Green Car Congress

JANUARY 4, 2018

Before that, Chris was a faculty member at Carnegie Mellon University, and helped win the 2007 DARPA Urban Challenge. In 2005, a Volkswagen Electronics Research Lab-Stanford University team claimed victory at the 2005 DARPA Grand Challenge—widely considered the dawn of the automated vehicle era. Earlier post.).

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Cars That Think

JUNE 30, 2023

As a child, Alberto Moreira discovered his passion for electronics from the kits for exploring science, technology, engineering, and mathematics that his father bought him every month. in engineering at the Technical University of Munich. Having students and engineers work together on large-scale projects is a dream come true.”

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Green Car Congress

MAY 25, 2009

Aircraft wings which redirect air to waggle sideways over their surfaces could significantly reduce drag and thus cut fuel consumption and emissions by 20%, according to researchers at the University of Warwick (UK). Duncan Lockerby, University of Warwick, project leader. University of Warwick Turbulence Flow Control Group.

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Green Car Congress

JULY 10, 2019

The TCF was created by the Energy Policy Act of 2005 to promote promising energy technologies. Purdue University, West Lafayette, Ind. High-fidelity ignition models to boost engine thermal efficiency, $720,000 Convergent Science Inc., Combustion Research & Flow Technology Inc., Pipersville, Pa. New York, N.Y. Madison, Wis.

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Cars That Think

JANUARY 7, 2022

She joined IBM Research in Zurich in 1998 while pursuing her doctorate in physics in collaboration with the University of Bayreuth , also in Germany. In 2017 IBM released a new transistor—the Nanosheet—that uses the concepts Riel says she and her team developed between 2005 and 2012. After earning her Ph.D.

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Baua Electric

MAY 10, 2024

Fossil fuels currently meet this majority demand, raising concerns due to potential CO 2 (a major greenhouse gas) doubling compared to preindustrial levels (approximately 285 ppm for about 400 000 years before the industrial revolution and reached 376 ppm as of 2005 and is still increasing).

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Cars That Think

JANUARY 20, 2023

Several states have enacted laws that ban, or would appear to ban, discussing the concept in public schools and colleges, and even private workplaces. But racial-equity consultant Tynesia Boyea-Robinson uses the term with an engineer’s precision. She attended Duke University ’s Pratt School of Engineering , in Durham, N.C.,

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Green Car Congress

DECEMBER 28, 2009

The Fuels from Sunlight Hub is tasked with developing a solar fuels system that can operate at an overall efficiency and produce fuel of sufficient energy content to enable transition from bench-top discovery to proof-of-concept prototyping. Basic Research Needs for Solar Energy Utilization (September 2005).

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Cars That Think

MAY 27, 2022

Babbage set to work on the concept for a Difference Engine, a machine that would use a clockwork mechanism to solve polynomial equations. That is, he wanted to build a full-scale Difference Engine. His magnificent Difference Engine proved far more difficult to build than his note suggested. Difference Engine No.

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Green Car Congress

APRIL 18, 2011

Achates Power, the developer of a two-stroke, compression-ignition (CI) opposed-piston opposed-cylinder (OPOC) engine ( earlier post ) is now “concept-ready”, David Johnson, Achates Power CEO, told GCC in an interview at SAE 2011 World Congress in Detroit. The Achates engine. —Johnson et al.

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Green Car Congress

SEPTEMBER 28, 2010

Researchers at Lund University in Sweden have shown a thermodynamic efficiency of 56% in a gasoline-fueled single-cylinder light-duty engine and 57% in a gasoline-fueled single-cylinder heavy-duty engine using the Partially Premixed Combustion (PPC) concept. The Lund team used regular US gasoline in their engines.

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Plug In Partners

FEBRUARY 13, 2006

13, 2006 Andrew Frank, University of California at Davis Mechanical engineering professor and researcher Andrew Frank has spent much of the last 30 years studying electric motors and batteries to make vehicles more fuel-efficient. With this car it doesn’t matter, because you always have the gasoline engine.

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Green Car Congress

MARCH 2, 2014

liter 32-valve V8 engine that, for the first time in a Lexus performance engine, uses the Atkinson cycle at cruising speeds for enhanced fuel economy and then switches to the Otto cycle at higher rpm to develop impressive performance levels. The RC F features an all-new 5.0-liter In the 1982 paper, Luria et al. The Lexus 5.0-liter

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Green Car Congress

MARCH 22, 2010

Since 2005, when major greenhouse-gas emitters among the Kyoto signatories were issued caps on their emissions and permitted to buy credits to meet those caps, there has been more than $300 billion worth of carbon transactions. This concept is often called “additionality.” Perspective by Brian J. Donovan, CEO of Renergie, Inc.

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Cars That Think

JULY 18, 2022

In fact, these marvels of engineering give people a new kind of “electric hearing” that they must learn how to use. We recognize that today’s cochlear implants run up against hard limits of engineering and human physiology. Our early proof-of-concept experiments in mice explored both the biology and technology at play in our mission.

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Green Car Congress

FEBRUARY 25, 2013

A new study by researchers at the University of Technology, Sydney (Australia) is contributing more detail on the leveraging effect of combining ethanol direct injection with gasoline port injection (EDI + GPI) to reduce gasoline consumption in a spark ignition engine while retaining performance. Earlier post.). Earlier post.).

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Green Car Congress

MAY 8, 2009

Mike Ladisch at the 31 st Symposium on Biotechnology for Fuels and Chemicals in San Francisco, the advances, which provide proof of concept for CBP, include developments with both thermophilic bacteria to produce ethanol and recombinant cellulolytic yeasts to break down the cellulose.

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Green Car Congress

MARCH 6, 2010

This concept is often called “additionality.” EPA, Greenhouse Gas Mitigation Potential in US Forestry and Agriculture (2005). Donovan is an engineer and attorney with more than thirty-four years of international business experience. Additionality. what would have happened anyway). Donovan (December 20, 2009). About the Author.

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Green Car Congress

DECEMBER 1, 2015

Audi’s e-tron quattro concept shows its grille at the LA Auto Show. ” By contrast, the two motors on the rear axle of the Audi e-tron quattro concept provide discrete control, one linked to each rear wheel, without the use of a differential. . Click to enlarge.

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Tony Karrer Delicious EVdriven

APRIL 21, 2009

Audi Volkswagen-owned company exploring PHEVs Metroproject Quattro Sub-compact PHEV Concept Car shown October 2007; PHEV of A1 Sportback under consideration Bright Automotive For-profit spin off from Rocky Mountain Institute designing lightweight PHEVs, successor to RMIs 1990s "Hypercar" concept. Has shown some concept fuel-cell PHEVs.

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Green Car Congress

JULY 7, 2010

This report is the third NRC review of the FreedomCAR and Fuel Research Program; Phase 1 and Phase 2 reviews were issued in 2005 and 2008, respectively. Specific comments and recommendations by technology area in the report include: Advanced Internal Combustion Engines and Emission Controls. Earlier post.)

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Green Cars News

OCTOBER 27, 2009

In Europe, the likes of the Yaris and the iQ have kept average fuel consumption levels low, while Toyota is working on several new concepts such as the FT-EV (see article ) which has a claimed range of 50miles per charge. It developed turbocharged direct injection technology for diesel engines and has a wide range of TDI powertrains.

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Green Car Congress

MARCH 28, 2011

It requires a new concept of mobility, supported by a cluster of new technologies as well as more sustainable behaviour.” Improving truck efficiency, via the development and the uptake of new engines and cleaner fuels, the use of intelligent transport systems and further measures to enhance market mechanisms, is therefore important.

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Tony Karrer Delicious EVdriven

APRIL 21, 2009

Vehicle-to-Grid (V2G) is the concept of using stored energy in a plug-in hybrids (or electric cars) battery to send power to the electrical grid when necessary. For more on plug-in hybrids and V2G, see CalCars Resources , University of Delaware V2G Research Center , and papers from a June 2005 conference in Seattle.

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Tony Karrer Delicious EVdriven

APRIL 16, 2009

I would say that electricity is a vastly superior fuel for the light vehicle fleet,” said Willett Kempton , a professor and alternative energy specialist at the University of Delaware. “We have 10,000 engineers out there every day, installing and servicing boilers,&# he added. Fifteen years ago, how many people had a cellphone?”

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