Green Car Congress

APRIL 4, 2020

While increasing numbers of ships are phasing out heavy oil fuel in favor of liquefied natural gas (LNG) for its lower CO 2 , NO x , and SO x emissions, storage battery technologies are attracting attention as a power supply for on-board equipment or as an auxiliary power source that will also help to reduce CO 2 emissions.

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Green Car Congress

APRIL 27, 2017

At the 38 th Vienna Motor Symposium Volkswagen is introducing a new, more fuel-efficient “Coasting - Engine off” micro hybrid system—which shuts off the engine completely—as well as a new, compact three-cylinder natural gas engine for the Polo. All-electric architecture. Coasting - Engine off. liters/100 km. New e-Golf.

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Green Car Congress

OCTOBER 30, 2022

IDTechEx’s latest master electric vehicle report “ Electric Vehicles: Land, Sea & Air 2022-2042 ” finds 35.7 million electric vehicles (EV) were sold in 2021 and predicts this will rise to more than 74 million by 2030. Source: IDTechEx - “Electric Vehicles: Land, Sea & Air 2022-2042”.

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Green Car Congress

MARCH 10, 2013

As the percentage of electricity supply from wind and solar increases, grid operators will need to employ strategies and technologies, including energy storage, to balance supply with demand given the intermittency of the renewable supply. The Stanford study considered a future US grid where up to 80% of the electricity comes from renewables.

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Green Car Congress

SEPTEMBER 4, 2013

The Ricardo-led Advanced Diesel Electric Powertrain (ADEPT) project will apply 48V “intelligent electrification” concepts, mild hybridization and waste heat recovery in a Ford Focus diesel demonstrator. ADEPT will use CPT’s SpeedStart micro-mild hybrid (BSG and stop-start) and TIGERS energy recovery systems.

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Green Car Congress

AUGUST 5, 2015

During this time, the vehicle’s electrical systems—from entertainment to lights—use energy from an advanced lead-acid battery rather than the gas-powered engine, thus saving fuel. The global Start-Stop market for new vehicles could reach 53 million annually by 2020, the company said.

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Setec Powerr

FEBRUARY 5, 2023

The reason why electric vehicles are developing rapidly is that they rely on batteries as their power source. As the core of electric vehicles, batteries have naturally become the focus of research and development by global car companies. Today I will tell you about the types of batteries used in electric vehicles.

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Green Car Congress

NOVEMBER 30, 2009

The HyBoost project ( earlier post ), a two-year collaborative research program led by Ricardo in partnership with Controlled Power Technologies, the European Advanced Lead Acid Battery Consortium, Ford, Imperial College London, and Valeo, aims to demonstrate a very cost-effective, ultra-efficient gasoline engine in a C-segment passenger car.

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Green Car Congress

JULY 27, 2015

Processes for sustainable energy production must be environmentally benign, reduce greenhouse gas production, and utilize renewable resources. Work on commercially available systems such as lead-acid and nickel-metal hydride batteries will not be considered by this program.

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Blink Charging

JULY 28, 2022

Electric cars are on the rise. Maybe not as fast as the gas price, but they’re rising, nonetheless. The number of electric car sales nearly doubled from last year until now. About 10% of people buying a new car chose an electric one. Electric cars are much older. This prototype uses a lead-acid mixture.

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Green Car Congress

SEPTEMBER 9, 2014

Ricardo will display the first functional integration prototype of the Advanced Diesel Electric Powertrain (ADEPT) collaborative research project ( earlier post ) in public for the first time this week at the Low Carbon Vehicle Event (LCV 2014) in the UK. ADEPT schematic. Click to enlarge. 48V Diesel Fuel Efficiency'

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Green Car Congress

MARCH 20, 2014

The scope of the work will initially focus on 48V Micro Hybrid battery technology, which is designed to deliver strong fuel and emissions efficiency, and load management at a lower price than hybrid and electric vehicle technology. Earlier post.).

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Green Car Congress

MAY 18, 2012

The system generally relies on an advanced lead-acid battery—such as those provided by Johnson Controls—that can handle the deep cycling requirements of more frequent starts throughout the course of a trip. Clean technology isn’t just about electric vehicles. Consumer willingness to pay is based on gas prices at $4.

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Green Car Congress

APRIL 13, 2013

kW and 5 kW configurations, has an integrated fuel reformer that converts HydroPlus (a methanol-water liquid fuel mixture) into hydrogen gas to power the fuel cell system. In regions such as Southeast Asia and South Africa, where Ballard is actively engaged, electricity grids can be unreliable.

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Green Car Congress

APRIL 7, 2013

The US National Science Foundation (NSF) has issued a grants opportunity notice ( PD-14-7644 ) for up to about $13 million in awards to fundamental research and education that will enable innovative processes for the sustainable production of electricity and transportation fuels. The duration of unsolicited awards is typically three years.

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Green Car Congress

APRIL 9, 2009

As a result, Nestle Waters has converted its entire fleet of sit-down counterbalanced lift trucks from internal combustion (IC) engines powered by liquid petroleum gas (LPG) to Yale class I electric lift trucks powered by GenDrive power units.

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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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Setec Powerr

NOVEMBER 23, 2022

And with the popularity of electric vehicles, the grid is under more and more pressure, so the demand for energy storage is growing. chemical, kinetic, or thermal) and convert them back to useful forms of energy like electricity. Storage can also help smooth out demand, avoiding price spikes for electricity customers.

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Green Car Congress

OCTOBER 15, 2013

Although still a nascent market in most regions of the world, electric scooters sell in significant numbers in Asia Pacific today, according to Navigant Research. Electric (Battery) Forecasts Personal Transit' Sales of e-scooters in China alone are expected to reach 9.4 million in 2013, compared to 2.6

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Green Car Congress

SEPTEMBER 16, 2015

It requires minimal changes to the vehicle and costs significantly less than battery systems in hybrid or electric vehicles. Johnson Controls is currently the world’s leading provider of batteries for Start-Stop vehicles and we plan to stay that way. We are expecting strong growth for Start-Stop technology, and with good reason.

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Green Car Congress

DECEMBER 26, 2014

In order to meet the demands of modern lead acid battery applications, the technology must provide higher levels of charge acceptance to boost system efficiency and delay common failure mechanisms such as sulfation or dendritic growth. The company had earlier reported on the impact of dCNT addition primarly to the negative electrode.

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Green Car Congress

JULY 13, 2012

Johnson Control is launching a line of Absorbent Glass Mat (AGM) lead-acid batteries in North America to support up-and-coming Start-Stop vehicle technology, as well as the higher electrical loads that are increasingly being required of the battery in newer vehicles with combustion engines.

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Green Car Congress

NOVEMBER 15, 2015

Additionally, this new fuel cell stack technology will be utilized to expand Plug Power’s presence into hydrogen-enabled electric vehicle applications outside of the material handling market. GenDrive, a lead-acid battery replacement, is used in electric lift trucks in high-throughput material handling applications.

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Green Car Congress

OCTOBER 11, 2010

Fuel cells offer a much longer operating life than lead-acid batteries. million kilowatt hours per year of electricity consumption at the plant that would have been used to charge a battery-powered fleet. The hydrogen used for this project was manufactured at the most sustainable source within Linde’s network, BMW said.

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Green Car Congress

SEPTEMBER 29, 2011

Controlled Power Technologies (CPT) is developing a 48-volt version of its 12 volt electric supercharger based on its variable torque enhancement system known as VTES. At 48 volts, a VTES electric supercharger will transform 7kW of battery power into a highly boosted charge of air for downsized gasoline and diesel engines.

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Electric Auto Association

DECEMBER 1, 2022

Ever since the 1970’s, when he and his brother would take turns sitting in gas lines on Saturday mornings during a severe gas shortage, Earl Cox had been interested in the development of a vehicle that could run on something other than oil-based fuel. Impacting the EV scene for 3 decades. We formed a group, dontcrush.com.

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Green Car Congress

APRIL 26, 2009

Replacing lead acid batteries in electric lift trucks, these product installations will allow for fleet conversions within warehouses and distribution centers in Arkansas, Colorado, Ohio, Pennsylvania, South Carolina and Texas.

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Green Car Congress

JUNE 29, 2016

The ADEPT project is led by Ricardo in a research partnership including the Advanced Lead Acid Battery Consortium (ALABC); Controlled Power Technologies (CPT); Faurecia Emissions Control Technologies UK Ltd; Ford Motor Company and the University of Nottingham.

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Green Car Congress

FEBRUARY 2, 2009

an $800,000 grant to demonstrate Axion’s proprietary PbC battery technology ( earlier post ) in a variety of electric vehicle types including: hybrids (HEVs); plug-in hybrid electric (PHEVs) used in commuter, delivery and other vehicles; and EVs , including converted (from combustion engine operation) EVs. Thar Process Inc.

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Green Car Congress

OCTOBER 4, 2015

This growing demand for telecom services is also driving increased energy consumption in India—a challenge given the poor quality of the country’s electrical grid. billion liters) of diesel fuel annually, with the attendant negative greenhouse gas and criteria pollutant impacts.

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Green Car Congress

DECEMBER 1, 2014

At the 2 nd International Conference Automotive 48 V Power Supply Systems , held last week in Düsseldorf, Germany, Controlled Power Technologies (CPT), a major sponsor of the event, together with leading car makers and Tier 1 suppliers, argued the need for an internationally agreed 48V electrical standard.

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Green Car Congress

SEPTEMBER 13, 2010

CPT and AVL have been working for the past 18 months to develop a value-driven micro/mild HEV solution, utilizing CPT’s production-ready VTES electric supercharger ( earlier post ). This compares with €6,000 to more than €18,000 for a full hybrid or electric vehicle. Click to enlarge. —Guy Morris.

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Get Electric Vehicle

OCTOBER 14, 2023

Why would you buy an electric vehicle? Electric vehicles have several advantages over IC engine vehicles, and they are one of the key players in the automotive industry now. Most of the EV owners love the experience with electric vehicles. Today we are going to see some of the worst experiences with electric vehicles.

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Green Car Congress

NOVEMBER 19, 2010

It also has 126 soft gel lead acid batteries for power storage that are separated into two arrays with 63 batteries each. quantify the effects of the diesel electric drive train versus batteries on the total emission. Each array stores 170.1 kWh of energy when fully charged. A small sample of. activity data (~1.5 reductions.

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Green Car Congress

JUNE 8, 2011

That car, Leohold noted, had a lead-acid battery pack with about 24 kWh of energy, was propelled by wheel hub motors and had a range of about 50 km—“ not that much different than today. ” In the 1970s Volkswagen had put two electric cars on the market, but sales figures were in the two-digit numbers, Leohold said.

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Tony Karrer Delicious EVdriven

APRIL 21, 2009

Write For GO About Advertise Contact Login Explore GO Media: News & Opinion Family & Lifestyle Business & Technology Gas 2.0 The breakthrough could revolutionize electric car battery technology and pave the way for ultra-fast charging electric vehicles in as little as two years. Like this post?

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Cars That Think

DECEMBER 21, 2021

Propulsion equipment was housed in the back of the vehicle along with three lead-acid batteries and five buoyancy spheres, which controlled its vertical movement. Electrical and fiber-optic connectors and cables were encapsulated in oil-filled hoses and boxes, making them waterproof. The vessel was completed in 1964.

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