Green Car Congress
AUGUST 28, 2019
Researchers at MIT and the Ford Motor Company have found that depending on the location, lightweight conventional vehicles could have a lower lifecycle greenhouse gas impact than electric vehicles, at least in the near term. Lightweight aluminum is now used in the Ford F-150 pickup truck, and in the all-electric Tesla sedans.
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.)
Cars That Think
DECEMBER 9, 2021
Scaringe—a bespectacled mechanical engineer with a PhD from MIT—a billionaire by the age of 38. The Rivian can tow 11,000 pounds, on virtual par with the maximum 11,300 pounds of the beefiest Ford F-150 pickup, America’s best-selling vehicle for 39 straight years.
Cars That Think
AUGUST 16, 2021
Although the United States chose not to participate in the development of the Concorde, in 1963 President John F. Boom went on to garner more than US $150 million from various venture funds and Japan Airlines. The sleek delta-winged airliner made its first supersonic test flight in 1969. Kennedy announced plans to develop a U.S.
Cars That Think
JANUARY 23, 2023
Ford’s cheapest F-150 Lightning Pro is now $57,869 compared to $41,769 a year ago due to what Ford says are “ongoing supply chain constraints, rising material costs and other market factors.” The entry level F-150 XL with an internal combustion engine has risen in the past year from about $29,990 to $33,695 currently.
Tony Karrer Delicious EVdriven
APRIL 21, 2009
Several after-market companies have done PHEV conversions of the Ford Escape hybrid and one has done a retrofit of the F-150 pickup -- see Where PHEVs Are and ICE-Conversions.) But we want to give them cause to continue to press forward." ( MIT Technology Review ). First Escape PHEV delivered to SCE Nov 2007; 20 in 2008-2009.
Tony Karrer Delicious EVdriven
APRIL 16, 2009
One wonders if the recent headway at MIT in building lithium ion cells using ?virus? Posted by: Bob F | Apr 13, 2009 9:42:47 PM Despite factual errors and oversights in this article, you still make an excellent point. when they were forced to put NIHM batteries in the range was 150 miles. 150 miles is fine more.
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