Green Car Congress

SEPTEMBER 14, 2021

This prototype is the first of the Volvo VNL fleet to be designed to operate with the Aurora Driver and represents a significant step as Aurora and Volvo begin building commercial L4 Class 8 trucks at scale for Volvo’s North American customers.

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Green Car Congress

FEBRUARY 8, 2023

The company also released video footage of successful first taxi tests of the aircraft, designed to evaluate ground handling qualities and the performance of the fuel-cell electric powertrain at low power settings and airspeeds. The Dash 8-300 flying testbed has a megawatt-class hydrogen fuel cell powertrain installed in one of its nacelles.

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Green Car Congress

JULY 13, 2022

OptiFuel is developing modular repower kits for diesel locomotives and new locomotives in all lengths, horsepower levels, and track gauges. For Argentina, OptiFuel will build locomotive kits in the US that will be shipped for local assembly in Argentina, creating new jobs and enhancing business in both countries.

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Green Car Congress

JULY 7, 2023

This latest milestone underlines the safety and reliability of Inceptio’s full-stack autonomous driving solution, as well as its accelerating commercial uptake. Inceptio’s L3 autonomous trucks have been in commercial operation since late 2021.

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Green Car Congress

AUGUST 8, 2017

Project partners include INERATEC, a spinoff of Karlsruhe Institute of Technology (KIT), VTT Technical Research Center of Finland and Lappeenranta University of Technology (LUT). The compact plant is designed for decentralized production, fits into a shipping container, and can be extended modularly.

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Green Car Congress

FEBRUARY 21, 2022

Volkswagen Commercial Vehicles is currently going through the final phase of ID. —Kai Grünitz, Head of Vehicle Development at Volkswagen Commercial Vehicles. The designers have rigorously transferred the styling of the 2017 concept car to the 2022 full-production version. By virtue of its design, the ID.

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Green Car Congress

JULY 13, 2020

Using X-rays from a synchrotron particle accelerator, scientists of the Karlsruhe Institute of Technology (KIT) have now been able to observe for the first time a catalyst during the Fischer-Tropsch reaction that facilitates the production of synthetic fuels under industrial conditions. Photo: Tiziana Carambia).

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Green Car Congress

SEPTEMBER 14, 2022

The partner in the project is ABT eLine GmbH, which designed and converted the vehicles together with Bosch Engineering GmbH. With the two fuel cell vans, we are expanding our understanding of the system and showing that the fuel cell can also be a suitable drive solution for light commercial vehicles.

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Green Car Congress

OCTOBER 15, 2021

The proprietary modular capsule technology is significantly lighter than the current state of the art in hydrogen storage and is designed from first principles for flight and ground transport safety certification. Full-scale prototype of Universal Hydrogen's gaseous hydrogen module, with one capsule removed.

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Green Car Congress

JUNE 1, 2018

Symbio currently has several hundred converted Renault Kangoo ZE Maxi light electric commercial vehicles equipped with a 22 kWh battery pack and 5 kW hydrogen fuel range extender with 2.08 The kit is packaged with its power electronics unit for the conversion of fuel cell power for the battery. The kit utilizes the vehicle’s CAN bus.

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Green Car Congress

OCTOBER 13, 2016

a developer and manufacturer of advanced range-extended electric vehicle (REV) powertrains for heavy-duty applications ( earlier post ), is gearing up for a commercialization push with the appointent of four advanced engineering and commercialization executives. Wrightspeed Inc., —Ian Wright. Tim Dummer, Chief Business Officer.

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Green Car Congress

NOVEMBER 9, 2016

This reactor was developed by KIT. The compact plant was developed to maturity and is now being commercialized by KIT spin-off INERATEC. KIT, INERATEC, and VTT plan to extend their cooperation. The new power-to-liquid plant will be taken into operation at the BIORUUKKI Piloting Center of VTT this year.

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Green Car Congress

MAY 11, 2016

The Consortium for Algal Biofuel Commercialization (CAB-Comm), led by the University of California, San Diego, has released its final report , detailing the accomplishments and contributions achieved in its six years of operation. Earlier post.) Earlier post.)

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Green Car Congress

FEBRUARY 13, 2020

In the past fiscal year, e-troFit nominated Voltabox AG as the supplier of the battery unit for conversion kits for buses and trucks. The weight-optimized battery system as a whole is designed so that it can be mounted both at the rear of converted buses as well as on the roof structure. —Andreas Hager, CEO of e-troFit GmbH.

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Green Car Congress

NOVEMBER 11, 2015

Kespry, a commercial drone system company, demonstrated a prototype drone that uses NVIDIA artificial intelligence technology to recognize objects. This technology has great potential for the commercial drone marke Today, Kespry customers already use aerial data gathered by our drones to calculate distances, sizes, and volumes.

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Green Car Congress

MAY 5, 2020

V8 with CNG prep kit, set up for bi-fuel (gasoline/natural gas) operation. Designed for 900 psig operating pressure, the cylinders are spun closed around Ingevity activated carbon monoliths. Ozinga Energy joins a growing number of US natural gas utilities and private commercial fleets to pilot ANG-equipped vehicles.

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Open Source Civic EV Kit

APRIL 7, 2008

After spending the past year and a half converting a Porsche 914 to an electric vehicle, I decided to expand my horizons by designing an open-source electric vehicle (EV) conversion kit for a commonly used car. All the commercially available freeway-capable (70 mph) EVs are priced way out of reach for the average consumer.

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Green Car Congress

JANUARY 6, 2021

Lightning eMotors, a leading provider of commercial electric vehicles for fleets, announced a $45-million order for its zero-emission powertrain systems from Faribault, Minnesota-based motorcoach supplier ABC Companies. —Roman Cornell, president and chief commercial officer of ABC Companies.

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Green Car Congress

MAY 1, 2020

The new platform is one of five demonstration projects designed to illustrate Karma’s technical direction and capabilities through the use of highly versatile EREV and battery electric (BEV) chassis systems. Karma Automotive announced its E-Flex utility van platform with extended range electric vehicle (EREV) architecture. Earlier post.).

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Green Car Congress

SEPTEMBER 15, 2018

While the demonstration was shown on a Renault Kangoo, the fuel cell range extender module is designed as an aftermarket kit for all commercial pure EVs. The Renault Kangoo with a PCBFC roof-mounted range extender. Source: Revolve Technologies. The technology can also be adopted by OEMs in other pure EV segments.

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EV Central

MAY 2, 2024

Volkswagen ID.Buzz GTX hot hauler set for March 21 debut “The truly exciting one which we can confirm is coming to Australia as well is the ID.Buzz GTX,” Nathan Johnson, Volkswagen Australia head of product for commercial vehicles, told EV Central this week. 2025 Volkswagen ID.Buzz GTX undressed.

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Green Car Congress

OCTOBER 7, 2016

One of the solutions includes the R-Car W1R 760 megahertz (MHz) band wireless SoC for the Japanese market, and the new R-Car W2H SoC that features a high-performance security engine that is indispensable for V2X systems designed for the Japanese, US, and European markets. The R-Car W1R was adopted in Denso Corporation’s in-vehicle ITS units.

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Green Car Congress

MARCH 25, 2016

SGI) have designed and constructed of the first minimal synthetic bacterial cell, JCVI-syn3.0. was developed through a design, build, and test process using genes from JCVI-syn1.0. The creation of the first synthetic cell in 2010 did not inform new genome design principles since the M. Hutchison, III, Ph.D. senior author J.

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Green Car Congress

JUNE 29, 2015

Evident Thermoelectrics has launched the first commercial thermoelectric product using skutterudite material technology: the Evident Skutterudite Test Kit. The Evident Skutterudite Test Kit is available for sale now at www.evidentthermo.com , and consists of a 2 watt mini-module, along with several P and N metalized legs.

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Green Car Congress

MARCH 17, 2021

The centerpiece of the six-figure investment is a specially designed Isolation and Containment Chamber (IsoC) that allows technicians safely to conduct exposure testing using the very aggressive lithium electrolytic solutions found in lithium-ion battery cells. What we can now offer customers is design security based on scientific data.

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Cars That Think

JANUARY 8, 2024

Her team created a suite of low-cost medical devices, the NEST360 newborn tool kit, to improve neonatal health in sub-Saharan Africa. Richards-Kortum returned to Texas with a new mission: designing medical equipment for clinics in underserved communities that could withstand harsh climate conditions and be easily repaired.

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Green Car Congress

JANUARY 5, 2020

The joint venture is tasked with developing, producing and marketing hydrogen fuel cell systems for light vehicles, commercial vehicles and trucks as well as for other areas of electromobility. The two partners had signed a Memorandum of Understanding in March 2019. Earlier post.).

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Cars That Think

JANUARY 14, 2024

As a case in point, consider a new wearable mesh health-monitor that does away with the “box and a strap” architecture that is still the industry’s de facto commercial design standard. Design boosts the wearable’s wearability, its chief advocate says. About 15 centimeters long, the device is worn around a user’s forearm.

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Green Car Congress

NOVEMBER 9, 2017

UPS and Unique Electric Solutions LLC (UES LLC) will design, build, test and make the conversions. In addition to producing a new, cost-effective all-electric conversion kit, the project will deliver a blueprint for converting up to three UPS vehicles a day. Click to enlarge.

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Green Car Congress

MAY 10, 2016

Wolfspeed, a Cree Company and a supplier of silicon carbide (SiC) power products, has introduced the first fully-qualified commercial power module from its Fayetteville, Arkansas location. The companion gate driver is specifically designed for integration with the module to fit within the 62mm mounting footprint.

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Cars That Think

MARCH 13, 2023

Anyway, there will be a bunch of interesting research presented at HRI (the proceedings are already online here ), but to kick things off we’re taking a look at the annual HRI Student Design Competition , which is always creative and fun. The theme for this year’s Student Design Competition is “Affordable Robots“.

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Baua Electric

JANUARY 15, 2024

New Delhi: Tata Motors, India’s largest commercial vehicle manufacturer, has announced its ‘Customer Care Mahotsav’, a comprehensive customer engagement program for commercial vehicle customers. Along with class-leading vehicles, the company will also offer value- added services for hassle-free vehicle lifecycle management.

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Cars That Think

SEPTEMBER 14, 2021

Seeing the need for a more transportable system that can analyze blood samples in rural and remote areas, two researchers in India have developed a new design that is simple, affordable, and easily deployed anywhere where a source of electricity is available. What's more, the device could yield accurate results in just half a minute.

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Green Car Congress

JUNE 2, 2023

million in funding are: SunRing: Advanced Manufacturing and Field Deployment: This project by Solar Dynamics LLC and partners will develop processes to maximize cost-competitiveness, performance, and reliability of Solar Dynamics’ existing SunRing heliostat design. The seven projects selected to collectively receive $3.5

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Cars That Think

MARCH 22, 2024

The chip design is called FinFET (for “fin field-effect transistor,” where “fin” refers to the shark-fin-like vertical electron channel). One thing the research group is already working on is the process design kit , or PDK, for FGF resonators.

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Teslarati

OCTOBER 15, 2021

It appears that internet connectivity in commercial airlines is about to get a serious boost. As noted by SpaceX CEO Elon Musk in a recent post on Twitter, talks are now ongoing with commercial airlines about the possibility of utilizing Starlink for in-flight internet connectivity.

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Green Car Congress

SEPTEMBER 2, 2014

WiTricity, the MIT spin-off commercializing strongly coupled magnetic resonance wireless charging technology for EVs as well as consumer devices, industrial, medical and military applications ( earlier post ), has work underway to deliver wireless charging systems capable of delivering 10s of kilowatts for plug-ins, compared to the current 3.3

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