Green Car Congress

JULY 1, 2021

The New York City Department of Sanitation (DSNY) plans to purchase seven Mack LR Electric refuse models, which will operate in each of the city’s boroughs. Mack has long been the number one choice of refuse customers, and we are now well-positioned to be the industry leader in e-mobility as well.

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Green Car Congress

FEBRUARY 26, 2021

Highland will purchase buses manufactured in North Carolina by Thomas Built Buses, which will be supplied and serviced by American Bus. The project was awarded an $817,000 grant from Maryland Energy Association (MEA), which helps offset the purchase cost of vehicles that is critical at this early stage of mass deployment.

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Green Car Congress

FEBRUARY 4, 2021

START will help customers meet the demand from consumers for transparency on where and how the products they purchase are made. Sample START Sustainability Label to be provided upon request with each sales order. The START sustainability label is now available for aluminum purchased from Rio Tinto’s managed operations globally.

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Green Car Congress

APRIL 30, 2020

The outbreak of COVID-19 has already impacted the automotive industry significantly, according to JATO Dynamics, a leading provider of global automotive data and insight. Global vehicle sales totalled 5.55 We have to remember that the industry was already operating in a challenging environment, especially towards the end of last year.

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Green Car Congress

DECEMBER 9, 2020

Optimal Electric Vehicles and Olathe Ford, one of the nation’s largest Ford Commercial Vehicle Centers (CVCs), announced a new partnership in the sales and distribution of Optimal-EV’s E1 series battery-electric cutaway chassis platform.

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Green Car Congress

AUGUST 20, 2021

Designed to meet increased demand for retail e-bikes globally, a market projected to reach $23 billion by 2023 (source: Deloitte) and that grew 157% year over year in sales in the US in 2020 (source: QYResearch), the Bird Bike provides consumers with an electric vehicle to reduce reliance on gas-powered vehicles.

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Green Car Congress

AUGUST 27, 2020

As we are witnessing in the passenger EV market, higher sales volumes are translating into lower prices. Lightning Systems’ electric commercial vehicles are built on familiar industry-leading chassis such as the Ford Transit 350HD, Ford E-450, Ford F-550 and Chevrolet 6500XD. —Tim Reeser, CEO of Lightning Systems.

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Green Car Congress

OCTOBER 8, 2020

Increasing future sales for BEVs will rely on companies improving awareness of their product. The auto industry has seen this need to improve familiarity in the past, with some advanced driver assist features such as ACC and even autonomous driving. However, what drives someone to make the purchase is beyond these benefits.

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Green Car Congress

DECEMBER 7, 2020

November sales of plug-in hybrids passenger vehicles hit 7,333, up by 2.9% Sales of pure-electric vehicles and plug-in hybrids January-November 2020 were 139,246 and 69,390, respectively, down by 19.9% China’s NEV industry was hit by the Covid-19 outbreak in this year’s first quarter. from October and by 127.8% on the year.

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Green Car Congress

APRIL 16, 2021

Over the next few years, Sinopec plans to deploy 5,000 battery charging and swapping stations.

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Green Car Reports

MAY 7, 2021

Plug-in vehicles—including battery-electric cars, plug-in hybrids, and hydrogen fuel-cell cars—are nearing one in 10 new-car sales in California, according to a periodic update from industry group Veloz, referring to the latest data from the state.

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Green Car Congress

FEBRUARY 19, 2021

IDTechEx expects electric motorcycle sales in Europe to have grown at least 50% year-on-year in 2020, building on the momentum of recent years. Indeed, notes IDTechEx, young people are less inclined to buy a motorcycle in general, which is an existential problem with which the overall industry is grappling.

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Green Car Congress

OCTOBER 4, 2018

Carmakers will also have to ensure that zero- and low- emission vehicles—ZLEVs (electric cars or vehicles which emit less than 50g CO2/km)—have a 35% market share of sales of new cars and vans by 2030, and 20% by 2025. It would essentially force the industry into a dramatic transformation in record time.

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Green Car Congress

MAY 25, 2018

A new study by a team from Aarhus University in Denmark has found that car dealerships pose a significant barrier to electric vehicle adoption at the point of sale due to a perceived lack of business case viability in relation to gasoline and diesel vehicles. Their study is published in the journal Nature.

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Green Car Congress

MARCH 25, 2021

The index—now in its tenth year—facilitates a comparison of competitive positions of the relevant automotive nations (the US, Germany, China, France, Italy, Japan and South Korea) in the field of e-mobility, based on an objective assessment of those countries in three key areas: technology, market and industry.

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Green Car Congress

SEPTEMBER 6, 2023

Power, EV adoption in the US is growing increasingly divided, with the most active states for EV adoption already on the path to parity with internal combustion engine (ICE) vehicles and consumers steadily pulling back on EV purchases in the least-active states. Industry-wide, Tesla currently accounts for 63% of all EV sales year to date.

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Green Car Congress

FEBRUARY 8, 2022

Electricity and hydrogen are the two key energy carriers for a low-carbon future, and hydrogen will play a vital role in industry, shipping and synthetic aviation fuels. The demand from European industry alone, for example steel mills, massively exceeds the total green hydrogen production capacity currently planned for the EU for 2030.

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Green Car Congress

DECEMBER 21, 2021

The LR Electric features the same industry-leading ergonomics and visibility as the diesel-powered LR model. TEC Equipment Fontana, California, and Northwest Equipment Sales in Boise, Idaho, were the first two Mack dealers to achieve Certified Electric Vehicle Dealer status.

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Green Car Congress

JANUARY 29, 2021

The Electrification Coalition has introduced its EV Policy Showroom, offering policymakers, EV advocates, industry partners and other stakeholders online access to easily navigable data and policy information on the deployment and adoption of electric vehicles and charging infrastructure. Screenshot from EV Policy Dashboard.

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The Truth About Cars

MARCH 18, 2025

While there are always going to be exceptions to the rule, that has been the general trend within the industry over the last fifteen years. Negative vehicle equity is presently averaging at an all time high of roughly $7,000 in the United States and about 25 percent of trade-ins toward new-car purchases had negative equity.

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Green Car Congress

MAY 4, 2020

The taxes fall into three broad categories: vehicle acquisition (VAT, sales tax, registration tax); ownership (annual circulation tax, road tax); and motoring (fuel tax). This just goes to show the sheer scale of the importance of the automobile industry to Europe. —Eric-Mark Huitema, ACEA Director General.

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Green Car Congress

JULY 2, 2023

By contrast, in Canada, a majority (66%) say they are either “very unlikely” or “somewhat unlikely” to consider an EV for their next vehicle purchase. It is followed by purchase price (59%) and lack of charging station availability (55%). Power Canada Electric Vehicle Consideration (EVC) Study. —J.D.

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Green Car Congress

MARCH 26, 2022

Portfolio upgrades, enhancing efficiency, increasing renewable energy purchases, reducing throughput and sales of fossil refinery products, and increasing the share of recycled and sustainable feedstocks will be the key levers in achieving these targets. Chemicals & Materials. The share of gas will increase to more than 60%.

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Green Car Congress

MAY 12, 2023

Rapidly declining battery costs, low-cost electricity, and federal purchase incentives mean these vehicles will be cheaper to own and operate than diesel trucks before the end of this decade. This equates to around 1% of the total national electricity retail sales in 2021. Earlier post.)

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Green Car Congress

FEBRUARY 1, 2021

Almost half of global consumers (46%) are considering purchasing a car in the next 12 months, an increase from 35% in April 2020. This shift is likely to translate into vehicle sales, with almost 72% of consumers stating that they value constant access to a private vehicle more than before the pandemic.

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Green Car Congress

MARCH 4, 2022

The regulations mandate that a certain percentage of the vehicles delivered for sale in a state are ZEV vehicles. Each year, manufacturers must meet a ZEV credit amount that is based on average annual sales. In states already in the program, the automobile industry has successfully met the required percentage.

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Green Car Congress

JULY 1, 2022

GM is expanding its efforts to educate public safety, fire and emergency service providers throughout the United States and Canada as EV sales grow. A yellow sticker provides guidance on where to disable a vehicle’s standard 12-volt circuit and is a new industry practice to aid first responders.

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Green Car Congress

JANUARY 22, 2019

Sunseeker has always led the industry by innovating and being first to market so it is entirely appropriate that we are the first luxury performance yacht manufacturer to partner with MTU Hybrid Power which will revolutionize how all customers power their boats over the coming years.

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Green Car Congress

MAY 2, 2022

Specifically, the regulations require parties upstream of retailers and wholesale purchaser-consumers to turn over their storage tanks to low volatility summer gasoline and stop selling higher volatility winter gasoline by 1 May so that retailers and wholesale purchaser-consumers can meet the applicable low volatility gasoline standards by 1 June.

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Green Car Congress

APRIL 30, 2022

China’s “zero-COVID” policy could slow sales of electric vehicles this month as consumers in the country’s biggest city remain at home. Consultancy Rho Motion now forecasts Chinese EV sales of 5.6 Still, battery producers including CATL and LGES said this week they were confident about global sales this year.

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Teslarati

SEPTEMBER 25, 2024

Experts in the auto industry believe affordability is the remaining hurdle preventing electric vehicle (EV) sales from rising. The biggest issue in our industry is affordability,” Katarski said during the Automotive News Congress in Pontiac, Michigan. We’re seeing a ton of people flock to them—when they can afford them.

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Green Car Congress

APRIL 3, 2020

Sales are expected to begin in the 2024 model year in Honda’s United States and Canadian markets. This expanded partnership will unlock economies of scale to accelerate our electrification roadmap and advance our industry-leading efforts to reduce greenhouse gas emissions.

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Green Car Congress

JULY 29, 2020

After years of consistent growth, the connected vehicle industry will face a 15% decline in shipments and flat revenues in 2020, according to projections by ABI Research, a global tech market advisory firm. The connected car industry will resume consistent growth from 2021 and achieve a market value of US$75 billion in 2023.

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APRIL 11, 2023

China's new energy vehicle (NEV) sales in March were 653,000 units, up 34.8 The CAAM released data on wholesale sales by automakers, where NEVs include battery electric vehicles (BEVs), plug-in hybrid vehicles (PHEVs) and fuel cell vehicles. China saw BEV sales of 490,000 units in March, up 23.8 percent year-on-year and up 24.4

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Green Car Congress

MAY 23, 2020

lithium carbonate product from its industrial-scale pilot plant operations at the Rincon Lithium Project in Salta Province, Argentina. Argosy has executed a sales agreement with Mitsubishi RtM for up to 100 tonnes LCE product. Australia-based Argosy Minerals Limited confirmed the successful export shipment of five tonnes of >99.5%

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Green Car Congress

JUNE 6, 2019

Toyota Motor Corporation and Subaru Corporation disclosed today that they have agreed jointly to develop a platform dedicated to battery electric vehicles (BEVs) for midsize and large passenger vehicles and jointly to develop a C-segment-class BEV SUV model for sale under each company’s own brand.

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Teslarati

MAY 28, 2024

Reports of an electric vehicle (EV) sales slowdown this year have been a major focus for many automakers, but new data suggests that the downturn may not last as long as previously expected—and may not be as bad as many thought. In a report on Tuesday, Bloomberg said that Q1 sales data makes the supposed EV slowdown in the U.S.

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