Baua Electric

JUNE 7, 2024

The final rules for Corporate Average Fuel Economy (CAFE), announced Friday by the Department of Transportation’s National Highway Traffic Safety Administration (NHTSA), set the prescribed improvement at 2% annually for passenger cars and 2% annually for light trucks for those model years. vehicle sales.

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SEPTEMBER 24, 2013

Chrysler is also seeking to reduce electrical loads through application of higher efficiency fans and fuel pumps. Thermal management technologies not only help reduce fuel consumption, but are an important factor in extending battery range for hybrid electric and all-electric vehicle models.

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JANUARY 28, 2019

EIA’s Annual Energy Outlook 2019 projects continued robust growth in US energy production, emergence of the United States as an energy exporter, and a cleaner S electric power generation mix. The Annual Energy Outlook 2019 (AEO2019) includes a Reference case and six side cases designed to examine the robustness of key assumptions.

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JUNE 14, 2018

The Rüsselsheim Engineering Center will take on the global responsibility for the development of the next-generation of high-efficiency gasoline engines for all Groupe PSA brands (Peugeot, Citroën, DS Automobiles, Opel and Vauxhall). Rüsselsheim already had global responsibility for engine development when we were still part of GM.

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AUGUST 1, 2012

Mitsubishi Motors Corporation (MMC) will launch the all-new Mirage global compact car at dealerships throughout Japan on 31 August at an MSRP ranging from ¥998,000 to ¥1,288,000 (US$12,800 to $16,500). L/100km) on the JC08 cycle, making the Mirage the most fuel efficient registered gasoline car in Japan. The new Mirage. Earlier post.).

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The Truth About Cars

MAY 31, 2024

Toyota, Mazda, and Subaru conducted a press event designed to explain why they’re walking away from full-blown electrification. The event was hosted by a trio of Japanese CEOs and their top engineers to explain to the world how they planned on tackling emissions regulations without being overwhelmingly reliant on battery electric automobiles.

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MAY 2, 2012

The Global Fuel Economy Initiative ( GFEI ) ( earlier post ) launched its second three-year effort to improve vehicle fuel economy around the world at the International Transport Forum in Leipzig. The latest GFEI research suggests that fuel economy in new light duty vehicles around the world improved between 2005 and 2008 from around 8.1

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JULY 23, 2020

Both Jeep Renegade 4xe and Compass 4xe integrate two electric motors and an 11.4 liter turbo gasoline engine and six-speed automatic transmission. liter turbo engine that powers the Renegade and Compass 4xe belongs to the new FCA Global Small Engine family. It is entirely made of aluminum for lightness (it weighs 106 kilograms).

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APRIL 2, 2010

Included in this is a temporary program that will provide additional credit provisions as incentives for the development and sales of plug-in hybrids (PHEVs), battery-electric vehicles (BEVs); and fuel-cell vehicles (FCVs). Light trucks. Initial commercialization of electric vehicles and plug-in hybrids. Passenger cars.

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Clean Fleet Report

DECEMBER 11, 2023

The Natural Bridge to an EV Escaping the High Price of Fuel The natural bridge from a gasoline-powered car to an electric vehicle is a plug-in hybrid electric vehicle (PHEV). A 37-mile range EV Electric and Gasoline Power The 2023 Ford Escape PHEV is powered by a 2.5-liter Two gasoline engines—a 1.5-liter

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OCTOBER 10, 2020

Vehicle technologies include conventional internal combustion engines, hybrid-electric systems, battery-electric vehicles, and fuel-cell-electric vehicles. Fuel/energy options include petroleum fuels, natural gas-based fuels, biofuels, hydrogen, and electricity. CO 2 -derived ethanol.

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APRIL 7, 2010

The new partners have agreed upon, and will implement with immediate effect, specific projects in the areas of a new common architecture for small vehicles; engines; and light commercial vehicles. All vehicles will clearly differ from each other in terms of product design. This includes 4- and 6-cylinder gasoline and diesel engines.

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MARCH 7, 2018

The UX marks a series of technical innovations, including the first use of the new global architecture platform GA-C, which delivers fundamental high structural rigidity and a low center of gravity, thus securing excellent ride quality and stability. The UX is the first Lexus to be constructed using the new global architecture platform GA-C.

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JULY 23, 2021

Synthetically produced, climate-neutral e-fuels can be used in today’s gasoline and diesel engines with only minor modifications for most of e-fuels and in blends with conventional fuels. In addition to light vehicles, internal combustion engines are also popular in trucks, marine propulsion, construction equipment and agricultural machinery.

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JULY 17, 2020

Announced by Secretary Brouillette in January 2020, the Energy Storage Grand Challenge is designed to create and sustain US global leadership in energy storage technology, utilization, and exports. Rational Electrolyte Design for Li-ion Batteries with Micro-Sized Silicon Anodes. University of Maryland. Enovix Corporation.

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JULY 24, 2018

Kia Motors’ upgraded 2018 Kia Sportage ( earlier post ), the brand’s global best-selling vehicle, offers a 2.0-liter These new powertrains deliver greater performance and efficiency, and sit alongside the Sportage’s range of gasoline engines. For other global markets, the 2.0-liter Idle Stop & Go (ISG) is also available.

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JULY 29, 2014

Designed around Jaguar’s modular vehicle architecture, the XE is the only car in the class to use an aluminum-intensive monocoque, with lightweight aluminum accounting for 75% of the structure. The high percentage of recycled content also reduces lifecycle emissions by requiring less electricity in production. Chassis technologies.

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APRIL 3, 2012

The 2014 Nissan NV200 Taxi, New York’s Taxi of Tomorrow, will make its global debut tonight at a special event in SoHo with Nissan President and CEO Carlos Ghosn and New York City Mayor Michael R. Overhead reading lights for passengers and floor lighting to help locate belongings. Earlier post.).

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Green Car Congress

NOVEMBER 9, 2012

Ford’s first plug-in hybrid vehicle on the market offers EPA-rated 108 mpg equivalent city, 92 mpge highway and 100 mpge combined;the all-electric range is up to 21 miles. The plug-in hybrid leverages Ford’s global C-car platform, powersplit architecture, next-generation driver information features and advanced lithium-ion battery systems.

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Green Car Congress

DECEMBER 27, 2010

When Auto Start-Stop debuts in North America, it will be available on gasoline-powered cars and utilities with either a manual or automatic transmission as well as vehicles that use Ford’s patented dual-clutch six-speed automatic transmission. The fuel-saving system eventually will be offered in all of Ford’s global markets.

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Charged EVs

JANUARY 5, 2023

It’s reportedly close in exterior design to the production model we’ll see within months. Ram Trucks, the US truck arm of global automaker Stellantis , took the wraps off what it called the Ram 1500 Revolution BEV Concept truck on Thursday at the Consumer Electronics Show in Las Vegas. Paradigm breaker’ plug-in hybrid to come.

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Green Car Congress

AUGUST 4, 2010

Hyundai Motor America, currently the leading fuel economy auto manufacturer in the US according to EPA ratings, plans to achieve a corporate average fuel economy (CAFE) rating of at least 50 (mpg) by 2025 for its lineup of passenger cars and light duty trucks. Since becoming the fuel economy leader in the 2008 model year (average 30.9

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JUNE 28, 2012

Mitsubishi Electric Automotive America, Inc. research and development center, Mitsubishi Electric will be able to test as many as 10 engines simultaneously, ranging from one liter to 15 liters, for both automotive and heavy-duty/off-road applications. In the new lab, located at its Northville, Mich.,

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DECEMBER 24, 2011

These five REEs are used in magnets for wind turbines and electric vehicles or phosphors in energy-efficient lighting. Important topics for research include material characterization, instrumentation, green chemistry, manufacturing engineering, materials recycling technology, modeling, market assessment and product design.

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FEBRUARY 5, 2014

liter gasoline turbocharged engine mated to dual-clutch transmission EDC. ready—being pre-disposed to receive batteries for electric use—and comes with a charging plug behind the Renault logo. Renault Designers around the world cooperated to conceive a vehicle made for local markets and designed to meet the latters’ needs.

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Green Car Congress

DECEMBER 17, 2014

The new Sonata Hybrid features an upgraded powertrain incorporating a new hybrid system with a new gasoline direct injection engine that delivers fuel economy of 18.2 liter GDI (gasoline direct injection) hybrid engine mated to a 38 kW electric motor (up 3 kW—8.6%—from km/l (43 mpg US or 5.5 l/100 km).

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APRIL 9, 2014

The debut of the new Focus four-door sedan and the Focus Electric in New York follows the Geneva Motor Show debut in March of the Focus three- and five-door hatchback and wagon. liter EcoBoost engine is a transverse-mounted, inline three-cylinder turbo gasoline direct fuel injection with Ti-VCT. 2015 Ford Focus Electric.

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JANUARY 11, 2010

The new Focus will be one of up to 10 unique models to be built from Ford’s new global C-car platform, which is expected to generate total sales in all regions of 2 million units annually by 2012—a doubling Ford’s 2008 C-car volumes. Earlier post.). For the NAIAS preview, Ford is showing a completely new 2.0-liter

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OCTOBER 24, 2017

By 2025, we expect our electrified BMW and MINI models to account for between 15 and 25 percent of global sales. Alongside the electric motor, the high-voltage battery is a central element of partially and fully-electrified vehicles. This adds up to several hundred thousand vehicles per year. —Oliver Zipse.

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APRIL 9, 2015

Initiated by Shell, the collaboration, which is called Project M, brings together Shell’s Lubricant’s Technology Team, The Gordon Murray Design Group and Goto’s engine specialist company Geo Technology. The Shell car will be a ground-up, total re-think of the Gordon Murray Design T.25 Earlier post.) Earlier post.) Click to enlarge.

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Get Electric Vehicle

NOVEMBER 5, 2021

Automakers are continuing to ramp up the production of electric vehicles worldwide. Subsidies, tax breaks, and other incentives for electric vehicles are being offered by an increasing number of governments around the world. So it is pretty clear that the future of personnel transportation would be electric.

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Green Car Congress

JANUARY 10, 2011

On the heels officially introducing the Focus Electric last week ( earlier post ), Ford revealed two next-generation hybrids—including its first production plug-in hybrid (PHEV)—at the North American International Auto Show in Detroit. This allows it to run in electric mode before using the gasoline engine.

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Baua Electric

AUGUST 5, 2023

i5: BMW will roll out a number of variants of its latest electrical nameplate, together with rwd and all-wheel-drive variants. The all-electric midsize sedan arrives in October. Twin electrical motors propel the sedan from 0 to 60 mph in 4.9 A redesign may start in 2026, adopted in a while by way of an all-electric variant.

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AUGUST 16, 2016

will design and develop a new more-efficient engine and advanced drivetrain and vehicle technologies. will design and develop a vehicle and powertrain with electrified engine components that can enable higher engine efficiency and a significantly more aerodynamically reengineered cab. Navistar, Inc. Description. Federal funding.

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Cars That Think

APRIL 4, 2022

“Range anxiety” has been a headline concern for electric vehicles. The Ioniq5—already named Car Design of the Year , U.K. Car of the Year, and now a finalist for 2022 World Car of the Year—was designed by the talented Sangyup Lee, the Hyundai global design chief and former Bentley designer who also styled the reborn Chevrolet Camaro.

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NOVEMBER 11, 2016

Switching from the automotive standards to the trading scheme could save as much as €63 billion, says the study’s lead author Sergey Paltsev, deputy director at MIT’s Joint Program on the Science and Policy of Global Change and senior research scientist at the MIT Energy Initiative. The results are published in the journal Transportation.

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MAY 26, 2015

Last week, Audi and its partner Global Bioenergies announced that the first batch of renewable isooctane—which Audi calls “e-benzin”—using Global Bioenergies’ fermentative isobutene pathway (sugar→isobutene→isooctane) had been produced and presented to Audi by Global Bioenergies. Earlier post.).

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