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AUGUST 3, 2013

A research team at Monash University (Australia) led by Professor Dan Li of the Department of Materials Engineering has developed a new strategy to engineer graphene-based supercapacitors (SC), resulting in an energy density of 60 Wh/liter—comparable to lead-acid batteries and around 12 times higher than commercially available SCs.

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APRIL 11, 2013

Researchers at the University of Bristol (UK) have developed a new family of catalysts that enables the conversion of ethanol into n-butanol—a higher alcohol with better characteristics for transportation applications than ethanol—with selectivity of more than 95% at good conversion. —Professor Duncan Wass.

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OCTOBER 25, 2013

million partnership with McMaster University in Ontario, Canada, with funding support from the Canadian government, to develop next-generation, energy-efficient, high-performance electrified powertrains and powertrain components. Chrysler Group LLC has entered a 5-year, $18.2-million Chrysler Group will invest $9.25

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JUNE 13, 2014

DOE will contribute $150 million, with Southern Company adding $37 million in cost-sharing. The agreement supports national efforts to reduce greenhouse gas emissions through more efficient, lower-cost coal conversion and carbon capture and storage. The total award value is $187 million.

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AUGUST 1, 2013

US Energy Secretary Ernest Moniz announced more than $22 million in new investments to help develop cost-competitive algae fuels and streamline the biomass feedstock supply chain for advanced biofuels. Moniz was speaking at the US Department of Energy’s (DOE’s) Biomass 2013 conference. California Polytechnic State University ($1.5

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Brooks left IBM in 1964 to found the University of North Carolina ’s computer science department in Chapel Hill. Although he retired from teaching in 2013, Brooks was still active in the university’s research program in virtual environmentsand scientific visualization until 2020. Brooks received a Ph.D.

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FEBRUARY 25, 2014

There are significant challenges for new lightweight and modern metals to reach widespread commercial production. The integrated design, development, and production of highly complex systems, leveraging software, can speed ideas from the lab into commercial production, reduce costs, and shorten production lifecycles.

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JULY 22, 2013

When tested in the laboratory, the mass specific activity of commercial Pt fuel cell catalysts is around 1 A mg -1 Pt. University of Copenhagen, found one of their catalysts delivered almost 8 A mg -1 Pt. One of the major hurdles for commercialization of the fuel cell technology is the sluggish cathodic ORR.

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NOVEMBER 7, 2014

The cathode is made up of exceptionally cost-effective, Earth-abundant precursor materials. The result is ultra-high-energy, safe and low-cost solid-state rechargeable batteries. Solid Power Inc. has been named “Emerging Cleantech Company of the Year” by the Colorado Cleantech Industries Association ( CCIA ). Earlier post.).

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DECEMBER 9, 2013

The combined fermentation results in a 40% increase in ethanol yield per ton of straw, which can result in significant cost cuts in the production of bio-ethanol from cellulosic feedstock. The facility was reconstructed in 2013 in order to be able to conduct mixed fermentation of C 6 and C 5 sugars. Earlier post.)

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MAY 22, 2013

The next step is establishing the commercial and sustainable biofuels industries needed to take biofuels flights from demonstration to reality. 2013), Technoeconomic analysis of renewable aviation fuel from microalgae, Pongamia pinnata , and sugarcane. We’ve proven that aircraft can fly on biofuels. million project. Dietzgen, R.

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JANUARY 8, 2015

Overall, DOE selected 5 projects $13 million in cost-share agreements to help address significant technical challenges to the design, construction and operation of next-generation nuclear reactors, based on needs identified by industry designers and technical experts. DOE created the program in 2013.

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MAY 30, 2014

On 12 November 2013, Toyota, Nissan, Honda and Mitsubishi jointly announced a plan to assist financially installers of charging stations and began taking applications from prospective charging station installers. Together with Government subsidies the grants will cover the entire cost of installation for successful applicants.

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SEPTEMBER 7, 2013

NOHMs, a spin-off from Cornell University, will utilize the Kentucky-Argonne Battery Manufacturing Research and Development Center and the University of Kentucky’s Spindletop Administration Building. Hooey Director of Chemical and Biomolecular Engineering at Cornell University. Technology.

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APRIL 1, 2013

Researchers at the University of Calgary have developed a new process for producing amorphous mixed-metal oxide films for oxygen evolution reaction (OER) catalysis for electrolysis. The technology opens up the possibility of a significant cost reduction for the electrocatalysts and potentially a wider distribution of the technology—e.g,

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OCTOBER 16, 2015

Battery electric transit buses are increasingly available from a variety of manufacturers and some school buses are commercially available. Commercially available. ~40 3 models commercially available in US. Limited commercial availability. Limited commercial availability. Number in Service. Transit Bus. School Bus.

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FEBRUARY 4, 2014

Researchers at the University of California, Davis have developed a process for the production of branched C 7 –C 10 hydrocarbons in the gasoline volatility range from biomass-derived levulinic acid with good yield, operating under relatively mild conditions, with short reaction times. Source: Mascal et al. Click to enlarge. per gallon.

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JANUARY 21, 2013

John Goodenough at the University of Texas at Austin and colleague Kyu-Sung Park have written a perspective paper on Li-ion batteries (LIBs), published in the Journal of the American Chemical Society. More recently, at the University of Texas, Austin, Dr. Goodenough patented a new class of iron phosphate materials. Earlier post.).

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MARCH 24, 2013

million in funding toward these projects with the matching cost share from the awarded project teams totaling $5 million. They also represent teaming by NAMII members with more than 30 different participating organizations, including eight universities and 25 industry partners from both small and large businesses. The Robert C.

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NOVEMBER 26, 2020

The implementation of this industrial and commercial ecosystem will take place gradually between 2021 and 2024, replacing the production of new vehicles. Groupe Renault is creating the REFACTORY in Flins, the first European circular economy site dedicated to mobility. By 2030, it will employ more than 3,000 people in dedicated professions.

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MARCH 12, 2014

A group led by Dr. Maria Braga at the University of Porto (Portugal) reports in the RSC’s Journal of Material Chemistry A journal on the potential for a novel type of superionic glasses for use as a solid electrolyte in advanced Lithium batteries. A doi: 10.1039/C3TA15087A. Helena Braga, Verena Stockhausen, Joana C.E. Oliveira and Jorge A.

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SEPTEMBER 30, 2013

Developed by the ATC and GM Global R&D with the support of PATAC for use by Shanghai GM, it is the industry’s first commercial application of a deeply formed magnesium sheet in an automotive body closure panel. The magnesium-intensive decklid covers the trunk of a vehicle. The decklid offers a mass reduction of 1.2 kilograms (2.6

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JUNE 16, 2013

and Soitec will collaborate on a California Energy Commission-funded, two-phase program to demonstrate the cost and efficiency benefits of combining an energy storage system with Soitec’s Concentrix CPV (concentrated photovoltaic) technology. The project starts in June 2013 and will run through November 2015. Maxwell Technologies, Inc.

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JANUARY 27, 2014

million in matching cost share from the awarded project teams for total funding worth $19.3 The Institute’s second project call, which was released on 30 August 2013, was focused on AM materials; process and equipment; qualification and certification; and knowledgebase development-each with subset focus areas. ANSYS, Inc.; and ExOne).

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JULY 25, 2014

According to a report from Frost and Sullivan (Kumar, 2013), fleet managers adopted more than half of EVs sold globally up to 2013. Fleet managers also have a better comprehension of lifetime vehicle costs than do private households. This result is different than CFLs, which largely depended on cost reduction for adoption.

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MAY 6, 2014

This type of device could be easily installed in a commercial vehicle, the UC3M engineers suggest; car models already exist that incorporate cameras in the visible spectrum and integration of a system based on far infrared would not be very different, according to the researchers. The IVVI 2.0,

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JULY 21, 2011

HIVOCOMP (Advanced materials enabling High-Volume road transport applications of lightweight structural COMPosite parts) runs until September 2014 and intends to significantly speed up the composites production process, a key factor for the establishment of plastics in the commercial vehicles market. Total project cost is €7.39

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AUGUST 20, 2013

A team from the University of Michigan, Michigan State, and UCLA has designed synthetic fungal-bacterial consortia for the direct production of isobutanol from biomass. Dr. James Liao’s lab at the University of California-Los Angeles provided E. coli bacteria that had been engineered to convert sugars into isobutanol. Minty, Marc E.

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OCTOBER 31, 2013

It’s almost 100% recyclable, but in commercial use is a fairly modern metal. Ultimately, researchers say they expect new technologies, “green” products, lowered equipment costs, and aluminum applications that work better, cost less and have high performance. Wei Wang, Weimin Liu, I-Ya Chang, Lindsay A. Wills, Lev N.

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MARCH 26, 2014

Total and IFPEN are the co-owners of the technology and Axens is now in charge of commercializing Atol by providing all process licensing related services and catalyst manufacturing. Minhua Zhang and Yingzhe Yu (2013) “Dehydration of Ethanol to Ethylene,” Industrial & Engineering Chemistry Research 52 (28), 9505-9514 doi: 10.1021/ie401157c.

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Ford began working with several companies, suppliers and universities in 2013 to find applications for captured CO 2. Novomer is commercializing a proprietary catalyst system that transforms waste CO 2 into high performance, low-cost polymers for a variety of applications, including foam and plastic that are easily recyclable.

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SEPTEMBER 30, 2012

Ranges of automotive fuel cell system costs at mass manufactured volume using technology from three UK companies supported by the Carbon Trust. Independent analysis commissioned by the Carbon Trust predicts current polymer fuel cell technology will cost $49/kW in automotive applications when manufactured at mass scale (i.e.

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FEBRUARY 21, 2013

As part of an ongoing effort to improve commercial scale algae biofuel production, a group of scientists, led by crude oil producer Sapphire Energy, Inc., Algal biofuels production, although theoretically attractive, faces a number of economic challenges—in particular, producing algae cost effectively at an agricultural scale.

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The workshop will be followed by an invitation-only event where further panel discussions will occur at the University of California, Davis. The 2014 IEPR also recommended action to identify, assess and initiate funding strategies that further leverage funds commensurate with the commercialization phases of technology and project development.

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The projects selected have the potential significantly to lower the cost or improve the performance, durability, or efficiency of fuel cells or hydrogen fuel production. Northeastern University. University of California, Irvine. University of Delaware. University of New Mexico. Giner, Inc. Versa Power Systems.

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JUNE 11, 2014

When we spoke with customers about fuel cell vehicles, many wondered about the cost of hydrogen. To ease those concerns as the hydrogen refueling network builds out, we decided that covering this cost for these early adopters was appropriate, and consistent with how we like to treat our customers. Click to enlarge.

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Ford’s investment also supports the necessary engineering and launch costs for the advanced battery systems. This investment includes manufacturing capital equipment, launch and engineering costs and supplier tooling upgrades, all required to support the production launch of the HF35 transaxle.

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