Green Car Congress

FEBRUARY 5, 2013

Internal AC Kinetics testing used an AC induction motor coupled to a large inertia, following a modified EPA city traffic cycle. The AC Kinetics team’s first motor control technology, invented by Dr. Singer and patented by MIT, reduces vibrations and acoustics on hundreds of millions of machines world-wide. Source: AC Kinetics.

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Motor Motors Motoring Energy 278

Baua Electric

JANUARY 2, 2024

A 2017 MIT study estimated that the excess emissions produced by VW diesels caused 1,200 premature deaths. Illegal emissions tampering on diesel pickups by owners is a big business that the EPA has also been cracking down on. It showed a fuel-cell semi truck prototype in 2019, and a battery-electric demonstrator prior to that.

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Diesel Emissions 2019 Dodge 52

Green Car Congress

JUNE 25, 2012

Testing at Environmental Solutions Worldwide Americas (ESWA), an EPA-certified vehicle laboratory, showed a 21.2% XL Hybrids was founded by MIT alumni and is based in Boston. The XL Hybrids system in place. Click to enlarge. The company had been targeting a 20% reduction.

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Hybrid Fuel Lithium Ion Boston 330

Green Car Congress

APRIL 26, 2009

Proposed by John Heywood and colleagues at MIT in 2005, the basic premise of E85 boosting is that ethanol (or other lower alcohols) suppresses knock due to the large evaporative cooling effect it has on the air-fuel mixture when injected directly into the cylinder, supplemented by ethanol’s inherent high octane number. Earlier post.)

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Diesel Ford F-150 Gasoline 170

Green Car Congress

AUGUST 24, 2016

Researchers at MIT have produced the first assessment of the annual costs of IQ losses from aircraft lead emissions in the US. The MIT team developed temporally and spatially resolved aviation lead inventories using piston-driven aircraft data for 2008 including emissions from the cruise phase. —Wolfe et al. Earlier post.).

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MIT Emissions Fuel EPA 150

Green Car Congress

SEPTEMBER 3, 2010

The report combines estimates of technology cost from the National Academy of Sciences and MIT with the costs benefit analysis previously prepared by the Environmental Protection Agency and the National Highway Traffic Safety Administration (NHTSA) to derive its estimates of what is technologically feasible and economically justified.

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MPG Standards America Fuel Economy 225

Green Car Congress

AUGUST 3, 2015

In other words, they found that they real-world fuel economy benefit of adoption of HEVs may be better than for estimates based on EPA “sticker” fuel economy alone. These ratios exceed the factors that EPA fuel economy values would predict for these vehicle types. The vehicles under study were a conventional and hybrid Camry).

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Fuel Economy EPA Economy Fuel 150

Cars That Think

DECEMBER 9, 2021

Scaringe—a bespectacled mechanical engineer with a PhD from MIT—a billionaire by the age of 38. The R1T can travel an EPA-rated 314 miles at 70 mpge in combined city and highway use. The world’s first-to-market electric pickup truck, it turns out, isn’t from Ford, General Motors, or a late-to-market Tesla Cybertruck.

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F-150 Hummer GMC Miles 92

Green Car Congress

NOVEMBER 8, 2011

The Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) continues to employ outdated mileage formulas (55 city 45 highway) that do not accurately represent consumers driving habits and dramatically tilts manufacturers into producing electric-vehicle solutions. Monetary incentives are being used to alter consumer and manufacturer decisions.

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Standards Transportation Fuel Economy MPG 247

Green Car Congress

JANUARY 17, 2011

A recent white paper by Leslie Bromberg of MIT’s Plasma Science and Fusion Center and Wai K. Researchers at the US EPA investigating this approach concluded that the M85 and E85 engines could provide efficiencies comparable or higher than the diesel, in dedicated fuel, high compression ratio turbo charged/downsized engines.

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Transportation Fuel Coal Gasoline 257

Cars That Think

NOVEMBER 20, 2023

So when I went to MIT to do my Ph.D., We’ve been building a separate open-source tool called Power Genome that pulls together all the public data from the Department of Energy, EPA [U.S. So I had this experience where I couldn’t get under the hood and understand how the model worked and propose alternative strategies.

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Clean Cleaning Energy Emissions 85

Green Car Congress

DECEMBER 20, 2009

One such potential complementary technology for addressing the knock challenge, Kapp said, is the ethanol boosting system Ford has been exploring with MIT. The EPA rated Ford’s combined car and truck fuel economy improvement at 20.2%, almost double the next closest competitor. —Dan Kapp. Earlier post.). Click to enlarge.

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Fuel Economy Economy Ford Downsizing 186

Tony Karrer Delicious EVdriven

APRIL 21, 2009

But we want to give them cause to continue to press forward." ( MIT Technology Review ). The potential [of plug-in hybrids] is terrific." ( MIT Technology Review ) 11/30/06 "We want it as much as anybody else, but there are limits right now in terms of technology. Marketwatch ). Its not lack of desire. battery technology; 2.

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Plug-in Plug Hybrid PHEV 45

Tony Karrer Delicious EVdriven

APRIL 16, 2009

Earlier this month, researchers from MIT said they had developed a process that within three years could lead to electric car batteries able to recharge in as little as five minutes. The Roadster can go 244 miles EPA. Nissan is working on an electric car that it says is on track to have a 100-mile range and 26-minute charge time.

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Electric Cars Charging Cars 2009 28