Green Car Congress

NOVEMBER 10, 2011

Two MMC cars will make their world premiere at the show: the fuel-efficient Mirage and the Concept PX-MiEV II plug-in hybrid electric vehicles. Concept PX-MiEV II. MMC’s plug-in hybrid system fuses EV technology derived from the i-MiEV with a small conventional engine—a 2.0L mpg US, 3.33 The Mirage features a 1.0L

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Green Car Congress

APRIL 4, 2014

Researchers from Michigan State University and the University of Wisconsin-Madison and their colleagues report successfully engineering poplar trees to produce lignin that degrades more easily, thereby lowering the effort and cost to convert wood to biofuel. Source: GLBRC. Click to enlarge. —Curtis Wilkerson, lead author, MSU and GLBRC.

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Cars That Think

MARCH 14, 2022

The California-based Hyperlight Energy will be piloting an installation where they plan to use existing oil wells as solar thermal wellsprings, with the stored energy being converted back to clean electricity when required. Thermal energy storage is a known low-cost, low-risk approach for storing solar energy in the form of heat,” adds Codd.

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Cars That Think

NOVEMBER 18, 2023

After Vic Wintriss sold his sports-imaging company, Wintriss Engineering , to his cofounders in 2006, the electrical engineer was looking for a project to keep himself busy. Wintriss Engineering, based in San Diego, makes smart cameras for sports imaging such as tracking golf balls and inspecting paper, textiles, and plastics.

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Green Car Congress

AUGUST 26, 2013

The Yaris Hybrid-R features three 45 kW electric motors, one on each rear wheel and a third between the engine and transmission that operates as a generator. GRE engine. The two electric motors work as electric generators during the braking phase, and supplement the petrol engine during the accelerating phases. Click to enlarge.

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Green Car Congress

FEBRUARY 26, 2016

In partnership with Honda and ParkWhiz, Visa demonstrated fuel and parking proof-of-concept apps at Mobile World Congress this week in Barcelona. Additional features include: Fuel App Concept: Pay for gas in one click without leaving the car. Parking App Concept: Just park your car, push the ‘park’ button on the app, and go.

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Green Car Congress

APRIL 25, 2013

These structures would serve both as anchors to moor the floating turbines and as a means of storing the energy they produce. Slocum and some of his students built a 30-inch-diameter prototype in 2011, which functioned well through charging and discharging cycles, demonstrating the feasibility of the idea. Earlier post.).

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Cars That Think

JANUARY 17, 2023

His father suggested he think about ikigai , a Japanese concept referring to something that gives a person a sense of purpose. Presenting my work in front of respected and accomplished engineers felt unreal,” Tiwari says. “I The app stores some medical information as well as records of the analytics and recommendations from past scans.

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Green Car Congress

JANUARY 27, 2014

The concept vehicle employs Schaeffler systems such as a thermal management module and all-wheel drive (AWD) disconnect clutch. Further, a latching valve stores hydraulic pressure and provides automatic vehicles with energy for a faster start-up after the engine has been stopped. Click to enlarge.

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Green Car Congress

MARCH 22, 2016

Among the new features in the R18 are a more radical aerodynamics concept, including a new safety cell; a Li-ion battery replacing the flywheel energy storage system; and a revised V6 TDI diesel engine. This type of motorsport continues to set an example for automotive engineering. Wolfgang Ullrich, Head of Audi Motorsport.

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Cars That Think

SEPTEMBER 17, 2021

A car lets you travel faster than walking; a computer lets you process data at an inhuman speed; and a search engine lets you easily find information. CSUN Master of Science in Assistive Technology Engineering. That's the concept – in a simplified form, of course. Master of Science in Assistive Technology Engineering at.

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Cars That Think

APRIL 23, 2022

Back then, Warnock already had a rough idea how to “Print Anything.” This story is as much about luck and guts as about matters of principle and brilliant software engineering. Still, this story is as much about luck and guts as about matters of principle and brilliant software engineering. in Mountain View, Calif.

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Cars That Think

MARCH 11, 2023

In 2001, a team of engineers at a then-obscure R&D company called AC Propulsion quietly began a groundbreaking experiment. The concept behind V2G had gained traction in the late 1990s after California’s landmark zero-emission-vehicle (ZEV) mandate went into effect and compelled automakers to commercialize electric cars.

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Green Car Congress

MAY 3, 2010

The Schaeffler Hybrid features a combustion engine from a basic vehicle, a central electric motor and two wheel hub motors. The various elements can each be switched on or off; options range from classic operation using a combustion engine, operation as a parallel hybrid or serial hybrid to operation using the electric motor only.

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EV Adoption

MAY 15, 2022

And this starts with the term “charging station” Engineers — bless their souls — love to use technical terms, acronyms, and correct you when you use a term that is easy for consumers to understand, but not technically correct. In the EV industry the poster child of this is the term “charger.”

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Cars That Think

NOVEMBER 25, 2023

In the case of the flow of heat from Earth to deep space, we’ve got a couple of promising concepts developed, although we’re still trying to figure out the best mechanism. The idea of using such a wavelength-selective emitter for radiative cooling dates back to the pioneering work of Claes-Göran Granqvist and collaborators in the 1980s.

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Green Car Congress

NOVEMBER 11, 2017

With the premiere of pre-production models of the Mercedes-Benz GLC F-CELL, Daimler also presented its latest generation fuel cell technology: 30% smaller, 40% more power and with a size that now fits into the engine compartment of Mercedes-Benz passenger vehicles.

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Green Cars News

AUGUST 16, 2009

The talented engineers at General Motors’ research and development centre are hard at work developing a new low-cost concept for nitrogen oxide control. However, they also have the potential for increased pollutant formant and therefore require careful control of combustion for reduced engine emissions.

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Cars That Think

DECEMBER 7, 2021

But the only option wasn’t just a factory repair—to take it back to the Apple Store. This is the totally new concept that Apple's kind of inventing. That's the idea. You still can do that right now, but you get warnings—basically the equivalent of a check-engine light. They don't sell parts. Was that not true before?

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Charged EVs

MAY 31, 2022

Many US drivers now have a vague idea that General Motors is doing something with electric vehicles. The other three: R.I.P. The idea that GM would launch another brand just 12 years later would have been anathema to the White House Task Force. But that was then, and this is now. Fastest development in GM history. “We

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Cars That Think

JULY 2, 2023

In 1979 the Macintosh personal computer existed only as the pet idea of Jef Raskin, a veteran of the Apple II team, who had proposed that Apple Computer Inc. Mr. Raskin’s proposal did not impress anyone at Apple Computer enough to bring much money from the board of directors or much respect from Apple engineers.

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Cars That Think

MAY 16, 2023

Despite a recent successful commercial deployment of the teleoperated system at a store in Canada (where it was able to complete 110 retail-related tasks), Sanctuary’s end goal is way, way past telepresence. Rose: The main reason that we wouldn’t do that is to preserve our engineering clarity.

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Electric Auto Association

FEBRUARY 19, 2021

This concept holds true for gas and diesel-powered vehicles too. Learning from a trip in the cold Jason Fenske of Engineering Explained reported on the functioning of his Tesla Model 3 Performance on two recent 2,000 mile trips covering the same route, one in hot weather and one in cold.

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Cars That Think

JUNE 4, 2022

The ideas developed at PARC found their way into a number of commercial products, companies, and publications, shown here as leafy branches. So almost everyone who joined PARC in its formative years had a different idea of what the center’s charter was. This had its advantages. Frame buffer. Local area network.

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Green Car Congress

FEBRUARY 16, 2015

The results, suggested the researchers, represent a step towards engineering broadband solar fuels tandem photothermal reactors that enable a three-step process involving: CO 2 capture; gaseous water splitting into H 2 ; and. reduction of gaseous CO 2 by H 2. reduction of gaseous CO 2 by H 2. Source: O’Brien et al. Supporting Information.

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Cars That Think

MARCH 6, 2024

It’s very similar to the infrastructure for electric cars because the idea, ultimately, for electric cars is that you also are revamping your grid to facilitate, whatchamacallit, intermittent renewable energy sources, like wind and solar, because having an electric car that runs off a coal-fired power plant is defeating the purpose, essentially.

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Green Car Congress

FEBRUARY 3, 2016

The technology may prove most valuable when applied on a small scale, in situations where other renewable energy sources such as solar are not an option, said project leader Ryan Harne, assistant professor of mechanical and aerospace engineering at Ohio State, and director of the Laboratory of Sound and Vibration Research. —Harne et al.

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Cars That Think

JUNE 27, 2022

Utrecht, a largely bicycle-propelled city of 350,000 just south of Amsterdam, has become a proving ground for the bidirectional-charging techniques that have the rapt interest of automakers, engineers, city managers, and power utilities the world over. And part of the change involves extending the city’s EV-charging network. “We

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Cars That Think

MAY 27, 2022

It was an idea born of frustration, or at least that’s how Charles Babbage would later recall the events of the summer of 1821. Babbage set to work on the concept for a Difference Engine, a machine that would use a clockwork mechanism to solve polynomial equations. That is, he wanted to build a full-scale Difference Engine.

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Baua Electric

APRIL 28, 2024

The idea took shape when the EV momentum was picking up globally. It was braving through inheriting the loss-making Reva while Tata Motors just had a few R&D concepts of the Vista and Nano electric. This will be their first integrated green energy solution, where solar power will be harnessed and stored at their BESS.

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Green Car Congress

SEPTEMBER 17, 2014

The Renault gasoline-electric plug-in hybrid system supports 60 km of electric range plus extended range due to the gasoline-fueled internal combustion engine. The chief feature of the concept lies in the clutch casing which houses a permanent magnet electric motor (axial flux discoid motor in the case of the prototype).

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EV Info

NOVEMBER 26, 2020

Boris has spoken and started the end of the petrol engine in the UK. Under Boris’s new Green plan, the sale of new combustion engine vehicles, that are powered wholly by Petrol or Diesel will be banned from 2030. Some ships already use sails in a kind of hybrid system, together with a conventional engine, for when the wind drops.

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Green Car Congress

MAY 9, 2013

liquid air) Dearman piston engine. Source: Dearman Engine Company. The work was conducted by a collaboration including industrial partners Arup, Dearman Engine Company, E4 Tech, Highview, Messer Group and Ricardo, as well as academics from the Universities of Leeds, Birmingham, Strathclyde, Brighton and Imperial College London.

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Cars That Think

DECEMBER 16, 2022

But rather than giving into despair, some engineers, policymakers, and activists are pursuing a novel strategy. All of those biological processes are sort of self-propagating, and they take up carbon dioxide fairly quickly, but they’re highly uncertain in terms of how long they store it. Wanser: Certainly. So that’s one class.

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Cars That Think

SEPTEMBER 4, 2022

From now on, to get high performance as we go to higher frequencies, we will need to engineer the wireless channel itself. But how can we possibly engineer and control a wireless environment, which is determined by a host of factors, many of them random and therefore unpredictable? Where should they be placed?

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EV Central

SEPTEMBER 3, 2023

These promises were made by Mercedes-Benz chairman Ola Källenius at the unveiling of the Concept CLA Class at the IAA Mobility 2023 expo in Munich on Sunday evening. Other members of the family will be a shooting brake-style wagon that should resemble the Concept CLA Class, plus two SUVs. In summary, this is an engineering masterpiece.”

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Cars That Think

FEBRUARY 17, 2024

Consider further the many varied devices and sensors now streaming data onto the Web, and the cars, airplanes, and other vehicles that store trip data for later use. All those billions of things on the Internet of Things produce data, and all that information also needs to be stored somewhere. How bad is the data storage problem?

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