Green Car Congress

MARCH 1, 2016

Created to guide the Nissan product evolution, Intelligent Mobility will anchor company decisions around how cars are powered, how cars are driven, and how cars integrate into society, all while staying focused on creating more enjoyable driving experiences. Nissan Intelligent Integration.

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Green Car Congress

MAY 16, 2019

At the end of 2016, Delphi Technologies entered production with its industry first 350 bar GDi system, which reduces exhaust particulates by up to 70% compared with industry-standard 200 bar systems. The 500+ bar system could be used in production from 2022 onwards. —Walter Piock.

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Green Car Congress

SEPTEMBER 24, 2012

The project is the latest in the collaboration between Ricardo and Lifan that has extended over six years, and builds upon earlier work on between the companies on highly downsized gasoline engines. With work on the project starting in July, the first engines are due for production in late 2014.

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Green Car Congress

MAY 6, 2011

Jaguar will develop the micro-turbine hybrid C-X75 concept car ( earlier post ) as a limited production supercar (maximum of 250), priced at between £700,000 - £900,000 (US$1.15 - $1.48 Jaguar says that a direct technology transfer between elite motorsport and road-going production cars will be key to C-X75’s success.

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Green Car Congress

JANUARY 29, 2021

GM plans to become carbon-neutral in its global products and operations by 2040 and has committed to setting science-based targets to achieve carbon neutrality. The use of GM’s products accounts for 75% of carbon emissions related to this commitment. The company has also signed the Business Ambition Pledge for 1.5?C, Electrification.

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Green Car Congress

OCTOBER 15, 2011

Developed for the latest 1-liter downsized gasoline engines. The successful collaboration with Ford resulted in a turbocharger design that meets the particular technical challenges posed by small, downsized engines. —Udo Schwerdel, head of Continental’s turbocharger product line. Click to enlarge. Earlier post.)

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Green Car Congress

APRIL 28, 2012

Fallbrook believes the drive can be packaged easily, as the current prototype is designed to mate with an existing supercharger line of products. Fallbrook initially demonstrated its development of a variable speed supercharger drive by designing and building a prototype system coupling a NuVinci CVP with an aftermarket supercharger.

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Green Car Congress

SEPTEMBER 9, 2014

As the project approaches its mid-point, the research team—led by Ricardo and including Ford Motor Company, Controlled Power Technologies (CPT), the European Advanced Lead Acid Battery Consortium (EALABC), Faurecia and the University of Nottingham—has completed the build of the first functional integration prototype ADEPT vehicle.

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Green Car Congress

MAY 20, 2009

Ford Motor Company began production of its EcoBoost engines ( earlier post ) at Cleveland Engine Plant No. Approximately 250 employees are returning to the plant to build the new engines. The EcoBoost begins production. Ford invested $55 million to retool and reopen the plant, which had been idled in 2007. Click to enlarge.

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Green Car Congress

OCTOBER 1, 2021

Honda is currently working on downsizing the hardware and further improvement of the precision of robotic hand movements such as “grasping” and “manipulation.” By building such a circulative renewable energy system, Honda will strive to contribute to a wide range of human activities on the lunar surface.

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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 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 Cost, productivity, efficiency and fuel economy now offer the highest focus for technology investment, he said.

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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

FEBRUARY 24, 2016

The electric compressor fits in well and without any constraints with the proven strategy of downsizing, the company said. In contrast to the conventional exhaust-gas turbocharger, which is powered by the energy of the exhaust gases, the electric version responds immediately thanks to the practically instantaneous build-up of charge pressure.

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Green Car Congress

MARCH 30, 2016

Building on the proven performance of previous EcoTough coatings, the new formulations further reduce engine friction, wear and noise while dealing with the increasingly challenging loads and temperatures that exist in the latest downsized, turbocharged engines.

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Cars That Think

MARCH 12, 2023

A battery will be the high-voltage heart of each of those 77 million electric vehicles, and by far their most expensive component, setting off a worldwide race to ethically source their materials and crank up production to meet exploding demand. allowing automakers to theoretically build many more cars from a finite supply.

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Green Car Congress

JANUARY 7, 2013

As a secondary effect, the battery system capacity could be downsized by 3.3 The fka team then calculated aluminum lightweighting could be carried out, at a production volume of 100,000 vehicles per year, of €1,015 (US$1,324) per vehicle. kWh while still maintaining an intended driving range of 200 km (124 miles).

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Green Car Congress

NOVEMBER 17, 2013

Production of the all-new 2015 Lincoln MKC will begin in the second quarter of 2014 at the Louisville Assembly Plant in Louisville, Ky. Ford has invested heavily in EcoBoost (GTDI) technology; the company recently reported building its two-millionth unit ( earlier post ), and plans global deployment across its product line.

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Green Car Congress

NOVEMBER 21, 2011

—Kumar Galhotra, vice president, Product Development, Ford Asia Pacific and Africa. The EcoBoost approach enables the downsizing engine capacity—replacing naturally-aspirated engines with much smaller units without sacrificing power output. By 2013, the company plans globally to produce 1.5

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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. Earlier post.). GM has a goal of 125 MW renewable energy.

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Green Car Congress

MARCH 25, 2011

The new Solaris Urbino 18 DIWAhybrid features a 150 kW electric motor supporting the downsized diesel engine. The Urbino 18 DIWAhybrid was developed with support from the German Federal Ministry of Transport, Building and Urban Development and NOW GmbH National Organization Hydrogen and Fuel Cell Technology.

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Green Car Congress

JUNE 22, 2013

The new engine will achieve high efficiency using the Atkinson Cycle with an 18:1 compression ratio, combined with aggressive engine downsizing. Engine downsizing is a key tool in improving fuel economy. The National Energy Technology Laboratory (NETL) of the US Department of Energy (DOE) has awarded Envera LLC a $2.8-million

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Green Car Congress

MARCH 27, 2015

Designed to balance product advances with cost reductions, TNGA supports the grouping of the development of new vehicles to promote strategic sharing of parts and powertrain components. We are at a crossroads where we must now build a new business model. Production systems. Earlier post.)

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Green Car Congress

NOVEMBER 28, 2015

Working with its technology partner Hubbard Products ( earlier post ), the entire refrigeration system has also been reconfigured, downsizing a number of components and optimizing them to deliver maximum efficiency and higher levels of performance. The HEF is re-used in the engine.

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Green Car Congress

DECEMBER 1, 2014

This means that in addition the power demand is more difficult to achieve with engine downsizing and transmission down-speeding alone. —Paul Bloore, product validation manager for CPT’s hybrid product group. The WLTP is significantly more dynamic with faster acceleration rates.

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Revenge of the Electric Car

AUGUST 13, 2009

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. The beautiful art deco buildings, some in the process of falling down, provided a colorful backdrop for our up-and-coming-activist. There’s always next time.

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Green Car Congress

JULY 12, 2013

To deliver this the UK needs not only an increase in R&D investment, but also to capitalise on this—securing production in the UK. Skills: The scale of these future opportunities and meeting increasing production demand has highlighted a shortage of engineers and other skilled workers. Low carbon liquid fuels.

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EV Central

OCTOBER 27, 2023

In fact, we reckon there are almost 20 load-haulers either confirmed or said to be on the way to production. Being built at a new Gigafactory in Austin Texas, first US Cybertruck deliveries are scheduled for production late in 2023, having been delayed on multiple occasions. Well, let’s see if it makes it into production first.

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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. Advances for the Production of Low‐Cost Electric Drive vehicle Motors (Area of Interest 5). Description. General Motors.

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Green Car Congress

JANUARY 26, 2010

Based on test work already carried out, Ricardo estimates that a fuel economy improvement of up to 30% is possible with no loss of power or performance, using a downsized EBDI engine in place of currently available gasoline powertrain technology. Spark Ignited Engines Product Group. liter EBDI engine—resulting in up to a 16.8%

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Green Car Congress

AUGUST 4, 2011

From a powertrain frame of reference, Mazda is planning a building block strategy—i.e., In addition, the company provided a set of SKYACTIV mules (gasoline and diesel, manual and automatic transmissions) as well as current production vehicles to showcase on the road the results of its development teams’s efforts.

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Cars That Think

NOVEMBER 7, 2022

In the United States, the Eva-Tone Company of Deerfield, Illinois became the leading manufacturer of vinyl “sound sheets” (their preferred trademark) by the mid-1960s and promoted their use in “mailing pieces, financial reports, product instruction, sales training, and packaging inserts.”

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Creative Greenius

APRIL 12, 2009

That’s right my friends, while others are cutting back, downsizing, slowing down and pulling back, your Creative Greenius is not only Ready to Go, I’m already going, baby, and I’m moving at Obama speed. It’s the big office building at the intersection of the 405 and Hawthorne. Environmental Priorities Network.

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Green Car Congress

JANUARY 14, 2011

The company is also running its largest display ever at NAIAS, featuring feature a broad spectrum of new products including the all-new Ford Focus, Ford Explorer, Mustang Boss 302, Ford C-MAX multi-activity vehicle and Ford F-150 with four all-new powertrains. Given the potential pragmatic aspects of electrification (e.g.,

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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. Stepping Up Product Field Prioritization in the Automotive Systems Business.

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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.). Emissions and environmental impact analysis.

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Green Car Congress

MARCH 27, 2015

The Freightliner SuperTruck uses a downsized and downsped 10.7-liter These exhaust gases pass through a boiler which transfers heat to the working fluid, which vaporizes to high-temperature steam and builds up pressure. —Derek Rotz, principal investigator for SuperTruck, Daimler Trucks North America. Click to enlarge. Powertrain.

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