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NOVEMBER 14, 2014

Audi is now refreshing its A1 models, including the offer of six engines—gasoline and diesel—that are new or that have been intensively further developed. For the first time, Audi is offering completely new three-cylinder engines: the 1.0 TFSI gasoline engine and the 1.4 TDI diesel. TDI follows the 2.0L Earlier post.)

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The car gains a new Blue Heaven interior upholstery, while there’s a new T-Spec and Track Edition engineered by the brand’s performance division NISMO. The Track Edition also gets aluminium certification plates and gold-coloured number plates in the engine bay.

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NOVEMBER 18, 2015

in engineering, moved from Daimler, where he held various management posts, to join Porsche as Head of Innovation and Concepts in 2002. In 2005, he took charge of the Panamera series and played a key role in the success of this model. Steiner, who holds a Ph.D.

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MAY 1, 2012

Delphi Automotive has developed a common rail fuel system technology for heavy-duty diesel engines that combines proven hardware with an innovative architecture, allowing vehicle manufacturers to meet Euro VI emissions standards without significant modification to their base engines. New high pressure heavy duty common rail systems.

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Green Car Congress

JULY 7, 2009

have completed a final set of manufacturing drawings for the RadMax Diesel Engine, and have released them competitive bid. The companies are developing an improved axial vane type rotary engine known as the RadMax. in December 2005. and the Fortune 1000 company engineers. REGI US, Inc. and Reg Technologies Inc.

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Green Car Congress

JULY 22, 2009

The first engine in the EcoBoost line, a 3.5L, V6 engine ( earlier post ), is being applied in the 2010 Ford Taurus SHO and Flex and Lincoln MKS and MKT. EcoBoost engine at the North American International Auto Show in Detroit in January, Ford had also shown a Lincoln C (C-size) concept car powered by a 1.6-liter,

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Green Car Congress

SEPTEMBER 15, 2009

Ulrich Hackenberg, Member of the Board of Volkswagen Brand Technical Development, in front of the Volkswagen Concept Car L1 in Frankfurt. Volkswagen unveiled the L1, its second-generation one-liter class concept car, at the Frankfurt Motor Show. The earlier, first-generation 1-Litre concept. Click to enlarge. Earlier post.)

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FEBRUARY 28, 2024

After the basic concept development in 2000, it was first adopted as a mass-produced product in April 2004, and the cumulative total has now reached three million after reaching earlier milestones of one million in November 2016, and two million in January 2020. The Yamaha Performance Damper has received numerous awards.

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MAY 19, 2022

The video clip really does not do this thing justice, so here’s a better picture, taken a couple of years ago: Instagram The Lun (only one was ever made) had a wingspan of 44 meters and was powered by eight turbojet engines. The concept image below is of a 4.5 million kg vehicle, 175m long with a 100m wingspan, powered by 20 (!)

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JANUARY 24, 2019

The Sustainable Bioenergy Research Consortium (SBRC), a non-profit entity established by Masdar Institute that is part of Khalifa University of Science and Technology, announced the world’s first commercial flight using locally produced sustainable fuel on an Etihad Airways Boeing 787 powered by GE’s GEnx-1B engines. Earlier post.).

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Green Car Congress

MARCH 15, 2009

Flight Design GmbH will debut a hybrid engine concept for light aircraft at the upcoming Aero show in Friedrichshafen, Germany (2-5 April). Flight Design developed the concept engine over the past two years with Franz Aircraft Engines. Matthias Betsch, Flight Design CEO.

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Green Car Congress

OCTOBER 9, 2013

Ricardo and Korea-based Doosan Infracore presented details of the latest DL06 engine at the 22 nd Aachen Colloquium on automobile and engine technology in Germany. The Doosan DL06 engine is a turbocharged and intercooled 5.9-liter, liter, in-line 6-cylinder diesel engine used in both on-highway and off-highway applications.

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MAY 12, 2023

Together with physicist Armin Zastrow, he pioneered the concept of agrivoltaics —the use of land for both agriculture and solar energy generation. That same year, he and Zastrow introduced the agrivoltaic concept, in which solar panels are built atop greenhouses or in structures above field crops to maximize land use.

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JUNE 5, 2014

The potential for a multifunctional composite material which can simultaneously carry mechanical loads while storing and delivering electrical energy, said Dr. Emile Greenhalgh, project coordinator, at Imperial College London, was demonstrated by researchers at the US Army Research Lab in 2005. Electrochem. South, Robert H. Carter, James F.

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MAY 7, 2020

The French engineer Alfred Vacheron is considered the inventor of the steering wheel. For the world’s first automobile race—from Paris to Rouen in July 1894—he had installed a steering wheel instead of the usual steering lever in his Panhard & Levassor, which was powered by a Daimler engine.

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Green Car Congress

SEPTEMBER 9, 2010

BMW M GmbH has announced the end of production of the BMW M6 Coupé and the BMW M6 Convertible; production will now also cease for the unique V10 high-rev engine. The stand-out feature of this unique engine, developed exclusively for the BMW M5 and BMW M6 models, is power delivery that is both dynamic and smooth even at higher loads.

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JUNE 4, 2009

RAPTR is being designed to investigate R egenerative A ir P reheating and T hermochemical R ecuperation concepts for reducing losses from combustion irreversibility. Researchers at Oak Ridge National Laboratory (ORNL) are investigating mechanisms for extending the efficiency of combustion engines closer to their theoretical potential.

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JUNE 2, 2013

A combined team of engineers and technicians from Ad Astra Rocket Company and Cummins Power Generation have successfully powered a Cummins-built electrical generator using mixtures of hydrogen and biogas. The effort is in parallel with an ongoing technology development to store hydrogen affordably.

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OCTOBER 19, 2022

In 2005, 100 “Hydrogen 7” cars powered by the fuel’s V12 engines were produced by BMW. And in 2021, the company debuted the iX5 Hydrogen fuel cell concept car at the International Motor Show in Germany.

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Green Car Congress

JUNE 16, 2017

TDI engines for GAZ light commercial vehicles, opening up new business opportunities in international markets. The main focus will be on the delivery and joint assembly of components as well as joint product concepts. TDI engines. engines from the Salzgitter plant in Germany. Supply of Volkswagen 2.0

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JANUARY 23, 2024

Growing up in India, he was used to transitions and new experiences because his family frequently moved around the country as his father relocated for his job as a chemical engineer. He earned a bachelor’s degree in electrical and computer engineering in 2009 and a master’s degree in the same subject the following year.

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JANUARY 28, 2024

The Gypsy had a soft-top as well as a hard-top version, and later even got a more powerful engine and wider track. Also see: Maruti Gypsy Electric review: Future-proofing an icon Maruti Swift | 2005-present The hot-looking Swift was instrumental in changing the way buyers perceived Maruti Suzuki in India.

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Green Car Congress

SEPTEMBER 20, 2009

EcoMotors International, a Khosla-funded startup working to commercialize a diesel opoc (opposed-piston, opposed-cylinder) engine ( earlier post ), has named auto industry veteran Donald Runkle as its new CEO. EcoMotors was founded in 2008 by Prof. Don Runkle.

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Green Car Congress

APRIL 26, 2009

Proposed by John Heywood and colleagues at MIT in 2005, the basic premise of E85 boosting is that ethanol (or other lower alcohols) suppresses knock due to the large evaporative cooling effect it has on the air-fuel mixture when injected directly into the cylinder, supplemented by ethanol’s inherent high octane number. Earlier post.)

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Cars That Think

MARCH 21, 2022

In the popular conception of a technological breakthrough, a flash of genius is followed quickly by commercial or industrial success, public acclaim, and substantial wealth for a small group of inventors and backers. Consider steam engines. But steam engines themselves had been invented at the beginning of the 18th century.

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Green Car Congress

JANUARY 4, 2018

In 2005, a Volkswagen Electronics Research Lab-Stanford University team claimed victory at the 2005 DARPA Grand Challenge—widely considered the dawn of the automated vehicle era. Our vision is ‘Mobility for all, at the push of a button’. Self-driving technology is set to become the centerpiece of future personal mobility.

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Green Car Congress

APRIL 4, 2019

Mercedes-Benz has been conducting this environmental check regularly since 2005, starting with the S-Class at the time. If it is possible to operate electric vehicles using only renewable energy, the CO 2 emissions over the entire lifecycle fall by 70% compared with combustion-engine vehicles.

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Green Car Congress

JANUARY 5, 2015

The Electromagnetic Railgun Innovative Naval Prototype (INP) was initiated in 2005. The Phase I goal of 32 MJ muzzle energy proof-of-concept demonstration has been achieved. The railgun high-velocity projectile will destroy its targets due to its kinetic energy rather than with conventional explosives.

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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. in engineering at the Technical University of Munich. Having students and engineers work together on large-scale projects is a dream come true.”

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Green Car Congress

MAY 7, 2009

The two companies had earlier agreed to jointly develop and marketing hybrid vehicle technology for passenger cars and light commercial vehicles in 2005. The parallel hybrid concept can be implemented in a particularly profitable manner thanks to the utilization of existing vehicle resources in the driveline. Earlier post.).

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Green Car Congress

OCTOBER 23, 2009

Powertrain of the Mercedes-Benz Concept BlueZERO E-CELL, introduced in January 2009 in Detroit. Since the A-Class entered production in 1997 and the B-Class in 2005 more than 2.4 Between 2002 and 2005 Daimler AG invested about €900 million in the Rastatt plant for the second generation of the A-Class and the B-Class.

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Green Car Congress

AUGUST 30, 2011

Despite improvements in engine efficiency—e.g., Despite improvements in engine efficiency—e.g., Finding ways of recovering this lost heat energy has been one of the major goals being pursued by engineers working on BMW EfficientDynamics for the future.

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Green Car Congress

SEPTEMBER 6, 2009

The AuraGen power system is able to supply simultaneous DC and AC power without interruption; power from both the generator source and a battery source during times of high power demand; real-time battery temperature monitoring, with adjustment of charging rate; and seamless power with the engine off. The AuraGen is a load-following machine.

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APRIL 30, 2016

Among the key findings of the study were: Maintaining the existing vehicle efficiency and fuels regulations to 2030 will lower tank-to-wheel GHG emissions from road transport to 647 Mt representing a 29% reduction compared to 2005 levels, achieving almost aspired level for 2030.

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Green Car Congress

JULY 10, 2019

The TCF was created by the Energy Policy Act of 2005 to promote promising energy technologies. High-fidelity ignition models to boost engine thermal efficiency, $720,000 Convergent Science Inc., Development of low-cost magnetocaloric materials, $150,000 General Engineering and Research, L.L.C., Madison, Wis. San Diego, Calif.

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Green Car Congress

NOVEMBER 25, 2013

While Hyundai, Toyota and Honda seized much attention over their presentations of fuel cell rollout plans (in the case of Hyundai) and concepts (in the case of Honda and Toyota) at the Los Angeles and Tokyo auto shows, Daimler used EVS27 in Barcelona as a forum to report on its 3.3 Earlier post.). million km (5.6 million miles).

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Green Car Congress

FEBRUARY 1, 2011

In a presentation at the 2011 Advanced Automotive Battery Conference (AABC) in Pasadena, California last week, Daniel Andree, a battery development engineer at Audi AG, outlined the implementation of a Sanyo lithium-ion battery pack in the upcoming 2012 Audi Q5 compact crossover hybrid. Components of the Q5 hybrid system. Click to enlarge.

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