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JANUARY 12, 2013

In February 2012, the China State Council approved its first national ambient air quality standard for PM 2.5 , which will come into effect by the end of 2015. 2020),” which plans to achieve accumulated sales of 500,000 new-energy vehicles (including hybrids and EVs) by 2015, and 5 million by 2020. Credit: ACS, Huo et al. Earlier post.]

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MAY 21, 2020

The VW diesel scandal began on 18 September 2015. Now—almost five years later—a study by the University of York and Empa shows that the retrofitting was successful from an environmental point of view. liters displacement (type code EA 189) contained illegal software designed to manipulate emissions.

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OCTOBER 31, 2019

The unifying approach in this comparison involves the use of Btu (British thermal units), coupled with the costs of gasoline, electricity, and natural gas, and the energy efficiencies of light-duty vehicles (cars and light trucks) and furnaces. by Michael Sivak. Air handlers.

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APRIL 26, 2013

Ford said it will work with Schaeffler and other partners on a follow-up research project, including producing two more drivable vehicles by 2015. At the same time, eWheelDrive steering system designs could enable vehicles to move sideways into parking spaces—a boon as cities become more populated and congested. billion to 6.4

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NOVEMBER 11, 2016

This wide bandgap inverter product resulted in a smaller, lighter, higher power density and more efficient system in comparison to Toyota’s present Prius inverter design implementing silicon technology.

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OCTOBER 23, 2015

Potentially unsafe mental distractions for drivers can persist for as long as 27 seconds after dialing, changing music or sending a text using voice commands, according to a pair of new studies for the AAA Foundation for Traffic Safety by University of Utah researchers. It’s better not to use them when you are driving. Strayer, Joel M.

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MAY 12, 2017

Between 2006 and 2015, the use of advanced high-strength steels in vehicles has grown from an average of 81 pounds per vehicle (36.7 Over the period 2012 to 2015, the use of AHSS has increased by around 10% each year—well above steel industry forecasts. kg) to 275 pounds (124 kg)—a threefold increase in 10 years.

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OCTOBER 16, 2015

The research, conducted by Argonne researchers in collaboration with Stanford University and the University of California, Davis, analyzed the Eagle Ford shale formation in Texas and the Bakken play mainly in North Dakota. As reported in a 2015 paper by Rahman et al. g CO 2 eq/MJ for gasoline blendstock, 10.2 for diesel, and 10.3

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SEPTEMBER 28, 2015

For both crashworthiness and crash avoidance, the comparison of injury risk given a particular set of crash characteristics, respectively the comparison of crash involvement, was then argued to be driven by differences between the vehicles themselves. —Flannagan et al. Balint, Andras; Klinich, Kathleen D.;

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JULY 30, 2013

A German consortium involving four companies and and two universities is developing dielectric elastomers (electroactive polymers) for the conversion of mechanical energy—in this case wave power—into electrical power. The Technical University of Darmstadt is developing a method for testing the electroactive polymers.

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JUNE 23, 2009

Scientists at the University of Delaware are developing a new low-cost material for hydrogen storage—carbonized chicken feathers (CCFF)—that they say could meet the DOE requirements for hydrogen storage and are competitive with carbon nanotubes and metal hydrates at a tiny fraction of their cost. Wool, University of Delaware.

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AUGUST 14, 2015

The researchers from Nanjing University and Soochow University demonstrated that nanosized Si powders, with size around ∼150 nm, smaller than the critical size to alleviate the pulverization during cycling, can be massively produced from these two different low grade Si sources through a one-step, scalable high energy mechanical milling (HEMM).

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APRIL 18, 2018

Comparison of 2016 annual average PM 2.5 In India in 2015, however, the leading source contribution by far was residential biomass burning, followed by anthropogenic dust, powerplant coal, industrial coal and open burning. concentrations to the WHO Air Quality Guideline. State of Global Air 2018. Worldwide exposure to PM 2.5

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JANUARY 4, 2016

Researchers from the Korea Advanced Institute of Science and Technology (KAIST), with colleagues from the Korea Institute of Energy Research (KIER), Qatar University and major battery manufacturer LG Chem have developed a technique for the delicately controlled prelithiation of SiO x anodes for high-performance Li-ion batteries. 5b03776XX.

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MARCH 29, 2015

Researchers at Dalhousie University (Canada) led by Dr. Jeff Dahn now report that Li[Ni 1/3 Mn 1/3 Co 1/3 ]O 2 (NMC111)/graphite and Li[Ni 0.42 Dahn (2015) “Ternary Electrolyte Additive Mixtures for Li-Ion Cells that Promote Long Lifetime and Less Reactivity with Charged Electrodes at Elevated Temperatures” J. —Ma et al.

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JULY 24, 2016

Researchers at Rice University’s Laboratory for Nanophotonics (LANP), with colleagues at Princeton University, have developed a new method for uniting light-capturing photonic nanomaterials and high-efficiency metal catalysts, creating an “antenna-reactor” plasmonic catalyst. Swearer/Rice University) Click to enlarge.

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DECEMBER 10, 2015

As an alternative approach, the team, made up of LLNL scientist Mark Zelinka and colleagues from the University of California, Los Angeles, including lead author Anthony DeAngelis, evaluated model-simulated global precipitation change through consideration of the physical processes that govern it. DeAngelis, Xin Qu, Mark D.

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Eastern Nebraska Electric Vehicle Association (EVNEBRASKA) member Dr. Donald Cox likes to draw a comparison between electric vehicles (EVs) and the wireless phone technology he worked on at Bell Labs in the early 1970’s. “I Two decades of teaching about driving electric. Professor Donald Cox driving his Tesla Signature One Hundred Roadster.

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MARCH 2, 2015

The high activity, excellent tolerance to methanol, high durability, and superior high half-wave potential are achieved for optimally doped (10 atom % BN) BNC NR catalysts in comparison to other metal-free catalysts in alkaline solution. Yakobson, James M. Tour, and Pulickel M.

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FEBRUARY 24, 2016

A paper by a team from the University of Chicago and MIT suggests that technology-driven cost reductions in fossil fuels will lead to the continued use of fossil fuels—oil, gas, and coal—unless governments pass new taxes on carbon emissions. But in 2015, the average price of oil was about $49 per barrel. F of warming.

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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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AUGUST 17, 2012

By comparison, the sulphur content of fuels used in road vehicles must not exceed 0.001%. Ships traditionally use heavy fuel oil which, from 2012, can have a sulfur content of up to 3.5% for cargo vessels (before 2012 this limit was 4.5%). The average sulfur content of heavy fuel oil is about 2.4%. content of fuels used outside of harbors.

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JUNE 14, 2016

The 3-year project, which launched in September 2015, targets radical concepts for new aero engines, in line with the EU’s long-term emissions reduction target for 2050. The project is being presented in a paper (Grönstedt et al. ) at the ASME Turbo Expo 2016 conference this week in Seoul, South Korea. ​ Core exhaust loss. Bypass flow loss.

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FEBRUARY 20, 2015

CIRES is a partnership of NOAA and the University of Colorado Boulder. Where leak rates are low, the comparison favors natural gas. 2015) “Quantifying atmospheric methane emissions from the Haynesville, Fayetteville, and northeastern Marcellus shale gas production regions,” J. tons (33,000 lbs) per hour, or 0.18-0.41%

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NOVEMBER 19, 2015

CO 2 emissions from the ammonia industry alone amount to approximately 200 million tons per year—by comparison, Germany generates around 800 million tons of carbon dioxide per year. Carbon separates on the surface of the bubbles and is deposited as a powder at the top end of the reactor when they disintegrate. The final design is a 1.2-meter-high

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DECEMBER 16, 2015

Researchers from Purdue University and École Polytechnique Fédérale de Lausanne (EPFL) in Switzerland are proposing a new integrated process involving the co-production of hydrogen and electricity from solar thermal energy—a concept they label “hydricity”. Emre Gençer, Dharik S. 1513488112.

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MAY 27, 2015

A study by Carnegie Mellon University researchers comparing life cycle greenhouse gas (GHG) emissions from different natural gas pathways for medium and heavy-duty vehicles (MHDVs) found that the GHG reduction potentials of the pathways vary sharply between non-Class 8 MHDVs (e.g., refuse trucks and tractor-trailers). —Tong et al.

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JUNE 5, 2015

A team from the University of Texas at Austin led by Professor John Goodenough has achieved significantly enhanced activity and durability for the oxygen reduction reaction under alkaline conditions in a hybrid Li-Air battery using a new ordered Pd 3 Fe/C catalyst. Credit: ACS, Cui et al. Click to enlarge. 5b03865.

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APRIL 11, 2015

A team at Beihang University in China has synthesized cathode materials for Li-sulfur batteries consisting of vertically aligned sulfur–graphene (S-G) nanowalls on electrically conductive substrates. 1 in comparison with S-G-2. (d) b) CV curves measured between 1.0 V versus Li/Li+ at a sweep rate of 0.5 d) Selected discharge?charge

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MAY 7, 2010

The FSV Program is midway through its second phase, designing optimized AHSS body structures for four proposed 2015-2020 year vehicles: battery electric (BEV); plug-in hybrid electric (PHEV), with both PHEV-20 and PHEV-40 powertrains; and fuel cell (FCV), with variants among the different powertrain types for four and five passengers vehicles.

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JULY 7, 2015

The study, led by GLBRC scientist and Michigan State University professor of ecosystem ecology Stephen Hamilton, is the first multi-year effort to compare the water use of conventional corn crops to the perennial cropping systems of switchgrass, miscanthus, native grasses, restored prairies, and hybrid poplar trees. Resources.

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AUGUST 13, 2013

a joint venture between Pacific Northwest National Laboratory and the University of Maryland. Even with maximally feasible reductions phased in from 2015 to 2035, global mean temperatures in 2050 would be reduced by 0.16 °C, with a range of 0.04–0.35 degrees to a high of 0.35

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FEBRUARY 2, 2015

Energy density comparison of the 3D nanotextile electrode and conventional LiMn 2 O 4 , LiCoO 2 , LiFePO 4 , and LiNi 0.5 A team from University of Science and Technology of China and Max Planck Institute in Germany has synthesized 3D V 6 O 13 nanotextiles from interconnected 1D nanogrooves with diameter of 20–50 nm. O 4 electrodes.

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JUNE 26, 2015

In a new, comprehensive study, a team from Argonne National Laboratory, Stanford University and UC Davis ITS has estimated the well-to-wheels (WTW) GHG emissions of US production of gasoline and diesel sourced from Canadian oil sands. Wang (2015) “Well-to-Wheels Greenhouse Gas Emissions of Canadian Oil Sands Products: Implications for U.S.

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AUGUST 7, 2015

The authors noted that the observed TOR for methanol synthesis is fairly high in comparison to the numbers in the literature. Co-authors of the paper in JACS also included researchers from the University of Freiburg and Yale University. The rate of methanol production drops above 325 °C. Credit: ACS, Liu et al. Click to enlarge.

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DECEMBER 20, 2016

The results were confirmed by a medical study conducted by ECARF Institute GmbH in an innovative, mobile pollen chamber in the grounds of the Charité university hospital in Berlin. The efficiency of the filter is measured by means of a before/after comparison, with the concentration of allergens before and after the filter being determined.

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SEPTEMBER 6, 2015

A collaboration led by researchers at Leiden University in The Netherlands has launched a Europe-wide citizen campaign— iSPEX-EU 2015 —to use a smartphone add-on and app to measure atmospheric aerosols (tiny particles), resulting in a broad-based data set with high spatio-temporal resolution.

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