Green Car Congress

SEPTEMBER 29, 2011

At 48 volts, a VTES electric supercharger will transform 7kW of battery power into a highly boosted charge of air for downsized gasoline and diesel engines. There will be no torque deficit or other tradeoffs from essential engine downsizing and higher gearing, which now dominates the development of internal combustion engines.

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Green Car Congress

OCTOBER 9, 2012

As a result of progress made during an on-going Hightech.NRW research project involving engineers from the Ford European Research Centre, production time for an individual carbon fiber hood is fast enough to be employed on a production line—a significant step towards increased usage of lightweight materials in Ford vehicles.

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Green Car Congress

NOVEMBER 3, 2022

Our fast-charging technology works for most energy-dense batteries and will open a new possibility to downsize electric vehicle batteries from 150 to 50 kWh without causing drivers to feel range anxiety. Keeping batteries consistently at just the right temperature has been major challenge for battery engineers.

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Green Car Congress

JUNE 16, 2011

According to its estimates, adopting the full combination of improved technologies in medium and large cars and pickup trucks with spark-ignition engines could reduce fuel consumption by 29% at an additional cost of $2,200 to the consumer. Others include: Stoichiometric direct injection typically affords a 1.5

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Green Car Congress

MARCH 27, 2020

For the past four years, the Co-Optimization of Fuels & Engines (Co-Optima) National Laboratory consortium has focused research efforts primarily on turbocharged (boosted) spark-ignition (SI) engines for light-duty vehicles. The report highlights researchers’ answers to three vital questions: What fuels do engines want?

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Green Car Congress

NOVEMBER 30, 2009

The HyBoost project ( earlier post ), a two-year collaborative research program led by Ricardo in partnership with Controlled Power Technologies, the European Advanced Lead Acid Battery Consortium, Ford, Imperial College London, and Valeo, aims to demonstrate a very cost-effective, ultra-efficient gasoline engine in a C-segment passenger car.

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Green Car Congress

JUNE 29, 2016

The concept of “intelligent electrification” enables highly aggressive engine downsizing and down-speeding beyond what might normally be possible other than through more expensive hybridization approaches. Ricardo believes the above package is very competitive with other fuel economy solutions such as full hybridization.

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Green Car Congress

FEBRUARY 17, 2009

Renault is currently working on the development of low-emission and zero-CO 2 emissions vehicles in what it calls “ a determined bid ” to introduce as many effective technologies as possible at an affordable price. Conventional combustion engines. Renault is developing a new family of modular TCe gasoline engines. liter bracket.

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Green Car Congress

APRIL 3, 2017

In separate presentations at the 2017 SAE High Efficiency IC Engine Symposium in Detroit, R&D executives from GM and Ford each stressed the importance of improved, advanced fuels—among other technology developments—for their future engine efficiency gains and for long-term CO 2 emissions goals. —David Brooks.

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Green Car Congress

DECEMBER 17, 2015

The US Department of Energy, Office of Energy Efficiency and Renewable Energy’s (EERE) Bioenergy Technologies Office (BETO) and Vehicle Technologies Office (VTO) have released a request for information (RFI) ( DE-FOA-0001460 ) titled “Co-Optimization of Fuels and Engines” (Optima). Earlier post.)

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Green Car Congress

OCTOBER 26, 2017

THOMSON partners will demonstrate how the right combination of advanced engine downsizing/turbocharging technologies, coupled with a 48V motor-generator system, can provide the most cost effective solution for a rapid electrification through conventional vehicles. —Steve Sapsford, director of business strategy, Ricardo.

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Green Car Congress

MAY 9, 2012

Engine downsizing and downspeeding are two strategies that can be applied to gasoline and diesel engines to improve vehicle fuel economy. inline four-cylinder engine with a development-level Tier 2 Bin 5 calibration. The team first tested the base turbocharged engine.

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Green Car Congress

APRIL 2, 2014

The V-Charge variable drive supercharger allows smaller engines to provide the drive feel of a larger unit, enabling downsizing without compromising driveability. Called S-CONTACCT, the program, with a total project value of £3.8 million (US$6.3 Earlier post.). —Torotrak chief executive Jeremy Deering.

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Green Car Congress

NOVEMBER 8, 2011

From a “well-to-wheel” perspective, high efficient gasoline and diesel engines are nearly as energy efficient as any technology available. The quickest and most cost-effective way to achieve our energy usage goals is through faster adoption of fuel-efficient downsized gasoline and diesel engines. They determined that only 3.9

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Green Car Congress

AUGUST 1, 2016

The US Department of Energy (DOE) will award up to $7 million in project funding to accelerate the introduction of affordable, scalable, and sustainable high-performance fuels for use in high-efficiency, low-emission engines as part of the Co-Optimization of Fuels and Engines (Co-Optima) initiative. Earlier post.).

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Green Cars News

MAY 13, 2010

In a partnership to be known as Rotrak, Torotrak’s variable speed traction drive will combine with Rotrex’s supercharging technology to help provide affordable engine downsizing technologies to the automotive industry. Currently, vehicle manufacturers [.].

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Green Car Congress

JUNE 19, 2019

The ACeDrive project will deliver a complete system that combines a downsized electric motor, optimized transmission and high-frequency inverter within a single unit, enabling shared cooling and a remarkably compact housing.

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Green Car Congress

JANUARY 5, 2012

In last year’s KPMG survey, execs told us it would be more than five years before the industry is able to offer an electric vehicle that is as affordable as traditional fuel vehicles for mainstream buyers. —Gary Silberg. Despite the investment and effort on electric platforms, 61% of executives say the optimization (e.g.,

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Green Car Congress

NOVEMBER 28, 2016

In October 2015, the US Department of Energy’s (DOE) launched a broad, joint effort to co-optimize the development of efficient engines and low greenhouse-gas fuels for on-road vehicles with the goal of reducing petroleum consumption by 30% by 2030 beyond what is already targeted. How do engine parameters affect efficiency?

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Green Car Congress

MARCH 7, 2019

The selected projects will focus on reducing the total cost of ownership of NGVs, increasing vehicle efficiency, decreasing local air pollution, and advancing technology development to increase the use of more affordable medium- and heavy-duty natural gas engines and vehicles. Cummins Inc.

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Green Car Congress

APRIL 2, 2020

On 31 March, the US Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) and the National Highway Traffic Safety Administration (NHTSA) released the final rule for The Safer Affordable Fuel-Efficient (SAFE) Vehicles for Model Years 2021-2026. The final rule requires a 1.5% mpg and 199 g/mile CO 2 in 2026. Earlier post.).

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Green Car Congress

MAY 7, 2010

General results included: New benchmark in weight reduction achieved through Advanced High-Strength Steel optimized structures, enabling powertrain downsizing for affordable electrified vehicles. Portfolio of innovative steel solutions that apply to full range of electrified or internal combustion engine vehicles.

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Green Car Congress

DECEMBER 1, 2014

This means that in addition the power demand is more difficult to achieve with engine downsizing and transmission down-speeding alone. mph] and potentially to provide torque assist at other road speeds including during engine-off coasting. The WLTP is significantly more dynamic with faster acceleration rates.

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Green Car Congress

JANUARY 31, 2011

The first element of a long-term fuel strategy should be ongoing efforts to increase the energy efficiency of all transport operations as well as vehicles, through implementation of such options as downsizing, direct injection, charging and engine displacement reduction and the utilization of new efficient combustion systems.

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Green Car Congress

AUGUST 24, 2018

The layout of Prototype 10 suggests the approach that Infiniti will take in engineering its new cars. Infiniti’s EV and e-POWER hybrid powertrains offer greater packaging flexibility for Infiniti engineers, and afford new creative freedom in design.

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Baua Electric

MAY 29, 2024

VW gets on board with affordable EVs. Toyota, Subaru, and Mazda commit to a new generation of engines. And Cadillac’s most affordable EV makes its debut. Toyota, Subaru, and Mazda are allying to build downsized engines for hybrid models —engines that would potentially burn hydrogen or e-fuels in addition to gasoline.

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Green Car Congress

MARCH 1, 2016

Each area represents technological advances by Nissan – safety innovations through autonomous technology such as high-stability control and high-reliability drive systems; high-efficiency powertrains, including alternative and conventional fuel engines with advanced transmissions; and energy management solutions. Nissan Intelligent Driving.

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Green Car Congress

AUGUST 16, 2016

will design and develop a new more-efficient engine and advanced drivetrain and vehicle technologies. will design and develop a vehicle and powertrain with electrified engine components that can enable higher engine efficiency and a significantly more aerodynamically reengineered cab. Texas A&M Engineering Experiment Station.

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The Truth About Cars

APRIL 10, 2023

From the time John DeLorean and his Pontiac co-conspirators created the 1962 Grand Prix until the very last W-Body Grand Prix appeared a couple of years before Pontiac's demise , millions of North American car shoppers eagerly purchased the affordable sportiness of the Grand Prix. For the 1978 model year, the GM A-Bodies got downsized.

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Green Car Congress

JUNE 30, 2017

As the limit in downsizing metal morphology, the concept of single-atom catalysts (SACs) has emerged since it maximizes the exposed atom efficiency. . … much effort has been devoted to replacing the Pt-based electrocatalysts for ORR, and especially for use in acid media which is a required condition of PEMFCs. Tour is the T.T.

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Green Cars News

MAY 18, 2009

With the addition of the all-new EcoBoost engine, the new 2010 Lincoln MKS feature a powertrain that produces a combination of V-8 power and V-6 fuel economy. liter EcoBoost V-6 engine for the 2010 model year. “We do this with affordable technology that can be applied to the widest number of vehicles. .

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The Truth About Cars

MAY 31, 2024

The event was hosted by a trio of Japanese CEOs and their top engineers to explain to the world how they planned on tackling emissions regulations without being overwhelmingly reliant on battery electric automobiles. That was its plan for cleaner, downsized 1.4-liter liter and 2.0-liter

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The Truth About Cars

AUGUST 7, 2024

This is especially true considering the now-discontinued LX/LD platform was comparatively affordable due to having been around so long. Electric vehicles (EVs) have been depreciating faster than their internal combustion engine (ICE) counterparts. These prices do not include the additional $1,595 destination fee.

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Cars That Think

MARCH 12, 2023

Instead, Lucid leaders see a bright future in cars that aim for maximum efficiency — rather than range per se — via smaller, more-affordable batteries. Extrapolating from company targets, a future compact-size Lucid—think the size of Tesla Model 3 or Model Y—could decisively downsize its battery without sacrificing useful range.

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Green Cars News

DECEMBER 1, 2009

Known as the HyBoost project, this two-year research programme announced recently by the Technology Strategy Board, aims to demonstrate a cost-effective, ultra-efficient petrol engine in a C-segment passenger car. It hopes to produce a car that offers the performance of a 2.0litre model while keeping CO2 emissions below 100g/km.

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Charged EVs

JANUARY 5, 2024

Instead, Volvo says, the little electric SUV might be the first new car for a young professional or a new couple, or empty-nesters who want to downsize their second or third vehicle now that they’re done hauling kids and their gear. For that reason, the EX30 stands alone—and that makes it an important, and affordable, EV for this year.

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Baua Electric

DECEMBER 9, 2024

Quite simply, its on this list because it makes electric vehicles affordable to mass-market car buyers not in a niche commuter-vehicle form, but in one they might pack the whole family into. Even before the $7,500 EV tax credit, the Equinox EV amounts to a bargain for freeing your family of gas pumps and tailpipes.

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