Roland Zenn 7/31/20 Roland Zenn 7/31/20

European OEMs Cell Producers - Joint Ventures & Investments Updates (August 2020)

European OEMs Battery Cell Producers - Joint Ventures & Investments Update about Lithium Battery Gigafactorie - August 2020 by Roland Zenn. Update about Toyota and BYD, Volkswagen (VW) and Guoxuan, Daimler and Farasis, Honda and CATL.

Dr Cecile Pera 7/8/20 Dr Cecile Pera 7/8/20

Hydrogen Fuel Cell Trucks

Under governmental pressure for zero emission 🌱, FuelCell is gaining a lot of attention, in particular for Heavy Duty 🚚

H2 is very trendy in this post-COVID period and there is no single week without buzzing announcement: Germany 🇩🇪 investing 9 billion € in green Hydrogen, Nikola entering Nasdaq (NKLA), Hyundai delivering Xcient to Switzerland 🇨🇭…

Let’s review all the available and announced Fuel Cell trucks (VOLVO, Daimler, Toyota, Hino, Cummins, JMC, Nikola…)

Roland Zenn 7/3/20 Roland Zenn 7/3/20

Q1 2020 Covid-19 effect on EV Battery market

Review of Q1 2020 Battery market: The Covid-19 pandemic shook up the top 10 list of the EV Battery market and created new leaders. The decline was caused by catastrophically low sales numbers of xEVs in China due to the Covid-19 pandemic lockdown.

Dr Cecile Pera 7/1/20 Dr Cecile Pera 7/1/20

Maserati Nettuno: the 1st Commercial Engine with F1 PreChamber Technology

Dr Ameya Joshi 6/29/20 Dr Ameya Joshi 6/29/20

California Truck Emission Update

California has released its proposal to reduce tailpipe NOx emission limits from Diesel trucks by 90% over the next decade.

Also released a few days back is California's advanced clean trucks rule, which requires significant zero tailpipe emitting trucks starting 2024.

Dr Cecile Pera 6/10/20 Dr Cecile Pera 6/10/20

Ford and Volkswagen have signed a Collaboration for Commercial Vehicles

Ford and Volkswagen have signed today a cooperation on the development for midsize pickup trucks and commercial and Electric Vehicles. This long-term cooperation will strengthen Ford and VW good position in area of light commercial vehicles, especially on European markets.

Roland Zenn 6/9/20 Roland Zenn 6/9/20

Li-on Battery Gigafactories in Europe (June 2020)

June 2020 Gigafactories Update: about 500 GWh annual production capacity for Li-Ion Battery cells announced for Europe, enough to equip approximately 7 million Electric Vehicles.

Dr Graham Conway 6/1/20 Dr Graham Conway 6/1/20

Ford EcoBoost 500, the pioneer for downsizing gets bigger

Ford presented the next EcoBoost generation, keeping the I3 layout while cylinder displacement increases from 333 cc to 500 cc

The Engine achieved 117 kW/l and 140 kW/l at Comp Ratio of 12.5:1 and CR 9.5:1 respectively, both operating at full time lambda =1 and with quite good BSFC. How?

Dr Cecile Pera 5/30/20 Dr Cecile Pera 5/30/20

Oil companies and e-mobility 🔌

Following Automotive Industry 🚘 massive development in ElectroMobility 🔌, Oil majors ⛽️ are repositioning themselves in this new energy transition 🌱, especially in relation with emobility ⚡️

Dr Cecile Pera 5/7/20 Dr Cecile Pera 5/7/20

How much CO2 is a full car production?

Do you know what materials 🧬 is a car 🚘 made of and how much CO2 💨equivalent it represents?

Dr Cecile Pera 5/7/20 Dr Cecile Pera 5/7/20

Mercedes AMG 2L M139

⭐️ The Mercedes-AMG 2L M139 is the most powerful (155 kW/l) mass-produced 4-cyl pass car Engine…

Dr Cecile Pera 4/20/20 Dr Cecile Pera 4/20/20

New Volkswagen 1.0L 3-Cyl Engine EA211 TSI evo

The new Volkswagen 1.0L 3-Cyl Engine EA211 TSI evo that will power some of gen8 #Golf contains an amazing list of technologies for a very-large production-Engine (>1million / year in 🇪🇺)