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2024 BMW i5 details, Volvo EX30 CO2, Stellantis and lithium-sulfur batteries: Today’s Car News

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Stellantis sees lithium-sulfur battery tech in its future. And the BMW i5 looks much like a gasoline 5-Series. The 2024 BMW i5 revealed Wednesday is essentially a fully electric BMW 5-Series. Volvo’s upcoming EX30 is going for the brand’s smallest-ever carbon footprint. Is that a good thing?

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HKG and Pininfarina introduce two more microturbine range extended EVs; graphene-enhanced LTO batteries

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At Auto Shanghai 2017, China-based Hybrid Kinetic Group (HK), with its partner Pininfarina, introduced two more microturbine range-extended electric vehicles: the five-seat K550 and 7-seat K750 SUVs. HK Microturbine Electric Generator Range Extender Click to enlarge. HK Group is also developing graphene lithium sulfur batteries.

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DOE awarding $10M to 8 transportation technology incubator projects; single-fuel RCCI with reformer

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Statically and Dynamically Stable Lithium-sulfur Batteries This project will develop an innovative polysulfide blocking layer to develop lithium-sulfur batteries for automotive applications. University of Texas Austin. Vanderbilt University. 1,400,000.  University of Minnesota - Twin Cities. 1,055,478.

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DOE awarding $19.4M to 22 advanced vehicle technologies projects; Mercedes-Benz, GM Li-S battery projects

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The Battery Seedling projects are aimed at innovative battery materials and approaches that complement the Vehicle Technologies Office Battery500 Consortium’s research to more than double the specific energy (to 500 watt-hours per kilogram) of lithium battery technologies. University of Pittsburgh. Cornell University. University of Kentucky.

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Daimler investing >€7B in next 2 years in green tech; fuel cell plug-in, BEV architecture; 48V

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In addition, the company is developing a dedicated vehicle architecture for battery-electric motor cars. As a matter of fact, no other manufacturer offers a comparable range of electrified vehicles and solutions in the field of electric mobility. Just for our passenger cars, we are talking about 5.4 billion euro. —Thomas Weber.

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DOE announces $26.6M SBIR/STTR FY15 Phase 1 Release 2 awards; fuel cells, batteries, power electronics and efficient combustion engines

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Fuel Cell-Battery Electric Hybrid for Utility or Municipal MD or HD Bucket Trucks (H2BT) The fuel cell bucket truck has no emission and saves 1,400 gallons of diesel fuel per year. ICE Ignition Using Transient Plasma Acceleration Lean-burn gasoline engines have trouble reliably igniting gasoline and air mixtures. 149,871.44.

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Lux: VW “actually in a strong position to innovate their way out of this mess”

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Reflecting on the implications of the still evolving Volkswagen emissions testing scandal (“ a vehicle emissions scandal of unprecedented proportions ”), analysts at Lux Research suggest that one outcome of the crisis could be an aggressive push by Volkswagen to accelerate the push towards plug-in hybrids and electric vehicles. Earlier post.)