Green Car Congress
JUNE 10, 2021
The first Pierce Volterra zero-emissions pumper has been placed on duty with the City of Madison Fire Department in Wisconsin, making this the first electric fire truck in service in North America. Internal combustion engine for continuous and uninterrupted power to the pumping system or drive system.
Green Car Congress
FEBRUARY 18, 2023
They are compatible with existing recreational boats, requiring no changes to fuel systems or engines. Since 2000, emissions from marine engines have decreased more than 90% and fuel efficiency has increased more than 40%.
Cars That Think
MAY 26, 2022
He was a professor of computer science and engineering for more than 40 years. He also earned a bachelor’s degree in electrical communication engineering in 1970 from the Indian Institute of Science, in Bangalore. Gager joined the research and engineering division of AIL, in St. in engineering from Nihon University , in Tokyo.
Green Car Congress
OCTOBER 25, 2010
Turbocharged HCPC engine scheme. A team from Universita degli Studi di Pisa (Italy) and Rolf Reitz at the University of Wisconsin-Madison are proposing a novel combustion concept—Homogenous Charge Progressive Combustion (HCPC)—based on a split-cycle principle to control HCCI combustion in diesel-fueled engines.
Green Car Congress
JUNE 4, 2009
Researchers at Oak Ridge National Laboratory (ORNL) are investigating mechanisms for extending the efficiency of combustion engines closer to their theoretical potential. Today’s engines can deliver a fuel efficiency of 40-42%, with corresponding loss of initially available fuel energy of 58-60%. Stuart Daw. Click to enlarge.
Green Car Congress
APRIL 17, 2014
In a presentation at the SAE 2014 High Efficiency IC Engine Symposium and then in a paper given at SAE 2014 World Congress, Mark Sellnau, Engineering Manager, Delphi Advanced Powertrain, reported that Brake Specific Fuel Consumption for the 1.8L Earlier post , earlier post.). Background. Earlier post.) DOE UFEV program targets.
Green Car Congress
FEBRUARY 12, 2009
Percent change in median CO2 by scenario relative to 2000. This scenario assumes that 100% of the study region’s vehicle fleet will be HEVs by 2050—half of which will be grid plug-in HEVs—but that the fleet will otherwise remain unchanged from 2000 in terms of its relative composition of different vehicle size classes. Stone et al.
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