Green Car Congress
MARCH 24, 2016
Researchers at the Department of Energy’s Oak Ridge National Laboratory have demonstrated a production method they estimate will reduce the cost of carbon fiber as much as 50% and the energy used in its production by more than 60%. Details of the cost analysis will be shared with the prospective licensees.
Green Car Congress
JUNE 12, 2012
The top two awards, one of $9 million to a project led by Dow Chemical, and one of $8.999 million to a project led by PolyPlus, will fund projects tackling, respectively, the manufacturing of low-cost carbon fibers and the manufacturing of electrodes for ultra-high-energy-density lithium-sulfur, lithium-seawater and lithium-air batteries.
Clean Fleet Report
FEBRUARY 11, 2024
Unassuming Speed McLaren lets you know right away the GT is a serious driver’s car—the carbon fiber steering wheel is void of all buttons and controls for the audio, telephone and cruise control—meaning serious driving ahead. The roof with a fixed glass panel slopes to the carbon fiber deck lid with a window over the 14.8
Green Car Congress
DECEMBER 17, 2020
In the Toyota Mirai, compressed hydrogen fuel is stored in three 10,000-psi carbon-fiber-reinforced high-pressure tanks: one mounted longitudinally in the center of the car; another mounted transversely under the rear seat, and a third below the battery. Cooling air for the battery is silently pulled in from the cabin.
Green Car Congress
DECEMBER 20, 2013
million barrels per day of highway petroleum use (12.5%) by 2020 (compared to the Energy Information Agency (EIA) Annual Energy Outlook (AEO) 2012-projected baseline in 2020 of 11.2 Integrated computational materials engineering (ICME) development of carbon fiber composites for lightweight vehicles.
Green Car Congress
APRIL 1, 2012
The two-seater burns three liters of gasoline per 100 kilometres (equivalent to fuel economy of 78.4 The driver can view the driving mode currently engaged and monitor the activity of the two drive sources on the large information display in the cockpit. mpg US) in the European test cycle.
Clean Fleet Report
DECEMBER 31, 2021
Carbon Fiber Exterior. Carbon fiber curves. The exterior, constructed completely of lightweight carbon fiber, was responsible for head-snapping whiplash among passersby. inch multifunction-information display. This is a beautiful car.
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