Green Car Congress

MAY 1, 2017

Cummins Westport (CWI) announced its model year 2018 dedicated natural gas engines for regional haul truck / tractor, vocational and transit, school bus, and refuse applications at the Alternative Clean Transportation (ACT) Expo in Long Beach, California. The letter “N” denotes engines that are fueled by natural gas.

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Green Car Congress

JUNE 4, 2021

Drive System Design (DSD), a company specializing in the rapid engineering and development of electrified propulsion systems and associated technologies, has made significant enhancements to the latest generation of its proprietary Electrified Powertrain Optimization Process ( ePOP ).

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Green Car Congress

JANUARY 3, 2021

Airbus is conducting studies to determine how scalable a hydrogen fuel cell “pod” configuration, among others, could be to large commercial aircraft. Now, Airbus engineers are unveiling a new configuration as part of the ZEROe program ( earlier post ) that could enable a passenger aircraft to fly farther than ever without emissions.

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Green Car Congress

MAY 30, 2018

Federal-Mogul Powertrain has developed a new piston ring for use in commercial vehicle diesel engines that enhances gas sealing capability by stabilizing ring dynamic motion and homogenizing oil film. This results in enhanced engine efficiency, increased robustness and lower emissions. ©2018 Federal-Mogul LLC.

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Green Car Congress

MAY 21, 2020

On the opening day of the Frankfurt International Motor Show (IAA), the US Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) published a Notice of Violation: VW diesel engines with 1.6 liters displacement (type code EA 189) contained illegal software designed to manipulate emissions. For commercial vehicles with EA 189 engines—i.e.

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Green Car Congress

SEPTEMBER 10, 2018

Jacobs Vehicle Systems, a leading manufacturer of heavy-duty diesel engine retarding systems and valve actuation systems, will introduce its new Cylinder Deactivation (CDA) technology to the European market at IAA Commercial Vehicles 2018 (Hannover, Germany, 20-27 September). can reduce or eliminate use of the intake throttle.

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Green Car Congress

JUNE 21, 2019

At the 2019 IAA Frankfurt in September, Tenneco’sPowertrain division will present its award-winning PRiME 3D simulation software which has been shown to cut development time for engine cylinder components by up to 70%. PRiME 3D enables the optimization of piston and piston ring performance with an accuracy level close to 95%.

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Green Car Congress

NOVEMBER 10, 2017

The PowerCell S3 (100 kW) is a fuel cell stack with best-in-class power density and is primarily designed for automotive application. It has been designed to handle the entire lease period of one million miles per truck. The fully operational, pre-production Nikola Two day-cab will begin testing in Fall of 2018.

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Cars That Think

MAY 23, 2024

The wireless communications pioneer is Princeton ’s dean of engineering and applied sciences. So it’s surprising to learn that she almost dropped out in her first year of the engineering program at the University of California, Berkeley. “By She went on to teach engineering at Stanford for more than 20 years.

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Green Car Congress

DECEMBER 6, 2017

LeddarTech will present the LeddarCore LCA2, the industry’s first 3D solid-state LiDAR (SSL) integrated circuit (IC) enabling mass production of automotive LiDARs, in the Leddar Ecosystem pavilion at CES 2018 in Las Vegas next month. The LeddarCore ICs generate up to 245,000 digitized waveforms per second from nearly 1.3

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Green Car Congress

MARCH 11, 2022

At the International Engine Congress in Baden-Baden (Germany), Liebherr-Components AG and US-based Tula Technology presented the results of their joint study on heavy machinery. For this study, Liebherr Machines Bulle SA provided its D966 engine that operates in a variety of applications, such as mobile or maritime cranes and wheel loaders.

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Cars That Think

MAY 23, 2024

The wireless communications pioneer is Princeton ’s dean of engineering and applied sciences. So it’s surprising to learn that she almost dropped out in her first year of the engineering program at the University of California, Berkeley. “By She went on to teach engineering at Stanford for more than 20 years.

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Baua Electric

APRIL 21, 2024

Creatara Mobility Pvt Ltd, a New Delhi-based startup, was founded in 2018 by two IIT Delhi graduates, Vikas Gupta and Ringlarei Pamei. The company aims to address the challenges of electric vehicle adoption in the two-wheeler space, particularly focusing on safety concerns, range anxiety, and perceived compromises in design and performance.

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Green Car Congress

OCTOBER 20, 2014

liter diesel engines (code-named Panther ) in a wide range of outputs due to be applied in commercial vehicles starting in 2016 and in cars starting in 2018. The announcement confirms the second phase of investment in the new engine program following the original investment of £287 million (US$462.3 Earlier post.)

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Green Car Congress

OCTOBER 14, 2022

Under the terms of the MOU, the companies will collaborate on a project to build, test and potentially commercialize a system that includes a Hillcrest 250 kW, 800 V inverter that has been optimized for a Hercules electric powertrain. With a shared modular design philosophy, our companies have a lot of synergies.

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Green Car Congress

FEBRUARY 15, 2018

The US Department of Energy (DOE) has released two studies from the Co-Optimization of Engines & Fuels initiative ( Co-Optima ) ( earlier post ). These new blendstocks, co-optimized with advanced gasoline engines, show potential to improve passenger vehicle fuel economy by 10%. Efficiency Merit Function.

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Green Car Congress

FEBRUARY 14, 2018

Ballard Power Systems announced the planned deployment of 500 licensed hydrogen fuel cell electric commercial trucks—all using Ballard fuel cell stack technology—in Shanghai, China. It is not surprising that this is happening in Shanghai given that city’s leadership in the commercial adoption of FCEVs.

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Green Car Congress

NOVEMBER 16, 2018

The US Department of Energy announced $98 million in funding for 40 new projects as part of OPEN 2018, the Advanced Research Projects Agency-Energy’s (ARPA-E) latest open funding opportunity. OPEN solicitations are an open call to scientists and engineers for transformational technologies across the entire scope of ARPA-E’s energy mission.

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Green Car Congress

MARCH 7, 2018

The project will build and install diesel-fueled two-stroke compression-ignition Achates Power Opposed-Piston Engines into Class 8 demonstration trucks that will be road-road ready in 2019 and operate in fleet service in California in 2020. This program will demonstrate the first diesel engine to comply with the state standard.

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Green Car Congress

FEBRUARY 17, 2018

Researchers at WMG at the University of Warwick (UK) have developed a method to assess the maximum current for commercial 18650 Li-ion batteries, using novel instrumentation methods enabling in operando measurements. times higher than the manufacturer-stated maximum. 2018.01.076.

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Green Car Congress

AUGUST 3, 2020

Eta Bio has been recently established with the purpose to construct, own and operate a full-scale commercial plant for the production of cellulosic ethanol from agricultural residues. Since July 2012, Clariant has been operating a pre-commercial plant in Straubing, which produces up to 1,000 metric tons of cellulosic ethanol every year.

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Green Car Congress

APRIL 14, 2020

The panel has a modular design that can be scaled up for a larger panel with the ability to change out individual cells. The Gen 1 unit uses commercially available low-cost triple-junction silicon solar cells for designing self-contained hydrogen generating PEC cell and panels array to obtain pilot data that will be applied for Gen 2.

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Green Car Congress

AUGUST 1, 2021

LanzaTech’s Project DRAGON (Decarbonizing and Reimagining Aviation for the Goal Of Netzero) will undertake the Front-End Engineering Design (FEED) of a facility in Port Talbot, South Wales, that will produce more than 100 million liters per year of ATJ Synthetic Paraffinic Kerosene (ATJ-SPK). Earlier post.).

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Green Car Congress

NOVEMBER 14, 2014

We plan to continue expanding our lineup of vehicles and services to suit the increasingly diverse market in China; we expect to launch 60 new or refreshed vehicles through 2018. Their products range from mini-cars to luxury sedans and from mini-commercial vehicles to light-duty trucks.

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Green Car Congress

APRIL 24, 2018

The researchers said that, given the strong similarity in combustion system design between Euro 5 and Euro 6 engines, the estimated trends can be considered valid also for Euro 6 vehicles equipped with the same class of engines. HVO based fuels can be used without affecting fuel logistics, engine and exhaust after-treatments.

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Green Car Congress

OCTOBER 27, 2018

Terraframe has signed a contract with Sweco for the detail engineering design of the battery chemicals plant. Our goal is to complete the plant by the end of 2020, with commercial production commencing at the start of 2021. —Janne Palosaari, Chief Commercial Officer. —Joni Lukkaroinen, CEO of Terrafame.

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Green Car Congress

MAY 17, 2021

NuScale Power and Prodigy Clean Energy , a Canadian company that designs and develops marine nuclear plants, announced a second Memorandum of Understanding (MOU) to support business development opportunities for a marine-deployed nuclear generating station powered by the NuScale Small Modular Reactor (SMR).

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Green Car Congress

DECEMBER 10, 2017

DOE expects to make up to approximately $30 million to $60 million—contingent upon the availability of funds appropriated by Congress—available in FY 2018 awards, subject to the availability of funding. The FOA will be open for a five-year period accepting applications on a year-round basis, with a quarterly selection process.

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Green Car Congress

JUNE 3, 2019

A 3D-printed rocket engine combustion chamber awaiting hot-fire testing at NASA’s Marshall Space Flight Center in Huntsville, Alabama. It provides new design and performance opportunities and yields a highly durable piece of hardware—and with this partnership, we’re advancing that capability even further. GRCop-84 (Cu-8 at.%

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Green Car Congress

OCTOBER 8, 2020

Methanol fuel cell developer and manufacturer Blue World Technologies ( earlier post ) is starting limited production—the first step in commercializing its methanol fuel cell technology. The simple system design enables a high total system power density although the stack power density is lower than generic stack designs.

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Green Car Congress

FEBRUARY 17, 2016

unveiled the Rasa, a road-legal engineering prototype of its first two-seater hydrogen fuel cell road car, built for full European type approval. million) grant from the Welsh government in 2015, the Rasa was designed for lightness, strength, affordability and safety. Riversimple Movement Ltd. Earlier post.)

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Green Car Congress

MARCH 10, 2016

G natural gas engine. The advanced version engine meets the 2018 Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) Heavy-Duty On-Board Diagnostics (HD-OBD) requirements and will continue to meet California Air Resources Board’s (CARB’s) Optional Low NO x 0.1 CWI) ISB6.7 g/bhp-hr emissions level.

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Green Car Congress

SEPTEMBER 20, 2018

If scientists figure out how the process works, they will be better able to selectively promote or inhibit certain pathways, which will lead to the development of a commercially viable catalyst for this technology. It creates a solid foundation for moving away from the trial-and-error paradigm to rational catalyst design.

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Green Car Congress

FEBRUARY 15, 2019

Kalmar has already launched the fully electric Kalmar Ottawa electric terminal tractor (OT2E) in the US in 2018. In 2018, Cummins announced it was acquiring Silicon Valley-based Efficient Drivetrains, Inc. EDI), which designs and produces hybrid and fully-electric power solutions for commercial markets. Earlier post.).

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Green Car Congress

DECEMBER 11, 2018

The global design, research and development base of Lvchi is located at the Turin engineering center in Italy. Engineering application development is carried out by Lvchi’s Shanghai engineering research institute in collaboration with Wuxi Research branch and Beijing Future Institute. Source: Next-Battery.

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Green Car Congress

DECEMBER 18, 2022

Researchers from the University of Toronto’s Faculty of Applied Science & Engineering and Fujitsu have applied quantum-inspired computing to find the promising, previously unexplored chemical family of Ru-Cr-Mn-Sb-O 2 as acidic oxygen evolution reaction catalysts for hydrogen production. —Ted Sargent, senior author.

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Green Car Congress

NOVEMBER 16, 2021

First introduced as a concept at CES 2018 in Las Vegas, the Honda AWV combines the company’s rugged and durable off-road side-by-side platform with emerging advanced autonomous technology. Honda has not announced commercialization plans for the Honda AWV, but continues to advance the platform through field testing.

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