Green Car Congress

AUGUST 25, 2021

DC-DC converters take energy from the direct current high voltage battery which powers the propulsion of the electric vehicle and convert it for use by the low-voltage direct current which powers vehicle lights, fans, pumps, wipers, and electronic control units.

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Green Car Congress

DECEMBER 19, 2019

m 3 , the same as for the Sprinter with a combustion engine. As with the entry-level diesel engine, the electric drive in the eSprinter drives the front wheels with an output of 85 kW and a torque figure of up to 295 N·m. A flexible payload and battery concept allow adaptation to individual needs for practical use.

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Green Car Congress

MAY 12, 2022

Depending on the customer application and energy infrastructure considerations, hydrogen-powered vehicles can absolutely complement battery-powered electric vehicles in accelerating our carbon-neutral journey.

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Green Car Congress

AUGUST 18, 2016

This very interesting project represents a unique opportunity to test the fuel cell technology for conversion of energy to our electric powertrains in a challenging customer operating environment. The trucks will run in distribution service with distances of almost 500 km (311 miles). —Nils-Gunnar Vågstedt.

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Green Car Congress

MAY 9, 2014

Ideal Power Inc., developer of a power conversion technology called Power Packet Switching Architecture (PPSA), received a purchase order for ten of its PPSA-enabled 30 kW battery converters from Coritech Services, a provider of custom engineering solutions for a variety of applications including electric vehicle charging.

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Green Car Congress

APRIL 11, 2017

The Koenigsegg Regera combines a twin-turbo V8 combustion engine with three electric motors and battery power via Koenigsegg Direct Drive. The Koenigsegg Direct Drive transmission (KDD) was invented by Christian von Koenigsegg and developed for the Regera by the Koenigsegg Advanced Engineering team.

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EV Central

NOVEMBER 11, 2023

Set to be introduced next year on the RAM 1500, the new Ramcharger powertrain includes a large 92kWh battery pack and a pair of dual motors that, combined, produce a punchy 494kW and 833Nm of torque. Those figures mean it is more powerful than the incoming battery-powered RAM 1500 REV, which generates 488kW and 800Nm.

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Green Car Congress

APRIL 27, 2016

The HY4’s drive train consists of a hydrogen storage unit, a low-temperature hydrogen fuel cell and a high performance battery. In order to take off, the engine must reliably provide a maximum take-off output for three minutes. HY4 is based on an efficient battery-powered electrical aircraft concept developed by the company Pipistrel.

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Green Car Congress

SEPTEMBER 9, 2020

The company is collaborating with Quantron AG, a specialist in the field of commercial vehicle conversion. Electric commercial vehicles that are powered solely by batteries are not suited for everyday operations, partly because of longer charging cycles and limited range.

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Fuel Lithium Ion Commercial Gas-Electric 348

Green Car Congress

FEBRUARY 29, 2012

ALTe is targeting fleet vehicles such as delivery trucks, vans and shuttle buses and even potentially taxis and limos, in the light- to medium-duty vehicle classes—initially as conversions, but ultimately extending to an OEM basis. ALTe is in long-term supply agreements with battery maker A123 Systems and electric motor supplier Remy.

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Green Car Congress

JUNE 19, 2014

US Hybrid Corporation, a global supplier of medium- and heavy-duty electric and hybrid powertrain power conversion components, executed a global licensing agreement with United Technologies Corporation (UTC) in January of this year to commercialize UTC’s proven Proton Exchange Membrane (PEM) fuel cell technologies. Click to enlarge.

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Green Car Congress

AUGUST 31, 2016

Power management company Eaton has introduced its new Bussmann series electric vehicle (EV) fuses designed to provide superior circuit protection while incorporating innovative technologies that promote a vehicle with higher performance and longer range.

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Green Car Congress

AUGUST 6, 2019

Ports of Auckland first started looking for a battery-powered tug in 2016. This made an ideal candidate for conversion to the first full-size, fully electric port tug. There are also high levels of redundancy built into its power systems. —Tony Gibson, CEO of Ports of Auckland.

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Green Car Congress

SEPTEMBER 24, 2014

Because the use of natural gas for transportation requires compressing, liquefying, or conversion, it is important to determine the best use of natural gas as a transportation fuel. The WTW analysis focused solely on the fuel-motive power cycle, disregarding the vehicle cycle—i.e.,

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Green Car Congress

FEBRUARY 8, 2010

The eVito Taxi is powered by a 70 kW Zytek electric drive system, driving the front wheels through a custom designed Vocis/Graziano transmission. A 38 kWh Valence Li-Ion battery power pack installed in a weatherproof enclosure beneath the floor allows the internal space of the taxi to remain unaffected by the electric conversion.

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Green Authority

SEPTEMBER 7, 2022

Electric bicycles are getting more popular, and if there’s something in you that wants to turn your conventional bike into an ebike, don’t worry because all it takes is to find the best electric bicycle conversion kit. These conversion kits work just like how you turn traditional skateboards into electric skateboards using conversion kits.

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Baua Electric

OCTOBER 8, 2023

Presen he’s no longer precisely the objective buyer, Jay Leno just lately were given to pluck the battery-powered semi-trailer truck for a spin for the untouched episode of his “Jay Leno’s Garage” on-line line.

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Green Car Congress

AUGUST 12, 2014

In electronic devices, WBG semiconductors can eliminate up to 90% of the power losses that currently occur during AC-to-DC and DC-to-AC electricity conversion, and they can handle voltages more than 10 times higher than Si-based devices, greatly enhancing performance in high-power applications. million to a $3.8-million

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EV Central

OCTOBER 16, 2022

But the X-Trail e-Power with e-4orce will only be available in the top Ti and Ti-L grades, costing $54,190 and $57,190 before on-road costs. litre engine, and more again than equivalent RAV4 hybrid models. The fourth-generation X-Trail launches late this year, but the e-Power with e-4orce hybrids won’t arrive until early 2023. .

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Green Car Congress

DECEMBER 20, 2013

VTO focuses on a mix of near- and long-term vehicle technologies including advanced batteries, power electronics and electric motors, lightweight and propulsion materials, advanced combustion engines, advanced fuels and lubricants, and other enabling technologies. million barrels per day); and.

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Teslarati

APRIL 29, 2021

The incident, which triggered a wave of inaccurate reports suggesting that the ill-fated vehicle was “driverless,” has rekindled conversations about Tesla’s response to misinformation and the dangers of irresponsible driving. . Immediately after the crash, Harris County Pct.

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Cars That Think

JANUARY 20, 2024

The Russian cargo vessel Sevmorput , commissioned in 1988, is the only nuclear-powered merchant ship still in operation as of early 2024. The other two ships, the Japanese Mutsu (1970) and the German Otto Hahn (1968), were both refitted with diesel engines partway through their service lives.

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Green Car Congress

FEBRUARY 19, 2009

Dominion Virginia Power has added two plug-in electric hybrid cars and two hybrid-powered bucket trucks to its fleet as part of its efforts to determine the impact of plug-in vehicles on electricity demand and to find ways to conserve energy and reduce vehicle emissions. The company uses approximately 1.7

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Charged EVs

MAY 7, 2024

The Ram ProMaster EV’s per-mile operating costs are undoubtedly just a fraction of those for its siblings powered by the company’s 3.6-liter liter V6 gasoline engine, but the new EV is still quite pricey. The Ram’s battery powers a 200 kW (268 hp) motor driving the front wheels, rated at 302 lb-ft of torque.

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Green Car Congress

DECEMBER 3, 2009

Battery chemistries that prioritize energy capacity over power density can equally satisfy both the plug-in hybrid electric vehicle (PHEV) and the EV battery segments, enabling vendors to offer products to multiple vendors for multiple models. Even with broad global interest in EVs, less than 2.5%

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Green Car Congress

NOVEMBER 24, 2021

In diesel-electric trains, a diesel engine is connected to an alternator that then supplies electricity to electric motors connected to the locomotive axles. Retrofitting the trains to be powered by batteries is therefore feasible because diesel-electric trains already have an electric motor.

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Electric Auto Association

JANUARY 5, 2023

“Palmer worked at General Electric’s Nuclear Energy Division back then, while Stan Skokan, our treasurer, was the engineer at Hewlett-Packard (HP) who measured BIll Hewlett’s shirt pocket to make sure their calculator would fit.” “So So many of our members have been practicing engineers, not just tinkerers,” Freund continued.

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Baua Electric

MAY 7, 2024

The Ram ProMaster EV’s per-mile operating costs are undoubtedly just a fraction of those for its siblings powered by the company’s 3.6-liter liter V6 gasoline engine, but the new EV is still quite pricey. The Ram’s battery powers a 200 kW (268 hp) motor driving the front wheels, rated at 302 lb-ft of torque.

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Cars That Think

JUNE 4, 2022

One of the first decisions Pake in turn made was to hire, among others, Robert Taylor, then at the University of Utah , to help him recruit engineers and scientists for the Computer Science and Systems Science Laboratories. Ingalls, now a principal engineer at Apple Computer Inc., Cupertino, Calif.

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Green Car Congress

MAY 12, 2011

The API thus enables the conversion of information such as historical driving data such as where a driver has traveled and at what time of day into useful real-time predictions, such as where a driver is headed at the time of departure. A predicted route of travel could include an area restricted to electric-only driving.

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Green Car Congress

MAY 29, 2010

When incorporated into resins, fuzzy fibers enable composites to be tailored for electrical and thermal conductivity, chemical and biological sensing, energy storage and conversion, thermal management and other properties. This is going to disrupt the way we think about materials.

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Green Car Congress

SEPTEMBER 10, 2013

liter BMW TwinPower Turbo engine and BMW eDrive technology plus intelligent energy management produces system output of 266 kW/362 hp (max. The plug-in hybrid drive system of the BMW i8 comprises a BMW TwinPower Turbo engine combined with BMW eDrive technology. Rear-mounted 3-cylinder engine. torque: 570 N·m / 420 lb-ft).

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My Electric Car

AUGUST 21, 2020

There has been much discussion for over thirty years or more around the use of hydrogen fuel cells as an alternative to the internal combustion engine. Fuel cells had been promoted in some sectors as the best alternative to the internal combustion engine. So why haven’t FCEV becoming as prolific as other electric cars?

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Green Car Congress

JULY 14, 2022

The Agrale MT17.0LE project features a bespoke Equipmake ZED with a 318kWh lithium-ion battery, Equipmake’s own HTM 3500 electric motor—producing 3,500 Nm torque at 1,000rpm and 400kW maximum power, seamlessly integrated into the prop shaft without the need for a separate transmission—and a Semikron SKAI inverter.

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EV Adoption

FEBRUARY 7, 2021

On January 28 GM announced that it plans (aspires) to exclusively offer electric vehicles by 2035, ending production of its cars, trucks and SUVs with diesel- and gasoline-powered engines. Read veteran EV journalist John Voelcker’s take on how much of the media got this announcement wrong.). So What Does It All Mean?

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The Truth About Cars

JANUARY 5, 2024

Lutz brought with him other investors, as well as executives and engineers from GM. Each vehicle would use the VIA plug-in powertrain which turned the existing gas engine into a range extender. & The V6 or V8 engine operated only as a generator to supply electricity to the electric drive unit once batteries were empty.

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Cars That Think

NOVEMBER 30, 2023

Two of GE’s CT7 engines will be combined with electric propulsion units to demonstrate a megawatt-class parallel hybrid electric system. We are in the early stages of a key transition: Electrification could be the first fundamental change in airplane propulsion systems since the advent of the jet engine. Why Hybrid Electric?

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