Green Car Congress

OCTOBER 20, 2020

The BMW i3 was the BMW Group’s first purely electrically powered large-scale serial model and also the company’s first vehicle with a passenger cell made of carbon fiber reinforced plastic (CFRP). The Life module made of CFRP is part of a vehicle architecture specific to BMW i and designed for electric mobility from the outset.

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Green Car Congress

APRIL 6, 2023

Ramaco Carbon is partnering with Oak Ridge National Laboratory to develop new, large-scale processes for making graphite from coal. It has focused on the use of coal to create advanced carbon products and materials, such as carbon fibers, building products, rare earth minerals, and graphene-based life science products.

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Baua Electric

MARCH 13, 2024

As Uno Minda gazes toward the next decade, we envision a future defined by technological advancements, focusing on the PACE (Personalization, Autonomous, Connected, and Electric) megatrends that are reshaping the automotive landscape. The focus on sustainability is increasing across industries, paving the way for a greener future.

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The Truth About Cars

APRIL 27, 2023

If you wondered how some of America’s speed houses were going to adjust to an all-electric future, today brings a partial answer. Shelby has introduced a Mach-E GT, a rig that adds carbon fiber body panels and a performance suspension – while leaving the powertrain untouched. We shall see.&

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Green Car Congress

AUGUST 19, 2023

Lamborghini unveiled the Lanzador electric concept at Monterey Car Week—a vision of a future purely-electric fourth series production Lamborghini. Lamborghini will define and differentiate itself in the future through a strategy of all active-control systems. Active Aerodynamics.

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Green Car Congress

MAY 24, 2018

To increase FC stack output, Toyota will move production from its current location, within one of the existing buildings at its Honsha Plant in Toyota City, to a brand-new, eight-floor high-tech facility on the same premises, near the original site of the company’s first automobile factory in 1938.

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Green Car Congress

DECEMBER 17, 2020

The new Mirai is one part of an electrification strategy that also includes Toyota’s current and future hybrids and upcoming battery electric vehicles (BEVs). The 2021 Mirai features more advanced user and safety tech, including Toyota Safety Sense 2.5+. Cooling air for the battery is silently pulled in from the cabin.

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Green Car Congress

JUNE 12, 2015

Its exterior skin, painted in Magnetic Blue, combines body parts made of aluminum and carbon fiber reinforced polymer (CFRP), such as the front and rear lids. The highly complex battery system consists of more than 10,000 individual parts. Visually, the 4.40 meter (14.4 The T-shaped battery system measures 235 cm (92.5

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Charged EVs

MAY 18, 2021

Consequently, axial flux motors may go from being a niche use and historical curiosity to an important (and, perhaps, dominant) part of the EV traction market. Similarly, the rotor is the part of a motor that rotates while the stator is the part that stays put.

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Green Car Congress

MAY 25, 2015

The piloted driving technology study integrates a range of future technologies for lightweight design, high-performance drive systems and functions for piloted driving. The project is part of a strategy for solving specific local challenges and testing them in local road traffic. Piloted driving in China: the Audi strategy.

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Charged EVs

APRIL 12, 2023

Consequently, the parts of the rotor that hold the field magnets in place must have a very high strength-to-weight ratio, which basically means using exotic (read: expensive!) materials like woven carbon fiber composite.

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Clean Fleet Report

MAY 7, 2022

The relaxed feel in-town and at highway speeds began with the Michelin Primacy Tour 255/40 all-season tires, mounted on 21-inch aluminum-alloy wheels, which were part of the Sport Prestige package, which also included an electronic limited slip differential. Tech Abounds. Packed with tech. Sliding behind the wheel reveals a 14.5-inch

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Cars That Think

JANUARY 25, 2024

That’s what you’re seeing in the picture above : the shadow of a broken tip of one of the helicopter’s four two-foot long carbon fiber rotor blades. NASA/JPL-Caltech/ASU/MSSS As a tech demo, Ingenuity’s entire reason for existence was to push the boundaries of what’s possible. You did well.

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Green Car Congress

NOVEMBER 18, 2014

Two tanks with a three-layer structure made of carbon fiber-reinforced plastic and other materials are used to store hydrogen at 70 MPa (approximately 700 bars or 10,000 psi). Middle layer: carbon fiber reinforced plastic (structural element). High-pressure Hydrogen Tanks. Handling stability and quietness.

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Prius Toyota Hydrogen Carbon Fiber 296

Green Car Congress

MARCH 28, 2014

Turbines are also appealing because of their few moving parts, low maintenance requirements and lighter weight. The trailer body is built almost exclusively with carbon fiber, including one-piece carbon fiber panels for the roof and sidewalls, saving nearly 4,000 pounds (1,814 kg) when compared to traditional designs.

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Cars That Think

AUGUST 5, 2023

I’m part of a team testing Peregrine—a fixed-wing unmanned aerial vehicle (UAV) equipped with miniaturized ice-penetrating radar, which can image the glacial ice all the way down to the bedrock below. This data has come in large part from ICESat , launched in 2003, and its successor, ICESat-2 , launched in 2018.

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Cars That Think

MARCH 29, 2022

You switch the mode on by dialing it up on the Ferrari’s dramatic steering wheel, which integrates a cool arc of LED lights on its carbon-fiber rim to cue drivers to shift. EV proponents may ask: Why not just skip this middle hybrid step and fully embrace the electric future? Is that a clock we hear ticking?

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Get Electric Vehicle

DECEMBER 10, 2022

Xpeng has formed a separate company called Xpeng HT with the sole purpose of developing eVTOL (electric vertical takeoff and landing) vehicles, and the company has now published a video of its prototype’s maiden flight as part of a wider Xpeng presentation in China. ” – Brian Gu, Vice Chairman and President of XPeng.

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Green Car Congress

SEPTEMBER 12, 2017

Together with the four-door AMG GT Concept, the Mercedes-AMG Project ONE provides another insight into the future performance-hybrid drive strategy of the sports car brand within Mercedes-Benz. The very high-revving engine is additionally boosted by a high-tech turbocharger.

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Baua Electric

MARCH 6, 2024

With heavy-hauling weight capacity, the option for one or two batteries for extra long range, hydraulic disc brakes and a watt-based more comfortable feeling pedal assist sensor, this e-bike is dragging electric cargo bikes into the future. The Cafe Cruiser, as its name suggests, is part cruiser bike, part fast motorbike.

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Green Car Congress

AUGUST 27, 2020

The US Department of Energy announced $33 million in funding for 17 projects as part of the Advanced Research Projects Agency-Energy’s (ARPA-E) Aviation-class Synergistically Cooled Electric-motors with iNtegrated Drives (ASCEND) and Range Extenders for Electric Aviation with Low Carbon and High Efficiency (REEACH) programs.

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Baua Electric

JANUARY 13, 2024

With heavy-hauling weight capacity, the option for one or two batteries for extra long range, hydraulic disc brakes and a watt-based more comfortable feeling pedal assist sensor, this e-bike is dragging electric cargo bikes into the future. The Cafe Cruiser, as its name suggests, is part cruiser bike, part fast motorbike.

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