Remove Connect Remove Engine Remove Long Beach Remove Waste
article thumbnail

Green Motorsports: The Indy 500 Greens Up Its Act

Clean Fleet Report

Beginning in 2024 the cars will be powered by hybrid engines. One such company is Capstone Engineered Solutions, which is backing the No. Renewable natural gas made from organic waste is not a fossil fuel and does not involve drilling, making it appealing. Many of the team transporters will also be using biofuels.

Green 83
article thumbnail

NETZSCH and NREL collaborate to commercialize NREL isothermal calorimeter technology for large format Li-ion batteries

Green Car Congress

NREL presented its initial calorimeter—initially fabricated by Calorimetry Sciences Corporation and later improved upon by NREL—at the Long Beach Battery Conference in January 1998. to distinguish energy stored from waste heat generated) for use in estimating vehicle energy consumption. Accuracy is better than 3%.

Li-ion 191
article thumbnail

Audi announces A3 e-tron battery electric vehicle pilot program in US

Green Car Congress

Audi introduced the battery-electric Audi A3 e-tron US pilot program at TED2012 in Long Beach, California. The A3 e-tron BEV pilot program will run in the San Francisco, Los Angeles, Washington DC, and Denver markets throughout the year and provide actionable feedback and telematics data to Audi engineering teams in the US and Germany.

Audi 244
article thumbnail

As the off-road vehicle market rushes to electrify, standards are lagging behind

Charged EVs

When engineers specify components that aren’t automotive-rated, they are then forced to spend time in extensive testing to make sure their vehicles don’t catch fire. Right now I’m working on a committee where we’re defining the standard for an ePTO (electric power take-off) connection.

article thumbnail

Bill Ford outlines “Blueprint for Mobility”, calls for automotive and telecommunications industries to collaborate to address coming personal mobility crisis

Green Car Congress

During his keynote address at the 2012 Mobile World Congress in Barcelona, Ford Motor Company Executive Chairman Bill Ford outlined a plan for connected cars to help avoid a potential future of what he called “ global gridlock—a never-ending traffic jam that wastes time, energy and resources. ”.

Personal 231
article thumbnail

Ford developing a strategy to address urban personal mobility globally; a mobility company, not just an auto company

Green Car Congress

The Ford chairman had already begun talking about the future of urban personal mobility in the context of ever-increasing congestion at the TED2011 conference in Long Beach. We want to go to a fully connected multi-modal network. Emerging markets. —David Berdish. —Kristin Schondorf. Other approaches: Renault MOBILIZ.

Personal 331