Green Car Congress

FEBRUARY 25, 2015

At the Los Angeles Auto Show, Audi presented the Audi prologue concept car, featuring a mild hybrid powertrain with a 48V electrical subsystem. At the upcoming Geneva show, Audi will show a new variant of the prologue—the Audi prologue Avant—featuring a plug-in hybrid powertrain. Earlier post.)

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The Truth About Cars

SEPTEMBER 27, 2023

With modern vehicles lacking direct, physical connections between controls and the relevant systems, Ferrari can have real vehicles bumping into virtual ones and responding accordingly. Though just knowing that connected cars can be controlled in this manner does open up a lot of questions about security. It’s not a terrible idea.

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Green Car Congress

DECEMBER 1, 2022

In November, Tesla opened its EV charging connector design—called the North American Charging Standard (NACS)—to charging network operators and vehicle manufacturers. The Combined Charging System can connect to all AC charging stations without an adapter via the J1772 standard. Earlier post.) issued a response.

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Green Car Congress

MARCH 22, 2016

Audi unveiled its redesigned R18 diesel hybrid Le Mans racer for the 2016 World Endurance Championship (WEC) season. As a result, Audi’s LMP1 sports car is more powerful and more efficient than its predecessor; the new R18 consumes less fuel than any of the generations before it. Wolfgang Ullrich, Head of Audi Motorsport.

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Green Car Congress

SEPTEMBER 22, 2016

Audi has put a new topcoat paint shop into operation at its plant in Ingolstadt. Air recirculation also helps to reduce CO₂‑emissions per painted car by 30%, while the cleaning of exhaust air reduces emissions of volatile organic compounds (VOCs) by 90%. Sustainable operations have high priority at Audi. —Prof.

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Audi Water Energy CO2 150

Current EV

DECEMBER 25, 2019

Audi says its Q4 e-tron compact crossover will enter the luxury EV marketplace in early 2021. It’s the second pure electric vehicle release for the Bavarian automaker, following the Audi e-tron SUV. The Q4 is the first e-tron to use the full MEB which will be the foundation of all Audi EVs and Volkswagen I.D. EVs to come.

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Audi Miles SUV All-Electric 64

Green Car Congress

DECEMBER 21, 2013

Deutsche Telekom provides both the telemetry hardware for the vehicles as well as the SIM-cards and data connections. Progressive Seattle-area automotive group Barrier Motors in Bellevue has already equipped 1,500 cars from their Mercedes-Benz, Audi, Porsche, and Volvo brands with the iCar Intelligent Car Technology Package.

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Green Car Congress

JANUARY 26, 2019

Forecasts indicate that considerable demand for flexible fast charging stations is to be expected in connection with the ramp-up of e-mobility over the next few years. The charging station is based on the battery package of the Volkswagen Group’s Modular Electric Toolkit (MEB) and is designed to use its cell modules.

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2020 Production Charging Batteries 239

Green Car Congress

JANUARY 22, 2012

The objective of the taskforce is initially to create a guideline for demonstration projects and design verification and later standardize in 2015 with field confirmation. Design validation test and wireless charging verification test. —Jesse Schneider, Chair SAE J2954. Develop protocol and determine means of communication.

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Industrial Industry Standards Charging 240

Green Car Congress

JANUARY 8, 2014

Broadly, Navigant expects expansion in both the higher end of the market (thereby putting competitive pressure on Tesla Motors), as Audi, BMW, Cadillac, Mercedes, Saab, and Volvo introduce their first plug-in cars. Automakers will want to tap into connectivity to offer information and entertainment services.

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Green Car Congress

SEPTEMBER 14, 2014

Lucas di Grassi, FIA Formula E Beijing (Audi Sport ABT Formula E Team). Audi factory driver Lucas di Grassi and the Audi Sport ABT Formula E team won the inaugural event of the new all-electric FIA Formula E Championship in Beijing. Lucas di Grassi (Audi Sport ABT) 25 laps. Click to enlarge.

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Audi MPH Supplies Austin 301

Clean Fleet Report

SEPTEMBER 5, 2021

Luxury Exterior Design. The clean GV80 Prestige cabin design has a rotary dial gear selector for the shift-by-wire transmission, top stitching on the soft and hard touch surfaces, brushed aluminum, wood grain, and piano black gloss trim. These are the highest ratings from each organization. Technology Lives Here. Room to haul.

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MPG Fuel Economy SUV Clean 66

Green Car Congress

MAY 2, 2019

ABB signed a formal agreement with SAIC Volkswagen to provide robotics painting solutions for the first New Energy Vehicle (NEV) factory of the Volkswagen Group based on the Modular Electric Driver Kit (MEB), an automotive platform specifically designed for the mass production of electric vehicles. Financial details were not disclosed.

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China Water Kits Installation 223

Green Car Congress

OCTOBER 7, 2015

By means of an individualized design of the driver-vehicle interaction for different drivers, the aim is to achieve low-stress, efficient, and safe driving in urban traffic. The project focuses specifically on the user of future assistance and information systems. oHG; Daimler AG; German Aerospace Centre e.V.;

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Green Car Congress

JULY 21, 2014

This approach requires not just the design engineering of the vehicle, but also the development of the integrated assembly process (enabled by the MQB), plus training of personnel in the plant. In designing the motor housing unit, Volkswagen was also able to achieve an extremely low level of noise emissions. More on this below.).

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Batteries Battery MPH All-Electric 356

Clean Fleet Report

DECEMBER 3, 2022

Mercedes-Benz has no interest in ceding any ground to Tesla, Audi, Porsche, Lucid or any of the other car companies that want a piece at the upper end of the luxury EV market. Slippery Design. EQS 580 and 4MATIC badging sit below the LED light bar that connects the tail lights with their distinctive helix design.

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Mercedes All-Electric Clean Cleaning 89

Cars That Think

OCTOBER 1, 2021

Others like Audi , Daimler and VW have stated they are now stopping the development of new internal combustion engines altogether. Today's connected vehicles create up to 25 gigabytes of data per hour , a small portion of which is being shared outside the vehicle.

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Green Car Congress

MARCH 13, 2014

Volkswagen is organizing the e-mobility weeks to inform politicians and policy-makers; journalists; dealers; fleet managers (70% of sales in Germany are to fleets); and the general public about present and future e-technologies and e-vehicles, as well as to make the case that, as one presenter put it: “ e-mobility is at the heart of Volkswagen ”.

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Plug In India

JANUARY 15, 2022

Even before I could get into the walkway which connects the bus stations, I found a bus going to Hosur via Electronic City. The company’s main designer is the guy who has done the styling of Bajaj’s Dominar. The design has a mid drive motor - which is sourced from a company in HSR Layout itself. lakh already.

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Tony Karrer Delicious EVdriven

APRIL 21, 2009

Audi Volkswagen-owned company exploring PHEVs Metroproject Quattro Sub-compact PHEV Concept Car shown October 2007; PHEV of A1 Sportback under consideration Bright Automotive For-profit spin off from Rocky Mountain Institute designing lightweight PHEVs, successor to RMIs 1990s "Hypercar" concept. We hope Ford will, and then move ahead!

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