Green Car Congress

AUGUST 2, 2022

liter diesel engine for use in FCA US’ Jeep Grand Cherokee and Ram 1500 vehicles that would be sold in the United States. Attorney’s Office for the Eastern District of Michigan; and Senior Trial Attorney Todd W. According to the company’s admissions and court documents, beginning at least as early as 2010, FCA US developed a new 3.0-liter

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Teslarati

MARCH 20, 2024

The Biden Administration is pulling back on a proposed rule that would require automakers to build fewer combustion engine vehicles or face hefty fines. Let me be clear: Our final rule delivers the same, if not more, pollution reduction than we set out in our proposal,” the EPA’s Michael Regan said, according to NBC.

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Green Car Congress

MAY 24, 2012

Andreas Malikopoulos at Oak Ridge National Laboratory is leading an effort to enable an automobile engine to function as an autonomous intelligent system capable of learning and realizing its optimal calibration in real-time under different conditions while the driver is driving. Background. transient operation.

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Green Car Congress

OCTOBER 21, 2009

A partnership led by researchers at Michigan Technological University is addressing those issues in a three-year, $2.8 The overall goal for this project is energy efficient emission control for heavy-duty diesel engines and the development of accurate methods for On Board Diagnostics (OBD). million project funded largely by a $1.7

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Green Car Congress

AUGUST 14, 2020

Recent US Supreme Court precedent has opened the door for states to enact laws requiring all new cars sold in the state to be electric as of a certain date, according to a paper by the nonprofit Coltura published in the University of Michigan Journal of Environmental and Administrative Law.

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Green Car Congress

MARCH 8, 2010

The United States Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) has been using Pi Shurlok ’s OpenECU M460 and G850 control modules for the past year to support technology development programs in the areas of Advanced Engine Control and Hybrid Vehicle Powertrain Control.

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Green Car Congress

JULY 31, 2018

Toyota unveiled the second iteration of its hydrogen fuel cell electric Class 8 truck ( earlier post ) during the Center for Automotive Research (CAR) Management Briefing Seminars in Northern Michigan. —Andrew Lund, chief engineer for the project. This time we’re looking at commercial viability.

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Green Car Congress

JUNE 2, 2011

liter EcoBoost three-cylinder engine—the first three-cylinder engine Ford has built for a regular production car—and an new eight-speed automatic transmission to its line-up. liter engine is a little dynamo.” This enables the engine to run in a wider rpm band with the optimum fuel-to-air ratio.

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Green Car Congress

JULY 5, 2017

According to the lawsuit, RAM owners report that efforts to fix the faulty emissions system significantly affect engine performance and mileage, with miles per gallon dropping as much as 25%. L Cummins diesel engine to see if they might be entitled to compensation. 2013-2017 RAM 3500 with Cummins diesel (2WD, 4WD).

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Green Car Congress

MARCH 7, 2019

The selected projects will focus on reducing the total cost of ownership of NGVs, increasing vehicle efficiency, decreasing local air pollution, and advancing technology development to increase the use of more affordable medium- and heavy-duty natural gas engines and vehicles. Cummins Inc.

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Green Car Congress

NOVEMBER 5, 2018

Yale researchers have found that organic aerosols—a type of air pollution—are much more complicated than previous studies indicated. —senior author, Drew Gentner, assistant professor of chemical & environmental engineering. —Jenna Ditto, a Ph.D. candidate in Gentner’s lab and lead author of the study.

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Green Car Congress

APRIL 18, 2019

The benefits of connected, self-driving cars (CAVs) will likely induce vehicle owners to drive more, and those extra miles could partially or completely offset the potential energy-saving benefits that automation may provide, according to a new University of Michigan study. 2019.03.174.

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Green Car Congress

MARCH 20, 2015

The US Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) has awarded $8 million to communities in 21 states and Puerto Rico to reduce emissions from the nation’s existing fleet of diesel engines through the agency’s Diesel Emission Reduction Act ( DERA ) program. Illinois, Indiana, Michigan, Minnesota and Wisconsin. Delaware and Virginia.

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Green Car Congress

AUGUST 14, 2009

Engineers at GM’s R&D Center are developing a new low-cost concept for NO x control from lean-burn spark ignition direct injection (SIDI) engines: passive ammonia SCR. gasoline) engines, with a higher charge mass and higher temperature spread, can deliver improved thermal efficiency and better fuel economy. Lean-burn (i.e.,

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GM Concept Engine Emissions 150

Green Car Congress

FEBRUARY 26, 2016

The US Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) announced the availability of $26 million in grant funding to establish clean diesel projects aimed at reducing emissions from the US’ existing fleet of diesel engines. Grant funds may be used for clean diesel projects that use: EPA-verified retrofit technologies or certified engine configurations.

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Green Car Congress

JULY 29, 2016

Researchers from Penn State and the University of Michigan have characterized the nanostructure and oxidative reactivity of soot generated by a light-duty turbodiesel engine operating under a dilute, low-temperature combustion process referred to as high-efficiency clean combustion (HECC). THC and CO as well as NO x and PM.

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Diesel Exhaust Engine Emissions 150

Green Car Congress

JANUARY 4, 2016

The US Department of Justice, on behalf of the US Environmental Protection Agency, has filed a civil complaint in federal court in Detroit, Michigan against Volkswagen AG, Audi AG, Volkswagen Group of America, Inc., liter engines, and November 2, 2015 for certain 3.0 collectively referred to as Volkswagen). Earlier post.).

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Green Car Congress

FEBRUARY 15, 2022

University of Michigan. The University of Michigan team aims to develop a new type of battery separator that can effectively prevent rather than block the formation of dendrites. Hydrogen Steam Injected Intercooled Turbine Engine (HySIITE) - $3,822,026. Battery Separator for Completely Stopping Dendrite - $950,000.

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Green Car Congress

SEPTEMBER 16, 2009

He will share his perspective on several recent hydrogen developments, including Chevrolet’s Project Driveway passing 1 million miles of gas-free driving with no tailpipe pollution and the announcement in Germany of a partnership to build up to 1,000 hydrogen fueling stations by 2015. Burns holds a Ph.D.

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Green Car Congress

JULY 23, 2016

Freightliner Custom Chassis Corporation; Ohio State University; Oak Ridge National Laboratory; Purdue University; and the University of Michigan. The multidisciplinary consortium includes Cummins Inc.; In the United States, freight hauling by truck accounts for more than 15% of our oil use, and nearly 60% in China.

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Green Car Congress

AUGUST 23, 2013

Four teams of researchers in the United States and the United Kingdom recently were awarded more than $12 million to begin a program of novel research to revolutionize current farming methods by giving crops the ability to thrive without using costly, polluting artificial fertilizers. Team members are Himadri B.

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Green Car Congress

MARCH 31, 2014

Mainstream Engineering Corp. Mainstream Engineering Corp. NO x Sensor for Diesel Engine Emissions Systems. NexTech Materials of Lewis Center, Ohio, has developed a new diesel engine exhaust NO x sensing technology that is able to rapidly and selectively measure nitrogen oxides in diesel engine exhaust streams.

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Green Car Congress

SEPTEMBER 11, 2015

million to develop a unique facility for refining complex, physics-based computer models with big data techniques at the University of Michigan. But approximate models often aren’t accurate enough to answer many important questions in science, engineering and medicine. Research Professor of Biomedical Engineering and Vascular Surgery.

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Green Car Congress

JUNE 29, 2016

Extending the system boundary to include the entire vehicle, they estimated a 39% increase in the cradle-to-gate GHG emissions of the Focus BEV compared to the Focus internal combustion engine vehicle (ICEV), which falls within the range of literature estimates of 27–63% increases for hypothetical non-production BEVs. Credit: ACS, Kim et al.

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Green Car Congress

APRIL 3, 2009

Perspective by Professor Bruce Dale, Michigan State University. The polluter does not pay. Those who actually create the additional pollution are not held accountable for their actions. of Chemical Engineering & Materials Science. 3247 Engineering Building. 3247 Engineering Building.

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Green Car Congress

SEPTEMBER 20, 2010

At its National Vehicle and Fuel Emissions Laboratory in Ann Arbor, Michigan, EPA played a significant role in pioneering hydraulic hybrid technology and partnered with Parker and Autocar in the early testing of these vehicles.

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Green Car Congress

AUGUST 4, 2009

The central part of the method is a new fuel system including high-temperature fuel injectors and a common rail to deliver SC fuel-diluent mixtures for combustion over ranges of conditions which will significantly improve engine efficiency, reduce PM and NO x and mitigate the environmental thermal impact.

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Green Car Congress

AUGUST 1, 2013

A team of University of Michigan researchers has been awarded a $2-million grant from the National Science Foundation (NSF) to identify and to test naturally diverse groups of green algae that can be grown together to create a high-yield, environmentally sustainable and cost-effective system to produce next-generation biofuels.

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Green Car Congress

MARCH 17, 2010

This will include new investment in a host of incremental improvements to conventional gasoline powered internal combustion engines, from new controls for valves and timing, to variable speed transmissions and advanced electronics. It will also include entirely new systems like hybrid drive trains and advanced diesel engines.

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Creative Greenius

JANUARY 19, 2009

And I feel just as sorry for all the folks working in the internal engine-based car companies as I do for all them workers who once made the hats that every man in America wore to the ballgames and the inaugurations. These auto workers knew what kind of products they were making and they knew what damage these products cause.

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Green Car Congress

JULY 2, 2018

SOFC technologies enable efficient, cost-effective electricity generation from abundant domestic coal and natural gas resources, with minimal use of water and near-zero atmospheric emissions of carbon dioxide and pollutants. DOE Funding: $500,000; Non-DOE Funding: $125,000; Total: $625,000.

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Green Car Congress

JUNE 19, 2015

The National Research Council is the principal operating arm of the National Academy of Sciences and the National Academy of Engineering. Michael Sivak of the University of Michigan Transportation Research Institute (UMTRI) examined several topics related to fuel economy and advanced vehicle technologies.

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Green Car Congress

NOVEMBER 13, 2013

With increasing pressure from air pollution, oil consumption and congestion, China is compelled to reinvent propulsion technologies. … The development of EVs is very important to China: for haze, pollution and energy security. Pure electric passenger car. Other electric vehicles. Private sector. Pure electric passenger car. Zhixin Wu.

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Green Car Congress

FEBRUARY 12, 2009

The results of our analysis suggest that continued dissemination of hybrid-electric engine technology would significantly offset the growth in vehicle emissions above base year levels independent of land use change. Paul, Minnesota; Cincinnati, Ohio; Grand Rapids, Michigan; Chicago, Illinois; Detroit, Michigan; and Dayton, Ohio.

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Cars That Think

FEBRUARY 4, 2023

As University of Michigan professor emeritus and student of system-human interactions John Leslie King observes “People find ways to use systems for their own benefit not anticipated by designers and developers. and especially California,” he says, “has come at the cost of exacerbating the air, water and soil pollution of Asian societies.”

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Green Car Congress

APRIL 10, 2010

Cap-and-trade was first tried on a significant scale twenty years ago under the first Bush administration as a way to address the problem of airborne sulfur dioxide pollution–widely known as acid rain–from coal-burning power plants in the eastern United States. INTRODUCTION. In 2015–nearly 90% of emissions. Midwestern Accord covers six U.S.

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Charged EVs

MAY 18, 2021

California has led the nation in the fight against air pollution. Maureen Gorsen: The engineers of the car companies, it takes them several years to design their cars—I think they like three years lead time. That has been probably the biggest hurdle—not the biggest engineering hurdle, but the biggest legal hurdle. That’s huge.

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