CleanTechnica EVs

OCTOBER 25, 2022

As many tech companies are finding ways to cut costs and downsize ahead of an expected recession, Tesla CEO Elon Musk seems confident that the automaker will be okay.

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Green Car Congress

MAY 29, 2020

Researchers at KAUST’s Clean Combustion Research Center have developed a method to predict and to avoid undesirable combustion events in advanced engines, such as knocking and super-knock. Advanced low-temperature-combustion (LTC) strategies of downsized and boosted engines are capable of offering ultra-low emissions and higher efficiencies.

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Green Car Congress

APRIL 8, 2014

The transmission is targeting the needs of transmission developers who are being asked to provide higher levels of capability in a smaller package that can be used in a downsized engine compartment, while at the same time reducing mechanical complexity and increasing robustness.

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Green Car Congress

JANUARY 23, 2019

In contrast, the MOLECULAR REBAR product supplied by BDS delivers clean and discrete carbon nanotubes of uniform aspect ratio, enabling their use to create high-performance energy storage applications. 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

NOVEMBER 1, 2010

These extreme downsizing indicates the potential of a SI, knock-free engine, operating at the same peak pressure as the diesel engine and higher engine speeds. However this aggressive downsizing may not be practical because other constraints (durability, exhaust temperatures). In this manner a 3.6 —Bromberg and Cohn.

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Green Car Congress

MAY 20, 2014

Toyota intends to leverage the benefits of high frequency and high efficiency of SiC power semiconductors to enable PCU downsizing of 80%. The high frequency control of SiC allows the downsizing of coils and condensers within the PCU. ???Source: Click to enlarge. Source: Toyota. Click to enlarge.

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Green Car Congress

MARCH 27, 2020

compression ratio, extent of downsizing, etc.). Farrell, John, Robert Wagner, Chris Moen, and Dan Gaspar (2020) “ A Transportation Future with Science in the Driver’s Seat: Mapping a Viable Route Forward for Affordable, Efficient, and Clean Fuels and Engines ” DOE/EERE-2046. Source: Co-Optima capstone report.

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Green Car Congress

MARCH 19, 2018

The current decline is ales of diesel light duty vehicle in Europe does not put EU CO 2 targets out of reach of automakers, according to a new analysis by the International Council on Clean Transportation (ICCT).

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Green Car Congress

JUNE 11, 2019

g/bhp-hr by 2027 will be less than the cost of emission control technology in 2010 because, over the past nine years, ingenuity and innovation have downsized emission controls by 60% and substantially lowered their cost. The cost of controlling NO x to 0.05 g/bhp-hr in 2024 and to 0.02 Credit: MECA.

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Standards Diesel 2019 Emissions 191

Green Car Congress

APRIL 18, 2013

The assessment came in an annual report to the Clean Energy Ministerial (CEM). To illustrate this inertia, the report, Tracking Clean Energy Progress , introduced the Energy Sector Carbon Intensity Index (ESCII), which shows how much carbon dioxide is emitted, on average, to provide a given unit of energy.

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Green Car Reports

MARCH 22, 2012

A small SUV with the Mercedes-Benz "three-pointed star" sitting on the grille may not be everyone's idea of a green car, but as it's representetive of the trend towards downsizing, it still marks an improvement over large, gas-guzzling SUVs. liter BlueTEC clean diesel engine.

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Green Car Congress

JUNE 20, 2011

This enables the boost of downsized engines to be completely controlled at any point on the operating cycle, including part-load. The detailed data set shows how the Blade Supercharger is able uniquely to deliver the pressure and flow required for downsized engines, Lontra says. Click to enlarge. Earlier post.).

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Green Car Congress

DECEMBER 18, 2010

Approved in December 2008, this regulation will clean up emissions from the nearly one million heavy duty diesel trucks that operate in California. Expand credits for fleet downsizing, adding cleaner vehicles ahead of any regulatory requirements, and for installation of early retrofits. —ARB Chairman Mary D.

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Clean Fleet Report

DECEMBER 27, 2023

Investing in EV vehicles , controlling fuel costs and fleet downsizing are other green means that benefit this industry. The post How Eco-Friendly Transportation Boosts Business Success first appeared on Clean Fleet Report.

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Green Car Congress

JANUARY 11, 2010

Develop and demonstrate a highly efficient and clean diesel engine, an advanced waste heat recovery system, an aerodynamic Peterbilt tractor and trailer combination, and a fuel cell auxiliary power unit to reduce engine idling. 38,831,115. Daimler Trucks North America, LLC. 39,559,868. Grantee Project Award. Chrysler Group LLC. 14,458,572.

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Green Car Congress

JUNE 11, 2016

The SIA conference was focused on clean compression-ignition engines of the future. The vehicles on which the research was based were representative of current production models at the more aggressive end of the downsizing spectrum in terms of engine capacity and output, but modeled with a future three cylinder 1.5 liter diesel engine.

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Green Car Congress

FEBRUARY 5, 2018

This is also an advantage because cooling systems can be downsized or removed altogether. With Dr. Jorgensen’s in-depth understanding of both automotive and clean energy sectors, we will accelerate the company’s path to become a global market leader in providing ultracapacitors and energy saving modules for the automotive industry.

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Green Car Congress

MAY 27, 2014

—Dave Cooke, vehicles analyst in the UCS Clean Vehicles Program and author of the report. This report marks the first time another company has bested Honda, which came in second this year but has earned every “Greenest Automaker” designation from UCS since 1998.

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Green Car Congress

JANUARY 18, 2010

As a point of comparison, the US EPA’s proposed national CO 2 emissions standards for light-duty vehicles under section 202 (a) of the Clean Air Act would require these vehicles to meet an estimated combined average emissions level of 250 grams/mile of CO 2 —155.26 g/km—in model year 2016. Earlier post.) Hariher Balasubramanian.

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Green Car Congress

MARCH 6, 2014

This technology offers advantages also in other operations such as cleaning, deburring and decoating. As part of this downsizing trend, thermal coatings are increasingly replacing grey cast iron cylinder liners in engine blocks. High-pressure water jetting as employed in today’s activation processes uses pressures of at least 2500 bar.

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Green Car Congress

OCTOBER 1, 2021

In addition to clean operation realized by electrification technologies, eVTOL features safety at a level equivalent to that of commercial passenger airplanes realized by its simple structure and decentralized propulsive system and quietness due to relatively small diameter of rotors.

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Green Car Congress

JULY 12, 2013

The company is also the thermodynamic efficiency of gasoline engines using a suite of technologies that include downsizing, turbocharging, direct injection, variable valve timing and cylinder deactivation. Earlier post.). In 2012, GM invested more than $7.3

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Green Car Congress

OCTOBER 25, 2012

A catalyst could take care of it, but we’ll get a little more efficiency if we get the HCs cleaned up. We did another study with FEV, projecting our data onto a turbo downsized application; we get nearly 50% improvements in common automobiles. We look in good shape to meet emissions requirements. —Monty Cleeves.

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Green Car Congress

NOVEMBER 8, 2011

The White Paper was published by the US Coalition for Advanced Diesel Cars, a national organization focused on promoting technology neutral policies and the energy efficiency and environmental benefits of advanced clean diesel technology. Impact of different sales mix on new car average fuel economy.

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Standards Transportation Fuel Economy MPG 247

Green Car Congress

AUGUST 21, 2012

Omron has been working over the last decade to meet the needs of clean energy car manufacturers for greater circuit design flexibility and components that enable down-sizing and weight reduction of onboard electrical equipment. G9EN relay. Click to enlarge.

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Green Car Congress

NOVEMBER 8, 2012

Thus, the Commission said it would work together with industry to develop a proposal on the European Green Vehicles Initiative under Horizon 2020, including a platform to develop clean and energy-efficient vehicle technologies, as announced in the 2010 Industrial Policy Communication.

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Green Car Congress

OCTOBER 7, 2010

LSPI is considered an impediment to aggressive engine downsizing to reduce carbon dioxide emissions. Low-speed preignition events are random, infrequent occurrences that happen at low speed and high torque, and their causes are not completely understood. As an independent R&D laboratory, SwRI has extensive experience in managing consortia.

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Green Car Congress

NOVEMBER 28, 2015

Working with its technology partner Hubbard Products ( earlier post ), the entire refrigeration system has also been reconfigured, downsizing a number of components and optimizing them to deliver maximum efficiency and higher levels of performance. The only emission back to the atmosphere is air or nitrogen.

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Green Car Congress

SEPTEMBER 15, 2016

A key part of the overall efficiency gain is the downsized 11-liter Volvo engine, featuring advanced fuel injection, cooling, oil and turbo-charging systems, as well as new “wave” pistons and other improvements. This new design added “wave” bumps on the side of the piston bowl, which allows the fuel to burn more cleanly.).

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Green Car Congress

JULY 11, 2017

The International Council on Clean Transportation (ICCT), one of the organizations at the root of uncovering the Volkswagen diesel emission scandal ( earlier post ), has published a new analysis of developments and trends in advanced diesel engine technology.

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Diesel Light Fuel Economy 2017 186

Green Car Congress

FEBRUARY 5, 2020

This has resulted in higher catalyst loading per volume of substrate and led to downsizing of systems from those available in 2010. Founded in 1976, MECA is a nonprofit trade association of the world’s leading manufacturers of clean technology solutions for all mobile sources. —MECA Executive Director, Rasto Brezny.

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Green Car Congress

OCTOBER 31, 2016

A new white paper published by the International Council on Clean Transportation (ICCT), in collaboration with Eaton, Ricardo, JCI, BorgWarner, Honeywell, and the ITB Group, analyzes current turbocharged, downsized gasoline engine technology developments and trends. Source: ICCT. Click to enlarge.

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Green Car Congress

AUGUST 10, 2009

First of all, future passenger vehicles have to stay as clean as the best vehicles out there today. We see dramatic downsizing and boosting [as] something that’s going to for gasoline engines especially. To be able effectively to implement downsizing and downspeeding, good low-end torque is essential. smog and particulates.

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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.) Fabien Redon.

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Green Car Congress

JUNE 28, 2010

The presence of low-speed pre-ignition is considered a major impediment to automobile manufacturers’ efforts to aggressively downsize engines to reduce carbon dioxide emissions. Since 1991, a separate Clean Diesel consortium has conducted research in low-emission diesel engines with as many as 46 member companies worldwide.

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Green Car Congress

DECEMBER 11, 2012

The design brief for the new-generation PureTech engines called for a clean break in powertrain development. To achieve these results, PureTech development called for a number of changes, chief among which were: Downsizing. Depending on the model and the tires fitted, combined cycle fuel consumption for the new family is between 4.3

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Creative Greenius

NOVEMBER 16, 2009

So instead of spending so much time trying to earn political support from politicians and governments I think we need to turn our focus to recruiting the best marketing, sales and creative pros – many of whom are currently on the street, jobless, downsized due to cutbacks in consumer spending.

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