Green Car Congress

FEBRUARY 19, 2009

Dominion Virginia Power has added two plug-in electric hybrid cars and two hybrid-powered bucket trucks to its fleet as part of its efforts to determine the impact of plug-in vehicles on electricity demand and to find ways to conserve energy and reduce vehicle emissions. Click to enlarge. The company uses approximately 1.7

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Green Car Congress

SEPTEMBER 23, 2013

Waste generated by the facility, which manufactures all Volvo trucks sold in North America, is now recycled, composted or converted to electricity. The Volvo Group is one of the world’s leading manufacturers of trucks, buses, construction equipment and marine and industrial engines.

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Green Car Congress

APRIL 6, 2017

A multi-institutional team led by the University of Illinois has genetically engineered sugarcane to produce lipids in its leaves and stems for biodiesel production (lipid-cane). Long leads the research project Plants Engineered to Replace Oil in Sugarcane and Sweet Sorghum (PETROSS) that has pioneered this work at the Carl R.

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Green Car Congress

JANUARY 5, 2018

SoCalGas) is partnering with a development team to advance a new process that converts natural gas to hydrogen, carbon fiber, and carbon nanotubes. The technology commercialization team includes SoCalGas, C4, Pacific Northwest National Laboratory (PNNL) and West Virginia University (WVU). Southern California Gas Co.

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Green Car Congress

MARCH 18, 2016

A techno-economic analysis by a team from the University of Illinois at Urbana Champaign and Virginia Polytechnic Institute and State University has determined that biodiesel produced from oil from genetically modified lipid-producing sugarcane (lipid-cane) is much more economical than biodiesel produced from soybean oil. percent oil.

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Green Car Congress

OCTOBER 12, 2010

(GlycosBio), an emerging biochemical company targeting metabolic engineering and microbiology innovations for the production of sustainable biochemicals, has become a member of the National Science Foundation’s (NSF) Engineering Research Center for Biorenewable Chemicals ( CBiRC ).

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Green Car Congress

MAY 5, 2010

Axial Vector Energy Corporation (AVEC) has developed a new hybrid electric drive train comprising a small axial-type, multi-fuel AVEC engine ( earlier post ), an AVEC generator/motor and an all new electric clutch. If the batteries are low in charge, the AVEC engine starts, engages the generator and stays on until the batteries are charged.

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Green Car Congress

JULY 17, 2020

Rationally Designed Lithium Ion Batteries Towards Displacing Internal Combustion Engines. AOI 04: Platinum Group Metals (PGM) Content Reduction to Enable Cost-Effective Aftertreatment for Gasoline and Diesel Engines. Slashing Platinum Group Metals Content in Catalytic Converters: An Atoms-to-Autos Approach. Solid Power Inc.

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Green Car Congress

JULY 15, 2011

However, notes Virginia Tech Prof. internal combustion engine vehicle (ICE); hybrid electric vehicle-gasoline (HEV-gas); hybrid electric vehicle-diesel (HEV-diesel); (hydrogen) fuel cell vehicle (FCV); battery electric vehicle (BEV); and sugar fuel cell vehicle (SFCV). Huang and Zhang. Click to enlarge. Zhang 2009. Click to enlarge.

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Green Car Congress

DECEMBER 4, 2017

Researchers at West Virginia University will lead a team that will investigate ways to convert stranded gas resources into value-added liquid products that could reduce the United States’ demand for crude oil by up to 20%. —John Hu, Statler Chair in Engineering for Natural Gas Utilization at WVU.

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Green Car Congress

NOVEMBER 25, 2020

The multi-disciplinary nature and challenges of HKT design requires expertise from a range of scientific and engineering fields working together concurrently. Multidisciplinary engineering efforts with extensive modeling, iterative optimization, control co-design, and experimental validations will mitigate identified technical risks.

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Cars That Think

MAY 12, 2023

In the early 1980s, Goetzberger conducted pioneering research into fluorescent planar collector-concentrators, utilizing photovoltaic (PV) material mixed with fluorescent dyes to separate the various wavelengths of light and convert them using solar cells with different band gaps. Sauer served in the U.S. Sauer served in the U.S.

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Green Car Congress

MARCH 20, 2015

The US Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) has awarded $8 million to communities in 21 states and Puerto Rico to reduce emissions from the nation’s existing fleet of diesel engines through the agency’s Diesel Emission Reduction Act ( DERA ) program. Delaware and Virginia. Mid-Atlantic Regional Air Management Association, Inc.

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Cars That Think

MARCH 11, 2023

In 2001, a team of engineers at a then-obscure R&D company called AC Propulsion quietly began a groundbreaking experiment. The researchers estimated that, if applied to the task of generating electricity, all of the engines in the U.S. They wanted to see whether an electric vehicle could feed electricity back to the grid.

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Green Car Congress

FEBRUARY 19, 2015

UK startup Libertine LPE has developed a free piston linear power generator technology that it says overcomes the key challenges faced by earlier free piston engine schemes of motion control, emissions and power conversion efficiency. However, motion control is a significant design challenge for free piston engines, Libertine notes.

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Green Car Congress

DECEMBER 16, 2010

This primary program effort is to consist of optimized process development and engineering along with regionally specific economic modeling to produce fuel, demonstrate process energy efficiency and support commercialization. Integrated Processes for Converting CO 2 and. per gallon. Logos’ effort in Phase-1 was worth $19.6

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Cars That Think

FEBRUARY 6, 2024

A new paper published yesterday in Physical Review Letters confirms the team’s claims and details the complex engineering required to make it possible. This kind of inconsistency is unsurprising, though, says Saskia Mordijck , an associate professor of physics at the College of William and Mary in Virginia. Why is fusion so hard?

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Green Car Congress

AUGUST 19, 2011

The high-temperature, high-pressure gas is then expanded through a series of rotor-mounted airfoils in the turbine section, converting the gas’ energy into mechanical work. —Vinod Philip, the Head of Gas Turbine Engineering at Siemens Energy. As such, it represents a critical tool in Siemens’ clean energy development efforts.

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Green Car Congress

OCTOBER 9, 2014

Further, Parker Hannifin has paired a RunWise transmission with a CNG engine in the series hybrid powertrain as a one-off to test the waters for such a combination, McGrew said. The brake energy recovery system converts the vehicle’s kinetic energy into stored energy by compressing nitrogen gas in a storage device called an accumulator.

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Green Car Congress

AUGUST 12, 2011

The 10 projects are located in California, Colorado, Illinois, Florida, Kansas, Missouri, Oklahoma, South Carolina and Virginia: Association Mapping of Cell Wall Synthesis Regulatory Genes and Cell Wall Quality in Switchgrass. Eric Beers, Virginia Polytechnic and State University, Blacksburg. Bartley, University of Oklahoma, Norman.

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Green Car Congress

SEPTEMBER 10, 2010

The project will develop a new device called the Galloping Hydrokinetic Energy Extraction Device that will convert fast-moving river currents into an oscillating motion that will drive a dielectric elastomer generator (DEG). Pueblo, Colorado) will design, construct and test a laboratory-scale model of the Cycloidal Wave Energy Converter.

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Cars That Think

NOVEMBER 28, 2022

Converting a gas appliance to a heat pump, for example, would draw 4 to 6 kW, while an L2 charger for EVs would be 12 to 14 kW. Policy runs up against engineering reality The situation in Palo Alto is not unique. For instance, Marshall stated, it is not unusual for a 37.5 However, she adds, “All those things are not a magic wand.

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Clean Fleet Report

MARCH 20, 2023

When coasting or braking, it converts kinetic energy into electric energy and returns it to the battery. Distinct Exterior Sharing a platform with the gasoline-powered GV70 , Genesis engineers were able to use the same platform for both power plants without sacrificing interior space for people or cargo.

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Green Car Congress

JUNE 26, 2021

Lynchburg, Virginia). Wireless Radio Frequency Signal Identification and Protocol Reverse Engineering (WiFIRE), $750,000. Unsupervised Physics-informed Machine Learning of Complex Natural and Engineered Geoscience Processes, $250,000. ENTR Alliance (Charlottesville, Virginia). NovaCentrix (Austin, Texas). Framatome Inc.

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Green Car Congress

AUGUST 25, 2016

Using an engineered strain of the phototropic bacterium Rhodopseudomonas palustris as a biocatalyst, a team from the University of Washington, Utah State University and Virginia Polytechnic Institute and State University have reduced carbon dioxide to methane in one enzymatic step. In the study, the team found that engineered R.

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Green Car Congress

JULY 21, 2016

PSA Groupe is evaluating a free-piston engine linear-generator under development by Israel-based start-up Aquarius Engines for use as a range-extender in its electric vehicles. As outlined in one of its patent documents, the company is proposing a new cycle process—the Aquarius cycle—as well as the new free-piston engine.

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Green Cars News

OCTOBER 26, 2009

Lightweight Thermal Energy Recovery System: A grant of $2,655,174 will help General Motors to develop a shape memory alloy energy recovery system that converts waste heat from car engines to electricity.

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Green Car Congress

MARCH 19, 2021

For decades, PNNL scientists and engineers have led research using catalysts to reduce CO 2 emissions from industrial processes and transportation. Former PNNL research engineer, John Hu, now an endowed chair professor of the Statler College of Engineering and Mineral Resources at WVU, was one of those engineers.

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Green Car Congress

SEPTEMBER 22, 2009

Arlington Transit – ART, Virginia: $1,500,000. Energy Reduction Consolidated Projects: A variety of building energy-efficiency upgrades, hybrid vehicle upgrades, wind generator power systems, and the equipment needed to convert cooking oil to a blend with vehicle fuel to operate some of their buses.

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Green Car Congress

JUNE 19, 2015

ARPA-E’s TERRA program uniquely integrates agriculture, information technology and engineering to address major global challenges in developing crops that are sustainable, affordable and yield abundant plant feedstocks for bioenergy. The team will further increase the system’s efficiency by using low friction engine components.

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Electric Auto Association

OCTOBER 28, 2021

He understands the trend away from internal combustion engines (ICE) to electric-powered vehicles and realizes the tasks involved to decommission ICE infrastructure. I am definitely invested in EV adoption and can connect with engineers and media because of my background in EV ownership and my master’s in mechanical engineering.

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Green Car Congress

SEPTEMBER 30, 2011

The technology areas ( earlier post ) receiving funding are: PETRO: Plants Engineered To Replace Oil ($36 million). Plants Engineered to Replace Oil (PETRO). Energy Plant Design The University of California, Los Angeles, will re-engineer. streamline the process by which green plants convert carbon. This will allow a.

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Electric Auto Association

OCTOBER 28, 2021

He understands the trend away from internal combustion engines (ICE) to electric-powered vehicles and realizes the tasks involved to decommission ICE infrastructure. I am definitely invested in EV adoption and can connect with engineers and media because of my background in EV ownership and my master’s in mechanical engineering.

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Green Car Congress

AUGUST 10, 2015

The projects will address technical challenges in three areas: advanced controls; crosscutting power take-off (PTO), which converts mechanical motion into electrical power; and innovative structures. Virginia Tech , in collaboration with Resolute Marine Energy, Energy Harvesting Technology, LLC, THK America, Inc., ADVANCED CONTROLS.

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Green Car Congress

SEPTEMBER 17, 2011

Toyota applied experience from that test phase, along with input from participants, to finalize engineering and improve features for the production model. liter engine, third-generation hybrid transaxle, and power control unit (PCU), now supplemented by the new Li-ion battery and on-board charging system. The 2ZR-FXE 1.8-liter

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Green Car Congress

AUGUST 19, 2023

plans to advance a novel technology discovered by UCLA researchers that uses concentrated solar energy to convert methane into green hydrogen and a high-value form of solid carbon.

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Green Car Congress

JANUARY 4, 2020

West Virginia University Research Corporation will develop a Methane Mitigator (M2) system designed to eliminate fugitive natural gas emissions from well site operations and pipeline compressor stations. Low-temperature plasmas can create reactive chemical environments that can activate and convert hydrocarbons to valuable products.

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