Green Car Congress

MARCH 21, 2019

The BATTERY 2030+ research initiative is coordinated by Kristina Edström, Professor of Inorganic Chemistry at Uppsala University in Sweden. With BATTERY 2030+, we address all challenges encountered in the manufacture of high-performance batteries,” the scientist says.

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Green Car Congress

JULY 10, 2023

Researchers at Chalmers University of Technology, Sweden, have developed a method that can reduce the levels of mercury in sulfuric acid by more than 90%, even from low levels. An open-access paper on the method is published in ACS ES&T Engineering. Roth et al.

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Green Car Congress

MAY 28, 2021

If a ban were introduced on the sale of new gasoline and diesel cars, and they were replaced by electric cars, the result would be a significant reduction in lifecycle carbon dioxide emissions primarily due to reduced tailpipe CO 2 emissions, according to a new lifecycle study by researchers at Chalmers University of Technology, Sweden.

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Green Car Congress

SEPTEMBER 11, 2015

Bosch is leading a consortium in a German government-funded project to develop a direct injection system for monovalent natural gas engines—i.e., engines that run exclusively on CNG. Today’s CNG vehicles are generally bivalent, running on gasoline and CNG with engines designed for gasoline direct injection.

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Green Car Congress

OCTOBER 4, 2010

million) by Sweden’s Strategic Vehicle Research and Innovation Initiative ( FFI ) to develop a biofuel engine intended for heavy commercial vehicles. VSE) on the further development of ethanol- and gas-fuelled industrial engines. Tags: Engines Fuels. Scania has been granted SEK 30 million (US$4.4

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Green Car Congress

MARCH 22, 2017

The second-generation concept machine is part of an electric site research project that aims to transform the quarry and aggregates industry, reducing carbon emissions by up to 95% and total cost of ownership by up to 25%. Since then, Volvo CE’s engineers have been further developing the machine.

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Green Car Congress

NOVEMBER 25, 2016

Peter Mertens, previously Senior Vice President Research & Development at Volvo Car Corporation in Göteborg, Sweden, as the new Board of Management Member for Technical Development at Audi. Mertens has exceptionally broad technical expertise and an international background in the automotive industry.

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Green Car Congress

MAY 25, 2018

A new study by a team from Aarhus University in Denmark has found that car dealerships pose a significant barrier to electric vehicle adoption at the point of sale due to a perceived lack of business case viability in relation to gasoline and diesel vehicles. Their study is published in the journal Nature. —de Rubens et al.

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Green Car Congress

AUGUST 26, 2021

Researchers at Chalmers University of Technology, Sweden, have developed a nanometric graphite-like anode for sodium ion (Na + storage), formed by stacked graphene sheets functionalized only on one side, termed Janus graphene. The estimated sodium storage up to C 6.9 Na is comparable to graphite for standard lithium ion batteries.

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Green Car Congress

MAY 15, 2018

Global Bioenergies will lead a consortium including Sekab, Graanul Invest, Neste Engineering Solutions, Repsol, Peab Asfalt, SkyNRG, Ajinomoto Eurolysine, IPSB, TechnipFMC and Linz University in a 3-year project (called REWOFUEL) to demonstrate the production of isobutene-derived gasoline and jetfuel from wood residuals.

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Green Car Congress

APRIL 27, 2018

Once completed in 2019, the scale-up and research facility will be used to develop, test and industrialize lithium-ion battery cells before large-scale production. The facility will be built in Västerås, outside of Stockholm, Sweden. Northvolt has entered into strategic industrial partnerships with ABB, Vestas and Scania.

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Green Car Congress

SEPTEMBER 11, 2018

Researchers at Chalmers University of Technology, Sweden, have identified two main challenges for renewable biofuel production from cheap sources: lowering the cost of developing microbial cell factories; and establishing more efficient methods for hydrolysis of biomass to sugars for fermentation. Zhou et al.

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Green Car Congress

APRIL 6, 2016

Norway-based aluminum company Sapa is opening an automotive-focused R&D laboratory—Sapa Technology Americas—in Michigan, dedicated to the research and development of extruded aluminum solutions for the automotive industry. Sapa Technology is Sapa’s corporate research and development hub. Thermal analysis.

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Green Car Congress

MARCH 18, 2015

A consortium of companies in the European process industry from the areas of biotechnology, renewable resources, chemistry, process engineering, equipment supply as well as research organizations recently launched project PRODIAS (PROcessing Diluted Aqueous Systems). Project website , not yet populated.)

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Green Car Congress

AUGUST 7, 2010

Coordinated by the Paper and Fibre Institute (PFI) in Norway, The Bio-oil Refinery Project involves Aston University and several partners from Norway and Sweden. his project will serve to form an international network between industry, academia and research institutes.

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MARCH 15, 2022

The plant, known as “Northvolt Drei,” will be the company’s third production facility of at least 60 gigawatts of annual capacity and its first outside of Sweden. ” Heide is located near Hamburg, a large metropolitan area that has several technical colleges and universities known for its expertise in engineering.

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Cars That Think

AUGUST 1, 2022

million EVs sold worldwide in 2021, according to Sweden-based analysts EV Volumes , Europe also showed strong growth. In the online-only feature story (coming soon), technology historian Matthew Eisler of the University of Strathclyde in Glasgow points out that V2G technology was originally conceived as vehicle-to-home, not vehicle-to-grid.

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Cars That Think

MARCH 16, 2024

According to the WRI’s analysis, above, Iceland, Sweden, the Netherlands, and China are the leading EV adopters after Norway. EVs are at the point where their sticker prices have fallen or will soon fall below those of comparable vehicles with internal combustion engines. Rapson, a professor at the University of California, Davis. “It

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Green Car Congress

JUNE 29, 2012

An international team led by University of Minnesota chemical engineering and materials science professor Michael Tsapatsis reports in the journal Science on a prototype of a new catalyst made of orthogonally connected microporous zeolite nanosheets ( earlier post ). Korea and Sweden. Credit: U of Minn. Click to enlarge.

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Green Car Congress

JULY 8, 2013

With a planned launch later this summer, IGNITE will allow engineers quickly to identify important variables and constraints and find optimal vehicle designs. Modelica has been developed by the (non-profit) Modelica Association since 1996 and has been in use in industry since 2000.

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Green Car Congress

AUGUST 26, 2009

The NEMO project seeks to provide the most realistic but widely applicable technologies for delivering the biomass sugars and then fermenting the sugars that could be exploited broadly by European industry. The project is focusing on: Identifying and improving enzymes for hydrolysis of biomasses relevant for Europe.

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Baua Electric

JANUARY 6, 2024

Sweden-based road safety researcher Astrid Linder works at VTI, the Swedish National Road and Transport Research Institute. Linder has received the WOW (Woman of Worth) award for her work on the development of a female dummy from Mia Liström, one of the judges of the Women’s World Car of the Year in Sweden.

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Cars That Think

OCTOBER 14, 2023

And engineers have much to gain from experimenting with them and incorporating them into their design process. NASA research engineer Ryan McClelland calls these 3D-printed components, which he designed using commercial AI software, “evolved structures.” We plan to build such a robot in my lab at Uppsala University , in Sweden.

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Green Car Congress

APRIL 30, 2013

The image shows a plug-in hybrid electric vehicle, which also has a fuel tank and a combustion engine, but the technology system works equally well with a purely electric vehicle. Chalmers is trying to find a potential industrial user, and Volvo AB is working on the concept for further enhancement to be used in its systems.

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Green Car Congress

MAY 2, 2016

Bosch has opened a new innovation center in Lund, Sweden. The engineers there are working on new software and hardware in areas such as vehicle connectivity, automotive security systems, and motorized two-wheelers. Sweden is on the global vanguard when it comes to fields of research including information and communications technology.

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Cars That Think

SEPTEMBER 4, 2022

From now on, to get high performance as we go to higher frequencies, we will need to engineer the wireless channel itself. But how can we possibly engineer and control a wireless environment, which is determined by a host of factors, many of them random and therefore unpredictable? Where should they be placed?

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Green Car Congress

JULY 30, 2015

Now, however, with the addition of a single gene from barley (SUSIBA2), a team of researchers in China, Sweden and the US has engineered a strain of rice—now named SUSIBA2—that can be cultivated to emit virtually no methane from its paddies during growth. Right: SUSIBA2.Click Click to enlarge.

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Green Car Congress

APRIL 29, 2009

the session counted among its panelists: Professor John Heywood, Sun Jae Professor of Mechanical Engineering and Director of the Sloan Auto Laboratory at MIT. Professor Robert Cervero, Department of City and Regional Planning, University of California-Berkeley. Professor Sebastian Thrun, Stanford University. Earlier post.)].

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SEPTEMBER 21, 2021

University of Nevada, Reno. University of California, Berkeley. Norwegian University for Science and Technology (NTNU), Norway. California State University Channel Islands. USA, South Korea, Sweden. Lulea University of Technology, Sweden. Czech Technological University, Czech Republic.

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Green Car Congress

JUNE 3, 2016

Researchers at the University of Manchester (UK) have developed a graphene-based nano-rectifier (“ballistic rectifier”) that can convert waste heat to electricity. The nano-rectifier was built by a team led by Professor Aimin Song and Dr. Ernie Hill, in collaboration with a team at Shandong University (China). Manchester University.

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Cars That Think

AUGUST 20, 2021

It's been a hectic couple of days, so here are some retired industrial robots quietly drawing lines in sand. Constant Gardener ] via [ RobotStart ] Engineers at MIT and Shanghai Jiao Tong University have designed a soft, lightweight, and potentially low-cost neuroprosthetic hand. ANYbotics ] Thanks Cheila! ElliQ ].

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Cars That Think

AUGUST 20, 2021

It's been a hectic couple of days, so here are some retired industrial robots quietly drawing lines in sand. Constant Gardener ] via [ RobotStart ] Engineers at MIT and Shanghai Jiao Tong University have designed a soft, lightweight, and potentially low-cost neuroprosthetic hand. ANYbotics ] Thanks Cheila! ElliQ ].

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Green Car Congress

OCTOBER 12, 2017

This electric powertrain is designed in a way that means that it can be used to drive future distribution trucks and city buses manufactured by the Volkswagen Truck & Bus brands as a universal modular element. These include combustion engines powered by gas or biodiesel. A test route for electric Scania trucks already exists in Sweden.

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Cars That Think

APRIL 9, 2022

He regards it as misinformation “coming from an industry that is under threat.” The European countries where heat pumps are most used are some of the coldest, including Norway, Sweden, and Finland, where more than 40 percent of homes use heat pumps. The distribution of heat pumps in Europe supports Rosenow’s contention.

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APRIL 21, 2009

Honda Sees PHEVs as having "unnecessary fuel engine and fuel tank;" promises all-electrics "assuming we can come up with a really high-performing battery that we are working on currently." Cischke, Ford senior vice president for sustainability, environment and safety engineering. "By By partnering with these two industries.

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EVs are a technology that are now proven, are increasingly price competitive, and will be the future of the automotive industry. The domestic OEM industry can think differently, and look to Europe (particularly the UK) for new and used supply. It’s also worth noting that the global car industry is changing rapidly.

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