Green Car Congress

APRIL 15, 2019

Researchers from Northwestern University and Princeton University have explored the impact on US air quality from an aggressive conversion of internal combustion vehicles to battery-powered electric vehicles (EVs). No matter how the power is generated, the more combustion cars you take off the road, the better the ozone quality.

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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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Green Car Congress

JANUARY 17, 2023

The CEA and Renault Group have jointly developed a new electronic power converter architecture directly integrated into the vehicle’s charger. Due to the use of ferrite materials, dedicated to high frequency, and a shaping injection process called Power Injection Molding, the converter has become more compact.

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Green Car Congress

FEBRUARY 4, 2019

Kiepe Electric has ordered 80 standardized lithium-ion battery systems from Voltabox AG for trolleybuses. Each battery system is made up of three structurally identical standard containers, each of which contains 12 battery modules with lithium titanate (LTO) cells. The standard container has an energy content of 15.2

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Green Car Congress

FEBRUARY 24, 2014

electric utility company, battery manufacturers Exide and beta-motion and inverter manufacturer SMA Solar Technology AG (SMA) have joined forces to build the first multi-technology, modular large-scale 5MW battery storage system. Beta-motion GmbH’s high-output lithium-ion batteries will be used for efficient load management.

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Green Car Congress

NOVEMBER 19, 2019

The vehicles are part of a large-scale order for 56 units of the battery-powered city bus which is series-produced in Mannheim, Germany. The consultancy team at Daimler Buses eMobility Consulting are assisting ESWE in the conversion of their fleet to electromobility solutions. —Till Oberwörder, Head of Daimler Buses.

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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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Clean Fleet Report

MAY 14, 2023

Experts retrofitted the baby blue 1968 model with an electric motor, which the company used to debut its conversion program. The battery-powered model reaches 62 mph in 5.5 Classic looks, current power 2. Its fully charged battery will carry you 300 miles while you lounge on its wool-lined seats.

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Green Car Congress

AUGUST 31, 2021

Wrightspeed and Matthews Specialty Vehicles are teaming up to develop, convert, and deliver battery-powered and range-extended electric buses, trucks, and specialty vehicles with industry-leading performance, efficiency, and total cost of ownership.

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Green Car Congress

AUGUST 12, 2014

Power savings in plug-in vehicles versus total savings per car. Using wide bandgap (WBG) materials such as silicon carbide (SiC) and gallium nitride (GaN)s for power electronics can improve efficiency and thereby reduce the high cost of battery packs, according to a new report from Lux Research. Source: Lux. Click to enlarge.

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Green Car Congress

FEBRUARY 4, 2021

kWh/liter—about 10 times the capacity of Li-Ion batteries. Specific energies and energy densities including conversion losses. POWERPASTE (left); POWERPASTE cartridge (middle); portable 100 W power supply unit (right). And compared to batteries, it has ten times the energy storage density. Source: Fraunhofer IFAM.

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Green Car Congress

AUGUST 25, 2021

Ricardo won a contract with LS Automotive Technologies to develop a high voltage DC-DC converter to power the low voltage network in electric vehicles. The power conversion has to be performed at high efficiency to ensure that the equipment is cool and only occupies a small footprint in the vehicle.

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Green Car Congress

MAY 12, 2022

Freightliner will leverage Cummins’ fourth-generation fuel cell powertrain, which provides improved power density, efficiency and durability. —Amy Davis, Vice President and President of New Power at Cummins. The joint effort will support both organizations’ goals to reduce emissions across product offerings and operations.

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Green Car Congress

SEPTEMBER 24, 2018

The four companies agreed to conduct technical feasibility studies regarding the integration of hybrid drives developed by MTU ( earlier post ), a Rolls-Royce brand, into Coradia Lint rail vehicles and their use on routes of Dieselnetz Saxony-Anhalt, a diesel-powered rail network in Germany.

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Green Car Congress

DECEMBER 19, 2019

A flexible payload and battery concept allow adaptation to individual needs for practical use. The range with a utilizable battery capacity of 47 kWh (installed: 55 kWh) is 168 kilometers (104.4 For example, the battery charges when going downhill, instead of losing the energy when braking.

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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. While battery-electric vehicles can be used efficiently and in an eco-friendly way in urban areas, fuel cell technology offers an attractive approach when it comes to emission-free logistics over long distances and with higher payloads.

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EV Central

OCTOBER 16, 2022

Around 75 percent of RAV4 sales are petrol-electric powered. 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. 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

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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CleanTechnica EVs

DECEMBER 19, 2021

SEA Electric has signed a contract to convert 10,000 school buses to battery power over the next 5 years.

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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 aim is to remove limitations in battery capacity and thereby achieve longer distances in electrical propulsion.

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Green Car Congress

OCTOBER 28, 2016

million in funding, seeks demonstrations of arbitrarily placed, reliable, contactable, and generally useable p-n junction regions that enable high-performance and reliable vertical power electronic semiconductor devices. Technical advances in power electronics promise enormous energy efficiency gains throughout the United States economy.

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Clean Fleet Report

AUGUST 8, 2024

No combustion=no engine noise Conversely, gas-powered cars generate noise through vibrations and other engine mechanisms when operating. Companies have electrified their fleets, deploying battery-powered vans, trucks and other service vehicles. Another benefit of EVs is the power under the hood.

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Electric Auto Association

APRIL 6, 2022

When you drive an old-fashioned gasoline-powered vehicle, you know your tank’s gallon capacity, as well as your typical mpg in town or on the highway. Regardless of how or where you charge, not all the electrical energy pulled from the grid—those watts—will make it into the “fuel tank” (battery). Why does battery temperature matter?

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Green Car Congress

JUNE 19, 2014

The fuel cell and 28 kWh lithium-ion battery pack power the vehicle’s 200 kW powertrain, air conditioning, and auxiliary systems. Onboard batteries are recharged by regenerative braking as well as grid charging. Click to enlarge. Earlier post.). Earlier post.).

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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, 2017

Volkswagen is also highlighting its spectrum of efficiency and electrification solutions all the way to further optimized battery-powered propulsion as in the new e-Golf and the coming new MEB-based electric vehicles exemplified by its series of I.D. High-voltage battery system of the new Volkswagen e-Golf. liters/100 km.

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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

DECEMBER 3, 2009

PHEV/EV Models 2010-2012 by Battery Chemistry. 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. Source: Pike Research.

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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

JANUARY 26, 2015

Symbio FCell has delivered the first five Renault Kangoo ZE Light commercial vehicles (LCVs) powered by its hydrogen Fuel Cell Range-Extender, as part of a full fleet project led by the Conseil Général de la Manche which will ultimately deploy 40 vehicles. Earlier post.) La Manche is a département in West Normandy, France.

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Green Car Congress

NOVEMBER 7, 2011

The European yard tractor incorporates Balqon Corporation’s proprietary electric vehicle drive system, which encompasses complete power management, propulsion, and power conversation systems and includes drive trains and energy systems (i.e., batteries and a charging system).

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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. The interaction of the fuel cell and the high performance battery used as a buffer and additional safety system have also been successfully demonstrated in a simplified form in the laboratory.

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Green Car Congress

NOVEMBER 24, 2021

Now, researchers from the US Department of Energy’s Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory (Berkeley Lab), collaborating with UCLA and UC Berkeley researchers, suggest that the US can retrofit diesel-electric trains with batteries in a way that is cost-competitive with diesel. a) Depiction of the TCO for battery-electric propulsion. (b)

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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

JULY 12, 2012

The grant is part of a larger initiative to develop the core solutions to enable higher penetration of renewable power onto the electric grid through advanced solar energy harvest, storage and array control capabilities.

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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.

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Green Car Congress

JULY 24, 2014

The complete drive system, with a mid-mounted motor, display, remote and battery, powers e-bikes and pedelecs. Conti eBike System at a glance: Display, integrated control unit in the left handle, Motor, battery (downtube and carrier variants). Earlier post.). Click to enlarge.

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