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KIT team produces synthetic natural gas from waste wood; used in natural gas vehicles

Green Car Congress

Researchers from the Karlsruhe Institute of Technology (KIT) have successfully produced renewable methane from a biomass-based synthesis gas mixture in their pilot plant for methanation using a new honeycomb catalyst. —Felix Ortloff, Head of the Process Engineering group of the DVGW Research Centre at KIT’s Engler-Bunte Institute (EBI).

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Electric Vehicle Spotlight (EVS): Opibus is helping electrify Africa

Electrek

Our latest EVS is on Opibus, a company headquartered in Kenya that was born out of a research project in Sweden. By focusing on all-electric conversion kits for fleet vehicles, as well as manufacturing electric motorcycles and energy systems, Opibus is on a mission to implement clean electric mobility in the emerging markets of Africa.

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Volvo Penta starts production of E-driveline for world’s first serial electric fire truck

Green Car Congress

Now the first electric drivelines have entered the production stage at the Volvo Penta Vara plant in Sweden. Here the ACU is manufactured, and the system is kitted—loaded with software and packed together—to make installation as straightforward as possible for the customer.

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Video Friday: TurtleBot 4

Cars That Think

Our small development kit (housing an FPGA) sat on top of the robot dog guides Hopper, using Opteran See to provide 360 degrees of stabilised vision, and Opteran Sense to sense objects and avoid collisions. ROAM Lab ] The AirLab at CMU has been hosting an excellent series on SLAM.

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What If Europe Loses Russian Natural Gas?

Cars That Think

The European countries where heat pumps are most used are some of the coldest, including Norway, Sweden, and Finland, where more than 40 percent of homes use heat pumps. But Rosenow explains that “there is a shortage of installers in Europe; there is a shortage of kit.”

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Five Hyundai ix35 Fuel Cell vehicles joining London hydrogen project

Green Car Congress

Kit Malthouse, London Deputy Mayor for Business and Enterprise and Chairman of the London Hydrogen Partnership. The white ix35 was the first of 17 examples destined for fleet customers in Copenhagen, Denmark and Skane, Sweden where local authorities have started an extensive hydrogen project.

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The promise of wireless charging: smaller batteries, longer battery life, fewer charging stations

Charged EVs

Underneath, EV electrical architectures share a lot in common, and our integrations are actually very straightforward, whether it’s an aftermarket accessory as a kit or, as we’re doing with Volvo Cars, an OEM-installed solution. John Holland: You know about our Oslo taxi projects, and our Volvo taxi project in Gothenburg, Sweden.