Green Car Congress

MARCH 6, 2017

Researchers with the Department of Mechanical Engineering at Texas A&M University, led by Dr. Ying Li, associate professor of mechanical engineering, are developing a photocatalyst to convert CO 2 into renewable hydrocarbon fuels. There are two different ways to quantify the efficiency.

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Green Car Congress

SEPTEMBER 26, 2022

The University of Michigan (U-M) and eight partner institutions will explore the use of ceramic ion conductors as replacements for the traditional liquid or polymer electrolytes in common lithium-ion batteries for electric vehicles and in flow cells for storing renewable energy in the grid.

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Green Car Congress

JUNE 6, 2023

SK Signet will make a range of ultra-fast chargers at the Plano facility—from standalone dispensers to power cabinets that support multiple dispensers—for use by US-based public charging operators, along with commercial companies with EV fleets and traditional gas stations or convenience stores that are expanding their offerings.

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Green Car Congress

MARCH 2, 2022

ExxonMobil is planning a hydrogen production plant and one of the world’s largest carbon capture and storage projects at its integrated refining and petrochemical site at Baytown, Texas, supporting efforts to reduce emissions from company operations and local industry.

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Green Car Congress

OCTOBER 12, 2017

Air Products and Chemicals designed, built, and is operating the state-of-the-art CO 2 -capture and storage system at their hydrogen-production facility located at the Valero Port Arthur Refinery in Port Arthur, Texas. The CO 2 captured from the Port Arthur facility is being used for EOR at the West Hastings Unit oil field in southeast Texas.

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Green Car Congress

JANUARY 21, 2014

Researchers at the University of Texas at Austin’s Cockrell School of Engineering have rewired the native metabolism of the yeast Yarrowia lipolytica for superior production of lipids (lipogenesis). Traditional methods to increase lipids yield rely on nitrogen starvation to trick yeast cells into storing fat and materials.

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Green Car Congress

MARCH 25, 2011

Endowed Professor of Surgical Research at Texas A&M Health Sciences Center and Scott and White Hospital in Temple, Texas, the Metabolic Disruption Technology (MDT) appears to act as a lipid trigger to cause algae cells to store increased fat, making them more productive as an energy source. Karen Newell Rogers, the Raleigh R.

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Green Car Congress

APRIL 7, 2016

Now, a team led by researchers from Texas A&M AgriLife Research has identified the first committed step in the biosynthesis of hydrocarbon oil in B. This would then allow the development of improved versions of hydrocarbon biosynthetic enzymes, to direct production towards the most commercially desirable products. Thapa et al.

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Green Car Congress

OCTOBER 28, 2022

The selected projects, led by universities, national laboratories, and the private sector aim to develop commercially scalable technologies that will enable greater domestic supplies of copper, nickel, lithium, cobalt, rare earth elements, and other critical elements. The University of Texas at Austin. An estimated 2.2 2,200,000).

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Teslarati

AUGUST 11, 2022

The partnership will accommodate both passenger and commercial fleets as Electrify Commercial is also a part of the deal. This is the first collaboration between Electrify America and Electrify Commercial, as the two companies have never installed both public and fleet chargers simultaneously on a single project.

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Cars That Think

SEPTEMBER 21, 2023

Using a new kind of hydrogel material, researchers at the University of Texas at Austin have pulled water out of thin air at temperatures low enough to be achieved with sunlight. The gel’s thermoreactive nature, meanwhile, is key for releasing the stored water. Atmospheric water harvesting draws water from humidity in the air.

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Green Car Congress

MARCH 21, 2018

For its first commercial project, AltAir partnered with Alon Energy USA to use its existing refinery in Paramount. is a diversified downstream energy company with assets in petroleum refining, logistics, asphalt, renewable fuels and convenience store retailing. Delek US Holdings, Inc.

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Green Car Congress

AUGUST 18, 2013

Skyonic Corporation, developer of the SkyMine mineralization process which can serve as a potential replacement for existing scrubber technology ( earlier post ), recently awarded the $117M construction contract for the Capitol SkyMine plant in San Antonio, Texas, to Toyo-Thai-USA Corporation (TTUS).

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Green Car Congress

JULY 14, 2011

American Electric Power is terminating its cooperative agreement with the US Department of Energy and placing its plans to advance carbon dioxide capture and storage (CCS) technology to commercial scale on hold, citing the current uncertain status of US climate policy and the continued weak economy as contributors to the decision.

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Green Car Congress

OCTOBER 29, 2009

QSTP is a world-class incubator for the research, development and commercialization of new technologies that has attracted significant R&D investment from companies such as Shell, Microsoft and GE. The WTC will initially be tasked with the progression of two Formula One inspired R&D projects with clear commercial goals.

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Green Car Congress

JULY 22, 2011

Summit Power Group, LLC and Blue Strategies, LLC have signed a 15-year CO 2 offtake agreement with Whiting Petroleum Corporation for some of the CO 2 that will be captured by Summit’s Texas Clean Energy Project ( TCEP ), a coal gasification with carbon capture polygen project being developed in Penwell, Texas, outside Odessa.

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Green Car Congress

APRIL 23, 2015

The RCSP Initiative consists of seven partnerships focused on determining the best regional approaches for storing CO 2 in geologic formations. The program has helped industry demonstrate the CCS technologies that can be readily replicated and commercially deployed in industrial facilities. The ICCS program—representing a $1.4

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APRIL 1, 2011

Researchers at the University of Texas, including Dr. John Goodenough, are proposing a strategy for high-capacity next-generation alkali (lithium or sodium)-ion batteries using water-soluble redox couples as the cathode. His technology was used in the first commercial Li-ion battery, launched by SONY in 1991. Credit: ACS, Lu et al.

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Green Car Congress

MAY 13, 2011

Researchers at The University of Texas at Austin’s Cockrell School of Engineering have synthesized a new carbon with a continuous three-dimensional network of highly curved, atom-thick walls that form primarily 0.6–5 Supercapacitors are similar to batteries in that both store electric charge. Credit: Zhu et al. Stoller, K.

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Teslarati

JUNE 21, 2022

Its goal is to produce hundreds of charging stations for stores in various markets across the United States. . Over 350 chargers have been installed at the Kroger stores in Arizona, California, Colorado, Georgia, Indiana, Nevada, Oregon, Texas, Utah, and Wyoming. There will be several more expected before the end of the year.

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Teslarati

MARCH 10, 2022

The former Tesla employee, Naymon Frank, alleges he was racially discriminated against and fired from a store management position after appearing in a Super Bowl ad for the German automotive company in 2020. Tesla moved its HQ to Austin, Texas, late last year. He alleges the request was a pretext.

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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. Earlier post.).

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Green Car Congress

MARCH 17, 2021

So far, the current densities that have been achieved in experimental solid-state batteries have been far short of what would be needed for a practical commercial rechargeable battery.

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Cars That Think

SEPTEMBER 18, 2023

“Over the past 15 years, the emphasis has moved toward using [these materials] less as high-temperature superconductors and more as high-field superconductors,” says Venkat Selvamanickam , who directs the Applied Research Hub of the Texas Center for Superconductivity at the University of Houston.

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Green Car Congress

JANUARY 15, 2014

Southwest Research Institute (SwRI) has deployed the first vehicle-to-grid (V2G) aggregation system qualified by the Electric Reliability Council of Texas (ERCOT) to manage charging activities for a fleet of electric delivery trucks. Electricity is difficult to store yet has to be available on demand. Click to enlarge.

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MAY 5, 2023

Clearpath ] A2Z Drone Delivery, Inc, developer of commercial drone delivery solutions, has just announced the release of its latest flagship commercial delivery drone, the A2Z Drone Delivery RDSX Pelican. Happy May the 4th from KIMLAB! By using the cooking robot “N-Robo”, it is possible to customize various menus.

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Green Car Congress

DECEMBER 23, 2016

In addition, she said the Iowa State team has already pulled in multiple partners willing to help commercialize distributed biorefineries. The big idea is to develop small, efficient biorefineries that can process local biomass, saving the cost and trouble of transporting and storing biomass from a larger region.

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Green Car Congress

SEPTEMBER 8, 2014

Researchers at Southwest Research Institute (SwRI) and The University of Texas at San Antonio (UTSA) have determined that biochar, a substance produced from plant matter, is a safe, effective and inexpensive method to treat flowback water following hydraulic fracturing, or fracking. —Zhigang Feng, USTA.

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Green Car Congress

JUNE 11, 2010

The projects—located in Louisiana, Texas and Illinois—were initially selected in October 2009 for phase one research and development grants. The project selections are aimed at testing large-scale industrial carbon capture and storage, an important step in moving CCS technology toward eventual commercial deployment.

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Get Electric Vehicle

SEPTEMBER 21, 2022

IKEA plans to increase the number of ultra-fast public charging stations and delivery fleet car chargers in its US stores. The furniture retailer has announced a partnership with Electrify America and Electrify Commercial to install new charging stations in over 25 IKEA stores in the US. IKEA Joins Hands With Electrify America.

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The Truth About Cars

JANUARY 5, 2024

James, New York), Principle VinFast Grapevine (Grapevine, Texas), Hiley VinFast of Fort Worth (Fort Worth, Texas), and VinFast Wichita (Wichita, Kansas). At the very least, it’ll offer a glimpse of what might be in store for American car buyers. But it’s plotting to expand its U.S.

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Green Car Congress

JUNE 2, 2013

The effort is in parallel with an ongoing technology development to store hydrogen affordably. kW renewable energy system being studied for potential commercialization by a combined team from Ad Astra Rocket Company, Cummins Inc. The electrical generator designed and manufactured by Cummins is part of an experimental 7.5

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Teslarati

APRIL 6, 2021

SpaceX has begun installing the first of numerous propellant storage tanks at its first orbital South Texas launch facilities – a mostly ordinary and expected step made extraordinary by the fact that those tanks will be built out of Starship parts. tall (90ft) Starship-derived tanks that should be capable of storing ~2200 tons (4.9

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Green Car Congress

DECEMBER 4, 2009

billion to accelerate the development of advanced coal technologies with carbon capture and storage at commercial-scale. The Clean Coal Power Initiative Round III was created in 2005 to reduce the time it would take for low-emission coal technologies to be ready for commercial use. Earlier post.). miles below the surface.

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Teslarati

JANUARY 27, 2023

.” While a Tesla Van might be a great idea for some personal applications, this would be something that would undoubtedly be used as a commercial vehicle. To this day, Sprinter vans are utilized by a variety of companies, from auto parts stores, to car detailing businesses. With the company delivering over 1.3

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Green Car Congress

MARCH 13, 2010

The US Department of Energy (DOE) has awarded a cooperative agreement to American Electric Power Service Corporation (AEP) for the Mountaineer Commercial Scale Carbon Capture and Storage (CCS) Project to design, construct, and operate a system that will capture and store approximately 1.5 miles below the surface.

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Green Car Congress

FEBRUARY 2, 2010

The plant will be designed to capture carbon emitted by its operation and store it underground. Exelon operates the largest and most efficient nuclear fleet in the United States (17 plants) and the third largest commercial nuclear fleet in the world.

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