Green Car Congress

JUNE 12, 2015

The M670 is a 154-pin high feature engine controller designed to support gasoline PFI, GDI, diesel solenoid, and alternative fuel applications. The new M670 forms part of an integrated tool-chain from concept to production.

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Green Car Congress

JULY 17, 2020

AOI 04: Platinum Group Metals (PGM) Content Reduction to Enable Cost-Effective Aftertreatment for Gasoline and Diesel Engines. New Two-Cylinder Prototype Demonstration and Concept Design of a Next Generation Class 3-6 Opposed Piston Engine. Integrated Fuel Cell Electric Powertrain Demonstration. General Motors LLC. 350,000.

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Green Car Congress

JUNE 28, 2013

BAF supports clients with vehicle conversions through the Ford QVM program and aftermarket conversion products, alternative fuel systems, application engineering, service and warranty support. Clean Energy will provide 750,000 GGEs (gasoline gallons equivalents) of CNG, to be used by Westport as marketing and “bundling” incentives.

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Green Car Congress

JULY 21, 2014

to demonstrate the potential of alternative fuels for carbon dioxide (CO 2 ) reductions in medium-duty commercial vehicles. engine is designed specifically to use E-85 (85% ethanol and 15% gasoline). Allison Transmission Holdings Inc. The Cummins ETHOS 2.8L liter displacement. Earlier post.). The Cummins ETHOS 2.8L

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Green Car Congress

DECEMBER 13, 2019

Platinum group metals content reduction to enable cost-effective aftertreatment for gasoline and diesel engines. Proposed projects should include SCM technology R&D, including cybersecurity, and culminate with a SCM system wide demonstration that includes a significant number of PEVs. Technology integration.

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Green Car Reports

NOVEMBER 17, 2011

Every so often when discussing alternative fuels, the subject of hydrogen comes up. Some carmakers, including Mercedes-Benz and Honda, have been pursuing hydrogen as an alternative to gasoline and diesel for several years now, and at the recent 2011 Frankfurt Auto Show Mercedes created a stir with its F125!

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Green Car Congress

OCTOBER 9, 2010

Similar to last year, student teams are encouraged to participate in one or both of the “Prototype” and “Urban Concept” categories. The “Prototype” category invites student teams to enter futuristic prototypes—streamlined vehicles focused on maximizing fuel efficiency through innovative design elements, such as drag reduction.

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Green Car Congress

MAY 17, 2013

Relative changes in vehicle energy efficiency (VEE) (km/MJ) on ethanol/gasoline blends over those on gasoline for different blending levels. Several recent highly cited LCAs that have incorporated vehicle efficiency differences between gasoline and ethanol/gasoline blends could potentially be misleading. Click to enlarge.

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Green Car Congress

APRIL 22, 2013

Use of a variable compression ratio (VCR) could be one technology approach to reducing fuel consumption in highly boosted (e.g., downsized, turbocharged) gasoline engine, as operating an engine with higher compression ratios at low load can increase fuel economy compared to operating an engine with fixed compression ratio.

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Green Car Congress

SEPTEMBER 13, 2017

liter gasoline combustion engine with a 85 kW electric motor, powering the EXEED TX via an intelligent all-wheel-drive system through a seven-speed hybrid drive transmission. seconds, with a top speed of 200 km/h and fuel consumption of 1.8L/100km The TIGGO Coupé Concept SUV is at the forefront of Chery’s future-oriented brand vision.

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Green Car Congress

SEPTEMBER 24, 2013

It is focusing its efforts on five areas aimed at reducing fuel consumption and emissions: vehicle energy use (weight, aerodynamics, and rolling resistance); engines; transmissions; axles and drivelines; and hybrid propulsion and alternative fuel technologies. Hybrid propulsion and alternative fuel vehicles.

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Green Car Congress

JANUARY 7, 2015

Although the solicitation is open, the agency is seeking applications that address one or more of its Mission Areas; concepts may span multiple disciplinary boundaries. Including but not limited to bioreactors, balance of plant, bioproducts, microbial fuel cells, sensors. —OPEN 2015. Transportation. Engines - Transportation.

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EV Adoption

MAY 15, 2022

This requires simple, easy-to-understand terms without jargon, and that leverage consumer’s existing reference point of the gasoline refueling experience. Alternative Fueling Station Locator Definitions of Charging Infrastructure Terminology. So a more accurate approach is to compare the 118,000 ports to say 17.4

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Green Car Congress

JANUARY 29, 2012

While the APU within the vehicle may evolve during this transition, from gasoline to advanced biofuels to hydrogen, it is reasonable to believe. In addition to potential for emerging alternative fuel use, there is an opportunity to explore engine technologies that are advantageous but otherwise unsuitable for application in.

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Green Car Congress

MAY 25, 2014

The report concluded that benefits in the medium- and long-term can be anticipated since the obtaining of an alternative fuel using a residual greenhouse gas would allow European dependence on conventional fossil fuels to be cut, and that way the risks in supply security to be minimized.

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Plugs and Cars

JANUARY 7, 2007

Amidst the well-deserved hoopla about GM's plug-in serial hybrid Chevy Volt , Ford is touting its own equally ugly plug-in hybrid concept car. GM's vehicle is eminently buildable today, as it relies on two energy sources that are available: grid electricity and gasoline. Classic concept car fare. The times they are a changin'.

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Green Car Congress

MAY 7, 2009

Energy and Environment (exploring primary energy sources which are renewable, secure, sufficient and environmentally compatible; the electrification of vehicles and the road transport system as a whole; lightweight structures and new vehicle concepts for high energy-efficiency).

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Green Car Congress

NOVEMBER 21, 2013

Also at the LA Auto Show, the new Honda FCEV Concept made its world debut. The concept expresses a potential styling direction for Honda’s next-generation fuel-cell vehicle anticipated to launch in the US and Japan in 2015, followed by Europe. HYUNDAI TUCSON FUEL CELL. HONDA FCEV CONCEPT. The Honda FCEV Concept.

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Green Car Congress

APRIL 30, 2016

Bringing optimized ICEs as well as alternative fuels and powertrain technologies to market will account for €380-390 billion (US$435-446) of cumulated incremental powertrain costs from 2010 until 2030.

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Green Car Congress

NOVEMBER 14, 2012

However, real fuels, with their hundreds of components, are too complex to simulate directly. The MFC applied this concept of surrogate fuels to develop both fossil-based and bio-based fuel models. Diesel fuel components, including n-heptane, iso-octane, decalin and alpha-methyl naphthalene (AMN).

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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. 750,000 (jointly funded).

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Green Car Congress

JULY 14, 2015

Researchers at the US Department of Energy’s (DOE) Argonne National Laboratory are partnering with Ford Motor Company and FCA US LLC in pre-competitive research to study blending natural gas and gasoline using natural gas direct injection to enable more efficient engines. Photo by Wes Agresta / Argonne National Laboratory. Click to enlarge.

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Green Car Congress

APRIL 8, 2014

To provide more diverse vehicle and fuel options, DOE will continue to develop advanced batteries and fuel cells, encourage vehicle electrification, and work with partners to address barriers to widespread adoption of all-electric-drive vehicles. Demonstrate three grid-connected advanced offshore wind concepts by 2017. ?.

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Green Car Congress

MARCH 8, 2013

HEDGE-III will investigate solutions to the primary barriers to high efficiency in gasoline engines. Southwest Research Institute (SwRI) has launched its third cooperative research program aimed at developing a high-efficiency gasoline engine for the light-duty automotive and medium-duty engine markets. Source: SwRI. Click to enlarge.

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Clean Fleet Report

SEPTEMBER 18, 2023

4-cylinder gasoline engine with 250 horsepower and 277 pound-feet of torque. They were all for it as it generated these two stories, posted on Clean Fleet Report, of the Mach-E driving review , and a proof-of-concept story of driving an all-electric vehicle on such a lengthy road trip, proving it was not only conceivable, but very doable.

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Green Car Congress

MARCH 18, 2013

Achieving those goals will will be difficult—but not impossible to meet—and will necessitate a combination of more efficient vehicles; the use of alternative fuels such as biofuels, electricity, and hydrogen; and strong government policies to overcome high costs and influence consumer choices. Fuel-specific findings.

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Green Car Congress

SEPTEMBER 24, 2012

First, the very concept of a market for green cars is difficult to pin down, due to the existence of separate and competing technology trajectories. Green cars” can be defined as vehicles that use alternative fuels (other than petrol or diesel) and/or alternative types of propulsion (other than the conventional ICE).

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Green Car Congress

JANUARY 31, 2014

(Left) Thermal efficiency and ( right ) soot from different gasoline-butanol blends at different EGR rates. A study by a team at Tianjin University found that the addition of n-butanol to gasoline for use in a compression ignition engine (CI) under Low Temperature Combustion (LTC) conditions has a significant effect on soot reduction.

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Green Car Congress

MAY 24, 2011

By contrast, third-generation hybrid engines dispense with pistons in order to improve environmental credentials even more and offer further benefits of size, weight, cost, reliability, economy and alternative fuels or at least some of these. The question is whether we shall jump straight to these third-generation engines for hybrids.

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Green Car Congress

JANUARY 22, 2015

The Vehicle Technologies funding is targeted at a wide range of research, development, and demonstration projects that aim to reduce the price and improve the efficiency of plug-in electric, alternative fuel, and conventional vehicles. Applications must present a sound business case for the proposed technology.

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Green Car Congress

JANUARY 6, 2012

Tata Motors showcased its alternate fuel technology capability at the New Delhi Auto Expo 2012 by displaying four concepts: the Tata Nano CNG; the Tata Indigo Manza diesel-electric hybrid; the Tata Starbus Fuel Cell (hydrogen); and the Tata Magic Iris CNG. Tata Nano CNG Concept. Tata Indigo Manza Hybrid Concept.

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Green Car Congress

NOVEMBER 21, 2011

The concept of harmonizing specific aspects of the LCFS program with other low carbon fuel standard programs has been of interest for the staff since the inception of the program. This is to be accomplished through the use of biofuels, alternative fuels, and reductions in flaring and venting. Earlier post.).

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My Electric Car

AUGUST 21, 2020

The hydrogen fuel cell in the FCEV acts to keep the battery charged, but can directly power the electric drive motor, similar to the function of a gasoline-powered range extender. In essence the FCEV is firstly an electric car with a hydrogen fuel cell range extender added. Hydrogen is a classic one to one substitution.

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Plugs and Cars

OCTOBER 27, 2007

Third party converters have spent time and resources tweaking their plug-in hybrids to meet ARB testing written with gasoline-only hybrids in mind. They are busy proving, despite automaker resistance, that the plug-in hybrid concept is worth pursuing. As in this NY Times story entitled Challenging Gasoline from a few days ago.

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Green Car Congress

NOVEMBER 22, 2013

At the Tokyo Motor Show, Mazda is showcasing the recently-released Mazda Axela (known as Mazda3 overseas) with a variety of engine types at the 2013 Tokyo Motor Show, including a CNG concept and hybrid variants. Alternative fuels: CNG and E85. Major technologies on Mazda3 SKYACTIV-CNG concept. Earlier post.).

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Clean Fleet Report

APRIL 9, 2021

The EPA gives this all-electric car ratings of 96 MPGe city/88 highway/92 combined (where MPGe is Miles per Gallon equivalent that measures how far the car will travel on the electric energy equivalent of a gallon of gasoline/33.7 There is also the stunning Precept concept that is slated to appear sometime in the future.

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Green Car Congress

DECEMBER 5, 2012

natural gas vehicle, previewed in a concept form in 2011 ( earlier post ) and revealed in its production version at the Geneva auto show in March this year, in Europe. Volkswagen used a newly developed three-cylinder gasoline engine with 999 cc displacement (EA211 engine series). Like the gasoline engines of the up!, The eco up!

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