Green Car Congress

JANUARY 29, 2021

A team of researchers led by Zhifeng Ren, director of the Texas Center for Superconductivity at the University of Houston, has developed an oxygen-evolving catalyst that takes just minutes to grow at room temperature on commercially available nickel foam. That requires substantial amounts of energy and drives up the cost.

Hydrogen 284

Hydrogen Water Commercial Houston 284

Green Car Congress

SEPTEMBER 8, 2014

Researchers at Southwest Research Institute (SwRI) and The University of Texas at San Antonio (UTSA) have determined that biochar, a substance produced from plant matter, is a safe, effective and inexpensive method to treat flowback water following hydraulic fracturing, or fracking.

Water 257

Water Low Cost Oil-Sands San Antonio 257

Green Car Congress

DECEMBER 13, 2016

Researchers at the University of Texas at Austin, including Prof. However, the team notes, the all-solid-state metal-plating batteries are simpler to fabricate at lower cost and offer much higher energy densities, longer cycle life, and acceptable charge/discharge rates.

Low Cost 150

Low Cost Recharge Austin Li-ion 150

Baua Electric

MARCH 21, 2024

Audi is joining the race as automakers gear up to introduce new, lower-cost EV models. Audi plots a new lower-cost EV, an electric A3 or Q3 After unveiling the new Q6 e-tron this week, its next-gen premium mid-size electric SUV, Audi, is planning a smaller, lower-cost EV. Kia is also planning a series of low-cost models.

Audi 52

Audi Affordable BYD Low Cost 52

Green Car Congress

OCTOBER 7, 2015

A team led by researchers from Sandia National Laboratories has shown that molybdenum disulfide (MoS 2 ), exfoliated with lithiation intercalation to change its physical structure, performs as well as the best state-of-the-art catalysts for the hydrogen evolution reaction (HER) but at a significantly lower cost. —Bryan Kaehr.

Low Cost 150

Low Cost Hydrogen Water Production 150

Green Car Congress

JULY 24, 2020

Researchers from the University of California San Diego (UCSD) and the University of Texas at Austin, with colleagues at the US Army Research Laboratory and Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory, have developed a thick cobalt-free high voltage spinel (LiNi 0.5 O 4 (LNMO)) cathode material with high areal capacity. —Li et al. (a)

Ni-Li 307

Ni-Li Li-ion San Diego Energy Storage 307

Green Car Congress

MAY 12, 2023

Rapidly declining battery costs, low-cost electricity, and federal purchase incentives mean these vehicles will be cheaper to own and operate than diesel trucks before the end of this decade. California and Texas alone are projected to account for a combined 19% of charging energy needs in 2030.

Emissions 442

Emissions Hydrogen Vehicles Charging 442

CleanTechnica EVs

DECEMBER 16, 2022

Starting in Texas, this is an electricity plan from Tesla. As the company stated in an introductory tweet, “Introducing Tesla Electric, the electricity plan that offers low-cost clean energy for […]. Tesla has launched a new division, or perhaps we should say a new offering — Tesla Electric.

Tesla 98

Tesla Texas Low Cost Electric 98

Green Car Congress

APRIL 1, 2023

Nacero will transition its current pre-construction, multi-billion USD facility in Penwell, Texas—designed to produce low carbon gasoline—to the production of sustainable aviation fuel (SAF) and lower carbon aviation fuel (LCAF).

Gasoline 199

Gasoline Carbon Texas Gas 199

Green Car Congress

AUGUST 3, 2022

The University of Texas at San Antonio (UTSA) and Southwest Research Institute are collaborating to improve storage materials for hydrogen fuels with a hybrid metal-carbon microstructure that combines both chemical and physical hydrogen storage mechanisms. The hydrogen will be chemically and physically absorbed and desorbed.

Hydrogen 259

Hydrogen San Antonio Store Grant 259

Green Car Congress

DECEMBER 22, 2022

After more than a decade of dedication and perseverance, successfully creating a low-carbon fuel entirely from landfill waste validates the strength of our process and our partners’ unwavering belief in and support for our business model. —Eric Pryor, Fulcrum’s President and C. Sierra Biofuels plant block diagram.

Sierra 221

Sierra Waste Carbon Oil 221

Baua Electric

FEBRUARY 6, 2024

During the company’s Q4 2023 earnings, Farley and top executives summed that the automaker plans to shift the launch timing on some of its Gen 2 electric vehicles, with more attention paid to the cost and efficiency of its EVs—given, as was mentioned multiple times, a “new market reality.”

Ford 52

Ford China Tesla F-150 52

Green Car Congress

APRIL 23, 2021

Nacero has licensed Topsoe TIGAS (Topsoe Improved Gasoline Synthesis) technology for its multi-billion USD natural-gas-to-gasoline facility in Penwell, Texas to produce 100,000 barrels per day of gasoline component ready for blending into US commercial grades. Nacero’s Pemwell-facility in Houston, Texas.

Gasoline 221

Gasoline Turkmenistan Gas Carbon 221

Green Car Congress

OCTOBER 10, 2021

These conductivity-enhanced materials have the potential to lower the costs and impacts of adding renewables and electric cars to the grid, maximize next-generation energy storage technologies, and support electrification for energy-intensive sectors.

Manufacturer 320

Manufacturer Carbon Fiber Affordable Carbon 320

Green Car Congress

AUGUST 1, 2010

Texas Governor Rick Perry has awarded $2.75 million from the Texas Emerging Technology Fund (TETF) to Terrabon for its work in biofuel technology development. Further, the project will demonstrate the commercial viability of the desalination technology that also reduces the capital and operating costs of water purification.

Texas 210

Texas Water Waste Gasoline 210

Green Car Congress

JULY 11, 2023

Next in the rankings is Utah (66.2%), Pennsylvania (66.0%), the District of Columbia (65.4%), Texas (63.6%), Oklahoma (62.6%), Florida (62.3%), Illinois (60.6%), Louisiana (59.2%), and Wisconsin (59.1%). Its continued dominance in trucking reflects diesel’s record of continuous improvement and low-cost operation.

Diesel 284

Diesel Commercial Emissions District of Columbia 284

Green Car Congress

AUGUST 26, 2019

A University of Texas at Dallas physicist has teamed with Texas Instruments Inc. Bi,Sb) 2 (Se,Te) 3 TEGs, our silicon integrated circuit TEGs could be seamlessly integrated into large-scale silicon CMOS microelectronic circuits at very low marginal cost. The marginal cost is a factor of 100 lower. —Hu et al.

Dallas 249

Dallas Texas Waste Power 249

Green Car Congress

APRIL 2, 2016

On top of the gains in strength, the new alloy benefits from a lower cost process. However, wide scale adoption of β-titanium alloys in transportation applications has been limited due to its high cost. Ti-185 alloy demonstrated high tensile and shear strength proving to be an excellent candidate for fastener applications.

Fuel Economy 150

Fuel Economy Economy CO2 Low Cost 150

Teslarati

JANUARY 25, 2024

During Tesla’s Q4 and FY 2023 earnings call, CEO Eon Musk stated that the company is “very far along” on its next-generation low-cost vehicle program. As for the production locations of Tesla’s next-generation vehicle, Musk noted that Giga Texas will be first , followed by Giga Mexico.

Production 128

Production North America Texas Austin 128

Green Car Congress

JANUARY 21, 2021

Projects selected under this funding opportunity announcement will reduce both the costs of critical materials and the environmental impacts of production. DOE funding: $5,577,738; cost share: $5,925,475; Total costs: $11,503,213. DOE funding: $2,272,112; costs share: $2,272,112; Total costs: $4,544,224.

Li-ion 321

Li-ion Wyoming Lithium Ion Corporation 321

Green Car Congress

JUNE 17, 2014

of Danbury, Connecticut will receive $900,000 to develop a novel hybrid system for low-cost, low greenhouse gas hydrogen production. Wiretough Cylinders LLC of Bristol, Virginia will receive $2 million to demonstrate a low cost high pressure hydrogen storage vessel using a steel wire overwrap. FuelCell Energy Inc.

Hydrogen 253

Hydrogen San Antonio Production Hawaii 253

EV Central

APRIL 9, 2024

Tesla had planned to launch a low-cost entry EV rumoured to be dubbed the Tesla Model 2 as soon as the second half of 2025, with production already assigned to the car-maker’s plant in Texas. READ MORE: Tesla Model Y cheaper than ever! Top selling electric car slashed up to $8500; could it outsell the Ford Ranger?

All-Electric 106

All-Electric Electric Cars Tesla Affordable 106

Green Car Congress

DECEMBER 19, 2014

Researchers at the University of Texas at Austin, led by Prof. The ability to use commercially available bulk particles could significantly decrease the manufacturing cost of Li?S Arumugam Manthiram, have found that using phosphorus pentasulfide (P 2 S 5 ) as an electrolyte additive. S batteries with a Li S cathode.

Lithium Sulfur 230

Lithium Sulfur Austin Texas Batteries 230

Teslarati

MARCH 24, 2024

market, the company’s recent release of a city EV with a price tag under $10,000 has some worried for when it and other low-cost companies do. Although competitive Chinese automaker BYD isn’t yet slated to enter the U.S. While BYD said just last month that it has no plans to enter the U.S.

Auto Industry 140

Auto Industry BYD Auto Industrial 140

Green Car Congress

NOVEMBER 10, 2009

ActaCell, a Li-ion battery spin-off from the University of Texas at Austin, was selected by the state of Texas, through the Austin Chamber of Commerce and the Central Texas Regional Center of Innovation and Commercialization (CenTex RCIC), to be awarded investment by the Texas Emerging Technology Fund (ETF).

Li-ion 170

Li-ion Texas Austin EV1 170

Green Car Congress

NOVEMBER 12, 2021

Arumugam “Ram” Manthiram, Professor, University of Texas at Austin. Dr. Manthiram is Director of the Texas Materials Institute and the Materials Science and Engineering Graduate Program. With more than 35 years of experience, Dr. Manthiram’s research is focused on the development of low-cost, high-performance materials for batteries.

Batteries 186

Batteries Battery Lithium Ion 2003 186

Green Car Congress

DECEMBER 1, 2020

The cathode and electrolyte chemistries elucidated here propel the development of magnesium batteries and would accelerate the adoption of this low-cost and safe battery technology. 1 , nearly two orders of magnitude higher than that of state-of-the-art Mg batteries. —Dong et al.

Li-ion 373

Li-ion Batteries Battery Power 373

Green Car Congress

AUGUST 13, 2020

Xcel services customers in Colorado, Michigan, Minnesota, New Mexico, North and South Dakota, Texas and Wisconsin. If realized, EVs would make up 20% of all vehicles on the road in those areas—more than 30 times the number today.

Minnesota 370

Minnesota Energy Wisconsin Colorado 370

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.

Lithium Ion 236

Lithium Ion Vehicles Li-ion Universal 236

Green Car Congress

JULY 10, 2019

Low Cost Roll-to-Roll Manufacturing of Reusable Sorbents for Energy and Water Industries, $150,000 Qualification of SAS4A/SASSYS-1 for Sodium-Cooled Fast Reactor Authorization and Licensing, $674,484 Advanced Reactor Concepts LLC, Chevy Chase, Md. Quanex Building Products Corporation, Houston, Texas SCP SYS LLC, San Francisco, Calif.

Commercial 247

Commercial San Jose San Francisco San Diego 247

Green Car Congress

NOVEMBER 6, 2014

Greyrock Energy, a company transforming natural gas into premium transportation fuels ( earlier post ), announced a final investment decision (FID) to build a small-scale Gas-to-Liquids (GTL) facility near Houston, Texas. The plant will be commercially operational by the end of 2015.

Houston 225

Houston Gas Building Dallas 225

Teslarati

AUGUST 10, 2021

Tesla’s battery recycling efforts all but confirm that facilities like Gigafactory Berlin and Gigafactory Texas — factories that would have their own battery production site — would have a dedicated battery recycling plant onsite as well. Don’t hesitate to contact us with news tips.

Batteries 145

Batteries Battery Tesla Texas 145

Cars That Think

SEPTEMBER 29, 2023

IROS 2023 : 1–5 October 2023, DETROIT CLAWAR 2023 : 2–4 October 2023, FLORIANOPOLIS, BRAZIL ROSCon 2023 : 18–20 October 2023, NEW ORLEANS Humanoids 2023 : 12–14 December 2023, AUSTIN, TEXAS Cybathlon Challenges : 2 February 2024, ZURICH Enjoy today’s videos! This can be mostly attributed to the lack of suitable hardware.

Low Cost 80

Low Cost Brazil Austin Detroit 80

Green Car Congress

MARCH 27, 2019

Linear Labs motors significantly beat Department of Energy and ARPA-E goals for Cost Density and Power Density. This results in a more compact and low-cost power electronic converter at the required power ratings used in commercial propulsion units. Linear Labs was founded in 2014 in Texas by Brad and Fred Hunstable.

Commercial 207

Commercial Motor Motors Motoring 207

Cars That Think

FEBRUARY 22, 2024

The goal is to keep the lights on at a low cost by utilizing an efficient mix of power plants. The regions are distributed across three separate and largely isolated networks, called “ interconnections ”–Eastern, Western, and most of Texas. The cost of the project, estimated at US $1.9 An October 2023 report from the U.S.

Grid 140

Grid United States Connect Connected 140

Green Car Congress

JULY 14, 2016

The US Department of Energy (DOE) is awarding up to $15 million for three projects aimed at reducing the production costs of algae-based biofuels and bioproducts through improvements in algal biomass yields. Global Algae Innovations. Global Algae Innovations Inc., MicroBio Engineering, Inc. MicroBio Engineering, Inc.,

San Diego 150

San Diego Georgia Florida Renewable 150

Green Car Congress

OCTOBER 4, 2021

This year alone, Xcel Energy has released a suite of programs to help residential and commercial customers make the transition to electric vehicles and lower certain costs. Customers can receive a rebate of up to $500 to cover the costs of permitting, materials, installation, and electrical work needed to install the circuit.

New Mexico 170

New Mexico Colorado Mexico EV Smart 170