Green Car Congress

JANUARY 29, 2020

Audi is moving ahead with networked traffic lights in Düsseldorf. After Ingolstadt, the city on the Rhine is the second in Europe in which Audi is introducing its Traffic Light Information service. Vehicle-to-infrastructure (V2I) services like Audi Traffic Light Information increase efficiency, convenience and safety on the roads.

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Green Car Congress

NOVEMBER 24, 2020

Buick’s vehicle-to-everything (V2X) technology made its debut at the Guangzhou International Automobile Exhibition. Later this year, Buick will become the first brand in China officially to roll out the market-ready technology on a production vehicle, a Buick GL8. Past work on V2X in China.

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Green Car Congress

NOVEMBER 24, 2019

The report is the culmination of MITEI’s three-year Mobility of the Future study, which is part of MIT’s Plan for Action on Climate Change. Understanding the future of personal mobility requires an integrated analysis of technology, infrastructure, consumer choice, and government policy.

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Green Car Congress

AUGUST 14, 2021

Levelized cost of driving (LCOD) across powertrains for light-duty SUV, MY 2025. The report covers light-duty passenger vehicles as well as medium-/heavy-duty commercial vehicles: semi-tractors; medium-duty vans and pickups; transit buses; box, utility aerial and dump trucks; and garbage trucks. —David Gohlke.

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Green Car Congress

MARCH 11, 2022

One in five EVs in the country are on the road in PG&E’s service area of Northern and Central California, where customers are often early adopters of new clean energy technologies. Through collaborations with automakers like Ford, we are innovating together for a cleaner, safer and brighter future for all. Earlier post.).

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Green Car Congress

SEPTEMBER 22, 2022

Nissan Motor has jointly developed a technology with Tohoku University’s Faculty of Pharmaceutical Sciences that inactivates viruses using catalyst active species for aerobic oxidation. The technology has potential applications for inactivating viruses by oxidizing, denaturing and degrading proteins and other substances on the virus surface.

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Green Car Congress

JANUARY 23, 2023

Asahi Kasei, a diversified Japanese multinational company, has developed a new technology for recycling carbon fiber plastic compounds together with the National Institute of Technology, Kitakyushu College and Tokyo University of Science. Thus, these carbon fiber compounds present in vehicles for weight reduction.

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Green Car Congress

APRIL 15, 2021

Via over-the-air (OTA) software updates, Ford will offer its BlueCruise hands-free highway driving technology later this year on 2021 F-150 and 2021 Mustang Mach-E models equipped with the available Ford Co-Pilot360 Active 2.0 BlueCruise uses blue lighting on the digital instrument cluster to indicate when the vehicle is in a hands-free zone.

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Green Car Congress

APRIL 5, 2022

Protean Electric, a leader of in-wheel motor (IWM) technology for passenger cars, light commercial vehicles and future transport solutions, announced a new partnership between Dongfeng Motor Corporation Technical Center and Protean’s joint venture in China, Wuxi Weifu Electric Drive Technology (WFDT).

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Green Car Congress

FEBRUARY 4, 2020

Canadian battery material specialist Hydro-Québec is partnering with Mercedes-Benz as part of the automaker’s research and development activities on future EV technology. With its latest developments, Hydro-Québec has achieved promising results for future battery performance, range, and weight, along with safety.

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Green Car Congress

OCTOBER 29, 2022

Together with eleQtron, ParityQC, QUDORA Technologies and the Technical University of Hamburg, NXP will pool expertise from across the industry to enable rapid advances in quantum computing and help roll out scalable and marketable solutions in the near future. ParityQC is the only quantum architecture company worldwide.

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Green Car Congress

MARCH 2, 2021

Teijin and its joint development partner Applied Electric Vehicles have developed a polycarbonate solar roof for future mobility applications. Because the vehicle is light and very energy efficient, the benefits of solar charging the Blanc Robot are much greater than the results that can be achieved on a typical EV. Solar roof.

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Green Car Congress

OCTOBER 4, 2018

In a joint project, the city of Wolfsburg, Volkswagen and Siemens are currently setting up a test section on a main road in Wolfsburg in which ten traffic signal systems will transmit the traffic light phases in the vicinity via the V2X technology WLANp (ITS-G5). Earlier post.). —Manfred Fuhg, Head of Siemens Mobility Germany.

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Green Car Congress

MARCH 27, 2017

This year’s University of Wisconsin Engine Research Center Symposium will address the impact of future regulations on engine technology. The symposium will focus on technologies in four areas (sessions): Combustion Technology; Fuels Technology; Aftertreatment Technology; and Modeling Technology.

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Baua Electric

JUNE 11, 2024

Tata Motors, India’s largest commercial vehicle maker, aims to offer a wide variety of technology options in the electric mobility space. Rajendra Petkar, the Chief Technology Officer of Tata Motors, announced that these solutions will be made available for passenger vehicles, small commercial vehicles, and big trucks.

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EV Central

MAY 23, 2024

Ensuring it will have what it takes to catch up with brands like Tesla, the new family of EVs will be developed with “Thin, Light and Wise” design and engineering mantra that will ensure all of its EVs weigh around 100kg less than current electric cars while offering more room, better efficiency and advanced driverless tech.

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Green Car Congress

JULY 12, 2023

Aramco, which signed letter of intent with Renault and Geely on 2 March 2023 ( earlier post ), is evaluating a strategic investment in this new powertrain technology company. In addition, Renault will procure powertrains from the joint venture for light commercial vehicles as well as the development of hybrid batteries.

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Green Car Congress

DECEMBER 13, 2020

In China, Buick launched the 2021 GL8 Avenir family featuring industry-leading vehicle-to-everything (V2X) technology and the 2021 GL8 ES with advanced driver assist technology. With the rollout of the 2021 GL8 Avenir, Buick is among the first automotive brands in China to adopt V2X intelligent and connected vehicle technology.

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Green Car Congress

MARCH 16, 2021

Preliminary data in EPA’s 2020 Automotive Trends Report shows average fuel economy for model year 2020 light-duty vehicles increased to 25.7 If this preliminary data holds, that will be a new record high for average new light-duty vehicle fuel economy. Manufacturers continue to adopt a wide array of advanced technologies.

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Green Car Congress

NOVEMBER 20, 2020

Volvo Cars is partnering with Waycare Technologies to enable data from Volvo’s Hazard Light Alert and Slippery Road Alert to be shared anonymously with transportation municipalities and the popular Waze navigation app. Waycare has plans to expand to other areas in the future.

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Teslarati

JANUARY 12, 2024

Stellantis Ventures became a strategic investor of France-based Tiamat, which is developing and commercializing sodium-ion battery technology. It named Tiamat as one of 11 top-performing technology startups, honoring the French company with the Stellantis Ventures Award in 2023. Sodium is also available abundantly around the world.

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Green Car Congress

APRIL 14, 2022

Australia-based hydrogen fuel cell electric vehicle manufacturer H2X has entered into a partnership with KTM Technologies to create a lightweight and inexpensive origami chassis. KTM Technologies will work with the H2X team to design and develop its vehicle chassis and construction programs.

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Green Car Congress

JUNE 3, 2023

General Motors and POSCO Future M announced the second phase of their Ultium CAM joint venture, an investment projected to exceed US$1 billion to increase production capacity of cathode active materials (CAM) in North America and integrate precursor materials production. Site selection will be announced later. Cell Manufacturing and R&D Dec.

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Green Car Congress

JULY 11, 2017

The International Council on Clean Transportation (ICCT), one of the organizations at the root of uncovering the Volkswagen diesel emission scandal ( earlier post ), has published a new analysis of developments and trends in advanced diesel engine technology. —Isenstadt and German (2017). Background.

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Green Car Congress

MAY 22, 2020

Designed to work with a car’s existing fuel, the onboard separation technology is the first to use chemistry—not a physical membrane—to separate ethanol-blended gasoline into high- and low-octane fuel components. High-compression engines that squeeze the most work out of each drop of fuel are the engines of the future.

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Green Car Congress

AUGUST 25, 2021

Ricardo won a contract with LS Automotive Technologies to develop a high voltage DC-DC converter to power the low voltage network in electric vehicles. LS Automotive Technologies is a manufacturer of automotive electronic components.

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Green Car Congress

FEBRUARY 3, 2021

Blue World Technologies and Karma Automotive will collaborate to explore the viability of a methanol fuel cell system ( earlier post ) to provide primary propulsion power for a variety of future passenger and light commercial vehicles. This technology has a methanol-reformer to produce hydrogen on board.

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Green Car Congress

JUNE 28, 2019

The average age of light vehicles in operation (VIO) in the US has risen again this year to 11.8 From 2002-2007, the average age of light vehicles in the US increased by 3.5%. Better technology and overall vehicle quality improvements continue to be key drivers of the rising average vehicle age over time. —Mark Seng.

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Green Car Congress

MAY 7, 2020

Volvo Cars will equip its next-generation cars with Luminar LiDAR and perception technology. The partnership will deliver Volvo’s first fully self-driving technology for highways and paves the way for future active safety developments. —Henrik Green, chief technology officer at Volvo Cars.

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Green Car Congress

MAY 11, 2020

The global transportation of ammonia by pipeline and bulk carrier is already a well-developed technology. Researchers at Monash University in Australia are proposing a roadmap to renewable ammonia being produced in the future at a scale that is significant in terms of global fossil fuel use. Credit: Joule , MacFarlane et al.

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Baua Electric

MAY 23, 2024

The reality is that diesel ICE and CO 2 -neutral propulsion technologies will continue to coexist in the Indian market for the foreseeable future,” said Satyakam Arya, Managing Director and CEO, Daimler India Commercial Vehicles.

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Green Car Congress

JUNE 14, 2023

Nyobolt, the developer of ultra-fast charging niobium-based battery technology ( earlier post ) has partnered with UK designer Callum to showcase its advanced battery technology in an Elise-inspired electric sports car that can charge in six minutes. —Sai Shivareddy, CEO at Nyobolt

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Green Car Congress

APRIL 26, 2019

Designed primarily for today’s direct-drive architectures, the TM4 SUMO LD will also provide a modular solution for future transitions to widespread e-Axle platforms. —Christophe Dominiak, chief technology officer for Dana.

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Green Car Congress

SEPTEMBER 27, 2017

At the North American Commercial Vehicle Show (NACV) in Atlanta this week, Bosch is showcasing its portfolio of automated, connected and electrified technologies for commercial vehicles. The optically-bonded display enables future safety and automated solutions as it is easily integrated with advanced driver assistance technologies.

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Green Car Congress

NOVEMBER 12, 2020

With time still to go before expected US market launch in early 2022, and with the series development phase ongoing, BMW provided a first look ahead at the future BMW iX. The BMW iX is the first model based on a new, modular, scalable architecture on which the future of the BMW Group will be built. 200 kW DC fast charging.

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Green Car Congress

SEPTEMBER 15, 2018

UK-based Revolve Technologies has revealed the successful completion of a project to develop novel fuel cell technology using printed circuit board (PCB) construction (PCBFC). The hydrogen storage tank is currently in the loading bay, although a future development could see the tank relocated to the roof.

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MAY 9, 2024

However, a handful of market-based and technological hurdles, such as high car repair costs and lack refueling stations, still stand in the way. So, with that in mind, let’s explore the future of hydrogen fuel cell vehicles and break down everything you need to know. Without question, FCEVs have the potential for broader adoption.

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