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MAY 6, 2022

The internally funded advancement successfully reduced heavy-duty diesel engine nitrogen oxide (NO x ) emissions to meet the California Air Resources Board (CARB) 2027 standards. CAT-DEF—Catalyzed Diesel Exhaust Fluid—is an SwRI-developed catalyst- and surfactant-modified diesel exhaust fluid (DEF) solution. DEF—a 32.5

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Green Car Congress

MAY 25, 2018

A new study by a team from Aarhus University in Denmark has found that car dealerships pose a significant barrier to electric vehicle adoption at the point of sale due to a perceived lack of business case viability in relation to gasoline and diesel vehicles. Their study is published in the journal Nature.

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MAY 7, 2023

Researchers from the University of California, Berkeley, are proposing burying salted biomass in a dry environment within an engineered biolandfill as a solution to sequester carbon that has been photosynthetically fixed by cultivated plants.

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OCTOBER 20, 2014

Early in September, the California Air Resources Board (ARB) announced it would consider in a 23-24 October meeting amendments to the Zero Emission Vehicle (ZEV) regulation that would modify the requirements for intermediate volume manufacturers (IVMs) selling into the state to allow them more time to come into the market. Earlier post.).

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NOVEMBER 24, 2014

For the study, which was supported by the California Energy Commission, South Coast Air Quality Management District (SCAQMD) and the University of California Transportation Center (UCTC), the researchers used an E10 blend as the baseline for comparison with E51 and E83 blends.

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Teslarati

SEPTEMBER 21, 2022

Tesla’s high-powered V3 Supercharger offers 250 kW for comparison. said its partnership with Tesla will start in California as the platform will survey Destination stations to provide critical data points and insights pertaining to the station’s overall performance. ChargerHelp!

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Green Car Congress

JUNE 28, 2012

The ARB has regulated the properties of diesel fuel sold in California since 1988 to lower emissions of particulate matter (PM) and oxides of nitrogen (NO x ). 2012) Assessment of the emissions from the use of California Air Resources Board qualified diesel fuels in comparison with Federal diesel fuels. Maryam Hajbabaei et al.

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Cars That Think

JANUARY 30, 2024

Now, however, AlN’s prospects have improved enormously thanks to several recent breakthroughs, including a technological advance at Nagoya University reported at the most recent IEEE International Electron Devices Meeting, held this past December in San Francisco. But they both pale in comparison with AlN. The bandgap of AlN is 6.20

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Green Car Congress

AUGUST 18, 2011

Heejung Jung, a University of California, Riverside (UCR) assistant professor of engineering, has received a $41,000 grant from the UC Transportation Center to build a portable device, install it on test vehicles and use it to map real-time particulate matter concentrations on Southern California highways.

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Green Car Congress

APRIL 4, 2012

The first real-world, head-to-head comparison of improved cookstoves (ICs) and traditional mud stoves has found that some ICs may at times emit more of the black carbon particles that are linked to serious health and environmental concerns than traditional mud stoves or open-cook fires.

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Green Car Congress

OCTOBER 17, 2011

Scientists at the University of California, Riverside’s Center for Environmental Research and Technology have received a $2-million contract for a first-of-its-kind study of hybrid construction vehicles. The other half will fund testing in six vehicles, which will be scattered throughout California. Click to enlarge.

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Green Car Congress

FEBRUARY 9, 2018

Comparison of life cycle GHG emissions based on the range of methodologies studied. Steel offers the best solution for the environment, the best performance and cost effective solution for automakers, and ultimately the best value for consumers. —Jody Hall, vice president, automotive market, SMDI. Click to enlarge.

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OCTOBER 22, 2013

Summary of comparison of NO x emissions and fuel consumption of hybrid (D7E) and conventional (D6) dozers. The report was prepared for the California Air Resources Board (ARB) as part of the FY 2010-11 Air Quality Improvement Project Hybrid Off-Road Equipment Pilot Project.

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Green Car Congress

FEBRUARY 1, 2016

A new report from the University of Michigan Transportation Research Institute (UMTRI) reviews the major advantages and disadvantages associated with battery-electric vehicles (BEVs) and fuel-cell vehicles (FCVs). Michael Sivak also incudes information for current gasoline-powered internal combustion engines as a baseline comparison.

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Green Car Congress

AUGUST 9, 2012

Cooperative Institute for Research in Environmental Sciences (CIRES) at the University of Colorado Boulder. even though the fuel sale in California increased by about a factor of three over the same time period. The difference was amazing. —lead author Carsten Warneke, Ph.D., Holloway, J. Peischl, T. Ryerson, E. Trainer, and D.

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Green Car Congress

MAY 4, 2016

A study by researchers from the University of Denver and the University of Puget Sound indicates that high-mileage light-duty fleets contribute higher emissions and emissions share than expected based on their actual numbers in the fleet. Most emission inventory calculations use a computer model to estimate the fleet’s emissions.

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AUGUST 20, 2010

CoalTek, teaming with the University of Kentucky Center for Applied Energy Research in Lexington, Ky., Duke University in Durham, N.C., and the University of North Dakota Energy and Environment Research Center in Grand Forks, N.D., Virginia Polytechnic Institute and State University (Blacksburg, Va.)-Partnering

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Green Car Congress

SEPTEMBER 12, 2015

The comparison to the electric vehicle is based on estimates which factor in the CO 2 emissions resulting from fuel production, with the DME-powered vehicle figure calculated from the use of renewable energy to generate the DME fuel, and the electric vehicle figure calculated from electricity generated from renewable resources.

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Green Car Congress

OCTOBER 16, 2015

The research, conducted by Argonne researchers in collaboration with Stanford University and the University of California, Davis, analyzed the Eagle Ford shale formation in Texas and the Bakken play mainly in North Dakota. for California Kern County heavy oil. As reported in a 2015 paper by Rahman et al.

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MAY 28, 2015

Such a scale will allow direct comparisons to companion experiments, providing insight into transient combustion processes such as thermal stratification, heat transfer, and turbulent mixing. Lucas Visscher, Free University of Amsterdam. Plasma physics code GTC, Dr. Zhihong Lin, University of California-Irvine.

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Green Car Congress

FEBRUARY 13, 2018

They are particularly attractive in comparison to other fuel cells as a consequence of the high ionic conductivity of the electrolyte at at intermediate temperatures (400–600 °C). Like other fuel cells, they enable direct electrochemical conversion of chemical fuels to electricity at high efficiency and with zero emissions.

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Green Car Congress

MARCH 16, 2012

In a similar way, the full breadth of impacts attributable to conventional gasoline production, such as natural resource consumption and hazardous pollutant emissions, must also be considered in order to make balanced comparisons to biofuels. This study highlighted the environmental impacts of corn ethanol in comparison with gasoline.

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Cars That Think

MARCH 6, 2023

The main problem is how to handle new technology,” Luisa Verdoliva , a computer scientist at the University of Naples Federico II , says of the novel generation methods that keep cropping up. “In Intel Researchers at the University of California at Santa Barbara took a similar approach in a recent paper.

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Clean Fleet Report

AUGUST 6, 2023

Instead of flying from my home in Southern California, I asked if my wife and I could drive to the event. Electrify America’s charging network were the backbone of our trip Cost Comparison We charged 412.23 Driving: Day 1 We departed Dana Point, California, with 280 miles all-electric range (AER) and a 97% state of charge, (SOC.)

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Green Car Congress

SEPTEMBER 1, 2012

But direct measurements in two California regions found black carbon absorption enhancements of just 6%, suggesting that climate models may be overestimating warming by black carbon, the researchers report. Here, direct in situ measurements of BC absorption enhancements (E abs ) and mixing state are reported for two California regions.

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Green Car Congress

FEBRUARY 9, 2016

Researchers at the University of California, Riverside’s Bourns College of Engineering have demonstrated that a new, data-driven, reinforcement-learning-based, real-time energy management system (EMS) can improve the efficiency of current plug-in hybrid electric vehicles (PHEVs) by almost 12% compared to the standard, binary mode control strategy.

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Green Car Congress

FEBRUARY 26, 2015

An NREL report summarizing the 2011 Alkaline Membrane Fuel Cell Workshop noted that: In comparison with PEMFCs, AMFCs offer the advantage of avoiding Pt or Pt group metal (PGM) electrocatalysts, one of the primary limitations in the commercial deployment of fuel cells. … Northeastern University. University of California, Irvine.

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Green Car Congress

MAY 12, 2017

Dr. Roland Geyer developed the University of California Santa Barbara Automotive Materials GHG Comparison Model ( UCSB Model ). This study found aluminum produced in North America emits four to five times more GHGs than steel. Additionally, aluminum requires seven times more energy to produce than steel.

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Green Car Congress

MAY 20, 2014

Researchers at the University of California, Riverside have developed a novel nanometer scale ruthenium oxide (RuO 2 ) anchored graphene and CNT foam architecture (RGM) for high-performance supercapacitor electrodes. (a) Schematic illustration of the preparation process of RGM nanostructure foam. Source: UCR. Click to enlarge.

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Green Car Congress

AUGUST 30, 2012

In California, biodiesel use accounted for 86% of the alternative fuels consumed by the state fleet in 2010. The soy-based B20 and higher biodiesel blends showed higher increases in NO x emissions for the different blend levels, test cycles, and engines, in comparison with the animal-based biodiesel blends. Click to enlarge.

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Cars That Think

JANUARY 28, 2023

For instance, Alexandre Milovanoff at the University of Toronto and his colleagues’ research (which is described in depth in a recent Spectrum article ) demonstrates the U.S. This is due to the 30 to 40 percent increase in emissions EVs create in comparison to manufacturing an ICE vehicle, mainly from its battery production.

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Green Car Congress

SEPTEMBER 24, 2012

Comparisons of life-cycle emissions from LUC phase for (a) sugar cane ethanol and (b) soybean biodiesel. The climate effects of land-use changes from increasing biofeedstock acreage, both indirect and direct, have dominated policy discussion, and focused on comparisons in long-lived GHGs. Credit: ACS, Tsao et al. Click to enlarge.

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Electric Auto Association

OCTOBER 4, 2022

Eastern Nebraska Electric Vehicle Association (EVNEBRASKA) member Dr. Donald Cox likes to draw a comparison between electric vehicles (EVs) and the wireless phone technology he worked on at Bell Labs in the early 1970’s. “I Two decades of teaching about driving electric. Professor Donald Cox driving his Tesla Signature One Hundred Roadster.

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Green Car Congress

FEBRUARY 3, 2016

Researchers at Loker Hydrocarbon Research Institute and Department of Chemistry, University of Southern California, have developed a highly efficient homogeneous Ru-based catalyst system for the production of methanol (CH 3 OH) from CO 2 and H 2 in an ethereal solvent (initial turnover frequency = 70 h −1 at 145 °C).

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DECEMBER 10, 2015

As an alternative approach, the team, made up of LLNL scientist Mark Zelinka and colleagues from the University of California, Los Angeles, including lead author Anthony DeAngelis, evaluated model-simulated global precipitation change through consideration of the physical processes that govern it.

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JULY 31, 2009

Credit: Jungkyu Choi, University of California, Berkeley; Mark A. Snyder, Lehigh University; and Michael Tsapatsis, University of Minnesota. Researchers led by chemical engineer Michael Tsapatsis of the University of Minnesota reported this discovery in the 31 July issue of Science. Click to enlarge.

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Cars That Think

APRIL 12, 2023

Apple’s surprise purchase at the end of last month of WaveOne , a California-based startup that develops content-aware AI algorithms for video compression, showcases an important shift in how video signals are streamed to our devices. WaveOne has shown success in neural network compression of still images.

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