EV Central

MARCH 7, 2023

Surround it with electric motors to create the most powerful road car on the market. Just as Rolls-Royce, Bentley, BMW and Mercedes-Benz are working to phase out their V12 engines, Lamborghini has spent big bucks on a new engine. Yep, you read that right. There’s then a 110kW/350Nm electric motor for each of the front wheels.

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Teslarati

JULY 8, 2024

NASCAR has made itself a rich legacy through the use of petrol-powered internal combustion engines for decades. Not only are people buying EVs for environmental reasons, but they’re also high-powered and high-performance, something that race fans across the globe want.

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EV Central

JUNE 8, 2024

Aussie CO2 standard tough on Toyota, SUVs and utes You might have noticed, and I certainly have, that the car company execs have stopped talking about electric vehicles, and begun describing the Australian car market of the near future using such vague and nebulous terms as “electrified” now that a New Vehicles Emissions Standard looms.

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EV Central

JUNE 5, 2024

Starting with the launch of the mild hybrid Swift Hybrid compact passenger car on June 15, the Japanese blue collar brand will swap most of its range to petrol-electric hybrid by late 2025. Pachota acknowledged the importance of the NVES CO2 reduction scheme in Suzuki Australia’s swing toward hybrids. 2024 Suzuki Swift Hybrid. “I

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EV Info

SEPTEMBER 29, 2022

Note the clarification of Zero Co2 at the point of use. Let’s look at the benefits and issues of using Hydrogen as fuel and remember that efficiency in the total power supply train, not just at the motor is critical. The Space Shuttle Main Engine burnt hydrogen with oxygen, producing a nearly invisible flame at full thrust.

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Green Cars News

DECEMBER 11, 2012

Citroen’s new family of turbo-boosted petrol engines have helped the cut greenhouse gas emissions by roughly 25 per cent. Each of the new PureTech engines offers equivalent or superior power compared to the previous generation of engines, despite offering significant improvements in fuel economy and reduced CO2 emissions.

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Baua Electric

MARCH 27, 2024

Swedish automaker Volvo has rolled out its last diesel-powered vehicle, after a 45-year relationship with the powertrain and cranking out millions of diesel cars. Since 1991, Volvo made more than 9 million vehicles with diesel engines. Now, with electrification firmly taking hold, diesel engine development has all but ceased in Europe.

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Green Cars News

DECEMBER 23, 2011

In designing a new fuel-efficient sleigh for Santa using the firm’s EcoBoost engine technology, Ford calculates that its new petrol-powered sleigh would be greener than running nine carrot-powered reindeer on Christmas [.].

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Get Electric Vehicle

MAY 29, 2021

One of the main reasons which limit the mass adaption of electric cars or EVs is its price difference in comparison with its IC engine counterpart. At present, an electric vehicle costs 30% more than an IC engine-powered vehicle with similar specifications. The Reduction in Battery cost.

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Green Car Congress

SEPTEMBER 6, 2013

Ford Motor Company is doubling the production capacity of its Cologne, Germany, engine plant to produce more than 1,000 units per day of the 1.0-L L EcoBoost engine to meet growing European demand. liter EcoBoost engines accounted for a growing share of overall sales. In the first eight months of 2013, models equipped with 1.0-liter

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Baua Electric

SEPTEMBER 15, 2024

Chery says the Tiggo 4 Pro is Australia’s best-value turbo-powered small SUV, joining the Omoda 5, Tiggo 7 Pro and Tiggo 8 Pro in its local portfolio. Power for the model comes from a 1.5-litre litre turbocharged four-cylinder petrol engine with outputs of 108kW and 210Nm, matching that of the Omoda 5.

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Green Car Congress

SEPTEMBER 19, 2012

Aerodynamic improvements, weight savings and engine enhancements have reduced fuel consumption and CO 2 emissions across the range. Toyota anticipates a 1/3 full hybrid, 1/3 gasoline, 1/3 diesel engine mix. This has been achieved within the new Auris gasoline engine range through the use of high, 11.5:1 Powertrains.

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EV Central

MARCH 20, 2024

There’s up to 500kW of power, up to 725km range, 0-100km/h in under five seconds, towing up to 4500kg and payload of 650kg. litre turbo-diesel V8, fuel economy in the teens per 100km and lots of CO2 emissions. But the Silverado EV did look like a potential future local candidate as EV utes start rolling into production.

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Green Cars News

SEPTEMBER 21, 2009

Now at the Frankfurt Motor Show Ford has announced a new family of petrol engines offering the opportunity to down size engine capacity without suffering a reduction in performance. In fact, fuel consumption and CO2 emissions are reduced by up to 20 per cent compared to a conventional petrol engine.

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EV Central

MAY 1, 2024

And, when you consider the inevitable boost in performance an electric motor or two brings when allied with a combustion engine, any long-held PHEV iciness you have may thaw a touch. litre turbo petrol-hybrid offering a mighty 255kW and 648Nm of torque. There are reasons here. Or, more twist than a Ford Ranger Raptor.

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Green Cars News

AUGUST 4, 2011

Audi has made a breakthrough with its new petrol engine – the 1.8litre TFSI – which reduces fuel consumption by 21 per cent compared to the previous model’s engine. The engine achieves 41mpg and emits just 134g/km of CO2 despite impressive power figures of 125kW and 320Nm.

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Baua Electric

MAY 17, 2024

New, three-cylinder fuel-sipping engine One of the key recipients of this investment is the development of the new 1.2-litre litre Z-series powertrain, which now features a three-cylinder layout for the petrol engine, christened Z12E, a downsize from the outgoing 1.2-litre, litre, four-cylinder, K12C unit.

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Green Car Congress

MARCH 20, 2012

The figure suggests that the car market will continue to be dominated by traditional combustion-engine models for the foreseeable future. It is far too early to dismiss the conventional diesel and petrol power trains. We continuously improve their efficiency. —Stefan Jacoby.

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EV Central

JULY 5, 2024

litre triple-cylinder petrol engine mated with an electronic CVT aided by an e-motor and Nickel-Metal Hydride battery (intriguingly, the Yaris Cross uses li-ion) for a total combined output of 100kW (torque unstated). But there’s no power adjustment for the passenger seat, a spare tyre or a sunroof in any LBX. 2024 Lexus LBX.

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Get Electric Vehicle

JUNE 5, 2023

There are proven and matured technologies to extract energy from fossil fuels and IC engines have been used in vehicles for a long. 1 liter of Petrol emits 2.3 Diesel engines can use biodiesel alone or blended with petroleum fuels. #2 It is less expensive to produce for IC engine vehicles. Lets’ check out.

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Green Cars News

NOVEMBER 3, 2009

While the small yet mighty Alto may seem quite dull when surrounded by solar powered cars, electric sports car and alcohol fuelled motorbikes, there is nothing that can take away the staggering miles to the gallon figure the little Alto clocked up. Tags: Suzuki Alto diesel fuel efficiency Green Car Challenge petrol. per cent and 12.2

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Green Cars News

JULY 23, 2009

It is fair to say that we don’t often mention premium British carmaker Bentley on the news pages of the website, and while their full range of cars are powered by hugely powerful engines the company is looking into ways of improve their environmental performance. seconds, and a top speed of 204mph!

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Green Cars News

NOVEMBER 9, 2009

Manufacturers continue to make efforts to slash carbon dioxide (CO2) emissions, and now Citroen has introduced two new greener power plants to its C5 range. 16V THP 155hp petrol engine that replaces the out-going 2.0i 16V 143hp unit; and a new 2.0HDi 16V 160hp diesel that replaces the 2.2HDi 16V 173hp engine.

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Green Cars News

MAY 16, 2012

Audi’s new A3 model will feature a powerful yet small 1.4 petrol engine, which thanks to its cylinder deactivation system, will offer CO2 emissions expected to be as low as 106g/km. That would make it one of the lowest emission petrol-only model in its class.

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Get Electric Vehicle

JUNE 7, 2023

An electric vehicle is a type of vehicle that uses one or more electric motors for propulsion instead of an internal combustion engine that runs on fossil fuels like gasoline or diesel. Electric vehicles are powered by electricity stored in rechargeable batteries or obtained from other sources such as hydrogen fuel cells.

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Drive Electric

JANUARY 14, 2022

Thanks to the instantaneous way power is delivered via an EV’s electric motors, even the most meek of family cars can have surprisingly good performance. What’s even more impressive is where the power comes from. It’s more expensive to fill up with petrol once, than it is to charge an electric car eight times.

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Green Car Congress

FEBRUARY 18, 2014

Controlled Power Technologies (CPT) will deliver two technical papers at SAE World Congress in April on its SpeedStart torque assist and kinetic energy recovery system ( earlier post ) and TIGERS turbine integrated gas energy recovery system ( earlier post ) for 48V mild hybrid vehicles. Earlier post.)

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Green Cars News

AUGUST 24, 2011

litre TFSI petrol engine and an electric motor, fuel consumption will be in excess of 44mpg on the combined cycle and CO2 emissions of less than 148g/km. TDI-powered A8 has the lowest CO2 emissions in [.]. German carmaker Audi has finally confirmed the production of its Hybrid A8 luxury saloon. Combining a 2.0

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Green Cars News

SEPTEMBER 18, 2009

Fiat has the lowest average CO2 emissions figure on all cars sold in Europe the latest figures show. During the first half of 2009 around 65,000 Fiat Natural Power cars, with an average of 115.8 g/km in CO2 emissions, were sold in Europe, a figure more than 13 g/km less than the brand’s already recording-breaking average.

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Green Cars News

AUGUST 20, 2010

Motorists in New Zealand are increasingly turning to the power of diesel to reduce CO2 emissions and boost fuel efficiency, the country's Motor Trade Association (MTA) reveals. Tags: Latest news alternative fuel diesel engine fuel economy MTA petrol.

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Get Electric Vehicle

OCTOBER 27, 2021

You see, an automobile has a lot of parts and manufacturing the parts and assembling an automobile emits tonnes of carbon dioxide and this is why the challenge is a herculean task because the company have to produce cars with zero emissions but make the manufacturing process also non Co2 generating processes. A Great and Sincere Vision.

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DIY Electric Car

JULY 12, 2009

There is also an excellent network of overground trains and if we think of it all of these are powered by massive electric drives. These were on the streets of London for the past 10 years however they were running only on the pedal power. All of them runs on diesel engines making even more pollution than the ordinary petrol engines.

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Green Car Congress

OCTOBER 14, 2011

BMW will add further engines to the line-up in 2012, when the BMW ActiveHybrid 3 (using a powertrain similar to that of the ActiveHybrid 5, earlier post ) will also make its premiere. All the engines are well within the EU5 and US ULEV II limits. liter gasoline engine will be available in two output ratings.

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My Electric Car

AUGUST 21, 2020

There has been much discussion for over thirty years or more around the use of hydrogen fuel cells as an alternative to the internal combustion engine. Fuel cells had been promoted in some sectors as the best alternative to the internal combustion engine. So why haven’t FCEV becoming as prolific as other electric cars?

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Green Cars News

MAY 11, 2009

A natural has powered sports car study has been unveiled by MBTech, a development and consulting service provider, based on the Mercedes Benz SLK. Engineers from the company’s powertrain solutions segment delivered an increase in performance with the four cylinder compressor engine in the series SLK model.

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Green Car Congress

JUNE 29, 2011

The primary goal of the project, which runs until June 2012, is consistently to utilize renewable energy sources for electrically powered vehicles. In parallel, more and more electricity is being generated from solar and water power. Earlier post.) Representing the energy industry is energy provider E.ON. Under the hood.

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Wallbox

JUNE 30, 2021

To learn from its experience, let’s look back through Norway’s 30-year journey to becoming an EV giant: it all started with a mission to curb the country’s CO2 emissions. Curbing CO2 Emissions with Electric Transport. So how did this largely rural Scandinavian country become the global leader in EV adoption?

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