Green Car Congress

SEPTEMBER 17, 2013

Researchers at the University of Michigan Transportation Research Institute (UMTRI) recently conducted an online survey of driver option to determine how receptive drivers would be to adopting—and how much they might pay for—in-vehicle technology that reduce carbon emissions. —Sullivan et al.

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Green Car Congress

AUGUST 30, 2013

Researchers at Wakayama University in Japan have produced a mixture of hydrogen and carbon monoxide gas by irradiating a mixture of carbon powder and distilled water with intense nanosecond laser pulses at room temperature. Electrodes or any other photocatalysts were not used to produce the hydrogen. —Akimoto et al.

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Green Car Congress

OCTOBER 10, 2011

The Commission’s funding is the cost-share for the company’s $6.2 The total cost of the project is $12.4 Prototype pack assembly is to be complete by January 2013, with complete prototype pack performance testing and validation by September 2013. Seeo is contributing $5.6 million for the project.

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Green Car Congress

JULY 21, 2016

35 new businesses, non-profits, universities, and utilities signing on to DOE’s Workplace Charging Challenge and committing to provide electric vehicle charging access for their workforce. Dayton Power & Light Company. Florida Power and Light Company. Hawai`i Electric Light. Indianapolis Power & Light Company.

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Cars That Think

FEBRUARY 15, 2022

The patches of light and dark that she’d been able to see with the implant’s help vanished. He received an implant in one eye in 2019 and remembers seeing the shining lights of Christmas trees that holiday season. Second Sight began with a flash of light. The surgeon inserted a second wire, and the man saw two spots of light. “If

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Green Car Congress

MARCH 26, 2013

The CEMI announcement was made at the ribbon cutting of the Department’s Carbon Fiber Technology Facility in Oak Ridge, Tennessee, a new advanced manufacturing facility to reduce the cost of carbon fiber. The selected project recipients and DOE funding request are: Projects Selected for Award Negotiations in March 2013. Earlier post.)

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Green Car Congress

MARCH 23, 2012

This includes 3a) Lightweight Cast Alloy Development for Light Duty Automotive Engine Applications; and 3b) High Strength Cast Alloy Development for Heavy-Duty On-Road Engine Applications. Cost targets for components manufactured utilizing the new materials should not exceed 110% of the cost of components using A319 or A356 aluminum alloys.

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Green Car Congress

AUGUST 2, 2013

A pair of researchers at the University of Michigan have used “big data” mining techniques to evaluate the impact of adopting plug-in electric vehicles (PEVs) in the Beijing taxi fleet on life cycle greenhouse gas emissions based on the characterized individual travel patterns. —Cai and Xu.

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Cars That Think

JUNE 10, 2024

nanometer light is the precise and costly process of blasting flying droplets of molten tin with the most powerful commercial lasers on the planet. This is more than enough to drive not one but many next-generation lithography machines simultaneously, pushing down the cost of advanced chipmaking. Moving to a much shorter, 13.5-nm

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Green Car Congress

JUNE 13, 2023

In addition to EV growth among passenger vehicles, the operational efficiencies of light- and medium-duty commercial EVs in the US are expected to achieve total cost of ownership (TCO) parity with combustion engine vehicles by 2025, with heavy-duty trucks set to achieve similar TCO before 2030.

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Electric Auto Association

OCTOBER 28, 2021

nk City, and 2013 Tesla Model S. He has a 34-year career as a journalist, advertiser, marketer, publicist, event planner, teacher, and fundraiser for-profit and not-for-profit organizations including Motorola, Business Marketing Association, and Michigan State University. What type of leadership makes you thrive?

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Electric Auto Association

OCTOBER 28, 2021

nk City, and 2013 Tesla Model S. He has a 34-year career as a journalist, advertiser, marketer, publicist, event planner, teacher, and fundraiser for-profit and not-for-profit organizations including Motorola, Business Marketing Association, and Michigan State University. What type of leadership makes you thrive?

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Green Car Congress

JULY 19, 2011

The US DOT’s is preparing NHTSA for a decision in 2013 that will determine whether the agency proceeds with regulatory activities that could require DSRC technology on new vehicles, consumer information programs that help new car buyers understand the effectiveness of this technology, or the need for further research and development.

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Green Car Congress

SEPTEMBER 27, 2013

The achievement was reported today in Nature by a team including scientists from the US Department of Energy’s (DOE) SLAC National Accelerator Laboratory and Stanford University. First they are boosted to nearly the speed of light. 2013), Nature , doi: 10.1038/nature12664. Particles are generally accelerated in two stages.

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Green Car Congress

MAY 13, 2010

The American Power Act, released as a discussion draft, targets reducing greenhouse gas (GHG) emissions by at least 4.75% compared to 2005 levels by 2013; by at least 17% compared to 2005 levels by 2020; by at least 42% compared to 2005 levels by 2030; and by at least 83% compared to 2005 levels by 2050. Senators John Kerry (D-Mass.),

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Green Car Congress

NOVEMBER 17, 2014

For the near-term, the focus is on improving performance and lowering the cost of high-pressure compressed hydrogen storage systems. For light-duty vehicles this means providing a driving range of more than 300 miles (500 km), while meeting packaging, cost, safety, and performance requirements to be competitive with current vehicles.

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Green Car Congress

JUNE 4, 2013

Credit: Laura Michie, Portsmouth University, with assistance from Alex Ball from the Natural History Museum. —Professor Simon McQueen-Mason, Centre for Novel Agricultural Products, University of York, research team leader. John McGeehan, a structural biologist from the University of Portsmouth team. Click to enlarge.

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Green Car Congress

NOVEMBER 21, 2013

When we spoke to customers interesting in driving a hydrogen fuel cell vehicle, many wondered what the cost of hydrogen would be. Because of the inherent weight and cost of batteries, and the chemistry and physics that drive slow recharge times, today’s electric vehicles have practical limits for many consumers, Hyundai suggested.

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Green Car Congress

OCTOBER 8, 2013

A number of papers from Kalghatgi and his colleagues—and now other groups, including Tsinghua University in China and the Eindhoven University of Technology—have been published recently, exploring different aspects of this approach. Light naphtha has a boiling range between 30 °C and 90 °C and 5-6 carbon atoms.

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Green Car Congress

APRIL 17, 2014

Compared to new diesel engines, the Delphi team found that BSFC for GDCI at light loads was comparable or better, and at high loads was about 5% higher. The specially developed boost system (reported at the SAE events in 2013), features a turbocharger, supercharger, two intercoolers, and a low-pressure loop EGR system. Earlier post.)

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Green Car Congress

JUNE 12, 2012

The selected projects range from improving manufacturing processes that reduce the energy needed to make components for aircraft and vehicles, to lowering the production costs of carbon fiber for a wide range of clean energy products. DOE award is $7,120,000, with $1,780,000 cost-share. University. Earlier post.).

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Revenge of the Electric Car

APRIL 6, 2010

Imagine it is 2013 in New York City. Passenger vehicles and light trucks were responsible for 74 percent of these transportation emissions that, as part of the overall PlaNYC effort, “would be reduced by 44 percent by 2030.&#. Robert Paaswell, director of the University Transportation Research Center, would probably agree.

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Green Car Congress

AUGUST 9, 2013

In a June speech at Georgetown University, President Barack Obama said that the controversial Keystone XL pipeline would only be built if the project “ does not significantly exacerbate the problem of carbon pollution.” ( Earlier post.). million barrels per day (mbd) in 2013 to 4.3 —IHS Cera Insight on Keystone XL.

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Cars That Think

DECEMBER 27, 2021

Peter Rubin/JPL-Caltech/Arizona State University/NASA. Lindy Elkins-Tanton of Arizona State University and managed by NASA’s Jet Propulsion Laboratory , the Psyche mission will test astronomers’ theories about planetary-core formation and composition while it explores a world with a landscape unlike any that space probes have visited so far.

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Green Car Congress

MAY 9, 2013

The work was conducted by a collaboration including industrial partners Arup, Dearman Engine Company, E4 Tech, Highview, Messer Group and Ricardo, as well as academics from the Universities of Leeds, Birmingham, Strathclyde, Brighton and Imperial College London. Williams, University of Birmingham. Jonathan Radcliffe and Prof.

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Clean Fleet Report

JUNE 21, 2021

Lighting things up. The front end leads off with a distinctive illuminated light bar, which runs horizontally through the VW badge, connecting the sleek LED projector headlights located on the outer fender edges. Make sure to check-out the geometric shape of the puddle lights coming off the outside mirrors.

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Green Car Congress

JANUARY 21, 2016

This FOA contains a total of 11 Areas of Interest (AOIs) and focuses on advanced light-weighting; advanced battery development; low cost electric motor development; enabling technologies for high efficiency engines; and support for EV deployment and AFV workplace safety programs. per pound of weight saved.

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Green Car Congress

NOVEMBER 17, 2015

lb), corresponding to customer fuel costs of roughly €4 (as of October 2015). In 2013, the Audi e-gas plant in Werlte (Emsland) came on stream. Small consumers such as control units or lights will, however, remain in the 12-volt system well into the future. CO 2 emissions are less than 100 grams per km (160.9

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Green Car Congress

JANUARY 21, 2013

Topics included the upcoming introduction of the blue e-motion Golf electric vehicle, sometimes called the e-Golf, near the end of 2013 (early 2014 for the US market), as well as Volkswagen’s goal of achieving 3% of its global sales through plug-in vehicles by 2018. Adapted from Volkswagen’s graph. Click to enlarge. Click to enlarge.

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