Green Car Congress

JULY 20, 2023

MAHLE presented a new technology kit for electric motors that combines the advantages of its benchmark SCT (Superior Continuous Torque, earlier post ) and MCT (Magnet-free Contactless Transmitter) electric motors. It is therefore especially attractive for use in commercial vehicles.

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Green Car Congress

SEPTEMBER 8, 2020

The new EPIC project coordinated by Karlsruhe Institute of Technology (KIT) is aimed at accelerating the drying of high-quality electrodes for lithium-ion batteries, increasing the energy efficiency of this process and, hence, reducing the cost of production. Photo: Ralf Diehm/KIT).

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Green Car Congress

JUNE 21, 2021

Researchers from Karlsruhe Institute of Technology (KIT) are working on a city bus platoon for Munich. Electrified towing buses require enormous amounts of electric energy to move the trailers along, said Professor Eric Sax, Head of the Institute for Information Processing Technology (ITIV) at KIT. —Nicole Rossel, ITIV.

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Green Car Congress

SEPTEMBER 7, 2021

At IAA Mobility in Munich, ZF is presenting the Moldular eDrive Kit for purely electric drives. Th kit bundles the entire expertise of ZF's e-mobility team for system solutions, components, and software controls in a flexible and modular platform.

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Green Car Congress

JULY 15, 2021

Rendering of regional airplane with conversion kit and fuel capsules. Universal Hydrogen is enabling this transformation with its aftermarket hydrogen conversion kit for regional aircraft, as well as its fuel distribution system based on modular hydrogen capsule technology. Icelandair.

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Green Car Congress

JUNE 24, 2023

Researchers from the Karlsruhe Institute of Technology (KIT) and their Canadian partners have designed a low-cost photoreactor design for solar-driven synthesis. The photoreactors have a low level of complexity, are readily manufacturable via mass fabrication techniques in polymers, and are easy to adapt to diverse photocatalysts.

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Green Car Congress

OCTOBER 20, 2021

To address this issue, BASF and Karlsruhe Institute of Technology (KIT) have joined forces to investigate the formulation boundary conditions in multilayer battery coatings within a research project supported by public co-funding. Wilhelm Schabel, who leads the participating group “Thin Film Technology” at KIT. —Prof.

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Green Car Congress

NOVEMBER 14, 2021

Researchers at the Karlsruhe Institute of Technology (KIT) have developed and successfully tested an innovative concept for simultaneous coating and drying of two-layered electrodes. KIT Scanning electron microscopy of a multi-layered electrode cross section: Different active materials are used for the layers and applied simultaneously.

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Green Car Reports

MAY 8, 2023

The UK firm Electrogenic is launching an EV conversion kit for the classic Mini that the company claims will bolt directly in. Due to go on sale this fall, the kit will retail for 15,000 pounds—equivalent to about $19,000 at current exchange rates—before the cost of a donor car.

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The Truth About Cars

MARCH 21, 2025

According to GM Authority , White Automotive & Media Services had introduced an upgrade kit that brought OEM-style integration of Apple CarPlay and Android Auto back to General Motors all-electric vehicles that no longer offered them. However, the business no longer offers the kit.

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Green Car Congress

AUGUST 21, 2021

Researchers at the Helmholtz Institute Ulm (HIU), founded by the Karlsruhe Institute of Technology (KIT) in cooperation with the University of Ulm, have developed a new lithium-metal battery that offers extremely high energy density of 560 Wh/kg—based on the total weight of the active materials—with remarkably good stability.

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Green Car Congress

DECEMBER 13, 2021

Led by Bosch, the University of Stuttgart, and the Karlsruhe Institute of Technology (KIT), a total of thirty companies will define the foundations for software-defined manufacturing (SDM) over the next three years in the SDM4FZI research project (Software-Defined Manufacturing for the Vehicle and Supplier Industry).

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Electrek

APRIL 24, 2025

This simplified all-electric pickup arrives with over 100 accessories, a five-seat SUV configuration kit, and get this crank windows. After about a month of speculation and subtle hints from industry insiders, American EV startup Slate has emerged from stealth to share its flagship model with the world.

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Green Car Congress

APRIL 22, 2021

The financing allows Universal Hydrogen to accelerate the development of its hydrogen logistics network and regional aircraft conversion kits, and bolsters the company’s burgeoning commercial activities. The company is also developing conversion kits to retrofit existing 40-60 passenger regional airplanes with a hydrogen fuel cell powertrain.

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Cars That Think

DECEMBER 19, 2024

has introduced its Qualcomm RB3 Gen 2 developer kits, designed to put advanced AI edge computing power into the hands of developers everywhere. This kit is available as Qualcomm RB3 Gen 2, based on the Qualcomm QCS6490 , or the Qualcomm RB3 Gen 2 Lite, based on the Qualcomm QCS5430. The kits also come with Wi-Fi 6E, Bluetooth 5.2,

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Green Car Congress

JULY 11, 2023

ZF’s Commercial Vehicle Solutions (CVS) division presented its latest eMobility kit, which now includes all-electric central drives, axle drives and eComponents. With our modular electric drive kit, ZF can provide customers with everything they need to electrify their commercial vehicles from last-mile delivery vehicles up to 44-ton truck.

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Green Car Congress

JULY 13, 2022

OptiFuel is developing modular repower kits for diesel locomotives and new locomotives in all lengths, horsepower levels, and track gauges. For Argentina, OptiFuel will build locomotive kits in the US that will be shipped for local assembly in Argentina, creating new jobs and enhancing business in both countries.

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Green Car Congress

NOVEMBER 22, 2021

Academic partners include Karlsruhe Institute of Technology (KIT), University of Stuttgart, the Research Institute of Automotive Engineering and Vehicle Engines Stuttgart (FKSF), and the FZI Research Center for Information Technology, an innovation partner of KIT. —Professor Michael Weyrich.

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Green Car Congress

AUGUST 8, 2017

Project partners include INERATEC, a spinoff of Karlsruhe Institute of Technology (KIT), VTT Technical Research Center of Finland and Lappeenranta University of Technology (LUT). This reactor, the core of the plant, was developed by KIT and extended to a compact plant commercialized by INERATEC.

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CleanTechnica EVs

MARCH 19, 2024

continued] The post ChargePoint Taking Orders For NACS Cable Retrofit Kits appeared first on CleanTechnica. This comes naturally, as the Supercharger network has not only proven itself to be very reliable, but to generally just have a lot more locations in a.

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Green Car Congress

DECEMBER 24, 2020

At the beginning of 2021, the production area of the Transparent Factory will be converted to meet the requirements of the Modular Electric Drive Kit (MEB). 3 is the first vehicle to be based on Volkswagen’s Modular Electric Drive Kit (MEB). —Danny Auerswald, head of plant of the Transparent Factory. together, was adapted.

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Electrek

AUGUST 22, 2024

We’ve seen a lot of electric bike conversion kits over the years, but none are quite as interesting-looking as the Clip kit. And now the company isn’t just standing out on the street, it’s also standing up and raising a $10M Series A funding round to expand its operations.

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Green Car Congress

MARCH 12, 2022

Wrightspeed is developing “Powertrain in a Crate” kits that are chassis-specific and can be installed locally where fleets operate, creating jobs and new technology opportunities for those supporting school bus, work truck and other fleets. Together, the companies intend to develop and sell repower kits to the addressable market.

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Green Car Congress

OCTOBER 11, 2022

The configurable OEM motor and inverter assembly is supplied with a kit of components comprising a power cable (500 mm long), communications cable, coolant pipe connectors, and motor installation instructions. The motor can be used to drive an existing gearbox directly or has the option of being connected to an OEM single-speed transmission.

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Baua Electric

APRIL 17, 2025

Honda Cars has started offering CNG kits with the Amaze and Elevate. However, these are retrofitted CNG kits that are installed at the dealer level. Honda says that these CNG kits are approved by the government. Honda has not made any cosmetic changes to the CNG-powered Amaze and Elevate.

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Green Fleet Magazine

OCTOBER 23, 2024

The customer experience program is making it easier for fleets to go electric with their new EV Starter Kit, designed to tackle the challenges of transitioning to electric vehicles.

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Green Car Congress

JULY 28, 2023

In June, CPKC and CSX Corporation announced their intent to enter into a joint venture for the building and deployment of hydrogen locomotive conversion kits for diesel electric locomotives. As an initial step in the collaboration, CSX plans to convert one of its diesel locomotives using a hydrogen conversion kit developed by CPKC.

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Electrek

DECEMBER 4, 2024

EV conversion specialist Electrogenic has introduced a new “plug-and-play” conversion kit for the Mazda MX-5 that makes the original model all-electric. This EV conversion kit keeps the soul of the beloved Mazda Miata, but adds more performance and playfulness to a car that is already renowned for being a joy to drive.

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Green Car Congress

AUGUST 23, 2019

Partners of the P2X Kopernikus project on the premises of Karlsruhe Institute of Technology (KIT) in Germany have demonstrated the production of fuel from air-captured CO2 using—for the first time—a container-based test facility integrating all four chemical process steps needed to implement a continuous process.

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Green Car Congress

FEBRUARY 8, 2023

The powertrain is in a configuration that closely resembles the company’s first product—a conversion kit for ATR 72-600 regional airliners—which is expected to be certified and in commercial passenger service starting in 2025. As the second-largest turboprop operator in the world, Air New Zealand is a trendsetter for the industry.

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Green Car Congress

JULY 13, 2020

Using X-rays from a synchrotron particle accelerator, scientists of the Karlsruhe Institute of Technology (KIT) have now been able to observe for the first time a catalyst during the Fischer-Tropsch reaction that facilitates the production of synthetic fuels under industrial conditions. Photo: Tiziana Carambia).

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Green Car Congress

JANUARY 2, 2023

From the consortium, the Karlsruhe Institute of Technology (KIT) and its Helmholtz Institute Ulm (HIU) play a pioneering role in the field of research on calcium batteries. With a non-corrosive boron-based electrolyte, KIT has laid the foundation for the further investigation of Ca batteries.

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Green Car Congress

MAY 3, 2023

The expanded agreement supports ongoing development and commercialized zero-emission versions of the Kenworth T680 and Peterbilt 579 models featuring Toyota’s hydrogen fuel cell powertrain kit, with initial customer deliveries planned for 2024. Earlier post.) Toyota will begin assembly of the modules in the United States in late 2023.

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Electrek

JUNE 26, 2024

The EV conversion experts at Electrogenic have introduced a new “plug and play” kit that can bring any sample of the original DeLorean into the future of electric mobility. It still can’t actually travel through time, though… more…

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Electrek

AUGUST 2, 2024

Solution: conversion kits, like the CLIP , which boasts the title of “the world’s first & only plug-and-play e-bike upgrade.” While many existing kits fall into the category of mountable hub motors, this device, on the other hand, uses inventive new ideas by building upon decades-old technology.

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Green Car Congress

OCTOBER 31, 2020

The repower kits are engineered by Lightning eMotors and will be installed by ABC technicians. In addition to delivering the first repowered motorcoach application and launching the Lightning eMotors EV Repower kit option, ABC will also debut its first fully battery-electric OEM-produced Van Hool motorcoach later in 2020, the Van Hool CX45E.

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Green Car Congress

AUGUST 9, 2020

Researchers at Karlsruhe Institute of Technology (KIT) and Jilin University in Changchun/China have investigated a highly promising anode material for future high-performance batteries: lithium lanthanum titanate with a perovskite crystal structure (LLTO).

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