Goodyear Cooks Up “Stone Soup” Sustainable-Materials Car Tires
The potential to achieve 100% sustainable-materials car tires is in sight, with an assist from mass balance supply chain bookkeeping.
The potential to achieve 100% sustainable-materials car tires is in sight, with an assist from mass balance supply chain bookkeeping.
Optimized Light Paths, High-throughput Laser Scribing and the Use of Established Coating Processes Paves the Way to Commercial Viability – Publication in Nature Energy
A joint study by the highly respected Karlsruhe Institute of Technology and the Fraunhofer Institute for Systems and Innovation Research finds that plug-in hybrid cars with at least 36 miles of electric-only range (think Chevy Volt) are just as good at keeping carbon emissions out of the atmosphere as pure battery electric cars (think Chevy Bolt).
With wind energy growing in popularity and share in Europe, a new project has set out to discover the impact of wind and vibrations from wind turbines. The South-German WindForS research cluster, comprising seven universities and research institutions from Baden-Württemberg and Bavaria in Germany, has initiated the TremAc project, short for Objective … [continued]
Originally published on CWIEME. Dr.-Ing. Martin Doppelbauer, Professor for Hybrid Electric Vehicles at the Karlsruhe Institute of Technology (KIT), will use his seminar at CWIEME Berlin to reveal three alternative electric motor designs together with their test results. Amid constant market demand for cleaner and more efficient vehicles, weight reduction … [continued]
Researcher Andreas Gutsch from the Karlsruhe Institute of Technology said at the PV Symposium in Germany recently that some lithium-ion cells working in storage systems experienced up to 30% capacity loss after 1,000 cycles, while some cells have a better capacity after 5,000 cycles. In other words, there can be … [continued]
An interesting-looking concept for an electric city bus — one that would already be economically efficient, even when current battery costs are taken into consideration — was recently unveiled by the Karlsruhe Institute of Technology (KIT). The e-city bus design is intended to serve as a demonstrator for a new … [continued]