The Truth About Cars

MARCH 21, 2024

It's not a ban on cars or internal-combustion engine cars. Conversely, don't let the other side oversell things -- while reducing tailpipe emissions is a necessary step forward in fighting the negative effects of climate change, the production of the materials needed for electric and electrified vehicles has its own environmental toll.

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Green Car Congress

MARCH 17, 2010

This will include new investment in a host of incremental improvements to conventional gasoline powered internal combustion engines, from new controls for valves and timing, to variable speed transmissions and advanced electronics. It will also include entirely new systems like hybrid drive trains and advanced diesel engines.

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Charged EVs

MAY 31, 2022

BrightDrop offers a fascinating window into the breadth of GM’s EV plans, though even many people in the auto industry know little about it. We leverage the best of two worlds: the innovation, agility, and focus of a technology startup with the engineering and manufacturing might of GM.”. The BrightDrop Zevo 600.

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Clean Fleet Report

JANUARY 4, 2022

The impact on the auto industry, particularly the still growing electric sector, could be profound. The look and content of this new contingent of EVs also promises to broaden the conversation about how an electric car operates and what the shift away from the internal combustion engine means.

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Teslarati

MAY 28, 2021

While a lot of the Cyberlandr’s features such as its auto-dimming windows and floor heaters rely on Stream It’s software prowess, skeptics have shared concerns about the camper being too complex, or too ambitious, to become an actual feasible product. . Credit: Stream It. Willing a Dream Into Reality. A Straight Path.

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Charged EVs

APRIL 6, 2023

Engineering firm NI has been significantly expanding its EV battery testing capabilities in the past few years. NI’s CEO reports an industry-wide recognition that test data is an underutilized asset and many systems need to be rebuilt to take better advantage of very rich data sets. When did you decide to lean into the EV space?

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Green Car Congress

MAY 7, 2009

The Green Car Initiative concentrates on long-term R&D, largely combining existing projects under a clear policy focus and underlining the importance of a joint approach between industries and policy makers. Tags: Batteries Engines Europe Fuels Hydrogen Plug-ins Policy Research. Resources.

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Green Car Congress

SEPTEMBER 23, 2021

—Ajay Misra, deputy director of Research and Engineering at NASA Glenn Research Center. The Laboratory has helped revolutionize the lithium-ion battery, which became a game changer for the auto industry, noted Suresh Sunderrajan, associate laboratory director for the Energy and Global Security directorate.

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Green Car Congress

SEPTEMBER 27, 2011

Conversely, in a pessimistic scenario using low gasoline prices, shorter battery life, coal-powered charging, and ANL 2015 cost estimates, plug-in vehicles could produce more damages at substantially higher cost. Michalek et al. —Michalek et al. All dollar values are in year 2010 US dollars. Source: CMU Policy Brief. Click to enlarge.

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Cars That Think

MARCH 31, 2023

Bob” Charette has written about some of the thorniest issues facing the planet at large and engineers in particular. We often converse on Friday afternoons about what he’s hearing from industry insiders and academics on whatever subject he’s currently investigating. Over the last 20 or so years, contributing editor Robert N.

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EV Central

FEBRUARY 4, 2024

Known as ‘Option B’, it is significantly tougher than the auto industry itself proposed via its representative body, the Federal Chamber of Automotive Industries (FCAI), has higher fines for breaching emissions limits and rejects aids known as ‘Super Credits’. The Impact Analysis estimates Option B would produce $96.46

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Cars That Think

MARCH 28, 2023

Volvo Cars CEO Jim Rowan boldly proclaims that electric vehicles will reach price parity with internal-combustion-engine (ICE) vehicles by 2025. Shifting the auto industry, an apex industry supporting a host of others to meet a new knowledge economy around EVs will be no easy task.”

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Electric Auto Association

OCTOBER 28, 2021

He understands the trend away from internal combustion engines (ICE) to electric-powered vehicles and realizes the tasks involved to decommission ICE infrastructure. He recognizes the diminishing power of the oil and gas industry, and embraces the imminent future of electrically powered transportation.

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Electric Auto Association

OCTOBER 28, 2021

He understands the trend away from internal combustion engines (ICE) to electric-powered vehicles and realizes the tasks involved to decommission ICE infrastructure. He recognizes the diminishing power of the oil and gas industry, and embraces the imminent future of electrically powered transportation.

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Revenge of the Electric Car

JANUARY 22, 2009

Indeed, the story of the board’s attempt to regulate plug-in hybrids has turned out to be a battle between an agency whose primary mission is to protect Californians from breathing unhealthy air and a group of environmentalists and engineers who are fighting to slow global warming. The conversion is simple.

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Green Car Congress

JULY 7, 2010

In 2009, the partnership changed direction and stepped up efforts to advance, in the shorter term, technologies for reducing petroleum use in combustion engines, including those using biofuels, as well as batteries that could be used in plug-in hybrid-electric or all electric vehicles. Earlier post.)

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Green Car Congress

FEBRUARY 16, 2009

The Eberspächer Group developed both an electric heater and a custom-engineered fuel-powered heater specifically for the “iChange” project. The heater’s efficiency—the direct energy conversion from electric energy into thermal energy—is 99%. The iChange is a symbol for the fundamental changes the auto industry undergoes worldwide.

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Green Car Congress

AUGUST 5, 2009

Industry officials expect that this $2.4 billion in cost-share from the award winners, will result directly in the creation tens of thousands of manufacturing jobs in the US battery and auto industries. Electric Transportation Engineering Corp. billion investment, coupled with another $2.4 DOE Award ($mil.). Technology.

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Green Car Congress

JULY 17, 2015

The PHEV (Plug-in Hybrid Electric Vehicle), a subset of the electric car, combines a primary electric motor with a much smaller back-up engine fueled with a hydrocarbon/biofuel mix. (In Engineering Advantages of PHEV. Engineering Advantages of the PHEV. This engineering solution allows versatility. Table of Contents.

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Tony Karrer Delicious EVdriven

APRIL 21, 2009

Our PRIUS+ Project Photos PHEV Resources Global Warming Take Action News and Events Contact Us CalCars Frequently Asked Questions Jump to: Environmental Effects and Benefits Alternative Fuels Batteries PHEV Conversions Other Questions Note: This page is overdue for a major overhaul. PHEV Conversions to top What cars can be converted to PHEVs?

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Tony Karrer Delicious EVdriven

APRIL 21, 2009

Several after-market companies have done PHEV conversions of the Ford Escape hybrid and one has done a retrofit of the F-150 pickup -- see Where PHEVs Are and ICE-Conversions.) Cischke, Ford senior vice president for sustainability, environment and safety engineering. "By By partnering with these two industries.

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Tony Karrer Delicious EVdriven

APRIL 21, 2009

’s expertise on the auto industry in general, we are concerned that in its understanding of future pathways, it offers a flawed analysis and predictions based on business-as-usual,&# notes a posting on the California Car Initiative’s Web site. Then they are driving by electric car conversions every day and not seeing them.

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Baua Electric

MAY 9, 2024

At the dinner, he vowed to immediately reverse dozens of President Biden’s environmental rules and policies and stop new ones from being enacted, according to people with knowledge of the meeting, who spoke on the condition of anonymity to describe a private conversation. That’s why you don’t start your car’s engine inside your garage.

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Tony Karrer Delicious EVdriven

APRIL 16, 2009

Current consortium members include Accenture, Current Group, Schweitzer Engineering Laboratories and Ventyx. EPA declares CO2 a “threat to public health&# Alternative Energy Stocks The Time is Right for Gas-guzzler to Dual-mode EV Conversions Joel Makower: Two Steps Forward The Seven Sins of Greenwashing: Is Everybody Lying?

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