Green Car Congress

SEPTEMBER 12, 2009

The Volkswagen Group is set to continue its growth in China over the next few years. billion) in new products and the expansion of production capacities in China. For the Volkswagen Group, China is one of the most important markets in the world. Winfried Vahland, President and CEO of Volkswagen Group China.

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Green Car Congress

APRIL 21, 2009

Turbo, GM’s first product built in China that will be available with a turbocharged direct injection diesel engine, is making its world premiere at Auto Shanghai 2009. The new powertrain gives New Regal buyers a choice of three engines. seconds, which will make it the most powerful turbocharged engine on the market.

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Green Car Congress

SEPTEMBER 28, 2009

The new trainsets will be an integral part of an evolving high speed rail capability in China, which is developing more than 6,000 km of new high speed lines. Introduced in 2008, Bombardier’s modular suite of ECO4 technologies for the range of its train products includes: EnerGplan Simulation Tool. Tags: China Rail.

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Green Car Congress

MARCH 26, 2010

Antonov, the UK-based automatic transmission specialist, reports significant progress being made to bring its TX-6 gearbox into production in China. Antonov has now finished all the engineering design for a production version of the transmission, and will be building production intent transmissions within the next couple of months.

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Green Car Congress

OCTOBER 15, 2009

Horst Neumann, Member of the Board of Management of Volkswagen AG for Human Resources, used the occasion to assert that Volkswagen will continue its systematic growth course in China, and will invest €4 billion (US$6 billion) in new products and production capacity expansion in China between 2009 and 2011. Tags: Brief.

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Green Car Congress

NOVEMBER 19, 2010

Air Products is supplying hydrogen to power a fleet of more than 50 hydrogen fuel cell buses in operation at the Asian Games and Asian Para Games from 12 November – 19 December in Guangzhou City, China. Air Products has built a strong supply capability in South China. Tags: Brief.

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Green Car Congress

JANUARY 22, 2010

US-based electric vehicle provider ZAP and China auto manufacturer Zhejiang Jonway Automobile Co. have entered a commercial agreement to produce electric sport utility vehicles (SUVs), cars and other electric vehicles in China for domestic and global distribution. liter Mitsubishi engine.) The Jonway A380. Click to enlarge.

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Green Car Congress

NOVEMBER 13, 2009

The new Regal, drawing on work on the award-winning Opel Insignia, will offer two gasoline direct-injection engines and is directly targeted at competitors such as the Acura TSX and Volvo S60. The Regal has already gone on sale in China in December 2008 and more than 64,000 Regals have been sold there. turbo engine.

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Green Car Congress

NOVEMBER 27, 2009

The spending will support the development of new products and the expansion of capacity in Anchietá, Taubaté and the engine plant in São Carlos. Deliveries to customers by Volkswagen do Brasil have risen by 70% since 2005 to 585,000 units in 2008. Brazil is the Volkswagen Group’s third largest market after China and Germany.

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Green Car Congress

APRIL 21, 2009

The multi-purpose vehicle (MPV) was developed in China by the Pan Asia Technical Automotive Center (PATAC), a design and engineering joint venture between General Motors and Shanghai Automotive Industry Corporation (SAIC), with global design input. Using a more powerful electric motor to enhance engine efficiency.

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Green Car Congress

JANUARY 11, 2010

The new Focus will be one of up to 10 unique models to be built from Ford’s new global C-car platform, which is expected to generate total sales in all regions of 2 million units annually by 2012—a doubling Ford’s 2008 C-car volumes. Core engine technologies. Earlier post.). Fuel metering duties on the 2.0-liter

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Green Car Congress

NOVEMBER 19, 2010

In powertrain production, new generations of engines will be launched with enhanced performance, fuel consumption and emission levels. The joint ventures in China are not consolidated and are not included in the above figures. Tags: Engines Hybrids Market Background Motors Vehicle Manufacturers. billion (US$14.5

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Green Car Congress

NOVEMBER 18, 2009

Fleet managers are searching for the best ways to achieve both goals, thus driving further investigation of electric vehicles as an alternative to internal combustion engine vehicles, according to the report. In 2008, Pike notes, In 2008, the North America market accounted for 63% of global hybrid sales.

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Green Car Congress

NOVEMBER 9, 2009

The formal incorporation of the joint venture in China between Antonov, the UK transmission specialist and Chonqing Landai Industry Co Ltd for the production of the Antonov TX6 automatic transmission has been completed and a certificate of incorporation has been issued by the Chinese authorities. Tags: Brief. Earlier post.).

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Green Car Congress

APRIL 2, 2009

has sold a 10% interest in the Northern Lights Partnership (NLP) to SinoCanada Petroleum Corporation (SinoCanada), a subsidiary of China Petroleum & Chemical Corporation (Sinopec). A 2008 estimate of contingent resources of the Northern Lights Project published by Synenco was 1.08 Tags: Brief. Total E&P Canada Ltd.,

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Green Cars News

MAY 29, 2009

As part of the 24 th International Battery, Hybrid and Fuel Cell Electric Vehicle Symposium & Exhibition a number of lectures took place focusing on the development of electric vehicles in China and India. It will also give priority to high efficiency direct injection engine cars and hybrids until 2020.

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Green Car Congress

SEPTEMBER 16, 2009

In a dual clutch transmission, when the vehicle is moving, one clutch is engaged and transmits engine torque via the selected gear, while the other clutch remains disengaged but connected to the next, pre-selected gear. Tags: Transmissions. Dual-clutch transmissions.

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Green Cars News

MAY 3, 2009

China’s fourth largest car manufacturer Chongqing Changan Automobile Co and Orbital Corporation Limited have formed a joint development to work on a concept engine. In April 2008, Changan displayed a prototype engine developed with Orbital at the Beijing International Motor Show.

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Green Car Congress

APRIL 20, 2009

The first deployment of MESA is to occur in China within the next 12 months. This milestone follows a partnership agreement formed between Adura with the China Automotive Technology and Research Center (CATARC) in May 2008. vs. diesel engines which can weigh more than 3,000 lbs. MESA hardware. Click to enlarge.

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Tony Karrer Delicious EVdriven

APRIL 22, 2009

As a subscriber, you can receive our free weekly China Auto News, which keeps you informed the latest developments of Chinas automobile industry. As a subscriber, you can receive our free weekly China Auto News, which keeps you informed the latest developments of Chinas automobile industry. Great Wall Motor Co.,

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Green Cars News

APRIL 22, 2009

It is a multi-purpose vehicle (MPV) that has been developed in China by the Pan Asia Technical Automotive Centre as part of a design and engineering joint venture with both General Motors and the Shanghai Automotive Industry Corporation.

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Green Car Congress

MARCH 25, 2009

Founded in 1989, and headquartered in Austin, Texas, Valence has facilities in Nevada, China and Northern Ireland. Valence currently has two manufacturing facilities in China, both wholly-owned; each facility is 50,000 square feet and located next to each other. a provider of lithium-ion batteries, modules and packs. Mark Donaghy.

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Green Car Congress

DECEMBER 22, 2009

Commercial Aircraft Corporation of China ( COMAC ) has selected the LEAP-X1C engine from CFM International—the 50/50 venture between GE and SAFRAN Group—as the sole Western jet engine to launch its new C919 150-passenger single-aisle aircraft, due to enter service in 2016. Earlier post.).

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Green Car Congress

AUGUST 30, 2009

The Brazilian experience shows that the presence of small (<10%) amounts of water in the fuel does not in itself cause a greater tendency to misfire in spark ignition engines than a proportionate leaning of the fuel/air mixture would do, provided that the vapor pressure of the hydrated ethanol at the ambient temperature is high enough.

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Green Car Congress

OCTOBER 31, 2010

First LNG exports are planned to commence from 2014, underpinned by agreements in Chile, China, Japan and Singapore for the purchase of up to 9.5 In early 2008, we announced our first investment in Australia. Tags: Australia Coal LNG Natural Gas. mtpa of LNG. trillion cubic feet (tcf) – equivalent to more than 2.9

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Green Car Congress

JULY 22, 2009

Ed Feo is a partner with the law firm of Milbank, Tweed, Hadley & McCloy and was voted one of the “Five Most Influential People in Renewable Energy” in 2008 by Euromoney / Institutional Investor. We reached peak oil consumption in the US in 2008 and the same is true in the EU and Japan. ” Billion in 2008). Billion vs. $28.3

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Green Car Congress

JANUARY 4, 2010

GM and its joint ventures in China announced that their domestic sales in China jumped 66.9% The GM China family achieved an estimated market share of 13.4%—an percentage points from the end of 2008. Chevrolet sales in China likewise experienced strong growth, with 332,774 units sold—an increase of 67.1%

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Green Car Congress

MAY 2, 2009

Quietness is tied to larger engine size. The larger the engine, the quieter the vehicle. A larger engine gives you ‘active safety’, enabling you to accelerate out of problems much easier. Tags: Hybrids Market Background Policy Vehicle Manufacturers. Even globally the number is relatively small: Region.

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Green Car Congress

MAY 27, 2009

World oil prices have fallen sharply from their July 2008 high mark. The key engines of growth in the projection are the BRIC countries (Brazil, Russia, India, and China), which account for more than two-thirds of the developing world’s growth in industrial energy use through 2030. in the reference case. Transportation.

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Green Car Congress

APRIL 29, 2009

the session counted among its panelists: Professor John Heywood, Sun Jae Professor of Mechanical Engineering and Director of the Sloan Auto Laboratory at MIT. Examples of advanced powertrains are turbo charged gas engines, diesel and hybrid. LFEE 2008-05 RP, July 2008. Corporate Average Fuel Efficiency (CAFE) challenge.

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EV Central

JANUARY 2, 2023

But it’s what’s beneath the skin that promises to tempt plenty of people out of the big-powered petrol engines that have dominated at this end of the market. The $297,900 plus on-roads price tag is about 10 percent more than the petrol-fed 7-Series. Peugeot e-2008. Peugeot e-2008. BYD Dolphin. BYD Dolphin.

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Green Car Congress

JUNE 22, 2009

Nissan also announced the introduction of an automatic transmission (AT) model with a clean-diesel engine in the Japanese market, planned for spring 2010. Introduction of an original EV test vehicle in August 2008. In November 2008, an ultra-low precious metal catalyst was introduced on the new Cube. Tags: Brief.

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Tony Karrer Delicious EVdriven

APRIL 17, 2009

Established in 2008, it has already converted eight Lotuses, and is working on five VW Golfs. Fully charged, the 150Kw engine Lotus Elises will have a range of between 200km and 300km, and accelerate from 0km  100km/h in 4.7 The VW Golfs have smaller 75Kw engines, and make 100km/h in nine seconds, with a range of 200km.

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EV Central

NOVEMBER 25, 2022

Alpha Ace Coupe – imagine a full-sized Aussie Racing Car but with an electric motor instead of a bike engine. Aston Martin Valhalla – AMG V8 engine heavily tweaked by Aston Martin topped off with two electric motors. V12 engine meets electric power for F1 pace. First deliveries due Q3 2022. Expect circa-$50K pricing.

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Green Car Congress

JANUARY 21, 2010

Headwaters is licensing its technology internationally, with the first commercial plant having started up 30 December in China—a 20,000 barrel per day plant owned by the Shenhua Group, the largest coal mining company in the world. Tags: Coal-to-Liquids (CTL). In the ULSD pathway for ARB, that results in a total of 19.81

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Plug In Partners

NOVEMBER 7, 2007

It will go about 50 miles on a battery charge , which isn't far, but the car will also come with a built-in gas engine that exists primarily to charge the battery. China will be first to receive the F6DM. liter turbocharged direct-injection four-cylinder engine producing 148 horsepower and returning about 48 mpg. Join Us today.

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Tony Karrer Delicious EVdriven

APRIL 21, 2009

is hoping to launch the Volt in late 2010 with a price tag of about $40,000. Why pay $40K for a GM volt… which will look nothing more than a Malibu anyway and only get 40 miles before the gasoline engine kicks in. Galbraith joined The New York Times in June 2008 to write about renewable energy. — Goodbye 2.

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