Green Car Congress

OCTOBER 20, 2020

The BMW i3 was the BMW Group’s first purely electrically powered large-scale serial model and also the company’s first vehicle with a passenger cell made of carbon fiber reinforced plastic (CFRP). The Life module made of CFRP is part of a vehicle architecture specific to BMW i and designed for electric mobility from the outset.

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Green Car Congress

APRIL 23, 2020

The configurator shows how ArcelorMittal’s range of advanced high strength steels (AHSS) and smart solutions can be deployed to meet the lightweighting, safety, cost, and sustainability performance targets of BEV producers. Lightweighting emerges as a major factor in BEV design. —Jérôme Favero.

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Green Car Congress

AUGUST 29, 2019

The new Polestar Production Center in Chengdu, China will produce the Polestar 1—a carbon fiber-bodied Electric Performance Hybrid. In 2019, the Polestar 2 was revealed as the company’s first full electric, higher volume premium car designed to compete around the Tesla Model 3. Polestar Chengdu; the marriage point.

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Green Car Congress

FEBRUARY 3, 2022

Spearheading this development is Electric Motor Design Lead Dragos-Mihai Postariu who comments: The Quark is designed to bolster the low-speed range of the Gemera, where you need it, for brutal acceleration. The ICE then focuses on the high-speed range. Koenigsegg’s Quark motor with a 330 ml beverage can for scale.

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Green Car Congress

FEBRUARY 28, 2023

For this, molten aluminum is poured into a mould made from compacted sand mixed with resin in a process specially designed for this small-series vehicle. The hydrogen needed to supply the fuel cell is stored in two 700-bar tanks made of carbon-fiber reinforced plastic (CFRP).

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Green Car Congress

SEPTEMBER 21, 2018

Even the load capability can be different: the e-motor scalability and the specific gear design, that grants robustness and a wide ratio range, enable it to be used in different vehicles categories, such as passenger, light and heavy commercial. TheF1C NG is fitted to the International Van of the Year 2018 winner.

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Green Car Congress

FEBRUARY 3, 2017

This method is a free-form, tool-less additive manufacturing process which produces uniform, near isotropic properties with build fidelity and nearly limitless design possibilities. OPM’s principal material of construction is a proprietary poly-ether-ketone-ketone formulation, OXPEKK. Click to enlarge.

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Green Car Congress

JANUARY 12, 2015

At the North American International Auto Show (NAIAS), Chevrolet introduced the Bolt EV concept crossover—a vision for an affordable, long-range all-electric vehicle designed to offer more than 200 miles of range starting around $30,000. The Bolt EV concept is also designed to support DC fast charging.

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Green Car Congress

NOVEMBER 17, 2015

will show the Golf GTE Sport concept plug-in hybrid ( earlier post ) for the first time in North America at the Los Angeles International Auto Show. Unveiled at the annual Wörthersee festival in Austria earlier this year, the concept features a carbon fiber body and a three power unit, all-wheel drive system.

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Green Car Congress

JULY 11, 2015

Up to a 35% gain in fuel efficiency in heavy drive cycles is achieved by regenerating the braking energy that is normally wasted to heat, and using this energy instead of the internal combustion engine for acceleration. Steelhead Composites manufactures accumulators from aluminum tubing and spun carbon fiber. Click to enlarge.

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Teslarati

NOVEMBER 18, 2022

The Archer Midnight is a piloted electric plane designed to make quick journeys around congested cities. With a total range of 100 miles, the CEO claims Midnight has plenty of range for numerous quick trips around c ongested cities like New York and Los Angeles.

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Green Car Congress

SEPTEMBER 18, 2015

The new investments will go toward a wide range of research, development, and demonstration projects that aim to reduce the price and improve the efficiency of plug-in electric, alternative fuel, and conventional vehicles. Ultra-Light Door Design, Manufacturing and Demonstration (Area of Interest 2). Vehma International of America.

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Green Car Congress

DECEMBER 11, 2018

An international team of researchers has developed a manganese hydride molecular sieve that can be readily synthesized from inexpensive precursors and demonstrates a reversible excess adsorption performance of 10.5 To achieve a driving range greater than 500 km in a fuel cell vehicle, about 5 kg of hydrogen is required. 200802832.

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Green Car Congress

APRIL 2, 2020

Much the same, the “e-tron” name foreshadows a range of electric vehicle (EV) drivetrain technology for the Audi brand. Using an Audi-designed power electronics module, the e-tron is able to read sensor data 10,000 times per second and output current values for the electric motors to help with traction in various conditions.

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Green Car Congress

NOVEMBER 14, 2017

If the internal conditions are too dry or too wet, the fuel cell won’t function well. The sample cell included thin carbon-fiber layers, known as gas-diffusion layers, which in a working cell sandwich a central polymer-based membrane coated with catalyst layers on both sides. Credit: Berkeley Lab). Click to enlarge.

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Baua Electric

APRIL 8, 2024

From the start, it was decided the electric G-Class should be at least as good as the internal-combustion-engine model both on road and off road,” Shiller explained. Mercedes electric G-Class prototype (Source: Mercedes-Benz) With a roughly 100 kWh battery, that would suggest the electric G-Class would have around 200 to 220 miles range.

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Green Car Congress

SEPTEMBER 9, 2011

Quimera is aiming to change the way that electrical cars are perceived by the car industry and raise public awareness regarding EV’s capacities, performance and range. The monocoque chassis is made entirely of carbon fiber to make it lighter and more rigid.

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Green Car Congress

AUGUST 10, 2011

The US Department of Energy will award more than $175 million over the next three to five years to accelerate the development and deployment of a range of advanced vehicle technologies. Increased availability of low cost carbon fiber can enable vehicle weight reduction and improvement in fuel economy. Plasan Carbon Composites.

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Green Car Congress

APRIL 23, 2012

The plug-in hybrid has an all-electric driving range of 80 km (50 miles), and was specifically designed for the China market. At any given moment, the hybrid control module chooses the best suited operating mode with the focus on driving range. The A6 L e-tron PHEV concept. Click to enlarge. miles) on electric power.

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Green Car Congress

AUGUST 7, 2020

The team will build on ORNL’s success in developing low-cost carbon-fibers, composites, smart polymer materials, and non-destructive evaluation methods by leveraging expertise of partners on coating deposition and robotic inspection tools for smart repair of gas pipes. General Electric Global Research.

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The Truth About Cars

AUGUST 7, 2024

Subsequent EVs and combustion models featuring the "Six Pack" Hurricane I6 that is designed to supplant the outgoing HEMI V8s will likely feature lower price tags on average. For many fans, this price range is concerning. Electric vehicles (EVs) have been depreciating faster than their internal combustion engine (ICE) counterparts.

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Teslarati

JANUARY 11, 2023

A SpaceX Cargo Dragon 2 spacecraft has safely returned to Earth after delivering several tons of NASA supplies to the International Space Station (ISS). The vest’s developers plan to use that feedback to improve design of the garment, which could provide radiation protection for astronauts on Artemis missions to the Moon.

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Green Car Congress

AUGUST 31, 2016

A US Department of Energy (DOE) program designed to spur the use of high performance supercomputers to advance US manufacturing has funded 13 new industry projects for a total of $3.8 Harper International Corp. Partners range from small to large companies, industry consortiums and institutes.

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Green Car Congress

APRIL 12, 2013

Four carbon-fiber tanks holding 3.23 Integral to Alset’s core technology is a proprietary system especially designed and programmed to adjust and control all of the engine’s functioning variables in order for the engine to burn hydrogen during combustion, while maintaining the same engine performance as when burning gasoline.

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Green Car Congress

JANUARY 14, 2015

At the North American International Auto Show (NAIAS) in Detroit this week, Ford delivered first proof of that focus with the reveal of the new Ford GT carbon-fiber supercar, as well as the new F-150 Raptor based on the new aluminum F-150 and the Shelby GT350R Mustang. Aerodynamics.

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Green Car Congress

JUNE 24, 2013

The XL1 is aggressively optimized for efficiency in all areas of its design and technology—from materials (carbon fiber reinforced polymer monocoque); to powertrain (0.8L l/100 km) with CO 2 emissions of 21 g/km and an all-electric range of 31 miles (50 km) as well as a total range of 310 miles (499 km).

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Green Car Congress

OCTOBER 12, 2012

Furthermore, the motors function continuously within their optimum range of power and efficiency, enabling the vehicle to take full advantage of their power and to increase energy efficiency. It is designed for use without a clutch, either in manual mode with the steering-wheel mounted paddles or in automatic mode.

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Green Car Congress

AUGUST 14, 2023

Responding to this trend, Fisker has designed Rōnin to accommodate five people while taking advantage of an electric vehicle’s layout to provide exceptional cargo capacity, a true rarity in the supercar world. The Fisker Rōnin will feature an aluminum space frame with integrated battery cells to achieve its targeted 600-mile range.

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Green Car Congress

SEPTEMBER 11, 2019

Given that the AI:TRAIL is intended for use in areas without charging infrastructure, the thing that really draws the attention is its range. In order to meet these requirements, the vehicle is designed to reach a maximum speed of 130 km/h (80.8 The stated target with its lithium-ion battery is. 400 to 500 kilometers (248.5

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Green Car Congress

OCTOBER 4, 2009

Toyoda positioned EVs for short-distance travel and fuel cell cars for longer ranges. Design of the fuel cell system and hydrogen storage system plays a critical role in achieving the cost reduction, Yokoyama said. As an example, Yokoyama used the carbon fiber reinforced polymer (CFRP) hydrogen storage tank.

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Green Car Congress

MARCH 3, 2015

Control of the amount of water is carried out using an internal circulation system for circulating the water created when generating electricity; unlike systems used in all other previous Toyota fuel cell vehicles, the new system thus does not require the use of a humidifier.

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Clean Fleet Report

DECEMBER 1, 2021

New design direction. The exterior is described by Domagoj Dukec, vice president BMW design, as “an extravagant statement by BMW M (placing it) in the heart of the luxury segment.” The XM debuts what will be the new front end design for BMW luxury models. The twin-turbocharged 4.4-liter Cameleon lounge lizard territory.

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Cars That Think

NOVEMBER 19, 2021

Twenty-one years later, in 2015, the IEEE member founded Psyonic , which designs and builds advanced, affordable artificial limbs. In 2014 he and another graduate student, Mary Nguyen, partnered with the Range of Motion Project , a nonprofit that provides prosthetic devices to people around the world who can't afford them.

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Green Car Congress

DECEMBER 20, 2013

Integrated computational materials engineering (ICME) development of carbon fiber composites for lightweight vehicles. Current fleet owners of all-electric medium-duty trucks have experienced performance, range, and efficiency shortcomings that are highly dependent upon the application in which the truck is used.

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Green Car Congress

MARCH 30, 2023

Carbon fiber, produced via artisan craftmanship in the Sant’Agata Bolognese factory, is the principal structural element within the new car, used not only in the monofuselage and frame but also for many elements of the bodywork. The Revuelto is the first super sports car to be fitted with a 100% carbon fiber front structure.

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Green Car Congress

AUGUST 7, 2013

With its carbon-fiber-reinforced plastic (CFRP) passenger cell, the BMW i8 sets new standards for a plug-in hybrid vehicle in terms of low weight. The BMW Group has developed not only the internal combustion engine and electric motor in-house but also the power electronics and the battery. Rear-mounted 3-cylinder engine.

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Green Car Congress

FEBRUARY 5, 2010

Researchers from Imperial College London and their European partners, including Volvo Car Corporation, are developing a prototype multifunctional structural composite material composed of carbon fibers and a polymer resin which can store and discharge electrical energy and which is also strong and lightweight enough to be used for car parts.

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