US: GM, Ford, BMW research thermoelectrics

The Society of Automotive Engineers’ Automotive Engineering Online reports this month on the US Department of Energy’s part-funding of research by General Motors, Ford, and BMW into materials capable of cost-effectively converting waste engine exhaust heat into electricity. The low conversion efficiencies and high costs of existing thermoelectric (TE) materials have so Subscribe to Automotive World … Continued

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• July 12, 2011