Green Car Congress

SEPTEMBER 23, 2014

The new approach to natural gas combustion technology is designed to provide vehicle and engine original manufacturers (OEMs) with a “downsized” natural gas solution that is cost competitive while providing similar levels of power, torque, and fuel economy to a larger diesel engine. mono-fuel gas engine.

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Green Car Congress

MARCH 7, 2019

The selected projects will focus on reducing the total cost of ownership of NGVs, increasing vehicle efficiency, decreasing local air pollution, and advancing technology development to increase the use of more affordable medium- and heavy-duty natural gas engines and vehicles. Cummins Inc.

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Green Car Congress

JULY 11, 2017

The International Council on Clean Transportation (ICCT), one of the organizations at the root of uncovering the Volkswagen diesel emission scandal ( earlier post ), has published a new analysis of developments and trends in advanced diesel engine technology. —Isenstadt and German (2017). Background.

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Diesel Light Fuel Economy 2017 186

Green Car Congress

MARCH 27, 2015

Testing was also conducted at the DTNA Detroit engineering facility to demonstrate engine efficiency by achieving 50.2% engine brake thermal efficiency. The Freightliner SuperTruck uses a downsized and downsped 10.7-liter The 390 hp/1400 lb-ft torque (291 kW/1,898 N·m) engine features a revamped combustion system.

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2009 Engine Detroit Oregon 150

Green Car Congress

JUNE 25, 2012

Testing at Environmental Solutions Worldwide Americas (ESWA), an EPA-certified vehicle laboratory, showed a 21.2% engine and 6-speed transmission. That totally gets around the problem of having to create a whole new set of controls for the engine and transmission. The XL Hybrids system in place. Click to enlarge. Both the 2.0

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Green Car Congress

JANUARY 13, 2015

The 2016 Sonata Hybrid features a downsized 2.0-liter liter Nu GDI four-cylinder engine paired with a six-speed automatic transmission that houses a more powerful 38 kW electric motor and clutch where the torque converter would normally be found. Hyundai expects the 2016 Sonata Hybrid to improve fuel economy more than 10%.

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Fuel Economy Economy Hyundai Hybrid 150

Green Car Congress

MAY 27, 2014

This report marks the first time another company has bested Honda, which came in second this year but has earned every “Greenest Automaker” designation from UCS since 1998. Ford led the Detroit automakers while achieving the greatest percent reduction in smog-forming emissions of any manufacturer evaluated.

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Green Car Congress

DECEMBER 2, 2009

liter DOHC I-4 engine delivers an estimated 119 hp (89 kW) @ 6,000 rpm and 109 lb-ft (148 N·m) of torque @ 4,250 rpm. During development of this global engine measures were taken to keep overall powertrain weight as low as possible. The block, cylinder head and oil pan—traditionally the heaviest engine components—are aluminum castings.

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Green Car Congress

OCTOBER 31, 2016

A new white paper published by the International Council on Clean Transportation (ICCT), in collaboration with Eaton, Ricardo, JCI, BorgWarner, Honeywell, and the ITB Group, analyzes current turbocharged, downsized gasoline engine technology developments and trends.

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Cars That Think

MARCH 12, 2023

Sophisticated chassis and battery design gives new life to “lesser” chemistries—especially lithium iron phosphate that’s the hottest thing in batteries around the world—that would otherwise be uncompetitive and obsolete. This grand design, naturally, would demand an attendant burst of charger development.

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Batteries Battery Supplies GM 89

Green Car Congress

JULY 12, 2013

GM has made three product commitments for 2017 related to its sustainability strategy: to have 500,000 vehicles on the road in the US with some form of electrification ( earlier post ); to double the number of US models that can achieve an EPA-estimated 40 mpg US (5.9 Earlier post.).

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GM MPG Manufacturer 2017 275

Green Car Congress

NOVEMBER 23, 2011

The 21CTP is a cooperative research and development (R&D) partnership including four federal agencies—the US Department of Energy (DOE), US Department of Transportation (DOT), US Department of Defense (DOD), and the US Environmental Protection Agency (EPA)—and 15 industrial partners. Finding 3-1. Finding 3-7. HYBRID VEHICLES.

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EPA Fuel Engine Hybrid 199

Green Car Congress

JUNE 27, 2017

The all-new 2018 Volkswagen Tiguan—the second-generation of the vehicle—is powered by the latest version of the EA888 four-cylinder engine, the 2.0L This is the only engine/transmission combination available in the Tiguan in the US. TSI EA888 Gen3 B-Cycle (Budack-cycle, earlier post ), coupled with an 8-speed automatic.

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2018 Engine SUV MPG 314

Green Car Congress

JANUARY 17, 2011

It is a high octane fuel with combustion characteristics that allow engines specifically designed for methanol fuel to match the best efficiencies of diesels while meeting current pollutant emission regulations. Medium duty applications in a dedicated alcohol (methanol and ethanol) engine, using high level blends of alcohols.

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Transportation Fuel Coal Gasoline 257

Green Car Congress

MAY 12, 2017

A new study quantifying emissions from a fleet of gasoline direct injection (GDI) engines and port fuel injection (PFI) engines finds that the measured decrease in CO 2 emissions from GDIs is much greater than the potential climate forcing associated with higher black carbon emissions from GDI engines.

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Fleet Engine Global Fuel Economy 207

Green Car Congress

NOVEMBER 16, 2011

The US Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) and the US Department of Transportation (DOT) formally unveiled their joint proposal to set stronger fuel economy and greenhouse gas pollution standards for Model Year 2017-2025 passenger cars and light trucks. features in developing the standards. NHTSA and CAFE.

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Fuel Economy EPA Economy MPG 338

Green Car Congress

FEBRUARY 14, 2009

Consumers right now, given the opportunity to manipulate the idea of a plug-in vehicle, are designing not only very different vehicles, they are designing vehicles that are much more possible than the experts are assuming.” —Ken A trajectory through time of PHEV designs allows good things to happen. Ken Kurani.

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PHEV Fuel Economy San Diego Climate Change 150

Green Car Congress

AUGUST 4, 2015

liter EA211 four-cylinder turbocharged and direct-injection TSI engine into the Jetta range, replacing the previous naturally aspirated 2.0-liter liter engine that was used in the S model and the 1.8T TSI engine in the SE model. liter engine and 7% over the 1.8T. liter engine and 7% over the 1.8T.

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Engine Range Fuel Economy Downsizing 150

Green Car Congress

JUNE 19, 2015

In 2012 the US National Highway Traffic Safety Administration (NHTSA), which regulates fuel economy, and the US Environmental Protection Agency (EPA), which regulates greenhouse gas emissions, proposed new unified standards for fuel economy and greenhouse gas emissions over the years 2017 to 2025. Background. to 41 mpg by 2021 and 48.7

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Standards Fuel Economy Economy EPA 150

Green Car Congress

FEBRUARY 24, 2012

Each pixel in each 3d contour represents a design which plots an attribute against a design feature or a design feature against another design feature to identify optimum combinations to deliver desired effects. With the Generation 3 HEV system, Ford decided to downsize the engine from a 2.5L

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Hybrid Fusion Li-ion Fuel Economy 275

Green Car Congress

SEPTEMBER 21, 2009

On 15 Sep, NHTSA and the US EPA proposed a joint rulemaking on fuel economy and greenhouse gas emissions for light duty vehicles: an average new car 34.1 The 250 g/mile of CO 2 equivalent emissions limit by EPA is equivalent to 35.5 Engine technologies. Data: Preliminary Regulatory Impact Analysis. Click to enlarge.

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2016 MPG Fuel Economy EPA 210

Green Car Congress

OCTOBER 13, 2011

liter engine vehicles as well as a new front-wheel-drive parallel hybrid system using the one-motor, two-clutch design earlier applied in the rear-wheel drive Infiniti M35 ( earlier post ). This raises responsiveness on startups and at low speeds while allowing lower engine rpm at high speeds, resulting in higher fuel economy.

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Cars That Think

OCTOBER 25, 2022

It would be the biggest change in the history of a program that has, in part, failed to live up to its designers’ ambitious dreams. The RFS, in essence, mandated that the blend powering engines in the nation’s official service vehicles run on a certain amount of renewable fuel. By the mid-2010s, the U.S. In 2016, a U.S. says Nunes.

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Charged EVs

JANUARY 5, 2024

The cockpit design evolves on that seen in earlier Kia models. It’s a subcompact SUV designed first and foremost for Europe, where it’s a starter family car—sized well for tight city streets and alleys, or the winding one-and-a-half-lane roads that connect rural villages. A pair of 12.3-inch inch screens is split by a 5.0-inch

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Baua Electric

JANUARY 5, 2024

The cockpit design evolves on that seen in earlier Kia models. It’s a subcompact SUV designed first and foremost for Europe, where it’s a starter family car—sized well for tight city streets and alleys, or the winding one-and-a-half-lane roads that connect rural villages. A pair of 12.3-inch inch screens is split by a 5.0-inch

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Green Car Congress

DECEMBER 20, 2009

As part of an aggressive deployment strategy for improving fuel efficiency across its product line-up in the near-to medium-term, Ford will offer its first-generation turbocharged, gasoline direct-injection EcoBoost engines ( earlier post ) in 90% of its product lineup by 2013. Planning background. ” First-generation EcoBoost.

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Tony Karrer Delicious EVdriven

APRIL 21, 2009

Audi Volkswagen-owned company exploring PHEVs Metroproject Quattro Sub-compact PHEV Concept Car shown October 2007; PHEV of A1 Sportback under consideration Bright Automotive For-profit spin off from Rocky Mountain Institute designing lightweight PHEVs, successor to RMIs 1990s "Hypercar" concept. See Chevy Volt for latest.

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