Green Car Congress

JANUARY 24, 2012

The SARTRE project (Safe Road Trains for the Environment) ( earlier post ) has recently completed the first successful test demonstration of a multiple vehicle platoon, with Volvo Car Corporation as the only participating car manufacturer. SARTRE multiple vehicle platoon on the test track. Click to enlarge. Earlier post.

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NOVEMBER 17, 2021

Proven through more than 20 million miles driven by the company’s transit vehicles, Proterra’s battery platform leverages industry-leading energy density manufactured for maximum range, a customizable design to fit within a variety of vehicles, and a ruggedized commercial grade housing to withstand harsh environments.

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Green Car Congress

JUNE 7, 2012

The hill-climb, which begins at an altitude of 2,800 m and reaches the summit of 4,300 m, is an ideal environment to showcase the strengths of an electric powertrain. TMG EV P002 in testing at Paul Ricard Circuit in France. Click to enlarge.

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Green Car Congress

FEBRUARY 10, 2022

In a high-temperature environment, any fuel will behave like diesel fuel, having short ignition delay and burning as it is injected in a mixing fuel plume. Low-sooting fuels allow for the elimination of diesel particulate filtration (DPF).

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Green Car Congress

OCTOBER 15, 2013

The world consumes almost 12 billion gallons of non-renewable, petroleum-based lubricants each year and nearly 90% enters the environment. Locations are being evaluated, including locations in the company’s home state of California.

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Green Car Congress

JUNE 12, 2014

Hood, Texas, in January 2014, where three unmanned military trucks negotiated oncoming traffic, followed rules of the road, recognized pedestrians and avoided various obstacles at speeds up to 25 mph (40 km/h) in an urban environment. Earlier post.). The driverless vehicle is coming in both commercial and military applications.

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Green Car Congress

MAY 18, 2023

However, in a moving environment—i.e., That allowed the tracking system to calculate the device’s location relative to the car and the moving car’s location relative to the world simultaneously, enabling it to anchor virtual objects accurately to a moving car and demo compelling VR and MR passenger experiences.

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Green Car Congress

NOVEMBER 14, 2013

In addition to the significant energy savings and reduced impact on the environment, this technology gives passengers a more comfortable and pleasant journey and improves the working environment of the drivers. A demo project that will bring eight more plug-in hybrid buses into service will commence next year in Stockholm.

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Cars That Think

JANUARY 23, 2024

I always start asking more questions when a robot demo strikes me as just too impressive. If you see an impressive demo that comes out of nowhere, showcasing an autonomous capability without any recent precedents, that’s probably too impressive. Is the robot just too good? But when does impressive become too impressive?

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Green Car Congress

DECEMBER 4, 2013

The operational phase will be accompanied by scientific partners, whose involvement is being funded by the Hessian Ministry for the Environment, Energy, Agriculture and Consumer Protection. The core of the system is an ITM Power proton exchange membrane (PEM) electrolyzer.

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Green Car Congress

MAY 4, 2010

Air Products is a subcontractor on this project to the Center for Transportation & the Environment (CTE) in Atlanta, Ga. Fueling of the forklifts, fitted with Plug Power’s GenDrive hydrogen fuel cell power units, is to begin in 2011.

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Green Car Congress

JUNE 25, 2018

The projects are part of California Climate Investments, a statewide program that puts billions of Cap-and-Trade dollars to work reducing greenhouse gas emissions, strengthening the economy and improving public health and the environment—particularly in disadvantaged communities. million; Cap-and-Trade grant: $6.5 million; Grant: $5.3

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Green Car Congress

APRIL 12, 2011

launched its Demo Drive website to educate consumers on the benefits of advanced vehicle technology. We built Demo Drive so that consumers can see for themselves how the various types of vehicle technologies can positively impact their life. Johnson Controls, Inc.,

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Green Car Congress

NOVEMBER 14, 2014

Kawasaki City will supply the demonstration test environment, and Toshiba is responsible for the design, manufacture and maintenance of the equipment. The results obtained will be jointly utilized by Kawasaki City and Toshiba. Kawasaki Marien, a municipal facility to promote Kawasaki Port, is a designated emergency evacuation area.

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Green Car Congress

MAY 25, 2017

Early results include a direct comparison between Euro 5 and Euro 6 engines under real-world driving conditions, and the impact that cold-starts have on gasoline and diesel engine emissions in urban environments.

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Green Car Congress

FEBRUARY 26, 2020

The company has now built a test facility near Stockholm at the facility of NCC, one of the largest construction companies in the Nordic region and one of ElectReon’s partners in the demo project Smartroad Gotland. To verify these results in a real environment, RISE Research Institute of Sweden performeded a EMC and EMF test on the test site.

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Green Car Congress

MARCH 7, 2018

Funding for the grant comes from California Climate Investments, a statewide program that puts billions of Cap-and-Trade dollars to work reducing greenhouse gas emissions, strengthening the economy and improving public health and the environment—particularly in disadvantaged communities.

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Green Car Congress

OCTOBER 19, 2012

will participate in the 19 th World ITS Congress from 22–26 October 2012 with a demonstration of automobile and motorcycle V2X communication—how its vehicles can communicate both with each other and with road-side infrastructure to benefit road safety, the environment, driver comfort and convenience. Environment. Driving Demo.

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Green Car Congress

MARCH 27, 2015

Implementing autonomous drive will improve safety, reduce emissions and ease mobility in heavily congested urban environments. Bringing the technology to China this week is part of Volvo Cars’ efforts to demonstrate how self-driving vehicles addresses the global sustainable mobility challenges and contribute to the societal development.

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Green Car Congress

APRIL 10, 2022

Five series-production Taycan were connected to the power grid via the Porsche Home Energy Manager (HEM) both in a domestic environment and under laboratory conditions. Experts from Porsche Engineering had already adapted the software of these control centers beforehand for the field test.

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Green Car Congress

NOVEMBER 5, 2018

D-Wave Leap Quantum Application Environment. Wave Leap Quantum Application Environment (QAE). In addition to access, Leap provides open-source development tools, interactive demos and coding examples, educational resources, and knowledge base articles.

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Green Car Congress

FEBRUARY 5, 2016

In the near term, GaN CMOS IC applications could include power integrated circuits that manage electricity more efficiently while having a significantly smaller form factor and lower cost, and integrated circuits that can operate in harsh environments, Chu said.

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Green Car Congress

OCTOBER 3, 2019

million in the form of repayable advances, following last July’s achievement of a technical and financial milestone in the ISOPROD project funded by the French Environment and Energy Management Agency (ADEME), which involves Global Bioenergies, Cristal Union and L’Oréal around the IBN-One first plant project. million and IBN-One €0.5

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Green Car Congress

MARCH 25, 2015

Center for Transportation and the Environment; Fuel Cell Hybrid Electric Delivery Van Project. Center for Transportation and the Environment; AC Transit Fuel Cell Bus Power Plant Retrofit. Center for Transportation and the Environment; Battery-Electric Mucker Demonstration Project.

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Green Car Congress

OCTOBER 20, 2015

The demonstration was part of the Virginia Connected Corridors and the Virginia Automated Corridors initiatives, which represent partnerships between the Virginia Department of Transportation and the Virginia Tech Transportation Institute, the Virginia Department of Motor Vehicles, Transurban, and HERE (a high-definition mapping business), respectively. (..)

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Green Car Congress

OCTOBER 19, 2018

The selected companies will then be invited to Demo Day in Silicon Valley around February of next year to present their business plans. The company asks all participants to submit their technology descriptions and business plans, which will then be carefully analyzed and evaluated to pick the top eight.

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Green Car Congress

APRIL 12, 2022

While most EV drivers nationally do the majority of their charging at home or the office, New York City is a uniquely challenging environment, where half of all drivers park on the street. Con Edison will share results from its V2G demo later this week. Curbside Charging.

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Green Car Congress

JANUARY 5, 2017

The first phase of this expanded collaboration between the nearly decade-long partners focuses on NVIDIA DRIVE PX, which uses trained AI neural networks to understand the surrounding environment, and to determine a safe path forward. Earlier post.).

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Green Car Congress

AUGUST 15, 2011

Acetogens have several advantages to yeast: they convert all xylose (C 5 ) and glucose (C 6 ) sugars and tolerate all breakdown products of biomass; they operate in harsh environments; and they produce no CO 2 as a by-product. the demo-scale plant will begin to come online this year. Valero is an investor ( earlier post ).

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Green Car Congress

JUNE 23, 2014

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. Further, the first demo vehicle has demonstrated T2B5 with margin without the aid of the full dCSC and LP EGR, while maintaining fuel economy above the target.

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Green Car Congress

JUNE 29, 2009

The increase in exploitable coal possible with UCG may be less when site selection is constrained by geologic and hydrologic criteria to protect the environment. However, the lab notes, there are also some downsides: UCG has produced significant groundwater contamination and ground subsidence in some previous operations.

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Creative Greenius

AUGUST 31, 2011

We’ve got over 35 different organizations, groups, businesses and local cities partnering with us and putting on incredible demos, workshops and displays on how we’re going to make our communities more bikeable, more walkable and more livable.

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Green Car Congress

FEBRUARY 26, 2016

To further advance car-based commerce, Visa is also offering a range of related digital payment solutions, including new standards for Bluetooth (BLE) and QR codes that could help expand enablement of mobile payments for both merchants and consumers in any environment.

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Green Car Congress

JULY 11, 2016

chainsaws and lawn mowers—where the operator, machine and environment benefit from a cleaner fuel quality regarding harmful substances compared to regular gasoline. In particular, Lantmännen Aspen’s commercial activities include specialty fuels for usage in two- and four-stroke small engines—e.g.

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Green Car Congress

JULY 7, 2018

The urban environment is where eTrucks can truly demonstrate their strengths. The next step is to introduce a demo fleet of electric buses into everyday use in various European cities before series production of the battery electric version of the new MAN Lion’s City can finally get under way. Top: MAN eTGM. Bottom: MAN eTGE.

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Green Car Congress

FEBRUARY 12, 2016

NREL is also very interested in performing chassis dynamometer testing of the BEBs and the CNG buses and hopes to precisely quantify both energy and emissions savings in a controlled environment on a variety of drive cycles. Foothill Transit serves a 327-square-mile area covering the San Gabriel and Pomona Valley region of Los Angeles County.

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Electrek

MARCH 4, 2024

Global automotive supplier Valeo has unveiled a new extended-reality racing video game it will demo during SXSW 2024. Valeo Racer turns your EV into a participant in the video game, utilizing the vehicle’s ADAS to let you race through its surrounding environment in real time. Be sure to check out the teaser footage below.

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