Green Car Congress

APRIL 13, 2010

The Teijin Group recently unveiled a super-lightweight electric concept car made with proprietary materials and technologies including carbon fiber composites, polycarbonate resins and bio-derived polyester. The body incorporates a core structure made of carbon fiber composite material. Click to enlarge. Click to enlarge.

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MAY 24, 2018

To prepare for this growth, the company unveiled plans for two major new facilities: a brand-new building near its original automobile factory for expanding fuel cell (FC) stack mass production, and a new line in an existing plant to manufacture high-pressure hydrogen tanks.

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Green Car Congress

OCTOBER 22, 2012

building materials to compensate for the additional battery weight. blades, doors and visible carbon components. The company’s customer base includes nearly all of the well-known automobile manufacturers, primarily from the premium. Benteler-SGL’s product range now includes body shell components such as side. Beginning in.

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JULY 10, 2012

The project, which builds upon a collaboration that leverages ORNL’s Manufacturing Demonstration Facility (MDF) to foster energy-efficient production using additive manufacturing materials and processes, aims to develop FDM additive manufacturing technology to make it a mainstream manufacturing process in addition to being a prototyping tool.

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Green Car Congress

JULY 2, 2010

Its partner, the Life module, consists primarily of a high-strength and extremely lightweight passenger cell made from carbon fiber reinforced plastic (CFRP). The Megacity Vehicle is a revolutionary automobile. It will be the world’s first volume-produced vehicle with a passenger cell made from carbon. Earlier post.).

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OCTOBER 20, 2017

As a result, Toray Group’s net sales of materials for automotive applications grew about 10% a year in the period from fiscal year 2014 to 2016 compared with about 2% annual growth for the number of global automobile production, achieving about five times the growth of automobile production.　.

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MAY 22, 2013

Offering high strength combined with low weight, glass or carbon fiber-reinforced composite materials are especially suited for the manufacture of motor vehicle components. Particularly for mass-produced automobiles, resin injection processes such as RTM now predominate.

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Green Car Congress

MARCH 24, 2010

By comparison, today’s typical automobile weighs more than 1,500 kilograms and is three times as long. In addition, today’s automobiles require more than 10 square meters of parking space and are parked more than 90% of the time. Autonomous operation. Clay Dean, Director of Advanced Design for GM North America. Group (SAIC).

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JULY 12, 2013

Describing its product goals and tracking progress toward its 2020 manufacturing priorities in its 2012 Sustainability Report , General Motors reaffirmed its commitment to further reduce the energy used and the environmental impacts of building and operating an automobile. Earlier post.). GM has a goal of 125 MW renewable energy.

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JANUARY 9, 2015

In the wind energy industry, advances in low-cost composite materials will help manufacturers build longer, lighter and stronger blades to create more energy. American Chemical Council; National Composites Center; Oak Ridge Carbon Fiber Composites Consortium; Polymer Ohio, Inc.; Adherent Technologies, Inc.; TPI Composites, Inc.;

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SEPTEMBER 16, 2010

Other awards included funding for renewable energy resources, industrial and building energy efficiency, a modernized electricity grid, cleaner fossil fuels, and the next generation of nuclear power.

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Fuel Energy Carbon Fiber Polymer 210

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MARCH 1, 2013

When the energy required to build the e-gas facility and wind power generators is included in a comprehensive analysis, CO 2 emissions under e-Gas operation are still less than 30 grams per km (48.28 With the e-gas project, Audi is the first automobile manufacturer to develop an entire chain of sustainable energy carriers.

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SEPTEMBER 13, 2011

research vehicle (the “125” marking 125 years of the automobile), a fuel-cell plug-in hybrid with a range of more than 1,000 km (621 miles) that anticipates more than two generations of vehicles to 2025 and beyond. They are made up of nodal points known as Structural Building Units (SBUs). Mercedes-Benz F 125!

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Green Car Congress

JANUARY 6, 2016

While battery-electric vehicles, super-light carbon fiber composites, and hydrogen fuel cells will all be available, a new report from Lux Research has concluded that micro-hybrids will provide the most economical route—$1,700 additional average vehicle cost—to meet aggressive fuel efficiency targets in 2025: 54.5

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SEPTEMBER 15, 2009

All add-on parts—doors, covers, sidewalls and roof—are made of a fiber-reinforced plastic. The combination of aluminum and carbon fiber-reinforced composite material delivers rigidity coupled with low weight. The heat pump—used here for the first time in an automobile—also serves to increase efficiency and range.

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Audi Concept Cars Electric 257

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JANUARY 4, 2020

The University of Oklahoma (Norman, OK) plans to develop, build, and validate a low-cost, field-installable, remotely-controlled natural gas compressor retrofit kit. The automobile industry deploys low-cost MPE sensors today to measure tailpipe emissions. Gas to Carbon Fiber Crystals (G2-CFX).

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Green Car Congress

JULY 30, 2013

With its new architecture, use of carbon fiber reinforced plastic, and premium mobility service offerings, the “ i3 marks the beginning of a new mobility age ,” said Dr. Reithofer. The production of the i3 marks the first time an automobile manufacturing plant in Germany has installed wind turbines on site to directly power production.)

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Green Car Congress

JULY 10, 2010

Advanced Materials for Lightweight Vehicles Lightweight materials in automobile structures can provide significant fuel savings, but they also must be able to withstand or absorb the energy of impact in order to protect occupants in collisions. Buildings Technologies.

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Fuel Motors Motor Motoring 210

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JULY 21, 2014

As the number two OEM in the automobile business in the world, it only makes sense for us if we see a certain volume behind it. Building an e-Golf: the basic production flow for the e-Golf at the Wolfsburg plant. Soeren Hinze, Volkswagen Electric-Traction (EL) Technical Development. (Dr. Bottom right.

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The Truth About Cars

AUGUST 7, 2024

Here, customers get everything offered from the R/T with the Blacktop Appearance Pack being swapped for the “Carbon & Suede Package” featuring aluminum wheels, a suede headliner, and loads of carbon fiber touches. However, the automobile is one of the few technologies that hasn’t become more affordable over time.

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Baua Electric

JULY 23, 2024

Mere days after Xiaomi Automobile debuted a new tri-motor prototype version of its flagship SU7 EV , its CEO confirmed it will transition into a production version called the SU7 Ultra that maintains nearly all the same components. Based on its quick start, it’s hard to tell that the tech company is new to building cars.

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Green Car Congress

SEPTEMBER 5, 2012

This duty to build sustainable cars in large numbers is something that we’ve always been conscious of here at Volkswagen. It was therefore important to us to build the most fuel-efficient Golf ever, which at the same time had to remain affordable. liters of diesel per 100 km (73.5 And we’ve succeeded in doing that.

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APRIL 19, 2016

The 2015 papers provided technical details on the high performance fuel-cell (FC) stack; specific insights into FC separator, and stack manifold; Mirai’s newly developed boost converter; and the new high-pressure hydrogen storage system with innovative carbon fiber windings. The 2016 paper by Hasegawa et al.

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Baua Electric

JULY 11, 2023

Mitsumasa Yamagata, president of the Hydrogen Manufacturing unit, stated tapping into trucking will aid Toyota achieve gasoline mobile volumes as majestic as 200,000 business and passenger automobiles in 2030. And this creates a baked-in community to backup passenger automobiles after they come to marketplace. of the overall.

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Cars That Think

SEPTEMBER 3, 2022

The cars feature recyclable batteries and bodies made from linen and recycled carbon fiber from last year’s cars. Hankook tires use natural rubber and recycled fiber, and will be recycled after every race. Ultra-fast charging at 600 kW nearly doubles the most powerful public chargers for civilian drivers.

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JUNE 2, 2021

We all can agree that designing and building a vehicle from scratch is not an easy task. Icon has expertly repaired and redesigned historic automobiles and trucks. They are the gold standard for small-batch, high-end automobile production. Thanks to its carbon-fiber and Kevlar deck, . 1 Icon E-Flyer II.

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Electric Vehicles Vehicles MPH Electric 52

Green Car Congress

NOVEMBER 17, 2015

At the special high-voltage competence center near Ingolstadt, the focus is on the development of complete systems: packaging, cooling, validation and, in partnership with body development, integration into the automobile. The first generation of the AWC technology is ideal for use in home garages or office building parking garages.

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Green Car Congress

JUNE 12, 2012

The top two awards, one of $9 million to a project led by Dow Chemical, and one of $8.999 million to a project led by PolyPlus, will fund projects tackling, respectively, the manufacturing of low-cost carbon fibers and the manufacturing of electrodes for ultra-high-energy-density lithium-sulfur, lithium-seawater and lithium-air batteries.

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NOVEMBER 18, 2014

Two tanks with a three-layer structure made of carbon fiber-reinforced plastic and other materials are used to store hydrogen at 70 MPa (approximately 700 bars or 10,000 psi). Middle layer: carbon fiber reinforced plastic (structural element). Building a convenient refueling infrastructure.

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AUGUST 31, 2016

Among the projects selected are one by GM and EPRI of California to improve welding techniques for automobile manufacturing and power plant builds in partnership with Oak Ridge National Laboratory (ORNL). Harper International Corp.

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Manufacturer EPRI Lithium Sulfur Carbon Fiber 150

Green Car Congress

FEBRUARY 2, 2013

Carbon Fiber Polymer Composite. Thus, non-carbonate electrolytes that demonstrably address this issue are of particular interest. The developer should plan to build and deliver high energy lab-scale cells, in the 10 to 250 mAh capacity range, that demonstrate the advantages of the new electrolyte.

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Cars That Think

MARCH 29, 2022

liter V-8 shrieking, as technically advanced as any automobile engine ever. You switch the mode on by dialing it up on the Ferrari’s dramatic steering wheel, which integrates a cool arc of LED lights on its carbon-fiber rim to cue drivers to shift. Yes, behind my helmeted head there’s a twin-turbocharged 4.0-liter

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