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Researchers at the Department of Energy’s Oak Ridge National Laboratory (ORNL) and partners Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory (LLNL) and Eck Industries have developed aluminum-cerium (Al-Ce) alloys that are both easier to work with and more heat tolerant than existing products. At an alloy cost of less than $10.00/kg,

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This article is part of our exclusive IEEE Journal Watch series in partnership with IEEE Xplore. If you go back far enough, a bunch of the initial funding for quadrupedal robots that enabled the commercial platforms that are available today was tied into the idea of robotic pack animals.

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Minus Zero CEO and Co-founder Gagandeep Reehal said Ashok Leyland brings decades of experience in delivering high quality products at scale and the partnership will help accelerate autonomous driving in India and globally.

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JANUARY 10, 2020

About half of the levelized cost of retail station hydrogen can be attributed to hydrogen delivery, compression, and dispensing costs. Department of Energy (DOE) estimates that a dispensed cost of about $7/kg must be achieved to make FCEVs competitive with gasoline internal combustion engine vehicles in early FCEV markets.

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JULY 16, 2022

In particular, the Commission has verified that the total planned maximum aid amounts are in line with the eligible costs of the projects and their funding gaps. Aid to individual companies is limited to what is necessary, proportionate and does not unduly distort competition.

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MARCH 15, 2024

kW/kg because the prediction had been based on attributes of lab-scale or simulated parts rather than production ones.) The peak efficiency of the GE motor was 94 percent, on a par with the best motors used today in commercial EVs. GE Aerospace declined to make a researcher available to be interviewed for this article.)

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APRIL 30, 2024

Piaggio Vehicles Pvt Ltd (PVPL),a subsidiary of the Piaggio Group and a leading Indian manufacturer of small commercial vehicles and electric three-wheeler (3EV) pioneers, has announced a “ Battery Subscription Model ” for its Ape Elektrik electric 3Ws. Customers can now purchase the Ape Elektrik for INR 2.59

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MARCH 22, 2023

solution, which it says is a solution that eliminates the need for high-definition maps and can facilitate mass production for automakers. The company is also among the first to win production contracts from automakers to produce self-driving cars for consumer use, it said, adding that vehicles integrated with the Driver 3.0

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FEBRUARY 16, 2014

The DOE Office of Fossil Energy’s (FE) Clean Coal Research Program (CCRP) is pursuing research, development and demonstration (RD&D) to decrease the cost of electricity (COE) and capture costs and increase base power plant efficiency, thereby reducing the amount of CO 2 that has to be captured and stored per unit of electricity generated.

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AUGUST 31, 2011

World ethanol and biodiesel production, 1975-2010. Global production of biofuels increased 17% in 2010 to reach an all-time high of 105 billion liters (28 billion gallons US), up from 90 billion liters (24 billion gallons US) in 2009. Source: Worldwatch Institute. Click to enlarge. Biofuels provided 2.7% —Sam Shrank.

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OCTOBER 7, 2015

Improving the capacity and efficiency of the Hydrogen Evolution Reaction (HER) is an enduring challenge of green energy production and artificial photosynthesis. Nevertheless, because of the scarcity and cost of Pt, a more abundant alternative is needed for cost-effective implementation. Then you can restart it with acid.

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MARCH 7, 2024

One of the key points he made was that new technology generally adds cost to existing product baselines in trucking, and the added cost has to be paid for by offsets in other areas, such as reducing driver cost; increasing the payload per vehicle; increasing freight miles per year per unit; or reducing operating costs.

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FEBRUARY 6, 2015

million to advance solid oxide fuel cell (SOFC) technology for application in commercial power generation plants. The first ( DE-FOA-0001229 ), is to support research projects that will improve the reliability, robustness and endurance of Solid Oxide Fuel Cell (SOFC), stack, and system technology that is nearing commercial viability.

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APRIL 5, 2023

Moore is best known for his 1965 prediction, which would become known as Moore’s Law : the observation that the number of transistors on an integrated circuit would grow exponentially while the retail cost of computers would decrease. Intel’s first product, the 3101 64-bit SRAM, was released in 1969.

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MARCH 10, 2024

Sorting Through the Transportation Options This article may contain affiliate links. This guide offers a strategic map for business owners and fleet managers navigating the vast panorama of commercial vehicles, ensuring that the wheels turning for your company are the wheels of prosperity, reliability and efficiency.

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AUGUST 2, 2023

This article may contain affiliate links. EVs are made to the same safety standards as all other production vehicles and are even safer in some cases, given there is no combustible fuel onboard. Huge savings on charging costs when compared to the price of fuel. So, here are some things you need to know.

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JANUARY 9, 2017

Their works demonstrates the potential of utilizing a hybridized, heterogeneous surface layer as a cost-effective catalytic and protective interface for solar hydrogen production. The challenge of making a more durable cell must be overcome before renewable hydrogen from PEC devices can become commercially viable. 2016.192.

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NOVEMBER 18, 2016

The US Department of Energy (DOE) announced approximately $30 million in available funding ( DE-FOA-0001647 ), subject to appropriations, for research and development of low-cost hydrogen production, onboard hydrogen storage, and proton exchange membrane fuel cells to advance the widespread commercialization of fuel cell electric vehicles.

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DECEMBER 19, 2023

This year, OLED will get a big boost in all three of those metrics, when blue phosphorescent OLED (PHOLED) materials become commercially available. UDC), which has been chasing this technology for decades, says it has finally caught it and is about to begin mass production. “A Universal Display Corp.

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The systems store electrical energy, allowing dealerships to utilize it during off-peak hours, taking advantage of lower electricity rates. Daily and seasonal variations in electricity demand mean that during regular weekday business hours ( on-peak ), demand is high in commercial zones. per kilowatt (kW) or $671.78

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JANUARY 30, 2024

They plan to ramp up the Group’s three business verticals – electric motorcycles (Tork Motors), power electronics, and ICE to EV conversion of commercial vehicles, and to kick off a new traction drives business vertical. The company is targeting to electrify medium and heavy commercial vehicles, to begin with, in the tonnage segments of 7.5

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Clean Fleet Report

OCTOBER 22, 2023

Optimizing Car Leasing Tax Advantages The UK Business Benefits This article may contain affiliate links. This means you can consistently provide your employees with the latest technology and safety features, which can enhance their productivity and safety on the road.

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FEBRUARY 27, 2024

A Way to Leave Liquid Fuel Troubles Behind Fuel contamination is an invisible yet prominent foe of fossil fuel-powered commercial fleets, and one principal reason to advocate for electrification is eliminating this concern. Electrification is a way to dismiss this avoidable obstacle to productivity and decarbonization. [1]

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Green Car Congress

DECEMBER 12, 2016

In an open-access paper published in Nature Communications , the researchers reported that the single Pt atom catalysts exhibit significantly enhanced catalytic activity (up to 37 times) and high stability in comparison to the state-of-the-art commercial platinum/carbon (Pt/C) catalysts. —Cheng et al.

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JULY 26, 2017

Toyota, which has been working on solid-state batteries for EVs for a number of years ( earlier post ), is in the news with a report by the Wall Street Journal that it will be ready to commercialize a solid-state battery by 2022. However, there remain a number of unresolved issues precluding commercialization at this point.

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MARCH 2, 2023

Today, a robotics startup called Figure is unveiling “the world’s first commercially viable general purpose humanoid robot,” called Figure 01. And if anyone is going to take a useful humanoid robot from an engineering concept to commercial reality, these are the folks to do it. It’ll be a new design, with really solid engineering.”

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OCTOBER 14, 2013

However, using more refined low-sulfur hydrocarbon fuels can add to the overall cost of the system. order to be commercially viable, gas oil appears to be an attractive feed for reforming because of its similar molecular structure to conventional diesel and/or liquid hydrocarbons, apart from its higher S content. Now, researchers in S.

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AUGUST 20, 2015

This reflected the high economic cost of providing fertilizer and CO 2 at large scale. The former was originally isolated from a fish hatchery and, since many freshwater Chlorella are already commercially exploited, it is likely that both strains would be robust enough for use in open-air ponds. —Slocombe et al. Black, Michele S.

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MARCH 17, 2015

However, a hydrogen production system in a basic environment is still more promising, because of the possibility to consider non-precious-metal-based catalysts that cannot be used in acidic conditions, not only for HER at cathode, but also for oxygen evolution reaction at anode. Catalysts Hydrogen Hydrogen Production' —Lu et al.

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SEPTEMBER 27, 2011

A team from the US Department of Energy (DOE) Joint BioEnergy Institute (JBEI) has identified a novel biosynthetic alternative to #2 diesel—bisabolane—and has engineered microbial platforms for higher volume production of its immediate precursor, bisabolene. —Taek Soon Lee. Earlier post.) —Peralta-Yahya et al.

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JANUARY 15, 2024

With India joining the global race to position itself as a leader in the EV ecosystem, it is embracing innovations to boost battery production to cater to the evolving requirements of the sector. With the Indian government trying to localize cell production, the battery recycling sector can gain prominence over time.

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AUGUST 19, 2023

They are highly automated production islands that directly convert wind energy to hydrogen, with a few of them processing the gas into fuels and other goods. US $5 PER KILOGRAM Cost of green hydrogen today. Some of the wind farms instead sit in clusters more than 100 kilometers out at sea. Conventional, or gray, hydrogen: $1.50

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Clean Fleet Report

JULY 16, 2023

How To Successfully Manage Business Vehicle Expenses Tools and Tips for Fleet Management This article may contain affiliate links. If you want to manage the cost of your business fleet and keep your expenses as low as possible, here’s how. Running a business that requires vehicles to perform its operations can be costly.

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OCTOBER 22, 2023

This sponsored article is brought to you by BESydney. In the dynamic landscape of Australian technology, market advancements are often attributed to consumer-focused products like Canva and Afterpay. Finding the right path to commercialization is paramount. They demand substantial investment and unwavering focus.

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Green Car Congress

MAY 20, 2010

While conventionally pure vegetable or seed oils are used as raw materials for biodiesel, they are expensive, constituting between 70% and 85% of the overall biodiesel production cost, Kargbo says. Municipal sewage sludge is gaining traction in the US and around the world as a lipid feedstock for biodiesel production.

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Both Gigafactory Texas and Giga Berlin were able to achieve a production of 3,000 Model Y per week. The company’s 4680 cell production line was also able to produce enough batteries to make 1,000 battery packs. I will be updating this article in real-time, so please keep refreshing the page to view the latest updates on this story.

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JULY 30, 2023

Jonas Ekstromer/AFP/Getty Images In the early 1970s, Exxon scientists predicted that global oil production would peak in the year 2000 and then fall into a steady decline. Like many universities of the day, it did not concern itself with intellectual property, believing such matters to be confined to the commercial world.

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