Green Car Congress

SEPTEMBER 29, 2011

At 48 volts, a VTES electric supercharger will transform 7kW of battery power into a highly boosted charge of air for downsized gasoline and diesel engines. The torque response of these future VTES equipped vehicles will be equivalent to the best mass market vehicles on the road today. —Guy Morris.

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Volt Hybrid Downsizing Lead Acid 207

Green Car Congress

JANUARY 22, 2010

The work will help to accelerate the reduction of carbon emissions and deliver mass-market low carbon road vehicles within 5 to 15 years. In addition to helping to meet UK and EU climate change targets, we anticipate this research and development work will create significant market opportunities for UK-based companies.

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Carbon Li-ion Downsizing Gas 225

Green Car Congress

FEBRUARY 25, 2014

This unit is identical to the pre-production prototypes currently being prepared by Ricardo for delivery to key OEM and Tier 1 customers; these units are intended both for detailed evaluation and product integration, paving the way for rapid market introduction.

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Energy Storage Las Vegas Energy Production 225

Green Car Congress

JUNE 18, 2013

In order to further reduce its CO 2 emissions in this vehicle class, the gasoline engine will require a low-cost, basic hybrid solution. This will be done with a broad range of efficiency-enhancing technologies, including the turbocharging of downsized engines. Automating the manual transmission, for example with the eClutch.

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Future Gasoline-Electric Vehicles Gasoline 291

Green Car Congress

AUGUST 14, 2017

The extreme valve temperatures experienced on today’s highly boosted downsized engines can lead to reduced valve fatigue life and critical valve guide and stem seal temperatures, resulting in the need for expensive valve steel alloys. —Gian Maria Olivetti, Chief Technology Officer, Federal-Mogul Powertrain.

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Engine Emissions Exhaust Sodium 150

Green Car Congress

MAY 1, 2012

This concept system is expected to be ideal for heavily downsized applications and developing markets. For the first time in the Heavy-Duty Diesel market, a latching outlet metering valve (OMV) is used on each of the pumping elements. New high pressure heavy duty common rail systems.

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Engine Light Diesel 2000 199

Cars That Think

MARCH 12, 2023

percent of the United States market in 2022 , according to J.D. Power, and could approach 11 percent of the global market this year. But experts still believe that better batteries, and many more of them, are a key to EVs reaching a market tipping point, even as Reuters projects automakers spending a whopping $1.2

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Batteries Battery Supplies GM 91

Green Car Congress

AUGUST 16, 2016

SuperTruck II builds on the successful SuperTruck I program, which has already led to more than twenty fuel saving technologies that have reached the commercial market, said Acting Assistant Secretary David Friedman. Accelerated Development and Deployment of Low‐Cost Automotive Mg Sheet Components (Area of Interest 3).

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Vehicles Plug-in Lithium Ion Universal 150

Green Car Congress

FEBRUARY 18, 2014

CPT’s SpeedStart paper (2014-01-1890) describes the specification of a 48V belt integrated starter generator (B-ISG) developed to meet the growing market demand for low voltage mild hybrid passenger vehicle applications. SpeedStart.

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Congress Hybrid Exhaust Gas-Electric 236

Green Car Congress

AUGUST 1, 2016

High-research octane number (RON) fuels are known to enable more efficient, higher-performance SI operation via engine downsizing and boosting. Many biofuel blending components exhibit high RON and can be introduced into the market in the near- to medium-term for engines optimized to operate on those fuels.

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Engine Fuel Emissions Pollution 150

Green Car Congress

OCTOBER 2, 2014

Lined with a gas-impermeable polyamide matrix (inside) and protected by high-performance glass-fibre reinforced plastic (outside), the new system provides a high-strength, low-cost solution to gas storage, and weighs 50% less than the equivalent steel tank. Up to 15 kg of gas can be stored in the tank at 200 bar pressure.

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Hyundai Downsizing Engine Hybrid 239

Green Car Congress

APRIL 24, 2012

The engine architecture has two different configurations: a fixed-geometry lower content version targeted at markets in developing countries (e.g., Thus the Pinnacle engine offers the twin benefits of low emissions and improved efficiency at a low cost—an especially attractive proposition for their initial target market.

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Light Fuel Economy Engine Fuel 304

Green Car Congress

JULY 31, 2015

Aeristech said it overcame the thermal management issues that can restrict other electric boosting devices currently available on the market to only transient operation by using permanent magnet motor technology in place of the more usual switched reluctance type. Results from the MAHLE test. Source: Aeristech. Click to enlarge.

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Gasoline-Electric Electric Electrical Engine 150

Green Car Congress

SEPTEMBER 24, 2009

New Multec fast solenoid injectors for lower-cost GDi. Delphi offers two GDi injector strategies to meet today’s market demands: a family of Multec inwardly opening multi-hole injectors for homogeneous combustion, and the Multec 20 outwardly opening injector for stratified engines. Multec GDi multi-hole injectors. Click to enlarge.

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Engine Fuel Gasoline-Electric Gasoline 186

Charged EVs

AUGUST 4, 2022

This is designed for the passenger vehicle market to make it feasible to offer about twice the range [of current EVs]. The challenge is that anode-free cells still have low cycle life. Charged : What’s the main advantage to the end user of combining two battery chemistries in one pack?

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Miles Range DC Batteries 65

Green Car Congress

JULY 17, 2015

Already Porsche, Mercedes and other high-end automotive manufacturers are making such PHEVs because of the availability of low-cost electricity from wind and solar and the availability of government incentives which make them competitively priced in the beginning. The convenience and low cost of this concept alone merit attention.

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PHEV Plug-in Renewable Energy 150

Tony Karrer Delicious EVdriven

APRIL 21, 2009

Several after-market companies have done PHEV conversions of the Ford Escape hybrid and one has done a retrofit of the F-150 pickup -- see Where PHEVs Are and ICE-Conversions.) Raising money to bring a PHEV to market. The F6 DM uses ferrous batteries, with no lithium content, that BYD says are high-energy density and low cost.

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Plug-in Plug Hybrid PHEV 45