Green Car Reports

OCTOBER 31, 2020

How long ago were Detroit automakers thinking about climate change? Which electric truck played tug of war with the Ford F-150? This is our look back at the Week In Reverse—right here at Green Car Reports—for the week ending October 30, 2020.

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F-150 Minivan Toyota Climate Change 152

Green Car Congress

JANUARY 11, 2010

The GMC Granite concept, unveiled at the 2010 North American International Auto Show in Detroit, If brought to market, the Granite would be the smallest GMC ever—it is a full 2 feet (0.6 Those dimensions create unique proportions that depart from conventional minivan, SUV or crossover designs, GM says. The GMC Granite concept.

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Green Car Congress

JANUARY 11, 2011

Detroit Free Press. GM plans to launch a new hatchback and a multi-purpose vehicle—essentially a small minivan—likely in 2012 and 2013, Akerson told reporters.The automaker also will likely launch a plug-in hybrid version of the Cadillac SRX crossover, he said.

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Green Car Reports

MAY 7, 2014

Yesterday''s multi-hour presentation of the five-year plan for the combined Fiat Chrysler Automobiles was called "Chryslerpalooza" by local Detroit reporters who sat through it. The first green news was that Chrysler will build small numbers of plug-in hybrid minivans and large SUVs to meet emission regulations.

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Green Car Reports

JANUARY 17, 2019

China’s GAC Motor introduced a California-designed electric concept vehicle called the Entranze earlier this week in Detroit, at the 2019 North American International Auto Show. The concept, a family hauler with three rows of seating and room for up to seven, appears with its “Slick Bullet” exterior design—somewhat.

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Green Car Reports

JANUARY 19, 2019

Which Chinese automaker showed an electric minivan in Detroit? What upcoming SUV will underpin a new "elegant" electric from Lincoln? This is our look back at the Week In Reverse—right here at Green Car Reports—for the week ending January 18, 2019.

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Green Car Congress

APRIL 10, 2014

They presented their results in a paper at SAE 2014 World Congress in Detroit. In addition, two minivans were subjected to coastdowns to examine the similarity in derived coefficients for two duplicate vehicles of the same model.

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Green Car Reports

JANUARY 10, 2011

At 50 miles per gallon, the 2011 Toyota Prius five-door hatchback is the most fuel-efficient car sold in the U.S. But, says Toyota, its customers told the company they needed more room--for people, for stuff, for stretching out. So the quintessential Prius hybrid is becoming not just a vehicle but a family. Its first new member is the Prius V.

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Green Car Congress

FEBRUARY 23, 2016

Li-ion battery maker LG Chem will supply the 16-kWh Li-ion battery pack system and controls for the 2017 Chrysler Pacifica Hybrid minivan. The Pacifica Hybrid, scheduled to be launched in late 2016 and introduced at the North American International Auto Show in Detroit, will be the first mass-produced hybrid minivan in North America.

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Green Car Reports

JANUARY 17, 2019

designed concept at the Detroit auto show. At a meeting with investors following the Detroit auto show Ford Global Vice. Lincoln's making electric "elegant." Tesla has released a new portable Level 2 home charger. And Chinese automaker GAC showed a U.S.-designed All this and more on Green Car Reports.

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Green Car Reports

OCTOBER 27, 2020

And we drive Toyota’s hybrid minivan. A report that reaches back to former executives and the archives of GM and Ford finds that the two Detroit automakers “were deeply and actively. A new report underscores that Ford and GM knew about climate change a half-century ago. This and more, here at Green Car Reports.

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Climate Toyota Minivan Climate Change 112

Green Car Reports

MARCH 9, 2016

At the 2016 Detroit Auto Show, Fiat Chrysler unveiled its first production plug-in electric model, the 2017 Chrysler Pacifica Hybrid minivan. In fact, the electrical components (if not the minivan's V-6 engine and front-wheel drive) may soon end up in.

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Green Car Reports

FEBRUARY 15, 2011

At last month’s 2011 Detroit Auto Show, the wraps came off the new 2012 Toyota Prius V, a bigger and more practical version of the Prius hatchback that treads the line between wagon and minivan. Despite the extra height, weight, and girth, however, the vehicle is still limited to five seats--just like the hatchback.

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Green Car Congress

JANUARY 18, 2013

The study includes various sizes of sedans, wagons, and SUVs, as well as pickup trucks, minivans and a few “muscle” and sports cars. Huff, Predicting Light-Duty Vehicle Fuel Economy as a Function of Highway Speed, SAE technical paper 2013-01-1113, SAE 2013 World Congress, Detroit, MI, April, 2013 (in press). Thomas, H-L.

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Green Car Reports

JANUARY 10, 2011

There was the new C-Max seven-seat compact minivan. From the moment Ford CEO Alan Mulally drove onstage in a 2012 Ford Focus ST, the first of half a dozen new compact Ford models, it was all about small cars. There were small fast cars (that Focus ST) and small gasoline cars (the four-door Focus sedan and five-door Focus hatchback).

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Green Car Congress

AUGUST 5, 2009

Develop, validate, and deploy 220 advanced plug-in hybrid electric pickups and minivans. Detroit, MI Warren, MI. Detroit, MI Ann Arbor, MI Dearborn, MI Flint, MI. Chrysler LLC. $70. Manufacturing: Warren, MI and St. Louis, MO; Deployment: 11 partner fleets. South Coast Air Quality Management District (SCAQMD).

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Revenge of the Electric Car

NOVEMBER 16, 2009

Department of Energy to develop a test fleet of 220 hybrid pickup trucks and minivans, vehicles now scrapped in the sweeping turnaround plan for Chrysler announced this week by Fiat CEO Sergio Marchionne. More details below: Chrysler dismantles electric car plans under Fiat. by Kevin Krolicki, for Reuters. billion federal aid package.

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Green Car Congress

APRIL 20, 2018

The various Usibor steels are blanked at a blanking company then shipped to the newly opened ArcelorMittal Tailored Blanks facility in Detroit where the enabling technology— laser ablation —takes place. The application isn’t just limited to SUVs and minivans, we are seeing it in pick-up trucks and small cars.

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Green Car Reports

JANUARY 11, 2016

Chrysler’s Town & Country was one of the first minivan on the market when it arrived in 1989 as a spinoff of the original Dodge Caravan, and its mix of practicality and near-premium status did a lot to boost the segment.

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Green Car Reports

JANUARY 16, 2016

Which new and startling function has Tesla added to its electric cars? And, what did GM CEO Mary Barra say flat-out the company won't do? This is our look back at the Week In Reverse--right here at Green Car Reports--for the week ending on Friday, January 15, 2016.

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Green Car Reports

MAY 6, 2016

This week Google and Fiat Chrysler Automobiles announced that the Silicon Valley giant would use the Detroit automaker's 2017 Chrysler Pacifica Hybrid minivans for its self-driving car research. It's the season of autonomous-car announcements, apparently.

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Green Car Reports

NOVEMBER 4, 2015

Fiat Chrysler Automobiles will soon launch a hybrid version of the Chrysler Town & Country minivan as part of a redesign of that model that will be unveiled at the Detroit Auto Show in January.

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Chrysler Hybrid Minivan Detroit 60

Green Car Congress

OCTOBER 25, 2018

But reliability for some key models from Detroit has risen over the past year, allowing CR to “Recommend” them. While the Chrysler 300 improves to “Average,” the Pacifica minivan falls to “Below-Average.” Those vehicles include the Cadillac XTS, Chevrolet Cruze, Chevrolet Suburban, Chrysler 300, Dodge Charger, and Lincoln Continental.

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Green Car Reports

JANUARY 11, 2017

In recent years, Honda has announced that it planned to release advanced-technology green cars in the future—without mentioning even their names, let alone any details or specifications.

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Green Car Reports

JANUARY 10, 2017

Cars that run entirely or partly on electricity from a battery pack have no tailpipe emissions, but to judge their overall impact, you have to look at lifetime wells-to-wheels emissions. That includes emissions associated with extracting, refining, and burning the fuel used to make the electricity that recharges them, as well as the same for any.

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Tony Karrer Delicious EVdriven

APRIL 22, 2009

Chrysler debuts all-electric minivan Alisa PriddleThe Detroit News April 22, 2009 12:00 PM Chrysler LLC is celebrating Earth Day with the presentation of four all-electric minivans to the United States Postal Service in Washington today.

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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. Here is the story from the New York Times : Nissan Plans Electric Car in U.S.

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The Truth About Cars

JANUARY 16, 2024

After a decade of fuel shortages and general malaise , Detroit (and Kenosha) knew that American car buyers still loved soft-riding, roomy sedans with comfy bench seats but needed them to be more efficient. Today, we'll look at a K sedan that survived 36 years before being retired in California.

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Cars That Think

DECEMBER 3, 2021

Homeowners can illuminate the eaves with iridescent icicles, shroud their shrubs with twinkling mesh nets, or mount massive menorahs on their minivans. Detroit Post and Tribune. But decorative lights aren't new. On 22 December 1882, Edward H. Johnson, vice president of the Edison Electric Light Co., attention of the New York Times.

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Light Kansas City New York Washington 145

Baua Electric

JULY 27, 2024

Wall Street keeps a close eye on how pickup sales are trending because big trucks are still Detroit carmakers’ profit engine. Just as the Detroit brand is down to making only the Pacific minivan, the Italian marque Lancia has just one model currently — the Ypsilon — which is virtually the same car as the Peugeot 208.

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Jeep SUV Chrysler Detroit 52

Get Electric Vehicle

OCTOBER 22, 2021

Waymo began their operations and testing with Chrysler Pacifica Hybrid minivans, but in 2018 the I-Pace was added to the fleet. It takes only 4.6 seconds to reach 0-60 MPH. I- Pace said to have a range of 470 km from its 90 kWh 388 V lithium-ion battery. .

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San Francisco Phoenix Lithium Ion Minivan 52

Charged EVs

SEPTEMBER 27, 2021

That’s not surprising—the Chrysler Pacifica Hybrid, the company’s only previous plug-in hybrid, is a well-executed PHEV with an EPA-rated 32 miles of usable electric range that retains all the virtues of the Pacifica minivan. The two couldn’t be more different.

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Green Car Congress

JANUARY 11, 2016

Chrysler unveiled the all-new 2017 Pacifica minivan in both conventional and plug-in hybrid versions at the North American International Auto Show (NAIAS) in Detroit. The PHEV is the minivan segment’s first. The Pacifica Hybrid will deliver an estimated all-electric range of 30 miles from a 16-kWh lithium-ion (Li-ion) battery.

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Tony Karrer Delicious EVdriven

APRIL 16, 2009

That would be the Dodge Circuit, a car that Chrysler unveiled at the 2009 Detroit Auto Show in January and which is now prominently displayed at the New York Auto Show. Possibilities include a minivan and an Jeep Wrangler-like off-roader. They will also differ greatly in terms of vehicle type.

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Tony Karrer Delicious EVdriven

APRIL 28, 2009

We can now say with confidence that it is worth waiting 70+ days to make the shift to the left side of the car, following a brief spin around Cobo Hall in a prototype vehicle during the SAE World Congress here in Detroit. For now, if you want to keep moving, you need to keep pressing go. No coasting available. Small size. New technology.

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Tony Karrer Delicious EVdriven

APRIL 21, 2009

which hopes to sell cars here in three to five years, used the Detroit Auto Show to display a prototype sedan it says can run 60 miles on batteries developed in-house and another 190 miles on a gas/electric system. Detroits horsepower jockey insists the Volt will be his crowning achievement--and his swan song. Detroit Free Press ).

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