Green Car Congress

AUGUST 25, 2015

A team of engineers from GM Powertrain, Ford and FCA have published a detailed review of how to estimate the engine efficiency benefits of higher octane fuel—e.g., Davis, Asim Iqbal, Ronald A. fuel with higher ethanol content—for part- and full-load operation for different engine types and fuel assumptions. Leone, James E.

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Green Car Congress

MARCH 21, 2013

The California Energy Commission (CEC) approved $5,580,773 for clean-energy transportation projects including biodiesel production, power control electronics for medium-and heavy-duty battery electric vehicles, and buydowns for propane vehicles. Motiv Power Systems, Inc. C/e Solutions, Inc.

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Green Car Congress

MAY 17, 2012

The Coordinating Research Council (CRC) is a non-profit organization that directs, through committee action, engineering and environmental studies on the interaction between automotive/other mobility equipment and petroleum products. —Pat Davis. DOE response.

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Green Car Congress

APRIL 14, 2011

White Construction and Ford, Bacon & Davis LLC are finalizing the engineering work necessary to enter the EPC phase of the project. Rentech will adapt the front-end engineering and design work recently completed by Fluor Corporation to maximize fuels production, and conduct a competitive RFP process for EPC contractors.

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Green Cars News

AUGUST 21, 2009

In response to the scheme, both General Motors and Ford ramped up production, adding shifts and rehired laid off workers to meet renewed demand. The scheme has not been without controversy though; one UC Davis transportation economist Christopher Knittel criticized the scheme as a costly way to reduce carbon emissions.

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Baua Electric

OCTOBER 25, 2024

The US government has offered Australia-based producer Ioneer a $700 million loan to help build the project, which would quadruple US lithium production when completed in 2028. Ford is one of first companies to promise to source its lithium for EV batteries from the mine.

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Plug In Partners

FEBRUARY 13, 2006

13, 2006 Andrew Frank, University of California at Davis Mechanical engineering professor and researcher Andrew Frank has spent much of the last 30 years studying electric motors and batteries to make vehicles more fuel-efficient. Look at the first year of the Ford Escape hybrid. Bill Ford will up that from 20,000 to 250,000 a year.

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Plug In Partners

JULY 20, 2006

Four years ago, the professor at the University of California at Davis and a team of engineering students created a plug-in vehicle. Such changes voided the warranty, but CalCars founder Felix Kramer says he's pleased if his group has goaded Toyota into making a production plug-in - the group's goal all along.

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Tony Karrer Delicious EVdriven

APRIL 21, 2009

Conversions are mostly for the Prius, with a few for the Ford Escape/Mercury Mariner hybrid SUVs. CalCars supports conversion programs as a strategy to increase awareness and support for PHEVs and thereby motivate automakers to build production PHEVs. Conversions are limited to certain vehicle types. So far, most start as hybrids.

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Tony Karrer Delicious EVdriven

APRIL 21, 2009

In late 2008, BYD started selling the first production PHEV in China. Partnering with Alcoa, Duke Energy, Google.org, Johnson Controls Indiana startup plans to unveil vehicle May 2009 at EVS-24 in Norway; mass production in 2012. 1,000 pre-orders for small production runs in 2009 and 2010starting 4th quarter 2009.

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Tony Karrer Delicious EVdriven

APRIL 28, 2009

Think Global was formerly known as Think City, a prior Ford Motor Company ( F ) acquisition and part of a now-defunct Think division at Ford. The Think City was short-lived in the States with production halting in 2002 after just 1005 cars had been assembled. Think has also established partnerships in the U.S. ENON.OB ) ).

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Green Car Congress

MAY 26, 2010

However, they will only be built in mass production numbers when there is a compelling sustainable social and business model for their use to allow manufacturers to plan for a long-term market and when the new vehicles have a real carbon efficiency benefit over the latest internal combustion engines. Davy Thielena, KEMA Consulting.

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Teslarati

JUNE 18, 2024

By using our products, Tesla customers avoided releasing over 20 million metric tons of greenhouse gas emissions in 2023. But to continue the exponential growth in greenhouse gas emission avoidance, we not only have to get our products into as many customers hands as possible, but we also need to increase the utilization of our products.

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