Green Car Congress
OCTOBER 9, 2012
At the Composites Europe event in Dusseldorf, Ford Motor Company displayed a prototype carbon fiber reinforced plastic (CFRP) hood. Carbon fiber offers a very high strength-to-weight ratio; it is up to five times as strong as steel, twice as stiff, and one-third the weight.
Green Car Congress
MARCH 27, 2015
The new racer will compete in the 8 MJ category (8 MJ of recovered energy per race lap)—the highest of the current four energy categories in the LMP1 class. The amount of liquid fuel that may be used in a lap decreases in proportion to the amount of electrical energy a driver is able to employ.). Recovered energy (MJ).
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. Manufacturing energy use and emissions. Earlier post.).
Green Car Congress
SEPTEMBER 15, 2016
Volvo Trucks North America unveiled an innovative SuperTruck demonstrator whose combination of advanced aerodynamics, vehicle and powertrain technologies achieved a freight efficiency improvement of 88%—exceeding the 50% improvement goal set by the US Department of Energy (DOE) Supertruck I program. for the D11 and 2.5% for the D13.
Green Car Congress
AUGUST 16, 2016
In 2010, the Energy Department launched the SuperTruck initiative to improve heavy-duty truck freight efficiency by 50%. For SuperTruck II, the Energy Department has selected the following four SuperTruck II teams for projects of $20 million in federal funding, and each recipient will match that amount, dollar-for-dollar: Cummins, Inc.
Green Car Congress
JULY 17, 2015
Though the PHEV combines the two types of energy and power, it is not merely a temporary “transition” between gasoline and diesel cars to pure electric cars. 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. slow charge.
Green Car Congress
OCTOBER 4, 2009
Toyota is simplifying the design of its stack, resulting in downsizing and downweighting, and reducing the amount of platinum catalyst required. As an example, Yokoyama used the carbon fiber reinforced polymer (CFRP) hydrogen storage tank. For comparable efforts by General Motors, see earlier post.).
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