Cars That Think

JUNE 16, 2023

EPFL ] This video details the creation of the Dingo, a low-cost robot quadruped designed and built by Alexander Calvert and Nathan Ferguson as a capstone engineering project for the bachelor of Robotics and Mechatronics Engineering at Monash University. Total cost is about $1,300 AUD. The full bill of materials can be found on GitHub.

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Green Car Congress

SEPTEMBER 29, 2012

—NREL Project Engineer Michael Lammert. The new hybrids have more advanced control algorithms and an integrated “engine off at idle” feature that automatically stops and restarts the engine at stoplights and other short stops when certain conditions are met. Resources. mpg, 13% greater than the 9.2 Earlier post.)

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Cars That Think

APRIL 20, 2023

To help find ways to address it through technology, EPICS in IEEE , in partnership with the United Engineering Foundation , launched the Environmental Competition last year. universities and colleges to use their engineering and technical skills to mitigate and address the impact of climate change in their communities.

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Green Car Congress

SEPTEMBER 3, 2020

GAMOW projects will work in synergy with publicly and privately funded fusion-development efforts, including ARPA-E’s ALPHA and BETHE fusion programs, and will leverage the technical resources and basic research SC-FES sponsors in these areas. Interfacial-Engineered Membranes for Efficient Tritium Extraction - $1,397,973. Phoenix, LLC.

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Green Car Congress

JANUARY 9, 2015

As part of ongoing commitment to the US market, Volkswagen Group of America is proud to dedicate our vast technological resources and automotive manufacturing expertise to help IACMI expand the American workforce and overcome current barriers to the use of advanced composite materials. Owens Corning; Phoenix Integration; PolyNEW, Inc.;

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Green Car Congress

JUNE 6, 2013

A Honda Civic hybrid retrofitted with lead-carbon UltraBattery modules ( earlier post ) (provided by East Penn Manufacturing) has recorded more than 100,000 miles (161,000 km) of courier duty in the local area of Phoenix, AZ. That’s when we approached the US DOE and Ecotality about operating a vehicle in a fleet in and around Phoenix.

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Lead Acid Civic Hybrid Fleet Miles 223

Green Car Congress

DECEMBER 23, 2009

Funded by the DOE’s Advanced Vehicle Testing Activity (AVTA), NREL’s Fleet Test & Evaluation (FT&E) team performed a 12-month evaluation of six MY 2007 P70D hybrid vans and six MY 2006 P70D standard diesel vans at a UPS location in Phoenix, collecting and analyzing fuel economy, maintenance and other vehicle performance data.

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Fuel Economy Economy Eaton Hybrid 210

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FEBRUARY 25, 2014

Innovative Weld Solutions; ITW; Lockheed Martin; Luvata; Materion; MesoCoat; MTI; NanoSteel Company; Optomec; Phoenix Integration; PowderMet; RealWeld; RTI International Metals; SaCell; Southwest Research Institute (SWRI); Steel Warehouse Co.; Boeing; Caron Engineering Inc.; ThermoCalc; TIMET; Trumpf, Inc.; UTRC; Wolf Robotics.

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Green Car Congress

JANUARY 22, 2012

The SAE Taskforce on wireless charging and positioning of electric vehicles (SAE J2954) ( earlier post ) is progressing, and is slated to have a final draft of the guideline this year, according to the Society of Automotive Engineers, International (SAE). Bus manufacturers Volvo and Proterra are also participating.

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Cars That Think

NOVEMBER 28, 2022

Policy runs up against engineering reality The situation in Palo Alto is not unique. Phoenix, Ariz., The city has provided incentives for the purchase of both EVs and charging ports, the installation of heat-pump water heaters , and the installation of solar and battery-storage systems. million miles of power lines.

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Grid United States Charging Gas-Electric 117

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DECEMBER 7, 2011

—Kate Whitefoot, now a senior program officer at the National Academy of Engineering. The model incorporates engineering tradeoffs that carmakers consider as well as a wide range of possible consumer preferences. The research was funded by the Michigan Memorial Phoenix Energy Institute and the National Science Foundation.

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Standards Fuel Economy Vehicles Economy 240

Green Car Congress

DECEMBER 12, 2012

The Li-ion KLT test allows engineers to simulate many factors affecting the Li-ion batteries, including location of a battery within a vehicle; the temperatures they might have to endure; and various kinds of acceleration and stopping that different drivers would apply. —Mazen Hammoud, chief engineer, Electrified Powertrain Systems.

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Green Car Congress

JUNE 22, 2009

Nissan also announced the introduction of an automatic transmission (AT) model with a clean-diesel engine in the Japanese market, planned for spring 2010. In September 2008, a new clean diesel X-TRAIL 20GT, fitted with the Alliance-developed M9R engine, was introduced in Japan. Recycling Resources. Nissan Motor Co.,

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Charged EVs

APRIL 19, 2023

Electrifying a vehicle fleet is a complex undertaking that requires specialized skills and resources that most companies don’t have. This is your Lightning eMotors, Motiv, Phoenix Motors—early days. I saw them from day one, and I realized that they didn’t have enough capital or engineering power to keep up.

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Tony Karrer Delicious EVdriven

APRIL 28, 2009

Think Global managers want to develop the car plant and launch an engineering center, perhaps alongside. The Renault-Nissan Alliance is building fleet charging stations in Portland and Phoenix. I wonder how the hapless car buyers without the PhD’s in engineering are going to deal with all of this?

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