Green Car Congress

DECEMBER 17, 2020

The new Mirai is one part of an electrification strategy that also includes Toyota’s current and future hybrids and upcoming battery electric vehicles (BEVs). The RWD layout also allowed for increased hydrogen storage to boost EPA-estimated range to 402 miles (Mirai XLE grade), a 30% increase over the first-generation Mirai.

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Baua Electric

MARCH 5, 2024

It also bought Varroc Engineering’s four-wheeler lighting business a few years ago. We are working with some carmakers to adapt what we have been developing for hydrogen to CNG. Plastic Omnium is a key player in the car module space with its bumpers and tailgates, and exterior systems as well as in plastic fuel tank systems.

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Green Car Congress

JANUARY 22, 2015

DOE also announced up to $35 million to advance fuel cell and hydrogen technologies, including enabling the early adoption of fuel cell applications, such as light duty fuel cell electric vehicles. Area of Interest (AOI) 2: Ultra-Light Door Design, Manufacturing and Demonstration. less than a baseline structure.

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Green Car Congress

DECEMBER 1, 2016

Carbon specialist SGL Group is a development partner in the European joint development project INSPIRE (Integration of Novel Stack Components for Performance, Improved DuRability and LowEr Cost), which has been funded with a €7-million (US$7.4-million) Earlier post.). —Park et al. Gerd Wingefeld, Chief Technology Officer at SGL Group.

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Green Car Congress

JANUARY 6, 2016

While battery-electric vehicles, super-light carbon fiber composites, and hydrogen fuel cells will all be available, a new report from Lux Research has concluded that micro-hybrids will provide the most economical route—$1,700 additional average vehicle cost—to meet aggressive fuel efficiency targets in 2025: 54.5

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Green Car Congress

JUNE 21, 2017

million for 30 projects working toward the discovery and development of innovative, low-cost materials needed for hydrogen production and storage and for automotive fuel cells ( earlier post ). This year’s FOA is further developing research on fuel cell electric vehicles using hydrogen made from different domestic resources.

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Green Car Congress

JANUARY 14, 2011

Ford is focused on lightweighting as a key enabling technology for lowering fuel consumption in combustion-engined vehicles (ICE) and for extending the range—and the size—of battery electric vehicles (EVs). Light weighting] is definitely not going to cost the same as vehicles today. We’re not capped at the C segment.

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Green Car Congress

AUGUST 16, 2016

million through the Advanced Vehicle Power Technology Alliance to support projects specifically focused on advanced high-voltage electrolytes for batteries and advanced engine and powertrain technologies to improve vehicle fuel efficiency. The Department of the Army is contributing an additional $2.2 United Parcel Service. Federal funding.

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Green Car Congress

FEBRUARY 15, 2022

The selected projects will focus on technologies such as revolutionizing fuel cells for light- and heavy-duty vehicles, and technologies to generate less nuclear waste and reduce the cost of fuel. A Zero-emission Process for Direct Reduction of Iron by Hydrogen Plasma in a Rotary Kiln Reactor - $1,200,000. University of Washington.

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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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Green Car Congress

NOVEMBER 18, 2014

The hydrogen fuel cell electric vehicle re-fuels in 3–5 minutes, travels up to 300 miles (482 km) on a full tank, and will be available to customers in California beginning in fall 2015. Additional markets will follow, tracking the expansion of a convenient hydrogen refueling infrastructure. High-pressure Hydrogen Tanks.

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Clean Fleet Report

MARCH 18, 2024

This is impressive as there are only 55 operating hydrogen fuel stations in the state and the availability of hydrogen is sometimes spotty. The hydrogen fueling station network slowly being built out, funded in part with state support that averaged $20 million/year for the past couple decades. In October 2023 Gov.

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Green Car Congress

APRIL 10, 2012

The FOA covers 8 broad topics—Vehicles; Biomass; Hydrogen and Fuel Cell Technologies; Advanced Manufacturing; Buildings; Solar; Water; and Wind—and 30 subtopics aligned with Office of Energy Efficiency and Renewable Energy (EERE) programs. VTP seeks projects in the following areas: Electric Drive Vehicle Batteries.

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Clean Fleet Report

OCTOBER 1, 2022

It is rare when we post a review of a car that is only available in one of the 50 United States, but such is the case with the 2022 Toyota Mirai hydrogen fuel cell electric vehicle (FCEV), which is only sold in California. It is all about the hydrogen fueling station network, which is slowly being built out.

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Charged EVs

MAY 18, 2021

The battery packs were made by Williams Advanced Engineering, and a few other components such as motors, inverters and braking systems were made by undisclosed companies. The battery pack, developed and built by Williams Advanced Engineering, is enclosed in a rugged enclosure of carbon fiber composite, which weighs less than 400 kg.

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Green Car Congress

NOVEMBER 17, 2015

TDI quattro plug-in hybrid ( earlier post ); the Audi A7 h-tron quattro fuel cell vehicle ( earlier post ); the Audi e-tron quattro concept battery-electric SUV ( earlier post ); the Audi TT clubsport turbo concept ( earlier post ); the Audi RS 5 TDI competition concept ( earlier post ); and the Audi R18 e-tron quattro ( earlier post ).

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Green Car Congress

JANUARY 6, 2015

research vehicle from 2011 ( earlier post ), and combines on-board generation of electricity with an exceptionally powerful and compact high-voltage battery. The pressure tank made from CFRP is designed to store the hydrogen. A range of different lighting functions can be provided through these LED fields. Click to enlarge.

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Green Car Congress

DECEMBER 20, 2015

Dissimilar metal joint systems are limited to aluminum, steel, magnesium, and carbon fiber composites. Advanced Battery Component Material Diagnostics. Advanced Battery Materials Modeling. This effort is focused only on EPACT-defined gaseous fuels (natural gas, propane, and hydrogen).

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Green Car Congress

JULY 17, 2015

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. It is alarming to see comparisons of the Chevrolet Volt PHEV with battery electric cars when the comparison focuses only on the electric range and ignores the other important differences.

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Green Car Congress

JANUARY 21, 2016

This FOA contains a total of 11 Areas of Interest (AOIs) and focuses on advanced light-weighting; advanced battery development; low cost electric motor development; enabling technologies for high efficiency engines; and support for EV deployment and AFV workplace safety programs. Carbon Fiber Polymer Composite.

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