- Vulcanaer: Air Hybrid for Diesel Engines
Vulcanaer is a novel retrofit regenerative hybrid engine system for diesel buses and trucks, developed at, and spun out from, Brunel University London.
It converts the bus engine into an air pump during deceleration. It captures the braking energy as compressed air for subsequent use, including augmenting the vehicle air systems through the compressor and/or turbo-assist ...
- Neste pilots a new kind of filling station in Finland, with automated shopping and a refueling robot
Neste is the first company in Finland to introduce automated shopping and robotized refueling at its filling station. With the pilot filling station in Siltamäki, Vantaa, Finland, the company is testing a whole new kind of a customer experience. It is one vision of the future of the filling station, where goods are sold through ...
- MUJI and Sensible 4 Created Gacha -The First Autonomous Shuttle Bus in the World for All Weather Conditions
MUJI and Finnish autonomous driving company Sensible 4 have combined their expertise to create an elegant robotbus, first in the world to function in all weather conditions.
The vehicle will be displayed to public in its premiere March 2019 in Helsinki. For this shuttle Sensible 4 provides the autonomous driving technology which ensures the vehicle with superior positioning, navigation ...
- CIRCE has managed to complete the first ultra-fast wireless energy transfer
Zaragoza (Spain) 26/10/2018.
CIRCE has successfully tested a new wireless energy transfer solution for use with heavy electric vehicles that is not only faster but also poses less of a problem for urban furniture.
The research centre validated its system in the metallurgy industry, managing to transfer inductive power at a rate of 300 kW thanks to ...
- New Holland Agriculture unveils methane powered concept tractor
A sustainable vision for the future of farming was unveiled today at the Farm Progress Show in Decatur, Illinois, USA. It came proposed in the form of a methane powered concept tractor from New Holland Agriculture, a global agricultural equipment brand of CNH Industrial. It was presented to the show’s audience and online viewers around ...
- The new electric black cab shines in the desert heat
Our new electric taxi has undergone over a million miles of durability proving in the most demanding use scenarios, taking it from Coventry to some of the most hostile environments on earth.
How do you test a vehicle on every type of road surface and conditions at all speeds, consistently and in a repeatable way? Where ...
- Sono Motors is Presenting the Solar Car “Sion” in Munich for the First Time
During their release event, the startup Sono Motors presented its solar car Sion. More than 700 guests from politics, industry and the press were invited.
The Sion has a range of 250km and retails at 16,000 €, without battery. The battery can either be purchased in a one-time transaction of less than 4,000 €, or at ...
- Self-steering Volvo Truck set to Increase Brazil’s Sugar-cane Harvest
Volvo Trucks has developed a new self-steering truck that can become a significant productivity booster for Brazilian sugar-cane growers. The truck, which is used to transport newly harvested sugar-cane, is steered with great precision through the fields in order to avoid damaging the young plants that will form the following year’s crop. At present, about ...
