Green Car Congress

MAY 23, 2011

Complementing the commercial grid, the Honda Smart Home System provides heat and electricity for the home, and produces power for the use of electromotive mobility. An enhanced lower engine mount structure and other design enhancements help reduce pulsation and air channel noise in the intake and exhaust systems. Click to enlarge.

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Honda Gas-Electric Gas Engine 261

Green Car Congress

MAY 26, 2016

With the goal of making the Pasha terminal a more sustainable and resilient facility that can operate independently off the grid in the event of a power loss, the project also features a microgrid that includes solar generation, battery storage and an energy management system to maximize usage. PermaCity (solar energy installation).

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Los Angeles California Emissions Green 150

Cars That Think

JANUARY 26, 2023

The solutions Rahman outlined were the use of proven methods that reduce electricity usage, making coal plants more efficient, using hydrogen and other storage solutions, promoting more renewables, installing new types of nuclear reactors, and encouraging cross-border power transfers. It results in higher efficiencies: about 46 percent.

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Climate Change Climate Coal Grid 101

Cars That Think

JULY 15, 2023

In September 2021, at MIT’s Plasma Science and Fusion Center , the team energized the magnet and watched as the field it produced strengthened to an intense 20 tesla—about 400,000 times as strong as the typical value for Earth’s magnetic field, and more than strong enough to lift an aircraft carrier out of the water.

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Fusion Molten Salt MIT Building 98

Green Car Congress

SEPTEMBER 10, 2009

kWh) can be housed in the vehicle’s engine compartment, the significantly higher-performing lithium-ion unit in the Vision S 500 Plug-in HYBRID (more than 10 kWh) requires more installation space, and is located behind the rear seats in the trunk. Whereas the extremely compact lithium-ion battery in the S 400 HYBRID (0.9

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Plug-in Mercedes Plug Hybrid 210

Green Car Congress

JULY 17, 2015

The alternative-fuel car evolved to reduce exhaust emissions and other problems derived from burning fossil fuels. At present, PHEV technology alone is equipped to improve the current electric grid. Appendix C: Intricacies of the Grid—transfer of power vs. energy. Appendix G: Solar and Wind Grid Management using PHEV.

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PHEV Plug-in Renewable Energy 150

Green Car Congress

JUNE 23, 2016

Key changes to implement the integrated cycle are isothermal compression and heat addition from the exhaust gas to the charge air after the end of compression. To transfer exhaust gas heat at the end of compression requires the use of a “split cycle” in which the standard four-stroke sequence is split into two separate elements.

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Engine Market Exhaust Waste 199

Cars That Think

MARCH 27, 2023

But the most popular one that’s mostly used in practice right now is a post-combustion process called the amine process, where essentially, we have your exhaust from factories that has very high CO 2 content, and you bring it in contact with a liquid that has this amine chemical that binds the CO 2 , that you basically suck the CO 2 out of the air.

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Carbon Store Climate Change Light 56

Green Car Congress

JUNE 4, 2014

It also exhausts lots of cold, making it highly relevant for processes which require power and cooling. A conventional internal combustion engine loses roughly two-thirds of the fuel energy as waste heat—about one third each through the radiator and exhaust. This can be used to drive an engine. Liquid Air on the Highway.

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Engine Production Waste Diesel 218

Green Car Congress

NOVEMBER 17, 2015

Under a venture with the motto “From Road to Grid”, Audi is therefore currently working on a concept to convert old batteries into stationary energy stores. A first test setup located near Ingolstadt recently started supplying the grid. Installation of CCS charging stations has already begun in Europe and the United States.

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Audi PHEV Diesel Fuel 150

Green Car Congress

SEPTEMBER 15, 2014

kWh Lithium iron phosphate battery pack is water-cooled, weighs 114 kg (251 lbs) and occupies a volume of 96 liters (3.4 The unit is permanently installed in the vehicle and charges single-phase up to 16 A. The high-voltage battery feeds the electric motor through a water-cooled DC/AC converter, the power electronics.

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Plug-in Mercedes Plug Hybrid 225

Green Car Congress

NOVEMBER 10, 2010

The Audi valve lift system (AVS) further increases power, torque and efficiency by switching the stroke of the exhaust valves between two stages depending on the load and rpm. A secondary air system at the cylinder head makes sure that the exhaust gas treatment cuts in particularly quickly. The turbocharged gasoline direct injection 2.0

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Audi Electric Vehicles Hybrid Range 225

Drive Electric

AUGUST 9, 2022

Because EVs run on electricity, the vehicle emits no exhaust from a tailpipe and does not contain the typical liquid fuel components in ICEVs. If it’s manufactured on a ‘dirty’ power grid it becomes a major source of emissions over the EV lifecycle. Most major petrol companies have also installed EV chargers at many of their sites.

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Environment Electric Vehicles New Zealand Vehicles 98

Drive Electric

AUGUST 9, 2022

Because EVs run on electricity, the vehicle emits no exhaust from a tailpipe and does not contain the typical liquid fuel components in ICEVs. If it’s manufactured on a ‘dirty’ power grid it becomes a major source of emissions over the EV lifecycle. Most major petrol companies have also installed EV chargers at many of their sites.

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Environment Electric Vehicles New Zealand Vehicles 52