Green Car Congress

FEBRUARY 1, 2018

Punch Powertrain, a Belgium-based full-system supplier of fuel-efficient powertrains including transmissions and plug-in hybrid and battery-electric systems, is acquiring France-based power electronics expert Apojee. Depending on the sizing of components and gear ratios, the emKERS unit delivers up to 60 kW of peak power capacity.

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Green Car Congress

SEPTEMBER 12, 2012

Damen Shipyards Group’s inland waterway shipyard, and inland shipping company QaGroup will launch a new inland shipping concept based on a vessel running solely on liquefied natural gas (LNG). Because this concept is built up on a modular basis, shippers, and barge operators can pick and choose. Bodewes Binnenvaart B.V.,

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Green Car Congress

DECEMBER 29, 2015

A series of 15 inland waterway barges being built for Belgium-based Plouvier Transport N.V., and which will be chartered by Shell Trading Rotterdam (Shell), are to be powered by Wärtsilä dual-fuel main engines. The barges will operate primarily on liquefied natural gas (LNG). The contract with Wärtsilä was concluded in December.

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Green Car Congress

JUNE 8, 2021

CMB.TECH has opened the first multimodal hydrogen refueling station in Antwerp, Belgium. It is the first refueling station to produce green hydrogen which will be used to power ships, tube trailers, cars, trucks and buses. The launch of the Hydroville in 2017, the first hydrogen-powered passenger ship, gave impetus to this commitment.

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Green Car Congress

JUNE 21, 2017

Audi will begin production of the Audi e-tron Sportback—Audi’s second production electric car—at Audi Brussels (Belgium) in 2019. The basis for the new e-automobile is the Audi e-tron Sportback concept design study, which the company unveiled at Auto Shanghai 2017. The concept car is a four-door gran turismo.

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Green Car Congress

SEPTEMBER 29, 2022

As an end-user, the BMW Group defines key requirements for series introduction of hydrogen-powered trucks into its transport logistics at a later date. The global multi-energy company TotalEnergies intends to operate up to 150 hydrogen filling stations directly or indirectly in Germany, the Netherlands, Belgium, Luxembourg and France by 2030.

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Green Car Congress

AUGUST 26, 2020

Many customers would like to change their vehicle fleet over to sustainable drive concepts and, especially in urban zones, to operate their routes using battery-electric vans. The concept for locally emission-free deliveries of temperature-sensitive products is also expected to be extended to other sectors and model series in the future.

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Green Car Congress

AUGUST 7, 2020

After about a year of intensive practical use by ten customers in Germany and Switzerland, eight of the purely battery-powered Mercedes-Benz eActros trucks are now successively going to new customers in Germany, Belgium and the Netherlands. Two vehicles will continue the operational testing with customers in the first test phase.

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Green Car Congress

OCTOBER 22, 2014

This is now in the final stages of development and will be launched as a commercial product by the end of 2014; S2 will be produced within the power range of 5-25 kW. The fuel cell stacks that are made for these small power classes ( —Magnus Henell, CEO of PowerCell Sweden AB. Triphase, Belgium. E-Trucks Europe, Belgium.

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Green Car Congress

MARCH 24, 2018

For around ten years, MAN Truck & Bus has been working on innovative concepts for supplying and removing material in the urban environment. This problem involves developing ideas for reducing traffic at specific times and relocating it out of the city altogether, new approaches to the use of land, plus new transport and drive concepts.

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Green Car Congress

OCTOBER 28, 2020

A team from KU Leuven and the University of Antwerp in Belgium has developed a new process that is suitable for the distributed, small-scale production of “green” ammonia. The process, called PNOCRA (Plasma Nitrogen Oxidation and Catalytic Reduction to Ammonia), combines plasma?assisted —Hollevoet et al.

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Green Car Congress

APRIL 8, 2021

On the remaining sections of the lines, diesel-powered trains are used. The EU project FCH2RAIL (Fuel Cell Hybrid Power Pack for Rail Applications) consortium—with partners from Belgium, Germany, Spain and Portugal—is developing and testing a new zero-emission train prototype.

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Baua Electric

APRIL 4, 2024

Polestar has continuously updated the EV with new features, larger batteries, more powerful motors, new powertrain variants, and more. The Polestar 2 was the first to feature an Android Automotive OS-powered infotainment with built-in Google. In comparison, the Polestar 2 is powered by Volvo’s CMA platform. seconds.

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Green Car Congress

MARCH 27, 2013

Based on Volvo’s MethaneDiesel concept ( earlier post ) whereby LNG can be used in diesel engines, and Shell’s LNG expertise and infrastructure investments, the two companies will coordinate their activities and actively support the wider use of LNG in the transport sector. Engine power output is 460 hp, torque 2300 N·m.

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Green Car Congress

JULY 14, 2009

IMEC launched a new industrial affiliation program (IIAP) to develop high-voltage, low-loss, high-power switching devices based on large-diameter (up to 200mm) GaN-on-Si (gallium-nitride on silicon ) technology. High-voltage power devices are conventionally based on Si MOSFET structures. Marianne Germain, GaN program director.

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Cars That Think

JULY 14, 2022

GROVE AWARD Sponsor: IEEE Electron Devices Society HON-SUM PHILIP WONG Stanford “For contributions to novel and advanced semiconductor device concepts and their implementation.” FUCHS University of Colorado at Boulder “For contributions to power quality in power system operation, electric machines, renewable energy, and drives.”

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Cars That Think

DECEMBER 16, 2022

HIROYUKI MATSUNAMI Kyoto University “For pioneering contributions to the development of silicon carbide material and its applications to electronic power devices.” IEEE MEDAL FOR ENVIRONMENTAL AND SAFETY TECHNOLOGIES Sponsor: Toyota Motor Corp. Corecipients: DAVID JAMES COE Philips Research Laboratories Redhill, Surrey, England GERALD F.

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Green Car Congress

APRIL 26, 2013

At Ford’s Lommel Proving Ground in Belgium, Ford Motor Company and Schaeffler demonstrated the Fiesta-based eWheelDrive car. Powered by independent electric motors in each of the rear wheels, eWheelDrive technology could lead to improvements in urban mobility and parking by enabling smaller, more agile cars, Ford said. Earlier post.)

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Cars That Think

JANUARY 23, 2024

He studied and worked in Dubai, the United States, France, and Belgium over the course of his twenties. There he set up a research group focused on developing brain-inspired (neuromorphic) computer hardware for low-power devices like sensors, drones, and virtual-reality headsets. Traveling stuck with Suri in adulthood.

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Green Car Congress

JANUARY 25, 2015

ton) front-end loader and more than 500 hours on a telescopic boom handler powered by an 83 kW (111 hp) engine. Spicer PowerBoost technology uses an advanced energy-management system to evaluate the levels of power needed in the entire vehicle, predict operating demands, and determine the most efficient means of operation.

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Green Car Congress

JULY 10, 2009

In a 2006 paper in the Journal of Applied Electrochemistry , fortu researchers described their efforts in developing the rechargeable lithium battery based on a novel safety concept. The governor made the announcement after returning from a 48-hour investment mission to Germany and Belgium.

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Cars That Think

JUNE 27, 2022

Unlike those you may have grown accustomed to seeing, many of these stations don’t just charge electric cars—they can also send power from vehicle batteries to the local utility grid for use by homes and businesses. So it’s a good moment to consider where vehicle-to-grid concepts first emerged and to see in Utrecht how far they’ve come.

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EV Central

DECEMBER 8, 2023

The 2024 Renault 5 hatch has been previewed for the first time following the French car-maker releasing multiple images that give us a glimpse of how it will evolve the 2021 concept-car fantasy into production-car reality. Faster variants will follow including one that could be inspired by the wild 280kW Renault 5 Turbo 3E concept.

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Green Car Congress

AUGUST 31, 2015

The report, Projected Costs of Generating Electricity: 2015 Edition , also shows that new nuclear power plants generate electricity more cheaply than other established “baseload” sources—mainly coal- and gas-fired power plants—over the full lifetime of facilities when financing costs are relatively low. Source: IEA/NEA.

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Charged EVs

FEBRUARY 23, 2021

The XC40 Recharge has considerably more horsepower and torque than its gasoline-powered AWD counterpart: 300 kilowatts (402 hp) and 486 lb-ft versus 248 hp and 258 lb-ft. It senses the fob, and it powers up when the driver sits down. The electric XC40 comes from Ghent, Belgium, incidentally. Android above all else.

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Green Car Congress

AUGUST 30, 2017

NELLHI combined European know-how in single cells, coatings, sealing, and stack design to produce a novel high-performance 1 kW SOFC stack along with with the proof of concept of a 10 kW e SOFC stack. Key potential applications for SOFC systems include residential combined heat and power systems (CHP), automotive vehicles, and electrolysis.

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Green Car Congress

FEBRUARY 3, 2017

Belgium-based Borit is the supplier-of-choice for metal bipolar plates in the successful range extender fuel cell systems of the French market leader Symbio. The performance and power density of fuel cells—particularly important in vehicles—strongly depends on the capabilities of the bipolar plate manufacturer.

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APRIL 21, 2009

We agree with Toyotas comments, which is why we advocate for mass production of PHEVs: "Were immensely gratified that some enthusiasts, in a tacit endorsement of the hybrid concept, are, on a vehicle-by-vehicle basis, converting Toyota hybrids to plug-in technology. The kit is designed so the batteries can be upgraded to lithium-phosphate.)

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Cars That Think

APRIL 8, 2023

Working at Imec, a Belgium-based nanoelectronics R&D center, we are currently pursuing four basic strategies: flip-chip processing, microtransfer printing, wafer bonding, and monolithic integration. The concept is similar but more exacting when trying to bond a laser chip to a silicon-photonics chip.

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EV Adoption

MARCH 15, 2021

BMW’s Mini brand will go all-electric by 2030, report says – BMW’s Mini brand will go all-electric from 2030 as the automaker intensifies its transition to battery-powered vehicles, according to people familiar with the matter. The X Prologue will be the first Toyota EV concept released outside China.

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