Green Car Congress

JANUARY 9, 2010

Peugeot launched a comprehensive new Marque plan, with the objectives of moving up three places in the world car market by 2015 (it is currently in 10 th place); establishing Peugeot as a benchmark for style; and becoming the leader in mobility services. Peugeot said it will also target new markets. Click to enlarge. Earlier post.).

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Green Car Congress

MAY 7, 2010

WorldAutoSteel,the automotive group of the World Steel Association, has presented findings on the progress of FutureSteelVehicle (FSV) Phase 2, a global steel industry effort to develop advanced high-strength steel (AHSS) architectures for electrified vehicles that reduce life cycle greenhouse gas (GHG) emissions.

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Green Car Congress

JANUARY 11, 2010

The next-generation Ford Focus 5-door hatchback, revealed at the 2010 North American International Auto Show. Ford unveiled its strategically important next-generation Ford Focus in both four-door sedan and five-door hatchback styles at the 2010 North American International Auto Show (NAIAS) in Detroit. Click to enlarge.

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Green Car Congress

JANUARY 17, 2017

The percentage of purely e-driven cars in the market today is very, very low. Both feature all-electric drive and are presently destined for the European market. Another part of this year’s show presentation was devoted to exhaust-gas recirculation on gasoline engines. We have four pumps in this car.

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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. —Morris et al.

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Green Car Congress

OCTOBER 25, 2012

Hyundai Motor Group this week outlined its latest powertrain technologies and future plans at the 12 th Hyundai-Kia International Powertrain Conference, held near the Hyundai Motor Group R&D Center in Korea. In keeping with the trend to downsizing, Hyundai has been expanding the application of Turbo Gasoline Direct Injection (T-GDI) engines.

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Green Car Congress

APRIL 23, 2012

The internal combustion engine is a chemical process, not a thermodynamic cycle, Foster said, and all of the energy in the fuel is theoretically available to be converted into work. Combustion efficiency in most engines on the market today is very high. If that is the case, why do we fall so short? —Dave Foster.

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Green Car Congress

FEBRUARY 12, 2014

million) funding to develop magnetically geared motors and generators for the hybrid and electric vehicle market. Magnomatics says that a typical installation would have MAGSPLIT mounted directly onto the crankcase of the internal combustion engine. Much further testing and optimization remains to be done, Kirby noted. Background.

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Green Car Congress

MARCH 10, 2010

As part of the new plan, Valeo will devote two-thirds of its advanced research investment to developing technology solutions for downsized internal combustion engines and for hybrid and electric vehicles. A dossier has been presented to the European Works Council. billion) in 2020 (more than one-third of total sales).

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Green Car Congress

DECEMBER 17, 2015

Instead, the internal combustion engine will continue to be integral to the transportation of people and goods for the foreseeable future. a mitigation of the technical barriers required for ACI fuel and vehicle market penetration. Market Transformation and Deployment. That is not to say that things will stay as they are now.

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Green Car Congress

MARCH 19, 2013

This first report (Phase I) examines only the impact of improving the efficiency of fossil-fueled vehicles, in which efficiency gains are delivered by the improvement of the internal combustion engine vehicle, including lightweighting, engine downsizing and hybridization.

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Cars That Think

AUGUST 10, 2021

White was the first American chair of the International Conference on Large High-Voltage Electric Systems. DeWitt downsized his operations after an economic recession hit the United States in 1975. He was an IEEE member for 60 years and presented several papers at the organization's conferences. He closed the business in 2018.

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Green Car Congress

MAY 1, 2012

Delphi presented the work in a technical paper “Development of High-Pressure Common Rail Systems Incorporating Advanced Electronic Control Strategies for Future Heavy-Duty Vehicles,” at the 33 rd Vienna Motor Symposium last week. This concept system is expected to be ideal for heavily downsized applications and developing markets.

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Green Car Congress

APRIL 24, 2010

In recent years two methods, namely downsizing and downspeeding, were established on the market to reduce CO 2 emissions while maintaining the driving performance of engines with identical effective power but a larger displacement.

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Green Car Congress

DECEMBER 31, 2021

As a midterm technology from conventional internal combustion engine vehicles to electric vehicles, hybrid electric vehicles have received wide research attention from industry and academics alike and are sharing an increasing percentage of vehicles in the market. —Wang et al.

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Green Car Congress

AUGUST 16, 2016

SuperTruck II builds on the successful SuperTruck I program, which has already led to more than twenty fuel saving technologies that have reached the commercial market, said Acting Assistant Secretary David Friedman. In 2010, the Energy Department launched the SuperTruck initiative to improve heavy-duty truck freight efficiency by 50%.

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Green Car Congress

NOVEMBER 19, 2014

The European Advanced Lead-Acid Battery Consortium (EALABC) is delivering a paper this week outlining the consortium’s approach to 48V hybridization at the 2 nd International Conference on Advanced Automotive 48V Power Supply Systems in Düsseldorf. —Allan Cooper. —Allan Cooper. 48V Batteries Hybrids'

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Green Car Congress

NOVEMBER 22, 2016

A 2025 CO 2 target of an average 70 g/km for new cars in the EU could be met with very little electrification and with an average payback period of less than 4 years, according to a new study by the International Council on Clean Transportation (ICCT). Click to enlarge.

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Green Car Congress

JANUARY 16, 2017

The researchers suggest that there are engine architectures that can provide higher thermodynamic efficiencies than available from modern internal combustion engines; however, new fuels are required to maximize efficiency and operability across a wide speed/load range. Higher fuel laminar flame speed expands dilute or lean operation.

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Green Car Congress

JUNE 19, 2015

Among powertrains, gasoline hybrids ranked first at either price point, while diesel internal-combustion engines were the least preferred. Gasoline internal-combustion engines rated second-most preferred at $2.50/gallon, At both prices, gasoline-hybrid vehicles were the most preferred technology, while twincharging was the least.

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Green Car Congress

APRIL 17, 2014

In a presentation at the SAE 2014 High Efficiency IC Engine Symposium and then in a paper given at SAE 2014 World Congress, Mark Sellnau, Engineering Manager, Delphi Advanced Powertrain, reported that Brake Specific Fuel Consumption for the 1.8L Earlier post , earlier post.). FSN (smoke number). CNL (combustion noise). load & speed dependent.

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Green Car Congress

JANUARY 31, 2011

Alternative fuels have the potential gradually to replace fossil energy sources and make transport sustainable by 2050, according to a report presented to the European Commission last week by the stakeholder expert group on future transport fuels. Fungibility of biofuels would be of advantage for their long-term market expansion.

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Green Car Congress

JUNE 27, 2017

With the recent addition of the Atlas and now the 2018 Tiguan, Volkswagen will be competitive in 4 of the 5 biggest segments in the US Market. Put another way, the rightsizing approach combines the fuel economy benefits of downsizing with the power of a larger-displacement unit. Source: Volkswagen. Click to enlarge.

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Tony Karrer Delicious EVdriven

JANUARY 28, 2009

Use this information at your own risk: There is no warranty expressed nor implied and we are not liable for any of your past, present, nor future actions.Even should you perform these modifications to the letter you could still damage any number of components in your vehicle causing it to no longer function. In English-system (vs.

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Green Car Congress

OCTOBER 8, 2013

2) and will provide longer ignition delay than market diesel fuels. In the paper presented at the 2013 World Congress, Kalghatgi and his team investigated if and how an existing modern diesel engine could be run on low Cetane fuels in general and naphtha in particular. Heavy naphta is often upgraded further. —Chang et al.

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Green Car Congress

JULY 17, 2015

At present, PHEV technology alone is equipped to improve the current electric grid. He was formerly with the University of Wisconsin and Rockwell International, and holds a Ph.D. However, this progress will require battery electric energy storage that does not presently exist. Engineering Advantages of the PHEV.

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Green Car Congress

SEPTEMBER 11, 2011

Joachim Schmidt, Board Member of Mercedes-Benz Cars, Sales & Marketing. On the diesel side—now available solely as BlueTEC units with SCR aftertreatment technology) , the focus is on downsizing and the new version of the V6 CDI engine. BlueTEC diesel units. In the ML 250 BlueTEC 4MATIC, the 3.0-liter Earlier post.)

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Tony Karrer Delicious EVdriven

APRIL 21, 2009

This is from "Commercializing Plug-In Hybrids" (pdf), the current CalCars 24-slide presentation about PHEVs available along with other documents at CalCars Downloads. Several after-market companies have done PHEV conversions of the Ford Escape hybrid and one has done a retrofit of the F-150 pickup -- see Where PHEVs Are and ICE-Conversions.)

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Green Car Congress

DECEMBER 20, 2009

The more efficient combustion engine technologies, with their enabling of downsizing, come in compatibly with hybridization, with hybridization and electrification playing a larger role over time. I4 initially for the C-MAX in European markets. Planning background. ” First-generation EcoBoost. Future generations of EcoBoost.

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The Truth About Cars

SEPTEMBER 24, 2024

Regardless, there’s a lot of pressure mounting against the automaker — both internally and externally — and it’s the CEO that typically takes the fall. But Stellantis hasn’t done much to change that trajectory, with leadership prioritizing downsizing and electrification.

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