Green Car Congress

APRIL 21, 2012

Most current split-cycle designs use a gas crossover passage or intermediate chamber to connect discrete cylinder pairs. The vertical purple part located between the two engine sides is the custom designed connecting plate that hosts the crossover valve. Crossover valve and cylinder connecting plate. Click to enlarge.

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Green Car Congress

MAY 8, 2019

By focusing on energy-related advanced manufacturing technologies, we are building a new era of manufacturing that will stimulate the economy, create jobs and build American energy independence. It also seeks new ideas on process intensification to reduce overall heating energy. —US Secretary of Energy Rick Perry.

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Cars That Think

JANUARY 7, 2022

While growing up in Germany, Heike Riel helped her father design and build furniture in the family workshop. She says the experience taught her that “precision and creativity are necessary to build something excellent.” When I go back to my hometown, many of our clients still have the furniture that I helped build for them.”

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Teslarati

APRIL 9, 2021

The day before SpaceX aced its eighth Starlink launch in three months, President and COO Gwynne Shotwell implied that the company’s constellation of satellites could achieve “full [global] connectivity” just a handful of months from now. We hope to have “full connectivity globally” after about 28 launches.

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Cars That Think

DECEMBER 1, 2021

Part of the problem is that robots, generally, just do whatever they’ve been programmed to do, and for a human, there’s typically no feeling that the robot is in the slightest bit interested in making any sort of non-functional connection.

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The Truth About Cars

AUGUST 8, 2024

More recently, a man in Tijuana, Mexico, discovered that his idea to plug his Tesla directly into a power line via an illegal electric hookup was not a bright one. The illegal connections are a significant problem in the area. The firefighters in Tijuana had to build dirt berms around the car to hold enough water to keep it submerged.

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Cars That Think

MAY 29, 2024

The stand-alone communicator [bottom of illustration] can be ordered assembled, or you can build your own from open-source design files. I turned to my next test idea—exchanging real-time data and commands via the network. On the radio side, I used a plug-in I/O expander to connect the serial transmit and receive wires.

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Cars That Think

MARCH 2, 2025

Thats when she met a couple of academics at Simon Fraser University, in Vancouver, who had a novel idea for an exoskeleton. Associate professor Siamak Arzanpour and his colleague Edward Park wanted to draw on cutting-edge robotics to build a self-balancing device.

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Cars That Think

MARCH 12, 2025

At the moment, the Caucasus nations dont produce enough renewable electricity to export it, so they would have to build at least three times more capacity. Site manager Kamil Manafov works from a control room that still smells like new building materials, where large wall-mounted screens display the plants minute-by-minute performance.

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Green Car Congress

MAY 10, 2019

Babson and TMF will form a collaborative for idea generation, practical education, venture creation, and growth to better understand and utilize human-centered design for future mobility. The curriculum will include mentoring, business model testing, capital planning, and pitching.

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Cars That Think

MARCH 5, 2025

But we have encountered another, quite surprising connection between supernovas and the human world specifically, a connection to the technology needed to make computer chips for the latest smartphones and other electronic devices. In hindsight the idea seems clear, but in the moment, there was a lot of fumbling around.

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Green Car Congress

AUGUST 15, 2021

Their latest work builds on two prior projects, also funded by the National Institute for Transportation a Communities: V2X: Bringing Bikes into the Mix, completed in 2018, and Fast Track: Allowing Bikes To Participate In A Smart-Transportation System, completed in 2019. We’re encouraged by the results.

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The Truth About Cars

MARCH 18, 2025

The guys from Speed Academy take a swing at a 2020 Toyota Supra A90 build thats practical and performance enhancing. This is Part 1 of a two-part build series where we focus on a cat-back exhaust, a cold air intake and carbon fiber aero upgrades. In Part 2 , well complete the build and reveal it to Vin.

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Green Car Congress

FEBRUARY 18, 2015

At CES 2015 in January, Ford CEO Mark Fields announced “Ford Smart Mobility”—a plan to use innovation to take Ford to the next level in connectivity, mobility, autonomous vehicles, the customer experience and big data. Spatial, temporal … to make it truly valuable, we need to build it into the system. Earlier post.)

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Teslarati

MAY 20, 2024

As per Pandjaitan, Indonesian officials pitched the idea of a Tesla facility in the country, and Musk seemed to respond to the idea pretty well. “We Is it possible to build an EV battery plant here, precursor cathode. The post Tesla’s Elon Musk considering building EV plant in Indonesia: official appeared first on TESLARATI.

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Get Electric Vehicle

FEBRUARY 16, 2022

Here is a collection of the project ideas related to the electric vehicle. We have published a video “ Top 75 electric vehicle related project ideas ” on our YouTube channel “ Get Electric Vehicle ” Now, here is a collection of the comments and responses to those comments in that video. Thank you.

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Cars That Think

NOVEMBER 26, 2023

My approach was to adapt an idea used in some pass-through systems, placing ambient microphones on the outside of sound-isolating headphones. I chose the $10 ESP32 because it would allow me to operate the WM8960 and also accept audio via a Bluetooth connection from, say, my phone, and stream it to the WM8960.

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Charged EVs

MAY 31, 2022

Britishvolt’s goal is to create domestic battery production all around the world, and the company is currently building its first cell factory in the UK. One year ago we weren’t making any cells, but by the end of 2021, we were going through campaigns to build thousands of cells.

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Green Car Congress

MARCH 2, 2018

Building production-quality software is a critical success factor for Toyota’s automated driving program. High-quality software development and big data from connected vehicles will be crucial to success. Toyota is in the process of selecting a location in Tokyo that is competitive in terms of accessibility and recruitment.

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Cars That Think

MARCH 25, 2025

The idea is that researchers have a place to upload their preprint manuscripts before they are published in a journal. How difficult was it to build? Ahmad: I see alphaXiv as just connecting the world of research in a way thats more productive than Twitter [now X]. We thought of it as a version of Stack Overflow for papers.

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Get Electric Vehicle

MAY 14, 2023

We have published some articles about electric vehicle-related project ideas here in this blog. List of Electric Vehicle Project Ideas Auto adjustment of the control strategy based on the data collected from the vehicle (driving pattern, temperature, etc.) The list includes technical and management-related projects.

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Green Car Congress

APRIL 17, 2021

The terminal will be equipped with an ammonia cracker for producing green hydrogen and will also be connected to the planned hydrogen network. Originally, Uniper explored the idea of constructing a floating import terminal for liquefied natural gas (LNG) at the Wilhelmshaven site. Plans include an import terminal for green ammonia.

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Green Car Congress

APRIL 4, 2019

Through this topic area, the DOE Vehicle Technologies Office (VTO) will select “seedling” projects for innovative, new ideas that accelerate the development of advanced motor designs and materials in support of the goals of the Electric Drive Technologies (EDT) Consortium, a multi-disciplinary team of national labs and universities.

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Green Car Congress

AUGUST 19, 2017

After the presentations at the global motor shows in Detroit and Geneva, we received a large number of letters and emails from customers who said, 'please build this car’. BUZZ will incorporate many design ideas from the concept car, including multi-variable seating, interactive connectivity and highly automated driving.

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Green Car Congress

AUGUST 7, 2019

The total connection power at the charging station is a 1.2 As space in the bus plant is at a premium, Mercedes-Benz has decided to move off the ground, installing the eCitaro charging station at the height of the upper floor of the building—an idea which many transport companies also use.

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Charged EVs

OCTOBER 25, 2024

Build your own microgrid in a few days: Q&A with Paired Power CEO Tom McCalmont As fleet operators know (or soon find out), deploying EV charging infrastructure involves much more than buying some chargers and running some conduit. Do you have an available grid connection? How much power is available at the site? How many amps?

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Cars That Think

JULY 30, 2021

Just about every device you own is probably available with Internet connectivity. needs Internet connectivity is up for debate. Connectivity usually comes at a premium, and it also usually involves buying a brand new whatever it is, because new hardware and software and services are required. Or, that was the idea, anyway.

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Green Car Congress

APRIL 12, 2018

and Volkswagen Truck & Bus GmbH signed a Strategic Cooperation Framework Agreement (SCFA) aiming to build a mutually beneficial strategic long-term partnership. The evaluation of technology cooperation will focus on conventional powertrains, hybrid and electric powertrains, as well as connectivity and autonomous driving systems.

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EV Connect

OCTOBER 23, 2023

With that in mind, follow these strategies for building a profitable EV charging business to satisfy customer demand. But you have to start with a clear idea of where the opportunity lies. There’s a modest amount of EVs to charge for now, but in a few short years, the balance will be reversed. There won’t be enough charging stations.

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Green Car Congress

SEPTEMBER 12, 2017

The electric charging cable connection is housed on the hood. Honda will apply its Power Manager technology as part of a smart grid pilot scheme—the SMILE project (Smart Ideas to Link Energies)—in the west of France. Entry and exit from the vehicle is via rear-hinged coach doors.

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Green Car Congress

JUNE 10, 2019

The idea is to build a fleet of autonomous robotic boats—rectangular hulls equipped with sensors, thrusters, microcontrollers, GPS modules, cameras, and other hardware—that provides intelligent mobility on water to relieve congestion in the city’s busy streets.

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Green Car Congress

APRIL 25, 2013

The system would be grid-connected, so the spheres could also be used to store energy from other sources, including solar arrays on shore, or from base-load power plants, which operate most efficiently at steady levels. This energy source could be made available within minutes, and then taken offline just as quickly.

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Cars That Think

APRIL 7, 2024

In a token ring LAN, shielded twisted-pair copper wires connect each computer to its upstream and downstream neighbors in an endless ring structure. In a token bus LAN, a coaxial cable connects all the network’s computers, but the wiring doesn’t control the order in which the computers pass the token.

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Green Car Congress

OCTOBER 8, 2014

We previously thought that oil storage and oil degradation were alternative fates for newly synthesized fatty acids—the building blocks of oils. These oils accumulate in storage droplets within the cytoplasm until another enzyme breaks them down to release the fatty acid building blocks. —John Shanklin.

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Green Car Congress

JANUARY 24, 2019

In 2017, the city of Sacramento and business leaders helped launch the Autonomous Transportation Open Standards initiative to position Sacramento as a testbed for connected and autonomous vehicles throughout the Sacramento region.

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The Truth About Cars

FEBRUARY 11, 2025

Like most major automakers, it wants to leverage connectivity to harvest customer data for profit, launch a slew of car-related apps, and retain as much control over the product as possible via digital gatekeeping. Some of this wasnt Stellantis fault. It has already been doing that.

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Teslarati

JUNE 21, 2024

These reasons are quite interesting because they have generally been addressed by electric vehicle leaders such as Tesla, which started building out an expansive, reliable rapid charging network across the United States since the days of the early Model S sedan. McKinsey & Co.’s ’s survey can be viewed below.

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