Green Car Congress

MAY 20, 2023

billion recently announced by the Federal Highway Administration to build and deploy EV charging nationwide, including in rural communities and low- and moderate-income neighborhoods. The selected projects will support the $2.5

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Cars That Think

FEBRUARY 17, 2023

Hodges Former dean of engineering Life Fellow, 85; died 13 November Hodges, who was dean of engineering at the University of California, Berkeley , conducted pioneering research in IC design and semiconductor manufacturing. Hodges continued that line of research at UC Berkeley, which he joined in 1970 as a professor of engineering.

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Green Car Congress

JANUARY 13, 2020

Integrating ridesharing with transit in poorly serviced suburban neighborhoods could be an effective way to get people out of their cars and boost ridership, according to the findings of a new study by researchers at the University of Waterloo. —Chris Bachmann, a professor of civil and environmental engineering at Waterloo.

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Green Car Reports

AUGUST 15, 2019

Delivering pizzas in big, aging passenger cars is the norm in many neighborhoods in the nation, and it’s wasteful. In most of those locales, there’s a solid fair-weather alternative to firing up the engine (or taking the electric car) for another delivery just a mile or two away: e-bikes.

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Baua Electric

FEBRUARY 3, 2024

In Thailand, a tuk-tuk (a fun onomatopoeia that arose from the traditionally loud two-stroke engines powering them). Got some kids you need to shuttle down the neighborhood to a friend’s house? With your own electric rickshaw, you can become the open-air, eco-friendly neighborhood cab driver you’ve always dreamed of!

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Electrek

FEBRUARY 5, 2022

Admit it, you know it’d be fun to be chief engineer on your own train. Today’s find of a fully functional kiddie train means we could be cruising the neighborhood and riding the rails at the same time. You’ve probably never even thought about it before, but if I said “Here, have your own train. I know I would.

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Green Car Congress

DECEMBER 13, 2019

BAE’s series hybrid system features no mechanical link between the diesel engine and the axle. Power flows in series from engine to generator to traction motor. Stop/start technology: With bus accessories powered by the Accessory Power Systems (APS), the engine can be shut off at stops to prevent idling and emissions.

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Green Car Congress

MAY 13, 2021

The webapp combines curbside maps with data from nearly 300 sensors placed within 74 parking spaces in commercial and passenger loading zones from 1 st to 3 rd avenues and between Battery and Stewart streets in the Belltown neighborhood in downtown Seattle. —Amelia Bleeker, PNNL software engineer who developed the webapp.

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Green Car Congress

AUGUST 28, 2020

The updated rule adds new vessel categories which will be required to control pollution when they run auxiliary engines or auxiliary boilers (for most tanker vessels) while docked. These auxiliary engines power the electricity and other onboard operations during a vessel’s visit, which can run from less than one day to several days.

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The Truth About Cars

MARCH 28, 2024

liter four-cylinder engine (offering somewhere in the neighborhood of 250 horsepower) will be the base powertrain. Platform sharing with the current Tacoma pickup also appears to be a given, though that’s based more on assumptions and leaks coming from within the company. All-wheel drive is assured.

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Teslarati

JANUARY 9, 2024

Tesla proposes to help the city rebuild a substation at 3350 Hanover St near Page Mill Road, where the automaker plans to build its new engineering headquarters. Tesla’s new engineering HQ is part of Palo Alto’s Stanford Research Park, which has been home to many influential tech companies since 1951.

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CleanTechnica EVs

AUGUST 4, 2021

It is as if they have fallen for the BMW suggestion that electric driving is nice for neighborhood shopping and driving the kids to school, but for serious driving you need an internal combustion engine vehicle. As I wrote before, Renault managers still have trouble understanding what is happening in the car market.

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The Truth About Cars

APRIL 19, 2023

If you’re the kind of person that wants to make a strong impression on the neighborhood and are less than concerned whether it’s good or bad, Ford is offering 2024 model year Mustangs with a key fob that lets the holder remotely rev up the engine. While a pointless gimmick, it would be a lie to say that it doesn’t sound like fun.

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Baua Electric

APRIL 24, 2024

Most of the vehicles eligible for replacement are powered by internal combustion engines that pre-date recent EPA emission standards. The transportation sector is the US’s largest source of greenhouse gas emissions and a leading source of health-harming pollution.

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Green Car Congress

AUGUST 16, 2011

The seven terminals at the Ports of Long Beach and Los Angeles that cause the largest diesel exposures to the surrounding neighborhoods are: APM Terminals Pacific, Ltd.; Eagle Marine Services, Ltd.; International Transportation Service, Inc.; SSA Terminal (Long Beach) LLC; SSA Terminals, LLC, Pacific Maritime Services, L.L.C.; Trapac, Inc.;

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Green Car Congress

MARCH 2, 2019

The concept car is named after one of the most iconic neighborhood of Barcelona—an inspiration for designers and engineers of SEAT who have created a sporty vehicle with the most advanced electric technology. SEAT el-Born is its first 100% electric vehicle based on the Volkswagen Group MEB platform.

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Green Car Congress

MARCH 10, 2017

The new Freightliner utility truck operates as a powerful, all electric zero emissions vehicle for both city and highway driving situations, extends driving ranges with two high efficiency hybrid modes, and eliminates jobsite engine idle for more than 8 hours.

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Baua Electric

AUGUST 15, 2023

” With its three-cylinder, 78-hp engine, the Mirage struggles to even compete with some used vehicles. “With its three-cylinder engine, it’s a automobile simply to pressure round in the neighborhood.” ” The post Mitsubishi to loose Mirage in U.S. appeared first on Bauaelectric Auto News.

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Green Car Congress

NOVEMBER 2, 2012

Some of the first systems planned to go into the market will be the Utility Electric Vehicle (UEV), an off-road and on-road work and maintenance vehicle; the Neighborhood Electric Vehicle (NEV), a low-speed vehicle; and the Intra-city Logistic Vehicle (ILV), a compact delivery vehicle similar to those used by major overnight delivery services.

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Green Car Congress

DECEMBER 10, 2019

At seven meetings of neighborhood and business groups along the corridor, the team discussed the project goals, demonstrated the vehicle technology, explained the layers of safety redundancy built into the project, and took suggestions for future use cases.

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Green Car Congress

JUNE 14, 2016

The CleanCNG, developed by engineers at Clean Energy’s subsidiary Clean Energy Compression in British Columbia, incorporates improvements in compressor design and intelligent engineering, resulting in ultra-low vibration and noise in a compressor that offers scalability, parts commonality and overall performance. Scalable by design.

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Green Car Congress

OCTOBER 17, 2014

million vehicles including: more than 500 fuel cell vehicles; 38,000 battery electric vehicles; 29,300 neighborhood electric vehicles (NEVs); 30,000 plug-in hybrids; 570,000 hybrids; and 3 million gasoline vehicles. NEV = Neighborhood Electric Vehicle. PZEV = Partial Zero Emission Vehicle, e.g. low emission combustion engined vehicle.

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Green Car Congress

NOVEMBER 1, 2016

Overall, the EDI PowerDrive system, used in conjunction with a CNG engine, realized over 40% improvement in fuel economy, and emissions reductions when compared to a traditional mass transportation vehicle. The buses performed well in real-life routes, verifying the system durability and high levels of quality.

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Green Car Congress

MAY 20, 2016

The vehicles, existing Workhorse walk-in vans with GM gasoline engines and equipped with the Lightning Hybrids Energy Recovery System (ERS), are in service on the streets of Chicago and were partially paid for by the Drive Clean Chicago voucher program for clean vehicles.

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Clean Fleet Report

JANUARY 19, 2023

Another first for Corvette–Two drive modes (with or without engine) With a gentle nod toward electrification, the E-Ray also takes the Corvette into more new territory—its first all-wheel drive model, first hybrid model and first one with a Stealth Mode to slip out of the neighborhood without the full-throated blast of 6.2-liter

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Green Car Congress

JANUARY 12, 2011

The VX-2 is a smaller and slimmer version of the VX-1 bike and is designed for lower-speed urban, neighborhood, and small-town trips. The VX-2 is the electric equivalent of a 50cc internal combustion engine scooter. Vectrix LLC has officially launched its battery-electric scooter, the VX-2. New Vectrix VX-2 Click to enlarge.

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Cars That Think

JULY 20, 2021

There are technical reasons that contributed to faster repairs in Manhattan, but in general the neighborhoods that waited the longest to have their power restored tended to be poorer and less white. This strategy would correct an endemic imbalance that puts greater stressors on less affluent neighborhoods and the electricity vulnerable.

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Green Car Congress

JANUARY 23, 2018

Dr. Matteo Muratori, a transportation and energy systems engineer at NREL, developed highly resolved models of residential power demand and PEV use to assess the impact of uncoordinated in-home PEV charging on residential power demand. He also noted the higher demand could shorten the expected life of a transformer.

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Baua Electric

SEPTEMBER 9, 2023

Now a kind of two vehicles is arising on the market and the estimates level to a promoting worth within the neighborhood of $60 million. The 710-hp engine bows out of manufacturing upcoming this occasion, this means that the 2024 type occasion is sort of sure to be the terminating for the Durango’s SRT Hellcat variant.

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The Truth About Cars

JANUARY 2, 2024

The engine is a 3.5-liter It appears that its final owner left it parked with missing or expired registration in an apartment parking lot or on the street in an HOA-oppressed neighborhood and the car got red-tagged and towed. liter 6G74 V6, rated at 205 horsepower. The hot-rod VR-X got an additional five horses. Was it a runner?

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Green Car Congress

AUGUST 7, 2012

—Ford Vice President of Powertrain Engineering Joe Bakaj. Drivers can opt for electric-only driving without gasoline engine power; normal hybrid mode where the powertrain melds electric and gasoline engine power as appropriate; or a battery-saving mode that reserves the pack power for later use. C-MAX Hybrid.

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Green Car Congress

SEPTEMBER 23, 2016

All rides are free-of-charge and customers may travel within the one-north business district as well as to adjacent neighborhoods. A nuTonomy safety driver and support engineer will ride in each nuTonomy SDV to observe system performance and ensure passenger comfort and safety.

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Green Car Congress

NOVEMBER 19, 2012

The licensing arrangement between TEAM and Fallbrook includes exclusive manufacturing rights for TEAM’s light utility and recreational vehicle families for North America and Europe and includes an engineering services agreement (ESA) for the development of a NuVinci vehicle transmission, with development running through 2013 and into 2014.

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Green Car Congress

JUNE 6, 2017

Flynn Marine Park and the adjacent Seaport and Fort Point neighborhoods. An engineer from nuTonomy rides in each of its vehicles during testing to observe system performance and assume control if needed. Earlier post.) The tests are being conducted in Boston’s Raymond L. Earlier post.).

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Green Car Congress

AUGUST 4, 2011

California-based Fresh & Easy Neighborhood Market has added 25 compressed natural gas (CNG) vehicles to its distribution fleet as part of a partnership with Ryder System, Inc. The vehicles were made available through a $38.7

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Green Car Congress

JULY 31, 2018

Engineers and technicians worked long hours to reconfigure the wire harnesses, electronics and other components of two off-the-lot Mirai fuel cell electric cars to create one of the world’s first OEM-built zero-emission heavy trucks. —Andrew Lund, chief engineer for the project. This time we’re looking at commercial viability.

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Green Car Congress

JUNE 30, 2014

On 28 February 2014, the CEC’s Public Interest Energy Research (PIER) Natural Gas Program released a Program Opportunity Notice (PON-13-506) entitled “Natural Gas Engine-Hybrid Electric Research and Development.” EDI’s solution can improve the fuel economy of a conventional CNG-powered medium-duty truck by more than 40%, the company said.

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