Green Car Congress

MAY 20, 2021

In the future, Ford will introduce Ford Intelligent Power, which can use the truck to power homes during high-cost, peak-energy hours while taking advantage of low-cost overnight rates to charge the vehicle in time for your morning drive.

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Green Car Congress

OCTOBER 10, 2013

Bank of America has joined Stanford University’s Global Climate & Energy Project (GCEP), a collaboration of academic and business experts that identifies and supports new avenues of research to make environmentally sustainable, low-cost energy available to everyone.

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Green Car Congress

MARCH 28, 2012

ABB launched the Terra Smart Connect (SC), a low-cost DC fast-charger that the company says will significantly improve the business case for installing electric-vehicle (EV) fast chargers throughout Europe. The Terra SC is specifically designed for convenient fast charging in commercial and office areas.

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Green Car Congress

NOVEMBER 20, 2009

Total has signed a research agreement with the Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT) to develop new stationary batteries that are designed to enable the storage of solar power. The ARPA-E award is supported the development of the liquid metal grid-scale battery for low-cost, large scale storage of electrical energy.

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Get Electric Vehicle

AUGUST 16, 2023

Li-Ion batteries are used for anything from powering electric vehicles to storing energy for the grid. Their desirability arises from their high energy density, extended life cycle, and consistently reduced cost of manufacturing. This low cost made Li-Ion batteries more accessible for a variety of applications.

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Green Car Congress

OCTOBER 15, 2020

The solicitation was designed as a call for early-stage clean energy innovations that fall within five defined technology areas: energy efficiency; energy storage; AI/machine learning; advanced power electronics/power conditioning; and zero- and negative-carbon emission generation.

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Green Car Congress

APRIL 28, 2016

PARC, a Xerox company, is collaborating with Oak Ridge National Laboratory (ORNL) and Ford Motor Company in a DOE-funded project that will use PARC’s novel CoEx printing technology ( earlier post ) to fabricate thick, higher energy and higher power battery electrodes with the end goal of enabling longer range and low cost electric vehicles.

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Green Car Congress

FEBRUARY 1, 2013

President Obama announced the DOE “Clean Energy Grand Challenge” in March 2012 with the goal of enabling US companies to be the first in the world to produce plug-in electric vehicles (PEVs) that are as affordable and convenient for the average American family as today’s gasoline-powered vehicles within the next 10 years. Earlier post.).

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Green Car Congress

AUGUST 16, 2016

will design and develop a new more-efficient engine and advanced drivetrain and vehicle technologies. will design and develop a vehicle and powertrain with electrified engine components that can enable higher engine efficiency and a significantly more aerodynamically reengineered cab. Navistar, Inc. Description. Federal funding.

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Cars That Think

DECEMBER 25, 2022

For several months now, 20 teams of Australian high-school students have been designing fuel-cell cars to compete in the country’s inaugural Hydrogen Grand Prix. To become a low-cost producer of green hydrogen, we first have to become an extreme user—to make it pervasive across our business. Why a hydrogen truck?

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Green Car Congress

APRIL 30, 2009

The Affordable Add-on Zero Emissions Vehicle ( ADDZEV ) technology demonstrates how it may be possible to convert segment of the existing the UK vehicle fleet into plug-in hybrid vehicles using a through-the-road approach. Electric machine design and manufacture, drive system development and integration. Click to enlarge.

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Green Car Congress

JULY 21, 2016

Enable smart charging and vehicle grid integration through solutions such as demand response, and other energy storage and load management strategies. National Grid. The DOT is now soliciting nominations from State and local officials to assist in making designations for alternative fuel corridors. Kansas City Power & Light.

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Green Car Congress

APRIL 17, 2010

Through strategic design of ground-breaking competitions with significant, multi-million-dollar prize purses, X PRIZE intends to spur collaboration to address the issues. X PRIZE’s Energy & Environment Prize Group intends to catalyze a new era of clean, renewable, cost-effective energy with minimal impact on the climate and environment.

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Green Car Congress

NOVEMBER 9, 2021

Rolls-Royce announced that following a successful equity raise, it has established the Rolls-Royce Small Modular Reactor (SMR) business to bring forward and deliver at scale the next generation of low-cost, low-carbon nuclear power technology. Earlier post.). —UK Business and Energy Secretary Kwasi Kwarteng.

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EV Info

SEPTEMBER 23, 2021

As mentioned in our most recent post the root of the crisis lies in the monomaniacal way in which this government and its recent predecessors have pursued decarbonisation at the expense of other priorities including reliability and affordability of energy. . So, it’s time to tear up the failed policies of today. What would I do?

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Green Car Congress

AUGUST 2, 2012

This latest round of ARPA-E projects seek to address the remaining challenges in energy storage technologies, which could revolutionize the way Americans store and use energy in electric vehicles, the grid and beyond, while also potentially improving the access to energy for the US. measurement capabilities and lowering the cost of electric.

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Green Car Congress

AUGUST 31, 2022

H2Carrier is the designer and owner of the proprietary floating energy production and storage system P2XFloater—the first industrial-scale floating green hydrogen and ammonia facility of its kind in the world. Green hydrogen is produced by pumping seawater onboard, purifying the water and feeding it to electrolyzers.

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Electric Vehicles India

JANUARY 2, 2023

Additionally, the cost of EVs has been steadily decreasing, making them more affordable for the average consumer. The future of e-rickshaws looks bright, as they are becoming increasingly popular due to their low cost, high efficiency, and environmentally friendly nature.

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Green Car Congress

MARCH 23, 2019

These project teams seek to develop new approaches and technologies for the design and manufacture of high temperature, high pressure, and highly compact heat exchangers and components. Heat-Exchanger Intensification through Powder Processing and Enhanced Design (HIPPED) – $2,300,000. Carnegie Mellon University.

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Green Car Congress

SEPTEMBER 30, 2011

The new ARPA-E selections focus on accelerating innovations in clean technology while increasing US competitiveness in rare earth alternatives and breakthroughs in biofuels, thermal storage, grid controls, and solar power electronics. Energy Plant Design The University of California, Los Angeles, will re-engineer. This will allow a.

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Green Car Congress

OCTOBER 22, 2013

These devices are critical to infrastructure because all electronics—from laptops to electric motors—rely on them to control or converted electrical energy from a high voltage to low a voltage in order to properly operate. High Quality, Low-Cost GaN Single Crystal Substrates for High Power Devices. MicroLink Devices.

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Green Car Congress

JUNE 26, 2021

The TCF was created by the Energy Policy Act of 2005 to help catalyze the agency’s research, development, demonstration, and deployment efforts into affordable, market-ready energy solutions, by strengthening partnerships between DOE’s National Labs and American entrepreneurs. Westinghouse Electric Company (Cranberry Township, Pennsylvania).

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Green Car Congress

SEPTEMBER 14, 2016

In particular, IONICS projects will work to improve energy storage and conversion technologies in three categories: transportation batteries, grid-level storage, and fuel cells. The Oak Ridge National Laboratory team seeks to find glassy lithium-ion conductors that are stable and can be fully integrated into battery cells at a low cost.

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Cars That Think

SEPTEMBER 1, 2021

And where current Tesla packs feature what Munro calls "a crappy cooling design" with thermal channels between cells—superfluous, because most heat is concentrated at cell ends—Munro says 4680 cells will rest atop a liquid-cooled thermal plate that's become a staple of EVs from GM, Ford, Volkswagen, Porsche, or Rivian.

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Green Car Congress

APRIL 13, 2017

Integration of intelligent transportation systems with the Smart Grid and other energy distribution and charging systems. Deployment of technologies for a multimodal transportation system provides safe, reliable, and affordable connections to employment, education, obtain and provide healthcare, and other essential services.

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Green Car Congress

MARCH 23, 2016

MIT professor Donald Sadoway and his team have demonstrated a long-cycle-life calcium-metal-based liquid-metal rechargeable battery for grid-scale energy storage, overcoming the problems that have precluded the use of the element: its high melting temperature, high reactivity and unfavorably high solubility in molten salts.

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Green Cars News

APRIL 29, 2009

Known as the Affordable Add-on Zero Emissions Vehicle (ADDZEV), the technology that has been developed demonstrates how it may be possible to convert much of the UK vehicle fleet into hybrid vehicles. Developed to reduce the carbon emissions of inner-city driving, the ADDZEV system was perfected utilising a standard Vauxhall Combo van.

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Cars That Think

OCTOBER 2, 2022

I guess there’s only so much you can do with a mostly naked electromechanical humanoid in terms of form factor, but at first glance there’s nothing particularly innovative or futuristic about Tesla’s design. Optimus is designed to be an extremely capable robot, but made in very high volume, ultimately millions of units.

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Green Car Congress

OCTOBER 26, 2009

Planar Na-beta Batteries for Renewable Integration and Grid Applications. Eagle Picher, in partnership with the Pacific Northwest National Laboratory, will develop a new generation of high energy, low cost planar liquid sodium beta batteries for grid scale electrical power storage applications. Water (1 project).

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Green Car Congress

SEPTEMBER 18, 2015

Energy intensive industries, such as steelmaking, could see a 10 to 20 percent reduction in the cost of production, making products such as solar panels and chemical materials, such as plastics, as well as the cars and other products they go into, more affordable for American consumers ,” said Energy Secretary Ernest Moniz.

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Green Car Congress

JUNE 25, 2012

Compared to Li-ion batteries: PbC batteries are more affordable [3x] than lithium-ion or supercapacitors; PbC batteries have recycling value at end-of-life [$35/lbs], while Lithium-ion batteries have recycling cost at end-of-life [~$75/lbs]. Sustain 80-85% round trip efficiency in PSOC applications; 90-95% in deep cycle applications.

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Green Car Congress

JULY 22, 2009

The stimulus package is designed to address the recession and in the short term people were anxiously awaiting two key components of the plan: clarification on the details behind “ grants in lieu of tax credits ” and awards of loan guarantees by the DOE from section 1705. It is not how can we get low cost capital to take more risk.

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Tony Karrer Delicious EVdriven

APRIL 21, 2009

Audi Volkswagen-owned company exploring PHEVs Metroproject Quattro Sub-compact PHEV Concept Car shown October 2007; PHEV of A1 Sportback under consideration Bright Automotive For-profit spin off from Rocky Mountain Institute designing lightweight PHEVs, successor to RMIs 1990s "Hypercar" concept. Establishing dealer network.

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