Green Car Congress

JUNE 18, 2019

For every year except 2011, the United States has produced the majority of plug-in electric vehicles (PEVs) sold in the United States, according to the US Department of Energy (DOE). In 2018, the United States produced 75%, Japan 9%, and Germany 5%, while the remaining eight countries listed produced a combined 11%. In 2011, 55% of the PEVs sold in the United States were produced in Japan, 43% in the United States, and 2% in France.

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Creative Greenius

JUNE 8, 2019

I am the firstborn child of Mary Brigid O’Connor and Stanley Daniel Galliani. I was born in September of 1957. On New Year’s Day 1982 we parted company in anger with my father yelling at me, “Get out! Get out, and don’t come back!”. I told him then, “Don’t say it if you don’t mean it. You know the history of our family!”. To which he replied, “Get the hell out of my house!

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Green Car Reports

JUNE 18, 2019

Since even before the first market deliveries of its Leaf electric car in late 2010, Nissan has made frequent mention about the need to create second-use demand for the Leaf's battery packs. It turns out, they may need to see many of those ideas put into place. According to comments made last month by a Nissan-Renault executive, citing charging.

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The Truth About Cars

JUNE 9, 2019

Following announcements that Toyota would be working on a shared electric vehicle platform with Subaru, as well as a jointly developed crossover, the brand conducted a press conference on Friday regarding its decision to “popularize BEVs.” While the announcement didn’t deal with the specifics of cutting-edge tech, auxiliary business opportunities, or even a total shift […].

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Discover EV

JUNE 20, 2019

Fossil fuel giant, BP, team up with battery materials innovation leader StoreDot, to make a contribution to the world’s ambition of transitioning to EV with the ability to recharge a battery in just five minutes

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EV Driver

JUNE 21, 2019

We’re coming to the end of Refugee Week and we can’t let it go by without sharing this very cool project with you! Lesvos Solidarity is a non-profit organisation that not only provides medical support and shelter, but also hosts workshops for refugees in which they up-cycle things such as life jackets and dinghies that pile up on the shores of Lesvos and tell the story of their harrowing journeys across the Aegean sea from Turkey. “ no one leaves home unless home is the mouth of a shark

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Green Fleet Magazine

JUNE 28, 2019

Over the years, work trucks have evolved into mobile offices equipped with a variety of in-cab devices, however, these devices and equipment take space, creating an increasingly cramped cab, restricting the body movement of a driver, which can potentially lead to ergonomic injuries.

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Green Car Reports

JUNE 2, 2019

When most people think of Rolls-Royce, they think of ultra-luxury cars, not airplanes. But a separate Rolls-Royce, spun off of the automaker in 1971, makes aircraft engines. And that company plans to go electric in tackling the world speed record for electric airplanes. To borrow a famous phrase from the automaker, if "horsepower is sufficient.".

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The Truth About Cars

JUNE 3, 2019

A Tesla Model S suffered a total meltdown after being connected to one of the company’s proprietary Supercharger stations in Antwerp, Belgium. While details are scant, local reports state the driver simply went to charge his automobile and returned to a burning wreck a short time later. Considering the fire department had to totally submerge the […].

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Discover EV

JUNE 14, 2019

A hydrogen filling station at the Sandvika Shopping Mall, located in a suburb of Oslo, Norway, has exploded causing two people minor injuries and leading to the temporary closure of filling stations across Scandinavia.

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EV Driver

JUNE 17, 2019

Over the past week Linda and Charlie have been all over the place attending the Vindis Electric Revolution event in Alconbury and then on to the Fully Charged Live show at the Silverstone race track. This was the perfect opportunity to try out a new electric ride and since we’ve been dreaming of the Jaguar I-PACE we tried our luck. So with a huge THANK YOU to Marshall Jaguar in Ipswich for making this a reality Linda and Charlie took off in the I-PACE and here’s what they thought in the form of

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Green Car Congress

JUNE 17, 2019

The Chilean Minister of Transportation and Telecommunications, Gloria Hutt, recently announced a new order for 183 BYD electric buses for the Chilean capital of Santiago, due to arrive in August of this year. The 183 BYD electric buses will join the 100 electric buses that BYD and local partner Enel brought into Santiago last December, giving BYD a dominant share of more than 60% in the capital’s electric bus market.

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Green Fleet Magazine

JUNE 24, 2019

The 2020-MY Duramax diesel Silverado delivered high fuel economy during a first drive event. General Motors’ John Schwegman talks about how this more fuel-efficient and powerful pickup can work for fleets.

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Green Car Reports

JUNE 21, 2019

A lot of ink, pixels, and synapses get spent trying to figure out how to make heavy duty electric trucks that can travel 500 to 1,000 miles in a day and get a fast enough recharge before heading back to work. Recent studies have shown a far more effective way to reduce pollution is to supplant short-haul machines that spend most of their time in.

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The Truth About Cars

JUNE 18, 2019

China is currently the largest proponent of electric vehicles on the entire planet. The nation has even incorporated BEVs as a significant part of its complex strategy to overtake the United States the dominant global superpower. However a sudden influx of battery related fires has caused it some trepidation, even though there hasn’t been much […].

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Discover EV

JUNE 18, 2019

Honda has broken cover with details of its new e Platform upon which it will base its new generation of small city cars, starting off with the Honda E which made its debut in near-production form at the Geneva Motor Show back in March.

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Cars That Think

JUNE 24, 2019

In the coming age of autonomous vehicles, users may have to pay extra to keep their whereabouts private.

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Green Car Congress

JUNE 3, 2019

Multiple NASA centers have partnered with Virgin Orbit to develop and to test a 3D printed combustion chamber. Virgin Orbit air launches rockets carrying small satellites to space. The company partnered with NASA experts in combustion and additive manufacturing (3D printing) at NASA’s Marshall Space Flight Center in Huntsville, Alabama; Glenn Research Center in Cleveland; and Armstrong Flight Research Center in Edwards, California.

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Green Fleet Magazine

JUNE 24, 2019

A proverb is a phrase that gives real-world advice learned from practical experience. Upfitting is complicated and there are many opportunities to make mistakes, sometimes very expensive ones. Here are 10 proverbs for a successful upfit.

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Green Car Reports

JUNE 6, 2019

Hydrogen fuel-cell drivers in California’s San Francisco Bay Area may soon have to find a backup plan—like a gasoline or electric vehicle. As of Wednesday night, 9 out of the 11 passenger-vehicle hydrogen stations in the Bay Area were down due to a hydrogen shortage—a status that remained the same going back to Monday. An.

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Green Cars News

JUNE 24, 2019

Commuting to university requires a reliable vehicle, and after years of spiralling costs keeping older cars on the road, enough was enough for Thomas Kilpin

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Discover EV

JUNE 26, 2019

issan's new range-topping MY19 LEAF e+ will offer buyers greater range, a slug of extra power and an array of technology that will make ownership and driving more comfortable and convenient.

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Cars That Think

JUNE 7, 2019

Vayyar says there are at least four good reasons to monitor passengers with radar instead of cameras.

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Green Car Congress

JUNE 11, 2019

Scania, a member of the Volkswagen Group, has developed a new modular battery-electric self-driving urban concept vehicle–NXT—designed with the flexibility to shift from ferrying commuters to and from work in mornings and evenings, delivering goods during the day and collecting refuse at night. In NXT, the front and rear drive modules can be fitted to a bus body, a distribution truck body or a refuse collector.

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Green Fleet Magazine

JUNE 19, 2019

Ford's sixth-generation 2020 Explorer arrives with an update that significantly improves the driving experience, a new gasoline-electric hybrid variant, and a smartly reworked cabin for a midsize SUV that has become one of Ford's top sellers since its introduction in the early 1990s.

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Green Car Reports

JUNE 10, 2019

The U.S.-based startup electric automaker Rivian is already showing plenty of signs that it's doing things differently than Tesla. While Tesla CEO Elon Musk discusses potential features of the company's new cars on Twitter, Rivian has held back on boasting about some of its most innovative ideas. The latest, according to a wide-ranging new.

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Green Cars News

JUNE 6, 2019

We recently got to step into the Audi e-tron for a tantalising spin around the high-speed bowl and hill route at the famous Millbrook Proving Ground.

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Discover EV

JUNE 26, 2019

While regenerative braking brings fuel and energy saving advantages, our technical correspondent, Rob Marshall, highlights potential issues with the braking system and how to resolve them.

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Cars That Think

JUNE 11, 2019

Powerful central processor predicts the car’s ideal path and helps the driver achieve it.

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Green Car Congress

JUNE 4, 2019

Everfuel, Wrightbus, Ballard Power Systems, Hexagon Composites, Nel Hydrogen and Ryse Hydrogen—leading players in the hydrogen fuel cell electric value chain—are joining forces to form the H2Bus Consortium. The members are committed to deploying 1,000 hydrogen fuel cell electric buses, along with supporting infrastructure, in European cities at commercially competitive rates.

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Green Fleet Magazine

JUNE 13, 2019

Statistics covering driver accident rates for 2013-2018. In this report, we cover accidents by age of drivers, cell-phone use, seat-belt use, time of day, top five accident descriptions, accidents by day of the week, and accidents by weather type.

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Green Car Reports

JUNE 14, 2019

Powering cars with clean electricity is one way to make transportation more sustainable. Going back to basics with human powered transportation may be a bigger step. But getting more bicycles on the road has been an uphill battle for many communities. As waving fists and occasional hanging boots attest, car drivers and bicyclists often don't get.

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Green Cars News

JUNE 21, 2019

Jeremy Clarkson isn’t always a sight for sore eyes, yet he was there at just the right time when something broke in an early Ford Focus gearbox during testing on the car’s international launch in 1998.

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Discover EV

JUNE 18, 2019

BMW's seventh-generation 3 Series, codenamed the G20, has gained a PHEV version and while the saloon version is already available, from mid-2020 it will also be on offer in touring guise.

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