Nanostellar, Inc., a leader in nano-engineered catalyst materials, today announced a first in diesel emissions technology: the introduction of gold as an oxidation catalyst. Nanostellar’s NS Gold catalyst enables manufacturers of light- and heavy-duty diesel engines to reduce noxious emissions by as much as 40 percent more than existing pure-platinum catalysts at equal cost. Nanostellar introduced its first-generation product, based on a platinum and palladium alloy, in mid-2006, and it achieved 25%-30% higher performance than commercial pure-platinum catalysts. NS Gold, Nanostellar’s second-generation product, delivers a further 15%-20% performance increase.
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- Volkswagen will present the new Golf estate and the Passat BlueMotion for the first time in Germany
- New Golf estate: Ready to be launched onto the market in the summer
- New Passat BlueMotion: Advance sales start at the end of April
- Perfected Phaeton: V6 TDI already meets Euro 5 standards
Wolfsburg, 13th April 2007 – from 14th to 22nd April, Volkswagen will be presenting a fleet of innovative new models at the Auto Mobil International (AMI) in Leipzig. The Golf estate and the Passat BlueMotion will rev up their engines for their German premieres during the show. Another technological highlight will be the Phaeton, which has been equipped with new technical features. The saloon will be the first car from the group equipped with a V6 TDI, an engine which already meets the Euro 5 standards due to be enforced from 2009.
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Congrats to Audi! The next race is in Houston this Saturday.
- 10th consecutive ALMS LM P1 class victory for Diesel
- Defending champions lead Audi 1-2 in LM P1
The Audi R10 TDI scored its 10th consecutive LM P1 victory when Dindo Capello (Italy) and Allan McNish (Scotland) claimed class honours in Long Beach (US State of California) - the third round of the American Le Mans Series. The championship’s first appearance in the “Monaco of USA” and the shortest in the history of the American Le Mans Series, took place on a 1.968-mile, 11-corner temporary street circuit on the waterfront near Los Angeles, and saw the Audi Sport North America R10 TDI Le Mans Prototypes starting from fourth and sixth on the 25-car grid.
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What can’t diesel do? So maybe we can build diesel/hydrogen hybrid cars while some sort of hydrogen fueling station infrastructure is being developed. In reality I’m sure that will never happen but the technology is out there. Anyway, here’s the article from idw-online.de
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The fastest market penetration for fuel cells as future on-board electricity generators for vehicles can be realized when fuels which are readily available today are utilized. Together with a Swiss engineering company, Fraunhofer ISE developed a patented procedure to transform liquid diesel fuel into vapor without residue formation and convert it to hydrogen gas in a reformer. Therefore, with a fuel cell, the energy required in a vehicle for the on-board electronics, for example, the air-conditioning, can be generated in this manner.
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