Remove Available Today Remove Conversion Remove Low Cost Remove Tech
article thumbnail

ARPA-E awards $130M to 66 “OPEN 2012” transformational energy technology projects

Green Car Congress

Natural Gas Reactor for Remote Chemical Conversion. sunlight through low-cost, plastic light-guiding sheets and then. Turbo-POx For Ultra Low-Cost Gasoline. conversion of natural gas to liquid fuels. combustor of a natural gas turbine, facilitating its conversion into a. If successful, this.

2012 240
article thumbnail

ARPA-E awards $35M to 12 new projects to support medium-voltage devices for grid, industry and transportation

Green Car Congress

Drexel University aims to design a significantly more efficient, fast, low-cost, compact, and reliable circuit breaker for medium-voltage direct-current (MVDC) power system. Georgia Tech Research Corporation, EDISON – Efficient DC Interrupter with Surge Protection – $3,000,000.

Grid 207
article thumbnail

How to improve EV traction motor efficiency

Charged EVs

The vast majority of losses in an ICE vehicle occur in the conversion of chemical energy to mechanical—the so-called Carnot Efficiency—which might approach 40% in the best of cases. Read more EV Tech Explained articles. This article appeared in Issue 65: July-September 2023 – Subscribe now.

Motor 101