Green Car Congress

OCTOBER 27, 2016

Increasing regulatory pressure is driving increasing demand for downsized, lightweight motors with higher performance in the automotive, industrial infrastructure and electronics markets, as well as in other fields. The lines are scheduled to commence operation in FY2018.

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Teslarati

JUNE 22, 2022

Ford also said it would spend $2 billion to convert its Cologne, Germany plant to build EVs as soon as next year. . We are committed to building a vibrant, sustainable business in Europe as part of our Ford+ plan, and that requires focus and making tough choices,” Farley said.

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Green Car Congress

JANUARY 3, 2018

Caterpillar Marine is collaborating with Sanmar Shipyards in Istanbul, Turkey to build an innovative tugboat with a hydraulic hybrid propulsion system. Sanmar is the largest tug builder in Turkey with over 40 years of experience and known as a market leader at the forefront of the tug building industry.

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Green Car Congress

APRIL 25, 2012

FEV provided early development stage support for the engine in the area of design and CAE, combustion development, and engine build for 36 engines. FEV, Inc., is showing the 1.0L I3 Ford EcoBoost at the SAE 2012 World Congress. Earlier post.) And these engines are capable of doing that with very low exhaust emissions levels.

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Green Car Congress

OCTOBER 29, 2019

The new ECONAMIQ technology builds on existing concepts such as cylinder deactivation and variable valve timing with a unique patented combination of routing gasses for increased system efficiency. The residual pressure of at the end of the power stroke is used in an extra low-pressure stroke of the non-burning cylinders.

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Green Car Congress

SEPTEMBER 29, 2011

At 48 volts, a VTES electric supercharger will transform 7kW of battery power into a highly boosted charge of air for downsized gasoline and diesel engines. There will be no torque deficit or other tradeoffs from essential engine downsizing and higher gearing, which now dominates the development of internal combustion engines.

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Green Car Congress

JULY 12, 2013

Describing its product goals and tracking progress toward its 2020 manufacturing priorities in its 2012 Sustainability Report , General Motors reaffirmed its commitment to further reduce the energy used and the environmental impacts of building and operating an automobile. MWh per vehicle, less than half the industry average of 2.37

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Green Car Congress

NOVEMBER 21, 2011

The EcoBoost approach enables the downsizing engine capacity—replacing naturally-aspirated engines with much smaller units without sacrificing power output. According to the certification issued by the Ministry of Industry and Information Technology (MIIT), the vehicle’s 7.9L/100km million EcoBoost engines annually.

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Cars That Think

MARCH 12, 2023

IEEE Spectrum asked five industry experts to gaze deeply into their own crystal balls and outline what needs to happen in the EV battery space to wean the world off fossil-fueled transportation and onto the plug. allowing automakers to theoretically build many more cars from a finite supply. The 2021 U.S.

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Green Car Congress

DECEMBER 1, 2014

Such a standard will be necessary for the global automotive industry to achieve the economies of scale demanded by original equipment manufacturers. This means that in addition the power demand is more difficult to achieve with engine downsizing and transmission down-speeding alone. Click to enlarge. The conference. Earlier post.).

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Cars That Think

AUGUST 10, 2021

He earned a bachelor's degree in electrical engineering from the Virginia Polytechnic Institute, now Virginia Tech, and received a master's degree in industrial management as a Sloan Fellow at MIT. While there, he suggested the company build more accurate calibration systems. He closed the business in 2018.

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Revenge of the Electric Car

AUGUST 13, 2009

Bob didn’t emote too much over the state of the car industry and Detroit as a whole, but, surprisingly, his wife did. We took Chelsea on a ride on the People Mover to get her reaction to the downsizing of the company she once belonged to and her test drive of the Volt. It was a nice way to spend a morning. There’s always next time.

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Green Car Congress

APRIL 27, 2016

Employing original Honda technologies, the fuel cell stack for this model was downsized by 33% compared to the previous version of the fuel cell stack yet delivers 130 kW of output, with an output density of 3.1 Earlier post ). kW/L–approximately a 60% improvement. The fuel cell powertrain was made as compact as a Honda 3.5L

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Green Car Congress

AUGUST 16, 2016

SuperTruck II builds on the successful SuperTruck I program, which has already led to more than twenty fuel saving technologies that have reached the commercial market, said Acting Assistant Secretary David Friedman. PPG Industries, Inc. PPG Industries, Inc. Ohio State University. Description. Federal funding. General Motors.

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Green Car Congress

DECEMBER 17, 2015

Coupled with continuing research into fundamental engine processes, the introduction of affordable high-performance computing, and the adoption of advanced manufacturing techniques throughout industry, those new technologies are leading to potentially disruptive opportunities for the introduction of engines with extraordinarily high efficiencies.

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Cars That Think

NOVEMBER 7, 2022

As a result, they collaborated with colleagues at academic, military, and industrial laboratories to record samples of various speech digitization techniques. Moreover, unlike some libraries, which have downsized their journal collections in favor of electronic databases, LHL remains committed to preserving its print holdings.

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Green Car Congress

AUGUST 1, 2016

Co-optimized fuels and engines offer the opportunity to build on decades of advancements in both fuels and engines. High-research octane number (RON) fuels are known to enable more efficient, higher-performance SI operation via engine downsizing and boosting. Earlier post.). Thrust II – Enable full operability ACI engines.

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Green Car Congress

NOVEMBER 28, 2016

The path to realizing the goal is to build on the strong legacy of fuels and engines work sponsored by the vehicle and bioenergy technologies offices over the past several decades. I think we need to add that into the mix, although we have not had enough conversations with industry around it. —Robert Wagner.

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Green Car Congress

JANUARY 14, 2011

” The more weight we can take out of our vehicles though use of alternative materials, and other lightweighting strategies that we have, that enables us to further downsize the engine—which is the biggest lever you can pull in the vehicle. ’re certainly not close to the limits on that. —Barb Samardzich.

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Plugs and Cars

JULY 31, 2008

All the wind farms and solar panels in the world won’t do anything to lower the outflow of hundreds billions of dollars annually or decrease our pump-fueled funding of Islamic fundamentalism unless we build cars that can use that cleaner electricity. I wish I knew what’s holding Gore back from full-throated support for plug-in cars.

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Green Car Congress

MARCH 16, 2009

In this market, Hitachi has decided to separate its Automotive Systems Group on 1 July and establish it as a new company, with the goal of building a framework that can consistently generate stable earnings as a key Hitachi Group business going forward. The new company will have clearer accountability for generating earnings.

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Green Car Congress

FEBRUARY 7, 2018

This reduces emergency braking distance and contributes to fuel efficiency improvement, auto component downsizing and price competitiveness of cars. Hyundai Mobis’s RSPA has realized the best-in-industry parking space awareness rate and parking sensory acuity, according to the company. RSPA (Remote Smart Parking Assist).

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Green Cars News

SEPTEMBER 8, 2009

The beleaguered automotive industry in the United States has taken its fair share of knocks over the last 12 months but none were more shocking than when one of the oldest and most well-respected brands in motoring – General Motors (GM) – slipped into bankruptcy earlier this year. The Green Piece: September 8, 2009.

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Green Car Congress

SEPTEMBER 4, 2013

million) to the project and will lead a consortium of 12 selected partners—eight from industry and three universities. These projects include the extreme downsizing of internal combustion engines; efficient management and storage of heat energies; and weight reduction of engines through innovative new design concepts.

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Green Car Congress

NOVEMBER 19, 2014

Augmenting its existing LC Super Hybrid program ( earlier post ), which deploys a downsized gasoline-electric powertrain, ALABC is working on advanced diesel-electric applications in development programs being undertaken with car makers including Ford and Kia. —Allan Cooper. Click to enlarge. Earlier post.)

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Green Authority

AUGUST 31, 2022

The original Lectric XP electric bicycle took the EV industry by storm when it launched in 2019. Sturdy build: You might not believe that the XP 2.0 I appreciated the big, robust build since it bodes well for the e-bike lasting many years. Modest battery: Lectric slightly downsized the battery from the first XP e-bike from 10.4

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Green Car Congress

NOVEMBER 16, 2011

The proposed CAFE standards are projected to require, on an average industry fleet-wide basis for cars and trucks combined, 40.1 The action builds on the first phase of the Obama Administration’s national program (2012-2016) ( earlier post ), which will raise fuel efficiency equivalent to 35.5 mpg US (5.87 Earlier post.).

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Green Car Congress

JULY 17, 2015

Andrew Frank is a significant industry dignitary credited as being the “Inventor” (or “Father”) of the modern day Plug-in Hybrid Electric Vehicle. This is especially true in air, sea, and some ground transportation as well as in industrial processes. This industry can be greatly expanded and improved to absorb all fossil material.

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Cars That Think

MARCH 29, 2022

Michael Leiters , who was Ferrari’s chief technology officer (he recently left the company), says there’s no denying that electrification in the car industry is largely being driven by the need to comply with strict emissions regulations, including for carbon dioxide. liters of displacement, for an industry-record 221 hp per liter.

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Green Car Congress

FEBRUARY 12, 2016

Because the high-voltage battery is both power and energy dense, engineers were able to use the downsized gasoline engine to maximize fuel economy and reduce emissions. Extensive use of hot-stamped components and industrial joint adhesive increase torsional rigidity and structural integrity. A compact and lightweight 1.56-kWh

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Green Car Congress

JANUARY 31, 2011

Looking ahead to 2050, the expert group said that a long-term view and a stable policy environment are required to provide “ clear, consistent and unwavering ” signals to industry and investors. Possible competition also needs to be clarified, as hydrogen and methane require the build-up of new dedicated infrastructure.

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Green Car Congress

JANUARY 28, 2014

However, the automotive industry is focused not on air consumption but on fuel consumption—and the CO 2 emissions this generates. Per the regulations, the Mercedes team downsized their internal combustion engine (ICE) to a 1.6 Our learning during the KERS project was the bedrock for building ERS.

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Charged EVs

AUGUST 4, 2022

Building off of that, we’ve been able to design something with much higher power density than any automotive DC-DC, at least that I’ve seen, and great efficiency. Charged : You have a diverse history in the battery industry. Charged : I imagine ONE is actively hiring and building up your teams, like most of the EV industry?

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Green Car Congress

FEBRUARY 1, 2012

The advantage is significantly accelerated pressure build-up, which leads to very responsive downsized engines. Together with the producing factories and the supplier industry, Volkswagen has scrutinized the weight of all components, and they were optimized for their specific functionality.

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Tony Karrer Delicious EVdriven

APRIL 21, 2009

Small long-term evaluation program, including modeling of vehicle-to-grid building benefits and economics, begun with Southern California Edison, joined by EPRI, other utilities, US DOE. By partnering with these two industries. The expansion will add an assembly line to build lithium batteries for automotive applications.

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Electric Auto Association

SEPTEMBER 6, 2021

Unfortunately, it may not be what the electric vehicle (EV) industry needs at this juncture. The framework is deliberately designed to prevent downsizing , even though manufacturing smaller vehicles is the best strategy for reducing CO2 emissions. This is bad news for folks working to accelerate EV adoption.

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Electric Auto Association

SEPTEMBER 6, 2021

Unfortunately, it may not be what the electric vehicle (EV) industry needs at this juncture. The framework is deliberately designed to prevent downsizing , even though manufacturing smaller vehicles is the best strategy for reducing CO2 emissions. This is bad news for folks working to accelerate EV adoption.

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