Green Car Congress

MAY 5, 2011

A team from the University of Wisconsin and General Motors has found that high-speed gasoline direct injection compression ignition (GDICI) operation in the low temperature combustion (LTC) regime in a light-duty diesel engine is feasible. In the modelling, they used a small-bore light-duty diesel with a compression ratio of 16.5,

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MARCH 24, 2010

Group (SAIC) unveiled three models of a concept new vehicle form called EN-V, short for Electric Networked-Vehicle. The concepts will be showcased from 1 May through 31 October at the SAIC-GM Pavilion at World Expo 2010 Shanghai. The Jiao EN-V model. Click to enlarge. GM and its strategic partner Shanghai Automotive Industry Corp.

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MAY 27, 2011

The automotive market is inevitably trending to LED lighting for reasons of reliability, appearance, functionality and efficiency, says OSRAM SYLVANIA. OSRAM SYLVANIA, together with OSRAM GmbH (owned by Siemens), is the world leader in automotive lighting for original equipment manufacturers (OEMs) and the aftermarket.

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APRIL 12, 2019

Researchers from Chalmers University of Technology, Sweden, with colleagues from Delft Technical University, the Technical University of Denmark and the University of Warsaw, have developed ultra-fast hydrogen sensors that could the future performance targets for use in hydrogen-powered vehicles.

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DECEMBER 14, 2022

Fusion is the process by which two light nuclei combine to form a single heavier nucleus, releasing a large amount of energy. To pursue this concept, LLNL built a series of increasingly powerful laser systems, leading to the creation of NIF, the world’s largest and most energetic laser system.

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APRIL 6, 2020

Researchers at the University of Southampton have transformed optical fibers into photocatalytic microreactors that convert water into hydrogen fuel using solar energy. The researchers have published their proof-of-concept in ACS Photonics and will now establish wider studies that demonstrate the scalability of the platform.

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AUGUST 8, 2020

The Thinking Pod Innovations Ltd & Nottingham University – Power electronics optimization and alternative wide band gap system design. The Institute for Advanced Automotive Propulsion Systems (IAAPS) at the University of Bath – Integrated system analysis and proof of concept validation testing.

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MAY 21, 2010

The US Department of Energy (DOE) has selected 42 university-led research and development projects for awards totaling $38 million. These projects, funded over three to four years through the Department’s Nuclear Energy University Program, are intended to help advance nuclear education and develop the next generation of nuclear technologies.

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AUGUST 30, 2022

Syzygy has developed platform reactor technology that uses light from ultra-high-efficiency LEDs to power chemical reactions by removing the need for heat from burning fuel, which is how traditional carbon-intensive chemical reactors are powered. Earlier post.). Earlier post.). It breaks ammonia into hydrogen and nitrogen.

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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. Click to enlarge.

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Green Car Congress

NOVEMBER 21, 2013

Also at the LA Auto Show, the new Honda FCEV Concept made its world debut. The concept expresses a potential styling direction for Honda’s next-generation fuel-cell vehicle anticipated to launch in the US and Japan in 2015, followed by Europe. At the Tokyo Motor Show, Toyota highlighted its own new FCV Concept with a world premiere.

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MARCH 25, 2014

The home, located on the West Village campus of the University of California, Davis, is capable of producing more energy on-site from renewable sources than it consumes annually, including enough energy to power a Honda Fit EV for daily commuting. Advanced lighting. Honda Smart Home is expected to generate a surplus of 2.6

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JULY 3, 2023

Prototype testing of Sparc Hydrogen’s reactor in real world conditions is the culmination of more than 5 years of research and development work conducted by the University of Adelaide and Flinders University.

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JUNE 21, 2019

Porterbrook and the University of Birmingham’s Center for Railway Research and Education (BCRRE) announced that the UK’s first hydrogen train—HydroFLEX ( earlier post )— will be tested on the mainline railway following a successful proof-of-concept.

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JUNE 28, 2020

Our goal is to industrialize 3D printing methods more and more for automotive production, and to implement new automation concepts in the process chain. Access to the latest technologies is gained through long-standing partnerships with leading manufacturers and universities, and by successfully scouting for industry newcomers.

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NOVEMBER 19, 2012

million) SmartBatt project, which ends in December, is to develop and proof an innovative, multifunctional, light and safe concept of an energy storage system which is integrated in the structure of an EV. Concept & feasibility Study. The objective of the two-year, €3-million (US$3.8 Specification Analysis / Requirements.

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JUNE 27, 2023

Haohong Duan and a team of researchers from Tsinghua University in Beijing, China, have now succeeded in obtaining both value-added chemicals during the operation of a hybrid flow battery, increasing the cost efficiency of the battery system. When reduced, furfural is converted into furfuryl alcohol, a precursor in resins, flavors, and drugs.

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MAY 18, 2017

The discovery was made by a joint research team led by Associate Professor Takashi Tachikawa (Molecular Photoscience Research Center, Kobe University) and Professor Tetsuro Majima (Institute of Scientific and Industrial Research, Osaka University). Their findings were published in the journal Angewandte Chemie International Edition.

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NOVEMBER 2, 2021

Tennessee Technological University. North Carolina State University. Marquette University. University of Minnesota – Twin Cities. University of Minnesota - Twin Cities. University of Wisconsin- Madison. High Pressure Fast Response Direct Injection System for Liquified Gas Fuels Use in Light-Duty Engines.

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APRIL 14, 2016

(BAIC BJEV), a subsidiary of BAIC, signed a strategic cooperation agreement with Dresden University of Technology (TUD) to create the Sino-German Automotive Light Weighting Technology Joint R&D Center. The Sino-German Light Weighting R&D Center will become the company’s fifth overseas R&D center. Earlier post.).

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DECEMBER 14, 2020

CVT4EV makes a single drivetrain suitable for a wide variety of applications, be it a mid-size car, sports car or light commercial vehicle. The CVT4EV concept with numerous Bosch components was developed by Bosch Transmission Technology BV.

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Green Car Congress

JANUARY 22, 2018

Light-weighting is critical for the future of our vehicles, not only to improve on fuel economy, but also to help improve vehicle performance. ALMMII was founded by Ohio-based manufacturing technology non-profit EWI, the University of Michigan, and The Ohio State University. —Lawrence Brown, executive director, LIFT.

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SEPTEMBER 2, 2011

Amberjac Projects Ltd (lead), Fen Technology Ltd, University of Sheffield. Ashwoods Automotive (lead), Bristol University, MCT Reman. Axon Automotive Ltd (lead), Tallent Automotive Ltd, WMG Warwick University. Bladon Jets Limited (lead), Jaguar Land Rover, Warwick University. Light weight Future Truck Chassis Concept.

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FEBRUARY 15, 2022

The selected projects—spanning 22 states and coordinated at universities, national laboratories, and private companies—will advance technologies for a wide range of areas, including electric vehicles, offshore wind, storage and nuclear recycling. Cornell University. Stanford University. The Ohio State University.

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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. Lubrication system. Cooling system.

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Green Car Congress

NOVEMBER 4, 2014

The objective of POWERFUl was to design engines for light-duty urban and micro-urban vehicles (segment A and B), capable of reducing CO 2 and criteria pollutant emissions. In addition, Renault and CMT-Motores Térmicos are continuing their collaboration focusing on the analysis and optimization of new advanced concepts of combustion.

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Green Car Congress

JUNE 23, 2011

The concept of the Ricardo Split-Cycle engine. Ricardo and the University of Brighton will model and evaluate an advanced split-cycle combustion system aimed at substantially reducing the carbon emissions of heavy-duty vehicles. The IsoEngine concept. Source: Neville Jackson. Click to enlarge. Click to enlarge. Click to enlarge.

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Green Car Congress

MARCH 6, 2012

All this is wrapped within highly aerodynamic, light bodywork. The TSB provided the chance to access new technologies and work with a variety of organizations, including universities, suppliers and OEMs. Infiniti will produce two fully functioning EMERG-E prototypes in the next step of this concept development program.

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FEBRUARY 5, 2025

A new type of quantum sensor that promises both higher sensitivity and greater security has been proposed and tested in proof-of-concept form. Our scheme is hybridizing two different quantum technologies, says Jacob Dunningham , professor of physics at the University of Sussex in the United Kingdom.

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Green Car Congress

DECEMBER 13, 2014

An improvement in the engine’s thermo-mechanical efficiency has been achieved through the use of a Twin-Turbo concept with variable geometry adapted to downspeeding. Twizy Delivery Concept is a research prototype that forms part of the du VELUD (Electric Vehicle for Sustainable Urban Logistics) project.

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Green Car Congress

SEPTEMBER 4, 2013

The concept of the Ricardo Split-Cycle engine. Rather than merely refine the existing four-stroke diesel, the Ricardo cryogenic split-cycle engine concept seeks to redefine the engine and its combustion process through the use of a recuperated split-cycle with isothermal compression. (In Source: Neville Jackson. Click to enlarge.

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Green Car Congress

JUNE 23, 2014

SCR coated on filter (SCR-F) allows for close coupling of an SCR (selective catalytic reduction) function for fast light off. Purdue University will work with the team on variable valve train options for warm up and HC control, all leading to the final T2B2 demonstration on a complete, street worthy, driveable vehicle. Earlier post.).

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AUGUST 14, 2014

Michigan State University. Stanford University. University of Pittsburgh. State University of New York. University of Maryland. This project will develop light-duty, spark-ignition engines with natural gas direction injection and gasoline port fuel injection systems. Applicant. . Brookhaven National Lab.

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Green Car Congress

JULY 7, 2020

University of Colorado Boulder researchers, with colleagues at Boston University, have developed a new optical phased array concept—the serpentine OPA (SOPA)—that could support medium- to long-range lidar. the array of gratings diffracts light to an angle determined by the wavelength-dependent row-to-row phase delay.

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NOVEMBER 3, 2020

Although the researchers demonstrated this method in a small-scale, highly controlled environment with dimensions of just nanometers (billionths of a meter), they have already come up with concepts for scaling up the method and making it practical for real-world applications.

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Green Car Congress

MARCH 24, 2022

The Audi Environmental Foundation is developing filters for urban runoff in conjunction with the Technical University of Berlin (TUB). Together with the TUB Department of Urban Water Management, the Audi Environmental Foundation is developing an innovative new filter concept for urban runoff. —Daniel Venghaus.

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Green Car Congress

JUNE 11, 2016

Future RDE emissions legislation and fleet average CO 2 targets represent a challenge for automakers wishing to provide cost-effective light duty diesel vehicles. The introduction of RDE regulations in Europe represents a very significant challenge, particularly for those automakers offering light duty diesel products.

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