Green Car Congress

DECEMBER 8, 2017

Based on yields alone, this is a very important discovery: in comparison, after six decades of commercial-scale improvements and optimization, the traditional acrylonitrile production process achieves yields of approximately 80%–83%. —Gregg Beckham, group leader at NREL and senior author.

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Carbon Fiber Renewable Carbon Eaton 191

Green Car Congress

DECEMBER 23, 2014

With sales of vehicles equipped with the popular eight-speed transmission growing, FCA US LLC (the new name for Chrysler Group LLC) will invest an additional $266 million in its Kokomo Transmission Plant (Ind.) Eight-speed transmission housings move down the assembly line at Kokomo Transmission Plant. Click to enlarge.

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Green Car Congress

OCTOBER 13, 2021

While hydrogen, electric and renewable fuels (produced from waste-based feedstocks) can all radically cut emissions compared with their diesel-powered counterparts, there are major variations in their effectiveness and efficiency in terms of cutting emissions depending on choices made over the full well- to-wheel life cycle.

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Hydrogen Energy Emissions Carbon 221

EV Adoption

MARCH 3, 2021

Hyundai taps CATL and SK Innovation to supply more batteries for E-GMP – Hyundai Motor Group announced it has chosen both SK Innovation and CATL as battery suppliers for its E-GMP. The comparison did not include potential emissions if fossil fuels were burned to create the power for recharging of car batteries.

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Charged EVs

FEBRUARY 23, 2021

Val Miftakhov got into the EV game in 2010 when he founded eMotorWerks, which created an innovative smart charging solution and was acquired by the Enel Group in 2017. Val Miftakhov: As you can imagine, we did a lot of this [comparison] early on as well. In those environments, batteries work pretty well.

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Cars That Think

JUNE 4, 2022

It employs approximately 350 researchers, managers, and support staff (by comparison, Bell Laboratories before the AT&T breakup employed roughly 25,000). Since projects were not assigned from above, the researchers formed their own groups; support for a project depended on how many people its instigator could get to work on it.

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Future Engine Personal IDEA 145

Green Car Congress

JUNE 24, 2015

—Ahmad Pesaran, NREL Energy Storage Group Manager. In comparison to automotive service, use in this application will entail relatively benign duty cycles, generally much less than one cycle per day with discharge durations of greater than one hour. Demonstrating both new and repurposed batteries in these roles will be critical.

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Grid Batteries Battery Energy Storage 150

Green Car Congress

MAY 16, 2011

Japanese subterranean termites and groups of protists that live in their intestines. A recently developed technique called metagenome analysis allows the genomes of multiple groups of organisms as a whole to be analyzed without cultivation. Source: RIKEN. Click to enlarge. Moriya says.

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Cars That Think

AUGUST 23, 2023

It ensures that we have a more diverse group of people at the table, which is something I’m very passionate about. And that includes academia, which historically has had a very vibrant role in this field, but since 2014, what we’ve seen is this slow decline of academia in the space in comparison to where industry’s really taking off.

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Green Car Congress

AUGUST 1, 2013

A team of University of Michigan researchers has been awarded a $2-million grant from the National Science Foundation (NSF) to identify and to test naturally diverse groups of green algae that can be grown together to create a high-yield, environmentally sustainable and cost-effective system to produce next-generation biofuels.

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