Green Car Congress

DECEMBER 20, 2021

Audi is putting more new electric cars than new cars with combustion engines on the market in the current year. Second-life lithium-ion batteries taken from dismantled development vehicles function as energy storage systems, and photovoltaic modules on the roof provide additional green energy.

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Green Car Congress

JANUARY 31, 2017

China-based Contemporary Amperex Technology Limited (CATL), a leading global provider of battery and energy storage solutions, has taken a 22% stake in Finland-based Valmet Automotive as part of a new strategic partnership in electric automotive solutions. At the end of 2016, CATL employed more than 10,000 employees worldwide.

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Green Car Congress

MAY 9, 2016

Kreisel Electric, an Austrian developer and manufacturer of high-performance battery packs for electric mobility and stationary energy storage systems, is expanding its production capacity to 800,000 kWh per year with the construction of a new battery plant. The 6,276 m 2 factory will be equipped with a fully automated production line.

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Green Car Congress

MAY 26, 2011

Flywheel KERS has the potential for reducing fuel consumption by up to 20% while giving a four-cylinder engine acceleration like a six-cylinder unit, says Derek Crabb, Vice President VCC Powertrain Engineering. The combustion engine that drives the front wheels is switched off as soon as the braking begins. —Derek Crabb.

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Green Car Congress

NOVEMBER 29, 2015

The LMP1 race car that will compete in the Le Mans 24 Hours and in the FIA World Endurance Championship (WEC) in 2016 features innovative aerodynamics; represents the next stage in lightweight design; and has a modified hybrid system with lithium-ion batteries for energy storage, plus an efficiency-optimized TDI engine.

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Green Car Congress

MARCH 23, 2016

Two days before the official Prologue for the FIA World Endurance Championship (WEC) at Paul Ricard, France, Porsche presented its new 919 Hybrid LMP1 race car for the 2016 season. This means that a large amount of energy from recovery systems may be used, but entails a proportional reduction in the permitted amount of fuel per lap.

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Baua Electric

JANUARY 25, 2024

The electric Porsche Macan already has been teased one last time , but it will finally make its U.S. Porsche says prices for the all-wheel-drive Macan 4 will start from $80,450, while the sticker price will start at $106,950 for the Macan Turbo. seconds, Porsche says. seconds, Porsche says.

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Green Car Congress

JULY 8, 2010

Following the market launch of Bosch parallel full-hybrid technology ( earlier post ) in the Porsche Cayenne S and Volkswagen Touareg hybrids, the company is increasingly investing in the development of powertrain technologies for all-electric vehicles. Source: Bosch. Click to enlarge.

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Green Car Congress

JUNE 8, 2011

That car, Leohold noted, had a lead-acid battery pack with about 24 kWh of energy, was propelled by wheel hub motors and had a range of about 50 km—“ not that much different than today. It will not be enough to improve the efficiency of conventional engines or to launch alternative fuel concepts, Leohold said.

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Green Car Congress

JUNE 9, 2014

For the powertrain, Audi, in the 25 th year of the TDI engine, has developed a new diesel 4.0-liter It has been purposefully designed for efficiency and, together with many other optimizations of the race car, such as aerodynamics, helps save energy. Top: The LMP1 rules define energy classes for different powertrain systems.

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Cars That Think

APRIL 4, 2022

The 800-volt architecture doubles Tesla’s 400 V, matches the six-figure Porsche Taycan, and is within sight of the Lucid’s industry-leading 900 V. GM engineers showed us a charge session with the Hummer’s battery briefly sucking up juice at 348 kW—near the peak output of a 350-kW charger, and faster than any EV I’ve seen or tested.

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Green Car Congress

SEPTEMBER 23, 2021

A new white paper published by the Argonne National Laboratory Collaborative Center for Energy Storage Science (ACCESS) outlines a clear set of battery requirements and research and development needs to accelerate the commercialization of electric propulsion for aviation—from air taxis in the near term to 737 class aircraft in the long term.

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Green Car Congress

JUNE 15, 2014

In the first hours, the Le Mans hybrid-drive prototypes of Audi ( earlier post ), Porsche ( earlier post ) and Toyota ( earlier post ) were battling it out on the Le Mans high-speed circuit. This energy also flows into the flywheel energy storage system. liter V-8 gasoline engine.

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Green Car Congress

JULY 17, 2015

The PHEV (Plug-in Hybrid Electric Vehicle), a subset of the electric car, combines a primary electric motor with a much smaller back-up engine fueled with a hydrocarbon/biofuel mix. (In Engineering Advantages of PHEV. Engineering Advantages of the PHEV. This engineering solution allows versatility. Table of Contents.

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Green Car Congress

JULY 24, 2015

Thus, hybrid market penetration will likely increase only modestly in the near term, but as costs drop hybrids will become just another technology that manufacturers sell on its positive efficiency and drivability impacts, not on the technology itself, similar to what is currently occurring with turbocharged gasoline engines.

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Charged EVs

FEBRUARY 24, 2021

In 2020, Porsche delivered just over 20,000 units of its luxury Taycan EV—the first vehicle from a major automaker to sport an 800 V (nominal) battery, which is more than double the voltage of its competitors (and firmly into light-rail and switchyard locomotive territory, actually). GMC HUMMER EV Porsche Taycan.

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Charged EVs

SEPTEMBER 28, 2021

Automakers like Mercedes-Benz, Porsche, Nissan, and Jaguar have embraced the series, which is surely the world’s most prominent showcase for electric vehicle performance. A lot of studies are saying that, in five years, electric passenger cars will be cheaper on average than combustion engine cars. It’s not the future anymore.

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Clean Fleet Report

DECEMBER 17, 2021

With no engine up front there is a front trunk (frunk) for stashing small items. This 800-volt technology is currently only shared by the Porsche Taycan, but will soon be available on many EVs. Wide second row access led to the comfortable rear seats that offered ample head and leg room. inches of cargo space when fold-down.

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Green Car Congress

MARCH 21, 2011

The latest rendering of Porsche’s plug-in hybrid 918 Spyder super sports car. Porsche has begun taking orders for the 918 Spyder plug-in hybrid drive super sports car, first debuted as a concept at the Geneva Motor Show in 2010 ( earlier post ), even as production development proceeds. Click to enlarge.

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