Green Car Congress

SEPTEMBER 29, 2022

The German Federal Ministry for Digital and Transport (BMDV) approved the funding application for the consortium research project HyCET (Hydrogen Combustion Engine Trucks) led by the BMW Group. The research project aims to demonstrate the sustainability potential of trucks with hydrogen combustion engines for transport logistics.

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Green Car Congress

SEPTEMBER 1, 2022

To reduce natural resource usage and its trucks’ environmental impact, Renault Trucks (part of the Volvo Group) is taking steps to transition its industrial operations to a circular-economy approach. At this new industrial facility located in Vénissieux, the brand’s trucks will be dismantled , and their parts reused.

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Green Car Congress

JANUARY 17, 2023

Rolls-Royce has conducted successful tests of a 12-cylinder gas variant of the mtu Series 4000 L64 engine running on 100% hydrogen fuel. For several months, the mtu gas engine has been undergoing bench testing and continuous improvement in terms of efficiency, performance, emissions and combustion using 100% hydrogen as fuel.

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Green Car Congress

SEPTEMBER 9, 2022

Werner Enterprises, a premier transportation and logistics provider, has signed a letter of intent to purchase 500 Cummins’ 15-liter hydrogen internal combustion engines upon availability. —Jim Nebergall, General Manager, Cummins Hydrogen Engine Business. Earlier post.) Earlier post.).

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Electrek

DECEMBER 21, 2023

The South Korean automaker announced it will halt operations at two engine parts plants as it transitions its network from ICE vehicles. more… The post Hyundai doubles down on shift to EVs with plans to shut down two engine parts plants appeared first on Electrek.

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Green Car Congress

JULY 18, 2022

Rolls-Royce is planning a comprehensive series of rig and engine tests to prove hydrogen can safely and efficiently deliver power for small-mid size aircraft from the mid-2030s onwards. The company has further ambitions to move this on to a flight test phase as part of the program in the long term.

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Green Car Congress

MAY 11, 2023

Bosch Engineering and Ligier Automotive have established a strategic partnership for developing high-performance hydrogen engine vehicles. A converted standard V6 gasoline engine is used as the drive. In particular, this involves the engine, the hydrogen storage tank, and a holistic safety concept for the hydrogen.

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Green Car Congress

FEBRUARY 15, 2023

Cummins will launch the next engine in the fuel-agnostic series, the X10, in North America in 2026. This engine, named as part of the X engine family, is positioned to replace both the L9 and the X12 with the versatility to serve both medium- and heavy-duty applications. Fuel Agnostic Platform. Additionally, the B6.7

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Green Car Congress

APRIL 20, 2023

At this year’s demopark open-air exhibition, Mercedes-Benz is presenting a prototype of the Unimog based on the U 430 with hydrogen-powered combustion engine as part of the publicly funded “WaVe” project. The hydrogen engine is provided by Keyou and is equipped with H2PFI injectors made by Hoerbiger.

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Green Car Congress

JUNE 2, 2022

The Abfallentsorgungs-Gesellschaft Ruhrgebiet mbH ( AGR ), a waste management company in Herten, North Rhine-Westphalia, Germany, has put a converted DAF CF 340 hydrogen fuel cell truck into operation as part of the EU-funded HECTOR (Hydrogen Waste Collection Vehicles in North West Europe) project.

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Green Car Congress

FEBRUARY 9, 2023

Nidec Leroy-Somer has signed an agreement with Airbus to develop an electric motor for Airbus’ hydrogen-powered fuel cell engine prototype, as part of Airbus’ ambition to bring the first zero-emission commercial aircraft to market by 2035. Earlier post.)

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Green Car Congress

DECEMBER 9, 2021

Ford has become the first automaker to use 100% recycled ocean plastics to produce automotive parts. The strength and durability of the nylon material equals that of previously used petroleum-based parts but with a 10% cost savings and requiring less energy to produce.

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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. Hydrogen as part of the renewable electricity system of the future.

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Green Car Congress

APRIL 4, 2023

In addition to recent investments in Fridley, Cummins is investing more than $1 billion across its US engine manufacturing network in Indiana, North Carolina and New York. Over half of all medium- and heavy-duty trucks on the road in the US today use Cummins engines, the company said. The Cummins Power Systems factory is a 1.1

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Green Car Congress

OCTOBER 14, 2021

will bring to market a 15-liter natural gas engine for heavy-duty trucks. The 15-liter natural gas engine is an important part of Cummins strategy for its path to zero emissions. —Srikanth Padmanabhan, President, Engine Business, Cummins. Cummins Inc.

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Green Car Congress

DECEMBER 11, 2020

The LiquidPiston (LPI) ( earlier post ) team has adapted and demonstrated the X-Mini engine running on propane fuel. A propane tank was connected to the engine through an EFI propane injector, and the engine ignition timing was retarded in the ECU. LPI X-Mini rotary engine. This testing was preliminary in nature.

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Green Car Congress

JANUARY 19, 2021

Rolls-Royce is supplying two mtu 16V 4000 M55RN gas engines to Sembcorp Marine Integrated Yard for the construction of the first liquefied natural gas (LNG)-hybrid powered tug. This is the first LNG-hybrid tug to be powered by mtu gas engines. The new engines are part of Rolls-Royce’s Green and High-Tech program.

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Green Car Congress

MARCH 25, 2023

WinGD will supply 10X92DF-M methanol-fuelled engines to four 16,000 TEU container vessels to be built for COSCO SHIPPING Lines at COSCO Shipping Heavy Industry (Yangzhou) Co. These vessels will be delivered from 2025 and will feature WinGD’s first X92DF-M engines in China. Earlier post.)

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Green Car Congress

NOVEMBER 30, 2020

Lotus Engineering is launching a pilot containerized battery testing facility to assess energy storage solutions for the booming EV sector. It will allow Lotus Engineering to carry out various battery cell, module and pack characterization tests, performance evaluations, and component and lifetime testing under controlled conditions.

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Green Car Congress

NOVEMBER 19, 2022

With the initial trials complete, the company will start pulling apart the engine and designing the modifications, then rebuild it so it runs on liquid ammonia, the company’s hydrogen carrier of choice. Swiwin SW170b-2448 jet engine. —Aviation H2 Director & Principal Engineer, Helmut Mayer.

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Green Car Congress

APRIL 20, 2023

BMW is testing the use of renewable HVO100 renewable diesel for parts delivery in Germany. They commute between the BMW Group Supply Centre in Eching, just north of Munich, to deliver warehouse parts to the plant in the city for production—a round trip of a good 40 km each time.

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Green Car Congress

AUGUST 3, 2021

Coupling our opposed-piston technology with Cummins’s robust engine design, manufacturing, and new product introduction capabilities allows us to create a high performing and reliable engine for military operations. Earlier post.). —Dave Crompton, President and CEO of Achates Power.

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Green Car Congress

JUNE 6, 2023

General Motors plans to invest more than $1 billion in two of its Flint, Michigan, manufacturing sites—Flint Assembly and Flint Metal Center—to prepare those plants for production of the next-generation internal combustion engine (ICE) heavy-duty trucks. billion since 2013. GM has announced more than $1.7

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Green Car Congress

NOVEMBER 19, 2020

The new assembly in Munich will be built on the site currently used for engine production. The combustion engines with four, six, eight and 12 cylinders produced there will be manufactured at the company’s locations in Steyr in Austria and Hams Hall in the UK going forward.

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Green Car Congress

JUNE 14, 2022

demonstration of Cummins’s new 15-liter natural gas engine for heavy-duty trucks ( earlier post ). As part of the agreements, Walmart will provide heavy-duty trucks for Cummins to integrate with the new 15-liter natural gas engine, the X15N, which runs on compressed natural gas (CNG).

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Green Car Congress

JUNE 22, 2023

The first engine retrofit in the industry is scheduled to be conducted medio 2024 and it is the intent to replicate on sister vessels when going for special survey in 2027. Maersk has set a net-zero emissions target for 2040 across the entire business; retrofitting of engines to run on methanol is an important lever in this strategy.

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Green Car Congress

MARCH 30, 2021

Rolls-Royce has officially started building the world’s largest aero-engine, UltraFan. Work on the first module is underway at the DemoWorks facility in Derby, UK, and the demonstrator engine, which has a fan diameter of 140 inches, will be completed by the end of the year. Artist’s impression of the UltraFan demonstrator.

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Green Car Congress

AUGUST 31, 2020

Hyundai Mobis is building its third core parts plant for electric vehicles in Pyeongtaek, Gyeonggi-do, Korea, following plants in Chungju and Ulsan. From the second half of next year, the new plant is expected to mass-produce 150,000 EV-specific module parts per year. billion won (US$30 million) to start construction in September.

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Green Car Congress

NOVEMBER 8, 2022

Aurobay will become part of the new global company specializing in hybrid and low- emission powertrains being formed by Renault and Geely. It also makes Volvo Cars the first car manufacturer to fully exit its participation in the development and manufacturing of internal combustion engines. Earlier post.).

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Teslarati

AUGUST 26, 2024

Michael Robinet, the executive director of automotive consulting at S&P Global Mobility, noted that parts from suppliers could account for about 60-70% of a vehicle’s typical value. As noted in an Automotive News report, Tesla gained a competitive advantage in the industry because it can build vehicles faster and with fewer parts.

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Green Car Congress

MAY 10, 2023

Designed in-house by McLaren’s powertrain team, the new high-performance V8 engine will power the next generation of lightweight, high-performance hybrid supercars as part of the company’s Future of Performance strategy. This is the third extension and fourth generation of the engine supply agreement between the two companies.

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Green Car Congress

SEPTEMBER 25, 2022

Rolls-Royce is releasing mtu rail engines for use with sustainable fuels. The mtu Series 1800 engines which are used in mtu PowerPacks, as well as Series 1300 and 1500 for locomotives and multi-purpose vehicles, are already approved for use with synthetic fuels such as HVO. —Ali Dogru, Head of Assets and Maintenance at DB Cargo.

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Green Car Congress

NOVEMBER 24, 2021

Swiss engine designer WinGD, a leading developer of two-stroke low-speed gas and diesel engines used for propulsion power in merchant shipping, said that its engines will be able to run on methanol and ammonia from 2024 and 2025 respectively. —Volkmar Galke, Director of Global Sales, WinGD.

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Green Car Congress

NOVEMBER 2, 2021

Researchers printed pistons made of the alloy for deployment inside of a full-scale engine. While solidification cracking can be mitigated through careful processing parameter design in simple parts (e.g., cubes) optimized parameters do not necessarily translate to complex parts. —Sisco et al. Plotkowski, A.,

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Green Car Congress

JULY 1, 2020

BASF is launching an engineering plastic that is particularly suited for automotive parts that come into contact with hot oil. The new polyethersulfone (PESU) Ultrason E0510 C2TR is particularly suited for automotive parts that come into contact with hot oil. The low coefficient of thermal expansion of 10.4 [10

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Green Car Congress

APRIL 13, 2023

The Materials and Trade division of the tech enterprise Rheinmetall has booked a new order to produce engine blocks for a hybrid vehicle. The customer is Shanghai Automotive Industry Corporation (SAIC), China’s largest maker of automobiles, motorcycles and car parts. The parts will be produced using gravity casting.

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Green Car Congress

JULY 17, 2021

The investment is part of a 10 trillion KRW (US$8.8 billion) investment in new growth engines, also including eco-friendly materials (3 trillion KRW) and new drugs (1 trillion KRW). LG Chem will invest 6 trillion KRW (US$5.3

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