Green Car Congress

FEBRUARY 28, 2009

CBP involves the use of a single microorganism or group of organisms to break down plant matter through a one-step conversion process of biomass into biofuels—a single-step cellulose-to-ethanol method. The plant was funded in part by grants from the State of New York which were approved in December 2006. Earlier post.)

New York

Green Car Congress

JULY 11, 2011

Engineers at Arizona State University have engineered E. The conversion of endogenously synthesized l-phenylalanine to styrene was achieved by the co-expression of phenylalanine ammonia lyase and trans-cinnamate decarboxylase. In 2006, eight. US production of styrene has risen fairly steadily since 1960.

Engine

Green Car Congress

AUGUST 27, 2012

—John Reilly, co-director of the Joint Program and co-author Sebastian Rausch, now at ETH Zurich University, calculated the impact a carbon tax starting at $20 per ton would have using a national economic model that details energy, taxes and household incomes. They found that the tax would raise $1.5

Tax

Green Car Congress

JULY 27, 2011

Researchers from the University of Idaho and the US Department of Agriculture have updated the analysis of the energy life-cycle of soybean biodiesel and found a fossil energy ratio (FER) of 5.54 using 2006 agricultural data. 2009), and Sheehan et al. Pradhan et al. 2011) Click to enlarge. later reported using 2002 data.

Energy

Green Car Congress

FEBRUARY 3, 2010

A key objective was to update life cycle inventory (LCI) databases for soybean production and processing as well as conversion into four key soy-derived feedstocks (methyl soyate, soy lube base stock, soy polyol, and soy resin) used in fuel and industrial products. kg (for the 3.36 kg (for the 3.36

Production

Green Car Congress

NOVEMBER 4, 2011

A new study on greenhouse gas (GHG) emissions associated with the conversion and degradation of peatland in palm oil plantations in Southeast Asia has determined that past studies have generally significantly underestimated emissions associated with palm oil grown on peatland. For instance, Al-Riffai et al.

Oil

Green Car Congress

JULY 31, 2019

—Dr Rob McElroy of the University of York, who is a researcher on the R2LIB project. Established in 2006, Circa Group converts waste biomass into bio-based chemicals with its proprietary Furacell process at its prototype plant in Tasmania—a joint venture with Norske Skog. straw, bagasse, sawdust).

Battery

Green Car Congress

APRIL 1, 2009

More than two dozen scientists from the University of California at Berkeley, Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory, and the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign will participate in the investigations. He and his co-principal investigators will direct teams in different aspects of the process. Earlier post.) Earlier post.).

Energy

Green Car Congress

MAY 16, 2017

announced that its Universal Biofuels subsidiary has won a $6-million first contract to supply biodiesel to the India government-owned Oil Marketing Companies (OMC) in a public tender process. Founded in 2006, Aemetis owns and operates a 60-million-gallon-per-year ethanol production facility in California’s Central Valley, near Modesto.

India

Green Car Congress

JUNE 14, 2014

By comparison, Eucalyptus has three times the number of tandem repeat genes present in poplar, the first tree sequenced (by the DOE JGI and published on the cover of the journal Science in 2006). This poses a barrier to their rapid domestication and breeding improvements by way of self-pollination.

International

Green Car Congress

JANUARY 7, 2011

While awareness is high and knowledge has increased since a Maritz Research 2006 poll, few consumers today purport to be very familiar with either electric-only, flex fuel or gasoline-hybrid vehicles. However, even some of the Prius’ product characteristics were not universally understood. —Dave Fish, Ph.D.,

Alternative Fuels

Green Car Congress

JULY 15, 2010

Verenium’s conversion process originated from technology developed by a team led by Dr. Lonnie Ingram at the University of Florida and originally licensed by Celunol. Since 2006, BP has announced investments of more than $1.5 This combination yielded an integrated, end-to-end cellulosic ethanol capability.

San Diego

Tony Karrer Delicious EVdriven

APRIL 21, 2009

Our PRIUS+ Project Photos PHEV Resources Global Warming Take Action News and Events Contact Us Where Plug-In Hybrid Conversions (mostly Priuses) Are This is a mirror of the map at Googles RechargeIt site (including icons for YouTube videos on both PHEVs and EVs). Hymotion, February 2006 Hymotion Toronto, Ontario info@hymotion.com 6.

Prius

Green Car Congress

AUGUST 28, 2009

Researchers from CellTech Power and the University of Connecticut have demonstrated a liquid-tin anode solid-oxide fuel cell (LTA-SOFC) operating on pure biodiesel (B100) prepared via base-catalyzed transesterification of virgin and waste cooking oils. Credit: ACS. Click to enlarge. Energy Fuels. doi: 10.1021/ef9003413. McPhee, W. Bateman, L.;

Bentley

Green Car Congress

DECEMBER 11, 2009

Conversely, short bursts of power can also be absorbed by the SpeedStart generator to recharge the battery during vehicle decelerations. Formed in 2006, the company is a spin-out from the Honda Ecotechnology Centre at Cranfield University. They have also designed a 100 mpg UK (83 mpg US, 2.8

Downsizing

Electric Auto Association

NOVEMBER 2, 2021

They especially like the conversion vehicles because they’re different.”. A history that goes back GEVA has a history that very much involves the aforementioned conversions. The club started in 2006, when you couldn’t buy an electric car. Wayne Garver with his 1971 VW conversion. “I

St. Louis

Revenge of the Electric Car

JULY 9, 2012

As Portland, OR gears up for yet another screening of Revenge, local EV'er and filmmaker J Bills recounts the scene at the Portland premiere back in November: Here in Portland, we still talk about the last time Chris Paine rolled through town with a movie; an early screening of 2006’s seminal “Who Killed the Electric Car?”

Portland

Green Car Congress

DECEMBER 10, 2009

The two-stroke cycle, conversely, does not suffer from significant throttling losses and in many ways is a more natural fit for automotive use. MTZ Vol 67, 11/2006 Pages 830 - 840. Lubrication system. Wet sump with plain bearings and electric oil pump. Cooling system. Luckert, A. Waltner, E. Vent and U.

Fuel Economy

Cars That Think

JANUARY 7, 2022

She joined IBM Research in Zurich in 1998 while pursuing her doctorate in physics in collaboration with the University of Bayreuth , also in Germany. She and her team helped develop the first vertical surround-gate nanowire field-effect transistor in 2006. To do this conversion, you need sophisticated technology,” Riel says. “We

Building

Cars That Think

MAY 6, 2023

Milner was working on neuropsychology at McGill University , in Montreal, although he had trained as an electrical engineer. In 2006 Dartmouth convened a conference, AI@50 , to celebrate the 50th anniversary of the AI gathering and to discuss AI’s present and future. Grace Solomonoff So the unknown person must be Milner!

Personal

Cars That Think

OCTOBER 11, 2022

It wasn’t until he became an IEEE student member in 2006 that Pillai learned those terms. The startup’s B2B platform used a combination of human and chatbot conversations to personalize a customer’s purchasing experience with a retailer. He learned from other IEEE members what running a tech company entails.

Denver

The Truth About Cars

JULY 8, 2024

It has a very mild conversion, including an aftermarket sunroof and map lights. Here's a 1980-1981 University of North Carolina Charlotte parking sticker. The North Carolina DMV inspection sticker has a 2006 expiration date. This one appears to have received a sliding door swap from a Sportvan or Rally, because it has a window.

Chevrolet

Electric Auto Association

NOVEMBER 2, 2021

They especially like the conversion vehicles because they’re different.”. A history that goes back GEVA has a history that very much involves the aforementioned conversions. The club started in 2006, when you couldn’t buy an electric car. Wayne Garver with his 1971 VW conversion. “I

St. Louis

Tony Karrer Delicious EVdriven

APRIL 21, 2009

Conversions are mostly for the Prius, with a few for the Ford Escape/Mercury Mariner hybrid SUVs. At that point, we expect the aftermarket companies prices to have come down sufficiently so that their conversions will be attractive to owners of hundreds of thousands of hybrids already on the road. So far, most start as hybrids.

Plug-in

Cars That Think

JANUARY 28, 2025

An interest in space inspired him to enroll in an aerospace engineering course at Tuskegee University , in Alabama, in 2002. A chance conversation with his roommates friend, who was taking computer science, convinced him to give the subject a try.

Engine

Tony Karrer Delicious EVdriven

APRIL 21, 2009

Our PRIUS+ Project Photos PHEV Resources Global Warming Take Action News and Events Contact Us CalCars Frequently Asked Questions Jump to: Environmental Effects and Benefits Alternative Fuels Batteries PHEV Conversions Other Questions Note: This page is overdue for a major overhaul. PHEV Conversions to top What cars can be converted to PHEVs?

PHEV

Electric Auto Association

JANUARY 5, 2023

Straubel ’s August 2006 preview of the company’s Roadster at a chapter meeting. “We When Straubel—also known for his 1984 Porsche 944 EV conversion—left Tesla, he founded Redwood Materials , a leading lithium battery recycling company in Carson City, Nevada. That was quite a conversion.” It’s a very strong spirit.”

EV1

Green Car Congress

NOVEMBER 17, 2015

Conversely, high coating thicknesses for the electrodes produce a high energy density. The absence of any universal hydrogen infrastructure at present means the focus at the moment is on the second process step: the hydrogen is then reacted with CO 2 , which comes from a nearby waste biogas plant, to produce synthetic methane, or Audi e-gas.

Audi

Baua Electric

JANUARY 22, 2025

In fact, before his foray into Silicon Valleys internet startup boom, Musk went to Stanford University to study supercapacitors, which he claims he did with the hope of using them in electric vehicles. Theres no reason not to believe him, but theres no evidence that he had anything to do with the abovementioned concept.

Li-ion

Baua Electric

APRIL 15, 2024

Like other Yale museums, it is now free, offers more Spanish-language programming, and is inviting more voices into the conversation, with some exhibits being interpreted by students and artists, opening the lens on how visitors might respond to what they’re seeing. “We People like to make things here.”

Neighborhood

Tony Karrer Delicious EVdriven

APRIL 21, 2009

Several after-market companies have done PHEV conversions of the Ford Escape hybrid and one has done a retrofit of the F-150 pickup -- see Where PHEVs Are and ICE-Conversions.) That said, the interest in conversions continues to validate hybrid technology as a core technology thats here to stay.

Plug-in

Green Car Congress

AUGUST 30, 2009

The 1979 Iranian crisis and related oil price shock accelerated Brazil’s conversion of its gasoline supply and automobile fleet. Already the world’s biggest producer and exporter of sugar, farmers reaped the benefits of this new demand. Renergie was formed by Ms.

Transportation

Cars That Think

APRIL 20, 2024

Bob Taylor, then at the Advanced Research Projects Agency (ARPA) , got interested in connecting computers, in part to save the organization money by getting the expensive computers it funded at universities and research organizations to share their resources over a packet-switched network. 1962 and Ph.D.

MIT

Cars That Think

OCTOBER 27, 2024

He earned a master’s degree in EE in 1963 from New York University and went on to earn a Ph.D. He was honored with the 2008 IEEE Alexander Graham Bell Medal and the 2006 IEEE Eric E. in EE in 1967 from Stevens Institute of Technology , in Hoboken, N.J. He began his career in 1961 as a researcher at Bell Labs , in Holmdel, N.J.

Los Angeles

Cars That Think

JANUARY 7, 2023

“Public policy implementation is hard even if everyone supports a policy,” says University of Michigan professor emeritus John Leslie King , who has studied policy management and administration for decades.

Grid

Cars That Think

MARCH 24, 2022

Gerald Estrin led the development of the WEIZAC , the first digital electronic computer made in the Middle East, and he helped found the computer science department at the University of California, Los Angeles. At UCLA, she designed one of the first systems for analog-to-digital conversion of electrical activity from the nervous system.

Los Angeles

Cars That Think

MARCH 30, 2025

Cheryl Conrad no longer seethes with the frustration that threatened to overwhelm her in 2006. Few other service industries are exposed to universal and substantial incentives to adopt such a specific, highly regulated form of technology, which has, as our findings suggest, not yet matured. The trouble is far from over.

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