Green Car Congress

JUNE 13, 2016

Around 30% more compact than previously, it can be fully housed in the engine compartment for the first time. The size of the drive unit has been reduced by 30%, allowing it to be accommodated within the engine compartment of existing vehicle architectures. The Mercedes-Benz fuel cell system. Click to enlarge.

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Mercedes Plug-in 2017 SUV 150

Green Car Congress

FEBRUARY 2, 2015

Dan Johnson, Lightning Hybrids co-founder and CTO who co-invented the new patented system with senior controls engineer, Jonathan Reynolds, said the new patent built on previous generations and focused on making the system more efficient. Reynolds said new manufacturing processes were instrumental in achieving Lightning Hybrids’ patent goal.

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Hybrid Carbon Fiber Grant Store 150

Green Car Congress

JULY 11, 2015

In the hydraulic hybrid system, hydraulic pumps and the lightweight accumulator store braking energy; upon acceleration the stored energy provides torque to the wheels. Lightning Hybrids originally designed its own lightweight composite accumulator made of a thin steel or aluminum vessel wrapped with carbon fiber composite material.

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Hybrid Carbon Fiber Store International 150

Green Car Congress

APRIL 2, 2020

The high-voltage battery stores up to 95 kWh of energy and can recover up to 30% of energy used to drive the vehicle during regenerative braking applications. A PSM has a rotor with permanent magnets in it and a natural internal magnetic field. With a wheelbase that stretches 115.3

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Audi SUV Concept All-Electric 300

Green Car Congress

OCTOBER 7, 2016

The Prius Prime plug-in hybrid, unveiled at the 2016 New York International Auto Show in March ( earlier post ), features a larger 8.8 Regenerative braking recaptures electrical energy under deceleration and braking and stores it in the battery, which helps to reduce fuel consumption. 1, yet runs on regular-grade gasoline.

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Green Car Congress

FEBRUARY 5, 2010

Researchers from Imperial College London and their European partners, including Volvo Car Corporation, are developing a prototype multifunctional structural composite material composed of carbon fibers and a polymer resin which can store and discharge electrical energy and which is also strong and lightweight enough to be used for car parts.

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Energy Storage Energy Polymer Carbon Fiber 225

Green Car Congress

MARCH 23, 2015

The encapsulated WHP flywheel energy storage system that sits in the cockpit alongside the driver can store up to 700 kilojoules (KJ) of energy that it subsequently returns to the electrical machine—about 17% more than in 2014. The improved hybrid output, however, results in a restriction for the internal combustion engine.

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Audi 2015 Diesel Hybrid 150

Green Car Congress

JANUARY 14, 2011

Ford is focused on lightweighting as a key enabling technology for lowering fuel consumption in combustion-engined vehicles (ICE) and for extending the range—and the size—of battery electric vehicles (EVs). Once you take the weight out, you take the engine down and get substantial deltas in fuel economy.

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Ford Fuel Emissions Vehicles 252

Green Car Congress

MARCH 30, 2023

An output of 1015 CV is delivered from the combined power of an entirely new combustion engine together with three electric motors, alongside a double-clutch gearbox that makes its debut on a 12-cylinder Lamborghini for the first time. The Revuelto is the first super sports car to be fitted with a 100% carbon fiber front structure.

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Green Car Congress

DECEMBER 16, 2010

The goal of this AOI is to support advanced fuels and lubricants technologies that will enable optimal performance of advanced combustion engines for passenger and commercial vehicle applications. For all subtopics, technologies may be applicable to compression ignition and/or spark ignition engines. Miller Cycle).

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Li-ion Carbon Fiber Vehicles Fuel Economy 231

Clean Fleet Report

DECEMBER 1, 2021

Chevrolet made the radical decision to have the 2021 Corvette, or C8 as aficionados call it, become a mid-engine sports car, abandoning the front engine design that began when the first Corvette rolled off the line in Flint, Michigan, on June 30, 1953. But the base engine turning 0-60 runs in a quick 2.9 Let the sunshine in.

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Chevrolet MPG Clean Cleaning 87

Green Car Congress

JANUARY 13, 2016

In a demonstration of its ongoing development of advanced alternative powertrains, Audi unveiled the new h-tron quattro fuel cell concept vehicle at the North American International Auto Show (NAIAS). With an efficiency rating in excess of 60%, the fuel cell now surpasses any combustion engine. mi)—i.e., about 6 kg. kg/minute.

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Audi Concept Detroit Fuel 150

Green Car Congress

DECEMBER 11, 2015

Vacuum stability within MLVI is particularly challenging since many of these high‐pressure storage systems rely on carbon fiber reinforced composites that tend to be comprised of volatile materials such as hydrocarbon‐based resins which off‐gas under vacuum conditions. kWh/L (40 g H 2 /L); and $10/kWh ($333/kg H 2 stored).

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Hydrogen Fuel Climate Production 150

Green Car Congress

SEPTEMBER 17, 2014

The Renault gasoline-electric plug-in hybrid system supports 60 km of electric range plus extended range due to the gasoline-fueled internal combustion engine. One of the concept’s major innovations is the fact that gearshifts do not necessitate the use of a clutch thanks to a specific control unit designed by Renault’s engineers.

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Plug-in MPG Hybrid Plug 370

Green Car Congress

SEPTEMBER 12, 2017

At this year’s IAA International Motor Show in Frankfurt, Mercedes-Benz is presenting preproduction models of the new Mercedes-Benz GLC F‑CELL ( earlier post ). Mercedes-Benz engineers cooperated closely with partners from the Daimler competence network to develop a completely new fuel-cell system. The charging time is around 1.5

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Mercedes Plug-in Plug Fuel 186

Green Car Congress

APRIL 28, 2013

Researchers at the Fraunhofer Institute for Integrated Circuits IIS are using an electric race car designed by electrical engineering students from the e-racing team at the Hochschule Esslingen University of Applied Sciences ( E.Stall ) as a platform to showcase novel solutions for electronic sensor and battery management systems.

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Batteries Battery Carbon Fiber Italy 271

Green Car Congress

NOVEMBER 18, 2014

In addition to the vehicle’s introduction in Japan, Toyota launched the Mirai—a four-door, mid-size fuel cell sedan with performance that fully competes with traditional internal combustion engines—in Los Angeles on the eve of the Los Angeles Auto Show. The system accelerates Mirai from 0–60 in 9.0

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Prius Toyota Hydrogen Carbon Fiber 296

Green Car Congress

SEPTEMBER 12, 2017

The Mercedes-AMG Project ONE will make its world première at the International Motor Show (IAA) in Frankfurt/Main. One has been integrated into the turbocharger, another has been installed directly on the combustion engine with a link to the crankcase and the two remaining motors drive the front wheels. All-electric range is 25 km (15.5

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Mercedes PHEV Lithium Ion Engine 150

Green Car Congress

JULY 12, 2012

MOVE projects aim to engineer light-weight, affordable natural gas tanks for vehicles as well as to develop natural gas compressors that can efficiently fuel a natural gas vehicle at home. million award to engineer an adsorbed natural gas storage system utilizing a novel external framework and internal porous materials.

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Gas Eaton Low Cost Carbon Fiber 225

Green Car Congress

NOVEMBER 13, 2012

The i3 and i8 will become the first purpose-built electric and hybrid-electric production vehicles to be made primarily from carbon fiber when they come to market in 2013 and 2014 respectively. If required, a high-voltage alternator hooked up to the combustion engine generates extra power, which is then stored in the hybrid battery.

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BMW Concept San Francisco Carbon Fiber 273

Cars That Think

AUGUST 5, 2023

These great masses store enough water to raise global sea level by 65 meters should they melt entirely. Thomas Teisberg, an electrical engineering Ph.D. Enter ice-penetrating radar (IPR), a technology that uses radio waves to image the internal layers of glaciers and the bed beneath them.

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Climate Change Climate Water Carbon Fiber 98

Cars That Think

MAY 15, 2024

It can look like leather, textile, brushed steel, wood, carbon fiber, almost anything, and can take light from all angles as well, and can be in different colors. We’re saving the end user, the contractor, the guy who uses them a lot of hassle to buy this battery, store them. So indoor, outdoor from any angle.

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Baua Electric

JULY 11, 2023

And quantity can also be reached best upcoming riding indisposed the price of the era, which depends upon valuable metals, precision production and dear carbon fiber-wrapped tanks. The gasoline mobile package features a high-voltage battery, electrical motors, transmission and hydrogen store meeting.

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Kentucky Gasoline Toyota Hydrogen 40

Green Car Congress

JULY 17, 2015

The PHEV (Plug-in Hybrid Electric Vehicle), a subset of the electric car, combines a primary electric motor with a much smaller back-up engine fueled with a hydrocarbon/biofuel mix. (In He was formerly with the University of Wisconsin and Rockwell International, and holds a Ph.D. Engineering Advantages of PHEV.

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PHEV Plug-in Renewable Energy 150

Cars That Think

SEPTEMBER 3, 2022

Still, Ferrari, Red Bull, Mercedes, and McLaren spend hundreds of millions of dollars each year on race engineering and R&D alone. The FIA caps the cost of a single F1 engine at around US $15 million, but some teams try to hide true costs to avoid penalties. So the performance gap remains huge, but Formula E is trying to close it.

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Future Auto Porsche Monaco 103

Green Car Congress

JANUARY 4, 2022

Rather than simply increasing the size of the battery, the cross-functional, international design and envineering team focused on maximizing long- distance efficiency. VISION EQXX has seen the best minds from our R&D centers work together with engineers from our Formula 1 and Formula E programs.

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