Green Car Congress

MARCH 11, 2020

The backhoe loader is perfectly suited for electrification as the varied use cycles, from heavy to light work, provide an excellent opportunity to convert wasted diesel engine hours into zero consumption battery time—yet provide the operator with instantaneous torque response when needed.

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Fully Electric Electrical Electric Diesel 536

Green Car Congress

APRIL 29, 2012

South African state-owned oil company PetroSA is in talks with Mozambique to develop a 40,000 barrels-per-day gas-to-liquids (GTL) plant there. Gareth Shaw, PetroSA’s business development manager for GTL, said his company was proposing the building the plant at a cost of around $4 billion.

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Mozambique Diesel Convert Oil 218

Green Car Congress

OCTOBER 4, 2013

a new 5-liter V8 diesel engine designed to power pickup-and-delivery vehicles, other light- and medium-duty trucks, school buses and motorhomes. extends Cummins range of on-road diesel engines for North American vehicles. V8 Turbo Diesel to be used in the Nissan Titan pick-up truck ( earlier post ), the ISV5.0 Diesel Engines'

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Diesel Light Commercial Vehicles 247

Green Car Congress

JUNE 11, 2019

The Manufacturers of Emission Controls Association (MECA) released a report assessing market-ready technologies being commercialized by suppliers of emission control and efficiency components for heavy-duty diesel vehicles to meet lower intermediate standards for oxides of nitrogen (NO x ) by 2024 as a transition to final standards in 2027.

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Standards Diesel 2019 Emissions 191

Green Car Congress

OCTOBER 14, 2013

However, using more refined low-sulfur hydrocarbon fuels can add to the overall cost of the system. Less refined fuels—such as heavy gas oil—would be less expensive; however, the higher levels of sulfur in the fuels could prove problematic for catalysts. Now, researchers in S. —Jeon et al.

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Oil Hydrogen Gas Saudi Arabia 218

Green Car Congress

MARCH 18, 2013

Researchers at Tsinghua University have compared the combustion and emissions characteristics of two dual-fuel (diesel-gasoline) modes intended to integrate the advantages of both fuels to achieve high thermal efficiency and low emission targets. However, the researchers noted, having two fuel supply systems increase the cost of the engine.

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Gasoline Diesel Emissions Fuel 281

Green Car Congress

OCTOBER 9, 2019

In the editorial, the researchers note that internal combustion engines operating on fossil fuel oil provide about 25% of the world’s power (about 3,000 out of 13,000 million tons oil equivalent per year), and in doing so, they produce about 10% of the world’s greenhouse gas (GHG) emissions. road dust) are accounted for. Gas exchange.

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International Engine Exhaust Emissions 312

Green Car Congress

NOVEMBER 7, 2011

Cummins is one year into a four year program (ATLAS, Advanced Technology Light Automotive Systems) to develop, in partnership with the US Department of Energy (DOE), a new light-duty diesel truck engine that will meet Tier 2 Bin 2 (SULEV) emission requirements while achieving at least a 40% fuel economy improvement (26.1 mpg US vs. 18.6

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Light Diesel MPG Nissan 199

Green Car Congress

APRIL 25, 2010

has built and delivered 12 dimethyl ether (DME) feed pumps to Shanghai Diesel Engine Company. Shanghai Diesel Engine Company is owned by Shanghai Automotive Industrial Corporation (SAIC), one of the top three automotive corporations in China. Alternative Fuel Technologies, Inc. The value of this order is confidential.

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Alternative Fuels Diesel Engine Companies 231

Green Car Congress

FEBRUARY 5, 2020

CO 2 and NO x certification test data for heavy-duty diesel engines certified from 2002 through 2019. —“Technology Feasibility for Heavy-Duty Diesel Trucks in Achieving 90% Lower NO x Standards in 2027”. Source of data: US EPA (2019). Chart: MECA.

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Emissions Diesel Engine 2010 291

Green Car Congress

NOVEMBER 7, 2011

recently revealed at the Seymour Engine Plant the new QSK95 engine with more than 4000 hp (2983 kW) output—the world’s most powerful high-speed diesel. The 95-liter 16-cylinder QSK95 is the first engine to be introduced in a new high-horsepower diesel and gas platform from Cummins. Cummins Inc. MW high-speed output.

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Diesel Engine Power Powered 210

Green Car Congress

JULY 5, 2016

The company, a 2013 spin-out from the University, is now working with Ricardo to characterize the use of this recycled, low-sulfur fuel as a substitute for fossil based heavy fuel oil (HFO) and diesel in applications such as power generation and marine propulsion. Click to enlarge.

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Mariner Waste Fuel Climate Change 150

Green Car Congress

JANUARY 18, 2014

As described in multiple DOE reports, the main barriers to widespread PEV commercialization are the cost; performance and life; and abuse tolerance of high?energy Specifically: the current cost of high?energy Temperature Combustion (LTC), (2) Dilute Gasoline Combustion, and (3) Clean Diesel Combustion. energy batteries.

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Carbon Fiber Engine Battery Powered Fuel 252

Green Car Congress

APRIL 5, 2010

This project will develop and evaluate a new process for converting biomass waste into diesel fuel. The diesel made from biomass will be a direct substitute for ultra low-sulfur diesel (defined by ASTM D 975). The biomass waste will first be converted into pyrolysis oil and then upgraded to diesel. Lynntech Inc.,

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Emissions EPA Waste Exhaust 225

EV Central

NOVEMBER 13, 2023

Well, that’s being overly kind, actually, they’re more like the kind of people who choose to support oil companies and Saudi Arabia and let the world burn because they hate their children, and their children’s children too. But first I wanted to talk about climate change deniers, and how remarkable it is that they still exist.

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Climate Change Coal Saudi Arabia Climate 88

Green Car Congress

JULY 1, 2009

As the next steps in a strategy to cut harmful emissions from ocean-going vessels, the US Environmental Protection Agency is proposing new engine emissions and fuel standards for large marine diesel engines on US-flagged ships that would harmonize with international standards. Earlier post.)

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Mariner EPA Standards International 170

Green Car Congress

JANUARY 27, 2016

liter CRDi turbo-diesel engine, paired with a Valeo 10 kW electric starter generator and electric supercharger powered by a 48V version of East Penn’s lead-carbon UltraBattery system. This vehicle indicates a pathway to 70g/km at a cost/emissions reduction ratio superior to a full-hybrid solution.

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Emissions Hybrid CO2 Downsizing 150

Green Car Congress

DECEMBER 17, 2015

The engine should yield fuel efficiency gains of more than 50% compared to a downsized, turbo-charged gasoline direct injection engine, while reducing the overall cost of the powertrain system, said Fabien Redon, Vice President, Technology Development at Achates Power. Earlier post.) Earlier post.).

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Downsizing Engine Fuel Gasoline 150

Drive Electric

OCTOBER 26, 2022

They have no gas, exhaust, clutch, gears, or spark plugs. With no oil, air filter, gearbox, drive belts, or spark plugs, far less work must be done and at a much less frequent pace. BEVs also have a meagre running cost compared to ICE cars, and the range of BEV batteries has increased (and will continue to do so). .

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PHEV New Zealand Petrol Gas-Electric 98

Green Car Congress

MAY 2, 2014

Bengt Johansson at Lund University and others, has demonstrated that using low-octane gasoline in diesel engines has the potential to achieve very high efficiency while reducing the cost of diesel engines by lowering injection pressures and requiring less expensive exhaust aftertreatment.

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Gasoline Fuel Light Diesel 210

Green Car Congress

JULY 26, 2013

Although the industry has reduced its consumption of fossil fuels by a number of measures such as using increasingly thermally efficient diesel engines in recent decades, the current total fuel oil consumption is in excess of 350 million tonnes per year (about 98.5 billion gallons US). Medium- to long-term options.

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Engine Future Carbon Power 225

Green Car Congress

OCTOBER 8, 2013

When crude oil comes into a refinery, it is first passed into a distillation process, which separates the crude oil into its different fractions by boiling range. This is lower than typical diesel fuel (CN = 51 for EN590 European diesel, CN = 45 for US ultra-low sulfur diesel No. Leermakers et al.

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Gasoline Fuel Range Diesel 207

Green Car Congress

NOVEMBER 17, 2015

TDI, a highly efficient, latest-generation V6 diesel engine, delivers 190 kW (258 hp) of power and 600 N·m (442.5 Making their world premiere in a diesel engine are active engine mounts in the Audi Q7 e-tron 3.0 Because the exhaust system transports only water, it can be made of lightweight polymer. litre V6 TDI engine.

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Audi PHEV Diesel Fuel 150

Green Car Congress

AUGUST 10, 2011

This project will optimize fuel-based control of novel combustion strategies in light- and heavy-duty vehicles to enable diesel-like efficiencies with ultra-low engine-out emissions. This project will develop and demonstrate dry process electrode fabrication to reduce cost of EV and PHEV’s innovations in lithium ion battery production.

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Carbon Fiber Lithium Ion Li-ion Vehicles 268

Green Car Congress

MARCH 4, 2015

With the launch of the Auris Hybrid in 2010, Toyota became the first manufacturer to offer a choice of three powertrains (gasoline, gasoline-electric hybrid, and diesel) in the C-segment. liter turbo diesel has been replaced by a new 1.6 At the Geneva Motor Show, Toyota introduced the facelifted Auris. Click to enlarge. Like the 1.0,

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Gasoline Engine Toyota Gasoline-Electric 150

Green Car Congress

FEBRUARY 25, 2014

Here the exhaust gases are cleaned by a combination of exhaust gas recirculation, oxidation catalytic converter and particulate filter. In the case of extreme short-distance use, low exhaust gas temperatures may make manual regeneration necessary. mph) the diesel engine kicks in. it never needs to be cleaned or replaced.

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Hybrid Fuel Standards Exhaust 199

Green Car Congress

FEBRUARY 15, 2011

million units/year); the availability of subsidies and incentives; the availability of an extensive and expensive recharging infrastructure and adequate energy supplies; the future cost of oil; and the cost of meeting transport emissions legislation through means other than EV production.

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Global Recharge Sale Cars 225

Green Car Congress

SEPTEMBER 17, 2013

Initial engines are designed to run on diesel fuel. This global design approach utilizes the latest advanced technologies to develop an adaptive architecture, with each engine designed to meet unique performance and cost of ownership expectations for its target market and region.

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Global Engine EPA Design 218

Green Car Congress

MAY 29, 2015

Reflecting changing trends in the C-segment market which call for further reductions in fuel consumption, emissions and cost of ownership without detriment to performance or driving pleasure, Toyota has both extended and extensively revised the Auris full hybrid, gasoline and diesel powertrain line-up. liter diesel options.

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Toyota Hybrid Engine MPH 150

Green Car Congress

MAY 5, 2010

Intake and exhaust valves open and close by a patent-pending method of rotating cam and trunions. In February, AVEC and Kirloskar Oil Engines (KOEL) signed a binding memorandum of understanding (MOU) for a joint venture for the mass production of the AVEC engines. engine and 100 kW generator—in 2009. AVEC Chairman Sam Higgins.

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Corporation Engine Hybrid Energy 236

Green Car Congress

JANUARY 22, 2014

This AOI is to address two major technical gaps in the performance of automotive aluminum alloys: Low strength among cost competitive automotive sheet alloys such as 5xxx and 6xxx series. High cost of high-strength aluminum alloys such as high performance 6xxx and 7xxx series.

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Emissions Vehicles Fuel Economy Carbon Fiber 252

Green Car Congress

JULY 14, 2014

Emissions reductions (%) of new NGVs compared to new gasoline and diesel vehicles (2012). liter Duramax B20-capable diesel engine with twice the torque of either the gasoline or the bi-fuel models. Turbo-Diesel. direct injection diesel with high-pressure common rail. diesel or B20. HD truck (vs. CNG vs gasoline.

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Silverado Chevrolet Fuel Gasoline-Electric 247

Green Car Congress

JULY 17, 2015

The alternative-fuel car evolved to reduce exhaust emissions and other problems derived from burning fossil fuels. Though the PHEV combines the two types of energy and power, it is not merely a temporary “transition” between gasoline and diesel cars to pure electric cars. by Professor Andrew Alfonso Frank. It is much more than that.

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PHEV Plug-in Renewable Energy 150

Clean Fleet Report

APRIL 5, 2022

The bumper, with a flat top and a skid-resistance surface, incorporates dual exhaust tips. But more than the savings is the satisfaction of driving past gasoline stations as you go about your daily routine knowing the Escape PHEV is reducing the need for imported oil. A contender in a crowded field.

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Escape PHEV Ford Plug-in 91

Clean Fleet Report

NOVEMBER 7, 2021

The “wet” part of the Santa Fe’s DCT means it uses oil to improve lubrication and cooling. A “dry” DCT does not use oil, but is the more fuel efficient of the two types. In the rear the hands-free power lift-gate sits above the sliver lower fascia where there is a single, horizontal exhaust port.

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Hyundai MPG Fuel Economy Clean 69

Clean Fleet Report

JULY 12, 2022

The bumper, with a flat top, sits above the dual exhaust chrome tips. But more than the savings is the satisfaction of driving past gasoline stations as you go about your daily routine, knowing the Corsair PHEV is reducing the need for imported oil. A family resemblance. The Corsair–hiding in plain sight.

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PHEV Plug-in Plug MPG 104