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Saint Professor at the University of California Berkeley. Related Maximilian Auffhammer View All Maximilian Auffhammer is the Avice M. His fields of expertise are environmental and energy economics, with a specific focus on the impacts and regulation of climate change and air pollution.

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Nissan announced that US pricing for the updated 2013 Nissan LEAF electric vehicle ( earlier post ) will start at an MSRP of $28,800 for the newly-added entry-level S grade—an 18% reduction from the $35,200 MSRP of the 2012 LEAF entry model, the SV. MSRPs of 2012 LEAF and 2013 LEAF. MY 2013 MSRP. MY 2012 MSRP.

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Title: Teaching Professor and Associate Chair for Undergraduate Studies in the Department of Electrical & Computer Engineering Member grade: Life senior member Alma maters: National Chiao Tung University in Hsinchu; Washington University, in St. He then attended Washington University in St.

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Top 15 LEAF market year-to-date in 2013. Nissan LEAF sales in the United States are up by 335% year-over-year since the launch of the enhanced 2013 model in March. Nissan has sold 11,703 LEAFs in the US during the first 7 months of 2013—an increase of 230% from the 3,543 units for the same period in 2012. Earlier post.)

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Researchers at Fudan University with colleagues at the Shanghai Academy of Spaceflight have developed a LiMn 2 O4 material for a Li-ion battery cathode that exhibits superfast charging capabilities. Their paper is published in the ACS journal Nano Letters. It is known that from the nature there are a lot of materials rich in facets.

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The Honda technology builds off of the research conducted by the University of Delaware and now supported by NRG Energy, Inc. The University of Delaware has been developing the technology so that vehicle batteries can be used not only for mobility but also for grid services. through their eV2g joint venture ( earlier post ).

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The US Department of Energy (DOE) released the 2013 edition of its annual Fuel Cell Technologies Market Report , detailing trends in the fuel cell and hydrogen technologies market. More than 35,000 fuel cell systems were shipped in 2013, an increase of more than 26% over 2012 and 400% more than 2008. Earlier post.).

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The University of British Columbia’s (UBC) Advanced Materials for Energy Storage Lab, under the leadership of Dr. Jian Liu, is the project’s research lead during the initial stages. Compared to most graphite mining, the Black Crystal graphite quarry operation has a light environmental footprint.

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General Motors partnered with the University of Michigan Transportation Research Institute to understand the real-world effectiveness of some of its available active safety, driver assistance, and advanced headlighting features that may prevent or mitigate different types of crashes. The study leveraged 3.7

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The US Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) announced the winners of the 2013 Presidential Green Chemistry Challenge Awards. In the academic category, Professor Richard Wool, University of Delaware, Newark, Del.

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Daimler and Chinese partner Tsinghua University signed an agreement further to deepen their research cooperation in the fields of automated driving and intelligent mobility. Yang Bin, Vice President of Tsinghua University. —Prof.

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Researchers from the University of Houston (UH) have developed a cobalt(II) oxide (CoO) nanocrystalline catalyst that can carry out overall water splitting with a solar-to-hydrogen efficiency of around 5%. 2013) “Efficient solar water-splitting using a nanocrystalline CoO photocatalyst.” Nature Nanotechnology. doi: 10.1038/nnano.2013.272.

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A team from Rice University has developed vanadium oxide (VO 2 )-graphene ribbon materials that, when used as cathode materials in Li-ion batteries, enable ultrafast, “ supercapacitor-like ” charge and discharge rates with long cycle life while maintaining highly reversible capacity. Credit: ACS, Yang et al. Click to enlarge.

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The BMW Group has been working with Toyota Motor Corporation on fuel cell drive systems since 2013. The aim of this collaboration between BMW AG, Munich University of Applied Sciences, Leichtbauzentrum Sachsen GmbH, Dresden University of Technology and WELA Handelsgesellschaft mbH is to develop new types of hydrogen storage tanks.

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The company introduced its first generation of batteries in May 2013, and is currently sampling and selling 650 Wh/L batteries. Amprius’ technology was initially developed at Professor Yi Cui’s laboratory at Stanford University; Prof. Professor of Physics and Professor of Molecular and Cellular Physiology at Stanford University.

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from 2004 to 2013 (from 9,314 miles to 8,472 miles). from 2013 to 2018 (from 8,472 miles to 8,855 miles). This rate is on a rebound since 2013, but it is still down by 4.9% The main findings concerning distance driven per person (summarized in the table below) are as follows: An increase of 40.9% A decrease of 9.0%

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The Solar Team Eindhoven (STE) of Eindhoven University of Technology (TU/e) presented the world’s first solar-powered family car. This is the car being entered by the student team in the Cruiser class of the World Solar Challenge that starts in Australia in October 2013. The solar race takes place from 6 to 13 October 2013.

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The Battery Converter is based on IPC’s patented indirect power converter topology and its Universal Power Converter Platform, which uses a standard hardware platform to address multiple markets with only embedded software modifications. Carson Army Base in 2013. battery and a 480Vac power grid. Integration Facility.

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Michael Sivak is the managing director of Sivak Applied Research and the former director of Sustainable Worldwide Transportation at the University of Michigan. Total consumption (millions of gallons). Consumption per capita (gallons). Consumption per capita (gallons). The maximum consumption per capita (505 gallons) was reached in 1978.

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by 2013 (to 8,468 miles), and then increased by 4.3% by 2013 (to 21,866 miles), and then increased by 4.3% Both rates are on a rebound since 2013, but they are still down from 2004 (by 5.2% The main findings (summarized in the table below) are as follows: Distance driven per person increased by 40.9% by 2017 (to 8,834 miles).

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powered family car ( earlier post ), is the winner of the Cruiser class of the World Solar Challenge 2013. Eindhoven University of Technology / Bart van Overbeeke. Eindhoven University of Technology / Bart van Overbeeke. Eindhoven University of Technology / Bart van Overbeeke Click to enlarge. On the road in Australia.

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mpg from the value in December, according to the latest monthly figures from Dr. Michael Sivak and Brandon Schoettle at the University of Michigan Transportation Research Institute. in November 2013 (the lower the value the better). in November 2013 (the lower the value the better). l/100 km)—up 0.1 Click to enlarge.

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announced that the Ohio State University (OSU) team was the overall winner of the EcoCAR 2: Plugging In to the Future finals. The OSU team’s engineered 2013 Chevrolet Malibu featured a series-parallel plug-in hybrid drive with E85-fueled engine technology. Pennsylvania State University placed third with its E85 series plug-in hybrid.

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noted in their 2013 review of challenges and opportunities for the technology, the electrolyte in such a system thus not only acts as charge carrier, but also as the active material. Ishihara and the university. 2013) US patent application 20130288113 : Non-aqueous electrolyte storage element. Both electrodes are carbon (e.g.,

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Researchers from Forschungszentrum Jülich and the FH Aachen University of Applied Sciences (Jülich Campus) are building and testing a light transport electric vehicle using a direct methanol fuel cell (DMFC) as a range extender. The team presented the SILENT-F vehicle for the first time on the Forschungszentrum campus earlier this month.

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A study by a team from Carnegie Mellon University and Yale University suggests that BEVs could constitute the majority or near-majority of cars and SUVs by 2030, given widespread BEV availability and technology trends. They then compared these results to those of a similar consumer survey conducted from 2012-2013.

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Researchers from Ben-Gurion University of the Negev and Ormat Industries Ltd. Landau, Yehudit Reizner, Dov Berger (2013) A commercially-viable, one-step process for production of green diesel from soybean oil on Pt/SAPO-11, Fuel , Volume 111 Pages 157-164, doi: 10.1016/j.fuel.2013.04.044. Moti Herskowitz, Miron V. 2013.04.044.

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Volkswagen Chattanooga has received a 2013 Green Power Leadership Award from the US Environmental Protection Agency (EPA)—the only automaker to be so recognized. 15 on EPA’s Top 20 On-site Generation list, which highlights EPA Green Power Partners that have achieved the highest annual on-site green power generation through July 3, 2013.

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Scotland-based route optimization company Route Monkey is teaming up with Heriot-Watt University in Edinburgh to develop new algorithms to optimize the use of vans, trucks and passenger cars. The partnership with Heriot-Watt University will initially focus on delivering the £1.5-million million (US$2.3-million) Haycock, R.;

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Researchers from Nanyang Technological University (NTU Singapore) led by Professor Xiaodong Chen have developed a new TiO 2 gel material for Li-ion battery anodes. A 2013 paper (Dylla et al. ) Stevenson (2013) “Lithium Insertion in Nanostructured TiO 2 (B) Architectures,” Accounts of Chemical Research doi: 10.1021/ar300176y.

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In a paper in the journal ChemSusChem , a team from the VU University Amsterdam suggests that with increasing demand from green and high-tech applications, the supply of rare earth elements (REEs) is likely to be disrupted (the degree of disruption depends on the REE) in the near future. 2013), Scarcity of Rare Earth Elements.

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A substantial decrease between the mid 2000s and 2013. decrease from the peak in 2007 to 2013, while in the United States there was a 6.6% decrease from the peak in 2004 to 2013. A modest increase (rebound) between 2013 and 2018. In Great Britain the peak distance (in 2007) was 15.4% above the 1993 value.

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—Sivak 2013. Michael Sivak (2013) Effects Of Vehicle Fuel Economy, Distance Travelled, And Vehicle Load On The Amount Of Fuel Used For Personal Transportation In The US: 1970-2010 ( UMTRI-2013-10 ). According to the 2011 American Community Survey by the US Census Bureau, 79.9%

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Dr. Bai received his BS in Materials Chemistry from the University of Science and Technology of China in 2010 and MS in Materials Science in 2012 from King Abdullah University of Science and Technology. Yadong Yin at the University of California, Riverside, in 2017. Yuzhang Li, University of California, Los Angeles.

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In a paper presented at the 2013 SAE World Congress, a team from the University of Wisconsin reported a gross indicated thermal efficiency of Reactivity Controlled Compression Ignition (RCCI) operation of near 60%, given optimized combustion management and thermodynamic conditions. Splitter, D., Wissink, M., DelVescovo, D.,

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In a new report, researchers at the University of Michigan Transportation Research Institute (UMTRI) have calculated the actual, on-road fuel economy for the entire fleet of all vehicles in the US, and for different classes of vehicles, with primary interest in light-duty vehicles (cars, pickup trucks, vans, and SUVs), between 1923 and 2013.

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South Australian manufacturer Hydrogen Direct Injection’s ( HYDI ) systems have been in various stages of development and testing since 2013 but are now on the verge of commercialization following encouraging testing results from the University of South Australia.

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