The Truth About Cars

AUGUST 7, 2025

17:46 Bill: I used a different switch from a 2016 Buick LaCrosse, still GM, so compatible with the platform. 18:04 Yan: The Bolt switches are newer and more complex, with one panel and many buttons, so you found a smaller GM switch that fits better in the DeLorean.

Conversion

Charged EVs

MARCH 18, 2025

Under the companys Reliability as a Service contract, customers pay a fixed monthly fee for unlimited Operations & Maintenance (O&M) support and a guaranteed level of uptime. Charged : Im amazed at how many charger deployments seem to have no provision for maintenance. Collaboration and information sharing are key.

Charging

Clean Fleet Report

JUNE 22, 2025

Battery and Charging When slowing or stopping, regenerative braking converts kinetic energy into electric energy and stores it in the battery. There are three screens to occupy and inform the driver. We consider 3.5 miles per kWh to be very efficient considering we spent some of our time at 70+ mph, which an EV’s battery does not like.

Motors

Cars That Think

JUNE 30, 2025

However, many of these devices are still functional and could perform well with minor upgrades or maintenance. The issue is, no one knows what the weak points are for a particular machine, or what the needed maintenance is, and the diagnostics would be too costly and time-consuming. It’s easier to just buy brand new laptops.

Waste

Cars That Think

JUNE 30, 2025

However, many of these devices are still functional and could perform well with minor upgrades or maintenance. The issue is, no one knows what the weak points are for a particular machine, or what the needed maintenance is, and the diagnostics would be too costly and time-consuming. It’s easier to just buy brand new laptops.

Waste

Green Car Congress

JUNE 10, 2016

Today, MD/HD trucks account for 28% of petroleum use in the US transportation sector, according to the US Energy Information Administration (EIA). Lifetime targets and maintenance costs suggested are based on fuel cell bus targets. Scheduled and Unscheduled Maintenance Cost5 [$/mile]. class 3-8 or 10,000-80,000+ lbs.)

Fuel

Green Car Congress

JANUARY 8, 2020

The Connected Right-Sized Emergency Firetruck production concept was revealed showing a Tropos Motors’ right-sized firetruck outfitted with a rugged Panasonic TOUGHBOOKTM FZ-G1 Tablet to track or receive emergency information. According to Statista, by 2023, there will be more than 342 million connected vehicles worldwide.

Concept

Green Car Congress

DECEMBER 29, 2021

However, electric school buses are believed to be cheaper to own over the life of the vehicles than diesel alternatives due to a combination of lower fuel and maintenance costs and because vehicle-to-grid capabilities would allow school districts to sell electric buses’ stored energy back to the utility.

New Jersey

Cars That Think

MAY 4, 2022

They noticed that the roads in their New England area were in poor condition, and wanted to see if there was a way to help solve the way road maintenance is performed. Many send out workers to check for poor road conditions, who then log the information in notebooks. The data is then stored in a hard drive.

Maintenance

Green Car Congress

APRIL 6, 2014

Data such as fuel levels, operating hours, location, cautions and maintenance alerts are relayed to the web application for analysis. The reserve power stored by the hybrid technology equates to approximately 60 additional horsepower. The hybrid excavator is equipped with KOMTRAX remote monitoring technology.

America

Teslarati

AUGUST 9, 2021

The Scottsdale location officially opened its doors on Saturday, August 7th, offering a retail store in the same state as its assembly facility in Casa Grande, which is just 50 miles away. The store is positioned in Scottsdale Fashion Square and is the company’s ninth location, adding to the growing network of Lucid Studios.

Store

Green Car Congress

JANUARY 25, 2013

The app enables users to see a wide variety of information about their car via a smartphone. Detailed data of each trip during the last 40 days can be downloaded and stored. Shows the temperature using web-based weather information at the parked location of the car. New features include: Enhanced driving journal. Honk and Flash.

Volvo

Green Car Congress

JULY 15, 2011

Zhang proposes using a simple biomass-to-wheel (BTW) energy efficiency analysis to help make a more informed decision for how to utilize (limited) biomass resources more efficiently. As a result, conflicting conclusions have been made even for well-known corn ethanol biorefineries, he points out. g H 2 /L/h or higher, Huang and Zhang say.

Virginia

Green Car Congress

APRIL 18, 2018

This initiative will more than double the number of electric vehicle charging stations at Walmart stores across the US. The Electrify America charging systems located at Walmart stores will offer the first certified cooled-cable 150 to 350 kilowatt (kW) DC Fast Chargers. Earlier post.). Earlier post.).

America

Green Car Congress

DECEMBER 8, 2022

Within the standard, parameters are stored in a human-readable, extensible, and easily-shared JSON file format. Industry standards require maintenance and a clear technical, commercially informed roadmap. The BPX standard additionally supports inclusion of experimental data used to justify the reported parameter values.

Standards

Blink Charging

FEBRUARY 15, 2024

And this is where truck stops and roadside convenience stores come into play. To help c-stores and gas stations install EV charging stations, there are two major federal funding programs that can reduce project costs. What are the best EV chargers to install at a truck stop or roadside convenience store? Ready to get started?

Store

Green Car Congress

MAY 25, 2021

F-150 Lightning Pro targets reducing scheduled maintenance costs by 40% over eight years and 100,000 miles—with potential for further operational cost savings through lower fuel costs. It also features a rugged, water-tight space strong enough to store 400 pounds of cement bags.

F-150

Green Car Congress

JUNE 1, 2022

Vendia’s platform provides a secure way for corporations to share vast amounts of data across applications, data stores, clouds, geographies, tech stacks, and partners in an efficient and scalable way, while maintaining a single source of truth for the data across all parties.

BMW

Green Car Congress

MAY 5, 2023

Resistance and laser weld processes can take just milliseconds for smaller parts, but there are dynamics, even within that very short time scale, that will yield valuable information about the success of the weld. This had the effect of creating machine and operator-dependent information silos. Does it need maintenance?

Store

Green Car Congress

OCTOBER 10, 2019

Volvo Car Group is the first company to team up with Google on integrating an infotainment system powered by Android, with the Google Assistant, Google Maps and the Google Play Store built-in. The two companies have been development partners for the past several years. —Henrik Green, Chief Technology Officer at Volvo Cars.

Google

Green Car Congress

OCTOBER 1, 2010

The batteries featured on the electric system also capture and store energy during the regenerative braking phase of the vehicle’s operation. The larger messaging center display area enables easier reading of fault codes and maintenance notifications.

All-Electric

Green Car Congress

NOVEMBER 11, 2015

The Hyundai Virtual Guide app is the brand’s modern take on the traditional owner’s manual, allowing consumers to use their smartphone or tablet computer to get how-to information for repairs, maintenance and vehicle features. Users simply position their phone or tablet’s camera over the part they want to learn more about. Engine oil.

Hyundai

Green Car Congress

JUNE 13, 2018

The data collected is stored on Toyota’s proprietary mobility services platform (MSPF), which serves as a form of information infrastructure for connected vehicles. The recorder, developed by Toyota for corporate fleets, has been installed in 100 Grab rental cars.

Toyota

Green Car Congress

OCTOBER 4, 2016

Among the latest developments are: Mercedes-Benz Uptime, a preventive service product which helps avoid immobility cases, efficient management of repairs and maintenance, as well as real-time support for customer repairs, based on the continuous analysis of the data generated by the Mercedes-Benz Truck; The FleetBoard Store for apps as an open platform (..)

North America

Green Car Congress

JUNE 12, 2013

Applications should focus on system cost and performance status and projections rather than proprietary component information. avoided recharging times, delivery improvements, reduced driver down time for charging or scheduled maintenance, emissions reductions and other benefits).

Hydrogen

Green Car Congress

OCTOBER 10, 2018

In all operating modes, the system features an energy recovery function, which makes it possible to recover energy during braking or coasting and to store it in the battery. The driver can always set other priorities, of course, but subtle hints inform them of what they can do intuitively to optimise the vehicle range. Production.

Mercedes

Green Car Congress

AUGUST 9, 2011

To handle the plastic waste stream, RockTenn has been storing this by-product in company-owned plastic-only monofill sites for several years. Excess off-gas is stored in mobile tanks and can be sold or used to cold-start the P2O processor’s furnace. The agreement gives JBI the exclusive rights to mine plastic from these sites.

Waste

Green Car Congress

NOVEMBER 6, 2015

Regenerative braking changes the electric motor to a generator that captures the kinetic energy of the still-turning wheels when the brake is applied, storing it in the nickel-metal hydride (NiMH) hybrid battery pack. The 2016 RAV4 also debuts new technologies to bolster convenience, entertainment and information.

Fuel Economy

Cars That Think

FEBRUARY 17, 2024

Consider further the many varied devices and sensors now streaming data onto the Web, and the cars, airplanes, and other vehicles that store trip data for later use. All those billions of things on the Internet of Things produce data, and all that information also needs to be stored somewhere.

Store

Green Car Congress

SEPTEMBER 3, 2023

Regular maintenance of hydrogen high-pressure storage systems is mandatory to prevent hazardous situations from occurring. Hydrogen is currently stored in gaseous form under high pressure of up to 700 bar in tanks made of fiber-reinforced composites (FRC). Acoustic emission and strain sensors detect damage in the tank.

Hydrogen

Green Car Congress

MAY 19, 2017

The SAFCell project team will build a high-pressure stack designed to generate hydrogen from ammonia, purify it, and pressurize it in a single device, greatly simplifying the infrastructure required to get hydrogen fuel to refueling stations and store it there.

Hydrogen

Green Car Congress

MAY 22, 2013

The committee will continue to gather and review information and conduct analyses through late spring 2014 and will issue its final comprehensive report in late summer 2014. Lack of familiarity with the vehicles and their operation and maintenance creates a substantial barrier to widespread PEV deployment. Charging infrastructure.

Plug-in

Teslarati

SEPTEMBER 26, 2021

An Operations Specialist/Lab Expert An R&D Operations Specialist/Expert Prototype Shop A Test Equipment/Maintenance Technician A Program Manager for R&D process and tooling development 2 R&D Engineers for the Interior trim team. ” Musk clarified that all personally identifiable information is securely stored in China.

China

Green Car Congress

JULY 3, 2018

The 10 hydrogen fuel-cell racks are evenly distributed between Starboard and Port fuel cell rooms, allowing the vessel to continue operation at reduced power if one space must be taken out of service for maintenance. Earlier post.). Thus, the Zero-V would require little investment in fueling infrastructure.

Hydrogen

Green Car Congress

JANUARY 5, 2010

The demonstration application for the Apple iPhone will be available on the iTunes store on 6 January. OnStar will also provide the connection for the Volt owner website, which will allow many of the same capabilities as the mobile application along with more in depth information on the vehicle’s history.

Volt

Green Car Congress

JULY 29, 2015

This safety system uses information from the airbag sensors to help prevent secondary collisions. Navigation, one-shot voice destination entry, additional electric vehicle functions, predicts possible destinations based on often used routes, and Destination Entry with Quick Search and Auto-complete, and Car-Net Guide & Inform.

Connected

Green Car Congress

DECEMBER 8, 2021

Other Bluelink-enabled features include: Remote Profile Management stores selected vehicle settings in the Bluelink cloud, with the ability to remotely update and push back to the vehicle, personalized to driver preferences. Vehicle Status Notifications inform customers if the vehicle is left with doors unlocked or windows open.

Hyundai