Cars That Think

MARCH 12, 2023

Here’s what they said: Emad Dlala, Lucid Motors, vice-president of powertrain Upstart Lucid Motors hasn’t built many cars, but it’s built a reputation with the record-setting, 830-kilometer driving range of the Air Grand Touring Performance sedan. All those savings would further boost driving range and performance.

Battery 95

Battery Batteries Supplies GM 95

Green Car Congress

MARCH 4, 2009

Fiat Group and Fiat Powertrain Technology introduced their new air management technology Multiair at the Geneva Motor Show. Applied to a turbocharged, downsized engine, MultiAir can contribute to up to a 25% reduction in fuel consumption over conventional naturally aspirated engines with the same performance, according to Fiat.

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Downsizing Gasoline Fuel Economy Engine 210

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. Thes include: public perception and consumer acceptance; low cost; low GHG impacts; high volume; and infrastructure compatibility.

Engine 150

Engine Fuel Emissions Pollution 150

Green Car Congress

NOVEMBER 8, 2016

This topic seeks to demonstrate the successful production of > 200A, > 800V rated SiC devices that are designed for automotive qualification, and suitable for use in electric drive vehicle traction motor inverters. Wide-Range High-Boost Turbocharging System.

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Engine Fuel Hydrogen Battery 253

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. The addition of the eSupercharger re-instated the low-speed torque.

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Gasoline-Electric Electric Electrical Engine 150

Green Car Congress

AUGUST 20, 2013

Further work revealed that, because of the enhanced flammability range of hydrogen, only 25-50% of the fuel needed to be reformed to obtain the efficiency benefits of highly dilute engine operation. A low-cost, low-weight, compact design capable of being packaged in a vehicle exhaust train.

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Fuel Economy Exhaust Economy Fuel 230

Green Car Congress

FEBRUARY 14, 2010

The study by Aaron Brooker, Matthew Thorton and John Rugh aimed to identify possible pathways to cost-effective vehicle electrification by evaluating a variety of scenarios and technology improvements. Even so, they found, extra battery costs in PHEVs and EVs outweighed the gasoline cost savings. Source: Brooker et al.

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Plug-in Plug Vehicles PHEV 231

Green Car Congress

JULY 17, 2015

The PHEV (Plug-in Hybrid Electric Vehicle), a subset of the electric car, combines a primary electric motor with a much smaller back-up engine fueled with a hydrocarbon/biofuel mix. (In In this paper PHEV refers solely to the long-range PHEV of 60 miles (100 km) electric-only range.) For an extended discussion see Appendix C).

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PHEV Plug-in Renewable Energy 150

Green Car Congress

DECEMBER 10, 2009

Traditionally, this has been challenging but this combustion process results in ultra low emissions and has been achieved over a wide range of engine operating conditions, even from cold start. The automotive industry, including Lotus Engineering, has quite rightly advocated engine downsizing for four-stroke engines.

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Fuel Economy Engine Light Fuel 218

Green Car Congress

SEPTEMBER 24, 2009

Both Multec types of injectors feature best-in-class NVH (Noise, Vibration, Harshness), which is important because it saves the vehicle manufacturer the cost and weight of additional noise reduction materials. Delphi is developing an injector that is optimized for the unique chemical and physical properties of low lubricity methane.

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Engine Fuel Gasoline-Electric Gasoline 186

Tony Karrer Delicious EVdriven

APRIL 21, 2009

Fisker $80,000 Karma series luxury 50-mile range series PHEV, S Sunset convertible version.Partnering with Quantum Technologies. General Motors Chevy Volt series PHEV, which it calls "extended range electric vehicle" (EREV), part of "E-Flex" multi-fuel platform. BYD also developed the motors and software for the system.

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Plug-in Plug Hybrid Lithium Ion 45