Green Car Congress

DECEMBER 22, 2011

AllCell Technologies ( earlier post ) has teamed with two Purdue University engineering students to produce an electric motorcycle with leading performance and drive range.

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CleanTechnica EVs

SEPTEMBER 26, 2024

Students from Ohio State University have just smashed their way through four worldwide speed records for an electric motorcycle, putting the Ohio State RW-5 Voxan two-wheeler through its paces at the renowned Bonneville Motorcycle Speed Trials at the Salt Flats in Utah. The new records add yet another layer of.

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Green Car Congress

MAY 18, 2014

A start-up is bringing the old Bultaco motorcycle brand back to the market with the planned launch of a line of electric two-wheelers. The new company unveiled the Rapitán and Rapitán Sport prototypes—close approximations to the Bultaco motorcycles that will be brought to market later in 2014. The Bultaco Rapitán.

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Green Car Congress

JANUARY 7, 2012

Researchers at Peking University have developed a new methodology to model black carbon (BC) emissions from diesel and gasoline motor vehicles. The team’s review of the literature found 385 BC emissions factors for motor vehicles—excluding motorcycles and super-emitters—varying over 4 orders of magnitude.).

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Electrek

DECEMBER 8, 2023

The motorcycle industry has long stood at the crossroads of tradition and innovation. However, the emergence of medium-power electric motorcycles has ignited a new spark in the two-wheeler universe, one that promises to bring more new riders into the fold.

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Cars That Think

OCTOBER 10, 2024

In 2016, IEEE Spectrum spotlighted Ohio State University ’s Buckeye Current team, a group of engineering students who dared to test their electric motorcycle’s mettle against professionals in the grueling Pikes Peak International Hill Climb. To put the Buckeye Current team’s motorcycle in perspective, consider the iconic Vespa scooter.

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Green Car Congress

JANUARY 22, 2012

REL Matrix MMC brake rotor assembly for motorcycles. Due to expense, current composite brakes have been reserved for motorcycles, race cars and high-performance sports cars (REL provides MMC Matrix Brakes rotors to the motorcycle industry). Click to enlarge. Michigan-based REL, Inc. ,

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Green Car Congress

NOVEMBER 7, 2012

Ford and the University of Michigan Transportation Research Institute (UMTRI) are partnering on a competition for undergraduate students to develop innovative applications that enhance vehicle safety and sustainability by using vehicle-to-vehicle (V2V) communications. The competition is hosted by UMTRI.

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Green Car Congress

AUGUST 29, 2011

W2 has shipped a SteamRay/AirRocket unit for deployment in the compressed air storage system (CAES) designed by AzRISE (Arizona Research Institute for Solar Energy) at the University of Arizona. Once tested at AzRISE the entire CAES system will be installed and tested at the Tucson Electric Power site featuring Solon solar technology.

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Green Car Congress

APRIL 21, 2011

We expect that teams in electric motorcycle racing and other two-wheel motorsports will be able to gain a competitive advantage by deploying A123’s products. In 2010, A123’s battery technology propelled the Lightning Motorcycles team to the TTXGP North America championship.

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Green Car Congress

MARCH 24, 2021

With the conclusion of Phase 2 of the project, the Triumph TE-1 partners—Triumph Motorcycles, Williams Advanced Engineering, Integral Powertrain Ltd, and WMG at the University of Warwic—have revealed the battery, powertrain, and design sketches for the electric motorcycle concept. WMG, at the University of Warwick.

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Green Car Congress

JANUARY 9, 2014

Currently, the energy intensity (BTU per person mile) of driving is 57% greater than that of flying, according to a new analysis by Dr. Michael Sivak, Director, Sustainable Worldwide Transportation at the University of Michigan Transportation Research Institute (UMTRI). l/100 km) to at least 33.8 persons to at least 2.3

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Green Car Congress

AUGUST 8, 2022

The derivation of person miles traveled by passenger road vehicles is a bit more complex, and it involves summing up calculated person miles traveled by light-duty vehicles (cars, SUVs, pickup trucks, and vans), buses, and motorcycles. (In In other words, all vehicles except for medium and heavy trucks.)

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Green Car Congress

JANUARY 29, 2014

Murtaugh earned a bachelor’s degree from Kettering University and a master’s degree in industrial management from Stanford University. By 2016, there will be 200 million motorcycles, cars and trucks sold each year globally, leading to great opportunities for improving the efficiency of the internal combustion engine.

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Green Car Congress

FEBRUARY 2, 2012

bus: 50, motorcycle: 1, e-bike: 1. E-bikes outperform cars, motorcycles, and buses on most emission metrics. Lines from icons indicate magnitude of well-to-station emissions; diamond end points of lines indicate well-to-wheel emission factors. Missing lines indicate indistinguishable impacts.) Credit: ACS, Ji et al. Click to enlarge.

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Green Car Congress

JULY 17, 2020

First, the measure used in this analysis for driving—vehicle miles traveled—includes travel not only by personal vehicles (cars, light trucks, and motorcycles), but also by medium and heavy trucks and buses. Two caveats are in order.

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Green Car Congress

APRIL 12, 2022

As the world’s largest power unit manufacturer with annual sales of approximately 30 million units of mobility products including motorcycles, automobiles, power products, outboard motors and aircraft, Honda says that it aims to realize carbon neutrality for all products and corporate activities Honda is involved in by 2050.

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Green Car Congress

SEPTEMBER 28, 2010

Over the next 12 months, Oxford YASA Motors will be installing systems into new racing vehicles and TTXGP motorcycles. Oxford YASA Motors was founded in September 2009 to commercialize the YASA electric motor, developed by Dr. Malcolm McCulloch and Dr. Tim Woolmer at OXford University.

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Green Car Congress

APRIL 26, 2011

GEM cars are used by local, state and national government agencies, resorts, master-planned communities, universities, medical and corporate campuses, as well as by sports teams, taxi-shuttle services and individual consumers. The six GEM passenger and utility models are legal on most streets with posted speeds of 35 mph or less.

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Green Car Congress

AUGUST 27, 2009

Professor Lidia Morawska, Queensland University of Technology. People who are driving older vehicles which are inferior in terms of tightness and also those riding motorcycles or driving convertibles, these people are exposed to incredibly high concentrations. Lidia Morawska. Knibbs, Richard J. de Dear, Lidia Morawska and Kerrie L.

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Green Car Congress

JULY 22, 2011

Less than two years after spinning out of Oxford University, Oxford YASA Motors ( earlier post ) is expanding, moving from Abingdon in Oxfordshire to a new facility at Milton Park. Over the next 12 months, Oxford YASA Motors will be installing systems into the Westfield iRacer and TT-XGP motorcycles. YASA motor. Click to enlarge.

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Green Car Congress

SEPTEMBER 30, 2016

The University of Sheffield Advanced Manufacturing Research Centre (AMRC) has entered into a Memorandum of Understanding (MoU) with global engineering company Ricardo. A primary theme of this collaboration will be powertrain electrification, which will be addressed by Ricardo and the AMRC jointly.

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Green Car Congress

NOVEMBER 14, 2013

Motorcycle rider fatalities increased for the third consecutive year (7.1% Ten times as many riders died not wearing a helmet in states without a universal helmet law than in states with such laws. The data showed the large majority of pedestrian deaths occurred in urban areas, at non-intersections, at night and many involved alcohol.

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Green Car Congress

JULY 29, 2013

The findings from two recent studies by Dr. Michael Sivak at the University of Michigan Transportation Research Institute together suggest that the US now has—per person, per driver, and per household—fewer light-duty vehicles and that they are driven less than a decade ago.

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Green Car Congress

APRIL 2, 2023

BMW iFace was developed in cooperation with Professor Dr Gerhard Lesjöh, head of the institute for ophthalmology at the University of Munich. If the calibration is positive, the ignition, steering lock and other locking functions are released and the rider can start the motorcycle. Iris cornea matching for maximum authentication.

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Green Car Congress

JANUARY 12, 2021

Motorcycles. Michael Sivak is the managing director of Sivak Applied Research and the former director of Sustainable Worldwide Transportation at the University of Michigan. Vehicle class. Miles per vehicle. Percent change from 2009 to 2019. Light-duty, short wheelbase. Light-duty, long wheelbase. Single-unit trucks.

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Green Car Congress

OCTOBER 13, 2013

The study does not address engines that EPA has not approved for use with E15, such as pre-2001 cars, marine, snowmobile, motorcycle, and small non-road engines. A study by University of Minnesota used E20 as the test fuel and an E0 control followed an in-use fleet of cars for one year. Minnesota and DOE tests.

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Green Car Congress

FEBRUARY 9, 2011

Among the awards is support for a Syracuse University (with BorgWarner of Ithaca) project to prepare, inject and combust supercritical (SC) diesel fuel. Stony Brook University seeks to improve vehicle fuel economy with a thermoelectric generator that would capture energy previously lost through heat exhaust. Earlier post.).

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Green Car Reports

NOVEMBER 28, 2015

BMW just demonstrated its commitment to electric-powered vehicles by announcing an experimental Supersport electric motorcycle based on its S1000RR. The experimental vehicle is called the BMW eRR for electric racing replica and it was made in conjunction with the Technical University of Munich.

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Green Car Congress

AUGUST 19, 2020

The motor vehicle category is for all motor vehicles (including motorcycles and RVs), both new and used. Michael Sivak is the managing director of Sivak Applied Research and the former director of Sustainable Worldwide Transportation at the University of Michigan. (Because the population increased by only 0.2%

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Green Car Congress

OCTOBER 7, 2010

Motorcycles and cars have become Chongqing’s leading industry, with 21 automakers located there alone. The city is home to 50 universities, 400 technological schools and 100 academies, which adds up to well over 1 million students and more than 400,000 college graduates every year.

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Green Car Congress

APRIL 30, 2012

The concept also extends to compatible aftermarket devices brought into vehicles and to pedestrians, motorcycles, cyclists and transit users carrying compatible devices, which could make these vulnerable users more visible to surrounding traffic. Vehicles include light, heavy and transit vehicles. Technical Functionality.

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Green Car Congress

JULY 11, 2014

The consortium of British companies is backed by the Technology Strategy Board and led by Prodrive, working in conjunction with The University of Manchester, Tata Motors European Technical Centre, IST Power Products, Raytheon Systems and SCISYS. —Mark Willows.

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Clean Fleet Report

APRIL 25, 2022

As an example, this certification can be achieved at the UTI (Universal Technical Institute). The Motorcycle Mechanic. Motorcycle mechanics work on motorcycles, repair and maintain motorcycles, doing oil changes, changing fluids, replacing parts and minor maintenance. The Heavy Equipment Mechanic.

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Green Car Congress

DECEMBER 4, 2015

After graduating in mechanical engineering at Aachen RWTH University, Ulrich Hackenberg was employed as an assistant at the Institute for Motor Transport from 1978 until 1985. In 1996, he moved to Porsche AG as a project manager, where he worked as head of base engine development from 2001 onwards.

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Green Car Congress

SEPTEMBER 17, 2010

Jaguar Land Rover (lead company), Ford Motor Company, IAV (UK), CPT, BP, University of Nottingham, Imperial College London. Ford Motor Company Ltd (lead company), Jaguar Land Rover, Johnson Matthey Plc, ITM Power (Trading) Ltd, Revolve Technologies Ltd, Cambustion Ltd, University of Bradford, University of Liverpool, University of Birmingham.

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Green Car Congress

DECEMBER 16, 2015

Through data collection from Ranger pickups and motorcycles outfitted with OpenXC technology, Ford is working with Riders for Health to collect GPS data and mapping coordinates to make health care, vaccines and medication delivery to people throughout rural Africa more efficient and accessible. Camera-based pedestrian detection.

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