Green Car Congress

AUGUST 30, 2011

The Ford Evos Concept previews a new global design language for the next generation of Ford cars, MAVs and CUVs. Ford will unveil the Ford Evos Concept at the 2011 Frankfurt Motor Show in September. Ford Evos Concept explores adaptive vehicle technologies to redefine the driving experience. Click to enlarge. Earlier post.)

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Green Car Congress

JULY 16, 2019

In recent years, EVs have rapidly progressed as a practical solution for environmental load reduction based on the concept of connected, autonomous, shared and electric (CASE) next-generation automobiles. Teijin says that AEV has developed innovative ideas and construction methods that are not offered by major OEMs.

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Green Car Congress

DECEMBER 1, 2014

The H-engine—basically two separate engines housed within the same engine block—comprises two switchable parallel piston banks, independently fueled by gasoline and CNG. Concept Engines Engines Natural Gas' Click to enlarge. —Herns Louis, founder and CEO of Eco-Motive.

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Green Car Congress

JUNE 15, 2017

The Company is also developing high efficiency gasoline technology that can deliver diesel-like performance and durability, meeting the most stringent emission requirements while maintaining competitive fuel economy. Digitalization, data & analytics.

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Green Car Congress

MARCH 3, 2010

The i-flow concept. Hyundai staged the global debut of its i-flow diesel hybrid concept car at the 2010 Geneva Motor Show. The i-flow is a test bed for new energy harvesting ideas, ranging from flexible solar panel roofing to a thermo-electric generator. liter Kappa gasoline and 1.7-liter Click to enlarge.

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Green Car Congress

MAY 23, 2009

Before realizing the design of a hybrid pneumatic engine (HPE) in hardware, the researchers evaluated the different pneumatic engine modes (motor mode and pump mode) associated with both two-stroke and four-stroke implementations of the pneumatic concept. Their main disadvantage is poor driveability, which can be tackled with the HPE concept.

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Green Car Congress

MARCH 14, 2012

liter, turbocharged gasoline direct injection engine to power the DeltaWing car as it races at the Le Mans 24 Hours (16-17 June). —Ben Bowlby, DeltaWing concept originator and designer. Nissan DeltaWing embodies a vast number of highly-innovative ideas that we can learn from. Basically, we’re able to use a 1.6

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Green Car Congress

FEBRUARY 20, 2014

liter unit would serve as the engine component in a future production X5 eDrive PHEV—as well as ideas for future solutions in the field of lightweight design, aerodynamics and thermal management. BMW eDrive” is the collective name for all drive concepts from BMW that are geared to achieving zero emissions at the point of use.

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Green Car Congress

AUGUST 24, 2015

It’s an easy concept: every fuel option receives a CI score and each year, fuel sellers must sell a fuel blend that matches that year’s carbon intensity requirement. I like the idea of letting the market decide which fuels blends to select. I like the idea of letting the market decide which fuels blends to select.

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Green Car Congress

AUGUST 26, 2013

At the Frankfurt Motor Show, Toyota will showcase the Yaris Hybrid-R concept, created as a showcase of possible ideas for the development of hybrid technology for maximum performance and increased driving pleasure. Earlier post.) Toyota has now provided a few additional details about the powertrain in advance of the show.

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Baua Electric

APRIL 27, 2024

2025 Mercedes-Benz G 580 with EQ Technology The Mini Aceman urban EV also made a bow in production form, and it quite closely follows the 2022 concept car of the same name. Hyundai is testing a window-tinting film that might save energy in EVs and gasoline models alike, by reducing the dependence on air conditioning.

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Green Car Congress

MAY 12, 2012

While such sustainable concepts are being developed, R&D investments that seek to improve the efficiency of the ICE stand to have a near-term impact on reducing oil consumption and the emissions they generate. Development of low temperature combustion (LTC), learn-burn gasoline combustion and development of alternative (e.g.,

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EV Adoption

MAY 15, 2022

This requires simple, easy-to-understand terms without jargon, and that leverage consumer’s existing reference point of the gasoline refueling experience. We can use technical and complicated terms that require consumers to have to think and learn new concepts. So a more accurate approach is to compare the 118,000 ports to say 17.4

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Green Car Congress

JUNE 6, 2014

The FOA is open to any and all impactful ideas which will significantly advance the mission of the FCTO and that are relevant to its Multi-Year Program Plan (MYPP); however, specific areas of interest include: Platinum Group Metal (PGM)-free catalysts and membrane electrode assemblies (TRL 2- 4). Hydrogen infrastructure (TRL 9-10).

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Green Car Congress

FEBRUARY 9, 2012

Concept of the SOFC emissions control system. The NO x concentration in the exhaust of an automotive gasoline engine with spark ignition can be as high as 4000 ppm. A low-temperature SOFC operating at open circuit, as reported in this article, is a way to use the current device for the latter and also to show the general idea.

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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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Clean Fleet Report

JUNE 29, 2022

In recent years, the concept of community charging has grown in popularity, with the emergence of the EV charging app specifically for charger sharing hitting the market. The idea is quite simple. Just like gasoline- or diesel-powered vehicles, the harder you drive, the more you burn energy. Start Charger Sharing.

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Green Car Congress

JULY 16, 2015

Most Mainstream respondents have little familiarity with PEVs, and are particularly confused about the concept of a PHEV. Mainstream and Pioneer PEV respondents are generally open to the idea of enrolling in a “utility controlled charging” program, though some are concerned about privacy and the potential for battery degradation.

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Green Car Congress

MAY 14, 2015

TFSI turbocharged gasoline direct injection engine introduced at the Vienna Motor Symposium last week is the first of the company’s EA888 Gen.3B TFSI is the first representative of direct-injection gasoline engines based on “right-sizing” rather than “down-sizing”. 3B idea is to combine a shortened compression with a normal—i.e.,

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Cars That Think

MARCH 11, 2023

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. And with the revival of the EV, the V2G concept was reborn. The experiment seemed to prove the feasibility of the technology.

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Clean Fleet Report

MAY 13, 2021

Ignoring the briefly popular commercial electrics around at the turn of the last century, EVs have been experimental concepts or limited edition runs until relatively recently. Battery-gasoline hybrids go back more than 20 years to the first Toyota Prius, but real mainstream battery-only electric EVs are only in their second decade.

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Green Car Congress

MAY 25, 2014

The first critical issue is since both hydrogen and methanol produced from CO 2 are still far from being price-competitive, they are unlikely to gain market shares in the next decades unless there is a drastic increase in prices for gasoline and conventional diesel.

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Baua Electric

MAY 17, 2024

Other tire makers have shown concepts with much higher levels of sustainable content , but what makes the Primacy A/S demo tire different is that it’s production-ready. Synthetic rubber, or butadiene rubber, is “very cheap today,” said Roget, because it’s often made as a side product of gasoline production.

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Green Car Congress

JULY 8, 2013

The working concept of I3 – /I – redox reaction in the aqueous Li-I 2 battery. kWh l -1 cell ) by 2030 to enable electric vehicles to extend the driving range to a comparable level with gasoline-powered internal combustion engine vehicles (ca. Zhao et al. Click to enlarge. kWh kg -1 cell (1.0 500 km) [311 miles].

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EV Adoption

APRIL 8, 2022

Like many issues and discussion topics today, plug-in hybrid electric vehicles (PHEVs) have become a divisive concept within the electric vehicle industry. PHEVs use gasoline: PHEVs still have a gas engine which is “bad and evil” as they run on fossil fuels. Black and white. Good versus bad. There seem to be a few people in the middle.

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Green Car Congress

APRIL 5, 2009

At least 10 major energy proposals that would provide incentives for energy efficiency, reduce gasoline usage and support alternative energy have the support of more than two-thirds of Americans, according to a new survey, “The Energy Learning Curve” released by Public Agenda, an opinion research and citizen engagement organization.

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Cars That Think

JUNE 27, 2022

So it’s a good moment to consider where vehicle-to-grid concepts first emerged and to see in Utrecht how far they’ve come. Their initial idea was that garaged vehicles would have a two-way computer-controlled connection to the electric grid, which could receive power from the vehicle as well as provide power to it.

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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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Green Car Congress

JANUARY 3, 2017

FCA US unveiled the Chrysler Portal concept, an all-electric, semi-autonomous (SAE Level 3) interpretation of the “fifth generation” of family transportation focused toward the millennial generation. The Chrysler Portal concept is backed by significant research on the millennial generation. Earlier post.). Third space. inch wheelbase.

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Green Car Congress

JANUARY 6, 2016

Equipped with a 101 kWh battery pack supporting a range of up to 373 miles (600 km) on the NEDC, the BUDD-e concept is the first vehicle based on Volkswagen’s new Modular Electric Platform (MEB) designed specifically for plug-in vehicles. Another benefit of the MEB is new packaging opportunities, highlighted throughout the BUDD-e concept.

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Green Car Congress

MARCH 23, 2016

Building on its unveiling at January’s Consumer Electronics Show (CES) in Las Vegas ( earlier post ), the Volkswagen BUDD-e electric vehicle concept is making its US auto show debut at the New York International Auto Show. Another benefit of the new MEB is entirely new packaging opportunities, highlighted throughout the BUDD-e concept.

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Green Car Congress

JANUARY 13, 2010

The Blue-Will PHEV concept. Hyundai brought its Blue-Will plug-in hybrid (PHEV) concept—first introduced at the 2009 Seoul Motor Show ( earlier post )—to the North American International Auto Show in Detroit for its US debut. The Blue-Will concept is powered by an all-aluminum 152 hp (113 kW) Gasoline Direct Injected (GDI) 1.6-liter

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Clean Fleet Report

APRIL 9, 2021

If you’re thinking, “this sounds like a Swedish Tesla,” you’re getting the idea. The EPA gives this all-electric car ratings of 96 MPGe city/88 highway/92 combined (where MPGe is Miles per Gallon equivalent that measures how far the car will travel on the electric energy equivalent of a gallon of gasoline/33.7 kilowatt-hours).

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Green Car Congress

JULY 17, 2015

Though the PHEV combines the two types of energy and power, it is not merely a temporary “transition” between gasoline and diesel cars to pure electric cars. Since it can refuel from a standard household outlet and from a gasoline station, it needs no new infrastructure. It is much more than that. Engineering Advantages of the PHEV.

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Green Car Congress

JULY 2, 2014

Using information gleaned from these studies, HCI successfully converted a Chevrolet S-10 pick-up truck to a “tri-fuel” vehicle, which utilized gasoline, natural gas, and hydrogen/natural gas blends. These blends were patented in 1990 for spark- and compression-ignition engines.

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Green Car Congress

MAY 27, 2009

First, the industry is approaching the ethanol-to-gasoline blend wall of 10% ethanol, 90% gasoline in standard gas engines. Second, a Congressional Budget Office study issued in April said even with subsidies ethanol is only profitable when a gallon of gasoline costs 70% or more than a bushel of corn, i.e,

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Get Electric Vehicle

APRIL 17, 2021

Although the Humble One solar-powered SUV is still an idea, it offers some intriguing possibilities for an industry that is rapidly moving toward electrification. The technical specifications of the Humble One concept SUV are appealing enough to pique the interest of a large number of people. Humble One.

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