Green Car Congress

OCTOBER 30, 2017

Researchers from France and Germany are proposing a new concept for the dynamic tuning of the structure of platinum nanoparticles on catalytic converters to enhance their performance—especially after cold starts and in urban traffic—and to reduce the consumption of expensive noble metal. The project is funded with €960,000 (US$1.1

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Green Car Congress

NOVEMBER 18, 2016

labor), the Board of Management announced that the Volkswagen brand’s German plants will develop and produce electric vehicles and components based on the Modular Electric Drive Kit (MEB). The Works Council has ensured that these future-oriented vehicles will be made in Germany and not in other countries. Earlier post.).

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Green Car Congress

JUNE 24, 2013

During a media event in Wolfsburg, Germany, Volkswagen provided a medium dive into details of its two-seater XL1 Super Efficient Vehicle diesel plug-in hybrid ( earlier post ) as well as some driving time on local roads and highways. two-cylinder diesel, 20 kW electric motor and 5.5 XL1s ready to roll. Click to enlarge.

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Green Car Congress

FEBRUARY 23, 2013

Michelin and Siemens, in cooperation with research partners at Karlsruhe Institute of Technology (KIT) and the Fraunhofer Institute for Systems and Innovation Research ISI, are launching a project to demonstrate that the total cost of electric vehicles can be less than that of a conventional combustion-engined car.

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Green Car Congress

NOVEMBER 19, 2017

billion) into its Zwickau, Germany plant to convert it into a pure-play e-mobility facility. The MEB will allow Volkswagen to offer electric vehicles with operating ranges from 400 to 600 kilometers (249 to 373 miles), rapid charging capabilities and major package benefits at the price of a comparable diesel car. billion (US$26.9

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Green Car Congress

JANUARY 22, 2016

As with engine assembly, this project will entail close cooperation between BBA and the BMW Group to ensure knowledge transfer from high-voltage battery production in Germany. All engines of this generation are in-line engines and every derivative is produced on the basis of a core engine and a modular kit. Light metal foundry.

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Green Car Congress

MARCH 8, 2017

The newly developed MQB-based fastback model initially offers a choice of three gasoline and three diesel engines. The cylinder deactivation, another subassembly from the EA211 engine assembly kit, has been improved and is entering volume production with the TSI evo. The base gasoline engine, the 1.5

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Green Car Congress

MARCH 2, 2009

Switzerland, Belgium, Bulgaria, Czech Republic, Netherlands, Poland, Portugal, Slovakia and Spain will offer LPG-versions in addition to the regular gasoline and diesel range. In Germany, for example, the tax privileges will remain in force at least until 31 December 2018. There are more than 20,000 LPG fuel stations throughout Europe.

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Green Car Congress

AUGUST 2, 2011

Protean Electric and Millbrook Proving Ground partnered to produce the Vivaro diesel hybrid. The retrofitted Vivaro has been shown at the 2011 Michelin Challenge Bibendum in Berlin and the eCarTec show in Munich, Germany. in Traverse City, Mich. It’s the closest thing to a bolt-on hybrid system.

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Green Car Congress

SEPTEMBER 9, 2016

The Panamera 4 E-Hybrid is available to order now, with prices starting at €107,553 (US$122,000) including VAT in Germany. Porsche sees this new type of “E-Performance”—more power, more driving fun, lower fuel consumption—as the performance kit of the future. That corresponds to CO 2 emissions of 56 g/km.

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Green Car Congress

AUGUST 23, 2019

Partners of the P2X Kopernikus project on the premises of Karlsruhe Institute of Technology (KIT) in Germany have demonstrated the production of fuel from air-captured CO2 using—for the first time—a container-based test facility integrating all four chemical process steps needed to implement a continuous process.

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Green Car Congress

NOVEMBER 13, 2017

Wessels Reederei signed a letter of intent with MAN Diesel & Turbo regarding the conversion of three of its fleet to dual-fuel gas operation. MAN Diesel & Turbo reports that the dual-fuel conversion has enabled the Wes Amelie to reduce its SO x emissions by >99%, NO x by approximately 90%, and CO 2 by up to 20%. Earlier post.)

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Green Car Congress

SEPTEMBER 6, 2018

In 2016, Germany launched a 3-year study of oxymethylene ethers (OME) as clean diesel fuels with €800,000 (US$894,000). OMEs are promising synthetic diesel fuels with an enormous potential for the reduction of soot and NO x emissions. Earlier post.) They determined the optimal parameters for efficient combustion.

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Plug In India

MAY 3, 2022

Sadly the bus fleet is diesel Tempo Travellers. The paint is being currently imported from Germany. Each trolley is kitted out with all the components that are required for making the bike. Sad fact at Ola is that hardly any one drives the Ola scooter to work. I wonder if Bhavesh uses an electric car himself!

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Tony Karrer Delicious EVdriven

APRIL 21, 2009

Blue Concept PHEV Van with diesel or hydrogen fuel cells and rooftop photovoltaic. 9/11/07 FRANKFURT, Germany -- General Motors will begin testing the revolutionary electric drive system in the Chevrolet Volt concept car on the road in vehicles next spring, company Vice Chairman Bob Lutz said. Expects production around 2014.

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