Green Car Congress

OCTOBER 9, 2018

There was a $1-billion initial public offering by NIO, a $585-million Series C venture capital round by Guangzhou Xiaopeng Motors and a $294-million pre-IPO round by Zhejiang Dianka Automobile. We’re seeing more companies raising funds as they look to make the jump from concept cars to high-volume manufacturing. billion for 300MW.

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Get Electric Vehicle

JANUARY 7, 2022

At the EICMA event, a fully electric motorcycle showing a revolutionary power train technology concept that makes use of ultracapacitors will be unveiled to the public. NAWA Technologies was assisted in the initial design of the NAWA Racer concept by Envisage Group, a design and engineering services firm based in Coventry, UK.

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Green Car Congress

APRIL 9, 2020

A consortium led by the Fraunhofer Research Institution for Materials Recycling and Resource Strategies IWKS and including Proton Motor Fuel Cell GmbH, MAIREC Edelmetallgesellschaft mbH, Electrocycling GmbH and KLEIN Anlagenbau AG, is developing a closed-loop recycling concept specifically for PEM fuel cells. Example of a fuel cell stack.

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Green Car Congress

FEBRUARY 8, 2017

Inspired by the Japanese concept of sato-umi —the convergence of land and sea where human and marine life can harmoniously coexist—Honda has established the Honda Marine Science Foundation , a new initiative to address marine ecosystem restoration and the impact of humans and climate change on oceans and intertidal areas.

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Green Car Congress

OCTOBER 19, 2015

This ship technology will decrease emissions and increase fuel efficiency when compared to conventionally-powered ships—the equivalent of removing 15,700 automobiles from the road. TOTE, NASSCO, the American Bureau of Shipping, and the U.S. Coast Guard worked together from the beginning of the project to the delivery of the Isla Bella.

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Green Car Congress

MARCH 17, 2018

Hemp was selected from more than 20 agricultural candidates based on its good technical performance, renewability as a grown fiber and low water consumption. One difference with previous attempts to introduce biomaterials into automobiles is the added value Faurecia brings.

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Green Car Congress

JANUARY 26, 2012

BMW has introduced a new range of M Performance Automobiles featuring a new 6-cylinder in-line diesel developed exclusively for those applications. The market launch of the first BMW M Performance Automobiles also marks the premiere of the most powerful diesel engine ever fitted in one of the brand’s models. Click to enlarge.

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The Truth About Cars

AUGUST 3, 2023

There has been loads of speculation about what the United Automobile Workers would be asking for during this year’s contract negotiations, with the assumption being that demands would be fairly lofty. It's time for them to deliver for our members, and we're going to deliver for our members, come hell or high water." Image: Daniel J.

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Green Car Congress

JUNE 6, 2018

Thereby we lift the production concept of ‘Factory 56’ to the next level. The body-in-white shop also has new production concepts: From the very first component, the production sequence is defined as in a pearl chain. Modern logistics concepts are also integrated. Today, this requires several specific production lines.

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Green Car Congress

AUGUST 17, 2015

Urban grime, according to Dr. James Donaldson, is a mixture of thousands of chemical compounds spewed into the air by automobiles, factories and a host of other sources. Donaldson set out to test this concept in the real world. Among these compounds are nitrogen oxides.

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Green Car Congress

JUNE 5, 2017

The strict lightweight concept from Audi used for the crankshaft, the cylinder heads and the cylinder crankcase increases efficiency. The cylinder heads have two-part water jackets for needs-based cooling. The ignition pressure reaches the 200 bar mark over wide areas of the characteristic map.

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Green Car Congress

JANUARY 18, 2018

Dürr is building a fully automatic paint shop for a Anhui Jianghuai Automobile (JAC) plant in China. The plant in Hefei combines advanced vehicle drives with intelligent plant technology and modern painting concepts. The smaller tank capacity means that RoDip reduces the costs per unit by using less energy, water, and chemicals.

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Green Car Congress

DECEMBER 6, 2017

The company is focused more on the user experience of the connected environment in the car, rather than on eye-watering acceleration and road speeds of 250 km/h. BYTON’s first drivable concept car will make its debut at CES 2018 in January. BYTON’s proposed HMI. The powertrain basics.

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Cars That Think

AUGUST 12, 2021

He hopes to talk with Turkey's science minister and the TOGG [Turkish Automobile Joint Venture Group], a new company formed by the government. The concept of a 3D-printed 3D printer was a theory before Minnick began his project three years ago. Rip currents are dangerous phenomena that can pull swimmers into deep water.

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Green Car Congress

AUGUST 12, 2013

Linear accelerator concept for capsule acceleration and deceleration between 300 and 760 mph (480 and 1,220 km/h). Hyperloop concept sketch. The capsules may be passenger-only, or, for more flexibility (and at a higher system cost), passenger and automobile combinations. An onboard water tank is used for cooling of the air.

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Green Car Congress

DECEMBER 29, 2009

Renatus Widmann / Dr. Thorsten Mietzel, Urban Water and Waste Management. Logistics concepts for the electrical supply traffic and stopped traffic (Electric Vehicles). Logistics concepts for the electrical supply traffic and stopped traffic (Electric Vehicles). Dr. Heike Proff, Business Administration and automobile industry II.

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Green Car Congress

MAY 23, 2011

Artist’s conception of Honda Smart Home System. Stimulating demand and applying incentives, including promoting the shared use of electric scooters and automobiles, promoting the use of electric scooters for commercial use, and developing a wide variety of electric vehicles to meet citizens’ needs. Click to enlarge.

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MAY 31, 2022

Similar techniques are employed in combustion engine automobiles, but we aren’t concerned with them at the moment. We could simply cool the batteries and motors by some means (water, air or oil), and then use radiators to return the heat to the atmosphere. But why do we need to transfer heat? The truth is, we don’t.

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Green Car Congress

AUGUST 30, 2011

Project: Next Generation Water-Cooled Low-Pressure Die for the Production of Automotive Wheels. The University of British Columbia and CAPTIN will work together to develop an advanced water-cooled low-pressure die for the production of automotive wheels. Partners: University of British Columbia and Canadian Autoparts Toyota Inc.

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Green Car Congress

MARCH 1, 2013

In tune with the ultra-lightweight construction concept, each tank weighs 27 kilograms (59.52 With the e-gas project, Audi is the first automobile manufacturer to develop an entire chain of sustainable energy carriers. The car’s two tanks under the luggage compartment floor can each hold seven kilograms (15.43

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Green Car Congress

DECEMBER 29, 2010

In the Chinese province of Liaoning, officials are challenged by a rapid growth of automobile use and mixed road use that includes pedestrian and bicycle traffic alongside cars. The same concept could be used to charge mobile phones for example—i.e., Batteries will breathe air. shake and dial.

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Cars That Think

FEBRUARY 4, 2022

Certainly, the phenomenon of scalability was well known in the automobile industry before it made a significant impact on the computing industry. At the core of Henry Ford’s achievement was the design of an automobile that was made for mass production. Henry Ford was a notable example of the the application of this scalability law.

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Green Car Congress

JULY 10, 2010

Algae cultures tend to be relatively dilute, and the energy requirement to remove water from the cultures can be a significant portion of the energy balance. saline water). The system should include a fuel processor that reforms a biomass-derived product or bio-fuel into a fuel for a 1-30 kW-scale distributed SOFC system.

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Cars That Think

JULY 9, 2022

“One night in New York,” Zadeh recalled, “I had a dinner engagement with some friends It was canceled, and I spent the evening by myself in my parents’ apartment 1 remember distinctly that the idea occurred to me then to introduce the concept of grade of membership [concepts that became the backbone of fuzzy set theory].

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My Electric Car

AUGUST 21, 2020

The only by products are water and a fair degree of heat, the latter indicating a degree of inefficiency and wasted energy. Second, while hydrogen can be otherwise produced through the electrolysis of water, this process requires huge amounts of clean and fresh water – a vital and highly valuable commodity of life that can’t be wasted.

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Cars That Think

JANUARY 29, 2022

Today, chip shortages continue to disrupt the consumer electronics, automobile, and other sectors. In a simulation, the aggregated load from 1,000 electric water heaters [solid orange line] almost exactly matches renewable energy supply [dashed gold line] after packetized control is switched on [vertical dotted line]. kilowatt-hours.

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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. Magic IRIS CNG.

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Green Car Congress

FEBRUARY 22, 2010

For many decades now, our research vehicles have been turning pioneering concepts into reality and thereby setting future trends. One system-specific attribute of the familiar hybrid concept from the S 500 Plug-in Hybrid is the clutch integrated between the combustion engine and the electric motor. Earlier post.]

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Green Car Congress

NOVEMBER 17, 2015

TDI quattro plug-in hybrid ( earlier post ); the Audi A7 h-tron quattro fuel cell vehicle ( earlier post ); the Audi e-tron quattro concept battery-electric SUV ( earlier post ); the Audi TT clubsport turbo concept ( earlier post ); the Audi RS 5 TDI competition concept ( earlier post ); and the Audi R18 e-tron quattro ( earlier post ).

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Green Car Congress

MAY 19, 2015

The collaborative project is intended ultimately to set the stage for innovative breakthroughs in future commercial automobiles. The Polimotor 2 double-overhead CAM engine will ultimately be installed in a Norma M-20 concept car in 2016 for competitive racing at Lime Rock Park, Conn.

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Green Car Congress

JUNE 12, 2015

solar and wind), water and CO 2 to produce liquid or gaseous fuels with a very low carbon intensity. to the realization of the renewable energy + water + CO 2 formula. At this facility, the engineered microorganisms use water (brackish, salt or wastewater), sunlight and carbon dioxide to produce the fuels. Earlier post.)

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Green Car Congress

JANUARY 19, 2012

The Schaeffler eSolutions concept model at NAIAS showcased technologies such as the eWheel Drive electric wheel hub drive and the eDifferential—an electric axle that allows both the specific distribution of the drive torque to individual wheels and torque vectoring to provide enhanced driving dynamics in electric and hybrid vehicles.

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Tony Karrer Delicious EVdriven

APRIL 22, 2009

In a guest editorial in Fortune , Grove writes that just as how power and efficiency of the internal-combustion engine were at the coreof the development of the automobile, batteries willbe a competitive advantage for the automakers of the future. Add our RSS Feed to your favorite feed reader. Comments with advertisements will be removed.

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Green Car Congress

MARCH 22, 2010

This concept is often called “additionality.” Field-to-Pump” maximizes rural development and job creation while minimizing feedstock supply risk, the burden on local water supplies, and the amount of energy necessary to process sugar into fuel ethanol. Validation requires additionality. what would have happened anyway).

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Green Car Congress

NOVEMBER 28, 2012

The projects were selected through a merit-based process from thousands of concept papers and hundreds of full applications. decrease water use compared to conventional algae reactors. engineered to use fertilizer and water more efficiently and. for automobiles. convert sunlight, carbon dioxide, and water into fuel.

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Green Car Congress

APRIL 24, 2010

The systems often use natural refrigerants such as water, ammonia or methanol; Dr. Critoph and Sorption Energy prefer ammonia as a refrigerant and active carbons as the adsorbent. describe a prototype compact sorption generator using an activated-carbon/ammonia pair based on a plate heat exchanger concept. Automobile Engineering.

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Green Car Congress

APRIL 28, 2014

Automobile R&D Center. As emission control values have become stricter year after year, NO x reduction cycles using rich combustion have also increased, and there are now almost no automobiles with lean burn engines being sold. Heat loss (other)” refers to heat loss other than that caused by cooling water. Click to enlarge.

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