Green Car Congress

SEPTEMBER 7, 2019

has formed a joint venture with FAW Jiefang, China’s oldest and largest truck manufacturer, to develop autonomous trucks for China. specializes in developing full-stack self-driving technology to enable large scale autonomous commercial fleets. Silicon Valley-based Plus.ai

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Green Car Congress

MAY 1, 2019

Lightning Systems, a global developer of zero-emission drivetrains for commercial fleets, announced new battery-electric powertrain options for the Ford F-59 Model to support its customers with delivery and food truck applications. This powertrain is the fifth powertrain now available in the Lightning product line.

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Green Car Congress

MARCH 11, 2022

Additionally, PG&E expects to learn more about the overall customer experience to help inform future collaborations as this emerging technology becomes more readily available. Today, we are seeing breakthrough opportunities at the intersection of the energy and transportation industries.

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MARCH 8, 2024

Iveco, the Iveco Group brand that designs, manufactures and markets light, medium and heavy commercial vehicles, has received an order for the supply of 178 S-Way CNG (Compressed Natural Gas) trucks to the Post & Parcel Germany division of DHL.

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Green Car Congress

MARCH 5, 2020

Ongoing technological and manufacturing breakthroughs will drive costs even lower, the company said. GM’s ability to stack batteries vertically is unique in the industry and it allows for a flat cabin floor and more interior room than comparable EVs that use cylindrical battery packs.

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Green Car Congress

MARCH 20, 2015

The US Department of Energy (DOE) will award up to $20 million to spur the development of high-speed industrial motors and drives, using high power-density designs and integrated power electronics to increase efficiency. The inverter must use WBG devices that exist either commercially or on a custom basis, and can use any topology.

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Green Car Congress

JANUARY 8, 2020

The Velabit leverages Velodyne’s lidar technology and manufacturing partnerships for cost optimization and high-volume production. Multiple manufacturing sources scheduled to be available for qualified production projects. The Velabit will be available to customers mid-2020. Velodyne Lidar, Inc. Earlier post.).

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Green Car Congress

NOVEMBER 2, 2010

The Dow Chemical Company is organizing a new business that will manufacture advantaged battery materials for the energy storage industry. Estimates of the energy storage industry project growth from $24 billion today to $74 billion by 2020, with the largest growth opportunity in the automotive market.

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Green Car Congress

OCTOBER 9, 2016

Clearpath will use the funding to grow the company’s industrial division, OTTO Motors , launched in 2015 to focus on self-driving vehicles for material transport inside manufacturing and warehouse operations. Companies like Google, Tesla and Uber are still testing, whereas our self-driving vehicles are commercially available today.

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Cars That Think

MARCH 2, 2023

Today, a robotics startup called Figure is unveiling “the world’s first commercially viable general purpose humanoid robot,” called Figure 01. And if anyone is going to take a useful humanoid robot from an engineering concept to commercial reality, these are the folks to do it. The final robot will be fully electric, 1.6m

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Green Car Congress

AUGUST 6, 2012

The automotive industry has identified a future generation of Advanced High Strength Steels (AHSS) materials for lightweighting vehicles across all lines, with an availability target of 2017-2025 for integration into vehicle structural designs and production.

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Green Car Congress

MARCH 12, 2012

According to a recent report examining batteries for electric vehicles from Pike Research, as manufacturing efficiencies improve and access to lithium expands, the installed cost of Li-ion batteries will fall by more than one-third by the end of 2017. of Li-ion chemistries are available today, none of them can claim to be the ideal solution.

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Green Car Congress

MARCH 26, 2015

Our lightweight materials can help reduce the overall weight of a truck, but those savings can be quickly offset by increased payload capacity so we are finding other ways to help the industry realize fuel economy improvements. Saudi Basic Industries Corporation (SABIC) ranks as the world’s second largest diversified chemical company.

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MAY 3, 2023

In practice, V2H, V2B, and V2L are closer to broad commercial availability than V2G because they are less technically complex. Some EV manufacturers even offer one-stop-shop packages that include all the components needed, including solar panels. The difference is the destination for the electricity drawn from the EV battery.

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Green Car Congress

AUGUST 16, 2016

This investment will accelerate the cost reduction and scaling of Velodyne’s industry-leading LiDAR sensors, making them widely accessible and enabling mass deployment of fully autonomous vehicles. LiDAR continues to prove itself as the critical sensor for safe autonomous vehicle operation. Founded in 1983 by David S. Earlier post.).

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Green Car Congress

JULY 10, 2010

The purpose of this Phase III program is for the grantee to pursue commercial applications of work that derives from, extends, or logically concludes effort(s) performed under prior (Phase I/II) Small Business Innovation Research (SBIR) or Small Business Technology Transfer (STTR) funding agreements.

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Green Car Congress

DECEMBER 9, 2010

We decided to use hydraulic hybrid technology for the bus since it recovers more than three times the brake energy and an overall 30 percent lower cost of ownership than any electric hybrid technology available today.

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Green Car Congress

NOVEMBER 14, 2012

It moved the industry forward. Part of the industry doesn’t know that yet. How do we now take this pre-competitive work—funded by this group and exclusive to this group—and now make it available? The current commercial offering thus offers the library as it was two years ago, Sanders said.

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Green Car Congress

SEPTEMBER 20, 2012

Among the key findings of this report are: Most technologies for improving the fuel economy of two-wheelers, light-duty vehicles (LDV) and heavy-duty vehicles (HDV) are already commercially available and cost-effective. Address policy and industry needs at a national level. Europe, South Asia, South America, etc.).

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JANUARY 11, 2021

But in doing so, Tesla has established yet another equipment standard for an industry that is working at breakneck speed to prepare this country for a future where gas is a thing of the past. But there are dozens of EV models available today and hundreds more from every major automaker set to hit the roads over the next decade.

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Green Car Congress

FEBRUARY 8, 2019

The US Department of Energy announced $35 million in awards for 12 projects that find new ways to harness medium-voltage electricity for applications in industry, transportation, on the grid and beyond. A consortium of industry partners will guide the design process and advise on commercialization.

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Cars That Think

MAY 27, 2022

As an attorney, I represented a microwave-industry group in the ensuing legal dispute.). Phones, tablets, laptops, smart speakers, Wi-Fi-enabled TVs and other appliances, Internet-of-things devices, lots of commercial and industrial gear—they all need these same frequencies. soliciting and considering public input.

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Green Car Congress

NOVEMBER 28, 2012

gas, the first step in the commercial process of converting natural. other industrial materials. Today’s separation methods are energy. If fully implemented by industry, such a new. Improved Manufacturing for High-Performance Magnets. manufacture permanent magnets that are both stronger and. much as 3%.

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Green Car Congress

SEPTEMBER 15, 2009

EPA expects manufacturers to take advantage of the option to generate CO 2 -equivalent credits by reducing emissions of hydrofluorocarbons (HFCs) and CO 2 through improvements in their air conditioner systems. However, EPCA does not allow vehicle manufacturers to use air conditioning credits in complying with CAFE standards.

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Clean Fleet Report

JANUARY 30, 2022

But as one battery industry expert put it, we have been inundated such that “it seems like there’s a battery breakthrough every day.” The company is already working on scaling up the size of the battery with multi-layer cells on the path to building a commercial-size battery pack.

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Green Car Congress

JULY 17, 2015

Andrew Frank is a significant industry dignitary credited as being the “Inventor” (or “Father”) of the modern day Plug-in Hybrid Electric Vehicle. Since the energy density of liquid fuels is unchallenged by any other form of energy carrier we have today, we will have to continue to use liquid fuel to support our society as we know it.

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Green Car Congress

JULY 4, 2014

The Highway Pilot is comparable to an autopilot system in an airplane—probably the most advanced form of autonomous mobility in existence today, the company noted. Mercedes-Benz will unveil the complete study of the Future Truck 2025 at the International Commercial Vehicle Show (IAA) in September.

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Green Car Congress

SEPTEMBER 21, 2009

mpg if the automotive industry were to meet this CO 2 level just through fuel economy improvements.) ( Earlier post.). Individual manufacturers will be required to comply with a single fuel economy level that is based on the distribution of its production among the footprints of its vehicles. mpg and 250 g CO 2 /km for model year 2016.

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