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2021
Automotive/​Transportation

Hexaviation Snowflake

The Hexaviation Snowflake is a groundbreaking innovative design concept for an environmental friendly autonomous flying advanced passenger transportation system. The technology is based on a drone flyer using a double propeller vertical take-off and landing principle which is powered by hydrogen fuel cell units.

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Oliver May
Düsseldorf, Germany
Votes: 1
Views: 1547
Automotive/​Transportation
Jun 28, 2021

High Efficiency Internal Combustion Engine

The current Internal Combustion Engine (ICE) is generally rated at about 25% efficient. My goal is to increase this efficiency rate to over 50% by making the ICE configuration more correct. Current engines make around 1 hp per cubic inch. My design will increase this to over 3 hp per cubic inch.

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Joe Facciano
Lake Hughes, United States
Votes: 0
Views: 1512
Automotive/​Transportation
Jun 30, 2021

Horizontal K Type Configuration

Horizontal K type configuration is new type of configuration designed for an internal combustion engine.

In this configuration, 4 cylinders are present per crankpin in the shape of "K" with its vertical side parallel to the ground. The positioning of cylinders is based on the multi-body simulation results.

The novelty with this configuration is,

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Rushiraj Kadge
Pune, India
Votes: 149
Views: 4591
Automotive/​Transportation
May 21, 2021

Hybrid CoAxial Engine

The Hybrid CoAxial Engine is an advanced development of the previous entry from 2015 that provides further improvements of the design of the CoAxial Engine. The design presents an integration between the CoAxial Engine and an electrical machine. Presently,

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Boyan Bahnev
Edmonton, Canada
Votes: 106
Views: 5041
Automotive/​Transportation
Jul 6, 2021

Hybrid Garbage Truck

Garbage trucks are typically noisy and inefficient.

Utilizing a small, high efficiency diesel engine that runs at a constant engine speed, electricity will be generated for battery storage. This will be used for hydraulic pumps and motive force of the truck creating an efficient,

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Robert Marsh
Ashburton, Australia
Votes: 0
Views: 1920
Automotive/​Transportation
Apr 15, 2021

Inductrack Cars and Inductrack for Roads

The original Inductrack concept (invented for trains by Richard F Post at the Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory) is described in Wikipedia thus:

“…a passive, fail-safe electrodynamic magnetic levitation system, using only unpowered loops of wire in the track and permanent magnets (arranged into Halbach arrays) on the vehicle to achieve magnetic levitation.

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David Kessler
London, United Kingdom
Votes: 0
Views: 3562
Automotive/​Transportation
Jun 14, 2021

Instant Swapping Systems for Electric Vehicles

As a valuable contribution to decarbonize land transportation, Project ev-motion.com presents novel concepts of electric vehicles (Patent US8256553-revival filed) for the masses, affordable, desirable and connected to a unique infrastructure providing them with unlimited range of operation. All revolves around Concept 1, a container filled with batteries on wheels,

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Roberto Depaschoal
Vancouver, Canada
Votes: 6
Views: 2229
Automotive/​Transportation
Jun 23, 2021

Interactive SmartWindows for Autonomous Vehicles

Interactive SmartWindows for Autonomous Vehicles with Digital Display capabilities. Transparent OLED TECHNOLOGIES with touchscreen, face recognition, temperature control, Augmented reality, voice recognition, the future of how we look out transportation windows will change forever! For military vehicles and aircraft, for private or public transportation vehicles like trains, buses, and airplanes...

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Victor Ramirez
Canoga Park, United States
Votes: 0
Views: 1345
Automotive/​Transportation
Jun 28, 2021

Landfill/Brewery Gases as Alternative Fuels

This is a overview of my idea. However multiple alternative fuel companies may have to work together (I personally work with a few as current customers). Use every landfill/brewery gases in the world as a gas station for internal combustion vehicles and machines.

Set up pressurized storage tanks with filtration systems at these sites.

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Matt Russell
Lansing, United States
Votes: 0
Views: 1460
Automotive/​Transportation
May 3, 2021

LFT Zero-Emissions Small Transit Bus

Advances in technology and environmental concerns will precipitate major changes in how public transit will deliver services in the coming years. Advances, including AI-assisted scheduling software, self-driving systems, and perhaps most important of all, multi-passenger Uber/Lyft-like software coming on stream,

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Brian Niddery
Oro-medonte, Canada
Votes: 2
Views: 1640
Automotive/​Transportation
Jun 24, 2021

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