Green Car Congress

OCTOBER 11, 2013

The Automobile Division of the Institution of Mechanical Engineers has awarded its Prize for the Environment to Ricardo, Ford Motor Company, Controlled Power Technologies and Valeo engineers for their paper HyBoost—An Intelligently Electrified Optimized Downsized Gasoline Engine Concept. Earlier post.).

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Green Car Congress

AUGUST 4, 2016

With engine performance and good fuel consumption being rated as the two most important factors for car buyers, the shift from diesel to gasoline is more about running costs than concerns about the environment, following the diesel emissions scandal last year. There appears to have been a dramatic shift in the petrol and diesel sales seesaw.

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Green Car Congress

JANUARY 29, 2014

As automakers began downsizing engines to improve fuel economy, BorgWarner recognized opportunities to help further improve engine efficiency by reducing power-wasting friction in the engine timing system. BorgWarner will produce the new low-friction engine timing chains for a variety of 0.66- to 2.0-liter

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Green Car Congress

OCTOBER 15, 2011

Developed for the latest 1-liter downsized gasoline engines. The successful collaboration with Ford resulted in a turbocharger design that meets the particular technical challenges posed by small, downsized engines. Click to enlarge. Earlier post.) The first two engines will generate 74 and 88 kW from a displacement of just one liter.

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Green Car Congress

SEPTEMBER 13, 2010

liter ELC-Hybrid to downsized 1.4L VTES + SpeedStart. CPT and AVL’s most recent work assesses the potential of a VTES equipped downsized ELC-Hybrid vehicle in combination with the CPT SpeedStart Integrated Starter Generator ( earlier post ) and the UltraBattery. Click to enlarge. Guy Morris et al.

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Green Car Congress

MARCH 8, 2012

The new Yaris Hybrid, which is equipped with a version of the downsized hybrid powertrain featured in the Prius c/Aqua ( earlier post ), is a major step in the company’s full hybrid European roll-out strategy. The downsized full hybrid system combines the new 1NZ-FXE 1.5-liter Fuel consumption is 3.5 meters has been maintained.

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Green Car Congress

MAY 28, 2010

Volvo’s hybrid buses have a downsized diesel engine and an electric motor that can operate the bus independently or jointly. This gives a quiet and exhaust-free environment at bus stops. The coaches for the double-deckers will be built by Wrightbus in Northern Ireland. The bus then restarts only with the help of the electric engine.

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Green Car Congress

OCTOBER 5, 2011

Hugh Blaxill, Managing Director of Mahle Powertrain, for example, said that the current surge in volume of 4-cylinder engines along with the rapid ramp in direct injection and variable valvetrain technologies across all manufacturers marks the start of a sharp increase in downsized applications and hybrid powertrains.

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Green Car Congress

NOVEMBER 21, 2011

All these new vehicles will launch with the latest Ford-developed powertrains which will improve fuel economy and lower carbon dioxide emissions, offering our customers a more environment-friendly ride without compromising vehicle performance. —Kumar Galhotra, vice president, Product Development, Ford Asia Pacific and Africa.

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Green Car Congress

JUNE 14, 2011

Mitsubishi Electric began the mass production of power modules for hybrid vehicles in 1997, since which time the demand for these modules has grown in parallel with increasing concerns for the environment expanding global market for electric as well as hybrid vehicles. Increased T-PM power capacity further contributes to inverter downsizing.

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Green Car Congress

OCTOBER 24, 2022

Appealing product cost versus other green technologies, capability to operate at heavy duty conditions in harsh environments and tolerance to low purity hydrogen are key advantages.

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Green Car Congress

SEPTEMBER 12, 2012

Cobra could enable a 5–10% reduction in CO 2 emissions when implemented in conjunction with engine downsizing and down speeding strategies, and potentially more when used in conjunction with alternative fuels, according to CPT. The design specification provides a peak shaft power of 5.6

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Green Car Congress

OCTOBER 26, 2017

THOMSON partners will demonstrate how the right combination of advanced engine downsizing/turbocharging technologies, coupled with a 48V motor-generator system, can provide the most cost effective solution for a rapid electrification through conventional vehicles. million THOMSON project (with an EU contribution of €9.1

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Green Car Congress

OCTOBER 7, 2015

The power unit combines a new downsized direct-injection turbo turbo with a hybrid system. Combining the advanced front recognition of EyeSight with all-direction radar sensing, the traffic environment around the vehicle and risk from all sides are monitored.

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Green Car Congress

APRIL 29, 2022

AV perception systems use AI, in the form of neural networks, to understand the environment around the vehicle, which is critical to the functionality of autonomous vehicles. This project is supported with $1 million from the OVIN R&D Partnership Fund which leverages $2.09 million of industry contribution.

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Creative Greenius

MARCH 17, 2010

Now is the time to step up and seize the opportunities available to those who act on new realities before they become mainstream trends.

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Creative Greenius

NOVEMBER 16, 2009

So instead of spending so much time trying to earn political support from politicians and governments I think we need to turn our focus to recruiting the best marketing, sales and creative pros – many of whom are currently on the street, jobless, downsized due to cutbacks in consumer spending. C= Closing. org The Age of Stupid.

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Green Car Congress

NOVEMBER 16, 2014

Downsized, heavily turbocharged engines with high levels of aftertreatment such as particulate filter systems and selective catalytic reduction (SCR) run hotter than their predecessors, explained Frank Zwein, Federal-Mogul’s global application engineering director, Valve Seats and Guides. Turbocharger bushing materials: FM-T90A and FM-T82A.

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Green Car Congress

APRIL 2, 2020

The industry is a leader in the advancement of technologies in response to performance-based regulations that serve to protect the environment and human health while supporting a diverse range of clean fuel-efficient vehicles that meet the varied needs of consumers.

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Green Car Congress

FEBRUARY 24, 2009

The crank-case rigidity is at least equivalent to that of conventional engines, providing a rigid and precise bearing line and an optimum geometrical environment for all moving parts. This constitutes a strong response to the durability problem of highly downsized high-loaded engines.

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Green Car Congress

JULY 6, 2010

Hybrid vehicle in urban and extra urban environments. With the present engine EVO Electric is confident that 185 gCO 2 /km can be achieved on the new European drive cycle (NEDC); progressing beyond that would require replacing and downsizing the engine. The EVO motor provides the drive and a battery provides power.

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Green Car Congress

NOVEMBER 8, 2011

The quickest and most cost-effective way to achieve our energy usage goals is through faster adoption of fuel-efficient downsized gasoline and diesel engines. Click to enlarge.high efficiency ICE vehicles could achieve a remarkably higher effect on the environment than other competing technologies.

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Green Car Congress

NOVEMBER 30, 2011

By downsizing from the present 2.2L The two-motor system offers three driving modes: an “EV driving mode” for urban environments; a “hybrid driving mode” using electricity generated by the motor; and a “engine-connected driving mode” where the engine and tires are mechanically connected during high-speed cruising. Diesel engine.

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Green Car Congress

OCTOBER 1, 2021

Honda is currently working on downsizing the hardware and further improvement of the precision of robotic hand movements such as “grasping” and “manipulation.”

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Green Car Congress

SEPTEMBER 25, 2015

A key application target of the TVS2 product is a Super-Turbo system that requires the supercharger to operate in a high pressure environment located after the turbocharger.

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Green Car Congress

SEPTEMBER 2, 2010

Such options include intelligent systems content, matching performance to real world driving needs, creative downsizing, interior packaging and styling—in short, appealing to consumers in ways that are in line with, as opposed to work against, fuel efficiency. L/100km) by 2025 and 74 mpg (3.18 L/100km) by 2035.

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Green Car Congress

JUNE 11, 2016

Ricardo has previously reported on a simulation environment set up to enable the study of engine and after-treatment technology over RDE cycles, incorporating post-processing with the EMROAD and CLEAR tools. liter diesel engine.

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Green Car Congress

JULY 12, 2013

Business environment: The UK faces stiff competition from other countries that strategically support advanced manufacturing, the report advises. Strategic partnership is key to improve the business environment for the UK automotive sector. Downsizing and downspeeding including more sophisticated charge air/boost systems.

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Green Car Congress

MARCH 16, 2009

Hitachi’s automotive systems business is already in the process of rightsizing its workforce and realigning and integrating manufacturing bases in response to a rapid and sharp drop-off in work because of the drastic changes taking place in the operating environment. Measures in Environment-Related New Businesses.

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Green Car Congress

FEBRUARY 18, 2014

The unit can be applied to naturally-aspirated or forced induction engines—though most likely will be applied to downsized turbocharged engines as an additional unit to the existing turbocharger. The electrical machine design and control system for this application is particularly challenging for a number of reasons, the authors note.

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Green Car Congress

MARCH 22, 2018

CALSTART commissioned Ricardo Energy & Environment, a global consultancy that specializes in the development and implementation of sustainable policy and technology in the automotive industry, to conduct the survey. As further evidence of the supplier industry’s need for stable, long-term goals, 87.5%

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Green Car Congress

OCTOBER 29, 2019

Using the virtual simulation environment GT-Power, this cycle is applied to a 4-cylinder SI engine. ECONAMIQ provides greater savings potential than the popular downsizing of internal combustion engines, while the benefits of a larger displacement is preserved.

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Green Car Congress

SEPTEMBER 27, 2017

Targeting CV delivery trucks, the e2PG powersplit/multi-mode transmission architecture allows for an efficient downsizing of an internal combustion engine via deep integration of two electric motors, resulting in reduced fuel consumption while still maintaining or even improving the overall performance of the vehicle.

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Green Car Congress

JANUARY 14, 2011

” The more weight we can take out of our vehicles though use of alternative materials, and other lightweighting strategies that we have, that enables us to further downsize the engine—which is the biggest lever you can pull in the vehicle.

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Green Car Congress

MAY 1, 2012

This concept system is expected to be ideal for heavily downsized applications and developing markets. ETC3 features a 32-bit processor with floating-point capability and can be operated in an environment of up to 105 °C without cooling, improving packaging and avoiding the additional cost and complexity of a fuel cooling circuit.

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Green Car Congress

DECEMBER 10, 2009

The research has so far focused on lower speed and load conditions that represent a major proportion of an engine’s operation in a real world environment. The automotive industry, including Lotus Engineering, has quite rightly advocated engine downsizing for four-stroke engines. At 2000 rpm and up to approximately 2.7

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Green Car Congress

JANUARY 31, 2011

The EU will need an oil-free and largely CO 2 -free energy supply for transport by 2050 due to the need to reduce its impact on the environment and concerns about the security of energy supply. There is broad agreement that all sustainable fuels will be needed to fully meet the expected demand. Strategy 2050.

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