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JANUARY 12, 2015

—is to overcome the high cost and limited availability of carbon fiber, while developing a viable, high-volume manufacturing process. Ford and Dow Chemical began working together in 2012 to develop low-cost, high-volume carbon fiber composites. —Jim deVries, Ford global manager, Materials and Manufacturing Research.

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SEPTEMBER 24, 2012

General Motors Research & Development developed an aluminum-to-aluminum welding technology expected to enable more use of the lightweight metal on future vehicles, which can help improve fuel economy and driving performance. —Jon Lauckner, GM chief technology officer and vice president of Global R&D.

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JUNE 24, 2016

By combining its extensive experience in main drive and auxiliary drive transmissions, Torotrak has designed a variator concept with ratio spread of up to 12, operated by a low cost actuation system. the Torotrak V-Charge.

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SEPTEMBER 7, 2011

The global truck market is about 3.7 of global sales. The global recession has taken a huge toll on medium duty and heavy duty truck sales in many regions. While the typical operating cost of a diesel vehicle is significantly higher than that of other drivetrains ($0.72/mile annually to reach 4.7 million by 2017.

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OCTOBER 23, 2013

ATDynamics, a global supplier of semi-trailer rear-drag aerodynamics technology, launched TrailerTail AutoDeploy systems at the American Trucking Association Management Conference & Exhibition in Orlando. At first, curved-up wing tips on an airplane was a novel aerodynamic feature to save fuel.

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AUGUST 2, 2018

The US Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) and US Department of Transportation’s National Highway Traffic Safety Administration (NHTSA) released their long-expected notice of proposed rulemaking (NPRM) to adjust the Congressionally-mandated Corporate Average Fuel Economy (CAFE) and Light-Duty Vehicle Greenhouse Gas Emissions Standards.

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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. AOI 02: Low Cost Electric Traction Drive Systems Using No Heavy Rare Earth Materials. American Axle & Manufacturing, Inc.

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DECEMBER 5, 2017

The high strength-to-weight ratio, corrosion resistance, and high thermal conductivity of aluminum alloys have made them important for the automotive and aerospace industries—and even more so now due to the promise of improved performance and fuel economy from lightweighting. Cerium metal is highly available and low cost.

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JANUARY 30, 2017

Over the past three years, engineers from Honda and GM have been working as one team with each company providing know-how from its unique expertise to create a compact and low-cost next-gen fuel cell system. —Mark Reuss, GM executive vice president, Global Product Development, Purchasing and Supply Chain“.

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SEPTEMBER 28, 2011

DOE recognizes that technology developments can help make vehicles more efficient and alternative fuels more economic, but the deployment of any technologies it helps develop is largely determined by policies, such as Corporate Average Fuel Economy standards. Impartial DOE research can help inform these standards.

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AUGUST 30, 2016

LeMond Composites, founded by three-time Tour de France champion Greg LeMond, has licensed a low-cost, high-volume carbon fiber manufacturing process developed at the US Department of Energy’s Oak Ridge National Laboratory (ORNL). In the USA, the demand is being driven by the Corporate Average Fuel Economy (CAFE) standards.

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OCTOBER 4, 2017

The company has similarly aggressive plans for China and other markets, as 90% of Ford’s new global vehicles will feature connectivity by 2020. Rapidly improving fitness to lower costs, release capital and finance growth. By 2019, 100% of Ford’s new US vehicles will be built with connectivity. billion investment.

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JUNE 15, 2010

It is generally agreed that very high injection pressures are needed to improve engine thermal efficiency fuel economy, lower heat rejection, and to minimize exhaust aftertreatment complexity and costs. With most fuel injection systems, JP-8 fuel causes wear and premature failure.

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APRIL 28, 2010

GKN Driveline continues its rapid growth in China with plans for a 12 th manufacturing facility; expansion of an existing research center; and the introduction of new low-cost and electric-hybrid technologies for the China market. This would make China the third largest concentration of employment within the global GKN Group.

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SEPTEMBER 4, 2013

Advanced materials are essential for boosting the fuel economy of cars and trucks while maintaining and improving safety and performance. Reducing a vehicle’s weight by just 10% can improve fuel economy by 6% to 8%. In the last four years, the cost of a plug-in electric vehicle battery has come down by nearly 50%.

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AUGUST 16, 2016

Accelerated Development and Deployment of Low‐Cost Automotive Mg Sheet Components (Area of Interest 3). Advances for the Production of Low‐Cost Electric Drive vehicle Motors (Area of Interest 5). GE Global Research. valve faces, piston crowns, and exhaust ports) to improve fuel economy. Description.

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NOVEMBER 5, 2012

Wagner, Director of the Fuels Engines and Emissions Research Center, and Dr. Sreekanth Pannala, Senior Research Staff Member in the Computing and Computational Sciences Directorate at Oak Ridge National Laboratory in a keynote talk at the recent Global Powertrain Conference. Keynote at Global Powertrain Congress 2012.

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MARCH 17, 2024

Klaus Zellmer, the global CEO of Skoda Auto, has visited India thrice in the past 18 months. For the global head of an international automaker to devote so much time to one market may seem unusual, but for the Czech brand — that has been around in India for 20 years — the stakes in this country have never been higher.

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FEBRUARY 14, 2010

This important grant provides us with secure funding over several years to develop the scientific understanding to meet the challenge of building lighter vehicles and aircraft with lower carbon emissions and better fuel economy. George Thompson.

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APRIL 5, 2011

Globally, more than 100 nations have established renewable energy targets. Closer to home, the federal fuel economy standards require the average fleet fuel economy of OEMs that sell vehicles in the USA to be 35.5 mpg by 2016. cents/kWh, with a range from 29.20 cents/ kWh in Hawaii to 5.61

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APRIL 1, 2009

The bill also establishes an interagency council to ensure an integrated federal response to adapting to the effects of global warming. A transitioning title intended to protect US consumers and industry and promotes green jobs during the transition to a clean energy economy. Transportation Efficiency. light duty vehicles—e.g.,

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DECEMBER 3, 2014

An automotive TEG is intended to improve fuel economy by power from waste heat to reduce the electric generator load on the engine. GMZ is targeting a fuel economy improvement of 5%. Fuel Efficiency Thermoelectrics Vehicle Systems Waste Heat Recovery' Click to enlarge. The TARDEC TEG incorporates GMZ’s TG8-1.0

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MARCH 19, 2013

CFT KERS scales down very well so could open-up a new market for small, low-cost automotive hybrids. Their view is that the considerably reduced costs would enable it to become an established low carbon technology ahead of likely fuel cell mass-market adoption. —John Hilton, Flybrid co-founder.

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Tony Karrer Delicious EVdriven

APRIL 30, 2009

Honda, which began leasing hydrogen fuel cell FCX Claritysedans in Los Angeles last year, still sees hydrogen as the bestlong-term alternative to gasoline as a fuel that can cut carbonexhaust tied to global warming, President Takeo Fukui said in aninterview. moves to tighten fuel-economy and greenhouse gasrules.

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APRIL 18, 2013

Global automotive supplier Linamar Corporation has developed a fully-integrated, compact, modular and scalable twin-motor bolt-on rear axle unit to enable hybrid all-wheel drive applications: the Agilit-e Hybrid Power Unit. The Linamar Agilit-e unit contains the two motors, gears, power electronics, and cooling. Click to enlarge.

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MAY 7, 2009

The announcement was made by Tom Stephens, GM vice chairman for Global Product Development; and David Munson, Robert J. U-M is working with GM to develop a fundamental understanding of homogeneous charge compression ignition (HCCI), which can improve fuel economy by 15% when combined with other advanced technologies.

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MAY 16, 2010

DMF is also believed to have a high research octane number (119), which will allow for the use of high engine compression ratios for improved fuel economy. The fuel was delivered by a free piston accumulator that was pressurized to 150 bar using bottled nitrogen (oxygen free). Fuel Properties. Properties. C 6 H 8 O.

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APRIL 21, 2009

Our PRIUS+ Project Photos PHEV Resources Global Warming Take Action News and Events Contact Us How Carmakers are Responding to the Plug-In Hybrid Opportunity If you ask, "have major auto-makers come around on PHEVs?", The F6 DM uses ferrous batteries, with no lithium content, that BYD says are high-energy density and low cost.

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JULY 17, 2015

Frank has spent more than 30 years in breakthrough vehicle development, during which he received two world records for vehicle fuel economy, designed nine generations of PHEVs, and was a four-time winner of US DOE Advanced Vehicle Design competitions. The convenience and low cost of this concept alone merit attention.

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