Green Car Reports

AUGUST 4, 2020

Lordstown Motors is seeking a stock-market debut. This and more, here at Green Car Reports. Ohio’s Lordstown Motors is seeking an IPO as it continues to develop its fleet-oriented electric trucks, to be built in a former GM plant. And the company announced. The Kia Soul EV remains uncertain for the U.S.

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Green Car Reports

SEPTEMBER 21, 2013

What happened this week in the world of green cars? This week, we told you five facts about Tesla Motors and electric cars that might have surprised you. Tesla also made headlines when CEO Elon Musk said the electric car company would have a self-driving car on the road within three years.

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Green Car Reports

OCTOBER 28, 2019

When Nissan launched the updated 2018 Leaf, company representatives told Green Car Reports that a dual-motor variant was still off the table. This prototype's front and rear motors combine for more than 300 horsepower and almost exactly 500 pound-feet of torque, which is quite a bit.

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Green Car Congress

OCTOBER 13, 2016

Wrightspeed, founded by Ian Wright, one of the original co-founders of Tesla Motors, is growing rapidly. In June, the company was named a Technology Pioneer by the World Economic Forum (WEF) and Wrightspeed CEO Ian Wright was an invited presenter to the International Business Council of the World Economic Forum.

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Green Car Congress

SEPTEMBER 19, 2012

Daihatsu Motor and Toyota Motor are forming a new cooperative business in Indonesia, under which the two companies are to respectively market a new Daihatsu-brand and Toyota-brand compact car there. Astra Daihatsu Motor, an Indonesian subsidiary of Daihatsu.

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Green Car Congress

JUNE 25, 2012

The company had been targeting a 20% reduction. The current 2012 powertrain consists of a 2 kWh lithium-ion battery pack, a 40 kW (53 hp) electric motor and a proprietary hybrid control system that operate with the OEM internal combustion engine and automatic transmission. We don’t touch the warranty. —Justin Ashton.

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Green Car Congress

APRIL 29, 2010

A key element of the new offering will be a new MCU (motor controller unit), Fenton told Green Car Congress. The company currently offers motors and drive systems ranging from 50 kW to 120 kW. Tags: Electric (Battery) Hybrids Motors Power Electronics Vehicle Systems.

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Green Car Reports

JANUARY 12, 2012

Being a startup media company means knocking on a whole lot of doors. Their editors will choose certain stories from GreenCarReports and our other sites (The Car Connection and Motor Authority) to use on their. And, occasionally, someone important answers.

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Green Car Reports

JANUARY 8, 2024

” Across Hyundai Motor Group, the company now projects that by 2035 it will use 3 million metric tons annually. By Green Car Reports' calculations, that's enough to keep several million.

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Green Car Reports

SEPTEMBER 4, 2023

This is our look back at the Week In Reverse—right here at Green Car Reports—for the week ending September 3, 2023. Rivian’s Enduro motor unit, made by the company itself. Does EV fast-charging degrade the long-term range of Teslas?

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Green Car Reports

MAY 20, 2020

General Motors talks future battery tech. This and more, here at Green Car Reports. As work began on an Ohio joint-venture plant to build cells for General Motors’ upcoming electric vehicles, like the new Hummer, the company’s top. Nissan shows an electric ambulance.

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Green Car Reports

MARCH 15, 2021

Lordstown Motors faces a lot of questions. We look at Alpha Motors’ latest EV designs. This and more, here at Green Car Reports. Kia on Sunday revealed its EV6 electric crossover, built on the company’s E-GMP dedicated EV platform and marking the debut of. Lucid readies for production.

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Green Car Congress

MARCH 28, 2013

Geely Holdings and Kandi Technology Corporation have created a framework of cooperation which will see the two companies work together in a new joint venture company involved in the research and development, production, investment, and marketing of electric vehicles. —Li Shufu, Geely chairman.

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Green Car Reports

APRIL 9, 2020

And the company using a former GM plant in Ohio has released more about orders for its upcoming electric work truck. This and more, here at Green Car Reports. Lordstown Motors is aiming for the fleet and work-truck crowd with. Electrify America cuts fast-charging prices for Kia Niro EV owners.

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Green Car Reports

JUNE 25, 2012

On Friday, Tesla Motors delivered its first production Model S electric sedans to retail customers, an event the company webcast live. While Green Car Reports wasn't there, we've watched the deluge of coverage and read the handful of drive reviews published so far.

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Green Car Congress

AUGUST 9, 2012

EV Engineering in Australia ( earlier post ) recently unofficially broke the distance record for a production electric car, achieving 1,886 (1,172 miles) kilometers of driving over a 24-hour period. It shows that with battery switch, the age of the electric car has truly arrived. —CEO of EV Engineering, Ian McCleave.

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Green Car Reports

JULY 21, 2012

By the sales numbers—even if you consider the 20,000 Model S sedans (which Green Car Reports drove this week, with a first drive review and video post) the company hopes to sell annually—Tesla Motors [NYSE: TSLA] is a small niche automaker.

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Green Car Reports

SEPTEMBER 13, 2021

This and more, here at Green Car Reports. Elio Motors is at it again. Last week, the company put a price on a. The Volvo XC40 Recharge gets a range boost, and the Kia Sorento Plug-In Hybrid gets a price tag. And Elio is back with an EV—timeline, to be announced.

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Green Car Reports

NOVEMBER 6, 2014

Today''s news is all about the companies that make green cars. Tesla Motors'' third quarter report includes an announced delay of the Model X electric crossover, Hyundai and Kia must pay penalties over gas-mileage testing errors, and we find out which automakers are truly serious about electric cars. Another.'

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Green Car Reports

FEBRUARY 25, 2013

Tesla Motors, a notorious review in The New York Times of its Model S electric sedan, and the company's future were the topics of discussion last week among High Gear Media editors during a Google+ Hangout on Air video chat.

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Green Car Reports

JUNE 12, 2019

Bicyclists could make the streets safer for car drivers, too. All this and more on Green Car Reports. At Tesla’s annual shareholder meeting, CEO Elon Musk fielded a wide range of questions, touching on the company’s. And you're pushing your luck with extension cords.

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Green Car Reports

OCTOBER 21, 2014

See why plug-in hybrids are the best competitors to hydrogen fuel-cell vehicles, learn about plans for Hyundai Sonata and Kia Optima plug-in hybrids next year, and see why Tesla Motors may augment its company-owned stores with franchised dealers. All this and more on Green Car Reports. As his company.'

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Green Car Reports

JANUARY 9, 2014

Many in the green car industry are watching startup automaker Elio Motors with interest. The company has big plans for its small three-wheeled car, as well as thousands of fans on social media networks and plenty of names on the order list.

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Green Car Reports

JANUARY 31, 2013

Right now, we seem to get news about Tesla Motors or Fisker Automotive almost every day. Yesterday, Green Car Reports editor John Voelcker sat down with High Gear Media's social-media manager, Joel Feder, to discuss the two companies in a Google+ Hangout on Air. Some is good, some isn't.

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Green Car Congress

NOVEMBER 9, 2015

The Korea Times reports that Korea-based Hyundai Motor will launch its new brand of electric vehicles scheduled for January. The first model of Hyundai’s new car brand—tentatively named “AE”—will be first introduced as a hybrid electric vehicle, followed by PHEV and full-EV editions, according to the report. Earlier post.).

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Green Car Reports

JUNE 18, 2020

Lordstown Motors teased sketches of its electric truck interior. This and more, here at Green Car Reports. The ride-hailing company Lyft aims to go all-electric by. Ford outlined its system to rival Autopilot and Super Cruise. VW re-upped on solid-state battery tech, and Tesla and Panasonic have signed a new supply deal.

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Green Car Reports

MARCH 10, 2020

Porsche hesitates over heavy electric sports cars. A company claims the most power-dense motor. This and more, here at Green Car Reports. If you think Porsche is ready to follow its Taycan with a fully electric sports car or two, that anticipation may be premature. And BMW cuts the U.S. The brand’s.

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Green Car Congress

FEBRUARY 25, 2011

Leading companies in the Australian automotive manufacturing industry are collaborating on the design and engineering of electric vehicles with the launch of EV Engineering Ltd. engineering costs, will be provided from the Australian Government’s Green Car Innovation Fund. This project will take. place over a 15-month period.

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Green Car Reports

AUGUST 9, 2014

This is the Week In Reverse for Friday, August 8, 2014, right here at Green Car Reports. On Friday, we asked how serious the Model S drivetrain-replacement problem is for Tesla Motors. Our Tesla-driving author David Noland looked at why the company is.' And how serious are Tesla''s drivetrain problems?

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Green Car Congress

NOVEMBER 1, 2012

turbocharged EA211 engine; a hybrid module featuring a 20 kW electric motor and a disengagement clutch; a 7-speed DSG transmission; and a 1.1 The company anticipates EPA-rated combined mileage of around 45 mpg US (5.2 During these periods of “active boost” assistance, the primary role of the electric motor is to ?increase

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Green Car Congress

MARCH 28, 2018

To contribute to the realization of next-generation green cars and autonomous vehicles with higher efficiency and higher reliability, the RH850/E2x Series MCU incorporates up to six 400 megahertz (MHz) CPU cores, making it the first on-chip flash memory automotive MCU to achieve the industry’s highest processing performance of 9600 MIPs.

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Green Cars News

SEPTEMBER 8, 2011

German giants the BMW Group has once again come out as the top automotive company in the Dow Jones Sustainability Indexes (DJSI). It is the seventh consecutive year that BMW has been named most sustainable automotive company and it is also the only motoring company to feature in the indexes since they were established in [.].

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Green Car Congress

OCTOBER 5, 2010

The V70 plug-in hybrid demonstrator highlights Volvo’s current PHEV architecture: front-wheel drive combustion engine, electric motor on the rear axle. The company is also evaluating the introduction of diesel-engined PHEVs into the US market, although the cost to meet US emissions requirements is a challenge, Gustavsson said.

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Green Car Reports

DECEMBER 24, 2013

Today on Green Car Reports: Copyright struggles mean Tesla is selling under a pseudonym in China, BMW gives us a look at its laser headlights, and one company wonders whether electric cars have reached a tipping point.

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Green Car Reports

APRIL 10, 2018

A Tesla founder has a new startup car company, the British utility would be OK with more electric cars sooner, reporters are getting a crucial distinction wrong, and we've got a new Twitter poll on the Honda Clarity. All this and more on Green Car Reports. supports moving up the date sales of new cars with.

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Baua Electric

DECEMBER 18, 2024

And yet its a Green Car Reports Best Car To Buy 2025 finalist. Two reasons: Rivian started delivering the R1S nearly a year after it started delivering the R1T, so the R1S simply wasnt yet out in a final production form at the time we named the Rivian R1T a Best Car To Buy 2022 finalist.

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Green Cars News

JUNE 3, 2012

Michigan, and specifically the motor city of Detroit, has long been seen as the heart and soul of the gas guzzling generation. However, Ford Motor Company executive chairman Bill Ford (pictured) believes it is time for a green revolution.

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