Green Car Congress

SEPTEMBER 13, 2016

The three-year ADEPT (advanced diesel-electric powertrain) project ( earlier post ) in the UK set the target of developing and validating a range of advanced mild hybrid technologies with 48V “intelligent electrification” utilizing an advanced lead carbon battery.

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Diesel Hybrid Fuel Lead Acid 150

Green Car Congress

SEPTEMBER 4, 2013

Through the Advanced Vehicle Power Technology Alliance between the Energy Department and the Department of the Army, the Army is contributing an additional $3 million in co-funding to support projects focused on lightweighting and propulsion materials, batteries, fuels, and lubricants. University of Michigan. Lead organization.

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Lithium Ion Transportation Universal Fuel Economy 210

Green Car Congress

APRIL 1, 2015

This study evaluates the incremental life cycle air emissions (GHG and CAC) impact benefits and life cycle ownership costs of non-plug-in (CV and HEV) and plug-in (BEV) vehicles using natural gas as a common primary energy source. This high cost is largely due to the $13,000 battery that provides a 125-km (80-mi) driving range.

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Climate Change Energy Gas-Electric Plug-in 150

Green Car Congress

MAY 28, 2015

Of these, 16 are vehicle-related, encompassing projects developing batteries, power electronics and improved combustion engine technology including on-board reformers, and two are specifically hydrogen fuel cell-related. High Loading Lithium-Ion Electrode Architecture for Low Cost Electric Vehicle Batteries Ballast Energy, Inc.

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Li-ion Battery Powered Engine Lithium Ion 150

Green Car Congress

JULY 9, 2017

In a new study, a team from the University of Central Florida and MIT has found that the US Corporate Average Fuel Economy (CAFE) Standards is an effective policy solution that does increase the adoption of EVs, whether it is implemented alone or in conjunction with another policy such as government incentives. —Sen et al.

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Market Fuel Economy Standards 2016 150

Green Car Congress

AUGUST 10, 2011

This project will enable diesel-like efficiency and increased maximum power output in a gasoline engine by using a secondary fuel to suppress engine knock under high load. Increased availability of low cost carbon fiber can enable vehicle weight reduction and improvement in fuel economy. The Pennsylvania State University.

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Carbon Fiber Lithium Ion Li-ion Vehicles 268

Green Car Congress

FEBRUARY 2, 2009

The Pennsylvania Alternative Fuels Incentive Grant (AFIG) program has awarded Axion Power International, Inc. 993,654 for development of a hydrogen plant module that is capable of producing fuel onboard a vehicle. and Penn State University. Temple University. Penn State University. Ettline Foods Corp.

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Pennsylvania Philadelphia PHEV Hybrid 150

Green Car Congress

JUNE 11, 2014

The fuel cell vehicle currently is available at three southern California Hyundai dealers: Win Hyundai in Carson; Tustin Hyundai; and Hardin Hyundai in Anaheim. When we spoke with customers about fuel cell vehicles, many wondered about the cost of hydrogen. There will be no Kia analog to the Tucson Fuel Cell, said Castillo.).

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Tucson Hyundai Fuel Hydrogen 351

Green Car Congress

FEBRUARY 5, 2018

The combustion process utilizes either renewable or traditional fuels, liquid or gaseous, and delivers heat energy back to the chilled and compressed intake air. Its most important benefit, however, is to enable otherwise unachievable improvements in fuel economy, reduced CO 2 and other emissions through improved internal thermal efficiency.

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Commercial Engine Companies Fuel 199

Green Car Congress

MAY 29, 2014

Electric school bus fleets with vehicle-to-grid (V2G) capabilities are cost-effective with today’s technology, and could save schools money while reducing greenhouse gas emissions and improving public health, according to a new study by a team at the University of Delaware’s College of Earth, Ocean, and Environment (CEOE).

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Fleet Electrical Electric Climate Change 210

Green Car Congress

MAY 1, 2012

Further attention should be given to the potential market for small short-range city BEVs, where there is opportunity to reduce range anxiety through public charging points or battery-swap stations. Local-level implications include charging regimes; the purpose of trips; range anxiety; and battery performance and acceptance.

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Industry Industrial Climate Change Grid 301

Charged EVs

DECEMBER 21, 2022

Large commercial trucks and other heavy equipment have run on diesel fuel for many decades now. Requirements for more aggressive emission after-treatment and the hardware to achieve that add cost and complexity for fleet operators. Rising fuel-economy standards during the 2020s will do the same. That’s about to change.

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Volvo Fleet Electrical Electric 131

Green Car Congress

JULY 9, 2012

China’s State Council has published a plan to develop the domestic energy-saving and new energy vehicle industry, which includes battery-electric vehicles, plug-in hybrid vehicles and fuel cell vehicles. Fuel cell stack research. kW/kg, at a cost of 200 yuan/kW. Wh), with a cycle life of 2,000 or more than 10 years;and.

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Auto Industry Industry Industrial 2015 334

Green Car Congress

MARCH 8, 2010

Economy-wide CO 2 prices of $30-60/t CO 2 are too weak on their own to motivate significant reductions in CO 2 emissions from transportation. The key to obtaining significant reductions in transportation-related GHG emissions is to increase the cost of driving.

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Tax Credit Tax Emissions Fuel 220

Clean Fleet Report

AUGUST 6, 2023

Electrify America’s charging network were the backbone of our trip Cost Comparison We charged 412.23 kWh over the 1,796-mile trip at an estimated retail cost of $203. The fuel costs we saw posted during our trip averaged $4 per gallon for 87 octane, which would be $276 gasoline costs, so advantage electric, but not by much.

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Las Vegas Charging Utah Miles 83

Green Car Congress

SEPTEMBER 17, 2010

Jaguar Land Rover (lead company), Ford Motor Company, IAV (UK), CPT, BP, University of Nottingham, Imperial College London. Ford Motor Company Ltd (lead company), Jaguar Land Rover, Johnson Matthey Plc, ITM Power (Trading) Ltd, Revolve Technologies Ltd, Cambustion Ltd, University of Bradford, University of Liverpool, University of Birmingham.

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Land Rover Carbon Vehicles Plug-in 231

Green Car Congress

AUGUST 6, 2014

This flexibility offers a high degree of freedom for design and engine manufacturers need to balance the cost of hardware testing with turn-around time and practicality for mass production. In this, it is leveraging its experience with automotive batteries (CAEBAT, earlier post ) and fusion (IPS for ITER). Optimizing injector design.

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Engine GM Ford 2014 335

Green Car Congress

FEBRUARY 26, 2009

Best vehicle choice for minimum fuel consumption, cost, or greenhouse gas emissions as a function of distance driven between charges across sensitivity scenarios. Larger battery packs allow drivers to go longer distances on electric power. But batteries are heavy and expensive. Shiau et al. 2009) Click to enlarge.

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PHEV Emissions Fuel Gas-Electric 199

Green Car Congress

DECEMBER 23, 2011

The report focused on two main alternative scenarios: plug-in electric vehicles (PEVs) and combined PEVs and fuel cell vehicles (FCVs). PEV adoption is hampered by a couple of key factors (such as cost), both in the near-term and in the long-term; the report concludes that it is unlikely that PEVs can make up 80% of light-duty vehicles (i.e.

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2005 Transportation California Energy 250

Green Car Congress

JANUARY 25, 2013

John DeCicco at the University of Michigan argues that to reduce transportation sector greenhouse gas emissions, the proper policy focus should be upstream in sectors that provide the fuel, rather than downstream on the choice of fuels in the automobile. In a new working paper, Prof.

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Fuel Supplies Transportation Climate Protection 236

Green Car Congress

FEBRUARY 2, 2013

The US Department of Energy (DOE) Vehicle Technology Program is seeking public comment on the draft of an upcoming solicitation ( DE-FOA-0000793 ) totaling more than $50 million for new research projects that will develop advanced technologies to improve vehicle performance and increase fuel economy. 40 to +140. Failure mode.

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Green Car Congress

MARCH 23, 2012

DE-FOA-0000648 ) This funding will support the development of high-strength, lightweight carbon fiber composites and advanced steels and alloys that will help vehicle manufacturers improve the fuel economy of cars and trucks while maintaining and improving safety and performance. DOE will make up to $8.2

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Carbon Fiber Vehicles Carbon Engine 218

Green Car Congress

SEPTEMBER 14, 2015

These projects have brought together a wide variety of companies, the national laboratories, and universities. The SuperTruck projects incorporated a number of vehicle power demand technologies that accounted for about 56 to 74% of the total fuel consumption reductions, with 26 to 44% coming from engine efficiency improvements.

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MPG 2009 Miles Fuel 150

Green Car Congress

JUNE 19, 2015

The analysis used by federal agencies to set standards for fuel economy (CAFE) and greenhouse gas emissions for new US light-duty vehicles from 2017 to 2025 was thorough and of high caliber overall, according to a new report from the National Research Council. UMTRI Survey: US drivers want better fuel economy, don’t care how.

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Standards Fuel Economy Economy EPA 150

Green Cars News

JULY 13, 2009

Today, the University of California, Berkeley, Center for Entrepreneurship & Technology releases the new study examining the market size for electric cars with switchable batteries and the economic and environmental benefits of mass-market switch to electric cars. light-vehicle fleet by 2030.

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Plug In Partners

JANUARY 24, 2006

Plug-in Hybrid Electric Vehicles (PHEVs) would combine today’s new gas-electric hybrid technology with larger batteries that could provide an all-electric operating range of 25 to 35 miles or more. The result is an 80+ mile-per-gallon vehicle — with even greater fuel economy possible utilizing bio-fuels. Last year, U.S.

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Nickel Metal Hydride EPRI Plug-in Austin 100

Revenge of the Electric Car

APRIL 6, 2010

From the article: ‘The New York study anticipates that by 2015, electric vehicle prices should decline because of reduced battery costs, that there will be a sufficient supply of electric vehicles to purchase, and that consumers will take advantage of the existing federal tax credit of $7,500 for new electric cars.

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New York City New York Obama Tax Credit 167

Green Car Congress

FEBRUARY 19, 2009

(CPI) shortly after GM selected CPI and its parent LG Chem as the provider for the Li-ion batteries for the Extended Range Electric Vehicle (E-REV) Chevy Volt. (GM Dr. Patil has an undergraduate degree from IIT, Bombay (India) and a PhD in Aerospace Engineering from the University of Michigan, Ann Arbor. Source: DOE, ALBAA 2008.

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Li-ion Powered Power Market 170

Green Car Congress

JUNE 10, 2013

A new analysis by Orkun Karabasoglu and Jeremy Michalek of the Carnegie Mellon Vehicle Electrification Group at Carnegie Mellon University found that driving conditions affect the economic and environmental benefits of electrified vehicles “ substantially ”. Their study is published in the journal Energy Policy.

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Green Car Congress

NOVEMBER 7, 2014

Despite the recent progress, a number of myths around the use, power efficiency and cost of fuel cells still exist. Hydrogen is the most abundant element in the Universe but, on earth, it must normally be extracted from water or organic compounds. The cost of making fuel cell vehicles has recently dropped dramatically.

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Fuel Electric Vehicles Market Hydrogen 281

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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Carbon Fiber Manufacturer Carbon Lithium Sulfur 210

Tony Karrer Delicious EVdriven

APRIL 21, 2009

Its like having a second fuel tank that you always use first -- only you fill up at home, from a regular outlet, at an equivalent cost of under $1/gallon. California Air Resources Board studies show that battery electric vehicles emit at least 67% lower greenhouse gases than gasoline cars -- even more assuming renewables.

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Green Car Congress

JANUARY 11, 2010

The FT-CH is a concept that would address Toyota’s stated strategy to offer a wider variety of conventional hybrid choices to its customers, as it begins to introduce plug-in hybrids (PHVs) and battery electrics (BEVs) in model year 2012, and hydrogen fuel cell vehicles (FCHVs) in 2015 in global markets.

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Prius Toyota Concept Hybrid 218

Green Car Congress

JULY 17, 2015

The PHEV (Plug-in Hybrid Electric Vehicle), a subset of the electric car, combines a primary electric motor with a much smaller back-up engine fueled with a hydrocarbon/biofuel mix. (In The PHEV does not require the heavy, costly batteries required by other electric cars, nor does it suffer from a limited range or poor freeway performance.

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PHEV Plug-in Renewable Energy 150

Clean Fleet Report

DECEMBER 24, 2022

A traditional center console has been reimagined as a Universal Island that is moveable and incorporates cup holders and charge ports. 58 kilowatt-hour (kWh) lithium-ion polymer battery. kWh Lithium-ion Polymer battery. kWh Lithium-ion Polymer battery. Hyundai calls this its Smart Living Room concept. 168 horsepower.

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Hyundai Lithium Ion All-Electric Light 87

Get Electric Vehicle

FEBRUARY 16, 2022

Environmental impact of EV on its whole life (from the production to the disposal of batteries etc.) Battery manufacturing etc. Effect of regenerative braking on HEV battery 4. It’s a bit more complicated than battery electric modeling. I want to know about battery performance analysis in electrical vehicle.

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IDEA Electric Vehicles Vehicles Electrical 98

Clean Fleet Report

JUNE 21, 2021

of torque, powered by a 77-kilowatt-hour (kWh) lithium-ion battery. The battery is charged through a plug-in port offering three basic charging speeds. Driving around town, stuck in stop-and-go rush hour freeway traffic or coasting down hills will recharge the battery. State Of Charge (SOC): 52% battery remaining.

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Miles Charging All-Electric Range 81