Green Car Congress

NOVEMBER 18, 2020

—Oliver Heilmer, Head of MINI Design. Having been conceived from the outset as an electrically powered vehicle with automated driving functions, the MINI Vision Urbanaut has afforded the designers a greater level of freedom when creating both the exterior and interior. Other MINI moments are conceivable, such as “My MINI moment”.

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Green Car Congress

MARCH 5, 2022

The new C40 and XC40 variants, along with all other new Volvo Cars’ models, will be available through an updated offer concept, designed to make the online ordering process of Volvo cars easier and more convenient.

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Green Car Congress

JULY 9, 2023

Customers can store their personal items in the smart central tunnel—which comes with a customized cover pad and flexible cupholders—seat pockets and strategic front storage spaces. The Fiat Topolino takes its name and design from the original 500, affectionately called ‘Topolino’ because of the small size. New Fiat 600e.

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Green Car Congress

JUNE 3, 2022

Standard equipment highlights for the EQB include EQ-specific design language with front and rear LED light bands that are seamlessly integrated into the black- panel grill. It is also able to react dynamically to changes, such as in the traffic situation or personal driving style.

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Green Car Congress

NOVEMBER 17, 2022

The Toyota bZ Compact SUV Concept is designed as a full battery-electric vehicle, using a clean-vital design approach. Notably, the design team included several eco-friendly touches, such as seating made from plant-based and recycled materials to follow the Beyond Zero theme.

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Green Car Congress

SEPTEMBER 1, 2022

And it will also gain substantially in importance as far as personal mobility is concerned. The stack housing is manufactured in the light metal foundry at BMW Group Plant Landshut using a sand casting technique. The two companies have been collaborating on fuel cell drive systems since 2013.

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Green Car Congress

APRIL 29, 2022

Traffic lights along the route are outfitted with intelligent roadside units and communicate with the bus to enable vehicle to infrastructure (V2I) interoperability. The bus runs Monday through Thursday, 9:45 a.m. to 2:15 p.m. and Fridays from 9:45 a.m. to 12:45 p.m., with the last departures from Lot 89 of the day at 1:30 p.m.

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Green Car Congress

APRIL 16, 2021

The aerodynamicists, in close cooperation with the designers, were able to achieve a new Cd best value of 0.20. Deceleration is also applied to detected vehicles ahead until they come to a standstill, for example at traffic lights. This makes the EQS the most aerodynamic production car in the world.

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Green Car Congress

AUGUST 23, 2023

At launch, the EV9 will be available in Light, Wind, Land, and GT-Line trim levels, offered in two battery sizes and rear-wheel drive or dual-motor AWD configurations. The boxy, triangular design language of the EV9 emphasizes the tension of its short overhangs and long 122.0-inch earlier post ). Standard is a 76.1-kWh

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Green Car Congress

JANUARY 25, 2023

The authors designed a material flow analysis paired with socioeconomic pathway modeling to determine possible scenarios for the decarbonization of personal transportation in the US. Neither is where mining takes place, who bears the social and environmental burdens, or how mining is governed. Riofrancos et al. 2°C of warming.

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Teslarati

FEBRUARY 8, 2025

Tesla has shared a new video about the design and engineering of the refreshed Model Y, revealing a few new features and talks from some of the company’s top executives. Credit: Tesla | X Tesla has released a deep dive on the design and engineering of the new Model Y.

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Green Car Congress

JANUARY 11, 2020

Researchers have created a plasmonic photocatalyst consisting of a Cu nanoparticle antenna with single-Ru atomic reactor sites on the nanoparticle surface that proves ideal for low-temperature, light-driven methane dry reforming—one pathway for the production of syngas. Zhou said the syngas catalyst uses a similar design.

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Green Car Congress

AUGUST 6, 2019

The Audi e-tron Scooter, combining the advantages of the electric scooter and the skateboard, is designed for sporty riders. The Audi e-tron Scooter is fitted with the legally required LED lights: a headlight, daytime running light, rear light and brake light.

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Electrek

JANUARY 8, 2024

Following the debut of the production-intent design of its Helix light eVTOL, electric aviation startup Pivotal has begun selling the personal aircraft in the US. more… The post Pivotal begins US sales of the Helix – a light eVTOL that doesn’t require FAA pilot certification appeared first on Electrek.

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Green Car Congress

MAY 13, 2022

Fisker confirmed that it will produce its second vehicle, the Fisker PEAR (Personal Electric Automotive Revolution) ( earlier post ), at the factory Foxconn (Hon Hai Precision Industry Co. Fisker has designed and engineered the vehicle to reduce parts for rapid, simplified manufacturing. The Fisker PEAR will enter production in 2024.

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Cars That Think

MARCH 5, 2025

At the time, about a decade ago, I was helping to refine a system for fabricating chips using extreme ultraviolet (EUV) light. To produce EUV light, we would focus an intense laser pulse onto 30-micrometer-wide droplets of tin flying through a chamber filled with low-density hydrogen.

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Green Car Congress

AUGUST 27, 2019

Building on its initial concept presented at CES 2017, the new model features rear-wheel drive, a lithium-ion battery and stylish front and rear lights. This is the vehicle-mounted personal scooter which could be featured in future Hyundai Motor Group vehicles. Hyundai Motor Group has developed a new prototype electric scooter.

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Green Car Congress

OCTOBER 19, 2022

A super-rigid structure, low center of gravity and highly refined tuning of the MacPherson-type strut front suspension and multi-link rear suspension endow all Corolla Hybrid models with exemplary handling agility, ride comfort and distinctive driving personality. SPORT: Enhances dynamic performance and acceleration. The 2ZR-FXE 1.8-liter

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Charged EVs

NOVEMBER 21, 2024

The house has been a design icon since it opened, and its use underscored the upscale market targeted by the electric three-row SUV from one of the world’s most ambitious carmakers. It’s a square but design-forward three-row utility vehicle with high-design interiors and the brand’s mix of user-friendly interfaces and advanced tech.

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Green Car Congress

JANUARY 3, 2019

The concept has been designed to make urban driving easy, fun and safe, while exploring how Kia could make the final mile of any journey possible with a personal mobility device. Kia will have specially-designed experiential modules installed at its CES booth to demonstrate the potential of the READ System.

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Green Car Congress

JULY 19, 2022

Supernal partnered with the Group’s design studios to create the cabin concept as the company works to certify its eVTOL vehicle for commercial use in the United States starting in 2028 and in the EU and UK shortly after. —Jaiwon Shin. Ergonomically contoured seats offer a cocoon-like environment for passengers.

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Green Car Congress

FEBRUARY 25, 2022

The highly optimized V2X software stack and safety application suite designed by Commsignia fits light vehicles and provides secure direct communication between road users and the infrastructure.

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Cars That Think

FEBRUARY 3, 2025

Their epidermal electronics embed state-of-the-art silicon chips, sensors, light-emitting diodes, antennas, and transducers into thin epidermal patches, which are designed to monitor a variety of health factors. A third tattoo is placed elsewhere and used as a reference point. In our GETs for sweat, we use the graphene as a transistor.

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Green Car Congress

APRIL 28, 2020

The design itself of the tri-axle bus of 15 meters is nothing new for the company. This entails, among others, special solutions ensuring thermal comfort in the vehicle, lighting or a type of passenger seats dedicated to transport between cities. The passenger seating capacity will amount to 55 persons for class II vehicles.

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Green Car Congress

APRIL 2, 2019

Another surprise in this class is a Sport Mode, which changes the car’s personality with enhanced acceleration response. A rigid steering mount provides a direct yet light feel, and the brakes are tuned to yield a progressive feel when cornering. The system scans the road ahead for potential vehicle collisions.

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Green Car Congress

JUNE 23, 2023

Because of their greater body weight and larger profile, SUVs and other light trucks can cause more harm to a person on foot when a crash occurs. In 2021, 69% of pedestrian fatalities occurred in locations where no sidewalk was noted on the crash report, up from 59% in 2017 and continuing a steady upward trajectory in recent years.

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Green Car Congress

NOVEMBER 20, 2019

SPACE VIZZION electric concept combines the aerodynamic design of a Gran Turismo with the spaciousness and versatility of an SUV. Since electric vehicles don’t need a radiator or space for an engine, this creates new design freedom. The extra focus on the aerodynamics also influences the design of the vehicle’s side panels.

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The Truth About Cars

OCTOBER 4, 2024

The world lost a great automotive designer in September, as it surfaced earlier this week that Bruno Sacco passed away at the age of 90. There, his flair for serious and orderly designs were put to use on the exclusive luxury wares from Mercedes-Benz. And one of the first design unification tasks was the upcoming S-Class.

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Cars That Think

JUNE 11, 2022

Vital to this “point and shoot” capability was a new film—one that would develop while exposed to light and so eliminate the tear-away covers of previous Polaroid films. The motor control module contained a linear control IC, an NPN motor drive transistor, and a discrete PNP dynamic braking transistor, and gave the designers little trouble.

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Green Car Congress

APRIL 12, 2021

For example, if a pedestrian looks both ways at an intersection, drivers understand that that person intends to cross the street. The Insight 1600 use Frequency Modulated Continuous Wave (FMCW) LiDAR sensor technology that utilizes a low power continuous wave of light instead of high-power laser pulses to sense its environment.

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Green Car Congress

JANUARY 26, 2021

Designed to pioneer the future of automated customer services, the DAL-e is equipped with state-of-the-art artificial intelligence technology for facial recognition as well as an automatic communication system based on a language-comprehension platform. The DAL-e is an acronym for “Drive you, Assist you, Link with you-experience.”

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Green Car Congress

APRIL 6, 2023

The all-electric 2025 Ram 1500 REV—the first battery-electric light-duty pickup truck from Ram Truck—made its world debut at the New York International Auto Show. The 2025 Ram 1500 REV is built on the all-new STLA Frame designed specifically for full-size electric vehicles featuring a body-on-frame design.

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Cars That Think

MARCH 14, 2023

For Synopsys Chief Executive Aart de Geus , running the electronic design automation behemoth is similar to being a bandleader. Much like jazz musicians improvising, engineers go with the flow at team meetings, he says: One person comes up with an idea, and another suggests ways to improve it. The company reported US $1.36

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Green Car Congress

NOVEMBER 12, 2020

With its completely newly developed design, the electric BMW iX is the first representative of a generation of cars intended to redefine the driving experience, the feeling of space inside and the relationship between vehicles and those on board. Fifth-generation BMW eDrive technology.

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Green Car Congress

APRIL 15, 2019

The engineers therefore drew on a comparatively simple, yet light, basic configuration. The body is made of a light-weight multi-material compound consisting of high-tech steel, aluminum, and plastic components, particularly in the attachments. The Audi AI:ME is designed as a 2 plus-x-seater. With an exterior length of 4.30

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The Truth About Cars

MARCH 7, 2025

The new V8 was designed with fewer moving parts, fewer seals and gaskets, and was meant to provide low-end torque while consuming tons of fuel. From the beginning of its design, the 472 had an allowance for an increase in displacement. From a surface area perspective the 1970 Eldorados rear lighting was absolutely minimalist.

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Green Car Congress

MARCH 2, 2018

Two Jaguar-designed electric motors—which feature driveshafts passing through the motors themselves for compactness—are placed at each axle, producing combined performance of 400 PS and 696 N·m, and all-wheel-drive, all-surface traction.

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