Green Car Congress
MAY 15, 2014
Cleveland Schools, Ohio’s second largest school district, is replacing 49 12-to-13-year-old diesel buses with Blue Bird’s Propane Vision buses. V10 engine operates every Blue Bird Propane-Powered Vision school bus. This engine also powers the Ford F-450, F-550 and F-650 chassis cabs and other stripped chassis platforms.
Green Car Congress
JULY 12, 2013
NASA and Aerojet Rocketdyne recently finished testing a rocket engine injector made through additive manufacturing (also called 3-D printing). NASA’s Glenn Research Center in Cleveland conducted the successful tests for Aerojet Rocketdyne through a non-reimbursable Space Act Agreement. Credit: NASA. Click to enlarge.
Green Car Congress
JULY 30, 2014
A better understanding of the cool flames’ chemistry might help improve internal combustion engines in cars, for example by developing homogenous-charge compression ignition, which could potentially lead to engines that burn fuel at cooler temperatures, emitting fewer pollutants such as soot and nitric oxide and NO x , while still being efficient.
Green Car Congress
MARCH 1, 2013
NASA researchers have begun a series of flights using the agency’s DC-8 flying laboratory to study the effects of alternate biofuel on engine performance, emissions and aircraft-generated contrails at altitude. —Ruben Del Rosario, manager of NASA’s Fixed Wing Project.
Green Car Congress
SEPTEMBER 10, 2018
Motiv Power Systems all-electric/zero-emissions EPIC chassis, removing the need to idle an engine. Winnebago anticipates the ROI of eMLU vehicles compared to internal combustion engine versions to be as little as three years. Enough charge for eight hours of service plus round-trip travel to and from its home facility.
Green Car Congress
JANUARY 7, 2013
NASA has selected eight large-scale integrated technology demonstrations to advance aircraft concepts and technologies for reducing the impact of aviation on the environment over the next 30 years. 2 nd Generation UHB Ratio Propulsor Integration : Continued development of a geared turbofan engine to help reduce fuel consumption and noise.
Green Car Congress
JUNE 12, 2009
Basic rendering of an open rotor engine. Following several months refurbishing a special NASA test rig, GE Aviation and NASA this summer will begin a wind-tunnel test program to evaluate counter-rotating fan-blade systems for open rotor jet engine designs. Source: GE. Click to enlarge. Earlier post.). The refurbished NASA test rig.
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