Green Car Congress

DECEMBER 15, 2012

Agriculture Secretary Tom Vilsack announced $10 million in research grants to spur production of biofuels, bioenergy and biobased products that will lead to the development of sustainable regional systems and help create jobs. Vilsack highlighted the announcement with a visit to Michigan State University, a grant awardee.

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Green Car Congress

AUGUST 26, 2019

A University of Texas at Dallas physicist has teamed with Texas Instruments Inc. But in 2008, new research indicated that silicon performed much better as a nanowire. Study co-author Hal Edwards, a TI Fellow at Texas Instruments, designed and supervised fabrication of the prototype devices. —Prof.

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Cars That Think

JULY 13, 2023

Goodenough, a professor of electrical and computer engineering at the University of Texas at Austin , authored more than 800 technical papers during his career. He and his colleagues were recently granted a U.S. It later became the chemistry of choice for early electric cars including the 2008 Tesla Roadster.

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Green Car Congress

OCTOBER 22, 2014

A research team led by The University of Texas at Austin has been awarded approximately $58 million to analyze methane hydrate deposits under the Gulf of Mexico. Council of Canadian Academies (2008). Estimates vary on the amount of energy that could be produced from methane hydrate worldwide, but the potential is huge.

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Green Car Congress

MAY 13, 2009

The much-anticipated reexamination certificate for US Patent 6,514,640—one of the lithium iron phosphate battery patents invented by Goodenough and colleagues, assigned to the University of Texas, and licensed exclusively to Hydro-Quebec—has been published.

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Green Car Congress

SEPTEMBER 14, 2009

Süd-Chemie, a global chemical company, invested C$35 million (US$32 million) in 2007 and 2008 in one of its Canadian affiliates—Phostech Lithium—to increase lithium iron phosphate production capacity for use in new generations of lithium-ion batteries to 1,500 metric tons per year.

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Green Car Congress

OCTOBER 29, 2009

Williams Hybrid Power (WHP, formerly Automotive Hybrid Power Limited prior to acquisition in 2008 of a significant shareholding by Williams F1) is developing a version of its flywheel system for use as the energy storage element of Williams F1’s Kinetic Energy Recovery System (KERS).

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