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DECEMBER 26, 2020

A group of researchers from Far Eastern Federal University (FEFU), Austria, Turkey, Switzerland, and the UK has developed a new metallic glass that is 85% more efficient in oxidizing methanol than its platinum-based analogs. Fuel cells based on methanol oxidation have potential for the motor and technical industries.

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APRIL 9, 2023

Now, researchers at Michigan Technological University have demonstrated a carbonate-superstructured solid fuel cell (CSSFC) in which in situ generation of superstructured carbonate in the porous samarium-doped ceria layer creates a unique electrolyte with ultrahigh ionic conductivity of 0.17 S⋅cm −1 at 550 °C. (D) 2208750119

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FEBRUARY 1, 2019

Researchers from Japan’s NIMS (National Institute for Materials Science), the University of Tokyo and Hiroshima University have jointly conducted a techno-economic analysis for hydrogen production from photovoltaic power generation (PV) utilizing a battery-assisted electrolyzer. This approximately converts to US$1.92 to US$3.00/kg

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DECEMBER 12, 2014

Ioxus’ Titan technology meets a key automotive industry requirement: a system with a wider operating range that meets both cold and high temperature standards. Ioxus’ newest line of cells, designed with novel chemistry solutions for this market, function properly at temperature ranges of -40 to 85 °C, and deliver 2.7 Click to enlarge.

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The Truth About Cars

JANUARY 23, 2024

A Comparison Across North America When compared to other North American cities, Toronto's traffic issues are more pronounced. Underlying Causes of Congestion Matti Siemiatycki, the Director of the Infrastructure Institute at the University of Toronto, identifies multiple factors contributing to Toronto's traffic congestion.

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Cars That Think

NOVEMBER 1, 2023

Rob Bonin, University of Toronto Now, Liu, Rao, and colleagues have developed a soft, flexible, durable optical fiber capable of delivering an optogenetic light signal away from the brain or spine using a new material: hydrogel. said Rao, a neuroscientist now at the University of Massachusetts Amherst.

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NOVEMBER 2, 2012

Comparison of the discharge capacity and coulombic efficiency of MPSPs/PPAN anodes at various ratios versus cycle number. The freestanding macroporous silicon film is then ultrasonically fractured to create particulates with a nominal size range of 10-50 microns. Thakur et al. Click to enlarge. Earlier post.)

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MAY 6, 2022

Six distinct catalysts were evaluated for urea decomposition activity utilizing SwRI’s Universal Synthetic Gas Reactor (USGR) to measure CO 2 and NH 3 evolution from solid mixtures of catalyst and urea. Our findings show that DEF can now be utilized over a much broader range of engine operation, decreasing overall NO x emissions.

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AUGUST 20, 2018

Identical total annual emissions of sulfate and black carbon aerosol from eight major past, present, and potential future emitting regions (a) result in global-mean cooling spanning a 14x range (b, y-axis), differing substantially in the degree to which that cooling is felt in the emitting region (b, x-axis). This work is part of a larger $1.5-million

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MAY 7, 2023

Researchers from the University of California, Berkeley, are proposing burying salted biomass in a dry environment within an engineered biolandfill as a solution to sequester carbon that has been photosynthetically fixed by cultivated plants.

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JUNE 7, 2019

A side-by-side comparison of connected vehicle technology at 85 traffic signals in the Tuscaloosa, AL area showed that latency in delivering safety messages from roadside units (RSUs) to vehicles via dedicated short range radios (DSRC) and LTE cellular (C-V2N) was “approximately equivalent,” according to a study by the University of Alabama.

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OCTOBER 31, 2009

Researchers from Michigan State University have been awarded $2.5 Our goal is to enable hyper-efficient hybrid vehicles to meet consumer needs for a 500-mile driving range, lower vehicle prices, full-size utility, improved highway performance and very low operating costs. Source: MSU. Click to enlarge. Norbert Müller.

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SEPTEMBER 19, 2019

ePOP rapidly generates the necessary input data—masses, efficiency maps, etc—for each electric powertrain subsystem, for a range of topologies and layouts. The speedy generation of input data permits the simulation of a large number of powertrain combinations, up to several thousand alternatives in one example.

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JUNE 28, 2013

Diesel vehicles generally saved owners between $2,000 to $6,000 in total ownership costs during a three to five year period when compared to similar gasoline vehicles, according to data compiled by the University of Michigan Transportation Research Institute (UMTRI). —“Total Cost of Ownership”. Depreciation. Diesel Market Background'

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APRIL 5, 2018

A research team led by the National University of Singapore (NUS) has developed an economical and industrially viable strategy to produce graphene. Graphene exhibits unique electronic properties that can potentially be employed for a wide range of applications such as touch screens, conductive inks and fast-charging batteries.

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Green Car Congress

JULY 31, 2019

A team at the University of Delaware has demonstrated a direct ammonia fuel cell (DAFC) prototype with a peak power density of 135 mW cm -2 at 80 ?C. Carbon-neutral fuels are needed for sustainable transportation to overcome the range and recharge limitations of batteries and the scale limitations of biofuels. —Zhao et al.

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OCTOBER 31, 2019

The unifying approach in this comparison involves the use of Btu (British thermal units), coupled with the costs of gasoline, electricity, and natural gas, and the energy efficiencies of light-duty vehicles (cars and light trucks) and furnaces. The energy efficiency of conventional gasoline-powered vehicles ranges from 17% to 21%.

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FEBRUARY 9, 2018

Comparison of life cycle GHG emissions based on the range of methodologies studied. The increase in production emissions ranged from 30 - 60 percent for sedans, pickups, SUVs and HEVs when using aluminum over AHSS for lightweighting. —Jody Hall, vice president, automotive market, SMDI. Click to enlarge.

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JANUARY 31, 2019

Analyzing health data and pollution monitoring information from 1,561 counties across the United States between 2005 and 2010, researchers found the yearly average for fine air pollution ranged from 7.2 average 11.75) micrograms per cubic meter. Overall, the annual average was at a level considered acceptable. —Longjian Liu, M.D.,

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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. Among their findings:??.

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AUGUST 3, 2009

Researchers at the University of Wisconsin, led by Dr. Rolf Reitz, are investigating a blended dual-fuel (gasoline and diesel) concept to extend the operating range of partially premixed charge compression ignition combustion by using the varying fuel reactivity of the charge blend, which is determined in real time. Source: Rolf Reitz.

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MARCH 9, 2016

Rice University researchers have determined a more effective way to use natural gas to reduce climate-warming emissions would be in the replacement of existing coal-fired power plants and fuel-oil furnaces rather than burning it in cars and buses. However, residential uses and exports of natural gas were not considered in those comparisons.

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SEPTEMBER 15, 2011

The conference—to be held at the International Digital Laboratory auditorium of the Warwick Manufacturing Group, University of Warwick, on 21 September 2011—arises from the work of Ricardo and its partners on the Low Carbon Vehicle Technology Project (LCVTP).

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FEBRUARY 5, 2018

The Ricardo CryoPower split-cycle engine concept redefines the processes of internal combustion to enable significantly improved internal thermal efficiency in comparison with today’s state-of-the-art engines.

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FEBRUARY 1, 2016

A new report from the University of Michigan Transportation Research Institute (UMTRI) reviews the major advantages and disadvantages associated with battery-electric vehicles (BEVs) and fuel-cell vehicles (FCVs). Michael Sivak also incudes information for current gasoline-powered internal combustion engines as a baseline comparison.

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JUNE 28, 2012

Other findings of the study, published in the International Journal of Engine Research , include: Engine dynamometer results showed that NO x emissions for the Federal fuels ranged from 4.7% 2012) Assessment of the emissions from the use of California Air Resources Board qualified diesel fuels in comparison with Federal diesel fuels.

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OCTOBER 22, 2013

Summary of comparison of NO x emissions and fuel consumption of hybrid (D7E) and conventional (D6) dozers. CO was mixed and ranged from -5% to +21%. THC was lower and ranged from -48% to -73%. Negative values mean hybrid benefit and positive values mean dis-benefit.

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SEPTEMBER 19, 2010

Reed Doucette and Malcolm McCulloch at the University of Oxford (UK) have compared high-speed flywheels, batteries, and ultracapacitors on the bases of cost and fuel economy as the energy storage system in a fuel cell based hybrid electric vehicle. Their paper is in press in the Journal of Power Sources. Doucette and Malcolm D.

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Green Car Congress

MAY 28, 2015

Such a scale will allow direct comparisons to companion experiments, providing insight into transient combustion processes such as thermal stratification, heat transfer, and turbulent mixing. It is designed to handle high Reynolds number, high-pressure, real-gas and/or liquid conditions over a wide Mach operating range.

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Cars That Think

APRIL 5, 2024

“For many applications, such as wearables, stretchability is necessary since our skin stretches as we move,” said James Pikul , a professor of mechanical engineering at the University of Wisconsin, Madison. “A Energy capacity of stretchable zinc-ion ranges from a few milliamp-hours per gram to as much as 300 milliamp-hours per gram. “In

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SEPTEMBER 28, 2015

For both crashworthiness and crash avoidance, the comparison of injury risk given a particular set of crash characteristics, respectively the comparison of crash involvement, was then argued to be driven by differences between the vehicles themselves. —Flannagan et al.

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AUGUST 1, 2011

Researchers at Justus Liebig University, Giessen, Germany, have improved the performance of sodium-ion batteries ( earlier post ) by using tailor-made carbon materials with hierarchical porosity for the anode instead of common carbon-based anode materials. prepared a carbon material with interconnected pores in two size ranges.

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OCTOBER 16, 2015

The research, conducted by Argonne researchers in collaboration with Stanford University and the University of California, Davis, analyzed the Eagle Ford shale formation in Texas and the Bakken play mainly in North Dakota. For the Bakken, GREET-derived WTR (well-to-refinery gate) GHG intensities range from 4.3 for diesel, and 5.1

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Clean Fleet Report

AUGUST 6, 2023

An Extreme Real World EV Driving (Charging) Test True Long Range: 1,796 Miles and Four States in a 2023 Ford Mustang Mach-E Ford presented a great opportunity to test the long-range suitability of the 2023 Ford Mustang Mach-E when I received an invitation to attend the Ford Bronco Off-Roadeo program in Moab, Utah. miles per kWh.

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APRIL 4, 2012

The first real-world, head-to-head comparison of improved cookstoves (ICs) and traditional mud stoves has found that some ICs may at times emit more of the black carbon particles that are linked to serious health and environmental concerns than traditional mud stoves or open-cook fires.

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FEBRUARY 14, 2012

High-quality hydrocarbon fuels and/or blend stocks in the gasoline, jet and diesel range have been produced by the IH 2 technology in tests at GTI using a broad spectrum of biomass feed. Yields of product fuels have ranged from 26% to 46% depending on feedstock. —Alan Del Paggio CRI Vice President, Upstream and Renewables.

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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. The company used data from the European Centre for Medium-Range Weather Forecasts ( ECMWF ). Source: Bosch.

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