Green Car Congress

MAY 5, 2019

Researchers at the Karlsruhe Institute of Technology (KIT) and the University of Toronto have proposed a method enabling air conditioning and ventilation systems to produce synthetic fuels from CO 2 and water from the ambient air. The team presents this “crowd oil” concept in Nature Communications. kilograms per hour.

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Green Car Congress

FEBRUARY 28, 2020

The partnership also includes R&D around novel concepts and technologies that support the new Boxer 8x8 Combat Reconnaissance Vehicle capability Rheinmetall is delivering to the Australian Defense Force under the $5.2-billion Rheinmetall Landsysteme Germany has more than twenty years of experience in the automation of vehicles.

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Green Car Congress

FEBRUARY 6, 2017

Volkswagen’s Zwickau plant in Saxony, Germany will build the brand’s first production vehicle based on the MEB—the Modular Electric Drive kit, Modularer Elektrifizierungsbaukastenin—2019. Pilot”) and a new generation of display elements and controls, the concept conceptually follows the new Volkswagen brand strategy.

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Green Car Congress

AUGUST 17, 2018

CELEST pools the know-how of 29 institutes of its partners: Karlsruhe Institute of Technology (KIT), Ulm University, and the Center for Solar Energy and Hydrogen Research Baden-Württemberg (ZSW). CELEST combines finding-oriented research with close-to-practice development and innovative production technology.

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Green Car Congress

MARCH 10, 2022

The vehicles are near production concept cars and have not gone on sale yet. Buzz will also be used for future autonomous mobility concepts such as ridepooling – an e-shuttle service of Group subsidiary MOIA that can be booked via an app. Buzz and ID. Buzz Cargo in Hamburg. Earlier post.) Buzz and ID. family, the ID.

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Green Car Congress

OCTOBER 30, 2017

Researchers from France and Germany are proposing a new concept for the dynamic tuning of the structure of platinum nanoparticles on catalytic converters to enhance their performance—especially after cold starts and in urban traffic—and to reduce the consumption of expensive noble metal.

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Green Car Congress

NOVEMBER 18, 2016

labor), the Board of Management announced that the Volkswagen brand’s German plants will develop and produce electric vehicles and components based on the Modular Electric Drive Kit (MEB). The Works Council has ensured that these future-oriented vehicles will be made in Germany and not in other countries. Earlier post.).

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Green Car Congress

JUNE 9, 2011

ZF 9HP.The 9 HP construction kit is designed for different starting elements, hybrid drive, a stop-start function, and all-wheel drive. Thanks to its construction kit principle, the basic transmission can be supplemented in line with special requirements. Click to enlarge. A hat-tip to Ray!).

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Green Car Congress

SEPTEMBER 3, 2013

Source: KIT. At the upcoming IAA International Motor Show in Frankfurt, Karlsruhe Institute of Technology (KIT) will present a modular battery concept for the efficient operation of an electric bus; an electric city bus demonstrator will illustrate the concept. This is possible because of an adaptable connection concept.

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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. The proven concept of the exhaust manifold integrated into the cylinder head has been retained.

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Cars That Think

JUNE 30, 2023

As a child, Alberto Moreira discovered his passion for electronics from the kits for exploring science, technology, engineering, and mathematics that his father bought him every month. The kits taught him not only about electronics but also about chemistry and physics. Picard Medal for Radar Technologies and Applications. “I

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Green Car Congress

APRIL 4, 2010

Researchers from the Karlsruher Institut für Technologie (KIT) in Germany have shown that hydrocarbon yield and energy efficiency can be increased in a Fischer-Tropsch (FT) biomass-to-liquids (BTL) process through the use of a hydrophilic membrane enabling the in situ removal of water from the catalyst bed. Credit: ACS, Unruh et al.

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Teslarati

MARCH 9, 2022

Buzz in Hamburg, Germany. It will be built by Volkswagen Commercial Vehicles in Hanover, using VW’s Modular Electric Drive Kit (MEB) platform and featuring the latest generation ID. On March 9, 2022, Volkswagen unveiled its all-electric van, the ID. Buzz comes in two variants, the microbus and cargo van. Credit: Volkswagen AG).

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Green Car Congress

DECEMBER 18, 2017

The fifth generation of electric drive train and battery technology, available from 2021, uses scalable, modular electrification kits that will allow all model series to be fitted with every type of drive train. Series production of the fully-electric BMW i3, one of the most-awarded vehicle concepts in the world, began in 2013.

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Green Car Congress

NOVEMBER 27, 2018

At the Los Angeles Auto Show, Volkswagen is showcasing two electric concepts. BUZZ CARGO,in its auto show debut, is an electric panel van concept based on the MEB toolkit that offers up to 340 miles of range on the WLTP cycle. The electric Cargo e-Bike concept, in its North American debut, carries a 463 lb payload. Cargo e-Bike.

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Green Car Congress

SEPTEMBER 9, 2016

The Panamera 4 E-Hybrid is available to order now, with prices starting at €107,553 (US$122,000) including VAT in Germany. Porsche sees this new type of “E-Performance”—more power, more driving fun, lower fuel consumption—as the performance kit of the future. That corresponds to CO 2 emissions of 56 g/km.

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Green Car Congress

OCTOBER 1, 2016

Porsche sees this new type of “E-Performance” as the performance kit of the future. One highlight of the second-generation Panamera is the newly designed display and control concept in the form of the standard Porsche Advanced Cockpit with touch-sensitive panels and individually configurable displays.

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Green Car Congress

JANUARY 6, 2015

Ford Charsharing, Germany. In Bangalore, Ford is working with Zoomcar to test a sharing concept that would allow small groups, such as co-workers, apartment dwellers and families, to share a vehicle among multiple drivers. The experiment will provide an in-depth understanding of how Ford can help make car swapping easier.

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EV Central

DECEMBER 8, 2023

The 2024 Renault 5 hatch has been previewed for the first time following the French car-maker releasing multiple images that give us a glimpse of how it will evolve the 2021 concept-car fantasy into production-car reality. Faster variants will follow including one that could be inspired by the wild 280kW Renault 5 Turbo 3E concept.

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Green Car Congress

MAY 6, 2019

A team led by researchers from the Karlsruhe Institute of Technology (KIT) in Germany is proposing a new class of high entropy materials for energy storage applications. Additionally, this approach enables the reduction of toxic and costly elements in battery cathodes, without significantly affecting the energy density.

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Tony Karrer Delicious EVdriven

APRIL 21, 2009

We agree with Toyotas comments, which is why we advocate for mass production of PHEVs: "Were immensely gratified that some enthusiasts, in a tacit endorsement of the hybrid concept, are, on a vehicle-by-vehicle basis, converting Toyota hybrids to plug-in technology. Pricing from $8-15,000 for installed low-speed EV range of 8-24 miles.

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Green Car Congress

JULY 3, 2019

They achieved this through an ingenious cooling concept, as well as through several other developments. Each additional component of the new 8-speed construction kit was also intelligently designed for hybrid operation. ZF will begin manufacturing the new generation 8-speed automatic transmission in Saarbrücken, Germany, in 2022.

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Tony Karrer Delicious EVdriven

APRIL 21, 2009

Audi Volkswagen-owned company exploring PHEVs Metroproject Quattro Sub-compact PHEV Concept Car shown October 2007; PHEV of A1 Sportback under consideration Bright Automotive For-profit spin off from Rocky Mountain Institute designing lightweight PHEVs, successor to RMIs 1990s "Hypercar" concept. Has shown some concept fuel-cell PHEVs.

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