Green Car Congress

MARCH 21, 2023

CISSOID and Silicon Mobility have partnered to introduce a complete and modular Silicon Carbide (SiC) inverter reference design, providing customers with an innovative and customizable solution for electric motor drives up to 350kW/850V. This was extremely time consuming and required in depth knowledge of SiC-based power system design.

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Green Car Congress

FEBRUARY 25, 2023

In past lithium-air designs, the lithium in a lithium metal anode moves through a liquid electrolyte to combine with oxygen during the discharge, yielding lithium peroxide (Li 2 O 2 ) or superoxide (LiO 2 ) at the cathode. It also operates with oxygen supplied by air from the surrounding environment. —Kondori et al.

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Green Car Congress

AUGUST 20, 2020

The US Department of Energy (DOE) announced a request for information (RFI) about advances in components, systems, and products that can withstand harsh environments and extended service lifetimes. ( Very high temperature environments. DE-FOA-0002385 ). High mechanical wear / stress conditions. Alloy embrittlement conditions.

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Green Car Congress

MARCH 13, 2020

As the Volkswagen Chattanooga factory ramps up production of the new Atlas Cross Sport, and lays groundwork for assembling the next generation of Volkswagen electric vehicles planned to begin in 2022, engineers are using augmented reality (AR) goggles to design production lines and help spot potential issues.

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Green Car Congress

APRIL 11, 2023

—principal investigator Marina Kalyuzhnaya To do this, the researchers will tap into the natural propensity of methane-consuming bacteria living in extreme conditions to capture REEs from the environment. The bacteria require rare earth elements to make one of the key enzymatic reactions in their metabolic pathways, said Kalyuzhnaya.

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Clean Fleet Report

OCTOBER 29, 2023

How Keeping Your Tires Inflated Can Help the Environment Basic Care Can Reduce Contamination Checking tire pressure is a subtle yet impactful way to care for the environment. They jeopardize environments because research has been minimal and relies on inaccurate testing materials and scenarios.

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Green Car Congress

FEBRUARY 24, 2022

Teijin Limited has agreed to form a business alliance with Fuji Design Co., Fuji Design, which is operating a commercial plant partially subsidized by Japan’s Ministry of the Environment, has been looking to expand the business by developing new applications for its technology.

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Green Car Congress

JANUARY 4, 2023

Aeva, a provider of next-generation sensing and perception systems, and Plus, a global provider of autonomous driving solutions, unveiled a design for the next-generation PlusDrive highly automated driving solution integrated with Aeva’s Aeries II 4D LiDAR sensor. The truck will be shown in Aeva’s booth at CES 2023.

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Green Car Congress

DECEMBER 2, 2020

UK-based electrified powertrain engineering consultancy Drive System Design (DSD) announced a strategic expansion of its test facilities, adding two further test cells for high-performance hybrid axles and e-machines. This has proven particularly effective in the case of hot and cold environment testing.

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Green Car Congress

NOVEMBER 21, 2020

The International Maritime Organization (IMO) Marine Environment Protection Committee (MEPC) has approved draft new mandatory regulations to cut the carbon intensity of existing ships. This builds on current mandatory energy efficiency requirements to further reduce greenhouse gas emissions from shipping.

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Clean Fleet Report

APRIL 10, 2024

As these incidents become increasingly prevalent, EV manufacturers and stakeholders must design resilient systems and frameworks to withstand such events, especially in disaster-prone areas. roads by 2030—and while that’s a good thing for the environment, there aren’t enough charging stations to accommodate the projected boom.

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Green Car Congress

MARCH 16, 2021

Leading tanker shipping company Stena Bulk unveiled its concept InfinityMAX hybrid bulk carrier design for zero-carbon, multi-modal shipping. The ultra-flexible, zero-emissions design has been created in response to the huge challenges that the global shipping industry must overcome in the coming decades.

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Green Car Congress

MARCH 24, 2019

Researchers at the U of A have designed nanoparticles that act as catalysts, making the process of water electrolysis more efficient. A paper on their work is published in the journal Nanoscale. Credit: Jingyi Chen, Lauren Greenlee and Ryan Manso. —Manso et al.

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Teslarati

JANUARY 9, 2024

Honda just premiered two CRAZY electric vehicle designs at this year’s CES event in Las Vegas, and has plans to bring them to market with a launch in 2026. The company also wants to introduce new advancements in design, automated driving, connected technologies, performance, and battery efficiency.

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Cars That Think

DECEMBER 16, 2021

To accomplish tasks, they need both a well-designed body and a “brain,” or controller. But there are few ways to optimize a robot’s design at the same time. Unless the designer is an algorithm. The results are robots that are patchworks of colored squares, moving through video game-like environments.

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Green Car Congress

MARCH 20, 2017

However, such mitigation measures are expensive to design and implement and, while street level air quality monitoring can highlight the problem in the form of the local hot spots at which exceedances occur, it does not provide information on which of the passing vehicles are the most polluting.

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Electric Cars Report

APRIL 3, 2023

Istituto Europeo di Design (IED) presented Mitsubishi Moonstone, the new full-electric concept Crossover made in collaboration with Mitsubishi Motors. A result of the thesis project of the seventeen students of the Master Course in Transportation Design a.y.

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Green Car Congress

AUGUST 9, 2022

With environment-friendly and degradable characteristics, B-DES is a green leaching agent. In the present paper, a novel hydrometallurgical process relying on the applications of a betaine hydrochloride (BCl)-EG DES (hereafter denoted as B-DES) is proposed to leach Ni, Co, Mn, Li from LNCM. —Luo et al. doi: 10.1039/D2GC01431A.

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Cars That Think

APRIL 20, 2023

Some teams are working on their projects as part of an engineering curriculum or a senior design project. The sensors are designed to transmit data in real time to a secure, online gateway. and its environs. Others are using their IEEE student branch to implement the projects.

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Teslarati

JULY 31, 2022

“The idea of luxury being defined by what’s ‘under the hood’ has been replaced in the electric era with the prioritization of seamless connectivity, integration into existing digital ecosystems, and good UX design. The post Polestar finds majority of EV buyers switch because of tech, not the environment appeared first on TESLARATI.

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Green Car Congress

JANUARY 19, 2022

In addition to serving more than 20 of its own fleet vans to buses, the City of Porterville can now optimize its charging schedules for demand response, manage charging costs, and ensure uptime across a multi-vendor charging environment which serves the EV charging needs of public and private fleet customers.

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Teslarati

DECEMBER 1, 2022

During a recent interview at the Petersen Automotive Museum, Tesla Chief Designer Franz von Holzhausen talked about several of his projects in the electric vehicle maker. He also shared quite a number of insights about the Cybertruck, its design, and its production version. Don’t hesitate to contact us with news tips.

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Teslarati

MARCH 22, 2023

Tesla Project Highland will round out improvements to the Model 3 with changes in the vehicle’s exterior design and up-to-date technologies that are found in the company’s other vehicles. Cosmetic Changes The report states that the Model 3 headlights will be redesigned for Project Highland and will feature a new shape and design.

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Baua Electric

JUNE 13, 2023

California-based Telo, which counts as a co-founder Forrest North, who helped form the actual Tesla Roadster and co-founded the failed electrical motorbike startup Undertaking Motors, sees doable for a tiny, environment friendly electrical truck for city environments.

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Green Car Congress

JUNE 23, 2017

The Volvo Group’s new truck engines are more fuel efficient as a result of their new piston design which adds waves to the piston crown to improve the use of oxygen. The new wave design has now been patented. It must be possible to manufacture any new design cost-effectively in order for it to be used in production vehicles.

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Green Car Congress

MAY 2, 2023

REE Automotive revealed P7-C, a Class 4 chassis cab offering a new cabin design built on REE’s P7 modular electric platform. P7-C was developed based on direct feedback from ongoing customer evaluations of proof-of-concept vehicles and is designed to meet fleet owners’ specific needs. Earlier post.)

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Green Car Congress

NOVEMBER 12, 2020

A digital twin is a representation of any physical product that can be used for monitoring, simulating and optimizing design and assessing operational performance. This system level digital twin will be used, as part of the virtual product development process, in the design and optimization of the electrified powertrain.

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Green Car Congress

JUNE 4, 2021

Drive System Design (DSD), a company specializing in the rapid engineering and development of electrified propulsion systems and associated technologies, has made significant enhancements to the latest generation of its proprietary Electrified Powertrain Optimization Process ( ePOP ). —Lee Rogers, Senior Engineer at Drive System Design.

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Green Car Congress

OCTOBER 26, 2021

With a fail-operational system design, car manufacturers lift the safety of their highly automated vehicle to aviation standard in a cost-efficient manner. Infineon and TTTech Auto, with the participation of TTTech Group, will continue their collaboration to enable Level 4 and Level 5 automated driving.

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Green Car Congress

SEPTEMBER 20, 2017

The US Department of Energy (DOE) announced a new high-performance computing (HPC) initiative to help US industry accelerate the development of new or improved materials for use in severe environments. The program will focus on developing improved lightweight material technologies, as well.

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Green Car Congress

MARCH 17, 2019

UK-based Reaction Engines has received further endorsement of its SABRE (Synergetic Air-Breathing Rocket Engine) design ( earlier post ) via its collaboration with ESA and the UK Space Agency (UKSA). The positive conclusion of our Preliminary Design Review marks a major milestone in SABRE development.

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Setec Powerr

MARCH 6, 2023

Electric vehicles (EVs) are gaining popularity across the world as people become more conscious about the impact of their daily actions on the environment. This infrastructure is critical for the wider adoption of electric vehicles, and its design and installation are essential for ensuring the seamless functioning of the charging system.

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Green Car Congress

AUGUST 15, 2021

A study by researchers at CU Boulder and Edinburgh Napier University finds that high-density, low-rise environments such as those found in Paris are the optimal urban form when looking to reduce greenhouse gas emissions over their whole life cycle. However, urban environmental design often neglects life cycle GHG emissions.

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Green Car Congress

JULY 20, 2015

The University of Michigan has opened Mcity, the first large controlled environment specifically designed to test the potential of connected and automated vehicle technologies that will lead the way to mass-market driverless cars.

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Teslarati

AUGUST 15, 2022

In a recent essay, Musk shared some insights about the upcoming humanoid, particularly his thoughts about the Tesla Bot design. Musk reiterated his previous comments in his essay, noting that the Tesla Bot is designed to replace human labor in repetitive, boring, and dangerous tasks. You may wonder why we designed this robot with legs.

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Green Car Congress

JULY 9, 2014

The Connected Vehicle Test Environment (CVTE) was developed as a real-world model deployment test site for enabling wireless communications among vehicles and with roadside equipment for use in generating data to enable driver safety warning systems. Work areas covered under the agreement include: Operate and maintain test environment.

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Green Car Congress

APRIL 12, 2016

The transformation will integrate sustainability and innovation throughout the built environment, including a new Sustainability Showcase building on the product campus, which will aim to meet Living Building Challenge standards, the highest level of sustainability certification today. More than 7.5 —Bill Ford, Ford executive chairman.

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