Green Car Congress

DECEMBER 1, 2015

The US Department of Energy’s (DOE’s) Advanced Research Projects Agency - Energy (ARPA-E) will award approximately $1.9 The performance is projected to match that of a naturally aspirated engine and have a 20% increase in fuel efficiency compared to a turbocharged downsized engine, at a cost that is half that of a mild-hybrid system.

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JULY 12, 2013

Describing its product goals and tracking progress toward its 2020 manufacturing priorities in its 2012 Sustainability Report , General Motors reaffirmed its commitment to further reduce the energy used and the environmental impacts of building and operating an automobile. Manufacturing energy use and emissions. Earlier post.).

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Green Car Congress

JANUARY 27, 2016

The T-Hybrid (based on a Kia Optima) ( earlier post ) and the ADEPT (based on a Ford Focus) ( earlier post ) both utilize an advanced 48V lead-carbon battery system with bolt-on electrical components that allow for significant engine-downsizing without loss in performance. liter engine the performance of a 1.8

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Green Car Congress

JANUARY 11, 2010

The US Department of Energy (DOE) will award more than $187 million to nine projects to improve fuel efficiency for heavy-duty trucks and passenger vehicles. The remaining six projects totaling more than $71 million will support efforts to increase the fuel economy for passenger vehicle engines and powertrain systems. 38,831,115. 39,559,868.

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Green Car Congress

MARCH 19, 2019

The Eaton 48-volt mild hybrid accessory drive captures energy while driving and is used to keep the sleeper cab comfortable overnight without idling the engine. Eaton is supplying a number of leading-edge technologies that improve fuel economy and reduce emissions to Original Equipment Manufacturer (OEM) teams.

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Green Car Congress

NOVEMBER 1, 2010

Alcohol-based transportation fuels from a wide range of biomass feedstocks including agricultural, forestry, municipal and industrial waste and specially grown crops and trees can potentially offer a substantial substitute for oil derived fuel. More modest downsizing up to 5 liters could offer a practical solution. In this manner a 3.6

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EV Central

MARCH 7, 2023

Upcoming Lamborghini LB744 supercar gets a new V12 engine and three electric motors as part of a plug-in hybrid EV (PHEV) system Rather than downsizing the engine or switching only to electric motors, the Italian sports car maker has instead added three electric motors to the supercar mix.

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Green Car Congress

SEPTEMBER 15, 2016

Volvo Trucks North America unveiled an innovative SuperTruck demonstrator whose combination of advanced aerodynamics, vehicle and powertrain technologies achieved a freight efficiency improvement of 88%—exceeding the 50% improvement goal set by the US Department of Energy (DOE) Supertruck I program. for the D11 and 2.5% for the D13.

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Green Car Congress

MARCH 14, 2010

The eight-cylinder biturbo engine also features the generator management system from the E 63 AMG: whenever the engine is on the overrun or when braking, kinetic energy is used to charge the battery rather than being wasted as heat in the usual way.

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Green Car Congress

SEPTEMBER 4, 2013

The Ricardo-led Advanced Diesel Electric Powertrain (ADEPT) project will apply 48V “intelligent electrification” concepts, mild hybridization and waste heat recovery in a Ford Focus diesel demonstrator. ADEPT will use CPT’s SpeedStart micro-mild hybrid (BSG and stop-start) and TIGERS energy recovery systems.

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Green Car Congress

FEBRUARY 18, 2014

Controlled Power Technologies (CPT) will deliver two technical papers at SAE World Congress in April on its SpeedStart torque assist and kinetic energy recovery system ( earlier post ) and TIGERS turbine integrated gas energy recovery system ( earlier post ) for 48V mild hybrid vehicles. Earlier post.)

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Green Car Congress

SEPTEMBER 27, 2017

The Bosch boost recuperation system enables the provision of a 48V electrical accessories as well as energy recovery and smooth, efficient functions such as start-stop. Bosch is also developing deeply integrated systems for the future that will offer greater fuel savings.

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Green Car Congress

JANUARY 25, 2015

Spicer PowerBoost technology uses an advanced energy-management system to evaluate the levels of power needed in the entire vehicle, predict operating demands, and determine the most efficient means of operation. —Aziz Aghili, president of Dana Off-Highway Driveline Technologies.

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Green Car Congress

MAY 13, 2010

The new venture, which will be called “Rotrak”, will add Torotrak’s variable speed traction drive to Rotrex’ supercharging technology to address the automotive industry’s need for affordable, effective engine downsizing technologies. As part of the agreement, Torotrak will acquire a 15% stake in Rotrex and a seat on the company’s board.

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Green Car Congress

MARCH 27, 2015

Daimler Trucks North America’s (DTNA) SuperTruck program has achieved 115% freight efficiency improvement (gallons of fuel consumed per ton of goods moved per mile traveled)—surpassing the Department of Energy (DOE) program’s goal of 50% improvement and exhibiting the best results of all reporting OEMs. Earlier post.) Click to enlarge.

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Green Car Congress

MARCH 3, 2010

The i-flow is a test bed for new energy harvesting ideas, ranging from flexible solar panel roofing to a thermo-electric generator. Another technique introduced in collaboration with BASF is thermoelectric waste heat recovery. The new, downsized 1.0-liter The new, downsized 1.0-liter liter Kappa gasoline and 1.7-liter

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Green Car Congress

JUNE 7, 2010

Renault’s ongoing downsizing strategy is aimed at reducing the cubic capacity of its engines in order to bring down fuel consumption and CO 2 emissions, without detracting from performance. The downsizing process involved shortening the piston stroke by reducing the size of the crank pin and conrod assembly. Select Engines.

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Green Car Congress

DECEMBER 31, 2021

A team from McMaster University in Canada has published a comprehensive review of recent progress in low-temperature combustion (LTC), alternative fuels (AF), over-expansion Atkinson cycle, and waste heat recovery (WHR) techniques as applied to hybrid-specific engines. Their open-access paper is published in the journal Energy Reports.

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Green Car Congress

JULY 12, 2013

These include: internal combustion engines; electric machines and power electronics; energy storage and energy management; lightweight vehicle and power train structures; and. Downsizing and downspeeding including more sophisticated charge air/boost systems. Waste heat recovery to shaft power or electricity production.

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Green Car Congress

NOVEMBER 28, 2015

Ambient or low grade waste heat is used as an energy source with the cryogen providing both the working fluid and heat sink. Engines running on liquid air (or liquid nitrogen, which is already widely available) are zero emissions at the point of use, and can be zero carbon depending on the source of electricity used to make it.

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Green Car Congress

NOVEMBER 23, 2011

The 21CTP is a cooperative research and development (R&D) partnership including four federal agencies—the US Department of Energy (DOE), US Department of Transportation (DOT), US Department of Defense (DOD), and the US Environmental Protection Agency (EPA)—and 15 industrial partners. Finding 3-1. Navistar, Inc.

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Green Car Congress

APRIL 14, 2010

for a project developing a waste heat recovery system using VanDyne’s SuperTurbocharger technology. Downsizing from a 3.2L improved fuel economy 17%, and downsizing from a 4.2L Christopher James Chadwell, Mark Walls (2010) Analysis of a SuperTurbocharged Downsized Engine Using 1-D CFD Simulation. The VanDyne SuperTurbo.

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Green Car Congress

MARCH 16, 2009

In addition, on 1 April, the company will introduce organizations to plan and propose R&D and business strategies for the whole Hitachi Group regarding lithium-ion battery and renewable energy-related businesses. Looking ahead, Hitachi aims to work with subsidiary Hitachi Vehicle Energy, Ltd., Renewable Energy-Related Businesses.

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Green Car Congress

JULY 17, 2015

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. It solves the storage problems faced by the electric utility companies in absorbing and adapting to the highly variable power and energy generated by solar and wind. slow charge.

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Creative Greenius

APRIL 12, 2009

That’s right my friends, while others are cutting back, downsizing, slowing down and pulling back, your Creative Greenius is not only Ready to Go, I’m already going, baby, and I’m moving at Obama speed. But I’ll keep my eye on wind energy too. Geoff Dolan, City Manager of Manhattan Beach. Speaking of blowing –.

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Green Car Congress

AUGUST 11, 2014

GMZ Energy and its partners are on track to deliver a 1 kW thermoelectric generator (TEG) for the Bradley Fighting Vehicle as well as to design and to integrate a light-duty vehicle TEG into a Honda Accord as part of a DOE-funded project. The TARDEC TEG incorporates GMZ Energys current TG8-1.0 Click to enlarge. Earlier post.).

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Green Car Congress

JANUARY 26, 2012

In a 2010 paper, Roger Stone, Engineering Director, Torotrak noted that conventional turbo- and supercharging technologies are more than capable of delivering the required peak power and torque levels from downsized engines but suffer from a number of. ratio means that they are effectively over-sized and therefore wasteful at higher speeds.

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Green Car Congress

JULY 16, 2019

Tests have demonstrated that a residential combined heat and power (CHP) engine developed as an Advanced Research Projects Agency - Energy (ARPA-E)-backed venture through the Generators for Small Electrical and Thermal Systems (GENSETS) program ( earlier post ) offers at least a 20% improvement in efficiency over the current leading alternatives.

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Green Car Congress

APRIL 10, 2014

In a paper on the OBS presented at the SAE 2014 World Congress, the researchers suggested that potential applications include downsizing to increase fuel economy by ?10% The OBS system uses waste exhaust energy to effect the fuel separation and provides a simple and reliable means for managing the separated fuels.

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Green Car Congress

AUGUST 20, 2013

A paper on their work is published in the ACS journal Energy & Fuels. Because exhaust-driven reforming uses only waste engine heat, it avoids this efficiency hit, the authors note. Taylor, Nichilos Chomic, and Jennifer Wheeler (2013) Reforming of Ethanol with Exhaust Heat at Automotive Scale Energy & Fuels doi: 10.1021/ef4011274.

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Green Car Congress

JANUARY 28, 2014

The fundamental challenge is to convert as much of the chemical energy in the fuel, into mechanical energy, as efficiently as possible at the prescribed flow rate. Energy Recovery Systems (ERS). The rest of the energy is recovered by the MGU-H (for ‘Heat’); an electrical machine connected to the turbocharger.

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Tony Karrer Delicious EVdriven

JANUARY 28, 2009

HEV - The current generation of production Hybrids are 100% gas fueled vehicles with a few EV tricks like Regen Braking and no wasteful Idling. EV - EVs have a rich History , having been more popular than gas vehicle in the early 1900s, These vehicles use electricity as their fuel source. See SEVA:Electric vehicle.

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Green Car Congress

APRIL 10, 2013

Focused on meeting a growing customer demand for ‘downsized’ engines offering strong power with reduced fuel consumption and CO2 emissions, the new gasoline and diesel powertrains are being progressively introduced across the Opel product range. VGT and waste-gate. Opel—in which GM has said it will invest €4 billion (US$5.3

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