Green Car Congress

MAY 17, 2015

With the 2016 XC90 ( earlier post ) heading to dealerships across the US, Volvo Cars gave media an opportunity to experience the next generation of its full-size luxury SUV—in both its conventional T6 and plug-in hybrid T8 Drive-E Twin Engine forms—in and around Los Angeles. Volvo XC90 T8 Twin Engine. Earlier post.)

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Green Car Congress

DECEMBER 25, 2012

Toyota, which had originally introduced a mild-hybrid version of the Crown in 2001, first introduced a full-hybrid model based on a THS (Toyota Hybrid System) II system in 2008. liter, 4-cylinder inline Atkinson cycle engine featuring next-generation D-4S4 technology with a high-torque motor to provide the drive performance of a 3.0-liter

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AUGUST 16, 2022

Alan Conrad Bovik ’s passion for science fiction inspired him to pursue a career in engineering. Clarke , who penned 2001: A Space Odyssey, and Isaac Asimov , author of the Foundation series. But he decided to study nuclear engineering in school—which then seemed like the future of energy. Title: Professor of engineering.

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Cars That Think

OCTOBER 19, 2021

area, whenever we drove by NASA's Goddard Space Flight Center , I told my parents that I would work there someday," recounts Proctor, who is now an associate chief at Goddard for NASA's Electrical Engineering Division (EED). In 2001, after three years there, an opening at Goddard became available. "Growing up in the Bowie, Md.,

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Green Car Congress

JUNE 28, 2012

The goal os this project is to explore the potential of new classes of materials for making electrochemically superior, environmentally friendly, and affordable electrodes for lithium-ion batteries that may be used in such applications as electric vehicles. Engineering the right fuel for sustainable transportation.

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Green Car Congress

OCTOBER 24, 2012

The new Corvette LT1 engine, the first of the Gen 5 family of Small Block engines, combines several advanced technologies, including direct injection, Active Fuel Management and continuously variable valve timing to support a new advanced combustion system with an 11.5:1 —Tadge Juechter, Corvette chief engineer.

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Green Car Congress

JUNE 21, 2011

Odyne was formed in 2001 for the sole purpose of developing and producing electric and hybrid electric propulsion systems for Class 5, 6, 7 and 8 vehicles. Once stationary at the job site, work trucks are able to operate worksite equipment applications for up to several hours without using engine power, depending upon the application.

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Green Car Congress

SEPTEMBER 14, 2015

The 21CTP was formed in 2001 to reduce fuel usage and emissions in trucks of Classes 3 through 8. The new report highlights a number of important accomplishments which have occurred since the earlier NRC reviews: The engine systems Goal 1 of a 50% brake thermal efficiency (BTE) for an emissions compliant engine has been achieved.

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Green Car Congress

APRIL 13, 2010

GE has reached an important performance threshold in the development of a proprietary silver-based Hydrocarbon Lean NOx Catalyst (HC-LNC) aftertreatment solution designed to reduce NO x emissions from diesel engines. E85 opens up a variety of diesel engine markets where a small on-board tank of readily available E85 will supply the reductant.

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JUNE 28, 2023

That was the case for Melba Crawford , who as a teenager couldn’t wait to leave her family’s farm in Illinois to pursue an engineering career. Crawford is a professor of civil engineering, agronomy, and electrical and computer engineering at Purdue University , in West Lafayette, Ind. She then pursued a Ph.D.

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Green Car Congress

JULY 21, 2009

The standard FedEx trucks used in the retrofit program were 2000 or 2001 models with 300,000 to 500,000 miles driven. In converting the standard delivery vehicles, the powertrain equipment, including the engine, transmission, fuel tank and drive shaft, were replaced with a Cummins 6.7L

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APRIL 30, 2023

They went over to Engineering Building 1, where the computer was housed, and found the building locked. “I Cerf was just 17 when he first got paid for developing code in 1961—testing software for the Rocketdyne F-1 engine destined for NASA’s Apollo program. He took all the computer classes he could fit into his schedule.

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Green Car Congress

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. Skerlos (2001) Design incentives to increase vehicle size created from the US footprint-based fuel economy standards.

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Green Car Congress

JANUARY 8, 2014

Taking legal action over the ZEV mandates would be a repeat of the late 1990s: automakers filed a federal lawsuit that led California to water down its ZEV requirements beginning in 2001, thus effectively ending most automakers electric vehicle (EV) programs for more than a decade.

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Green Car Congress

AUGUST 30, 2009

Byran Nesbitt, Cadillac’s general manager, added that “ Dedicated resources, studio and engineering, allows us to nurture and build the brand identity. ”. 4 cylinder direct-injection Ecotec engine and 6-speed automatic transmission offers class leading fuel economy while maintaining sprightly acceleration. Build better products.

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Green Car Congress

OCTOBER 28, 2021

The Outlander was initially released in 2001 as MMC’s first crossover SUV. An exterior with powerful presence and an advanced, high-class interior. Sales will commence in Japan on 16 December, followed by Australia and New Zealand in the first half of 2022 and North America in the second half of 2022. PHEV system.

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FEBRUARY 1, 2024

Many youngsters are inspired to pursue engineering by fiddling with gadgets. After graduating first in his class in 1996 with a bachelor’s degree in electrical and computer engineering, he went on to graduate school at the University of Waterloo , in Ontario, Canada, where he researched autonomy and automatic control systems.

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Green Car Congress

AUGUST 21, 2013

Side crash rating results were added with 1997 model year vehicles and rollover assessments with 2001 models. Since NHTSA selects vehicles for testing on the criteria noted above, there are, however, some competitive gaps in the data: no testing for Mercedes-Benz S-Class, Audi A8 or BMW 7-Series, for example.

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MARCH 26, 2023

Starting around 2001, the compound semiconductor gallium nitride fomented a revolution in lighting that has been, by some measures, the fastest technology shift in human history. Both GaN and SiC belong to a class called wide-bandgap semiconductors. The answer is a resounding yes. Such a change is actually well underway.

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MAY 23, 2023

Enraged that upper-class students were given priority to enroll in a computer-science elective at Rutgers, the State University of New Jersey , Paras decided to crash the registration website so that no one could enroll. First-year college students are understandably frustrated when they can’t get into popular upper-level electives.

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