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OCTOBER 18, 2017

At the BWM Group’s engine plant in Steyr (Austria), in a reference project accompanied by the Technical University of Vienna, Ecoclean Monschau (formerly Dürr Ecoclean) has significantly raised the energy efficiency of a. The first EcoCFlex unit for cleaning and deburring engine components went into service at the BMW Group in 2005.

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Green Car Congress

SEPTEMBER 9, 2019

Kia Motors Company and Hyundai Motor Company,affiliated automotive companies for Hyundai Motor Group, have invested in IONITY, a joint venture established in 2017 between BMW Group, Daimler AG, Ford Motor Company, and Volkswagen Group with Porsche AG.

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Green Car Congress

SEPTEMBER 11, 2018

The Series A funding will allow the company to scale-up production via a multi-MWh roll-to-roll facility, which will be fully constructed and installed by the end of 2018 and fully operational in 2019. High manufacturability due to compatibility with automated, industry-standard, roll-to-roll production. Earlier post.).

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Green Car Congress

JULY 29, 2014

The goal of this program is to develop a cloud-based, central server that would receive grid requests from a utility—such as Demand Response—and then translate and standardize that request so it could be relayed to all appropriate plug-in vehicles in the designated area. Earlier post.) Earlier post.). Earlier post.) Earlier post.)

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Green Car Congress

AUGUST 14, 2020

It will build on existing investments made by the state of Michigan and local communities in smart infrastructure and transit and will link key destinations including the University of Michigan, Detroit Metropolitan Airport, and Michigan Central Station.

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Jaswal, Vice-Chancellor of SRM University (Haryana), among others attended the 58th ACMA Excellence Awards function. Jaswal, Vice-Chancellor of SRM University (Haryana), among others attended the 58th ACMA Excellence Awards function. Senthil Kumar, Vice President-Central Purchase at TVS Motor Company; R Sundar, Asst.

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Green Car Congress

JANUARY 7, 2011

Since additional field data is needed for standardization, said Jesse Schneider of BMW, leader of the J2954 effort, a 2012-13 date is estimated for the balloted standard. Many of the OEMs and EV infrastructure companies have already signed on to this.

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Green Car Congress

FEBRUARY 26, 2021

The technology can already be seen in action with McLaren’s Speedtail Hyper-GT and the BMW 530e iPerformance. The company envisions a not-too-distant future when dynamic charging will support moving vehicles (from taxi queues to roadways), and autonomous vehicles and robots will charge without human intervention. New Board of Advisors.

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Green Car Congress

DECEMBER 7, 2011

The current vehicle footprint-based Corporate Average Fuel Economy (CAFE) standards create a financial incentive for automakers to increase vehicle size, except under certain limited conditions of consumer preference for vehicle size, according to a study by University of Michigan researchers Kate Whitefoot and Steven Skerlos.

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Green Car Congress

OCTOBER 22, 2020

SAE International has published the first global standard that specifies, in a single document, both the electric vehicle and supply equipment (EVSE) ground-system requirements for wireless charging of electric vehicles (EV). The new standard was more than a decade in the making. 11-kW Universal Ground Assembly.

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Green Car Congress

JUNE 10, 2013

As part of the US Safety Pilot Model Deployment of connected vehicle technologies ( earlier post ), the University of Michigan Transportation Research Institute (UMTRI) will launch a motorcycle study to determine how cars, trucks, buses and motorcycles interact using V2V (Vehicle-to-Vehicle) communications technology. Earlier post.).

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Green Car Congress

JUNE 21, 2019

Imec also announced that it has started to upscale the materials and processes in a pilot line for fabrication of solid-state pouch cells at the EnergyVille Campus in Genk (Belgium) and is set-up in collaboration with the University of Hasselt. The different curves refer to different loadings.

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Green Car Congress

APRIL 13, 2016

As was the case last year, the 2016 PFL 720 / PFL 799 combination is chaired by Jesse Schneider of BMW. Dr. Will James, Manager, Safety, Codes, and Standards at the US Department of Energy (DOE). Hydrogen Fueling Station and FCEV Fueling Process Safety Guideline: ISO TR 19880-1” Jesse Schneider, BMW.

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Green Car Congress

FEBRUARY 7, 2011

Scientists from the Technische Universität München (TUM) are collaborating with engineers from BMW to develop the means to replace copper with aluminum as a conductor in on-board power systems. Stanford University, California, USA: Design Society, 2009, pp. Lab version of the LEIKO aluminum power plug. Click to enlarge.

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Green Car Congress

JULY 10, 2018

With the opening of the production facility in Germany, the company underlines the importance of the German market. The plant in Thuringia is planned as an independent company with production, research and development as well as logistics. Among CATL’s current customers are: International auto makers: BMW, Daimler, Volkswagen.

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Green Car Congress

JULY 10, 2018

With the opening of the production facility in Germany, the company underlines the importance of the German market. The plant in Thuringia is planned as an independent company with production, research and development as well as logistics. Among CATL’s current customers are: International auto makers: BMW, Daimler, Volkswagen.

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Green Car Congress

JANUARY 22, 2012

The objective of the taskforce is initially to create a guideline for demonstration projects and design verification and later standardize in 2015 with field confirmation. This is necessary before a determination of charging frequency can be standardize and should include the second and third harmonic possibilities.

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Green Car Congress

DECEMBER 16, 2015

The testing is further advancement of Ford’s 10-year autonomous vehicle development program and a key element of Ford Smart Mobility, the plan to take the company to the next level in connectivity, mobility, autonomous vehicles, the customer experience, and data and analytics.

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Green Car Congress

MAY 10, 2016

Leading automotive manufacturers Ford and BMW, for example, are looking to create electric bikes that could fit and charge inside of a car. Similarly, Tier 1 companies, such as Continental, are designing and manufacturing batteries and engines that can better accommodate small, personal electric vehicles. —Susan Beardslee.

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Green Car Congress

APRIL 24, 2015

BMW uses ENGEL duo injection moulding machines to manufacture car body shell components for the BMW i3 electric vehicle. Participating organizations include Technical University of Braunschweig; the Fraunhofer Institute; Volkswagen; Siempelkamp; Engel; Magna; BASF; DowAkza; and Thyssen-Krupp. Earlier post.).

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Green Car Congress

JULY 8, 2013

Although the models are primarily designed for simulation, but there are also other usages of models, such as optimization, noted Peter Fritzson, Professor at Linköping University, Sweden Vice Chairman of Modelica Association and Director of OSMC in a 2012 overview of Modelica and OpenModelica.

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APRIL 30, 2024

It comes with a one-year warranty, the company said. The technology of Uno Minda C80 premium car horn comes from the company’s acquisition of Clarton Horn, Spain, which makes it the second largest horn manufacturer and OEM supplier globally. Operating on a 12-volt power supply, the C80 horn requires a shallow current of 3.5A

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Green Car Congress

AUGUST 1, 2016

The company has been conducting AV tests on a daily basis since April in Singapore’s one-north business district. CETRAN will spearhead the development of testing requirements for SDVs, as there is no existing international standard. This would allow SDVs to be integrated with existing road traffic.

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Green Car Congress

MAY 24, 2014

Consortium members in the four-year project include: Opel; Audi; BMW Group; BMW Forschung und Technik; Bundesanstalt für Straßenwesen; Continental; Daimler; Deutsches Zentrum für Luft- und Raumfahrt; Fraunhofer-Institut für Arbeitswirtschaft u. The focus is on the human element in all aspects of mobility and traffic.

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Green Car Congress

JULY 21, 2016

35 new businesses, non-profits, universities, and utilities signing on to DOE’s Workplace Charging Challenge and committing to provide electric vehicle charging access for their workforce. Dayton Power & Light Company. Florida Power and Light Company. Indianapolis Power & Light Company. Southern Company: Alabama Power.

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Green Car Congress

MARCH 31, 2011

million), in partnership with 42 partners from the industries, utilities, electric car manufacturers, municipalities, universities and technology and research institutions. This is a project tackles some of the practical problems and real bottlenecks for cities and companies who want to bring electric vehicles to the market.

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Green Car Congress

JUNE 25, 2019

The BMW Group is accelerating its electromobility expansion program, with the 25 electrified models to be introduced by 2023, two years earlier than the initial 2025 target. With flexible vehicle architectures for fully-electric, plug-in hybrid and combustion engine drive trains, the company is able to respond quickly to changing conditions.

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Green Car Congress

JUNE 24, 2009

The West Midlands consortium, called CABLED—short for Coventry and Birmingham Low Emission Demonstrators—is made up of 13 organizations, led by Arup, a company with experience that crosses all areas that touch this project, from vehicle design to planning, to infrastructure and energy. The winning consortia. London South East Bid.

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Charged EVs

MAY 8, 2023

Charged spoke with Nuvve CEO Gregory Poilasne about the various V2G projects that his company is working on around the world, and his recent testimony before the California legislature, which is considering a bill that would require all EVs sold in the state to be bi-capable by 2027. That’s one way. That’s our product.

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Green Car Congress

AUGUST 5, 2011

The BMW Group released the data from the MINI E field trial in the UK. An large amount of data was collected electronically by data-loggers in the car and the home charging points, and also from extensive driver research carried out by Oxford Brookes University. Earlier post.) MINI E Trial in numbers. 40 MINI Es. 258,105 miles.

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JANUARY 21, 2024

Throughout much of last year and into this year, nearly every automaker also signed on to adopt Tesla’s charging hardware, dubbed the North American Charging Standard (NACS). Below are all the companies listed on the private sector EV charging commitments document, or you can view full project descriptions from the White House here.

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Green Car Congress

DECEMBER 1, 2015

As Telsa’s Yifan Tang notes in the company’s recently published patent on a control system for an all-wheel drive electric vehicle (Nº 9,162,586), Tesla couples its axle motors to a differential assembly. Pint, who has been at Audi for less than one year, came from BMW where he worked on the electric powertrains for the i3 and i8.

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OCTOBER 1, 2021

Since then Daimler , Ford Motor Company , General Motors , Stellantis and Volkswagen Group, have committed an additional $152 billion in investments, a sum four times their combined 2019 operating profits. An additional $60 billion plus in investments have also been made in more than 70 EV start-ups wanting in on the game.

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NOVEMBER 13, 2022

front trunk (“frunk”), while concealed beneath is the new skateboard frame with its dual electric motors (one for each axle) and a big 98 kWh standard (and 131 kWh extended range) battery pack. Ford calls the Lightning a “ Model T moment for the 21st Century ” and the company's $50 billion investment in EVs is a bet-the-company proposition.

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Green Car Congress

DECEMBER 18, 2020

The BMW Group has commissioned two US universities to conduct a scientific analysis of water consumption in the lithium extraction process. The aim of the University of Alaska-Anchorage and University of Massachusetts-Amherst study will be to investigate the impacts of lithium extraction on the hydrologic environment in Latin America.

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APRIL 19, 2023

Electrifying a vehicle fleet is a complex undertaking that requires specialized skills and resources that most companies don’t have. A growing number of companies, including vehicle OEMs and specialist startups, are responding to this demand by offering charging-as-a-service. We are in the middle of this. His name is Tom Gage.

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Green Car Congress

JULY 17, 2015

It solves the storage problems faced by the electric utility companies in absorbing and adapting to the highly variable power and energy generated by solar and wind. Since it can refuel from a standard household outlet and from a gasoline station, it needs no new infrastructure. One PHEV company, Efficient Drivetrains Inc.,

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