Green Car Congress

JUNE 14, 2012

Cobham Technical Services is collaborating with Jaguar Land-Rover (JLR) and engineering consultancy Ricardo UK to develop a switched reluctance traction motor. While SRMs can have very high power density at low cost, they have had issues with high torque ripple when operated at low speed, and the acoustic noise caused by torque ripple.

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Land Rover Motor Motors Motoring 231

Green Car Congress

NOVEMBER 10, 2010

The Porsche 911 GT3 R Hybrid completed the recent 1,000 km of Zhuhai in China ahead of all other GT cars and with fewer stops for gasoline. At the core of the hybrid system is Williams Hybrid Power’s (WHP) flywheel energy storage unit. Zhuhai marked the last of three endurance races for the Porsche Hybrid in 2010.

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Porsche Hybrid Land Rover Power 218

Green Car Congress

FEBRUARY 18, 2014

Controlled Power Technologies (CPT) will deliver two technical papers at SAE World Congress in April on its SpeedStart torque assist and kinetic energy recovery system ( earlier post ) and TIGERS turbine integrated gas energy recovery system ( earlier post ) for 48V mild hybrid vehicles. Earlier post.)

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Congress Hybrid Exhaust Gas-Electric 236

Green Car Congress

FEBRUARY 23, 2015

Using a conventional distributed stator winding, the Ricardo synchronous reluctance electric machine is an innovative design that makes use of low-cost materials, simple manufacturing processes and uncomplicated construction. —Paul Rivera, MD of the Ricardo hybrid and electric vehicle systems business. Earlier post.)

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Motor Motors Motoring Land Rover 150

Green Car Congress

MAY 18, 2010

Williams Hybrid Power’s novel flywheel technology helped to power the Porsche 911 GT3 R Hybrid to the lead for eight hours at last weekend’s Nürburgring 24hr race. The hybrid system worked like a dream.”. The hybrid car needed to pit every ten laps to refuel, whereas its rivals were forced to stop approximately every eight laps.

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Porsche Land Rover Hybrid Concept 210

Green Cars News

JULY 28, 2009

For example, Toyota has announced plans to manufacture the hybrid Auris in the UK (see article ) at its Derbyshire factory as it bids to make more European motorists switch from increasingly clean diesel vehicles to low emission technology. What’s more is that Britain’s car industry has a reputation for producing “gas guzzlers”.

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Green Cars Green Land Rover G-Wiz 44

Green Car Congress

JUNE 20, 2018

The AMPC, which was officially opened at the Brunel Center for Advanced Solidification Technology ( BCAST ) on 13 June, is funded by £15 million (US$20 million) from the UK government, providing the equipment and infrastructure to attract industrial match funding through people and resources from partners such as Constellium and Jaguar Land Rover.

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Land Rover Universal London Industrial 256