Green Car Congress

MAY 26, 2016

Now, a team from the Paul Scherrer Institute (PSI) in Switzerland has demonstrated the direct production of hydrocarbon fuel—specifically methane—from water and CO 2 by incorporating a catalytic process into STCs. Most research efforts in designing redox materials for STCs are devoted to improving syngas production.

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Green Car Congress

NOVEMBER 22, 2016

The Volkswagen and BASF international “Science Award Electrochemistry 2016” goes to Dr. William Chueh from Stanford University. The jury of representatives from BASF, Volkswagen and from academia selected him for his outstanding research results in the area of energy storage and conversion. Dr. William C.

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Green Car Congress

AUGUST 25, 2016

A 12-14 m 2 system installed in Switzerland would allow the generation and storage of enough hydrogen to power a fuel cell car over 10,000 km every year. The gases can then be collected and stored in their pure form. Schüttauf et al. Click to enlarge. Christophe Ballif, co-author. Electrochem.

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Green Car Congress

FEBRUARY 21, 2018

At the IAA Commercial Vehicles show in Hanover in 2016, Mercedes-Benz displayed its concept for a heavy-duty electric distribution truck for urban areas: the Urban eTruck ( earlier post ). The feedback to the technical feasibility of building such a vehicle was positive across the board – from the general public, politicians and customers.

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Green Car Congress

SEPTEMBER 29, 2016

The ZOE was designed and engineered at the Renault Technocentre in Guyancourt, also near Paris. Trip was made available to ZOE customers in Europe in September 2016. Like the 22kWh battery, the new Z.E. 40 battery is assembled at Renault’s Flins plant, near Paris. The driver can pay using the smartphone app or with an RFID badge.

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Get Electric Vehicle

JANUARY 23, 2024

Designing and installing a wireless charging station is an expensive activity and when we look at wireless charging it doesn’t add much value to the overall EV experience. What’s To Expect In The Recent Years Major automakers have been working on wireless charging design concepts in recent years.

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Cars That Think

JANUARY 23, 2023

The verb MacGyver , to design something in a makeshift or creative way, was added to the Oxford English Dictionary in 2015. Unfortunately, many conventional wastewater treatment plants (WWTP, Figure 1) are not designed to remove these contaminants. Each AKVO CD core is designed to have a diameter of 15 cm and a thickness of 2 mm.

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EV Sales

JANUARY 25, 2021

But in the current disruption period, anything can happen.The sports sedan main markets in December were the UK (5,700 deliveries), Norway (4,232), and Germany (3,293 units), with Switzerland (1,560) and Denmark (1,460) also scoring four digit scores. Expect the Model 3 to continue running for #1 throughout 2021.

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Cars That Think

AUGUST 31, 2021

Some years later, I had the good fortune of visiting the huge headquarters of the cipher machine company Crypto AG (CAG), in Steinhausen, Switzerland, and befriending a high-level cryptographer there. The H-4605 was designed with NSA assistance. I was fascinated. It mentioned a 1963 cipher machine, the HX-63. National Security Agency.

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Cars That Think

OCTOBER 3, 2023

So we called 20 subjects from all across Switzerland, some people also from outside Switzerland, with different levels of expertise. This has been available already since 2016, but at the very low resolution, and only last year it reached the VGA resolution. And so we tried to do the same for human pilots.

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