Green Car Congress

OCTOBER 5, 2021

For novel technologies, like fuel cells, having class involvement can be vital in building market confidence. We are continually working to provide practical solutions to enable their uptake and were the first classification society to publish rules for fuel cells in 2008. TECO Marine Fuel Cell compared to diesel engine Genset.

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Green Car Congress

FEBRUARY 18, 2021

We combine a best-in-class fuel cell solution with a long history of being a trusted engineering partner to leading companies in the global maritime industry. Fuel cell development is done in collaboration with Austrian engineering company AVL, the world’s largest independent company for development of powertrain systems.

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Green Car Congress

JUNE 13, 2010

Shanghai GM has outlined the next phase of its “Drive to Green” product strategy—launched in 2008 ( earlier post )—for 2011-2015. Several targets announced in 2008 have already been achieved. Shanghai GM will introduce 12 new engines through 2015, including several with small displacements, such as a 1.5-liter liters and 2.5

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Green Car Congress

JANUARY 15, 2010

Vision Industries Class 8 zero-emission hydrogen fuel cell hybrid-electric truck at the Port of Los Angeles. The Port of Los Angeles will continue working with Balqon Corporation, another Class 8 electric vehicle manufacturer, through an existing contract to demonstrate the use of its fully electric vehicle. Photo: Business Wire).

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Green Car Congress

APRIL 12, 2011

The quest for better driveability combined with lower fuel consumption and less environmental impact has led to increased focus on internal friction inside the engine. The engines are already so optimized that it takes many man-hours to identify and refine the tiny details that can make them even more efficient. The five-cylinder 2.4-liter

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Green Car Congress

MARCH 17, 2011

So far this year, that number has increased to 46%, making fuel-efficient four-cylinder engines the top choice in the Chevrolet lineup, according to GM. Chevrolet’s investment in advanced engine technology is reflected in the increased popularity of our four-cylinder models. four-cylinder engine, with variable valve timing.

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Green Car Congress

MAY 26, 2018

The plan provides: $130 million for to replace eligible Class 4-8 shuttle buses, school and transit buses with new, commercially available, zero-emission technologies. 90 million to replace eligible Class 8 freight trucks and port drayage trucks with new zero-emission technologies. Staff proposes up to $1.35 Background.

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Green Car Congress

JANUARY 26, 2011

Engine experts and biofuels researchers at Sandia National Laboratories are working on a project that aims to modify endophytic fungi to produce optimized fuel-type hydrocarbons. We just don’t know much about some of the compounds, so we need to do research on their ignition chemistry and how they behave in an engine ,” Taatjes said.

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Green Car Congress

FEBRUARY 2, 2009

will test two hybrid systems—one developed by ArvinMeritor and one developed by Eaton and Peterbilt—in Class 8 trucks. Class 8 trucks have a Gross Vehicle Weight Rating (GVWR) of 33,001 pounds or more, three axles and 10 tires. Wal-Mart uses Class 8 trucks to haul its trailers and deliver product to its stores.

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Green Car Congress

MAY 8, 2019

The CarbonPro bed design also enables best-in-class cargo volume, increasing the already class-leading volume of the Sierra’s roll-formed steel bed by 1 cubic foot. Teijin has been developing leading-edge composite product technologies and applications since establishing the Teijin Composites Innovation Center in 2008.

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Green Car Congress

AUGUST 9, 2017

In 2008, Hexagon was chosen as a member of the Department of Energy’s Hydrogen Storage Engineering Center of Excellence (HSECoE) to promote the use of composites for hydrogen storage with the purpose of accelerating the market entry of fuel cell vehicles.

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Cars That Think

DECEMBER 21, 2023

She took the cleaning job, and scrimped and saved to pay for Norwegian reading and writing classes, a requirement to attend a university. Today she works as a hardware engineer at Zaptec , which makes electric-vehicle charging stations and is also based in Stavanger. she says. “So So I was interested in that kind of thing quite early.”

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Green Car Congress

JANUARY 20, 2020

With sales of 1,002,216 vehicles, Toyota sold more than one million vehicles for the first time since 2008 delivering 4.5% liter Hybrid Dynamic Force gasoline engine is based on the unit featured in the regular RAV4 Hybrid, with improvements to meet the performance requirements of the plug-in hybrid system. growth on 2018.

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Green Car Congress

JULY 14, 2009

has developed a Dual Injector system designed to improve fuel efficiency in small-displacement gasoline engines using port fuel injection (PFI). That number could potentially be reduced to 75% in combination with the ultralow-rare-metal catalysts that were introduced in 2008. Tags: Engines Vehicle Systems. Click to enlarge.

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Green Car Congress

SEPTEMBER 26, 2012

Construction of a new engine plant for production of 4-cylinder gasoline engines, which was also part of the agreement, has progressed, with production slated to start next year. Local production of Mercedes-Benz passenger cars began in 2006 at the 50/50 joint venture BBAC with the predecessor of the current E-Class.

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Green Car Congress

FEBRUARY 26, 2016

The US Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) announced the availability of $26 million in grant funding to establish clean diesel projects aimed at reducing emissions from the US’ existing fleet of diesel engines. Grant funds may be used for clean diesel projects that use: EPA-verified retrofit technologies or certified engine configurations.

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Green Car Congress

MAY 16, 2018

Series-E maintains the series hybrid system architecture—proven in more than 1,300 existing Enviro400H hybrid buses—in which the diesel engine (4.5-liter liter Cummins ISB4.5E6 4-cylinder turbocharged and intercooled engine certified to Euro6) drives a generator to produce energy for the electric drive. Earlier post.).

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Green Car Congress

JANUARY 11, 2016

turbo engine with direct injection and Stop/Start technologies, electric power steering and, on Premier models, a Z-link rear suspension. The Cruze Hatch has the same, class-leading 106.3-inch million sold since it went on sale in 2008. The Cruze Hatchback adds a new functional and sporty choice for customers.

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Green Car Congress

OCTOBER 28, 2020

The second generation of MINI, introduced in 2000, optimized the relationship between fun driving and fuel consumption, including the introduction of diesel engines. In 2008, MINI was a trailblazer for electromobility in the BMW Group. New MINI models in the crossover and premium compact segment.

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Green Car Congress

OCTOBER 22, 2012

KG was founded in 2008. The core competencies of SGL Group in material sciences and carbon fiber-based preliminary products are complemented by the market and engineering technical. The company’s customer base includes nearly all of the well-known automobile manufacturers, primarily from the premium. Benteler-SGL GmbH & Co.

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Green Car Congress

APRIL 28, 2012

Test results from that supplier have demonstrated potential fuel-saving, engine down-sizing and/or down-speeding opportunities without adversely affecting performance and drivability. band, particularly at low engine speeds. manufacturers can utilize smaller, more efficient engines with no loss in. V6 engine.

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Electric Auto Association

OCTOBER 4, 2022

In 1993, Cox went from Bellcore, a breakoff from Bell Labs, to Stanford University, where he served as a professor of electrical engineering. EV education The next year, Cox’s renewed interest in EVs motivated him to launch a class on the topic at Stanford. “I The students were primarily in electrical or mechanical engineering.

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Green Car Congress

MARCH 15, 2009

GE Aviation is advancing jet propulsion and its next-generation engine core program, called eCore, through several private- and government-funded R&D programs, many with key technology milestones this year. eCore is designed to offer aircraft operators better fuel efficiency and lower emissions over GE’s best engines in operation today.

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Cars That Think

JUNE 5, 2023

The IEEE Board of Directors shapes the future direction of IEEE and is committed to ensuring IEEE remains a strong and vibrant organization—serving the needs of its members and the engineering and technology community worldwide—while fulfilling the IEEE mission of advancing technology for the benefit of humanity.

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Green Car Congress

JUNE 9, 2011

in October 2008, specializing in fluid engineering and industrial storage batteries. In 2010 they developed the first set of 260 kW vanadium redox flow battery energy storage systems for wind power, laying the foundation for the development of MW-class flow battery energy storage systems.

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Green Car Congress

NOVEMBER 19, 2013

Joint activities between Daimler and BAIC include BBAC, which has been producing Mercedes-Benz passenger cars since 2006 and—starting this year—also four and six-cylinder engines in the first Mercedes-Benz passenger car engine plant outside of Germany ( earlier post ), as well as Beijing Foton Daimler Automotive Co.,

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Green Car Congress

MARCH 18, 2011

In February 2008, the Automotive Fuel Cell Cooperation (AFCC) in Burnaby, east of Vancouver, was founded as a joint venture between Daimler (50.1%), Ford (30%) and Ballard (19.9%). This is where the fuel cell stack used in the current Mercedes-Benz B-Class F-CELL and the Citaro FuelCell Hybrid city bus was developed.

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Green Car Congress

MARCH 14, 2012

a company that has developed a low-cost hybrid electric powertrain designed specifically for class 1-3 commercial fleet use ( earlier post ), will display a Chevrolet Express 2500 cargo van fitted with the company’s hybrid technology at the 2012 Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT) Energy Conference Energy Showcase on 16 March.

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EV Central

JANUARY 19, 2024

French cars have frustrated the living hell out of me this past decade, and the Peugeot e-2008 GT is another one to add to my list. As tested, our e-2008 GT small SUV is over $67,000 to drive-away in Queensland. Day 1: Bonjour, mon ami 2024 Peugeot e-2008 GT. Bonne chance, e-2008. I should want to own one.

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Green Car Congress

FEBRUARY 8, 2012

Keppel Offshore & Marine Technology Centre (KOMtech), a design and engineering arm of Keppel Offshore & Marine (Keppel O&M), and ConocoPhillips are jointly designing a first-of-its-kind ice-worthy jackup rig to operate in the Arctic Seas. This jackup rig will have dual cantilevers to optimize drilling operations within a limited time window.

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Green Car Congress

DECEMBER 25, 2012

Toyota, which had originally introduced a mild-hybrid version of the Crown in 2001, first introduced a full-hybrid model based on a THS (Toyota Hybrid System) II system in 2008. liter, 4-cylinder inline Atkinson cycle engine featuring next-generation D-4S4 technology with a high-torque motor to provide the drive performance of a 3.0-liter

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Green Car Congress

NOVEMBER 17, 2011

Credit: ACS, Boot 2008. CyclOx is a cyclic oxygenate ( earlier post ) and represents a class of molecules which improve the fuel-air mixing process and reduce soot. Boot and his colleagues discussed the potential role of cyclic oxygenates in a 2008 paper published in the ACS journal Energy & Fuels. Click to enlarge.

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Green Car Congress

APRIL 9, 2009

Nestlé Waters North America has installed 32 Plug Power GenDrive hydrogen fuel cells, purchased in 2008, in its materials-handling fleet at their Dallas, Texas bottling facility.

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Green Car Congress

NOVEMBER 11, 2009

Dr. Neumann is a top-class expert on our industry and in this field. Dr. Karl-Thomas Neumann studied electrical engineering at the universities of Dortmund and Duisburg and was awarded his doctorate in this discipline. He subsequently moved to Motorola Semiconductor as an engineer and head of strategy for the automotive industry.

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Green Car Congress

SEPTEMBER 14, 2015

The National Academies have released a third review of the 21 st Century Truck Partnership (21CTP); the review follows the Phase 1 and Phase 2 reviews by the National Research Council in 2008 and 2012 ( earlier post ) and assesses the progress the partnership has made. A pathway to achieve 55% is being developed.

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Green Car Congress

JANUARY 11, 2010

The new Focus will be one of up to 10 unique models to be built from Ford’s new global C-car platform, which is expected to generate total sales in all regions of 2 million units annually by 2012—a doubling Ford’s 2008 C-car volumes. Core engine technologies. Earlier post.). Fuel metering duties on the 2.0-liter

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Green Car Congress

JULY 6, 2009

The two new outboards, the 200 Pro XS and the 125 hp, use Orbital FlexDI direct injection fuel systems ( earlier post ), and are reported as having best in class fuel economy. Both engines have been certified for the California 3 Star emission standards. liter V6 engine platform with the new 125 hp based on the in-line 3 cylinder 1.5

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