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Ferrari’s Plug-in Hybrid One-Ups the Combustion Engine

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Something strange is happening in the Ferrari SF90. Especially since I’m straining to keep pace with Raffaele de Simone just ahead, the Ferrari test driver who routinely sets lap records on this historic circuit, just a few pasta lengths from its factory in Maranello, in northern Italy. The twin-turbocharged 4.0-liter

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DOE Awards $1M to UT Dallas to Develop New Filtration Membranes for H2 and CO2 Separations

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The Department of Energy’s (DOE) Office of Fossil Energy has awarded researchers at UT Dallas $1 million over three years to develop a new class of filtration membranes to separate hydrogen and greenhouse gases such as carbon dioxide from coal plant flue gas.

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ORNL study quantifies fuel economy costs of common driver practices and vehicle alterations

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Certainly, suitcases strapped to your car’s roof and trying to keep up with a speeding Ferrari will adversely affect your gas mileage. At 80 mph, fuel economy for the Corolla dropped to 30.9 l/100 km) while the Explorer dropped to 17.7 —John Thomas, co-author and member of ORNL’s Energy and Transportation Science Division. and West, B.

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Review paper: Graphene and related materials (GRMs) may play major role in energy applications

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For example, GRMs have been reported with specific capacitances of ~300 F/cm 3 , which is much higher than chemically activated state-of-the-art carbons. Ferrari, Rodney S. To be commercially viable, GRMs must substantially surpass the performance of existing materials at comparable manufacturing costs. —Bonaccorso et al.

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Researchers Develop More Efficient Thermocells for Low-Grade Waste Heat Recovery

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developed carbon nanotube (CNT)-based thermocells that utilize the ferri/ferrocyanide redox couple and electrodes made from carbon-multiwalled nanotubes (MWNT) buckypaper and vertically aligned MWNT arrays. Ferraris, Anvar A. A paper on their work was published online 19 February in the ACS journal Nano Letters.

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Michigan State University Receives $2.5M ARPA-E Award to Build Wave Disc Engine/Generator for Series Hybrid Applications

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The WDG also can reduce carbon dioxide emissions by as much as 95 percent in comparison to modern internal combustion vehicle engines. Other car manufacturers including Opel, Mercedes, Peugeot and Ferrari used the Comprex. Norbert Müller. The Wave Disc Engine. Mazda produced 150,000 Comprex diesel cars. Source: Piechna, 2004.

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Electric Car Manufacturers Inspire New Paradigms -- Seeking Alpha

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The customer will only pay a monthly fee about $240 (US Dollars) which includes a full maintenance service agreement; carbon offset payments and in some countries even all electricity used, and insurance. Today we could be using lead-acid EVs, lead-carbon-acid EVs, or nickel metal hydride or lithium-ion hybrids.