Green Car Congress

JUNE 20, 2023

From the outset, the new innovative thermal management system reduced the energy needed for heating, ventilation and air conditioning by around 40% compared to the internal combustion engine Citaro, thus laying the foundations to give the eCitaro a practical range.

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JANUARY 6, 2020

Reservations are now open through the Fisker mobile app on the App Store and Google Play store, or the Fisker website and are set at US$250. We look forward to sharing even more details at the Geneva Motor Show 2020—including our fully-engineered platform and more technical specifications.

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Green Car Congress

MAY 13, 2021

This collaboration expands Mitsubishi Power’s capability to store hydrogen safely and cost effectively in salt caverns in strategic locations across North America. Hydrogen has been stored in salt caverns for decades in the US Gulf Coast. The alliance will initially focus on existing sites controlled by Texas Brine and its affiliates.

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Green Car Congress

NOVEMBER 14, 2017

French shipping line CMA CGM, based in Marseille, has selected Winterthur Gas & Diesel’s (WinGD’s) largest, 92 cm bore, dual-fuel low-speed engine to power what are presently the largest containerships ever ordered. The 12X92DF engines will be rated 63,840 kW at 80 rpm, making them the most powerful gas and dual-fuel engines ever built.

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Green Car Congress

AUGUST 14, 2020

UC Riverside (UCR) engineers have developed a way to recycle PET (polyethylene terephthalate) plastic waste, such as soda or water bottles, into a nanomaterial useful for energy storage. Although they don’t store as much energy as lithium-ion batteries, these supercapacitors can charge much faster—a good option for many applications.

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Green Car Congress

JULY 31, 2020

Between 2020 and 2025, Groupe PSA will gradually move from two multi-energy platforms to two 100% electrified platforms to support its e-mobility development. eVMP concentrates all the Groupe PSA's engineering know-how with 60 to 100 kWh of embedded energy and an optimized architecture that exploits the entire sub-floor for the battery.

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Green Car Congress

JUNE 22, 2016

Sainsbury’s has become the first company to introduce a refrigerated delivery truck cooled by a liquid nitrogen powered engine ( earlier post ), which will eliminate all emissions associated with refrigeration. The truck will operate from Sainsbury’s Waltham Point depot, delivering chilled goods to stores in the London area.

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Green Car Congress

FEBRUARY 3, 2017

Grab, the leading ride-hailing platform in Southeast Asia, launched its “Grab 4 Indonesia” 2020 master plan, endorsed by Badan Koordinasi Penanaman Modal (BKPM), the Government of Indonesia’s Investment Coordinating Board. Grab will open an R&D center in Jakarta and target hiring 150 engineers over the next two years.

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Green Car Congress

FEBRUARY 26, 2021

Nissan announced a breakthrough in engine efficiency, reaching 50% thermal efficiency with its in-development, next-generation e-POWER system. Nissan’s e-POWER system utilizes an on-board gasoline engine to provide electrical energy to the e-powertrain battery pack. 2) with a multi-cylinder engine. The STARC concept.

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Green Car Congress

DECEMBER 31, 2019

skie, Poland by 31 July 2020. The seven 12-meter buses feature a series-hybrid drive consisting of a 120 kW electric motor and a 151 kW diesel engine meeting the highly restrictive Euro 6 standards. The hybrid buses will also feature supercapacitors that make it possible to store and then use recuperated energy.

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Green Car Congress

APRIL 4, 2022

The carbon negative chemicals synthesis directly from the air project has been awarded £250,000 by the Engineering and Physical Sciences Research Council through the Adventurous Energy Research for a Sustainable Net-Zero scheme. In 2020, the UK imported £145 million worth of methanol which amounts to 0.6-1.6 —Dr Duyar.

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AUGUST 10, 2011

Hybrid electric locomotive sales by region, baseline scenario, World Markets: 2010-2020. According to a recent report from Pike Research, hybrid locomotive sales will reach nearly 500 units during the period from 2011 to 2020, representing an increasing portion of the total market. Source: Pike Research. Click to enlarge.

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Green Car Congress

JANUARY 10, 2020

Lead researcher Dr Yi-Sheng Chen from the Australian Centre for Microscopy and Microanalysis and Faculty of Engineering at the University of Sydney said these findings were an important step to finding a safe solution to produce, store and transport hydrogen.

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Green Car Congress

APRIL 27, 2017

At the 38 th Vienna Motor Symposium Volkswagen is introducing a new, more fuel-efficient “Coasting - Engine off” micro hybrid system—which shuts off the engine completely—as well as a new, compact three-cylinder natural gas engine for the Polo. Coasting - Engine off. TGI engine with 66 kW / 90 PS.

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DECEMBER 14, 2022

This milestone approval follows the completion of extensive Front End Engineering Design (FEED) work and ABS review activities. Illustration of the H2Neo 26,000m3 compressed H2 carrier. Provaris has appointed Clarksons’ newbuild team in London to work with Provaris to undertake a shipyard selection.

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Cars That Think

MAY 22, 2023

Many teenagers take a job at a restaurant or retail store, but Megan Dion got a head start on her engineering career. At 16, she landed a part-time position at FXB , a mechanical, electrical, and plumbing engineering company in Chadds Ford, Pa., The experience, she says, solidified her decision to become a power engineer.

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Cars That Think

DECEMBER 30, 2021

There have been quantum computers with many more qubits; D-Wave Systems, for example, announced a 5,000-qubit computer in 2020. The game was developed by engineer Allan Alcorn and originally assigned to him as a test after he was hired, before he began working on actual projects. New Dark-Matter Detector.

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Green Car Congress

MARCH 20, 2020

The stage for the world premiere was to have been Techno Classica 2020. To convert an historic Bulli over to a drive system producing zero emissions, VWCV engineers and designers formed a team along with drive system experts from Volkswagen Group Components and the eClassics company, which specialises in electric car conversions.

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APRIL 17, 2020

The designer materials can store significantly more hydrogen and methane than conventional adsorbent materials at much safer pressures and at much lower costs. Farha (2020) “Balancing volumetric and gravimetric uptake in highly porous materials for clean energy” Science doi: 10.1126/science.aaz8881. —Omar Farha.

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Green Car Congress

JANUARY 27, 2014

Based on the current version of a popular mid-size SUV, the demonstration vehicle achieves the limit values specified by the CAFE standard for 2020 with no additional electrification of the powertrain. The use and optimization of a range of Schaeffler technologies allowed the vehicle’s fuel consumption to be reduced by 15%. —Prof.

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Green Car Congress

MAY 28, 2020

Hydrogen researchers at Graz University of Technology (Austria), together with the Graz-based start-up Rouge H2 Engineering , have developed a cost-effective process for the decentralized production of high-purity hydrogen using chemical looping. Both the transportation and the storage contribute considerably to the hydrogen price.

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Green Car Congress

AUGUST 24, 2020

In addition, storage of gaseous fuels and separation of by-products can be complicated—we want to get to the point where we can cleanly produce a liquid fuel that can also be easily stored and transported. 2020) “Molecularly engineered photocatalyst sheet for scalable solar formate production from carbon dioxide and water.”

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NOVEMBER 27, 2019

opened reservations for the Ocean electric luxury SUV, arriving in 2022, through its website and native mobile app—available globally on the App Store and Google Play store. We created five easy-to-choose option packages for Fisker Ocean that will be available to our reservation holders closer to the end of 2020.

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DECEMBER 1, 2020

The other circumvents the difficulties by storing magnesium cation in its complex forms. This new class of redox chemistry bypasses the need of solid-state intercalation while solely storing magnesium, instead of its complex forms, creating a new paradigm in magnesium battery electrode design. Neither approach is practical.

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Green Car Congress

FEBRUARY 27, 2012

A team of engineers from the University of Lincoln, with funding from the UK’s Engineering and Physical Sciences Research Council (EPSRC), has confirmed the feasibility of aircraft regenerate braking from the landing gear to provide power for taxiing to and from airport buildings, reducing the need to use jet engines.

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Green Car Congress

SEPTEMBER 1, 2022

The initiative was backed by a preliminary feasibility study conducted in 2020 by Renault Trucks in tandem with the specialist Indra Automobile Recycling and ADEME, the French Environment and Energy Management Agency. These used spare parts will then be sent to the nearby Renault Trucks spare parts store, just like new spare parts.

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Green Car Congress

JUNE 10, 2021

Within this insertion framework, only one lithium-ion can be stored per metal ion. Lithium-rich cathodes, however, can store much more. —Venkat Viswanathan, associate professor of mechanical engineering at Carnegie Mellon. Researchers attribute this to the anionic redox mechanism—in this case, oxygen redox.

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JANUARY 14, 2020

The first battery systems (including heating and cooling equipment, cables and underfloor box) are scheduled for delivery in the second half of 2020, and all 40 systems are expected to be delivered by 2021. The electrical energy generated by braking is stored in AKASOL’s systems and released to the electric engines when the train accelerates.

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Green Car Congress

FEBRUARY 20, 2014

For the test, DENSO has equipped a Yamato Transport delivery truck with a power receiver that will wirelessly receive the energy from a power transmission pad located on the pavement of a 7-Eleven convenience store parking lot. DENSO has been developing the wireless charging system with the goal to commercialize by 2020.

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Green Car Congress

MARCH 28, 2021

For batteries to fit into narrow and crooked spaces and to store more energy for e.g. electric mobility, flexibly adaptable cells are required. AgiloBat1 started in 2020 as a mere development and concept phase of the Innovation Campus “Future Mobility” (ICM) funded by the Baden-Württemberg Ministry for Science, Research, and the Arts.

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Green Car Congress

FEBRUARY 11, 2021

When renewable natural gas is used as the feedstock, C-Zero’s technology can even be carbon negative, effectively extracting carbon dioxide from the atmosphere and permanently storing it in the form of high-density solid carbon. 2017.10.002 (open access). 10, 40882-40893 doi: 10.1039/D0RA07440C (open access).

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APRIL 18, 2017

Production will start in 2020. This gives the designers and engineers freedom to change the way in which the car is designed. The power electronics control the flow of high-voltage power between the motors and the battery, converting direct current (DC) stored in the battery into alternating current (AC).

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MARCH 20, 2019

Professor Kondo-Francois Aguey-Zinsou and his team at UNSW’s School of Chemical Engineering have developed a system that provides cheap storage and transportation of hydrogen which they expect will provide a new alternative for energy storage within two years. We can actually store about seven times more energy than the current systems.

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Green Car Congress

JANUARY 4, 2021

Current Direct , a new €12-million research and innovation project funded by the European Commission’s Horizon 2020 program, is proposing an innovative lithium-ion cell optimized for waterborne transport, using novel manufacturing techniques allowing for a consistent cost reduction compared to the current market prices.

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Teslarati

MAY 5, 2023

Engineered by @SpaceX.” Starlink’s Standard kit is even available at select Home Depot stores now. Elon Musk first mentioned plans for a Starlink IPO in February 2020. Starlink’s Twitter account hints at the service’s growth and potential initial public offering opportunity.

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DECEMBER 23, 2021

Cummins has a history of advanced technology and engineering capabilities with a broad portfolio of market-leading renewable hydrogen generation technologies, including PEM electrolyzer and fuel cell solutions. In 2020, the company shipped 670,000 engines to customers in China. Irwin Miller visited China.

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MAY 3, 2021

Rosatom’s ambition is to produce and to store decarbonized hydrogen, and take part in pilot projects in Russia and across the world. It generated consolidated sales of €69 billion in 2020. Rosatom is a diversified holding that unites assets in the energy sector, the mechanical engineering industry, and the construction industry.

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