Green Car Congress

APRIL 9, 2013

The company developed a front-axle add-on electric module, transforming the Lancia 037 rear-wheel drive rally car into an innovative hybrid 4WD vehicle. The prototype vehicle allows the testing of new energy management strategies, the company said. —Stefano Bertolotto.

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Baua Electric

MAY 8, 2024

For Lamborghini, V10 supercars have remained the bread and butter for the longest time since the company found Volkswagen Group as its new owner. litre FSI engine will bid farewell, aligning with VW Group’s broader initiative to downsize and comply with stricter emissions regulations. Unfortunately, the iconic 5.2-litre

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Green Car Congress

JANUARY 29, 2021

The company has also signed the Business Ambition Pledge for 1.5?C, In addition to GM’s carbon goals, the company worked with the Environmental Defense Fund to develop a shared vision of an all-electric future and an aspiration to eliminate tailpipe emissions from new light-duty vehicles by 2035. Carbon Offsets and Credits.

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Green Car Congress

MAY 17, 2016

The majority of brake boosters have until recently used the vacuum generated by the internal combustion engine’s intake section. hybrid vehicles, downsizing, plug-ins)—or under some specific operating conditions (e.g. As a global market leader, HELLA currently supplies electric vacuum pumps to more than 40 international OEMs.

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Green Car Congress

SEPTEMBER 9, 2014

As the project approaches its mid-point, the research team—led by Ricardo and including Ford Motor Company, Controlled Power Technologies (CPT), the European Advanced Lead Acid Battery Consortium (EALABC), Faurecia and the University of Nottingham—has completed the build of the first functional integration prototype ADEPT vehicle.

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Green Car Congress

JULY 7, 2013

The Clemson University International Center for Automotive Research (CU-ICAR) and the SCTechnology Aviation Center (SCTAC) have contracted with Oak Ridge National Laboratory (ORNL) to support a three-year program to develop and test wireless charging systems for electrical vehicles. Earlier post.).

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Green Car Congress

OCTOBER 29, 2019

The company presented its first results at the annual ASME ICEF (Internal Combustion Engine Fall) conference in Chicago. ECONAMIQ provides greater savings potential than the popular downsizing of internal combustion engines, while the benefits of a larger displacement is preserved.

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Green Car Congress

FEBRUARY 8, 2013

The company expects its Indian EGR business to grow at a compounded annual growth rate of 35% over the next five years. Today’s downsized engines generate higher temperatures in the combustion chamber forming nitrogen oxide (NO x ).

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Green Car Congress

MAY 17, 2010

The UK Technology Board has awarded a consortium comprising UK start-up Lontra , Ricardo, and Ford Motor Company funding to demonstrate Lontra’s Blade Supercharger. The team will integrate the novel technology with a downsized engine to create a Ford vehicle demonstrator.

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Green Car Congress

JUNE 25, 2012

The company had been targeting a 20% reduction. XL Hybrids’ hybrid electric powertrain is a low-cost, low-risk, bolt-on, post-transmission parallel hybrid technology designed for Class 1–3 commercial vehicles that integrates seamlessly with the conventional internal combustion engine and transmission. We don’t touch the warranty.

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Green Car Congress

JUNE 20, 2011

A key feature of the compressor is its ability to use a simple variable inlet port that allows dynamic control of mass flow rate and internal compression ratio without changing rotational speed. This enables the boost of downsized engines to be completely controlled at any point on the operating cycle, including part-load.

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Clean Fleet Report

DECEMBER 27, 2023

Making more green business decisions for your transportation needs reduces environmental damage and provides numerous cost-saving benefits for companies. This year, sustainability reporting and sustainable finance are among the top trends in international businesses. A McKinsey & Company U.S.

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Green Car Congress

APRIL 16, 2011

With the compression cylinder separated from the power cylinder, the use of a standard turbocharger to convert recovered exhaust-gas energy into compressed air energy supports the downsizing of the compression cylinder to achieve substantial reductions in negative compression work. If I boost it to say 2 bar, I have twice the mass of air.

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Green Car Congress

MARCH 14, 2010

In addition to its twin turbos, the new eight-cylinder unit—known internally as the M 157—features gasoline direct injection with spray-guided combustion and twin turbochargers. liter V8 biturbo engine will play a major part in the Mercedes-AMG model strategy over the next few years, according to the company. The new AMG 5.5-liter

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Green Car Congress

JUNE 19, 2012

internal friction. downsized diesel engines with improved fuel economy and CO 2 emissions. Federal-Mogul's 2D ultrasonic inspection technique enables high performance pistons for diesel downsizing. The piston’s raised gallery places the cooling oil as close to the piston bowl as possible to achieve maximum cooling.

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Green Car Congress

FEBRUARY 24, 2016

The electric compressor fits in well and without any constraints with the proven strategy of downsizing, the company said. The electrification of auxiliary assemblies on internal combustion (IC) engines poses rising demands on available electrical energy. The compressor is compatible with both gasoline and diesel engines.

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Green Car Congress

JUNE 24, 2016

At the 2016 International VDI Congress “Drivetrain for Vehicles” in Friedrichshafen, Germany, John Fuller, Director of Concepts & IP for Torotrak Group, presented and discussed the company’s latest advances to optimize its full-toroidal variator technology for the light vehicle market as applied in continuously variable transmissions (CVTs).

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Green Car Congress

JANUARY 22, 2010

We are funding innovative projects in a number of key areas which include internal combustion engine technologies, energy storage and management, lightweight structures and new propulsion technologies. BladeBoost - A Novel Rotary Supercharger for Ultra-Efficient Downsized Gasoline Engines. EDS TurboClaw.

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Green Car Congress

SEPTEMBER 29, 2011

At 48 volts, a VTES electric supercharger will transform 7kW of battery power into a highly boosted charge of air for downsized gasoline and diesel engines. There will be no torque deficit or other tradeoffs from essential engine downsizing and higher gearing, which now dominates the development of internal combustion engines.

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Green Car Congress

JANUARY 14, 2014

liter EA888 Gen3 engine featured in Audi’s all-road shooting brake plug-in hybrid concept unveiled at the North American International Auto Show this week ( earlier post ) features—as does its production ilk—a dual injection system that combines direct injection with indirect injection into the intake manifold. Credit: Audi.

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Green Car Congress

APRIL 23, 2012

The internal combustion engine is a chemical process, not a thermodynamic cycle, Foster said, and all of the energy in the fuel is theoretically available to be converted into work. He said that in practice, the company expects to be able to deliver 57% efficiency at full load and more than 50% at partial load, with a power density of 2hp/lb.

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Green Car Congress

NOVEMBER 21, 2011

The EcoBoost approach enables the downsizing engine capacity—replacing naturally-aspirated engines with much smaller units without sacrificing power output. By 2013, the company plans globally to produce 1.5 The global EcoBoost engine family is the cornerstone of Ford’s near-term sustainability plan.

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Green Car Congress

DECEMBER 11, 2012

It will be jointly owned by Osaka Gas International Transport Inc. OGIT), a wholly owned subsidiary of Osaka Gas handling the operation of LNG carriers, and MOL, which will function as the ship management company. With a conventional cover configuration, pipes, wires and catwalks atop the tanks are supported by complex structures.

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Green Car Congress

JANUARY 17, 2017

Rheinmetall Automotive AG is the management company of the Automotive sector of Germany’s Rheinmetall Group. billion) in 2015, including around 16% from the companies located in NAFTA. Sales amounted to around €2.6 billion (US$2.8 Rheinmetall Automotive is more known as a supplier of hard parts (e.g., and mechatronics.

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Green Car Congress

APRIL 12, 2013

liter engine will showcase that engine downsizing or electrification is not the only way to achieve low emissions, the company said. Four carbon-fiber tanks holding 3.23 In addition, the use of the existing 6.0 Alset Global and its partner organizations hold a number of key patents relating to the entire system.

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Green Car Congress

SEPTEMBER 22, 2009

When applied to a radically downsized 1.2-liter liter naturally aspirated engine, the downsized engine with electric supercharger reduces the 70-100 km/h (44-63 mph) top gear acceleration time from 18 to 11 seconds. CPT will showcase VTES at the international supercharging conference held in Dresden 24-25 September 2009.

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Green Car Congress

AUGUST 4, 2011

Mazda’s roadmap to the ideal internal combustion engine. the step-by-step introduction of electrification to SKYACTIV internal combustion engines: stop-start, followed by regenerative braking, followed by electric motor drive technologies. Energy balance in an internal combustion engine. Click to enlarge. Click to enlarge.

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Green Car Congress

OCTOBER 1, 2021

Honda Motor outlined the technology development direction the company is currently pursuing for the challenges Honda is taking on in new areas while leveraging its core technologies. Honda is currently working on downsizing the hardware and further improvement of the precision of robotic hand movements such as “grasping” and “manipulation.”

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Green Car Congress

FEBRUARY 1, 2009

Researchers at ETH Zürich are developing a pneumatic hybrid engine—an internal combustion engine connected to a compressed air tank instead of a battery system. The compressed air supply also allows extreme downsizing. Downsizing the engine in this instance halves the number of cylinders from four to two. Rüegg / ETH Zurich.

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Green Car Congress

NOVEMBER 8, 2012

The intense competitive pressure is growing further and EU companies are increasingly being challenged in their home market, while developing opportunities in third markets. A stronger internal market and smart regulation. Global markets and the international harmonisation of vehicle regulations.

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All Cars Electric

JANUARY 4, 2010

While some automakers downsized and reorganized in response to the "Great Recession" one Taiwanese brand made its worldwide debut at the Dubai International Motor Show late last month.

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Green Car Congress

MARCH 11, 2014

Toyota Motor continues to lay the foundation for the introduction of its production fuel cell hybrid vehicle in 2015; the company began work on fuel cell technology in 1992. The output power is more than 100kW, despite significant unit downsizing. The company is considering using the Toyota FCV Concept packaging.

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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. This problem was important enough to the automotive industry that SwRI chose to fund the work internally through our internal research and development program. —Dr.

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Cars That Think

MARCH 12, 2023

With all that in mind, the company is developing its next generation of batteries. Extrapolating from company targets, a future compact-size Lucid—think the size of Tesla Model 3 or Model Y—could decisively downsize its battery without sacrificing useful range. Our target is to improve efficiency even more,” Dlala says.

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Cars That Think

AUGUST 10, 2021

White was the first American chair of the International Conference on Large High-Voltage Electric Systems. He was a member of the board for several companies and organizations including Bank of New York Mellon , Irving Trust , the Edison Electric Institute , and the National Association of Manufacturers.

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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. In 2012, the company realized energy-efficiency improvements of 2% from 2011, and carbon emissions intensity decreased 2%.

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Green Car Congress

MARCH 1, 2016

Nissan outlined its Intelligent Mobility vision at the Geneva International Motor Show. Also on the path of Intelligent Power is the further improvement of downsized turbo and X-TRONIC transmissions for both fuel efficiency and seamless response and acceleration. Nissan Intelligent Integration.

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