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Sales of plug-in vehicles (PEVs) in 2013 will continue to outpace the first years of hybrid vehicle sales as more than 210,000 PEVs will be sold globally and more than three dozen PEV models will debut, according to a year-end free whitepaper published by Pike Research, that makes 10 specific predictions about electric vehicles in 2013.
This third generation Golf BlueMotion will be launched into the market in summer 2013. liter turbodiesel direct injection engine from the newly developed EA288 engine series. This Golf concept, powered by another new 1.6-liter liter TDI (turbodiesel) consumes 3.2 l/100 km (73.5 mpg US), equivalent to 85 gCO 2 /km. l/100 km (52.3
2013 Lexus ES 300h. Lexus has introduced the 2013 ES 350—the sixth generation of Lexus’ luxury sedan since its introduction more than 20 years ago—and the first hybrid version of the ES, the ES 300h. The new, low-friction engine utilizes an advanced power management system and high compression ratio (12.5:1)
2013 Lexus GS 450h. Lexus’s 2013 GS 450h—the new generation hybrid version of the GS 350, introduced at the 2011 Frankfurt Motor Show ( earlier post )— offers EPA-estimated fuel economy ratings of 29 mpg US city, 34 mpg US highway and 31 mpg US combined (7.7, Click to enlarge. L/100km, respectively).
Technologies in the EA888 engine line. liter turbocharged and direct-injection four-cylinder TSI engine, which will gradually replace the 2.5-liter The EA888 is one of the Volkswagen Group’s three major engine lines: EA 211 (gasoline engines 1.0l to 1.6l); EA 888 (Gen3 gasoline engines 1.8l Click to enlarge.
2013 Lexus GS 450h. Lexus has introduced its all-new 2013 GS 450h hybrid at the Frankfurt motor show. The hybrid version of the 2013 GS 350 incorporates improvements to its hybrid powertrain and is equipped with a second generation Lexus Hybrid Drive system. Click to enlarge. System control has been enhanced.
The Volkswagen Beetle Turbo, Beetle Turbo Convertible, and the Jetta GLI receive a number of running changes to 2013 model year cars that go on sale this month. liter turbocharged and direct-injected TSI gasoline engine. The new engine produces 210 horsepower (157 kW), an increase of 10 hp over the previous Gen 2 TSI engine.
Exagon intends to build a small production series of the Furtive eGT starting in 2013. The engineers of Exagon Motors developed this gearbox specially for an electric motor. The inverters drive the motors in two modes, based on torque or engine speed, modifying amplitude and frequency as necessary.
Fulcrum will gasify 147,000 tons of municipal solid waste to produce synthesis gas which it then will catalytically convert to synthetic paraffinic kerosene/jet fuel via a Fischer-Tropsch (FT) process. In 2013, Fulcrum was awarded a $4.7-million million of its own capital to provide funding to complete the engineering and development.
developer of a power conversion technology called Power Packet Switching Architecture (PPSA), received a purchase order for ten of its PPSA-enabled 30 kW battery converters from Coritech Services, a provider of custom engineering solutions for a variety of applications including electric vehicle charging. Ideal Power Inc.,
2013 Fiat 500e. Fiat unveiled the 2013 Fiat 500e battery-electric version of the Fiat 500 at the Los Angeles Auto Show. —Bob Lee, Vice President and Head of Engine and Electrified Propulsion Engineering - Chrysler Group LLC. 2013 Fiat 500e. The 2013 Fiat 500e features a 16.3:1 Click to enlarge.
In the area of energy conservation, TMC has developed a new gasoline engine that achieves a maximum 38.5% thermal efficiency for application in hybrids; a high-performance clean diesel engine and a high efficiency transmission. Gasoline engines. An enhanced engine for use in hybrid vehicles, based on the 2.5-liter
Cost of the new engine relative to gasoline baseline. The technical focus over the last year has been on new engine installation and performance assessments. In 2013, the Cummins-led team demonstrated a Tier 2 Bin 5 version of the engine on the dyno, and then on a vehicle, while development of the Tier 2 Bin 2 engine started.
The BMW i Hydrogen NEXT is a pure electric vehicle that uses hydrogen as fuel by converting it into electricity in a fuel cell. An electric converter located below the fuel cell adjusts its voltage to that of the electric motor, which powers the BMW i Hydrogen NEXT. The fuel cell system delivers an electrical output of 125 kW/170 hp.
MiGTDI engine. The original project target was Tier 2 Bin 2 emissions, but in August 2013, it was agreed to shift that to the Tier 3 target—essentially the same with combined NO x and NMOG emissions, but more strict with CO and PM. The attributes of the engine have stayed stable since then, and include: Attribute assumptions.
It seemed the part could get too hot and melt, which caused a small (or large) engine fire. The time in the shop gave me an opportunity to drive a 4-Series convertible loaner. It impressed with its noise insulation around the roof, as it gave no indication from inside that it was a convertible at all.
gasoline unit that is the first member of a new family of 14 highly efficient engines to be launched by 2015. With a thermal efficiency of 37%, the engine delivers a combined-cycle fuel consumption of 4.1 Mass-produced gasoline engines on average have a thermal efficiency of between 30 and 35%, Toyota said.). A 4-cylinder, 1.33-liter
The Diamond Green Diesel facility converts inedible oils and other waste fats into a high-quality renewable diesel fuel. The Diamond Green Diesel facility converts inedible oils and other waste feedstocks into Honeywell Green Diesel, a high-quality fuel that is chemically identical to petroleum-based diesel. Ecofining unit.
Starting in 2013, Audi will begin series production of TCNG models whose engines—derived from TFSI units—will be powered by e-gas: synthetic methane produced via the methanation of hydrogen produced by electrolysis using renewable electricity. Audi A3 TCNG for e-gas project. Click to enlarge.
2,3BD is a key chemical building block used to make polymers, plastics and hydrocarbon fuels; it can be readily converted to intermediaries such as butenes, butadiene and methyl ethyl ketone that are used in the production of hydrocarbon fuels and a variety of chemicals including polymers, synthetic rubbers, plastics and textiles. 1213024110.
In other words, if MOB were to be used for methanol production, there would need to be some likely non-trivial engineering to selectively inhibit the metabolic pathways that further process CH 3 OH. Edris Taher and Kartik Chandran (2013) High-Rate, High-Yield Production of Methanol by Ammonia-Oxidizing Bacteria.
The company presented the unit, applied in a conventional front-wheel drive Cadillac SRX now converted to an AWD plug-in hybrid, at the 2013 SAE World Congress in Detroit. Switching from the hybrid AWD mode to engine-only mode is a definite let-down.). ratio), which is bolted to its respective half shaft.
Topchiev Institute for Petrochemical Synthesis ( TIPS ) on marketing a new technology developed by TIPS to convert flared gases into hydrocarbon fuels such as gasoline. The TIPS catalytic converter delivers considerably better properties than those currently being used in the industry, TNO said. —Kolesnikova et al.
The ATJ task force consists of technical experts from a wide stakeholder group including jet engine manufacturers, governmental bodies, fuel manufacturers, third-party testing laboratories, academics and airframe manufacturers investigating the requirements for a third major pathway to renewable drop-in jet fuel: the conversion of alcohols.
Credit: SpeedSource Race Engineering. Earlier this year, Mazda Motorsports announced it would supply racing versions of the new SKYACTIV-D diesel engines ( earlier post ) to customer teams competing in GRAND-AM’s newly announced GX Class for advanced/clean technologies, beginning with the 2013 season. Click to enlarge.
Researchers at the German Aerospace Center (Deutsches Zentrum für Luft- und Raumfahrt; DLR) have, for the first time, been able to use laser measurement techniques and microphones to make highly precise, simultaneous measurements of the sources of noise in the air stream behind an aircraft engine. Click to enlarge.
Researchers in China have engineered the bacteria Escherichia coli for the high-specificity production of the C 5 alcohols isoprenol and prenol as next-generation biofuels. An open access paper on their work is published in the journal Biotechnology for Biofuels. “ Ultimately, they obtained 1.3 g/L single isoprenol and 0.2 g/L ~80% prenol.
liter diesel engine and passenger car. The results, reported in a paper in the journal Fuel , show that iso-HVO has much better engine performance than BD and slightly better than HVO, but slightly worse than petro-diesel. The engine was not modified or tuned; duration of each test was 60 minutes, and all tests were conducted 3 times.
First, a GTI-based Andritz-Carbona bubbling fluidized bed (BFB) biomass gasifier ( left ) converts wood into syngas. For the last step ( right ), the Haldor Topsøe Improved Gasoline Synthesis (TIGAS) process converted the syngas into gasoline blendstock. Earlier post.).
Peugeot is introducing new Euro 6-compliant versions of its three-cylinder PureTech gasoline and four-cylinder BlueHDI diesel engines. Each engine is also coupled with Peugeot’s third-generation Efficient Automatic Transmission 6 (EAT6) transmission. liter BlueHDi engines. All are equipped with Stop & Start (S&S) technology.
Since forming in 2013, Argent Materials, a San Francisco Bay Area recycler of concrete and asphalt, and supplier of aggregate such as crushed rock, entry, cutback, sand, backfill and base rock for construction projects, has diverted more than a billion pounds of waste from local landfills. There’s no change in engine performance.
PCC 6803 engineered by researchers from the Qingdao Institute of Bioenergy and Bioprocess Technology (China) increased their production of alka(e)nes by some 8 times compared with wildtype strains. PCC6803, with the resulting engineered organism directly converting carbon dioxide to ethanol in one single biological system.
A team at the Korea Advanced Institute of Science and Technology (KAIST) has developed a a novel strategy for microbial gasoline production through the metabolic engineering of Escherichia coli. The team engineeredengineered platform E. The team engineeredengineered platform E. 1 ), dodecane (136.5?mg?l
coli bacteria, researchers at the Wyss Institute for Biologically Inspired Engineering at Harvard University and the Department of Systems Biology at Harvard Medical School have devised a new way to make targeted precursors of high-octane biofuels. Next, the scientists plan to engineer E. Silver (2013). Joe Torella, Ph.D.,
For upgrading ABE to be used in automotive engines, dehydration or deoxygenation of the ABE mixture to produce a higher energy content hydrocarbon chain is the most promising route. Gupta (2013) Conversion of the Acetone–Butanol–Ethanol (ABE) Mixture to Hydrocarbons by Catalytic Dehydration. —Nahreen and Gupta.
At the SAE 2013 Hybrid and Electric Vehicle Technology Symposium in Anaheim this week, Owen Thunes, Senior Project Engineer, Zero Emissions Research Group at Nissan, provided an updated overview of the company’s development efforts on the upcoming FF (Front-engine, Front-wheel drive) hybrid system. Earlier post.) Earlier post.)
USC Viterbi School of Engineering researchers have developed a faster 3-D printing process and are now using it to model and fabricate heterogeneous objects, which comprise multiple materials. Yong Chen (2013) “Modeling and Fabrication of Heterogeneous Three-Dimensional Objects Based on Additive Manufacturing” ( IMECE2013-65724 ).
A consortium led by the Dearman Engine Company has been awarded £1.86 The Dearman Engine operates by the vaporization and expansion of cryogenic fluids. The HEF facilitates extremely rapid rates of heat transfer within the engine. The heat transfer on injection generates very rapid pressurization in the engine cylinder.
The project entails converting the m/v Ostfriesland , a car and passenger ferry owned by AG EMS, to be able to utilize liquefied natural gas (LNG) as fuel. The dual-fuel engines will run primarily on LNG as the main fuel, but have the capacity to switch to conventional liquid fuels if necessary.
The Directorate for Engineering at the National Science Foundation (NSF) has established a partnership with the Vehicle Technologies Program (VTP) of the US Department of Energy (DOE) to address critical fundamental and applied research challenges associated with advanced combustion engine technologies.
Engineered to achieve low production costs, Cobalt’s technology naturally converts both C 5 and C 6 sugars into bio-butanol, using any non-food lignocellulosic, renewable and sustainable feed-stock. Cobalt Technologies, Inc. signed an exclusive global cooperation and supply agreement with Andritz Inc.,
The new pathway is intended to replace the natural metabolic pathway known as glycolysis, a series of chemical reactions that nearly all organisms use to convert sugars into the molecular precursors that cells need. Parsons Foundation Professor of Chemical Engineering and chair of the chemical and biomolecular engineering department.
RRB’s first plant will convert approximately 140,000 dry tons of woody biomass feedstock into at least 12 million gallons per year of renewable jet, diesel, and naphtha fuels. In July 2013, Red Rock Biofuels was awarded $4.1 The airline’s agreement with RRB covers the purchase of approximately three million gallons per year.
liter EA288 diesel engine will power the 2015 Golf, Beetle, Beetle Convertible, Passat, and Jetta, all of which are set to arrive in dealer showrooms in the second half of 2014. The EA288 is based on the Volkswagen MDB, its modular diesel engine toolkit (Modularen Diesel Baukasten) ( earlier post ). The three cooling circuits.
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