Green Car Congress

OCTOBER 26, 2018

The UPS cargo eBike is equipped with a battery-powered electric motor that can travel longer distances than traditional bikes, carry substantial loads and navigate hills and other terrain. The modular, detachable boxes on the trailer can hold up to 400 lbs and have a 95 cubic foot capacity.

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Green Car Congress

MARCH 12, 2009

Source: Rice University. Researchers from Rice University and the University of Oulu in Oulu, Finland, have found that carbon nanotubes could significantly improve the performance of electrical commutators that are common in electric motors and generators. Carbon nanotube commutator. Click to enlarge. Geza Toth et al.

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Green Car Congress

SEPTEMBER 5, 2017

The 4kW stack from Intelligent Energy offers power for other applications, including range extension for battery-powered electric vehicles, four wheel vehicles and auxiliary power—especially for diesel replacement. Intelligent Energy and DIGIMAN. In May 2017, the EU launched the €3.5-million

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Green Car Congress

APRIL 27, 2016

DLR is presenting the HY4—a four-seater passenger fuel cell hybrid electric aircraft prototype ( earlier post )— at the 2016 Hannover Messe, along with research and development partners Hydrogenics, Pipistrel, H2FLY, the University of Ulm and Stuttgart Airport. Der Stuttgart Airport is supporting the project as a home airport.

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Green Car Congress

SEPTEMBER 4, 2013

The US Department of Energy (DOE) will award more than $45 million to 38 new projects that accelerate the research and development of advanced vehicle technologies. University of Michigan. The Ohio State University. Arizona State University. Mississippi State University. Ford Motor Company. ?This 499,998.

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Green Car Congress

AUGUST 12, 2014

As an extreme example (because of the very large battery pack), Lux notes that on Tesla Model S, a 20% power savings could result in gains of more than $6,000 in battery cost—8% of the vehicles cost. The US, Japan and the United Kingdom, among others, are funding research and development in power electronics.

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Green Car Congress

NOVEMBER 17, 2016

The US Department of Energy (DOE) will soon issue its FY17 Vehicle Technologies Program Wide Funding Opportunity Announcement ( DE-FOA-0001701 ). The upcoming FOA may include the following areas of interest (AOI): Advanced Technology Battery Cell Development. Earlier post.) Open Topic.

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Green Car Congress

JUNE 19, 2014

The project is funded by the State of Hawaii and Office of Naval Research via the Hawaii Natural Energy Institute (HNEI). Onboard batteries are recharged by regenerative braking as well as grid charging.

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Green Car Congress

AUGUST 24, 2010

Ford Motor Company and Portland General Electric will collaborate to help prepare the city of Portland and the Pacific Northwest for the operation of electric vehicles. Ford will draw upon PGE’s partnership with Portland State University to further study urban mobility and the integration of energy and sustainable design.

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Green Car Congress

NOVEMBER 17, 2010

Honda Motor Co. Ito said both vehicles are integral to what Honda is calling its Electric Mobility Network, an approach to reducing CO 2 emissions through a range of products, energy-management and energy-production technologies. The plug-in hybrid also uses regenerative braking to charge the battery. The Fit EV concept.

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Cars That Think

MARCH 11, 2023

It occurred in the wake of the California electricity crisis of 2000 and 2001, when mismanaged deregulation, market manipulation, and environmental catastrophe combined to unhinge the power grid. In the early years of the automobile, battery-powered electric cars were competitive with cars fueled by gasoline and other types of propulsion.

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Green Car Congress

APRIL 6, 2010

NASA, US Navy and university researchers have successfully demonstrated the first robotic underwater vehicle to be powered entirely by ocean thermal energy. People have long dreamed of a machine that produces more energy than it consumes and runs indefinitely. Its thermal recharging engine produced about 1.7

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Green Car Congress

MAY 16, 2013

Porsche had unveiled the concept version of the 918 Spyder Plug-in Hybrid at the Geneva Motor Show in 2010. The 918 Spyder features a novel all-wheel drive concept with a combination of a 608 hp (453 kW) V8 combustion engine, 115 kW electric motor on the rear axle and ~95 kW electric motor on the front axle. Li-ion battery.

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Cars That Think

MARCH 18, 2022

Starting this year, thousands of battery-powered electric drive Volkswagen vehicles capable of both loading and offloading current—bidirectional charging, as industry calls it—have been rolling off production lines in eastern Germany. And he’s skeptical about the cost factor in home bidirectional chargepoints.

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Cars That Think

JANUARY 20, 2024

“At the same time, it’s becoming apparent that alternative-fuel solutions we’re looking at have big drawbacks, and that producing these fuels will take a lot of green power that will be needed to replace coal and gas on shore. The reactor would produce steam to spin turbines that would generate electricity to power motors.

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Green Car Congress

JUNE 14, 2009

Riversimple designed the Hyrban ( earier post ) to achieve 300 mpg (energy equivalent); the company calculates that the fuel cell car will have well-to-wheel CO 2 emissions of 31 g/km when fueled with hydrogen produced via steam methane reforming of natural gas. Four in-wheel motors. Almost all braking is done by the electric motors.

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Green Car Congress

JUNE 29, 2011

The primary goal of the project, which runs until June 2012, is consistently to utilize renewable energy sources for electrically powered vehicles. Representing the energy industry is energy provider E.ON. from renewable energy sources—to attain significant progress in environmental protection.

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Charged EVs

MAY 8, 2023

In recent testimony, Nuvve CEO Gregory Poilasne told the lawmakers that bidirectional charging can reduce the total cost of EV ownership, and that it’s essential for integrating more renewable energy into the grid. Gregory Poilasne: In April, I went in front of the Energy Committee and the Transportation Committee of the California Senate.

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Green Car Congress

MAY 18, 2011

The project is supported by Japan’s New Energy and Industrial Technology Development Organization (NEDO), in cooperation with the State of Hawaii, Hawaiian Electric Company, Inc., On Maui, 15% of the electricity supply is already generated by renewable energy, and there are plans to increase this percentage going forward.

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Green Car Congress

MAY 26, 2009

Dr. Takeuchi is the Greatbatch Professor of Advanced Power Sources at the University of Buffalo, and has the distinction of being the most prolific woman inventor in the US, holding 143 patents at last count. Prior to joining the university, she spent 23 years at Greatbatch, Inc., Mechanical Degradation of Traction Batteries.

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Get Electric Vehicle

SEPTEMBER 16, 2022

By 2050, it is expected that 74% of Europe’s cars on the road will be battery-powered. Despite the rapid adoption of electric vehicles, there has been little discussion about standardizing battery types. Currently, the energy source for the motor or prime mover in this generation of EVs is Lithium-ion (Li-ion) batteries.

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EV Connect

APRIL 12, 2021

That wave of public sentiment is what pushed a company like General Motors to make the stunning announcement that it would phase out all gas-powered vehicles by 2035. Department of Energy study of electric vehicle infrastructure found a significant shortage of fast-charging (DCFC) station availability across the country.

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My Electric Car

AUGUST 21, 2020

The Honda FCX Clarity FCEV and the Toyota Mirai FCEV, both use an electric drive motor and a battery pack. The motors are highly efficient, they have the same torque characteristics and they are silent. The only by products are water and a fair degree of heat, the latter indicating a degree of inefficiency and wasted energy.

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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.” He had all these charts and graphs showing the power going into the motor. It’s very cool."

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Get Electric Vehicle

JULY 30, 2022

The industry is trying to come up with more energy-intensive power sources. According to an estimate by the India Energy Storage Alliance (IESA) by 2026, the Indian EV market would expand at a CAGR of 36%, and the market for EV batteries will grow at a CAGR of 30%. Battery Researchers and Engineers.

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Cars That Think

FEBRUARY 8, 2022

Today, Joby has more than 1,000 employees and it’s backed by close to US $2 billion in investments, including $400 million from Toyota Motor Corporation along with big infusions from Uber and JetBlue. One is that, to deal with eVTOLs, the agency has chosen to adapt its existing certification rules. A 2020 study published by the U.S.

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Green Cars News

NOVEMBER 11, 2009

One North East has invested £314,000 to sponsor the ECO2Trans project, which is converting two electric Gulliver U500EUK buses into hydrogen vehicles using a fuel cell, battery and capacitor combination. The ECO2Trans project is helping AMAP to trial new energy storage devices, novel motor technology and develop new control technology.

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Green Car Congress

AUGUST 23, 2017

The US Department of Energy’s (DOE) Advanced Research Projects Agency-Energy (ARPA-E) announced $30 million in funding for 21 innovative projects as part of the Creating Innovative and Reliable Circuits Using Inventive Topologies and Semiconductors (CIRCUITS) program. Imagen Energy. Earlier post.). Empower Semiconductor.

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Green Car Congress

MARCH 19, 2009

The US Department of Energy (DOE) has released two competitive solicitations that will provide up to a combined $2.4 billion to produce advanced automotive batteries and their components, and up to $500 million to produce other components needed for electric vehicles, such as electric motors.

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Green Car Congress

NOVEMBER 7, 2014

by Dr. Henri Winand, CEO of Intelligent Energy. FCEVs are a real opportunity to offer motoring consumers a zero tailpipe emissions yet practical solution. Myth #1: Hydrogen energy is not all that energy efficient. On the 1 st of May 2014, the California Energy Commission announced that it will invest $46.6

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Green Car Congress

APRIL 9, 2011

Over the past year the Dynamics and Control group of the Eindhoven University of Technology (TU/e) (The Netherlands) has developed a battery electric research vehicle based on a VW Lupo 3L 1.2 The disadvantage is somewhat reduced energy density compared other Li-ion chemistries. electric power steering. power 1000 W, max.

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Green Car Congress

JANUARY 11, 2017

Engineers at the University of California, Riverside (UCR) have developed a new online energy management system (EMS) based on an evolutionary algorithm for plug-in hybrid vehicles (PHEVs) that they say can improve PHEV fuel efficiency by more than 30%. Broadly, existing EMS for PHEVs are either rule-based or optimization-based.

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Green Car Congress

OCTOBER 18, 2010

We therefore examine the feasibility of electric driving taking into account not only drivetrain choices, but also driving patterns, changes in the electricity mix, charging patterns, and energy losses in relevant parts of the WTW chain. They also assumed a shift from current central motor (CM) drivetrains to wheel motor (WM) drivetrains.

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Green Car Congress

MARCH 6, 2012

The 402bhp (300kW) mid-engined, twin-motor sports car is capable of accelerating from 0-60 mph in 4 seconds and 0-130 mph in 30 seconds burst. The TSB provided the chance to access new technologies and work with a variety of organizations, including universities, suppliers and OEMs. Click to enlarge. —Francois Bancon.

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Cars That Think

FEBRUARY 1, 2022

Read more: DNA Data Drives Point Toward Exabyte Scale Sean McNeil/GTRI Battery-Powered Pickup The inaugural model from startup automaker Rivian is the world’s first EV pickup. An electric motor at each of the truck’s four wheels gives it both the acceleration and nimble road handling of sports cars less than half its size.

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Green Car Congress

DECEMBER 14, 2009

In Tokyo, Toyota Motor Corporation (TMC) formally announced the introduction of the Prius Plug-in Hybrid—the plug-in version of the third-generation Prius gasoline-electric hybrid vehicle—into key markets. Energy Monitor Screen displays possible in EV mode driving range. THS II Plug-in (with motor speed reduction device).

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Green Car Congress

DECEMBER 8, 2021

IONIQ 5 is part of Hyundai Motor Group’s plan to introduce 23 BEV models and sell 1 million BEV units worldwide by 2025. When equipped with a single motor (2WD), IONIQ 5’s maximum EPA estimated driving range on a single charge is 303 miles. The maximum EPA estimated range of the dual motor all-wheel drive models is 256 miles.

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