Green Car Congress

JULY 21, 2009

The acronym is the same, but the US Department of Energy’s renamed 15 th DEER conference ( DEER 2009 ), to be held in Dearborn, Michigan 3-6 August, will feature a greatly expanded program extending well beyond its origin in diesel engine emissions reduction to include other engine technologies, advanced combustion processes, and fuels.

Diesel 150

Diesel 2009 Alternative Fuels Cleaner 150

Green Car Congress

NOVEMBER 5, 2012

Sreekanth Pannala, Senior Research Staff Member in the Computing and Computational Sciences Directorate at Oak Ridge National Laboratory in a keynote talk at the recent Global Powertrain Conference. Achievable advances in engine technology can improve the fuel economy of automobiles by over 50% and trucks by over 30%. Neroorkar et al.

Engine 291

Engine 2001 2012 Fuel 291

Green Car Congress

JULY 17, 2015

The alternative-fuel car evolved to reduce exhaust emissions and other problems derived from burning fossil fuels. The PHEV (Plug-in Hybrid Electric Vehicle), a subset of the electric car, combines a primary electric motor with a much smaller back-up engine fueled with a hydrocarbon/biofuel mix. It is much more than that.

PHEV 150

PHEV Plug-in Renewable Energy 150