Green Car Congress
DECEMBER 21, 2016
MIT engineers have studied a simple vehicle-platooning scenario and determined the best ways to deploy vehicles in order to save fuel and minimize delays. Peloton plans to bring its first platooning system to market in 2017, and ARPA-E is funding research into platooning technology as part of its NEXTCAR project. Earlier post.).
Green Car Congress
JULY 26, 2017
A team from Stanford, Carnegie Mellon University, and MIT recently published an open-access paper in the Journal of the Electrochemical Society reviewing the practical challenges hindering the development of solid-state Li-ion batteries. However, there remain a number of unresolved issues precluding commercialization at this point.
Teslarati
AUGUST 17, 2021
Recently, NABU decided that the cost of pursuing the Tesla Giga Berlin lawsuit was too high with little chance of success. According to Business Insider , the costs and benefits of pursuing the lawsuit were labeled as mismatched by NABU, considering that environmental associations have limited financial opportunities. .
Green Car Congress
OCTOBER 25, 2009
In 2017, jet fuel consumption in the United States (commercial aviation plus military) is projected to be about 1.9 Applying the per-barrel savings to this consumption yields net annual jet-fuel cost savings of between $3.2 From Hileman et al. Click to enlarge. million bpd. billion and $8.3 billion, according to the report.
Teslarati
SEPTEMBER 4, 2021
Since starting its battery production activities in January 2017, Gigafactory Nevada has played a key role in Tesla’s overall operations. “He seems to be betting that a huge factory will significantly reduce the cost of making batteries, which remain the most expensive part of electric cars.
Green Car Congress
AUGUST 17, 2021
He served in the Obama administration as the Founding Director of the US Department of Energy’s Advanced Research Projects Agency-Energy (ARPA-E) (2009–2012), as the Acting Undersecretary for Energy (2011–2012), and as the Vice Chair of the Secretary of Energy Advisory Board (2014–2017). John Deutch, an emeritus Institute Professor at MIT.
Green Car Congress
JULY 9, 2017
In a new study, a team from the University of Central Florida and MIT has found that the US Corporate Average Fuel Economy (CAFE) Standards is an effective policy solution that does increase the adoption of EVs, whether it is implemented alone or in conjunction with another policy such as government incentives. —Sen et al.
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