Green Car Congress

DECEMBER 1, 2014

At the 2 nd International Conference Automotive 48 V Power Supply Systems , held last week in Düsseldorf, Germany, Controlled Power Technologies (CPT), a major sponsor of the event, together with leading car makers and Tier 1 suppliers, argued the need for an internationally agreed 48V electrical standard. The conference.

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Green Car Congress

AUGUST 20, 2012

Stations are located around the city, close to BART (Bay Area Rapid Transit), Muni (San Francisco Municipal Railway) and bike-sharing stations, as well as at San Francisco International Airport, Oakland International Airport and in Palo Alto. Parking and charging is free at DriveNow Stations. Richard Steinberg is the CEO of DriveNow.

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Baua Electric

MARCH 22, 2024

The heads of BMW, Volkswagen, and Renault have spoken out against European Union’s emission targets in recent days, arguing that the phase-out rules put too much pressure on the industry and that consumers aren’t buying EVs fast enough. Photo: BMW If you’re an electric vehicle owner, charge up your car at home with rooftop solar panels.

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JULY 21, 2021

The global semiconductor shortage is halting production lines of both BMW and Daimler’s facilities in Germany. BMW announced that the semiconductor shortage affected production by around 10,000 units this week, and the problems are expected to continue into next week. The company delivered 2.324 million cars last year.

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Green Car Congress

SEPTEMBER 18, 2012

The BMW Group’s Efficient Dynamics strategy is targeting reductions in fuel consumption and CO 2 emissions while at the same time increasing performance. Some of these new techniques could also be transferred to future vehicles with internal combustion engines. By using a heat pump, even this requirement can be realized.

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Green Car Congress

MAY 18, 2016

SAE International approved for publishing “SAE TIR J2954 Wireless Power Transfer for Light-Duty Plug-In/ Electric Vehicles and Alignment Methodology,” a milestone industry guideline to establish wireless power transfer between infrastructure, vehicle suppliers and OEMs for plug-in electric and electric vehicles (PH/EV). Earlier post.)

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Green Car Congress

JANUARY 27, 2011

BMW powertrain strategy. For the first time in more than a decade, BMW will once again offer a four-cylinder engine in the United States, said Jim O’Donnell, president BMW North America, in remarks at the Washington DC Auto Show. BMW: relationship between cell and system characteristics for Li-ion for hybrids.

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Green Car Congress

OCTOBER 11, 2019

The European Automobile Manufacturers’ Association (ACEA), Hydrogen Europe and the International Road Transport Union (IRU) are jointly calling on European policy makers to ramp up investments in EU-wide hydrogen refueling infrastructure for fuel cell electric vehicles. —ACEA’s Director General, Eric-Mark Huitema.

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Baua Electric

MAY 16, 2023

billion) in unutilized Chinese language investments within the automobile sector, additional boosting the central Ecu public as a regional heart within the transition to electrical mobility, International Minister Peter Szijjarto mentioned. billion funding to provide batteries to BMW in Hungary. “We

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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. Lab version of the LEIKO aluminum power plug. Click to enlarge. Lindemann, U.: Bergendahl, M. Grimheden, and L. Leifer, Eds.

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Green Car Congress

JULY 3, 2019

The 11 companies—Aptiv, Audi, Baidu, BMW, Continental, Daimler, FCA US LLC, HERE, Infineon, Intel and Volkswagen—comprise the broadest representation across the industry and have published, to date, the largest report on how to build, test and operate a safe automated vehicle.

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Green Car Congress

MAY 19, 2016

a leading provider of dynamic connected car services worldwide, and Parkmobile, the leading provider of on-demand and prepaid mobile payments for on- and off- street parking and mobility solutions, announced a strategic partnership at the annual International Parking Institute (IPI) conference. INRIX, Inc.,

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Green Car Congress

JULY 7, 2014

International automotive supplier Continental is calling for a market-based adaptation of the legal framework for automated driving. The Vienna Convention came about as a result of the 1968 UN Conference in Vienna. It aims to facilitate international road traffic and increase road safety.

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Green Car Congress

DECEMBER 14, 2012

The SAE International Cooperative Research Project (CRP1234-4) team was recently established to perform an updated engineering review—the fourth such—of usage of the low global warming potential (GWP) R-1234yf refrigerant in vehicles. Earlier post.) Many new vehicles in Europe have received “type approval” to use this refrigerant.

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Clean Fleet Report

JANUARY 1, 2023

We took to the road to report on most of the new EVs hitting the market, as well as plug-in hybrids, fuel cell electric vehicles, hybrids and the best of the legacy internal combustion engine models. Our testers had similar (best in class) feelings about the new 2023 Toyota Prius and the 2022 BMW i4 M50.

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Green Car Congress

NOVEMBER 10, 2014

It also provides market development support, such as hosting webinars, sponsoring conferences, etc. BMW-Toyota, Daimler-Ford-Nissan, and Honda-GM. This is on par with gasoline internal combustion vehicles. Earlier post.) Earlier post.) Click to enlarge. Earlier post.)

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Green Car Congress

FEBRUARY 11, 2016

SEP2); Zigbee; Society of Automotive Engineers J1772; International Standards Organization 15118; etc., The OpenVBOSS software platform code and project documentation will be widely disseminated through the project reports, professional conferences, journal publications, and other distribution means.

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Green Car Congress

JUNE 21, 2009

at the international conference Enhanced Safety of Vehicle (ESV) in Stuttgart, Germany. Such a sensor could be based on the infrared technology that Autoliv developed for the night vision system of the new BMW 7-series.

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Green Cars News

DECEMBER 7, 2009

Some of the most advanced green cars and electric vehicles available will be at the Copenhagen Summit this week with Peugeot, Citroen, BMW, Mercedes-Benz, Volvo, Think, Honda and Renault all displaying their vehicles and in many cases, lending their greenest models out during the international conference.

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Green Car Congress

FEBRUARY 4, 2009

In testing on a BMW demo 3-Series vehicle, a 1.6-liter In cooperation with BMW and LUK, AVL applied the Turbohybrid powertrain in the BMW 3-series demo vehicle. Robert Fischer, Richard Schneider, Peter Ebner (2008) The Turbohybrid – The Realization First Results (20th International AVL Conference) Click to enlarge.

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Green Car Congress

AUGUST 1, 2017

At the Surcar 2017 conference on automotive body finishing in Cannes, Dürr and BMW received the award for technique for their concept of a smart paint shop and how to increase production efficiency by digitization. BMW and Dürr combine the latest IT technology with their know-how in production processes and equipment technology.

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EV Adoption

MARCH 23, 2021

Another week with automakers sharing plans to either curtail development of internal combustion engines or share their EV sales goals – in this case German luxury OEMs, Audi and BMW. We see images of the upcoming BMW i4 BEV, Jeep Wrangler Magneto BEV concept, Rivian announces their new charging networks, and much, much, more.

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Green Car Congress

MAY 28, 2013

Hubject GmbH, a joint venture formed by BMW Group, Bosch, Daimler AG, EnBW, RWE and Siemens ( earlier post ), launched its eRoaming EV charging platform “intercharge” during the International Emobility Conference hosted by the German federal government ( earlier post ).

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Green Car Congress

DECEMBER 10, 2012

DriveNow is a premium car sharing service launched by BMW is San Francisco last summer. The DriveNow fleet currently consists of 70 fully-electric ActiveE vehicles located at ten DriveNow stations around the San Francisco Bay Area, including hubs serving the Silicon Valley, SFO and Oakland International Airports.

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Green Car Congress

AUGUST 30, 2009

The powertrain of the plug-in hybrid BMW Vision EfficientDynamics. Norbert Reithofer, Chairman of the Board of Management of BMW AG, called a “ CO 2 champion ” that will demonstrate “ a whole new dimension of driving pleasure with regards to efficiency with performance ” during a press conference late in July. Click to enlarge.

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Green Car Congress

OCTOBER 26, 2016

All three of the new MINI Countryman variants will make their World Premiere at the Los Angeles International Auto Show at a press conference on 16 November. liter 3-cylinder gasoline engine with MINI TwinPower Turbo Technology is a member of the latest generation of the BMW Group engines. Earlier post.)

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Green Car Congress

JUNE 15, 2015

DOE awarded two Hydrogen and Fuel Cells Program awards: one to George Parks of Fuel Science, the other to Jesse Schneider of BMW. The award to Jesse Schneider of BMW recognized his outstanding dedication and contributions to the global hydrogen refueling community and the Hydrogen and Fuel Cells Program. Hydrogen Production.

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Green Car Congress

NOVEMBER 22, 2015

CharIN was founded by Audi, BMW, Daimler, Mennekes, Opel, Phoenix Contact, Porsche, TÜV SÜD and Volkswagen to focus on developing and establishing the Combined Charging System (CCS) as the standard for charging battery-powered electric vehicles of all kinds. ABB—based in the Netherlands—is the first non-German member. Earlier post.)

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Green Car Congress

DECEMBER 5, 2013

Partners in that demonstration include BMW AG providing 15 battery-electric MINIs (@ 12-15 kW each, providing blocks of 100 kW as required in PJM’s frequency regulation market); Milbank Manufacturing providing charging stations based on UD technology; AutoPort Inc. through their eV2g joint venture ( earlier post ). Earlier post.).

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Blink Charging

DECEMBER 29, 2022

Vietnamese automaker VinFast will have two SUVs available in 2023; the VF 8 and VF 9, and these will join electric SUV offerings from new brands like Polestar and established brands like Toyota, Subaru, Nissan, Mercedes-Benz, Jeep, Hyundai, GMC Hummer, Chevrolet, and BMW. If you are in the market for an all-electric SUV, 2023 is your year!

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Green Car Congress

AUGUST 21, 2013

Since NHTSA selects vehicles for testing on the criteria noted above, there are, however, some competitive gaps in the data: no testing for Mercedes-Benz S-Class, Audi A8 or BMW 7-Series, for example. The MY 2013 vehicle with the next-lowest VSS is the Buick Verano (FWD) with 0.50, and also with a 5-star overall rating.

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Green Car Congress

JULY 17, 2015

He was formerly with the University of Wisconsin and Rockwell International, and holds a Ph.D. Most drivers of BEVs will need two cars: the electric car for economical short range commuting, and a separate conventional liquid-fuel internal combustion vehicle for long distance travel.

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Tony Karrer Delicious EVdriven

APRIL 16, 2009

Thats because electric engines are more efficient than internal-combustion engines, and because generating energy on a large scale (in coal or nuclear plants) is less wasteful than doing it on a small scale (by burning gasoline in an internal-combustion engine). tons of carbon dioxide.

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Tony Karrer Delicious EVdriven

APRIL 21, 2009

Itsmaker, BMW, is conducting a 100-car consumer test in America and Germany to“evaluate technical and social aspects of living with an all-electricvehicle” and with some government support hopes to extend the trials toBritain. Walkout at UN conference after Iran. to charge overnight. Please read our Privacy Policy.To

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