Green Car Congress

JULY 28, 2014

The shape and form of road transportation alternative fuels markets vary greatly by region, largely influenced by government regulations, local resources, infrastructure, and fuel prices. The fuels forecast builds on previous reports that assess the markets for LDVs and medium- and heavy-duty vehicles (MHDVs).

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Green Car Congress

NOVEMBER 17, 2013

Ford has invested heavily in EcoBoost (GTDI) technology; the company recently reported building its two-millionth unit ( earlier post ), and plans global deployment across its product line. Vehicles will begin arriving to Lincoln dealerships next summer. EcoBoost prospects for the mid- and long-term.

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Green Car Congress

JANUARY 7, 2013

As a secondary effect, the battery system capacity could be downsized by 3.3 While keeping to the crash standards, the fka team determined that the weight of the total body structure could be reduced by 162 kg (357 lbs) compared to the electric reference steel-unibody.

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Green Car Congress

JULY 12, 2013

Describing its product goals and tracking progress toward its 2020 manufacturing priorities in its 2012 Sustainability Report , General Motors reaffirmed its commitment to further reduce the energy used and the environmental impacts of building and operating an automobile. Earlier post.). Manufacturing energy use and emissions.

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Green Car Congress

JUNE 22, 2013

The new engine will achieve high efficiency using the Atkinson Cycle with an 18:1 compression ratio, combined with aggressive engine downsizing. Engine downsizing is a key tool in improving fuel economy. The National Energy Technology Laboratory (NETL) of the US Department of Energy (DOE) has awarded Envera LLC a $2.8-million

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Green Car Congress

MARCH 27, 2015

One goal is the reduction of resources required for development by 20% or more. We are at a crossroads where we must now build a new business model. Based on the new management structure we announced this month, it is important that we improve our true competitiveness, including strengthening our human resources. Development.

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Green Car Congress

APRIL 8, 2009

Vycon Energy has developed a flywheel energy storage technology for rubber tired gantry cranes (RTG) that can either be retrofit to existing RTG cranes or included as part of a new build. downsizing), additional fuel savings are realized during the idle periods. Components of a Vycon flywheel Click to enlarge.

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Green Car Congress

DECEMBER 17, 2015

The “Optima” program bridges the broad expertise and resources of the Vehicle Technologies Office and the Bioenergy Technologies Office at the DOE. High-research octane number (RON) fuels are known to enable more efficient, higher-performance SI operation via engine downsizing and boosting. Optima program overview.

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Revenge of the Electric Car

AUGUST 13, 2009

We took Chelsea on a ride on the People Mover to get her reaction to the downsizing of the company she once belonged to and her test drive of the Volt. The beautiful art deco buildings, some in the process of falling down, provided a colorful backdrop for our up-and-coming-activist. There’s always next time.

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Detroit Volt GM Neighborhood 164

Green Car Congress

MARCH 16, 2009

In this market, Hitachi has decided to separate its Automotive Systems Group on 1 July and establish it as a new company, with the goal of building a framework that can consistently generate stable earnings as a key Hitachi Group business going forward. Resource Recycling Businesses. and further restructuring measures considered.

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Green Car Congress

MARCH 27, 2015

The Freightliner SuperTruck uses a downsized and downsped 10.7-liter These exhaust gases pass through a boiler which transfers heat to the working fluid, which vaporizes to high-temperature steam and builds up pressure. —Derek Rotz, principal investigator for SuperTruck, Daimler Trucks North America. Click to enlarge. Powertrain.

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Green Car Congress

NOVEMBER 28, 2016

The path to realizing the goal is to build on the strong legacy of fuels and engines work sponsored by the vehicle and bioenergy technologies offices over the past several decades.

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Engine Fuel Vehicles Emissions 150

Green Car Congress

APRIL 8, 2019

It is more prevalent in the downsized, turbocharged engines that car makers are now producing for improved fuel efficiency while maintaining power output. Pre-ignition remains a bottleneck to further downsizing and improving engine efficiency. Pre-ignition is sporadic and unpredictable. —Eshan Singh, lead author. and Dibble, R.

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Downsizing Exhaust 2019 Oil 186

Green Car Congress

JUNE 23, 2014

At the US Department of Energy (DOE) Annual Merit Review in Washington, DC last week, Cory Weaver from Ford Research and Advanced Engineering reported that Ford has completed the planned build of 12 units of the new engine, and is working on vehicle integration for further testing per the project timeline. Earlier post.). The approach.

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Cars That Think

JULY 28, 2023

In China’s case, LLMs are currently downsizing in their size and number of parameters. According to sources, this is because the country is now focusing on enabling Chinese startups and smaller entities to build their own generative AI applications. builds on the academy’s work with Wu Dao 2.0, a series of open-source LLMs.

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Chinese China Downsizing Building 69

Green Car Congress

APRIL 10, 2014

In a paper on the OBS presented at the SAE 2014 World Congress, the researchers suggested that potential applications include downsizing to increase fuel economy by ?10% from using optimal octane in the base engine, and another 7% potential improvement due to downsizing enabled by the increase in torque available. Partridge, R.,

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Gasoline Engine Toyota Fuel Economy 316

Green Car Congress

SEPTEMBER 19, 2016

OLEA T222 allows the downsizing of electric motors while delivering the best energy efficiency without compromising the vehicle performances. Using OLEA T222, Automotive Tier 1s and OEMs can increase the quality of the Electronic Control Unit (ECU), reducing its footprint by limiting the number of components needed to build the application.

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Green Car Congress

JANUARY 31, 2011

Expected demand from all transport modes could be met through a combination of electricity (batteries or hydrogen/fuel cells) and biofuels as main options, synthetic fuels (increasingly from renewable resources) as a bridging option, methane (natural gas and biomethane) as complementary fuel, and LPG as supplement, the report finds.

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Green Car Congress

NOVEMBER 16, 2011

The action builds on the first phase of the Obama Administration’s national program (2012-2016) ( earlier post ), which will raise fuel efficiency equivalent to 35.5 downsize), and the agencies say they have included costs of preserving performance, utility and safety. Earlier post.). features in developing the standards.

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Tony Karrer Delicious EVdriven

JANUARY 28, 2009

The generator portion of the system can then be downsized, modular, removable, and easily able to utilize any one of a number of technologies such as ICE, Micro Turbine, Stirling, to perhaps even FuelCell and Mr. Fusion. Electric Vehicles not only keep our Earth cleaner, their use preserves the earths natural resources.

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Green Car Congress

FEBRUARY 4, 2013

Achates and AVL are basing their work for TARDEC on the Achates A48 engine gear design architecture; the task, said Johnson, is basically building a multi-cylinder engine using everything the company has developed and tested to date for its single-cylinder test cell engine. lbs/hp-h fuel consumption, Johnson said.

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Green Car Congress

OCTOBER 21, 2015

To expose more active sites, these catalysts are generally downsized into nanoparticulate form and stabilized onto certain substrates. This capability enables the building of electrodes, he noted. “ The new catalyst is mixed as a solution and can be reduced to a paper-like material or used as a surface coating.

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Cars That Think

MARCH 29, 2022

Automakers are finding it difficult to challenge those boldface numbers with internal combustion alone, especially as engines are relentlessly downsized to meet regulations. And where costs are plummeting for EVs, they’re already rising for ICE cars, as automakers divert resources elsewhere.

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Green Car Congress

JULY 17, 2015

It offers the solution to several significant transitions we need: moving society from burning fossil fuels to substituting renewable resource fuels such as solar, wind and biofuels; and from using fossil materials as fuel to using them for other recyclable uses. We imagine you objecting: “Oh no, we’ll have to build lots more power plants!”

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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 How Carmakers are Responding to the Plug-In Hybrid Opportunity If you ask, "have major auto-makers come around on PHEVs?", The expansion will add an assembly line to build lithium batteries for automotive applications. Batteries not ready.

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