Green Car Congress

OCTOBER 6, 2018

A study led by environmental health scientists at Columbia University Mailman School of Public Health examined the release of vapors from gasoline station vent pipes, and found benzene emissions were 10 times higher than estimates used in setback regulations that determine how close schools, playgrounds, and parks can be to the facilities.

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Green Car Congress

JULY 30, 2014

Researchers from the University of Illinois at Chicago (UIC) have identified molybdenum disulfide as a promising cost-effective substitute for noble metal catalysts for the electrochemical reduction of carbon dioxide. A paper on their work is published in the journal Nature Communications. —Amirhossein Behranginia, co-author.

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Green Car Congress

AUGUST 26, 2019

A University of Texas at Dallas physicist has teamed with Texas Instruments Inc. A deep dive for these novel measurements, detailed analysis and literature comparisons requires a university group. Described in a paper in the journal Nature Electronics , these TEGs exhibit a high specific power generation capacity (up to 29??

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Green Car Congress

AUGUST 18, 2011

Heejung Jung, a University of California, Riverside (UCR) assistant professor of engineering, has received a $41,000 grant from the UC Transportation Center to build a portable device, install it on test vehicles and use it to map real-time particulate matter concentrations on Southern California highways.

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Green Car Congress

MAY 23, 2013

Bottom: Comparison of specific capacity and Coulombic efficiency as a function of cycle numbers for electrodes assembled with and without graphene wrapping. As a comparison, the capacity of an electrode assembled without graphene wrapping decayed significantly with a 10 times high rate (0.40% per cycle after 200 cycles).

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Green Car Congress

JULY 30, 2013

A German consortium involving four companies and and two universities is developing dielectric elastomers (electroactive polymers) for the conversion of mechanical energy—in this case wave power—into electrical power. This grant is part of the “smart materials for innovative products” program. Source: Bosch.

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Green Car Congress

NOVEMBER 1, 2017

Researchers in the Cockrell School of Engineering at The University of Texas at Austin have developed a new family of anode materials that can double the charge capacity of lithium-ion battery anodes. By comparison, realized capacity in a graphite/copper composite anode is only ~ 150 mAh g -1. —Professor Arumugam Manthiram.

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Electric Auto Association

OCTOBER 4, 2022

Eastern Nebraska Electric Vehicle Association (EVNEBRASKA) member Dr. Donald Cox likes to draw a comparison between electric vehicles (EVs) and the wireless phone technology he worked on at Bell Labs in the early 1970’s. “I Two decades of teaching about driving electric. Professor Donald Cox driving his Tesla Signature One Hundred Roadster.

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Green Car Congress

AUGUST 18, 2015

Comparison of typical plant triacylglycerol structure with acetyl-triacylglycerol. million joint US Department of Agriculture and Department of Energy grant. Some of these modified structures have added-value properties that are currently used in a range of industrial applications. —Liu et al.

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Green Car Congress

MARCH 2, 2015

The high activity, excellent tolerance to methanol, high durability, and superior high half-wave potential are achieved for optimally doped (10 atom % BN) BNC NR catalysts in comparison to other metal-free catalysts in alkaline solution.

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Green Car Congress

APRIL 23, 2015

The US Department of Energy (DOE) has awarded a multidisciplinary team at the University of Michigan $1.2 For comparison, the region bounded by the dashed lines represents the DOE 2017 targets for H 2 storage systems. Earlier post.).

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Green Car Congress

OCTOBER 29, 2012

Comparison of current federal subsidy to base case assumptions showing lifetime fuel savings (HomeEve charging scenario). An EPA estimate based on the Chevy Volt’s reported efficiency is also included for comparison.

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Green Car Congress

APRIL 7, 2016

The University of Michigan is collaborating with IBM to develop and deliver “ data-centric ” supercomputing systems designed to increase the pace of scientific discovery in fields as diverse as aircraft and rocket engine design, cardiovascular disease treatment, materials physics, climate modeling and cosmology.

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Cars That Think

AUGUST 30, 2022

At the universities where I studied [the National Institute of Technology Calicut and the Indian Institute of Technology Kanpur], there was a history of faculty publishing in IEEE transactions or journals and referring to them to let us know what was new and trending. The startup, which has four dozen employees, submitted 26 U.S.

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Green Car Congress

JULY 12, 2014

By comparison, the IF steel with a gradient structure was strong enough to handle 500 MPa and ductile enough to stretch to 20% of its length before failing. The work was supported by the US Army Research Office under grants W911NF-09-1-0427 and W911QX-08-C-0083. Resources. :

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Green Car Congress

SEPTEMBER 21, 2011

The pair has received $850,000 in grants to support the fabrication and testing of a prototype of the K6 engine; Shedd says he expects to have a prototype running by late fall or early winter. The engine incorporates a modified Brayton cycle ( earlier post ) into a continuous combustion engine system. —Tim Shedd.

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Green Car Congress

DECEMBER 23, 2011

Finally, device functions predicted from the parameter inputs (predicted γ rel ) are verified by comparison to measured outputs (observed γ rel ). Functional complexity that emerges from component interactions is a universal feature of physical systems. Credit: Carothers et al. Click to enlarge. Carothers, Jonathan A.

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Green Car Congress

APRIL 27, 2014

Ce 0.02 (PO 4 ) 3 /C) measured at comparable current densities has been included for comparison. Crossan Professorship at Rensselaer, and a Bob Buhrmaster ’69 grant from the Severino Center for Technological Entrepreneurship and Lally School of Management at Rensselaer. O 2 and Li 3 V 1.98 Mukherjee et al. Click to enlarge.

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Cars That Think

JANUARY 28, 2023

For instance, Alexandre Milovanoff at the University of Toronto and his colleagues’ research (which is described in depth in a recent Spectrum article ) demonstrates the U.S. This is due to the 30 to 40 percent increase in emissions EVs create in comparison to manufacturing an ICE vehicle, mainly from its battery production.

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EV Adoption

MARCH 19, 2021

But the automakers and dealers need to invest in something like an “EV University” that would train sales people not only on how to educate buyers about EVs and especially the EV charging process – but how to counter Tesla comparisons. Perhaps VW chose this approach intentionally, and granted the ID.4

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Cars That Think

MARCH 31, 2022

If we’ve learned anything over the past few years, it’s how important it is not to take physical contact for granted. For comparison, the average hug between humans is 2 to 3 seconds. Can you share some qualitative feedback from study participants? Block: In our validation study with HuggieBot 3.0,

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Teslarati

FEBRUARY 28, 2022

In comparison, a software-based fix, such as the disabling of FSD Beta’s “rolling stops” feature , only required affected vehicles to be connected to the internet. I’ve been told that my experiences with vehicle recalls are not that unique. . There was no dealer visit, no forms to fill out, and no staff to argue with.

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Green Car Congress

OCTOBER 15, 2009

By comparison, the theoretical yield of ethanol from a dry ton of corn is 124.4 It first gasifies the feedstock to syngas (CO and H 2 ), then uses proprietary microorganisms—licensed from Oklahoma State University and the University of Oklahoma—to convert simultaneously both CO and H 2 into ethanol. Click to enlarge.

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Green Car Congress

AUGUST 30, 2009

US Environmental Protection Agency Grants Testing Waiver. In February, 2009, the US EPA granted Renergie, Inc. Essentially, the lower energy content of hydrous ethanol is counteracted by increasing engine performance due to higher heat of vaporization of ethanol and water in comparison with gasoline and anhydrous blends.

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Green Car Congress

OCTOBER 30, 2014

The study led by University of Nebraska-Lincoln assistant professor Adam Liska, funded through a three-year, $500,000-grant from the US Department of Energy, used carbon dioxide measurements taken from 2001 to 2010 to validate a soil carbon model that was built using data from 36 field studies across North America. Liska et al.

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Green Car Congress

NOVEMBER 12, 2014

Approximately 300 different entities were granted fuel cell patents in 2013. In 2013, the DOE awarded $34,558,544 through its Energy Efficiency and Renewable Energy (EERE) Fuel Cell Technologies Office to support fuel cell companies, universities and other organizations to further fuel cell and hydrogen research, development and deployment.

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Green Car Congress

FEBRUARY 14, 2019

University of Michigan researchers are teaching self-driving cars to recognize and predict pedestrian movements with greater precision than current technologies. A paper on the work, supported by a grant from Ford Motor Company, is published in IEEE Robotics and Automation Letters. All other comparison methods were up to 7 meters off.

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Cars That Think

SEPTEMBER 21, 2021

"It's unpredictable which problems artificial intelligence will be good at, because we don't understand intelligence itself very well," says computer scientist Dan Hendrycks at the University of California, Berkeley. Here are seven examples of AI failures and what current weaknesses they reveal about artificial intelligence. 1) Brittleness.

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Cars That Think

AUGUST 23, 2023

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. At the Stanford Institute for Human-Centered AI, we are a grant-making organization internally for our faculty.

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Green Car Congress

JANUARY 20, 2015

By making thousands of comparisons per second, they’re able to determine the vehicle''s location within a few centimeters. This work was supported by a grant from Ford Motor Co. via the Ford-UM Alliance under award N015392; Wolcott was supported by the SMART Scholarship for Service Program by the US Department of Defense. Resources.

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Green Car Congress

APRIL 17, 2014

In 2010, The US Department of Energy (DOE) selected Delphi, along with partners Hyundai America Technical Center, Inc (HATCI); Wisconsin Engine Research Consultants (WERC); and the University of Wisconsin-Madison (UW) for a $7.48-million million grant to develop and to demonstrate a new ultra fuel efficient vehicle (UFEV) vehicle concept.

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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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Green Car Congress

SEPTEMBER 19, 2009

Densities for steel springs and Li-ion batteries provide a comparison. Their work has been funded by the Deshpande Center for Technological Innovation Ignition grant and by an MIT Energy Initiative seed grant. Hill et al. Click to enlarge. Another paper by Livermore, Hill, Havel and A. This is not easy to do. Resources.

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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). Structured VLSI design, now taught in more than 100 universities. Pake was executive vice chancellor, provost, and professor of physics at Washington University in St.

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Green Car Congress

MARCH 17, 2015

A new Canada-wide study conducted by Simon Fraser University researchers found that awareness of public chargers is not a strong predictor of plug-in electric vehicle (PEV) interest; other variables are more important, such as the availability of level 1 (110/120-volt) charging at home. —Jonn Axsen.

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Green Car Congress

JULY 17, 2015

Frank is Professor Emeritus, Mechanical and Aeronautical Engineering at the University of California, Davis, where he established the Institute for Transportation Studies (ITS-Davis), and was director of the US Department of Energy’s National Center of Hybrid Excellence at UC Davis. Table of Contents. Engineering Advantages of PHEV.

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Cars That Think

JULY 2, 2023

The author spoke with many members of the design team in the months following the 1984 introduction of the Macintosh, however, Steve Jobs did not grant an interview for this article. A graduate of Stanford University with a master’s degree in business ad­ministration, Ms. in Cupertino, Calif.,

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