Green Car Congress

NOVEMBER 18, 2009

Researchers from MIT, with colleagues from IISc in Bangalore, India and HiPi Consulting in Maryland have experimentally demonstrated the conversion of heat to electricity using thermal diodes with efficiency as high as 40% of the Carnot Limit. Letter U represents the electrostatic interaction while letter V represents the tunneling.

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Green Car Congress

AUGUST 27, 2020

REEACH projects seek to create innovative, cost-effective, and high-performance energy storage and power generation sub-systems for electric aircraft, with a focus on fuel-to-electric power conversion technologies. Compact Propulsion Engine Optimized with Waste Heat Recovery (CO-POWER); $2,815,760.

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Teslarati

JULY 2, 2022

Some of the most significant incentives exist or will exist, in Colorado, Connecticut, Illinois, Delaware, and Maryland. The state is also offering significant incentives for propane and natural gas-powered vehicles (up to $20,000 for heavy-duty natural gas trucks).

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Green Car Congress

AUGUST 20, 2011

Marine classification society ABS has issued its first Approval in Principle (AIP) for a new concept renewable energy design in which a moored spar uses ammonia in a closed-cycle process to produce electrical power for a commercial utility grid. OTEC power cycle. Click to enlarge.

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Green Car Congress

MAY 15, 2015

The Energy Department’s Advanced Research Projects Agency-Energy (ARPA-E) will award $60 million in funding to 23 new projects aimed at creating highly efficient and scalable dry-cooling technologies for thermoelectric power plants and developing prototype technologies to explore new pathways for fusion power.

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Green Car Congress

NOVEMBER 14, 2014

The vehicles have the capability to direct power both to and from the electrical grid when they’re not being driven. The V2G technology enables the vehicles to provide more than 700 kW of power to the grid, sufficient power for more than 140 American homes. Click to enlarge. V2G charging station. Click to enlarge.

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The Truth About Cars

SEPTEMBER 5, 2023

The populace is split between gasoline-loving Luddites, endlessly bemoaning the current regulatory landscape and smug EV adopters who proselytize battery-powered vehicles with all the zealotry of a religious fanatic. Power looked into the latter issue, hoping to identify purchasing trends around the United States. .& Power said.

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Green Car Congress

APRIL 9, 2014

The grant recipients are the Port of Seattle, the Port of Hueneme, the Port of Tacoma, the Maryland Port Administration, the Virginia Port Authority, and the Port of Los Angeles. For example, diesel-powered port equipment can seriously impact air quality for nearby residents and generate substantial greenhouse gas and black carbon emissions.

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Green Car Congress

NOVEMBER 16, 2018

A second opposed-piston engine project is led by Achates Power ( earlier post ). Achates Power will develop a highly efficient opposed-piston engine for hybrid vehicles (“HOPE-Hybrid”) using a unique engine design that minimizes energy losses typical in conventional internal combustion engines. Georgia Tech Research Corporation.

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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. Kairos Power (Alameda, California). Northrup Grumman Corporation (Elkton, Maryland). Framatome Inc. Lynchburg, Virginia). Beam Suntory, Inc. Utilidata, Inc.

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Cars That Think

DECEMBER 23, 2023

ALEXANDER BARG University of Maryland College Park “For contributions to the theory of error-correcting codes and their applications in distributed storage, non-volatile memory, and digital fingerprinting.” IEEE RICHARD W. HAMMING MEDAL Sponsor: Qualcomm , Inc. IEEE NICK HOLONYAK, JR. “For IEEE THEODORE W.

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Green Car Congress

JULY 12, 2017

The Department of Army will contribute an additional $1 million through the Advanced Vehicle Power Technology Alliance to support these projects. University of Maryland: College Park. University of Maryland: College Park. University of Maryland: College Park. Earlier post.) Organization. Description. General Motors LLC.

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Green Car Congress

JUNE 24, 2014

Light-Material Interactions in Energy Conversion (LMI). Tailor the morphology, complex dielectric structure, and electronic properties of matter so as to sculpt the flow of sunlight and heat, enabling light conversion to electrical energy with unprecedented efficiency. Solid-State Solar-Thermal Energy Conversion Center (S3TEC).

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Green Car Congress

MAY 9, 2016

A team of scientists from the US Department of Energy’s (DOE) Brookhaven National Laboratory, the University of Pennsylvania, and the University of Maryland, College Park, has developed an electron microscopy technique to visualize—in real time and at high resolution—lithiation pathways in electrode materials. Source: BNL.

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Green Car Congress

AUGUST 16, 2013

Peak power densities of cells with LnBa 0.5 Test cells based on these new cathode materials demonstrated peak power densities of ~2.2 The power density of a commercialized low-temperature SOFC system developed by researchers at the University of Maryland and Redox Power is also more than 2W cm -2 , earlier post.).

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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. University of Maryland. Bio2Electric, LLC d.b.a. EcoCatalytic Technologies. Zyvex Labs, LLC.

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Green Car Congress

NOVEMBER 19, 2020

ULTIMATE teams will develop ultrahigh temperature materials for gas turbine use in the aviation and power generation industries. Natural gas turbines generate more than a third of the country’s electricity, supplying power to consumers across America. University of Maryland. Raytheon Technologies Research Center.

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Green Car Congress

JANUARY 4, 2020

Modular System for Direct Conversion of Methane into Methanol via Photocatalysis. Stanford University aims to develop a process-intensified catalyst for photochemical conversion of methane to methanol. AOI 2B: Modular Equipment and PI Design Concepts for Conversion of Flare Gas to High-Value Carbon Products.

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Green Car Congress

JULY 31, 2012

The US Department of Energy (DOE) has selected 7 projects that will help develop low-cost solid oxide fuel cell (SOFC) technology for central power generation from fossil energy resources for further research. Completion of this project could enable higher power density SOFC operation at lower temperatures, reducing SOFC degradation and cost.

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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. Shift Power Solutions, Inc.

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EV Match

FEBRUARY 10, 2022

Arcadia has developed a suite of technical products to make this possible, from tools that explore utility data and analytics to understand and optimize electricity usage, to centralized billing options that empower businesses to engage in the clean energy conversation with their customers. Many people across the U.S.

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Green Car Congress

AUGUST 22, 2012

a Maryland-based industrial biotechnology company developing products for the renewable chemicals and advanced fuels industries. —Leon DeBruyn, CLG CO-Managing Director. In July 2011, Aemetis—then called AE Biofuels—completed the acquisition of Zymetis, Inc., Earlier post.)

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Green Car Congress

JANUARY 8, 2010

With ultimate research targets ranging from off-shore wind power and coral reef ecology to electrochemical energy storage, quantum physics and nanotechnology, the 12 projects will launch more than $250 million in new laboratory construction projects beginning early this year. million to the University of Maryland (College Park, Md.)

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Green Car Congress

JUNE 16, 2016

Olli is equipped with a 15 kWh battery pack powering a 20 kW continuous, 30 kW max electric motor that delivers 125 N·m of torque. —Harriet Green, General Manager, IBM Watson Internet of Things, Commerce & Education. Maximum speed is 20 km/h (12 mph). Average fuel economy is 3.48 km/kWh (2.16

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Green Car Congress

SEPTEMBER 30, 2011

The new ARPA-E selections focus on accelerating innovations in clean technology while increasing US competitiveness in rare earth alternatives and breakthroughs in biofuels, thermal storage, grid controls, and solar power electronics. Solar ADEPT: Solar Agile Delivery of Electrical Power Technology ($14.7 Lead organization.

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Green Car Congress

AUGUST 14, 2014

Through the Advanced Vehicle Power Technology Alliance with the Energy Department, the Department of the Army is contributing an additional $3.7 Liox Power. University of Maryland. Commercialization of Power Electronics for Electric Traction Drives Using Wide Band Gap (WBG) Semiconductors (Area of Interest 4).

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Electric Auto Association

APRIL 19, 2021

A wide range of EVs were displayed online, from electric farm equipment in rural areas to EV school buses in Montgomery County , Maryland. Other EAA chapters hosted virtual happy hours and coffee chats, investigated solar-powered EVs, and learned about the latest charging, financing, and permitting information in states around the country.

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Green Car Congress

JUNE 28, 2011

The goal is to develop energy storage systems with high-energy density to meet the ever-demand for the electric grid to provide reliable, distributed power. NETL scientists believe that metallic Mg or its alloys should be feasible candidates as positive electrodes for power systems in which cost is critical. Earlier post.)

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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. Solar Energy Conversion in Complex Materials (SECCM). Purdue University.

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Energy Energy Storage Conversion Solar 150

Green Car Congress

SEPTEMBER 22, 2009

PV canopies will produce power and reduce temperatures underneath canopies. MARTA anticipates that the power produced by these photovoltaic panels will be sold to Georgia Power under their Distributed Generation Contract Program. The nearby traction power substation will be switched off when the WESS is operating.

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Cars That Think

JANUARY 6, 2023

IEEE Spectrum analyzed hundreds of criminal complaints and other legal filings from the Capitol attacks to understand that reach and scale, and to consider the legal and social consequences of the government’s power to delve into its citizens’ digital lives. Not according to an ALPR photo snapped in rural Maryland at 8:44 a.m.

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Green Car Congress

AUGUST 26, 2009

The project will include the purchase and conversion of 283 alternative fuel vehicles for numerous fleets including taxis, cities, schools, and delivery vehicles. Maryland Energy Administration’s Maryland Hybrid Truck Goods Movement Initiative. Total DOE award: $12,299,828. Total DOE award: $6,917,200.

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Tony Karrer Delicious EVdriven

APRIL 21, 2009

Conversions are mostly for the Prius, with a few for the Ford Escape/Mercury Mariner hybrid SUVs. At that point, we expect the aftermarket companies prices to have come down sufficiently so that their conversions will be attractive to owners of hundreds of thousands of hybrids already on the road. So far, most start as hybrids.

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