Green Car Congress

MARCH 17, 2023

The series-produced, zero-exhaust emission truck will be used for collecting waste by Arma in Rabat. The country is a leader in solar power and home to the world’s biggest concentrated solar power facility, Noor Quarzazate, located 200 km southeast of Marrakech.

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Green Car Congress

NOVEMBER 1, 2020

Grid access and capacity issues, as well as the infeasibility of on-site solar and wind, is a barrier for EV charging in many locations. IPG‘s flameless combustor uses the turbine exhaust and high heat transfer effectiveness through the IPG regenerator unit.

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Green Car Congress

FEBRUARY 18, 2021

The partnership with AVL has already resulted in bringing to production the TECO Future Funnel, a complete exhaust gas cleaning system. TECO 2030 plans to deliver a marine hydrogen solution that is more efficient, compact and durable than fuel cells based on modified automotive stacks. The plan is to start fuel cell production in 2022.

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Norway Hydrogen Fuel Building 468

Green Car Congress

NOVEMBER 30, 2009

A patented combustion system achieves extremely low exhaust emissions that do not require expensive exhaust after treatment to meet stringent California Air Resources Board and EPA 2010 requirements. Microturbine Powered Solar Concentrator System.

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Range Auto Israel Solar 273

Green Car Congress

SEPTEMBER 11, 2014

We then multiplied the sources of electrical energy for power units by adding solar panels and installing an exhaust gas heat energy recovery system based on the Rankine cycle. When the vehicle’s driver calls for energy, a computer analyses the needs, finds the most readily available and efficient source (solar, Rankine, etc.)

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2015 Vehicles Solar Waste 247

Green Car Congress

APRIL 10, 2015

Researchers at UC Berkeley have developed an artificial photosynthetic scheme for the direct solar-powered production of value-added chemicals from CO 2 and water using a two-step process involving a biocompatible light-capturing nanowire array with a direct interface with microbial systems. —Liu et al. For improved process yield, S.

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Green Car Congress

FEBRUARY 20, 2020

Using this methodology, we rapidly identify high-cycle-life charging protocols among 224 candidates in 16 days (compared with over 500 days using exhaustive search without early prediction), and subsequently validate the accuracy and efficiency of our optimization approach. This process iterates until the testing budget is exhausted.

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Toyota Batteries Battery Exhaust 398

Green Car Congress

SEPTEMBER 16, 2020

Its turbocharger with variable turbine geometry makes optimal use of the exhaust gas energy for early and harmonious torque development. The A3 Sportback 30 g-tron 1.5 TFSI engine produces 96 kW (131 PS) and generates 200 N·m (147.5 lb-ft) of torque between 1,400 and 4,000 rpm.

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Green Car Congress

SEPTEMBER 28, 2018

The project will also integrate non-truck battery-electric equipment, non-proprietary chargers, and solar energy production equipment. The demonstration units will be based on the technology currently being used in the Volvo FE Electric ( earlier post ), which Volvo Trucks presented in May and will begin selling in Europe in 2019.

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North America Volvo All-Electric America 268

Green Car Congress

MAY 23, 2011

This comprehensive energy management system features several Honda-developed energy production technologies, for example, a gas engine cogeneration unit and a solar power system. An enhanced lower engine mount structure and other design enhancements help reduce pulsation and air channel noise in the intake and exhaust systems.

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DIY Electric Car

FEBRUARY 28, 2011

Solar energy , the renewable energy source which has been in news for the last several years has made quiet inroads into many homes, factories, businesses, into our cars and appliances and much more. It was expensive to commercially exploit solar energy few decades ago. Another option is adopting solar energy.

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Green Car Congress

JUNE 8, 2011

This work dispels the myth that low carbon vehicles simply displace emissions from the exhaust to other sources. However, it does highlight the need to look at reducing carbon emissions from vehicles throughout their lifecycle.

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Carbon Hybrid Production Gasoline-Electric 399

Green Car Congress

APRIL 30, 2018

5,000 watt solar array on trailer roof that charges and stores. 5,000 watt solar array on trailer roof that charges and stores. Starship uses full synthetic Shell Heavy Duty Engine Oil; Shell Rotella DEF Diesel Exhaust Fluid and Shell ROTELLA Extended Life Coolant; and. A downspeed axle configuration using advanced engine.

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San Diego Fuel Fuel Economy Jacksonville 281

Green Car Congress

JANUARY 13, 2010

Blue-Will serves as a test bed of new ideas that range from roof-mounted solar cells to drive-by-wire steering, lithium polymer batteries and touch-screen controls, and foreshadows future hybrid production vehicles from Hyundai. The panoramic glass roof integrates dye-sensitized solar cells without impeding visibility.

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Green Car Congress

MARCH 25, 2020

This puffy line is not just exhaust from the engine, but a change in the clouds that’s caused by small airborne particles of pollution. Small particles in exhaust from burning fossil fuels creates “seeds” on which water vapor in the air can condense into cloud droplets.

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Emissions Pollution 2003 Mariner 223

Green Car Congress

SEPTEMBER 9, 2009

The EcoBlue units consist of a natural gas engine that powers a generator; the exhaust gas is used for the heating component. Conventional base-load power plants cannot be started up or shut down fast enough to compensate for fluctuations in power supply from solar or wind energy units as a result of changing weather conditions.

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Green Car Congress

JULY 31, 2019

With recent and projected cost declines in wind, solar, and lithium-ion batteries, electrification using batteries has become a viable option for applications compatible with the inherent range limitations and recharging time. The technical potential of wind and solar energy is vast, and such fuels are scalable beyond foreseeable needs.

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Delaware Transportation Fuel Hydrogen 278

Green Car Congress

JULY 29, 2023

Three types of Kyushu-produced gaseous hydrogen are being used: geothermal-derived hydrogen from Obayashi Corporation, solar-generated hydrogen from Toyota Motor Kyushu, and sewage biogas-derived hydrogen from Fukuoka City. Carbon-neutral fuel.

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Hydrogen Carbon Fuel Powered 367

Green Car Congress

JULY 26, 2022

Solar Turbines. Using Argonne National Laboratory's high performance computing for computational fluid dynamics (CFD) modeling, Solar Turbines will improve the performance of an Exhaust Gas Recirculation (EGR) carbon capture system designed for small industrial turbines.

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Energy CO2 Hydrogen Carbon 321

Green Car Congress

SEPTEMBER 4, 2013

Cyclone is targeting WHE systems for applications such as small-scale cogeneration, solar thermal electricity production, biomass combustion, and engines for auxiliary power units for trucks and RVs. The WHE is a self-starting Rankine cycle engine capable of using low to medium-temperature waste heat sources.

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Waste Engine Production Ohio 220

Green Car Congress

APRIL 12, 2018

Most of the electricity comes from a solar system on the plant’s grounds. The fully automatic EcoSmart VEC fresh and exhaust air control ensures air management by leveraging energy on demand: the oven’s energy use is optimally adapted to its workload at any given time.

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BMW Mexico Industry Industrial 253

Creative Greenius

DECEMBER 1, 2013

It was 2:50 AM and suddenly I was exhausted. Filed under: citizen volunteer , climate change , Community Activists , environment , fossil fuels , plug-in cars , solar power Tagged: chevron , EV , Exxon , Hermosa Beach , Manhattan Beach , Redondo Beach , solar power , South Bay.

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Chevron Re-Charge Climate Change Climate 342

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DECEMBER 21, 2012

In that project, Versa’s specialized solid-state SOFC technology is paired with solar equipment to provide an on-board source of power for propulsion and communication equipment.

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Energy Powered Power Cleaning 218

Green Car Congress

SEPTEMBER 12, 2013

The Scuderi split-cycle design divides the four strokes of the conventional combustion cycle over two paired cylinders: one intake/compression cylinder and one power/exhaust cylinder, connected by a crossover port. Scuderi anticipates that the first engine will be up and running in approximately 18 months. Earlier post.)

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Green Car Congress

NOVEMBER 18, 2012

The TriCore-based microcontroller are used in the central control units for combustion engines and gearboxes to control the injection, ignition or exhaust gas recirculation: Increasingly, they are also being used in hybrid and electric vehicle drives.

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Green Car Congress

FEBRUARY 7, 2013

The assessment includes all known and relevant processes and is quantitative in providing best estimates and uncertainties of the main forcing terms: direct solar absorption; influence on liquid; mixed-phase and ice clouds; and deposition on snow and ice. Click to enlarge.

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Green Car Congress

NOVEMBER 6, 2010

Scientists at Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory (Berkeley Lab) have constructed a low-cost, nanoscale composite hybrid thermoelectric material by wrapping a polymer that conducts electricity around a nanorod of tellurium—a metal coupled with cadmium in today’s most cost-effective solar cells. Earlier post.)

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Low Cost Hybrid Polymer Waste 210

Green Car Congress

SEPTEMBER 30, 2020

The CO 2 required can, for example, come from power plant processes or from the air, and the hydrogen can be obtained from the electrolysis of water with regenerative electricity: solar power plants. A further important aspect is the optimization of gasoline-engine combustion concepts for the use of methanol.

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Standards Europe Fuel Gasoline-Electric 259

Green Car Congress

JULY 15, 2020

Enhancing Responsiveness of Gas Turbine Generators through Retrofitting with Exhaust Gas Recycle and a Phase-Change CO 2 Capture Process - $1,178,453. wind power at night or solar photovoltaic power during the day) and storing liquid oxygen (LOX), greater output from the power plant can be achieved during times of peak electricity demand.

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Green Car Congress

AUGUST 20, 2019

The valve train is the “respiratory organ” of combustion engines: it manages the aspiration of fresh air and the discharge of exhaust gases (gas exchange). The basic principle of the valve train—for both intake and exhaust side—is an asymmetric hydraulic pendulum, which can be described as a mass-spring-system. Image: Empa.

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Green Car Congress

APRIL 10, 2012

The FOA covers 8 broad topics—Vehicles; Biomass; Hydrogen and Fuel Cell Technologies; Advanced Manufacturing; Buildings; Solar; Water; and Wind—and 30 subtopics aligned with Office of Energy Efficiency and Renewable Energy (EERE) programs. Exhaust Aftertreatment Materials. Innovative Engine Boosting Technologies.

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Hydrogen Fuel Range Vehicles 210

Green Car Congress

JUNE 14, 2010

Estimated values of the overall annual biofuel yield from 1 m 2 of land area with annual solar incident energy of 6307 MJ/ m 2 ·y. kg/m 2 ·y, only ~1.16% of the solar energy is estimated to be recovered as liquid fuel. If needed, the temperature of the exhaust gas prior to its injection in the pyrolyzer zone may be adjusted.

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Green Car Congress

JULY 12, 2011

Recently, Russia refused to continue that relationship, and the US supply of Pu-238 is almost exhausted. Google Tech Talk: Save the Uranium-233 to Save Solar System Exploration (January 2011). General Purpose Heat Source Radioisotope Thermoelectric Generator (GPHS-RTG). Source: Kirk Sorensen. Click to enlarge.

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Production Russia Google Convert 186

Green Car Congress

JULY 7, 2011

And while the combustion engine provides exhaust heat in winter, an electric vehicle consumes electricity to heat the interior. Therefore we are investing in research to find ways of generating electricity from renewable energy technologies such as wind and solar energy. —Andreas Kreimeyer.

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Lithium Ion Battery Batteries Lithium Sulfur 223

Green Car Congress

NOVEMBER 7, 2010

Kreutz used two examples of CCTF systems in his analysis: biodiesel from microalgae and Sandia National Laboratory’s S2P process (an effort to utilize concentrated solar energy to convert waste CO 2 into synthetic fuels, earlier post ). Tom Kreutz at the Princeton Environmental Institute, Princeton University. emissions.

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Green Car Congress

MARCH 2, 2009

As with the Generation II, cabin heating and air conditioning can continue operating with the engine stopped; the latter is a capability further leveraged by the use of Toyota’s optional Solar Roof system (below). An exhaust gas recirculation (EGR) system has also been added. Option Packages.

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Green Car Congress

FEBRUARY 20, 2012

Depending on the intensity and radiation angle of the sun, the automatic climate control system adapts its degree of effectiveness (solar compensation) and individually adjusts the interior temperature to the desired level on both the driver and front seat passenger sides.

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Fuel Economy Climate BMW Economy 218