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FEBRUARY 5, 2018

Ricardo has created a company—Dolphin N2 Ltd—to commercialize its CryoPower cryogenic split-cycle engine technology ( earlier post , earlier post.) Additionally, by virtue of its entirely new approach to combustion, CryoPower offers the potential for significant reductions in engine-out emissions without compromising efficiency.

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APRIL 14, 2021

a leader in propulsion efficiency, announced at SAE International’s WCX the results of their collaborative study on the effectiveness of Tula’s diesel Dynamic Skip Fire (dDSF) in reducing nitrogen oxides (NO x ) and carbon dioxide (CO 2 ) emissions on a Cummins X15 HD Efficiency Series diesel engine. Cummins Inc. and Tula Technology, Inc.,

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DECEMBER 28, 2022

Decarbonizing hydrogen supply is critical to initiate uptake in these new sectors, and an industry-standard emissions measurement and verification process is key to providing the market transparency that facilitates new supply agreements. —Paula Gant, Ph.D., President and CEO of GTI Energy.

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MAY 24, 2017

Based on a three-year study of toxic and environmentally relevant pollutants from gasoline direct injection (GDI) engines, Swiss researchers have concluded that some GDI engines emit just as many soot particles as unfiltered diesel cars did in the past. Further, the GDI particles carry numerous carcinogenic substances.

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SEPTEMBER 23, 2021

Lotus now has the blueprint for the next generation of electric sports cars, for future Lotus products and for the Lotus Engineering consultancy to commercialize. These could be for the Lotus electric sports car—scheduled for launch in 2026—as well as for third-party clients through Lotus Engineering.

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DECEMBER 18, 2020

Battery electric trucks should be the baseline for hydrogen fuel cells electric vehicle (HFCEV) comparisons, rather than any internal combustion engine alternative. Stop comparisons of fill times. What is the value of a comparison on fill times? Incentives, grants, credits, tax breaks will be around for a while.

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MAY 4, 2022

Liquid hydrogen provides unique challenges in ship design and engineering. As a comparison, LNG tankers use ballast water to compensate the loss of weight following delivery to ensure enough draft. The tanks will have a much lower boil off than those currently used in the maritime industry.

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JANUARY 29, 2014

Pinnacle Engines, developer of a highly efficient 4-stroke, spark-ignited (SI), opposed-piston, sleeve-valve architecture engine ( earlier post ), named Phil Murtaugh as the newest member of its board of directors. —Ron Hoge, Chairman and CEO of Pinnacle Engines.

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MAY 13, 2023

Aluminum, the report says, is caught in the middle of the clean energy transition—it is a crucial component enabling economy-wide decarbonization, but at the same time is one of the highest emitting industrial materials. The SAFE “ Legislative Analysis for the U.S.

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OCTOBER 7, 2022

By comparison, 69% of steel today is made at approximately 1,600 degrees Celsius (2,912 degrees Fahrenheit) using coal, emitting about two tons of carbon dioxide for every ton of steel produced. If the steel industry were a country, its carbon emissions would rank third in the world behind China and the United States.

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MAY 14, 2023

Today we have an updated list of projects that includes the latest trends in the industry as well. I haven’t organized the list but you can find electrical, mechanical, and environmental engineering projects in this list. Solar charging stations and Conventional charging stations (electricity from coal) comparison.

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OCTOBER 31, 2022

Our research partnership with RBC will enable us to conduct a more in-depth analysis of EV costs in comparison with internal combustion engine vehicles by considering vehicle type, user behavior, and where the vehicle is purchased and operated. What government policies may be most impactful for lowering EV costs?

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SEPTEMBER 6, 2018

Now, researchers at the Technical University of Munich (TUM) as part of a separate project—the xME-Diesel project—have tested how OMEs behave in engines and have developed an optimized combustion process. First, the researchers did computer simulations and experiments on a single-cylinder engine testbed.

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SEPTEMBER 8, 2016

At the 21 st Supercharging Conference in Dresden next week, Torotrak Group will present results from engine testing that verify previous claims for V-Charge, a variable drive mechanical supercharger. In comparison with the incumbent fixed-ratio positive-displacement supercharger on a 1.0L Click to enlarge. The V-Charge equipped 1.0L

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MAY 12, 2016

Researchers at Sandia National Laboratories have developed a model for how diesel engines autoignite. Understanding the fundamental processes that produce autoignition can lead to designs that improve engine efficiency and reduce emissions by optimizing the timing and location of ignition. —Layal Hakim. and Oefelein, J.,

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AUGUST 23, 2023

With this beacon project, we are supporting our industrial customers on their way to decarbonization and are thus an important building block for the steel industry to achieve its CO 2 reduction targets. Just for comparison, the engine speed of a passenger car in normal driving is a maximum of 2,000 to 3,000 revolutions per minute.

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DECEMBER 9, 2014

the developer of a family of efficient compression-ignition opposed-piston two-stroke (OP2S) engines ( earlier post ) has secured another contract with a leading global OEM. The company has customers located in the US, Japan, Europe, China and India and its current engine programs range from 45 hp to more than 5,000 hp.

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SEPTEMBER 12, 2023

a global engineering consultancy firm, has delivered its report that evaluates NOVONIX’s all-dry, zero-waste cathode synthesis process. NOVONIX Limited, a battery materials and technology company, announced that Hatch Ltd.,

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MAY 6, 2022

The internally funded advancement successfully reduced heavy-duty diesel engine nitrogen oxide (NO x ) emissions to meet the California Air Resources Board (CARB) 2027 standards. Today’s diesel engines use selective catalytic reduction (SCR) to abate NO x emissions. DEF—a 32.5 g/hp-hr standard. —Wheeler et al. Wheeler, S.,

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FEBRUARY 15, 2024

If you’re looking for the future of the automotive industry, stop looking at FSD and Tesla. Tesla FSD Licensing update from Elon Musk: ‘We’ve had some tentative conversations, but ‘they don’t believe it’s real’ In comparison, Ford Blue’s pretax earnings are expected to reach about $7 billion to $7.5 Look at Ford Pro.

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JULY 21, 2021

The results show there is no realistic pathway to full decarbonization of internal combustion engine vehicles, and that only battery and hydrogen fuel-cell EVs have potential to be very low-GHG passenger vehicle pathways. This study uses recent data on industrial-scale battery production and considers regional battery supply chains.

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MARCH 3, 2022

European Energy is the owner of the project and will be responsible for the engineering, procurement and construction, as well as for the operation of the facility. For comparison: This is more than five times the total electricity consumption of Germany. —Knud Erik Andersen, CEO of European Energy.

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JULY 1, 2023

By comparison, until recently, production staff used ultrasound to monitor manually the quality of resistance spot welding (abbreviated WPS in German) processes based on random analyses. The project also serves as a use case for the Automotive Initiative 2025 (AI25) launched by Audi. Using artificial intelligence, Audi analyzes around 1.5

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AUGUST 31, 2022

H2Carrier is the designer and owner of the proprietary floating energy production and storage system P2XFloater—the first industrial-scale floating green hydrogen and ammonia facility of its kind in the world. The demand for green ammonia internationally is rapidly increasing due to the industrial decarbonization.

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FEBRUARY 13, 2017

Based on the benefits of its own analysis of anonymized driving data from its plug-in hybrid and battery electric vehicle customers, Ford is encouraging the adoption of a standard way to analyze driving data for OEMs and regulatory agencies to understand the real world electric driving usage in comparison to regulatory test cycles.

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APRIL 3, 2017

UK-based automotive cleantech firm AVID Technology Limited has signed a deal with GKN Hybrid Power to develop and manufacture electric motors for the automotive industry. As part of the license agreement, AVID will take over the development, manufacture and sale of EVO axial flux motors. Earlier post.)

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APRIL 14, 2016

Three emerging and converging factors—connectivity, autonomy and transport-as-a-service—will fundamentally change the automotive industry over the next few decades, according to Mike Abelson, GM’s VP of Strategy and Global Portfolio Planning. The basic DNA of the automotive industry—i.e., —Mike Abelson.

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MARCH 19, 2015

BASF has developed a flexible polyurethane integral foam that can be used to produce lightweight engine coverings with the one-shot process—i.e. The soft cover, made from Elastofoam I 4603, is manufactured by the Austrian company POLYTEC Car Styling and fitted as standard in various Volvo car models with gasoline engines.

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JULY 2, 2012

Comparison of the personnel requirements under four scenarios in the ELAB study for an idealized production of 1 million powertrains. Each scenario assumes a different speed of transition from the combustion engine to various “green” technologies. The FCV scenario requires most workers to produce the million powertrains.

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MARCH 27, 2020

For the past four years, the Co-Optimization of Fuels & Engines (Co-Optima) National Laboratory consortium has focused research efforts primarily on turbocharged (boosted) spark-ignition (SI) engines for light-duty vehicles. The report highlights researchers’ answers to three vital questions: What fuels do engines want?

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JUNE 14, 2016

The EU is investing more than €3 million in innovative aero-engine technologies in the three-year ULTIMATE project, short for Ultra Low emission Technology Innovations for Mid-century Aircraft Turbine Engines. The combinations are integrated into optimized engine concepts promising to deliver ultra-low emission engines.

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FEBRUARY 26, 2021

In a joint publication, WFS and AVL conclude that the combined high efficiency and lower system costs relative to FCEVs make H 2 -HPDI the most capital efficient means to use hydrogen and lower CO 2 emissions near-term and that it has the potential to remain competitive with fully industrialized FCEV in the future. Source: Westport/AVL.

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AUGUST 29, 2022

A team of UConn researchers led by Jasna Jankovic, an assistant professor in the Department of Materials Science and Engineering in the School of Engineering, has devised a novel design for a tubular polymer electrolyte membrane (PEM) fuel cell. Planar fuel cells can be bulky, have compression issues, and uneven current distribution.

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AUGUST 17, 2021

CCS combines a fiber-reinforced pultruded composite carrier with highly engineered sealants and adhesives in a two-dimensional profile. We also made technology improvements to achieve an industry first in processing speeds as we doubled the typical profile pultrusion output.

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SEPTEMBER 23, 2021

Comparison of the performance of state-of-the-art, Li-ion batteries compared to targets for EVs, eVTOLs, and 737-class aircraft. In the long term, the energy density needs for electric aviation far outstrip the goals of current DOE and industry investments, requiring strategic thinking around the best approaches to enable this future.

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DECEMBER 26, 2020

Fuel cells based on methanol oxidation have potential for the motor and technical industries. Currently, the efficiency factor of such cells varies from 40% to 60% (while that of a gasoline engine is only 20-30%).

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OCTOBER 22, 2012

Start-up Calysta Energy plans to use methane as a feedstock for engineered organisms to produce liquid hydrocarbon fuels and high value chemicals that are cost-effective, scalable and reduce environmental impact. Comparison of biofuel platform efficiency (source: Calysta Energy). Click to enlarge. Carbon feedstock. Conversion method.

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