Green Car Congress
APRIL 12, 2019
BMW Group Production is focusing increasingly on easy-to-use and effective virtual (VR) and augmented (AR) reality applications. AR-based training at the BMW Group Production Academy: engine assembly. Target/actual comparisons in operations. In AR applications, illustrations complement real images. Workstation planning.
Green Car Congress
AUGUST 30, 2011
with technologies such as direct fuel injection, variable valve timing, exhaust-driven turbochargers, brake energy regeneration and Auto Start Stop function—about 60% of the generated energy is still lost, half of it being exhaust heat, with the remaining half as heat absorbed by the engine cooling system. Click to enlarge.
Green Car Congress
MAY 21, 2020
Together with his colleagues, he used a special instrument to examine the exhaust plumes of 23,000 passing cars and analyzed the levels of NO x and CO 2. Among the 23,000 correctly measured exhaust plumes, Grange recorded 4,053 times the emissions of the VW EA 189 diesel engine, which formed the basis for his analysis.
Green Car Congress
NOVEMBER 9, 2009
Output and torque diagrams, BMW ActiveHybrid X6. BMW has provided some additional detail on its two-mode ActiveHybrid X6, as well as updating some of the figures released for the introduction of the production model at the Frankfurt Motor Show in September. The ActiveHybrid X6 arrives in US BMW Centers in the fourth quarter.
Green Car Congress
JUNE 25, 2009
For its Technology Day 2009 in Germany, BMW focused on describing its work with aerodyanmics, engines and transmissions in the context of its EfficientDyanmics development strategy. BMW has been able to deliver significant improvements in its fleet CO 2 emissions over the past few years. Click to enlarge. EfficientDynamics.
Green Car Congress
JULY 9, 2013
The LT1 delivers 460 hp (343 kW) with the available dual-mode exhaust. As one comparison, the Porsche 911 Carrera S delivers 400 hp, and an EPA-estimated 27 mpg highway from its 3.8L, horizontally opposed 6-cylinder engine plus 7-speed transmission. LT1 V-8 delivers 455 hp (339 kW), a 6% increase over the previous Corvette.
Green Car Congress
AUGUST 2, 2017
The Federal and state governments also expect the manufacturers to use self-financed competitive measures to provide incentives for the change of pre-Euro-5 diesel vehicles to vehicles with the latest exhaust gas aftertreatment or electric vehicles. The German KBA will also test exhaust emissions even with approved vehicles.
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