Green Car Congress
OCTOBER 31, 2009
Wave rotor technology has been explored since 1906, although its first significant application was in 1940 by Brown Boveri Company (BBC, today ABB) which used it as a high pressure stage for a gas turbine locomotive engine. The fuel supplies (green) are located at the inner inlet port. Mazda produced 150,000 Comprex diesel cars.
Cars That Think
FEBRUARY 18, 2022
It ran on 110 volts DC supplied by a large army diesel engine that sat on the back of a truck parked outside. At a science conference in September 1947, the prominent chemist Harry Melville stated that specimens with lifetimes of less than a millisecond were far beyond direct physical measurement. www.youtube.com. www.youtube.com.
Green Car Congress
DECEMBER 16, 2009
The 2 ºC maximal warming limit was cited at the UN Conference on the Human Environment in Stockholm in 1972, and revisited several decades later, in 1995, by the Wissenschaftlicher Beirat Globale Unweltveränderungen (WGBU), Germany’s national advisory council on climate change. “We Source: WGBU. Click to enlarge. The >2 Degree Target.
Green Cars News
SEPTEMBER 28, 2009
The popular car scrappage scheme is set to be extended the BBC reports. Business Secretary Lord Mandelson is set to announce a move to extend the scheme in his Labour Party Conference speech. The decision follows campaigns from motor industry bodies including the SMMT and RMIF calling for the scheme to be extended.
Green Car Congress
NOVEMBER 29, 2009
The 15 th Congress, also known as the 15 th Conference of Parties, or COP 15, was initially intended to be a largely procedural summit, with many major negotiating points settled and most environmental ministers prepared to sign a binding emissions treaty that contained specific emissions targets as well as commitments to financing structures.
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