Green Car Congress

APRIL 26, 2009

Proposed by John Heywood and colleagues at MIT in 2005, the basic premise of E85 boosting is that ethanol (or other lower alcohols) suppresses knock due to the large evaporative cooling effect it has on the air-fuel mixture when injected directly into the cylinder, supplemented by ethanol’s inherent high octane number. Earlier post.)

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Diesel Ford F-150 Gasoline 170

Green Car Congress

JULY 14, 2016

The upside of gasoline direct injection (GDI) engines is widely seen as being improved fuel economy coupled with an increase in specific power (especially with turbocharging), enabling significant downsizing. A significant fraction of the GDI PM 2.5 Credit: ACS, Zimmerman et al. Click to enlarge. They assumed a baseline fuel economy of 21.4

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Climate Engine Carbon Fuel Economy 150

Green Car Congress

MAY 7, 2009

The two companies had earlier agreed to jointly develop and marketing hybrid vehicle technology for passenger cars and light commercial vehicles in 2005. The additional system weight due to wiring, battery, and the cooling system is offset by downsizing the combustion engine, and by omitting the 24 V battery, and starter.

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Commercial Hybrid Vehicles Li-ion 150

Green Car Congress

MAY 1, 2012

This concept system is expected to be ideal for heavily downsized applications and developing markets. Delphi has been working on the Euro VI systems since 2005. At the same event, Delphi also revealed a new common rail system for small, one- to four-cylinder diesel engines, including non-automotive applications.

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Engine Light Diesel 2000 199

Green Cars News

MAY 30, 2009

The author points out the shortcomings of downsizing vehicles stating that small cars depreciate faster and are of less value as trade-ins. He points out that California tried fuel cell buses in 2005 and they cost $3million each compared to $328,000 each for diesel buses.

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Green Car Congress

OCTOBER 13, 2011

times greater than its 2005 model, achieving 2.5 The new hybrid system combines an efficient CVT with Nissan’s own one-motor two-clutch system; a downsized, supercharged engine; and a high-output lithium-ion battery. kW per liter—the world’s best among auto manufacturers, Nissan said. XTRONIC CVT. liter supercharged engine.

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Green Car Congress

AUGUST 20, 2013

2005 paper in this journal reported that ethanol could be reformed by a different pathway at about 300 °C, enabling the reaction to be sustained by exhaust heat. Even with substantial reductions in exhaust line thermal mass, downsizing of the reformer is likely to be required to achieve heating times significantly below 5 min.

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Fuel Economy Exhaust Economy Fuel 230

Tony Karrer Delicious EVdriven

JANUARY 28, 2009

The generator portion of the system can then be downsized, modular, removable, and easily able to utilize any one of a number of technologies such as ICE, Micro Turbine, Stirling, to perhaps even FuelCell and Mr. Fusion. Full - Spin used to differentiate vehicles with EV-Only modes, though which do not use Electric Fuel sources.

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Cars That Think

OCTOBER 25, 2022

lawmakers established the RFS in 2005 and expanded it in 2007, well before solar panels, wind turbines, and electric vehicles became the stalwarts of decarbonization they are today. Environmental Protection Agency (EPA), which stewards the RFS, had repeatedly downsized the targets by nearly 25 percent. By the mid-2010s, the U.S.

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Fuel South Korea Renewable Tax Credit 80

Tony Karrer Delicious EVdriven

APRIL 21, 2009

Beginning in 2005, we excerpted individual statements of intentions by carmakers, but by the start of 2008, the number of comments became too numerous for us to track. This is from "Commercializing Plug-In Hybrids" (pdf), the current CalCars 24-slide presentation about PHEVs available along with other documents at CalCars Downloads.

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