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. 14,647,722.

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Green Car Congress

APRIL 21, 2011

The Minnesota Department of Transportation (Mn/DOT) will recruit 500 people from Wright and Hennepin counties to take part in research to test technology that could someday be used to collect a mileage-based user fee (MBUF) in lieu of a gasoline tax. —Cory Johnson, project manager.

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Green Car Congress

MAY 25, 2016

parts per billion (ppb) NO x. The effects were seen even in the United States where efforts to reduce exposure have been notably successful compared with many other parts of the world, Dr. Kaufman noted. Participant-specific pollutant concentrations averaged over the years 2000–10 ranged from 9.2–22.6 μg PM 2.5 /m

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Green Car Congress

JANUARY 4, 2018

NFI Group), the largest transit bus and motor coach manufacturer and parts distributor in North America, announced that its Anniston, Alabama facility has successfully completed its first full build of an Xcelsior CHARGE battery-electric heavy-duty transit bus. Cloud, Minnesota. New Flyer of America Inc.,

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Green Car Congress

NOVEMBER 18, 2021

As outlined in the MoU, Sweetwater plans to build, own and operate a facility adjacent to Gevo’s existing plant in Luverne, Minnesota to produce high-value, plant-based products from cellulose and lignin while supplying Gevo with up to 30,000 tons of biomass-derived cellulosic sugars annually, with opportunities for expansion.

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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

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.

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Teslarati

JANUARY 10, 2022

Tesla has agreed to a nickel supply deal with Talon Metals, a Minnesota-based company. Tesla has also been in need of nickel while the company still develops and builds its 4680 battery cell. It is the first United States supply of nickel for the electric automaker.

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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. But they also found that part of the process must differ slightly from Korcek’s original hypothesis. Credit: ACS, Jalan et al. Click to enlarge.

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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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Green Car Congress

OCTOBER 14, 2011

The Minnesota Road Fee Test (MRFT) is the most extensive road user fee demonstration currently underway in the United States. As part of the test, each participant will be required to pay the miles-based fee accumulated during their testing period. At the 18 th World Congress on Intelligent Transport Systems 16-20 Oct. Earlier post.).

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Green Car Congress

OCTOBER 4, 2021

The Charging Perks Pilot is one of several initiatives Xcel Energy is working on as part of its EV vision. Xcel Energy provides the energy that powers millions of homes and businesses across eight Western and Midwestern states: Colorado, Michigan, Minnesota, New Mexico, North Dakota, South Dakota, Texas and Wisconsin.

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Green Car Congress

SEPTEMBER 21, 2015

To advance research in nanoscale science, engineering and technology, the National Science Foundation (NSF) will provide a total of $81 million over five years to support 16 sites and a coordinating office as part of a new National Nanotechnology Coordinated Infrastructure (NNCI).

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Green Car Congress

AUGUST 6, 2012

to alert for an out-of-sight braking event, e.g., smaller car in front of larger van as illustrated) as part of the sim TD trials. The project is further supported by infrastructure investment from the Federal Ministry of Transport, Building, and Urban Affairs as well as funding from the state of Hessen. Click to enlarge. Earlier post.)

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Green Car Congress

MARCH 1, 2016

The Caltrans research specifically looked at the use phase of the pavement life cycle, but CSHub research is not just focused on this phase, nor just on PVI; it looks broadly at the entire life cycle of paving and building materials. The Caltrans research offers a new way of thinking of pavement management systems.

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Cars That Think

JUNE 30, 2022

The kits teach youngsters what engineers do, as well as how to code, build robots, design video games, and create animations. Currently all 80 branches of the Chicago Public Library have the kits, as do libraries in Illinois, Indiana, Iowa, Minnesota, Michigan, Nebraska, North Dakota, Ohio, and Wisconsin.

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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. This will take $72 billion in cumulative investments to build 226 biorefineries with an estimated capacity of 40 million gallons per year.

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Cars That Think

JULY 21, 2021

Amateur radio operators in the United States found that suddenly parts of the popular 40-meter band were being swamped with grating signals. Another factor is that 40-meter transceivers are relatively simple to build and maintain. “In In Cuba, there are a lot of people that have homemade radios.

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Green Car Congress

AUGUST 23, 2014

The basic plan is to build interconnections between Line 67 and the adjacent Line 3 to give Enbridge the capability to increase the volume of crude oil. Enbridge is planning four interconnections between Lines 3 and 67 as part of this project. miles (2.4 then be transferred back to Line 67 approximately 16 miles (25.7 miles (2.4

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Green Car Congress

SEPTEMBER 22, 2009

The 43 winning proposals were submitted by transit agencies from across the country as part of a nationwide competition for the $100 million in American Recovery and Reinvestment Act of 2009 (ARRA) funds. The facility is a 70,000 square foot building located in an industrial zone in Lowell, Massachusetts. Minneapolis-St.

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Green Car Congress

MARCH 23, 2009

Smaller sums for construction of an Interdisciplinary Sciences Building, to house high-accuracy instruments for research in solar energy, biofuels, solid state lighting, and superconductivity. Accelerated construction of the Advanced Light Source User Support Building, supporting advanced materials, energy, and biology research.

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Green Car Congress

JUNE 30, 2012

Robert Blanchette, University of Minnesota) Click to enlarge. Coal consists of the fossilized remains of plants—mostly lignin, which exists in cell walls as part of a tough matrix with cellulose, which is a carbohydrate composed of sugar subunits. Scanning electron micrograph of wood being decayed by the white rot fungus.

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Cars That Think

AUGUST 11, 2021

He's currently a senior research fellow at the University of Minnesota's Charles Babbage Institute , where he specializes in the history of technology. And contrary to its corporate culture, it used off-the-shelf parts and software that the company didn't write. James Cortada is both a Ph.D. historian and a 38-year veteran of IBM.

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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. Source: Varoon et al. Click to enlarge.

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Creative Greenius

FEBRUARY 5, 2012

Alison Diaz (with scissors) along with ECHS staff and supporters about to cut the ribbon in front of Environmental Charter High School's new solar-powered greenhouse. photo by Glenn Marzano).

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Green Car Congress

JANUARY 6, 2010

The EPA can encourage these agencies to follow the lead of states like Minnesota, which is already releasing guidelines for E-85 remediation. There is no scientific consensus on the climate friendly nature of US produced corn-based ethanol, and it should not be credited with reducing GHGs when compared to the burning of traditional gasoline.

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Plug In Partners

MAY 24, 2006

"This is way beyond tree hugging in Chicago," said Johnston, 31, who before coming to Chicago helped dust some of the rust off of Cleveland's image by serving as executive director of the non-profit Cleveland Green Building Coalition. Now, as a Plug In Partner , Chicago becomes an important part of the move toward Plug in Hybrids.

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Green Car Congress

OCTOBER 18, 2020

As part of DOE’s Plastics Innovation Challenge, these projects will also help improve existing recycling processes that break plastics into chemical building blocks, which can then be used to make new products.

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Cars That Think

NOVEMBER 20, 2022

But building such a device had proved an insurmountable challenge to some of the world’s top physicists for more than two decades. A lot of people were confused by the point-contact transistor,” says Thomas Misa, former director of the Charles Babbage Institute for the History of Science and Technology, at the University of Minnesota.

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Cars That Think

JULY 21, 2021

The logical place to build a small computer was inside IBM's General Products Division, which focused on minicomputers and the successful typewriter business. He obtained 8088 microprocessors from Intel , made sure Microsoft kept the development of DOS secret, and quashed rumors that IBM was building a system. and Poughkeepsie, N.Y.,

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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

NOVEMBER 21, 2011

All these programs have potential effects on the LCFS and the movement/use of low carbon fuels around the world.The concept of harmonizing does not necessarily require that fuel-based GHG programs in different parts of the world be identical. The LCFS regulatory framework builds upon estimates of the CI of each regulated fuel pathway.

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Cars That Think

JULY 29, 2022

It’s part of a $280 billion package aimed at improving the United States’ ability to compete in future technologies. TSMC is already building a $12 billion facility in Arizona, Samsung plans a $17-billion fab outside Austin, while dangling the possibility of nearly $200-billion in the future.

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Green Car Congress

FEBRUARY 19, 2009

The cell is the smallest part of the battery pack that can be handled independently. For frigid climates like the Minnesota and Canada pack warming can be integrated with the overnight charging for a PHEV. it would bring down the neighborhood. Mini-cells” Source: LG Chem, ALBAA 2008. Click to enlarge. Click to enlarge. “

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Cars That Think

NOVEMBER 19, 2022

EVs require automakers to design new manufacturing processes and build plants to make both EVs and their batteries. This means that EV winners and losers will in great part be separated by their “relative strength in their cyber-physical systems engineering,” states Clemson’s Paredis.

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Teslarati

AUGUST 24, 2022

Minnesota is also expected to adopt CARB Standards in 2025, according to documents released by the agency. billion investment to build over 500,000 EV chargers across rural and primary travel roads as a part of the Bipartisan Infrastructure Law. all conform to CARB’s standards. President Biden announced a $7.5

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