Green Car Congress

DECEMBER 20, 2012

The development of products and systems for automated driving is one of the central themes of international automotive supplier Continental’s long-term technology strategy. Continental’s testing license is for the company’s highly automated vehicle, and represents the first license granted by the Nevada DMV to an automotive supplier.

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Green Car Congress

SEPTEMBER 6, 2023

Power, EV adoption in the US is growing increasingly divided, with the most active states for EV adoption already on the path to parity with internal combustion engine (ICE) vehicles and consumers steadily pulling back on EV purchases in the least-active states. According to the latest data from J.D.

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Green Car Congress

MAY 3, 2016

A compact, quiet-running 650cc 2-cylinder engine replaces the previous 2.4L 4-cylinder engine; charging capability remains the same, as does the electric range. The smaller engine will improve fuel economy, however. liter internal combustion engine (ICE) served as the genset engine.

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Green Car Congress

MAY 10, 2017

a developer and manufacturer of heavy-duty range-extended electric vehicle (REV) powertrains ( earlier post ), has partnered with AxleTech International, a leading manufacturer of heavy-duty specialty drivetrain systems. The custom axle-outfitted GTD unit is featured in the Mack Trucks booth at the WasteExpo conference in Nevada this week.

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Green Car Congress

MAY 7, 2022

This makes Mercedes-Benz the first car manufacturer with an international valid certification for conditional automated driving to offer such a system as an option ex-works for vehicles from series production. Mercedes-Benz is the first manufacturer to put a Level 3 system with international valid certification into series production.

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Green Car Congress

AUGUST 17, 2016

Romeo Power is currently working with local governments in Nevada and California to select a manufacturing facility for its electric vehicle battery packs. Co-Founder and CTO Porter Harris is a renowned battery engineer. VP of Electrical Engineering Arun Gunasekaran was a member of the Tesla battery team.

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Green Car Congress

MARCH 9, 2016

Mercedes-Benz has launched the new tenth-generation E-Class, introduced at the North American International Auto Show (NAIAS) this January. The new generation features technology innovations in a number of areas, including driver assistance and powertrains, with new efficient engines and a plug-in hybrid version. Earlier post.)

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Green Car Congress

APRIL 15, 2014

Engineers at the University of California, San Diego, have created new ceramic materials that could be used to store hydrogen safely and efficiently. Credit: Olivia Graeve/Jacobs School of Engineering at UC San Diego. The resulting ceramics are essentially crystalline structures in a cage of boron. Click to enlarge.

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Baua Electric

APRIL 17, 2024

In October 2023, we learned that Tesla had only built about 70 Tesla Semi trucks and the company was using them internally and with one main customer: PepsiCo. Tesla was supposed to expand production of the truck at a Gigafactory Nevada expansion announced last year, but the automaker only recently broke ground on the construction project.

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Green Car Congress

APRIL 15, 2014

Engineers at the University of California, San Diego, have created new ceramic materials that could be used to store hydrogen safely and efficiently. Credit: Olivia Graeve/Jacobs School of Engineering at UC San Diego. The resulting ceramics are essentially crystalline structures in a cage of boron. Click to enlarge.

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Green Car Congress

DECEMBER 14, 2018

The process has been reviewed by numerous third parties including independent engineers, the US Department of Defense and the US Department of Agriculture. Fulcrum has licensed from ThermoChem Recovery International, Inc. In late 2017, Fulcrum began construction on the Sierra BioFuels Plant located near Reno, Nevada.

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Cars That Think

DECEMBER 16, 2021

Since November 2000, there has always have been a select few people living apart from the rest of us—the astronauts and cosmonauts on the International Space Station. On any list of humanity’s greatest engineering achievements, the ISS almost always ranks near the top. Blue Origin/Sierra Nevada SpaceX’s “Station”?

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Green Car Congress

SEPTEMBER 16, 2014

ERL engineers are working on a wide range of automated driving issues, including human-machine interface prompts that indicate when the human or the vehicle are handling driving functions. mile route of the Pikes Peak International Hill Climb race in Colorado in 27 minutes without a human in the car. In July, with Florida Gov.

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EV Adoption

SEPTEMBER 27, 2022

Four states (California, Colorado, Nevada, and New Jersey) had a higher EV (BEV + PHEV) sales share in Q2 2022 than regular hybrid sales share for the state. Five states had EV (BEV + PHEV) sales share in Q2 of less than 2% (Arkansas, Mississippi, North Dakota, South Dakota, West Virginia, and Wyoming).

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Green Car Congress

FEBRUARY 27, 2017

The company—which gained approval by the State of Nevada earlier this year to begin testing its truck on public roads—has created a technology that allows trucks to drive from exit to exit on the freeway without any human input. Rodrigues has a long history with robotics.

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Teslarati

APRIL 27, 2021

Tesla also had difficulty scaling and driving production in China because it could not get critical engineers to work due to COVID quarantine restrictions. As a result, Giga Nevada was providing drive units for all of the company’s production needs. As of this writing, Tesla seems to have mostly solved the issue.

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Green Car Congress

JULY 14, 2017

Just two years ago, the FCEB power plant set an international record for 20,000 hours of continuous operation. Traditionally, a public transit buses life expectancy is measured in terms of the number of miles on its diesel engine. A diesel engine’s life expectancy is 6 years or 250,000 miles before overhaul.

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Cars That Think

DECEMBER 27, 2022

Mancino Former manager of engineering reliability at RCA Life senior member, 93; died 24 September For most of his career, Mancino worked as an engineer at RCA , which was headquartered in New York City. Army during the Korean War, he participated in an atomic bomb test in Nevada. as chief engineer in its filter division.

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Green Car Congress

JANUARY 16, 2020

On-Demand Electric Shuttle Service – Franklin Region: Electrify America has provided the funding for battery electric shuttles to replace the existing internal combustion engine shuttles that currently operate on this SmaRT Ride service operated by Sacramento Regional Transit.

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Green Car Congress

MAY 7, 2015

Fulcrum BioEnergy has awarded a $200-million fixed-price engineering, procurement and construction (EPC) contract to Abengoa for the construction of Fulcrum’s first municipal solid waste (MSW) to transportation fuels facility, the Sierra BioFuels Plant. Fulcrum licensed the gasification technology from ThermoChem Recovery International.

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Clean Fleet Report

MARCH 2, 2023

Both GV70s share a platform that was specifically designed for a gasoline engine and electric motors. Genesis engineers were able to use the same GV70 platform for both power plants without sacrificing interior space for people or cargo. It is a fascinating process to watch. The Electrified GV70 comes in two trim levels.

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Blink Charging

NOVEMBER 28, 2023

Vehicle fleets across the United States are transitioning from internal combustion engine (ICE) to electric vehicles, and that includes school bus fleets. This number includes buses that have been awarded, ordered, delivered, or are already in operation.

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Green Car Congress

JULY 16, 2023

The zero-emission vehicle will be on display for the first time from 14-19 July 2023, inside the Peppermill Resort in Reno, Nevada. An improved engineering design and internally insulated batteries limit the heat loss in the vehicle’s next-generation energy storage system.

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Green Car Congress

FEBRUARY 13, 2009

Camicia Professor of Mining and Mineral Engineering in Virginia Tech’s College of Engineering, and his colleagues developed a hyperbaric centrifuge that can efficiently dewater coal as fine as talcum powder. Virginia Tech holds a US patent on the technology, as well as international patents in seven countries.

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Cars That Think

APRIL 24, 2022

With direct funding plus prize money that reached into the millions, DARPA encouraged international collaborations among top academic institutions as well as industry. DARPA has hundreds of programs , but most of them don’t involve multiyear international competitions with million-dollar prizes. IEEE Spectrum.

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Clean Fleet Report

MARCH 20, 2023

Distinct Exterior Sharing a platform with the gasoline-powered GV70 , Genesis engineers were able to use the same platform for both power plants without sacrificing interior space for people or cargo. By 2025, they will come out with no new internal combustion engine models.

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Cars That Think

FEBRUARY 27, 2022

And scientists and engineers have continued to study the sun’s fusion process in hopes of one day using nuclear fusion to generate heat or electricity. We and other scientists and engineers at. However, LCF also removes many of the technologic and engineering barriers that have prevented other fusion schemes from being successful.

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Green Car Congress

JUNE 29, 2015

During the late innings of the ICE-age (as in the Internal Combustion Engine age) it has become clear that feeding gasoline and diesel to the next billion new cars is not going to be easy, or cheap. An acre of desert in Arizona, Nevada and many other places on earth sees on the order of 3,000 hours of direct sun per year.

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Electric Auto Association

JANUARY 5, 2023

“Palmer worked at General Electric’s Nuclear Energy Division back then, while Stan Skokan, our treasurer, was the engineer at Hewlett-Packard (HP) who measured BIll Hewlett’s shirt pocket to make sure their calculator would fit.” “So So many of our members have been practicing engineers, not just tinkerers,” Freund continued.

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Clean Fleet Report

JANUARY 16, 2023

Starting in 2025 they will have no new internal combustion engine models, then by 2030 will only sell battery-powered cars and SUVs. The GV60 is sold in Arizona, California, Connecticut, Nevada, New Jersey, New York, Utah and Washington states. Clean Fleet Report has been impressed with all Genesis models. Performance $69,385.

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Green Car Congress

SEPTEMBER 11, 2013

These include the situation-dependent control commands for steering, engine and brakes, such as how to autonomously negotiate a roundabout. For example, international UN/ECE Regulation R 79 (steering systems) allows only corrective steering functions, but not automatic steering at speeds above 10 km/h (6.2 Click to enlarge.

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Teslarati

JUNE 20, 2021

This stunt caught the eye of both national and international media as well, and by this time, the narrative was set: Teslas can drive themselves without a driver, and Autopilot could kill. Consumer Reports ‘ walkthrough was thorough, showing audiences exactly what needs to be done to defeat Autopilot’s safety measures.

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Green Car Congress

MARCH 25, 2009

Founded in 1989, and headquartered in Austin, Texas, Valence has facilities in Nevada, China and Northern Ireland. ISO/TS 16949 is the quality management system created by the International Organization of Standards to monitor the design, development, production and servicing of automotive components. were cleared in the EU last year.

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Cars That Think

SEPTEMBER 1, 2021

Internal crash testing of our structural pack architecture with a single-piece front casting has been successful. The Arizona-built Lucid Air sedan, the work of Musk's former Model S chief engineer, has demonstrated it can travel up to 517 miles , a lofty record for any EV. It shows it's no longer a one-horse race."

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Cars That Think

JUNE 7, 2023

Mo-Shing Chen , a world-renowned power engineering educator and researcher, died on 1 May at the age of 91. program in electrical engineering in 1969, and it quickly became one of the nation’s largest and top-rated graduate programs in power systems engineering. as a power engineer in Wulai. Chen created UTA’s first Ph.D.

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Green Car Congress

NOVEMBER 28, 2012

cannot be engineered. reactor makes it more economical both to grow engineered algae. engineered to use fertilizer and water more efficiently and. required to engineer switchgrass to maximize biofuel production. temperature ranges similar to internal combustion engines. of Transgenic Bioenergy Crops.

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Spirit of DC - PHEV3A

JULY 29, 2009

He is an electrical engineer who works on patent law issues. She is a medical student, who plans to study international medical law. They both live in Rochester , New York and purchased a Tesla Roadster to make a difference in the way Americans travel.

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