Green Car Congress

OCTOBER 12, 2012

Bi-Directional Power Converter (BDPC). The BDPC initiative develops high density and efficiency power converters that enable new, more energy efficient ship power system architectures. The modular, flexible BDPC interfaces with high power radar, energy storage, pulsed loads and motor drives.

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Green Car Congress

APRIL 6, 2014

The HB215LC-2 is powered by the Komatsu Hybrid System, which includes Komatsu’s electric swing motor; power generator motor; ultra-capacitor energy storage and a 139 hp (104 kW) SAA4D107E-2-A diesel engine. Komatsu’s ultracap energy storage provides fast energy storage and instantaneous power transmission.

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Green Car Congress

JANUARY 19, 2012

Bombardier EnerGstor wayside energy storage unit. Bombardier Transportation, a leading producer of rail vehicles and rail transportation equipment, systems and services, has selected Maxwell ultracapacitors as the energy storage element of the Bombardier EnerGstor braking energy recuperation system.

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Green Car Congress

JUNE 16, 2015

Among its many other changes, the hybrid Audi R18 e-tron quattro that placed third at the Le Mans 24 Hours this past weekend featured a new generation of the Gyrodrive flywheel hybrid energy storage system, developed by GKN in collaboration with Audi Sport. Earlier post.)

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Green Car Congress

JANUARY 22, 2013

The hydraulic system, which uses compressed air for energy storage, basically comprises two hydraulic units and their pressure accumulators. This energy can then be used to drive the car. Air power, with the hydraulic motor alone transmitting energy to the wheels via the accumulators.

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Green Car Congress

OCTOBER 16, 2012

e performance was broken down into a dozen work packages from the energy storage system to the control concept to dynamic stability control. The research car is powered by three different electric motors, each of which can be controlled separately. The uniform system voltage required is provided by means of a DC/DC converter.

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Green Car Congress

SEPTEMBER 18, 2009

The core components are the energy storage unit (i.e. the battery), the power electronics and the electric motor. The main tasks of the power electronics include converting the direct current from the battery into alternating current both for the electric motor to use and for controlling it. Click to enlarge.

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Green Car Congress

JULY 29, 2014

When the driver brakes, a traction motor on one of the axles slows the vehicle, generating electricity at the same time. Useable stored energy is 1.2MJ, with peak power of 120kW. The GKN Hybrid Power Mk4 eFES is an electrically driven flywheel energy storage system.

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Get Electric Vehicle

JUNE 7, 2023

An electric vehicle is a type of vehicle that uses one or more electric motors for propulsion instead of an internal combustion engine that runs on fossil fuels like gasoline or diesel. Electric vehicles are powered by electricity stored in rechargeable batteries or obtained from other sources such as hydrogen fuel cells.

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Baua Electric

APRIL 28, 2024

It was braving through inheriting the loss-making Reva while Tata Motors just had a few R&D concepts of the Vista and Nano electric. In a period of 18 months, the Tata Motors Electric Mobility Division was set up. TACO’s customer base has grown and extended beyond Tata Motors. Today, we cater to the entire EV market.

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Cars That Think

MARCH 11, 2023

Around the same time, however, General Motors and other automakers were in the process of decommissioning their battery EV fleets, the key component of V2G. Electricity is a commodity that is bought and sold, and yet unlike most other commodities, it cannot easily be stored. And with the revival of the EV, the V2G concept was reborn.

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Green Car Congress

OCTOBER 9, 2014

The brake energy recovery system converts the vehicle’s kinetic energy into stored energy by compressing nitrogen gas in a storage device called an accumulator. This stored energy is then released during acceleration to reduce the energy required from the engine to propel the vehicle.

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Green Car Congress

JANUARY 19, 2010

US-based lithium-ion battery producer EnerDel is partnering with the real estate arm of Japan’s industrial trading giant, ITOCHU Corporation, to develop and produce the advanced battery systems for a residential smart grid energy storage project to be installed in a major apartment building near Tokyo. Earlier post.). since 2003.

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Green Car Congress

APRIL 15, 2022

The hybrid module is available for all two-axle models with automatic transmission featuring the torque converter from the ample Intouro range. This current is stored and is available to the electric motor to support the combustion engine, especially when moving off, but also when accelerating.

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Green Car Congress

NOVEMBER 16, 2018

Electric motor-generators on each crankshaft will improve engine efficiency by modifying the piston dynamics and resulting combustion process. AML’s contact-free current transfer would achieve 99% efficiency in DC electrical motors with 5-10 times the power and torque densities available in existing DC technologies.

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Green Car Congress

MARCH 25, 2009

Mazda Motor Corporation has begun commenced commercial leasing of the Mazda Premacy Hydrogen RE Hybrid ( earlier post ), a hydrogen hybrid vehicle that offers substantially improved performance due to the addition of a hybrid system. The engine output is converted to electricity, which then powers the motor that drives the wheels.

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Green Car Congress

MAY 29, 2009

The Mack diesel-electric hybrid powertrain used in the truck features an integrated starter, alternator and electric motor. As a result of the hybrid operation, in which an electric motor and a diesel engine work in parallel, fuel consumption can be reduced by up to 30% and carbon emissions decreased to the same extent. Earlier post.)

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Green Car Congress

MAY 24, 2013

direct-injection V6 engine that delivers 245 kW (329 hp) of power and 440 N·m (325 lb-ft) of torque; three-phase 70 kW synchronous motor developing maximum torque of 310 N·m (229 lb-ft); an 8-speed Tiptronic S transmission with Normal and Sport shifting programs and a separate shifting strategy for E-Power mode; and a 9.4

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Green Car Congress

FEBRUARY 26, 2015

Researchers at Pacific Northwest National Laboratory (PNNL) have developed a new zinc-polyiodide redox flow battery offering more than two times the energy density of the next-best flow battery used to store renewable energy and support the power grid. When power is needed, the two liquids are pumped into the central stack.

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Green Car Congress

MAY 3, 2010

The Golf blue-e-motion concept is powered by an 85 kW, 270 N·m (199 lb-ft) electric motor integrated in the engine compartment in front. The electricity for driving the electric motor is stored in a 26.5 The Golf blue-e-motion even recovers kinetically generated energy by battery regeneration in this mode of driving.

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Green Car Congress

AUGUST 12, 2013

Tesla Motors and SpaceX CEO Elon Musk released the preliminary design study for what he call “The Hyperloop”—a new high-speed electric transportation system targeted for the the specific case of high-traffic city pairs (e.g., This air is stored in onboard composite overwrap pressure vessels. Linear induction motor.

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Green Car Congress

MAY 13, 2011

Audi says that its e-gas project provides an answer to the question as to how green power can be efficiently stored, irrespective of location. If there are strong sea winds, for instance, then surplus power supplies can be converted to e-gas and stored in the largest available energy-storage system: the public gas network.

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Green Car Congress

APRIL 30, 2010

The US Department of Energy is awarding $106 million in funding for 37 research projects selected in the second round by the DOE’s Advanced Research Projects Agency-Energy (ARPA-E). This process is less than 1% efficient at converting sunlight to stored chemical energy. Earlier post.). Earlier post.) Engineering E.

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Green Car Congress

JUNE 9, 2017

The hydrogen gas can also be used as a chemical energy storage and can later be reconverted into electricity in a fuel cell, albeit with an additional penalty in terms of losses in conversion. The produced dry hydrogen gas is stored into two 350 l composite cylinders. kW solar PV power plant at LUT.

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Green Car Congress

APRIL 23, 2014

The technology uses readily-available materials with low embedded carbon, and operates with commercially-available liquid nitrogen, which is readily available and is frequently produced using off-peak electricity,with great potential for storing wrong-time renewables. The IDP10-funded project will cost £3.25 million (US$5.46 million), £1.9

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Green Car Congress

MARCH 22, 2016

Among the new features in the R18 are a more radical aerodynamics concept, including a new safety cell; a Li-ion battery replacing the flywheel energy storage system; and a revised V6 TDI diesel engine. With the new R18, Audi is switching to a Li-ion battery for energy storage. The shutoff logic includes crash detection.

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Green Car Congress

MAY 9, 2013

Air can be turned into a liquid by cooling it to around -196 °C using standard industrial equipment; 700 liters of ambient air becomes about 1 liter of liquid air, which can then be stored in an unpressurised insulated vessel. The main potential applications are in electricity storage, transport and the recovery of waste heat.

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Green Car Congress

JULY 2, 2015

In the prototype of a BMW 2 Series Active Tourer with plug-in hybrid system, the front wheels are driven by a three-cylinder gasoline engine and the rear wheels by an electric motor. Driving dynamics: instantaneous power delivery thanks to a boost effect from the electric motor that assists the engine under high loads.

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Green Car Congress

NOVEMBER 9, 2009

BMW has provided some additional detail on its two-mode ActiveHybrid X6, as well as updating some of the figures released for the introduction of the production model at the Frankfurt Motor Show in September. Earlier post.) The ActiveHybrid X6 arrives in US BMW Centers in the fourth quarter. seconds (0.2 V8 with TwinPower Turbo Technology.

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Green Car Congress

OCTOBER 18, 2009

A hydraulic hybrid drivetrain uses hydraulic accumulators to store energy. Like other hybrid systems, energy saved when applying the brakes is reused to help accelerate the vehicle. Compared to batteries as an energy storage device for hybrids, the hydraulic accumulators offer a higher power density, but a lower energy density.

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Green Car Congress

JANUARY 18, 2014

The FOA will give equal consideration to all proposals submitted, including submissions that address the following Areas of Interest: Energy Storage R&D. energy storing) materials. Advanced Power Electronics and Electric Motors for Electric Traction Drives. in electric vehicles (PEVs). active (non?energy

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Plug In India

APRIL 6, 2021

kW motor operating at 48 V will draw around 50 A of current. NMC batteries can store upto 300 Wh/kg, and 350 Wh/kg seems doable in the near future. LFP, in contrast, currently stores about 140 Wh/kg – with a theoretical storage upper ceiling of 160 Wh/kg. This changes voltage. Two: rotor outside, stator inside.

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Green Car Congress

SEPTEMBER 19, 2009

New research by MIT scientists suggests that carbon nanotubes could be used to create elastic energy storage systems with energy densities that could be three orders of magnitude higher than those of conventional steel springs, and comparable to Li-ion batteries with potentially more durability and reliability. Hill et al.

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Green Car Congress

JUNE 9, 2014

As before, during braking events at the front axle a Motor-Generator-Unit (MGU) recovers kinetic energy flows into a flywheel energy storage system. A fundamentally new Motor Generator Unit (MGU) sits in the monocoque together with a differential, which are both level with the front axle.

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Green Car Congress

NOVEMBER 28, 2012

The increased energy. Methane Converter to Electricity and Fuel. Bio2Electric will develop a small-scale reactor that converts natural. Conventional large-scale gasto-liquid reactors produce waste-heat, reducing the energy. convert natural gas into transportable liquids in one step. Bio2Electric, LLC. University.

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Green Car Congress

AUGUST 13, 2009

Both will make their world premieres at the Frankfurt Motor Show (IAA) in September. The overall drive system in the BMW ActiveHybrid X6 consists of a 400 hp (298 kW) twin-turbocharged V8 gasoline engine and two electric synchronous motors delivering 91 hp (68 kW) and 86 hp (64 kW), respectively. The BMW ActiveHybrid X6.

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Green Car Congress

SEPTEMBER 30, 2011

Energy Plant Design The University of California, Los Angeles, will re-engineer. plants so that they use energy more efficiently. streamline the process by which green plants convert carbon. several genes that allow the plant to use light more efficiently, increase its carbon uptake, and divert more energy to the.

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