Green Car Congress

FEBRUARY 14, 2010

The gasoline, on the other hand, is a large expense, especially for the conventional vehicle. Even so, they found, extra battery costs in PHEVs and EVs outweighed the gasoline cost savings. Opportunity charging further decreased the gasoline consumption, and thus gasoline cost, of PHEVs, but at a greater increase in battery cost.

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Green Car Congress

JANUARY 11, 2012

KSPG is showcasing the unit, along with other of its engine efficiency technologies such as the UniValve variable valve system, at the Detroit Auto Show. The new power unit consists of a two-cylinder, 800 cc V-type gasoline engine with a vertically positioned crankshaft and two generators with gear wheel drive. Variable valve system.

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Green Car Congress

JANUARY 13, 2010

Hyundai brought its Blue-Will plug-in hybrid (PHEV) concept—first introduced at the 2009 Seoul Motor Show ( earlier post )—to the North American International Auto Show in Detroit for its US debut. The Blue-Will concept is powered by an all-aluminum 152 hp (113 kW) Gasoline Direct Injected (GDI) 1.6-liter Earlier post.).

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Green Car Congress

FEBRUARY 23, 2010

The battery can also be recharged via an AC mains domestic outlet to achieve initial electric-only operation. In 2009, Detroit Electric Holdings Ltd, originally formed as a joint venture between ZAP and China Youngman Group, and Malaysia-based Proton Holdings Berhad formed a strategic partnership for the mass production of electric vehicles.

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Revenge of the Electric Car

JANUARY 13, 2010

The Revenge team filmed a historic meeting in Detroit today — getting GM Vice President and Tesla Motors CEO Elon Musk together on camera for the first time. More details after the jump : Detroit’s Electric Avenue: The Street of Dreams? Mr. Paine asked Mr. Musk if he felt being in Detroit was akin to being “behind enemy lines.”

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Revenge of the Electric Car

JANUARY 11, 2010

The Detroit News. Detroit — It’s official: the Cadillac Converj will be the second extended-range electric vehicle that General Motors Co. The Converj was shown as a concept last year at the Detroit show, and The Detroit News has previously reported it received board approval for production. ALISA PRIDDLE.

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Green Car Congress

JANUARY 10, 2011

On the heels officially introducing the Focus Electric last week ( earlier post ), Ford revealed two next-generation hybrids—including its first production plug-in hybrid (PHEV)—at the North American International Auto Show in Detroit. This allows it to run in electric mode before using the gasoline engine.

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Plug In Partners

NOVEMBER 15, 2006

GM Concept Car T here has been a rumor that General Motors might have a plug-in to show at the North American International Car Show in Detroit this coming January. GM likely to launch new plug-in hybrid Reuters Nov 10, 2006 DETROIT (Reuters) - General Motors Corp. Here is the first confirmation that it is no longer a rumor.

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Green Car Congress

SEPTEMBER 30, 2015

When braking, the electric machines act as a generator and recharge the lithium-ion battery. Schaeffler is now applying 48V hybridization to an Audi TT. In Eco mode, which optimizes fuel consumption, the engine is switched off as often as possible.

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Green Car Congress

OCTOBER 21, 2009

The findings were released at The Business of Plugging In conference in Detroit today. The costs premiums were $2,500, $5,000, and $10,000; and the fuel savings was estimated at 75% compared with a conventional gasoline engine. The socio-economic characteristics of the household, its geographic location, and recharging capabilities.

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Plug In Partners

JANUARY 8, 2007

W e had heard rumors that GM would show something special at the Detroit Auto Show , and the rumors were true. But it's one that plugs in to a normal outlet to recharge and has a small engine on board. GM plans to exhibit the VOLT at the Detroit auto show, which opens to the public Saturday at Cobo Center.

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Green Car Reports

JUNE 15, 2015

Charging an electric car today isn't necessarily quite as easy as pulling up to the gas pump in a gasoline or diesel model. DON'T MISS: 1914 Detroit Electric: Pretty Spry For A Century Old (Video) (Jun 2011). Long charging times and sparse public charging infrastructure can cause some inconvenience for electric-car drivers.

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Clean Fleet Report

JULY 1, 2021

Cars during this time were powered by one of three methods : steam, gasoline or electricity. Steam and gasoline-powered vehicles had internal combustion engines (ICE). 1912 Detroit Electric. Detroit Electric was making 13,000 electric cars annually by 1912. EVs vs. ICE Vehicles. 1910 Baker Victoria.

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Plug In Partners

MAY 20, 2008

by ’10 By BILL VLASIC Published: May 13, 2008 DETROIT — The Nissan Motor Company plans to sell an electric car in the United States and Japan by 2010, raising the stakes in the race to develop environmentally friendly vehicles. And by the end of the decade two more hybrids will join the Escape SUV in Ford's gasoline-electric lineup.

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Plug In Partners

JANUARY 23, 2007

E arlier this month, the announcement of the GM Volt eclipsed another important announcement at the Detroit show. We could take the fuel cell power system out and replace it with a downsized diesel, gasoline engine or any other powertrain connected to a small electric generator to make electricity like the fuel cell does now," Schmidt said.

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Plug In Partners

JUNE 11, 2008

Japan and Europe by 2010 , under a widespread "green" strategy outlined today.The ecological gas-electric vehicles, which can be recharged from a home electrical outlet , will target leasing customers, Toyota Motor Corp. That time may have arrived now that gasoline prices have hit $4 a gallon or more."

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Plug In Partners

MAY 23, 2007

The Volt is the plug-in hybrid car GM showed at last January’s Detroit Auto Show. At that point, the internal combustion engine kicks in and recharges the battery while you are driving. While you are working, the battery is also recharging. Imagine using your laptop computer on a battery. It runs down. Make that a world changer.

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Plug In Partners

NOVEMBER 7, 2007

The company will show off a prototype at the Detroit Auto Show , according to the company's somewhat cryptic Web site. The company will show off a prototype at the Detroit Auto Show , according to the company's somewhat cryptic Web site. Initial production will be about 15,000 vehicles a year. China will be first to receive the F6DM.

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Green Car Congress

AUGUST 30, 2009

mpg in 2016, GM’s short term answer is to get greater mileage out of existing gasoline engine technologies. As a gasoline technology, HCCI provides the fuel economy benefits of lean burn without requiring additional NO x after treatment. Click to enlarge. With CAFE’s renewed emphasis on fuel economy, from 26 mpg in 2010 to 35.5

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Green Car Congress

MARCH 7, 2017

At the 2017 Geneva International Motor Show, Audi is presenting the Audi Q8 sport concept, a new performance-oriented take on the Q8 concept study introduced at the 2017 Detroit Motor Show. It therefore opens up delay-free acceleration to the V6 gasoline engine—something previously only known to diesel engines and electric motors.

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Green Car Congress

MAY 16, 2009

The paper was presented by authors Ed Tate and Peter Savagian at last month’s SAE 2009 World Congress in Detroit. four-cylinder gasoline engine and a 1.8kWh, 30kW battery pack provide motive power through GM’s two- mode FWD hybrid system ( earlier post ). The vehicles are defined as follows: Hybrid Electric Vehicle (HEV) : A 2.4L

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Green Car Congress

JULY 2, 2015

Finally, BMW showcased a hydrogen fuel cell drive system as a future-focused variant of BMW eDrive (teased in a technical session during April’s SAE World Congress in Detroit) enabling all-electric driving with a high operating range and short refueling times. BMW is collaborating with Toyota on fuel cell systems. Earlier post.).

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Clean Fleet Report

MAY 24, 2024

The Silverado gets electric motivation Clean Fleet Report had the opportunity recently to drive the Silverado EV RST at an automotive media event in Detroit, Michigan. And since you can travel 440 miles without recharging, why wouldn’t you take a Silverado EV on that family road trip? Look ma, no hands!

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Charged EVs

SEPTEMBER 27, 2021

The e-motor also provides regenerative braking to recharge the battery, and there’s an integrated 33 kW (44 hp) starter-generator as well. The e-Save button also toggles to invoke Battery Charge, which recharges the pack using engine power. It’s sandwiched between a 2.0-liter Over five days, we put 276 miles on our test Wrangler 4xe.

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Green Car Congress

JANUARY 12, 2015

Volt owners complete more than 80 percent of their trips without using a drop of gasoline and they tell us they love the electric driving experience. GM is investing $435 million in the production of the next-generation Chevrolet Volt at the Detroit-Hamtramck Assembly Plant and at the Brownstown, (Mich.) Manufacturing. engine plant.

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Tony Karrer Delicious EVdriven

APRIL 30, 2009

Honda, which began leasing hydrogen fuel cell FCX Claritysedans in Los Angeles last year, still sees hydrogen as the bestlong-term alternative to gasoline as a fuel that can cut carbonexhaust tied to global warming, President Takeo Fukui said in aninterview. are rushing out cars that can be recharged at electrical outletsas the U.S.

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Clean Fleet Report

MARCH 11, 2023

Since I was attending the Detroit Auto Show, I could replicate my UK trip for comparison. My goal was to head north to Michigan’s Upper Peninsula, then west to Fargo, ND, and back to Detroit via Iowa. The next EV he recalls driving was an electric car built in the early 1900s before gasoline cars took over the market.

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Baua Electric

JULY 21, 2024

His EV was a small scale model powered by an electric motor that was charged by a battery that could not be recharged. Companies like Detroit Electric and Baker Electric were manufacturing such vehicles. Henry Ford’s assembly plant at Detroit (USA) made ICE powered vehicles affordable for the masses. These were experimental EVs.

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Tony Karrer Delicious EVdriven

APRIL 21, 2009

Hopefully the funding was from the same place as well… 2 Bill C said on March 13th, 2009 at 1:21 pm I think a few billion should be taken out of the Detroit bailout and give some capital to all of the electric car companies. 3 David Herron said on March 16th, 2009 at 12:31 am Fast recharge will require huge power levels.

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Tony Karrer Delicious EVdriven

APRIL 21, 2009

Company says its focusing on gasoline and hydrogen. Volvo Ford-owned company exploring PHEVs "ReCharge" flex-fuel series 60-mile concept PHEV w/wheel motors. USA Today ) 10/25/06 DaimlerChrysler is downright reluctant, even though it has built four test models, commercial-size vans that run on gasoline and electricity.

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Tony Karrer Delicious EVdriven

JANUARY 28, 2009

Westbrook, 2001 "Gasoline to Electric Conversion Manual: A Workshop Guide for High Schools", published by the Electric Vehicle Society of Canada, July 2005 "History of the Electric Automobile: Hybrid electric vehicles", by Ernest H. Brown and Shari Prange, 1993 "The Electric and Hybrid Electric Car", by Michael H.

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Spirit of DC - PHEV3A

AUGUST 3, 2009

The last time a production model of an electric car had traveled from coast to coast was in 1998, when an EV-1 made the journey without consuming an ounce of gasoline. Mr. Moore made available his Papillion home’s historic dryer outlet as a recharging site when the roadtrip reached the vicinity of Omaha, Nebraska.

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Green Car Congress

FEBRUARY 4, 2011

At a media dinner at the North American International Auto Show in Detroit last month, Ford Motor Executive Chairman Bill Ford made some observations on the prospects for electric vehicles: “ Here we are today now, embarking upon something which is very different for our industry. The focus is primarily near term (i.e.,

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Tony Karrer Delicious EVdriven

APRIL 21, 2009

While the Volt holds promise, it is currently projected to be much more expensive than its gasoline-fueled peers and will likely need substantial reductions in manufacturing cost in order to become commercially viable,” the task force noted in its recent assessment of GM’s restructuring plans. April 17, 2009 11:38 am Link Goodbye GM.

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Green Car Congress

MAY 24, 2011

These vehicles will be leased to 20 agencies, including the Department of Energy, and will be located in Washington, DC; Detroit, MI; Los Angeles, CA; San Diego, CA; and San Francisco, CA. million gallons of gasoline, or 385,000 barrels of oil.

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Plug In Partners

JANUARY 26, 2006

He yanked big engines out of American cars and replaced them with electric motors that worked in tandem with much smaller gasoline engines. He called his new configuration the "plug-in hybrid" because it allowed homeowners to recharge the car's batteries by plugging into an electrical outlet. But Detroit auto makers ignored him.

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Cars That Think

FEBRUARY 24, 2025

Colias has observed the transformation, and the recent detour back to plug-in hybrids, from a front-row seat in Detroit. Ford The gasoline engines Yeung worked on have hundreds of moving parts; an electric drivetrain has fewer than 25. Thats the sort of project where the gasoline in your blood starts pumping, he would say years later.

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