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Toyota Canada Inc. Breaks Annual Hybrid Electric Vehicles Sales Record With 3 Months Left In The Year
Toyota Canada Inc. (TCI) surpassed its annual hybrid electric vehicles sales record with three months of sales yet to come. Led by the growth in sales of the Prius Prime plug-In hybrid electric vehicle (769 units sold, up 190.2%) and the made-in-Canada RAV4 Hybrid (1,360 units sold, up 88.9%), both achieving September records, TCI sold 2,948 hybrid electric vehicles in September and year-to-date ...
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Global Hybrid Electric Vehicle Battery Market 2011-2015
Reportlinker.com announces that a new market research report is available in its catalogue: Global Hybrid Electric Vehicle Battery Market 2011-2015 http://www.reportlinker.com/p0936076/Global-Hybrid-Electric-Vehicle-Battery-Market-2011-2015.html#utm_source=prnewswire&utm_medium=pr&utm_campaign=Clean_Vehicle TechNavio's analysts forecast the Global Hybrid Electric Vehicle (HEV) Battery ...
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Market Research Forecasts the Lithium Ion Batteries Market at $43 Billion by 2020
MarketResearch.com has announced the addition of the new report "Lithium Ion Batteries Outlook and Alternative Energy Vehicles (Hevs, Phevs, Evs)-Technologies, Markets, Competitors And Opportunities: 2010-2020 Analysis And Forecasts" to their collection of Energy market reports. For more information, visit ...
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NREL to Showcase Advanced Vehicles on July 2 & 4
The U.S. Department of Energy's National Renewable Energy Laboratory (NREL) will showcase advanced vehicles at two Colorado events in early July. Representatives from NREL will be on hand to answer questions about the vehicles and provide information about renewable energy, alternative fuels, and advanced vehicles. The vehicles on display are part of NREL's advanced vehicle fleet, which serves ...
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Toyota and Ford unveil plug-in hybrid-electric vehicles at Detroit Auto Show
Toyota and Ford unveiled plug-in hybrid-electric versions of their vehicles at last week's Detroit Auto Show. This decision to give in and plug in is monumental. Consumer pressure from organizations like PlugInAmerica and Plug-In Partners most likely played a significant role. The growing number of entrepreneurial companies that offer plug-in conversion services could have also influenced ...
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UPS purchases 130 hybrid electric vehicles
UPS (NYSE: UPS) today announced the purchase of 130 next generation hybrid electric vehicles (HEV) to add to its growing alternative-fuel vehicle (AFV) fleet. The 130 hybrids all will be deployed next year, with 30 going to New York and New Jersey and 100 to California. UPS estimates these vehicles will save 66,085 gallons of fuel and 671 metric tonnes of CO2 annually, representing a 35 percent ...
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SwRI to Launch Energy Storage System Evaluation and Safety (EssEs) Consortium
Southwest Research Institute (SwRI) will launch a new cooperative research project focusing on safe, reliable, cost-effective energy storage systems for electric and hybrid-electric vehicle applications. The Energy Storage System Evaluation and Safety (EssEs) consortium is intended to help vehicle manufacturers and battery suppliers develop precompetitive, detailed ...
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UPS deploys 200 hybrid electric vehicles
UPS (NYSE:UPS) has announced its fleet of alternative-fuel vehicles had expanded with the deployment of 200 next-generation hybrid electric delivery trucks in eight U.S. cities. The 200 new hybrid electric vehicles (HEVs) join roughly 20,000 low-emission and alternative-fuel vehicles already in use and have been deployed in Austin, Houston, Philadelphia, Chicago, Washington, D.C., Long Island, ...
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Air Products awarded two key patents for lithium ion batteries
Air Products (NYSE:APD) today announced it has received two United States patents covering usage of its Stabilife™ fluorinated electrolyte saltsin lithium ion batteries. These salts have been formulated to stand up to the difficult conditions expected from next generation portable power applications as well as hybrid electric vehicles (HEV). United States patents 7,311,993 and 7,348,103, both ...
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NREL to showcase advanced vehicles at “national night out” event in Broomfield
The U.S. Department of Energy’s National Renewable Energy Laboratory (NREL) will showcase a electric vehicle and a plug-in hybrid electric vehicle on August 2 at Broomfield Community Commons Park. The vehicles on display are part of NREL’s advanced vehicle fleet, which features promising technologies designed to increase efficiency, reduce emissions, and use renewable resources ...
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CSIRO’s UltraBattery goes global in the auto sector
The CSIRO-invented UltraBattery is set to have a global impact on greenhouse gas emissions after Japan’s Furukawa Battery Company, which has already begun production of the UltraBattery, and US manufacturer, East Penn, today signed an international commercialisation and distribution agreement for the technology. CSIRO’s UltraBattery combines an enhanced-power negative electrode and a lead acid ...
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BASF to sell styrene monomer site to SK Energy
BASF is to sell its Korean styrene monomer production facility in Ulsan to the local refining company SK Energy. The 50,000 sq m site, which has been left idle since October 2008 due to oversupply in the regional market, is to be taken over by the South Korean firm, a move which will affect the jobs of 34 employees at the facility. BASF states that it will continue to supply the Asian market ...
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Nexeon Appoints Another Expert NED
Battery materials development company Nexeon has appointed Tony Posawatz as a Non-Executive Director (NED) with immediate effect. Posawatz is well known in the automotive industry for leading the team that brought the award-winning Chevrolet Volt from concept to production. He is an expert in vehicle electrification, alternative/advanced propulsion, energy and clean technology, with over 30 ...
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Global Hybrid Electric Vehicle Battery Market to Grow 25.2% Annually Through 2015
As many of the world's leading experts on battery technology meet in Boston for the Next Generation Batteries 2012 Conference, new market research shows forecasts growth in a very important segment of the market: electric vehicle batteries. Global Hybrid Electric Vehicle Battery Market 2011-2015 The Global Hybrid Electric Vehicle (HEV) Battery market is forecast to grow at an astonishing 25.2 ...
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New IEA international R&D projects
Research portfolios among the collaborative programmes within the IEA's energy technology network are constantly adapting to meet today's evolving energy challenges. Here are some new projects. • The IEA Demand-Side Management (DSM) Programme has created a new multi-country research project, Task XVIII on 'DSM and Climate Change'. It will seek pathways to greater synergy between programmes to ...
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Canadians Still Have Reservations About EVs
As the Ontario provincial government winds down its rebate program for residents purchasing electric vehicles, a new public opinion poll from the Angus Reid Institute finds relatively few Canadians taking advantage of such programs.More than nine-in-ten Canadians (91%) have never owned an electric vehicle, whether plug-in or hybrid. Indeed, nearly eight-in-ten (79%) have never even driven such a ...
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Nexeon Completes Commissioning of State-of-the-Art Manufacturing Facility
Nexeon - the company developing silicon anode technology for the next generation of lithium ion (Li-ion) batteries - has just completed the construction and commissioning of a state-of-the art process development and manufacturing facility at its headquarters in Oxfordshire. The plant is capable of producing over 20 tonnes of product a year, and has been built to be highly versatile and able to ...
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Consumers Want More Fuel-Efficient Vehicles, But Are Confused About The Options
Despite uncertainty regarding prices at the pump, Americans are resisting a move to more fuel-efficient hybrid vehicles largely because of confusion over the differences between these types of cars. The findings from a recent survey* conducted by the Opinion Research Corporation and funded by Johnson Controls. (NYSE: JCI) suggest there is a clear gap between consumers' attitudes toward ...
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Partnership between Johnson Controls and University of Wisconsin-Milwaukee earns 2013 Gold Edison Award for innovation
Johnson Controls, a global diversified company in the building and automotive industries, is a 2013 Gold Award Winner by the internationally renowned Edison Awards for its recent groundbreaking collaboration with the University of Wisconsin – Milwaukee (UWM). This distinguished award symbolizes the persistence and excellence personified by Thomas Alva Edison, inspiring creative minds to ...
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Johnson Controls to unveil Micro Hybrid battery demonstration module at North American International Auto Show
Johnson Controls, Inc., the world's leading supplier of automotive batteries, will introduce its 48 volt Micro Hybrid battery demonstration module as part of its full spectrum of advanced energy storage solutions for automobiles. Power Solutions President Alex Molinaroli will unveil the company's next generation technology Jan. 14at the North American International Auto Show in Detroit. ...
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