Green Car Congress

MARCH 22, 2018

SEAT, a member of the Volkswagen Group, will introduce its first fully electric vehicle in 2020. The EV launch comes as part of a product offensive, in which SEAT will launch one new car every six months until 2020. The first two vehicles will be the SEAT Tarraco and the CUPRA Ateca, which are going on sale at the end of 2018.

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Baua Electric

SEPTEMBER 20, 2024

Battery-electric vehicles (BEVs) contributed heavily to this slump. Italy also posted a sharp decline of 13.4%, while volumes in Spain decreased 6.5%, the country’s first drop since March. Meanwhile, Italy and Spain were up 3.8% Tom Hooker, Autovista24 journalist, reviews the results. year on year in August. respectively.

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Green Car Congress

MAY 20, 2014

In 2013, GM reduced the energy-intensity per vehicle manufactured 3.5% MW/vehicle from 2.30 MW/vehicle for 2020, a reduction of 20% from the 2010 baseline of 2.47 The carbon intensity (CI) per vehicle dropped to 0.87 tonnes CO 2 e/vehicle in 2013, down 1.1% Energy intensity per vehicle. MWh per vehicle.

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Green Car Congress

MAY 11, 2017

The sharing of vehicles in Germany by customers from other European locations is popular. In addition, German customers are increasingly using the car2go service in European cities in Italy, Spain, the Netherlands and Austria. The international market leader has more than 2.4 Here, the number increased by 80% to 13,500 journeys.

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Green Car Congress

JULY 20, 2010

At the Clean Energy Ministerial in Washington, DC, 19-20 July, ministers reaffirmed their commitment to previously-announced targets for the deployment of electric vehicles, which the International Energy Agency (IEA) estimates will create global market momentum leading to at least 20 million electric vehicles on the road worldwide by 2020.

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Baua Electric

JANUARY 18, 2024

The Renault Group has increased its worldwide sales by 9%, compared to 2022, to 2,235,345 vehicles in calendar year 2023. growth with 1,548,748 vehicles sold worldwide in 2023. growth with 4,328 vehicles sold. It’s the same with the Spain + Canary Islands combination and Brazil, which have traded places in the past two years.

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Green Car Congress

APRIL 8, 2021

Toyota Motor Europe (TME) Fuel Cell Business will supply and integrate fuel cell modules into a zero-emission train prototype as part of the FCH2RAIL project in Europe. —project leader and researcher Holger Dittus from the German Aerospace Center - Institute of Vehicle Concepts (DLR).

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Baua Electric

MAY 14, 2024

Carlos Tavares, Stellantis’ global CEO, has announced that Leapmotor will enter the Indian market in Q4 of 2024 as part of Leapmotor International’s global expansion strategy. We are now in the planning phase to go to the markets and start exporting vehicles out of China to the rest of the world.

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Green Car Congress

APRIL 5, 2012

(In the US, the Department of Transportation (DOT) has proposed guidelines to encourage automobile manufacturers to limit the distraction risk for in-vehicle electronic devices. Smartphones have quickly become an essential part of many people’s day. million new vehicles in Europe will be equipped with SYNC by 2015.

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Teslarati

NOVEMBER 26, 2021

Despite the vehicle getting totaled from the incident, the driver reportedly walked away from the wreck with just a scratch on the arm. Needless to say, the crash has caught the attention of the online electric vehicle community, including CEO Elon Musk, who liked a Twitter post about the incident’s aftermath. .

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Green Car Congress

DECEMBER 7, 2021

All three scenarios assume accelerated electrification to meet climate goals, with a high market share for electrified vehicles (Battery-electric vehicles, plug-in hybrid electric vehicles and full hybrid electric vehicles) by 2030 of more than 50%, almost 80%, and close to 100%, respectively. bn value-add until 2040).

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Green Car Congress

SEPTEMBER 9, 2012

The SmartFuel fueling station is capable of providing 40 kg of hydrogen per day, enabling a fleet of 50 vehicles to be fueled. The station is open 24 hours a day; vehicles take three minutes to fuel at a pressure of 700 bar, meaning they can fuel anytime and just as quickly as a conventional vehicle.

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Green Car Congress

MARCH 4, 2013

A new report from the European Environment Agency (EEA) suggests that new road charges for heavy goods vehicles (HGVs or lorries) should reflect the varied health effects of traffic pollution in different European countries. Road user charges for heavy goods vehicles (HGV). Source: EEA. Click to enlarge.

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Green Car Congress

DECEMBER 8, 2015

At the 21 st UN Conference on Climate Change (COP21) in Paris this week, Nissan announced the development of a Vehicle-to-Grid (V2G) system which will allow drivers to operate as individual energy hubs with the ability to store, use or return electricity to the grid. Earlier post.). Endesa 10 kW bidirectional charging point for EVs.

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CN EV Post

APRIL 14, 2023

BYD recently held a new car launch in Barcelona, Spain, announcing that the Dolphin and Seal will be available in Europe in 2023, according to a press release from the company today. All three models are part of BYD's Dynasty series, with the Atto 3 being the first SUV based on BYD's e-Platform 3.0, known as the Yuan Plus in China.

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Green Car Congress

JUNE 7, 2010

Renault held a “2010 Environment Workshop” last week to showcase its progress across its range of vehicles’ full lifecycle through the Renault eco² program. dCi (type K9K) diesel is the brand’s best-selling engine with almost 900,000 units manufactured in 2009, in Valladolid (Spain) and Bursa (Turkey). Select Engines. New-generation 1.5

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Green Car Congress

JANUARY 25, 2011

to manufacture automotive exterior parts in China. Following the acquisition of Plastal activities in Germany and Spain in 2010, this international expansion will be the first joint-venture for the automotive exteriors activity of Faurecia in China. The agreement signed between Faurecia and Ningbo Huazhong Plastic Products Co.,

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Green Car Congress

SEPTEMBER 25, 2015

The gap between official fuel-economy figures and the real world for new cars in the EU has reached 40 per cent, according to the latest update by the International Council on Clean Transportation (ICCT) to its on-going research into in-use vehicle fuel efficiency and CO 2 emissions. com (Spain) and the car club TCS (Switzerland).

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Green Car Congress

OCTOBER 27, 2009

UK-based Axon Automotive, a spin-off from Cranfield University, previewed a pre-production plug-in hybrid electric vehicle (PHEV) version of its lightweight city car at the Milton Keynes Science Festival. By designing light cars and giving them good aerodynamics you can radically lower vehicle emissions. The Axon Automotive PHEV.

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Green Car Congress

JULY 2, 2012

These were Austria, Belgium, Denmark, Finland, France, Germany, Ireland, Luxembourg, Malta, the Netherlands, Spain and Sweden. This is partly because transport has grown more than expected, and partly because the real-world emissions from diesel vehicles are higher than those estimated when the vehicle emission limit standards were set.

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Baua Electric

JULY 21, 2024

As part of our global strategy, last man standing approach, we will continue to support the ICE market with our portfolio of starter motors and generators till the last IC engine is produced. It’s a part of our global strategy, where we integrated a claw pole machine with an inverter and a software to make an integrated system.

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Green Car Congress

NOVEMBER 29, 2016

With this change, both buses will begin to operate for longer periods on the 108 route which runs from Stratford International Station to Lewisham Station with different operating conditions. The vehicles also incorporate all the on-board fleet management systems and telemetry which are standard in London buses. market share.

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Green Car Congress

AUGUST 25, 2010

Balqon Corporation, a developer and manufacturer of zero emissions, heavy-duty electric vehicles and drive systems ( earlier post ), has received a $490,000 order for electric drive systems under a new dealer agreement with DynaProTech, a leading composite automotive parts manufacturer in the People’s Republic of China. Verde in Spain.

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Green Car Congress

MARCH 4, 2013

The program calls for participating Ford dealers across Germany to offer cars and sharing services to customers in their town, allowing easy access to shared cars and offering the chance for potential customers to experience Ford vehicles. Daimler, with its car2go effort, was an early OEM entrant into car-sharing. Earlier post.)

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Baua Electric

JUNE 18, 2024

With the country’s commercial vehicle (CV) industry gradually adding LNG (Liquified Natural Gas) to its fuel portfolio, the Swedish truck maker has made an entry into this segment, with a 42-tonner FM420 LNG. India is already a key part of the global operations. A batch of 20 trucks has been delivered to logistics company Delhivery.

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Baua Electric

APRIL 25, 2024

“The requirements and wishes of our customers are constantly driving us to create new internal start-ups. The figure includes a strategic doubling of global stocks of catalogue parts. Decisions with construction measures have already been made for China, Taiwan, India, Italy, Spain, Poland, the USA, Mexico and Turkey.

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Wallbox

JUNE 30, 2021

Barcelona’s long-held status as a startup hub – part of its smart city shine – has helped it to become a living lab for the development of e-mobility alternatives. Spain, in general, has more than 20,000 electric scooters, owned and shared, in circulation already , most of which are in Barcelona, Madrid, and Valencia.

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Wallbox

JANUARY 4, 2021

Whilst with unidirectional (one-way) EV chargers, electricity flows from the electric grid into the electric vehicle, with bidirectional (two-way) EV chargers, electricity can flow both ways. Although currently there aren’t many bidirectional EV chargers out there, all contain internal converters. V2G: Vehicle to Grid.

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Green Car Congress

JANUARY 17, 2012

Mercedes-Benz delivered the first vehicles for field testing to testing partners in Berlin at the beginning of September 2010, and in Stuttgart in January 2011. The two promotional initiatives are part of the German federal government’s second economic stimulus package. 11 seconds. Power supply is via charging stations at fleet depots.

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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. The light ring then illuminates in quadrants as the vehicle charges.

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Green Car Congress

MAY 17, 2023

has been developed from scratch as a purpose battery-electric vehicle (BEV). It is planned to reduce the portfolio variants by more than 50% compared to current vans with an internal combustion engine (ICE) while covering the same use cases for the customers. variants, in an optimized common parts strategy.

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Green Cars News

NOVEMBER 9, 2009

Having already announced that its Zoe ZE Concept will be manufactured in Flins, France (see article ) and that it’s Twizy ZE Concept will call Vallodolid in Spain its home (see article ), Renault has now revealed its plans for the future electric, zero-emission version of its Kangoo Express LCV.

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EV Sales

JANUARY 25, 2021

BEVs), so we can say with some certainty that part of the fall on the overall market has more to do with the disruption provoked by plugins than Covid-related issues. With the upcoming Ioniq 5 (not so) compact crossover said to be a small revolution in the EV World, one wonders if the Kona EV won't suffer from the new internal competition.

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Baua Electric

FEBRUARY 7, 2024

In a decisive step towards advancing the European Union’s Green Deal objectives, the ALMA Project (Advanced Light Materials and Processes for the Eco-Design of Electric Vehicles) has announced a transformative breakthrough in the road transport sector, attained through sustainable lightweighting. What is the ALMA Project?

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Green Car Congress

JUNE 30, 2014

The University of Sunderland (UK), working with a consortium of five other research partners from Italy, Spain and Germany, has been selected for funding by the €1-billion (US$1.4-billion) The other partners are Centro Ricerche FIAT (Italy); Fraunhofer ICT (Germany); Interquimica (Spain); Nanesa S.r.l. Italy); and Delta-Tech S.p.A.

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EV Central

JULY 17, 2024

The sole example currently on display at Sydney’s Cupra Garage is a left-hand drive model sourced from the factory in Spain, but right-hand drive Australian examples will come out of China, making the journey to customer hands that little bit quicker. Then later in the year is Cupra’s largest vehicle to date, the Terramar.

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Cars That Think

JULY 20, 2021

Delivery of goods to the consumer's door has supplanted many a retail storefront, and there are early signs that such deliveries will increasingly be conducted by autonomous vehicles. Editor's note: The views expressed are the authors' own and should not be attributed to the International Monetary Fund, its executive board, or its management.

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