Green Car Congress

MAY 10, 2017

Wrightspeed’s GTD (Geared Traction Drive) pairs with a custom axle from AxleTech International, designed to accommodate Wrightspeed’s super duty final drive gear. The custom axle-outfitted GTD unit is featured in the Mack Trucks booth at the WasteExpo conference in Nevada this week.

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Green Car Congress

OCTOBER 31, 2009

Researchers from Michigan State University have been awarded $2.5 Researchers from Michigan State University have been awarded $2.5 The wave disc engine, a new implementation of wave rotor technology, was earlier developed by the Michigan State group in collaboration with researchers from the Warsaw Institute of Technology.

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The Truth About Cars

OCTOBER 30, 2023

The concept is a collab between Toyota’s Calty Design Center and its Tech Center in Michigan, suggesting this won’t be a half-baked concept with engine parts made out of cardboard. This time around, reports tell us there will be a 3.4-liter Also on tap are an FJ Bruiser, a ‘Blue Beetle’ Tacoma, and a Retro Cruiser.

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Green Car Congress

APRIL 27, 2016

A recent study by researchers at Michigan State University, Eindhoven University of Technology, and Stanford University found that giving a car a more personal voice led to more car accidents. The researchers conducted an experiment by designing a car simulator with an Oculus Rift, steering wheel, and pedals.

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Green Car Congress

JANUARY 27, 2021

These universities join MIT, Stanford and the University of Michigan which have worked with TRI over the last five years to expand the body of research into artificial intelligence (AI) with the goal of amplifying the human experience. University of Michigan. Princeton University. Smith College. Stanford University.

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Green Car Congress

APRIL 28, 2015

DOE announced the Wave Energy Prize at the International Marine Renewable Energy Conference co-located at the National Hydropower Association Annual Conference. Van Buren Township, Michigan. Marine and hydrokinetic energy technologies convert the energy of waves, tides, and river and ocean currents into electricity.

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Green Car Congress

JUNE 13, 2009

University students from The Ohio State University earned top honors at the 2009 finals of the EcoCAR : The NeXt Challenge competition in Toronto, Canada for their design of a Extended Range Electric Vehicle (EREV). The Ohio State’s design was powered by a 1.8-liter liter engine and fueled by E85 ethanol. Plug-in capability.

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Teslarati

APRIL 6, 2021

GM will build the pickup at its Factory ZERO assembly plant in Detroit and Hamtramck, Michigan. The Chevrolet Silverado EV will be a full-sized pickup designed from the ground up to fit the electric vehicle market.

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Green Car Congress

SEPTEMBER 28, 2011

Engineered at the new Westport technical facility in Plymouth Michigan, WiNG systems will be installed and the trucks will be ready to roll when they reach authorized Ford dealers. They are designed to meet both EPA 2012 and CARB 2012 standards. The F-250 and F-350 pickup trucks are expected to ship in the second quarter of 2012.

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Green Car Congress

APRIL 6, 2017

This new autonomous vehicle design competition is a three-year challenge to develop and demonstrate a fully autonomous passenger vehicle. Michigan State University. Michigan Tech. They will be tasked with completion of a concept design written paper as well as simple missions for on-site evaluation. Texas A&M University.

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Green Car Congress

NOVEMBER 16, 2017

The new projects, undertaken in partnership with five US research institutions, will launch as part of CSRC Next, the Center’s new five-year program designed to support and inform a safe transition to future mobility. University of Michigan Transportation Research Institute.

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Cars That Think

NOVEMBER 28, 2022

For her work, Barth was honored with this year’s IEEE Marie Sklodowska-Curie Award for “leadership of and contributions to the advancement of the design, building, deployment, and operation of capable, robust space systems.”. “I I still tear up just thinking about it,” Barth says. Receiving this award is humbling.

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Green Car Congress

FEBRUARY 11, 2019

Combining human and artificial intelligence in autonomous vehicles could push driverless cars more quickly toward wide-scale adoption, according to researchers at the University of Michigan Transportation Research Institute (UMTRI). —Walter Lasecki, an assistant professor of computer science and engineering and a leader of the project.

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Green Car Congress

OCTOBER 12, 2010

The ChargePoint CT3000 family of Networked DC Fast Charging Stations are capable of charging the battery of electric vehicles in half an hour and are designed in accordance with the CHAdeMO standard ( earlier post ). Networked DC Fast Charging Station. Click to enlarge.

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Green Car Congress

MAY 31, 2017

First announced in 2014, CSRC Next ( earlier post ) will direct $35 million through 2021 towards research designed to support a safe transition to the future of mobility. The new research effort, named CSRC Next, will focus on the challenges and opportunities of autonomous and connected vehicle technologies over the next decade.

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Green Car Congress

AUGUST 2, 2017

Specific research challenges include: The integration of advanced active safety systems—such as automatic emergency braking—and passive systems; human experience design for advanced technology vehicles; driver state detection; and using analytics to help improve the study of naturalistic driving data.

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Green Car Congress

APRIL 15, 2011

At the SAE 2011 World Congress in Detroit, Michigan, US Department of Energy’s (DOE) Assistant Secretary for Policy and International Affairs, David Sandalow, announced the official launch of the EcoCAR 2 : Plugging into the Future competition and the sixteen university teams selected to participate. EcoCar 2 Malibu. Click to enlarge.

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Green Car Congress

OCTOBER 26, 2009

A Bloomfield, Michigan startup is developing light- and medium-duty series plug-in hybrid electric vehicle powertrain systems—initially as conversions, but ultimately extending to an OEM basis. Rendering of the Gen 2 series plug-in hybrid powertrain under development. Source: ALTe. Click to enlarge. Gen1 System installed in a Crown Vic.

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Green Car Congress

MAY 24, 2012

His body of work on on the underlying the theory and algorithms for this this extends back several years to his 2008 doctoral thesis at the University of Michigan (subsequently published as a book: Real-time, self-learning identification and stochastic optimal control of advanced powertrain systems ). transient operation. Malikopoulos, A.A.,

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Green Car Congress

APRIL 17, 2012

Ford has begun the consumer roll-out of the Focus Electric, the battery-electric version of its new Focus; production of the vehicles began in December 2011 at Ford’s Michigan Assembly Plant. Click to enlarge. Earlier post.) The Focus Electric shares 78% of its parts with the conventional Focus, he noted, and comes off the same line.

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Green Car Congress

OCTOBER 23, 2009

As one of the speakers put it to the attendees, the bulk of which came from Southeast Michigan, plug-in vehicles will a major career path for most of the people in the room. Reports from various efforts at the conference suggested that the current process for that type of installation can be time-consuming and less than seamless.

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Green Car Congress

AUGUST 4, 2009

George Anitescu from Syracuse presented the work in a poster at the DEER 2009 conference in Dearbon, Michigan. Diffusivity experiments and design/constructing of a SC fuel injector are in progress. Heat required to bring the fuel to SC states is recovered from the exhaust gas of the engine. Earlier post.). Anitescu et al.

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Green Car Congress

NOVEMBER 30, 2018

The R1T, a 5-passenger pickup truck, made its debut at the Griffith Observatory in Los Angeles on 26 November and the R1S, a 7-passenger SUV, was revealed at the automaker’s press conference at Automobility on 27 November. The battery is designed for fast charging with charging rates of up to 160kW.

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Green Car Congress

SEPTEMBER 22, 2009

Buses will be powered by an Azure Dynamics hybrid system of Michigan. Thunder Bay Transportation Authority – TBTA, Michigan: $2,590,000. Renewable Wind Energy: MBTA will design and construct wind energy generation turbines in eastern Massachusetts (from among Kingston, Newburyport, Bridgewater).

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Green Cars News

AUGUST 11, 2009

Hummer cars are known to have previously achieved as little as 12mpg, but thanks to Raser Technologies; who are currently exhibiting the new Hummer at the Plug-In Conference 2009, until Wednesday, 12 August at the Long Beach Convention Center, Long Beach, California; the reputation of the Hummer could be on the mend.

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Cars That Think

DECEMBER 15, 2023

This was just presented at the IEEE Humanoids Conference in Austin. Columbia Engineering ] We propose a technique that simultaneously solves for optimal design and control parameters for a robotic character whose design is parameterized with configurable joints. Disney Research ] And now, this.

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Green Car Congress

JULY 19, 2011

At the “Forward with Ford” event held in June—a conference exploring the linkage of Ford vehicles and technologies to global consumer trends—the company showcased its work on vehicle-to-vehicle (V2V) communications with a focus on crash avoidance. It’s not designed to work at speeds faster than 19 mph.

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Green Car Congress

NOVEMBER 20, 2020

At the virtual Barclays Global Automotive Conference, Barra and Doug Parks, GM executive vice president of Global Product Development, Purchasing and Supply Chain, shared key elements of GM’s plan, including: By 2025, GM will launch 30 EVs around the world, and more than two-thirds will be available in North America. —Mary Barra.

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Green Car Congress

JUNE 13, 2014

Their series-parallel plug-in hybrid Malibu excelled at GM’s Proving Grounds in Milford, Michigan, earlier this month, where it was put through a series of strenuous technical and safety tests similar to those used for real-world production vehicles. The OSU team’s design achieved 50 miles per gallon gas equivalent (MPGGE) (4.7

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Electric Auto Association

OCTOBER 28, 2021

I have had memberships in the EAA, Tucson EAA, and West Michigan EV and Plug-in Vehicle Enthusiasts. He has a 34-year career as a journalist, advertiser, marketer, publicist, event planner, teacher, and fundraiser for-profit and not-for-profit organizations including Motorola, Business Marketing Association, and Michigan State University.

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Cars That Think

JUNE 7, 2022

Then I became interested in the foundations of the design of computer systems and networks, and how design choices impact their performance.” His first teaching job was as an assistant professor of computer, information, and control engineering at the University of Michigan in Ann Arbor.

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Electric Auto Association

OCTOBER 28, 2021

I have had memberships in the EAA, Tucson EAA, and West Michigan EV and Plug-in Vehicle Enthusiasts. He has a 34-year career as a journalist, advertiser, marketer, publicist, event planner, teacher, and fundraiser for-profit and not-for-profit organizations including Motorola, Business Marketing Association, and Michigan State University.

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Green Car Congress

NOVEMBER 4, 2011

Hakan Yilmaz, Global Technology Management, Gasoline Systems, for Bosch presented an overview of and update on the project at the 2011 DEER conference in Detroit in October. Multi-hole direct injection with individual nozzle geometry design for improved mixture preparation and combustion efficiency. Source: Bosch. Click to enlarge.

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Green Car Congress

APRIL 15, 2010

In a press conference in Carlsbad, California, Aptera Motors unveiled the pre-production version of the electric three-wheel, 200+ mpg Aptera 2e along with 23 strategic suppliers , including GE; A123Systems for the Li-ion battery pack; Remy International for the drive motor ( earlier post ); and BorgWarner for the single ratio transaxle.

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Green Car Congress

OCTOBER 18, 2012

(LPI), the developer of engines based on its High Efficiency Hybrid Cycle (HEHC)( earlier post ), introduced the latest version of its X-series of rotary engines embodying HEHC at the US Department of Energy’s (DOE) 2012 Directions in Engine-Efficiency and Emissions Research (DEER) Conference in Dearborn, Michigan.

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Green Car Congress

JANUARY 20, 2015

His paper detailing the system recently was named best student paper at the Conference on Intelligent Robots and Systems in Chicago. Ryan Wolcott’s system builds on the navigation systems used in other self-driving cars that are currently in development, including Google’s vehicle. —Ryan Wolcott.

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Cars That Think

JUNE 4, 2022

Structured VLSI design, now taught in more than 100 universities. Many of the people at BCC were responsible for the design of the SDS 940, the computer on the strength of which Xerox bought Scientific Data Systems in 1968.) which had made the 1103 dynamic memory chips used in the MAXC design, reaped one of the first benefits.

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