Cars That Think

MARCH 11, 2023

In 2001, a team of engineers at a then-obscure R&D company called AC Propulsion quietly began a groundbreaking experiment. It occurred in the wake of the California electricity crisis of 2000 and 2001, when mismanaged deregulation, market manipulation, and environmental catastrophe combined to unhinge the power grid.

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Grid Power Powered Vehicles 132

Cars That Think

NOVEMBER 28, 2022

She joined the center as a co-op student and retired in 2014 as chief of its electrical engineering division. Employer: Miller Engineering and Research Corp. Goddard hired her after she graduated as a radiation and hardness assurance engineer. Congress and launched in 2001. About Janet Barth.

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2001 Maryland Engine Environment 85

Green Car Congress

MAY 7, 2010

The new options would reduce some economic and procedural impediments to clean alternative fuel conversions while maintaining environmental safeguards to ensure that acceptable emission levels from converted vehicles are sustained. EPA expects the streamlined approach to result in a cost savings for many converters. Vehicle/Engine Age.

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Conversion EPA Fuel Clean Alternative 230

Green Car Congress

MARCH 28, 2013

STG+ technology converts syngas into drop-in high-octane gasoline and jet fuel with a conversion efficiency of ~35% by mass of syngas into liquid transportation fuels (the highest documented conversion efficiency in the industry) or greater than 70% by mass of natural gas. He was elected in 2011 to the National Academy of Engineering.

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Universal Gas Green Energy 239

Cars That Think

AUGUST 16, 2022

Alan Conrad Bovik ’s passion for science fiction inspired him to pursue a career in engineering. Clarke , who penned 2001: A Space Odyssey, and Isaac Asimov , author of the Foundation series. But he decided to study nuclear engineering in school—which then seemed like the future of energy. Title: Professor of engineering.

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Illinois Texas 2001 Universal 92

Green Car Congress

JULY 22, 2011

Corning Shanghai Company Limited, which is wholly owned by Corning Incorporated, is an advanced emissions control substrate facility that first began shipping product in early 2001. The company invented an economical, high-performance, cellular ceramic substrate in the early 1970s that is now the standard for catalytic converters worldwide.

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Clean Cleaning Emissions Production 218

Green Car Congress

MAY 17, 2015

With the 2016 XC90 ( earlier post ) heading to dealerships across the US, Volvo Cars gave media an opportunity to experience the next generation of its full-size luxury SUV—in both its conventional T6 and plug-in hybrid T8 Drive-E Twin Engine forms—in and around Los Angeles. Volvo XC90 T8 Twin Engine. Earlier post.)

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Volvo Plug-in PHEV Engine 150

Green Car Congress

JUNE 25, 2010

The CLEEN program helps develop environmentally friendly and energy efficient aircraft and engine technology that could be introduced into the commercial aircraft fleet. The five contracts are expected to total $125 million over the five-year span of the program.

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Engine Fuel Renewable Companies 170

Green Car Congress

FEBRUARY 5, 2014

The ICCT team only examined technical barriers to the consumption of blends of ethanol above 10%: the effect of higher ethanol blends on passenger vehicles and smaller engines and the impact on infrastructure. This in turn raises temperatures inside the catalytic converter, and over time, this can accelerate catalyst deterioration.

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Gasoline Exhaust Water Fuel 230

Green Car Congress

AUGUST 20, 2011

liter Duratec Ti-VCT gasoline engine can now be specified with a 6-speed Ford PowerShift automatic transmission with dual dry-clutch technology. Allows the clutches to disengage when the engine is at idle or during deceleration, thus reducing friction and improving fuel economy and NVH. Earlier post.) liters/100km (36.8

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Ford Europe Fuel Economy Sweden 225

Green Car Congress

NOVEMBER 20, 2014

Volkswagen is tapping some expertise from Ballard engineers under a long-term services contract, earlier post.) The Isenbüttel site was chosen for this center and construction of a special research center for electric drivetrains began in 2001. Like a car with combustion engine, refueling takes no more than around three minutes.

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Audi Hydrogen Fuel Concept 278

Cars That Think

JUNE 30, 2023

As a child, Alberto Moreira discovered his passion for electronics from the kits for exploring science, technology, engineering, and mathematics that his father bought him every month. It consists of an antenna divided in several parts, each of which has its own receiving channel and analog-to-digital converter.

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Climate Change Climate Brazil 2003 90

Green Car Congress

OCTOBER 24, 2012

The new Corvette LT1 engine, the first of the Gen 5 family of Small Block engines, combines several advanced technologies, including direct injection, Active Fuel Management and continuously variable valve timing to support a new advanced combustion system with an 11.5:1 —Tadge Juechter, Corvette chief engineer.

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2014 Oil Exhaust Engine 362

Green Car Congress

JUNE 16, 2010

Enerkem’s technology converts residual materials, such as non-recyclable municipal solid waste, into transportation fuels and advanced chemicals. is a privately owned Alberta corporation formed in 2001 to design, build and operate biogas cogeneration facilities. The initial organizations receiving CCEMC funding are: Enerkem Inc. ,

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Climate Change Corporation Renewable Climate 236

Green Car Congress

JULY 12, 2013

Laboratory proxies for real world automobile catalysts have shown that HNCO could be a trace intermediate in automobile catalytic converters during the warm-up phase. For the tests, they used a turbo diesel (TDI) engine from a 2001 Volkswagen Jetta equipped with a diesel oxidation catalyst (DOC) and operating on ultra-low sulfur diesel.

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Exhaust Canada Environment Emissions 207

Green Car Congress

AUGUST 3, 2012

The converted RAV4 is the result of the partnership between Toyota and Tesla Motors announced in May 2010; Toyota has contracted for 2,600 units. Twenty-two months after the project announcement, Toyota and Tesla engineers revealed the RAV4 EV at Electric Vehicle Symposium 26 in May 2012. The RAV4 EV. Click to enlarge. —Bill Fay.

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Toyota California Tesla EPA 281

Cars That Think

AUGUST 27, 2022

But it was true what semiconductor engineers in South Korea whispered about his former students: They were everywhere. Starting in the mid-1980s, as chip manufacturing in the country accelerated, engineers who had studied under Kim at. His mother taught elementary school; his father, Kim Byung-Woon, was a textile engineer for.

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South Korea Industrial Industry Universal 102

Green Car Congress

FEBRUARY 8, 2010

Left: 2001-2003 Toyota Prius (THS). Likewise, a vehicle with a battery pack that happens to be near the upper range of its charge window (~70% to 80% for many hybrids) will also be limited in its ability to convert braking force to stored energy during a given braking event. Right: 2004-2009 Toyota Prius (THS-II). Click to enlarge.

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Hybrid Design Prius Toyota 268

Cars That Think

MARCH 26, 2023

Starting around 2001, the compound semiconductor gallium nitride fomented a revolution in lighting that has been, by some measures, the fastest technology shift in human history. Basically, the input AC voltage is converted to DC, and then that DC is “chopped” into a high-frequency alternating-current square wave.

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Green Conversion Power Powered 102

Green Car Congress

JANUARY 21, 2010

There are two basic approaches to converting coal to synthetic fuels: indirect liquefaction (ICL) (Fischer-Tropsch) and direct (Bergius). The indirect liquefaction pathway first gasifies the coal to produce a syngas, and then catalytically converts the syngas to linear hydrocarbons or chemicals.

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Coal Diesel Hydrogen Gasoline 170

Green Car Congress

OCTOBER 12, 2010

The reformer converts hydrocarbons into hydrogen, CO 2 and heat. Due to the unit’s high efficiency, CO 2 emissions are substantially lower than in conventional combustion engines, and no other demonstrable exhaust is discharged—i.e., 2001) Solid acids as fuel cell electrolytes. The Electrochemical Society Interface.

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Norway Diesel Fuel Hydrogen 199

Green Car Congress

MAY 11, 2009

RenDiesel, the renewable synthetic diesel to be produced at the facility, meets all applicable fuels standards, is compatible with existing engines and pipelines and burns cleanly, with emissions of particulates and other regulated pollutants significantly lower than the emissions from the combustion of CARB ultra-low sulfur diesel.

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California Power Powered Building 170

Cars That Think

OCTOBER 8, 2022

then based in Mountain View, he realized that silicon technology had advanced to the point that, with careful engineering, a complete central processor could fit on a chip. Early Neural Networks Hoff liked the engineering courses at Rensselaer, but not the narrow focus of the college itself. While a research manager at Intel Corp.,

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Green Cars News

JULY 22, 2009

The FedEx fleet of hybrid-electric vehicles has leapt by more than 50 per cent from 172 to 264 after the company added 92 hybrid-electric trucks to its delivery fleet by converting existing models. These standard trucks used in the retrofit programme were models from 2000 or 2001 with 300,000-500,000 miles on the clock.

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Fleet Hybrid San Diego Eaton 36

Tony Karrer Delicious EVdriven

APRIL 21, 2009

We Promote PHEV Conversion Programs: First CalCars in 2004, then a number of aftermarket companies, have converted over 200 cars — at first most were for fleets, but more and more are going to individual owners. The easiest conversions are for 2004-2008 Prius (not 2001-2003 Prius) and the Ford Escape/Mercury Mariner Hybrid.

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Plugs and Cars

AUGUST 18, 2007

As Burning Man attempts to go green, here's to hoping they become the first American City to ban the internal combustion engine within its borders. The founders of Google have made personal investments in Tesla as befits dotcom billionaires, and they're converting Priuses to plug-in hybrids for the company fleet with battery maker A123.

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Tony Karrer Delicious EVdriven

APRIL 21, 2009

model in 2001 by the DOEs Argonne National Lab estimates hybrids reduce greenhouse gases by 22%, and plug-in hybrids by 36% (see table 2). People routinely pay more for such options as sunroofs, automatic transmissions, V8 engines and leather seats. The GREET 1.6 These are "features" -- and no one asks about the payback.

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Plug-in Plugin Plug Hybrid 61

Cars That Think

FEBRUARY 26, 2023

Microsoft Flight Simulator: A History youtube.com A passion for flight Bruce Artwick studied electrical engineering at the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, yet he found time to pursue a dream many teenagers think about but few fulfill: He learned to fly. But now that Microsoft was in charge, failure wasn’t an option.

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Tony Karrer Delicious EVdriven

JANUARY 28, 2009

Westbrook, 2001 "Gasoline to Electric Conversion Manual: A Workshop Guide for High Schools", published by the Electric Vehicle Society of Canada, July 2005 "History of the Electric Automobile: Hybrid electric vehicles", by Ernest H. com Vigil to save last remaining 78 EV1 cars www.pluginamerica.com/saveev1.htm htm Advocates of the Th!

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Plug-in America Plug EV1 30

Cars That Think

MAY 21, 2023

It’s the metalens, a device developed at Harvard and commercialized at Metalenz , where I am an applications engineer. Today, many mobile devices use DOEs to convert a laser beam into “structured light.” They published the discovery in 2001 in Science , causing a stir as people imagined invisibility cloaks.

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