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DECEMBER 20, 2016

Automotive and industrial supplier Schaeffler finalized a purchase contract with SEMIKRON International GmbH for the acquisition of 51% of the shares of Compact Dynamics GmbH , a manufacturer of high-performance electric motors. SEMIKRON International GmbH is a world market leader for innovative power electronics. Resources.

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APRIL 6, 2017

At WCX 17: SAE World Congress Experience, SAE International and General Motors announced the eight North American universities which will compete in the upcoming AutoDrive Challenge. Beginning in fall 2017, Year 1 will focus on concept selection for university teams by having them become familiar with sensing and computation software.

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FEBRUARY 16, 2022

Toyota Motor Corporation (Toyota) also joined the partnership, with the intention of exploring opportunities such as ground-based transportation. For example, the 31-mile (50 km) journey from Osaka station to Kansai International Airport could take less than 15 minutes by air rather than one hour by car.

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Green Car Congress

APRIL 20, 2011

American Suzuki Motor Corporation (ASMC) unveiled a gasoline-electric concept variant of its Kizashi sedan at the company’s 2011 New York International Auto Show (NYIAS) press conference. The Kizashi EcoCharge Concept derives power from a 2.0-liter The Kizashi EcoCharge Concept derives power from a 2.0-liter

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Green Car Congress

JANUARY 10, 2011

Porsche unveiled the 918 RSR at the North American International Auto Show, combining the flywheel technology of the 911 GT3 R hybrid ( earlier post ) and the design of the 918 Spyder. The mid-engine coupé 918 RSR, is the motor sports version of the 918 Spyder concept car. Click to enlarge.

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Electric Vehicles India

FEBRUARY 10, 2023

The dynamic concept showcases electric vehicles. World of e-mobility – all about alternative drives and new mobility concepts from exhibitors in the fields of e-bikes, e-scooters, electric and hybrid vehicles, charging technology, and energy supply. The largest EV conference of the world leader in electric mobility.

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Green Car Congress

AUGUST 15, 2016

Infiniti will introduce a production-ready variable compression ratio engine VC-T (Variable Compression-Turbocharged) at the 2016 Paris Motor Show (Mondial de l’Automobile) in September. There have been a number of concepts proposed to enable such VCR systems. Roland Krueger, president of Infiniti Motor Company. Croguennec, S.

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Green Car Congress

SEPTEMBER 7, 2011

The concept hybrid C-X16. Jaguar has released details of the C-X16 concept ahead of its world debut at the 2011 Frankfurt Motor Show. The two-seater concept hybrid features a next-generation supercharged 3.0L Integrated into the eight-speed ZF gearbox is a motor generator which draws power from a 300V, 1.6

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Green Car Congress

NOVEMBER 12, 2015

The Carbon Core body structure of the new BMW 7 Series has been awarded the EuroCarBody Award 2015 at the 17 th Global Car Body Benchmarking Conference. The EuroCarBody Award has been announced at the annual conference of experts every year since 2002 and is regarded as a leading award for innovations in car body construction.

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Green Car Congress

FEBRUARY 4, 2019

XALT Energy is also working with automotive OEMs, including Fiat Chrysler Automobiles, Ford Motor Co. and General Motors Corp. (GM), Recently, GM also announced it was using XALT battery systems in an experimental electric drag racer, the eCOPO Chevrolet Camaro concept vehicle.

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Green Car Congress

JUNE 19, 2014

The concept was presented at two recent international conferences, and has been described in several recent papers. It also allows for relatively rapid monitoring of large systems: At present, the 3 mph top speed of the device is imposed by the propulsion motors, not the detector itself, so faster surveying is possible.

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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. Toyota is also considering integrating a boost converter on the stack itself, McClory said at the SAE conference. Click to enlarge.

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Cars That Think

MAY 31, 2022

But at the In International Conference on Robotics and Automation (ICRA) last week, roboticists from Carnegie Mellon University (CMU) are asked an interesting question : What happens if you try to scale down a bipedal robot? At very small scales, robots run into all kinds of issues, including space and actuation efficiency.

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Blink Charging

MARCH 6, 2024

She drove a Detroit Electric Model 47 Brougham model car , as electric cars were considered safer than internal combustion engine (ICE) vehicles in the early 20 th century, which had a tendency to experience occasional explosions. Women if EV hosts regular anual conferences that attract participants from around the world.

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Green Car Congress

NOVEMBER 2, 2009

Schematic representation of the bottom-up assembly concept to develop high-energy nanocomposite materials for next-generation magnets. At the recent International Conference on Magnetism 2009 held in Germany, Prof. Tags: Materials Motors. Source: Univ. of Delaware. Click to enlarge.

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Green Car Congress

FEBRUARY 12, 2014

MAGSPLIT is intended to replace mechanical eCVTs with a combination motor/magnetic gear. Magnomatics was founded in 2006 by a group of engineers from the University of Sheffield (UK) to commercialize magnetic gearing and motor technology developed there. Basic overview of Magnomatics magnetic gear and motor technology.

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JANUARY 4, 2011

Toyota Motor Sales (TMS) reported a decrease in December sales year-on-year on a raw volume basis of 5.5%. Toyota will stage the world premiere of the Prius family of vehicles at a press conference at the 2011 North American International Auto Show in Detroit. to 754,210 units.

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Green Car Congress

SEPTEMBER 5, 2009

Ford of Europe has released the first official images of the all-new Ford C-MAX, which will make its global debut at the 2009 Frankfurt Motor Show. At the North American International Auto Show in Detroit in January, Ford had also shown a Lincoln C (C-size) concept car powered by a 1.6-liter, Earlier post.).

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Green Car Congress

FEBRUARY 4, 2009

Comparison of Fuel Consumption, Fun to Drive and System Cost of the different powertrain concepts. Stage 1 of the Turbohybrid powertrain concept. Nevertheless, the most essential fuel economy aspect of the Turbohybrid concept is the possibility of a high level of downsizing and downspeeding. Click to enlarge. Fischer et al.

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Green Car Congress

SEPTEMBER 13, 2010

The next technology step is to further develop AVL’s efficient low carbon ELC-hybrid concept by incorporating CPT’s SpeedStart system. 2010) A New Engine Boosting Concept with Energy Recuperation for Micro/Mild Hybrid Applications. (22 22 nd International AVL Conference “Engine & Environment”).

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Cars That Think

FEBRUARY 3, 2023

ReachBot is a new concept for planetary exploration, consisting of a small body and long, lightweight extending arms loaded primarily in tension. Experiments with rock grasping and coordinated locomotion illustrate the advantages of low inertia passive grippers, triggered by impact and using stored mechanical energy for the internal force.

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Green Car Congress

JANUARY 10, 2011

Dieter Zetsche, Chairman of the Board of Management of Daimler AG during the company’s press conference at the North American International Auto Show. The four synchronous electric motors in the SLS AMG E-CELL deliver a combined 525 hp (392 kW) of power and 649 lb-ft (880 N·m) of torque. —Dieter Zetsche.

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Green Car Congress

OCTOBER 11, 2013

Toyota Motor Corporation has developed a next-generation advanced driving support system—Automated Highway Driving Assist (AHDA)—which uses automated driving technologies to support safer highway driving.

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Green Car Congress

FEBRUARY 7, 2011

TUM scientists of the chairs for High Voltage Technology and Power Transmission and for Metal Casting and Forming, in cooperation with the respective departments of the BMW Group, developed the aluminum-based LEIKO concept is to counteract these difficulties. Lindemann, U.: Bergendahl, M. Grimheden, and L. Leifer, Eds. 1-539 - 1-550.

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Green Car Congress

MAY 24, 2011

The “ Electric Vehicles—Land, Sea & Air Europe 2011 ” conference and exhibition will take place in Stuttgart, Germany 27–28 June. The company is also producing a US variant of the conference in San Jose, California in November. These second generation engines retain piston-driven, internal combustion technology.

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Revenge of the Electric Car

JANUARY 11, 2010

Detroit — It’s official: the Cadillac Converj will be the second extended-range electric vehicle that General Motors Co. GM Vice Chairman Bob Lutz made the announcement Sunday at a conference of the Society of Automotive Analysts on the eve of the North American International Auto Show.

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Green Car Congress

AUGUST 17, 2009

The battery pack is expected to be demonstrated in a ReEV concept Dodge Caliber that was shown by FEV at the 2009 SAE World Congress. At the Advanced Automotive Battery Conference 2009 (AABC 2009) earlier this year, EIG described a prototype lithium-ion battery system targeted at a plug-in hybrid electric vehicle (PHEV) application.

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Green Car Congress

JUNE 9, 2011

ZF Friedrichshafen AG will present a 9-speed automatic transmission for passenger cars with front-transverse drive at the International VDI Conference Transmissions in Vehicles 2011 , 7 - 8 July 2011, Friedrichshafen, Germany. On the basis of an parallel hybrid architecture, the torque converter is then replaced by an electric motor.

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Green Car Congress

APRIL 17, 2010

It not only won a GT1 class championship that season, but it also was the inaugural winner of the Green Challenge, an award created by the US Department of Energy, the US Environmental Protection Agency and SAE International for teams that scored best in fuel efficiency, environmental impact and overall performance. Paul Drayson.

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Cars That Think

MARCH 29, 2022

He and his staff developed concepts for wideband shipboard air-surveillance radar with reduced susceptibility to electronic countermeasures; self-defense radar; and space-borne radar for detecting ships. Spilman worked for several international technology companies in senior management positions. Naval Research Laboratory.

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JANUARY 15, 2019

Nissan unveiled its Nissan IMs electric all-wheel drive concept vehicle with full autonomous drive capability at the 2019 North American International Auto Show (NAIAS). Denis Le Vot, senior vice president, chairman of Management Committee, Nissan North America, Inc.,

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Green Car Congress

NOVEMBER 17, 2009

Hyundai Motor Company unveiled the 2.4 Theta II GDI, its first Gasoline Direct Injection engine before an audience of engineers attending the Ninth Annual Hyundai-Kia International Powertrain Conference in Korea. Another major engineering challenge was to reduce internal friction to attain better fuel economy.

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Green Car Congress

FEBRUARY 6, 2014

Renault has unveiled the Next Two concept—the company’s current vision of an autonomous drive (AD) capable electric vehicle for the year 2020. Being connected will enable them to make the most of this extra time by providing them with access to new in-car services such as video-conferences, on-line shopping, travel information and more.

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FEBRUARY 5, 2010

The team says replacing a metal wheel well with a composite one could enable Volvo to reduce the number of batteries needed to power the electric motor. 2007) Structural Polymer Composites for Energy Storage Devices (International Conference on Advanced Capacitors (ICAC2007)). Shirshova, N., Shaffer, M., Steinke, J.H.G.,

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Green Car Congress

MARCH 28, 2012

Mazda’s TAKERI Concept will make its North American debut at the upcoming New York International Auto Show. TAKERI, the second concept to fully embrace SKYACTIV Technology, made its global debut at the Tokyo Motor Show. Earlier post.). Equipped with a SKYACTIV-D 2.2-liter At less than 0.4

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Green Car Congress

JANUARY 10, 2017

and digitalization as the key opportunities for the future, said CEO Klaus Rosenfeld at the company’s press conference at the North American International Auto Show (NAIAS) in Detroit. The corollary of that estimate is that 70% of vehicles by 2030 will still have some form of internal combustion engine. Click to enlarge.

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Green Car Congress

AUGUST 30, 2009

Norbert Reithofer, Chairman of the Board of Management of BMW AG, called a “ CO 2 champion ” that will demonstrate “ a whole new dimension of driving pleasure with regards to efficiency with performance ” during a press conference late in July. The plug-in full hybrid BMW Vision EfficientDynamics all-wheel drive concept car is powered by a 1.5-liter,

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