Green Car Congress

MAY 27, 2020

Although the knowledge tools, data analyses, policy advocacy and multi-stakeholder gatherings proposed by SLOCAT are universal, its geographical footprint is targeted at the Global South. Its primary focus is on land transport including both motorized and non-motorized, passenger and freight transport.

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Cars That Think

NOVEMBER 15, 2023

For several years, the automobile industry has grappled with a straightforward question: Is it possible to produce a powerful, efficient, and mass-producible synchronous motor that contains no rare-earth elements at all? For every 100 kilowatts of peak power, an EV motor uses an average of 1.2 It’s that simple.

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Green Car Congress

FEBRUARY 17, 2018

Researchers at WMG at the University of Warwick (UK) have developed a method to assess the maximum current for commercial 18650 Li-ion batteries, using novel instrumentation methods enabling in operando measurements. times higher than the manufacturer-stated maximum.

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Cars That Think

MAY 31, 2024

SplitBody ] By combining a 5,000 frame-per-second (FPS) event camera with a 20-FPS RGB camera, roboticists from the University of Zurich have developed a much more effective vision system that keeps autonomous cars from crashing into stuff, as described in the current issue of Nature. Paper ] Thanks, Bram! BAS ] Thanks, Tony!

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Green Car Congress

NOVEMBER 15, 2017

The Parker Project has used a fleet of four vehicles from Mitsubishi Motors Corporation, PSA Groupe and Nissan to demonstrate that vehicles from different car brands can contribute to supporting the electricity grid with vehicle to grid (V2G) services. —Vincent Cobee, Corporate Vice President at the Mitsubishi Motors Corporation.

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Green Car Congress

JANUARY 5, 2018

a tech startup spun out from Kyoto University, are partnering to develop a next-generation power semiconductor device expected to reduce the energy loss, cost, size and weight of inverters used in electrified vehicles (EVs). Ga 2 O 3 and demonstrated an 86% reduction in on-state loss compared to a SiC reference SBD. ?-Ga

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Green Car Congress

AUGUST 16, 2016

Ohio State University. Advances for the Production of Low‐Cost Electric Drive vehicle Motors (Area of Interest 5). General Motors. Work with development partners to design and construct both heavy rare earth and entirely rare earth free motor designs using a multi‐layered motor rotor design. Iowa State University.

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Teslarati

APRIL 24, 2022

Neuralinks in motor & Sensory cortex riding past weak/broken links in neck/spine to Neuralinks in spinal cord should theoretically be able to restore full body functionality,” Elon Musk said in response to a Teslarati article. He told Anderson that Neuralink would focus on solving brain and spinal injuries within the next decade. .

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Teslarati

DECEMBER 3, 2023

Tesla, General Motors (GM) and others have signed an agreement to use a database tracking greenhouse gas emissions, with this year’s report having been shared by U.S. We are here at this COP in particular because this is the year of the Global Stocktake,” Gore said in reference to tracking progress on Paris Agreement goals.

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Green Car Congress

SEPTEMBER 20, 2019

Audi has set the goal of successively reducing vehicle-specific CO 2 emissions by 30% by 2025 compared with reference year 2015 and over the entire product lifecycle. The brand is also continuing to develop conventional engines with a focus on universal mild hybridization and the 48-volt electrical system. Earlier post.).

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Cars That Think

MAY 1, 2024

The other would show the Ptolemaic, or geocentric, sky, with the viewer fully immersed in the view, as if standing on the surface of the Earth, seemingly at the center of the universe. Gears and motors moved the projector to replicate the changes in the sky as Earth rotated on its axis and revolved around the sun.

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Green Car Congress

MAY 9, 2019

Researchers from the University of Kentucky and the San Francisco County Transportation Authority have determined that, contrary to the concept and vision, transportation network companies such as Uber and Lyft are the biggest contributor to growing traffic congestion in San Francisco.

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Green Car Congress

OCTOBER 28, 2016

GM, Tsinghua University and Chang’an Auto are leading a working group for the development of the V2X application layer and application data-exchange service standard with the support of SAE-China and C-ITS (China ITS Industry Alliance).

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Cars That Think

AUGUST 26, 2022

Naver Labs ] Since November 2021, University of Washington researchers from the Paul G. UW’s approach uses only onboard sensors and compute and does not reference GPS or predefined maps for localization. CRASAR ] MEAM 510 - Design of Mechatronic Systems is a class offered at the School of Engineering at the University of Pennsylvania.

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Cars That Think

MARCH 8, 2023

Such a discovery, if confirmed, could open pathways to a range of applications including lossless electric transmission , high-efficiency electric motors , maglev trains , and low-cost magnets for MRI and nuclear fusion. Until now, the phenomenon has only been observed at cryogenic temperatures or phenomenally high pressures.

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Green Car Congress

DECEMBER 26, 2019

The production of air pollution from motor vehicles, industrial power plants, and fossil fuel emissions are determined by complex chemical reactions. We consider this to be a “bottom-up” approach,” says Stockwell.

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Green Car Congress

JANUARY 26, 2015

The “2014 Commercial Vehicles of the Year” competition was hosted in Beijing by Commercial Motor World Magazine. The event was co-hosted by the Research Institute of Highway Ministry of Transport, the China Automotive Technology & Research Center (CATARC), the Beijing Institute of Technology, and Tongji, Chang’An and Beihang Universities.

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Green Car Congress

JULY 29, 2018

Considering electrification, autonomy and sharing (the “Three Revolutions”), a team from Boston University and the University of California, Berkeley projects that electricity use from light duty vehicle (LDV) transport will likely be in the 570–1140?TWh where the stock in year t of EVs of a motorized vehicle type i is denoted by ?

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Green Car Congress

JANUARY 5, 2012

The West Virginia University (WVU)-based National Alternative Fuels Training Consortium ( NAFTC ) has created a suite of modern technology products that put knowledge about specific electric drive and alternative fuel vehicles at the fingertips of first responders. Online courses will be available in 2012.

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Green Car Congress

DECEMBER 20, 2017

Lloyd’s Register and University Maritime Advisory Services (UMAS) released a new study— Zero Emission Vessels 2030 —that aims to demonstrate the viability of zero emission vessels (ZEVs) by identifying what needs to be in place to make them a competitive solution for decarbonization.

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Cars That Think

OCTOBER 4, 2022

The electric motors with the battery support could make a very good tool for academic research. Assistant Professor, University of Toronto. The current locomotion stack is not using any machine learning, but rather trajectory optimization using reference controllers. CTO, Clearpath Robotics & OTTO Motors.

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Cars That Think

AUGUST 30, 2022

He had earned a bachelor’s degree in physics in 1946 and a master’s in electrical engineering in 1949, both from Columbia University. The Henry Ford Shortly after the cocktail party, the two men founded Unimation, the name a portmanteau of “universal” and “automation,” which Devol had coined when filing his patent.

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Cars That Think

SEPTEMBER 18, 2023

It refers to materials that superconduct above −195.79 °C, the boiling point of liquid nitrogen. Airbus is working on a superconducting electric motor that uses liquid hydrogen for cooling as well as fuel. The extremely low temperatures and high pressures needed to induce superconductivity limited its practical value for decades.

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Green Car Congress

JULY 8, 2012

The paper by researchers from Peking University and Environment Canada appears in the ACS journal Environmental Science & Technology. In addition, predicted oil consumption for use in motor vehicles between 2008 and 2050 were used to develop the inventory. BC emissions from motor vehicles were primarily from diesel engines (85%).

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Green Car Congress

JUNE 30, 2010

Six months after being launched, General Motors’ OnStar has become the largest in-vehicle communications provider in China with more than 29,000 subscribers. General Motors hosted the “Mobility Internet - Connecting the Virtual Superhighway Forum” at the SAIC-GM Pavilion at Expo 2010.

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Green Car Congress

MARCH 3, 2017

Chauffeur refers to the always deployed, fully autonomous system classified by SAE as unrestricted Level 5 autonomy and Level 4 restricted and geo-fenced operation. Toyota Research Institute is a wholly owned subsidiary of Toyota Motor North America under the direction of Dr. Gill Pratt. About Toyota Research Institute.

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Green Car Congress

JUNE 18, 2015

The new collaboration, a first between the leading American electric vehicle company and a Canadian university, will bring together the teams of Dahn and Tesla’s Director of Battery Technology, Kurt Kelty. The work will begin in June of 2016 when the support from 3M and Engineering Research Council of Canada (NSERC) ends. (3M —Prof.

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Green Car Congress

MARCH 6, 2015

Researchers at Purdue University have shown that adding ultra-smooth submicrometer carbon spheres to motor oil can reduce friction and wear typically seen in engines by up to 25%. —Vilas Pol, an associate professor of chemical engineering at Purdue University.

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Green Car Congress

AUGUST 2, 2013

For the production system at Brownstown, GM uses an integrated camera vision system is used to shoot a reference image of the weld area prior to the operation to achieve pinpoint accuracy. (In 1960, Sonobond (then known as Aeroprojects) received the first patent for ultrasonic metal welding.). —Lee et al.

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Green Car Congress

APRIL 1, 2015

GREET assumes that a dedicated CNG CV and CNG HEV can achieve fuel economies that are 5% and 40% higher on an energy equivalent basis, respectively, than the reference vehicle. Benefit refers to reduction in air emissions impact and cost refers to increase in ownership costs. Life cycle incremental (a) benefit?cost

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Green Car Congress

FEBRUARY 16, 2018

Researchers at the University of Michigan and Ford Motor Company have found that using a Level 4 connected and automated vehicle (CAV) subsystem could increase vehicle primary energy use and GHG emissions by 3–20% due to increases in power consumption, weight, drag, and data transmission.

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Green Car Congress

MARCH 31, 2009

Each wheel has its own hydraulic motor. These motors act as a pump when braking. The torque of the in-wheel motors is controlled with the hydraulic transformers, one for each axis. The Hydrid uses floating cup type pumps, motors and hydraulic transformers developed by Innas. Comparing transmission efficiencies.

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Green Car Congress

JUNE 19, 2014

Researchers at MIT and King Fahd University of Petroleum and Minerals (KFUPM) in Saudi Arabia have devised a robotic system that can detect leaks in gas, oil and water pipelines at a rapid pace and with high accuracy by sensing a large pressure change at leak locations. A 4-inch pipe section is shown for reference.

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Plug In India

MARCH 15, 2023

Social Media Lithium FUD When it comes to Lithium Mining, The FUD - Fear Uncertainty and Doubt propagated by Random Youtubers, WhatsApp university and Oil funded media is so easy to debunk, it’s not even funny. References Diamond Mine shown as Lithium Mines! Once this project takes off, India wont even need to import Lithium.

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Green Car Congress

FEBRUARY 16, 2009

A paper by researchers at the University of Minnesota, published in the ACS journal Environmental Science & Technology , projects GHG mitigation strategies for Minnesota, which has adopted a strategic goal of 80% emissions reductions below 2005 levels by 2050. Reference scenario. Earlier version of study, earlier post.).

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Green Car Congress

OCTOBER 12, 2014

While Tesla Motors was 23 part of the study, California data was unavailable since Tesla opted out of providing data in the state of California. Among their initial findings: PEV buyers universally report lower satisfaction with the dealer purchase experience than buyers of conventional vehicles. Plug-ins Policy Sales Surveys'

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EV Life

NOVEMBER 18, 2023

Now, the list of automakers embracing Tesla’s NACS charge port includes industry giants such as BMW, General Motors, Honda, Hyundai, Jaguar, Kia, Lexus, Mercedes-Benz, Mini, Nissan, Volvo, Rivian, Rolls-Royce, Subaru, Toyota, and more. Of course, not everyone is on board. Let’s explore a few of the major benefits of NACS adoption.

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