Green Car Congress

FEBRUARY 27, 2010

Michigan-based electric powertrain company ALTe LLC ( earlier post ) was approved to receive a tax credit valued at $8.4 million over seven years from the Michigan Economic Development Corporation’s (MEDC) Michigan Economic Growth Authority (MEGA) board.

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Green Car Congress

MARCH 12, 2010

Michigan-based electric powertrain company ALTe LLC ( earlier post ) revealed its demonstrator Ford F-150 range-extended electric vehicle conversion at the 2010 National Truck Equipment Association (NTEA) Work Truck Show and Green Truck Summit. Tags: Conversions Electric (Battery) Hybrids Plug-ins. Click to enlarge.

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Green Car Congress

MARCH 7, 2019

Michigan Technological University and Westport will address natural gas engine emissions and efficiency improvements by demonstrating the feasibility of compression ignition of directly injected natural gas. Development of a Pent-Roof Medium-Duty Spark-Ignited Natural Gas Engine in an Optimized Hybrid Vehicle System.

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Green Car Congress

AUGUST 28, 2019

In fact, for the midsized cars considered in our analysis, model results suggest that aluminum lightweight vehicles with a combustion engine would have similar emissions to hybrid electric vehicles (HEVs) in about 25% of the counties in the US and lower than battery electric vehicles (BEVs) in 20% of counties. Di Wu, Fengdi Guo, Frank R.

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Green Car Congress

MAY 26, 2022

The core business is the production of renewable fuels and clean, efficient energy conversion technologies. Powertrain Control Laboratory, University of Michigan, Ann Arbor, MI. ID-Technologies, Fribourg, Switzerland. ID-Technologies is a Swiss engineering company specialized in energy technologies.

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Green Car Congress

JULY 26, 2012

The extracted rubber will be used in tire formulations, and the remaining plant residue will be evaluated for use in biopower and for conversion to jet fuel precursors. Harvest and preprocessing will be optimized to be compatible with the biochemical conversion to jet fuel and diesel. Michigan Technological University.

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Green Car Congress

APRIL 7, 2011

ALTe Powertrain Technologies, the Michigan-based developer of a Range Extended Electric Powertrain ( earlier post ), is forming a partnership with Manheim, the automotive industry’s leader in remarketing services, regarding the installation of ALTe retrofit range-extended electric powertrains in fleet vehicles.

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Green Car Congress

FEBRUARY 12, 2018

The team will apply atomic layer deposition technology to fabricate and modify the catalyst at the atomic level, with the goal of more than doubling catalyst lifetime, improving selectivity and conversion efficiency at reduced costs. Michigan State University. Bio2Electric, LLC d.b.a. EcoCatalytic Technologies. Zyvex Labs, LLC.

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Green Car Congress

AUGUST 7, 2009

Center for Direct Catalytic Conversion of Biomass to Biofuels (C3Bio). $20. Use fundamental knowledge about the interactions between catalysts and plant cell walls to design improved processes for the conversion of biomass to energy, fuels, or chemicals. University of Michigan. Purdue University. Northwestern University.

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Green Car Congress

SEPTEMBER 22, 2009

Stationary Fuel Cells and Hybrid Transit Buses Incremental Costs: The purchase of diesel-electric hybrid transit buses and stationary fuel cells for use in the statewide bus system in Connecticut. Statewide Paratransit Bus Hybrid Program: Purchase 31 paratransit hybrid buses to replace 31 gas and diesel vehicles.

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Green Car Congress

AUGUST 26, 2009

The vehicles and infrastructure being funded include the use of natural and renewable gas, propane, ethanol, biodiesel, electricity, and hybrid technologies. The project will deploy 554 alternative fuel and hybrid electric vehicles and install 153 alternative fueling and electric vehicle charging stations throughout the Chicago region.

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Green Car Congress

JULY 7, 2015

The study, led by GLBRC scientist and Michigan State University professor of ecosystem ecology Stephen Hamilton, is the first multi-year effort to compare the water use of conventional corn crops to the perennial cropping systems of switchgrass, miscanthus, native grasses, restored prairies, and hybrid poplar trees.

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Green Cars News

MARCH 12, 2010

A range extended electric conversion of the Ford F-150 has been revealed as part of the 2010 National Truck Equipment Association Work Truck Show and Green Truck Summit. It includes [.].

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Green Car Congress

MARCH 17, 2010

It will also include entirely new systems like hybrid drive trains and advanced diesel engines. The study offers two main insights on the nature of clean energy jobs in the automobile sector: First, the paper documents that saving oil will directly create good jobs by driving demand for specific additional manufactured components.

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Green Car Congress

JUNE 13, 2014

The OSU team’s engineered 2013 Chevrolet Malibu featured a series-parallel plug-in hybrid drive with E85-fueled engine technology. The second-place team from the University of Washington (UW) demonstrated the most energy-efficient vehicle, a B20 biodiesel parallel plug-in hybrid reaching 60 MPGGE (3.9

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Green Car Congress

OCTOBER 23, 2009

As one of the speakers put it to the attendees, the bulk of which came from Southeast Michigan, plug-in vehicles will a major career path for most of the people in the room. Darbee noted that although California has about 12% of the population, it has about 25% of the demand for plug-in hybrids. John Patten, Ph.D., Earlier post.).

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Clean Fleet Report

DECEMBER 1, 2021

Chevrolet made the radical decision to have the 2021 Corvette, or C8 as aficionados call it, become a mid-engine sports car, abandoning the front engine design that began when the first Corvette rolled off the line in Flint, Michigan, on June 30, 1953. Let the sunshine in. Powerful and Responsive.

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Green Car Congress

AUGUST 5, 2009

The announcement marks the single largest investment in advanced battery technology for hybrid and electric-drive vehicles ever made. Companies and universities in Michigan are receiving more than $1 billion of the grants. Production of manganese oxide cathode / graphite lithium-ion batteries for hybrid and electric vehicles.

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Electric Auto Association

OCTOBER 28, 2021

I have had memberships in the EAA, Tucson EAA, and West Michigan EV and Plug-in Vehicle Enthusiasts. He has a 34-year career as a journalist, advertiser, marketer, publicist, event planner, teacher, and fundraiser for-profit and not-for-profit organizations including Motorola, Business Marketing Association, and Michigan State University.

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Green Car Congress

MARCH 23, 2019

Durable and affordable higher-temperature heat exchangers could make energy conversion much more efficient, which in turn could reduce fuel consumption, system footprint, capital and operational cost, and emissions. HITEMMP projects include: Michigan State University. Michigan Technological University.

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Green Car Congress

SEPTEMBER 5, 2017

TM4 developed this product in collaboration with Convertronix, a Québec-based company specialized in the design and manufacturing of power conversion equipment. The TM4 BCI20 functions as battery charger and inverter for use in a variety of electric and hybrid vehicle applications.

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Green Car Congress

APRIL 30, 2010

Novel Biological Conversion of Hydrogen and Carbon Dioxide Directly into Biodiesel. Johnson Matthey will investigate the catalytic conversion of this microbial biodiesel into additional fuel molecules, most importantly jet fuel. Hydrogen-Dependent Conversion of Carbon Dioxide To Liquid Electrofuels By Extremely Thermophilic Archaea.

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Electric Auto Association

OCTOBER 28, 2021

I have had memberships in the EAA, Tucson EAA, and West Michigan EV and Plug-in Vehicle Enthusiasts. He has a 34-year career as a journalist, advertiser, marketer, publicist, event planner, teacher, and fundraiser for-profit and not-for-profit organizations including Motorola, Business Marketing Association, and Michigan State University.

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Green Car Congress

JUNE 26, 2021

Highly Efficient Electrocatalysts for Direct Conversion Of CO2 To Chemicals, $250,000. High Efficiency Power-to-Gas in a Modular Hybrid Electrobioreactor, $1,000,000. Bio-based Insecticides from Thermochemical Conversion of Biomass, $100,000. SkySpecs (Ann Arbor, Michigan). Framatome Inc. Lynchburg, Virginia).

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The Truth About Cars

NOVEMBER 15, 2023

BMW has announced it is expanding its ChargeForward incentive program to drivers of electric and plug-in hybrid vehicles living in the contiguous United States. If it’s an all-electric vehicle, rather than a plug-in hybrid, the car has to have a charge state greater than 12 percent before you plug in.&

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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. process intensification approaches for biological methane conversion.

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Green Car Congress

OCTOBER 22, 2013

The US Energy Department’s Advanced Research Projects Agency-Energy (ARPA-E) has selected 14 projects for $27 million in funding to support the development of next-generation power conversion devices. MicroLink Devices will engineer affordable, high-performance transistors needed for power conversion. Michigan State University.

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Tony Karrer Delicious EVdriven

APRIL 22, 2009

will be unveiling its IDEA, a 100 miles-per-gallon plug-in hybrid electric vehicle. For years now, inventors and sellers of electric car conversion kits have been blasting traditional automakers for not providing the 100 m.p.g. car when tech-savvy types can configure one in their garage by rewiring their existing hybrids.

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Green Car Congress

SEPTEMBER 30, 2011

Concentrating Solar Power/Nuclear: High Efficiency Solar Electric Conversion Power Tower Abengoa Solar will develop a high efficiency solar-electric. conversion tower that utilizes new system architecture. unprecedented solar-to-fuel conversion efficiencies of more. Electric Vehicle: Thermal Storage Using Hybrid Vapor.

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Tony Karrer Delicious EVdriven

APRIL 21, 2009

About CalCars Plug-In Hybrids FAQ How to Get a PHEV Where PHEVs are Carmakers Say. Our PRIUS+ Project Photos PHEV Resources Global Warming Take Action News and Events Contact Us How Carmakers are Responding to the Plug-In Hybrid Opportunity If you ask, "have major auto-makers come around on PHEVs?", No announced plans.

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Creative Greenius

JUNE 11, 2009

To put that in perspective for you, if Los Angeles County were a state, it would rank ninth in population behind the states of California, New York, Texas, Florida, Pennsylvania, Illinois, Ohio, and Michigan. Convert your Prius to a plug-in hybrid and rock the world. Plug In Conversions Corp. NO PURCHASE!

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Green Car Congress

OCTOBER 26, 2009

If successfully developed, this transformational new energy storage technology would greatly reduce the cost of hybrid and electric vehicles. Towards Scale Solar Conversion of CO 2 and Water Vapor to Hydrocarbon Fuels. High Energy Permanent Magnets for Hybrid Vehicles and Alternative Energy. Earlier post.) DOE grant:$5,349,932).

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Spirit of DC - PHEV3A

AUGUST 3, 2009

This converted Toyota Prius is another type of Plug-in --a PHEV (Plug-in Hybrid Electric Vehicle). EV conversion technologies have now made these types of vehicles possible and available through affiliates of the EAA, such as CalCars and Plug-in Supply.

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Tony Karrer Delicious EVdriven

APRIL 22, 2009

Based in Watertown, Massachusetts, A123Systems has announced plans for a Michigan-based production facility. i would like to see maybe Smith America build a conversion of their current cars, maybe have a retrofit model so you dont have to get rid of the trucks at all, just upgrade! Read reviews, get free pricing, and much more.

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Tony Karrer Delicious EVdriven

APRIL 16, 2009

Near the end of our conversation, I ask Wang about the company name. BYDs first plug-in hybrid, called a dual-mode car, is designed to run primarily on electricity, with an internal- combustion engine for backup. BYD, which is traded on the Hong Kong exchange, has a market value of about $3.8 107.12% Rite Aid Corporation 0.66

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EV Match

AUGUST 29, 2022

billion to add more than 6,000 union jobs at plants across Michigan, Ohio and Missouri, all part of Ford’s plan to up its EV sales numbers to 2 million a year, worldwide, by the end of 2026. billion for the purchase of zero-emission vehicles and $1.71 billion for supporting charging infrastructure.

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Green Car Congress

JANUARY 21, 2013

Earlier this month, Volkswagen and Eaton executives met with a small group of journalists at the VW Electronics Research Laboratory in Belmont, California, to discuss VW’s partnership with Eaton on AC and DC charging, followed by a broader conversation about VW’s plans for vehicle electrification over the next several years. Click to enlarge.

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