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 has the capability to deliver a 25% fuel economy gain. The Kizashi EcoCharge Concept derives power from a 2.0-liter

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Green Car Congress

FEBRUARY 22, 2012

The Ford Tourneo Custom Concept will make its global debut at the 2012 Geneva Motor Show in March. Tourneo Custom Concept. The concept is powered by a further improved 155 PS (153 hp) version of Ford’s 2.2-litre The debut of the Tourneo Custom Concept heralds the arrival of a new generation of Ford commercial vehicles.

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Green Car Congress

NOVEMBER 20, 2014

Mitsubishi Concept XR-PHEV on stage in LA. MMNA) gave the Mitsubishi Concept XR-PHEV ( earlier post ) plug-in hybrid its North American debut at the 2014 Los Angeles Auto Show. Fuel economy would be more than 65 mpg US (3.6 Click to enlarge. Mitsubishi Motors North America, Inc. System configuration. Click to enlarge.

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Green Car Congress

DECEMBER 23, 2016

Francis Gatare, Director of the Rwanda Development Board, and Thomas Schäfer, CEO of Volkswagen Group South Africa, this week signed a memorandum of understanding for a new integrated mobility concept in Kigali in the presence of Rwanda’s President Paul Kagame and Dr. Herbert Diess, CEO of the Volkswagen brand. —Thomas Schäfer.

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Green Car Congress

OCTOBER 25, 2017

At the Tokyo Motor Show, Mazda is introducing the KAI CONCEPT compact hatchback ( earlier post ), powered by the next-generation SKYACTIV-X spark-controlled compression-ignition (SPCCI) gasoline engine ( earlier post ), SKYACTIV-Vehicle Architecture and a more mature expression of the KODO design language. Earlier post.). Click to enlarge.

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Green Car Congress

NOVEMBER 17, 2010

At an evening event at its N Hollywood Advanced Design Center on the eve of the LA Auto Show press days, GM introduced the Cadillac Urban Luxury Concept, a design study exploring a new type of vehicle that offers a luxury experience in a diminutive size. The Cadillac Urban Luxury Concept. Click to enlarge.

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Green Car Congress

MARCH 26, 2015

The Cummins team not only surpassed all fuel-economy targets, but also achieved criteria emissions lower than the stringent Tier 2/Bin 2 levels. Test cycle fuel economy (mpg). The Highway Fuel Economy Test (HFET) and FTP-75 Test (city) cycles demonstrated fuel economy above 35 mpg (6.72 ATLAS target. ATLAS result.

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Green Car Congress

SEPTEMBER 4, 2013

The Ricardo-led Advanced Diesel Electric Powertrain (ADEPT) project will apply 48V “intelligent electrification” concepts, mild hybridization and waste heat recovery in a Ford Focus diesel demonstrator. version of its vehicle (a 2009 Ford Focus) but with fuel economy and CO 2 emissions approaching those of a Prius.

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Green Car Congress

FEBRUARY 12, 2015

Kia Motors America (KMA) unveiled the Trail’ster e-AWD concept at the 2015 Chicago Auto Show. The system also improves fuel economy over standard all-wheel-drive setups by operating only when needed and serving as an energy recovery mechanism. The Trail’ster, based on Kia’s Soul urban passenger vehicle, is primarily powered by a 1.6-liter

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Kia Concept Hybrid Fuel Economy 150

Green Car Congress

NOVEMBER 21, 2010

The Oshkosh Extreme Racing team Light Concept Vehicle (LCV) M2. Oshkosh Corporation ran two Light Concept Vehicles (LCV) through the 43 rd Annual Tecate SCORE Baja 1000 off-road race course in Mexico, 18-20 November; one crossed the finish line of the 1,061-mile desert course. Click to enlarge. Earlier post.)

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Green Car Congress

FEBRUARY 13, 2015

Concept GC-PHEV. Mitsubishi staged the North American debut of its Concept GC-PHEV (“Grand Cruiser”)—a next-generation full-size crossover plug-in hybrid. The Concept GC-PHEV features a supercharged 3.0-liter The Concept GC-PHEV features a supercharged 3.0-liter Click to enlarge. Earlier post.)

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Green Car Congress

OCTOBER 6, 2015

The truck is being officially unveiled at a voice of the customer event hosted by CALSTART at the Southern California Gas Energy Resource Center today. CALSTART developed the Voice of the Customer (VOC) event for EDI, with funding from the Southern California Gas Company.

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Green Car Congress

DECEMBER 16, 2020

The result is that the engine dynamically fires the optimal number of cylinders to maximize fuel economy while maintaining a smooth ride with commercial levels of noise and vibration. Because each combustion event is selected to allow optimal efficiency, DSF reduces fuel and CO 2 , and for diesel applications, NO x emissions.

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Green Car Congress

JANUARY 23, 2019

The company is currently deploying the containers at major events and is thus flexibly supplementing the local charging infrastructure. After their phase of use in cars is over, the high-voltage batteries continue to be suitable for various second-life energy-storage applications. Audi has been a member of the cooperation platform since 2017.

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Green Car Congress

DECEMBER 17, 2016

Toyota Research Institute (TRI) announced that Toyota is bringing the Prius Challenge to the Sonoma Raceway for the third iteration of its ongoing Onramp series, an innovation event designed to engage the startup and tech community. This is the third Onramp event sponsored by Toyota. Gill Pratt, CEO Toyota Research Institute.

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Green Car Congress

SEPTEMBER 30, 2009

Mitsubishi Motors Corporation (MMC) will be showing a total of 16 cars at the 41 st Tokyo Motor Show later in October, including two concept cars: the Mitsubishi Concept PX-MiEV plug-in hybrid and the i-MiEV CARGO. At low to medium speeds, the Mitsubishi Concept PX-MiEV’s drive battery powers the front motor using front-wheel drive.

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Cars That Think

FEBRUARY 17, 2022

In December 2021, just before CES, the world’s leading tech event, Dell introduced Concept Luna , a reimagining of the laptop PC that focuses on repairability. Among people in advanced economies, 72 percent are concerned that global climate change will harm them , according to a Pew survey.

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Green Car Congress

SEPTEMBER 13, 2016

These have been applied to a Ford Focus project demonstrator which, for the first time, will be made available for public ride and drive evaluation by delegates at the Low Carbon Vehicle event (LCV2016), at Millbrook, UK.

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Green Car Congress

APRIL 23, 2020

For example, the S-in motion Battery Pack concept includes design options with a tray, without a tray, and different material strategies are considered. As a result, there is much more energy to absorb in the event of a crash. Lightweighting emerges as a major factor in BEV design. In addition, steel is 100-percent recyclable.

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Green Car Congress

DECEMBER 3, 2013

At the event, Roberto Gay from Oerlikon Graziano and Marco Fracchia from the controlled company VOCIS Ltd will present a technical paper outlining the new transmission and its application in a demonstrator. Reduced weight, improved efficiency and fuel economy are further benefits of the transmission. Session G5 ).

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Green Car Congress

APRIL 18, 2016

The all-new Buick LaCrosse Hybrid Electric Vehicle (HEV) made its global debut at the 2016 Buick Day event in Shanghai, where the award-winning Buick Avista concept was also shown for the first time in China. The LaCrosse HEV offers comprehensive fuel economy of 4.7 The LaCrosse HEV accelerates from 0 to 100 km/h in 8.9

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EV Match

DECEMBER 13, 2021

Although EVmatch staff were unable to attend the event in person this year, many on our team were following the event closely, and wanted to share some things that stood out: Mullen Automotive. Meet the Concept EV9. The cool quotient on this concept is through the (extremely futuristic looking) roof!

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Green Car Congress

JUNE 28, 2010

We have demonstrated that our HEDGE technology, primarily the use of cooled EGR, successfully suppresses low-speed pre-ignition events and in a way that improves fuel economy. The causes of low-speed pre-ignition events are not completely understood. We are already seeing concepts developed in HEDGE I enter production. —Dr.

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Green Car Congress

NOVEMBER 13, 2014

Engineering Excellence—total vehicle concept and execution; clever solutions to packaging, manufacturing and dynamics issues; cost-effective tech that benefits the consumer. With several electric vehicles present at this year’s COTY event, the e-Golf was lauded for driving and feeling most like a “normal” car.

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Green Car Congress

APRIL 23, 2019

Toyota, Kenworth, the Port of Los Angeles and the California Air Resources Board (CARB) unveiled the first of Toyota and Kenworth’s jointly developed fuel cell electric heavy-duty trucks during a special event held at the Port of Los Angeles. particularly in disadvantaged communities.

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Cars That Think

DECEMBER 17, 2021

We’ll also be posting a weekly calendar of upcoming robotics events for the next few months; here's what we have so far ( send us your events !): Then, in the second part of the talk, examples from the context of studies of social robots are presented to highlight the HCAI concepts in practice.

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Green Car Congress

SEPTEMBER 7, 2011

liter model but with significantly reduced real-world and drive cycle CO 2 emissions, and comparable improvements in fuel-economy. The HyBoost concept is based on a 2009 Ford Focus in which a 2.0L HyBoost demonstrator. Click to enlarge. Earlier post.). naturally aspirated four-cylinder gasoline engine has been replaced with a 1.0L

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Green Car Congress

JUNE 29, 2016

The final results will be presented at the UK’s LCV2016 event on 14-15 September. Ricardo believes the above package is very competitive with other fuel economy solutions such as full hybridization. This enabled the project to carry out de-risking of components and systems, and also provided a platform for evaluating control concepts.

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Teslarati

APRIL 14, 2022

The event, which would be held at 4:30 p.m. While we solve for general autonomy, it would still be great to have at least one location show the world the proof of concept. Now that Tesla has made such a huge impact on the Texas economy with opening of its factory in Austin, when can we expect to see direct deliveries in the state?

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Green Cars News

OCTOBER 12, 2009

What Frankfurt was to European car makers, Tokyo promises to be for Japanese manufacturers as Daihatsu Motor, Toyota’s mini-car specialist, lines up six concept cars for the event. The concepts cars will be of four different vehicle series and they will stand alongside nine production vehicles at the show.

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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

JANUARY 13, 2015

Gone are the days of an economy of scale in order to introduce and commercialize a technology. Local Motors announced two new micro-factory locations: one in Knoxville, Tenn. and one at National Harbor, just outside Washington DC.

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Green Car Congress

NOVEMBER 3, 2016

By integrating these systems with data from emerging CAV technologies, vehicles will be able to predict future driving conditions and events such as changing road grade or the interactions with other vehicles merging from multiple intersections. The Ohio State University. The Pennsylvania State University.

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Cars That Think

FEBRUARY 13, 2024

And a hundred years after that event, it serves as an important reminder that the world of computing and IT that IBM played a pivotal role in building has a longer history than we are likely to think. But it’s also true that a birth occurred in February 1924, with the renaming of the Computing-Tabulating-Recording Co.

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Green Car Congress

DECEMBER 12, 2013

GM created this annual event in 2011 to introduce its latest technology achievements to Chinese media. This year’s event showcased developments in advanced manufacturing processes, user-friendly automotive technologies and advanced vehicle designs at the ATC. The Concept Vehicle Integration Lab has advanced processing equipment.

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DIY Electric Car

NOVEMBER 28, 2010

The 1973 to 1975 recession was the OPEC induced oil crisis and the first one since our Peak Oil event which occurred in 1970. For more information about the concept of Peak Oil please visit [link]. The economy was slowed by their actions but it didn?t t stop the economy. Time will tell. The Federal Reserve?s

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Green Cars News

SEPTEMBER 30, 2009

Anyone who gets excited by new vehicle concepts won’t be able to turn away from Mitsubishi at this year’s Tokyo Motor Show. The Japanese manufacturer will unveil two new concept cars at the event: the Mitsubishi Concept PX-MiEV plug-in hybrid and the i-MiEV CARGO.

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