Green Car Congress

NOVEMBER 2, 2021

Oak Ridge National Laboratory researchers have additively manufactured (3D-printed) a lightweight aluminum alloy and demonstrated its ability to resist creep or deformation at 300 ?Celsius. Materials that can perform under high pressure, high temperature environments are needed for automotive, aerospace, defense and space applications.

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Green Car Congress

APRIL 23, 2021

Toyota Motor Corporation is developing a hydrogen combustion engine in an effort to move toward a carbon-neutral mobility society. It has installed the engine—a 1.6L Except for the combustion of minute amounts of engine oil during driving, which is also the case with gasoline engines, hydrogen engines emit zero CO 2 when in use.

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Green Car Congress

DECEMBER 5, 2022

million) in government funding to further develop its innovative process for manufacturing electric motors that are more cost-competitive, powerful and efficient than many of the products currently available in the marketplace. UK-based Electrified Automation has been awarded £6 million (US$7.4

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Green Car Congress

DECEMBER 6, 2022

Toyota engineers have created a prototype hydrogen engine road car—the Corolla Cross H2 Concept. Outside Japan, in August this year, a Toyota hydrogen-engine vehicle drove on European public roads for the first time when the GR Yaris H2 was put through its paces in a demonstration run at the WRC in Ypres, Belgium.

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JULY 18, 2020

million Ingenium engines at its Engine Manufacturing Center in Wolverhampton, UK. The UK manufacturer is now adding a new straight-six diesel to the family. The latest six-cylinder diesel shares its manufacturing facilities with the six-cylinder gasoline engine, which was successfully launched last year.

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Green Car Congress

OCTOBER 25, 2022

At bauma—the world’s leading construction machinery trade fair—in Munich, Bosch placed particular emphasis on the potential for hydrogen engines and electrification to make the sector significantly more sustainable. Bosch basic system overview of the hydrogen engine. eLION electrification platform.

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Green Car Congress

SEPTEMBER 22, 2020

Bosch and Weichai Power have increased the efficiency of Weichai truck diesel engines from their current level of roughly 46% to 50%. Even though the diesel engine is nearly 130 years old, its development continues. Bosch provides its modular common-rail system for the six-cylinder diesel engine with 12.9 liters displacement.

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Green Car Congress

SEPTEMBER 30, 2022

Researchers have used a novel near-infrared light imaging technique to capture the first cross-sectional images of carbon dioxide in the exhaust plume of a commercial jet engine. To image such a large area, the researchers used a 7m-diameter optical mounting frame (red) located just 3 m from the exit nozzle of the engine.

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Green Car Congress

JUNE 9, 2022

Volkswagen of America (VWoA) opened its Battery Engineering Lab (BEL) in Chattanooga, to test and optimize batteries for all electric vehicles in the American marketplace. billion commitment to boost its product portfolio, R&D, and manufacturing capabilities in the North American region.

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Innovation News Network

APRIL 10, 2024

The post Kobe University engineers bacteria to manufacture green plastic appeared first on Innovation News Network. Discover how experts at Kobe University in Japan have pioneered an innovative method to produce green plastic.

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Green Car Congress

MARCH 12, 2020

Rolls-Royce and ASI Mining have agreed to ensure compatibility of MTU engines and ASI’s Mobius command and control software for autonomous vehicles. The customers would thus save on operating costs and further benefit from the increased performance of the autonomously optimized MTU engines. Autonomous Solutions, Inc. Occlusion mapping.

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Green Car Congress

JULY 19, 2023

Lithium-ion battery electrodes are usually made using a wet slurry with toxic solvents, an expensive manufacturing approach that poses health and environmental risks. Early experiments at the Department of Energy’s Oak Ridge National Laboratory have revealed significant benefits to a dry battery manufacturing process. —Tao et al.

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Clean Fleet Report

OCTOBER 29, 2023

How Keeping Your Tires Inflated Can Help the Environment Basic Care Can Reduce Contamination Checking tire pressure is a subtle yet impactful way to care for the environment. Learn how a regular tire pressure check improves the ecological footprint of EVs and internal combustion engines of all sizes.

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Green Car Congress

JUNE 8, 2021

Desktop Metal, a provider of mass-production additive-manufacturing (AM) solutions, has qualified the use of 4140 low-alloy steel for the Production System platform, which leverages patent-pending Single Pass Jetting (SPJ) technology designed to achieve the fastest build speeds in the metal additive manufacturing industry.

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Green Car Congress

FEBRUARY 10, 2022

ClearFlame Engine Technologies, a a startup developing net-zero engine technology ( earlier post ), successfully completed an on-road demonstration of its proprietary technology that enables a heavy-duty truck diesel engine to operate on low-carbon and carbon-negative fuels, including 100% renewable plant-based fuels.

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Green Car Congress

MARCH 2, 2020

successfully tested a liquid methane rocket engine, the first of its kind tested at AFRL. The Masten 25k lbf thrust Broadsword rocket engine. The M10A Broadsword is a LOX/LCH 4 dual expander cycle engine, with an additively manufactured aluminum thrust chamber assembly. Masten Space Systems photo/Matthew Kuhns).

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Green Car Congress

APRIL 14, 2020

Ford has also started providing manufacturing expertise to help scientific instrument provider Thermo Fisher Scientific quickly expand production of COVID-19 collection kits to test for the virus. With this additional help, 3M and Ford were able to increase the output of PAPRs and N95 respirators at 3M’s US-based manufacturing facilities.

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Green Car Congress

AUGUST 13, 2020

Volkswagen has begun expanding its Chattanooga factory to build a North American center for electric vehicles—not only for assembly, but for engineering the EVs of the future. —Wolfgang Maluche, Vice President of Engineering at Volkswagen of America. We are doing the latter.

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Green Car Congress

JUNE 29, 2022

Renault Group and Atos have launched ID@scale (Industrial Data @ Scale), a new service for industrial data collection to support manufacturing companies in their digital journey towards Industry 4.0. “ID@S” Throughout the production process, manufacturers generate a phenomenal amount of data. to be addressed. to be addressed.

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Green Car Congress

AUGUST 25, 2022

New Zealand-based Fabrum , a leader in zero-emissions transition and fluid systems engineering company Filton Systems Engineering (FSE) have joined forces with GKN Aerospace to help shift aviation towards hydrogen flight with end-to-end hydrogen fuel system technology.

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Green Car Congress

MAY 27, 2020

Honda) to resolve clean-air violations related to the sale of small off-road engines in California. The violations involved small off-road engines used in generators and lawn and garden equipment. The California Air Resources Board has reached a settlement of $1,927,800 with American Honda Motor Co.,

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Green Car Congress

AUGUST 11, 2021

The company aims to drive a 30% increase in manufacturing performance for its electric vehicle assembly and large-scale car assembly in Chattanooga, TN, and Puebla, Mexico, by 2025. Another example is cameras with machine vision technology that quality-check engine components. Industrial Cloud. Intelligent Robotics.

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Green Car Congress

JANUARY 22, 2016

Orbital ATK successfully tested a 3D-printed hypersonic engine combustor at NASA Langley Research Center. One of the most challenging parts of the propulsion system, a scramjet combustor, houses and maintains stable combustion within an extremely volatile environment.

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Green Car Congress

FEBRUARY 21, 2019

Researchers at the University of Virginia School of Engineering are seeking to improve the efficiency of jet engines by identifying and developing thermoelectric materials that can harness excess energy. studies in the Department of Mechanical and Aerospace Engineering at UVA, is leading the work.

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Green Car Congress

JUNE 2, 2014

Although gasoline direct injection engines (GDI) are a favorable technology for reducing fuel consumption and greenhouse gas emissions, recent studies have shown that GDI vehicles could emit more PM than traditional PFI (gasoline port fuel injection) vehicles as well as heavy-duty diesel trucks equipped with diesel particulate filters.

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Green Car Congress

MAY 6, 2020

The US Department of Energy (DOE) announced up to $3 million in funding to spur the use of US National Laboratory supercomputing resources to strengthen domestic manufacturing.

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Green Car Congress

JULY 2, 2021

The Karma Innovation and Customization Center (KICC) revealed the first Club Car Current vehicles being produced under a contract manufacturing agreement with AYRO. These light-duty EVs fill the gap between full-sized trucks and small utility carts for low-speed logistics and cargo services in campus and urban environments.

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Green Car Congress

MAY 21, 2020

On the opening day of the Frankfurt International Motor Show (IAA), the US Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) published a Notice of Violation: VW diesel engines with 1.6 In many countries, the EA 189 engines manufactured by the VW group had to be retrofitted with software or hardware updates. Expensive lawsuits followed.

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Baua Electric

MAY 27, 2024

Subaru, Toyota and Mazda, which compete in the product arena with unique engines and cars, have a shared dedication to achieving carbon neutrality through a multi-pathway approach. Today, the three Japanese companies have each committed to developing new engines tailored to electrification and the pursuit of carbon neutrality.

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Drive Electric

AUGUST 9, 2022

To answer these questions, we collaborated with Envirostrat to investigate some of the most common questions and concerns about the environmental impact that increased EV uptake will have on NZ, and in particular, how they really compare to ICEVs (internal combustion engine vehicles). Vehicle manufacturing is an energy-intensive process.

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Cars That Think

MAY 9, 2024

From tech and finance, to healthcare, retail, and manufacturing, nearly every industry today has begun to incorporate artificial intelligence (AI) into their technology platforms and business operations. The result is a surging talent demand for engineers who can design, implement, leverage, and manage AI systems.

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Green Car Congress

MAY 20, 2023

Germany-based Liacon, one of Europe’s largest battery manufacturers, has released a new, more versatile lithium-iron-phosphate (LFP) battery that can replace all Group 31 lead-acid units. 150 Ah battery has two to three times the energy of a lead-acid battery, and 1,000 cranking amps for starting heavy duty diesel engines.

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Green Car Congress

MAY 28, 2021

The researchers considered emissions from the entire lifecycle—from the manufacture of electric cars and batteries, to electricity used for operation. The end result in 2045 will depend mainly on the extent to which possible emission reductions in the manufacturing industry are realized. —Johannes Morfeldt.

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Baua Electric

JANUARY 22, 2024

Comau , an Italian industrial automation company and LiNa , a solid-state sodium battery manufacturer, are developing a scalable manufacturing solution for sodium-metal-chloride battery cells. Comau provided LiNa with a detailed cell manufacturing automation roadmap. Comau offers “a 360° cradle-to-grave e-mobility strategy.”

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Green Car Congress

JULY 18, 2017

In Germany, legislation banning permits for new cars and light trucks with internal combustion engines as of 2030 is currently under consideration. More than 600,000 jobs, or 10%, of jobs in German in manufacturing would currently be directly or indirectly affected by a ban. diesel engines). This is equivalent to 7.5%

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Teslarati

JUNE 6, 2022

While the top workplaces among engineers have always been local car manufacturers, Tesla, the American electric vehicle maker, shot up to second place in last as Gigafactory Berlin neared completion. This year, however, the environment seems different. Last year, something remarkable happened in Germany’s job market.

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Green Car Congress

JULY 6, 2023

The rules would require vehicle manufacturers to deliver cleaner vehicles to New Mexicans and drastically cut NO x and particulate matter emissions (PM) from conventional gas and diesel engines. The New Mexico Environment Department will share more details about the rulemaking process soon.

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