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MARCH 27, 2012

BMW Group and Toyota Motor Corporation (TMC) have signed an agreement on collaborative research in the field of next-generation lithium-ion battery cells and have begun said research. liter diesel engines to TME starting in 2014. liter diesel engines to TME starting in 2014. Earlier post.). Earlier post.). liter and 2.0

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JUNE 29, 2012

Akio Toyoda, President of Toyota Motor Corporation (TMC), met with Norbert Reithofer, Chairman of the Board of Management of BMW AG, at BMW Group headquarters in Munich for the signing. At the BMW Group, we refer to this as “iconic change”. BMW and Toyota both want to make ever-better cars. Earlier post.). Earlier post.).

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JANUARY 24, 2013

BMW Group and Toyota Motor Corporation (TMC) signed binding agreements aimed at long-term collaboration between the two companies for the joint development of a hydrogen fuel cell system; joint development of architecture and components for a sports vehicle; and joint research and development of lightweight technologies. Earlier post.).

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FEBRUARY 10, 2011

BMW will stage the world premiere of the BMW ActiveE at the upcoming Geneva Motor Show. Based on the current BMW 1 Series Coupé, the BMW ActiveE is the second electric test vehicle to be created by the BMW Group. The company had unveiled the Concept ActiveE at the North American International Auto Show in 2010.

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JUNE 30, 2010

an international provider of mechatronic drive and pump solutions will supply brushless pump drives to Inergy Automotive Systems, a global Tier One automotive supplier of complete plastic fuel systems, energy and fluid storage technologies. Buehler Motor, Inc., Specific vehicle models have not been determined. Buehler Motor, Inc.,

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AUGUST 20, 2012

developer of a low-cost hybrid electric powertrain designed specifically for class 1 to 3 commercial fleet use ( earlier post ), signed a one-year supply agreement with Johnson Controls, Inc. Pack assembly began in September, 2010, with cell production starting in the summer of 2011. XL Hybrids, Inc.,

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FEBRUARY 7, 2011

Scientists from the Technische Universität München (TUM) are collaborating with engineers from BMW to develop the means to replace copper with aluminum as a conductor in on-board power systems. The results are to be incorporated in the TUM electro vehicle MUTE, which will be presented at the IAA 2011. Click to enlarge.

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JULY 10, 2018

The decision for Germany fell, among other things, to: Proximity to the customer, to understand local market requirements and to respond more quickly to customer needs; Offering BMW, Daimler and VW locally produced solutions; and. CATL) was founded in 2011 and listed on the stock exchange in 2018. Contemporary Amperex Technology Ltd.

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JULY 10, 2018

The decision for Germany fell, among other things, to: Proximity to the customer, to understand local market requirements and to respond more quickly to customer needs; Offering BMW, Daimler and VW locally produced solutions; and. CATL) was founded in 2011 and listed on the stock exchange in 2018. Contemporary Amperex Technology Ltd.

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MAY 17, 2015

With the 2016 XC90 ( earlier post ) heading to dealerships across the US, Volvo Cars gave media an opportunity to experience the next generation of its full-size luxury SUV—in both its conventional T6 and plug-in hybrid T8 Drive-E Twin Engine forms—in and around Los Angeles. Volvo XC90 T8 Twin Engine. BMW X5 xDrive 40e.

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Secretive hiring took place at the time, and it was rumored high-level automotive engineers joined the company. Shortly thereafter an Apple board member stated Apple’s co-founder Steve Jobs (1955-2011) suggested the company could build an EV around the time Tesla arrived on the automotive scene in 2008.

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MAY 21, 2015

Back-up systems are also available for the two test vehicles’ power supply and vital ECUs. Since 2011, Bosch has had two teams on two continents working on automated driving. At the Abstatt location in Germany, Bosch engineers are working on system integration.

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DECEMBER 21, 2010

The California South Coast Air Quality Management District (AQMD) has awarded AC Propulsion a $300,000 grant to integrate its electric drive system technology into commercial service vans ( three Ford E250 vans supplied by Comcast) in Southern California. The first conversion vehicle is slated for road testing in early summer 2011.

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SEPTEMBER 11, 2013

Partnering with Tenneco and Gentherm are BMW and Ford, as well as CalTech and NREL. Gentherm is supplying modular, cylindrical-shaped thermoelectric cartridges that convert waste heat from the exhaust into electricity. Total funding for the 4-year project, which started in October 2011, is $15,794,813; DOE’s share is $9,553,950.

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JULY 2, 2012

Add various other functions such as the Electric Power Steering (EPS), Electronic Braking Systems (EBS), GPS-based Navigation unit, and Engine Management Systems and the Electrical and Electronic (E/E) architecture becomes highly complicated. However, currently all of these are tied to a simple 12V on-board power supply.

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Green Cars News

DECEMBER 3, 2009

If you thought BMW was about to bring environmentally responsible driving to the average Joe, then you might be a touch disappointed with the price tag slapped on the 2011 ActiveHybrid 7 models. The vehicles made their North American debut at the Los Angeles International Auto Show ahead of arriving in showrooms from spring 2011.

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AUGUST 13, 2013

Drawing from a 2012 BMW patent application showing one embodiment of a proposed method to increase the efficiency of an electric motor. Source: BMW patent application Nº 2012/0267977. The 50 kg electric motor powering the BMW i3 generates a maximum output of 125 kW for a specific power (SP) of 2.5 BMW’s approach.

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JULY 8, 2010

With these products, plus the lithium-ion batteries that are developed in the SB LiMotive joint venture set up with Samsung, Bosch is now in a position to supply the entire electric powertrain—from the energy storage medium to the electric motor. Large-scale series production of battery cells to begin in 2011.

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JANUARY 8, 2014

Broadly, Navigant expects expansion in both the higher end of the market (thereby putting competitive pressure on Tesla Motors), as Audi, BMW, Cadillac, Mercedes, Saab, and Volvo introduce their first plug-in cars. The luxury internal combustion engine (ICE) motorcycle market may be growing in both the United States and Europe, as well.

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JULY 30, 2013

In a simultaneous—and video linked—unveil in New York, London and Beijing, BMW introduced the production version of its i3 battery-electric vehicle on Monday. The BMW i3 uses the BMW eDrive rear-wheel drive powertrain previously found on the BMW ActiveE (but the i3 is significantly lighter). Earlier post.)

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LiveWire motorcycles are not really Harleys, the thought goes, although they will share engineering, production facilities, a supply chain and global logistics. Good examples of all-new electric cars are the Nissan Leaf battery-electric and the Chevrolet Volt plug-in hybrid , which both debuted in 2010 as 2011 models.

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APRIL 19, 2011

Paul Ferraiolo, Manager, Product Planning & Strategy, BMW NA with the new TwinPower Turbo 4-cylinder engine at a news conference in New York. Following the announcement in February of the return of a 4-cylinder engine to the US BMW line-up, BMW announced that the new 2.0-liter Click to enlarge.

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JULY 2, 2011

At BMW Motorrad Innovation Day 2011, BMW highlighted its latest concept electric-drive E-Scooter. BMW Motorrad earlier developed an electric study vehicle, the C1-E, as a contribution to the European safety project eSUM. Unlike existing maxi scooters with combustion engines, the concept vehicle does not have a main frame.

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FEBRUARY 6, 2024

For EVs to deliver their full emission-reducing potential, the battery supply chain must be as clean as possible, and cathode active materials (CAM) are a key part of the sustainability equation. Total emissions over the lifetime of an electric vehicle are considerably lower than those of an internal combustion engine.

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JUNE 25, 2012

The Crescent Corridor is a 2,500-mile (4,023-km) rail network supporting the supply chain from Memphis and New Orleans to New Jersey. The proposed system uses a very small starter battery, the sole function of which is to start the engine. Axion has been working with BMW since 2009, and is currently in vehicle testing.

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FEBRUARY 6, 2024

For EVs to deliver their full emission-reducing potential, the battery supply chain must be as clean as possible, and cathode active materials (CAM) are a key part of the sustainability equation. Total emissions over the lifetime of an electric vehicle are considerably lower than those of an internal combustion engine.

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OCTOBER 1, 2021

Deciding that the future of transportation, and therefore their survival, will be based on EVs, many of the top auto companies have promised to end production of their internal combustion engine (ICE) vehicles by 2035, if not earlier. The systems and software engineering challenges are materially more demanding.

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AUGUST 21, 2013

The Model S also earned the lowest combined total Vehicle Safety Score (VSS) achieved by any vehicle that has undergone that testing since 2011: 0.42. The most recent update to maintain the relevance and effectiveness of NCAP was in model year 2011. The VSS unites the weighted risk assessments from all the tests. Source: Tesla Motors.

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SEPTEMBER 14, 2010

As the second half of the twelve-month MINI E field trial begins in the UK this week, BMW has released an overview of the outcome of interviews and objective data collected from the first three months of the December to June 2010 phase of the trial. These are characteristics that the future Megacity vehicle will address, BMW said.

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JULY 17, 2015

The PHEV (Plug-in Hybrid Electric Vehicle), a subset of the electric car, combines a primary electric motor with a much smaller back-up engine fueled with a hydrocarbon/biofuel mix. (In Engineering Advantages of PHEV. Engineering Advantages of the PHEV. This engineering solution allows versatility. Table of Contents.

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DECEMBER 1, 2015

Electronic Stability Control, Traction Control, and Anti-Lock Braking—exercise control over engine power, and may automatically apply and release brakes on each wheel independently. Some systems allow “torque vectoring”—directing drive torque from the engine more to one output shaft of a differential than to the other.

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APRIL 21, 2009

Home Business Industry Sectors Engineering MY PROFILE SHOP JOBS PROPERTY CLASSIFIEDS From The Sunday Times April 19, 2009 Slow start for charge of the electric cars Ray Hutton Electric cars need a boost. Car buyers were less enthusiastic. to charge overnight. The electric Mini is unlikely to go into production in its present form.

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