Green Car Congress

SEPTEMBER 3, 2016

Many countries propose to impose more stringent regulation of automobile exhaust emissions in 2020 and after, in an effort to prevent air pollution and global warming. TDK offers a lineup of products, such as DC-DC converters, on board chargers and wireless power transfer systems that are currently being developed.

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PHEV DC Automobile Downsizing 170

Green Car Congress

MARCH 7, 2019

The following projects were selected for negotiation with NREL: Cummins High Efficiency, Ultra Low Emissions Heavy-Duty Natural Gas Engine Research and Development Project. Downsized, Optimized, High Efficiency, Spark Ignited Natural Gas Engine. Cummins Inc.

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Gas Vehicles Exhaust Engine 191

Green Car Congress

JUNE 25, 2012

It also doesn’t necessitate a recertification of the vehicle for safety, emissions. XLH engineers have already designed the next-generation release, in which the battery pack is downsized to 1.5 That totally gets around the problem of having to create a whole new set of controls for the engine and transmission. kWh, Ashton said.

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Green Car Congress

NOVEMBER 28, 2016

Thrust 1 builds on the significant amount of work carried out over the past several decades, focused on building advanced boosted, downsized, and downspeeded spark ignition engines. Simulation of fuel and engine parameter impacts on efficiency and emissions. Fuel impacts on particulate emissions. Modeling and Simulation Toolkit.

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Engine Fuel Vehicles Emissions 150

Green Car Congress

JANUARY 7, 2013

The next step was the conversion of that EV to a full aluminium space frame electric vehicle. As a secondary effect, the battery system capacity could be downsized by 3.3 The shape of the outer skin of the vehicle was kept identical to that of steel vehicles. Various manufacturing methods used in the aluminum design.

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Green Car Congress

OCTOBER 10, 2012

Internal combustion engines have been significantly improving in the past decade, after the adoption of technologies such as Gasoline Direct Injection, mild electrification, downsizing and turbocharging. The OSU EcoCAR prototype vehicle features an extended-range electric architecture with a downsized 1.8L

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Waste PHEV Fuel Exhaust 312

Green Car Congress

SEPTEMBER 27, 2017

The eCity Truck is an innovative diesel hybrid system that is a flexible and scalable solution allowing easy integration of an electric axle (eAxle) into light commercial vehicles to enable the easy conversion of a traditional diesel truck platform to a diesel-electric hybrid truck.

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Green Car Congress

MAY 17, 2013

This is because the ethanol component may affect the conversion efficiency of the gasoline component in a blend, that is, make an engine more or less efficient in its use of the gasoline component. converted all vehicle efficiency measurements into vehicle energy efficiency (VEE, km/MJ) based on fuel energy densities reported in each study.

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Fuel Energy Gasoline-Electric Gasoline 210

Green Car Congress

FEBRUARY 26, 2018

Conversion to wider gear ranges. Shift responsiveness has improved through downsizing of the pulley and reduction of inertia by 40%. Toyota forecasts that the TNGA-based powertrain units alone will improve fuel efficiency enough to reduce CO 2 emissions from Toyota vehicles by more than 18%. liter class.

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Green Car Congress

MAY 18, 2015

According to the review, the conversion of HCs, CO, and NO in the exhaust gas by the catalyst can result in up to a 4.5% According to the review, the conversion of HCs, CO, and NO in the exhaust gas by the catalyst can result in up to a 4.5% Significant CO, CO 2 , and HC emissions improvements were also observed.

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Fuel Exhaust Gas Engine 150

Green Car Congress

APRIL 26, 2009

The resulting higher BMEP levels allow downsizing of the engine at equivalent vehicle performance. Furthermore, by enabling higher CR, downsizing and downspeeding, E85 DI + gasoline PFI makes the engine more efficient in itsusee of gasoline. Earlier post.) Stein et al. Bromberg, J.B.

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Diesel Ford F-150 Gasoline 170

Green Car Congress

MAY 6, 2013

This downsizing enables lower fuel consumption, accompanied by low emissions and optimum weight. A combination of exhaust gas recirculation with two-stage cooling and the SCR technology with AdBlue injection for the BlueTEC engines and a particulate filter delivers clean exhaust emissions.

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2014 Diesel Standards Exhaust 306

Green Car Congress

JANUARY 17, 2011

technology and there is progress on the economic conversion of biomass to. It is a high octane fuel with combustion characteristics that allow engines specifically designed for methanol fuel to match the best efficiencies of diesels while meeting current pollutant emission regulations. methanol using thermo-chemical processes.

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EV Central

OCTOBER 27, 2023

Ram mid-sized ute Ram has comfirmed it will produce a new mid-sized EV pick-up truck (ute) to be released between 2024 and 2026 Ram is known for its big American pickup trucks, but the brand that was spun off from Dodge is set to downsize with a new mid-sized ute to take on the Ford Ranger and Toyota Hilux.

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Green Car Congress

JUNE 16, 2015

In the large Sharan the downsized engine consumes on average 6.4 mpg US, CO 2 emission: 136 g/km). mpg US) in both gearbox versions; that equates to CO 2 emissions of 138 g/km. The Sharan 1.4 l/100 km (148 g/km CO 2 ); with the optional six-speed dual clutch gearbox (DSG) it is 6.6 l/100 km (35.6 mpg US, 154 g/km CO 2 ).

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Standards Fuel MPG Batteries 150

Green Car Congress

DECEMBER 11, 2009

Conversely, short bursts of power can also be absorbed by the SpeedStart generator to recharge the battery during vehicle decelerations. Exhaust gases provide an efficient and as yet unutilized method of power regeneration, particularly for a throttled gasoline engine, and further helps improve fuel economy and reduce CO2 emissions.

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Downsizing Power Powered Exhaust 191

Green Car Congress

AUGUST 20, 2013

Blending 25-50% of this low-temperature ethanol reformate with ethanol or E85 fuels enables dilute engine operation, resulting in substantial improvements in fuel economy and emissions. Many papers have described high-temperature steam reforming of ethanol at around 600 °C but.this temperature is too high to be driven by engine exhaust.

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Fuel Economy Exhaust Economy Fuel 230

Plugs and Cars

JULY 31, 2008

A number of startups showed off their porposals to retrofit the existing fleets of petroleum-fueled vehicles, giving some hope to Andy Grove’s ambitoious desire to create millions of plug-in conversions before the automakers deliver. Representatives of GM stoked the clamor for the Volt, and a Saturn Vue plug-in hybrid sat on the show floor.

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Plug-in Al Gore Plug Gore 100

Green Car Congress

JULY 16, 2019

In testing, the 1 kWe micro-CHP motor achieved 33% Electrical Conversion Efficiency; 20% more than the current leading unit in this power class. Downspeeding is a technique that, alongside downsizing, has brought significant efficiency benefits to the automotive and commercial vehicle markets. —Mike Bunce. and Blaxill, H.

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Engine Market 2019 Downsizing 281

Green Car Congress

JUNE 16, 2011

Turbocharging and downsizing can also yield fuel consumption reductions. Downsizing is an important strategy applicable in combination with technologies that increase engine torque, such as turbocharging or supercharging. Part of the gain from advanced-level CI diesel engines comes from downsizing.

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Tony Karrer Delicious EVdriven

JANUARY 28, 2009

utilizing these ideas and instructions in an attempting to enhance national security, reduce gas consumption, vehicle "emissions", your carbon footprint, or smog, you do so at your own risk & peril. See also our EAA-PHEV:General disclaimer talk : Disclaimer edit Please visit the Conversion Interest page to help us gauge DIYers interest!

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Green Car Congress

JANUARY 17, 2011

By optimizing the split-cycle concept, the engine when fully developed will reduce NO x emissions up to 80% and improve fuel efficiency by 50%, compared to a conventional gasoline engine, according to the company. With turbocharging, we can have some huge gains, we can downsize the engine and produce very big power. —Sal Scuderi.

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Green Car Congress

FEBRUARY 10, 2014

homogeneous charge compression ignition, HCCI) combustion processes offer the promise of simultaneously reducing fuel consumption and NO x emissions. Indicated fuel conversion efficiency in 2-stroke CAI operation at 2000 rpm. CO, uHC and NO x emissions are reduced significantly by injecting ethanol blended fuels. Zhang et al.

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Gasoline Engine Exhaust Fuel 186

Green Car Congress

APRIL 29, 2009

Ford’s turbocharged, gasoline direct injection EcoBoost engines are targeted to play a significant near-term role in Ford’s efforts to reduce fuel consumption by enabling downsizing. V6 engine (the Duratec D35 EcoBoost) delivers up to 12% better fuel economy and 15% lower emissions with comparable torque and power as a 5.4L

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Green Car Congress

JUNE 2, 2015

Despite its efficiency, the Golf TSI BlueMotion with the 85 kW / 114 hp downsized 999 cc EA211-series engine reaches 100 km/h in 9.7 TSI (81 kW / 110 PS) with four cylinders: lower weight; reduced CO 2 emission; improved driving dynamics. The weight was reduced by 10 kg (to 89 kg / 196 lbs), and CO 2 emissions were reduced by 10%.

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Gasoline MPG Exhaust Engine 150

Green Car Congress

OCTOBER 12, 2011

The combination of regulated fuel and emissions reduction, electrification of the powertrain, safety within the powertrain and engine downsizing is placing exponential performance demands on the processors used in control units, Philip Pesses, Freescale Product Manager for Automotive Powertrain, said in a pre-announcement briefing.

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Green Car Congress

DECEMBER 10, 2009

Traditionally, this has been challenging but this combustion process results in ultra low emissions and has been achieved over a wide range of engine operating conditions, even from cold start. Emissions results are 20 ppm NO x at less than 2.3 bar load and has four-stroke-equivalent hydrocarbons and carbon monoxide emissions.

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Fuel Economy Engine Light Fuel 218

Green Car Congress

SEPTEMBER 21, 2009

On 15 Sep, NHTSA and the US EPA proposed a joint rulemaking on fuel economy and greenhouse gas emissions for light duty vehicles: an average new car 34.1 The 250 g/mile of CO 2 equivalent emissions limit by EPA is equivalent to 35.5 Turbocharging and downsizing: 26% for cars, 15% for trucks. Click to enlarge.

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2016 MPG Fuel Economy EPA 210

Green Car Congress

JULY 17, 2015

The alternative-fuel car evolved to reduce exhaust emissions and other problems derived from burning fossil fuels. Since it can operate on 100% biofuel, it is the means for achieving new goals recently set for reducing the use of fossil fuels and cutting the net emission of CO 2 to zero. by Professor Andrew Alfonso Frank.

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Green Car Congress

JANUARY 28, 2014

However, the automotive industry is focused not on air consumption but on fuel consumption—and the CO 2 emissions this generates. Conversion efficiency is now the key. Per the regulations, the Mercedes team downsized their internal combustion engine (ICE) to a 1.6 The F1 W05. Click to enlarge.

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Tony Karrer Delicious EVdriven

APRIL 21, 2009

Several after-market companies have done PHEV conversions of the Ford Escape hybrid and one has done a retrofit of the F-150 pickup -- see Where PHEVs Are and ICE-Conversions.) But I dont think that would contribute to the global environment, to reduce [global warming gas] emissions." ( Wall Street Journal ).

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