Green Car Congress
JUNE 17, 2009
Volkswagen won the overall 2009 International Engine of the Year Award—the first time the company took the top award—with its 1.4-liter liter TSI Twincharger engine. liter category and was voted Green Engine of the Year, beating both Toyota’s and Honda’s new electric-hybrid powerplants. liter to 3-liter engine.
Green Car Congress
JUNE 6, 2013
In a project co-funded by the US Department of Energy and managed by Ecotality North America, the Advanced Lead Acid Battery Consortium (ALABC) has demonstrated the durability of lead-carbon batteries in the high-rate, partial state-of-charge operation of a hybrid electric vehicle. The UltraBattery Retrofit Project DP1.8 —Dr.
Green Car Congress
OCTOBER 1, 2013
NOG enables complete carbon conservation in sugar catabolism to acetyl-CoA, and can be used in conjunction with CO 2 fixation and other one-carbon (C1) assimilation pathways to achieve a 100% carbon yield to desirable fuels and chemicals. Then, they genetically engineered E. —Bogorad et al. This is a fundamentally new cycle.
Green Car Congress
MAY 23, 2012
coal, hydro, natural gas) on well-to-wheel (WTW) energy use and greenhouse gas (GHG) emissions of plug-in hybrid electric vehicles (PHEVs). For the study, they developed well-to-wheel models to investigate energy use and GHG emissions of a PHEV, HEV (hybrid electric vehicle), and conventional internal combustion engine vehicle (ICEV).
Green Car Congress
MARCH 4, 2020
Toyota’s success is largely based on its popular hybrid range, with registrations making up 60% of the brand total volume in 2019. However, in contrast to Toyota, the improvement made was due to the efficiency of its gasoline engines, rather than the adoption of electrified ones. g/km), C3 Aircross (-4.7), C1 (-4.5).
Green Car Congress
OCTOBER 20, 2010
The complex system leverages GM’s learnings from its two-mode hybrid system in a number of areas, including the efficiency benefits of a multiple-motor approach to meeting the full range of electric drive operating requirements; synchronous clutches; and the vehicle’s control software and architecture. —Pam Fletcher.
Green Cars News
JUNE 29, 2009
The 10 cars up for contention for the 2009 Award included: the Citroen C1 ev’ie electric, Mitsubishi i-MiEV electric, Toyota iQ, Ford Fiesta ECOnetic, third-generation Toyota Prius hybrid, Volvo S40/V50 DRIVe start-stop, new Honda Insight hybrid, VW Passat BlueMotion 2, BMW 318d saloon, and the Citroen C3 Picasso compact-MPV.
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