Green Car Congress

MAY 24, 2022

The Ohio State University finished in second place and University of Alabama came in third. More than 27,000 students from 93 unique educational institutions have participated to date, seeding the industry with engineers who have helped redefine the automobile for more than three decades.

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Blink Charging

JUNE 30, 2023

For the most part, the EV industry was quiet; that is until Ford, quickly followed by General Motors, announced that they would switch from the widely accepted CCS to NACS. Following this exciting announcement, Blink engineers diligently advanced the integration of NACS connectors across our entire Blink Charging charger product line.

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Green Car Congress

NOVEMBER 10, 2021

Dr. Burns is the former Corporate Vice President of Research & Development and Planning at General Motors ( earlier post ). After leaving GM in 2009, Dr. Burns was a Professor of Engineering Practice at the University of Michigan (2011-2015), and Director of the Program for Sustainable Mobility at Columbia University (2010-2014).

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Blink Charging

JUNE 30, 2023

For the most part, the EV industry was quiet; that is until Ford, quickly followed by General Motors, announced that they would switch from the widely accepted CCS to NACS. Following this exciting announcement, Blink engineers diligently advanced the integration of NACS connectors across our entire Blink Charging charger product line.

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Green Car Congress

SEPTEMBER 29, 2020

Hyundai Motor Group has formed New Horizons Studio, a new unit focused on the development of Ultimate Mobility Vehicles (UMVs), including the concept Hyundai Elevate walking car introduced at CES 2019 ( earlier post ). The Hyundai Elevate envisions using mammalian and reptilian walking gaits.

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Green Car Congress

MAY 21, 2020

On the opening day of the Frankfurt International Motor Show (IAA), the US Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) published a Notice of Violation: VW diesel engines with 1.6 In many countries, the EA 189 engines manufactured by the VW group had to be retrofitted with software or hardware updates. Expensive lawsuits followed.

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Green Car Congress

SEPTEMBER 3, 2013

A new program at the University of Michigan will award funds for researchers to accelerate advanced transportation technologies. M-TRAC Transportation will provide translational research funds for promising new innovations from the College of Engineering and the U-M Transportation Research Institute (UMTRI). —Gary Smyth.

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Green Car Congress

MAY 23, 2014

General Motors and the University of Michigan will extend their collaborative automotive research efforts through 2017. Launched in 1998, Collaborative Research Laboratories (CRL) at the University of Michigan have led to significant commercial and academic success for students, the university and the automaker.

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Green Car Congress

JANUARY 29, 2014

Pinnacle Engines, developer of a highly efficient 4-stroke, spark-ignited (SI), opposed-piston, sleeve-valve architecture engine ( earlier post ), named Phil Murtaugh as the newest member of its board of directors. —Ron Hoge, Chairman and CEO of Pinnacle Engines.

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Green Car Reports

AUGUST 25, 2021

This rare General Motors EV1 has been hiding in plain sight, parked outside behind Howard University's school of engineering in Washington, D.C., You never know where an interesting car might turn up. but was recently spotted by Twitter user Pepe Lucho (via DCist).

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Green Car Congress

MAY 24, 2019

The Ohio State University has been named The EcoCAR Mobility Challenge Year One champion, taking the lead in the premier four-year collegiate engineering competition. Rounding out the top three are Virginia Tech in second place and the University of Alabama in third place.

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Green Car Congress

MAY 26, 2012

EcoCAR 2: Plugging In to the Future named Mississippi State University, with its series-parallel plug-in hybrid electric vehicle design, the Year One winner at the EcoCAR 2012 Competition in Los Angeles. The 15 universities competing in EcoCAR 2 gathered for six days of judged competition for $100,000 in prize money. A123 Systems, Inc.;

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Green Car Congress

MAY 11, 2022

General Motors and Red Hat Inc., GM engineer demonstrates Ultifi test bench to Red Hat executive. General Motors is now a platform company and working with Red Hat is a critical element in advancing our Ultifi software development.

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Green Car Congress

JULY 3, 2020

The seven projects will leverage National Laboratory capabilities as part of the Co-Optimization of Fuels & Engines (Co-Optima) initiative. General Motors will work with Oak Ridge National Laboratory and the National Renewable Energy Laboratory (NREL) to determine fuel property effects on abnormal combustion for biofuel-petroleum fuel blends.

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Green Car Congress

JULY 17, 2020

The Research Foundation for The SUNY Stony Brook University. University of Delaware. University of Maryland. Rationally Designed Lithium Ion Batteries Towards Displacing Internal Combustion Engines. Marquette University. General Motors LLC. Washington State University. Group14 Technologies Inc.

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Green Car Congress

JULY 20, 2020

The United States Advanced Battery Consortium LLC (USABC), a subsidiary of the United States Council for Automotive Research LLC (USCAR), and a collaborative organization of FCA US LLC, Ford Motor Company and General Motors, has awarded a $2.4-million

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Green Car Congress

MAY 24, 2018

The Ohio State University has taken first place in the final year of EcoCAR 3, an Advanced Vehicle Technology Competition, sponsored by the US Department of Energy (DOE) and General Motors Co. liter engine, five-speed automated manual transmission, 150 kW electric machine, and an 18.9 This is OSU’s fourth consecutive win.

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Green Car Congress

AUGUST 6, 2014

As part of its 2014 ASCR Leadership Computing Challenge ( ALCC ) awards of processor time (totaling more than 3 billion processor hours), the US Department of Energy’s (DOE) Office of Science has awarded 15 million hours on Oak Ridge National Laboratory’s (ORNL) Titan supercomputer to a project led by General Motors, and 17.5

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Green Car Congress

JULY 19, 2011

General Motors will invest €20 million (US$28 million) in the company’s Powertrain Engineering Center in Torino throughout the next four years. The new investment enables the Center to build three new dynamic engine test benches, one climatic test bench, one NVH test bench and one chassis Dyno.

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Green Car Congress

FEBRUARY 24, 2016

Cole Award for Automotive Engineering Innovation. Nitz leads GM’s Global Transmission and Electrification team, with engineering operations in North America, Europe, South America and Asia. Nitz received a Bachelor’™s of Electrical Engineering from Kettering University and a Master’s degree from Stanford University.

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Baua Electric

JANUARY 17, 2024

The service is currently available around the University of Nevada Las Vegas and the city’s arts district renting out cars by the minute. General Motors’ Cruise autonomous vehicle unit has struggled in the face of regulatory scrutiny after an October accident in which a San Francisco woman was dragged by a car.

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Green Car Congress

OCTOBER 9, 2013

the developer of a family of two-stroke compression-ignition opposed-piston engines ( earlier post ), has finalized $35.2 Daniel Hancock, retired vice president, global powertrain engineering, who spent more than four decades at General Motors Co. Diesel Engines' Achates Power, Inc., million in Series C financing.

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Green Car Congress

JUNE 13, 2014

The US Department of Energy and General Motors Co. announced that the Ohio State University (OSU) team was the overall winner of the EcoCAR 2: Plugging In to the Future finals. The OSU team’s engineered 2013 Chevrolet Malibu featured a series-parallel plug-in hybrid drive with E85-fueled engine technology.

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Green Car Congress

MAY 5, 2011

A team from the University of Wisconsin and General Motors has found that high-speed gasoline direct injection compression ignition (GDICI) operation in the low temperature combustion (LTC) regime in a light-duty diesel engine is feasible. Other researchers, Ra et al. Other researchers, Ra et al.

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Green Car Congress

MAY 27, 2015

General Motors and Shanghai Jiao Tong University (SJTU) have begun a two-year vehicle sharing pilot program in Shanghai featuring 16 Chevrolet EN-V 2.0 ( earlier post ) electric concept vehicles. Earlier post.) The EN-V 2.0 This will support a simple and seamless locating, renting and driving experience.

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Green Car Congress

MAY 28, 2010

Students from Mississippi State University placed first in the 2010 EcoCAR: The NeXt Challenge finals in San Diego, Calif. The Mississippi State University EcoCAR team chose to design an EREV hybrid with a 21.3 The Mississippi State University EcoCAR team chose to design an EREV hybrid with a 21.3 It’s also equipped with a 1.3L

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Green Car Congress

NOVEMBER 25, 2016

After his apprenticeship as a toolmaker, Peter Mertens studied production technology at Ostwestfalen-Lippe University of Applied Sciences. In 1985, he gained a master of science degree in industrial engineering and operations research at Virginia Polytechnic Institute in the United States.

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Green Car Congress

APRIL 23, 2012

SAE’s 2012 High Efficiency IC Engine Symposium in Detroit—the second as an immediate precursor to the SAE World Congress—opened on Sunday with a consideration of several alternative engine designs: opposed piston 2-stroke (Achates Power); variable compression ratio (MCE-5); split cycle (Scuderi); and advanced rotary (Liquid Piston).

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Green Car Reports

AUGUST 9, 2013

It''s been the subject of a much-discussed documentary, and is still cause for blind loathing of General Motors in some quarters. Designed, engineered, and offered for lease in California and a few other locations from 1998 to 2003, the two-seat EV1 was likely the most.'

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Green Car Congress

JULY 29, 2021

Clemson University will develop a lightweight, multi-material passenger vehicle body structure, addressing challenges in joining dissimilar materials. AOI 1a: Next-generation Liquid Electrolytes for Li-ion Cells under Extreme Conditions. General Motors. SUNY University @ Stony Brook. Penn State University.

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Cars That Think

AUGUST 24, 2021

This is the responsibility shouldered by Ankur Ganguli , executive director of Vehicle Motion Embedded Controls at General Motors Co. "My engines, transmissions, electric batteries and motors, brakes, steering and suspensions) for our full portfolio of cars and trucks—millions of vehicles every year," says Ganguli.

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Baua Electric

JANUARY 31, 2024

Japanese transport officials raided a Toyota -affiliated plant Tuesday after the company admitted to cheating on engine testing, as Toyota Motor Corp. His son Kiichiro Toyoda , Akio’s grandfather, founded Toyota Motor Corp. which makes diesel engines. In April, a whistleblower exposed that Daihatsu Motor Corp.,

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Green Cars News

MAY 7, 2011

A partnership has been formed between General Motors and the University of Wisconsin looking into high-speed petrol direct injection compression ignition operation in low temperature combustion of a light duty diesel engine. Some of the findings made [.].

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Green Car Congress

MARCH 27, 2009

Opel, the University of Stuttgart’s Institute for Combustion Engines and Motor Vehicles, Bosch and the Research Institute for Motor Vehicles and Vehicle Engines Stuttgart (FKFS) have developed a mild-hybrid CNG-electric version of the Opel Astra Caravan. The CNG Turbo Hybrid. Click to enlarge.

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Green Car Congress

APRIL 25, 2014

General Motors is continuing its partnership with the US Department of Energy and Argonne National Laboratory for the EcoCAR 3 collegiate advanced vehicle technology competition. and will donate a Chevrolet Camaro to each one of the 16 universities that were recently selected for the exclusive competition. McMaster University.

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Teslarati

OCTOBER 12, 2022

Texas A&M University’s Electric Formula SAE team is being sponsored by Tesla for the upcoming racing season, the team told us in an interview. With the racing series’ new electric variation, Tesla is getting involved and sponsoring a team from Texas A&M University.

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Green Car Congress

OCTOBER 13, 2012

Researchers at the US Army Research Laboratory’s (ARL) Combustion Research Laboratory are working to develop engines optimized to run on JP-8 for use in military ground vehicles, stationary power generators, and small unmanned aerial vehicles. combustion in a piston engine. cetane index of 40 that present special challenges for.

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