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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Low Cost Kits Solar Design 221

Green Car Congress

MARCH 22, 2015

Currently, renewable hydrogen may be produced from water by electrolysis with either low efficiency alkaline electrolyzers that suffer 50–65% losses, or by more efficient acidic electrolyzers using expensive rare platinum group metal catalysts (Pt). 2 , equivalent to ~10% solar photoelectrical conversion efficiency.

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Hydrogen Conversion Water Solar 150

Green Car Congress

JUNE 6, 2014

The FOA is open to any and all impactful ideas which will significantly advance the mission of the FCTO and that are relevant to its Multi-Year Program Plan (MYPP); however, specific areas of interest include: Platinum Group Metal (PGM)-free catalysts and membrane electrode assemblies (TRL 2- 4). including soft costs) are of interest.

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Hydrogen Fuel Polymer Renewable 231

Green Car Congress

AUGUST 10, 2011

This project will develop a new process that enables low-cost, domestic manufacturing of magnesium. This project will develop a novel low cost route to carbon fiber using a lignin/PAN hybrid precursor and carbon fiber conversion technologies leading to high performance, low-cost carbon fiber.

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Carbon Fiber Lithium Ion Li-ion Vehicles 268

Green Car Congress

SEPTEMBER 17, 2012

This project explores the use of specially designed nanostructured polymers to make high-energy, low-cost, flexible and stretchable batteries. One way to lower the cost of solar power is to dramatically reduce the thickness of light-absorbing layers in solar cells. Principal Investigator (PI): Zhenan Bao, chemical engineering.

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Energy Vehicles Power Powered 239

Green Car Congress

JANUARY 5, 2016

Their hybrid approach combines the highly efficient light harvesting of inorganic semiconductors with the high specificity, low cost, and self-replication and -repair of biocatalysts. thermoacetica–CdS system directs ~90% of photosynthetic products toward acetic acid, reducing the cost of diversifying to other chemical products.

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Hybrid CO2 Solar Light 150

Green Car Congress

AUGUST 25, 2022

This differs from other aluminum batteries in the choice of a positive elemental-chalcogen electrode as opposed to various low-capacity compound formulations and in the choice of a molten-salt electrolyte as opposed to room-temperature ionic liquids that induce high polarization. A paper on the work is published in Nature. —Pang et al.

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Molten Salt Low Cost Recharge MIT 186

Green Car Congress

MARCH 22, 2012

Polymer electrolyte membrane fuel cells (PEMFCs) are being developed worldwide as clean energy conversion devices. Long-Lived, High-Energy-Density and Low-Cost Lithium-Ion Batteries for Automotive, Grid Energy and Medical. This included identifying research priorities, grouped under three strategic themes. Research Areas.

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Canada Li-ion Fuel Batteries 262

Green Car Congress

NOVEMBER 16, 2015

The first hydrogen TTO is focused on durable, high activity electrocatalyst with low platinum content and low cost for polymer electrolyte membrane fuel cell applications. Conventional polymer electrolyte membrane (PEM) fuel cell technology requires high content of platinum electrocatalyst, which raises manufacturing costs.

Hydrogen 150

Hydrogen Engine Fuel Electric Vehicles 150

Green Car Congress

MARCH 3, 2015

Subtopics include Microbial Biomass Conversion. Design, Deployment, and Validation of Advanced, Low-cost Mobile Hydrogen Refuelers. Subtopic 1a: Microbial biomass conversion. The long-term goal of hydrogen production and delivery R&D is a high-volume hydrogen cost of. Catalysts and Supports. 2020 Target.

Hydrogen 150

Hydrogen Fuel Range Hybrid 150

Green Car Congress

AUGUST 3, 2023

Airbus, BMW Group and Quantinuum , world leaders in mobility and quantum technologies, have developed a hybrid quantum-classical workflow to speed up future research using quantum computers to simulate quantum systems, focusing on the chemical reactions of catalysts in fuel cells.

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BMW Fuel Hydrogen Future 195

Green Car Congress

JANUARY 27, 2016

Project Partners for the T-Hybrid include ALABC, Hyundai Motor Group, AVL Schrick, Valeo, and East Penn Manufacturing. The low additional cost of introducing 48V mild-hybrid powertrains is continuing to attract automakers because it is the most cost-effective means of complying with stringent CO 2 regulations over the next 10 years.

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Emissions Hybrid CO2 Downsizing 150

Green Car Congress

OCTOBER 30, 2013

Efficiency and Group Behavior in Power Distribution Networks. Many local devices that can either generate electricity, like rooftop solar panels, or store energy, like electric cars, are expected to help reduce the costs of the traditional system, especially as intermittent renewable energy provides a bigger fraction of our energy use.

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Energy Fuel Hybrid CO2 210

Green Car Congress

AUGUST 1, 2010

Further, the project will demonstrate the commercial viability of the desalination technology that also reduces the capital and operating costs of water purification. The pilot plant is being designed in cooperation with American Water’s Applied Management Group, which also will provide operating support.

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Texas Water Waste Gasoline 210

Green Car Congress

JANUARY 24, 2015

Hydrogen Production R&D: Microbial Biomass Conversion. Microbial biomass conversion processes offer mid- to long-term potential for sustainable hydrogen production with low environmental impact. Fuel Cell Technologies R&D: Low Platinum Group Metal Catalysts and Supports. 1 to 3 awards between $1M and $3M.

Hydrogen 150

Hydrogen Plug-in Fuel Plug 150

Green Car Congress

SEPTEMBER 10, 2010

The Department of Energy is working with industry, universities, national laboratories, and other groups to develop technologies capable of harnessing these resources to generate environmentally sustainable, cost-competitive power. The goal is to develop an optimal generator for current energy conversion. DOE Funding: $160,000.

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Mariner Energy Alaska New Jersey 210

Green Car Congress

APRIL 9, 2019

SEAT, a member of the Volkswagen Group, continues to spearhead the introduction of compressed natural gas (CNG) technology, giving customers the widest choice of vehicles that are cleaner, more sustainable and offer even greater efficiency. —Luca de Meo, President of SEAT.

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Gasoline-Electric Gasoline Gas Gas-Electric 304

Green Car Congress

JUNE 3, 2016

Rare earths are a group of elements critical to electronics, alternative energy and other modern technologies. The commercialization path in part will depend on the cost of cerium. At an alloy cost of less than $10.00/kg, Ce alloy—2400 t of cerium would be required, with global production of Ce of about 24,000 t annually.

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Engine Energy Production F-150 150

Green Car Congress

MARCH 11, 2016

Big Delta will demonstrate that the new process at the core of its manufacturing technology is scalable, reliable and significantly reduces the cost of manufacturing high-performance Li-ion cells. Midwest Energy Group, working with NREL. Renewable Power Conversion, working with SNL. Big Delta Systems, working with ANL.

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Clean Cleaning Energy Li-ion 150

Green Car Congress

SEPTEMBER 27, 2011

A paper presenting the results of the group’s latest year-long study on the lifecycle air emissions and oil displacement benefits of plug-in vehicles was published this week in the Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences. Michalek and colleagues. —Michalek et al.

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PHEV Oil Emissions Batteries 186

Green Car Congress

MARCH 18, 2013

The committee supports consistent R&D to advance technology development and to reduce the costs of alternative fuels and vehicles. Well before 2050 the cost of FCEVs could actually be lower than the cost of an equivalent ICEV, and operating costs should also be lower. —Douglas M. l/100 km) for the midrange case.

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Hydrogen Oil Plug-in Fuel Economy 244

Green Car Congress

SEPTEMBER 19, 2013

While chemically converting natural gas to liquid fuels (GTL) is a proven technology that increases volumetric energy density, the current conversion approach through Fischer-Tropsch (FT-GTL) is challenged by both high capital costs and low conversion efficiencies. Enzyme Engineering for Direct Methane Conversion.

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Gas Conversion Low Cost Universal 259

Green Car Congress

NOVEMBER 10, 2009

Accenture divided the technologies into three groups: Evolutionary. If the technology can be brought to scale, then waste feedstock processing could solve two problems at once—a source of low-cost, low-carbon renewable fuel, and a solution to the ever more critical issue to landfill reduction. Marine scrubbers.

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Transportation Supplies Emissions Fuel 262

Green Car Congress

JULY 22, 2009

Biofuel projects are going to have trouble getting financing from Wall Street this year because all of them have questions about the long term pricing of petroleum; most of them have concerns about the pricing stability of their feedstocks; and many of the cellulosic projects have concerns about the conversion technologies.

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Financing Renewable Stimulus Package Energy 150

Green Car Congress

JULY 3, 2012

A group of researchers from UNED (National Distance Education University) in Spain reports developing an optimized electrospray method for manufacturing the membrane electrode assembly (MEA) in PEM fuel cells with ultra-low platinum loadings that exceed US Department of Energy (DOE) targets. Source: UNED. Click to enlarge. Resources.

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Fuel Spain Hydrogen Renewable 225

Green Car Congress

OCTOBER 26, 2009

The projects selected are grouped into 10 areas: Energy Storage (6 projects). Eagle Picher, in partnership with the Pacific Northwest National Laboratory, will develop a new generation of high energy, low cost planar liquid sodium beta batteries for grid scale electrical power storage applications. Biomass Energy (5 projects).

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Energy Grant Low Cost Li-ion 231

Green Car Congress

DECEMBER 22, 2010

Under the program, the grantees will be expected to conduct life cycle cost analyses for different manufacturing volumes to help gauge the near-term, low-volume market viability for these technologies, along with their long-term potential. However, advances are required to reduce the cost of these fuel cell systems.

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Fuel Hydrogen Low Cost Transportation 218

Green Car Congress

MARCH 10, 2018

For 20 years, researchers have shown that CNT membranes offer tremendous promise for a wide variety of uses including the low-cost production of ethanol fuel, precision drug delivery, low-energy desalination of seawater, purification of pharmaceutical compounds, and high-performance catalysis for the production of fuels.

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Carbon Fuel Polymer Austin 199

Cars That Think

OCTOBER 8, 2022

At first, his group made the networks trainable by using a device whose resistance changed with the amount and direction of current applied. Ted Hoff The group soon acquired an IBM 1620 computer, and Hoff had his first experience in programming—and in bucking the system. “I saw him as a kooky inventor, a mad scientist.”

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IDEA 2000 Design Engine 121

Green Car Congress

MARCH 15, 2011

To be successful, systems will need to evolve—in some cases, considerably—to compete financially with the cost of natural gas production. To smooth out the intermittency of renewable energy production, low-cost electrical energy storage (EES) will become necessary. In their study, Yang et al. Credit: ACS, Yang et al.

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Li-ion Energy Storage Grid Carbon 231

Cars That Think

JULY 29, 2021

If we could instead build LDOs—and perhaps other analog circuits—from digital components, they would be much less difficult to port than any other part of the processor, saving significant design cost and freeing up engineers for other problems that cutting-edge chip design has in store.

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Batteries Battery Supplies Design 108

Drive Electric

MAY 16, 2023

This demand will come from a range of drivers associated with decarbonisation and other technologies, including industrial process heat conversions, population growth, data centres, and electric vehicle uptake. Are there any actions needed to reflect the particular EV charging needs of disabled communities, Māori, or other groups?

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Future Charging New Zealand Installation 52

Tony Karrer Delicious EVdriven

APRIL 21, 2009

Several after-market companies have done PHEV conversions of the Ford Escape hybrid and one has done a retrofit of the F-150 pickup -- see Where PHEVs Are and ICE-Conversions.) The F6 DM uses ferrous batteries, with no lithium content, that BYD says are high-energy density and low cost.

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Plug-in Plug Hybrid PHEV 45

Tony Karrer Delicious EVdriven

APRIL 16, 2009

BYD makes about 80% of Motorolas RAZR handsets, as well as batteries for iPods and iPhones and low-cost computers, including the model distributed by Nicholas Negropontes One Laptop per Child nonprofit based in Cambridge, Mass. Near the end of our conversation, I ask Wang about the company name. executive who has studied BYD.

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BYD 2009 Companies Electric Cars 62

Tony Karrer Delicious EVdriven

APRIL 16, 2009

And, if you consider lifetime costs of owning an EV versus owning a traditional internal combustion car, even if the initial purchase price of the EV is much more than your combustion car and you have to replace a battery for $4,000 after 7-10 years, the EV still costs less to operate.

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Oregon Green Electric Cars Lead Acid 58