Cars That Think

JUNE 12, 2023

Istanbul Technical University/IEEE “When the painted tag receives the radio frequency (RF) signals, it reflects some of the signals to establish an up-link with the smart phone reader while the smart phone establishes a down-link with the tag,” the researchers wrote in their paper.

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The Truth About Cars

OCTOBER 3, 2023

It has an extended range (320-mile) battery, popular equipment, and a price tag right at $70,000.& At risk of oversimplification, a heat pump takes ambient air, compresses it, and then uses the condenser’s heat to warm up the air it just grabbed from outside. Yes, I had to check the calendar to learn if this is April Fool’s Day.

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Green Car Congress

SEPTEMBER 30, 2015

Lord Drayson, CEO and Chairman of Drayson Technologies, introduced Freevolt: an energy harvesting technology that turns ambient radio frequency waves (RF) into usable electricity to charge low-power electronic devices. The patent-pending technology was developed by an international team from Drayson Technologies and Imperial College London.

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The Truth About Cars

DECEMBER 8, 2023

That process turned the 2023 Mercedes-Benz GLE 53 AMG from just another crossover into something that’s reasonably fun to drive – though the price tag will make eyes water. With destination, the price tag was $93,400. Slap the AMG badge on it and give it the AMG treatment. So, too, will AMG-massaged ride and handling.

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Green Car Congress

JUNE 16, 2010

The resulting products are liquid at ambient conditions and can thus be handled, stored, and transported easily. Until now, no homogeneous non-noble metal catalyst system is known for selective hydrogen generation from formic acid under ambient conditions. Tags: Biomass Catalysts Hydrogen Production Hydrogen Storage.

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Green Car Congress

SEPTEMBER 2, 2010

Researchers at the Institute of Bioengineering and Nanotechnology in Singapore have demonstrated the catalytic dehydration of fructose into 5-hydroxymethylfurfural (5-HMF) in an HCl–imidazolium ionic liquid (catalyst–solvent) system, in ambient conditions. Tags: Brief. and Zhang, Y. ChemSusChem doi: 10.1002/cssc.201000201.

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The Truth About Cars

APRIL 25, 2023

Few companies do interior ambient lighting like Mercedes, with the E-Class hosting ribbons of the stuff in a wide arc from the windscreen, past the A-pillars, and into the doors. Many markets will get to choose from an E 350 or E 450, models whose combustion engines now tag team an integrated starter-generator to create a mild hybrid system.

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Green Car Congress

JANUARY 13, 2010

ABuilding on the proposed stronger ambient air quality standards for ozone ( earlier post ), EPA will develop a strategy for a cleaner and more efficient power sector, with strong emission reduction goals for SO 2 , NO x , mercury and other air toxics. Tags: Brief. Improving Air Quality. Building Strong State and Tribal Partnerships.

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Green Car Congress

APRIL 3, 2009

The health effects of exposure to ambient PM include premature death, aggravation of respiratory and cardiovascular disease, aggravated asthma, acute respiratory symptoms, chronic bronchitis, decreased lung function, and increased risk of heart attacks. Tags: Brief. University of Iowa, Iowa City, Iowa, $899,401.

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Green Car Congress

AUGUST 27, 2010

A team at Penn State University has demonstrated that a previously developed method employing ionic liquids (ILs) together with a nonpolar solvent such as toluene can effect a separation of bitumen from oil sands in the Western US at ambient temperatures (~25 °C), although with greater difficulty than Canadian oil sands.

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Green Car Congress

SEPTEMBER 2, 2010

Ford has chosen an advanced active liquid-cooling and heating system to regulate the temperature of its lithium-ion battery packs, which are designed to operate under a range of ambient conditions. Tags: Brief. An active liquid system heats or chills a coolant before pumping it through the battery cooling system.

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Green Car Congress

MARCH 13, 2010

Toxic air pollutants such as benzene, 1,3-butadiene, styrene, xylenes, and toluene decreased by 5% or more per year between 2000 and 2005 at more than half of ambient monitoring sites. Tags: Brief. NO 2 , by 35%. 8-hour CO, by 68%. annual SO 2 , by 59%.

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Green Car Congress

OCTOBER 15, 2010

Advanced signal processing techniques will be developed to improve the characterization of the subsurface through ambient noise measurements and currently unused, incoherent parts of seismic data. Tags: Brief. Research will seek more efficient simulation methods to model hydrocarbon reservoirs.

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Green Car Congress

SEPTEMBER 29, 2009

While thermochemical reactions must be driven at relatively high temperatures that are normally obtained by burning fossil fuels, ERC operates at near ambient conditions and is driven by electric energy that could be taken from an electric power grid supplied by hydro, wind, solar or nuclear energy. Tags: Brief.

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Green Car Congress

JUNE 15, 2010

More efficient hydrosilylation reactions are catalyzed by N-heterocyclic carbenes (metal-free) at ambient temperature with turnover frequencies (TOFs) as high as 25.5 Tags: Brief. h -1 (based on Si-H), and methanol is produced from the hydrolysis of the initial reduction products. Sumit Chakraborty, Jie Zhang, Jeanette A.

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Baua Electric

APRIL 23, 2024

From here on out, new EVs from Benz will adopt the first names of their classic model lines, with their electric DNA tagged at the end. inches tall, the G EQ ladles on the electronica among its usual power features, open-pore wood and leather trim, and ambient lighting. Riding on a 113.8-inch inch wheelbase, at 182.0 inches long, 76.0

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Green Car Congress

APRIL 24, 2009

Numerous studies have determined that traffic pollution exacerbates asthma; this study explored the linkage of ambient air pollution to newly-diagnosed cases of asthma. Tags: Brief. The eight-year study followed 217 non-asthmatic children from a wide area of Southern California.

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Green Car Congress

JUNE 14, 2010

The team developed a simple model to calculate extra emissions and fuel consumption resulting from MAC activity as a function of ambient temperature and humidity: EEMAC, Empa Emission model for Mobile Air Conditioning systems. Tags: Emissions Fuel Efficiency Vehicle Systems. Article ASAP doi: 10.1021/es903654t.

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Green Car Congress

NOVEMBER 20, 2009

According to Rothen-Rutishauser and Riediker, “ Just as for exhaust particles, efforts to diminish brake particle emissions will lead to an improved ambient air quality and so could provide better protection of human health ”. Tags: Brief. Particle and Fibre Toxicology (in press).

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Green Car Congress

MAY 21, 2009

EPA Administrator Lisa Jackson has reinstated the role of a key policy document created by agency scientists (the Staff Paper) that contains staff analyses of options for the administrator to consider when setting National Ambient Air Quality Standards (NAAQS) to protect human health and the environment. Tags: Brief. Click to enlarge.

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Green Car Congress

APRIL 21, 2010

We did not study mixtures of higher concentrations because of the onset of liquid-liquid phase separation at ambient temperature. In this respect, the onset of phase separation at lower than ambient temperatures will require investigation. Tags: Brief. Energy Fuels 24 (4), pp 2758–2767 doi: 10.1021/ef100133a.

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Green Car Congress

AUGUST 27, 2009

It generated a huge body of data on the concentrations and the results show that, at times, the levels are up to 1000 times higher than in urban ambient conditions. Tags: Brief. What this study aimed to do was identify the concentration levels found in the tunnel. Professor Lidia Morawska, Queensland University of Technology.

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Green Car Congress

NOVEMBER 26, 2009

Among these methods, the conventional heating method requires longer reaction times with higher energy inputs and losses to the ambient. Tags: Brief. The super and subcritical methanol state operates in expensive reactors at high temperatures and pressures resulting in higher energy inputs and higher production costs.

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Green Car Congress

JANUARY 21, 2010

Ambient temp.: -40 Tags: Brief. Input voltage: 85-275 VAC. Input current: Max 14A. Output voltage. 295-421 VDC. Output Power: Max 3060W. Efficiency: 96% at 50% load, 95% at 100% load. Power density: >30W in 3. 40 to 60 °C. Control: CAN bus. Eltek Valere is offering two versions of its EV Powercharger: the 3000 and 3000IP.

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Green Car Congress

DECEMBER 11, 2009

Software currently used to enhance satellite images include the Carnegie Landsat Analysis System ( CLASlite ), created by Greg Asner of the Carnegie Institute of Science, as well as SAD (Sistema Alerta de Deforestation), created by Carlos Souza of the Instituto Do Homem E Meio Ambiente Da Amazonia ( IMAZON ).

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Green Car Congress

APRIL 2, 2009

Operation without any decrease in performance over an ambient temperature range of -22 to 122 degrees Fahrenheit with a relative humidity of up to 95%. Tags: Brief. Manual reset capabilities on the EVSE with instructions to enable the end user to reset the EVSE in the even of an over current or leakage/ground current interruption.

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Green Car Congress

NOVEMBER 18, 2009

EPA is also proposing changes to the ambient air monitoring and reporting requirements for SO 2. EPA first set National Ambient Air Quality Standards (NAAQS) for SO 2 in 1971, establishing both a primary standard to protect health and a secondary standard to protect the public welfare. Tags: Emissions Power Generation.

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Clean Fleet Report

AUGUST 27, 2023

As a design concept it includes LED ambient lighting, a large passenger cabin with a flat floor and luxury appointments throughout. A rare one Summary These cars carry a hefty price tag, but owning or even driving one would be on many a bucket list. Only 80 21C Vmax will be built with a base price of $2,800,000.

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Green Car Congress

JANUARY 12, 2010

RTP rapidly heats biomass at ambient pressure to generate high yields of pourable, liquid pyrolysis oil. Tags: Bio-hydrocarbons Biomass. The demonstration unit will employ the RTP rapid thermal processing technology developed by Ensyn Corp. The UOP award was one of five made by the DOE in this area. Earlier post.).

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Green Car Congress

SEPTEMBER 16, 2009

Earlier this year, EPA Administrator Lisa Jackson reinstated the role of a key policy document created by agency scientists (the Staff Paper) that contains staff analyses of options for the administrator to consider when setting National Ambient Air Quality Standards (NAAQS) to protect human health and the environment. Tags: Brief.

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Green Car Congress

OCTOBER 8, 2010

Testers also subjected the cord set connector to ambient extreme temperature increases. Tags: Brief. For every thousand insertions, testers dunked the plug into a sandy salt water solution to add grit to the connectors and they repeatedly dropped the handle and rolled over it with a car tire to test its durability.

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Green Car Congress

JULY 15, 2009

Tossell’s new computer modeling studies found that the molecule might be well-suited for removing carbon dioxide directly from ambient air, in addition to its previously described potential use as an absorbent for CO 2 from electric power plant and other smokestacks. Tags: Carbon Capture and Storage (CCS) Climate Change.

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Green Car Congress

MARCH 2, 2010

Containment of CO 2 at the test site will also be monitored in the ambient air, soil, and vegetation. Tags: Brief. The Citronelle project is currently in its second phase, which includes injection, associated validation of models, and determination of oil-CO 2 mixture properties. Southern Company, (Birmingham, Ala.);

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Green Car Congress

APRIL 5, 2010

Tags: Biomass Catalysts Cellulosic ethanol Fuels. Article Yuetao Zhang, Hongbo Du, Xianghong Qian and Eugene Y.-X. Chen (2010) Ionic Liquid-Water Mixtures: Enhanced Kw for Efficient Cellulosic Biomass Conversion. Energy Fuels , Article ASAP doi: 10.1021/ef1000198.

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Green Car Congress

MAY 14, 2009

The exact difference depends on factors such as driving style, ambient temperature and variations in fuel specification. Tags: Engines Ethanol. This is an improvement of about 5% for the manual versions and almost 6% for cars with automatic transmission. The Flexifuel variants of the Volvo S40, V50 and C30 have a four-cylinder 1.8-liter

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FEBRUARY 3, 2010

In addition, once the electric field is removed, hydrogen desorbs, making the process reversible with fast kinetics under ambient conditions. Tags: Hydrogen Storage. This work will help researchers create an entirely new way to store hydrogen and find materials that are most suitable. Resources. Jena, and X. PNAS doi: 10.1073/pnas.0905571107.

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Green Cars News

JUNE 15, 2010

Researchers at Empa in Switzerland looked into the impact of mobile air conditioning on fuel consumption and pollutant emissions of diesel cars and confirmed that they remain running at ambient temperatures below the desired temperature [.].

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