Green Car Congress

SEPTEMBER 30, 2019

by Michael Sivak. This is the latest of my occasional updates on retrospective, long-term trends in U.S. vehicle fuel economy. Specifically, this study examines actual fuel economy of cars and light trucks (pickup trucks, SUVs, and vans) from 1966 through 2017. Calculated vehicle fuel economy is available going back to 1923. However, the starting year of this analysis is 1966 because (1) for 1923 through 1935, fuel-economy information is available only for the entire fleet of all vehicles, and (

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Green Car Reports

SEPTEMBER 29, 2019

The owner of a 60-year-old fueling station in Maryland disconnected from the legacy of Big Oil and went all-electric, partnering with the Electric Vehicle Institute and the state energy administration to rip out the gas pumps and install chargers. Depeswar Doley of RS Automotives in Takoma Park told CNBC that he was tired of the way oil companies.

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OCTOBER 2, 2019

I just returned from a two-week trip to China doing research for my next report for Wards Intelligence, this one on autonomous vehicles. I will save my insights on that sector for the report itself, which will be out in coming months. Meanwhile, I have some thoughts on the electric vehicle sector, which I wrote about my first report for Wards Intelligence, China’s New Energy Vehicle Future.

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Discover EV

SEPTEMBER 30, 2019

Alpine's reincarnation has been a rare success story in the annuls of brand resuscitations. Since Renault breathed new life into it and launched the A110 in 2017, it received almost universal praise from motoring writers and pundits globally.

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OCTOBER 1, 2019

NYK has conducted what it says is the world’s first Maritime Autonomous Surface Ships (MASS) trial performed in accordance with the IMO’s Interim Guidelines for MASS trials. Iris Leader , a large NYK-operated pure car truck carrier (PCTC) having a gross tonnage of 70,826 tons, was navigated day and night using the Sherpa System for Real ship (SSR) navigation system during the period from 14 to 17 September from Xinsha, China, to the port of Nagoya, Japan, and then from the port of Nagoya to the

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Green Car Reports

OCTOBER 2, 2019

Eyes are turning to California as gasoline prices near the $4-per-gallon mark, raising questions regarding how consumers will react if fuel prices cross that critical threshold. The cost per gallon for premium fuel has already eclipsed the $4 mark in some locations, with prices for regular creeping up behind it. Bloomberg reported last week that.

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OCTOBER 1, 2019

Toyota has added a new powertrain and enhanced its C-HR Hybrid SUV with a new multimedia system, dynamic improvements and a smattering of new design features.

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Green Car Congress

SEPTEMBER 28, 2019

Guangzhou Automobile Group Co., Ltd. and Toyota Motor Corporation signed a Strategic Cooperation Framework Agreement to deepen their partnership in the fields of electrification and intelligent networking. Chairman of Guangzhou Automobile Group Zeng Qinghong (left) and Toyota President Akio Toyoda (right). Under the agreement, based on the basic concept that electric vehicles can only contribute to environmental protection when they are popularized, in addition to launching hybrid vehicles and p

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Green Car Reports

OCTOBER 1, 2019

The next-generation Mini Cooper Hardtop will go electric, if boss Bernd Koerber has his way, and it may return to its city-car roots, too. Auto Express reports that Koerber is pushing to make Mini live up (down?) to its name again, after years of bloat and expansion into segments that haven't really suited the brand. For now, he's content to get.

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Green Cars News

SEPTEMBER 30, 2019

To the uninitiated, it might be something of a surprise to find that the Toyota Aygo shares most of its mechanical bits with the Citroen C1 and Peugeot 108.

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OCTOBER 4, 2019

Nine major providers across the UK, Denmark, Sweden, Norway and Finland will now allow drivers to use their charging infrastructure under a single subscription.

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Green Car Congress

OCTOBER 1, 2019

BYD achieved a first when its 60-foot battery-electric articulated transit bus completed durability road testing under the Federal Transit Administration’s (FTA) new Pass/Fail guidelines at the Model Bus Testing Program in Altoona, Pa. BYD’s K11M became the first battery electric transit bus of its size to complete the full 15,000-mile durability test in an impressive 106 days, setting the bar high for all other bus manufacturers.

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Green Car Reports

OCTOBER 1, 2019

Toyota and Subaru announced Friday that they will expand their partnership into connected-car programs and a co-developed electric vehicle platform. Toyota will also be taking a larger ownership stake in Subaru, while the latter will acquire equity in Toyota for the first time. While the partnership includes plans to build the second-generation.

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Green Cars News

OCTOBER 4, 2019

The Vauxhall Corsa overtook the Ford Fiesta to become the most popular new car in September, according to the latest registration figures from the Society of Motor Manufacturers and Traders (SMMT).

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OCTOBER 4, 2019

The changes made to the 7 Series plug-in hybrid are the most it’s ever applied to a model update says BMW, but does it make it the choice of the line-up?

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Green Car Congress

OCTOBER 1, 2019

Researchers from Chalmers University of Technology, Sweden, and the National Institute of Chemistry, Slovenia, have developed a new concept for an aluminum battery delivering twice the energy density as previous versions, made of abundant materials, and with the potential to reduce production costs and environmental impact. The new battery uses an anode made of aluminum and a cathode made of an anthraquinone-based organic material.

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Green Car Reports

OCTOBER 4, 2019

Washington state is shifting some of the financial burden of EV subsidies onto hybrid owners, a local report says, effectively punishing shoppers for purchasing fuel-efficient vehicles. Starting in October, hybrid drivers will be on the hook for an additional $75 in annual vehicle registration fees to help pay for improving Washington's electric.

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Green Cars News

OCTOBER 4, 2019

With downpours and strong winds, Hurricane Lorenzo has been a ‘nice’ reminder that autumn truly has arrived and has also left us wondering what to do this weekend.

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OCTOBER 4, 2019

Polestar has confirmed the launch price of its all-electric, Tesla Model 3-rivalling 2, which will go on sale at £49,900.

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Green Car Congress

OCTOBER 4, 2019

Anheuser-Busch, BYD, the Center for Transportation and the Environment (CTE), and ENGIE Services US announced that Anheuser-Busch will be deploying 21 BYD battery electric trucks in their California fleet as part of a state project to showcase economically and environmentally sustainable warehousing and distribution technology. This is a landmark achievement as the largest Class 8 electric truck deployment in North America.

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Green Car Reports

OCTOBER 1, 2019

The next-generation Mini Cooper Hardtop will go electric, if boss Bernd Koerber has his way, and it may return to its city-car roots, too. Auto Express reports that Koerber is pushing to make Mini live up (down?) to its name again, after years of bloat and expansion into segments that haven't really suited the brand. For now, he's content to get.

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Green Cars News

OCTOBER 2, 2019

The Volvo XC40 has been a big hit for Volvo, and now the Swedish company hopes to capitalise more on its smallest crossover courtesy of an all-electric model.

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OCTOBER 4, 2019

We drive the flagship of the Panamera range – the Turbo S E-Hybrid –which adds more power and tech than ever before

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Green Car Congress

OCTOBER 1, 2019

US cities could see a decline in mortality rates and an improved economy through midcentury if federal and local governments maintain stringent air pollution policies and diminish concentrations of diesel freight truck exhaust, according to a new study published in Environment International by researchers at Cornell University, the University of Houston and Changsha University of Science and Technology, China.

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Green Car Reports

OCTOBER 2, 2019

Two companies that are better known for their public charging networks have, just recently, rolled out new wifi-connected home-charging hardware. Both are AC charge points—or EVSE, as they’re sometimes called—although the two companies refer to them as chargers. Electrify America Tuesday rolled out a unit called the Electrify.

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Green Cars News

OCTOBER 1, 2019

Forget how hard it is to develop something as infallible as we’d expect a self-driving car to be, whether it’s being developed by Google or Tesla

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OCTOBER 1, 2019

Škoda has confirmed the pricing and specifications for its first PHEV, the Superb iV plug-in hybrid.

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Green Car Congress

SEPTEMBER 30, 2019

Researchers at Pacific Northwest National Laboratory (PNNL), with colleagues from Oregon State University, have developed PNNL a durable, inexpensive molybdenum-phosphide catalyst that efficiently converts wastewater and seawater into hydrogen. Details of the team’s study appear in the journal ACS Catalysis. The findings stem from a three-year project funded by the Department of Energy’s Fuel Cell Technologies Office.

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Green Car Reports

OCTOBER 3, 2019

Though vehicles for sale today are more efficient than they've ever been, the average fuel economy of America's operating fleet has remained relatively stagnant since George W. Bush was President, research shows. Researcher Michael Sivak, writing at Green Car Congress, puts the focus on the miles driven by registered vehicles in the United States.

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Green Cars News

OCTOBER 2, 2019

Say hello to the latest RS4 Avant – the hottest version of the latest A4 estate

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Green Car Congress

SEPTEMBER 29, 2019

Enzymes use cascade reactions to produce complex molecules from comparatively simple raw materials. An international research team has now copied this principle, and used nanoparticles to convert carbon dioxide into ethanol and propanol. The scientists at Ruhr-Universität Bochum in Germany and the University of New South Wales in Australia transferred this mechanism of producing complex molecules in multi-step reactions to metallic nanoparticles, also known as nanozymes.

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Green Car Congress

OCTOBER 1, 2019

Trucks in the medium/heavy truck category include tractor trailers, also known as combination trucks, and single-unit trucks. In the most recent year for which data are available, combination trucks made up only 1% of the truck population but were responsible for 6% of all vehicle miles traveled (VMT) and 17% of vehicle fuel use. Single-unit trucks were 3% of the truck population and 3% of VMT, while making up 9% of vehicle fuel use.

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Green Car Congress

SEPTEMBER 30, 2019

Robert Bosch Venture Capital GmbH (RBVC), the corporate venture capital arm of the Bosch Group, has invested in Trunk, a startup based in Beijing. Trunk provides combined hardware and software solutions for autonomous trucking. Trunk is the first company to go into production with autonomous trucking solutions for the container logistics market, currently valued at some US$19 billion.

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Green Car Congress

OCTOBER 4, 2019

The European Commission has begun work aimed at post-Euro 6 emission standards for on-road vehicles. The International Council on Clean Transportation (ICCT)—an independent nonprofit organization founded to provide unbiased research and technical and scientific analysis to environmental regulators—has pitched a paper into the pre-regulations mix.

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