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Availability begins in Spring 2014 at several Southern California Hyundai dealers. Also at the LA Auto Show, the new Honda FCEV Concept made its world debut. The concept expresses a potential styling direction for Honda’s next-generation fuel-cell vehicle anticipated to launch in the US and Japan in 2015, followed by Europe.
RMIT University (Australia) researchers have developed a concept battery based on storing protons produced by splitting water—a reversible fuel cell with integrated solid proton storage electrode. The concept integrates a composite metal hydride–nafion electrode into a reversible proton exchange membrane (PEM) fuel cell.
Citroën Cactus concept with Airbumps (not related to the Hybrid Air powertrain). At the upcoming Frankfurt Motor Show, Citroën will showcase its Cactus C-segment concept car, featuring, among other technologies, the Hybrid Air powertrain co-developed by PSA Peugeot Citroën and Bosch. Click to enlarge. Earlier post.).
A complex set of rules assesses the various technical concepts. In addition to the new, more efficient internal combustion engine, the 2014 R18 powertrain concept, for the first time, features the integration of two hybrid systems: ERS-K and ERS-H. A pair of driveshafts connect the system to the front axle.
At the Manhattan stop on its year-long “Born Electric” World Tour, BMW i featured the BMW i8 Concept Roadster—shown for the first time in North America—and the BMW i3 Concept. i3 Concept. A single-speed gearbox sends the power to the rear wheels and accelerates the BMW i3 Concept to a top speed of 150 km/h (93 mph).
2014 Cadillac ELR Click to enlarge. Cadillac unveiled the anticipated 2014 ELR extended range electric (EREV) vehicle (based on the Converj concept, earlier post ) at the North American International Auto Show. Sales start early in 2014 in North America, expanding to global markets including China and Europe.
Israel-based NewCO2Fuels (NCF), a subsidiary of GreenEarth Energy Limited in Australia, reported completion of stage 1 testing of its proof-of-concept system for the conversion of CO 2 into fuels using solar energy. Concept of the NCF process. NewCO2Fuels was founded in 2011 to commercialize a technology developed by Prof.
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Statoil and its partners have chosen a development concept for the Skrugard field in the Barents Sea in the Arctic. The concept includes a floating production unit with a pipeline to shore and a terminal for oil from the Skrugard field at Veidnes outside Honningsvåg in Finnmark. Earlier post.) Earlier post.) Click to enlarge.
The Emerald Ace is equipped with a hybrid electric power supply system that combines a 160 kW solar generation system—jointly developed by MHI, Energy Company of Panasonic Group, and MOL—with lithium-ion batteries that can store some 2.2 MWh of electricity.
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Johnson Matthey’s new CSC stores HC and NO x at low temperatures with very high storage efficiencies, and also converts a significant portion of the stored HC/NO x during the warm-up period before the rest of the HC/NO x is thermally released from the catalyst. Resources (DOE will publish Merit Review presentations on its website.).
General Motors and its joint ventures sold a record 3,539,970 vehicles in China in 2014, an average of one vehicle every 9 seconds and almost 9,700 vehicles each day. GM ended 2014 with more than 4,530 dealerships nationwide. GM’s sales were up 12.0% from the previous high of 3,160,377 vehicles sold in 2013. to 164,258 units.
Engineers at the University of California, San Diego, have created new ceramic materials that could be used to store hydrogen safely and efficiently. To store hydrogen, the researchers would swap the calcium, strontium and boron with hydrogen atoms within the cage. The work is at the proof of concept stage and is part of a $1.2-million
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Audi R18 e-tron quattro 2014. Audi has released initial details on its new 2014-generation Audi R18 e-tron quattro LMP1 Le Mans prototype racer. With the new R18, Audi Sport has opted for a similar concept as in the past—albeit with new detailed solutions and an additional hybrid system. Click to enlarge.
Mats Johansson at Sweden’s KTH Royal Institute of Technology says the work is about improving the mechanical properties of batteries so that it not only stores energy but is part of the design. For example, he suggests, the hood of the car could be part of the battery. In this €3.4-million million (US$4.7-million) Earlier post.). 2013.11.056.
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Hyundai Motor is showcasing two new turbocharged gasoline direct injected (T-GDI) engines at the Paris Motor Show 2014. In addition, Hyundai is premiering at the Paris show its first 7-speed dual-clutch transmission, fitted into the i30 CNG natural gas concept car, which contributes to improved fuel efficiency. Click to enlarge.
Engineers at the University of California, San Diego, have created new ceramic materials that could be used to store hydrogen safely and efficiently. To store hydrogen, the researchers would swap the calcium, strontium and boron with hydrogen atoms within the cage. The work is at the proof of concept stage and is part of a $1.2-million
In a paper on the OBS presented at the SAE 2014 World Congress, the researchers suggested that potential applications include downsizing to increase fuel economy by ?10% Vapors are condensed by cooling, and the HiRON fuel is stored until needed. 2014) “Onboard Gasoline Separation for Improved Vehicle Efficiency,” SAE Int.
The 2014 Mazda6 sedan made its North American debut at the Los Angeles Auto Show. The 2014 Mazda6 also will be the first production vehicle to feature Mazda’s capacitor-based brake energy regeneration system called i-ELOOP, featuring a new 25V variable voltage alternator. Click to enlarge.
Concept of hydrogen generation, storage and release using LOHCs. Instead of storing hydrogen either under high pressure of up to 700 bar or in liquid form at –253 °C, Hydrogenious’ technology catalytically binds and releases the hydrogen molecules to liquid organic hydrogen carriers (LOHCs). Click to enlarge.
Air can be turned into a liquid by cooling it to around -196 °C using standard industrial equipment; 700 liters of ambient air becomes about 1 liter of liquid air, which can then be stored in an unpressurised insulated vessel. MDI, earlier post ) expand compressed air from an ambient temperature store to create drive.
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In a demonstration of its ongoing development of advanced alternative powertrains, Audi unveiled the new h-tron quattro fuel cell concept vehicle at the North American International Auto Show (NAIAS). The Audi h-tron quattro concept combines an Audi fifth-generation fuel cell stack delivering up to 110 kW with a power-optimized 1.8
The Audi RS 5 TDI competition concept rounded the 3.6 results of a gasoline-fueled 2014 Chevrolet Corvette Stingray. The Audi RS 5 TDI competition concept is based on a technical concept car that Audi presented in summer 2014 on the 25 th anniversary of the TDI engine. The competition concept car’s 3.0
2014 Mazda3. Mazda unveiled the redesigned 2014 Mazda3 (known as the Axela in Japan) in a series of launch events world-wide. For the North American market, the 2014 Mazda3 will be offered with two engine choices: the currently-offered SKYACTIV-G 2.0-liter liter gasoline engine, as fitted to the CX-5 and 2014 Mazda6.
The third claim, that producing fuels from CO 2 presents a route to storing renewable energy could not be completely supported or countered from the results, they concluded. Producing fuels from CO 2 by using solar electricity converts solar energy into easily stored chemical energy. —van der Giesen et al.
In 2014, it will not be the fastest car that wins the World Endurance Championship series and the 24 hours of Le Mans, rather it will be the car that goes the furthest with a defined amount of energy. The high efficiency of the Porsche 919 Hybrid is the result of a balanced overall concept. Click to enlarge. Click to enlarge.
In addition to developing advanced materials for lithium-ion batteries, BASF is also researching future battery concepts such as lithium-sulfur and lithium-air. As an example, the company is working with Sion Power to develop lithium-sulfur technology with a mid-term goal of tripling the energy stored in the battery per weight.
The basic concept of the integrated solar battery is to use the contribution of the photovoltage to reduce greatly the charging overpotential caused by the difficulty in efficiently electrochemically decomposing lithium peroxide (Li 2 O 2 ), the discharge product formed on the oxygen electrode. Their hybrid design uses only three.
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Suppes and his colleagues initially validated their concept of the convection cell using a zinc-alkaline chemistry. For instance, higher power output is possible with the flow (reported to 500 mA/ cm 2 ) of electrolyte when one of the reagents is stored in the electrolyte. In the paper reporting that work (Suppes et al. Resources.
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In a paper published in Nature Communications , the researchers suggest that this simple hybrid concept may also provide scientific strategies for protecting metal anodes in other energy-storage devices. Using this anode concept, the hybrid Li–S cell delivers a reversible capacity of 4900 mAh g -1 at 1,370 mA g -1 (~0.8 —Jun Liu.
The Proving Factory is a UK collaborative project designed to bridge the market gap between technology developers making innovative, low-carbon “proof of concept” prototypes, and the need to develop vehicle manufacturer’s confidence in the new technology by providing volume supply.). Source: Magnomatics. Click to enlarge. MAGSPLIT principle.
Cryo-compressed hydrogen storage, being developed by the BMW Group based on its long experience with cryogenic storage, involves storing gaseous hydrogen at low temperature on board the vehicle at a pressure of up to 350 bar. BMW worked with LLNL in the development of a prrof-of-concept and in the review of the technology. Resources.
Poplars are dense, easy to store, and they flourish on marginal lands not suitable for food crops, making them a non-competing and sustainable source of biofuel. Ralph (2014) “Monolignol Ferulate Transferase Introduces Chemically Labile Linkages into the Lignin Backbone,” Science 344 (6179), 90-93 doi: 10.1126/science.1250161.
The project has also produced a proof of concept test rig used to demonstrate the technology to rail industry stakeholders and a concept for integration onto a Bombardier Turbostar DMU. The proof of concept demonstration test rig was a scaled-down version of the DMU architecture, based on a single 220kJ TorqStor. Earlier post.)
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Differing from conventional batteries, which comprise alkali-metal-containing intercalation or insertion materials as electrodes in a closed system, this novel concept gains its active material from seawater, which is circulated in the open cathode. M NaClO 4 in ethylene carbonate/DEC) for 1 day and washed by DEC for the stored Sn-C anode.
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