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OCTOBER 19, 2017
The hybrid powertrain is optionally available for a large number of model variants of the best-selling urban bus, even for the natural-gas-engined Citaro NGT. The electric motor on the Citaro hybrid assists the combustion engine when high levels of power are required, particularly when moving off.
Green Car Congress
NOVEMBER 24, 2014
Instead of a battery, the Gyrodrive system uses a magnetically loaded high-speed carbon-fiber flywheel to store the energy generated by a bus as it slows down to stop. Used in this way, the electro-mechanical efficiency of this technology is very high compared to competing electric storage technologies, the company notes.
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JANUARY 11, 2014
Researchers at Harvard have demonstrated a metal-free organic–inorganic aqueous flow battery—a quinone–bromide flow battery (QBFB)—as an example of a class of energy storage materials that exploits the favorable chemical and electrochemical properties of a family of molecules known as quinones. —Huskinson et al. Background.
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AUGUST 4, 2015
The BMW Group Technology Office, together with Pacific Gas and Electric Company (PG&E), have launched an 18-month pilot of the BMW i ChargeForward Program in the San Francisco Bay Area. —Julia Sohnen, Advanced Technology Engineer - Sustainable Mobility at the BMW Group Technology Office USA. Second-life.
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JULY 7, 2011
Liquid Metal Battery Corporation (LMBC), a Cambridge, Massachusetts company founded in 2010 to develop new forms of electric storage batteries that work in large, grid-scale applications, has secured the rights to key patent technology from MIT. —Philippe Boisseau, President Total Gas & Power.
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APRIL 22, 2016
Frank (email: afrank@efficientdrivetrains.com) Dr. Frank is Professor Emeritus, Mechanical and Aeronautical Engineering at the University of California, Davis, where he established the Institute for Transportation Studies (ITS-Davis), and was director of the US Department of Energy’s National Center of Hybrid Excellence at UC Davis.
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MAY 9, 2013
liquid air) Dearman piston engine. Source: Dearman Engine Company. The work was conducted by a collaboration including industrial partners Arup, Dearman Engine Company, E4 Tech, Highview, Messer Group and Ricardo, as well as academics from the Universities of Leeds, Birmingham, Strathclyde, Brighton and Imperial College London.
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