Green Car Congress

JANUARY 6, 2021

In addition to Class 8 motorcoaches, the order from ABC Companies includes Class 3 Lightning Electric Transit passenger vans, Class 4 Lightning Electric E-450 shuttle buses, Class 5 Lightning Electric F-550 shuttle buses, and Class 7 transit buses. —Roman Cornell.

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Teslarati

SEPTEMBER 18, 2024

During their talk , Priestley highlighted that Total Cost of Ownership (TCO) is the baseline for every decision made by the Tesla Semi team. Overall, the conversation between Priestley and Antunović highlights the idea that the Tesla Semi is already a viable replacement for conventional Class 8 trucks today.

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Green Car Congress

SEPTEMBER 3, 2020

University of California, San Diego. The University of California, San Diego, seeks to address this issue by developing a low-atomic-number renewable wall for fusion devices that contains a slurry composed of carbon, ceramics, and a volatile binder. University of Houston. Princeton Fusion Systems.

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Green Car Congress

APRIL 10, 2021

Licensed from Rice University, Syzygy’s “antenna-reactor” plasmonic photocatalyst has been published in leading academic journals such as Science , Nature , and PNAS. Syzygy’s team brings together world-class academic, entrepreneurial and chemical and engineering talent from Rice University, University of Houston and Baker Hughes.

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Green Car Congress

JUNE 18, 2022

Development work is also conducted at the Roll-to-Roll Fabrication and Processing core facility at the University of Massachusetts Amherst. Second Generation NPORE nano-ceramic separators eliminate the use of plastic substrate and provide best-in-class dimensional stability with. In March 2021, Optodot was issued US Patent No.

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Green Car Congress

JUNE 24, 2019

Our role as scientists is to provide the evidence for how best to move towards a zero-carbon economy—society needs to understand that there is a raw material cost of going green and that both new research and investment is urgently needed for us to evaluate new ways to source these. million cars that requires 22.5

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Green Car Congress

MAY 1, 2022

ClearFlame’s solution, grounded in technology developed during doctoral studies at Stanford University and validated using more than $3 million in grant funding, addresses this problem by elevating combustion temperatures in order to enable use of non-traditional fuels without sacrificing performance. EGR and air flow component modifications.

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Green Car Congress

MAY 26, 2021

The research mission is intended to help drive down the cost of hydrogen production to below $2 per kilogram, making the fuel more affordable and helping to position Australia to lead the world in exporting hydrogen by 2030. Development is underway at a new facility in Clayton, Victoria, with Swinburne University and the Victorian Government.

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Green Car Congress

JANUARY 4, 2021

The Current Direct project is dedicated to: significantly reduce the total cost of waterborne transport batteries; cut GHG emissions of the marine transport sector through electrification of vessel fleets; increase the energy density of waterborne battery cells; and.

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Green Car Congress

JUNE 9, 2017

The selected EMN consortia projects will leverage unique, world-class capabilities at the national laboratories, facilitating collaborations that will expedite the development of advanced materials. Precursor Development for Low-Cost, High-Strength Carbon Fiber. Carnegie Mellon University. University of Connecticut.

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Green Car Congress

JULY 14, 2016

The US Department of Energy (DOE) is awarding up to $15 million for three projects aimed at reducing the production costs of algae-based biofuels and bioproducts through improvements in algal biomass yields. Global Algae Innovations. Global Algae Innovations Inc., Global Algae Innovations Inc., Algenol Biotech LLC. MicroBio Engineering, Inc.

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Green Car Congress

MARCH 7, 2019

The selected projects will focus on reducing the total cost of ownership of NGVs, increasing vehicle efficiency, decreasing local air pollution, and advancing technology development to increase the use of more affordable medium- and heavy-duty natural gas engines and vehicles. CNG Full Fills with a Complete Smart Fueling System.

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Green Car Congress

JANUARY 29, 2019

Rice University researchers have won a $3.3-million At the same time, we will generate hydrogen from the hydrocarbon decomposition process, and this hydrogen can be used to offset the energy costs of making the material or as valuable energy carriers for transportation. —Matteo Pasquali.

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Green Car Congress

MARCH 2, 2021

By integrating these new capabilities, tests have shown HYZON’s MEA outperformed the best-in-class third-party catalyst in cell reversal tolerance by a factor of 1.6, The MEA is the critical component of a fuel cell and accounts for about 70% of the cost of a fuel cell stack.

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Green Car Congress

APRIL 8, 2020

BETHE projects will work to deliver higher-maturity, lower-cost fusion options via three research categories: Concept Development to advance the performance of inherently lower-cost but less-mature fusion concepts; Component Technology Development that could significantly reduce the capital cost of higher-cost, more-mature fusion concepts; and.

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Green Car Congress

DECEMBER 17, 2014

In December 2013, Lomiko reported on a successful conclusion to Phase I of its Graphene Supercapacitor Project which involved Graphene Laboratories and Stony Brook University. intends to develop low-cost graphene-based supercapacitor devices that will be capable of even higher discharge currents. Lomiko Metals Inc., Graphene ESD Corp.

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Teslarati

OCTOBER 31, 2023

Thanks to initiatives such as cost-cutting measures, Ford, GM, and Stellantis should be able to weather an estimated combined $2.9 The agreement’s 25% wage increase, restoration of cost-of-living allowances, and other benefits will add $850 to $900 to the cost of every car that Ford manufactures, as noted in an Automotive News report.

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Green Car Congress

JULY 19, 2013

Drivers of diesel vehicles can save thousands of dollars in total ownership costs compared to similar gasoline vehicles, according to a University of Michigan Transportation Research Institute (UMTRI) study. —UMTRI researcher Bruce Belzowski. Belzowski and UMTRI colleague Paul E.

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Green Car Congress

APRIL 24, 2018

Looking only at the cost of capturing the CO 2 —not including building pipelines or sequestering the captured CO 2 —the team found that 60% of current CO 2 emissions (i.e., 27 Mt per year) could be captured for less than $25 per metric ton. —LLNL scientist Sean McCoy, co-author. —Sean McCoy.

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Green Car Congress

OCTOBER 16, 2015

The draft assessment identifies the status of battery-electric vehicle (BEV) technology that can reduce greenhouse gas (GHG) and criteria pollutant emissions from Class 2b through Class 8 vehicles (gross vehicle weight of 8,501 pounds and up). Class 8 heavy-duty trucks remain a significant challenge, according to the report.

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Green Car Congress

JULY 19, 2020

Researchers from the Cockrell School of Engineering at The University of Texas at Austin have developed a cobalt-free high-energy lithium-ion battery, eliminating the cobalt and opening the door to reducing the costs of producing batteries while boosting performance in some ways. The cathode in their study is 89% nickel.

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Green Car Congress

MARCH 16, 2012

The tool grew out of a class assignment in which Professor Suh had students compare two vehicles—one having a conventional gas engine and the other a high-efficiency engine—in terms of their total lifetime costs. This net present value (NPV) calculation has yielded surprising results.

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Green Car Congress

JULY 19, 2017

Researchers at George Washington University led by Dr. Stuart Licht have demonstrated the first facile high-yield, low-energy synthesis of macroscopic length carbon nanotubes (CNTs)—carbon nanotube wool—from CO 2 using molten carbonate electrolysis ( earlier post ). The process is constrained by the (low) cost of electricity.

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Green Car Congress

JULY 1, 2019

Improvements to a class of battery electrolyte first introduced in 2017—liquefied gas electrolytes—could pave the way to replacing the graphite anode with a lithium-metal anode. However, one of the main technical hurdles to making the switch is that lithium metal anodes are not compatible with conventional electrolytes.

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Green Car Congress

APRIL 21, 2020

Lloyd’s Register (LR) and the University Maritime Advisory Services (UMAS) have published their latest assessment of the current and future fuels available to shipping to help define the optimum solutions as the maritime industry seeks to reduce greenhouse gas emissions. —“Techno-economic assessment of zero-carbon fuels”.

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Green Car Congress

JANUARY 21, 2013

John Goodenough at the University of Texas at Austin and colleague Kyu-Sung Park have written a perspective paper on Li-ion batteries (LIBs), published in the Journal of the American Chemical Society. More recently, at the University of Texas, Austin, Dr. Goodenough patented a new class of iron phosphate materials.

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Cars That Think

DECEMBER 8, 2022

What is the cost of lost earnings or job opportunities during study? Can students draw from a wide range of programs in the business school and the university at large? Diversity (student class profile). Purdue is also among the country’s 10 most innovative universities , per U.S. Are grants and scholarships available?

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Green Car Congress

APRIL 30, 2022

The consortium will collaborate with universities such as U of T, Ontario Tech and Waterloo to address some of their material development and technology improvement requirements and characterization. However, the cost of producing MEAs is high and the durability is often poor. Next Generation Membrane Electrode Assembly.

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Green Car Congress

MARCH 2, 2016

About half of the total cost of a typical automotive fuel cell stack comes directly from the cost of the platinum metal in the electrode catalysts. In addition, Los Alamos can apply multi-scale modeling techniques that leverage world-class computing facilities to design catalysts with optimal activity, selectivity and durability.

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Green Car Congress

AUGUST 24, 2012

Researchers at the University of Georgia, who are also members of Department of Energy’s BioEnergy Science Center (BESC), have developed a method for the genetic manipulation of members of bacterial genus Caldicellulosiruptor , a group of anaerobic thermophiles with optimum growth temperatures between 65 °C and 78 °C (149–172 °F).

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Green Car Congress

APRIL 9, 2019

In a paper being presented at WCX SAE World Congress Experience in Detroit this week, a team from MIT is proposing the use of a flex-fuel gasoline-alcohol engine approach for a series-hybrid powertrain for long-haul Class 8 trucks.

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Charged EVs

DECEMBER 21, 2022

Fleets tested Volvo VNR Electric Class 8 tractors for three years: Here’s what they learned. Requirements for more aggressive emission after-treatment and the hardware to achieve that add cost and complexity for fleet operators. The time and cost of installing the needed charging infrastructure for electric trucks can vary enormously.

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Green Car Congress

AUGUST 15, 2013

In a 2011 survey of techniques to reduce wind turbine blade noise, Sandia researcher Matthew Barone noted that: There are two primary classes of noise sources on a wind turbine. Aeroacoustic noise sources on a wind turbine can be divided into two main classes: airfoil self-noise, due to interaction of a nominally steady ?ow

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Green Car Congress

FEBRUARY 14, 2012

The least expensive way for the Western US to reduce greenhouse gas emissions enough to help prevent the worst consequences of global warming is to replace coal with renewable and other sources of energy that may include nuclear power, according to a new study by University of California, Berkeley, researchers.

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Green Car Congress

OCTOBER 11, 2016

Transformative advances in EDLCs may thus be expected not just from developing better processing or synthetic techniques for carbon materials, but also from developing entirely new classes of active electrode materials that maximize both surface area and electrical conductivity. Sheberla et al. Click to enlarge. —Mircea Dincă.

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Green Car Congress

JANUARY 27, 2023

Comstock proposes to build a pre-pilot scale system to demonstrate a novel new pathway to convert its biointermediates from forestry residues and other forms of lignocellulosic biomass into renewable diesel, sustainable aviation fuel, gasoline, and marine fuel at dramatically improved yield, efficiency, and cost.

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Green Car Congress

APRIL 8, 2014

Among the performance goals set for this area of the plan are: Provide cost-shared licensing technical support to selected private sector partners in support of their efforts to complete and submit a design certification application for at least one small modular nuclear reactor. watt utility, $2.37/watt watt commercial, and $3.10/watt

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