Green Car Congress

NOVEMBER 7, 2021

Lightning eMotors and ABC Companies, a leading provider of motor coach, transit and specialty passenger transport equipment, announced the sale of the largest battery-electric double-decker motor coach to All Aboard America! Holdings, the fourth-largest motor coach operator in the US. The coach has a seating capacity of 70 people.

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Green Car Congress

JANUARY 14, 2022

The company announced that production of the enhanced Volvo VNR Electric model will begin in Q2 2022 and features an up to 85% increased range, faster charging, and even more configurations for heavy-duty transport. Regenerative braking energy is captured and fed back into the system to maximize energy efficiency and driving range.

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Green Car Congress

APRIL 5, 2023

Sila, a next-generation battery materials company, announced the availability of its high-performance nano-composite silicon (NCS) anode material, Titan Silicon. Titan Silicon delivers a 20% energy density boost over the industry’s best performing cells and will achieve a 40% increase in future releases, according to the company.

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The Truth About Cars

JANUARY 22, 2025

Ram appears to be giving up on the longest-range version of its upcoming 1500 REV electric pickup. Mopar Insiders recently reported that the automaker has canceled the 500-mile version of the truck, leaving only the standard-range model on track for a 2026 release. Please note that the cancellation only applies to UNIQUE BEV XL parts.

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Green Car Congress

AUGUST 15, 2023

63 kWh of battery for 200-mile range. Fellten is the only EV powertrain supplier approved by BMW for the Classic Mini Recharged project. Fellten’s Porsche 911 system, for 964 & G-Body. 370 kW Tesla motor, single-speed gearbox with 0-60 in 4.5 CCS fast recharging. Complete bolt-in—no chassis modifications.

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Green Car Congress

JULY 16, 2023

The battery enables a vehicle range of up to 130 miles on a single charge. V2G technology allows EV fleet operators to sell excess energy stored in school bus batteries back to electric power companies at a profit. The next-generation battery takes merely three hours to fully recharge since it supports a fast-charging rate of 80 kW.

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Green Car Congress

AUGUST 24, 2022

Nornickel is Russia’s leading metals and mining company and the world’s largest high-grade nickel and palladium producer. Meanwhile, using Nornickel’s own nickel and cobalt helps optimize production costs for nickel alloys where the share of our metals is 50% or more. —Anna Korotchenkova, Head of the Technology Innovation Department.

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Green Car Congress

AUGUST 19, 2020

Hochbahn will purchase both pure fuel cell hybrid buses and battery-electric buses in which the fuel cell serves as a range extender. These include a minimum range of 300 km (186 miles) for solo buses and 230 km (143 miles) for articulated buses—longer ranges than required for the basic battery-electric bus tender ( earlier post ).

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EV Central

APRIL 3, 2025

2025 Tesla Model Y Long Range: Sharp new looks and more tech for 2025. We jumped behind the wheel of the new Tesla Model Y Long Range to put it to the test. We jumped behind the wheel of the new Tesla Model Y Long Range to put it to the test. The Long Range version of the Tesla Model Y is cheaper than ever for 2025.

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Green Car Congress

MARCH 7, 2023

Hyundai Motor Company held a digital world premiere to unveil the new upscaled KONA in the B-SUV segment, led by an all-electric variant (EV) that offers advanced safety and convenience features and class-leading range. KONA Electric (long range option) delivers an estimated 490 km / 304 miles (WLTP) all-electric range (AER).

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Green Car Congress

JUNE 4, 2021

Citroën is supplementing its range of electric LCVs with hydrogen technology to meet the needs of the 8% of companies required to make journeys of more than 300 km (186 miles) or lacking the time to recharge their vehicle during the day. Citroën says that the brand’s range will therefore meet all the needs in the segment.

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The Truth About Cars

MARCH 24, 2025

Alternative battery chemistries have shown promise, helping cut costs, but a German startups recent announcement shows that they could help significantly boost range while solid-state batteries remain in development. That could allow Theion to develop much lighter battery cells without slashing driving range estimates.

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Green Car Congress

MAY 20, 2021

F-150 Lightning offers a standard-range battery targeting 230 miles of EPA-estimated range and an extended-range battery targeting 300 miles of EPA-estimated range. —Kumar Galhotra, Ford president, Americas and International Markets Group, Ford Motor Company. 2022 Ford F-150 Lightning Platinum, Lariat, XLT.

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Teslarati

MARCH 28, 2025

Tesla critics would typically paint the company’s electric vehicles as reliability nightmares with subpar build quality and cheap materials. ’s most reliable car brands , Honest John highlighted that while Tesla tended to be hit or miss with things like build quality in the past, the company has matured a lot in recent years.

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Green Car Congress

MAY 10, 2022

Hyundai Motor Company plans to ramp up the US commercial vehicle market entry with XCIENT Fuel Cell trucks. And amongst others, it also offers already today a practical and viable solution to decarbonize the heavy-duty commercial vehicle sector providing excellent drive range, payloads and refueling time on our trucks.

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Green Car Congress

DECEMBER 30, 2021

Two new 37 tonne DAF CF Electric trucks will transport food and other products from Wentloog rail terminal outside Cardiff to Tesco’s distribution center in Magor, Wales, in partnership with logistics and international freight forwarding company FSEW. These first two trucks will replace around 65,000 diesel-fueled road miles, removing 87.4

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Green Car Congress

MARCH 31, 2023

By providing capital—in addition to supplying state-of-the-art battery materials under the JDA—Umicore intends to work with Blue Current to drive market adoption of the company’s silicon elastic composite battery towards mid-decade. In June 2022, Umicore and Idemitsu Kosan Co.,

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Green Car Congress

MARCH 23, 2022

StoreDot, the developer of extreme fast charging (XFC) battery technology for electric vehicles, reports being the first company to test silicon-dominant cells for more than 1000 cycles. StoreDot’s target is to deliver 100 miles of range after just two minutes of charge within a decade. I’m hugely proud of our recent achievement.

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Green Car Congress

JANUARY 21, 2023

The broadened relationship provides significant benefits to both companies, including conducting complementary cell development and manufacturing activities at both Solid Power and the BMW Group to further advance all-solid-state cell design and manufacturing know-how.

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Green Car Congress

FEBRUARY 13, 2023

Toyocolor, the colorants and functional materials arm of the specialty chemicals company Toyo Ink Group of Japan, announced that the company’s Lioaccum conductive carbon nanotube (CNT) dispersions ( earlier post ) have been selected by the world’s largest battery manufacturer CATL (Contemporary Amperex Technology Co.,

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Green Car Congress

AUGUST 25, 2022

ABB and Canada-based Hydrogen Optimized have signed an agreement to expand the companies’ existing strategic relationship. KEY), the parent company of HOI, as they seek to accelerate the fast-emerging green hydrogen production segment with unique large-scale architecture. This includes an investment by ABB into Key DH Technologies Inc.

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Green Car Congress

MAY 11, 2022

The company is building on its nearly century-long expertise of school bus manufacturing to expand its zero-emission transportation solutions to the commercial vehicle market. School bus manufacturer Blue Bird Corporation unveiled a Class 5-6 electric vehicle platform at the 2022 Advanced Clean Transportation (ACT) Expo.

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Green Car Congress

APRIL 7, 2021

Both companies worked together to develop hydrogen products around the Toyota modular fuel cell system. EODev’s REXH2 maritime range extender is a hydrogen power solution that can be integrated into different kinds of ships, in full compliance with environmental and regulatory constraints.

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Green Car Congress

MAY 13, 2022

Since that study, which was transparently designed to quantify the worst-case tire emissions under legal driving, Emissions Analytics has been testing and analyzing tire wear emissions in more detail across a wider range of driving conditions, and has performed a detailed chemical analysis of hundreds of new tires. —Emissions Analytics.

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Green Car Congress

APRIL 10, 2023

The E-Transit Courier is the next step as the company electrifies its iconic Transit family of commercial vehicles, joining the larger E-Transit and E-Transit Custom models in the Ford Pro portfolio. Full performance and range details will be confirmed closer to launch.

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Green Car Congress

MAY 5, 2023

The eM2 has a typical range of 180 miles (290 km) for the Class 6 version and 250 miles (400 km) for Class 7, and represents a reliable, efficient and sustainable solution for a battery-electric truck, the company says. DTNA is beginning full production of the eM2 in autumn of 2023 at its Portland truck manufacturing plant.

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Green Car Congress

JULY 1, 2023

has acquired the full and sole ownership of the German company resulting from the former joint venture Nikola Iveco Europe, now to be renamed as EVCO (Electric Vehicles COmpany). Iveco Group N.V.

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Green Car Congress

MAY 25, 2021

Hyundai Motor Company released images of its newly upgraded XCIENT Fuel Cell, the world’s first mass-produced, heavy-duty truck powered by hydrogen. As of May 2021, the cumulative driving range of those trucks in operation reached more than 750,000 kilometers. The upgraded heavy-duty XCIENT features design and performance updates.

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Green Car Congress

MAY 5, 2023

British EV technology company Electrogenic, known for its classic car EV conversions, has expanded its range of drop-in conversion kits with a cost-effective plug and play solution to electrify the classic Mini.Electrogenic’s kit converts the automotive icon to electric drive from just £15,000 (US$18,800) plus VAT.

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Green Car Congress

APRIL 11, 2023

Currently, the Mullen Class 1 EV cargo van features a 46 kWh lithium-ion battery pack with a 110-mile range. It is expected that the solid-state polymer technology will deliver more than 200 miles of range on a full charge for the Mullen Class 1 EV cargo van. The Linghang Guochuang Holding Group Co.,

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Green Car Congress

SEPTEMBER 24, 2020

Invented and designed for the next generation of electric vehicles, the Ingear features a simple and durable design that enables a more efficient powertrain, with extended range, at lower cost. The Ingear extends the range of a typical vehicle by up to 15% by optimizing motor efficiency and reducing parasitic losses. Ingear core unit.

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Green Car Congress

MAY 9, 2022

Previous generation methanol vehicles faced difficulties with cold starts but with Geely Auto’s NordThor Power (previously called Leishen Power) hybrid technology and the latest generation methanol powertrains, issues with extreme cold environment performance have been eliminated, the company said. The hybrid houses a 1.8L

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Green Car Congress

NOVEMBER 18, 2021

Fisker estimates that the EPA range of the front-wheel-drive, single-motor Fisker Ocean Sport will be 250 miles on a single charge, using a lithium-ion phosphate (LFP) battery cell chemistry in Touring Range packs to be supplied by CATL. The first 5,000 vehicles produced will be Fisker Ocean One, also priced at $68,999.

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Green Car Congress

JULY 1, 2021

This new funding complements the initial investment of $24 million the company announced a few weeks ago, bringing the total private investment into ZeroAvia large engine development for 50+ seat aircraft to $37 million. The 6-ton aircraft will have a range of 500 nautical miles.

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Teslarati

APRIL 4, 2025

On Friday , Tesla officially launched the Long Range All-Wheel-Drive version of the new Model Y in the United States. BREAKING: Tesla has OFFICIALLY launched the new Model Y in a Long Range All-Wheel-Drive trim that starts at $48,990 before incentives! While the company initiated sales of these trim levels in other countries, the U.S.

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Green Car Congress

SEPTEMBER 20, 2021

The company will officially begin delivering keys to customers at a special launch event scheduled for 4 October in Los Angeles with a select group of early reservation holders along with the company’s first fleet owners. The SOLO has a range of 100 miles and a top speed of 80 mph, making it safe for highways.

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Green Car Congress

JANUARY 8, 2023

BYD and Uzavtosanoat JSC (UzAuto) signed an agreement to establish a joint venture company producing new energy vehicles (NEVs). The new joint venture company, which will manufacture best-selling NEVs including the DM-i super hybrid models and related parts, is anticipated to be based in Uzbekistan.

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