Green Car Congress

OCTOBER 9, 2012

At the Composites Europe event in Dusseldorf, Ford Motor Company displayed a prototype carbon fiber reinforced plastic (CFRP) hood. Carbon fiber offers a very high strength-to-weight ratio; it is up to five times as strong as steel, twice as stiff, and one-third the weight. Earlier post.)

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Carbon Fiber Carbon Ford Downsizing 294

Green Car Congress

JULY 12, 2017

These projects enable smaller, safer, lighter weight, and less expensive battery packs that ultimately will make electric vehicles more affordable. University of Maryland: College Park. Penn State University Park. University of Maryland: College Park. General Motors LLC. University of Pittsburgh. 400,000.

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Carbon Fiber Li-ion Mercedes GM 150

Cars That Think

NOVEMBER 19, 2021

The girl's family could not afford the cost of getting her a prosthetic leg, so she used a tree branch as a crutch to help her walk. From that encounter, Akhtar decided that one day he would develop affordable artificial limbs. He earned a bachelor's degree in biology in 2007 from Loyola University in Chicago. Akhtar is the CEO.

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Green Car Congress

SEPTEMBER 18, 2015

The US Department of Energy (DOE) is awarding nearly $55 million for 24 projects to develop and deploy advanced vehicle technologies, supporting the Energy Department’s EV Everywhere Grand Challenge to make plug-in electric vehicles as affordable to own and operate as today’s gasoline-powered vehicles by 2022. General Motors.

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Fuel Carbon Fiber Lithium Ion Vehicles 150

Green Car Congress

AUGUST 16, 2016

Most of the projects will support the goals of EV Everywhere, an Energy Department program that aims to make PEVs as affordable and convenient as gasoline-powered vehicles by 2022. Demonstrate the joining of steel to aluminum and aluminum to carbon fiber reinforced thermoplastic composites using the existing spot welding infrastructure.

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Vehicles Plug-in Lithium Ion Universal 150

Green Car Congress

SEPTEMBER 17, 2014

The chief feature of the concept lies in the clutch casing which houses a permanent magnet electric motor (axial flux discoid motor in the case of the prototype). kWh battery, the motor is sufficient to power the light weight car under electrical power. Hybrid system. Click to enlarge. Fed by a 6.7 —Laurent Taupin.

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Plug-in MPG Hybrid Plug 370

Green Car Congress

NOVEMBER 18, 2014

Increasing the voltage has made it possible to reduce the size of the electric motor and the number of Toyota FC Stack fuel cells, leading to a smaller, higher-performance Toyota Fuel Cell System, thereby reducing system costs. —Akio Toyoda, Toyota Motor Corporation President/CEO. Electric traction motor and battery.

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