to inventory electricity then we’d already be building that grid today. I’ve heard him speak at the Plug-In conference.

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Plug In Partners

NOVEMBER 3, 2008

Toyota also is developing a plug-in hybrid, expected on the road by 2010. The Plug-In Partners effort over the last three years that enlisted 631 partners , signed up 38,312 petitions and made 11,333 soft purchase orders and participated with outreach and educational efforts in over 88 conferences and expositions has been a critical success.

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Green Car Congress

AUGUST 30, 2009

The morning session started out with an hour long press conference, the highlight being the unveiling of the Volt’s 230 mpg preliminary EPA city fuel economy finding ( earlier post ), as well as a tour showing selected elements from the studios of the four GM North American brands: Chevrolet, GMC, Buick and Cadillac. Build better products.

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Electric Auto Association

OCTOBER 28, 2021

Fighting to preserve the EVs that the automakers were crushing almost 20 years ago, saving up to 1,000 from the crusher, and helping keep the cause alive when the government, most environmental organizations, and the car companies had given up. Studying "smart grids" with emphasis on co-joining BEVs with houses and commercial buildings.

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Electric Auto Association

OCTOBER 28, 2021

Fighting to preserve the EVs that the automakers were crushing almost 20 years ago, saving up to 1,000 from the crusher, and helping keep the cause alive when the government, most environmental organizations, and the car companies had given up. Studying "smart grids" with emphasis on co-joining BEVs with houses and commercial buildings.

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Spirit of DC - PHEV3A

JULY 29, 2009

EAA Board of Director member Jerry Asher joined the caravan and provided support with the “Spirit of DC” Plug-in Toyota Prius hybrid. Green Building Council standards for Leadership in Energy and Environmental Design (LEED). Michael and Maddy ended the morning conference by providing highlights of their cross-country journey.

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Cars That Think

MAY 28, 2024

Last year’s Conference on Robot Learning (CoRL) was the biggest CoRL yet, with over 900 attendees, 11 workshops, and almost 200 accepted papers. Russ Tedrake of Toyota Research Institute (TRI) and MIT pointed to the recent Diffusion Policies paper as showing a similar surprising capability.

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Green Car Congress

MARCH 26, 2020

A data-driven simulation system invented at MIT, in collaboration with the Toyota Research Institute, to train driverless cars creates a photorealistic world with infinite steering possibilities, helping the cars learn to navigate a host of worse-case scenarios before cruising down real streets. Data-driven simulation.

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EV Adoption

MARCH 23, 2021

Audi aims to offer 20 EV models in the next 5 years, but it is pretty clear that the company will continue to sell ICE vehicles until at least the end of the decade. Meanwhile, VW’s CEO said 60 percent of the company’s vehicle sales should be electric by the end of the decade. Toyota Aygo X Prologue | via Toyota.

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Tony Karrer Delicious EVdriven

APRIL 19, 2009

Why hes banking on an obscure Chinese electric car company and a CEO who - no joke - drinks his own battery fluid. More from Fortune Obama exclusive: Business needs to work with me 28 top companies: Theyre hiring! There is a model that may point to the way to build a new battery industry: the early days of the microprocessor.

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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. The first buyers will be fleet users, which will build central fast-charging facilities. Wang Chuan-Fu started BYD (the letters are the initials of the companys Chinese name) in 1995 in Shenzhen, China.

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Tony Karrer Delicious EVdriven

APRIL 16, 2009

To survive, help is needed from Italys Fiat but, as negotiations with the Italian automaker bog down and the two week deadline to hammer out a partnership approaches, the companys future - as well as its aspirations for an electric hot rod - are increasingly in doubt. EMAIL | PRINT | SHARE | RSS DIGG FACEBOOK DEL.ICIO.US

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Tony Karrer Delicious EVdriven

APRIL 21, 2009

Audi Volkswagen-owned company exploring PHEVs Metroproject Quattro Sub-compact PHEV Concept Car shown October 2007; PHEV of A1 Sportback under consideration Bright Automotive For-profit spin off from Rocky Mountain Institute designing lightweight PHEVs, successor to RMIs 1990s "Hypercar" concept. Batteries not ready. No announced plans.

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Green Car Congress

NOVEMBER 20, 2014

This is the opposite of the approach taken by Toyota with its Mirai fuel cell vehicle ( earlier post ) and Honda with its new FCV Concept ( earlier post ). The Group is not—unlike Toyota, Honda and Hyundai—announcing production dates and initial markets for its fuel cell vehicles. Earlier post.).

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Tony Karrer Delicious EVdriven

APRIL 16, 2009

maker of the upright, self-balancing scooters, to build a new type of two-wheeled vehicle designed to move easily through congested urban streets. Write to Sharon Terlep at sharon.terlep@dowjones.com Printed in The Wall Street Journal, page B2 Copyright 2008 Dow Jones & Company, Inc. Why wont Toyota do anoher station wagon?

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Creative Greenius

AUGUST 13, 2009

Here’s what the brainiacs at General Motors sent the premier EV car conference on the West Coast. But what did surprise this reporter was the absence of Honda, Toyota, BYD, and a lot of the other players listed on the Plug-In America car tracker. Too bad BMW isn’t planning on building and selling this car for real.

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Creative Greenius

JUNE 11, 2009

Howard’s team is holding a conference on June 24th for city managers throughout the county that I’ll be attending. This Friday, June 12, I’ll be attending the EcoMotion Palm Desert AB 811 Conference specifically to cover it for this Creative Greenius blog. Ted Flanigan, EcoMotion. It’s a classic win/win/win.

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Tony Karrer Delicious EVdriven

APRIL 21, 2009

What do car companies say about PHEVs? Environmental Effects and Benefits to top Wont all these cars require us to build even more power plants? Wont all these cars require us to build even more power plants? See our Global Warming page. Heres our roundup of auto-maker comments in the media recently. Just the opposite.

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Tony Karrer Delicious EVdriven

APRIL 16, 2009

Ontological Shock An Open Letter to Fred Krupp Report from GridEcon Conference SGS Climate Change Head on the First Carbon Credit. Agassi was an executive at SAP that lead the software company to being the enterprise software leader ahead of Oracle, IBM, and all others. Utilities could avoid building more dirty peaking power plants.

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Tony Karrer Delicious EVdriven

APRIL 16, 2009

BYD is an amazing company. BYD’s conventional gas-powered cars are selling well these days in China, and his electric plug-in electric model looks like it will come to market with a longer range and a lower sticker price than the new Toyota Prius much-hyped Chevy Volt. This could turn out to be one of Buffett’s very best deals.

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Tony Karrer Delicious EVdriven

APRIL 21, 2009

Virtually all the world’s bigmotor manufacturers are building prototypes using lithium-ion batteries butso far they have reached production only in a few low-volume models. Both companies will offer a range of electricvehicles for public sale from 2012. Walkout at UN conference after Iran.

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Tony Karrer Delicious EVdriven

APRIL 30, 2009

In an agreement between Nissan and the city of Seattle, the automaker says it intends to sell the cars in the Seattle area and work with government and other organizations and companies on a plan to promote the cars and creation of a network of charging facilities. Nissan plans to roll out the car in 12 to 15 markets next year, Perry said.

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Tony Karrer Delicious EVdriven

APRIL 16, 2009

GM will leapfrog Toyota and Honda by providing an electric car to the masses by the end of next year. But GM says it wont get the money until the Obama administration is satisfied the company is financially viable. Gotta love a company that blows nearly 2 billion a year on PR and advertising! General Motors has sought $10.3

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