Green Car Congress

AUGUST 7, 2020

After about a year of intensive practical use by ten customers in Germany and Switzerland, eight of the purely battery-powered Mercedes-Benz eActros trucks are now successively going to new customers in Germany, Belgium and the Netherlands. Two vehicles will continue the operational testing with customers in the first test phase.

Mercedes

Green Car Congress

OCTOBER 31, 2009

Swissauto Wenko AG of Switzerland produces a modern version of the Comprex—the Hyprex—designed for small gasoline engines. This led to a proposed concept of a Radial Internal Combustion Wave Rotor—the precursor to the wave disc engine. . Early concept of an internal combustion wave disc engine. Hîrceagã, M.,

Michigan

Green Car Congress

OCTOBER 8, 2020

Hyundai Motor Company delivered the first seven units of its XCIENT Fuel Cell, the first mass-produced fuel cell electric heavy-duty truck, to customers in Switzerland, with a total of 50 planned to hit the roads there this year. The increase in capacity will be backed by a US$1.3-billion

North America

Green Car Congress

OCTOBER 14, 2009

Global Bioenergies , a French startup located on the Genopole campus close to Paris, announced the proof-of-concept of a synthetic metabolic pathway for producing isobutene, a key chemical building block that can be converted into transportation fuels, polymers and various commodity chemicals. C 4 H 8 + 2 CO 2 + 2 H 2 O.

Concept

Green Car Congress

FEBRUARY 18, 2020

The initiative’s measures therefore include the development of standard concepts that cover common charging profiles. Different energy suppliers can use these concepts, significantly reducing their planning time. So far, infrastructure projects have mostly been treated as individual cases.

Global

Electrek

JANUARY 24, 2025

Genesis unveiled the new GV60 Mountain Intervention Vehicle (MIV) this week in Switzerland, an off-road EV that can climb mountains. The concept is designed for extreme rescue missions. The luxury carmaker channeled its inner superhero with this one. Check it out below.

Switzerland

Green Car Congress

APRIL 28, 2015

Researchers at EPFL in Switzerland have developed a system for producing hydrogen through a simplified membrane-less water electrolysis process. The design simplicity of this membrane-less electrolyzer can facilitate mass production, especially by employing high resolution 3D printers or injection moulding techniques. Resources.

Design

Green Car Congress

MARCH 11, 2010

Dubbed EUROBIOREF (European multilevel integrated biorefinery design for sustainable biomass processing), the project aims to improve cost efficiency by 30%, cut energy use by 30% and reduce feedstock consumption by 10%. Work has begun on a new EU-funded project to improve the performance of Europe’s biorefineries.

Madagascar

Green Car Congress

FEBRUARY 4, 2019

Furthermore, containers are designed with an optimal weight of around 300 kg. The vehicle concept combines a large passenger volume with an almost unlimited range and allows for uninterrupted 24-hour operation. The Voltabox systems will support trolleybuses in four cities in Switzerland and Italy.

Li-ion

Teslarati

SEPTEMBER 12, 2022

Volkswagen presented a concept car for an all-electric off-road SUV in Ticino, Switzerland, over the weekend called the ID.XTREME. The team under Andreas Rekewerth–the Head of VW’s overall MEB development–created the concept car. Family’s sporty models, equipped with Design or Comfort packages.

Concept

Green Car Congress

MAY 26, 2022

Papers from BMW and Hydrogen Energy Research Lab show that sufficiently lean hydrogen combustion in properly designed combustion chamber results in close to zero NO x. The addition of a spark plug is a new design element. ID-Technologies, Fribourg, Switzerland. DI2S Consulting & Training, Paris, France.

Hydrogen

Electric Cars Report

JANUARY 24, 2025

The Genesis GV60 Mountain Intervention Vehicle (MIV) Concept was revealed this week at the World Economic Forum (WEF) 2025 in Davos, Switzerland, highlighting the brands technological innovation and exceptional design.

Concept

Green Car Congress

MARCH 27, 2009

These activities include the conceptual design of the materials, laboratory synthesis and scale-up, i.e. transfer to the production scale. The EnBW energy company will develop models for integrating the high-energy batteries into a new power supply concept for load balancing.

Li-ion

Green Car Congress

APRIL 14, 2022

Traveling from Sindelfingen across the Swiss Alps and Northern Italy, to its destination of Cassis on the Côte d’Azur, the VISION EQXX electric concept ( earlier post ) from Mercedes-Benz covered more than 1,000 km (621 miles) in everyday traffic on a single battery charge.

Mercedes

Green Car Congress

DECEMBER 8, 2021

The Polestar performance software upgrade is initially available in Europe in the following Polestar markets: UK, Netherlands, Norway, Sweden, Switzerland, Finland, Denmark, Germany and Austria. The ability to buy online and install remotely also highlights Polestar’s proficiency in the increasingly digital automotive world.

Carbon Fiber

Green Car Congress

DECEMBER 1, 2017

Rupp is Assistant Professor of Materials Science and Engineering at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT) in Cambridge (USA) and affiliated to ETH Zurich (Switzerland). Her research focuses on material and electrode designs for solid-state batteries. With the “Science Award Electrochemistry” she receives €40,000.

MIT

Green Car Congress

FEBRUARY 21, 2018

At the IAA Commercial Vehicles show in Hanover in 2016, Mercedes-Benz displayed its concept for a heavy-duty electric distribution truck for urban areas: the Urban eTruck ( earlier post ). The feedback to the technical feasibility of building such a vehicle was positive across the board – from the general public, politicians and customers.

Mercedes

Green Car Congress

JANUARY 10, 2021

The concept of half-reactions is often used to describe what goes on in an electrochemical cell, and half-reactions are commonly used as a way to balance redox reactions. student at OSU and now a postdoctoral researcher at the University of Zurich in Switzerland.

Insight

Cars That Think

DECEMBER 4, 2024

On the shores of Lake Geneva in Switzerland, École Polytechnique Fédérale de Lausanne is home to many roboticists. The drone’s bird-inspired legs adopted some key principles of biological design like the ability to store and release energy in tendon-like springs along with some flexible toes. Won Dong Shin holds the RAVEN drone.

Switzerland

Green Car Congress

NOVEMBER 22, 2016

By visualizing electrochemical reactions as they take place on length scales ranging from tens of microns down to sub-nanometer, William Chueh has delivered unprecedented insights into the design of functional materials with novel compositions and structures. With the “Science Award Electrochemistry” he receives prize money of €50,000.

Universal

Green Car Congress

AUGUST 25, 2016

A 12-14 m 2 system installed in Switzerland would allow the generation and storage of enough hydrogen to power a fuel cell car over 10,000 km every year. The researchers used standard heterojunction cells to prove the concept; by using the best cells of that type, they would expect to achieve a performance above 16%. Schüttauf et al.

Solar

Green Car Congress

MAY 26, 2016

Now, a team from the Paul Scherrer Institute (PSI) in Switzerland has demonstrated the direct production of hydrocarbon fuel—specifically methane—from water and CO 2 by incorporating a catalytic process into STCs. Most research efforts in designing redox materials for STCs are devoted to improving syngas production.

Water

Teslarati

FEBRUARY 16, 2023

2 design might be capable of charging speeds up to 200 kW. In the UK, Norway, Switzerland, and Iceland, car sales fell by 4.1% Tesla seems better positioned to start working on an affordable concept than a few years ago. The VW ID.2 Volkswagen’s ID.2 The Volkswagen ID.2 to 11,309,310, the lowest since 1985.

Vehicles

Cars That Think

OCTOBER 20, 2023

Cybathlon Challenges : 02 February 2024, ZURICH, SWITZERLAND Enjoy today’s videos! The Honda AWV is designed to boost workforce productivity and support repetitive tasks that allow companies to focus their workforce on value-added activities. Please send us your events for inclusion.

Honda

Green Car Congress

DECEMBER 29, 2010

Transportation agencies and city planners will be able to proactively design, manage and optimize transportation systems to more seamlessly handle ever-increasing traffic. The same concept could be used to charge mobile phones for example—i.e., Batteries will breathe air. shake and dial. You’ll beam up your friends in 3-D.

Personal

Green Car Congress

OCTOBER 27, 2015

In pursuit of a new strategy for boosting usable capacity, we endeavoured to design an adsorbent with an ‘S-shaped’ or ‘stepped’ CH 4 adsorption isotherm, where the amount of CH 4 adsorbed would be small at low pressures but rise sharply just before the pressure reaches the desired storage pressure. Mason, Julia Oktawiec, Mercedes K.

Gas

Cars That Think

SEPTEMBER 15, 2021

German manufacturer Schaeffler sees an opportunity: it is introducing a new generator at the heart of a smart drivetrain concept that some observers are calling bike-by-wire. Taking the chain out of the mix—if done successfully—would fly open the cramped world of cycle design to new shapes and configurations. It's a bike with no chain.

Motors

Cars That Think

JULY 26, 2024

Some 100 meters below the border between France and Switzerland, particles accelerate along the LHC’s 27-kilometer circumference, nearly reaching the speed of light before smashing together. Since Fermilab and CERN closely collaborate, she was able to help design a data-processing board for LHC’s Compact Muon Solenoid experiment.

Engine

Cars That Think

OCTOBER 6, 2023

As robots have gotten more advanced and more mobile, though, it’s become challenging for robot designers and robot animators to develop emotive behaviors that both take advantage of and are compatible with robotic hardware under real-world constraints. So that makes it hard for artists to design animations that will work in the real world.”

IDEA

Baua Electric

JANUARY 24, 2025

Genesis unveiled the new GV60 Mountain Intervention Vehicle (MIV) this week in Switzerland, an off-road EV that can climb mountains. The concept is designed for extreme rescue missions. Based on its first dedicated EV, the GV60 , the concept is designed to tackle extreme terrain and weather on rescue missions.

Switzerland

Cars That Think

JUNE 2, 2023

These models are designed to satisfy physically insightful assumptions while also having sufficient fidelity to capture higher-order effects directly from vehicle state measurements. We propose a prototype with special designs for propulsion and thruster configuration to cope with the vast differences in the fluid properties of water and air.

Power

Green Cars News

FEBRUARY 13, 2012

Mazda has confirmed plans to take its Takeri concept car to the Geneva Motor Show next month. Likely to become the next generation Mazda6, the Takeri, as well as featuring the brand’s new design language boasts the Japanese carmaker’s new i-ELOOP regenerative braking system.

Mazda

Cars That Think

NOVEMBER 10, 2022

In contrast, an autonomous understanding system could help reengineer the warehouse design to further increase performance in the same space. The fundamental concept at the heart of the Zero Trust security model is to never trust and always verify the provenance of each request. Zero Trust Applied to Chip Design.

Building

Cars That Think

JULY 14, 2022

GROVE AWARD Sponsor: IEEE Electron Devices Society HON-SUM PHILIP WONG Stanford “For contributions to novel and advanced semiconductor device concepts and their implementation.” ION STOCIA University of California, Berkeley “For contributions to the design of cloud and computer network services.” IEEE ANDREW S. IEEE WILLIAM E.

Universal

EV Obssesion

NOVEMBER 30, 2021

The post Six-Wheel-Drive Pure-Electric Hyper-GT, Europe’s Charge to Electrification, Electric Trains, Buses, Trucks appeared first on EV Obsession.

Switzerland

Cars That Think

DECEMBER 22, 2023

Cybathlon Challenges : 02 February 2024, ZURICH, SWITZERLAND Eurobot Open 2024 : 8–11 May 2024, LA ROCHE-SUR-YON, FRANCE ICRA 2024 : 13–17 May 2024, YOKOHAMA, JAPAN Enjoy today’s videos! From conception to implementation, the LBR iisy Cobot, which combines the precision of a robot with the passion of a human team, provides support.

Austria

Green Cars News

OCTOBER 25, 2010

The THINK City electric car has taken centre stage at the world’s first dedicated electric mobility concept store in Zurich. The m-way store has been created and designed by Swiss retailing giant Migros and THINK’s distribution partner in Switzerland and is focussed on giving information to motorists about electric vehicles.

Think City