Green Car Congress

APRIL 8, 2014

The US Department of Energy (DOE) released its five-year 2014-2018 Strategic Plan. The President’s Climate Action Plan contains a goal of doubling renewable energy generation from wind, solar, and geothermal sources between 2012 and 2020. Demonstrate three grid-connected advanced offshore wind concepts by 2017. ?.

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Green Car Congress

SEPTEMBER 24, 2015

Audi’s e-tron quattro battery-electric SUV concept, which made its formal debut at IAA in Frankfurt ( earlier post ), is a strong indicator of Audi’s series-production electric SUV due in 2018—especially in terms of the powertrain. The large battery block is bolted to the floor structure of the Audi e-tron quattro concept.

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Baua Electric

JUNE 28, 2023

Patent symbol of Rivian tailgate with gooseneck pictures The Rivian R1T idea that debuted on the 2018 Los Angeles auto display had homogeneous tailgate hinges. Patent symbol of Rivian tailgate with gooseneck pictures As with any patent subject matter, there is not any word that any of those concepts will achieve manufacturing.

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Green Car Congress

JUNE 25, 2019

Volkswagen Group brands and their industry partners have been working in this field for some time; Audi has been operating the world’s first industrial power-to-gas plant in Werlte (Emsland) since 2013, with the Audi e-gas produced from wind power being fed into the natural gas grid.

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Clean Fleet Report

NOVEMBER 14, 2023

Camry models will have exterior color choices of Ice Cap, Wind Chill Pearl, Celestial Silver Metallic, Underground, Midnight Black Metallic, Supersonic Red and Reservoir Blue. The XSE trim adds an available two-tone look with Ocean Gem, Wind Chill Pearl, Heavy Metal and Supersonic Red paired with a Midnight Black Metallic roof.

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Green Car Congress

AUGUST 19, 2021

ExOne and Maxxwell Motors have successfully binder jet 3D printed a high-efficiency copper e-winding design for an electric motor without rare-earth magnets. ExOne and Maxxwell Motors have successfully binder jet 3D printed a high-efficiency copper e-winding design for an electric motor without rare-earth magnets.

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Green Car Congress

AUGUST 20, 2019

Natural gas, biogas and syngas generated from wind and solar power offer increased anti-knock properties, and the valve train can react flexibly to this as well. The valve train has been running on an Empa engine test bench since October 2018 and has already survived many millions of cycles in fired engine operation flawlessly.

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Green Car Congress

OCTOBER 8, 2014

Linde also has other sustainable sources at its disposal such as bio-gas and water electrolysis using wind-generated electricity, as part of the H 2 BER project. Experts reckon that in 2018, well over ten thousand fuel-cell vehicles will populate European roads.

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Green Car Congress

JANUARY 25, 2018

A battery, based on electrodes made of sodium and nickel chloride and using thea new type of metal mesh membrane, could be used for grid-scale installations to make intermittent power sources such as wind and solar capable of delivering reliable baseload electricity. Sadoway (2018). Nature Energy doi: 10.1038/s41560-017-0072-1.

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Green Car Congress

MARCH 21, 2021

The flagship project MethanQuest was launched in September 2018, and on it a total of 29 partners from research, industry and the energy sector have come together to work on processes for producing hydrogen and methane from renewables and for using them to achieve climate-neutral mobility and power generation.

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Green Car Congress

MAY 12, 2015

The substantial early activity in fuel cell vehicles has led up to the broad goal of providing FCEVs to the general public in a mass scale starting from 2018; Hyundai is looking to have approximately 10,000 units in place (cumulative) in Korea alone (and more elsewhere) around 2025. Earlier post.).

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Green Car Congress

SEPTEMBER 15, 2015

The Tiguan GTE—a concept vehicle with a plug-in hybrid drive (160 kW / 218 PS of system power) ( earlier post )—offers an outlook on future development of the best-selling SUV. The concept car is driven via its front axle by a direct-injection turbocharged gasoline engine (1.4 Tiguan GTE.

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Green Car Congress

SEPTEMBER 3, 2020

Most notably, a new motor winding technology has been introduced to maximize power output and reduce electrical losses. The motor also features an innovative cooling system that more effectively removes heat from the stator winding, minimizing losses and boosting efficiency.

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Clean Fleet Report

APRIL 22, 2024

Buick may surprise everyone if the stunning Wildcat EV Concept becomes a reality. Lacking paddle shifters to keep the 6-speed automatic held in a lower gear to wind out the torque, it is obvious Buick is not marketing the Envista as a sporty SUV. Overall, the handling and ride were well-balanced with negligible wind noise.

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Green Car Congress

OCTOBER 30, 2016

This turbocharging concept with systematic cylinder flow separation produces high torque in the low-rpm range together with high specific output. The new driving simulator, climatic wind tunnels and a high-tech aero-acoustic wind tunnel are already in operation.

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Cars That Think

JANUARY 29, 2022

Spiking demand for electric heat collided with supply problems created by frozen natural-gas equipment and below-average wind-power production. Those two data-communication concepts allow millions of users and billions of devices to connect to the Internet without any centralized scheduling or control.

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Green Car Congress

FEBRUARY 15, 2022

The selected projects—spanning 22 states and coordinated at universities, national laboratories, and private companies—will advance technologies for a wide range of areas, including electric vehicles, offshore wind, storage and nuclear recycling. Hydrogen Steam Injected Intercooled Turbine Engine (HySIITE) - $3,822,026.

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Green Car Congress

DECEMBER 11, 2017

In June 2018, Madrid’s “Hyper-center” will be permanently out of bounds to ICE vehicles. The basic concept of the Chameleon is to divert the motor and inverter from their role in providing traction so that they can also contribute to charging the battery.

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Green Car Congress

NOVEMBER 17, 2015

TDI quattro plug-in hybrid ( earlier post ); the Audi A7 h-tron quattro fuel cell vehicle ( earlier post ); the Audi e-tron quattro concept battery-electric SUV ( earlier post ); the Audi TT clubsport turbo concept ( earlier post ); the Audi RS 5 TDI competition concept ( earlier post ); and the Audi R18 e-tron quattro ( earlier post ).

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Current EV

MARCH 3, 2020

Featuring unique lightweight carbon-fibre technologies, the i3 was manufactured at BMW’s stunning new hightech Leipzig plant, which uses its own wind turbines to power the factory. Global sales since inception totaled more than 133,000 units through the end of 2018. Driving or riding in the BMW Concept i4 is a multi-sensory experience.

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Green Car Congress

SEPTEMBER 11, 2013

We are electrifying all vehicle classes, and therefore have everything we need to make the Volkswagen Group the top automaker in all respects, including electric mobility, by 2018 ,” he said. Last but not least, without any fine tuning, wind and rolling sounds are much more noticeable in electric vehicles, as they are in luxury cars.

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