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JANUARY 7, 2014

Toyota showcased both its latest fuel cell vehicle concept (the FCV Concept, earlier post ), showing what the four-door mid-size sedan will look like in Radiant Blue; and the camouflage-taped engineering prototype used for extensive and extreme on-road testing in North America for more than a year. —Bob Carter. We love batteries.

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OCTOBER 21, 2017

Diseases caused by pollution were responsible for an estimated 9 million premature deaths in 2015—16% of all deaths worldwide—three times more deaths than from AIDS, tuberculosis, and malaria combined and 15 times more than from all wars and other forms of violence. Landrigan, Philip J et al.

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OCTOBER 8, 2015

Mitsubishi Electric Corporation will introduce the EMIRAI 3 xDAS concept car featuring next-generation driving-assistance technology during the 44 th Tokyo Motor Show 2015 later this month. The operator’s hand profile and motions are detected for simplified adjustment of air temperature and music volume. as required.

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MAY 29, 2015

Engineers at the University of Maryland have created a solid-state Li-ion battery that is made entirely out of one material. Though the battery is extremely easy to make—a powder compressed in a plastic and steel cylinder—it is still at the proof-of-concept stage, Han said. Credit: Maryland NanoCenter Click to enlarge.

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DECEMBER 8, 2017

SenseTime won the first place for two consecutive years (2015 and 2016) in the ImageNet Large Scale Visual Recognition Challenge ( ILSVRC ), a competition jointly hosted annually by multiple universities including Stanford University to evaluate image recognition technologies.

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APRIL 13, 2015

Researchers at the University of Adelaide (Australia) are proposing a novel configuration of a hybridized concentrated solar thermal (CST) dual fluidized bed (DFB) gasification process for Fischer–Tropsch liquids (FTL) fuels production. Credit: ACS, Guo et al. Click to enlarge. —Guo et al. Credit: ACS, Guo et al. Click to enlarge.

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APRIL 24, 2017

Launched in 2015, the Next Generation Mobility Challenge is a national competition from Toyota, the Toyota Mobility Foundation and Net Impact to inspire millennials to develop solutions for critical mobility needs in local communities and around the world. Andrew Gelfman, Computer Science/Engineering undergraduate, University of Colorado.

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FEBRUARY 15, 2022

The selected projects—spanning 22 states and coordinated at universities, national laboratories, and private companies—will advance technologies for a wide range of areas, including electric vehicles, offshore wind, storage and nuclear recycling. Cornell University. Stanford University. The Ohio State University.

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DECEMBER 1, 2017

A development in catalysis research by academics at the Universities of St Andrews and Newcastle could lead to new systems to treat diesel emissions. Catalysts are typically metallic nanoparticles—often platinum group metals—that are finely deposited upon a substrate. This is referred to as “chemistry at a point”.

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JANUARY 30, 2018

a startup founded by former Stanford University researchers developing next-generation battery technology for potential aerospace and industrial applications. Cuberg previously participated in the TomKat Center for Sustainable Energy’s Innovation Transfer Program at Stanford University and was named one of the top seven startups in the U.S.

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JANUARY 11, 2010

The FT-CH concept. Toyota Motor Sales (TMS) USA unveiled the FT-CH dedicated hybrid concept at the North American International Auto Show (NAIAS) in Detroit. However, at the time, the market, the consumer and consumer’s environmental mind-set were not ready to buy-in to the whole battery-electric concept. Click to enlarge.

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MARCH 24, 2010

Group (SAIC) unveiled three models of a concept new vehicle form called EN-V, short for Electric Networked-Vehicle. The concepts will be showcased from 1 May through 31 October at the SAIC-GM Pavilion at World Expo 2010 Shanghai. The Jiao EN-V model. Click to enlarge. GM and its strategic partner Shanghai Automotive Industry Corp.

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DECEMBER 23, 2018

A 2015 study found a 138% risk of increase of AD per increase of 4.34 ?g/m every day since conception. Exposures to concentrations of PM 2.5 and ozone at or above the current standards have been linked to neuroinflammation and high risk of Alzheimer’s disease (AD). g/m 3 in PM 2.5

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JANUARY 2, 2016

Researchers at Tsinghua University, with colleagues from the University of Science and Technology Beijing, have discovered that the multi-reversible magnetization of ferromagnetic material can be controlled via the lithiation/delithiation reaction in a Li-ion battery by varying the discharge–charge potential at room temperature.

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AUGUST 21, 2017

Researchers at the Technical University of Munich (TUM) and partners will present their new prototype of an electric four-wheel drive utility vehicle designed for Africa—the aCar — at the International Motor Show (IAA) in Frankfurt next month. The project is supported by the Bavarian Research Foundation since 2015.

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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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SEPTEMBER 21, 2013

The US Department of Energy (DOE) announced more than $60 million in nuclear energy research awards and improvements to university research reactors and infrastructure. These projects are led by 38 American universities and colleges in 28 states and the District of Columbia. Nuclear Energy Advanced Modeling & Simulation.

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Audi has set the goal of successively reducing vehicle-specific CO 2 emissions by 30% by 2025 compared with reference year 2015 and over the entire product lifecycle. The brand is also continuing to develop conventional engines with a focus on universal mild hybridization and the 48-volt electrical system. Earlier post.).

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OCTOBER 25, 2017

University of Delaware Professor Willett Kempton, the pioneer of the grid-integrated vehicle concept, is Nuvve’s CTO.). There are more than 25,000 Mitsubishi Outlander PHEVs available in the Netherlands. Earlier post.).

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JUNE 14, 2017

The four projects advancing to phase 2 were chosen from phase 1 awards made under the FOA Solid Oxide Fuel Cell (SOFC) Innovative Concepts and Core Technology Research Program, which was issued in fiscal year 2015. Four projects have been selected to receive up to $2.4 million for phase 2 research, while an additional $13.5

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APRIL 15, 2016

A prototype self-driving truck under development by Scania and Swedish research universities has tested successfully at speeds of up to 90 km/h (56 mph). The concept has developed to the point where the prototype truck (named Astator) can safely handle obstacles on the road and carry out tasks such as picking up and unloading gravel.

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JUNE 3, 2016

Researchers at the University of Manchester (UK) have developed a graphene-based nano-rectifier (“ballistic rectifier”) that can convert waste heat to electricity. The nano-rectifier was built by a team led by Professor Aimin Song and Dr. Ernie Hill, in collaboration with a team at Shandong University (China). Manchester University.

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DECEMBER 22, 2015

The inventors are Professor Richard Kohn and Faculty Research Associate Dr. Seon-Woo Kim from the University of Maryland (UMD). The concept for the program was similar to what the Maryland inventors had done, but the inventors’ laboratory was not funded. Earlier post.) 2015.07.019.

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JUNE 28, 2016

The winner of the 2015 YESS award was Dr. Gregory Wildgoose of East Anglia University. The jury was unanimous about the innovative quality of his project using frustrated Lewis pairs in a new battery concept. The winners will be announced during the Batteries 2016 congress in Nice on 29 September 2016.

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FEBRUARY 3, 2016

For the “hybrid” plane concept, took inspiration from students at Cranfield University who were asked to develop ideas for what air travel might look like in twenty years’ time, as part of a competition to celebrate easyJet’s 20 th birthday in November 2015.

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DECEMBER 11, 2020

a 2015 baseline of 36 miles per gallon). Some of these topics also support DOE’s Energy Storage Grand Challenge, which draws on the extensive research capabilities of the DOE National Laboratories as well as universities and industry to accelerate the development of energy-storage technologies.

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JULY 23, 2015

Ben-Gurion University of the Negev (BGU) and University of Western Australia (UWA) researchers have developed a new process to develop few-layer graphene for use in energy storage and other material applications that is faster, potentially scalable and surmounts some of the current graphene production limitations. Raston, Jeffrey M.

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NOVEMBER 4, 2014

In addition, it does own research on topics like in-car air quality or allergy prevention and builds up ties with universities and other research organizations. One example is the collaboration with Tsinghua University, one of China’s leading universities, on the development of sustainable transport solutions, including autonomous driving.

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JANUARY 3, 2017

The three automakers acquired HERE from Nokia in 2015 ( earlier post ) with the goal of securing the long-term availability of HERE’s products and services as an open, independent and value-creating platform for cloud-based maps and other mobility services accessible to all customers from the automotive industry and other sectors.

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APRIL 19, 2016

Without these technologies, it is not possible to provide climate and resource-saving power supplies using regenerative energy or achieve future drive concepts such as electric mobility. Current energy storage devices have so far been unable to attain the performance which power supply and mobility customers are accustomed to. Earlier post.).

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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 combinations are integrated into optimized engine concepts promising to deliver ultra-low emission engines.

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JANUARY 27, 2018

This differs from the previous “cold-cloud invigoration” concept, which does not consider aerosol impacts on condensational heating. The findings are based largely on unique data made possible by the GoAmazon research campaign, where scientists made ground-based and airborne measurements related to climate during 2014-2015.

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JUNE 22, 2016

The $1-million awards are intended to help small businesses advance promising concepts toward commercialization. SiiLion had received a $150,000 SBIR Phase I award in 2015. SiiLion is a recent spin-out of CU-Boulder with exclusive rights to its technology developed at the University.

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NOVEMBER 5, 2015

JCESR combines the R&D capabilities of five DOE national laboratories, five universities, and four private firms in an effort to achieve revolutionary advances in battery performance, with electric cars and the electricity grid as the targets. Crabtree (2015) Click to enlarge. JCESR has developed new separator concepts for these.

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DECEMBER 8, 2014

Researchers at Penn State University have demonstrated the efficient conversion of low-grade thermal energy into electrical power using a thermally regenerative ammonia-based battery (TRAB). The concept of the TRAB. The King Abdullah University of Science and Technology supported this work. Zhang et al. Click to enlarge.

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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. The eWheel motor.

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Thanks to a scholarship from IEEE Smart Village , she is now getting that education through the master’s degree program in development practice from Regis University , in Denver. Since the educational program was launched in 2015, more than 30 individuals from 16 countries have participated. “I

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