Green Car Congress

MAY 27, 2009

World marketed energy consumption is projected to grow by 44% between 2006 and 2030, driven by strong long-term economic growth in the developing nations of the world, according to the reference case projection from the International Energy Outlook 2009 ( IEO2009 ) released today by the US Energy Information Administration (EIA).

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Green Car Congress

MARCH 10, 2011

A collaboration between research teams at Shell and Gordon Murray Design (GMD) recently led to the development of an innovative concept engine lubricant capable of achieving a 6.5% 25 city car as the test bed, Shell engineers formulated an ultra low viscosity 0W-10 motor oil. benefit on a combined cycle.

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Green Car Congress

OCTOBER 13, 2019

Modern piston assemblies are subject to high demands in terms of both loading and lifetime; in addition, there is the environment-friendly demand for low engine emissions. KS Kolbenschmidt has developed its LITEKS concept for particularly low-friction piston systems installed in highly loaded gasoline engines.

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Green Car Congress

JUNE 22, 2015

liter 3-cylinder Turbo PureTech engine ( earlier post ) was named best in the 1.0-liter liter category International Engine of the Year 2015 earlier this month. Some 100,000 units of the engine, which displaced the reigning category champion Volkswagen Group 1.4-liter PSA Peugeot Citroën’s new 1.2-liter liter to 1.4-liter

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Green Car Congress

OCTOBER 26, 2011

Scania unveiled its new global engine platform that will be used worldwide for all emission standards: Euro 3, Euro 4, Euro 5, EEV and Euro 6. European markets also have access to an extended range of Euro 5 and EEV engines with SCR technology. The engines can operate on up to 100% biodiesel.

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Green Car Congress

JULY 25, 2009

BP and Irving Oil will not be moving forward at this time with a proposed second refinery in Saint John, New Brunswick, as a result of global economic and industry conditions. It became clear, particularly over the past year, that the market conditions for refining have changed since BP and Irving Oil entered this memorandum of understanding.

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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. High Carbon-Intensity Crude Oil (HCICO). High Carbon-Intensity Crude Oil (HCICO). Reporting Requirements. a crude is determine to either be a HCICO or a non-HCICO).

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Green Car Congress

JULY 20, 2016

Made of a special form of compacted graphite iron (CGI), the latest formulation—designated GOE330—reduces the typical bore distortion under maximum piston side thrust by up to 27%, compared to existing iron materials. We also make it possible for them to use thinner liners, resulting in more compact engine designs.

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Green Car Congress

AUGUST 31, 2011

After five years and use exclusively in AMG engines, twin-wire arc spraying technology will now also be used in the series production of Mercedes-Benz diesel engines to reduce friction and increase wear resistance. Other advantages include lower engine weight, less fuel consumption and lower emissions. liter AMG engines.

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Green Car Congress

OCTOBER 2, 2015

Researchers at Caltech and JPL used statistical mechanics to design a polymeric fuel additive that can self-assemble into “megasupramolecules” (≥5000 kg/mol) at low concentration (≤0.3 These polymers interfered with engine operation, however, and their ultralong backbones degraded upon pumping. —Wei et al.

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Green Car Congress

APRIL 24, 2010

Since the end of 2006, Opel, Robert Bosch, IVK and FKFS have been working on a natural gas hybrid vehicle in a project supported by the German Federal Ministry of Economics and technology. Active-WG control is used for improvements at all engine speeds (< 5500 rpm). Operation at high loads (13.5 < < IMEP < 22.5

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Green Car Congress

JANUARY 25, 2019

Despite progress—existing CARB strategies such as engine and fuels standards have reduced Valley NO x emissions by 60% and Valley Air District programs have reduced PM 2.5 emissions by nearly 40%—PM 2.5 emissions are expected to rise as the population grows. The 2020 deadline is for both 1997 standards.).

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Green Car Congress

MAY 22, 2009

Envera LLC is nearing completion of a project to develop a new hydraulic actuator mechanism for its variable compression ratio (VCR) engine. A number of studies have concluded that fuel economy could be improved by about 30% with a combination of VCR, boosting and engine down-sizing. liter VCR 4-cylinder engine with DOE sponsorship.

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Green Car Congress

JUNE 30, 2014

EDI was co-founded by Professor Andy Frank from UC Davis—a key figure in the development of the PHEV concept and technology—in 2006. The purpose of this solicitation was to accelerate research and development of advanced natural gas engine- hybrid concepts for medium- and heavy-duty vehicles. Hybrids Natural Gas Plug-ins'

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Green Car Congress

JANUARY 22, 2014

PME= palm oil methyl ester, RME = rapeseed methyl ester, SME = soy methyl ester, WME = waste cooking oil methyl ester, FTD = Fischer-Tropsch diesel, HBD = hydrogenated biodiesel. JAMA bases its postion on the results of study from the Japan Auto-Oil Program subsidized by Japan’s Ministry of Economy, Trade and Industry (METI).

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Green Car Congress

APRIL 14, 2011

Renault has begun production of the new Energy dCi 130 diesel engine ( earlier post ) at its Cléon site is starting production of the new flagship in Renault’s powertrain range, the Diesel Energy dCi 130. The Energy dCi 130 engine was developed by the Renault-Nissan Alliance, like the existing 2.0 The R9M project started in 2006.

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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

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. This stored energy is then released during acceleration to reduce the energy required from the engine to propel the vehicle. FedEx, UPS, etc. Earlier post.)

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Cars That Think

JULY 5, 2022

The competition is for startups that have designed technologies for the consumer goods and retail industry. Unreliable Cloud Services Chen, a software engineer, founded her first company, Alcenit , in 2006. Wisy is piloting its AI platform with CCU. Chen is based in Panama City. Founded 2016. Headquarters San Francisco.

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Green Car Congress

AUGUST 30, 2009

The oil price shocks of the 1970s led the Brazilian government to address the strain high prices were placing on its fragile economy. Brazil, the largest and most populous country in South America, was importing 80% of its oil and 40% of its foreign exchange was used to pay for that imported oil.

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Green Car Congress

AUGUST 23, 2013

V6 TDI diesel engine. The survey is similar to surveys run by UMTRI on the same topic in 2006 and 2007. The results so far suggest that: The penetration of spark-ignited engines in passenger cars is projected to drop to 51% in 2025 from 74% in 2016. The engines are paired with 8-speed Tiptronic transmissions.

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Green Car Congress

MAY 9, 2011

The other is with CNOOC New Energy Investment Co, a wholly owned subsidiary of the China National Offshore Oil Corporation (CNOOC), one of the largest state-owned oil companies, and the largest offshore oil and gas producer in China.

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Green Car Congress

APRIL 1, 2009

A combined effort of all three academic partners in the Energy Biosciences Institute (EBI) will seek to increase the amount of oil that can be extracted from existing wells by using microbes within their geological habitat to help recover residual oil and enhance production.

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Green Car Congress

JANUARY 12, 2013

However, the fuel-cycle PM 10 , PM 2.5 , SO 2 , and NO x emissions of EVs could be up to five times higher than those of ICEVs (internal combustion engine vehicles) and CNGVs. While the increases in PM 10 and PM 2.5 emissions are less important because of the low contribution of light duty vehicles to national PM 10 and PM 2.5

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Green Car Congress

JULY 10, 2014

While there is definitely a technology transfer between race and road car engineering, said Paddy Lowe, Executive Director (Technical) at Mercedes AMG Petronas, “ it’s a more subtle process than bolting bits from one car onto another. ”. Here the in-house engineering expertise of Mercedes-Benz was to contribute decisively, the company said.

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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. methanol, diesel and bio-oils), further reducing the overall fuel cell system complexity and cost. The project has an overall budget of NOK 11.8

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Green Car Congress

APRIL 14, 2009

Thanks to the most aggressive economic strategy of any state in the country, Michigan, the global center of automotive research and development, is positioned to lessen the nation's dependence on foreign oil and become the advanced battery capital of the world. Michigan Governor Jennifer M. Earlier post.). Earlier post.).

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Green Car Congress

MARCH 15, 2013

Using a 5-year timeframe, CO 2 emission rates have decreased by 10% and fuel economy values have increased by 11% from MY 2006-2011. Based on preliminary estimates, CO 2 emission rates have decreased by 13% and fuel economy values have increased by 16% from MY 2007-2012. Changes in light-duty vehicle technology penetration share. Source: EPA.

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Plug In Partners

MAY 16, 2006

Ford May Build a Plug-In Hybrid May 11, 2006 Ford Motor Co. Ford Chairman and CEO Bill Ford told shareholders at the automaker's annual meeting that the automotive market is shifting rapidly because of higher oil prices and the company is trying to respond. "Our producer of hybrid cars.

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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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Plug In Partners

OCTOBER 8, 2008

As stated at the opening press conference by Austin's Mayor Will Wynn in January, 2006, “ Plug-in hybrids represent a real near-term solution to America’s over-reliance on foreign oil imports and energy prices that escalate the cost of everything and threaten the very economic life of our nation,” “The technology exists today ,” Wynn says.

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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

JANUARY 9, 2012

The last compact model introduced by Dodge was the Caliber, in 2006. “ liter engine; a 16-valve 1.4-liter liter MultiAir Intercooled Turbo engine and a new Tigershark 16-valve 2.4-liter liter MultiAir 2 four-cylinder engine. liter engine; a 16-valve 1.4-liter liter MultiAir 2 four-cylinder engine.

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Plug In Partners

JANUARY 24, 2006

Nothing has to be invented to produce a plug-in hybrid vehicle,” says Dr. Andrew Frank, a mechanical engineering professor at the University of California at Davis and Director of the UCD Hybrid Electric Research Center. When that prolonged oil crisis occurs, Americans will pay anything because they will have no choice.

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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

JANUARY 28, 2014

Designed from the ground up as an integrated project between the Mercedes-Benz teams based at Brackley and Brixworth, this new car—the first all-new Silver Arrow to hit the track since 1954—comes in a year when Mercedes-Benz celebrates 120 years of motorsport and the 80 th anniversary of the Silver Arrows. Click to enlarge.

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Green Car Congress

MARCH 28, 2013

The fuels produced from the Primus STG+ technology are very low in sulfur and benzene compared to fuels produced from petroleum, and they can be used directly in vehicle engines as a component of standard fuel formulas and transported via the existing fuel delivery infrastructure. He was elected in 2011 to the National Academy of Engineering.

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