Remove Demo Remove Design Remove Environment Remove Store
article thumbnail

Toshiba to partner with Kawasaki City on 5-year demo of independent energy supply system utilizing solar power and hydrogen

Green Car Congress

Electricity generated from the photovoltaic installations will be used to electrolyze water and produce hydrogen, which will then be stored in hydrogen tank and used in the fuel cells to provide electricity and hot water (60?/h). Kawasaki Marien, a municipal facility to promote Kawasaki Port, is a designated emergency evacuation area.

Hydrogen 236
article thumbnail

Injection of hydrogen into the German gas distribution grid from power-to-gas demo plant

Green Car Congress

The operational phase will be accompanied by scientific partners, whose involvement is being funded by the Hessian Ministry for the Environment, Energy, Agriculture and Consumer Protection. A further advantage is the unit’s compact design (2.45m high, 6m long, 3.30m wide, weighing 10 tons).

Gas 239
article thumbnail

Visa extends Visa Token Service to automakers to enable car-based commerce; Honda Developer demo partner

Green Car Congress

To further advance car-based commerce, Visa is also offering a range of related digital payment solutions, including new standards for Bluetooth (BLE) and QR codes that could help expand enablement of mobile payments for both merchants and consumers in any environment.

Honda 150
article thumbnail

Cal Energy awards GTI $1M grant to demo production-intent version of CWI 6.7L medium-duty natural gas engine with HD-OBD

Green Car Congress

This in turn protects the environment from excess emissions due to engine issues and prevents costly progressive engine damage. The OBD system stores information about the fault and relays this information to a technician when connected to the engine control unit.

Grant 150
article thumbnail

Cummins progressing with lightweight downsized T2B2 diesel for pickup; 40% improvement in fuel economy over gasoline V8

Green Car Congress

So far this year, the team has integrated the T2B2 aftertreatment in the dynamometer environment and is in the process of convert the demonstration vehicle to the T2B2 configuration. Cummins made extensive use of aluminium as well as space-saving design features for new engine weight control. Source: Cummins. Click to enlarge.

article thumbnail

Elon Musk Has No Idea What He’s Doing With Tesla Bot

Cars That Think

Besides, autonomous cars live in a highly constrained action space within a semi-constrained environment, and Tesla cars in particular have plenty of well-known issues with their autonomy. Please go to the store and get me the following groceries?' So, we think we'll probably have a prototype sometime next year." Sure, why not.

IDEA 145
article thumbnail

Generating Power on Earth From the Coldness of Deep Space

Cars That Think

But about a decade ago, our research group at Stanford designed a material that’s remarkably efficient at sending heat out to that reservoir of cold while preventing heating from both the sun and the environment. With the ambient environment as a hot reservoir, we can use the coldness from deep space to create the cold reservoir.

Power 139