Green Car Congress

OCTOBER 27, 2017

The Commission’s Technical Committees and their chairs are: Light-duty Vehicles. Chair: Robert Chapman, Vice President, Energy and Environment, Electric Power Research Institute. Scott Keogh, President, Audi of America (Co-Chair); Dean Seavers, President, National Grid U.S. Non-road (e.g.,

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Cars That Think

JANUARY 27, 2022

DARPA has announced the first phase of a shiny new program called RACER , which stands for Robotic Autonomy in Complex Environments with Resiliency. DARPA has announced three teams that will each get funding and vehicles: Carnegie Mellon University, NASA JPL, and the University of Washington.

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Green Car Congress

AUGUST 23, 2013

The four Ideas Lab projects are: Nitroplast: A Light-Driven, Synthetic Nitrogen-Fixing Organelle ($1.89M). Members of the team are Devaki Bhaya, Carnegie Institution of Washington; John H. However, there is only one recorded sighting of this bacterium, which grows in toxic environments. Louis biologist Himadri B.

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Green Car Congress

JUNE 13, 2017

Now, researchers from the University of Nevada and Washington State University have developed a novel efficient biphasic tandem catalytic process (biTCP) for synthesizing cycloalkanes from renewable terpenoid biomass (such as 1,8-cineole). However, recent developments in metabolic engineering shed light on the mass production of terpenoids.

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Green Car Congress

JULY 27, 2016

—Ken Washington, vice president of Research and Advanced Engineering at Ford. LiDAR is the most efficient way to detect and localize objects from the environment surrounding the shuttles. This helps us develop efficient algorithms that bring together relevant data. —ACL director Professor Jonathan How.

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Green Car Congress

JUNE 23, 2014

At the US Department of Energy’s (DOE’s) Annual Merit Review meeting in Washington, DC last week, Michael Ruth from Cummins noted that the DOE program target for the project is a fuel economy (CAFE) target of 26 mpg (9.05 Earlier post.). l/100 km), and as such would not meet the GHG requirement of 28 mpg (8.4 Exhaust system configuration.

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Cars That Think

DECEMBER 12, 2022

Reducing drone size down to gnat scale only amplifies many of the benefits of insect scale,” Fuller says, “such as greater potential to harvest all needed energy from the environment and larger deployments.” They will power themselves from the sun or indoor lighting—which favors small scale.

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Green Car Congress

JULY 17, 2020

Washington State University. Developing an Energy-Conscious Traffic Signal Control System for Optimized Fuel Consumption in Connect Vehicle Environments. University of Washington. AOI 04: Platinum Group Metals (PGM) Content Reduction to Enable Cost-Effective Aftertreatment for Gasoline and Diesel Engines. General Motors LLC.

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Cars That Think

DECEMBER 21, 2021

During a 1956 symposium about deep-sea exploration held in Washington, D.C., Alvin ’s still cameras used thallium iodide lights to illuminate the seafloor—which, he says, emitted a green light rather than white light because the former travels through water better and allowed for brighter photos.

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Green Car Congress

JANUARY 25, 2013

Studies commissioned by Honda Transmission indicate that wind-generated power is a cost-effective source of electricity for the plant and that the project will not adversely impact local wildlife or the environment. Juhl Wind will be primary developer of the project and own the two turbines. Honda of America Mfg.

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Cars That Think

APRIL 6, 2022

And cameras are present in almost every type of environment, including in our own homes.” Smith at Bell Labs , consist of a sensor that converts an incoming two-dimensional light pattern into an electrical signal that in turn becomes an image. Sasson says he never anticipated how the imaging of everything would become so ubiquitous.

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Green Car Congress

DECEMBER 6, 2009

” “ Some have even suggested that coal state representatives in Washington should block any advancement of national health care reform legislation until the coal industry’s demands are met by the EPA, ”, wrote Byrd. That is a stubborn fact that vexes some in the environmental community, but it is reality.

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Green Car Congress

OCTOBER 21, 2010

The trim loop system also protects the environment and increases crew safety by automatically preventing black or white smoke conditions. Other energy-saving FRR&DP initiatives under testing and evaluation include on-line water wash for gas turbines, underwater hull advanced foul release coatings, solid-state lighting, and stern flaps.

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Driivz

JULY 2, 2023

Delivery vans, commercial-use vans, and pickup trucks are considered light-duty vehicles. Public transit buses are also steadily electrifying, led by California, New York City and the Washington, DC area as well as cities like Pittsburgh and Phoenix. With approval from the U.S.

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Green Car Congress

JULY 11, 2011

Novel materials that can withstand high temperatures and extreme environments are dominant themes in materials development for efficient energy systems. The goal of this project is to develop cost-effective sensing technologies able to function in harsh, high-temperature operating environments. University of Washington, Seattle, Wash.

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Green Car Congress

SEPTEMBER 22, 2009

Snohomish County Public Transit Benefit Area – Community Transit, Washington: $3,000,000. Link Transit, Washington: $2,925,000. Includes replacement of lighting fixtures, control systems, and roof upgrades at selected facilities. The CNG-Hybrid buses are heavy duty and larger than the current light duty Ford vehicles.

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Blink Charging

SEPTEMBER 8, 2023

The Global Environmental Edge of EVs The transportation sector is the dominant contributor to carbon emissions and the release of greenhouse gases, and while light-duty passenger cars were an early focus for the EV industry, larger cars and fleet vehicles represent a new opportunity for emissions reductions.

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Green Car Congress

AUGUST 7, 2009

Discover and develop materials that control the interactions between light, electricity, and heat at the nanoscale for improved solar energy conversion, solid-state lighting, and conversion of heat into electricity. Emerging Materials for Solar Energy Conversion and Solid State Lighting. Washington University, St.

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Cars That Think

JULY 14, 2022

But that ability to localize generally requires the robot to have powerful sensors and a map of its environment. Kuri is small and light, so we opted to have the helper carry the robot back to its charger, but one could imagine giving a remote helper a teleoperation interface and letting them drive the robot back instead.

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EV Adoption

MARCH 3, 2021

This past week was certainly quite a whirlwind of EV news and developments from Volvo’s plans to end production of ICE vehicles by 2030, yet another proposal to reform the federal EV tax credit, chip shortages, Washington state’s plans to ban ICE vehicles by 2030, Lucid Air delay, Fisker to partner with Foxconn, and much, much more.

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Creative Greenius

JULY 26, 2012

From Washington DC as I return from an LED lighting retrofit at the giraffe house in the Maryland Zoo , a project site visit to the waterways of Maryland’s oyster restoration efforts , and meetings with elected officials, nonprofit organizations and potential EcoMedia advertisers. .

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Green Car Congress

AUGUST 23, 2013

This week in Washington, the company held a series of media drives (“TDI Efficiency Rally”) for the Q5, A6 and A7 diesel models to highlight their efficiency and performance, and also offered up its—as well as several other experts’—perspectives on the potential for diesel in the US market. V6 TDI diesel engine. Earlier post.)

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Cars That Think

JULY 16, 2022

Submarines can now be detected by the tiny amounts of radiation and chemicals they emit, by slight disturbances in the Earth’s magnetic fields, and by reflected light from laser or LED pulses. According to experts at the Center for Strategic and International Studies, in Washington, D.C., IEEE Spectrum. two methods offer.

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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. Fixen et al. palustris expressing a remodeled nitrogenase.

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Green Car Congress

MARCH 31, 2011

The report, which focuses on road and rail transport, finds that while emissions from light-duty vehicles are expected to drop by 12% by 2030, freight truck emissions are projected to increase by 20%. But, the report identifies clear opportunities, especially in light of infrastructure-related stimulus investment, to get this right.

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Green Car Congress

FEBRUARY 15, 2022

The selected projects will focus on technologies such as revolutionizing fuel cells for light- and heavy-duty vehicles, and technologies to generate less nuclear waste and reduce the cost of fuel. University of Washington. Harvesting Infrared Light to Improve Photosynthetic Biomass Production - $1,347,122. UC Berkeley.

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Creative Greenius

JULY 26, 2012

From Washington DC as I return from an LED lighting retrofit at the giraffe house in the Maryland Zoo , a project site visit to the waterways of Maryland’s oyster restoration efforts , and meetings with elected officials, nonprofit organizations and potential EcoMedia advertisers. .

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Green Car Congress

JUNE 24, 2015

For the past few years, our company has actually been warning that that freedom of mobility is now actually being threatened particularly in light of four megatrends that are affecting the future of transportation. InfoCycle: Research as to how bicycles can be best used in urban environments. —Mark Fields. Earlier post.).

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Green Car Congress

JUNE 24, 2014

The centers selected for the second round of funding will help lay the scientific groundwork for fundamental advances in solar energy, electrical energy storage, carbon capture and sequestration, materials and chemistry by design, biosciences, and extreme environments. Light-Material Interactions in Energy Conversion (LMI).

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Green Car Congress

NOVEMBER 12, 2011

Transcription factors are proteins that regulate gene expression, and the Brachypodium transcription factors targeted in this project are implicated in grass cell wall biosynthesis and the regulation of growth and biomass accumulation by light. Washington State University. Dangl, Jeff. University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill.

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Cars That Think

AUGUST 20, 2023

The answer depends in part on whether such cars require a type of sensor called lidar, short for “light detection and ranging.” Such phased arrays of emitters are often used for radar, but they can also be used to steer the light beam in a lidar system. Sandeep Sharma These first-generation lidars went only so far.

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Green Cars News

JUNE 30, 2009

The Prius came under fire in The Washington Post , which openly questioned its manufacturing process as explained in our article ‘ Could the Prius be harmful to the environment? ’. However, in recent weeks even its reputation has been tarnished. How green is this green car? Our verdict.

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Plug In Partners

JUNE 27, 2006

These include Pacific Gas and Electric, Kansas City Power and Light and Edison Electric Institute , the trade association for IOUs (see quote below). Afterward several members of Congress went outside for test drives in a plug-in hybrid brought to Washington by Cal-Cars. This site also links directly to the Plug-In Partners petition.

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Green Car Congress

AUGUST 30, 2009

A pure HCCI mode, during light to medium loads, when no spark event is required for combustion. A mixed HCCI mode, light loads and moderately cold engine, where a spark is used to initiate but the bulk of the combustion is done by HCCI. diesel engine for light trucks due to fuel prices and capital constraints ( earlier post ).

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Green Car Congress

APRIL 29, 2009

Cervero believes that VMT (vehicle miles traveled—the number of miles you drive in your car each year), needs to decrease to have a more sustainable environment and he believes Transit Oriented Development (TOD) is a way to achieve this goal in a way that people can embrace. Washington, D.C.: Still, Prof. Bandivadekar, A., Heywood, J.,

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Plug In Partners

JANUARY 24, 2006

EV world NATIONAL COALITION LAUNCHES CAMPAIGN TO URGE AUTOMAKERS TO PRODUCE PLUG-IN HYBRID VEHICLES WASHINGTON, D.C.—January For example, an area pest control company has pledged to buy up to 150 light weight plug-in trucks, once they are produced.

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Cars That Think

APRIL 16, 2023

In Berkeley’s offices, the Sutherland brothers encountered his light-seeking robot squirrel “ Squee ,” now in the collection of the Computer History Museum, which also holds some of Berkeley’s papers. Critically for Sutherland, he supported a new effort by Clark, who by then had moved from MIT to Washington University, in St.

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