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DECEMBER 7, 2012

Leading global automotive supplier Delphi and the Interdisciplinary Centre for Security, Reliability and Trust ( SnT ) of the University of Luxembourg have signed a four-year agreement to cooperate on a joint research program involving electronic control systems for automotive applications.

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JANUARY 9, 2015

The new institute pairs leading carbon fiber producers and suppliers—such as Materials Innovation Technologies, Harper International, and Strongwell—with key end users such as TPI for wind turbines and Ford, Honda and Volkswagen for automobiles. Adherent Technologies, Inc.; Honda R&D Americas, Inc.; TPI Composites, Inc.;

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FEBRUARY 10, 2012

The California Energy Commission has awarded the University of California at Los Angeles (UCLA) $1.9 The center will conduct and coordinate research and development activities on sustainable communities, serving as a statewide resource for metropolitan planning organizations, local governments, and policy makers.

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NOVEMBER 6, 2009

they use all the economic, environmental and social resources considered in a value-creating way. Frank Figge of Queen’s University Belfast and Dr. Tobias Hahn of Euromed Management School Marseille. In other words, the authors note, these companies use these resources more efficiently than their industry peers.

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APRIL 12, 2022

In a press briefing held in Tokyo on its initiatives in automobile electrification, Honda announced that it will spend approximately ¥5 trillion (US$40 billion) in the area of electrification and software technologies to further accelerate its electrification over the next 10 years, including both R&D expenses (¥3.5 trillion / US$12 billion).

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FEBRUARY 29, 2012

Stressing the power of “ and ” rather than “ or ”, he asserted that: The automobile is unsustainable without transformational change. The energy challenge is not due to a lack of resources or knowledge; the challenge is due to a lack of integrated systems. There is a transformation opportunity surfacing.

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DECEMBER 15, 2012

Vilsack highlighted the announcement with a visit to Michigan State University, a grant awardee. Fiscal year 2012 awards include: University of Arizona, $36,000. Arizona State University, $350,000. University of Georgia, $345,689. University of Florida, $496,996. University of Florida, $497,851.

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NOVEMBER 12, 2021

A research team at the University of Wisconsin–Madison has identified a new way to convert ammonia to nitrogen gas through a process that could be a step toward ammonia replacing carbon-based fuels. To be able to complete the ammonia-to-nitrogen reaction under ambient conditions—and get energy—is a pretty big deal. Trenerry, M.J.,

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JUNE 28, 2022

Researchers at the University of Michigan have developed an optimized generic battery cycling framework that could reduce the time for both simulation and physical testing of new electric vehicle battery designs by about 75%. Deng et al. But EV batteries may represent the most pressing use of the technology. 2022.100531.

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SEPTEMBER 25, 2019

Now, a team led by Purdue University researchers has developed a new process to help overcome the brittle nature of ceramics, making them more ductile and durable. Credit: Purdue University/Chris Adam. It can be applied to defense operations, automobile manufacturing, nuclear reactor components and sustainable energy devices.

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FEBRUARY 2, 2021

These are the observations in an in-depth study of the industry by management professors at the University of California, Davis, and Dartmouth College. million automobiles were sold in the United States in 2019, of which only about 245,000 were battery-powered electric vehicles, researchers said. billion developing the Chevy Volt.

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JUNE 1, 2020

A team from the University of Shanghai for Science and Technology, with colleagues from Tsinghua University and China Electric Power Research Institute, have developed a method to estimate EV battery life based on cloud data. A paper on their work is published in the Journal of Power Sources. 2020.228192.

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JULY 23, 2015

Researchers at the University of Tehran (Iran), with colleagues at Isfahan University of Technology and Iran University of Science and Technology, are proposing a new intelligent control strategy for the energy management of hybrid powertrains based on the driving cycle type. 9 1169-1188 doi: 10.1177/0954407014556116.

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MARCH 6, 2022

Small particles from tires inhibit the growth and cause adverse behavioral changes in organisms found in freshwater and coastal estuary ecosystems, according to two new Oregon State University studies. The researchers cite studies that show during the lifetime of an automobile tire. Resources. Siddiqui, J.M. Dickens, B.E.

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AUGUST 12, 2019

Purdue University researchers are developing pre-chamber technology for automobiles to replace conventional spark plugs and enable more reliable ultra-lean combustion. Resources. In the pre-chamber approach, a tiny chamber—a pre-chamber—is filled with a mixture of fuel and air. 15/795,937.

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JANUARY 18, 2019

Ambient air pollution consists of fine particulate matter as well as gaseous products of combustion (oxides of nitrogen), produced through burning fossil fuels from automobiles emissions to power plants. Martha Billings, lead study author and associate professor of medicine at the University of Washington. —Billings et al.

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AUGUST 5, 2013

A team at Shanghai Jiao Tong University (SJTU) in China reports on a way to reduce the platinum loading in automotive three-way catalysts (for CO, NO x and hydrocarbon treatment) without sacrificing performance. An open-access paper on the work is published in the journal Scientific Reports.

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JULY 2, 2017

Researchers from the University of Minnesota, with colleagues at the University of Massachusetts Amherst, have developed a new high-yield process—a hybrid of fermentation followed by thermochemical catalysis—to produce renewable isoprene from biomass. Joseph McAuliffe ( earlier post ).

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APRIL 4, 2023

In New Zealand, the Ministry for the Environment and the New Zealand Automobile Associatio n are working together to ensure that old EV batteries are handled in an environmentally responsible way. If you want to learn more about whether EV’s are good for the environment, check out our previous resource here. How would the scheme work?

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FEBRUARY 10, 2020

As approximately 70% of the University of California, Riverside’s undergraduate population commutes, the objective of this study was to use silicone wristbands to monitor personal exposure to OPEs and determine if exposure was associated with commute time in a subset of these students. However, it is still widely used in automobile seat foam.

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JUNE 11, 2018

As a consequence, the required raw materials and energy will challenge our resources, and the resulting vehicle emissions will strain our ecological systems. Michael Sivak is the managing director of Sivak Applied Research and the former director of Sustainable Worldwide Transportation at the University of Michigan. ?The

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SEPTEMBER 12, 2023

Lithium batteries made with DRX cathodes could safeguard the automobile industry and therefore consumers from higher prices spurred by supply constraints. We already have the advantage of cost and resources. Resources Urban, A., DRX cathodes can be made with almost any transition metal instead of nickel and cobalt. 4: 1400478.

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APRIL 7, 2020

Algae fuels can be farmed on land unsuitable for agriculture, can be grown with minimal impact on freshwater resources, can be produced using saline and wastewater, have a high flash point, and are biodegradable and relatively harmless to the environment if spilled.

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DECEMBER 17, 2009

According to Prieto, the electrodeposition manufacturing method is fast and inexpensive, allowing the technology to be scaled up to create batteries that can be used for everything from pacemakers to automobiles. Prieto Battery is the first startup produced by Cenergy. The patent has been exclusively licensed to Prieto Battery.

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AUGUST 2, 2013

As well as having applications in the automobile industry, HITECA capacitors could improve high temperature electronics in the aerospace, power, oil and gas sectors, and in high energy applications such as pulsed power—in which energy is stored over a period of time before being released as a high power pulse. Resources.

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DECEMBER 23, 2019

Physical activity is also associated with much more carbon dioxide being produced compared with rest, but no one will ever think of stigmatizing people who exercise for having a negative effect on the environment, according to Boyd Swinburn, MB ChB, FRACP, MD, FNZCPHM, in the School of Population Health at the University of Auckland in New Zealand.

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MAY 26, 2019

Scientists from the Russian National University of Science and Technology MISIS have doped aluminum melt with nickel and lanthanum to create a material combining benefits of both composite materials and standard alloys: flexibility, strength, lightness. A paper on their research is published in Materials Letters. Akopyan, N.A. Belov, E.A.

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JANUARY 29, 2010

An new study from the Smith School of Enterprise and the Environment at Oxford University suggests that best way to reduce transport greenhouse gas (GHG) emissions in the short term is a “drastic downscaling of both size and weight” of conventional gasoline and diesel cars. Future of Mobility Roadmap.

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JUNE 25, 2018

Researchers from Hokkaido University and their colleagues in Japan and Taiwan have more than doubled the ability of a material to transform wasted heat into usable electricity by significantly narrowing the space through which spread electrons move, according to a new open-access study published in the journal Nature Communications.

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OCTOBER 22, 2013

Researchers at the University of Colorado Boulder and Singapore University of Technology and Design have added a “fourth dimension” to additive manufacturing technology, opening up possibilities for the creation and use of adaptive, composite materials in manufacturing, packaging and biomedical applications. A team led by H.

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MAY 24, 2017

An international team of researchers has uncovered the mechanisms of two families of software defeat devices for diesel engines: one used by the Volkswagen Group to pass emissions tests in the US and Europe, and a second found in Fiat Chrysler Automobiles. Computer scientist Kirill Levchenko led the research effort at UC San Diego.

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A paper on their work was published in the January issue of the Journal of Nanoscience and Nanotechnology ; the team had presented a poster on their material at the 3 rd International Conference on Advanced Lithium Batteries for Automobile Application ( ABAA-3 ) held at Hanyang University in Seoul, Korea in September 2010.

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MAY 21, 2020

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. Stuart Grange works in Empa’s Air Pollution/Environmental Technology Laboratory and also at the Wolfson Atmospheric Chemistry Laboratories at the University of York.

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JULY 24, 2017

A research team at Japan’s National Institute for Materials Science (NIMS) and Nagaoka University of Technology has developed a new high-strength magnesium sheet alloy (Mg–1.1Al–0.3Ca–0.2Mn–0.3Zn) that has excellent room-temperature formability comparable to that of the aluminum sheet metal currently used in body panels of some automobiles.

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MAY 10, 2018

Researchers at the University of Illinois have developed a new polymer-curing process that could reduce the cost, time and energy needed, compared with the current manufacturing process. One of our goals is to decrease expense and increase production. One of our goals is to decrease expense and increase production. Lloyd, Leon M.

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MAY 29, 2014

In addition, there was an 18.0–35.8% reduction in total carbonyls and a 3.4–100% 100% drop in individual carbonyls in the constant load/varying speed test mode. CFT had 16.5–44.1% lower ozone formation potential of the carbonyl compounds present than DF under the identical operating conditions. —Hao et al. 133:115–122, doi: 10.1016/j.fuel.2014.05.025.

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In addition, the company is expanding external collaborations with specialized companies, startups and universities. Hyundai Motor has completed the construction of the Battery Joint Research Center at Seoul National University, which is scheduled to open in July this year.

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