Green Car Congress

MAY 14, 2015

Golf GTE Sport PHEV concept. Volkswagen used the annual Wörthersee festival in Austria as the venue to unveil the Golf GTE Sport concept plug-in hybrid electric vehicle. Volkswagen has already won the World Rally Championship twice with this engine. On German motorways, the concept car reaches 200 km/h (124 mph) in 15.9

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Teslarati

NOVEMBER 26, 2023

Graz, Austria-based manufacturer Magna Steyr will develop the two Volkswagen Scout EV models, according to a report from local media outlet Kleine Zeitung last week. You can see a few of the Scout’s concept images from the release below. Earlier this year, Volkswagen said that the electric SUV would be priced around $40,000.

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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. Rouge H2 Engineering and TU Graz researchers are already focusing on the next step.

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Green Car Congress

MARCH 24, 2018

For around ten years, MAN Truck & Bus has been working on innovative concepts for supplying and removing material in the urban environment. This problem involves developing ideas for reducing traffic at specific times and relocating it out of the city altogether, new approaches to the use of land, plus new transport and drive concepts.

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Green Car Congress

MARCH 14, 2009

H2BVplus hydrogen combustion engine. The BMW Group Forschung und Technik, in cooperation with researchers in Graz and Vienna, Austria, has developed a dedicated (i.e., monovalent) hydrogen combustion engine with diesel-like geometry and progressive H 2 high-pressure direct-injection technology. Click to enlarge.

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Green Car Congress

MAY 14, 2019

NIO presented the swap concept at NIO Day in December 2017 for the first time and now demonstrated the actual system along with various technological innovations including the CFRP battery enclosure live at the 2019 Shanghai Auto Show. —Bin Wei, Senior Manager of Lightweight Engineering at NIO.

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Green Car Congress

SEPTEMBER 25, 2020

The truck was officially launched at an event in Austria. By walking away from conventional commercial vehicle concepts and developing an electric solution for the truck’s driveline, Volvo Penta and its customer Rosenbauer have introduced a completely new vehicle architecture for the fire service industry.

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Green Car Congress

NOVEMBER 11, 2011

KG, EpiGaN, Infineon Technologies Austria AG). Throughout the project, normally-off GaN power transistors in vertical device architecture will be jointly developed by the German research institute FBH and Infineon Technologies Austria.

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Green Car Reports

MAY 14, 2015

Today, we have the Volkswagen Golf GTE Sport performance plug-in hybrid concept that will debut at the annual Wörthersee festival in Austria, an agreement between Mazda and Toyota to share technology, and first impressions of the 2015 Ford Focus EcoBoost and its 1.0-liter liter engine. The Volkswagen Golf GTE.

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Green Car Congress

FEBRUARY 21, 2017

As part of its partnership with CNL—a group of fifteen of Austria’s largest companies in the retail, logistics and production sectors—MAN will be making test vehicles available to nine CNL member companies for practical trials from the end of 2017. MAN Truck & Bus already presented the MAN Metropolis concept vehicle in 2012.

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Green Car Congress

JULY 12, 2011

The name Silvretta refers to a group of mountains in the eastern Alps of Austria. The A1 e-tron contains technology that Audi’s development engineers are using to study the mobility requirements for such a future-oriented concept. The event took place from 7-9 July as part of the 14 th Silvretta Classic.

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Baua Electric

JANUARY 11, 2024

A few months ago, BMW ended ICE production in Germany , moving ICE production from the Munich factory to the UK and Austria – a big step for the legacy automaker after cranking out polluting vehicles in its home country for 60 years. BMW’s all-electric i4 is currently built in Munich, a plant that has been making cars since 1922.

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EV Info

AUGUST 14, 2023

In a TESLA like presentation Fisker showcased the next 3 cars in the growing Fisker range Henrik Fisker believes the electric vehicle is the most fundamental shift in personal transport since the transition from the horse to the gasoline engine. The big question will of course be can these cars be made in volume and for a profit.

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Cars That Think

SEPTEMBER 15, 2021

German manufacturer Schaeffler sees an opportunity: it is introducing a new generator at the heart of a smart drivetrain concept that some observers are calling bike-by-wire. No wonder industrial designers and engineers have toiled for years on the concept: it's a hard thing to beat pedal-turns-sprocket. Challenges remain.

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Green Car Congress

SEPTEMBER 29, 2011

At 48 volts, a VTES electric supercharger will transform 7kW of battery power into a highly boosted charge of air for downsized gasoline and diesel engines. Depending on the turbocharged engine system optimisation the boost could be as much as much as 70kW or 10 times the instantaneous power extracted from the batteries or supercapacitors.

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Clean Fleet Report

JANUARY 13, 2023

The introduction of gas-powered engines and automobiles changed the world. In Austria, the leap was from zero highways to 68 in five years. The Future of Tech in Mobility. Where Will Flying Cars and Driverless Tech Take Transportation. It was a revolutionary technology. Consumer Drive. Consumer demand drove new technologies for cars.

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Clean Fleet Report

MAY 10, 2021

Now, the Los Angeles Fire Department (LAFD) is showing off North America’s first electric fire engine from Austria-based Rosenbauer Group. The “Revolutionary Technology” (RT) concept fire truck first became a reality last year, when the LAFD purchased the truck for $1.2 How Do Electric Engines Compare? Making History.

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Green Car Congress

MARCH 1, 2012

The demonstrator further develops AVL’s efficient low carbon ELC concept ( earlier post ). The low-voltage technology enables aggressive, near-term down-sizing and down-speeding of existing engine families, the partners say. The event is supported by the world body for automotive engineering FISITA. Click to enlarge.

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Green Car Congress

FEBRUARY 21, 2013

In the two-seat XL1, the developers successfully came up with a body concept which delivers more everyday utility than in the two previous prototypes. XL1’s engine. liter, two-cylinder diesel TDI engine (35 kW / 47 hp), E-motor (20 kW / 27 hp), 7-speed dual clutch gearbox (DSG) and lithium-ion battery. Click to enlarge.

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Green Car Congress

DECEMBER 8, 2021

The Polestar performance software upgrade is initially available in Europe in the following Polestar markets: UK, Netherlands, Norway, Sweden, Switzerland, Finland, Denmark, Germany and Austria. Accelerating from 80 to 120 km/h takes just 2.2 seconds, half a second quicker than in the standard car.

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Green Car Congress

NOVEMBER 18, 2013

A team of researchers from the Indian Institute of Technology Madras has proposed a new injector which can shape the spray structure to suit the requirements of the different operating conditions of a gasoline direct injection (GDI) engine. Lead author B Mandumpala Devassy is now at AVL in Austria.) —Devassy et al. Resources.

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Cars That Think

DECEMBER 22, 2023

Even devices from the laboratories of electrical engineers, roboticists and computer scientists can be turned into musical instruments. euRobotics ] In this video, we give you an exclusive behind-the-scenes look at how our KUKA Austria team works hard to bring you the ultimate mulled cider experience. CTU ] Thanks, Jiri!

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Green Car Congress

OCTOBER 12, 2017

We plan to deliver the first nine fully electric trucks to our customers in Austria by the end of 2017 – including large supermarket chains, breweries and haulers. These include combustion engines powered by gas or biodiesel. However, alternatives do exist. Scania presented the first LNG truck in EURO VI back in 2014.

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Green Car Congress

JUNE 25, 2015

The US$30-million Google Lunar XPRIZE is a competition to challenge and inspire engineers and entrepreneurs from around the world to develop low‑cost methods of robotic space exploration. The concept of a privately financed mission to the moon is fascinating. Click to enlarge. And innovative ideas need supporters that promote them.

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Green Car Congress

AUGUST 21, 2016

Possible applications are small self-powered, data-transmitting sensor chips for cars, airplanes (temperature, engine/chassis vibrations, tire pressure sensors) or medical purposes (sticker to measure body temperature, contact lenses that measure blood sugar concentrations). Resources. Sternad, M. Forster & M.

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Green Car Congress

SEPTEMBER 11, 2013

Electric drive systems present a challenge in relation to acoustics; the absence of any internal combustion engine very different sources of noise become noticeable. Volkswagen in Germany is also offering electricity provided by hydropower plants in Germany, Austria and Switzerland. Reducing the rolling resistance coefficient from 7.2

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EV Adoption

MARCH 15, 2021

The pickup truck, takes cab-forward packaging to an extreme, with no need for a large engine bay and the driver’s seat essentially over the front wheels. inch wheelbase, the Canoo is roughly the same length as compact pickups were more than 20 years ago—when the engine bay was part of the packaging. – March 10, via Forbes.

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