Green Car Congress

NOVEMBER 29, 2021

A team of researchers from the US NSF Center for Sustainable Polymers based at the University of Minnesota Twin Cities has demonstrated the use of a dual cellular–heterogeneous catalytic strategy to produce olefins from glucose. Wang et al. —Paul Dauenhauer, co-author.

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Green Car Congress

OCTOBER 4, 2021

Xcel Energy has launched a new pilot for customers of five major automakers to make it easier for consumers to make the switch to electric vehicles in Colorado and to charge their EVs at times when renewable energy production is high and demand on the energy grid is low. —Alice Jackson, president, Xcel Energy-Colorado.

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OCTOBER 27, 2021

Enterprising officials from the Minnesota town of Warren are using drones equipped with thermal sensors to gauge heat seepage from local buildings and houses as part of a public service to help homeowners cut spending on energy.

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Green Car Congress

OCTOBER 10, 2017

The US Department of Energy (DOE) has awarded a 5-year, $16-million grant to the Donald Danforth Plant Science Center, one of the world’s largest independent plant science institutes. This project aims to deliver stress-tolerant sorghum lines, addressing DOE’s mission in the generation of renewable energy resources.

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Plug in America

JUNE 10, 2024

Sean Skaling from Chugach Electric moderated the event and was joined by panelists Mark Henspeter from Chugach Electric, Michelle Wilber from the Alaska Center for Energy & Power, Josi Hartley from Alaska Energy Authority, and Tim Leach from Launch Alaska. Kylie Borchardt led children in building KidWind model wind turbines.

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Green Car Congress

FEBRUARY 11, 2022

The US Departments of Transportation and Energy announced nearly $5 billion that will be made available under the new National Electric Vehicle Infrastructure (NEVI) Formula Program to build out a national electric vehicle charging network. 14,743,125. 10,280,470. 10,859,512. Massachusetts. 16,290,764. 10,089,418. Mississippi.

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Green Car Congress

JUNE 10, 2013

CenterPoint Energy, a US energy delivery company, is adding 35 natural gas vehicles to its fleet across Arkansas, Louisiana, Minnesota, Mississippi, Oklahoma and Texas. CenterPoint Energy’s natural gas vehicle fleet will grow to 85 vehicles.

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Green Car Congress

JANUARY 6, 2021

Lightning eMotors, a leading provider of commercial electric vehicles for fleets, announced a $45-million order for its zero-emission powertrain systems from Faribault, Minnesota-based motorcoach supplier ABC Companies. The first zero-emission motorcoach was delivered in December. —Tim Reeser, CEO of Lightning eMotors.

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Plug in America

APRIL 24, 2024

That moment of clarity was to build an electric pipeline linking Tribal nations with charging stations and EVs across the Midwest. Just this year in Minnesota, Native Sun’s subsidiary Electric Nation announced the acquisition of 10 Ford Lightning pickup trucks and an electric Ford Mustang–part of the overall $13.4

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Green Car Congress

SEPTEMBER 13, 2010

The US Department of Energy is awarding more than $5 million to support US wind energy development. Electricity grid operators need to accurately predict and plan for the energy output of wind power plants in their systems. Clean Green Energy, LLC (Brighton, Michigan). Two projects receiving a total of $3.4

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MAY 31, 2011

a renewable chemicals and advanced biofuels company, has begun the retrofit of its ethanol facility in Luverne, Minnesota, to produce bio-based isobutanol. Gevo acquired the Luverne, Minnesota plant, which has an isobutanol production capacity of 18 million gallons per year, from Agri-Energy LLC in September 2010. Gevo, Inc.,

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Green Car Congress

NOVEMBER 20, 2012

The US Department of Energy (DOE) is [link] about $11 million to 20 new projects to help states and local governments to develop the infrastructure, training, and regional planning needed to help meet the demand for alternative fuel cars and trucks, including vehicles that run on natural gas, electricity, and propane. Clean Energy.

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Green Car Congress

FEBRUARY 28, 2019

Gevo’s renewable isooctane is a low-carbon, drop-in blending component for gasoline and has the potential to reduce greenhouse gases by as much as 70%, well within the standards established by the EU Renewable Energy Directive.

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Green Car Congress

MAY 31, 2019

Paul, Minnesota; Chicago; and Los Angeles. Atherosclerosis refers to the build-up of plaque, or fatty deposits, in the artery walls, which, over time, restricts blood flow through the arteries. Participants were enrolled in the Multi-Ethnic Study of Atherosclerosis (MESA) and have been followed for more than a decade.

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Cars That Think

SEPTEMBER 27, 2022

As coal plants close, they leave behind empty building shells and scores of lost jobs. Department of Energy (DOE) released a report suggesting that, in theory, over 300 former and present coal power plants could be converted to nuclear. coal plants are planned to shutter by 2035. On 13 September, the U.S. In Kemmerer, Wyo.,

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Green Car Congress

NOVEMBER 28, 2016

A team from the University of Massachusetts Amherst, the University of Minnesota, the University of Pennsylvania and the University of Delaware has developed a new chemical process to make p-xylene, an important ingredient of common plastics. The new method has a 97% yield and uses biomass as the feedstock. Vattipailli, V., Dauenhauer, P.

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Teslarati

JANUARY 10, 2022

Tesla has agreed to a nickel supply deal with Talon Metals, a Minnesota-based company. Talon is excited to support Tesla’s mission to accelerate the transition to renewable energy,” CEO of Talon, Henri van Rooyen, said. Tesla has also been in need of nickel while the company still develops and builds its 4680 battery cell.

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Green Car Congress

SEPTEMBER 7, 2011

The US Departments of Energy (DOE) and of the Interior (DOI) together will award nearly $17 million in funding over the next three years for research and development projects to advance hydropower technology. Energy cost reductions demonstrated at this site could be replicated at other Bureau of Reclamation sites. Hydro Green Energy.

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Green Car Congress

MAY 4, 2011

US Senators Chuck Grassley (R-Iowa) and Kent Conrad (D-North Dakota) introduced a bill—the Domestic Energy Promotion Act of 2011— that would extend, through 2016, at descending levels, the volumetric ethanol excise tax credit, or VEETC, which is also known as the blenders’ credit.

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Green Car Congress

SEPTEMBER 22, 2009

The US Department of Transportation (DOT) is awarding $100 million in Economic Recovery Act funding to 43 transit agencies for projects to reduce energy consumption and greenhouse gas emissions from both vehicles and facilities. The Federal Transit Administration reviewed more than $2 billion in applications for these funds.

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FEBRUARY 10, 2017

The American Lung Association of the Upper Midwest announced the launch of Midwest EVOLVE , a three-year project to promote electric vehicles in seven Midwestern states: Ohio, Michigan, Indiana, Illinois, Wisconsin, Minnesota, and North Dakota. The first events will be held in the spring of 2017.

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Electric Auto Association

SEPTEMBER 3, 2022

Energy Information Administration pegs the average retail price per kilowatt hour at $0.107 in April 2021, compared to $0.1174 in April 2022, a mere 9.7% ZappyRide has been building this type of calculator for nearly 5 years and is quickly becoming the authority among EV data providers. gallon in April 2021 to $4.21/gallon

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Green Car Congress

OCTOBER 30, 2009

A consortium comprising researchers from the University of Minnesota and the Pacific Northwest National Laboratory, with BioCee , a University of Minnesota start-up company as the commercialization partner, has been awarded $2.2 The goal is to build an integrated reactor system that very efficiently converts CO 2 into biofuel.

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Green Car Congress

MARCH 23, 2009

US Energy Secretary Steven Chu announced $1.2 This new, state-of-the-art high intensity light source is expected to facilitate major breakthroughs in next-generation energy technologies, materials science and biotechnology. Secretary Chu made the announcement during a visit to the Brookhaven National Laboratory.

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Electric Auto Association

OCTOBER 4, 2021

GM is building a new battery research facility in Michigan. Ford and SK Innovation plan to build a 3,600-acre campus in Stanton, Tennessee. Governors of Illinois, Indiana, Michigan, Minnesota, and Wisconsin. It’s been a wild ride. The Polestar 2 was among the winners in the “Popular Mechanics” EV Awards. Rivian truck.

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Electric Auto Association

OCTOBER 4, 2021

GM is building a new battery research facility in Michigan. Ford and SK Innovation plan to build a 3,600-acre campus in Stanton, Tennessee. Governors of Illinois, Indiana, Michigan, Minnesota, and Wisconsin. It’s been a wild ride. The Polestar 2 was among the winners in the “Popular Mechanics” EV Awards. Rivian truck.

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Cadillac F-150 Michigan Minnesota 52

Green Car Congress

DECEMBER 24, 2015

The US Department of Energy (DOE) released three new reports today showcasing strong growth across the US fuel cell and hydrogen technologies market. Building on this progress, earlier this month the Energy Department announced more than $35 million to advance hydrogen and fuel cell technologies. Earlier post.).

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Green Car Congress

SEPTEMBER 5, 2013

Researchers at MIT, with colleagues at the University of Minnesota, have provided evidence and theoretical rate coefficients for new pathways in the low-temperature oxidation of hydrocarbons. Credit: ACS, Jalan et al. Click to enlarge. Their paper is published in the Journal of the American Chemical Society. Amrit Jalan, Ionut M.

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Green Car Congress

MARCH 1, 2016

dissipating energy due to deformation of the pavement structure)—results in wasted fuel because the dissipated energy does not contribute to the vehicle’s forward movement. The team ran nearly 200 experimental configurations to investigate the scaling of the key PVI parameters with excess energy dissipation.

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Green Car Congress

JULY 17, 2014

The US Department of Energy (DOE) and the US Department of Agriculture (USDA) have selected 10 projects that will receive funding aimed at accelerating genetic breeding programs to improve plant feedstocks for the production of biofuels, biopower, and bio-based products. Michael Marks, University of Minnesota, Minneapolis.

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Green Car Congress

JUNE 26, 2021

The US Department of Energy (DOE) announced more than $30 million in federal funding, matched by more than $35 million in private sector funds, for 68 projects that will accelerate the commercialization of promising energy technologies—ranging from clean energy and advanced manufacturing, to building efficiency and next-generation materials.

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Green Car Congress

AUGUST 16, 2016

SuperTruck II builds on the successful SuperTruck I program, which has already led to more than twenty fuel saving technologies that have reached the commercial market, said Acting Assistant Secretary David Friedman. In 2010, the Energy Department launched the SuperTruck initiative to improve heavy-duty truck freight efficiency by 50%.

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Green Car Congress

FEBRUARY 6, 2015

Established under the Moving Ahead for Progress in the 21st Century Act (MAP-21), the LoNo program focuses on deploying the cleanest and most energy-efficient US-made transit buses designed to cut CO 2 and criteria pollutant emissions. BAE Systems, Ballard Power Systems and ElDorado National will team up to build the new zero-emission buses.

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Green Car Congress

OCTOBER 16, 2011

After more than a decade of research, a University of Minnesota team of researchers has devised a means for developing free-standing, highly crystalline zeolite nanosheets that could make the production of gasoline, plastics and various chemicals more cost-effective and energy-efficient. Click to enlarge.

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Green Car Congress

JUNE 24, 2010

Assuming an average biorefinery size of 40 million gallons per year, USDA estimates it meeting the RFS2 advanced biofuels goals will mean building of 527 biorefineries, at a cost of $168 billion. Soybean oil, Energy cane, Biomass Sorghum, Perennial grasses, Woody biomass. RFS2 becomes effective on 1 July 2010. Southeast and Hawaii.

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Creative Greenius

FEBRUARY 5, 2012

I just want to see projects get funded, renewable energy put to work, energy efficiency retrofits instituted, conservation measures adopted and sustainable practices replace business-as-usual before the climate crisis makes any positive action a moot point. photo by Glenn Marzano).

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Green Car Congress

SEPTEMBER 29, 2009

Non-food sources of biomass with great energy potential include crops such as algae, switchgrass and poplar trees, and residues from lumber and agriculture. Furthermore, lignin itself is of interest as a feedstock due to its high energy-density. The eight Hydrocarbons from Biomass (HyBi) projects are: Getting the most from biomass.

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