Green Car Congress

FEBRUARY 24, 2023

Supported by a grant from the Niche Vehicle Network, supported by the Department for Transport and Innovate UK, the project will adapt the design of the Yamaha Tricity 300 to replace its combustion engine with a fully electric powertrain with fast-charging capability and a targeted 100 mile operating range.

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Green Car Congress

FEBRUARY 12, 2021

Hyliion Holdings, a provider of electrified powertrain solutions for Class 8 commercial vehicles, instroduced its next generation battery module which integrates Toshiba’s LTO cells with Hyliion’s technology to achieve longer battery life, higher charging rates and improved safety.

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Green Car Congress

MAY 20, 2012

Simulation study finds Miller version of Scuderi engine can deliver twice the BMEP as naturally aspirated version, theoretically enabling 50% downsizing while maintaining performance. Applying the Miller cycle to the Scuderi engine (right) entails downsizing of the compression cylinder. Source: Scuderi. Click to enlarge.

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Green Car Congress

JULY 10, 2012

The new Advanced Elastoval II piston is lighter, delivers increased power outputs and can withstand the higher pressures that occur late in the combustion cycle of highly charged downsized engines. The Advanced Elastoval II piston architecture is up to 20% lighter than previous. generation pistons.

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Green Car Reports

NOVEMBER 10, 2020

The company you probably once knew for its calculators and computers is still around—developing critical components for electric-car chargers. Texas Instruments is marketing a new generation of gallium nitride field-effect transistors (GaN FETs), which the company claims can double the power density of onboard chargers for electric cars.

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Green Car Reports

APRIL 28, 2020

Hyundai hybrids tackle battery downsizing with a novel approach. And Chicago is requiring more EV charge points. Chicago has made a move that requires more charge points to be installed in large-scale residential and commercial development. What started with the Prius has now hit 15 million. It might seem.

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Green Car Congress

JANUARY 13, 2012

Volvo Car Corporation will rely on a powertrain strategy based on its new downsized 4-cylinder VEA (Volvo Environmental Architecture) engine platform ( earlier post ) and hybrids for the US market, said John Maloney, recently appointed President of Volvo Cars, US, in an interview at the Detroit Auto Show. Click to enlarge.

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Green Car Congress

SEPTEMBER 22, 2010

The need to reduce CO 2 emissions is leading to downsized engines, heavily boosted by turbo- or supercharging. Independent analysis has estimated that the world market for pressure-charged gasoline engines will grow from 2.5 million today to 12 million by 2016.

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Green Car Congress

MAY 23, 2009

Schematic of downsized and supercharged four-stroke hybrid pneumatic spark injection engine. The reduction in fuel consumption is obtained mainly through enabling the effective use of a heavily downsized engine, rather than from regenerative efficiency. The team replaced one exhaust valve per cylinder with a charge valve.

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Green Car Congress

JUNE 7, 2021

Notably, we highlight the importance of fast charging, which is essential for downsizing aircraft and batteries to reduce cost while achieving high vehicle use rates to maximize revenues. We hope that these initial designs will spur exciting development of eVTOL batteries. —Yang et al.

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Batteries Battery Li-ion Downsizing 243

Green Car Congress

JULY 7, 2013

The Clemson University International Center for Automotive Research (CU-ICAR) and the SCTechnology Aviation Center (SCTAC) have contracted with Oak Ridge National Laboratory (ORNL) to support a three-year program to develop and test wireless charging systems for electrical vehicles. Earlier post.). based Evatran.

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Green Car Congress

JUNE 23, 2014

Taking learnings from LTD and LDECC programs to utilize PCCI (pre-mixed charge compression ignition) and high charge flow operation. Cummins achieved its weight-neutral goal based on a gasoline engine with emission control system (ECS) weight of 514 lbs (233 kg); the new aluminum 2.8L

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Baua Electric

APRIL 17, 2024

As in other range-extended EVs, the battery could be replenished either by the internal-combustion engine/generator or via conventional AC or DC charging, per the report. Propulsion was reportedly provided by a 268-hp rear-mounted electric motor, drawing power from a lithium-ion battery pack roughly half the size of a production EQS pack.

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Green Car Congress

MAY 14, 2009

Continuing to emphasize a downsizing approach, Volkswagen presented two new engines at the at the 30 th Vienna Engine Symposium (7-8 May): the 1.2-liter Downsizing is rigorously being developed in the volume segments with the 1.2 Click to enlarge. liter TSI gasoline engine and the 1.6-liter liter TDI diesel. Earlier post.).

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Green Car Reports

AUGUST 1, 2020

What looks like a modern-but-downsized electric VW Microbus? Which Chinese brand is aiming to have the most affordable EV in the U.S. This is our look back at the Week In Reverse—right here at Green Car Reports—for the week ending July 31, 2020. General Motors showed a little more of its upcoming GMC Hummer EV on.

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Hummer Downsizing GMC General Motors 84

Green Car Congress

NOVEMBER 8, 2019

MAHLE Powertrain is presenting a new, prototype 48-volt battery with optimized battery cooling and cell chemistry to enable increased charge and discharge rates. Thus a compact and cost-effective battery that is capable of high charge and discharge power levels relative to its storage capacity (high C rates) is desirable.

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Volt Batteries Battery Hybrid 170

Green Car Congress

JANUARY 31, 2017

The Torotrak Group has three main product lines: Flybrid flywheel-based kinetic energy recovery (KERS); Torotrak variable drive transmissions for use in powertrains and auxiliary devices; and V-Charge, a supercharging product containing Torotrak variable drive technology. V-Charge variable drive supercharger exploded view.

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Green Car Congress

APRIL 13, 2011

Delphi is introducing a new range of liquid cooled charge air coolers (LCCACs) for both gasoline and diesel engines. To reduce tailpipe emissions and improve fuel economy while maintaining maximum driver satisfaction, vehicle manufacturers are turning to downsized engines.

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Green Car Congress

JANUARY 23, 2019

In particular, BDS provides benefits to battery manufacturers looking for breakthrough improvements in charge rates, battery cycle life and energy density. Moreover, Hacskaylo expects MOLECULAR REBAR to play an effective role in the down-gauging and downsizing of new battery designs.

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Green Car Congress

JANUARY 9, 2010

Peugeot continues to improve engine efficiency with a downsizing strategy for its gasoline and HDi FAP diesel engines. They recharge fully in 6 hours via a household electrical socket or in 30 minutes with a rapid charging terminal. Included in its product strategy are: Cleaner engines. 100% Electric vehicles. Micro-hybrids.

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Green Car Congress

NOVEMBER 1, 2016

In its new report on downsized and boosted gasoline engine technologies ( earlier post ) the ICCT highlighted Ricardo’s work on an “extreme” Miller cycle concept with high (13:1) compression ratio (CR) and central direct injection in a downsized boosted engine. The concept places particular demands on the boosting system. Resources.

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Green Car Congress

MAY 23, 2017

Many auto manufacturers have used the combined benefits of GDI and turbocharging for increasing power output from downsized engines. This is evident in the rapid rise of turbo-charged engines in over the past five years, after 11 prior years of desultory growth. Source: DOE. Click to enlarge.

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Green Car Congress

SEPTEMBER 9, 2014

Engine downsizing through charge boosting is a well-recognized means of improving internal combustion engine fuel efficiency, by increasing the proportion of the drive cycle at which the powertrain operates within or close to the region of peak fuel efficiency of its operating map.

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JANUARY 29, 2021

GM’s focus will be offering zero-emissions vehicles across a range of price points and working with all stakeholders, including EDF, to build out the necessary charging infrastructure and promote consumer acceptance while maintaining high quality jobs, which will all be needed to meet these ambitious goals. Renewable Energy.

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Green Car Congress

MARCH 14, 2010

The major difference between the two performance classes is an increase in the maximum charge pressure from 1.0 In conjunction with the AMG Performance package these figures are increased to 420 kW and 900 N·m. With the provisional NEDC fuel consumption of 10.5 L/100km, the new S 63 AMG is 3.9

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Green Car Congress

FEBRUARY 24, 2016

Pierburg GmbH, part of the KSPG Group, has developed an electric compressor for spontaneously boosting the charge pressure of engines fitted with an exhaust-gas turbocharger. The electric compressor fits in well and without any constraints with the proven strategy of downsizing, the company said.

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Clean Fleet Report

JULY 16, 2023

Instead of paying for those grueling fuel prices, you need to pay a smaller fee to charge them at home or at the business. Furthermore, many governments and local authorities will offer you discounts when you purchase electric vehicles as it is helping the planet.

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Green Car Congress

MAY 17, 2016

hybrid vehicles, downsizing, plug-ins)—or under some specific operating conditions (e.g. hybrid vehicles, downsizing, plug-ins)—or under some specific operating conditions (e.g. The majority of brake boosters have until recently used the vacuum generated by the internal combustion engine’s intake section.

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Green Car Congress

AUGUST 25, 2015

Knock and fuel octane rating are becoming increasingly important due to many powertrain design trends including downsizing, downspeeding, cylinder deactivation, and hybridization. … The concept of an “effective octane number” calculates overall knock resistance of fuel in modern engines, including the effects of charge cooling.

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Green Car Congress

SEPTEMBER 29, 2011

At 48 volts, a VTES electric supercharger will transform 7kW of battery power into a highly boosted charge of air for downsized gasoline and diesel engines. There will be no torque deficit or other tradeoffs from essential engine downsizing and higher gearing, which now dominates the development of internal combustion engines.

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Green Car Congress

APRIL 19, 2013

In a direct injection engine, they noted, the cooling of the charge and consequent knock relief provided by the evaporation of the fuel is proportional to the fuel flow per unit mass of air. Further, the effect of charge cooling on reducing the rate of autoignition kinetics is amplified by the high sensitivity of ethanol.

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Green Car Congress

JANUARY 11, 2010

Develop and demonstrate technologies including engine downsizing, electrification of auxiliary systems such as oil and water pumps, waste heat recovery, improved aerodynamics and hybridization. 38,831,115. Daimler Trucks North America, LLC. 39,559,868. Navistar, Inc. 37,328,933. Grantee Project Award. Chrysler Group LLC. 14,458,572.

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Green Car Congress

JANUARY 20, 2019

Permanent magnets are a class of magnets that retain their magnetization and flux lines after they have been magnetized, conceptually similar to a battery holding electrical charges. In the past 15 to 20 years, the increase in magnet energy product reached a plateau due to lack of material solution. —Yuepeng Zhang.

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Wind Downsizing Motor Motors 294

Green Car Congress

FEBRUARY 4, 2009

Downsizing a gasoline engine (e.g., AVL reasoned that merging turbocharged GDI with a mild hybrid function can result in excellent driveability even with the combination of strong downsizing and downspeeding. engine (green hatched area) is applied to charging the energy storage system rather than in directly delivering torque.

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Green Car Congress

OCTOBER 10, 2016

Independent on-engine test results have verified the simulation predictions that a Torotrak V-Charge variable drive mechanical supercharger enables more ambitious levels of engine downsizing. version when fitted with a V-Charge unit. Compared to a current 1.5L GTDI engine producing 240 N·m torque, a 1.0L

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Green Car Congress

JULY 2, 2012

Leveraging the systematic interplay of ACT, downsizing (reduced engine displacement plus direct injection and charging) and BlueMotion Technologies (Stop/Start system, battery regeneration, aerodynamic components), the Polo BlueGT closes the gap between the Polo 1.2 TSI (77 kW / 105 PS) and the Polo GTI (132 kW / 180 PS).

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MPG Downsizing MPH Fuel 225

Green Car Congress

MAY 15, 2018

The system is controlled by an advanced Electronic Control Unit (ECU), which calculates the most efficient use of the available energy, and adjusts accordingly, taking into account the amount of charge remaining in the car’s batteries. Charge from the 48V battery helps to start the engine in most conditions.

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