Green Car Congress

MARCH 22, 2015

Consequently, the authors noted, research has focused on developing alternative, cheap, and robust catalysts made from earth-abundant elements. Here, we show that crystalline Ni 5 P 4 evolves H 2 with geometric electrical to chemical conversion efficiency on par with Pt in strong acid (33 mV dec -1 Tafel slope and ?62 Click to enlarge.

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Green Car Congress

AUGUST 5, 2022

Using an inexpensive polymer called melamine, researchers from UC Berkeley, Texas A&M and Stanford have created a cheap, easy and energy-efficient way to capture carbon dioxide from smokestacks. The low cost of porous melamine means that the material could be deployed widely.

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Green Car Congress

SEPTEMBER 30, 2011

We show that water-splitting catalysts comprising earth- abundant materials can be integrated with amorphous silicon with minimal engineering to enable direct solar-to-fuels conversion based on water splitting. This technology will advance side by side with new initiatives to improve and lower the cost of photovoltaics.

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Green Car Congress

JANUARY 11, 2014

Wide-scale utilization of flow batteries is, however, limited by the abundance and cost of these materials, particularly those using redox-active metals and precious-metal electrocatalysts. The design permits larger amounts of energy to be stored at lower cost than with traditional batteries. —Huskinson et al. Background.

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Green Car Congress

NOVEMBER 24, 2021

Now, researchers from the US Department of Energy’s Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory (Berkeley Lab), collaborating with UCLA and UC Berkeley researchers, suggest that the US can retrofit diesel-electric trains with batteries in a way that is cost-competitive with diesel. The social cost of carbon emissions starts at US$125?t

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Green Car Congress

DECEMBER 7, 2009

ARPA-E requests innovative proposals which can overcome these challenges through the utilization of metabolic engineering and synthetic biological approaches for the efficient conversion of carbon dioxide to liquid transportation fuels. Innovative Materials & Processes for Advanced Carbon Capture Technologies (IMPACCT).

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Green Car Congress

OCTOBER 3, 2014

The state of the art is to use a solar panel to capture the light, and then use a cheap battery to store the energy. Any time you can do that, you reduce cost. Professor Wu says it will help tame the costs of renewable energy. Their hybrid design uses only three. We’ve integrated both functions into one device. —Yu et al.

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EV Match

JANUARY 13, 2023

In this follow-up to our article covering commercial incentives from last month, we’ll explore some of the rebates that can help you bring EV charging home on the cheap. Conversely, the abundance of available electricity during off-peak hours provides cost-efficiency for everyone.

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Green Car Congress

SEPTEMBER 30, 2019

Like seawater, the MoP catalyst material is widely available, and therefore, cheap. This integrated design increases productivity and lowers equipment costs. But with the high cost of platinum, the team needed a catalyst that could lower production costs to around two dollars per kilogram of hydrogen.

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Green Car Congress

OCTOBER 23, 2009

Electricity is a cheap entity—not a commodity, but is its fundamentally very cheap. maintain a system as well as maintain and recover and investment on it that is fundamentally very cheap. You really have to package together something that allows you.to Earlier post.).

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My Electric Car

AUGUST 21, 2020

In addition, it is subject to similar refining, storage and distribution costs currently associated with petrol and diesel, including upstream CO2 emissions where the electricity required is usually generated from fossil fuels. Hence its supply would not be cheap, renewable nor sustainable in the long term.

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Green Car Congress

AUGUST 25, 2012

Illustration of non-catalytic biodiesel conversion Credit: ACS, Kwon et al. conversion efficiency to FAME (fatty acid methyl ester) within 1 minute in a temperature range of 350–500 °C. 75% of the total production costs. Biodiesel conversion at various temperatures (a) and various volumetric ratios of MeOH to oil at 380 °C (b).

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Green Car Congress

JUNE 4, 2015

The new C5 FUEL yeast delivers fermentation and ethanol yields that set a new standard for conversion of biomass sugars from pretreated corn stover, converting up to 97% of the plant sugars into fuel, the researchers said. —BESC Director Paul Gilna.

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Tony Karrer Delicious EVdriven

APRIL 17, 2009

ECE hopes the glamorous image of these conversions will help raise the profile of electric driving. The cost of ownership for EVs is still quite high. The vehicles were converting are expensive, at EUR109,000 for the Elise, car included and EUR75,000 for a Golf conversion, excluding the car. You dont see them in the street.

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Green Car Congress

JULY 22, 2009

Biofuel projects are going to have trouble getting financing from Wall Street this year because all of them have questions about the long term pricing of petroleum; most of them have concerns about the pricing stability of their feedstocks; and many of the cellulosic projects have concerns about the conversion technologies.

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Cars That Think

FEBRUARY 17, 2024

SOURCE: GARTNER Fortunately, we have access to an information storage technology that is cheap, readily available, and stable at room temperature for millennia: DNA , the material of genes. The world is not on track to produce enough of today’s storage technologies to fill that gap. Storing information in DNA is not a complicated concept.

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Tony Karrer Delicious EVdriven

APRIL 16, 2009

By contrast, the last time BYD executives traveled to the Detroit auto show they rented a suburban house to save the cost of hotel rooms. This attention to costs is one reason that BYD has made money consistently even as it has expanded into new businesses. Near the end of our conversation, I ask Wang about the company name.

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Tony Karrer Delicious EVdriven

APRIL 16, 2009

At current transportation battery prices, that is well beyond the cost of spinning reserve. On the other hand, the cost of a used transportation battery will be set by the next cheapest form of scalable dispatchable storage such as air pressure storage less the battery recycle value.

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Baua Electric

JANUARY 23, 2024

In Germany, as in many European countries, you generally want to use a charging network subscription to get the best prices on charging — the cost of going “out of network” can be exorbitant, with many DC stations charging €0.79 / kWh to non-subscribers. Networks, like eNBW or Tesla, offer monthly subscriptions that can cut this cost in half.

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Tony Karrer Delicious EVdriven

APRIL 16, 2009

Millions will plug-in their electric vehicles (EV), plug-in hybrids (PHEV) and fuel cell vehicles (FCV) at night when electricity is cheap, then plug-in during the day when energy is expensive and sell those extra electrons at a profit. In the future, utilities will pay you to plug-in your vehicle. Carlos 12:43 AM walt the memecaster said.

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Tony Karrer Delicious EVdriven

APRIL 16, 2009

Furthermore, changing the battery pack on say a Toyota Prius often costs a fortune, at least in most European countries, so such cars better be VERY cheap, but they’re not. But that cost in a built as an EV is much less than an ICE’s costs by about 1/2.

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