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ORNL demos 20 kW bi-directional wireless charging on UPS PHEV truck; 11" air gap, >92% efficiency

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The technology takes energy from the grid and converts it to direct current (DC) voltage. Once the energy is transferred to the secondary coil across the air gap it is converted back to DC, charging the vehicle’s battery pack. —Mike Whitlatch, vice president of Global Energy and Procurement for UPS.

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Stellantis partners with Qinomic to develop electric retrofitting of light commercial vehicles

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This innovation gives our professional customers the choice to convert their current vans to electric, extend their vehicle’s life and meet legislative and mobility requirements. In a market boosted by last-mile demand, city access restrictions will soon require recent LCV owners to look for a solution to convert to zero emissions.

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SwRI D-EGR gasoline demo vehicle delivers diesel efficiency at lower cost; potential for LEV III/Tier 3 emissions

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The D-EGR demonstrator is a converted 2012 Buick Regal with a 2.0-liter The schematic of the turbocharged 4-cylinder engine in a D-EGR configuration (left), and the D-EGR engine under the hood of the demo vehicle showcased at SAE World Congress in Detroit. Power and torque curves for the stock LEA engine and the converted D-EGR engine.

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Schaeffler demo vehicle hits 2020 CAFE targets without electrification; 15% cut in fuel consumption; 48V hybrid system for 2025

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Schaeffler Efficient Future Mobility North America demo vehicle in Detroit. Contributions towards the results were also made by the detailed friction optimization work carried out on the belt drive, the valve train and the balancer shafts, as well as the optimization of the torque converter. Click to enlarge. Click to enlarge.

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Soletair demo plant produces renewable hydrocarbon fuel from CO2 captured from the air

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VTT Technical Research Centre of Finland and Lappeenranta University of Technology (LUT) are beginning testing of the Soletair demo plant, which uses air-captured carbon dioxide to produce renewable fuels and chemicals. In larger refineries light olefins—ethylene, propylene and butenes—are separated from this fraction.

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Swiss team demos light-driven electron accumulation in artificial molecules; step towards artificial photosynthesis

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The two research groups of the Universities of Basel and Zurich are currently investigating how the charge accumulation can be converted into a chemical fuel. Wenger (2016) “Light-Driven Electron Accumulation in a Molecular Pentad” Angew. Resources. Orazietti, M. Kuss-Petermann, P. doi: 10.1002/anie.201604030. 201604030.

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Cummins progressing with lightweight downsized T2B2 diesel for pickup; 40% improvement in fuel economy over gasoline V8

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So far this year, the team has integrated the T2B2 aftertreatment in the dynamometer environment and is in the process of convert the demonstration vehicle to the T2B2 configuration. SCR coated on filter (SCR-F) allows for close coupling of an SCR (selective catalytic reduction) function for fast light off. Earlier post.).