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NOVEMBER 13, 2020

In October, the National Highway Traffic Safety Administration (NHTSA) opened an investigation in relation to three reported Bolt fires; GM said that it was already deep into its own investigation, and is working closely with NHTSA on diagnosing the problem. GM has a dedicated team working on analyzing and solving the problem.

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FEBRUARY 24, 2023

MAHLE Powertrain is working with White Motorcycle Concepts (WMC) to develop a fully electric three-wheeled motorcycle suited to the requirements of police, emergency first responders and last-mile delivery fleets. The V-Duct applied in the WMC300FR 3-wheeled hybrid bike.

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Green Car Congress

SEPTEMBER 30, 2020

A current research project is working to establish the technical basis for standardization of methanol fuels in Europe. TEC4FUELS GmbH supplements these investigations with hardware-in-the-loop tests. The partners in the “Methanol Standard” project aim to pave way for the certification and market launch of methanol fuels.

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Green Car Congress

FEBRUARY 26, 2020

As such, several solutions for harnessing the energy released from refrigerants during the throttling process of a conventional VCC have been investigated to increase the overall cycle efficiency. These devices are referred to as expansion work recovery devices. The team presented its work in the International Journal of Refrigeration.

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JULY 4, 2021

Work will commence on 1 July and take place over a nine-month period. The project will investigate the ability to substitute diesel with both hydrogen and biogas on the Class-66 locomotive which hauls more ethan 80% of freight on the UK rail network.

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Green Car Congress

APRIL 5, 2023

Elcora Advanced Materials ( earlier post ) has engaged Lab 4 to begin the test work and process design for its Ermazon Vanadium Project in Morocco with the goal of production of vanadium pentoxide. This work will progress in three stages: Initial characterization to prove the physical processing of the vanadinite source materials.

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DECEMBER 2, 2020

Researchers from London South Bank University (LSBU), School of the Built Environment and Architecture, are investigating the use of metal hydrides to absorb, release and store hydrogen for fuel cell buses. LSBU has been awarded £60,000 (US$80,000) of government funding from Innovate UK for the project and will work with Ricardo.

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APRIL 25, 2023

In an open access paper in the Journal of Wind Engineering and Industrial Aerodynamics , researchers at the University of Surrey (UK) have investigated the effect of group riding on cyclists’ exposure to vehicle pollutants. —Schmeer et al.

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MAY 22, 2023

This opportunity allows all parties to work together in pursuit of a decarbonized shipping industry. Amogy’s proprietary technology enables the on-board cracking of ammonia into hydrogen, which is then sent directly into a fuel cell.

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SEPTEMBER 4, 2023

For Dodson, who joined the UMD faculty in 2019, the DOE Early Career grant comes on the heels of receiving a Doctoral New Investigator grant from the American Chemical Society’s Petroleum Research Fund in 2022 and an award from the National Science Foundation Division of Chemistry: Disciplinary Research Programs in 2022.

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JANUARY 23, 2023

University of Queensland researchers, working in collaboration with the Technical University of Munich (TUM), have found a way to convert sugarcane into isobutanol— a building block of aviation fuel and other products—more efficiently. An open-access paper on the work is published in Chemistry - a European Journal.

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APRIL 18, 2022

An open-access paper on their work is published in the journal Advanced Science. Most reported organic batteries to date, however, possess a relatively low (1-3V) working voltage. Conceptual illustration of the work on croconic acid with multi-electron redox reaction at high voltage > 3.0 —Hiroaki Kobayashi.

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DECEMBER 19, 2020

Papers on the work are published in Advanced Materials and the Journal of Power Sources. Overall, our work demonstrates the immense potential of the cobalt-free NFA class cathodes as viable candidates towards development of next generation cost effective lithium-ion batteries. —Muralidharan et al. Muralidharan, N., Essehli, R.,

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JULY 22, 2022

Tapping into the laboratory’s supercomputing capabilities, this work will enable high-fidelity study of General Fusion’s planned Fusion Demonstration Plant, the world’s first power-plant-relevant, large-scale Magnetized Target Fusion prototype. —Mark Berrill, Principal Investigator, Oak Ridge National Laboratory.

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MAY 5, 2020

A paper on their work is published in the Journal of Membrane Science. Nissan, for one, is investigating the potential for ethanol-fueled solid-oxide fuel cells. A team led by Dr. Bruno Matos from the Brazilian research institute IPEN is therefore investigating novel composite membranes for direct ethanol fuel cells.

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SEPTEMBER 14, 2022

Ferguson Enterprises is collaborating with Ford Motor Company to place a first-of-its-kind F550 Fuel Cell Prototype Chassis Work Truck in service within Ferguson’s daily fleet operations for six months. Together, these investments in new technologies will help inform Ferguson’s strategy for a more environmentally friendly fleet.

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APRIL 20, 2023

In the second quarter of 2023, the prototype will be equipped with a body implement for mowing in order to then gain further insights into work mode. This is particularly advantageous when working with heavy-duty front-mounted implements such as mowing combinations or large-volume tires.

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MARCH 7, 2022

Recent battery fires have renewed investigation of the safety of Li-ion batteries. A paper on their work appears in Joule. How-ever, the present work clearly shows that the evolution of energy density, SE thickness, and cell designs affect potential safety concerns.

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MARCH 20, 2023

A team of 150 engineers is working on the initiative and more than 50 prototypes have already been manufactured at JCB’s UK engine plant. This would result in larger batteries, which would take longer to charge, making them less suitable for machines which work multiple daily shifts and do not have the available downtime to recharge.

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MARCH 20, 2022

A paper on their work is published in Acta Materialia. The number of compositions becomes significantly larger, often thousands or millions, and you cannot investigate all the possible combinations using theory or experiments. Mudryk emphasized that this work is just the beginning. And that’s what we did. —Yaroslav Mudryk.

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JANUARY 18, 2022

An open-access paper on their work is published in the RSC journal Green Chemistry. To address these problems in the previous works during the selective lithium recovery from the spent LFP batteries, it is significant to develop an oxidant that is cheap, green, and efficient as well to replace the existing oxidants. Earlier post.)

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SEPTEMBER 12, 2021

This work demonstrates that it is possible to couple cell growth to simultaneous, unidirectional formate production from carbon dioxide and develops a process for growth under pressurised gases. —principal investigator Frank Sargent. In this study, an E. Normally, an enzyme in E. To reverse the normal reaction in E.

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FEBRUARY 22, 2019

Ford Motor is investigating possible concerns in its emission testing procedures. Specifically: Ford has hired an outside firm to conduct an investigation into the vehicle road load specifications used in its testing and applications to certify emissions and fuel economy.

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AUGUST 9, 2021

A team at the University of Nebraska-Lincoln has investigated the long-term adaptability and economic feasibility of non-flex-fuel vehicles—vehicles designed to use fuel blends containing 85% ethanol (E85) or less—to consume a 30% ethanol (E30) fuel blend. An open-access paper on their work is published in the journal Fuel.

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DECEMBER 30, 2020

And unlike other models that only work in one specific metro area, our tool is portable and can be applied to any urban area where aggregated traffic data is available. But smart phone tools only work for an individual driver trying to get from point A to point B.

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AUGUST 21, 2021

After further investigation into the manufacturing processes at LG and disassembling battery packs, GM discovered manufacturing defects in certain battery cells produced at LG manufacturing facilities beyond the Ochang, Korea, plant. GM and LG are working to rectify the cause of these defects. 63,683 (52,403 in the US.

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MAY 18, 2020

Their work, published in a paper in the RSC’s New Journal of Chemistry , points to a catalyst in developing and designing an artificial photosynthesis system that efficiently converts carbon dioxide into organic molecules. © Research Center for Artificial Photosynthesis, Osaka City University.

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APRIL 12, 2024

NTSB issues its preliminary report for the ongoing safety investigation of the Feb. The NTSB has noted that it was investigating the Philadelphia crash in collaboration with the Pennsylvania State Police. As per Ford, BlueCruise works on 97% of US and Canadian highways with no intersections or traffic lights.

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MAY 4, 2021

Engineers are working to improve the fuel efficiency of these engines while minimizing pollution to reduce energy consumption and ensure the sustainability of these industries in the future. Our work with Argonne on this project enabled the exploration of a massive design space.

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OCTOBER 11, 2021

The new study was a continuation of work led by Sandia postdoctoral appointee Dario Lopez-Pintor and presented at the 2019 SAE World Congress highlighting how low-temperature gasoline combustion can lead to substantial efficiency improvements to reduce fuel consumption by 30% compared to conventional gasoline engines, and the importance of ?

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Green Car Congress

DECEMBER 13, 2021

The research is the latest result from a joint project between Chalmers and Volvo Group that investigates how electric vehicles can be used for distribution tasks, and the new algorithm for learning and planning the optimal path of electric vehicles is so efficient that it is already being used by Volvo Group.

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JANUARY 29, 2024

Elon Musk’s Neuralink is working on a chip that will solve blindness What are your thoughts? The trial is also being overseen by an independent institutional review board. The company also says its initial goal for the brain-computer interface (BCI) is to allow people to control a computer cursor or keyboard using only their thoughts.

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JULY 22, 2020

That is one result of the Low Emission Freight and Logistics Trial (LEFT) project to investigate the practical deployment of hydrogen powered vehicles in the UK. More than 14 tonnes of CO 2 was saved in a two-year trial involving just 11 urban trucks and vans running on green hydrogen dual fuel.

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NOVEMBER 11, 2021

In order to develop these projects and to establish hydrogen-based transportation as a viable option, both companies want to jointly investigate the means of reducing the Total Cost of Ownership (TCO) of hydrogen truck operations, in line with their common approach to work together with authorities on the regulatory framework in the European Union.

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JANUARY 8, 2021

The work with Croda in considering different types of chemical as a battery coolant has provided valuable insight that has not only helped to overcome an existing challenge, but generated vital data that can streamline the development of new, more efficient EVs. —Kyle Thompson, one of the energy technologies team at Croda Europe.

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MAY 12, 2021

In this project, the companies Enerplus Corporation, Prairie Lithium Corporation, Enertopia Corporation and Dajin Lithium Corporation will investigate the technology for potential application at lithium mines in Nevada and Canada. The work has been approved and will get underway in Spring 2021. —Pete McGrail.

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JUNE 17, 2021

The collaboration makes Volvo Cars the first carmaker to work with SSAB and its HYBRIT initiative ( earlier post ), the steel industry’s most ambitious and advanced projects in fossil-free steel development. (In It aims to replace coking coal, traditionally needed for iron ore-based steelmaking, with fossil-free electricity and hydrogen.

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