Green Car Congress

MARCH 30, 2011

systems that alter a conventionally-fueled vehicle or engine to enable it to run on an alternative fuel. The updated final rule covers alternative fuel conversion of light-duty vehicles and heavy-duty highway vehicles and engines. The revised procedures will vary based on the age of the vehicle or engine being converted.

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Green Car Congress

NOVEMBER 20, 2019

At the Los Angeles Auto Show, Toyota introduced its new plug-in hybrid (PHEV) RAV4 performance model with an estimated 302-horsepower, advanced all-wheel drive, sport-tuned suspension and exclusive design features. As a technology comparison, the 2006-2012 RAV4 offered an optional 269-hp, 3.5-liter

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Green Car Congress

FEBRUARY 28, 2015

The objective of this project is to design an in-wheel motor electric drive system with one of the highest power densities in the world, and at the lowest possible cost. This system will consist of one or more power converters and electric machines, to be assembled and bench tested, and then tested on the road in an electric vehicle.

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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. She got another promotion, in 2010, to chief of the electrical engineering division.

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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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Cars That Think

SEPTEMBER 14, 2021

He worked at Georgia Power in Atlanta for more than 20 years, and he was a principal research engineer at the National Electric Energy Testing Research and Applications Center at Georgia Tech for more than 25 years, becoming NEETRAC's associate director. He had earned bachelor's and master's degrees in electrical engineering at Georgia Tech.

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Green Car Congress

JULY 2, 2015

combustion engine, high-voltage generator and road-linked all-wheel drive via an electric drive system at the rear axle. In the prototype of a BMW 2 Series Active Tourer with plug-in hybrid system, the front wheels are driven by a three-cylinder gasoline engine and the rear wheels by an electric motor. Top: full powertrain.

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Green Car Congress

FEBRUARY 9, 2012

From 1998 until 2006, the New Beetle was fitted with a 1.9-liter liter turbocharged four-cylinder diesel engine. Since then, this engine has been heavily revised to accommodate increasing demand for improvements in exhaust emissions and acoustics. Pricing of the diesel model, which is joining the gasoline-fueled Beetle 2.5L

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Green Car Congress

DECEMBER 30, 2010

Earlier this year, the Directorate for Engineering at the National Science Foundation in partnership with the US Department of Energy Vehicle Technologies Program issued a solicitation for proposals for thermoelectric waste heat recovery devices for automotive applications. Rowe CRC Press 2006. Earlier post.). Chapter 34.

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Electric Auto Association

OCTOBER 5, 2021

Steiner, a retired IBM Systems Engineer who is now servicing EV trucks and other commercial vehicles for a battery manufacturing company, launched Waverley Electrics as an April Fools joke in 2011. “I Steiner designed the prototype himself, basing it on the 1908 model, and then engaged the Chinese manufacturer.

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Green Car Congress

JUNE 9, 2014

For the powertrain, Audi, in the 25 th year of the TDI engine, has developed a new diesel 4.0-liter It has been purposefully designed for efficiency and, together with many other optimizations of the race car, such as aerodynamics, helps save energy. Compared with the 2006 5.5-liter liter V6 unit for Le Mans. Specifically, 138.7

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Green Car Congress

FEBRUARY 7, 2018

The current model of the Sprinter has been on the market since 2006. The new Sprinter comes in more than 1,700 variants depending on body type, drive system, cab design, body length, payload, cargo-space height and equipment versions. The electric models are primarily designed for operations in city centers. million times.

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Cars That Think

APRIL 17, 2022

1972, University of California, Los Angeles, both in electrical engineering; Ph.D., Engineering wasn’t Madni’s first choice of profession. I wanted to be an engineer who would invent things,” Madni says, “one who would do things that would eventually affect humanity. in electrical engineering in 1969. 1969, and M.S.,

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Green Car Congress

JANUARY 22, 2014

JATOP, which kicked off in fiscal 2007, was a five-year collaborative research program conducted by the oil and auto industries, and was the successor to the JCAP (Japan Clean Air Program), which was conducted between fiscal 1997 and fiscal 2006 with the main goal of improving air quality by reducing motor vehicle exhaust emissions.

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Green Car Congress

OCTOBER 9, 2014

Further, Parker Hannifin has paired a RunWise transmission with a CNG engine in the series hybrid powertrain as a one-off to test the waters for such a combination, McGrew said. The brake energy recovery system converts the vehicle’s kinetic energy into stored energy by compressing nitrogen gas in a storage device called an accumulator.

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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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Electric Auto Association

OCTOBER 5, 2021

Steiner, a retired IBM Systems Engineer who is now servicing EV trucks and other commercial vehicles for a battery manufacturing company, launched Waverley Electrics as an April Fools joke in 2011. “I Steiner designed the prototype himself, basing it on the 1908 model, and then engaged the Chinese manufacturer.

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Cars That Think

JANUARY 7, 2022

While growing up in Germany, Heike Riel helped her father design and build furniture in the family workshop. She and her team helped develop the first vertical surround-gate nanowire field-effect transistor in 2006. She says the experience taught her that “precision and creativity are necessary to build something excellent.”

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Green Car Congress

MAY 9, 2011

UK-based TMO Renewables Ltd, the developer of a novel thermophilic bacterium and process for converting biomass into fuel ethanol ( earlier post ), has entered into two separate technology partnerships in China. All first-generation production capacity utilizing edible feedstock has been banned in China since 2006.

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Green Car Congress

JANUARY 24, 2013

CO 2 emissions by the European new vehicle fleet will be reduced by some 30% during the period from 2006 to 2015—emissions will be below the threshold of 120 grams CO 2 /km for the first time by 2015. The solar park contains 33,600 polycrystalline solar panels (each rated at 285 watts) from JA Solar designed to produce 13.1

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Green Car Congress

OCTOBER 12, 2010

A significant challenge in designing a diesel reformer is the creation of an optimized mixture of fuel and oxidant before contact with the catalysts, while preventing autoignition. The reformer converts hydrocarbons into hydrogen, CO 2 and heat. 2006) Cool flame evaporation for diesel reforming technology. Cool flame reformer.

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Green Car Congress

NOVEMBER 20, 2011

In short, the LCFS is working as designed and intended.With that said, most complex regulations like the LCFS can generally benefit from further refinements. Staff proposes to convert the current application process into a certification program to facilitate more expeditious reviews of Method 2A/2B submittals. Reporting Requirements.

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Cars That Think

JULY 15, 2023

Commonwealth Fusion Systems says this spool of high-temperature superconducting tape is key to the startup’s smaller, cheaper tokamak design. These properties provide the possibility to design smaller, less complex, and lower-cost fusion systems that are quicker to build and easier to take apart for maintenance.”

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Green Car Congress

JULY 17, 2009

boost converters and inverters); electric motors; and thermal control and system integration. The design of the power electronics cooling system resulted in a greater than 50% volume reduction over conventional inverters while maintaining high power levels. PEEM technology comprises three main elements: power electronics (e.g.,

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Clean Fleet Report

MAY 13, 2021

LiveWire motorcycles are not really Harleys, the thought goes, although they will share engineering, production facilities, a supply chain and global logistics. These European designs are perfectly good EVs, although their limited battery range and high price compared to the gasoline versions are major drawbacks. Is there a Right Way?

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Green Car Congress

APRIL 13, 2009

The 2010 Terrain will feature a choice of two new direct injection engines. The newly introduced GMC Terrain ( earlier post ) became the latest GM North American model that will feature a fuel-efficient gasoline direct injection (DI) engine in 2010. The MY 2009 engines include three 2.0-liter V-6 (LF1) direct injection engines.

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Green Car Congress

APRIL 1, 2009

Eventually, Hazen said the use of microbes might even result in “oil sweetening,” or converting its chemical structure to a more environmentally friendly and useful form, like methane. He and his co-principal investigators will direct teams in different aspects of the process. Earlier post.)

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Green Car Congress

MARCH 25, 2009

Mercedes-Benz is offering five newly developed and modified engines—four of them with direct injection—for the new E-Class Coupé, offering more power with lower fuel consumption and CO 2 emissions than their predecessors. All of the engines for the new E-Class Coupé are EU5-compliant. It consumes around 17% less fuel: 5.1

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Green Car Congress

DECEMBER 3, 2014

GMZ Energy, a market leader in the development of high-temperature thermoelectric generation (TEG) solutions, has successfully demonstrated a 1,000W TEG designed for diesel engine exhaust heat recapture in a Bradley Fighting Vehicle. GMZ’s TEG also enables silent generation, muffles engine noise, and reduces thermal structure.

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Tony Karrer Delicious EVdriven

APRIL 21, 2009

The nonprofit CalCars does conversions to demonstrate new designs and provide a platform for different batteries; we dont sell conversions. We have sponsored the EAA-PHEV project and our Open-Source designs are being used by some of the private companies as well as technically advanced individuals.

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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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Green Car Congress

NOVEMBER 14, 2017

Zhejiang Geely Holding Group has entered into an agreement to acquire Terrafugia, a US-based company developing practical flying cars.Terrafugia was founded in 2006 by five MIT graduates; since then, the company has delivered a number of working prototypes. The Rotax 912 iS 4-cylinder engine has a fuel burn at cruise of 5 gallons per hour.

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Green Car Congress

FEBRUARY 5, 2009

In an integrated system, stored hydrogen can be converted back to electricity or used as a feedstock with atmospheric or source carbon dioxide (CO 2 ) to produce a liquid fuel for heavy-duty vehicles including trucks and jet planes. This current technology would be more than twice as expensive as internal combustion engine systems.

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Plug In Partners

JANUARY 26, 2006

FIALKA Staff Reporter THE WALL STREET JOURNAL January 25, 2006 DAVIS, Calif. -- In the 1950s, an aspiring Pasadena hot-rodder named Andrew Frank shocked the competition by powering his 1936 Ford with a Cadillac V-12 engine. "It Hybrid automobiles work with two engines. It had gobs of torque," he recalls.

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Green Car Congress

FEBRUARY 10, 2010

liter EcoBoost I-4 engine ( earlier post ), plus the new 3.5-liter liter EcoBoost I-4, fuel economy on the new Edge will be 30% better than it was at launch in 2006. Plus, Ford’s newest EcoBoost engine will deliver on the promise of 15% fuel economy improvements versus the Edge’s current 3.5-liter Earlier post.).

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Green Car Congress

AUGUST 21, 2013

First up is a quick look at the two advanced neutron-scattering facilities at Oak Ridge National Laboratory (ORNL) in Tennessee, which Green Car Congress recently had the opportunity to tour: the newer (2006) $1.4-billion billion and has around 4,600 total staff, of which 3,000 are scientists and engineers. Schematic of the SNS.

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Green Car Congress

FEBRUARY 8, 2012

To help meet that design target, Toyota engineers focused on making the hybrid system more compact and lighter in weight—the Prius c hybrid system is 14% lighter than that of the current Prius Liftback. liter, 16-valve DOHC engine. The hybrid system in the Prius c comprises a SULEV (Tier 2 Bin 3)-rated 1.5-liter

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