Green Car Congress

DECEMBER 9, 2015

The work will feature Westport’s enhanced spark ignited (ESI) natural gas engine technology ( earlier post ) with the integration and demonstration of high frequency corona discharge ignition on an original equipment manufacturer (OEM) partner’s engine. liters per cylinder and is targeted at medium-duty commercial vehicle applications.

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Green Car Congress

NOVEMBER 16, 2014

Federal-Mogul Holdings Corporation’s Powertrain Division has expanded its range of high performance materials for valve guides, seats and turbocharger bushings that support the commercial vehicle industry’s drive towards more efficient engines.

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Green Car Congress

MARCH 30, 2016

Federal-Mogul Powertrain has introduced two innovative piston skirt coatings: EcoTough-New Generation (for gasoline engines) and EcoTough-D (for diesel engines). Federal-Mogul Powertrain has accommodated these differences by formulating specific coatings, each optimized for either gasoline or diesel application.

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Gasoline Diesel Downsizing Engine 150

Green Car Congress

AUGUST 10, 2009

Additionally, suggested one of the speakers, advanced SIDI (spark-ignited, direct-injection) engines can take light-duty market share back from diesels in Europe based on the same trends. Tim Johnson, from Corning, in his review of diesel emission control technology at the conference, started as is his practice by a quick regulatory review.

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Gasoline Diesel Engine Emissions 150

Green Car Congress

DECEMBER 9, 2016

This annual sales estimate, combining both passenger and commercial vehicles, would add more than 232 million turbocharged vehicles globally between 2017 and 2021—an increase of 35% from today. Regional highlights include: In North America, more engine downsizing is expected. The current average engine size is a 3.0-liter

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Green Car Congress

SEPTEMBER 6, 2012

At a “Go Further with Ford” event in Amsterdam, Ford Motor Company detailed plans for an aggressive product acceleration in Europe, targeting opportunities for growth in the large car, SUV and commercial vehicle segments while emphasizing fuel economy and enabling technologies such as the EcoBoost engines. Commercial vehicles.

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Fuel Economy Europe Ford Economy 261

Green Car Congress

MAY 1, 2012

Delphi Automotive has developed a common rail fuel system technology for heavy-duty diesel engines that combines proven hardware with an innovative architecture, allowing vehicle manufacturers to meet Euro VI emissions standards without significant modification to their base engines. New high pressure heavy duty common rail systems.

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Green Car Congress

JULY 12, 2013

The UK government and automotive industry are investing £500 million (US$755 million) each over the next 10 years in an Advanced Propulsion Centre (APC) to research, to develop and to commercialize the technologies for the low carbon vehicles of the future. Downsizing and downspeeding including more sophisticated charge air/boost systems.

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Industrial Industry Carbon Vehicles 210

Green Car Congress

OCTOBER 8, 2015

Eminox SCRT technology can significantly reduce harmful diesel exhaust gases, particularly in urban operating conditions. Having better control over the combustion process reduces the emission load on the exhaust aftertreatment systems. —Andy Dickinson. Earlier post.)

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Vehicles Exhaust Emissions Diesel 150

Green Car Congress

JUNE 4, 2010

Various combinations of commercially available technologies could greatly reduce fuel consumption in passenger cars, sport-utility vehicles, minivans, and other light-duty vehicles over the next 15 years without compromising vehicle performance or safety, according to a new report by the National Research Council.

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Green Car Congress

JULY 6, 2010

a developer and manufacture of axial flux motors, hybrid drive trains and generator sets ( earlier post ), will demonstrate a plug-in hybrid version of the iconic London Black Cab featuring EVO’s DuoDrive system at the. Diesel vehicle when cruising on the highway. Click to enlarge. EVO Electric Ltd.,

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Green Car Congress

FEBRUARY 18, 2014

The switched reluctance (SR) motor-based SpeedStart and TIGERS technology are being incorporated into the recently announced Advanced Diesel Electric Powertrain project known as ADEPT. The technology can also be applied to medium and heavy duty commercial vehicle platforms. Earlier post.)

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Congress Hybrid Exhaust Gas-Electric 236

Green Car Congress

DECEMBER 1, 2014

Such a standard will be necessary for the global automotive industry to achieve the economies of scale demanded by original equipment manufacturers. This means that in addition the power demand is more difficult to achieve with engine downsizing and transmission down-speeding alone. —Paul Bloore. 48V Hybrids Standards'

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Standards International Vehicles Hybrid 257

Green Car Congress

SEPTEMBER 28, 2009

The new system, where we have adopted a pretty radical change in the architecture itself, downsizes dramatically, takes 100 kg of the mass out, and takes the size down to half of that of the Equinox. Commercialization. I find similarities in so many areas with developing a diesel powertrain. Click to enlarge. Charles Freese. (

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Green Car Congress

JANUARY 17, 2011

It is a high octane fuel with combustion characteristics that allow engines specifically designed for methanol fuel to match the best efficiencies of diesels while meeting current pollutant emission regulations. In this manner a 4 liter engine could potentially be used to replace a diesel engine with a displacement as high as 11 liters.

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Transportation Fuel Coal Gasoline 257

Green Car Congress

NOVEMBER 8, 2012

will also need to be made with the further development and distribution of sustainable fuels which can be alternatives to traditional diesel and gasoline. The IWVTA would offer the benefit to manufacturers to use a “one-shop stop” type-approval procedure for their motor vehicles. Sizeable efforts. At the same time, road safety.

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Auto Industry 2020 Industrial Industry 231

EV Central

OCTOBER 27, 2023

Expect Kia to go big with broad model range that incorporates four-cylinder diesel alternatives as well as a high-performance Ranger Raptor fighter. That has since changed as the company turned its focus to its commercial vehicles. GWM is Great Wall Motors, one of China’s biggest biggest auto groups and GWM is its commercial brand.

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Plug In India

MARCH 24, 2021

And we have Ravi & Bhasker who run LoadStar, a Bangalore based company that is into the manufacture of airport tarmac tractors - and port container stackers. I can understand the need for maintaining capital cost parity with an equivalent diesel tractor. Sid runs a mech design back office, with a team of about 40 people.

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Electric Electrical Dealers DC 52

Green Car Congress

NOVEMBER 23, 2011

The purpose of the 21CTP is to reduce fuel consumption and emissions; increase heavy-duty vehicle safety; and support research, development, and demonstration to initiate commercially viable products and systems. Among the findings and recommendations, by area, from the new report are: ENGINE SYSTEMS AND FUELS. Finding 3-1. kW versus 3.0

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EPA Fuel Engine Hybrid 199

Green Car Congress

DECEMBER 11, 2009

This crucial difference means the technology is perfectly suited to maintaining vehicle performance and driveability—widely recognized as a critical marketing issue for any car maker contemplating radical engine downsizing. World class manufacturing partners have already been identified. Guy Morris.

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Green Car Congress

AUGUST 16, 2016

SuperTruck II builds on the successful SuperTruck I program, which has already led to more than twenty fuel saving technologies that have reached the commercial market, said Acting Assistant Secretary David Friedman. In 2010, the Energy Department launched the SuperTruck initiative to improve heavy-duty truck freight efficiency by 50%.

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Green Car Congress

JUNE 16, 2011

Replacing spark-ignition engines with diesel engines and components would yield fuel savings of about 37% at an added cost of approximately $5,900 per vehicle, and replacing spark-ignition engines with hybrid engines and components would reduce fuel consumption by 43% at an increase of $6,000 per vehicle.

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Fuel Downsizing Fuel Economy Diesel 210

Green Car Congress

NOVEMBER 8, 2016

Applications should focus on innovative materials, manufacturing processes, and/or designs of bipolar plates. Applications are sought to develop electrochemical energy storage technologies that support commercialization of micro, mild, and full HEVs, PHEVs, and EVs. This technology is currently available for licensing.

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Green Car Congress

NOVEMBER 22, 2016

However, transitioning soon to electric drive could lower manufacturers’ compliance costs by as much as €500 (US$532) per vehicle in 2025. The FEV data are combined with supplemental data to generate CO 2 cost curves for ten EU vehicle classes (diesel B, C, D, E, SUV, and LCV classes and gasoline B, C, D, and E classes).

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Green Car Congress

NOVEMBER 19, 2014

Augmenting its existing LC Super Hybrid program ( earlier post ), which deploys a downsized gasoline-electric powertrain, ALABC is working on advanced diesel-electric applications in development programs being undertaken with car makers including Ford and Kia. These compact electrical machines can be rated up to 12.5

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Green Car Congress

JULY 17, 2015

Though the PHEV combines the two types of energy and power, it is not merely a temporary “transition” between gasoline and diesel cars to pure electric cars. The plug-in hybrid electric vehicle (PHEV), a subset of the PEV, uses electricity plus a different energy source (at present gasoline or diesel) to run its second engine.

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Tony Karrer Delicious EVdriven

JANUARY 28, 2009

Warranty: In performing some of these modifications you may void your warranty with the vehicles manufacturer. However they also retain the ability to travel long distances when utilizing the existing gas or diesel refueling infrastructure. Whats all the fuss about "plugging in", what difference does it make?

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Green Car Congress

SEPTEMBER 21, 2009

Individual manufacturers will be required to comply with a single fuel economy level that is based on the distribution of its production among the footprints of its vehicles. In the past, the baseline was the manufacturers’ confidential plans for each model year; in the new analysis, the baseline is each manufacturer’s MY 2008 fleet.

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Tony Karrer Delicious EVdriven

APRIL 21, 2009

This is from "Commercializing Plug-In Hybrids" (pdf), the current CalCars 24-slide presentation about PHEVs available along with other documents at CalCars Downloads. 2010 Prius designed to be manufactured with NiMH or Lithium batteries. Blue Concept PHEV Van with diesel or hydrogen fuel cells and rooftop photovoltaic.

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