Green Car Congress

FEBRUARY 28, 2018

Audi unveiled the eighth generation of its successful A6 full-size sedan; all engines feature Audi’s 48V mild-hybrid (MHEV) system ( earlier post ) as standard equipment. TFSI is coupled as standard with a seven-speed S tronic. The new A6 with new and refined driver assistance systems sets new standards in its luxury class.

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Green Car Congress

JULY 24, 2018

Kia Motors’ upgraded 2018 Kia Sportage ( earlier post ), the brand’s global best-selling vehicle, offers a 2.0-liter The 2018 Sportage is available in Europe and Korea with Kia’s new 1.6-liter, The 2018 Sportage continues to offer a high-powered 2.0-liter The Sportage is also available with an all-new 1.6-liter km/l (6.13

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Green Car Congress

MARCH 7, 2019

Kia also introduced its new UVO CONNECT telematics technology in Geneva, available on the e-Soul and upgraded Niro Hybrid and Plug-in Hybrid. The connected car technology will be introduced to a number of other Kia models in the near future. inch TFT LCD widescreen system, featuring Kia’s new UVO CONNECT telematics system.

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Green Car Congress

MAY 7, 2018

Volvo Cars, the premium car maker, and leading truck maker Volvo Trucks (independent companies despite the names) are collaborating to share real-time data to expand coverage of the companies’ connected safety technology—cloud-based systems that allow vehicle to communicate with each other and alert drivers of nearby hazards.

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Green Car Congress

JULY 1, 2021

The standard model of the eActros is planned to roll off the production line in Wörth am Rhein (Germany) from autumn 2021. The findings from the "eActros innovation fleet" which started in 2018 and the close exchanges with customers have been incorporated into the development of the series-production model.

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Green Car Congress

OCTOBER 4, 2017

Ford reaffirmed its 2017 full-year financial guidance and said its 2018 outlook will be provided in January. Specifically, Ford is: Accelerating the introduction of connected, smart vehicles and services customers want and value. By 2019, 100% of Ford’s new US vehicles will be built with connectivity.

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Green Car Congress

JANUARY 28, 2019

Specifically, AEO2019 projects that: Increases in fuel economy standards temper growth in US motor gasoline consumption, which decreases by 26% between 2018 and 2050. Light-duty vehicle miles traveled increases by 20% in the Reference case, growing from 2.9 trillion miles in 2018 to 3.5 trillion miles in 2018 to 3.5

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Baua Electric

MARCH 7, 2024

The BMW Group will be a leading OEM to implement the technology, leveraging ADI’s E²B for their ambient lighting system design in the vehicles of the BMW Group in the future. Automotive Ethernet connectivity is a key enabler of new, zonal architectures in automotive design and supports automotive megatrends such as software-defined vehicles.

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Green Car Congress

JANUARY 19, 2017

The Review finds that the greenhouse gas (GHG) emission standards currently in place for model years 2022-2025 are readily feasible at or below the costs estimated back in 2012. An additional 78 model variants comprising hybrid electric vehicles (HEVs), PHEVs, and BEVs also meet the 2020 or later standards. PM and criteria pollutants.

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Green Car Congress

FEBRUARY 16, 2018

Researchers at the University of Michigan and Ford Motor Company have found that using a Level 4 connected and automated vehicle (CAV) subsystem could increase vehicle primary energy use and GHG emissions by 3–20% due to increases in power consumption, weight, drag, and data transmission. —Gawron et al. Gawron, Gregory A. 7b04576.

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Green Car Congress

JANUARY 9, 2017

The concept full-size SUV is the basis for a production model that Audi will launch on the market in 2018; whether or not the first production version will be a plug-in hybrid has yet to be determined. According to the standard applicable for plug-in hybrids, it consumes just 2.3 lb-ft) of torque. liters of fuel (102.3

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Green Car Congress

MAY 7, 2020

Volvo Cars took a stake in Luminar in 2018 ( earlier post ). In addition to the Highway Pilot feature, Volvo Cars and Luminar are also exploring LiDAR’s role in improving future advanced driver assistance systems (ADAS), with the potential for equipping all future SPA 2-based cars with a LiDAR sensor as standard.

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Green Car Congress

OCTOBER 29, 2020

In 2018, Consumer Reports (CR) began ranking active driving assistance systems, with the initial effort focused on systems from Cadillac, Nissan/Infiniti, Tesla, and Volvo. —Kelly Funkhouser, CR’s head of connected and automated vehicle testing. NHTSA has not yet acted on the recommendations.

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Green Car Congress

JANUARY 14, 2018

The power is taken to the front wheels via a new standard six-speed manual transmission, with an eight-speed automatic transmission optional on the base model and standard on higher trims. Automatic transmission models come standard with a Start/Stop system designed to improve fuel efficiency.

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Green Car Congress

FEBRUARY 18, 2020

The close dialog between the main players is also intended to speed up previously lengthy and complex planning and application processes for network connections. The initiative’s measures therefore include the development of standard concepts that cover common charging profiles.

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Green Car Congress

JANUARY 5, 2018

MP, with industry-leading low-light performance from 4.2 Automakers need different resolutions to address segmentation in their product lines, where specific safety features are standard, but additional cameras or higher resolution cameras enable more advanced safety and luxury capabilities as customer options. The large 4.2

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Green Car Congress

JANUARY 9, 2017

Volkswagen unveiled the new long-wheelbase 2018 Tiguan at the Detroit show. inches long, the 2018 model is 10.7 The MQB platform allows for a wider, lower stance, while the exterior design of sharper, stronger character lines, and LED lighting has already garnered several European design awards. inch wheelbase—4.4

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Green Car Congress

OCTOBER 22, 2020

SAE International has published the first global standard that specifies, in a single document, both the electric vehicle and supply equipment (EVSE) ground-system requirements for wireless charging of electric vehicles (EV). The new standard was more than a decade in the making. of Energy (DoE), the U.S.

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Green Car Congress

JULY 11, 2017

From 2018, Audi will gradually be taking piloted driving functions such as parking pilot, garage pilot and traffic jam pilot into production. The 48-volt system is fed by a belt alternator starter (BAS) connected to the engine’s crankshaft by the belt drive. The two four-liter, eight-cylinder engines will follow in 2018—the 4.0

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Green Car Congress

MARCH 2, 2019

The engine delivers up to a 6% improvement in fuel efficiency, based on the World Harmonized Light Vehicle Test Procedure (WLTP), while adhering to the latest stringent Euro 6 emissions standards. A variable-flow oil pump reduces parasitic losses by adapting oil delivery to demand. In addition to the new 185 PS variant, the 2.0-liter

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Green Car Congress

JANUARY 19, 2021

DiG-T gasoline engine that was introduced to Qashqai in 2018. The CVT on new Qashqai delivers the best of both worlds, offering seamless driving in the city and during light acceleration, combined with direct connected DCT-like d-step behavior during hard acceleration. The ALiS is mated to the refined and reputable 1.3

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Teslarati

APRIL 14, 2021

Clients that would opt-in for the Loop would receive a tunnel that is 12 feet in diameter and complete with a drive surface , LED lighting, emergency backup lighting, CCTV video system, secure wireless communication, blue light stations, passenger cell phone service, fire safety system, and ventilation systems.

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Green Car Congress

FEBRUARY 13, 2017

In addition, eight OEMs have light-duty vehicle testing planned to begin in third quarter for WPT 1-3 which is scheduled to be completed in 2018. It is important to know that the only way to charge an autonomous vehicle automatically is to use wireless charging and SAE J2954 Recommended Practice will standardize this.

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Green Car Congress

JUNE 27, 2017

Volkswagen of America is in the process of rolling out its all-new long wheelbase 2018 Volkswagen Tiguan ( earlier post ). As with the all-new 2018 Volkswagen Atlas full-size SUV ( earlier post ), the new Tiguan is based on Volkswagen’s Modular Transverse Matrix (MQB) architecture. Significance of the 2018 Tiguan. Height (in).

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Green Car Congress

FEBRUARY 11, 2014

Many of the strategies employed to reduce GHG emissions will also work to meet the national ambient air quality standard for ozone in 2032. Major transportation related policies already in place are: The Low Carbon Fuel Standard (LCFS). California’s zero emission vehicle (ZEV) regulation is also driving a transformation of the fleet.

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The Truth About Cars

MAY 13, 2024

The 2008 Sable was available in just six exterior colors: Light Ice Blue, Dark Ink Blue, Black, Oxford White, Silver Birch and Merlot; it appears that nearly all of them were Dark Ink Blue or Black. This is one of the 18" seven-spoke bright aluminum wheels that came as standard equipment on the 2008 Sable Premier. Here's a shiny new 3.5-liter

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Green Car Congress

NOVEMBER 14, 2014

Connected to multiple, Full HD cameras, the processors analyzes color gradients in supplied images and achieves a night-time detection rate of pedestrians that matches the day-time recognition rate of the company’s current devices. ADAS applications using the TMPV760 series. Source: Toshiba. Click to enlarge.

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Green Car Congress

NOVEMBER 20, 2013

In plants equipped with our standardized assembly kits and modules, we are able to produce cars on the same assembly line, bumper-to-bumper, with conventional, electrified, and CNG powertrains. Krebs stressed that the Volkswagen Group aims to become a leader in e-mobility by 2018. Combined with its 70 inch width and 55.7

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Clean Fleet Report

FEBRUARY 3, 2024

The standard Leaf S has a 149-mile all-electric range (AER) with a 40 kWh battery and a 110 kW electric motor producing the equivalent of 147 horsepower (hp) and 236 pound-feet (lb.-ft.) of torque) electric motor, delivers a 45% increase compared to the standard Leaf.

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Cars That Think

JANUARY 14, 2024

Saracco also contributed to standardizing the company’s telecommunications management network. In 2017 and 2018 he served as head of EIT’s Industrial Doctoral School , headquartered in Palaiseau, France. There he led network management research and helped design Italy’s first electronic exchange and data network.

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Green Car Congress

FEBRUARY 17, 2018

The thermal sensing method uses fiber Bragg Gratings (FBG)—an optical sensor which reflects a wavelength of light that shifts in response to variations in temperature and/or strain. This enables the measurement of each electrode’s potential, supplemented by the cell’s internal and external temperature profiles. 2018.01.076.

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Green Car Congress

NOVEMBER 30, 2017

Sales will commence in spring 2018, price to be announced closer to market launch. The BMW i8 Roadster also benefits from a light-weight construction, complete with low center of gravity and even weight distribution. Also standard on both models is Dynamic Damper Control. BMW Connected and ConnectedDrive.

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Green Car Congress

AUGUST 22, 2017

Between 2009 and 2011 various workgroups were formed under the umbrella of the UN’s Economic Commission for Europe to develop a new emission-measuring method called the Worldwide Light Duty Vehicle Test Procedure (WLTP). The manufacturers will have to disclose the engine control unit functions connected with exhaust gas purification.

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Green Car Congress

OCTOBER 24, 2017

The battery modules are then mounted together with the connections, control units and cooling units in an aluminium housing. The Shenyang location, with its Dadong and Tiexi automotive plants and engine plant with light-metal foundry, plays an important role in the BMW Group’s global production network. Click to enlarge.

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Green Car Congress

OCTOBER 5, 2016

Brands within the Volkswagen Group have been rolling out modular component matrices, or assembly toolkits, for their light-duty vehicles over the past few years. It shows that we have four core innovations: smart sustainability, automated driving, intuitive interaction and personalized connectivity. Earlier post.)

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Green Car Congress

MARCH 23, 2018

The new, third-generation Touareg continues to be equipped with permanent all-wheel drive (4MOTION) as standard. Also included as standard: driving mode selection. This is made possible by a new high level of connected systems and programs controlled via digital interfaces and the multifunction steering wheel.

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Clean Fleet Report

MARCH 2, 2024

The standard Ranger Rover is 10 inches longer on a five-inch longer wheelbase and a significant seven inches shorter in height. The rear has slim U-shaped LED tail lights that sit high above the twin rectangular exhaust ports. It is less boxy and looks sleek even sitting still. The results are aerodynamics with a slippery 0.32

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