Green Car Congress

JUNE 4, 2023

IFE Pilot Plant with a Low-Cost, High-Energy Excimer Driver and the HYLIFE Concept. Xcimer’s technology is enabled by innovations originally pioneered for national security applications, which significantly reduce the cost of the laser system conventionally considered the most expensive component of an IFE power plant.

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Green Car Congress

DECEMBER 11, 2020

DE-FOA-0002423 ) Topic Areas ins the FOA support DOE’s Bioenergy Technologies Office’s (BETO’s) objectives to reduce the minimum selling price of drop-in biofuels, lower the cost of biopower, and enable high-value products from biomass or waste resources. The application process will include two phases: a concept paper and a full application.

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Green Car Congress

AUGUST 30, 2019

Gigastack, funded by the BEIS Hydrogen Supply Competition, will demonstrate the delivery of bulk, low-cost and zero-carbon hydrogen through gigawatt-scale polymer electrolyte membrane (PEM) electrolysis, manufactured in the UK. Deployment of very large scale and hence low cost 100MW+ electrolyzer systems using multiple 5MW units.

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Green Car Congress

JUNE 14, 2012

DOE also announced the “America’s Most Affordable Rooftop Solar” competition to aggressively drive down the cost of rooftop solar energy system as well as $8 million in awards to nine small businesses to lower the cost of financing, permitting, and other “soft costs,” which can amount to nearly half the cost of residential solar systems.

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Green Car Congress

JUNE 2, 2023

Projects from this solicitation, which will be implemented over the next 1–3 years, will focus on lowering the cost of heliostats and heliostat technologies and creating new market opportunities for the heliostat industry. Low-cost heliostats offer significant renewable energy potential.

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Green Car Congress

JANUARY 24, 2020

Topic areas within this FOA will advance DOE’s Bioenergy Technology Office’s objectives of reducing the price of drop-in biofuels; lowering the cost of biopower; and enabling high-value products from biomass or waste resources. The application process will include two phases: a concept paper and a full application.

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Green Car Congress

JANUARY 24, 2020

This investment will support transformational research and development (R&D), innovative hydrogen concepts that will encourage market expansion and increase the scale of hydrogen production, storage, transport, and use. Concept papers are due 25 February 2020 and full applications are due 20 April 2020.

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Green Car Congress

FEBRUARY 18, 2020

The concept consists of a large-scale floating wind turbine (nominally 10 MW) with an integrated water treatment unit and electrolyzers for localized hydrogen production. The project aims to reduce the cost of electrolytic hydrogen significantly. This funding will enable the detailed design of a 2 MW prototype system.

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Green Car Congress

APRIL 9, 2021

million for technologies that produce low-cost, low-carbon biofuels. ( This FOA supports high-impact technology RDD&D to accelerate the bioeconomy and, in particular, the production of low-carbon fuels for the aviation industry. The application process will include two phases: a concept paper and a full application.

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Green Car Congress

OCTOBER 10, 2021

These conductivity-enhanced materials have the potential to lower the costs and impacts of adding renewables and electric cars to the grid, maximize next-generation energy storage technologies, and support electrification for energy-intensive sectors.

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Green Car Congress

APRIL 11, 2023

This bioprinting technology is low-cost and scalable and is projected to result in significant savings when applied broadly to mineral recovery. We do anticipate that it would have a lot of benefits environmentally and lower energy costs compared to what is currently used.

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Baua Electric

JANUARY 16, 2024

Toyota says no small, cheap EV is in the works Although many automakers, including VW, Stellantis, and Kia, have revealed plans to launch low-cost EVs under $30,000 (£25,000), Toyota says not so fast. Toyota’s European product development boss, Andrea Carlucci, told Autocar that battery costs make a cheap EV unlikely.

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Green Car Congress

NOVEMBER 2, 2021

AOI 3: Reducing the Cost of DC Fast Charging Equipment. Technology & Design Innovations to Maximize the Reduction Effect on DCFC Unit Cost Economics (Max-REDUCE). A Solid State Technology Enabled Compact, Modular Design to Reduce DC Fast Charging Cost and Footprint. AOI 8: Natural Gas Vehicle Technology Proof of Concept.

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Green Car Congress

JANUARY 28, 2023

Projects funded under this opportunity will reduce costs, enhance hydrogen infrastructure, and improve the performance of hydrogen fuel cells—advancing the Department’s Hydrogen Shot goal of reducing the cost of clean hydrogen to $1 per kilogram within a decade. Topic 2: Onboard Storage Systems for Liquid Hydrogen.

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Green Car Congress

DECEMBER 11, 2020

VTO-funded research has reduced the cost of advanced batteries by 75% since 2008, and nearly every plug-in electric vehicle (PEV) on the road today uses VTO-developed battery technology. DOE is working to lower the cost of the power electronics and motors in an EV to $7/kW by 2022 from $30/kW in 2012. New Mobility Systems (Up to $17.5

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Green Car Congress

JULY 11, 2017

The goal is to improve BOP component efficiency and reliability, reducing costs and presenting a stable supply chain to the European car manufacturers and system integrators. Total cost of the project, which involves 10 European organizations, is €6.2 million (US$7.1 million), with €5 million (US$5.7 million) provided by the EU.

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Green Car Congress

SEPTEMBER 11, 2016

Preliminary analysis performed by the national laboratories on the H2@Scale concept indicated that nearly a 50% reduction in greenhouse gas emissions is possible by 2050 via such large-scale hydrogen production and use. The RFI seeks input on six specific areas: Concept of H2@Scale. Click to enlarge.

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Green Car Congress

DECEMBER 17, 2019

The R&D would be executed in collaboration with DOE’s Advanced Manufacturing Office (AMO) and would enable large-scale domestic electrolyzer manufacturing focused on reducing the cost of megawatt- and gigawatt-scale electrolyzers for diverse end uses. Advanced Carbon Fiber for Compressed Hydrogen and Natural Gas Storage Tanks.

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Green Car Congress

MARCH 21, 2019

Lumotive, a Bill Gates-funded startup developing LiDAR systems for autonomous vehicles, introduced a beam-steering technology which will significantly improve the performance, reliability and cost of LiDAR systems for the emerging self-driving car industry.

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Green Car Congress

JUNE 24, 2023

Researchers from the Karlsruhe Institute of Technology (KIT) and their Canadian partners have designed a low-cost photoreactor design for solar-driven synthesis. The photoreactors have a low level of complexity, are readily manufacturable via mass fabrication techniques in polymers, and are easy to adapt to diverse photocatalysts.

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Green Car Congress

JULY 6, 2011

ACAL Energy is partnering with automotive design experts Gordon Murray Design in a 12-month project to design a very low cost, durable fuel cell vehicle utilizing it platinum-free FlowCath fuel cell technology ( earlier post ). The 12-month project is funded by the Technology Strategy Board under its Low Carbon Vehicle program.

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Green Car Congress

JANUARY 13, 2021

SCALEUP awardees will focus on further developing existing technologies, for which the proof-of-concept R&D challenges have been addressed, that can establish real-world impact through scaling. Over the last decade, the cost of lithium-ion (Li-ion) energy storage systems has fallen while energy density has improved steadily.

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Green Car Congress

APRIL 9, 2011

The SunShot Initiative aims to reduce the total cost of solar energy systems by about 75%—to roughly $1 per watt—before the end of the decade. PV Balance of Systems (DE-FOA-0000493): $60 million in funding is available for research, development, and demonstration of balance of system components.

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Cars That Think

MARCH 14, 2022

Thermal energy storage is a known low-cost, low-risk approach for storing solar energy in the form of heat,” adds Codd. This system results in a lower capital cost and a lower levelized cost of energy compared to other CSP technologies, he adds. to test the concept for the first time.

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Green Car Congress

NOVEMBER 17, 2016

The objective of this area of interest is to develop and to demonstrate electrochemical energy storage cell technologies capable of addressing the technical barriers to widespread commercialization of PEVs that approach or achieve the battery pack cost target. DOE is putting particular emphasis on meeting the cost target. Earlier post.)

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Green Car Congress

NOVEMBER 18, 2016

The US Department of Energy (DOE) announced approximately $30 million in available funding ( DE-FOA-0001647 ), subject to appropriations, for research and development of low-cost hydrogen production, onboard hydrogen storage, and proton exchange membrane fuel cells to advance the widespread commercialization of fuel cell electric vehicles.

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Green Car Congress

NOVEMBER 4, 2014

This entails a significant saving in fuel consumption, as well as a reduction in the cost of the engine itself. Moreover, they studied the possibility of implementing new advanced combustion concepts, as alternatives to the conventional diesel system, with what they said was very promising results. Benajes, R. Novella, D. Benajes, J.,

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Green Car Congress

JANUARY 11, 2012

To achieve the European Union’s target, it is therefore important to develop more low-cost DAS technologies and enable a wider acceptance of the safety systems. PSA Peugeot Citroen on the other hand has been capable of developing multiple low cost ADAS for their cars. —Frost & Sullivan Research Analyst Manish Garg.

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MARCH 24, 2024

A smaller less sophisticated version will also be used under the low-cost small hatchbacks like the Renault 5 and the cheaper Renault Twingo. Nissan’s Makota Uchida (left) and Honda’s Toshiro Mibe announce their collaboration.

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Green Car Congress

AUGUST 21, 2017

Preliminary analysis performed by the national laboratories on the H2@Scale concept indicated that nearly a 50% reduction in greenhouse gas emissions is possible by 2050 via such large-scale hydrogen production and use. The maximum DOE cost share per project would be $900,000 for a project with a total cost of $1,000,000.

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Green Car Congress

FEBRUARY 6, 2015

Technical areas of interest include: Innovative Concepts: This topic area will support the research and development of SOFC technology that has the potential to significantly undercut current DOE cost targets in a SOFC system. Successful Recipients will transition from Phase I into Phase II via a competitive down-select process.

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Green Car Congress

JUNE 7, 2013

FCTO anticipates that the FOA may include the following Topic Areas: Topic Area 1: Reducing the Cost of Compressed Hydrogen Storage Systems. Topic 1 will focus on the development of complete, low-cost, compressed hydrogen storage systems. Topic Area 2: Improved Materials for Fiber Composites and Balance of Plant Components.

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EV Central

OCTOBER 23, 2022

Importer Ateco, which distributes Renault in Australia, is very interested in the production versions of the recent 4Ever Trophy (pictured above with Renault CEO Luca de Meo at the Paris motor show) and 5 Prototype concepts. “We see potential for both concepts in Australia.” Renault 5 Prototype concept EV.

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Green Car Congress

MARCH 9, 2018

In recent years, the concept of solid composite electrolyte (SCE) has aroused considerable interest in the battery community. These solvents share many attributes with the ionic liquids among which a low vapor pressure and nonflammability. —Joos et al.

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Green Car Congress

APRIL 18, 2018

Proposed cathode catalyst concepts should demonstrate the potential to meet or exceed activity of 0.044 A/cm 2 at 0.9 FCTO seeks applications on concepts for industry-led efforts on hydrogen-focused integrated renewable energy production, storage, and transportation fuel distribution R&D. Topic 3: Innovative Concepts.

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Teslarati

APRIL 18, 2021

While the Las Vegas Convention Center Loop’s current iteration is a conservative version of Elon Musk’s ambitious tunnel concepts, the core of The Boring Company’s innovation is present in the project. Machines such as Prufrock, and the incredibly low cost of its tunnels, are The Boring Company’s true disruption. .

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Green Car Congress

SEPTEMBER 17, 2012

Seed funding supports early work on concepts that have the potential for very high impact on energy production and use. This project explores the use of specially designed nanostructured polymers to make high-energy, low-cost, flexible and stretchable batteries. Principal Investigator (PI): Zhenan Bao, chemical engineering.

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