Green Car Congress

JANUARY 7, 2013

The next step was the conversion of that EV to a full aluminium space frame electric vehicle. As a secondary effect, the battery system capacity could be downsized by 3.3 The shape of the outer skin of the vehicle was kept identical to that of steel vehicles. Various manufacturing methods used in the aluminum design.

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Electric Vehicles Range Vehicles Electric 311

Green Car Congress

JULY 16, 2019

In testing, the 1 kWe micro-CHP motor achieved 33% Electrical Conversion Efficiency; 20% more than the current leading unit in this power class. Downspeeding is a technique that, alongside downsizing, has brought significant efficiency benefits to the automotive and commercial vehicle markets.

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Engine Market 2019 Downsizing 281

Green Car Congress

APRIL 19, 2016

Continental will present an innovative close-coupled annular catalytic converter that supports near-complete NO x conversion in downsized turbocharged gasoline engines at the 37 th Vienna Motor Symposium next week. For downsized turbocharged gasoline engines, this presents two challenges. Click to enlarge. Click to enlarge.

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Convert Standards Exhaust Conversion 150

Green Car Congress

JANUARY 17, 2011

With turbocharging, we can have some huge gains, we can downsize the engine and produce very big power. Scuderi said that the newest SwRI simulations resulted from conversation with major OEMs with whom Scuderi is working, who asked the company to come up with a way to simulate the Scuderi engine in their vehicles. —Sal Scuderi.

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Engine Fuel Hybrid Downsizing 199

Green Car Congress

AUGUST 11, 2014

down-speeding, downsized engine, etc.), Martin Cleary (2014) Nanostructured High Temperature Bulk Thermoelectric Energy Conversion for Efficient Waste Heat Recovery, DOE 2014 Annual Merit Review ACE082. Ultimately, GMZ will test the final TEG on the dyno, and integrate it into the vehicle.

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Honda Houston North America Vehicles 231

Green Car Congress

OCTOBER 12, 2011

The combination of regulated fuel and emissions reduction, electrification of the powertrain, safety within the powertrain and engine downsizing is placing exponential performance demands on the processors used in control units, Philip Pesses, Freescale Product Manager for Automotive Powertrain, said in a pre-announcement briefing.

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Powered Power Engine Conversion 225

Green Car Congress

SEPTEMBER 3, 2016

Given such market conditions, TDK is currently strengthening its energy unit business, which mainly consists of hardware in power conversion for hybrid, plug-in hybrid, and electric vehicles, as well as software that controls such hardware as strategic growth products in the medium to long term.

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PHEV DC Automobile Downsizing 170

Green Car Congress

JANUARY 27, 2016

The T-Hybrid (based on a Kia Optima) ( earlier post ) and the ADEPT (based on a Ford Focus) ( earlier post ) both utilize an advanced 48V lead-carbon battery system with bolt-on electrical components that allow for significant engine-downsizing without loss in performance. liter engine the performance of a 1.8

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Emissions Hybrid CO2 Downsizing 150

Green Car Congress

AUGUST 20, 2013

Only the shoebox unit—consisting of transverse shell-and-tube design in which banks of parallel, vertical catalyst tubes extended through a transverse stack of exhaust-side heat-exchange plates—exhibited sustained high conversion with low and stable fuel-side pressure throughout a 500 h test period.

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Fuel Economy Exhaust Economy Fuel 230

Green Car Congress

FEBRUARY 5, 2020

Manufacturers continue to optimize diesel emission controls, such as DOC, DPF and SCR, in order to promote uniform catalyst coating, improve NO x conversion efficiency, reduce back pressure on the engine, and reduce thermal mass. Better catalysts and urea dosing systems can achieve high NOx conversion during lower temperature operation.

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Emissions Diesel Engine 2010 291

Green Car Congress

MAY 8, 2015

Thanks to this rightsizing approach, the new engine enjoys the consumption benefits of a downsizing engine in partial load operation, while at higher loads it has the advantages of a large-displacement engine. The result is optimal efficiency and performance characteristics across the entire engine speed range. Stroppiana, A.,

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Audi MPG Downsizing 2015 150

Green Car Congress

MAY 6, 2013

This downsizing enables lower fuel consumption, accompanied by low emissions and optimum weight. Conversely, intervention will be stopped if the driver carries out an evasive maneuver, takes his or her foot off the brake pedal or presses the accelerator pedal. The engines attain both a high specific power output and high torque.

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Diesel 2014 Standards Exhaust 306

Green Car Congress

APRIL 26, 2009

The resulting higher BMEP levels allow downsizing of the engine at equivalent vehicle performance. Furthermore, by enabling higher CR, downsizing and downspeeding, E85 DI + gasoline PFI makes the engine more efficient in itsusee of gasoline. Earlier post.)

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Diesel Ford F-150 Gasoline 170

Green Car Congress

JULY 11, 2017

In addition, they found that many systems are capable of NO x conversion over a wide temperature range at rates close to those of three-way catalytic converters on gasoline vehicles. Further, as NO x conversion catalysts are improving, so are diesel particulate filters and their methods for regeneration. E-boost and 48V.

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Diesel Light Fuel Economy 2017 186

Green Car Congress

FEBRUARY 4, 2013

The A48 engine in Achates’ test cell was developed on an 80mm bore, Johnson said; the TARDEC application will be a bit downsized. Conversely, in a four-cylinder configuration, the gas-exchange events overlap too much. Any opposed-piston engine with a stroke/bore below 2.0 Three-cylinder configuration.

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Diesel Powered Power Exhaust 334

Green Car Congress

MAY 17, 2013

This is because the ethanol component may affect the conversion efficiency of the gasoline component in a blend, that is, make an engine more or less efficient in its use of the gasoline component. converted all vehicle efficiency measurements into vehicle energy efficiency (VEE, km/MJ) based on fuel energy densities reported in each study.

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Fuel Energy Gasoline-Electric Gasoline 210

Green Car Congress

FEBRUARY 22, 2018

liter downsized turbocharged centrally-mounted direct injection engine. This study also showed that that catalyzed GPFs can improve the conversion efficiency for NO x , THC, and CO emissions and have no measurable impact on CO 2 emissions and fuel economy. In the study, the team used two MY 2016 passenger cars.

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Gasoline Emissions Engine Fuel Economy 253

Green Car Congress

FEBRUARY 26, 2018

Conversion to wider gear ranges. Shift responsiveness has improved through downsizing of the pulley and reduction of inertia by 40%. Both smooth and comfortable launch performance are realized. In line with the adoption of a launch gear, belt use is now specified for higher gear ratios. liter class.

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Green Car Congress

JUNE 11, 2019

These same technologies will deliver low temperature NOx conversion in the real world as part of the newly proposed moving average windows-based compliance program. The cost of controlling NO x to 0.05 g/bhp-hr in 2024 and to 0.02

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Standards Diesel 2019 Emissions 191

Green Car Congress

DECEMBER 10, 2009

The automotive industry, including Lotus Engineering, has quite rightly advocated engine downsizing for four-stroke engines. The two-stroke cycle, conversely, does not suffer from significant throttling losses and in many ways is a more natural fit for automotive use.

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Fuel Economy Engine Light Fuel 218

Green Car Congress

JANUARY 17, 2011

technology and there is progress on the economic conversion of biomass to. Researchers at the US EPA investigating this approach concluded that the M85 and E85 engines could provide efficiencies comparable or higher than the diesel, in dedicated fuel, high compression ratio turbo charged/downsized engines.

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Transportation Fuel Coal Gasoline 257

Green Car Congress

MARCH 7, 2019

Downsized, Optimized, High Efficiency, Spark Ignited Natural Gas Engine. Development of Zeolite-Based Catalysts for Improved Low Temperature CH 4 Conversion. This combination of technologies seeks to solve the technical challenges of dispensing uncertainty and heat of compression that results in natural gas vehicles being under-filled.

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Gas Vehicles Exhaust Engine 191

Green Car Congress

JANUARY 28, 2014

Conversion efficiency is now the key. Per the regulations, the Mercedes team downsized their internal combustion engine (ICE) to a 1.6 The fundamental challenge is to convert as much of the chemical energy in the fuel, into mechanical energy, as efficiently as possible at the prescribed flow rate. The F1 W05. Click to enlarge.

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2014 Mercedes Fuel Power 252

Green Car Congress

SEPTEMBER 27, 2017

The eCity Truck is an innovative diesel hybrid system that is a flexible and scalable solution allowing easy integration of an electric axle (eAxle) into light commercial vehicles to enable the easy conversion of a traditional diesel truck platform to a diesel-electric hybrid truck.

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Connected Connect Commercial Future 170

Green Car Congress

JUNE 30, 2017

Several approaches have been implemented to reduce the usage of Pt, such as dispersing the promising candidates for efficient and clean energy conversion. As the limit in downsizing metal morphology, the concept of single-atom catalysts (SACs) has emerged since it maximizes the exposed atom efficiency. Credit: ACS, Zhang et al.

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Green Car Congress

MAY 18, 2015

According to the review, the conversion of HCs, CO, and NO in the exhaust gas by the catalyst can result in up to a 4.5% According to the review, the conversion of HCs, CO, and NO in the exhaust gas by the catalyst can result in up to a 4.5%

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Fuel Exhaust Gas Engine 150

Green Car Congress

SEPTEMBER 21, 2009

Conversion to dual overhead cam with dual cam phasing: as applied to overhead valves designed to increase the air flow with more than two valves per cylinder and reduce pumping losses. Turbocharging and downsizing (TRBDS): increases the available airflow and specific power level, allowing a reduced engine size while maintaining performance.

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2016 MPG Fuel Economy EPA 210

Green Car Congress

FEBRUARY 10, 2014

As part of a consortium over the last several years, the authors worked with industrial partners in developing 2/4-stroke switchable engine technologies through engine downsizing, from which the current research on 2-stroke CAI via poppet valve operation have been initiated and performed. bar IMEP on the 2-stroke mode. Zhang et al.

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Gasoline Engine Exhaust Fuel 186

Green Car Congress

APRIL 29, 2009

Ford’s turbocharged, gasoline direct injection EcoBoost engines are targeted to play a significant near-term role in Ford’s efforts to reduce fuel consumption by enabling downsizing. The cold-start period constitutes the majority of engine emissions due to zero or low conversion efficiency of the aftertreatment system. Earlier post.).

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Plugs and Cars

JULY 31, 2008

A number of startups showed off their porposals to retrofit the existing fleets of petroleum-fueled vehicles, giving some hope to Andy Grove’s ambitoious desire to create millions of plug-in conversions before the automakers deliver. Representatives of GM stoked the clamor for the Volt, and a Saturn Vue plug-in hybrid sat on the show floor.

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Plug-in Al Gore Plug Gore 100

Green Car Congress

NOVEMBER 28, 2016

Thrust 1 builds on the significant amount of work carried out over the past several decades, focused on building advanced boosted, downsized, and downspeeded spark ignition engines. Co-Optima is definitely not seeking to develop new conversion pathways, but is relying on what has already been done. —Robert Wagner.

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Engine Fuel Vehicles Emissions 150

Green Car Congress

JUNE 16, 2015

In the large Sharan the downsized engine consumes on average 6.4 This conversion is done using synthetically produced AdBlue, which is stored in a 17-liter tank and in the Sharan only has to be topped up every 10,000 kilometers. The Sharan 1.4 l/100 km (148 g/km CO 2 ); with the optional six-speed dual clutch gearbox (DSG) it is 6.6

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Standards Fuel MPG Battery 150

Green Car Congress

JUNE 2, 2015

Despite its efficiency, the Golf TSI BlueMotion with the 85 kW / 114 hp downsized 999 cc EA211-series engine reaches 100 km/h in 9.7 The new TSI engine also offers the highest specific torque of any large-scale production series gasoline engines: 200 N·m per liter displacement. seconds and goes on to a top speed of 204 km/h (127 mph).

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Gasoline MPG Exhaust Engine 150

Baua Electric

JULY 16, 2024

Auto plants around the country are in danger of downsizing or shutting down altogether, and helping these facilities to retool for EV production instead makes economic sense. To these ends, the US Department of Energy has established the Domestic Manufacturing Conversion Grant Program.

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Cars That Think

NOVEMBER 7, 2022

And there they would have stayed without a chance conversation and assistance from some very capable librarians and archivists. Moreover, unlike some libraries, which have downsized their journal collections in favor of electronic databases, LHL remains committed to preserving its print holdings.

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Kansas City Kansas Missouri Downsizing 101

Tony Karrer Delicious EVdriven

JANUARY 28, 2009

See also our EAA-PHEV:General disclaimer talk : Disclaimer edit Please visit the Conversion Interest page to help us gauge DIYers interest! Current Hybrids are natural donor platforms because they already have most of the needed electric propulsion components, so the conversion process deals primarily with integrating larger battery packs.A

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EV Central

OCTOBER 27, 2023

Ram mid-sized ute Ram has comfirmed it will produce a new mid-sized EV pick-up truck (ute) to be released between 2024 and 2026 Ram is known for its big American pickup trucks, but the brand that was spun off from Dodge is set to downsize with a new mid-sized ute to take on the Ford Ranger and Toyota Hilux.

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