Green Car Congress

OCTOBER 13, 2016

PD Glasseiden, a Germany-based producer of fiberglass; European Carbon Fiber GmbH; and the ForschungsCampus Open Hybrid LabFactory e.V., In the first step at a location in Chemnitz, Saxony, CarboSax will build a pilot line for the sustainable production of carbon fibers.

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Carbon Fiber Germany Carbon Production 150

Green Car Congress

JUNE 24, 2020

NPROXX was formed in 2018 in a split from EMS, a leading supplier of high-quality carbon fiber products and specialist manufacturing services. When used for hydrogen storage in hydrogen fuel-cell trucks or buses, these carbon fiber-reinforced vessels can result in a weight reduction in the gas containment system.

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Hydrogen Carbon Fiber Fuel Gas 418

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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BMW Carbon Fiber Lithium Ion Wind 418

Green Car Congress

JUNE 12, 2012

The top two awards, one of $9 million to a project led by Dow Chemical, and one of $8.999 million to a project led by PolyPlus, will fund projects tackling, respectively, the manufacturing of low-cost carbon fibers and the manufacturing of electrodes for ultra-high-energy-density lithium-sulfur, lithium-seawater and lithium-air batteries.

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Carbon Fiber Manufacturer Carbon Lithium Sulfur 210

Green Car Congress

SEPTEMBER 16, 2020

They are made of fiber-composite materials and, in keeping with Audi’s lightweight construction philosophy, each weighs just 26 kilograms (57.3 The ultra high-strength outer shell comprises two layers: an inner layer of carbon fiber-reinforced polymer (CFRP) and an outer layer of glass fiber-reinforced polymer (GFRP).

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Audi Gas Gas-Electric Gasoline-Electric 504

Green Car Congress

JULY 1, 2022

The BMW i3’s independent vehicle architecture consists of a drive module as an aluminum chassis, which carries the e-drive, the suspension and the high-voltage battery as well as a passenger cell made of carbon fiber-reinforced plastic (CFRP) called the life module. The door panels of the BMW i3 are made of kenaf fibers.

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BMW Production Wind Energy Storage 435

Green Car Congress

MARCH 26, 2013

As a part of its increased focus on manufacturing research and development, DOE also awarded $23.5 The CEMI announcement was made at the ribbon cutting of the Department’s Carbon Fiber Technology Facility in Oak Ridge, Tennessee, a new advanced manufacturing facility to reduce the cost of carbon fiber.

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Green Car Congress

OCTOBER 27, 2014

New analysis by Lux Research shows that carbon fiber demand will grow at an overall 13% compound annual growth rate (CAGR) from 36,000 tons in 2013 to 86,000 tons in 2020. Wind carbon fiber demand will reach just 22,000 MT, compared to the 2012 forecast of 53,000 MT. Click to enlarge.

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Green Car Congress

OCTOBER 17, 2013

Combined with SECAR’s expert capabilities in mass producing lightweight parts, this creates unique potential for developing new production technologies, Evonik said. SECAR is an established provider of carbon-fiber reinforced composites for the automotive, aviation, and medical industries.

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Green Car Congress

MARCH 9, 2019

These are not simply manufacturing innovations: they are end-to-end, whole-life solutions that address every aspect of the manufacture, use and recycling of carbon fiber reinforced polymer (CFRP) and the way in which its properties can enable new approaches to vehicle design and manufacture. CFRP is a material of huge promise.

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Engine Carbon Fiber Affordable Manufacturer 265

Green Car Congress

SEPTEMBER 12, 2011

The group focuses on the development of marketable materials and technologies that are suitable for manufacturing high-performance fiber-reinforced parts for automotive applications. Epoxy resin systems from BASF are in use today for the rotor blades of wind turbines.

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Industry Industrial Carbon Fiber Carbon 199

Green Car Congress

AUGUST 25, 2018

The show car’s body structure is made of carbon fiber. Functional attachment parts made of carbon fiber such as the front splitter epitomize the cool and rational aspect of the philosophy. The same applies to the front trim designed as a display, including the continuous lighting strip.

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Mercedes Carbon Fiber Cars Concept 199

Green Car Congress

JANUARY 9, 2015

In the wind energy industry, advances in low-cost composite materials will help manufacturers build longer, lighter and stronger blades to create more energy. American Chemical Council; National Composites Center; Oak Ridge Carbon Fiber Composites Consortium; Polymer Ohio, Inc.; Adherent Technologies, Inc.; TPI Composites, Inc.;

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Tennessee Universal Manufacturer Carbon Fiber 150

Green Car Congress

MAY 29, 2010

Nicknamed “fuzzy fiber” by its inventor at UDRI, Nano Adaptive Hybrid Fabric (NAHF-XTM) is the first tailored nanomaterial capable of being produced in sizes and quantities large enough to make them affordable and viable for large-scale commercial use. NAHF-XTM inventor Khalid Lafdi, Group Leader for Carbon Materials at UDRI.

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Carbon Fiber Energy Production Ohio 170

Green Car Congress

NOVEMBER 18, 2014

Two tanks with a three-layer structure made of carbon fiber-reinforced plastic and other materials are used to store hydrogen at 70 MPa (approximately 700 bars or 10,000 psi). Middle layer: carbon fiber reinforced plastic (structural element). High-pressure Hydrogen Tanks. Handling stability and quietness.

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Prius Toyota Hydrogen Carbon Fiber 296

Green Car Congress

JUNE 29, 2018

Electricity generation from variable renewable electricity sources (VRE) such as wind and solar power has grown rapidly and is expected to continue to do so. The combined heat and power station at BMW Group Plant Dingolfing is part of the BMW Power Pool and supports the compensation of frequency fluctuations in the grid.

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Grid BMW Power Powered 191

Green Car Congress

APRIL 4, 2019

Thanks to emission-free driving, electric vehicles can compensate for a large part of the additional CO 2 emissions in the production phase. All Mercedes-Benz plants in Germany will therefore switch to CO 2 -neutral energy supply, e.g. wind power and hydropower, by 2022. The GLC F-CELL. kg of hydrogen at 700 bar.

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Hydrogen Mercedes Power Powered 274

Green Car Congress

APRIL 29, 2015

The papers provide technical details on the high performance fuel-cell (FC) stack; specific insights into FC separator, and stack manifold; the newly developed boost converter; and the new high-pressure hydrogen storage system with innovative carbon fiber windings. Basic configuration of high-pressure storage system.

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Congress Toyota Fuel Carbon Fiber 150

Green Car Congress

JULY 1, 2020

With tests recently completed at Windshear ’s advanced rolling-road wind tunnel, Lucid verified a coefficient of drag of 0.21, making the Lucid Air the most aero-efficient luxury car. The effectiveness of this diffuser has been enhanced by extending it forward by virtue of the battery pack itself providing part of its curved form.

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Industry Industrial Carbon Fiber EV1 243

Green Car Congress

SEPTEMBER 16, 2010

These projects, funded as part of DOE’s Small Business Phase III Xlerator program, will help small businesses develop manufacturing processes to scale up production of their new, proven technologies. manufacturing base for permanent magnets. DOE Funding: $3,000,000.

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Fuel Energy Carbon Fiber Polymer 210

Green Car Congress

APRIL 14, 2022

At times, the VISION EQXX sliced through the wind at speeds of up to 140 km/h (87 mph). With its low cd value of 0.17, it gives the wind virtually nothing to grab hold of. Bridgestone’s ologic technology reduces tire deformation while driving, in part through a more tensioned belt section. Another is the battery.

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Green Car Congress

AUGUST 19, 2023

With Wheelspeed Control, Lamborghini very finely regulates power and force at the individual wheels for even more precise turn-in, and direct as well as fast driving on particularly winding roads and with strong acceleration. This retains the technical properties of carbon, while at the same time reducing the use of carbon fiber.

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Concept Electrical Electric Carbon 370

Green Car Congress

JULY 30, 2013

With its new architecture, use of carbon fiber reinforced plastic, and premium mobility service offerings, the “ i3 marks the beginning of a new mobility age ,” said Dr. Reithofer. All the electricity used to produce the BMW i models at the Leipzig plant is wind-generated.

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Green Car Congress

MARCH 3, 2015

Tanks with a three-layer structure made of carbon fiber-reinforced plastic and other materials are used to store hydrogen at a very high pressure of 70 MPa (70 megapascals, or approximately 700 bar). A Blind Spot Monitor uses radar to detect vehicles in adjacent lanes and helps rear view confirmation when changing lanes.

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Toyota Europe Fuel Sale 150

Green Car Congress

AUGUST 20, 2022

And because a three-motor Lucid Air was always part of the development program, it retains all the strengths of Lucid Air variants already on the market—including limo-like rear legroom, a voluminous trunk and frunk, and impressive efficiency. —Eric Bach, SVP of Product and Chief Engineer, Lucid Group.

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Motor Motoring Motors Carbon Fiber 195

Green Car Congress

AUGUST 27, 2020

The US Department of Energy announced $33 million in funding for 17 projects as part of the Advanced Research Projects Agency-Energy’s (ARPA-E) Aviation-class Synergistically Cooled Electric-motors with iNtegrated Drives (ASCEND) and Range Extenders for Electric Aviation with Low Carbon and High Efficiency (REEACH) programs.

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Carbon Hybrid Electric Electrical 218

Green Car Congress

MARCH 27, 2015

The increased rigidity of the monocoque-engine-transmission unit is also due in part to the shifting system, as the casing of the hydraulically operated sequential 7-speed racing gearbox made of aluminium is mounted in a carbon structure. It is now manufactured as a single unit, rather than in two sections.

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Porsche 2015 Hybrid Carbon Fiber 150

Teslarati

SEPTEMBER 28, 2022

While the hurricane will land on the side of Florida opposite NASA’s Kennedy Space Center launch facilities, where SpaceX leases Pad 39A, it’s still expected to impact parts of the state’s east coast as a tropical storm. pic.twitter.com/j3L4vTY8VK — Ben Cooper (@LaunchPhoto) September 26, 2022.

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Florida Carbon Fiber MPH Wind 128

Green Car Congress

OCTOBER 28, 2015

The exceptional direct and linear acceleration and dynamic response of the new NSX is enabled in part by its front-mounted Twin Motor Unit (TMU). The aluminum-intensive space frame utilizes extruded and cast parts to provide exceptional rigidity and light weight. The front floor panels are constructed of carbon fiber core.

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Acura Hybrid Lithium Ion Engine 150

Green Car Congress

SEPTEMBER 10, 2013

The combustion engine and electric motor, battery pack, power electronics, chassis components, and structural and crash functions are all arranged within the aluminum Drive module, while the central element of the Life module is the i8’s CFRP (carbon fiber reinforced plastic) passenger cell.

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The Truth About Cars

OCTOBER 11, 2024

Haas will also continue to use the wind tunnels in Maranello when developing its vehicles. Haas stressed the importance of its partnership with the Italian brand, stating that it will continue to source its gearboxes, suspension components and engines from Ferrari.

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Toyota Ferrari Italy Carbon Fiber 109

Green Car Congress

JULY 17, 2015

It offers the solution to several significant transitions we need: moving society from burning fossil fuels to substituting renewable resource fuels such as solar, wind and biofuels; and from using fossil materials as fuel to using them for other recyclable uses. Distributed Solar and Wind with the PHEV. It is much more than that.

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PHEV Plug-in Renewable Energy 150

Charged EVs

MAY 18, 2021

Consequently, axial flux motors may go from being a niche use and historical curiosity to an important (and, perhaps, dominant) part of the EV traction market. Similarly, the rotor is the part of a motor that rotates while the stator is the part that stays put.

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Motor Motoring Motors Carbon Fiber 106

The Truth About Cars

MAY 22, 2023

Usually, convertible versions of sports coupes suffer from chassis flex and wind/road noise and the like, but this car doesn’t, at least for the most part – you might get some chassis flex when hitting a severe enough bump, but it’s rare. The best part about the LC 500 convertible, however, is how the 5.0-liter

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Lexus Convert Carbon Fiber Exhaust 97

Green Car Congress

APRIL 19, 2016

The Toyota papers were part of the larger World Congress technical session on practical hydrogen fuel cell technology: PFL 720, Advances in Fuel Cell Vehicle Applications, chaired by Jesse Schneider of BMW. The 2016 paper by Hasegawa et al.

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Cars That Think

JULY 2, 2024

Along with colleagues from the National Renewable Energy Laboratory , Ames Laboratory , and the University of Wisconsin, Madison, we have been studying advanced motor concepts as part of the U.S. These magnets are represented by the teal-colored ring of blocks surrounding the copper-colored stator windings. Department of Energy’s U.S.

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Motor Motoring Motors Building 143

Charged EVs

APRIL 12, 2023

As the name implies, the axial-flux PMSM orients its field magnets parallel to the output shaft on a disc that is sandwiched between the stator phase windings (and the “back iron” to complete the magnetic path, if necessary). materials like woven carbon fiber composite.

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