Green Car Congress

JUNE 8, 2020

The 100% renewable electricity mix in Chengdu is the result of a newly signed supply contract and will reduce the plant’s CO 2 emissions by more than 11,000 tonnes per year. By 2040, Volvo Cars aims to be a climate-neutral company. These and other measures are part of the climate plan Volvo Cars launched late last year.

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Green Car Congress

FEBRUARY 26, 2020

Despite these troubling findings about their climate impacts, ride-hailing services still have the potential to be part of a cleaner, low-carbon transportation future. Through electrification of vehicles and increased use of pooled rides, we can reduce the climate risks of ride-hailing services.

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Green Car Congress

OCTOBER 25, 2022

The Asian Development Bank (ADB) mobilized a $135-million climate financing package for VinFast Trading and Production Joint Stock Company (VinFast) for manufacturing Vietnam’s first fully-electric public transport bus fleet and first national electric vehicle (EV) charging network.

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Green Car Congress

JULY 4, 2020

Demand for raw materials used in the production of electric car batteries is set to soar, prompting the UN trade body, UNCTAD (United Nations Conference on Trade and Development), to call for the social and environmental impacts of the extraction of raw materials, which include human rights abuses, to be addressed urgently.

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Green Car Congress

MAY 25, 2022

All proceeds are earmarked for funding and accelerating the company’s transformation towards becoming a fully electric carmaker by 2030 and becoming climate-neutral and circular by 2040. The €500-million, 6-year fixed rate senior unsecured green bond was issued under Volvo Cars’ Euro Medium Term Note program.

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Green Energy Consumers

JULY 8, 2024

We absolutely need to reduce the number of vehicles on our roads and overall VMT to meet our climate goals, and public transit is a key way of doing that. But the cars that are left on our roads do need to be electric, and as soon as possible, for the sake of our climate and our health.

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Green Car Congress

JANUARY 22, 2021

A new study from researchers at MIT uncovers the kinds of infrastructure improvements that would make the biggest difference in increasing the number of electric cars on the road, a key step toward reducing greenhouse gas emissions from transportation. Addressing the range issue through infrastructure is essential, Trancik says.

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Green Car Reports

NOVEMBER 8, 2020

President-elect Biden has proposed a $2 trillion climate agenda that includes provisions ranging from coordinating climate priorities in transportation infrastructure spending to things like rebooting “Cash for Clunkers” in the interest of modernizing the fleet toward cleaner vehicles.

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Green Car Congress

OCTOBER 19, 2022

A channel has been created for wiring and climate control pipework between the battery and the floor, with the battery mounted underneath, providing a perfectly smooth underfloor profile. This not only creates a low seating position and enveloping cabin but realises a secondary function for the battery—almost 700kg of sound deadening.

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Clean Fleet Report

FEBRUARY 2, 2025

Electric cars are efficient, modern and packed with cutting-edge tech, but sometimes they can feel a little standard. Unlike petrol and diesel cars, which come with a range of customization options from the factory, EVs tend to have a sleeker, more uniform look. That doesnt mean yours has to blend in with the crowd.

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Electrek

AUGUST 7, 2022

The Senate has voted to pass the Inflation Reduction Act, which includes nearly $400 billion over 10 years in funding for climate and energy related programs, and an extension and improvement of the US electric car tax credit. The post Senate improves EV tax credit in largest climate bill ever appeared first on Electrek.

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Electric Cars Report

JULY 24, 2022

A […] The post Study: solid state batteries can further boost climate benefits of EVs appeared first on Electric Cars Report.

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Green Car Congress

AUGUST 17, 2021

This is the only way we can get people excited about climate-friendly mobility and switch them from an internal combustion engine to an electric car. The upper price limit of 44 cents per kWh was chosen taking into account both market economy and climate policy aspects. —Federal Minister Andreas Scheuer.

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CleanTechnica EVs

AUGUST 30, 2024

China’s rapid adoption of new energy vehicles is helping to accelerate the global energy transition Every summer is a reminder of the urgency of climate change. continued] The post Electric Vehicles Are Key to Winning the Climate Fight appeared first on CleanTechnica.

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Green Car Congress

JUNE 17, 2021

For Volvo Cars, the CO 2 emissions related to steel and iron production for its cars amount to around 35% in a traditionally powered car and 20% in a fully electric car of the total CO 2 emissions from the material and production of the components going into the car.

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The Driven EV News

APRIL 23, 2024

Selling more electric cars in Australia will have a bigger environmental impact than disconnecting all homes from gas, a Climate Council report has found. The post Electric cars will make bigger impact on emissions than electric homes, study finds appeared first on The Driven.

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Green Car Congress

JANUARY 27, 2021

The company’s electrification and emissions reduction efforts support the aims of the UN Paris Agreement on climate change and global progress toward carbon neutrality by 2050. The company introduced the world’s first mass-market electric car, the Nissan LEAF, and has sold more than 500,000 of the zero-emission vehicle to date.

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Green Car Congress

MARCH 3, 2021

Following the introduction of the XC40 Recharge and now the C40 Recharge, Volvo Cars will roll out several additional electric models in coming years. By 2025, Volvo Cars aims for 50% of its global sales volume to consist of fully electric cars, with the rest hybrids. —Henrik Green, chief technology officer.

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Green Car Congress

JULY 2, 2022

Volvo Cars will build a third manufacturing plant in Europe, positioning the company well to meet the continued demand from its customers for electric cars and capture future growth potential. Series production of next-generation, pure electric Volvo cars is scheduled to start in 2026.

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CleanTechnica EVs

AUGUST 1, 2024

In 2020, Joe Biden ran for president on the most ambitious climate action platform of any major presidential candidate in U.S. continued] The post Tracking Progress: Climate Action Under the Biden Administration appeared first on CleanTechnica.

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Green Car Congress

NOVEMBER 18, 2022

The investment plan recognizes that to meet the state’s clean air and climate goals California needs more clean cars, trucks and buses along with community-led efforts to create walkable, bikeable, transit-friendly places for everyone. The bulk of these funds have come from California Climate Investments.

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Green Car Congress

JUNE 24, 2019

A 20% increase in UK-generated electricity would be required to charge the current 252.5 billion miles to be driven by UK cars. Last month, the Committee on Climate Change published a report— Net Zero: The UK’s Contribution to Stopping Global Warming —which concluded that “net zero is necessary, feasible and cost effective.”

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CleanTechnica EVs

MARCH 18, 2024

Who is buying electric cars now? For years, very early adopters were buying them because they were concerned about our growing climate crisis and/or because they were techies who quickly got drawn to the. continued] The post Who Is Buying Electric Cars Now? appeared first on CleanTechnica.

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Green Car Congress

OCTOBER 13, 2020

Every year, Netherland-based student company TU/ecomotive produces an electric car with a team of 21 BA students from the Eindhoven University of Technology, with the aim of showing the world that a hypothetical, sustainable car of the future can be a reality today.

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CleanTechnica EVs

JULY 3, 2024

Not only can individuals fight climate change by their actions, so can communities, councils, and states. One such community is the semi-rural town of Dayboro situated about one hour north of Brisbane in Queensland, Australia. Here in the idyllic surroundings (and busy coffee shops), we met with Brian Porter to.

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CleanTechnica EVs

MARCH 21, 2025

Dedicated climate activist Bill McKibben in a post on Substack suggested that Tesla and Big Oil have a common weakness. The announcement a few days ago by BYD that it has developed a battery for an electric car that. He says both are way behind the technological curve.

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Green Car Congress

MAY 17, 2020

The entire life cycle of the passenger cars is taken into account, including the manufacture of the vehicles and the environmentally relevant emissions from driving. The system will graph lifecycle impact for a range of specified powertrains, for a large number of impact categories: Climate change [kg CO 2 -eq.].

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CleanTechnica EVs

OCTOBER 26, 2023

France is getting serious about climate action, equity, and EU-supportive economics all at once with a new electric car leasing program that launches next week. The company is already at 30% plugin vehicle market share, and 20% full battery electric vehicle (BEV) market share.

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Creative Greenius

APRIL 25, 2021

I started learning about, writing about, and promoting electric cars in 2007. Debra and I finally got our first electric car, A 2012 Toyota RAV4 EV, a joint production with Tesla, in January of 2013. Debra Bushweit Galliani in 2013 with our first electric car. Installing the 5.2

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Cars That Think

JANUARY 28, 2023

“Electric cars will not save the climate. This is not to imply in any way that electric vehicles are worthless. Behavioral change is hard How willing are people to break their car dependency and other energy-related behaviors to address climate change? The answer is perhaps some, but maybe not too much.

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Green Car Congress

NOVEMBER 10, 2022

Starting with the Volvo EX90, Volvo Cars will reveal one new fully electric car each year. By 2030, the company aims to sell only fully electric cars. By then, the company aims for those two production facilities to be climate-neutral.

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CleanTechnica EVs

SEPTEMBER 4, 2023

All the vehicles in President William Ruto’s motorcade for the summit were electric vehicles. The motorcade had electric motorcycles and electric cars.

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Green Car Congress

MAY 5, 2021

Germany is adding another €100 million to its successful promotion of private charging stations for electric cars in residential buildings, bringing the total to €500 million. We want more climate protection, more clean electric cars on our roads and more use of green electricity.

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Electrek

MAY 11, 2022

Japan, the world’s second-largest car exporter, risks a 14% drop in GDP if it does not move more swiftly toward producing electric vehicles, according to a new report by the Climate Group. The post Japan could lose 14% GDP and millions of jobs by stalling on electric cars – report appeared first on Electrek.

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Green Car Congress

MAY 28, 2021

If a ban were introduced on the sale of new gasoline and diesel cars, and they were replaced by electric cars, the result would be a significant reduction in lifecycle carbon dioxide emissions primarily due to reduced tailpipe CO 2 emissions, according to a new lifecycle study by researchers at Chalmers University of Technology, Sweden.

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Green Car Congress

JANUARY 13, 2022

Polestar, the Swedish premium electric car company founded by Volvo Cars and Geely Holding, delivered on its global sales target of 29,000 vehicles in 2021, representing year-on-year growth exceeding 185%. Polestar has produced two electric performance cars.

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Green Car Congress

JULY 7, 2020

Volkswagen has begun conversion of its Emden, Germany plant to support the production of Evs; the first electric cars are to roll off the production line there from 2022. With the conversion of our plant at Emden into a production location for electric vehicles, Volkswagen is forcing the pace of system change. 4 and the ID.3

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