Green Car Congress

MAY 31, 2011

Ricardo will assist Lifan Automobile Group based in Chongqing, China, with the development of a family of highly downsized gasoline engines capable of meeting future Chinese and international fuel economy and emissions regulations.

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Green Car Congress

SEPTEMBER 24, 2012

In a further extension of Ricard’s collaboration with the Lifan Automobile Group based in Chongqing, China, the company will assist in the development of a new turbocharged gasoline direct injection engine. With work on the project starting in July, the first engines are due for production in late 2014.

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Green Car Congress

NOVEMBER 7, 2013

Under the contract placed by JAC—officially the Anhui Jianghuai Automobile Group Co Ltd (JAC) of Hefei, Anhui Province—Ricardo is providing advanced thermal simulation and test guidance to support the development of a passenger vehicle with a downsized gasoline engine.

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The Truth About Cars

DECEMBER 15, 2023

An automobile cannot be considered truly luxurious or premium by the brand if it's not beating you over the head with the latest infotainment gimmicks. All of the above is emblematic of what the Chinese market considered luxury. You can hardly find a high-end Chinese automobile produced today without them.

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Green Car Congress

SEPTEMBER 30, 2015

Anhui Jianghuai Automobile Group Co Ltd (JAC) and Ricardo are collaborating on a project to develop the Ricardo HyBoost concept ( earlier post )—a combination of low-cost technologies to deliver improved performance and fuel economy which featured recently in the Ricardo Centenary celebrations —into volume production on a JAC vehicle.

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Cars That Think

OCTOBER 25, 2022

federal government has mandated that the country’s government-operated planes, trains, and automobiles run on a fuel blend partly made from corn- and soybean-based biofuels. Environmental Protection Agency (EPA), which stewards the RFS, had repeatedly downsized the targets by nearly 25 percent. For the past decade and a half, the U.S.

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Tony Karrer Delicious EVdriven

APRIL 21, 2009

The electrification of the automobile is inevitable." This is different from anything Ive ever seen in my 40 years in the automobile industry." ( Detroit Free Press ). Because nobody has fully figured out the optimum use of lithium-ion batteries in automobiles. We hope Ford will, and then move ahead! This is unusual.

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