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MAY 11, 2011

The Sentra model was simulated through a standardized Federal Test Procedure-75 (FTP-75) drive cycle for each SSC engine design. Scuderi Group commissioned SwRI to design and implement the computer Study, which could simulate an SSC engine in any vehicle of choice, driven through any drive cycle of choice.

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APRIL 16, 2011

Key to Scuderi’s split-cycle design is that it fires after top dead center. Consistent with conventional four-stroke engine designs, the combustion cycle of the Scuderi Engine has two high-pressure strokes—compression and power, and two low-pressure strokes—intake and exhaust. Earlier post.). Earlier post.).

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APRIL 14, 2021

Hyundai’s 2022 Tucson, with its all-new design, will begin arriving in the US market this spring (gasoline and hybrid models), with plug-in models available in summer 2021. Driving dynamics match the sporty exterior design, and the handling package is improved, so the new Tucson is more agile than the previous generation.

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Green Car Congress

APRIL 16, 2012

The HVT combines the advantages of the mechanical travel drive with torque converter—high efficiency at high speeds, maximum torque at standstill—with those of the hydrostatic travel drive: wearless reversing, high tractive force at low engine speed, good response, and a high degree of freedom regarding power management.

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Green Car Congress

JUNE 24, 2016

By combining its extensive experience in main drive and auxiliary drive transmissions, Torotrak has designed a variator concept with ratio spread of up to 12, operated by a low cost actuation system. Torotrak’s main drive CVTs combine its full toroidal traction drive variator with other conventional transmission components.

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Green Car Congress

SEPTEMBER 19, 2016

OLEA T222 allows the downsizing of electric motors while delivering the best energy efficiency without compromising the vehicle performances. OLEA T222 is ISO 26262 ASIL-D compliant and comes with SEooC (Safety Element out of Context) safety work products to enable customer safety design assessments.

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Green Car Congress

MARCH 8, 2012

The new Yaris Hybrid, which is equipped with a version of the downsized hybrid powertrain featured in the Prius c/Aqua ( earlier post ), is a major step in the company’s full hybrid European roll-out strategy. The downsized full hybrid system combines the new 1NZ-FXE 1.5-liter Fuel consumption is 3.5 meters has been maintained.

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Green Car Congress

NOVEMBER 14, 2014

The TC9580FTG system power management IC employs a DC-DC converter for optimizing voltage and power current control of the TMPV760 series. The new IC, with its output stage especially designed for optimal power management of TMP7608XBG, contributes to set downsizing and achieving the low heat operation required for ADAS applications.

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MARCH 14, 2010

An intelligently designed power transfer plays a major part in this: the unique AMG Speedshift MCT 7-speed sports transmission combines dynamism with economy, and includes a new stop-start function in the “Controlled Efficiency” driving mode. The wet start-up clutch replaces a conventional torque converter, and helps to save fuel.

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Green Car Congress

JANUARY 13, 2015

The 2016 Sonata Hybrid features a downsized 2.0-liter liter Nu GDI four-cylinder engine paired with a six-speed automatic transmission that houses a more powerful 38 kW electric motor and clutch where the torque converter would normally be found. The lithium-polymer battery pack capacity is 1.62

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Green Car Congress

SEPTEMBER 23, 2014

The new approach to natural gas combustion technology is designed to provide vehicle and engine original manufacturers (OEMs) with a “downsized” natural gas solution that is cost competitive while providing similar levels of power, torque, and fuel economy to a larger diesel engine. Westport Innovations Inc. Earlier post.).

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NOVEMBER 10, 2020

These models include the Tucson, Santa Fe, Kona, Santa Cruz and a new dedicated-platform, electrified Ioniq SUV, all of which feature new designs, eco powertrain availability and major platform options. The fresh pipeline of new SUV products will include new and refined internal combustion, hybrid, plug-in, BEV and N performance models.

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Green Car Congress

APRIL 6, 2017

Improving battery power to such as level would further enable hybridization to near-HEV levels as well as engine downsizing, thereby enabling fuel economy improvements beyond the current 10-15% MHEV limit. Accessories that are typically powered via hydraulic power or the serpentine belt may be converted to electrical power.

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Green Car Congress

JANUARY 7, 2013

The study task design steps. The fka team first converted the conventional vehicle into an EV—the original steel unibody structure was conserved, with only minor changes made in order to adapt the structure to hold and protect the battery pack. Various manufacturing methods used in the aluminum design. Source: fka.

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Green Car Congress

OCTOBER 10, 2012

They then designed a quasi-static thermodynamic model of an Organic Rankine Cycle (ORC) optimized to fit the prototype vehicle. 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.

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Green Car Congress

NOVEMBER 8, 2016

Applications should focus on innovative materials, manufacturing processes, and/or designs of bipolar plates. This topic seeks to demonstrate the successful production of > 200A, > 800V rated SiC devices that are designed for automotive qualification, and suitable for use in electric drive vehicle traction motor inverters.

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FEBRUARY 24, 2012

Each pixel in each 3d contour represents a design which plots an attribute against a design feature or a design feature against another design feature to identify optimum combinations to deliver desired effects. With the Generation 3 HEV system, Ford decided to downsize the engine from a 2.5L Click to enlarge.

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Green Car Congress

MARCH 27, 2015

Although the basic concept of the Class 1 Le Mans Prototype (LMP1)— a downsized turbocharged direct injection gasoline engine and two different energy recovery systems—was retained in the second generation, virtually every component was refined. Changes to the wheel design were necessitated by the regulations.

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Green Car Congress

JANUARY 18, 2015

Furthermore, the objective was to take the changing vibration behavior of the increasingly economical yet, at the same time, more powerful downsizing units into account. The new 8HP entered volume production at the start of July 2014 in the BMW 520d as the 8HP50 version that is designed for torques of up to 500 N·m.

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Green Car Congress

MARCH 11, 2014

The output power is more than 100kW, despite significant unit downsizing. With its proprietary, small, light-weight FC Stack and two 70 MPa high-pressure hydrogen tanks placed beneath the specially designed body, the Toyota FCV Concept can accommodate up to four occupants. Toyota’s view of hydrogen.

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Green Car Congress

APRIL 8, 2016

However, the plug-in hybrid that offers so much benefit in this regard also necessitates massive intervention into the design of the transmission which generates additional cost. In combination with a 48-Volt battery and 12-Volt DC/DC converter, mild hybridization is also possible.

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Green Car Congress

SEPTEMBER 12, 2011

Downweighting will be at the core of whatever other technology, design and powertrain changes are coming. Using aluminum will extend the efficiencies of other technologies, while enabling secondary cost-savings from downsized powertrains without sacrificing performance. Twenty percent of all bumpers in 2012 will be aluminum.

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Green Car Congress

AUGUST 20, 2013

Schematic diagram of the successful “shoebox” reformer design and a picture of the core, after insertion of the catalyst. A team at Monsanto and colleagues at AVL Powertrain have successfully designed and demonstrated an onboard low-temperature ethanol reformer that can be driven by exhaust heat. Credit: ACS, Sall et al.

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FEBRUARY 20, 2013

In a parallel system, the engine power and the motor power are completely independent—it’s a design choice. The FF Hybrid system that will be launched soon for front-wheel drive and all-wheel drive is built with three main technologies: a downsized internal combustion engine; a new highly efficient CVT, and a compact Li-ion battery.

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Green Car Congress

JUNE 23, 2014

Ford’s approach to the project was to engineer a comprehensive suite of gasoline engine systems technologies, including: Aggressive engine downsizing in a mid-sized sedan from a large V-6 to a small I-4. 1, and the engine is designed to run on 98 RON gasoline. Torque converter pendulum damper. Earlier post.). The approach.

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SEPTEMBER 15, 2016

A key part of the overall efficiency gain is the downsized 11-liter Volvo engine, featuring advanced fuel injection, cooling, oil and turbo-charging systems, as well as new “wave” pistons and other improvements. This new design added “wave” bumps on the side of the piston bowl, which allows the fuel to burn more cleanly.).

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Green Car Congress

DECEMBER 20, 2009

The more efficient combustion engine technologies, with their enabling of downsizing, come in compatibly with hybridization, with hybridization and electrification playing a larger role over time. The further downsized next-generation technologies can be very synergistic within hybrid applications. Planning background.

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Green Car Congress

SEPTEMBER 15, 2011

It is designed for a maximum electric motor input torque of 500 N·m and an output torque of 6,000 N·m. Additional hybrid components such as control units and DC/DC converters with charge function are located beneath the floor of the trunk, meaning the passenger space can still be used in full.

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EV Central

OCTOBER 27, 2023

Tesla Cybertruck Tesla Cybertruck The top of the pile when it comes to attention, the Cybertruck just about broke the internet when Tesla design chief Franz von Holzhausen broke two of its windows during the global unveil late in 2019. Kia Tasman An artist’s render of Kia’s ute.

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The company calls this dual-chemistry hybrid pack Gemini, and recently told Charged that it is enabled by utilizing cutting-edge cell technologies and a proprietary high-power-density DC-DC converter. This is designed for the passenger vehicle market to make it feasible to offer about twice the range [of current EVs].

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Green Car Congress

SEPTEMBER 7, 2009

The battery can also power the electric motor which enables the design of a drivetrain that has low emissions, optimized performance and acceptable range. Lotus Engineering designed and developed a new advanced cylinder head design featuring an integrated exhaust manifold. The Lotus three-cylinder 1.2 Additional Benefits.

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Green Car Congress

DECEMBER 11, 2012

The design brief for the new-generation PureTech engines called for a clean break in powertrain development. To achieve these results, PureTech development called for a number of changes, chief among which were: Downsizing. Reduced weight and more compact design. l/100 km (51.1 Three cylinders. Reduced internal friction.

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JULY 11, 2017

The ICCT is collaborating with automotive suppliers on a series of working papers evaluating technology progress and new developments in engines, transmissions, vehicle body design and lightweighting, and other measures that have occurred since then.

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Green Car Congress

JULY 14, 2016

The upside of gasoline direct injection (GDI) engines is widely seen as being improved fuel economy coupled with an increase in specific power (especially with turbocharging), enabling significant downsizing. The extent of fuel-air mixing can be affected by injection system design. A significant fraction of the GDI PM 2.5

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MARCH 31, 2017

The engine combines downsizing turbo technology with efficient direct fuel injection; it delivers just under 500 hp (368 kW) and is the most efficient combustion engine from Porsche to date. An average of 80% of the braking energy recovered from the front axle is immediately converted to drive energy.

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Green Car Congress

APRIL 4, 2012

for previous generation Altima Sedan design), and an strong balance of ride comfort, stability and a fun-to-drive demeanor with projected best-level acceleration. The 2013 Altima’s front suspension uses an independent front strut design. It is designed primarily for everyday operation rather than emergency evasive maneuvers.

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Green Car Congress

JUNE 7, 2010

Renault’s ongoing downsizing strategy is aimed at reducing the cubic capacity of its engines in order to bring down fuel consumption and CO 2 emissions, without detracting from performance. Its simple design and low levels of friction make it particularly competitive in terms of the performance it delivers for its price. dCi engines.

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