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EU research partners develop solid state hydrogen storage tank coupled with fuel cell as vehicle APU unit

Green Car Congress

The unit was fitted for the first time into an Iveco Daily van as an Auxiliary Power Unit (APU), and was able to supply electrical energy for air conditioning, auxiliary heating and lighting. Italy), Serenergy A/S (Denmark), Fiat Research Centre (Italy) and Joint Research Centre of European Commission (JRC, Netherlands).

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Video Friday: Lunar Rover

Cars That Think

ICRA 2022 : 23–27 May 2022, Philadelphia ERF 2022 : 28–30 June 2022, Rotterdam, the Netherlands CLAWAR 2022 : 12–14 September 2022, Açores, Portugal Let us know if you have suggestions for next week, and enjoy today's videos. Dust, temperatures, horrible lighting, that sort of thing. Here we release a digest video of the demonstration.

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Kia introducing bi-fuel gasoline-LPG Picanto in Europe

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ft 3 ) with rear seats upright and a tire-mobility kit is provided in case of a puncture. Sensors detect when the driver is braking suddenly and hard, and then flash the brake lights three times to alert following drivers that the car is slowing rapidly. The new Picanto LPG is fitted with two fuel tanks—the regular 35-liter (9.2

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Opel expanding and enhancing its LPG offerings; new 1.4L LPG Turbo EcoFlex for Astra and Meriva

Green Car Congress

A light is illuminated inside the switch when the vehicle is in LPG mode. As soon as the car switches into gasoline usage the light is switched off. Tire repair kits are offered as standard on board all LPG vehicles. This will also be offered in the Zafira Tourer and Insignia LPG variants for 2012.

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Fantastic 5: 2024 Renault 5 teased in production form ahead of its launch at the Geneva motor show

EV Central

Despite dropping the show car’s cool OLED full-width light bar and lamps there’s three-dimensional stacked LED lamps that pay tribute to the 1972 R5 and a slimline lightbar. Staying faithful to the original, the flared arches carry over pretty much unchanged from before that hint at squat and wide sporty hot hatch proportions.

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Where Plug-In Hybrid Conversions (mostly Priuses) Are

Tony Karrer Delicious EVdriven

EcoFys by Amberjac/EnergyCS, March 2007 (Maastrich, Netherlands), contact simon@amberjac-projects.co.uk SP Innovation by Amberjac/EnergyCS, May 2007 (Amsterdam, Netherlands), contact simon@amberjac-projects.co.uk Austin Energy by Hymotion, March 2007 Same as above (2 vehicles), contact mark.kapner@austinenergy.com. Jim Tech Ltd.

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