Green Car Congress

JUNE 29, 2016

The final results will be presented at the UK’s LCV2016 event on 14-15 September. The concept of “intelligent electrification” enables highly aggressive engine downsizing and down-speeding beyond what might normally be possible other than through more expensive hybridization approaches. ADEPT powertrain architecture.

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Green Car Congress

APRIL 19, 2013

The team presented a paper on their work at the 2013 SAE World Congress in Detroit. Ford engineers also presented two other papers evaluating the effects of low to mid-level ethanol blends in spark-ignited engines at the conference. Downsizing/downspeeding. In the face of increased regulatory stringency (e.g.,

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Green Car Congress

MARCH 19, 2013

This first report (Phase I) examines only the impact of improving the efficiency of fossil-fueled vehicles, in which efficiency gains are delivered by the improvement of the internal combustion engine vehicle, including lightweighting, engine downsizing and hybridization. —“An Economic Assessment of Low Carbon Vehicles”.

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Green Car Congress

FEBRUARY 12, 2014

The Proving Factory is a UK collaborative project designed to bridge the market gap between technology developers making innovative, low-carbon “proof of concept” prototypes, and the need to develop vehicle manufacturer’s confidence in the new technology by providing volume supply.). Background. MAGSPLIT principle.

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Green Car Congress

NOVEMBER 23, 2015

The new low-pressure carbonitriding (enriching low-alloy steels with carbon and nitrogen) process saves time and process gas. Steels hardened in this way are suited for use in components subjected to high mechanical and thermal loads in downsized, energy-efficient and low-emission engines of the future. ethyne or propane.

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Green Car Congress

DECEMBER 17, 2015

designed in tandem to maximize performance and carbon efficiency. High-research octane number (RON) fuels are known to enable more efficient, higher-performance SI operation via engine downsizing and boosting. The Optima program is a key collaborative initiative being pursued by EERE, VTO, and BETO. Earlier post.)

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Green Car Congress

MAY 7, 2009

Ilmor Engineering will present a new cutaway version of the Ilmor 5-stroke concept engine at the upcoming Engine EXPO 2009, 16-18 June, in Stuttgart, Germany. It is also a member of the UK Low Carbon Vehicle Partnership. Rendering of the Ilmor 5-stroke concept engine. Click to enlarge.

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Green Car Congress

OCTOBER 4, 2009

During his presentation at the recent California Air Resources Board (ARB) ZEV Technology Symposium, Tatsuaki Yokoyama, from Toyota Motor Engineering & Manufacturing North America, said that Toyota aimed to reduce the cost of fuel cell vehicles to 1/10 of the current level by design and materials improvement by commercialization in 2015.

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Green Car Congress

AUGUST 16, 2016

These trucks haul 80% of goods in the United States and use about 28 billion gallons of fuel per year, accounting for around 22% of total transportation energy usage—presenting a significant opportunity for carbon emissions reduction and energy savings for a key segment of the US transportation sector. Federal funding.

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Green Car Congress

APRIL 24, 2010

In recent years two methods, namely downsizing and downspeeding, were established on the market to reduce CO 2 emissions while maintaining the driving performance of engines with identical effective power but a larger displacement. Starting out from the original engine application (variant I) the carbon-dioxide emissions are lowered by 1.9%

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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. The WLTP is significantly more dynamic with faster acceleration rates. —Paul Bloore, product validation manager for CPT’s hybrid product group. Click to enlarge. The conference. Earlier post.).

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Green Car Congress

DECEMBER 17, 2015

The engine should yield fuel efficiency gains of more than 50% compared to a downsized, turbo-charged gasoline direct injection engine, while reducing the overall cost of the powertrain system, said Fabien Redon, Vice President, Technology Development at Achates Power. Earlier post.) earlier post ). Earlier post.).

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Green Car Congress

NOVEMBER 19, 2014

The EALABC focus is on the environmental and cost benefits of current and future advanced lead-carbon batteries for 48V hybrid vehicles. Advanced lead-carbon batteries for vehicles currently under development will be capable of operating in the 30 to 70% SoC range at 12.5kW. Earlier post.)

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Green Car Congress

MARCH 27, 2015

Porsche has presented the second generation of its Le Mans Prototype 919 Hybrid race car. The increased rigidity of the monocoque-engine-transmission unit is also due in part to the shifting system, as the casing of the hydraulically operated sequential 7-speed racing gearbox made of aluminium is mounted in a carbon structure.

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Green Car Congress

AUGUST 4, 2009

George Anitescu from Syracuse presented the work in a poster at the DEER 2009 conference in Dearbon, Michigan. The technology is optimized with modern high compression diesel architecture engines, near-term running on gasoline while longer-term utilizing advanced low carbon footprint bio-fuels. Transonic’s TSCi technology.

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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. Their presentations have been thorough, comprehensive, well-researched and well presented. There is no opting out, kids.

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Green Car Congress

JANUARY 11, 2010

Demand for C-segment vehicles globally will come in part from a rightsizing trend in which customers—more conscious of fuel price instability, their own carbon footprints and their individual vehicle needs—are increasingly expected to choose vehicles in this segment as the right cars for them. liter engine.

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Green Car Congress

DECEMBER 11, 2009

This crucial difference means the technology is perfectly suited to maintaining vehicle performance and driveability—widely recognized as a critical marketing issue for any car maker contemplating radical engine downsizing. Low Carbon Vehicle Partnership Technology Challenge. They have also designed a 100 mpg UK (83 mpg US, 2.8

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Green Car Congress

OCTOBER 2, 2014

Hyundai is also displaying the diesel i40 48V hybrid concept, featuring a lead-carbon battery. It is the first time that Hyundai has presented a dual-clutch transmission with seven gears, combining the benefits of both automatic and manual transmissions. liter T-GDI. The new Kappa 1.0-liter Based on a 1.7-liter

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Green Cars News

MAY 10, 2009

Ilmor Engineering will present a new cutaway version of the Ilmor five-stroke concept engine at the show. Ilmor, based in the UK, has traditionally focused on racing engines, but now as a member of the UK Low Carbon Vehicle Partnership its business is becoming increasingly diverse. The event takes place from June 16-18.

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Green Car Congress

AUGUST 18, 2022

In addition, the combustion chamber has been designed to run on sustainable low-carbon fuel. We’ve taken the challenge presented by this new rule package from IMSA, and developed what we believe is a very competitive solution We’ve gone in a new direction for HPD in the design of the ICE.

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Green Car Congress

MAY 12, 2017

A new study quantifying emissions from a fleet of gasoline direct injection (GDI) engines and port fuel injection (PFI) engines finds that the measured decrease in CO 2 emissions from GDIs is much greater than the potential climate forcing associated with higher black carbon emissions from GDI engines. versus 6.3 ± 1.1

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Green Car Congress

OCTOBER 8, 2013

Opel presented details of its new three-cylinder 1.0-liter liter class which are engineered to meet customer demand for strong, downsized engine performance. The fuel rail is decoupled by a rubber/steel damper and the injectors are isolated in the combustion chamber by carbon-filled Teflon seals. Click to enlarge.

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Tony Karrer Delicious EVdriven

JANUARY 28, 2009

Use this information at your own risk: There is no warranty expressed nor implied and we are not liable for any of your past, present, nor future actions.Even should you perform these modifications to the letter you could still damage any number of components in your vehicle causing it to no longer function.

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Charged EVs

JANUARY 5, 2024

Instead, Volvo says, the little electric SUV might be the first new car for a young professional or a new couple, or empty-nesters who want to downsize their second or third vehicle now that they’re done hauling kids and their gear. It’s the closest thing yet to a Tesla Model Y presentation, and almost as simple to use, once you learn it.

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Green Car Congress

OCTOBER 8, 2013

Light naphtha has a boiling range between 30 °C and 90 °C and 5-6 carbon atoms. Heavy naphtha has a boiling range between 90 °C and 200 °C and 7-11 carbon atoms. Based on these engine studies, they installed a downsized four-cylinder 1.6-liter in their paper published in the Saudi Aramco Journal of Technology.

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Green Car Congress

FEBRUARY 10, 2014

As part of a consortium over the last several years, the authors worked with industrial partners in developing 2/4-stroke switchable engine technologies through engine downsizing, from which the current research on 2-stroke CAI via poppet valve operation have been initiated and performed. —Zhang et al. bar IMEP on the 2-stroke mode.

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Green Car Congress

JANUARY 31, 2011

Alternative fuels have the potential gradually to replace fossil energy sources and make transport sustainable by 2050, according to a report presented to the European Commission last week by the stakeholder expert group on future transport fuels. All these principal alternative fuel candidates can be produced from low-carbon technologies.

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Green Car Congress

NOVEMBER 16, 2011

harmonized with NHTSA’s CAFE standards, are projected to require 163 grams/mile of carbon dioxide (CO 2 ) in model year 2025. downsize), and the agencies say they have included costs of preserving performance, utility and safety. mpg US (5.87 L/100km) in model year 2021, and 49.6 L/100km) in model year 2025. improvements.

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Green Car Congress

JULY 17, 2015

At present, PHEV technology alone is equipped to improve the current electric grid. The combination of harvesting whole forests and burning long-sequestered carbon sources such as coal or oil has impaired the Earth’s carbon cycle at an increasing pace. Engineering Advantages of the PHEV. But use of petroleum will continue.

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Baua Electric

JANUARY 5, 2024

Instead, Volvo says, the little electric SUV might be the first new car for a young professional or a new couple, or empty-nesters who want to downsize their second or third vehicle now that they’re done hauling kids and their gear. It’s the closest thing yet to a Tesla Model Y presentation, and almost as simple to use, once you learn it.

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Green Car Congress

DECEMBER 20, 2009

The more efficient combustion engine technologies, with their enabling of downsizing, come in compatibly with hybridization, with hybridization and electrification playing a larger role over time. The further downsized next-generation technologies can be very synergistic within hybrid applications. Planning background.

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Tony Karrer Delicious EVdriven

APRIL 21, 2009

This is from "Commercializing Plug-In Hybrids" (pdf), the current CalCars 24-slide presentation about PHEVs available along with other documents at CalCars Downloads. Agrees on environmental and economic benefits, though some presentations backtrack on that; says batteries need further development before commitment to mass-production.

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