Cars That Think

FEBRUARY 6, 2024

The dream of fusion power inched closer to reality in December 2022, when researchers at Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory (LLNL) revealed that a fusion reaction had produced more energy than what was required to kick-start it. It showed there’s nothing fundamentally limiting us from being able to harness fusion in the laboratory.”

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Cars That Think

JUNE 29, 2023

But here, and in an even more anonymous office park nearby, startup Zap Energy is trialing a prototype reactor that is already producing high-energy neutrons from nuclear fusion—if not yet enough to send power back into the grid. Zap isn’t the only fusion company fishing in aviation’s talent pool.

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Cars That Think

MARCH 29, 2024

Invented by Soviet scientists in the 1960s , gyrotons are used in nuclear fusion research experiments to heat and control plasma. Microwaves meet rocks “But an energy beam doesn’t have those kinds of limits,” says Paul Woskov , senior research engineer at MIT’s Plasma Science and Fusion Center.

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Green Car Congress

APRIL 8, 2020

The US Department of Energy announced the winners of $32 million in funding for 15 projects as part of the ARPA-E Breakthroughs Enabling THermonuclear-fusion Energy ( BETHE ) program. Commercial fusion technology has long been viewed as an ideal energy source. Earlier post.) —Under Secretary of Energy Mark W.

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Cars That Think

DECEMBER 27, 2021

Despite these gains, though, traditional magnetic-confinement fusion is still years away from fulfilling nuclear fusion’s promise of generating abundant and carbon-free electricity. But tokamaks aren’t the only path to fusion power. The company produced its first fusion reactions the very next year. Seattle-based.

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Cars That Think

JULY 15, 2023

Brandon Sorbom , the scientific director of Commonwealth Fusion Systems (CFS) , leads me toward the center of the building’s cross-shaped footprint, weaving among scaffolding, forklifts, and teams of welders and painters. On the site of a former U.S. Army Reserve base near Boston, an unusual structure is rising from the rolling hills.

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Cars That Think

FEBRUARY 27, 2022

And scientists and engineers have continued to study the sun’s fusion process in hopes of one day using nuclear fusion to generate heat or electricity. Consequently, governments, universities, and companies have long looked to fusion to remedy these ills. But the prospect of meeting our energy needs this way remains elusive.

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Cars That Think

AUGUST 27, 2021

If it had ever left the spotlight, nuclear fusion is certainly now back. There have recently been new books , big announcements from small fusion companies , and the widely-shared news of a new record for energy produced at the National Ignition Facility , at the U.S. As the joke goes, fusion is always 40 years away.

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Green Car Congress

MARCH 21, 2017

Elektrobit (EB), a leading developer of embedded and connected technology solutions for the automotive industry, introduced four new modules for its EB robinos product line: EB robinos Grid Fusion, EB robinos Path Planning, EB robinos Positioning and EB robinos Safety Management. The new EB robinos modules are: EB robinos Grid Fusion.

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Green Car Congress

DECEMBER 5, 2014

and utilizing a Ford Fusion Energi Plug-In Hybrid, Siemens provided the first UL-approved residential electric vehicle supply equipment (EVSE) to demonstrate the ability to monitor status, report energy use, and be controlled locally from the local area network and from the cloud. Held at the Duke Energy Envision Center in Erlanger, Ky.,

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Teslarati

NOVEMBER 16, 2023

. “The Gravity SUV represents a significant leap forward for Lucid’s world-leading technology and design. Combining design excellence with spacious interiors and versatility, the Gravity is a fusion of aesthetics and utility from an exterior standpoint. ” I’d love to hear from you!

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Teslarati

DECEMBER 20, 2022

Engineers designing advanced electric vehicles or sensor fusion can use the hardware support package, even before silicon is available. Its battery management systems can be applied to electric vehicles, grid and industrial power infrastructure, and other consumer products that require a battery, like ebikes.

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Green Car Congress

JUNE 13, 2017

V2X use cases will now include collective perception, remote sensor fusion, and cooperative mobility. A more realistic scenario would be to equip vehicles designed for car sharing with V2X tech within smart city and Mobility as a Service contexts. —Dominique Bonte, Managing Director and Vice President at ABI Research.

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Green Car Congress

MAY 18, 2016

The development vehicle is designed to achieve high reliability by fusing overlapping information together from various sensors—i.e., sensor fusion. These enhancements have been combined with new, more intelligent software algorithms to support more complex testing scenarios.

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Green Car Congress

JULY 10, 2019

Concentric Ring Gas Atomization Die Design for Optimized Particle Production, $150,000 Praxair, Indianapolis, Ind. Extension of Core Restrain Design Code NUBOW-3D to Lead Cooled Fast Reactor Systems, $75,000 Westinghouse Electric Company, Cranberry Township, Pa. Selected Labs and Partners. Ames Laboratory. Argonne National Laboratory.

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Teslarati

DECEMBER 2, 2021

Since January 2020, SpaceX has routinely built and tested tanks that are effectively just shorter versions of actual tanks and hardware, using them to qualify changes to Starship’s design, materials, operations, and more before applying those changes to full-size prototypes. Instead, though, B2.1 Further, SpaceX rolled B2.1

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Green Car Congress

JUNE 4, 2014

Ford also unveiled its Lightweight Concept vehicle, which reduces the weight of a 2013 Fusion to that of a Ford Fiesta—a nearly 25% weight reduction. Last year, the company invested $135 million in design, engineering and production of key battery components, and doubled its battery testing capabilities.

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Green Car Congress

MAY 27, 2015

MyEnergi Lifestyle, designed to address China’s energy needs and air quality concerns, showcases how combining renewable energy sources, efficient home appliances and a plug-in vehicle can significantly reduce energy costs and carbon footprint. Technologies in the MyEnergi Lifestyle program include: Ford Fusion Energi Plug-In Hybrid.

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Green Car Congress

FEBRUARY 3, 2015

The Request supports activities and projects based on the High Energy Physics Advisory Panel (HEPAP) May 2014 strategic plan, including design support for a reconfigured international Long Baseline Neutrino Facility hosted at Fermilab. contribution to the International Thermonuclear Experimental Reactor (ITER) project.

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Green Car Congress

JANUARY 13, 2011

The program allocates hours to large-scale, computationally-intensive research projects in a range of areas including fusion, climate, and materials. They are also able to do grid independence studies, which means refining the simulations until the results no longer change. NETL funded the research.

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Green Car Congress

SEPTEMBER 8, 2016

DOE, the Department of Defense and the National Science Foundation have been designated as NSCI lead agencies, and ECP is the primary DOE contribution to the initiative. High-Fidelity Whole Device Modeling of Magnetically Confined Fusion Plasma, Amitava Bhattacharjee (PPPL) with ANL, ORNL, LLNL, Rutgers, UCLA, University of Colorado.

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Green Car Congress

FEBRUARY 16, 2018

The small, medium, and large CAV subsystems were based on the configurations in use on the Tesla Model S, Ford Fusion (AV test vehicles), and Waymo’s Chrysler Pacifica, respectively. The team modeled its BEV platform ias the 2015 Ford Focus Electric and the ICEV platform as the 2015 Ford Focus. Click to enlarge.

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Cars That Think

MARCH 21, 2022

It first flew in 1967 and entered service in 1969 as the Harrier Jump Jet, with new Rolls-Royce engines specifically designed for thrust vectoring. I’m less confident that we’ll see general-purpose quantum computers and abundant electricity from nuclear fusion in that time frame. The arc of technology development is often long.

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Cars That Think

MAY 9, 2024

The accelerating buildout of solar farms on Earth is already hitting speed bumps, including public pushback against the large tracts of land required and a ballooning backlog of requests for new transmission lines and grid connections. In that respect, beamed power from space is like nuclear fusion, except at least 25 years behind.

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Green Car Congress

FEBRUARY 2, 2013

When the final funding opportunity announcement is released following this public comment period, DOE will accept applications from industry, national laboratories, and university-led teams to address these challenges and enable technologies that drive innovation in vehicle design. Earlier post.)

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Cars That Think

JANUARY 22, 2022

Over the years, researchers tried several approaches, some taking technologies from more traditional displays, others evolving from the original e-paper’s unique design. Black-and-white electronic ink is a straightforward fusion of chemistry, physics, and electronics, and it does pretty much what traditional ink and paper does.

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Green Car Congress

APRIL 8, 2014

Among the performance goals set for this area of the plan are: Provide cost-shared licensing technical support to selected private sector partners in support of their efforts to complete and submit a design certification application for at least one small modular nuclear reactor. DOE will employ six strategies to achieve these goals.

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Green Car Congress

OCTOBER 29, 2014

The top RD&D needs—all considered to be near term—were improved stack performance; scale up to megawatt size; grid integration; high pressure operation; and a variety of market issues. Highlights of the workshop by topic area included: Commercial. Additional Market Opportunities. Manufacturing & Scale-Up. Compression.

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EV Info

SEPTEMBER 23, 2021

The task of balancing the grid and maintaining electrical frequency has grown dangerously the more reliant on wind power we have become – as demonstrated by the widespread power cuts of August 2019. The cost of grid management has soared to nearly £2billion a year in the last two decades.

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Green Car Congress

DECEMBER 16, 2019

diameter) small modular reactor pressure vessel and also produce several grades of steel alloys suitable for civil fission and fusion nuclear applications within the project’s research element. —Jesus Talamantes-Silva, Research, Design and Technology Director at Sheffield Forgemasters. Narrow fusion zone. high x by 3.0m

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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. Heat-Exchanger Intensification through Powder Processing and Enhanced Design (HIPPED) – $2,300,000.

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Green Cars News

AUGUST 11, 2009

So this raises the question as to whether so much money should be poured into existing battery technologies ahead of research and development projects for battery designs of the future. Our verdict. It appears the Obama administration has bet on winners with the bulk of the cash distributed through its stimulus plan.

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Charged EVs

SEPTEMBER 27, 2021

We plugged it in five times, and despite an overall route that skewed more to long-distance highway travel than around-town errands, we managed to do 138 miles on grid electricity alone. Plug-in hybrids that never connect to the grid might as well not have a plug at all. Over five days, we put 276 miles on our test Wrangler 4xe.

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Tony Karrer Delicious EVdriven

APRIL 19, 2009

And for this ecosystem to be robust, there must be commonality, especially when owners are plugging into the electrical grid. Outlet voltages wont always be the same and the weather will vary based on location, but the vehicles charge cord plug and how you use it should always remain the same - regardless of make or model."

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Tony Karrer Delicious EVdriven

JANUARY 28, 2009

charger is also required, though ideally the existing motor controllers might be used as grid chargers. Vehicle-to-grid interface technology is also particularly well suited to Plug-in vehicles. Recharge a Car, Recharge the Grid, Recharge the Planet Google.org supports PHEV & V2G with [link] project.

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Green Car Congress

SEPTEMBER 18, 2015

When aligned with business models and communication networks, the use of Smart Manufacturing technologies can improve manufacturing efficiency through the real-time management of energy, productivity and costs at the level of the machine, factory and enterprise, including improved integration with the electric grid. Technical Topic Areas.

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Tony Karrer Delicious EVdriven

APRIL 16, 2009

Vehicle to Grid (V2G) technology is a bi-directional electric grid interface that allows a plug-in to take energy from the grid or put it back on the grid. Smart Grid City will use a realtime high-speed two-way communication throughout the distribution grid. Smart meters and substations will be integral.

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