Green Car Congress
MAY 30, 2013
Ford Fusion is the first global vehicle program from any automaker to use seat fabric made from recycled material, with the potential to recycle enough plastic bottles and post-industrial waste to make 1.5 She says the idea is to one day have all Ford fabrics consist of recycled material. million yards of fabric annually.
Green Car Congress
SEPTEMBER 15, 2016
The SuperTruck program was a five-year DOE research and development initiative to improve freight efficiency—meaning more payload carried while burning less fuel—by 50% compared to 2009 base model trucks. Not every idea made it to the concept vehicle. Earlier post.).
Green Car Congress
SEPTEMBER 11, 2014
Based on a Renault Trucks T, Optifuel Lab 2 is an ongoing version of the Optifuel Lab 1 introduced in 2009. The idea is to take as little energy as possible from the internal combustion engine. Waste heat recovery. Renault Trucks has developed a system to recover the waste heat contained in exhaust gases.
Cars That Think
JANUARY 29, 2024
In 2009 the EPICS program was brought to IEEE by Moshe Kam , an IEEE Fellow and the 2005–2007 vice president of IEEE Educational Activities ; Senior Member Kapil Dandekar ; and Fellow Saurabh Sinha. The projects include a recycling center to reduce plastic waste at Ankole Institute, in southwestern Uganda.
Green Car Congress
JUNE 2, 2012
Ford noted that while great strides have been made with green technology, the world faces the pressures of a growing global population and the new challenge of global gridlock—the potential that the world will face a never-ending traffic jam that wastes time, energy and resources. Earlier post.). —Bill Ford.
Green Car Congress
FEBRUARY 27, 2012
The energy produced by a plane’s braking system during landing—currently wasted as heat produced by friction in the aircraft’s disc brakes—would be captured and converted into electricity by motor-generators built into the landing gear. Most of the ideas weren’t technically feasible or simply wouldn’t be cost-effective.
Green Cars News
MAY 5, 2009
During last month’s SAE 2009 World Congress, Ford presented a research paper into thermoelectric exhaust heat energy recovery. The idea of thermoelectric generation is that the devices produce a voltage potential as a by-product of a difference in temperature. That can then be used to drive an electrical current.
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