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OCTOBER 19, 2021

The power unit is the complete all-electric assembly that replaces the engine and transmission in a conventional gasoline or diesel engine vehicle. Ford is one of the UK’s largest exporters, exporting engines and transmissions from its facilities to more than 15 countries on six continents, with overseas sales generating around £2.5

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APRIL 10, 2023

Customers will be able to order gasoline- and diesel-engine Transit Courier models from summer 2023 for delivery before the end of the year. The all-new Transit Courier is first available in 2023 with a range of fuel-efficient gasoline and diesel engines.

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Green Car Congress

FEBRUARY 18, 2021

We combine a best-in-class fuel cell solution with a long history of being a trusted engineering partner to leading companies in the global maritime industry. Fuel cell development is done in collaboration with Austrian engineering company AVL, the world’s largest independent company for development of powertrain systems.

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AUGUST 3, 2020

In the fall of 2018 Clariant also broke ground for its first-of-its-kind commercial-scale cellulosic ethanol production plant in Podari, Romania. Since July 2012, Clariant has been operating a pre-commercial plant in Straubing, which produces up to 1,000 metric tons of cellulosic ethanol every year.

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Green Car Congress

SEPTEMBER 16, 2009

Ford revealed further details of the upcoming four-cylinder versions of its turbocharged, gasoline direct-injected EcoBoost engine family (earlier post) at the Frankfurt Motor Show, prior to their first European production applications in 2010. liter engine catering for applications of 200 PS and above, the 1.6-liter liter and 2.0-liter

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MAY 4, 2016

The first Mercedes-Benz Cars plant in Poland is to be established in Jawor, about 70 kilometers west of Wroclaw, and will produce four-cylinder gasoline and diesel engines for Mercedes-Benz passenger cars. The investment of approximately €500 million covers the first stage of the new engine site.

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JUNE 19, 2017

The new site in Jawor, comprising an area of around 50 hectares, is the second engine production plant run by Mercedes-Benz Cars outside of Germany. Daimler is investing around €500 million in the new production site for four-cylinder engines for Mercedes-Benz passenger cars; around 500 jobs will be created.

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MARCH 21, 2011

CCE and BIOTEHGEN are implementing various camelina placement trials at different locations in Romania, with the purpose of assessing sustainability of different production models and soil types, including contaminated soil and uncultivated land, in order to identify the best techniques and genetic material.

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Cars That Think

MARCH 12, 2025

There, d elegations from Azerbaijan, Georgia, Hungary, and Romania finalized an ambitious plan: to generate up to 6 gigawatts of clean energy in the Caucasus region, run the electricity through a cable along the bottom of the Black Sea, and deliver it to Europe. Laying the Black Sea line presents a formidable engineering challenge.

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OCTOBER 17, 2013

Cologne Engine Plant in Germany decreased water use per engine by 50% from 2011 to 2012 by switching to the MQL process. MQL also reduces the amount of oil needed to machine an engine or transmission 80% or more, to approximately 100 milliliters (3.4 Craiova Engine Plant (Romania). Cologne Engine Plant (Germany).

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AUGUST 31, 2009

From launch, and depending on market, Renault Fluence will be available with a range of engines. Two gasoline engines will each be available in two versions: 1.6 Renault Fluence, which goes on sale in Turkey from November, will have three main markets: Turkey, Russia and Romania. The new Fluence is 4.62 metres (181.9

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AUGUST 30, 2020

NuScale has signed agreements with entities in the US, Canada, Romania, the Czech Republic, and Jordan. The majority investor in NuScale is Fluor Corporation, a global engineering, procurement, and construction company with a 60-year history in commercial nuclear power. Similar agreements with other entities are being negotiated.

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The Truth About Cars

SEPTEMBER 18, 2024

Image: Porsche Porsche is working on an innovative engine concept that could bring significant gains in efficiency and power density. 18/585,308) with the United States Patent and Trademark Office (USPTO), developed in collaboration with the Technical University of Cluj-Napoca in Romania. Image: USPTO Appl. Become a TTAC insider.

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SEPTEMBER 6, 2013

Ford Motor Company is doubling the production capacity of its Cologne, Germany, engine plant to produce more than 1,000 units per day of the 1.0-L L EcoBoost engine to meet growing European demand. liter EcoBoost engines accounted for a growing share of overall sales. In the first eight months of 2013, models equipped with 1.0-liter

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FEBRUARY 16, 2023

By 2025, Ford plans to resize its European engineering footprint, resulting in 2,800 fewer jobs. Ford will maintain an engineering organization of approximately 3,400 roles in Europe, focused on vehicle design and development, as well as the creation of connected services.

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Green Car Reports

APRIL 29, 2011

But if you were to sit in, you would hear a paper by a research team in Japan and Romania that offers a fascinating new avenue for increasing engine efficiency and reducing gas consumption: Ditch the spark plugs, and use lasers to ignite.

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MARCH 4, 2013

Exhaust emissions from diesel engines were recently labelled as carcinogenic by the International Agency for Research on Cancer. Costs are also high in Luxemburg, Germany, Romania, Italy and Austria, at around €0.08/km Diesel, used by most HGVs, causes more air pollution per kilometer than other fuels such as petrol. km (US$0.10).

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SEPTEMBER 27, 2010

In the LF Hybrid, this engine produces a maximum power of 118 kW/160 hp and is linked to an automatic Eaton six-speed gearbox (Autoshift). Depending on the degree of charge of the lithium-ion batteries, a central computer determines when the diesel engine provides the drive and when and to what extent the electric motor is used.

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MARCH 26, 2022

The business segment Chemicals & Materials will instead be the growth engine of the company. At the same time, E&P will act as a cash engine for the Group strategy and support the transformation of the business. Production of sustainable fuels and chemical feedstock will be increased to 1.5

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MAY 17, 2016

during the cold start/warm-up phase, driving at extreme altitudes or when using the air-conditioning system)—the vacuum produced by the engine is no longer sufficient—or sometimes even available. HELLA manufactures fuel pumps in Germany, Romania, the US, Mexico and China.

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SEPTEMBER 27, 2018

liter PACCAR MX-11 engine (330 kW/450 hp), a ZF electric motor (75 kW/100 hp / peak: 130 kW/175 hp), in combination with a dedicated ZF TraXon gearbox for hybrid drivelines. The batteries can be charged by the diesel engine during on-highway operations, and by using a DC charger at a charging location. in 2017 to 16.5%

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Teslarati

FEBRUARY 14, 2023

The EU formally approved a law that would ban the sale of combustion engine vehicles by 2035 in an attempt to accelerate consumers’ choice of electric powertrains. Proposed in July 2021, Italy, Portugal, Bulgaria, Slovakia, and Romania all pushed to delay the sales ban in mid-2022. I’d love to hear from you!

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JULY 31, 2010

VärmlandsMetanol AB has selected Uhde, a ThyssenKrupp company, as technology supplier and engineering partner for a biomass-to-methanol plant in Hagfors, Sweden, with an annual production of 100,000 tonnes of fuel-grade methanol from forest-residue biomass. Investment for the plant will be about SEK 3 billion (US$416 million).

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Green Car Congress

MARCH 10, 2011

Today, Tecnomatic develops automated assembly systems for a wide array of automotive components including alternator stators, turbochargers, electric motors, heat exchangers, starters, latches, wiper motors, ignition coils, engines, electric steering, air bags, glow plugs for diesel motors and other components.

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Green Car Congress

FEBRUARY 5, 2009

1,500 to purchase a new car with Euro 4 as minimum engine specification. 2,500 to purchase a car up to 12 months old with Euro 4 as minimum engine specification. 1,500 to purchase a car which is at least Euro 4 engine specification and emits less than 140 g/km for gasoline and 130 g/km for diesel. More than 13 years old.

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Green Car Congress

JUNE 30, 2016

Management consulting firm Zinnov released its latest study conducted on the Automotive R&D Globalization Landscape, presenting a global engineering R&D analysis on the top 60 automotive companies and how are they leveraging the global R&D ecosystems to improve engineering output and efficiency.

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Green Car Congress

FEBRUARY 4, 2019

Poland, Slovakia, Luxembourg and Lithuania all posted record levels of volume, while it was the best year since 2007 for Spain and Estonia, and the best year since 2008 for Romania, Hungary, Croatia and Latvia. The majority of vehicles registered in 2018 were powered by gasoline engines, with the fuel type making up 57% of all registrations.

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MAY 27, 2015

i-DTEC diesel engined Honda Civic Tourer. i-DTEC engine provides 120 PS (118 hp, 88 kW) of power and 300 N·m (221 lb-ft) of torque, 62 mpg US (3.8 i-DTEC engine to out-perform its quoted fuel efficiency in real-world driving conditions consistently. In the Civic Tourer, the 1.6

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Cars That Think

NOVEMBER 6, 2024

An undersea cable would move the electricity across the Black Sea and deliver it to Constanta, Romania, where it could be distributed further into Europe. In September, Azerbaijan, Georgia, Romania, and Hungary created a joint venture , based in Romania, to shepherd the project. Long-distance lines would carry up to 1.5

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Teslarati

MARCH 14, 2022

Ford, which recently split its electric vehicle and combustion engine businesses into two divisions, is aiming to roll out seven new electric vehicles in Europe by 2024 with an annual production capacity of 600,000 vehicles by 2026. It will be produced in Craiova, Romania, starting in 2024. EV Production Boost in Romania.

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Green Car Congress

JULY 6, 2016

Purchasing, engineering and manufacturing were the main contributors. Renault and Nissan, which together sell one in 10 cars globally, converged four key functions in 2014: Engineering, Manufacturing Engineering & Supply Chain Management, Purchasing and Human Resources. Renault-Nissan Alliance generated €4.3 billion (US$4.8

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DECEMBER 7, 2021

501,000 auto supplier jobs in Internal Combustion Engine (ICE) powertrain components production are expected to become obsolete if technology is phased-out by 2035 (84% of current ICE jobs). The study is also the first to evaluate the impact of different policy pathways to reach Green Deal objectives with a focus on automotive suppliers.

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JANUARY 25, 2017

The extensive cooperation set out in the MoU includes several European Countries such as Italy, Romania, France and the Czech Republic and various areas of activities, like in-site fuel stations, R&D collaboration, cooperation with Governments and private stakeholders to develop CNG within the European DAFI, and the European project Connect2LNG.

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NOVEMBER 4, 2019

The ACT Initiative is a consortium of ten European countries—France, Germany, Greece, the Netherlands, Norway, Romania, Spain, Switzerland, Turkey, the United Kingdom—and the United States. Process-Informed Design of Tailor-Made Sorbent Materials for Energy Efficient Carbon Capture (PrISMa).

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SEPTEMBER 8, 2023

The number of EVs on the road versus internal combustion engine vehicles – EV fleet share. The bottom overall countries in the HERE – SBD Automotive EV Index: (21) Italy (22) United Kingdom (23) Hungary (24) Romania (25) Ireland (26) Poland (27) Lithuania (28) Greece (29) Malta (30) Cyprus.

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Cars That Think

JUNE 14, 2022

The celebration highlighted resources for: Engineers and professionals working in technical fields. Anyone looking for preuniversity STEM education resources and experiences to encourage the next generation of engineers and technologists. University students and faculty members. Pallab Kumar Gogoi.

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Cars That Think

DECEMBER 24, 2021

That last one works by holding the car within the local speed limit not by braking but by limiting the power the engine sends to the wheels. At the other extreme are Bulgaria and Romania—Spain was doing poorly, but in a very few years it has come up to near the top of the list.”. Some people, however, kind of like being nannied.

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