EV Central

APRIL 8, 2025

MG is promising a big step forward via plug-in hybrid technology developed specifically for Australia when the PHEV version of the HS medium SUV arrives in Australia later this year. Its so confident the new tech will deliver frugality and performance its been dubbed Super Hybrid. 2025 MG HS Hybrid+ and MG QS.

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Green Car Reports

FEBRUARY 9, 2018

With gasoline cheap and buyers continuing to shun passenger cars for crossovers and trucks, there are bargains to be had in fuel-efficient and electrified vehicles. This month's deals, courtesy of CarsDirect, includes cheap leases, low financing rates, and money off sticker prices.

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Green Car Reports

AUGUST 15, 2014

While battery-electric and plug-in hybrid cars have had much of the spotlight to themselves for the past four years, we''re going to be hearing a lot more about hydrogen fuel-cell cars over the next few.

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Green Car Reports

JUNE 10, 2020

Although the cheap low-interest or no-interest financing deals for new vehicles have mostly gone away, as the auto industry recalibrates supply to a new coronavirus-recovery norm for demand, many of them are still good through June in the green-car sector—leading to some standout deals for electric cars, plug-in hybrids, and hybrid vehicles. (..)

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Green Car Congress

MAY 26, 2011

SKF is also a partner in the Ricardo-led KinerStor project to demonstrate the viability of low-cost flywheel hybrid systems ( earlier post ). The flywheel technology is relatively cheap. It can be used in a much larger volume of our cars than top-of-the-line technology such as the plug-in hybrid. million Swedish kronor (US$1.05

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EV Central

JANUARY 31, 2023

The bZ4X will be the first of three EVs Toyota is promising by the end of 2026 as part of an electrified resurgence underpinned by more hybrids. This car will not be a cheap car.” Toyota bZ4X “Hybrid took 22 years … BEV … it’s quite quick, it’s five to 10 years,” he says.

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Green Car Congress

MAY 11, 2019

Researchers at the University of Waterloo (Canada), with a colleague in Sweden, have used a power management strategy greatly to extend the durability of onboard fuel cells in a plug-in hybrid electric vehicle: an increase of 1.8, times, respectively, for an urban, highway and a combined urban-highway driving cycle. 2019.02.040.

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Green Car Reports

MARCH 9, 2018

Not a lot has changed since last month: Buyers continue to move from passenger sedans to crossovers and trucks, and gasoline remains relatively cheap. DON'T MISS: Lexus lowers hybrid prices a lot to cut premium over gasoline Our list of deals for March, courtesy of.

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Green Car Congress

FEBRUARY 9, 2016

Engineers at Iowa State University have developed a hybrid process that combines bio- and electrocatalysis to convert glucose into bio-based unsaturated nylon-6,6—which has the advantage of an extra double bond in its backbone that can be used to tailor the polymer’s properties. Hybrid conversion of glucose into UPA-6,6.

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Green Car Congress

NOVEMBER 13, 2011

Alternative technologies, such as hybrid and electric vehicles that use oil more efficiently or not at all, continue to advance but they take time to penetrate markets. Oil and the Transport Sector: Reconfirming the End of Cheap Oil. The passenger vehicle fleet doubles to almost 1.7 billion in 2035. Click to enlarge.

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Green Car Congress

OCTOBER 3, 2014

Their hybrid design uses only three. The state of the art is to use a solar panel to capture the light, and then use a cheap battery to store the energy. Normally, connecting a solar cell to a battery would require the use of four electrodes, the researchers noted. We’ve integrated both functions into one device.

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Green Car Reports

FEBRUARY 26, 2018

Gas is cheap in the U.S. Hybrids are no longer a cutting-edge or cool technology; they're just another powertrain. The result is that hybrids have been quietly ebbing as a proportion of total vehicle sales. DON'T MISS: 2018 Lexus RX 450hL hybrid three-row SUV priced from $51,600 At their peak about five years ago, hybrids.

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Green Car Reports

NOVEMBER 14, 2018

California regulatory documents show range estimates for the new Subaru Crosstrek Hybrid. A new report shows that building new renewable power can be cheaper than running old coal plants. Automakers join forces to lobby for extending electric-car tax credits. And California preps for half a million electric cars.

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EV Central

APRIL 4, 2025

We sampled the Jaecoo J7 plug-in hybrid, and also learned Omoda was to be a separate brand later in 2025, rather than just a model sold by Chery. Jaecoo J7 SHS plug-in hybrid hits showrooms in May 2025. However, that’s mainly thanks to its super-cheap Tiggo 4 Pro SUV ($23,990 drive-away), not an electric car.

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Green Car Congress

APRIL 1, 2019

The Pb-acid SLI battery will still continue to be in demand for the many small and cheap ICE vehicles where cost of the battery replacement will always be the deciding factor. That will see an uptake of more hybrid-, plug-in hybrids and BEVs in the EU.

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CleanTechnica EVs

OCTOBER 30, 2023

It seems like just yesterday that Toyota pulled its old “self-charging hybrid” scam. As anyone who finished high school and paid attention knows, there are laws of physics. Human laws can be broken and if the authorities don’t notice, you can probably get away with it (especially for small things).

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Green Car Congress

JUNE 21, 2018

In the new hybrid bus, electric energy propelling the vehicle will be derived from hydrogen, whereas the battery will only have a support function. Batteries constituted the basic drive source of the buses showcased four years ago. The twelve-metre Solaris Urbino hydrogen will be equipped with latest-generation 60 kW fuel cells.

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CleanTechnica EVs

SEPTEMBER 20, 2023

Plugin hybrid electric vehicles (PHEV) can be a pretty contentious topic in the EV scene. For others, they’re a cheap scheme to get tax credits or HOV lane access. For some, the idea of only offering a few miles of electric range followed by combustion is already hopelessly obsolete.

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Green Car Congress

SEPTEMBER 30, 2019

Like seawater, the MoP catalyst material is widely available, and therefore, cheap. At OSU, researchers developed a hybrid MEC design in which fermentation and electrolysis take place in a single pot as opposed to separate steps, and the byproducts are directly consumed in the process. —Yuyan Shao, corresponding author.

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Green Car Congress

AUGUST 22, 2019

For vehicles, the methanol fuel cell systems would be applied in a plug-in battery hybrid configuration to balance the need for power/acceleration and energy/range. This would enable a ~3-minute refueling time with a +1000 km range using a cheap, simple fuel with reuse of existing infrastructure and logistics.

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Green Car Congress

MARCH 24, 2020

Researchers at Aalto University (Finland), with colleagues at the University of Vienna (Austria), CNRS (France) and Nikolaev Institute of Inorganic Chemistry (Russia), have developed a highly graphitized graphene nanoflake (GF)–carbon nanotube (CNT) hybrid catalyst doped simultaneously with single atoms of N, Co, and Mo (N-Co-Mo-GF/CNT).

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Green Car Congress

JANUARY 24, 2014

In a new study published in the journal Applied Energy , Carnegie Mellon University (CMU) researchers found that controlled charging of plug-in hybrid electric vehicles (PHEVs) reduces the costs of integrating the vehicles into an electricity system by 54–73% depending on the scenario. —Allison Weis. 2013.10.017. 2013.10.017.

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Green Car Reports

DECEMBER 11, 2017

For December, CarsDirect has uncovered leases as cheap as $159/month and discounts as much as $18,100 on fuel-efficient vehicles for the month of December. If you're looking to give the gift of efficient motoring this holiday season, numerous manufacturer incentives are available this month that'll save you from breaking the bank.

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Green Car Reports

FEBRUARY 8, 2018

Lexus invented the idea of a luxury hybrid utility vehicle in a version of its RX crossover well over a decade ago, but sales haven't been strong of late. Cheap gasoline, better fuel efficiency from all types of vehicles due to rising CAFE rules, and a lack of interest in hybrids have all hurt the latest version of the RX Hybrid.

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Green Car Congress

APRIL 7, 2014

The project “Reduced energy consumption by massive thermoelectric waste heat recovery in light-duty trucks” ( HeatReCar ) focused on thermoelectrics to provide electricity, either to on-board components or to the power train of hybrid electric vehicles. This requires cheap, lightweight thermoelectric material standing temperatures up to 650

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InsideEVs

FEBRUARY 21, 2024

Plus, the environmental value of hybrids gets questioned by green groups, and yes, batteries are getting cheaper.

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Electric Cars are for Girls

APRIL 21, 2011

I have found really really cheap 7.2v I am converting a 1999 Ford Probe into an electric car. NIMH battery modules used in the Toyota Prius. My question

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Green Car Congress

FEBRUARY 23, 2018

In the last few years, much time, effort and resources have been put into the development of battery technology that is safe, efficient, cheap to produce, and eco-friendly. Gong et al. Click to enlarge. Moreover, the ceramic textile is flexible and cuttable. Nothing like this has ever been done before.

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Plugs and Cars

JULY 14, 2007

Toyota comes in for a smackdown by Lawrence Ulrich ( Conspicuous Consumption With Green Illusions ) on it's high class hybrids. Writing about the $121,000 Lexus LS 600h L: "th[is] hybrid may have set a new standard for automotive hyperbole. Though they do recognize commercialization is at least decades away. Just because they say so.

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EV Central

FEBRUARY 27, 2024

The platform has already made its debut under the Citroen e-C3 and differs from other Stellantis underpinnings as it is capable of packaging both combustion and hybrid powertrains, as well as EVs. Fiat reveals the wild cheap electric ute that will spearhead its reinvention in Australia appeared first on EV Central.

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Green Car Reports

JANUARY 19, 2012

Times change however, and these days it's not as easy to get behind the wheel - and certainly not as cheap to keep those cars running. Many of us remember the excitement of learning to drive, and then going out and choosing that first car. According to USA Today, a new study from Deloitte has revealed that 6 out of 10.

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Green Car Reports

SEPTEMBER 1, 2010

market, though they’re a vehicle type largely restricted to North America, where gasoline is cheap. Full-size pickup trucks make up roughly one in every five vehicles sold in the U.S. The rest of the world is more likely to use what we’d consider midsize or even compact.

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Baua Electric

JANUARY 16, 2024

Toyota has no current plans to launch a cheap EV despite demand building. Toyota says no small, cheap EV is in the works Although many automakers, including VW, Stellantis, and Kia, have revealed plans to launch low-cost EVs under $30,000 (£25,000), Toyota says not so fast. Toyota is best known for the Prius hybrid, after all.

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Green Car Congress

APRIL 29, 2014

The discovery opens the possibility of using iron to provide both the magnetism and permanence in high-strength permanent magnets, such as those used in direct-drive wind turbines or electric motors in hybrid cars. In modern magnets, iron gives most magnets their strength, and comes with the benefits of being abundant and cheap.

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Green Car Congress

JANUARY 23, 2015

In addition, hybrid sales are expected to be slower as long as oil remains cheap. On the downside, small and mid-sized cars are likely to face a tougher market in 2015. Szakaly expects incentives to rise on small and midsize vehicles. Midsize cars are expected to decline in share of total light vehicle sales from 18.6%

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Teslarati

JULY 29, 2022

Long-range all-electric trucks like the Tesla Semi will not come cheap. I really expect Tesla to raise prices on the Semi, its too cheap at this point. Battery costs are declining quickly, but even Tesla still lists its 300-mile Semi variant with an estimated starting price of $150,000.

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The Truth About Cars

JUNE 5, 2023

You might remember that when yours truly flew to California last year to drive the 2023 Kia Sportage, I didn’t get to spend more than five minutes in the hybrid version. A full week with the hybrid showed me I was, indeed, missing out. The hybrid pairs a 1.6-liter Some materials felt a bit cheap, though. hp and 31.9

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