Green Car Congress

JUNE 20, 2013

The CrossBlue Coupé—based off the Volkswagen Group’s MQB architecture (the Group’s modular assembly kit for vehicles with transverse-mounted engines)—features a transverse-mounted turbocharged direct-injection (TSI) 220 kW (295 hp) 3.0L CrossBlue Coupé at the Volkswagen Automobile Forum in Berlin. Earlier post.).

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Green Car Congress

DECEMBER 4, 2018

At the same time, Audi is pushing forward with the digitalization of its automobiles and plants, and is expanding its business model with new digital services such as “functions on demand”. By 2025, Audi will offer approximately 20 electrified models, about half of which will have all-electric drive systems.

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AUGUST 29, 2023

converting existing internal combustion engine (ICE) cars into electric vehicles using conversion kits. The Appeal of Conversion Kits Conversion kits offer a promising solution for individuals who wish to contribute to environmental conservation without breaking the bank (Now you don’t have to break the bank to buy an EV).

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Green Car Congress

MARCH 20, 2011

Colleges and high schools with automobile technology programs are encouraged to bring their project cars. They may be built from a kit or from scratch. Additionally, organizers expect vehicles powered by vegetable oil, LP and compressed natural gas. They usually weigh between 100 and 150 pounds.

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Green Car Congress

SEPTEMBER 8, 2014

The move comes on the heels of AvtoVAZ-Renault-Nissan becoming the fourth largest manufacturer of automobiles worldwide following several successful moves by Rostec. While international sales declined in recent years, Russia was able to export more than 38,000 assembly kits to Egypt between 2002 and 2013.

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Green Car Congress

SEPTEMBER 11, 2013

The project thus marks a milestone along the way that leads from the self-propelled (automobile) to the self-driving (autonomous) vehicle, the company said. In August 1888, Bertha Benz set off on the first long-distance automobile journey from Mannheim to Pforzheim. Autonomous driving with production-based sensors. Autonomous turning.

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Green Car Congress

MAY 2, 2019

ABB signed a formal agreement with SAIC Volkswagen to provide robotics painting solutions for the first New Energy Vehicle (NEV) factory of the Volkswagen Group based on the Modular Electric Driver Kit (MEB), an automotive platform specifically designed for the mass production of electric vehicles. Financial details were not disclosed.

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Green Car Congress

JANUARY 3, 2014

Researchers at Fraunhofer IWU have developed a system for the direct transfer of parameters applied in a pilot production run of new automobiles to serial production. The clamping devices contain four functional elements that are assembled similarly to a construction kit.

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Green Car Congress

OCTOBER 30, 2018

In February, Porsche announced its collaboration with XAIN in testing blockchain applications directly in vehicles—making Porsche the first automobile manufacturer to implement and successfully test blockchain in a car. —Leif-Nissen Lundbæk, founder and CEO of XAIN AG.

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Green Car Congress

JULY 5, 2015

Ethos Electric Vehicles, a small, Alaska-based company building custom electric motorcycles and automobiles, has launched a $100,000 crowd-funding campaign for reworking an existing internal combustion engine kit car—the Graber Cars’ La Bala —into a low-volume production, all-wheel drive (AWD) electric roadster.

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Green Car Congress

JANUARY 10, 2013

The OpenXC kit includes a vehicle interface module based on the popular Arduino platform developers can use to read data from the vehicle’s internal communications network. OpenXC gives developers and researchers the tools they need to get involved. —Paul Mascarenas, Ford vice president and chief technical officer.

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Green Car Congress

OCTOBER 31, 2016

LiN systems are used throughout the automobile in comfort, powertrain, sensor, and actuator applications. To accelerate development for customers, Microchip is providing the SAMHA1G16X-XPRO development kit, which includes support from Atmel Software Framework (ASF). Microchip Technology Inc.,

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FEBRUARY 5, 2016

Automobile maneuverability is limited by cramped inner city conditions. —project managers Dr. Marcel Mayer from Schaeffler and Dr. Michael Frey from the Karlsruhe Institute of Technology (KIT).

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FEBRUARY 16, 2012

Ford is now shipping beta test kits of its open-source connectivity research platform, OpenXC ( earlier post ), to developers and universities around the world.

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Green Car Congress

NOVEMBER 11, 2015

Available as a module, Jetson TX1 is also built into a Developer Kit, which enables hobbyists and professionals to develop and test highly advanced autonomous devices. It has uses that range from artificial intelligence-assisted robots, to advanced systems in automobiles, and to Internet of Things-connected intelligent machines.

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Green Car Congress

JANUARY 8, 2013

Reflecting the rapid evolution of the automobile as an application development platform, both Ford and GM announced programs to support third-party development of in-vehicle applications at CES in Las Vegas.

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Green Car Congress

NOVEMBER 20, 2013

In plants equipped with our standardized assembly kits and modules, we are able to produce cars on the same assembly line, bumper-to-bumper, with conventional, electrified, and CNG powertrains. According to the ECE standard for plug-in hybrid automobiles, the five-door model consumes on average just 1.5

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Green Car Congress

JANUARY 6, 2012

CNG kit components have been applied to the bi-fuel CNG Tata Nano. Tata Motors is India’s largest automobile company, with consolidated revenues of Rs.1,23,133 They will be commercially launched in the next financial year. Tata Nano CNG Concept. Other commercial vehicles displayed are the Tata Prima 7548.S

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Green Car Congress

FEBRUARY 28, 2017

DS Automobiles, the recent brand addition to the PSA Group, will introduce the DS 7 CROSSBACK SUV at the upcoming Geneva Motor Show. A new assembly system called “kitting” has been put in place at the Mulhouse plant in France. The DS project team paid particular attention to how this car would be assembled.

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Green Car Congress

JANUARY 4, 2020

Low-Cost Retrofit Kit for Integral Reciprocating Compressors to Reduce Emissions and Enhance Efficiency. The University of Oklahoma (Norman, OK) plans to develop, build, and validate a low-cost, field-installable, remotely-controlled natural gas compressor retrofit kit.

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Green Car Congress

MAY 6, 2009

The plant also will employ an efficient, synchronous material flow, where the material will move in kits to each operator, providing employees with the tools they need in the sequence they will need them. It is about skilled and motivated teams working together in new ways to create the future of automobile manufacturing in the United States.

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Green Car Congress

JANUARY 8, 2018

Xavier will power the NVIDIA DRIVE software stack , now expanded to a trio of AI platforms covering every aspect of the experience inside next-generation automobiles. DRIVE IX, an intelligent experience software development kit, will enable AI assistants for both drivers and passengers, using sensors inside and outside the car.

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Green Car Congress

SEPTEMBER 24, 2015

This could eventually have a role comparable to that of the Volkswagen Group’s modular diesel and modular gasoline engine kits (MDB and MOB). (“Baukasten” = German for construction kit). The resulting two-motor system could become part of the MLB evo kit, said Prof. Solar roof and heat pump. meters (6.5

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Green Car Congress

OCTOBER 25, 2013

Customers can order their BMW 220d Coupe from launch with a BMW M Performance Power Kit from the Original BMW Accessories range. This kit lifts engine output by 12 KW and increases peak torque by 20 N·m (15 lb-ft). It is the latest member of the BMW M Performance Automobile family, and the first for the US market.

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Green Car Congress

DECEMBER 18, 2017

The fifth generation of electric drive train and battery technology, available from 2021, uses scalable, modular electrification kits that will allow all model series to be fitted with every type of drive train. The 1,500 units sold around the world are in addition to the 100,000 electrified automobiles the company has sold in 2017.

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Electric Vehicles India

AUGUST 18, 2021

After the great launch of electric two-wheelers in India now it is the turn of electric four-wheelers that is from the homegrown automobile manufacturer Tata Motors. Tata Motors has launched its all-new Tigor EV. Features & specifications .

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Green Car Congress

MAY 14, 2016

In a joint project, Volkswagen and DFKI have started further to develop the software framework ROCK (Robotics Construction Kit) to allow direct, close cooperation between human beings and robots. A further exhibit was concerned with automobile fleet data. and driver assistance systems.

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MARCH 22, 2023

We focus on rapidly bringing highly advanced, affordable autonomous driving to automobile OEMs," said Maxwell Zhou, CEO of DeepRoute. Both versions of the Driver 3.0

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Green Car Congress

OCTOBER 5, 2016

These four main kits are now joined by the all-new Modularer Elektrifizierungsbaukasten (“Modular Electric Drive kit”, or MEB), being developed by the Volkswagen brand. Earlier post.) This will provide support for an ecosystem of services. —Christian Senger.

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Cars That Think

NOVEMBER 25, 2021

They're a way to potentially free up precious street space, provide alternatives to automobiles and reduce energy consumption and harmful emissions. Exact figures on industry sales are hard to pin down; yet The New York Times quoted experts saying Americans bought roughly 500,000 e-bikes in 2020, compared to about 210,000 plug-in automobiles.

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The Truth About Cars

JULY 10, 2023

For many, Tamiya kits served as a precursor to full-size vehicle projects that would be attempted in adulthood. The products are beautifully detailed to match their real-world counterparts and cost as much as a real automobile. The Little Car Company is primarily known for building the rich-kid equivalent of Mattel's Power Wheels.

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Baua Electric

OCTOBER 13, 2023

The prototypes featured wide-body designs, last aero kits, and extra cooling for the powertrain. Mercedes-Benz carried out a accident check between two electrical automobiles. A debut is predicted in 2024.

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The Truth About Cars

JUNE 24, 2024

Considering that installing a breathalyzer or blood-testing kit that one would need to use each time they wanted to drive sounds a little too complicated, the probable solution is an in-cabin camera that tracks your every move — because that’s the technology that presently exists.

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The Truth About Cars

MAY 2, 2024

Three years on, this is the longest I’ve ever kept a single automobile. I’ve done some touch up with a two-step painting kit, but it’s impossible to match the pearl coat correctly. But that was a full five years ago now, prior to pandemic times! We last spoke about the GS in April of 2021 at the two-year mark.

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JUNE 3, 2024

Uno Minda , a large-cap supplier of lighting, switching, acoustics and seating solutions to global automobile companies, has outpaced the industry growth aided by improving content per vehicle through premium offerings , introducing new products and expanding the electric vehicles ( EVs ) segment. At Monday’s closing of INR 877.5,

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SEPTEMBER 6, 2023

But when it came out that there were no official restrictions on the matter, organizers simply banned the use of aero kits and restricted engine displacement to just 305 cubic inches.

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Baua Electric

SEPTEMBER 6, 2023

LONDON/DETROIT/MILAN – An international insufficiency of technicians and free restore stores certified to recovery EVs threatens to extend restore and guaranty prices for drivers, doubtlessly undermining later closing dates to trim automobile carbon emissions.

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