Green Car Congress

DECEMBER 11, 2020

The co-optimization of engines and fuels has the potential to achieve significantly higher efficiencies than possible with current fuels and engines, improving passenger fuel economy by as much as 35% by 2030 (vs. High-power-density traction inverters for use in light-, medium-, or heavy-duty vehicle applications.

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Green Car Congress

AUGUST 8, 2017

Compression ignition combined with a supercharger will improve fuel economy while delivering tremendous engine response and increased torque of 10–30% over the current SKYACTIV-G gasoline engine. Earlier post.). Earlier post.). Earlier post.). Yamasaki, Y., Umahashi, S., Uesugi, Y.,

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Green Car Congress

APRIL 9, 2014

improvement in city fuel economy (24.5 Southwest Research Institute (SwRI) announced preliminary test results of its Dedicated-Exhaust Gas Recirculation (D-EGR) demonstration vehicle ( earlier post ) at the SAE 2014 World Congress in Detroit. Hydrogen-enriched exhaust is routed to the intake. mpg) and a 9.2% 2014-01-1190.

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Green Car Congress

MARCH 31, 2015

Tenneco is leveraging its expertise in diesel particulate filter (DPF) technology to develop gasoline particulate filters for 2017 model year light vehicles. Tenneco has been working on GPF technology for several years, exploring concepts including coated and uncoated filters.

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Baua Electric

MARCH 5, 2024

In that light, it’s the logical follow-up to the previous Charger, which ran for an astounding 18 model years over two generations. Every Daytona model comes with all-wheel drive as standard, along with a “Power Shot” feature that delivers an extra 40 horsepower for 15 seconds (a similar concept is called “Boost” on the Kia EV6 GT).

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Green Car Congress

SEPTEMBER 4, 2013

The concept of the Ricardo Split-Cycle engine. The recuperated engine uses isothermal compression via cryogenic injection to enable significant exhaust to compressed gas heat transfer. Recuperator to transfer heat from exhaust gas to compressed air. Source: Neville Jackson. Click to enlarge.

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Green Car Congress

DECEMBER 20, 2013

Developing cost-effective technologies to improve new vehicle fuel efficiency and achieve or exceed corporate average fuel economy (CAFE) standards of 144 gCO 2 /mi (61.6 mpg) for light trucks by 2025 (54.5 mpg light duty average, or 4.3 mpg) for cars and 203 gCO 2 /mi (43.7 Powertrain friction and wear reduction.

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Green Car Congress

MARCH 8, 2017

Based on the Sport Coupe Concept GTE plug-in hybrid shown in 2015 at the Geneva show ( earlier post ), the new Arteon will sit above the Passat in the Volkswagen line-up, and will replace the CC. TSI (92 kW); the improvements in fuel economy take effect across a wide range of the engine map.

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Green Car Congress

NOVEMBER 24, 2015

Achates Power, the developer of a family of two-stroke compression-ignition opposed-piston engines ( earlier post ), has been selected by APRA-E under its OPEN 2015 solicitation ( earlier post ) for an award of more than $9 million to develop a multi-cylinder opposed piston engine operating with compression ignition that uses gasoline as the fuel.

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Green Car Congress

JUNE 15, 2009

BorgWarner is introducing an electric butterfly EGR (exhaust gas recirculation) valve for diesel applications. Recirculating exhaust gas and combining it with an air and fuel mixture reduces the combustion temperatures that produce NO x emissions. Click to enlarge.

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Green Car Congress

SEPTEMBER 15, 2016

Volvo Trucks North America unveiled an innovative SuperTruck demonstrator whose combination of advanced vehicle and powertrain technologies achieved a freight efficiency improvement of 88% and boosted fuel efficiency by 70%, exceeding 12 miles per gallon in road tests. Not every idea made it to the concept vehicle. Click to enlarge.

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Green Car Congress

JUNE 28, 2010

Southwest Research Institute (SwRI) has successfully demonstrated that its HEDGE (High-Efficiency, Dilute Gasoline Engine) technology, using cooled exhaust gas recirculation (EGR) and advanced ignition systems, suppresses low-speed pre-ignition in turbocharged gasoline direct-injection engines. Earlier post.).

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Engine Fuel Economy Gasoline Emissions 186

Green Car Congress

SEPTEMBER 15, 2009

Ulrich Hackenberg, Member of the Board of Volkswagen Brand Technical Development, in front of the Volkswagen Concept Car L1 in Frankfurt. Volkswagen unveiled the L1, its second-generation one-liter class concept car, at the Frankfurt Motor Show. The earlier, first-generation 1-Litre concept. Click to enlarge. Earlier post.)

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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. These are likely to drive further increases in cost, and potentially further reductions in fuel efficiency. SULEV/Tier 2 Bin 2 is the target.

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Green Car Congress

AUGUST 10, 2011

This project will identify fuel properties that can be used to enable novel combustion strategies with low emissions of nitrogen oxides in an engine, and enhance existing models to capture the effect of additional key fuel properties on combustion. Light-weighting materials. Wisconsin Engine Research Consultants LLC. 10,000,000.

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Green Car Congress

OCTOBER 12, 2009

Even a highly efficient combustion engine converts only about one-third of the energy in the fuel into traction actually propelling the car. The remaining two-thirds are lost as waste heat going into the environment through the car’s exhaust emissions and through the radiator.

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Green Car Congress

DECEMBER 6, 2016

Toyota’s newly developed powertrain units are light and compact and have a low center of gravity. mph) and approximately 20% better fuel economy. The engines are based on a three-fold development concept: 1) loss reduction (exhaust, cooling, pumping, friction); 2) improved combustion quality; and 3) improved intake efficiency.

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Green Car Congress

DECEMBER 16, 2010

Such engines may incorporate novel thermodynamic cycles, but should not simply involve regurgitation of existing concepts (e.g., approximately 45% peak thermal efficiency for light duty and greater-than 50% peak thermal efficiency for heavy duty). Miller Cycle).

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Green Car Congress

MARCH 7, 2015

To provide its customers with high fuel efficiency and still provide the performance consistent with today’s passenger vehicles, the Elio Motors engine must operate efficiently at two different loads—lower loads representative of highway cruising, and more demanding loads associated with the fast starts of city driving.

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Green Car Congress

NOVEMBER 3, 2016

Fuel Economy Optimization with Dynamic Skip Fire in a Connected Vehicle The Ohio State University team with its partners will develop a transformational vehicle dynamics and powertrain (VD&PT) controls solution that leverages a novel ignition and air-management control technology to significantly improve vehicle energy efficiency.

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Green Car Congress

OCTOBER 30, 2016

The new six-cylinder in-line engine comes with an intelligent form of turbocharging: assisted by the ISG at start-off, the electric auxiliary compressor (eZV) guarantees immediate high torque when driving off and accelerating, bridging the time before the large exhaust turbocharger cuts in. Almost imperceptible restart of the engine.

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Green Car Congress

JANUARY 22, 2015

DOE also announced up to $35 million to advance fuel cell and hydrogen technologies, including enabling the early adoption of fuel cell applications, such as light duty fuel cell electric vehicles. Area of Interest (AOI) 2: Ultra-Light Door Design, Manufacturing and Demonstration. less than a baseline structure.

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Green Car Congress

APRIL 23, 2014

After each expansion cycle the heat exchange fluid is recovered from the exhaust and reheated to ambient temperature via a heat exchanger similar to a conventional radiator. Zero emission applications as a primary source is certainly of interest in urban scenarios for light duty, short range applications. Earlier post. ).

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Green Car Congress

MAY 8, 2013

Especially with increased production volume of renewable fuels and optimized powertrain solutions for flexible fuel vehicles, there is a chance for combustion engines to not only remain in the market but also be sustainable for future vehicle. improvement in fuel economy over the baseline engine for the Metro-Highway (M-H) cycle.

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Green Car Congress

NOVEMBER 4, 2011

The A dvanced C ombustion C oncepts— E nabling S ystems and S olutions (ACCESS) is developing advanced combustion control concepts along with with an enabling system, subsystem and component level solutions for the management of multi-mode/multi-fuel combustion events.

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Green Car Congress

JANUARY 28, 2014

Coupled with other strategies for light duty vehicles, area sources, and the stationary sector, increased use of natural gas in the heavy-duty sector is a fast, cost- effective, and deployable fuel and technology combination. All totaled, engine heat accounts for 26% of the fuel consumed, and exhaust heat accounts for another 24%.

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Green Car Congress

MAY 10, 2013

In a US Department of Energy (DOE)-sponsored project, engineers at Cummins are developing a Tier 2 Bin 2 emissions compliant diesel for application in a light duty pickup (ATLAS, Advanced Technology Light Automotive Systems, earlier post ). Fuel economy targets for the vehicle are 22.4 Earlier post.) mpg US (10.5

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Light Diesel Fuel Fuel Economy 319

Green Car Congress

DECEMBER 10, 2009

In addition to demonstrating better fuel consumption results than current advanced gasoline engines, the Omnivore engine has successfully demonstrated homogeneous charge compression ignition (HCCI) down to extremely light loads. Simon Wood, Technical Director of Lotus Engineering. Displacement. Compression ratio. Porting arrangement.

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Green Car Congress

OCTOBER 25, 2013

All the engines can be combined with an eight-speed automatic gearbox (standard in the BMW 225d Coupe) for fuel consumption and emissions figures that are lower than those achieved with the standard six-speed manual gearbox. Preliminary EPA fuel economy estimates for the 228i are 23 city/35 highway/27 combined (10.2, 220d Coupe.

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Green Car Congress

NOVEMBER 2, 2015

Although the EPA has not as of this writing released the final fuel economy numbers for the US A3 e-tron, Filip Brabec, Director, Product Management, Audi of America, said that the figures will be around 83 to 86 MPGe combined (depending on the equipment level), with 35 to 39 mpg gasoline only and 16-17 miles of EV range.

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Green Car Congress

APRIL 17, 2014

In a presentation at the SAE 2014 High Efficiency IC Engine Symposium and then in a paper given at SAE 2014 World Congress, Mark Sellnau, Engineering Manager, Delphi Advanced Powertrain, reported that Brake Specific Fuel Consumption for the 1.8L Earlier post.) However, towards a production solution, significant issues remain.

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Green Car Congress

NOVEMBER 22, 2013

At the Tokyo Motor Show, Mazda is showcasing the recently-released Mazda Axela (known as Mazda3 overseas) with a variety of engine types at the 2013 Tokyo Motor Show, including a CNG concept and hybrid variants. Alternative fuels: CNG and E85. Major technologies on Mazda3 SKYACTIV-CNG concept. Earlier post.). Click to enlarge.

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Green Car Congress

AUGUST 30, 2009

The plug-in full hybrid BMW Vision EfficientDynamics all-wheel drive concept car is powered by a 1.5-liter, The purpose of the high-performance concept study was to visualize the dynamic performance typical of a BMW against the backdrop of future demands in sustained mobility, according to the company. Click to enlarge. Earlier post.).

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Green Car Congress

MAY 1, 2018

The existing materials used for high temperature applications, such as engine components (pistons, exhaust valves, exhaust valve seats, turbocharger turbines, and turbocharger housings), are near their operational limit with the primary failure mechanisms being loss of strength, oxidation fatigue cracking, and corrosion. Open topic.

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Green Car Congress

OCTOBER 9, 2013

The all-new Axela marks the introduction of Mazda Connect, the company’s car-connectivity system based on Mazda’s Heads-Up Cockpit concept. liter gasoline engine which greatly enhances torque and improves fuel economy by about 26% (compares AT sedan model under JC08 mode test). liter gasoline engine. Earlier post.) l/100 km).

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Green Car Congress

JANUARY 22, 2014

These areas of interest apply to light, medium and heavy duty on-road vehicles. Applications need to use an integrated approach to design, develop, and optimize an assembly consisting of what would have been at least four light duty vehicle components made from traditional metals.

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Green Car Congress

MAY 2, 2014

Bengt Johansson at Lund University and others, has demonstrated that using low-octane gasoline in diesel engines has the potential to achieve very high efficiency while reducing the cost of diesel engines by lowering injection pressures and requiring less expensive exhaust aftertreatment. earlier post ]. —Viollet et al.

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