Green Car Congress

SEPTEMBER 13, 2011

The new Concept You show car is an example of coming designs based on the SPA. The comparison between a donkey and a thoroughbred racehorse is an excellent example: each has a head, a body and four legs. Concept You is an excellent example of this. Concept You. Click to enlarge. Earlier post.). —Peter Mertens.

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Green Car Congress

FEBRUARY 18, 2013

Researchers at Ohio State University (OSU) have demonstrated the concept of a potassium-air (K?O For comparison, they built a Li?O O 2 battery (0.5 M KPF6 in DME) at a current density of 0.16 The dash lines indicate the calculated thermodynamic potentials for the batteries. Credit: ACS, Ren and Wu. Click to enlarge.

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Green Car Congress

MAY 7, 2023

Researchers from the University of California, Berkeley, are proposing burying salted biomass in a dry environment within an engineered biolandfill as a solution to sequester carbon that has been photosynthetically fixed by cultivated plants. But there is one thing that all life forms require: moisture.

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Green Car Congress

DECEMBER 16, 2015

Researchers from Purdue University and École Polytechnique Fédérale de Lausanne (EPFL) in Switzerland are proposing a new integrated process involving the co-production of hydrogen and electricity from solar thermal energy—a concept they label “hydricity”.

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Cars That Think

JANUARY 30, 2024

Now, however, AlN’s prospects have improved enormously thanks to several recent breakthroughs, including a technological advance at Nagoya University reported at the most recent IEEE International Electron Devices Meeting, held this past December in San Francisco. This is a new concept in semiconductor devices.”

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Green Car Congress

FEBRUARY 5, 2018

The Ricardo CryoPower concept aims to increase the fuel efficiency while reducing operating costs and CO 2 emissions for long haul trucks and other heavy-duty applications. We are now seeking further investors to join us in taking this exciting concept forwards towards commercial development.

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Green Car Congress

SEPTEMBER 4, 2013

The concept of the Ricardo Split-Cycle engine. Rather than merely refine the existing four-stroke diesel, the Ricardo cryogenic split-cycle engine concept seeks to redefine the engine and its combustion process through the use of a recuperated split-cycle with isothermal compression. (In Source: Neville Jackson. Click to enlarge.

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Green Car Congress

AUGUST 3, 2009

Researchers at the University of Wisconsin, led by Dr. Rolf Reitz, are investigating a blended dual-fuel (gasoline and diesel) concept to extend the operating range of partially premixed charge compression ignition combustion by using the varying fuel reactivity of the charge blend, which is determined in real time. Click to enlarge.

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Green Car Congress

MAY 12, 2021

Researchers from the University of Central Florida and the US Naval Research Laboratory have discovered an experimental configuration and flow conditions that generate a stabilized oblique detonation—a phenomenon that has the potential to revolutionize high-speed propulsion of the future. Schematic of oblique detonation engine concept.

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Cars That Think

APRIL 5, 2024

Researchers believe the concept will become more valuable in the next decade, as electronic devices migrate closer and closer to human skin. James Pikul, University of Wisconsin, Madison Djenizian is part of a group that published a paper in February in the journal Advanced Materials Technologies on a stretchable lithium-ion wire battery.

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Green Car Congress

JUNE 14, 2016

The 3-year project, which launched in September 2015, targets radical concepts for new aero engines, in line with the EU’s long-term emissions reduction target for 2050. From the engine perspective two routes to radically improved fuel efficiency are being explored; ultra-efficient low pressure systems and ultra-efficient core concepts.

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Green Car Congress

JUNE 23, 2011

The concept of the Ricardo Split-Cycle engine. Ricardo and the University of Brighton will model and evaluate an advanced split-cycle combustion system aimed at substantially reducing the carbon emissions of heavy-duty vehicles. The IsoEngine concept. Source: Neville Jackson. Click to enlarge. Click to enlarge. Click to enlarge.

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Green Car Congress

FEBRUARY 23, 2020

Karnowski recalled a vehicle-image project by Stanford University researcher Timnit Gebru that identified 22 million cars from Google Street View images, classifying them into more than 2,600 categories (such as make and model) and then correlating them with demographic data. So, where to find a larger, fine-grained vehicle dataset?

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Green Car Congress

AUGUST 20, 2010

Awards are in three areas: Reprocessing and Conditioning of Coal/Biomass Mixtures for Simultaneous Co-Feeding Systems; Reactive Properties of Coal/Biomass Mixed Fuels; and Design Concepts for Co-Production of Power, Fuels and Chemicals. CoalTek, teaming with the University of Kentucky Center for Applied Energy Research in Lexington, Ky.,

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Green Car Congress

JULY 30, 2013

The EPoSil concept uses dielectric elastomer transducers to generate electrical energy from wave motion. A German consortium involving four companies and and two universities is developing dielectric elastomers (electroactive polymers) for the conversion of mechanical energy—in this case wave power—into electrical power.

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Green Car Congress

SEPTEMBER 12, 2015

The comparison to the electric vehicle is based on estimates which factor in the CO 2 emissions resulting from fuel production, with the DME-powered vehicle figure calculated from the use of renewable energy to generate the DME fuel, and the electric vehicle figure calculated from electricity generated from renewable resources. 2010.05.014.

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Green Car Congress

MAY 28, 2015

Such a scale will allow direct comparisons to companion experiments, providing insight into transient combustion processes such as thermal stratification, heat transfer, and turbulent mixing. Lucas Visscher, Free University of Amsterdam. Plasma physics code GTC, Dr. Zhihong Lin, University of California-Irvine.

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Green Car Congress

APRIL 26, 2013

In comparison to the first-generation wheel hub drive, which was first exhibited in Schaeffler’s Opel Corsa-based Schaeffler Hybrid concept car in 2010, the eWheel Drive beta features an output increase of one-third, as well as 75% more torque. The electrical voltage of the high-voltage drive is 360 – 420 V. billion to 6.4

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Green Car Congress

FEBRUARY 26, 2015

An NREL report summarizing the 2011 Alkaline Membrane Fuel Cell Workshop noted that: In comparison with PEMFCs, AMFCs offer the advantage of avoiding Pt or Pt group metal (PGM) electrocatalysts, one of the primary limitations in the commercial deployment of fuel cells. … Northeastern University. University of California, Irvine.

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Green Car Congress

FEBRUARY 1, 2009

ETH Zürich says that the engine concept has interested several major motor companies and automotive suppliers. 2009) Realizing a concept for high efficiency and excellent driveability: The downsized and supercharged hybrid pneumatic engine. Dönitz et al. SAE 2009-01-1326 , not yet published). Sasa Trajkovic et al. Amir Fazeli et al.

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Green Car Congress

JULY 24, 2016

Researchers at Rice University’s Laboratory for Nanophotonics (LANP), with colleagues at Princeton University, have developed a new method for uniting light-capturing photonic nanomaterials and high-efficiency metal catalysts, creating an “antenna-reactor” plasmonic catalyst. Swearer/Rice University) Click to enlarge.

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Green Car Congress

AUGUST 17, 2015

Researchers at the University of Toronto have found that natural sunlight triggers the release of smog-forming NO x compounds from the grime that typically coats buildings, statues and other outdoor surfaces in urban areas. Donaldson set out to test this concept in the real world.

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Green Car Congress

AUGUST 7, 2017

The team from Coburg University of Applied Sciences and Art introduced a direct measuring technique based on dielectric spectroscopy (which measures the dielectric and electric properties of a medium as a function of frequency), focusing the in situ determination of degradation products in fossil diesel fuels. —Eskiner et al.

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Cars That Think

OCTOBER 22, 2021

A highly accurate yet comfortable sensor, now in proof-of-concept trials on human subjects in real-world conditions, might be a critical component of systems that will successfully address those obstacles. The technology, developed by Dallas-based EnLiSense LLC and the University of Texas at Dallas , is promising enough that the U.S.

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Green Car Congress

JUNE 11, 2016

The cost comparison is with respect to a Euro 5 baseline. At the SIA conference, Ricardo also exhibiting a the ADEPT concept vehicle, combining low-cost 48V, mild-hybrid technologies with the aim of reducing 1.5L Attribute analysis presented in SIA paper. Click to enlarge.

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Green Car Congress

MAY 1, 2013

Researchers at the University of Wyoming Carbon Management Institute (CMI) discovered a major new lithium resource near Rock Springs during a geological carbon dioxide storage site characterization project sponsored by the US Department of Energy. By comparison, the lithium reserves at Silver Peak, Nev.—the

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Cars That Think

OCTOBER 21, 2022

He focused on networking concepts and technologies while working at the ARPAnet and Internet pioneering firm Bolt Beranek & Newman (BBN), now Raytheon BBN Technologies. Later that year he joined Colorado State University in Fort Collins, as chair of its department of computer science. And he was right. It opened my eyes. “So

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Cars That Think

JANUARY 20, 2024

The IMO’s previous goal was a 50 percent reduction by 2050 in comparison with 2008 levels. Vard Group is part of NuProShip , a consortium of the Norwegian maritime authority, universities, shipbuilders, and shipping companies that aims to develop a Generation IV reactor for marine vessels. The reactors would be small, modular units.

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Green Car Congress

FEBRUARY 29, 2012

As a point of comparison, the California ARB ZEV regulation is mandating 15% compliant new production by 2025. Burns referenced GM’s ENV concept ( earlier post ) which, he said, is 15 times more efficient than an auto and uses 1/10 as many parts.

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Green Car Congress

SEPTEMBER 21, 2011

The K6 engine represents a unique combination of previous concepts. In addition, many new engine concepts require some really special parts to function, often so “special” that they can’t be made in reality or can’t be manufactured in mass quantities. —Tim Shedd.

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Green Car Congress

JUNE 4, 2009

RAPTR is being designed to investigate R egenerative A ir P reheating and T hermochemical R ecuperation concepts for reducing losses from combustion irreversibility. The modified approach incorporates two main concepts— Regenerative Air Preheating (RAP) and Thermochemical Recuperation (TR)—resulting in the acronym RAPTR. Stuart Daw.

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Green Car Congress

FEBRUARY 7, 2011

Currently copper is the conductive material of choice; however, in comparison to aluminum copper is heavy and expensive. Funded by the Bavarian Research Foundation (BFS), this project will deliver evidence on the aging behavior and thus the suitability of the concept by 2012. Bergendahl, M. Grimheden, and L. Leifer, Eds.

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Green Car Congress

SEPTEMBER 7, 2009

A central concept in the scientific study of cities is that of urban metabolism. They calculated emissions for ten cities (or metropolitan regions), which vary in population from 432,000 to 9,519,000; comparisons are in per capita terms. Authors of the study included: Christopher Kennedy, University of Toronto.

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Green Car Congress

SEPTEMBER 2, 2015

Board of Trustees of the University of Illinois will capture approximately 500 tonnes per day of CO 2 with a 90% capture rate from existing coal-fired boilers at the Abbott Power Plant on the campus of the University of Illinois using Linde/BASF’s cost-effective, energy-efficient, compact amine-based advanced CO 2 capture absorption system.

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Green Car Congress

JULY 12, 2014

Wu and Zhu collaborated on research that tested the gradient structure concept in a variety of metals, including copper, iron, nickel and stainless steel. By comparison, the IF steel with a gradient structure was strong enough to handle 500 MPa and ductile enough to stretch to 20% of its length before failing. —Xiaolei Wu.

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Green Car Congress

DECEMBER 23, 2011

Finally, device functions predicted from the parameter inputs (predicted γ rel ) are verified by comparison to measured outputs (observed γ rel ). Functional complexity that emerges from component interactions is a universal feature of physical systems. Credit: Carothers et al. Click to enlarge.

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Green Car Congress

APRIL 27, 2014

Ce 0.02 (PO 4 ) 3 /C) measured at comparable current densities has been included for comparison. In this regard this concept is no different from a conventional Li-ion battery. The performance of various other cathode materials (LiCoO 2 , LiFePO 4 , LiNi 0.75 O 2 and Li 3 V 1.98 Mukherjee et al. Click to enlarge.

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