Green Car Congress

JUNE 1, 2009

maker of the long-lasting, fast-charging Sonata Li-ion battery for laptops, is planning to build a 455,000 square foot manufacturing facility in Auburn, Massachusetts that would complement its existing China-based operations. Boston-Power, Inc.,

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Green Car Congress

DECEMBER 9, 2015

University of Massachusetts Amherst computational chemist Scott Auerbach has been awarded a three-year, $330,000 grant from the National Science Foundation to improve basic understanding and optimize the catalytic process of producing fuels such as gasoline from plant biomass instead of from petroleum.

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Green Car Congress

JUNE 29, 2016

Kiessling Transit, a Massachusetts-based transportation company, is ordering 32 more hydraulic hybrid buses equipped with Lighting Hybrids’ Energy Recovery System (ERS) for medium- and heavy-duty trucks and buses. Earlier post.) The ERS has demonstrated improvements of 25% in fuel efficiency, and significantly reduced tailpipe emissions.

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Blink Charging

OCTOBER 3, 2023

Blink’s Chief Operating Officer Mike Battaglia said this about the importance of the Utah contract: “Being recognized as a trusted supplier by the State of Utah is an important step for Blink, making our products more accessible to public agencies in building their EV infrastructure, as demonstrated at Salt Lake City International Airport.”

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Green Car Congress

FEBRUARY 26, 2016

The US Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) announced the availability of $26 million in grant funding to establish clean diesel projects aimed at reducing emissions from the US’ existing fleet of diesel engines. Grant funds may be used for clean diesel projects that use: EPA-verified retrofit technologies or certified engine configurations.

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Green Car Congress

OCTOBER 6, 2016

The new funding opportunity (FOA) will provide funding to meet DOE’s Fuel Cell Technologies Office’s (FCTO’s) goals for Hydrogen Production and Delivery, Hydrogen Storage, Fuel Cell Technologies, Technology Validation, Manufacturing, and Analysis Programs. According to the DOE’s 2015 Fuel Cell Technologies Market Report, many U.S.

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Green Car Congress

DECEMBER 22, 2011

Augmenting those capabilities, Boston-Power’s Westborough, Massachusetts-based team maintains responsibility for intellectual property development, research and development, global customer support, sales and business development and partnerships with advanced research organizations in the Boston area.

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Green Car Congress

FEBRUARY 6, 2015

The US Department of Transportation’s Federal Transit Administration (FTA) has selected 10 projects that will receive a share of $55 million in competitive grants that will help put a new generation of zero-emission buses on the road. Grants from the LoNo program help transit agencies integrate more of these advanced buses into their fleets.

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EV Connect

MAY 15, 2023

For more ways to make an EV purchase affordable, you can look to tax credits, grants and rebate programs in your state. For Massachusetts residents and businesses, there are quite a few options available. Here’s a look at current Massachusetts EV rebates and other incentive programs.

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Green Car Congress

SEPTEMBER 29, 2009

The US National Science Foundation (NSF) is awarding 20 grants for FY 2009 in two research areas on natural systems: biosensing and bioactuation (12 awards); and obtaining hydrocarbons from biomass and microorganisms (8 awards). Curt Conner, all from the University of Massachusetts-Amherst. Breaking down lignin. Mountziaris, and W.

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Baua Electric

JANUARY 29, 2024

Seven months after kicking off production of its Class 3 electric trucks in Mississippi, EV startup Mullen Automotive has secured fruitful environmental compliance and approvals from CARB and the EPA. starting at a suggested MSRP of $68,500. The startup is making a name for itself in the commercial sector, which is encouraging. We shall see.

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Green Car Congress

SEPTEMBER 20, 2011

The growth capital and Chinese government incentives will be used predominantly to scale manufacturing, research and development, and business development activities in China for the company’s energy storage technology and products. GSR Ventures has offices in Beijing and Silicon Valley. Purcell, Jr., Earlier post.).

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Green Car Congress

NOVEMBER 12, 2015

Red Rock Biofuels leverages a commercially proven Fischer-Tropsch technology to convert sustainably harvested biomass residues from forests and sawmills into jet fuel and diesel products. The project is supported by a $70-million grant from the U.S.

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Green Car Congress

JULY 3, 2013

million US Department of Energy grant to advance next-generation, energy-efficient manufacturing processes. Led by Ford, other collaborators include Northwestern University, The Boeing Company, Massachusetts Institute of Technology and Penn State Erie. The project is part of a three-year, $7.04-million Earlier post.).

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Cars That Think

JUNE 12, 2023

“Having a passive wireless tattoo that you can still access information from is the key here—that caught my attention,” says Dmitry Kireev , an incoming assistant professor of biomedical engineering at the University of Massachusetts-Amherst. It’s kind of graphite.” Nicholas X. We expect to publish this work within the next few months.”

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Green Car Congress

JUNE 19, 2014

There are a variety of federal and state incentives and grants for clean vehicle technologies like Lightning Hybrids’ product. These vehicles include medium-duty delivery trucks and shuttle buses and heavy-duty transit and school buses on a variety of platforms including Ford, Freightliner, Ashok Leyland, DAF, and Mercedes-Benz.

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Green Car Congress

AUGUST 23, 2010

Because of the potential use of castor bean as a biofuel and its production of the potent toxin ricin, the team focused efforts on genes related to oil and ricin production. They analyzed important metabolic pathways and regulatory genes involved in the production and storage of oils in the castor bean.

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Green Car Congress

FEBRUARY 17, 2012

A team of chemical engineers at the University of Massachusetts Amherst has identified a small molecule surrogate for cellulose—?-cyclodextrin—in The resulting vapor products are condensed to form bio-oil which can be upgraded catalytically to renewable liquid fuels or chemicals. —Mettler et al.

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Cars That Think

JANUARY 28, 2023

Nevertheless, for EVs themselves to become true zero emission vehicles, everything in their supply chain from mining to electricity production must be nearly net-zero emission as well. This is due to the 30 to 40 percent increase in emissions EVs create in comparison to manufacturing an ICE vehicle, mainly from its battery production.

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Green Car Congress

JULY 7, 2011

Liquid Metal Battery Corporation (LMBC), a Cambridge, Massachusetts company founded in 2010 to develop new forms of electric storage batteries that work in large, grid-scale applications, has secured the rights to key patent technology from MIT.

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Green Car Congress

SEPTEMBER 28, 2011

Chrysler Group LLC, working in partnership with the US Department of Energy (DOE), will deliver 10 demonstration fleet Ram 1500 plug-in hybrid electric vehicle (PHEV) pickup trucks to Massachusetts Bay Transportation Authority (MBTA). The grant, totaling $48 million from DOE and $49.4 Earlier post.). kW on-board charger.

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Creative Greenius

FEBRUARY 5, 2012

Principal, Jenni Taylor, a product of the Manhattan Beach School District and a Mira Costa grad was hosting and getting used to her new “Dr. The Pacific Coast Termite grant also funded an environmentally friendly XT-2000 Orange Oil termite treatment for the greenhouse. Courtesy of CBS EcoMedia). Courtesy of CBS EcoMedia).

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Green Car Congress

SEPTEMBER 22, 2009

Transit agencies began submitting their proposals after the FTA announced rules for the Transit Investments for Greenhouse Gas and Energy Reduction (TIGGER) grant program as part of the Recovery Act last March. Since President Obama signed ARRA into law in February, grants totaling more than $7.2 The DOT is making $48.1

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Cars That Think

NOVEMBER 12, 2021

He earned his bachelor's degree in physics in 1955 from Amherst College , in Massachusetts, and a doctorate in electrical engineering in 1960 from MIT. He was promoted to director of product development and then to director of systems research. He authored and edited many technical manuals and was granted several U.S.

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Green Car Congress

JUNE 22, 2015

Until now, the energy storage field has had two options to try to drive down costs—high volume production or entirely new chemistries that may never move from the lab to the commercial floor. Manufacturers can scale in small steps to match supply to demand, making lithium-ion cost effective even at low-volume production.

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Green Car Congress

MARCH 27, 2015

Several commercially viable technologies developed in conjunction with the SuperTruck program have been introduced in DTNA production vehicles, including 6x2 optimization and the aerodynamic components found on the Freightliner Cascadia Evolution and the integrated Detroit Powertrain.

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Cars That Think

JULY 15, 2023

Gretchen Ertl/CFS/MIT Plasma Science and Fusion Center CFS, a startup spun out of decades of research at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT), is among the leaders of a new wave of fusion-energy projects that have emerged in the past decade, taking advantage of technological advances as well as a surge in private-sector investment.

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Green Car Congress

JANUARY 7, 2016

Global development of industry and technology in the 20 th century, increased production of vehicles and the growing population have resulted in massive consumption of fossil fuels. Winners will receive a restricted grant of no less than $50,000 to conduct the research outlined in their proposal within one year.

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Green Car Congress

JULY 15, 2015

The winners are Professor Patrick Cappillino, University of Massachusetts Dartmouth; Professor Yogesh (Yogi) Surendranath, Massachusetts Institute of Technology; and Professor David Go, University of Notre Dame. Patrick Cappillino, University of Massachusetts Dartmouth. 2015 ECS Toyota Young Investigator Fellows. Description.

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Green Car Congress

APRIL 30, 2010

The grants will go to projects in 17 states. coli as an electrofuels chassis for isooctane production. coli; Product: Isooctane. Reducing equivalent: Hydrogen; Organism: Cupriavidus necator; Product: Biodiesel. Reducing equivalent: Electrons; Organism: N/A; Product: Octanol. Electrofuels: Biofuels from Electricity.

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Green Car Congress

OCTOBER 26, 2009

The awarded grants will go to projects with lead researchers in 17 states. DOE grant: $7,200,000). Scientists at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology will develop a paradigm shifting new all-liquid metal grid scale battery for low cost, large scale storage of electrical energy. DOE grant: $6,949,624). Earlier post.)

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Teslarati

DECEMBER 16, 2021

The United States provides a number of tax subsidies to the fossil fuel industry as a means of encouraging domestic energy production. trillion worth of subsidies granted for the production and burning of coal, oil, and gas in 2020. Conservative estimates put U.S. Conservative estimates put U.S.

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Green Car Congress

NOVEMBER 12, 2014

Hyundai began leasing its first series production fuel cell electric vehicle at select dealerships in Southern California. Approximately 300 different entities were granted fuel cell patents in 2013. The rest of the top five, California, Connecticut, Massachusetts and Ohio, have a cumulative total that is less than Michigan on its own.

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EV Life

JANUARY 4, 2024

The journey from concept to reality was a rocky one, fraught with production delays, price changes, and brake issues outlined in leaked engineering reports. Massachusetts Offers Rebates for Electric Vehicles. But despite the setbacks and missteps, the first deliveries of the Cybertruck have finally arrived. Clean Cars 4 All.

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Green Car Congress

JUNE 10, 2020

In addition to WSU, the team included researchers from the University of Massachusetts, Lowell; Stony Brook University; Brookhaven National Laboratory; Foshan University in China; and Pacific Northwest National Laboratory. When hydrogen is used as fuel, their only waste product is water. Gray, Steven R. Saunders, M. 2020.118626.

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Green Car Congress

JUNE 18, 2011

Phase 1 of the project will be located in Lexington, Massachusetts; the company is evaluating site locations for another planned phase. At full production, the entire wafer formation process is completed in just a fraction of the time relative to conventional batch processing which can take up to three days.

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Green Car Congress

AUGUST 29, 2009

The University of Massachusetts Amherst recently granted a biofuels startup company, Anellotech , exclusive global rights to the university’s catalytic fast pyrolysis (CFP) technology developed by chemical engineer and UMass Amherst faculty member George Huber for producing renewable biogasoline and other biohydrocarbon fuels.

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