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Audi updates A3 Sportback g-tron with increased tank volume for greater natural gas range

Green Car Congress

To enable the four-cylinder engine to run on these fuels, Audi engineers modified its cylinder head, turbocharging, fuel injection system and catalytic converter. The two plastic tanks storing the gas with an operating pressure of up to 200 bar follow the Audi lightweight design philosophy. Equipped with a new 1.5

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Leveraging Parking Lot Solar Panels for EV Charging

Clean Fleet Report

Parking lots seem logical places for solar farms, blocking the sun’s rays from baking vehicle interiors and converting that energy to usable power to make the cars run. Many wonder, “why not install solar panels on an EV’s roof?” Engineers and legal minds will continue to address the problems keeping such facilities from proliferating.

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Porsche finishes production of the 918 Spyder plug-in hybrid; platform for advanced development for vehicles and manufacturing

Green Car Congress

Porsche applied its hybrid know-how in preparing the characteristic maps and the algorithm stored in them for controlling the three drive units and other systems. Another new type of scissors lift platforms also simplified installation of the 140 kg high-voltage battery. This know-how will also be applied to future hybrid drives.

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Flash Drive: 2023 Lucid Air Touring AWD

Clean Fleet Report

Most owners will opt to install a 240V Level 2 charger at their home that will replenish 10-to-100% in about 12.3 Charging is also through motor regeneration that when coasting or braking converts kinetic energy into electric energy and returns it to the battery. Utilizing the car’s 700-volt charging system and the onboard 19.5

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Notes from the road: a guest post from Portland

Revenge of the Electric Car

So you can imagine the buzz around town as we braced for the next installment. Hometown hero John Wayland and the one and only White Zombie - the world’s quickest street legal electric drag racing car - headlined the display. We were good & ready for REVENGE !

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Inventing Postscript, the Tech That Took the Pain out of Printing

Cars That Think

There it is converted into instructions for the printer by the PostScript interpreter, software resident in ROM. There it is converted into instructions for the printer by the PostScript interpreter, software resident in ROM. Such an architecture stores data as it is received, stacking it like a pile of books.

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BMW, Ford, Honda to Form New EV Charging Company

The Truth About Cars

The service also seeks to return excess energy to the electrical grid, effectively converting EVs into publicly shared batteries. But customers would also benefit by having the ability to sell back stored energy using a vehicle equipped with bidirectional charging capabilities which can be recouped at a lower price later on.

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