Green Car Congress

NOVEMBER 25, 2020

The companies are joining efforts to implement the carbon-negative UBQ thermoplastic ( earlier post ) into auto parts manufactured by Motherson Group for the automotive industry. Adding as little as 10% UBQ GHG to a part can immediately transform it into a carbon-neutral product. Polymers typically emit 1.9

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Green Car Congress

FEBRUARY 7, 2021

The $10-million VH2 project is designed to bring researchers, industry partners and businesses together to test, trial and demonstrate new and emerging hydrogen technologies. Under the partnership, CSIRO will receive more than $1 million towards the development of a refueling station to fuel and test hydrogen vehicles.

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Green Car Congress

DECEMBER 1, 2021

Steel E-Motive, an initiative of WorldAutoSteel, the automotive group of the World Steel Association and its engineering partner Ricardo unveiled the exterior styling vision for their fully autonomous ride-hailing, ride-sharing vehicle designed to showcase the benefits of using steel for global mobility-as-a-service.

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Green Car Congress

APRIL 24, 2021

Building upon our successful cooperation on eFlyer 2 and eFlyer 4, we are very proud to bring our best expertise to support Bye Aerospace in the design of the new eFlyer 800. —Hervé Blanc, Executive Vice President and General Manager Power with Safran Electrical & Power. Details will be forthcoming when the agreements are finalized.

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Green Car Congress

NOVEMBER 12, 2022

Tesla is opening its EV charging connector design to charging network operators and vehicle manufacturers. It has no moving parts, is half the size, and twice as powerful as Combined Charging System (CCS) connectors. The Tesla charging connector has been proven over a decade of use and 20 billion EV charging miles. —Tesla.

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Green Car Congress

MARCH 13, 2020

As the Volkswagen Chattanooga factory ramps up production of the new Atlas Cross Sport, and lays groundwork for assembling the next generation of Volkswagen electric vehicles planned to begin in 2022, engineers are using augmented reality (AR) goggles to design production lines and help spot potential issues. —Frantisek Zapletal.

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Green Car Congress

SEPTEMBER 22, 2021

Designed by GM, the 180kW front-drive motor, 255kW rear- and front-drive motor and 62kW all-wheel drive assist motor are part of Ultium Drive. The motors were built as a scalable family, sharing design principles as well as similar tooling and manufacturing strategies. —Mark Reuss.

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Green Car Congress

MAY 25, 2021

The upgraded heavy-duty XCIENT features design and performance updates. Hyundai will ship another 140 units of the new XCIENT Fuel Cell towards Switzerland by the end of this year as part of its plan to roll out 1,600 heavy-duty fuel cell electric trucks in Europe by 2025.

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Electrek

NOVEMBER 13, 2023

China’s leading EV maker, BYD , is teasing a new electric SUV as part of its Ocean series. The BYD Sea Lion 07’s design was led by ex-Audi and Lamborghini chief designer Wolfgang Egger. more… The post BYD teases sleek new electric SUV design to rival Tesla’s Model Y appeared first on Electrek.

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Green Car Congress

APRIL 5, 2023

Elcora Advanced Materials ( earlier post ) has engaged Lab 4 to begin the test work and process design for its Ermazon Vanadium Project in Morocco with the goal of production of vanadium pentoxide. This work will progress in three stages: Initial characterization to prove the physical processing of the vanadinite source materials.

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Green Car Congress

OCTOBER 26, 2021

The collaboration with MHIRJ will leverage ZeroAvia’s hydrogen fuel cell powertrain technology and MHIRJ’s aircraft design, certification and support experience to create aircraft solutions which not only have the potential to deliver new aircraft with hydrogen-electric propulsion but also to efficiently retrofit existing aircraft in the market.

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Green Car Congress

OCTOBER 20, 2022

million tons per annum) of spodumene ore through a plant designed to produce 1,150-1,200 tons per day (~350,000 tons per annum) of 5.5-6.0% Ascend Elements will plan, design, and build Apex 1 on an existing greenfield site in Hopkinsville, a disadvantaged community (DAC) in southwestern Kentucky. Li 2 O spodumene concentrate.

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Green Car Congress

DECEMBER 17, 2020

For 2021, Toyota has fully rebooted the Mirai, originally offered in 2016, as a premium rear-wheel drive sports-luxury fuel cell electric vehicle (FCEV) with striking design, cutting-edge technology, more engaging driving performance and a significantly longer EPA-estimated range rating.

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Green Car Congress

OCTOBER 19, 2022

Used in many industrial applications, CFD is key to improving advanced equipment design by, for example, optimizing aerodynamics and thermodynamics. The nonlinear and linear parts are solved on classical and quantum hardware, respectively.

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Green Car Congress

MARCH 9, 2020

To achieve a reductive design, the structure and materials used in every part must be scrutinized. Over the long history of engine development, the crankshaft design had become a foregone conclusion. Despite this, we set the challenging goal of designing a crankshaft to be 30% lighter than current models.

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Green Car Congress

JUNE 17, 2022

The collaboration has the potential to make the Celera the first new airframe design to leverage zero-emission propulsion in its launch models. Otto’s advanced aircraft design offers exceptionally low drag across the entire aircraft. The design of the Celera fuselage, empennage and wings take advantage of laminar flow.

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Teslarati

DECEMBER 13, 2023

Tesla’s Parts Catalog has been updated to include the newly released Cybertruck. The Cybertruck Parts Catalog provides a pretty good view of the all-electric pickup truck’s design, the prices of some key components, and a number of features that are yet to be acknowledged by Tesla.

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Green Car Congress

FEBRUARY 17, 2021

Lotus unveiled the E-R9, a new design study for a next-generation pure electric endurance racer that could be on the starting grid of circuits around the world for the 2030 season. Visually it was brought to life by the Lotus Design team, led by Russell Carr, Design Director for Lotus.

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The Truth About Cars

APRIL 5, 2024

First up was a change in styling leadership: Harley Earl (1893-1969) who designed GM vehicles from 1927 when he penned the LaSalle, was the first director of GM’s styling division, the “Art and Color Section.” The department was created for Earl to manage by GM president Alfred Sloan, who was incredibly impressed with the LaSalle design.

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Electrek

JANUARY 25, 2024

Part of the festivities included a factory tour, an interview with CEO and CTO Peter Rawlinson, and our best look at Lucid’s upcoming Gravity SUV to date. Senior Vice President of Design and Brand Derek Jenkins walked me around Gravity and shared some insights into what went into this unique electric SUV.

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Green Car Congress

SEPTEMBER 19, 2019

UK-based automotive engineering specialist Drive System Design (DSD) will present a system-level approach for EV powertrain design in a paper at the 17 th CTI China Symposium in Shanghai from 23-25 September. Our system approach to the design of EV powertrains helps to future-proof them against the uncertainties that lie ahead.

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Teslarati

NOVEMBER 18, 2023

A judge has ruled in Tesla’s favor in a lawsuit claiming that the automaker has monopolized parts and services and forced customers to pay high prices alongside long wait times. The suit combined five separate lawsuits in which drivers paid for repairs and parts services from Tesla since March 2019.

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Green Car Congress

NOVEMBER 6, 2019

The California Air Resources Board (CARB) is designing the Sustainable Transportation Equity Project Program, and will hold its second program design workgroup in Los Angeles later this month. The Low Carbon Transportation program is part of California Climate Investments. STEP is in the early stages of program design.

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The Truth About Cars

MARCH 29, 2024

That grille was a ‘58-only design, as Buick introduced the disastrous Limited lineup. The wrap-around chrome vent detail of 1957 was replaced by a U-shaped design instead, which no longer wrapped around the front corner.& But designers weren’t nearly finished adding trim in 1958! .&

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Green Car Congress

AUGUST 1, 2022

GTT has been granted two Approvals in Principle (AIP) from the leading classification society DNV for the design of a membrane-type containment system for liquefied hydrogen (LH 2 ) and for the preliminary concept design of a LH 2 carrier.

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Cars That Think

APRIL 4, 2023

Discussions at chip design conferences rarely get heated. But a year ago at the International Symposium on Physical Design , things got out of hand. The crux of the clash was whether Google’s AI solution to one of chip design’s thornier problems was really better than humans or state-of-the-art algorithms.

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Baua Electric

FEBRUARY 28, 2024

Tesla has lost its lead interior designer behind the interior design of some of its most popular vehicles, like Model 3 and Model Y. Blades had been at Tesla for almost a decade, and he was a big influence on Tesla’s interior design over that period of time. He was the principal design lead on the Model 3’s interior design.

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Green Car Congress

MARCH 16, 2021

Leading tanker shipping company Stena Bulk unveiled its concept InfinityMAX hybrid bulk carrier design for zero-carbon, multi-modal shipping. The ultra-flexible, zero-emissions design has been created in response to the huge challenges that the global shipping industry must overcome in the coming decades.

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Electrek

OCTOBER 4, 2022

Tesla has unveiled “Cybertruck on Mars” designs generated by its AI as part of a demonstration of its AI software stack running on its Dojo supercomputer. The post Tesla unveils ‘Cybertruck on Mars’ designs generated by its AI supercomputer appeared first on Electrek.

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Green Car Congress

MAY 6, 2022

UMVs are designed to assist in natural resource management, disaster management, all-urban and rural logistics, construction, mining and space resource development. Located inside Montana State University’s (MSU) Innovation Campus, New Horizons Studio’s all-new Bozeman facility will focus on: Product design and development.

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Green Car Congress

NOVEMBER 3, 2020

Volvo Cars says that it is making significant investments that allow for the in-house design and development of electric motors for the next generation of Volvo models, as the company continues to move towards becoming a fully electric car maker. Through in-house design and development, we can fine-tune our e-motors to ever better levels.

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Green Car Congress

AUGUST 1, 2021

In conjunction with Samsung Heavy Industries (SHI), the companies’ initial design for an engineless, fuel-cell-powered liquefied natural gas (LNG) carrier has received Approval in Principle (AiP) from DNV, a premier international maritime classification society. DNV Approval in Principle.

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Teslarati

APRIL 7, 2023

This was hinted at recently by Tesla when the company added the Model Y Dual Motor AWD to its design studio in the United States. Tesla’s 4680 cells are a critical part of the company’s strategy to improve battery efficiency and reduce its vehicles’ production costs. Don’t hesitate to contact us with news tips.

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The Truth About Cars

FEBRUARY 2, 2024

Part of a styling revision across the line at Cadillac that year, the Eldorado in particular drifted away from the bulbous fenders and tall hood shapes that were a hallmark of post-WWII American car design. It also shared the same rear fenders, fender trim, fins, and rear end design as the convertible.

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The Truth About Cars

JANUARY 19, 2024

& That slight stretch was accompanied by a new chassis design, as the C-body (and all Cadillacs in 1957) adopted a tubular X-frame setup. Notably, the new design lacked side rails. But the frame design wasn’t the only update for the brand, as there was quite a list. The track front and rear was newly uniform, at 61 inches.&

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Teslarati

JANUARY 25, 2023

Tesla Insurance data has been so useful for the company that Musk revealed that some changes to the design and software of its vehicles were driven by data from the program. The post Tesla Insurance data has driven changes to vehicle design: Elon Musk appeared first on TESLARATI. The Teslarati team would appreciate hearing from you.

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Green Car Congress

JUNE 19, 2019

In a comprehensive joint study, Henkel and RLE International have examined and validated the potential of high-performance structural foam for lightweighting in automotive body and closure parts. —David Caro, Head of Global Engineering, OEM Design, Automotive & Transportation at Henkel.

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