Cars That Think

JANUARY 20, 2024

Nearly all of the world’s ship fleet still runs on diesel fuel, with about a quarter of new ships on order being built to run on somewhat lower-carbon alternatives like liquefied natural gas, methanol, or hybrid propulsion. The reactor would produce steam to spin turbines that would generate electricity to power motors.

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Molten Salt Mariner South Korea Water 144

Cars That Think

JULY 30, 2023

It was manufactured in small volumes by Exxon, appeared at an electric vehicle show in Chicago in 1977, and served briefly as a coin cell battery. Asahi Chemical steps up to the plate The rechargeable lithium battery’s next champion was Akira Yoshino , a 34-year-old chemist at Asahi Chemical in Japan. But then Exxon dropped it.

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Lithium Ion Recharge Batteries Battery 93

Green Car Congress

SEPTEMBER 17, 2020

By the year 2022, Daimler Trucks’ portfolio in its main sales regions—Europe, the US and Japan—is to include series-produced vehicles with battery-electric drive. With the ePowertrain, Daimler Trucks plans to achieve synergies and economies of scale for all relevant vehicles and markets. ePowertrain.

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Mercedes Concept Fuel Batteries 418

Plugs and Cars

JULY 26, 2007

What began as a simple program requiring an ever increasing percentage of Zero Emission vehicles (read electric cars), has become mired in cumbersome bureaucratic complications. But PHEVs are inherently the most complicated of all options. So he proposed at the California Air Resources Board ZEV workshop on Tuesday. Look it up.)

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Convert Prius Plug-in Civic Hybrid 100

Creative Greenius

MAY 14, 2009

Oh how it dwarfs the normal sized other homes all around it. And I said, “All right, I’ll make you another copy” And then he says, “Oh, by the way, you need to go to the Fire Department and get their approval.” A mandatory shut off and color glossy and Alice’s Restaurant signatures and all sorts of stuff like this.

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Solar Installation California Building 210

Green Car Congress

JUNE 16, 2011

The total number of neighborhood electric vehicles (NEVs)—low-speed street-legal electric vehicles—on the world’s roadways will grow from 479,000 in 2011 to 695,000 by 2017, a 45% increase, according to a new forecast by Pike Research. Annual worldwide NEV sales by region, 2011–2017. Source: Pike Research.

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2017 Light Lead Acid Market 230

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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Audi PHEV Diesel Fuel 150

Cars That Think

OCTOBER 8, 2022

“One result of all our work on microprocessors that has always pleased me is that we got computers away from those [computer center] people.” —Ted He had to deal with officials at the campus computer center who thought all computers should be in one place, run by specialists who handled the boxes of punched cards delivered by researchers.

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IDEA 2000 Design Engine 122

Green Car Congress

NOVEMBER 11, 2010

In electric mobility, Audi distinguishes between two groups of vehicles: fully hybrid vehicles, driving a maximum of about 3 km (1.86 miles) under electric power; and high-energy battery vehicles for longer distances. These are the plug-in hybrids, the range extender vehicles and the strictly electrical vehicles. Earlier post.)

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Audi Parts Motor Motors 210

Green Car Congress

DECEMBER 20, 2009

It’s still unknown how much other wealthy nations, such as the US and Japan, will contribute. All we have to show for this devotion is a continuing series of unmet targets, along with a startling increase in the number of people who no longer think climate change is worth worrying about.”. The EU has pledged $3.6 billion a year.

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Climate Change Climate Carbon Emissions 244