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Rheinmetall wins new order worth around €300M for exhaust gas recirculation modules

Green Car Congress

A well-known automaker has placed an order with Rheinmetall Group subsidiary Pierburg for exhaust gas recirculation (EGR) modules, with a lifetime value of around €300 million. In the low-pressure loop, these are water-cooled poppet valves. The order encompasses low- and high-pressure EGR modules. Production will start in August 2026.

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KSPG awarded $342M in contracts for new compact EGR valve

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Pierburg GmbH, a member of the KSPG Group, has been awarded contracts worth a lifetime total of €250 million (US$342 million) for a newly developed compact exhaust-gas recirculation valve. The effect of exhaust-gas recirculation is based on a lowering of combustion temperatures in diesel and gasoline engines. Click to enlarge.

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Mercedes-Benz to showcase pre-production version of coming GLC F-Cell fuel cell PHEV at IAA

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The only exhaust gas emitted was water vapor—1800 tonnes of it in all. The vehicles were driven on the proving grounds in Spain (IDIADA near Barcelona), Sweden (Arjeplog) and Germany (Boxberg), among others. The Fuel Cell Centre of Competence Nabern east of Stuttgart is playing a crucial role in the GLC F‑CELL.

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Tomorrow's Hydropower Begins With Retrofitting Today's Dams

Cars That Think

They help stop floods and supply farms and families with water, but they’re not generating electricity—especially in developing countries. Bakken’s group and one of his graduate students, Nora Rydland Fjøsne , modeled theoretically doing just that for numerous dams in a part of southern Spain. Righting the course of old hydro.

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Here It Comes: Another Hot Summer in Europe

Baua Electric

The sweltering conditions upended vacations throughout the summer season as visitors collapsed from heat exhaustion at crowded tourist sites, and wildfires led to evacuations in Greece, Italy and Spain. We couldn’t even cool off in the pool because there was no shade and the water was hot,” Ms. Walker recalled. “We

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Renault 2010 Environment Workshop, Part 1: Combustion Engine Technology and Product Plans

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dCi (type K9K) diesel is the brand’s best-selling engine with almost 900,000 units manufactured in 2009, in Valladolid (Spain) and Bursa (Turkey). Low pressure EGR (exhaust gas recirculation). When the engine starts from cold, the valve is closed and prevents water from circulating around the combustion chambers. dCi engines.

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Study for European Parliament assesses options for turning CO2 into methanol for use in transport

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A report prepared by ISIS (Institute of Studies for the Integration of Systems - Italy) together with Tecnalia (Spain) for the European Parliamentary Research Service (EPRS) discusses the technological, environmental and economic barriers for producing methanol from carbon dioxide, as well as the possible uses of methanol in car transport in Europe.