Green Car Congress

MARCH 26, 2019

Through our commitment to making a positive impact on people’s lives, the communities where we operate and the environment, we are once again pushing the boundaries of aviation by becoming the first aircraft to be powered by electric propulsion. —Greg McDougall, founder and CEO of Harbour Air Seaplanes.

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Green Car Congress

JULY 19, 2021

Selected projects will use HPC to address complex challenges, from improving additive manufacturing processes to increasing the lifecycle energy efficiency of jet-engine components to improving the performance of materials used to convert CO 2 into high-value chemicals and products. 3M Company. DOE award: $297,000. Opus 12 Inc.

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Green Car Congress

JANUARY 13, 2019

DRIVE Localization makes that precise positioning possible by matching semantic landmarks in the vehicle’s environment with features from HD maps to determine exactly where it is in real time. By leveraging mass-market sensors the platform is cost effective, enabling use in personal cars.

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Green Car Congress

MARCH 2, 2017

The customized e-NV200 offers taxi drivers a similar total cost of ownership to a hybrid taxi, but with the range of an internal combustion engine. It can be recharged from a low-cost power supply, and refueled with hydrogen in three minutes (3.8 kg hydrogen at 700 bar). —Fabio Ferrari, CEO of Symbio.

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Green Car Congress

MAY 23, 2013

Intended primarily to convert heavy fuel oil into desulfurized diesel and ultra low sulfur heating oil, the planned complex responds to the shift in demand toward products with a lower environmental impact. A new plant to convert low value refinery fuel gases into low cost petrochemical feedstock, replacing expensive oil-based naphtha.

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Green Car Congress

JULY 17, 2020

AOI 02: Low Cost Electric Traction Drive Systems Using No Heavy Rare Earth Materials. Low Cost, High-Performance, Heavy Rare Earth-Free 3-In-1 Electric Drive Unit. Low-Cost Rare-Earth Free Electric Drivetrain Enabled by Novel Permanent Magnets, Inverter, Integrated Design and Advanced Thermal Management.

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Green Car Congress

OCTOBER 15, 2013

Biosynthetic Technologies holds exclusive rights to patented technology that converts fatty acids into high-performance synthetic oils that can be used in lubricant, personal care and other chemical sectors. The new plant incorporates and validates every aspect of the low-cost continuous-flow manufacturing process.

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Green Car Congress

APRIL 24, 2013

The hybrid material effectively catalyzes the conversion of liquid water to hydrogen gas while remaining stable in an acidic environment. Researchers at the US Department of Energy’s Brookhaven National Laboratory (BNL) have developed a low-cost, stable, effective catalyst made from earth-abundant molybdenum and common soybeans (MoSoy).

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Green Car Congress

JANUARY 19, 2015

or LSF) supported Fe 3 O 4 —is capable of converting more than 67% steam with high redox stability. The hybrid solar-redox process converts solar energy and methane into separate streams of liquid fuels and hydrogen through the assistance of an oxygen carrier. Image credit: Feng He. Click to enlarge. —Feng He, lead author.

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Green Car Congress

NOVEMBER 9, 2009

INEOS Bio, a subsidiary of INEOS, the world’s third-largest chemicals company, has started a feasibility study for a plant in the UK to convert locally generated biodegradable household and commercial wastes into carbon neutral road transport fuel and clean electricity, using the INEOS Bio technology process. Click to enlarge.

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Green Car Congress

AUGUST 17, 2011

at Harsco’s world headquarters in Pennsylvania, taps into Harsco’s leadership serving the worldwide steel industry, in combination with LanzaTech’s proprietary bioenergy technologies for reducing the carbon footprint of integrated steelmaking operations by converting waste gas to ethanol and high value chemicals.

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Cars That Think

NOVEMBER 1, 2021

Or, new-ish, at least—there's a ruggedized and ultra low-cost GelSight-style fingertip sensor, plus a nifty new kind of tactile sensing skin based on suspended magnetic particles and machine learning. And that is where all of this research leads in the long run, whether the environment is real or virtual.

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Green Car Congress

AUGUST 6, 2016

The technique, described in a paper in the journal Science , provides the producer microbes with competitive advantage over other, contaminating microbes with minimal external risks, given that engineered biocatalysts only have improved fitness within the customized fermentation environment. The researchers engineered E. Click to enlarge.

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Green Car Congress

JANUARY 17, 2010

As part of the initial agreement signed by the partners on 17 January at the World Future Energy Summit in Abu Dhabi, the SBRP will undertake research projects that combine the arid and salt-rich environment of Abu Dhabi with innovative and promising saltwater farming practices. who has been engaged as special advisor to the project.

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Green Car Congress

FEBRUARY 11, 2012

One negative side effect of a lean burn engine, whether powered by gasoline or diesel fuel, is an increase in the amount of emissions released to the environment. The plasma reformer, installed into the engine compartment, convert fuel into hydrogen.

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Green Car Congress

NOVEMBER 11, 2011

The project aims at developing more compact and more powerful GaN-based energy converters which are used, for example, in information and communication technology and solar inverter technology. Low energy consumption and high output powers are the core requirements for modern power converter systems.

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Green Car Congress

APRIL 9, 2013

Although preferred for their simplicity and low cost, shunts have in the past been problematic for use, as system designers were forced to make a trade-off between the desired accuracy and the excessive power consumption of the measurement system.

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Green Car Congress

JANUARY 20, 2015

IFP Energies nouvelles (IFPEN) and its subsidiary Axens have formed a strategic alliance to develop and to commercialize a new technology for the low cost production of bio-based benzene, toluene and paraxylene using Anellotech’s process of Catalytic Fast Pyrolysis (CFP) of non-food biomass. Anellotech Inc., Earlier post.).

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Green Car Congress

APRIL 6, 2018

The design method, reported in a paper in the Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences , (PNAS) also has the potential to impact the discovery of new optical and data storage materials, catalysts that impact pharmaceutical synthesis and catalysts that allow for higher efficiency processing of petroleum products at much lower cost.

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Green Car Congress

OCTOBER 12, 2021

CRDL) have commenced discussions on joint research aimed at accelerating development and implementing advanced technologies in the field of energy and the environment. The three parties will seek to popularize vehicles equipped with solar power generation systems, which convert light energy into electrical energy.

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Green Car Congress

APRIL 30, 2010

Today’s technologies for making biofuels all rely on photosynthesis—either indirectly by converting plants to fuels or directly by harnessing photosynthetic organisms such as algae. This process is less than 1% efficient at converting sunlight to stored chemical energy. Electrofuels: Biofuels from Electricity. Engineering E.

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Green Car Congress

DECEMBER 13, 2013

The California Energy Commission (CEC) is awarding $1,135,862 to 12 small-scale projects to research that will reduce the cost of producing electricity, save energy and improve the environment. The project aims to increase the generation of clean, low cost, efficient energy.

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Green Car Congress

MARCH 17, 2015

It is widely believed that room temperature electrochemical reduction of water to molecular hydrogen offers a significant promise for supplying CO 2 -free hydrogen, which can be used directly as a fuel or as reactant to convert CO 2 and to upgrade petroleum and biomass feedstocks to value-added chemicals and fuels through hydrotreating processes.

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Green Car Congress

FEBRUARY 12, 2018

Colorado State University will develop a novel, low-cost turbo-compression cooling system that utilizes the ultra-low-grade waste (less than 150°C) heat available in many industrial processes, the energy from which is not traditionally recovered. Colorado State University. Massachusetts Institute of Technology. Yale University.

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Green Car Congress

MAY 6, 2015

Fungi have been of interest for about a decade within biofuels production as the key producer of enzymes necessary for converting biomass to sugars. The research received funding from the Danish Council for Strategic Research under the program for Energy and Environment.

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Green Car Congress

MAY 6, 2009

Battelle is granting an exclusive license to Genifuel Corporation for a process developed at Pacific Northwest National Laboratory (PNNL) to convert algae into renewable synthetic natural gas (SNG) for use in pipelines and power generation. Battelle operates PNNL for the US Department of Energy. Genifuel President Jim Oyler. doi: 10.1002/bbb.74.

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Green Car Congress

JUNE 30, 2010

Acetogens have several advantages to yeast: they convert all xylose (C 5 ) and glucose (C 6 ) sugars and tolerate all breakdown products of biomass; they operate in harsh environments; and they produce no CO 2 as a by-product. The acetic acid is converted to an ester which is then hydrogenated to make ethanol. Have “term”.

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Green Car Congress

MAY 19, 2014

Potential high-value products from isolated lignin include low-cost carbon fiber, engineering plastics and thermoplastic elastomers, polymeric foams and membranes, and a variety of fuels and chemicals—all currently sourced from petroleum.

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Green Car Congress

FEBRUARY 27, 2010

For future scenarios where vehicle technology costs were sufficiently competitive to advantage either hydrogen or electric vehicles, the increased availability of low-cost, low-CO 2 electricity/hydrogen provided more cost-effective CO 2 mitigation opportunities in the heat and power energy sectors than in transportation.

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Green Car Congress

JULY 15, 2011

only 7% of the chemical energy in corn kernels is converted to the kinetic energy on wheels, implying a great potential in increasing biomass utilization efficiency. Because of the same input and output in all cases, an increase in energy conversion efficiency nearly equals impact reductions in carbon and water footprints on the environment.

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Cars That Think

NOVEMBER 3, 2021

"With that challenge, we started looking for data sets that would provide flood information and realized that there were little to no quantitative or real-time flood data available, not just in New York City, but in urban environments around the world," said Silverman. "At At that point, we realized we needed to collect that data ourselves."

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Green Car Congress

JULY 29, 2010

The most immediate, effective and low-cost way to reduce soot emissions is to put particle traps on vehicles, diesel trucks, buses, and construction equipment. Soot could be further reduced by converting vehicles to run on renewable electric power. Black carbon converts sunlight to heat and radiates it back to the air around it.

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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.

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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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Green Car Congress

JANUARY 18, 2014

VTO is seeking projects in this area not represented by, or similar to, current R&D projects at DOE) that focus on the following key barriers: Cost Reduction. The additional content which includes the motor, inverter, converter, and on?board board charger must be offset by the cost savings in operational costs as seen by the customer.

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Green Car Congress

FEBRUARY 15, 2022

The new superjunction structure will surpass the theoretical trade-off between on- resistance and breakdown voltage observed in conventional unipolar GaN, leading to more efficient and cheaper power converters. The Ohio State University. University of Washington. Pratt & Whitney.

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Get Electric Vehicle

MARCH 27, 2021

Startups have this innate potential to take up an idea and converting it into a viable business plan then scaling it into a massive success. The company also produces low-cost lithium-ion scooters, which they displayed at the Auto Expo 2020. Whenever the world is shaken by new technology, it is most probably by a start-up.

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