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Siemens VDO showing off two motor Mercedes hybrid demonstrator

At the Management Briefing Seminars in Traverse City, Michigan, this week, supplier Siemens VDO is displaying a Mercedes C230 modified with a hybrid powertrain. The system uses two electric motors with one of them mounted on the front of the engine to provide stop-start capability and regenerative braking. The second motor replaces the torque converter between the 1.8L gas engine and the automatic transmission to drive the car. Siemens estimates that the system can reduce the fuel consumption of the Mercedes by twenty percent. The car is also ... Read more →

Lotus and Siemens to collaborate on CO2 reduction technology Sam Abuelsamid

Lotus Engineering and Siemens VDO are teaming up for a research and development program to reduce CO2 emissions with a high performance hybrid drivetrain. The two companies will use their combined ...

Piezo injection technology breaks into top engine list Dane Muldoon

Siemens VDO has announced that for the first time an engine equipped with piezo direct injection gasoline (DIG) technology has featured in Ward's 10 Best Engine List of 2007. The 300 hp / 224 kW BMW ...

Ballard selling electric drive operations to Siemens VDO Sam Abuelsamid

Ballard Power Systems has reached an agreement to sell their electric drive operations to Siemens VDO. Ballard indicated back in October their intention to get out of that business and focus on fuel ...

Siemens' eCorner motor-in-hub concept Sebastian Blanco

Now check this out. Sister blog Engadget found out about Siemens' cool next-gen car technology that crams all sorts of goodies into the wheel and hub (all right, Engadget found it through our good ...

Siemens VDO showing off two motor Mercedes hybrid demonstrator 2 years ago on Autoblog Green

At the Management Briefing Seminars in Traverse City, Michigan, this week, supplier Siemens VDO is displaying a Mercedes C230 modified with a hybrid powertrain. The system uses two electric motors with one of them mounted on the front of the engine to provide stop-start capability and regenerative ...

Lotus and Siemens to collaborate on CO2 reduction technology 2 years ago on Autoblog Green

Lotus Engineering and Siemens VDO are teaming up for a research and development program to reduce CO2 emissions with a high performance hybrid drivetrain. The two companies will use their combined systems design and integration knowledge to build a technology demonstration vehicle utilizing the ...

Piezo injection technology breaks into top engine list 2 years ago on Autoblog Green

Siemens VDO has announced that for the first time an engine equipped with piezo direct injection gasoline (DIG) technology has featured in Ward's 10 Best Engine List of 2007. The 300 hp / 224 kW BMW 335i Twin Turbo 3-liter engine, which features Siemens VDO DIG technology, was unveiled at the Geneva ...

Ballard selling electric drive operations to Siemens VDO 2 years ago on Autoblog Green

Ballard Power Systems has reached an agreement to sell their electric drive operations to Siemens VDO. Ballard indicated back in October their intention to get out of that business and focus on fuel cells. Apparently motor operations were causing a financial drain on the company of about $10 million ...

Siemens' eCorner motor-in-hub concept 3 years ago on Autoblog Green

Now check this out. Sister blog Engadget found out about Siemens' cool next-gen car technology that crams all sorts of goodies into the wheel and hub (all right, Engadget found it through our good friends at Autoblog). The goodies include an electronic motor, an active suspension system, Siemens' ...


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