Green Car Congress

AUGUST 25, 2015

Knock and fuel octane rating are becoming increasingly important due to many powertrain design trends including downsizing, downspeeding, cylinder deactivation, and hybridization. … In their study, Leone et al. In their study, Leone et al. Leone et al.

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Green Car Congress

JUNE 15, 2011

The study concludes that China and Europe, not the United States, will be the largest markets for EVs in 2020, driven by strong government support. A combination of peak oil with incentives or lower battery costs could increase EV penetration by 6%. However, China is a major wildcard. Source: BCG. Click to enlarge. Source: BCG.

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Green Car Congress

APRIL 8, 2019

Pre-ignition in modern engines is largely attributed to oil-fuel mixture droplets igniting before the spark timing. It is more prevalent in the downsized, turbocharged engines that car makers are now producing for improved fuel efficiency while maintaining power output. © 2019 Eshan Singh. Pre-ignition is sporadic and unpredictable.

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Green Car Congress

MAY 13, 2010

The new venture, which will be called “Rotrak”, will add Torotrak’s variable speed traction drive to Rotrex’ supercharging technology to address the automotive industry’s need for affordable, effective engine downsizing technologies. As part of the agreement, Torotrak will acquire a 15% stake in Rotrex and a seat on the company’s board.

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Green Car Congress

FEBRUARY 14, 2009

Dr. Ken Kurani from the UC Davis Institute of Transportation Studies (ITS) presented results from the latest in a series of electric drive consumer studies seeking to learn from consumers whether or not PHEVs are a good idea. Congress should not pick [vehicle technology] winners—policymakers have a hard time being neutral.

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Green Car Congress

AUGUST 4, 2011

Mazda hosted Green Car Congress at a SKYACTIV Technologies media workshop this week in Vancouver, Canada, at which engineering management explained the development philosophy, approach and results for the initial set of SKYACTIV technologies. Extreme compression ratio rather than downsizing. Although downsizing—i.e.,

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Green Car Congress

AUGUST 23, 2011

A 10% reduction in vehicle weight offers fuel savings of 5 to 7% (in mpg), provided the vehicle's powertrain is also downsized, Frost & Sullivan notes. The Frost & Sullivan study considers the following materials: Advanced High-strength Steels (AHSS). —Frost & Sullivan Senior Research Analyst Sandeepan Mondal. Polypropylene.

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Green Car Congress

NOVEMBER 8, 2011

The quickest and most cost-effective way to achieve our energy usage goals is through faster adoption of fuel-efficient downsized gasoline and diesel engines. JD Power conducted a study in 2010 that determined the make-up of the American fleet by the year 2020. Impact of different sales mix on new car average fuel economy.

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Green Car Congress

DECEMBER 17, 2015

The engine should yield fuel efficiency gains of more than 50% compared to a downsized, turbo-charged gasoline direct injection engine, while reducing the overall cost of the powertrain system, said Fabien Redon, Vice President, Technology Development at Achates Power. —Don Earlier post.) Delphi GDCI. earlier post ). Earlier post.).

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Green Car Congress

MAY 26, 2015

The second-generation hybrid system has been thoroughly enhanced from its predecessor: The downsized GDI engine features an aluminum block and head, a compression ratio of 13.5:1, The 6-speed AT features a high-voltage electric oil pump for improved efficiency. The new system features increased regenerative energy capture (+11.3%).

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Green Car Congress

JULY 19, 2017

IROX 2 joins Federal-Mogul’s family of IROX technologies which reduce friction and improve the wear resistance and fatigue limit of the bearings used in today’s highly evolved downsized engines. Sample bearings with the IROX 2 coating are already with customers for evaluation and series production will commence later this year.

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Green Car Congress

JUNE 23, 2015

A comparison of the benefits of two different cylinder deactivation operating strategies for downsized 3-cylinder engines such as the 1.0L Even for an aggressively downsized engine such as the 1.0-liter The largest difference proved to be in cost. Schamel et al. Click to enlarge. Earlier post.). —Schamel et al.

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Green Car Congress

OCTOBER 8, 2013

When crude oil comes into a refinery, it is first passed into a distillation process, which separates the crude oil into its different fractions by boiling range. This leads to lower particulate matters (PM) emission in conventional diesel combustion, as shown by a number of other studies. Why naphtha?

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Green Car Congress

JULY 17, 2015

Dr. Frank is Professor Emeritus, Mechanical and Aeronautical Engineering at the University of California, Davis, where he established the Institute for Transportation Studies (ITS-Davis), and was director of the US Department of Energy’s National Center of Hybrid Excellence at UC Davis. The significance of this opportunity is immense.

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Tony Karrer Delicious EVdriven

APRIL 21, 2009

I believe strongly that this country has to get off oil," he says, sitting beside a massive V-16 engine on display in his office. Before we were saying it will be an awfully long time before we can get the costs down so people can afford it, but actually if you offset the fuel costs, people can afford it." ( Green Car Congress ).

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