Green Car Congress

APRIL 26, 2016

ABB has introduced a new Dynamic AC (DAC) concept that optimizes marine engine speed, leading to significant fuel savings. The medium voltage power system in the ship is specially engineered for variable frequency, including component design and system integration. The concept is new to the commercial maritime industry.

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Green Car Congress

JULY 18, 2020

—Vijay Swarup, vice president of research and development at ExxonMobil Research and Engineering Company. The polymers were designed and tested at Georgia Tech, then converted to 200-nanometer-thick films and incorporated into membrane modules at Imperial. —Andrew Livingston, professor of chemical engineering at Imperial.

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Green Car Congress

JANUARY 27, 2012

Specialty chemical company Rhodia, member of the Solvay Group, and Avantium, which spun off from Shell in 2000 to develop furan-based biofuels and biomaterials ( earlier post ), have entered into a partnership to jointly develop a range of new bio-based polyamides targeting a variety of applications. Earlier post.).

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Green Car Congress

MAY 23, 2011

This comprehensive energy management system features several Honda-developed energy production technologies, for example, a gas engine cogeneration unit and a solar power system. Complementing the commercial grid, the Honda Smart Home System provides heat and electricity for the home, and produces power for the use of electromotive mobility.

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Green Car Congress

NOVEMBER 1, 2017

ExxonMobil and Renewable Energy Group (REG) announced that by utilizing REG’s patented fermentation technology, the companies’ joint research program has demonstrated the ability to convert sugars from a variety of non-edible biomass sources into biodiesel. Earlier post.). We are excited to take these discoveries to the next level.

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Green Car Congress

DECEMBER 19, 2009

million award ( earlier post ) from the Department of Energy (DOE) to support expansion of its power electronics engineering capabilities as well as the establishment of a new manufacturing operation in Kokomo, Indiana. Since 2000, Delphi has been issued more than 100 patents in power electronics and advanced energy systems.

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Cars That Think

MARCH 11, 2023

In 2001, a team of engineers at a then-obscure R&D company called AC Propulsion quietly began a groundbreaking experiment. The concept behind V2G had gained traction in the late 1990s after California’s landmark zero-emission-vehicle (ZEV) mandate went into effect and compelled automakers to commercialize electric cars.

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Green Car Congress

FEBRUARY 5, 2016

A study of emissions from gasoline direct injection (GDI) vehicles in an urban near-road environment in Toronto over a wide range of weather conditions (February 2014 to January 2015) found that—other than for NO x and CO—the GDI engines had elevated emissions compared to the Toronto fleet.

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Green Car Congress

OCTOBER 14, 2010

Avantium uses a catalytic process to convert carbohydrates into furanics building blocks. The pilot plant is expected to become operational in the first quarter of 2011 and marks a major milestone in the commercialization of Avantium’s technology. Click to enlarge. The company expects to close a €15-million (US$21.1-million)

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Teslarati

NOVEMBER 28, 2022

The lander is made by several commercial partners: ispace has provided most of its design and structures, but Europe’s ArianeGroup supplied all of HAKUTO-R’s engines, plumbing, and propulsion hardware and was responsible for most of the final assembly process.

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Cars That Think

DECEMBER 28, 2022

Fast neutrons—that is, ones with 1 megaelectron-volt or more of kinetic energy—split the plutonium atoms, releasing secondary neutrons that are captured by the U-238 and convert some of that U-238 into plutonium. The country will soon decide whether to continue to the third step of building a commercial 1,000-MW breeder reactor.

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Cars That Think

JULY 30, 2023

Jonas Ekstromer/AFP/Getty Images In the early 1970s, Exxon scientists predicted that global oil production would peak in the year 2000 and then fall into a steady decline. Whittingham, a young British chemist, joined the quest at Exxon Research and Engineering in New Jersey in the fall of 1972. Still, there were problems.

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Cars That Think

AUGUST 27, 2022

But it was true what semiconductor engineers in South Korea whispered about his former students: They were everywhere. Starting in the mid-1980s, as chip manufacturing in the country accelerated, engineers who had studied under Kim at. His mother taught elementary school; his father, Kim Byung-Woon, was a textile engineer for.

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Green Car Congress

OCTOBER 25, 2011

As the first commercial application of the new design, MHI will provide its conceptual design and green technologies to three grain carriers to be built for Archer Daniels Midland Company (ADM). The new MALS carriers will enable reductions in CO 2 emissions by about 25% compared with conventional averaged bulk carriers. MALS timeline.

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Green Car Congress

NOVEMBER 29, 2016

California has already cut anthropogenic black carbon emissions by more than 90% since the 1960s, and existing measures are projected to cut mobile source emissions by 75% and total anthropogenic emissions by nearly 60% between 2000 and 2020.

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Green Car Congress

JANUARY 17, 2012

With a load capacity of up to 900 kg (1,984 lb) and an unmodified usable load compartment, the Vito E-CELL is suitable for commercial applications without any restrictions. The electric engine, power electronics, converter and AC/DC charger are housed beneath the hood. The bodywork as such remains unaffected.

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Green Car Congress

MAY 17, 2013

However, most life cycle analyses (LCAs) to date have mainly focused on the production stage while assuming end-use efficiencies are the same for ethanol and gasoline despite the fact that ethanol can, in theory, affect engine efficiency and performance due to different thermo-chemical properties compared to gasoline. respectively.

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Cars That Think

JULY 2, 2023

Mr. Raskin’s proposal did not impress anyone at Apple Computer enough to bring much money from the board of directors or much respect from Apple engineers. Some managers like to take control, and though that may be good for mundane engineers, it isn’t good if you are self-motivated.” No one tried to control us,” said one.

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Cars That Think

APRIL 23, 2022

This story is as much about luck and guts as about matters of principle and brilliant software engineering. Still, this story is as much about luck and guts as about matters of principle and brilliant software engineering. There it is converted into instructions for the printer by the PostScript interpreter, software resident in ROM.

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Green Car Congress

SEPTEMBER 22, 2018

At IAA Commercial Vehicles, Allison Transmission announced that it will offer its medium-duty, fully automatic 9-speed transmission globally, and that it has developed an electric hybrid system with purely electric extended range. Allison first announced the 9-speed model in 2017 at the North American Commercial Vehicle Show in Atlanta.

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Electric Auto Association

JUNE 1, 2021

He has been loyal to this brand since 2014, when it became the first commercial EV introduced on the Virgin Islands by Nissan Saint Thomas USVI , also known as Drive Electric VI. In 2000, “I decided my next car would be an EV when there was really nothing on the market,” White continued. “I I had a Mini Moke from British Motor Works.

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Green Car Congress

APRIL 22, 2009

Researchers at the University of California San Francisco have engineered the industrial yeast S. cerevisiae to convert biomass to methyl halides with good yield. ZSM-5 and SAPO-34) have been used to convert methyl halides to products including gasoline, olefins, aromatics, alcohols and ethers. Adapted from Bayer et al.

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Green Car Congress

DECEMBER 12, 2011

Warburg Pincus LLC, a leading global private equity firm, will invest up to $355 million in First Green, a newly formed enterprise focused on commercializing early-stage advanced technologies in the carbon value chain. commercialize them. and expertise to make these emerging technologies a commercial reality. Cameron was.

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Green Car Congress

JANUARY 22, 2014

Army Tank Automotive Research Development and Engineering Center (TARDEC). AOI 2: Integrated Computational Materials Engineering (ICME) Development of Carbon Fiber Composites for Lightweight Vehicles. ($6M) AOI 4: Commercialization of Vehicle Power Electronics Using Wide Bandgap (WBG) Semiconductors. ($3M) Areas of interest.

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Cars That Think

MARCH 26, 2023

Basically, the input AC voltage is converted to DC, and then that DC is “chopped” into a high-frequency alternating-current square wave. SiC Leads GaN in Power Conversion Today… The first commercially viable SiC transistor that was superior to silicon was introduced by Cree (now Wolfspeed) in 2011.

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Green Car Congress

MAY 1, 2011

billion cubic feet, bcf) were converted to gasoline, it would produce 450,000 barrels per day, he suggested. van Wijk sold Saturn to Methanex in 2000 due to funding issues. van Wijk sold Saturn to Methanex in 2000 due to funding issues. If the entire daily output of North Slope gas (4.5 Janus, GigaMethanol and MTG.

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Cars That Think

OCTOBER 26, 2021

He's an actual engineer, with a B.S. in Industrial Engineering from Stanford. Tesla, one of the smartest things the company did was to recognize early on that if electric cars were to be accepted as viable substitutes for cars with engines, they couldn't be limited to low-range city-only [driving]. John, welcome to the podcast.

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Cars That Think

OCTOBER 26, 2021

He's an actual engineer, with a B.S. in Industrial Engineering from Stanford. Tesla, one of the smartest things the company did was to recognize early on that if electric cars were to be accepted as viable substitutes for cars with engines, they couldn't be limited to low-range city-only [driving]. John, welcome to the podcast.

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Tony Karrer Delicious EVdriven

APRIL 21, 2009

Cost increments for a plug-in hybrid compact vehicle will be 10-20% more than a regular hybrid: $2000-3000 extra for a sedan; $5000 for an SUV. People routinely pay more for such options as sunroofs, automatic transmissions, V8 engines and leather seats. Thats 20-25 cents a gallon. Why Pay More for a PHEV?

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Cars That Think

OCTOBER 8, 2022

then based in Mountain View, he realized that silicon technology had advanced to the point that, with careful engineering, a complete central processor could fit on a chip. Teaming up with Stanley Mazor and Federico Faggin, he created the first commercial microprocessor, the Intel 4004. While a research manager at Intel Corp.,

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Green Car Congress

APRIL 12, 2015

The work on advanced lithium ion and multivalent ion batteries is led by Yet-Ming Chiang, the Kyocera Professor Department of Materials Science and Engineering at MIT, and Evgeny Antipov, professor and electrochemistry chair at Moscow State. Advanced Li-ion and multivalent ion batteries.

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Green Car Congress

JUNE 17, 2013

EADS has also engineered together with Diamond Aircraft and Siemens an updated series hybrid electric motor glider, the Diamond Aircraft DA36 E-Star 2. With the engines located close to the centre-line of the aircraft, the E-Fan has very good controllability in single-engine flight. Total static engine thrust is about 1.5

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Green Car Congress

JANUARY 21, 2010

(HRI), which were commercialized with support from the US Department of Energy and industrial clients. There are two basic approaches to converting coal to synthetic fuels: indirect liquefaction (ICL) (Fischer-Tropsch) and direct (Bergius). billion from 1975-2000 to develop DCL technology. Click to enlarge.

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Cars That Think

MAY 21, 2023

It’s the metalens, a device developed at Harvard and commercialized at Metalenz , where I am an applications engineer. Today, many mobile devices use DOEs to convert a laser beam into “structured light.” From concept to commercialization Researchers around the world have been exploring the concept of metalenses for decades.

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