Green Car Congress

AUGUST 6, 2012

Previously, sheet steel made of nano-structures was considered too brittle (no elongation) to form the shapes required for automotive parts. One of the challenges with currently available AHSS materials is the need to form parts at elevated temperatures—increasing cost and production cycle times.

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Green Car Congress

SEPTEMBER 14, 2022

Electrify America plans to install 30 electric fleet-dedicated chargers paired with battery energy storage systems (BESS) at the Port of Long Beach, California, as part of Electrify America’s $25-million “Green City” investment in the region at the Ports of Long Beach and Los Angeles.

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Green Car Congress

FEBRUARY 1, 2012

Oil and gas companies currently employ different environmental monitoring methods, but there are no solutions available today that are integrated and enable physical, biological and chemical data to be measured during actual operations. Kongsberg will lead the project, as well as provide sensor and acoustic communication technology.

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Green Car Congress

SEPTEMBER 25, 2014

We have partnered with customers in the premium automotive segment from our Duffel, Belgium facility for years to develop and produce some of the most technically advanced lightweight aluminum solutions available today. For inner panels and structural parts, Aleris developed different Ecolite grades with different strength levels.

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Green Car Congress

MARCH 5, 2020

Complexity Reduction: The vehicle and propulsion systems were designed together to minimize complexity and part counts beyond today’s EVs, which are less complex than conventional vehicles powered by internal combustion engines.

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Green Car Congress

MAY 1, 2019

Lightning Electric is available for the Ford F-59 as part of Ford’s eQVM (Advanced Fuel Qualified Vehicle Modifiers) program. All Lightning products are available today. In addition to the new all-electric F-59, existing vehicles can be repowered to become zero emission vans and trucks with the Lightning powertrain.

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Green Car Congress

MAY 8, 2021

While Power-to-Liquids and hydrogen offer exciting prospects for decarbonising aviation in the future, sustainable aviation fuel is a solution that is available today that can help reduce aviation emissions and initiatives like this can help scale demand for this crucial technology. —Ulrik Brendstrup.

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Green Car Congress

MARCH 6, 2021

This means we have a responsibility to implement emission-lowering solutions available today while simultaneously developing solutions for tomorrow. Methanol and ammonia are the fuels of the future and we are excited to continue to play a part in the transition to zero carbon through this partnership. Source: MAN.

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Green Car Congress

MARCH 10, 2022

Finding a practical balance between specific energy, energy density, and cycle life is a large part of battery development. Licerion is a hybrid between today’s lithium-ion and tomorrow’s solid-state batteries. It has the advantages of solid-state, but it is available today.

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Green Car Congress

OCTOBER 22, 2021

As part of Electrify America’s commitment to drive EV adoption and the future of mobility forward, the company announced plans to double its current EV charging infrastructure in the United States, with plans to have more than 1,700 ultra-fast charging stations and 9,500 individual chargers installed by the end of 2025.

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Green Car Congress

JUNE 11, 2022

Part of that includes building a software platform that leverages data and simulation to demonstrate how new technologies can work for them. Its flagship vehicle, the BrightDrop Zevo 600, is currently in production and on roads today with high-volume production beginning later this year.

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Green Car Congress

NOVEMBER 19, 2020

GHz band available for unlicensed use. This spectrum’s impact will be further amplified by the fact that it is adjacent to an existing Wi-Fi band which, when combined with the 45 megahertz made available today, will support advanced broadband applications.

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Green Car Congress

SEPTEMBER 25, 2022

Hydrotreated Vegetable Oil (HVO or renewable diesel), which is already commercially available today, reduces CO 2 emissions by up to 90%. With synthetic diesel fuels of the EN15940 standard, CO 2 emissions can be reduced by up to 100% compared to fossil diesel. RDC is already using HVO in other services since July 2022.

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Green Car Congress

MARCH 28, 2018

Built on Cepton’s patented micro-motion technology (MMT) platform, Vista has no rotational or frictional parts, consisting only of high-maturity automotive components for expedited automotive grade certification. Vista LiDAR samples are available today for Cepton’s automotive partners to evaluate in their self-driving fleets.

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Green Car Congress

FEBRUARY 16, 2022

Plastic waste that otherwise would be un-recycled will be diverted from landfill and will help broaden options in the market for lower carbon fuels from the limited range available today.

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Green Car Congress

JULY 13, 2017

The prototype—which has 98% new parts and a fundamentally new machine design—is capable of doing the work of a wheel loader that’s one size larger. Testing began at the Redwood Landfill and Recycling Center, a green waste composting site in the northern part of the state. Waste Management Inc.

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Green Car Congress

APRIL 11, 2012

Both stations are part of AC Transit’s HyRoad project, which seeks to demonstrate the commercial viability of hydrogen fuel cell technology for the public transport industry. Performance-wise, it meets the Daimler requirement of a three-to-four minute complete fill with a delivered gas temperature of -40 °C, the best available today.

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Green Car Congress

OCTOBER 13, 2017

Shaanxi Automotive has committed to new energy as part of its portfolio of vehicle offerings, and continues to lead the way in providing zero-emissions vehicles featuring electric as a primary fuel source—representing almost 50% of its market share.

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Green Car Congress

OCTOBER 21, 2022

As part of the transaction, a Framework Agreement was signed by NMG, Mitsui and Panasonic Energy that defines the role and responsibilities of the parties in the coming months, including optimization of the feasibility study and other important project-related operational milestones.

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Green Car Congress

SEPTEMBER 23, 2022

Although electrification has shown promise toward reducing the carbon footprint of passenger vehicles, aviation remains dependent on hydrocarbon fuels due to their high energy density relative to even the most advanced battery technologies available today. Lignin makes up the rigid parts of the cell walls of plants.

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Green Car Congress

MAY 19, 2020

But the researchers also demonstrated that emissions could be halved with technology already available today—and completely eliminated by the year 2045. Ida Karlsson’s research is part of the project Mistra Carbon Exit, which focuses on transformative solutions. Karlsson et al.

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Green Car Congress

OCTOBER 18, 2017

Both partners will give the JV full support to develop localized core competencies in terms of market development, R&D, advanced manufacturing and key parts supply such as gearboxes, inverter components and motors. Magna’s Highly Integrated eDrive System LOW is a 76 kW (peak) unit designed for HEV and small EV applications.

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Green Car Congress

JULY 18, 2014

By taking advantage of the computational power available today, the VERIFI team can identify the most important engine and fuel parameters and develop unique engine simulations and analyses to enable optimized engine combustion in the presence of uncertainty at any operating condition. —Sibendu Som.

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Green Car Congress

JULY 14, 2021

The Volkswagen unified cell concept refers to a prismatic cell format adaptable to various chemistry mixes available today or market-ready at a later point in time. The unified cell is compatible to all major upcoming innovations in both product and production technology.

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Green Car Congress

MAY 22, 2012

The new fuel is the first to comply with the most stringent diesel specification (Category 4) drawn up as part of the Worldwide Fuel Charter (WWFC) by automotive manufacturers in Europe, the US, and Asia. Neste Oil will launch a completely new grade of diesel fuel in Finland this fall: Neste Pro Diesel.

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Green Car Congress

JUNE 24, 2011

The National Science Foundation, National Aeronautics and Space Administration, National Institutes of Health and the Department of Agriculture are coming together to make available today $70 million to support research in next generation robots.

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Green Car Congress

OCTOBER 13, 2015

Bosch is investing €400 million (US$455 million) per year in electromobility; part of that investment is researching batteries with twice the energy density at lower costs than available today by 2020.

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Green Car Congress

OCTOBER 26, 2012

Dresser-Rand believes that the patented VX Cycle is the first technology to provide a cost-effective small-scale LNG production process with capacities as low as 1,500 gallons per day—smaller than any other LNG production system commercially available today.

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Green Car Congress

MARCH 26, 2015

Specifically, SABIC applied CFD modeling to compare a baseline day cab with dimensions and geometry representative of top aerodynamic designs available today to a day cab featuring many iterations of an injection-molded, aerodynamically-optimized roof fairing.

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Green Car Congress

JULY 31, 2011

The joint venture will also pave the way for Asia’s fourth-largest economy to take part in a project to develop lithium carbonate in the region, officials said. “Korea’s advanced technology and Bolivia’s resources will create synergy.” Korea has been spurring its drive to secure scarce minerals in the Latin American region.

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Revenge of the Electric Car

APRIL 20, 2010

The only all-electric “highway-capable&# vehicle available today is the $109,000 Tesla Roadster. Some automakers rolled out limited editions of electric vehicles in the 1990s, only to scrap the models a few years later, in part because of a shortage of public charging stations. “I want the Leaf to succeed.

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Green Car Congress

NOVEMBER 13, 2010

NGV [natural gas vehicle] programmes are usually driven by other goals than greenhouse-gas reduction, although NGVs can certainly contribute to decarbonising transportation and as such should be part of plans to move towards sustainable transport.

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Green Car Congress

JUNE 18, 2014

Matt Zaluzec, Ford technical leader, Global Materials and Manufacturing Research, was the use of technologies that are targeting the use of mixed materials and that are available today. Among the components of the Mach-I design were eight high pressure aluminum die castings strategically designed to maximize stiffness and reduce part.

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Teslarati

APRIL 30, 2021

This may be partly due to the vehicle’s strange shape, which is unlike any production car available today in the way that it uses flat metal and glass panels. And ultimately, this may be one of the reasons why the Cybertruck has become part of pop culture. It looks so big @elonmusk ! pic.twitter.com/r2pZZctQxY.

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Green Car Congress

APRIL 13, 2015

Although “ the hype around autonomous vehicles often reaches levels that defy logic ,” Lux tartly notes, the foundational technologies that are being progressively deployed as part of that technology roadmap can be rationally analyzed for opportunity.

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Green Car Congress

MARCH 2, 2015

Part of Freescale’s SafeAssure functional safety program, the S32V microprocessor is structurally designed to comply with ISO 26262 functional safety standards, and engineered for automotive-grade quality metrics measured in parts per billion.

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Green Car Congress

AUGUST 10, 2018

IBM and Maersk also announced that as part of the TradeLens early adopter program, 94 organizations are actively involved or have agreed to participate on the TradeLens platform built on open standards. The TradeLens APIs are open and available for developer access and feedback from participants in the platform.

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