Cars That Think

MAY 25, 2025

He is the quintessential modern explorer, for whom every big mission has a purpose, which generally boils down to environmental and climate-change awareness. In 1946 he was joined by his son, Jacques, a marine engineer, with whom he made a series of record descents. Later, Auguste invented and built the first bathyscaphe.

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Green Car Congress

FEBRUARY 23, 2021

It is a strategy rooted in cross-cutting research and engineering to enable industry stakeholders, communities, government agencies, and early adopters to meet their climate goals. The National Renewable Energy Laboratory (NREL) has released a comprehensive vision for deeply decarbonizing transportation.

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SEPTEMBER 16, 2020

Operation with natural gas or biomethane makes the compact model economical and more climate-friendly with low emissions. TFSI engine produces 96 kW (131 PS) and generates 200 N·m (147.5 The cylinder head, injection system, turbocharger and catalytic converter were modified accordingly for the CNG engine.

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Green Car Congress

FEBRUARY 4, 2023

Tenneco has established new test facilities for hydrogen-powered internal combustion engines at its Powertrain test centers in Burscheid, Germany, and Ann Arbor, Michigan. Preparation of an H 2 ICE test cell. We support a pragmatic approach of complementary technologies that provide solutions for different transportation sectors.

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Green Car Congress

MARCH 7, 2018

The project will build and install diesel-fueled two-stroke compression-ignition Achates Power Opposed-Piston Engines into Class 8 demonstration trucks that will be road-road ready in 2019 and operate in fleet service in California in 2020. This program will demonstrate the first diesel engine to comply with the state standard.

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Green Car Congress

DECEMBER 2, 2020

Ricardo engineers have been asked to support the project due to their expertise in vehicle thermal management and re-using waste heat, which can be useful in reducing the energy needed to help release the hydrogen from storage ready for capture. —Yunting Ge, LSBU Professor of Building Services Engineering. EP/T022760/1.

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JULY 9, 2020

LEVC (London Electric Vehicle Company) is launching the VN5, its new electric light commercial van. The cabin is optimized for professional use, with settings accessed via a large central touchscreen with intuitive interface, while bright LED lighting clearly illuminates other key controls. Six option packs are available.

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Green Car Congress

JANUARY 21, 2022

Automakers are already moving toward electric vehicles, but by establishing clear lines of communication between manufacturers and major consumers, we can accelerate that transition to the point where we’re meeting critical climate goals as well as fleets’ operational needs. Key findings include: Preference for BEVs.

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Green Car Congress

APRIL 13, 2023

The US Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) announced two new proposed federal emissions standards spanning light-, medium- and heavy-duty vehicles for model year 2027 and beyond. The light-duty vehicle category includes passenger cars and light trucks consistent with previous EPA criteria pollutant and GHG rules.

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Green Car Congress

MARCH 4, 2020

liter turbocharged direct injection engine (EA888 evo4). The four-cylinder engine is coupled with a 6-speed manual gearbox as standard. The Golf GTD engine delivers maximum torque of 400 N·m even at very low engine speeds. The new Golf GTI is powered by a 180 kW (245 PS) 2.0-liter The Golf GTD features a 2.0-liter,

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Cars That Think

MARCH 31, 2025

Its been a busy three years since IEEE Women in Engineering celebrated its 25th anniversary in 2022. It also works to inspire girls to pursue an engineering career. WIE has introduced several programs focused on increasing the number of women in the science, technology, engineering, and math fields.

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Green Car Congress

JUNE 30, 2021

Since 2017, the new Worldwide Harmonized Light Vehicle Test Procedure (WLTP) has been put in place with the objective to gradually replace the outdated New European Driving Cycle (NEDC). The provisional data are available through the EEA’s data viewer on CO 2 emissions of new cars and new vans.

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Green Car Congress

NOVEMBER 4, 2021

5 Pro will be powered by an electric engine in the rear delivering 128 kW; the ID.5 For atmospheric interior lighting, the Ambient Lighting feature offers a choice of up to 30 colors. Light in the cockpit helps by providing visual warnings. Like all ID. At 4599 mm long (ID.5 The base ID.5 The new ID. software 3.0

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Green Car Congress

FEBRUARY 14, 2020

We only drove ’normal’ ICE (Internal Combustion Engine) cars before but those gave me a feeling of always being in a hurry. I’ve never seen climate controls in any other car that were placed on the steering wheel for easy control. The gasoline engine only runs in reversing to power the batteries. petrol engine is not running.

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Green Car Congress

APRIL 21, 2023

As part of the toolbox available to reduce carbon emissions and fight against climate change, eFuel is a drop-in replacement synthetic fuel made from captured atmospheric CO 2 and renewable energy. billion existing ICE cars. It is also another action we are taking that is well aligned with our commitment to be carbon neutral by 2038.

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Green Car Congress

SEPTEMBER 1, 2022

As a versatile energy source, hydrogen has a key role to play on the road to climate neutrality. Hydrogen-powered combustion engines had already been in use prior to the arrival of the fuel cell system. The stack housing is manufactured in the light metal foundry at BMW Group Plant Landshut using a sand casting technique.

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BMW Hydrogen Fuel Production 435

Green Car Congress

OCTOBER 4, 2022

—Xiulin Ruan, a Purdue professor of mechanical engineering and developer of the paint. This is thin and light enough for its radiant cooling effects to be applied to vehicles such as cars, trains and airplanes. This light weight opens the doors to all kinds of applications. millimeters thick. —Felicelli et al.

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Green Car Congress

SEPTEMBER 17, 2018

liter EcoBlue diesel engine featuring power outputs from 120 PS to 240 PS and with an advanced new eight-speed automatic transmission controlled using a Rotary Gear Shift Dial. In Europe, Ford has enhanced the S-MAX sports activity vehicle and Galaxy people mover to deliver more fuel efficiency, performance and refinement.

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Engine Ford Diesel Standards 207

Green Car Congress

AUGUST 6, 2021

The US Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) released a proposed rulemaking for model year 2023-2026 light-duty vehicle greenhouse gas emissions standards, and outlined its plans to initiate a subsequent rulemaking to set standards for MY 2027 and beyond, to speed the transition of the light-duty vehicle fleet toward a zero emissions future.

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Cars That Think

NOVEMBER 16, 2021

The leaders of the world have just returned from the UN's latest climate change summit, COP26 , in which the countries that have signed on to the Paris Agreement upped their commitments to fight climate change. C by the year 2100 , according to Climate Action Tracker. C above pre-industrial levels. In 2015, the U.S.

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Green Car Congress

JUNE 26, 2019

Scientists across the globe engineer more than 6,000 new types of MOF particles per year, looking for the right combinations of structure and chemistry for particular tasks, such as increasing the storage capacity of gas tanks or capturing and burying CO 2 from smokestacks to combat climate change.

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Green Car Congress

JANUARY 30, 2019

Given its high efficiency and its performance and in light of climate change, the diesel engine will remain an important technology for years to come, especially for those who travel long distances. Diesel engines emit up to 15% less CO 2 than comparable gasoline engines; the CO 2 benefits are greater for larger vehicles.

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Green Car Congress

SEPTEMBER 11, 2020

Deployed as part of the Volvo LIGHTS (Low Impact Green Heavy Transport Solutions) project, the Volvo VNR Electric trucks will operate in a pilot project through the end of 2021 to demonstrate the ability for battery-electric trucks to successfully transport goods in DHE’s daily routes. Earlier post.).

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Green Car Congress

JUNE 16, 2023

It will be offered with turbodiesel engines (TDI), turbocharged gasoline engines (TSI), mild hybrid turbocharged gasoline engines (eTSI) and plug-in hybrid systems (eHybrid). Based on the top-down principle, the lighting technology of a premium-class model will now be used in the mid-sized Tiguan.

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Cars That Think

MAY 7, 2024

Challenges include climate-change threats to human infrastructure and habitats; cyberwarfare by state and nonstate actors attacking energy sources and health care systems; and the global water crisis, which is compounded by the climate crisis. IEEE is one of several professional engineering societies that are affiliate partners.

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Engine Climate Change Climate Future 139

Cars That Think

JANUARY 26, 2023

Simple, effective solutions that can help lessen the impact of climate change already exist. That’s according to 2023 IEEE President Saifur Rahman , who was among the speakers from engineering organizations at the COP27 event held in Egypt in November. Some of them still need to be implemented, though, while others need to be improved.

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Climate Change Climate Coal Grid 142

Green Car Congress

FEBRUARY 16, 2022

Bonded aluminum is light-weight and rigid, offering top performance and environmental advantages. We knew we wanted this car to be light-weight, we knew we wanted high quality and we knew we wanted it quickly. Bespoke bonded aluminum platform being developed in-house by Polestar’s UK R&D team.

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Green Car Congress

APRIL 18, 2023

Along with innovation from engine manufacturers and public policy supporting lower carbon fuels, renewable gasoline blends are intended to reduce the carbon intensity of light- and medium-duty vehicles already on the road. Renewable gasoline blends use a variety of feedstocks and technologies to achieve carbon intensity reductions.

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Green Car Congress

JANUARY 27, 2021

A new study by a team from Environmental Health & Engineering (EH&E) has found that greenhouse gas emissions from corn ethanol are 46% lower than those from gasoline—a decrease in emissions from the estimated 39% done by previous modeling. EH&E) and Adjunct Professor of Environmental Health at Harvard’s T.H.

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Green Car Congress

JUNE 25, 2019

Volkswagen is committed to the Paris Climate Agreement. The range encompasses everything from the small car segment through the compact class at Volkswagen, Audi, SEAT and ŠKODA, to Audi premium vehicles in the business segment and light commercial vehicles. With 95 points, it achieved the best result so far in 2019.

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Cars That Think

JUNE 17, 2022

In the puzzle of climate change, the Earth’s oceans are an immense and crucial piece. But gathering accurate and sufficient data about the oceans to feed climate and weather models has been a huge technical challenge. What the Argo system has discovered about the oceans and their role in climate change. Back to top.

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Green Car Congress

APRIL 20, 2022

By shifting the biggest gasoline users into ZEVs first, AB 2816 also reduces the total number of ZEVs that would be needed to reach the state’s near-term target of cutting light-duty vehicle emissions in half by 2030. Light duty vehicles cause 28% of California’s total carbon emissions and pollute the air near freeways and busy roads.

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Green Car Congress

NOVEMBER 24, 2019

The report is the culmination of MITEI’s three-year Mobility of the Future study, which is part of MIT’s Plan for Action on Climate Change. Armstrong, a professor of chemical engineering at MIT. GDP growth is affected by economic and climate policies and is different across policy scenarios, although population growth is the same.

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Green Car Congress

JANUARY 19, 2021

A team of Penn State engineers has demonstrated a thermally modulated lithium iron phosphate (LFP) battery to offer an adequate cruise range per charge that is extendable by a 10-minute recharge in all climates, essentially guaranteeing EVs that are free of range anxiety. A paper on their work is published in Nature Energy.

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Market Batteries Battery Charging 305

Green Car Congress

JANUARY 14, 2020

The electrical energy generated by braking is stored in AKASOL’s systems and released to the electric engines when the train accelerates. The systems not only provide the power needed for propulsion but also supply power for on-board systems like lighting and air conditioning. —Sven Schulz, the CEO of AKASOL AG.

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Green Car Congress

NOVEMBER 25, 2020

The unsorted waste stream is reduced to its most basic natural components and then reassembled and bound together into a matrix, creating a novel climate-positive material with applications across industries. By diverting landfill-destined waste, UBQ prevents the emission of methane, groundwater leakage and other environmental harms.

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Parts Carbon Auto Polymer 362

Clean Fleet Report

FEBRUARY 6, 2025

liter Subaru Boxer engine, running on 87 octane, is mated to a series-parallel hybrid system with two electric motors. That a bump from the same engines non-hybrid configuration of 180 hp/178 lb.-ft. Cladding is also found to a more normal degree across the front facia, just below the LED head and fog lights, and on the rear fascia.

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