Green Car Congress
JUNE 29, 2020
The system, easily integrated into today’s vehicles, uses Doppler radar to bounce radio waves off surfaces such as buildings and parked automobiles. The radar sensors are also relatively low-cost, especially compared to lidar sensors, and scale to mass production. Image courtesy of the researchers. Credit: Princeton University.
Green Car Congress
DECEMBER 9, 2021
Much of that is attributed to the fishing industry, which has come to rely on plastic fishing nets and other equipment because of the durability, light weight, buoyancy and low cost of the material. For more than two decades, Ford has used recycled plastics not collected from oceans to produce various parts for automobiles.
Green Car Congress
AUGUST 3, 2022
SwRI is leading several multidisciplinary efforts evaluating hydrogen as a potential fuel for automobiles, power generation and even as a replacement for natural gas in homes. Instead of a highly pressurized tank, we plan to store hydrogen in a low-cost powder material. —Josh Mangum.
Green Car Congress
FEBRUARY 20, 2018
A portion of the neodymium has been replaced with lanthanum (La) and cerium (Ce), which are low-cost rare earths, reducing the amount of neodymium used in the magnet. Toyota expects that the magnets will be put to use in the motors of electric power steering for automobiles and other applications in the first half of the 2020s.
Green Car Congress
OCTOBER 21, 2011
a developer and manufacturer of flexible organic solar films, is collaborating with Webasto, one of the top 100 automotive suppliers, to integrate Konarka’s Power Plastic organic solar cells in Webasto’s automobile roofing systems. We have had extensive discussions with automobile manufacturers on the value of organic solar cells.
Green Car Congress
OCTOBER 6, 2014
Reasons include surging deliveries for the Ford F-150 light truck and significant growth in aluminum closures (hang-on-parts such as hoods, doors, trunk lids and tailgates). There is more potential for weight cuts in the body-in-white—the frame of the automobile excluding closures—because for most vehicles, the BIW weighs about 3.5
Green Car Congress
MAY 28, 2014
Their low cost and ability to start the engine at cold temperatures sets them apart in conventional and basic micro-hybrid vehicles, and as auxiliary batteries in all other automotive applications, according to the report. —EUROBAT chairman Johann-Friedrich Dempwolff. Resources.
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