Green Car Congress
MAY 2, 2020
Airbus and Rolls Royce jointly have decided to end the E-Fan X demonstrator program. ( Earlier post.) Launched in 2017, the E-Fan X project sought to develop a near-term hybrid-electric flight demonstrator for commercial aircraft. … decarbonizing the aviation industry is no small feat. To achieve this, we need to re-focus all of our efforts on technology bricks that will take us there.
Green Car Reports
MAY 3, 2020
Not every car needs to have the sci-fi looks of a Jaguar I-Pace or Tesla Model X. Czech Republic–based MW Motors designs modern electric cars with retro styling. The MW Motors Luka EV is a small two-seat coupe that looks like it drove straight out the 1960s. Granted, originality didn't seem to be priority; the design is a mashup of elements.
Discover EV
MAY 4, 2020
Vehicle platforms have been revolutionary in the automotive world since becoming common in the early 2000s. Building multiple different models on the same underpinnings has numerous advantages, and with electric vehicles there is even greater flexibility than with internal combustion. REE reckons that its platform could be the next big thing for EVs.
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Green Car Congress
MAY 6, 2020
A team of researchers at the Institute of Technological Sciences at Wuhan University has demonstrated a prototype design of a propulsion thruster that utilizes air plasma induced by microwave ionization. Such a jet engine simply uses only air and electricity to produce high temperature and pressurized plasma for jet propulsion. An open-access paper on their work is published in the journal AIP Advances.
Green Car Reports
MAY 7, 2020
BMW remains committed to both electric cars and hydrogen fuel-cell vehicles. The German automaker will continue a planned rollout of battery-electric models, as well as investing in fuel-cell research for passenger cars. By 2025, BMW plans to invest over 30 billion euros ($32 billion) in research and development, according to a press release.
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Discover EV
MAY 6, 2020
We knew that new car registrations would tank during the coronavirus lockdown, but the level to which that has happened has caught many by surprise. Despite record low new numbers, electric vehicle registrations have once again proven to be the most resilient and in April, the Tesla Model 3 was the UKs best-selling car.
Green Car Congress
MAY 3, 2020
A team from the University of Tennessee and the National Renewable Energy Laboratory (NREL) has the fuel savings due to fuel economy improvements over the past 43 years amount to approximately two trillion gallons of gasoline. They further estimated that roughly one-fifth of the savings can be attributed to gasoline price increases over the period and four-fifths to fuel economy and greenhouse gas (GHG) standards.
Green Car Reports
MAY 5, 2020
Garbage trucks will never smell pleasant, but at least it's possible to get rid of the stench of diesel exhaust. Dutch truck manufacturer DAF just released an electric garbage truck for testing in its home country. First spotted by ChargedEVs, the DAF CF Electric 6x2 will be operated by waste disposal firm ROVA in the Dutch city of Zwolle. The.
EV Report
MAY 5, 2020
I know this is an old conversion that was done well over 4 years ago but how often do you see an electric Ferrari conversion? Some would consider it sacrilegious to remove an original Ferrari engine as well as removing original parts but luckily the engine had already been destroyed by a fuel leak resulting in an engine fire. It was sitting in a junkyard and was purchased for $10,000.
Green Cars News
MAY 6, 2020
Seat has revealed the all-new Leon, adding increased connectivity and hybrid tech to the fourth-generation model.
Green Car Congress
MAY 6, 2020
The technology group Wärtsilä is developing the combustion process in its gas engines to enable them to burn 100% hydrogen fuel. Wärtsilä has researched hydrogen as a fuel for 20 years, and has tested its engines with blends of up to 60% hydrogen and 40% natural gas. This development is part of the company’s strategy to future-proof its engine technology in line with the global trend towards decarbonization of the energy and marine markets.
Green Car Reports
MAY 6, 2020
The first modern electric cars went on sale in significant numbers about a decade ago, but automakers were experimenting with increasingly modern electric powertrains for decades leading up to that. In 1990, Mercedes-Benz unveiled an electric version of its 190E sedan, dubbed 190E Elektro. A more fleshed-out version appeared at the 1991 Geneva.
EV Report
MAY 2, 2020
Above – Ford Cobra Jet 1400. The pandemic created by Corona virus has stopped the production that was supposed to take off after Ford announced its series of electric car – Mach E Mustang. But this has not slowed down the development of a series of Ford Cobra Jet having 1400 horsepower. And the use of CGI render by the designer who were working from home, the car is ready to roll on the road and run as fast as it can.
Green Cars News
MAY 7, 2020
The Aston Martin DBX has arrived and is now available to lease if you have a spare £2,000-plus a month
Green Car Congress
MAY 5, 2020
Texas A&M University (TAMU) engineering researchers have devised a simple, proliferation-resistant approach for separating out different components of nuclear waste. The one-step chemical reaction, described in the ACS journal Industrial & Engineering Chemistry Research , results in the formation of crystals containing all of the leftover nuclear fuel elements distributed uniformly.
Green Car Reports
MAY 5, 2020
Volkswagen plans to launch 27 electric cars based on its MEB platform by 2022. That will include a family of affordable models although VW hasn't decided which brand they will be sold under, according to a new report. The project—codenamed "MEB Entry"—was originally assigned to VW's Spanish Seat division, but responsibility has now.
EV Report
MAY 2, 2020
Above – Ariya’s Look. No doubt, the renderings seem to show that it is the official design application. And this confirms the ownership of Nissan over the Ariya’s look. The images leaked show the unflattering glimpse of what you might see on the road in the future. Leaked Images Shows More. The leaked patent images provide a major indication of how the Nissan Ariya SUV will look.
Discover EV
MAY 7, 2020
Rows of lock-up garages are a common sight across London and other urban settings in the UK, and now a new scheme could unlock their potential as urban charging hubs. SSE Enterprise – part of energy provider SSE – and property management company InfraTech Property Solutions (IPS) have joined forces to work on the project.
Green Car Congress
MAY 5, 2020
Ingevity and Ozinga Energy are partnering to begin a field demonstration of adsorbed natural gas (ANG) bi-fuel pickup trucks. Developed by Adsorbed Natural Gas Products, Inc. (ANGP) and Ingevity, the ANG system is made possible by the performance of Ingevity’s Nuchar activated carbon that significantly lowers the natural gas storage pressure, reduces the system’s complexity and captures the environmental benefits and cost savings of natural gas when used as a transportation fuel.
Green Car Reports
MAY 8, 2020
Nissan’s Leaf-based van for Europe gets larger. More mobile charging is on the way for bigger electric trucks. And could the pandemic pinch material supply for EV makers and the clean energy sector? This and more, here at Green Car Reports. The coronavirus pandemic could tighten the supply of some materials needed for the creation of.
EV Report
MAY 2, 2020
Above – MG5 at its best. MG never went out of business. After its absence of 15 years from the market in 2005, it is returned back to Europe with a new launch. It has come back to its native as a brand that is well known for building electric crossovers. The initial such start was MG ZS EV. This new electric vehicle was launched in October 2019 in two electric countries of Europe – Norway and Netherlands.
Cars That Think
MAY 7, 2020
Level 3 capability would be an industry first.
Green Car Congress
MAY 3, 2020
The European GRAMOFON Project, coordinated by AIMPLAS, the Plastics Technology Center has developed an innovative CO 2 capture process based on novel nanomaterials and microwave energy. The project results therefore contribute to Sustainable Development Goal 13 on Climate Action of the UN Global Compact through decarbonization with the major advantage of doing so at a lower cost than the technologies currently in use.
Green Car Reports
MAY 4, 2020
Will electric-car drivers be able to find a way to charge up when their day—or their route—doesn’t go exactly according to plan? It’s a common concern for those new to electric cars, and a pivotal question that could have a dramatic effect on technology adoption and the public’s impression of EVs. And really, it's the.
EV Report
MAY 2, 2020
Ford Motor Company with its partner Lincoln Motor Company have made an announcement on cancelling with plans to built Electric Vehicles with RIvian, a Michigan based company. The decision was taken looking into the present financial and health situations of the economy. Even though the actual reasons are not known, it is still being assumed that the ongoing COVID-19 as a reason for this stop.
Green Cars News
MAY 5, 2020
The UK new car market fell by 97.3% in April as as the coronavirus pandemic forced the nation into lockdown for the entire month.
Green Car Congress
MAY 4, 2020
A team from the University of Central Florida (UCF) and the Air Force Research Laboratory (AFRL) has demonstrated continuous detonation in a rotating detonation rocket engine (RDRE) ( earlier post ) powered by H 2 /O 2 propellants. The results show continuous five-wave co-rotating detonations at various equivalence ratios and flow rates demonstrating the potential for H 2 /O 2 propellant-based RDREs for upper-stage rocket engines.
Green Car Reports
MAY 6, 2020
As other automakers have launched competing electric cars, Tesla has managed to maintain an advantage in several key areas, including batteries. This teardown video provides a glimpse at how Tesla's battery approach differs from that of rivals. Sandy Munro, of Munro & Associates, has been conducting a teardown of a Tesla Model Y. This time, he.
EV Report
MAY 2, 2020
The Audi E-Tron GT, considered to be a twin to Porsche Taycan has recently been spotted in the wild undergoing some well-needed rigorous winter testing. Paparazzi videos and photos of Audi’s prototype were recently taken at the Europe Automobile show. Shown off were the Audi E-Tron GT’s curvaceous body and sleek lines. At the 2018 Los Angeles Auto Show, a glimpse of Audi E-Tron GT’s proposition was revealed which provided a view of things to come in the showroom version.
Green Cars News
MAY 4, 2020
E10 is not the latest trendy postcode, or coronavirus, but you will be hearing a lot more about it over the next year or so
Green Car Congress
MAY 6, 2020
Zero-emission powertrains developer Lightning Systems announced Lightning Mobile, a mobile direct current fast charger (DCFC) for electric vehicles. Equipped with 192 kWh of high-energy-density, liquid-cooled DC battery storage in a package designed to be installed in a vehicle or trailer for mobile deployment, Lightning Mobile can be deployed rapidly to provide fast roadside charging to support the operation of electric fleet vehicles.
Green Car Reports
MAY 8, 2020
Fully electric delivery trucks, cargo vans, shuttle vehicles, and transit and school buses are all due to become increasingly common as fleets go green and diesels are retired. That’s where a recent surge of interest in mobile-charging solutions comes in. As a backup plan for the times when charge points and infrastructure won’t quite.
Green Car Congress
MAY 7, 2020
Digital manufacturing innovator VELO 3D announced the commercial release of a manufacturing process for additively manufactured parts in Aluminum F357 on the company’s Sapphire metal 3D-printing system. Aluminum F357 is a beryllium-free aluminum-silicon alloy, similar to A357. It has excellent weldability and corrosion resistance. The foundry-grade aluminum alloy, suitable for the laser powder-bed fusion (LPBF) process, enables 3D printing of parts that have traditionally been manufactured using
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