Exhaust, Fuel and Isuzu

FedEx adds 1,900 new lightweight composite Reach vans to fleet; 35% fuel efficiency improvement

Green Car Congress

JUNE 24, 2013

liter Isuzu diesel engine, demonstrates a 35% fuel efficiency improvement over traditional vehicles in the FedEx Express fleet. FedEx is also working with XL Hybrids, a developer of low-cost hybrid electric powertrain system, to convert ten conventionally-powered panel vans into more fuel-efficient, hybrid vehicles.

Fleet

Fleet Fuel New York City New York

Global Commercial Vehicle Industry Meeting endorses harmonized global approach to improve fuel efficiency and reduce GHGs

Green Car Congress

NOVEMBER 9, 2013

Meeting in Chicago, the chief executives of commercial vehicle and engine manufacturers in Europe, Japan, and the United States discussed fuel efficiency and greenhouse gas emissions reductions, diesel fuel specifications, and topics related to heavy-duty engine and vehicle regulation and certification.

Global

Global Commercial Industrial Industry

Alternative Fuel Technologies Awarded Phase 1 US Army Contract for Ultra-high Pressure Injection System for JP8

Green Car Congress

JUNE 15, 2010

Alternative Fuel Technology, LLC has been awarded a Phase 1 SBIR contract (W56HZV-10-C-0200) from the US Army to concept design and demonstrate an ultra-high pressure, intensified fuel injection system for use with jet propellant (JP-8) fuel. With most fuel injection systems, JP-8 fuel causes wear and premature failure.

Alternative Fuels

Alternative Fuels Fuel Isuzu Oil

Comparative study finds that B20 increases emission rates of a number of pollutants in both light- and medium-duty diesel engines at idle

Green Car Congress

OCTOBER 20, 2012

L) diesel engines at idle and load, using a biodiesel blend (B20) and conventional ultralow sulfur diesel (ULSD) fuel. Their paper appears in the ACS journal Energy & Fuels. Information pertaining to these emissions in diesel engine exhaust is much less complete than that for the regulated pollutants. L) and medium-duty (6.4

Pollution

Pollution Diesel Emissions Engine

LiquidPiston introduces latest X-series version of HEHC rotary engine; targeting 58% peak BTE, 2 hp/lb power density

Green Car Congress

OCTOBER 18, 2012

Isuzu D201 35 hp diesel engine (left) and the LiquidPiston 40 hp X2 Prototype (right). Other features of the X2 include: Quiet operation: engine lacks poppet valves and over-expansion minimizes exhaust noise. Click to enlarge. LiquidPiston, Inc. Power modulation by cycle skipping increases efficiency and recaptures heat.

Engine

Engine Power Powered Isuzu

Study Finds Fumigation Ethanol Operation with Diesel Reduces PM and NOx, While Oxidation Catalyst Reduces Resulting Increased CO and HC

Green Car Congress

OCTOBER 16, 2010

A paper on their work was published online 14 October in the ACS journal Energy & Fuels. In addition, the diesel fuel used in previous research has a high sulfur content of 0.25% by weight. liter, naturally-aspirated, in-line four-cylinder direct-injection Isuzu diesel engine. —Tsang et al.

Diesel

Diesel Isuzu Emissions Engine

New GM/Tula DSF cylinder deactivation technology could boost fuel efficiency in engines by up to 15%

Green Car Congress

JANUARY 5, 2015

Comparison of DSF fuel economy gains and costs with competing technologies, from Tula’s 2013 SAE paper. The operation of each firing cylinder can be optimized for best thermal efficiency, subject to possible constraints such as air-fuel mixture ratio, peak pressures or temperatures (durability), and other factors. Wilcutts et al.

GM

GM Engine Fuel Fuel Economy

European, Japanese and American Heavy-Duty Vehicle and Engine Manufacturers Call for Global Policy Cooperation to Improve Energy Efficiency and Emissions of Road Freight Transport

Green Car Congress

DECEMBER 4, 2009

The world’s leading heavy-duty vehicle and engine manufacturing companies are urging the close cooperation between policy makers in Europe, the United States and Japan to develop practical and effective fuel-efficiency measurement metrics, methodologies and regulations which would then be used all around the globe.

Manufacturer

Manufacturer Global Emissions Engine

NREL announces $18M investment in 9 new projects to advance medium- and heavy-duty natural gas vehicle technologies

Green Car Congress

MARCH 7, 2019

will address natural gas engine emissions and efficiency improvements by developing a natural gas specific combustion design utilizing optimized in-cylinder charge motion and cooled exhaust gas recirculation (EGR). CNG Full Fills with a Complete Smart Fueling System. Cummins Inc. Plug-in Hybrid CNG Drayage Truck “PHET”.

Gas

Gas Vehicles Exhaust Engine

Australia introduces its first exhaust rule but makes all the mistakes the US did

Baua Electric

MARCH 26, 2024

Australia doesn’t have its own fuel efficiency standards, making it one of only two advanced countries without such a rule, alongside Russia. The rules will cut new vehicle emissions by more than half by 2029 and will save Australians $95 billion in fuel costs by 2050.

Australia

Australia Exhaust EPA Water

U Mich study explores performance of renewable diesel, FT diesel and ULSD in PCCI combustion

Green Car Congress

MAY 3, 2016

A team at the University of Michigan has investigated the performance of three different fuels—ultralow sulfur diesel (ULSD), diesel fuel produced via a low temperature Fischer–Tropsch process (LTFT), and a renewable diesel (RD), which is a hydrotreated camelina oil under partially premixed compression ignition (PCCI) combustion.

Diesel

Diesel Renewable Emissions Fuel

Analysis: What’s the Best Way to Market EVs?

Clean Fleet Report

MAY 13, 2021

Without being exhaustive, let’s take a look at some examples. For instance, the charge port will end up being where the gas fuel filler used to be, whether that makes sense for an electric vehicle or not. It supplements, not replaces, the traditional fossil-fuel car. I’m looking primarily at the U.S. I’m hoping for the latter.

Market

Market Motorcycles Saturn Prius

EV Driven

FedEx adds 1,900 new lightweight composite Reach vans to fleet; 35% fuel efficiency improvement

Global Commercial Vehicle Industry Meeting endorses harmonized global approach to improve fuel efficiency and reduce GHGs

Alternative Fuel Technologies Awarded Phase 1 US Army Contract for Ultra-high Pressure Injection System for JP8

Comparative study finds that B20 increases emission rates of a number of pollutants in both light- and medium-duty diesel engines at idle

LiquidPiston introduces latest X-series version of HEHC rotary engine; targeting 58% peak BTE, 2 hp/lb power density

Study Finds Fumigation Ethanol Operation with Diesel Reduces PM and NOx, While Oxidation Catalyst Reduces Resulting Increased CO and HC

New GM/Tula DSF cylinder deactivation technology could boost fuel efficiency in engines by up to 15%

European, Japanese and American Heavy-Duty Vehicle and Engine Manufacturers Call for Global Policy Cooperation to Improve Energy Efficiency and Emissions of Road Freight Transport

NREL announces $18M investment in 9 new projects to advance medium- and heavy-duty natural gas vehicle technologies

Australia introduces its first exhaust rule but makes all the mistakes the US did

U Mich study explores performance of renewable diesel, FT diesel and ULSD in PCCI combustion

Analysis: What’s the Best Way to Market EVs?

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