Green Car Congress

OCTOBER 12, 2018

In addition to the fuel savings, electric vehicles typically require less maintenance than traditional internal combustion engine vehicles, which means lower maintenance costs. —Scott Phillippi, UPS senior director of automotive maintenance and engineering.

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Cars That Think

MARCH 29, 2024

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. In 2008, Woskov began intensively studying whether the approach could be an affordable improvement on mechanical drilling.

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Green Car Congress

MARCH 6, 2014

The collaborative efforts have included a number of calls: In 2008-2009, the initial UK-China energy calls were launched, in partnership with MoST; topics included renewable energy technologies and cleaner fossil fuels; In 2009, RCUK funded four innovation-focused projects through the RCUK Science Bridges initiative. million (US$9.4

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Green Car Congress

SEPTEMBER 24, 2012

Ultimately, the trucks could act as backup power sources to shorten planned or unplanned outages and boost the electric grid when needed. The gasoline engine extends the range to 350 more miles. PG&E joined with VIA Motors in 2008 to develop the extended-range electric vehicle, or eREV.

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Green Car Congress

JANUARY 17, 2012

In partnership with the City of Riverside and Riverside Public Utilities, UC Riverside engineers will design methods to direct the solar energy to electric vehicle charging in a way that minimizes loads on the grid and demands for electricity generated from non-renewable resources.

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Green Car Congress

NOVEMBER 2, 2016

The results indicate the Port is advancing its 2008 commitment to reduce seaport-related diesel health risk by 85% by the year 2020. a $60-million project to construct a power grid that ships can plug into at berth rather than relying on auxiliary diesel engines. In that same timeframe, ship emissions dropped 75%.

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Green Car Congress

JUNE 24, 2013

liter Isuzu diesel engine, demonstrates a 35% fuel efficiency improvement over traditional vehicles in the FedEx Express fleet. This conversion not only reduces fuel consumption and emissions, but will also extend the engine life in fleet vehicles by supplementing the necessary power with their hybrid-electric drive train.

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Electric Auto Association

SEPTEMBER 4, 2022

Jack had been making these videos since 2008,” Howard said. “He He was promoting the benefits of EVs and how they compare with ICE (internal combustion engine) vehicles and talking about living off the grid. The catalyst was the high gas prices in 2008, similar to what’s been going on now,” Rickard said. “My

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Green Car Congress

JUNE 9, 2011

Researchers at the Dalian Institute of Chemical Physics (DICP) of the Chinese Academy of Sciences report that a 2 kW vanadium redox flow battery under development there for grid storage has been in operation for 1,429 days as of 4 June, with a total running time of more than 34,000 hours and 10,000 charge/discharge cycles.

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Green Car Congress

JULY 14, 2010

Cyclone’s waste heat power generator—comprising its 18 hp Waste Heat Engine, proprietary heat exchangers and electric generator—will be installed and field tested at Bent Glass’ facility over the following couple of months.

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Green Car Congress

AUGUST 13, 2010

With this solar energy system, we will be able to gain vital understanding about the integration of renewable power, smart-grid technologies and energy storage at an industrial facility. Michigan Assembly’s energy storage system will be able to recharge from the grid during off-peak hours when energy is available at a lower cost.

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Green Car Congress

JUNE 18, 2015

The work will begin in June of 2016 when the support from 3M and Engineering Research Council of Canada (NSERC) ends. (3M The Dahn Group studies of the reasons for the failure of Li-ion cells began in 2008 and now represent the largest focus area for the group. combinatorial solutions handling robot for respirator carbons. —Prof.

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Green Car Congress

MARCH 27, 2013

Engineering surface area, pore size distribution, and total pore volume can deliver carbon material with a broad range of surface properties. EnerG2 has used the Carbon Technology Platform to molecularly engineer the polymer precursor to result in the desired carbon structure that has both high capacity and high first cycle efficiency.

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Cars That Think

MAY 13, 2022

patents, is passionate about encouraging and supporting the next generation of engineers. While he was an engineering professor at the University of California, Los Angeles , Samueli helped found company in San Jose, Calif., The IEEE Life Fellow, who served as 2008 IEEE president, has been a member ever since. students, Henry T.

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Green Car Congress

MAY 16, 2009

In the paper, the GM team broke down CO 2 and fuel consumption reduction potentials into several categories: The introduction of E-REVs and PHEVs to existing grids, displacing petroleum use; The influence of charging availability and consumer behavior on CO 2 reduction; Changes in power grid mix as well as vehicle stock; and.

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Green Car Congress

FEBRUARY 25, 2010

Bloom’s customers have deployed the solution to lower and/or fix their energy costs, while significantly cutting their carbon footprints and enhancing their energy security by reducing their dependence on the grid. SOFCs operate at high temperature (typically above 800 °C).

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Cars That Think

JANUARY 20, 2024

The IMO’s previous goal was a 50 percent reduction by 2050 in comparison with 2008 levels. The other two ships, the Japanese Mutsu (1970) and the German Otto Hahn (1968), were both refitted with diesel engines partway through their service lives. So we can make engines that run on ammonia, but there won’t be enough ammonia.”

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Green Car Congress

APRIL 7, 2011

The teams first studied the ideas from October 2008 to April 2010. The Boeing Research & Technology (BR&T) award continues the work of the SUGAR (Subsonic Ultra Green Aircraft Research) Project, which looked at truss-based wing aircraft designs and hybrid electric engine technology.

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Green Car Congress

JUNE 8, 2009

The new Global Battery Systems Lab will lead GM’s global advanced battery engineering resources and expedite the introduction of electrically driven vehicles, including the Chevrolet Volt, as well as plug-in hybrid and hybrid-electric vehicles and fuel cell vehicles. Planning began in December 2007 and construction started in August 2008.

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Green Car Congress

DECEMBER 15, 2009

The Research Council is the principal operating agency of the US National Academy of Sciences and the National Academy of Engineering. In the PHEV-40, the electric motor provides all the propulsion; the gasoline engine drives a generator that powers the motor and keeps the batteries charged above some minimum level. Click to enlarge.

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Green Car Congress

JANUARY 5, 2010

The technologies developed under the program will also be utilized in meeting the needs of C&D’s commercial customers, with potential application to large-scale grid-energy storage, renewable energy applications and distributed power for telecommunications systems, in addition to broader application in other branches of the military.

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Cars That Think

JULY 30, 2021

The four candidates share their plans for increasing student membership; expanding science, technology, engineering, and math education programs; and attracting more members from industry. Society of Motion Picture and Television Engineers ' Conference Program Committee and has published articles in several of the organization's journals.

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Green Car Congress

NOVEMBER 29, 2016

Car and truck engines used to be the largest sources of anthropogenic black carbon emissions in California; the existing air quality policies will virtually eliminate black carbon emissions from on-road diesel engines within 10 years. CARB began publicly evaluating controls for SLCPs with the first AB 32 Scoping Plan in 2008.

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Green Car Congress

JUNE 29, 2011

Volkswagen, in cooperation with 6 project partners and the German Ministry of the Environment, presented in Berlin the current status of the “Fleet study in electric mobility” that was initiated in July 2008. The entire drive unit of the Golf Variant twïnDRIVE is housed in the engine compartment; it consists of the fuel-efficient 1.4

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Green Car Congress

NOVEMBER 8, 2011

From a “well-to-wheel” perspective, high efficient gasoline and diesel engines are nearly as energy efficient as any technology available. The quickest and most cost-effective way to achieve our energy usage goals is through faster adoption of fuel-efficient downsized gasoline and diesel engines. They determined that only 3.9

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Green Car Congress

JANUARY 3, 2014

However, the National Development Plan for Oil Shale Use for 2008-15 calls for reducing annual extraction while preserving the country’s strong energy security. The new IEA publication Energy Policies of IEA Countries – Estonia 2013 describes how the country is trying to slow its mining of oil shale amid environmental concerns.

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Green Car Congress

JUNE 6, 2013

Following the simulation tests, Ecotality engineered the actual conversion of the vehicle and put it into daily route duty in a courier fleet. East Penn obtained a patent in 2008 to produce the UltraBattery energy storage technology, and it has used UltraBattery modules in its own demonstration hybrid (also based on a Honda Civic HEV).

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Green Car Congress

APRIL 14, 2009

Areas of research that require immediate attention include, but are not limited to: energy efficiency; energy storage; established sustainable energy sources, such as wind, solar, hydro, and biomass; enhanced geothermal systems; cellulosic biofuel production; smart transmission grids; and ocean/kinetic power. Construct essential policies.

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Green Car Congress

MAY 9, 2010

Two tracks need to be followed simultaneously, the EC says: Promoting clean and energy efficient vehicles based on conventional internal combustion engines; Facilitating the deployment of breakthrough technologies in ultra-low-carbon vehicles. Energy, power generation and distribution. Recycling and transportation of batteries. Resources.

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Green Car Congress

NOVEMBER 4, 2013

The study builds on a 2011 effort which looked into the six key applications of the Strategic Energy Technology (SET) Plan: wind, solar, nuclear fission, bioenergy, carbon capture and storage (CCS) and the electricity grid. These include: The implications of missing or exceeding targets for the uptake of low carbon technologies.

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Green Car Congress

JULY 31, 2009

Among the wide variety of technologies under development that might become available in the future, this report focuses on those with the best prospects of fully maturing during the three time periods considered: 2008–2020, 2020–2035, and 2035–2050. million barrels per day in 2008) will be challenging.

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Green Car Congress

FEBRUARY 5, 2009

When biogas is produced and used on-site in a fuel cell, fuel utilization or overall energy efficiency can reach 90% and can reduce emissions by more than 90% by weight as compared to the emissions associated with grid electricity generation. This current technology would be more than twice as expensive as internal combustion engine systems.

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Green Car Congress

DECEMBER 7, 2011

10 11 kg with no size changes)—the equivalent to adding three to ten coal-fired power plants to the electricity grid each year. —Kate Whitefoot, now a senior program officer at the National Academy of Engineering. sq m) between 2008 and 2011.To 10 11 –5.17×10 Their paper is published in the journal Energy Policy.

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Green Car Congress

MAY 27, 2009

EGS makes use of available heat resources through engineered reservoirs, which can then be tapped to produce electricity. In 2008, the United States Geological Survey (USGS) conducted an assessment of high temperature resource potential in the Western United States. Solar Energy Deployment ($40.5

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Green Car Congress

JANUARY 20, 2010

The basic goal of the revised ZEV program should be to help demonstration-stage, low-GHG emitting technologies to commercialization, include fuel cell vehicles (FCVs); battery-electric vehicles (BEVs); and Enhanced AT PZEVs, which currently include plug-in HEVs (PHEV) and hydrogen internal combustion engine (HICE) vehicles, according to ARB staff.

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Green Car Congress

FEBRUARY 19, 2009

Dr. Patil has an undergraduate degree from IIT, Bombay (India) and a PhD in Aerospace Engineering from the University of Michigan, Ann Arbor. He served as the chief engineer for the Ford Escape Hybrid from 1998 to 2003 and holds 12 patents. Source: DOE, ALBAA 2008. Mini-cells” Source: LG Chem, ALBAA 2008. Prabhakar Patil.

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Green Car Congress

JUNE 19, 2009

All promising low-carbon non-petroleum transportation options, including hydrogen fuel cell vehicles, battery electric vehicles, and advanced liquid biofuels in combustion engines, face significant technical, resource, and market challenges. kWh (350 bar, down 9% from 2008) for hydrogen storage. Source: DOE. Click to enlarge.

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