Green Car Congress

APRIL 17, 2013

The OP4 light-duty opposed-piston diesel. Achates Power, which is developing a family of two-stroke, compression-ignition (CI) opposed-piston (OP) engines, has designed and is developing a light-duty diesel concept engine, the OP4. The OP4 is a two-stroke, inline two-cylinder, four-piston diesel with a swept volume of 1.5

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JANUARY 9, 2010

The new SR1 hybrid concept indicates the Marque’s style direction. Peugeot said that it is also designing a vehicle which will embody all of the spirit of the BB1 concept car: 2.5m, 4 seats and 100% electric. Peugeot continues to improve engine efficiency with a downsizing strategy for its gasoline and HDi FAP diesel engines.

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Green Car Congress

JULY 27, 2014

Delphi Automotive PLC will unveil the second generation of its Technology Truck concept highlighting future technologies at the upcoming IAA Commercial Vehicles show being held 25 Sept - 2 Oct in Hannover, Germany. This integrated display for commercial vehicles is one of the first of its kind to use the Android operating system.

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Green Car Congress

NOVEMBER 10, 2011

Two MMC cars will make their world premiere at the show: the fuel-efficient Mirage and the Concept PX-MiEV II plug-in hybrid electric vehicles. The new Mirage is due to go on sale first in Thailand in March 2012. Concept PX-MiEV II. MMC has targeted top-of-class fuel efficiency (Japan market version) of 30 km per liter (70.6

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Green Car Congress

APRIL 7, 2010

The new partners have agreed upon, and will implement with immediate effect, specific projects in the areas of a new common architecture for small vehicles; engines; and light commercial vehicles. One main characteristic of the new architecture will be the rear wheel drive concept used by current smart vehicles. Powertrains.

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Green Car Congress

APRIL 21, 2009

Oregon-based Diesel Brewing has launched an initiative to manufacture cellulosic biobutanol from biomass and dairy farm manure. Biobutanol can be blended into conventional gasoline or diesel stocks without engine modifications. Results showed that butanol mixed with diesel can reduce emissions of criteria pollutants.

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Green Car Congress

MARCH 11, 2013

At EVS26 in Los Angeles in 2012, Siemens described its ‘eHighway of the Future’ concept for the electrification of on-road commercial trucks and select highway lanes via overhead electrified wires. Wherever there is no overhead line, the eHighway HGVs automatically switch over to their diesel-hybrid drive system.

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Green Car Congress

FEBRUARY 3, 2012

The drive concept encompasses a broad range of low-emission, fuel-efficient diesel and gasoline engines and includes a BlueEFFICIENCY package. The Citan will be launched on the market in fall 2012. The vehicle will be unveiled to the general public for the first time at the IAA Commercial Vehicle Show in Hanover in September.

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Green Car Congress

NOVEMBER 24, 2015

This engine will also be more efficient than conventional diesel engines, but without the additional cost incurred by diesel fuel injection and complex exhaust aftertreatment. Although Achates’s work to date has been with diesel, its fundamental approach is suited for advanced combustion regimes using other fuels as well.

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Green Car Congress

DECEMBER 17, 2015

The Volkswagen Group is continuing its restructuring in the aftermath of the diesel engine emissions scandal. He was appointed Board Member for Engineering at Bentley in 2003 before taking over as Managing Director of the German Association of the Automotive Industry in 2012. Wolfram Thomas takes charge of Group Production.

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Green Car Congress

OCTOBER 9, 2014

The diesel combustion engine powers the hydraulic power drive unit, with power going to the primary pump and the oil cooler and lubrication pumps. CNG concept. The CNG concept has already participated in demonstration in Chula Vista, California over one month on a collection route typically served by a traditional CNG truck.

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Green Car Congress

NOVEMBER 16, 2010

CleanFUEL expects the engine to be available for 2012 vehicles. Liquefied petroleum gas (LPG), also known as propane or autogas, can be used to replace gasoline and diesel. As with natural gas vehicles, GHG levels associated with LPG are roughly comparable to those from diesel vehicles, the report notes. —Tucker Perkins.

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Green Car Congress

SEPTEMBER 24, 2013

To further reduce fuel consumption, Chrysler incorporated stop/start technology into the new Ram 1500 as well as the diesel version of the Jeep Wrangler that Fiat is selling on our behalf in Europe. In 2012, 26 percent of our vehicles incorporated a 4-cylinder engine, as compared to 24 percent in 2011 and 19 percent in 2010.

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Green Car Congress

MAY 1, 2012

Delphi Automotive has developed a common rail fuel system technology for heavy-duty diesel engines that combines proven hardware with an innovative architecture, allowing vehicle manufacturers to meet Euro VI emissions standards without significant modification to their base engines. New high pressure heavy duty common rail systems.

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Green Car Congress

JUNE 16, 2017

TDI engines for GAZ light commercial vehicles, opening up new business opportunities in international markets. The main focus will be on the delivery and joint assembly of components as well as joint product concepts. Furthermore, the Volkswagen brand will in future supply 2.0 engines from the Salzgitter plant in Germany.

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Green Car Congress

DECEMBER 14, 2009

Studies of various land-use efficiencies for various biofuels and processes by Volvo AB show, in the lower two bars, the high efficiency of DME as a diesel substitute. Chemrec pioneered the Fuels-from-the-Forest biofuels biorefinery concept, which can produce BioDME. The other, a commercial-scale plant, is to be in production in 2012.

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Green Car Congress

AUGUST 4, 2014

Concept of hydrogen generation, storage and release using LOHCs. The proposed LOHC compounds have many physico-chemical similarities to diesel. As part of this market development strategy, Hydrogenious will use the new funding to support further development of the HydroSTORE, taking it from prototype to fully commercial product.

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Green Car Congress

OCTOBER 16, 2015

The insights we gain will help us further improve reforming processes and concepts for our customers. If the dry reforming pilot proves successful, there are plans to commercialize the process when the funded project comes to an end in 2017 and to build a reference plant for a Linde customer. Milanov, A., Schunk, S. Behrens, A.

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Green Car Congress

JANUARY 13, 2012

The intent of this solicitation is to encourage production of alternative and renewable transportation fuels such as biomethane, renewable gasoline and diesel substitutes in California that can significantly reduce greenhouse gas (GHG) emissions and petroleum fuel demand, and stimulate economic development in the state. Commercial Facilities.

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Green Car Congress

DECEMBER 20, 2013

million barrels per day of highway petroleum use (12.5%) by 2020 (compared to the Energy Information Agency (EIA) Annual Energy Outlook (AEO) 2012-projected baseline in 2020 of 11.2 Commercialization of power electronics for electric traction drives using wideband gap (WBG) semiconductors. million barrels per day); and. Beyond Li-on.

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Green Car Congress

FEBRUARY 13, 2012

Pond-to-wheel GHG estimates for low-impact, nominal, and high-impact algal diesel fuel technology sets. Well-to-wheel GHG estimates for palm hydrotreated renewable diesel (HRD) fuel, with and without direct LUC, and diesel fuel included to enable comparisons. Contribution by stage shown in the inset charts. Click to enlarge.

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SEPTEMBER 12, 2013

Just one and a half years after the groundbreaking in May 2012, the factory building for the joint production of Mercedes-Benz four-cylinder gasoline engines is now complete. It is the first Infiniti automobile to have a powertrain comprising a diesel engine and automatic transmission from the cooperation with Daimler.

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Green Car Congress

JANUARY 6, 2012

Tata Motors showcased its alternate fuel technology capability at the New Delhi Auto Expo 2012 by displaying four concepts: the Tata Nano CNG; the Tata Indigo Manza diesel-electric hybrid; the Tata Starbus Fuel Cell (hydrogen); and the Tata Magic Iris CNG. They will be commercially launched in the next financial year.

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Green Car Congress

FEBRUARY 9, 2012

Concept of the SOFC emissions control system. Urea-based ammonia selective catalytic reduction (SCR) is one of the most promising methods for NO x removal from diesel engine exhaust. Credit: ACS, Huang et al. Click to enlarge. A paper on their work is published in the ACS journal Environmental Science & Technology. —Huang et al.

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Green Car Congress

NOVEMBER 14, 2012

The MFC applied this concept of surrogate fuels to develop both fossil-based and bio-based fuel models. Diesel fuel components, including n-heptane, iso-octane, decalin and alpha-methyl naphthalene (AMN). Alternative fuel components, including ethanol, butanol, bio-diesel components and methyl esthers.

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Baua Electric

MARCH 21, 2024

So Nikola created its HYLA concept, which allows it to roll out temporary refueling stations in targeted areas under more simplistic permitting and construction schemes, with the potential to build these stations into a larger permanent construction later on. Filling up takes about 20 minutes, with technicians on hand to manage the process.

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Green Car Congress

SEPTEMBER 24, 2012

First, the very concept of a market for green cars is difficult to pin down, due to the existence of separate and competing technology trajectories. Green cars” can be defined as vehicles that use alternative fuels (other than petrol or diesel) and/or alternative types of propulsion (other than the conventional ICE).

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Green Car Congress

NOVEMBER 28, 2012

The US Department of Energy (DOE) Advanced Research Projects Agency – Energy (ARPA-E) has selected 66 research projects to receive a total of $130 million in funding through its “OPEN 2012” program. The projects were selected through a merit-based process from thousands of concept papers and hundreds of full applications. Description.

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AUGUST 15, 2009

Where the markets develop, we can react very quickly and introduced a BEV, or plug-in, or diesel, or EcoBoost fairly rapidly. Specifically on the BEV side, Ford has announced two vehicles: the electric Transit Connect light commercial van in 2010, and the battery electric Focus in 2011 (using new styling and with a new model).

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Baua Electric

APRIL 28, 2024

Exclusion of conventional segments The PLI scheme excludes conventional petrol, diesel, and CNG segments (internal combustion engines) from its scope, as these segments are deemed to have sufficient manufacturing capacities in India. NEMMP 2020 was designed to have 6-7 million electric vehicles on the road by 2020.

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Green Car Congress

FEBRUARY 4, 2013

Achates Power says that its 2-stroke OP engine offers higher best point brake thermal efficiency than diesel or gasoline engines. In December 2012, the US Army Tank Automotive Research, Development and Engineering Center (TARDEC) awarded Achates Power, Inc., Cutaway of power module concept, showing internal gear train.

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Green Car Congress

APRIL 6, 2013

Capacities of the demonstration and commercial facilities sorted by technology. Source: “Status of Advanced Biofuels Demonstration Facilities in 2012”. Hydrotreatment—as exemplified by Neste Oil’s NExBTL—has been commercialized and currently accounts for approximately 2.4% Click to enlarge. Click to enlarge.

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Green Car Congress

OCTOBER 26, 2011

Commercial vehicle manufacturer Fuso, a member of the Daimler group, has introduced a heavy-duty hybrid truck in Japan. The new vehicle concept will have its show premiere at the Tokyo Motor Show from 30 November to 11 December 2012. Power to drive the vehicle comes from the vehicle's electric motor, the diesel engine or both.

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Plugs and Cars

JULY 1, 2009

Like all the automakers, BMW dabbled in concept electric cars over the years. The VIP treatment includes, I’ve heard, the rather un-green diesel flat-bedding of the cars overnight for refueling. The ZEV program is meant to commercialize ZEVs. They produced a small fleet for the Munich Olympics in 1972.

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Green Car Congress

OCTOBER 13, 2012

JP-8 is a kerosene-base jet fuel, similar to Jet-A for commercial aviation. designed for Diesel Fuel (DF-2) operating with reduced performance with JP-8. designed for Diesel Fuel (DF-2) operating with reduced performance with JP-8. Small companies do not have the capability to perform basic fundamental research.

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Green Car Congress

OCTOBER 8, 2013

This is lower than typical diesel fuel (CN = 51 for EN590 European diesel, CN = 45 for US ultra-low sulfur diesel No. 2) and will provide longer ignition delay than market diesel fuels. This leads to lower particulate matters (PM) emission in conventional diesel combustion, as shown by a number of other studies.

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Green Car Congress

JUNE 12, 2015

The company currently has a number of projects underway producing or developing—with its different technology partners—e-gas (methane) ( earlier post ); e-ethanol ( earlier post ); two versions of e-diesel from different pathways ( earlier post , earlier post ); and e-benzin (gasoline) ( earlier post ). Blue crude and e-diesel.

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