Green Car Congress

JULY 17, 2020

Announced by Secretary Brouillette in January 2020, the Energy Storage Grand Challenge is designed to create and sustain US global leadership in energy storage technology, utilization, and exports. Rational Electrolyte Design for Li-ion Batteries with Micro-Sized Silicon Anodes. University of Maryland. Enovix Corporation.

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Green Car Congress

MAY 14, 2020

Advanced nuclear reactors have the potential to provide reliable and low-cost clean power to millions of American homes. These GEMINA teams are working to develop tools for the advanced reactors of tomorrow to improve operations and lower maintenance costs by designing more autonomous, and efficient processes.

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Molten Salt Maintenance Massachusetts EPRI 307

Baua Electric

APRIL 1, 2024

Doug North, who owns North Brothers Ford in Westland, Michigan, said customers who previously saw EVs as unaffordable are “now coming in and looking at them — and buying.” CEO Jim Farley said the automaker is developing a low-cost EV platform to keep up with Tesla and low-cost Chinese automakers.

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Green Car Congress

AUGUST 7, 2022

Michigan will enable four new mobility services to help address challenges across the state related to sustainable transit, roadway safety, parking and staffing shortages in the service industry. The GEKOT team is working to establish Detroit as the center of engineering excellence in micro-mobility and light electric vehicles.

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Green Car Congress

JUNE 9, 2017

million for 30 new projects aimed at discovery and development of novel, low-cost materials necessary for hydrogen production and storage and for fuel cells onboard light-duty vehicles. Precursor Development for Low-Cost, High-Strength Carbon Fiber. PGM-free Engineered Framework Nano-Structure Catalysts.

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Hydrogen Carbon Fiber Fuel Low Cost 170

Green Car Congress

AUGUST 18, 2020

The objectives are to develop fundamental models and new design tools with capabilities of generating and comparing design for Re-X alternatives considering economic profitability and environmental impact savings. Design Iteration Tool to Sustain Remanufacturability. Iowa State University, Danfoss.

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Green Car Congress

FEBRUARY 25, 2014

9 Universities and Labs: Colorado School of Mines; Michigan State University; Michigan Tech University; The Ohio State University; University of Kentucky; University of Michigan; University of Notre Dame; University of Tennessee; Wayne State University. Digital Manufacturing And Design Innovation. UTRC; Wolf Robotics.

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Green Car Congress

SEPTEMBER 18, 2015

Eight projects are aimed at improvements including developing and demonstrating dual-fuel or dedicated natural gas engine technologies for high-efficiency medium and heavy-duty vehicles to reduce petroleum usage and developing advanced computational fluid dynamics models to accelerate the development of advanced engine technologies.

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Green Car Congress

JULY 2, 2018

The selected projects support the Department’s SOFC program by helping to mature the technology for commercial use to efficiently generate low-cost electricity. Preliminary Design and Techno-Economic Analysis of MWe-Class Solid Oxide Fuel Cell Systems. Thermal and flow management between stacks and between modules.

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Green Car Congress

AUGUST 16, 2016

will design and develop a new more-efficient engine and advanced drivetrain and vehicle technologies. will design and develop a vehicle and powertrain with electrified engine components that can enable higher engine efficiency and a significantly more aerodynamically reengineered cab. Navistar, Inc. Drive Oregon.

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Green Car Congress

DECEMBER 30, 2016

LanzaTech has been selected by the Department of Energy’s Bioenergy Technologies Office (BETO) to receive a $4-million award to design and plan a demonstration-scale facility using industrial off gases to produce 3 million gallons/year of low-carbon jet and diesel fuels. The LanzaTech award was one of six totaling $12.9 Earlier post.).

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Green Car Congress

FEBRUARY 12, 2018

AK Steel Corporation’s Research & Innovation Center will conduct alloy design, lab validation, manufacture, and testing of novel low density steels that possess mechanical properties exhibited by currently available advanced high strength steels. Michigan State University. Individual awards vary between $250,000 and $2.5

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Manufacturer Waste Universal Dallas 150

Green Car Congress

AUGUST 1, 2020

Transforming High pH/High Alkalinity Cultivation through Beneficial Microbiomes and Improved Pond Design. MicroBio Engineering, Inc. Advanced Low-Emission Residential Fluid-Bed Biomass Combustor. Simulation-Driven Design Optimization and Automation for Cordwood-Fueled Room Heaters. University of Michigan.

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Waste Conversion Universal San Diego 186

Green Car Congress

APRIL 9, 2015

A new effort starting in FY 2009 is the 5-year Hydrogen Storage Engineering Center of Excellence (CoE) that will provide a coordinated approach to the engineering R&D of on-board materials-based systems. The University of Michigan of Ann Arbor, Michigan, will receive up to $1.2M

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Hydrogen Michigan Texas 2005 150

Green Car Congress

APRIL 19, 2011

Under the agreement, Cobalt Technologies and American Process will integrate Cobalt’s patent-pending continuous fermentation and distillation technology into American Process’s Alpena Biorefinery , currently under construction in Alpena, Michigan.

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Building Convert Michigan Grant 231

Cars That Think

NOVEMBER 4, 2022

Lockheed Martin ] Taking inspiration from nature, SEAS researchers designed a new type of soft, robotic gripper that uses a collection of thin tentacles to entangle and ensnare objects, similar to how jellyfish collect stunned prey. Paper ] D'Manus is a 10 DoF, low-cost, reliable prehensile hand. Its name is Bluebell.

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Green Car Congress

JANUARY 27, 2014

Developing Topology Optimization Tools that Enable Efficient Design of AM Cellular Structures. This project will develop robust software for design and optimization of AM structural designs based on cellular structures. Development of a Low-Cost Lens® Engine. ANSYS, Inc.; and ExOne).

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Manufacturer Universal El Paso North Carolina 225

Green Car Congress

FEBRUARY 15, 2022

Synteris’ technology would substantially improve the design, manufacturability, and function of power modules used in electric vehicles, aircraft, and other applications. PCI) will demonstrate a fundamentally new solid oxide fuel cell (SOFC) architecture that permits a power dense, lightweight design ideal for transportation applications.

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Green Car Congress

MARCH 23, 2019

These project teams seek to develop new approaches and technologies for the design and manufacture of high temperature, high pressure, and highly compact heat exchangers and components. HITEMMP projects include: Michigan State University. Michigan Technological University. Carnegie Mellon University.

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Green Car Congress

APRIL 30, 2010

Engineering E. This project seeks to develop an “electrofuels chassis” by using engineered E. This project will develop and optimize a novel, engineered microorganism that produces a biodiesel-equivalent fuel from renewable hydrogen and carbon dioxide, at costs of less than $2.50 Engineering a Bacterial Reverse Fuel Cell.

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Cars That Think

MARCH 12, 2023

Sophisticated chassis and battery design gives new life to “lesser” chemistries—especially lithium iron phosphate that’s the hottest thing in batteries around the world—that would otherwise be uncompetitive and obsolete. This grand design, naturally, would demand an attendant burst of charger development.

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Green Car Congress

SEPTEMBER 10, 2010

The 27 projects range from concept studies and component design research to prototype development and in-water device testing. Lee, New Hampshire) will design and optimize a rugged submersible generator capable of coupling to a broad range of tidal and river current turbines, for use in a wide range of operational conditions.

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Green Car Congress

FEBRUARY 19, 2009

Dr. Patil has an undergraduate degree from IIT, Bombay (India) and a PhD in Aerospace Engineering from the University of Michigan, Ann Arbor. He served as the chief engineer for the Ford Escape Hybrid from 1998 to 2003 and holds 12 patents. (GM plans to handle module and pack assembly itself, earlier post.) Most people.

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Green Car Congress

OCTOBER 22, 2013

If successful, Avogy’s transistors will enable smaller, more reliable, energy-efficient, and cost-effective high-power converters, electrical motor drives, and photovoltaic and wind inverters. High Quality, Low-Cost GaN Single Crystal Substrates for High Power Devices. High Quality, Low Cost GaN Substrate Technology.

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Green Car Congress

MAY 7, 2009

General Motors and the University of Michigan have formed the GM/U-M Institute of Automotive Research and Education, with a strategic focus on reinventing the automobile and developing the next generation of high-efficiency vehicles powered by diverse energy sources. —Tom Stephens.

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Green Car Congress

JUNE 14, 2010

But it will take decades to shift most freight from trucks to trains, design walkable communities, shorten our commutes, and build better mass transit and high-speed rail networks. While we’re fixing vehicles, we can also equip them with low-cost real-time MPG indicators that show us how to save money and still get to places quickly.

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Green Car Congress

NOVEMBER 11, 2015

The Department of Energy’s Oak Ridge National Laboratory, FCA US LLC, and Nemak , a specialist in the production of high complex aluminum components for the automotive industry such as cylinder heads and engine blocks, are partnering to create lightweight powertrain materials that will help the auto industry meet the mandated target of 54.5

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Green Car Congress

AUGUST 25, 2009

million of non-Federal cost sharing. In order for low-cost electricity from coal-fired power plants to remain available, the DOE said, economical methods for capturing and storing the greenhouse gas emissions from these plants must be developed. The approach is designed to be applicable to other CO 2 injection sites.

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CO2 Coal Austin Store 225

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. Camelina will be engineered with. The team will engineer tobacco with traits.

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Green Car Congress

AUGUST 14, 2014

The Army will also test and evaluate fuel-efficient tires resulting from projects at its facilities in Warren, Michigan. Nineteen projects are aimed at reducing the cost and improving the performance of key PEV components. Development of Low-cost, High Strength Automotive Aluminum Sheet (Area of Interest 1). .

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Green Car Congress

SEPTEMBER 16, 2012

The BUSolutions demonstrator LCO-140H (Low Cost of Ownership–1 st 40-foot Hybrid) series hydraulic hybrid transit bus yields fuel economy of 6.9 The goal was to develop a significantly lighter-weight, heavy-duty bus design that yields superior fuel efficiency to conventional buses at a lower lifecycle cost.

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Green Car Congress

JUNE 26, 2021

Enhancement of PyARC for Westinghouse Electric Company’s Lead Fast Reactor design and modeling, $450,000. Multiscale Manufacturing Design Tool Based on Machine Learning Workflow, $250,000. Highly Efficient Low-Thermal-Budget Hydrogen and Chemical Co-Production via an Electrochemical Activation of Propane, $100,000.

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Green Car Congress

SEPTEMBER 19, 2013

This program aims to lower the cost of GTL conversion while enabling the use of low-cost, low-carbon, domestically sourced natural gas. Enzyme Engineering for Direct Methane Conversion. If successful, LBNL’s process will enable low-cost, energy-efficient fuel production from natural gas. Description.

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Green Car Congress

OCTOBER 26, 2009

Eagle Picher, in partnership with the Pacific Northwest National Laboratory, will develop a new generation of high energy, low cost planar liquid sodium beta batteries for grid scale electrical power storage applications. Low Cost, High Energy and Power Density, Nanotube-Enhanced Ultracapacitors. Earlier post.)

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Green Car Congress

AUGUST 10, 2015

million to spur innovation of next-generation water power component technologies, designed for manufacturability and built specifically for marine and hydrokinetic (MHK) systems. The US Department of Energy (DOE) has selected four projects to receive a total of $7.4 ADVANCED CONTROLS. the Wave Carpet developed at CalWave (UC Berkeley).

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Green Car Congress

NOVEMBER 17, 2014

Projected costs, in 2013$, for BOP components for 700-bar compressed hydrogen storage systems produced at 500,000 systems per year. In FY 2014, one area of focus was low-cost, high-strength carbon fiber precursors and advanced tank designs. Hydrogen Storage Engineering Center of Excellence (HSECoE). Source: DOE.

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Charged EVs

AUGUST 4, 2022

Founded by Mujeeb Ijaz in July of 2020, the Michigan-based company recently closed a $65-million funding round led by BMW i Ventures. This is designed for the passenger vehicle market to make it feasible to offer about twice the range [of current EVs]. The challenge is that anode-free cells still have low cycle life.

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