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Google and IEEE launch $1M challenge for downsized inverters

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The grand prize winner will be announced sometime in January, 2016. They are required to bring their inverters in person to a testing facility in United States by 21 October 2015. In the event of a tie on volume, efficiency will be used to determine the grand prize winner. As a few points of comparison, the Bosch INVCON 2.3

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Nissan’s Intelligent Mobility vision builds on electrification, autonomous drive and vehicle intelligence

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An on-road demo event in Europe in 2016, will showcase the maturity of Nissan’s autonomous drive technology. Also on the path of Intelligent Power is the further improvement of downsized turbo and X-TRONIC transmissions for both fuel efficiency and seamless response and acceleration. Nissan Intelligent Power.

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DOE BETO seeking input on Optima initiative for co-optimization of fuels and engines

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How these new engines perform and how they will be integrated into new vehicle architectures will be the story of personal mobility for this half of the 21 st century. … High-research octane number (RON) fuels are known to enable more efficient, higher-performance SI operation via engine downsizing and boosting.

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Using the PHEV (Plug-In Hybrid Electric Vehicle) to Transition Society Seamlessly and Profitably From Fossil Fuel to 100% Renewable Energy

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A thinking person should ask, “How did the Leaf owner travel the unaccounted miles, the ones that were not e-miles?” In fact, the optimized PHEV is much more efficient as a long range liquid fuel vehicle, because the engine is downsized. The good news is that the 2016 Volt will come out with 50 miles (85 km) AER.) Conclusions.

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