Cars That Think

JUNE 29, 2023

The two startups represent a unique concentration of fusion expertise and funding, and epitomize a new confidence that fusion power is now a solvable engineering challenge rather than an eternally elusive scientific puzzle. Zap’s capacitor bank will store 1.5 megajoules of energy—about a third of the energy released from a kilo of TNT.

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Green Car Congress

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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Green Car Congress

SEPTEMBER 9, 2014

Using a neutron beam, chemists and engineers at The Ohio State University have been able to track the flow of lithium atoms into and out of an anode in real time as a Li-ion battery charged and discharged. They may also be less prone to overheating. Key to the experiment, said L.

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Ohio Li-ion Lithium Ion Batteries 218

Green Car Congress

APRIL 30, 2010

This process is less than 1% efficient at converting sunlight to stored chemical energy. Engineering E. This project seeks to develop an “electrofuels chassis” by using engineered E. Engineering a Bacterial Reverse Fuel Cell. Description. Ginkgo BioWorks. (UC UC Berkeley, Univ. of Washington). coli; Product: Isooctane.

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Carbon Batteries Battery Li-ion 249

Green Car Congress

MARCH 11, 2010

Also, the system can provide backup electricity during an outage and, during normal operation, allow customers to draw on the stored energy to reduce both their peak electric grid demand and the utility charges associated with peak demand. Next-generation lithium-ion rechargeable batteries. Technology Development: $3.2

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Energy Storage New York Commercial Lithium Ion 218

Green Car Congress

JANUARY 13, 2016

However, in a demonstration of the flexibility of the MLB evo platform components, the Audi engineers took the 140 kW motor from the e-tron quattro front axle and used it for the rear axle of the h-tron; and took one of the 90 kW rear axle motors from the e-tron quattro to use for the front axle in the h-tron. The car starts down to -28 ˚C.

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Audi Concept Detroit Fuel 150

Green Car Congress

JULY 15, 2011

internal combustion engine vehicle (ICE); hybrid electric vehicle-gasoline (HEV-gas); hybrid electric vehicle-diesel (HEV-diesel); (hydrogen) fuel cell vehicle (FCV); battery electric vehicle (BEV); and sugar fuel cell vehicle (SFCV). safety, toxicity, waste treatment, greenhouse gas emissions, military expenditures, etc.). Zhang 2009.

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Virginia Fuel Hydrogen Gas-Electric 246

Green Car Congress

DECEMBER 29, 2010

IBM and its partners have launched a multi-year research initiative exploring rechargeable Li-air systems for transportation—The Battery 500 Project ( earlier post )—but are viewing it in terms of a multi-decade development cycle. In today’s transistor, energy is constantly leaking or being lost or wasted in the off-state.

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Personal Transportation Water Batteries 210

Green Car Congress

OCTOBER 2, 2014

New engines and transmission. Hyundai Motor is showcasing two new turbocharged gasoline direct injected (T-GDI) engines at the Paris Motor Show 2014. Both engines—1.0-liter liter T-GDI is the first of a new generation of small turbocharged gasoline engines, offering enhanced performance, driving pleasure and efficiency.

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Green Car Congress

SEPTEMBER 22, 2009

The project includes quick-charging stations at this terminal layover in route to recharge bus batteries. Grid sourced electrical energy used to recharge the bus batteries will be augmented with solar energy collected with panels procured and installed under this project. City of Santa Clarita, California: $4,620,000.

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Emissions Gas Energy Maintenance 256

Baua Electric

FEBRUARY 29, 2024

Honda’s popular CR-V compact crossover is now getting a hydrogen-powered version that will begin deliveries this year in California – the car allows you to recharge via Level 2 charging for quick trips, or rely on hydrogen power for long hauls. To recharge, you can top off your vehicle via a fuel cell stack in about five minutes.

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Honda Hydrogen Plug-in Plug 52

Green Car Congress

MAY 22, 2019

TFSI, a four-cylinder, turbocharged gasoline engine producing 185 kW (252 hp) and 370 N·m (272.9 It is made up of 104 prismatic cells and stores 14.1 The climate control system uses a heat pump that pools the waste heat from the high-voltage components. The new drive concept comprises a 2.0 l/100 km (98.0 – 112.0

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Green Car Congress

OCTOBER 10, 2018

The fuel-cell system is around 30% more compact than before, can for the first time be housed entirely in the engine compartment and is installed on the usual mounting points like a conventional engine. emissions: 0 g/km), the overall drive system of the GLC F-CELL offers around 40% more output.

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Mercedes SUV Fuel PHEV 314

Green Car Congress

JUNE 26, 2021

Wireless Radio Frequency Signal Identification and Protocol Reverse Engineering (WiFIRE), $750,000. Unsupervised Physics-informed Machine Learning of Complex Natural and Engineered Geoscience Processes, $250,000. Energy Storing Efficient HVAC, $595,558. APEX Petroleum Engineering (Englewood, Colorado). Caltrode, Inc.

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Commercial Energy Albuquerque New York 170

Green Car Congress

OCTOBER 17, 2019

The turbocharged V6 direct-injection engine with a gasoline particulate filter delivers an output of 250 kW (340 PS) and 500 N·m (368.8 The HV battery stores 14.1 The combustion engine is engaged only when the driver depresses the accelerator pedal beyond a specific resistance. lb-ft) of torque. just above idle speed.

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Audi Plug-in Plug Hybrid 170

Green Car Congress

JULY 17, 2015

The PHEV (Plug-in Hybrid Electric Vehicle), a subset of the electric car, combines a primary electric motor with a much smaller back-up engine fueled with a hydrocarbon/biofuel mix. (In Engineering Advantages of PHEV. Engineering Advantages of the PHEV. This engineering solution allows versatility. Table of Contents.

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PHEV Plug-in Renewable Energy 150

Green Car Congress

SEPTEMBER 30, 2011

The technology areas ( earlier post ) receiving funding are: PETRO: Plants Engineered To Replace Oil ($36 million). Plants Engineered to Replace Oil (PETRO). Energy Plant Design The University of California, Los Angeles, will re-engineer. Camelina will be engineered with. The team will engineer tobacco with traits.

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Energy Clean Cleaning Grid 294

Green Car Congress

JULY 21, 2013

Battery electric vehicles are a great technology but like the fax machine they are only temporary and there is a great deal of consumer resistance towards them for all manner of reasons, including range and the time it takes to recharge them. So as well as producing a clean fuel we would be reducing the amount of waste we put into landfill.

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London Hydrogen Hyundai Fuel 344

Green Car Congress

SEPTEMBER 19, 2009

Carol Livermore, associate professor of mechanical engineering and her team used an ordered grouping of carbon nanotubes (CNT) as a spring to store elastic energy for later use—much as a steel spring stores energy in a mechanical watch. The research team has recently published two papers on their findings.

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Cars That Think

SEPTEMBER 16, 2023

To that end, engineers at the U.S. During such extreme events, the connected businesses will serve the entire community by providing refrigeration for medicines and perishables, power to recharge smartphones and laptops, a community kitchen, and a laundry, just to name a few essential services. Clockwise from top left: Erika P.

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Puerto Rico Connect Connected Solar 144

Charged EVs

DECEMBER 13, 2022

Charged : For example, one of your customers has a site where they’re not allowed to do any digging because of hazardous waste. In California, you end up having to clean, do remediation, and take all the spoils to Kettleman City [the site of a hazardous waste facility]. They have to run home to recharge.

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Grid Solar Charging Power 143

Green Car Congress

FEBRUARY 28, 2012

The A3 e-tron BEV pilot program will run in the San Francisco, Los Angeles, Washington DC, and Denver markets throughout the year and provide actionable feedback and telematics data to Audi engineering teams in the US and Germany. It stores 26.5 The Audi A3 e-tron can be recharged in about nine hours with a 230-volt household socket.

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Audi Electric Vehicles Batteries Battery 244

Get Electric Vehicle

DECEMBER 1, 2023

The engine block of an internal combustion engine (ICE) generates a significant quantity of waste heat that may be used to heat the fuel, the cabin, or other components and operations of the vehicle. Extreme hot weather also can degrade the battery over time. ICE heats up naturally to operate at its best.

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Plug In India

MAY 28, 2022

I have been on exactly one ICE (dinasour juice* consuming Internal Combustion Engine vehicles) roadtrip prior to this. pps we would be needing for this trip - Plugshare, Tata Power EZ, Fortum Charging (available on both Android and iOS app stores) ​Mumbai - Pune I started my journey from Mumbai at roughly 73% State of Charge (SoC).

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Tony Karrer Delicious EVdriven

APRIL 16, 2009

A chemist and government researcher, Wang raised some $300,000 from relatives, rented about 2,000 square meters of space, and set out to manufacture rechargeable batteries to compete with imports from Sony and Sanyo. Deploying the armies of laborers at BYD is an officer corps of managers and engineers who invent and design the products.

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Tony Karrer Delicious EVdriven

APRIL 21, 2009

Home Business Industry Sectors Engineering MY PROFILE SHOP JOBS PROPERTY CLASSIFIEDS From The Sunday Times April 19, 2009 Slow start for charge of the electric cars Ray Hutton Electric cars need a boost. Witha 60-mile range, most felt the need to recharge after 30 miles or so. ” - More details at onroutebus.co.uk.

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Tony Karrer Delicious EVdriven

APRIL 16, 2009

And in a true smart grid, electric cars will not only be able to draw on electricity to run their motors, they will also be able to do the reverse: send electricity stored in their batteries back into the grid when it is needed. Battery recharging would typically take two to four hours, he said. While utilities such as E.ON

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Tony Karrer Delicious EVdriven

APRIL 16, 2009

V2G helps solve the major problem that demand for electricity is high during the day when everything from industrial plants to air conditioning is running full blast and then excess electricity is wasted at night. Several early models of passenger vehicles have enough energy stored in advanced batteries to power several homes for hours.

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Tony Karrer Delicious EVdriven

APRIL 16, 2009

V2G helps solve the major problem that demand for electricity is high during the day when everything from industrial plants to air conditioning is running full blast and then excess electricity is wasted at night. Several early models of passenger vehicles have enough energy stored in advanced batteries to power several homes for hours.

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Tony Karrer Delicious EVdriven

APRIL 16, 2009

Also, besides giving you the ability to charge at night when most utility rates are lower, future vehicle-to-grid (V2G) technology may allow you to sell some of your stored energy back to the utilities. Currently, there are some industrial facilities that use battery swapping to replenish the energy stores of electric forklifts.

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Charging Batteries Battery 2009 38

Tony Karrer Delicious EVdriven

APRIL 16, 2009

The four-door sedan will deliver 40 miles on a charge; a small gasoline engine will recharge the battery as it approaches depletion, extending its range by as much as 200 miles. I blame management but it is sad that the engineers and union workers are going to get hurt too. Engineering proptypes enjoy a tax break.

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