Green Car Congress

AUGUST 25, 2011

In July, at the Association for Computing Machinery’s MobiSys conference, researchers from MIT and Princeton University took the best-paper award for a system that uses a network of smartphones mounted on car dashboards to collect information about traffic signals and to then tell drivers when slowing down could help them avoid waiting at lights.

MIT 236

MIT Fuel Singapore Light 236

Green Car Congress

MARCH 9, 2010

For this innovation, Rafiee is the winner of the 2010 $30,000 Lemelson-MIT Rensselaer Student Prize, and is among the four 2010 $30,000 Lemelson-MIT Collegiate Student Prize winners this year. Rafiee is the fourth recipient of the Lemelson-MIT Rensselaer Student Prize. Lemelson-MIT Collegiate Student Prizes. Low density.

Hydrogen 220

Hydrogen MIT Iran 2010 220

Green Car Congress

MAY 31, 2017

Since its launch in 2011, CSRC has collaborated with leading North American universities, hospitals, and research institutions on projects aimed at reducing traffic casualties, and sharing the results publicly so that all can benefit. Another, with MIT, modelled in-vehicle voice command systems and driver behavior.

Connect 207

Connect Connected Vehicles MIT 207

Green Car Congress

FEBRUARY 2, 2012

The MIT researchers created a spinoff company—WiTricity ( earlier post )—that is developing a stationary charging system capable of wirelessly transferring about 3 kW of electric power to a vehicle parked in a garage or on the street. WiTricity has entered partnerships with Toyota and Delphi. Earlier post.).

Design 301

Design Charging MIT Massachusetts 301

Green Car Congress

AUGUST 28, 2013

founded in 2009 out of MIT ( earlier post ), is an emerging technology company headquartered working to develop the first fully active, regenerative suspension for the automotive, trucking, mass transit, and defense industries. Levant’s proprietary fluid porting geometries allow for the Gerotor to perform efficiently in a damper environment.

Automobile 311

Automobile Power Powered Bentley 311

Cars That Think

JULY 22, 2023

VR headsets allow students to immerse themselves in realistic digital environments to learn math and science by solving real-world problems, such as calculating how high a house’s foundation should be raised to offset the risk of flooding. Thanks to Prisms of Reality , VR technology is being used in 140 school districts in 30 states.

San Francisco 62

San Francisco New York City Boston New York 62

Green Car Congress

MAY 15, 2010

An MIT-led team has designed an airplane that is estimated to use 70% less fuel than current planes while also reducing noise and emission of NO x. Images: MIT/Aurora Flight Sciences. MIT was the only university to lead one of the six US teams that won contracts from NASA in October 2008. Click to enlarge.

MIT 382

MIT Design Fuel Concept 382

Green Car Congress

JUNE 10, 2016

It was launched in 2011 by the US Department of Energy’s (DOE) Office of Science. Nazar (2016) “A high capacity thiospinel cathode for Mg batteries” Energy Environ. Earlier post.). The Molecules Explorer app will be useful to researchers far beyond the battery community. Persson, Gerbrand Ceder and Linda F. doi: 10.1039/C6EE00724D.

Batteries 150

Batteries Battery Lithium Ion 2016 150

Green Car Congress

APRIL 22, 2011

Tammy Thompson, (now at MIT), lead author. 2011) Air quality impacts of plug-in hybrid electric vehicles in Texas: evaluating three battery charging scenarios. Tammy M Thompson et al. 6 024004 doi: 10.1088/1748-9326/6/2/024004.

Ozone 218

Ozone PHEV Texas San Antonio 218

Green Car Congress

JULY 19, 2011

It also is standard on 2011-12 S60 sedans and 2012 model S80 sedans and XC70 wagons. Connected vehicle mobility applications provide a connected, data-rich travel environment. GHz frequency band reserved using the Wireless Access in Vehicular Environments (WAVE) protocols defined in the IEEE 1609 standard and its subsidiary parts.

Vehicles 223

Vehicles Ford Connect Connected 223

Green Car Congress

NOVEMBER 8, 2011

Mineta cited a 2008 well-to-wheel comparison of different vehicle technologies by the MIT Electric Vehicle Team that ranked electric vehicles, diesel and turbocharged gasoline engine vehicles within a 10–15% performance band. Diesel/hybrid US take-rates, June 2010-June 2011. Data: Polk. Click to enlarge.

Standards 247

Standards Transportation Fuel Economy MPG 247

Green Car Congress

APRIL 25, 2011

Researchers at MIT led by Drs. The two functions are carried out in succession by the same virus, whose activity is “switched” from one function to the next by changing the acidity of its environment. The work was funded by Eni, through the MIT Energy Initiative’s Solar Futures Program. Click to enlarge. Strano, Paula T.

MIT 271

MIT Solar Carbon Conversion 271

Cars That Think

MARCH 11, 2023

In the wake of the Fukushima nuclear disaster in 2011, for instance, Nissan developed and marketed a vehicle-to-building (V2B) charging system that enabled its Leaf EV to provide backup power. Parts of this article are adapted from the author’s new book, Age of Auto Electric ( MIT Press, 2022).

Grid 138

Grid Power Powered Vehicles 138

Green Car Congress

APRIL 29, 2009

the session counted among its panelists: Professor John Heywood, Sun Jae Professor of Mechanical Engineering and Director of the Sloan Auto Laboratory at MIT. Masdar is a multi-billion dollar project to create a mile-square city in a desert environment where “ nothing grows ” today. Earlier post.)]. CAFE mpg US (cars / trucks).

2009 150

2009 Congress 2007 Personal 150

Green Car Congress

AUGUST 3, 2015

VSP, proposed by José Luis Jiménez-Palacios in his doctoral dissertation at MIT in 1999, has been since widely used to quantify the impact of vehicle operating conditions on emission and energy consumption estimates that are dependent upon speed, roadway grade and acceleration or deceleration on the basis of the second-by-second vehicle operation.

Fuel Economy 150

Fuel Economy EPA Economy Fuel 150

Green Car Congress

MAY 24, 2011

Shuguang Zhang, associate director of MIT’s Center for Biomedical Engineering, and postdocs Iftach Yacoby and Sergii Pochekailov, together with colleagues at Tel Aviv University in Israel and the in Colorado, have found a way to use bioengineered proteins to flip this preference, allowing more hydrogen to be produced. Ghirardi, Paul W.

Hydrogen 231

Hydrogen Production Fusion 231

Green Car Congress

OCTOBER 27, 2013

Based on the interim results of a new study, MIT researchers are warning smaller nations to proceed with caution in pursuing the development of their natural gas resources. —Sergey Paltsev, an author of the study and a principal research scientist at the MIT Energy Initiative. Cyprus offshore hydrocarbon exploration blocks.

Cyprus 261

Cyprus MIT Gas Gas-Electric 261

Tony Karrer Delicious EVdriven

APRIL 21, 2009

Shifted earlier focus to all-electric Focus in 2011 with Magna. Committed to sales of 10,000 or more vehicles in late 2010, with increasing production in 2011. Hybrid Sonata model year 2011, possible PHEV version in 2013. Cischke, Ford senior vice president for sustainability, environment and safety engineering. "By

Plug-in 45

Plug-in Plug Hybrid PHEV 45

Green Car Congress

DECEMBER 20, 2009

Several years back, Ford engaged in a modelling strategy to determine what it’s fleet fuel economy should be over time given a proportional contribution to achieving an atmospheric CO 2 concentration of 450 ppm, said Sue Cischke, Ford group vice president, Sustainability, Environment and Safety Engineering. —Dan Kapp.

Fuel Economy 186

Fuel Economy Economy Ford Downsizing 186

Tony Karrer Delicious EVdriven

APRIL 16, 2009

Earlier this month, researchers from MIT said they had developed a process that within three years could lead to electric car batteries able to recharge in as little as five minutes. Also hopefully by the end of 2011 (when the Model S car is due) our economy has recovered somewhat. Want $7K for an Electric Car?

Electric Cars 28

Electric Cars Charging Cars 2009 28