Volvo, CoEX, fuel cell, Adgero.
Autonomous Volvos in London: The Swedes will bring their self-driving research programme Drive Me to the British capital next year. 100 XC90 SUVs will go to families to test autonomy in real life and gathered data will be analysed by the insurance industry’s research organisation Thatcham Research. By 2018, Volvos shall drive fully autonomously and similar programmes are to be set up in Sweden and China.
theverge.com, transportevolved.com
Printed electrodes: The ‘Co-Extrusion (CoEx) for Cost Reduction of Advanced High-Energy-and-Power Battery Electrode Manufacturing’ project aims to print higher energy and higher power battery electrodes with technology by Xerox’ PARC. CoEx is funded by the DoE, with both Oak Ridge National Laboratory and Ford participating in the project.
greencarcongress.com, electric-vehiclenews.com
Cactus fuel cell: A new fuel cell membrane leans on cactus skin to stay hydrated. Developed by researchers from Australia and South Korea, the new PEMFC is said to make fuel cells up to four times more efficient in hot and dry conditions. As in a cactus, it is self-regulating.
huffingtonpost.com.au, abc.net.au, xinhuanet.com
KERS with ultra-caps for semi-trailers: French Adgero presents the UltraBoost ST. The ultracapacitor-based kinetic energy recovery system (KERS) is installed on a curtainsider semi-trailer and aims to cut emissions by up to 25 percent. The ultra-caps come from Skeleton, the motor is from Yasa.
greencarcongress.com
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