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JUNE 14, 2022

With the 4in1 electric axle, Schaeffler is now going one step further by integrating the thermal management system as well as the electric motor, power electronics, and transmission into the axle drive. Furthermore, less energy is lost in the form of heat because unnecessary hoses and cables can be dispensed with.

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Electric Electrical Automobile Manufacturer Hungary 369

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APRIL 12, 2016

Ford Motor Company unveiled its plans to transform its Dearborn facilities into a modern, green and high-tech campus to foster innovation and help drive the company’s transition to an auto and a mobility company. More than 7.5 No combustion is allowed. Renderings of the Sustainability Showcase. Click to enlarge. —Andy Hobbs.

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JANUARY 13, 2012

The California Energy Commission approved a first-in-the-nation energy efficiency standard that will reduce wasted energy by battery chargers commonly used to power cell phones, laptop computers, power tools, and other devices. Energy consumed to charge batteries is increasing in California.

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Golf Cart Energy Battery Batteries 252

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DECEMBER 5, 2022

In any case, when we switch from fossil fuels to renewable energy, we reduce but do not eliminate environmental damage. Current versions of renewable energy such as solar cells and windmills do far less damage to the environment than oil rigs, fracking, and strip mining, but they do damage the environment.

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DECEMBER 13, 2013

The California Energy Commission (CEC) is awarding $1,135,862 to 12 small-scale projects to research that will reduce the cost of producing electricity, save energy and improve the environment. The technology has the potential to save energy and help the state achieve its bioenergy goals. billion in follow-on investment.

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Gas-Electric California Gas Energy 230

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MAY 22, 2017

SAIC General Motors Corporation Limited (SAIC-GM), a joint venture between General Motors Company and SAIC Motor, has upgraded its car coating line at its Jinqiao South plant, which opened in 2003. —Kevin Cunningham, Pretreatment & Elpo Global Subject Matter Expert at General Motors.

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FEBRUARY 20, 2019

Volvo Trucks delivered its first all-electric vehicles on 19 February: a refuse truck to waste and recycling company Renova, and a distribution truck to the logistics company DB Schenker and partner haulier TGM, operating in Sweden. We will continue to develop our electrified offering. —Roger Alm, President Volvo Trucks.

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Volvo Electric Electrical Sweden 305

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OCTOBER 11, 2021

Indoor and outdoor sources combine to make air pollution the second-largest cause of death in Africa, claiming more lives than tobacco, alcohol, motor vehicle accidents, and drug abuse. Air pollution was responsible for 1.1 The most disturbing finding was the increase in deaths from ambient air pollution. Only AIDS causes more deaths.

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Africa Pollution 2019 Ethiopia 397

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MAY 8, 2019

The Mack LR BEV is powered by Mack’s integrated electric powertrain consisting of two 130-kW AC motors producing a combined 496 peak horsepower and 4,051 lb-ft (5,492 N·m) of torque available from zero RPM. Power is sent through a two-speed Mack Powershift transmission and put to the ground by Mack’s proprietary S522R 52,000-lb.

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Battery Batteries New York City Fully Electric 366

Green Car Congress

JANUARY 19, 2012

Bombardier EnerGstor wayside energy storage unit. Bombardier Transportation, a leading producer of rail vehicles and rail transportation equipment, systems and services, has selected Maxwell ultracapacitors as the energy storage element of the Bombardier EnerGstor braking energy recuperation system. Click to enlarge.

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Drive Electric

APRIL 4, 2023

In New Zealand, the Ministry for the Environment and the New Zealand Automobile Associatio n are working together to ensure that old EV batteries are handled in an environmentally responsible way. If you want to learn more about whether EV’s are good for the environment, check out our previous resource here. How would the scheme work?

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JULY 17, 2020

US Secretary of Energy Dan Brouillette announced $139 million in federal funding for 55 projects across the country that will support new and innovative advanced vehicle technologies (DE-FOA-0002197, earlier post ). Fully Fluorinated Local High Concentration Electrolytes Enabling High Energy Density Silicon Anodes. General Motors LLC.

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SEPTEMBER 9, 2021

Microbes (and/or biomolecules), including those from extreme or metal-rich environments, can be biologically engineered or adapted to bind, assimilate, and manipulate individual REEs. EMBER is targeting REEs from under-utilized domestic sources such as phosphate mine waste, acid mine drainage, and electronics recycling processes.

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AUGUST 17, 2016

The Solar Impulse 2 —the solar airplane that recently completed a round-the-world flight— used batteries from Kokam, based on that company’s advanced Ultra High Energy Lithium Nickel Manganese Cobalt (NMC) Oxide (Ultra High Energy NMC) technology. The four brushless, sensorless motors each generating 17.4

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Solar Energy Battery Batteries 150

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OCTOBER 5, 2012

Spanish domestic waste collection and processing company Urbaser has taken delivery of the first 26 t hybrid truck fitted with a refuse collection body in Spain. Since most of our collection rounds are carried out in an urban environment, we predominantly operate in electric mode.

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Hybrid Spain Waste Vehicles 218

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NOVEMBER 5, 2021

Ford Motor Company and its financing subsidiary, Ford Motor Credit Company, introduced the North America auto industry’s first sustainable financing framework, focusing on and paying for ambitious plans in vehicle electrification and other environmental and social areas.

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JUNE 7, 2010

Renault held a “2010 Environment Workshop” last week to showcase its progress across its range of vehicles’ full lifecycle through the Renault eco² program. When a lubricant is cold, it is more viscous, which increases the energy required to pump it around the engine. Fuel consumption suffers, too. Thermal management. Click to enlarge.

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Environment Engine 2010 Parts 230

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FEBRUARY 12, 2018

The US Department of Energy (DOE) announced up to $35 million for 24 projects to support early-stage, innovative technologies and solutions in advanced manufacturing. manufacturers that could improve their competitiveness and enhance their energy efficiency. Energy & Environmental Research Center. Argonne National Laboratory.

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Teslarati

AUGUST 2, 2022

Ford Motor Company captured multiple honors from Altair in its 10th Annual Enlighten Awards. The awards “honor the greatest sustainability and lightweighting advancements that successfully reduce carbon footprint, mitigate water and energy consumption, and leverage material reuse and recycling efforts,” Altair said.

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F-150 Ford Electric Vehicles Vehicles 98

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NOVEMBER 13, 2019

The US Department of Energy (DOE) is awarding $3.6 million to 12 projects under its High Performance Computing for Energy Innovation (HPC4EI) initiative. The improved alloys increase energy efficiency for automotive applications and reduce energy requirements for production of complex, high-performance components.

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Wallbox

DECEMBER 28, 2021

This innovation can reduce the demand on the national power grid, and in return save money as you take energy that’s already been paid for back from the Electric cars. Then overnight the electric car will charge, benefiting from cheaper power rates due to lower energy demand and making this friendly to the environment.

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Charging Grid Store Energy 111

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JULY 17, 2015

Earlier this year, BBB modified its original agreement with Clean Energy Fuels Corp to transition the supply of Liquefied Natural Gas (LNG) for its fleet to Clean Energy’s Redeem renewable LNG, which is non-fracked methane harvested from organic waste in landfills.

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AUGUST 23, 2011

General Motors is introducing a flame-treatment technology developed by FTS Technologies that lets paint stick to plastic vehicle parts such as instrument and door panels without using primers that contain solvents. However, these are energy-consuming, costly processes. The process eliminates the need for an adhesion-promoting primer.

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JULY 10, 2010

The US Department of Energy (DOE) has issued a wide-ranging Funding Opportunity Announcement ( DE-FOA-0000397 ) for up to a total of $27 million in Phase III small business awards in the areas of energy efficiency and renewable energy, electricity delivery and energy reliability, fossil energy, and nuclear energy.

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Fuel Motors Motor Motoring 210

Teslarati

JUNE 14, 2021

Redwood Materials, a battery and e-waste recycling venture from former Tesla executive J.B. Tesla also manufactures electric motors for the Model 3 in the Nevada Gigafactory. In 2017, JB Straubel founded Redwood Materials to work on the recycling processes of lithium-ion batteries and electronic waste materials.

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Nevada Miles Lithium Ion Tahoe 139

Green Car Congress

SEPTEMBER 24, 2014

General Motors for the first time achieved perfect scores on both climate change data disclosure and performance submitted to CDP , the world’s only global environmental disclosure system. Our CDP ranking shows that we’re measuring and pulling insight from our energy and carbon data to capitalize on opportunities for greater efficiency.

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Get Electric Vehicle

JUNE 5, 2023

The worlds’ energy requirements are mostly meet by these petroleum fuels. Apart from petroleum, there are a few fuels and alternative energy sources that can be used in vehicles. Why would invest a lot of effort to find the alternate energy sources and fuels for cars? You can guess it easily. The answer is petroleum fuels.

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Alternative Fuels Gasoline Fuel Gasoline-Electric 98

Green Car Congress

FEBRUARY 12, 2011

The partnership will investigate second-generation biofuels—biofuels derived from waste biomass such as straw, wood and sewage sludge—to create high performance cars with reduced CO 2 emissions. Current projects include the transformation of algae, wood waste and sewage sludge into new forms of energy.

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Universal Waste Cars Polymer 210

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DECEMBER 13, 2010

General Motors said that 52% of its worldwide facilities are now landfill-free; i.e., all waste generated from normal operations is reused, recycled or converted to energy. GM employees focus first on decreasing the amount of waste generated, and then work to recycle the unavoidable waste.

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Green Car Congress

SEPTEMBER 27, 2017

The eAxle is a scalable, modular platform with the motor, power electronics, and transmission form one compact unit. 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. Control unit.

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Green Car Congress

OCTOBER 30, 2014

The best Formula One engine will be the one that converts energy the most efficiently and this has direct relevance to road car powertrains of tomorrow. The new Formula One regulations tackle this challenge head-on, particularly by the use of hybrid systems in the form of electrically controlled turbochargers and brake energy recovery.

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Mercedes Hybrid Powered Power 270

Teslarati

MARCH 4, 2023

This is achieved through a mix of solar energy installed at the facility and green energy purchased from the grid. ” Mercedes joins the likes of Tesla, General Motors, and many others , establishing battery recycling capabilities worldwide. Late last month, the U.S.

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Mercedes Germany Battery Batteries 98

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OCTOBER 31, 2016

The report, “ Clear the Air for Children ”, uses satellite imagery to show that some 2 billion children live in areas where outdoor air pollution, caused by factors such as vehicle emissions, heavy use of fossil fuels, dust and burning of waste, exceeds WHO minimum air quality guidelines. Sayer, and D. Technol doi: 10.1021/acs.est.5b05833.

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DECEMBER 20, 2010

General Motors has developed a method to convert an estimated 100 miles of the oil-laden plastic boom material used to soak up oil from the BP spill in the Gulf of Mexico earlier this year into parts for the Chevy Volt. —Mike Robinson, GM vice president of Environment, Energy and Safety policy. Click to enlarge.

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JUNE 7, 2023

Moreover, I’m concerned about the environment and eco-friendly transportation. An electric vehicle is a type of vehicle that uses one or more electric motors for propulsion instead of an internal combustion engine that runs on fossil fuels like gasoline or diesel. 2 What are electric vehicles and what are their classifications?

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Electric Vehicles Vehicles Electric Electrical 52

Green Car Congress

NOVEMBER 3, 2016

The Energy Department’s Advanced Research Projects Agency-Energy (ARPA-E) announced up to $32 million in funding for 10 innovative projects as part of the Next-Generation Energy Technologies for Connected and Autonomous On-Road Vehicles (NEXTCAR) program. General Motors. Earlier post.) NEXTCAR Awards. Organization.

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FEBRUARY 24, 2012

Ford Motor Company and its joint venture Changan Ford Mazda Automobile (CFMA), opened a new assembly plant, CFMA Chongqing Assembly 2 or CQ2. CFMA is investing US$490 million in CQ2, which will increase its production capacity in China by 150,000 units to more than 600,000 vehicle units overall.

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