Green Car Congress

JULY 19, 2017

Audi is providing public demonstration drives on board an Audi A7 piloted driving concept nicknamed “Jack”. An Audi expert is always on board. Potential test drivers are targeted via various communications channels, including the social media sites run by Audi Germany. Earlier post.)

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Germany Concept Audi MPH 199

Green Car Congress

DECEMBER 30, 2016

Other project partners include PNNL; technology providers Petron Scientech, CRI Catalyst Company, Nexceris and Gardner Denver Nash; Michigan Technological University, who will be evaluating the environmental footprint of the fuels being produced; and Audi, who will support by evaluating diesel and gasoline fuel properties.

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Green Car Congress

MAY 18, 2015

Global Bioenergies and its partner Audi ( earlier post ) announced that the first batch of renewable gasoline using Global Bioenergies’ fermentative isobutene pathway has been produced. The batch will be presented to Audi by Global Bioenergies during a press conference to be held in Pomacle on 21 May. Earlier post.)

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Green Car Congress

JULY 4, 2016

Isobutene produced at Global Bioenergies’ Pomacle pilot plant will be converted into ETBE at the Leuna-based Fraunhofer CBP institute, which will then be shipped to Audi for laboratory testing. Our collaboration with Global Bioenergies, to develop e-gasoline (Audi e-benzin) is getting up to speed. Earlier post.)

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Grant Audi Renewable Gasoline 150

Green Car Congress

JANUARY 4, 2016

Global Bioenergies and Audi have signed a new collaboration agreement earlier post ) to further broaden the feedstock flexibility of Global Bioenergies’ bio-isobutene process, which uses fermentation of sugars. Global Bioenergies will use its demo plant, presently under construction on the site of the Leuna refinery, to produce these batches.

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Audi Global Gasoline Carbon 150

Green Car Congress

JULY 11, 2016

In this context, Global Bioenergies, IBN-One and Lantmännen Aspen have signed an agreement conferring Lantmännen Aspen access rights to renewable isooctane for specialty fuel applications, both from the next-to-come Leuna demo plant and from the future IBN-One commercial plant. Earlier post.) Earlier post.). Earlier post.).

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Aspen Renewable Global Fuel 150

Green Car Congress

FEBRUARY 19, 2016

The demo presents a high-fidelity configurable digital cluster with infotainment and ADAS (Advanced Driver Assistance Systems) features and showcases the graphics capabilities of the R-Car H3 system-on-chip (SoC) and Imagination Technologies’ PowerVR GX6650 graphics processing unit (GPU).

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Green Car Congress

JANUARY 24, 2017

Researchers at the Technische Universität Bergakademie Freiberg, with partners from the automotive industry (Audi, VW) and the petroleum industry (Shell, OMV) have launched the €1.46-million In subsequent project phases of P2X, the green OTTO-R fuel will be used in tests by Audi and VW.

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Green Car Congress

MAY 12, 2015

In 2014, Global Bioenergies signed a collaboration agreement with Audi on the development of bio-isooctane—a high-performance drop-in biofuel for gasoline engines—derived from bio-isobutene. Getting high-purity iso-octane is one of the main goals of our alliance with Audi. Earlier post.).

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Green Car Congress

AUGUST 16, 2016

Alibaba and SAIC’s recent car demo using the Alipay system shows just how involved OEMs now are in the sourcing and development of OS and software solutions. Increasingly, OEMs and software companies are collaborating directly to create automotive software solutions.

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Green Car Congress

FEBRUARY 25, 2013

The demo screen of a research Cadillac ATS equipped with 4G LTE connectivity, first shown at the 2013 Mobile World Congress. In January, Audi unveiled the 2013 Audi A3 with 4G LTE wireless connectivity, and will be offering a fully integrated LTE link for Audi connect services in the A3 this year. Click to enlarge.

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EV Central

DECEMBER 30, 2023

There’s also a fair number of used EVs under a year old or as dealer ex-demos with heavy discounts over RRP. Many are ex-demos that simply haven’t sold. In 2021 it was around 3%, so unlike Europe and the US, we don’t have the glut of used EVs being traded in around the three-years-old mark. But there are some.

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Green Car Congress

NOVEMBER 22, 2015

CharIN was founded by Audi, BMW, Daimler, Mennekes, Opel, Phoenix Contact, Porsche, TÜV SÜD and Volkswagen to focus on developing and establishing the Combined Charging System (CCS) as the standard for charging battery-powered electric vehicles of all kinds. Ricky Hudi , Head of Development for Electrics/Electronics at Audi AG, at ELIV.

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Baua Electric

FEBRUARY 28, 2024

Like other VW Group EVs (including Audi, Porsche etc.), Any VW dealer who wants to sell a car, just sit the customer down inside and show them a demo of this one feature and you’ll surely surprise and delight them. 4 doesn’t feel laggy (unlike the Blazer EV or Fisker Ocean that I’ve driven recently).

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Clean Fleet Report

APRIL 9, 2021

A BMW owner, he is a possible future Polestar buyer, which made this a demo ride and reinforced my positive impressions. The Audi E-tron is another luxury competitor, but I haven’t had any seat time in it yet. A rocket ready to hit the road. Matching the Polestar in power and range is the Jaguar I-Pace.

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Volvo San Francisco Google All-Electric 81

Green Car Congress

APRIL 9, 2018

The technical regulations from the FIA for the WEC and Le Mans successfully delivered close competition between the conceptually very different class 1 Le Mans hybrid prototypes entered by Audi, Porsche and Toyota. It will next do a demo lap on the legendary Nordschleife before the start of the 24-Hours Nürburgring race on May 12.

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Clean Fleet Report

JANUARY 23, 2024

Competitor SUV EVs such as the Audi Q8 e-Tron, BMW iX, Cadillac Lyriq, Tesla Models Y and X, Mercedes-Benz EQS SUV and Rivian R1S all either don’t sit as many, have a smaller third row, and/or cost more. Head to your local Kia dealer and hope he/she still has a demo in stock. Story by John Faulkner. Photos by John Faulkner and Kia.

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