Green Car Congress

SEPTEMBER 28, 2009

The production-intent fuel cell system can be packaged under the hood in about the same space as a four-cylinder engine; by contrast, the first generation system in the Equinox (with the fourth-generation stack) is about the size of a file cabinet, says Charles Freese, executive director of GM Fuel Cell Activities. Source: GM.

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Green Car Congress

JUNE 13, 2012

Its closest competitor, the 2013 Acura ILX 2.4L, offers a peak of 170 lb-ft of torque, according to GM. GM says that the choice to use a small-displacement turbocharged engine for a more powerful Verano model is consistent with Buick’s effort to downsize its powertrains without sacrificing performance.

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Green Car Congress

OCTOBER 16, 2012

CO 2 emissions and fuel consumption have been cut by 13% compared to the predecessor engine, while peak torque and peak power have been increased by up to 33%. Opel’s SIDI ECOTEC is the only engine in its class to offer balance shafts, according to GM. The all-new 1.6-liter, The new engine family comprises a 1.6 Turbocharging.

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Baua Electric

MAY 6, 2023

In some ways, the powertrain of an EV is way more practical than that of an interior combustion-powered car. Maximum EVs nonetheless usefulness a dated platform of 400 volts, however a minimal 800-volt platform would release joule losses and make allowance high-voltage cabling to be downsized, bettering potency and slicing weight.

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Green Car Congress

AUGUST 3, 2016

—Joe Walicki, president of Johnson Controls Power Solutions. GM plans to make it standard across its fleet by 2020 and Ford announced it will integrate start-stop across all EcoBoost equipped vehicles. The next big technology in the US is start-stop, with an increase in fuel efficiency of up to 5%, she suggested.

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Green Car Congress

AUGUST 26, 2009

The positive results from this test indicate that we can downsize our battery pack, reducing cost and weight of the vehicle, and still achieve the 40 mile all-electric range needed for optimized typical driving. A 100 kW Rase Symetron generator, driven by a GM Ecotec 2.0L SIDI turbocharged engine provides electrical power.

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Green Car Congress

MAY 12, 2014

Top spot went to Volkswagen Group, followed by Daimler, BMW, GM and Toyota. Daimler followed in second place, then BMW Group, GM and Toyota. The CAM/PwC study highlighted such optimization measures as downsizing in combination with turbocharging and cylinder deactivation. Source: CAM. Click to enlarge. Alternative drives.

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Green Car Congress

APRIL 29, 2022

More than 90% of the power consumption in AI workloads is from the movement of data, according to Untether AI. Untether AI moves the compute element to where the data is stored (“at memory”), reducing the power consumption for data transfer by 6 times. Perception systems are at the heart of autonomous vehicles (AVs).

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Cars That Think

MARCH 12, 2023

Power, and could approach 11 percent of the global market this year. Extrapolating from company targets, a future compact-size Lucid—think the size of Tesla Model 3 or Model Y—could decisively downsize its battery without sacrificing useful range. EVs may have seized a record 5.8 trillion to develop and produce EVs through 2030.

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Green Car Congress

APRIL 27, 2016

Like Toyota, Hyundai, GM (Honda’s partner in future fuel cell development), and other OEMs, Honda sees a role for both battery-electric as well as hydrogen fuel cell vehicles, depending upon application. Honda also sees the possibility of a “hydrogen-powered society” based on renewable energy and renewable-energy-generated hydrogen.

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EV Central

OCTOBER 27, 2023

The most powerful F-150 Lightning will have up to 433kW and 1051Nm and be capable of faster acceleration than any petrol-powered F-150 before it. Hummer used to be a stand-alone brand of heavy-duty 4x4s that GM killed off during the Global Financial Crisis. Less expensive and powerful Hummers will launch later.

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Green Car Congress

JANUARY 26, 2010

Based on test work already carried out, Ricardo estimates that a fuel economy improvement of up to 30% is possible with no loss of power or performance, using a downsized EBDI engine in place of currently available gasoline powertrain technology. Luke Cruff points out: GM has just recently introduced a 1.4

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Green Car Congress

DECEMBER 17, 2015

Achates Power will work with Delphi Automotive and Argonne National Laboratory on its ARPA-E-funded project to develop an innovative opposed-piston, gasoline compression ignition (OPGCI) engine. Earlier post.) Chris Atkinson. The dynamics of this team are really perfect to make this project work.

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Plug In Partners

JANUARY 23, 2007

E arlier this month, the announcement of the GM Volt eclipsed another important announcement at the Detroit show.

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Green Cars News

SEPTEMBER 8, 2009

The beleaguered automotive industry in the United States has taken its fair share of knocks over the last 12 months but none were more shocking than when one of the oldest and most well-respected brands in motoring – General Motors (GM) – slipped into bankruptcy earlier this year. How GM hopes to recover.

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The Truth About Cars

APRIL 10, 2023

It could be an aftermarket unit, or one swapped in from a later GM vehicle. This thing is loaded , including power seats ($124, or $671 now). Power windows and locks ($99 and $62, or $536 and $335 after inflation). For the 1978 model year, the GM A-Bodies got downsized. Air conditioning ($505, or $2,732 today).

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Green Car Congress

APRIL 14, 2011

Pre-chamber combustion systems currently exist in large bore stationary engines used for power generation, but have failed to penetrate the vehicle market. liter) GM engine. Strong synergies also exist at high load when applying the jet ignition combustion system to a heavily downsized platform. —Attard et al.

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Green Car Congress

AUGUST 25, 2009

The Astra powertrain line-up features eight engines with high specific power outputs (from 70 kW/95 hp to 132 kW/180 hp), low fuel consumption and reduced CO 2 emissions. GM Exploring Keeping Opel. GM is also exploring ways to retain ownership of Opel, as first reported in the Wall Street Journal. Earlier post.). Turbo and 1.6

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Green Car Congress

NOVEMBER 4, 2011

turbocharged direct injected inline 4 (based on the GM Ecotec 2.0L Port assisted direction injection (PDI)—a dual injection system for combining the benefits of port fuel injection (PFI) and direct injection (DI), and enabling a dual fuel system approach for high compression ratios and extreme downsizing on boosted engines.

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Cars That Think

MARCH 29, 2022

Our electric power trains are not there just to counter regulations but also to improve performance in a way which would not have been possible by using ICE power trains only.”. Spinning at up to 25,000 rpm, two permanent-magnet motors independently power the front wheels, or regenerate energy from braking to recharge the batteries.

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Charged EVs

JANUARY 5, 2024

They haven’t, and GM is clearly struggling to overcome a host of startup production problems with its Ultium vehicles—sales of which have remained far, far below the company’s own goals. kilowatt-hour battery powering a single 160-kilowatt (215-horsepower) motor. Priced at $56,395, the entry-level EV9 Light has a 76.1-kilowatt-hour

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Green Car Congress

APRIL 10, 2013

Opel—in which GM has said it will invest €4 billion (US$5.3 Opel—in which GM has said it will invest €4 billion (US$5.3 liter turbo engine, the new engine cuts CO 2 emissions and fuel consumption by 13%, while peak power and torque are increased by up to 30%. SIDI Turbo torque-power curve. SIDI Turbo.

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Baua Electric

JANUARY 5, 2024

They haven’t, and GM is clearly struggling to overcome a host of startup production problems with its Ultium vehicles—sales of which have remained far, far below the company’s own goals. kilowatt-hour battery powering a single 160-kilowatt (215-horsepower) motor. Priced at $56,395, the entry-level EV9 Light has a 76.1-kilowatt-hour

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Green Car Congress

OCTOBER 8, 2013

liter, naturally-aspirated engine, as well as the same 85 kW/115 hp maximum power output. Peak torque of 166 N·m (122 lb-ft) is available across a wide plateau from 1,800 rpm to 4,700 rpm, while maximum power is delivered at 5,200 rpm. naturally-aspirated engine of similar power. liter engine. Engines Fuel Efficiency'

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Tony Karrer Delicious EVdriven

APRIL 21, 2009

GM has announced plans for public sales in 2010, and almost every carmaker now says it will sell PHEVs or highway-speed battery electric vehicles (BEVs) sometime after 2010. When Lutz first proposed creating an electric car in 2003, the idea "bombed" inside GM, he says. "I todays answer is "Yes -- but not yet."

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