Green Car Congress

OCTOBER 30, 2022

The greatest challenge is the same as that which is plaguing the adoption of fuel cells in the automotive market—the buildout of low-cost green hydrogen infrastructure. Tier 1 cities in China were the first to adopt electric buses, driving rapid growth between 2012-2016, but now many of these markets are saturated.

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Green Car Congress

JULY 12, 2017

Two projects will research, develop, and use integrated computation materials engineering (ICME) techniques to develop low cost carbon fiber from a variety of feedstocks and precursors that can be used to make carbon fiber with less energy and lower cost. ICME Low Cost Carbon Fiber (Area of Interest 2).

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Green Car Congress

APRIL 9, 2018

The C2CNT team uses low-energy, low-cost technology developed in the Licht lab located at GW’s Virginia Science and Technology Campus to transform carbon dioxide into widely useful and highly valued products—carbon nanotubes. Illustration credit: Licht, from Scientific Reports at Nature.com, 6:27760, 2016.

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AUGUST 30, 2016

LeMond Composites, founded by three-time Tour de France champion Greg LeMond, has licensed a low-cost, high-volume carbon fiber manufacturing process developed at the US Department of Energy’s Oak Ridge National Laboratory (ORNL). ORNL began accepting license applications in March 2016. Earlier post.)

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Green Car Congress

MAY 31, 2016

Electrochemical water splitting offers one of the most attractive approaches in the realization of efficient energy conversion and storage. Toward this end, it is crucial to develop highly active and cost-effective OER catalysts based on earth-abundant metals. 2015.11.004.

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Green Car Congress

MAY 16, 2016

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. Low Finished Polymer Cost. Among these companies is Novomer. These polymers contain up to 50% CO 2 by mass.

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Green Car Congress

MARCH 29, 2017

The report provides an overview of the current state of alternative aviation fuels, as reported in findings by recent working groups, and also presents findings from the Alternative Aviation Fuel Workshop hosted by BETO in September 2016. Unlike other liquid fuels (e.g., Catalytic hydrotreating of lipids (catalytic hydrothermolysis [CH]).

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Green Car Congress

NOVEMBER 16, 2015

The US Department of Energy has announced the 2016 Small Business Innovation Research and Small Business Technology Transfer (SBIR/STTR) Phase I Release 2 Topics, covering eight DOE research program organizations. DOE plans to issue the full Funding Opportunity Announcement (FOA) on 30 November 2015.

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Green Car Congress

MARCH 21, 2016

Hybrids and EVs have a substantial requirement for power conversion; a drive train can be operated up to 100s of kW. GaN Systems’ compound semiconductor devices are cost-competitive with silicon devices, while offering superior performance; these gallium nitride devices use low cost GaN-on-silicon base wafers.

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Green Car Congress

FEBRUARY 16, 2016

So far, many materials have been suggested until now, however, titanium dioxide (TiO 2 ) is still one of attractive photoelectrodes due to its strong optical absorption, high chemical stability, environmental benignity, and low cost. These resulted in a dramatic decrease in the energy conversion efficiency. 2016.01.004.

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Green Car Congress

JANUARY 30, 2019

It’s important to remember that prior to the crash, lithium had enjoyed a meteoric rise with prices doubling since the beginning of 2016 and nearly quadrupling over the past decade. Viewed against that kind of backdrop, lithium’s 50 percent correction that snapped a multi-year winning streak appears less vicious.

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Green Car Congress

JUNE 3, 2016

At alloy costs greater than $20/kg, commercialization activity would concentrate on the commercial, general aviation, and space markets where strength and high-temperature performance would be justified by the high penalty of weight. Image credit: Carlos Jones, ORNL. Click to enlarge. McCall, M. McGuire, R. Ott, Tom Geer, Orlando Rios , P.

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Green Car Congress

MARCH 10, 2016

Despite the many desirable attributes of PEF, the plastics industry has yet to find a low-cost way to manufacture it at scale. Kanan (2016) “Carbon dioxide utilization via carbonate-promoted C–H carboxylation” Nature 531, 215–219 doi: 10.1038/nature17185. —Banerjee et al. Aanindeeta Banerjee, Graham R.

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Green Car Congress

OCTOBER 13, 2016

The researchers’ initial analysis suggests that the spiky textured surface of the catalysts provides ample reactive sites to facilitate the carbon dioxide-to-ethanol conversion. 2016) “High-Selectivity Electrochemical Conversion of CO 2 to Ethanol using a Copper Nanoparticle/N-Doped Graphene Electrode”, ChemistrySelect doi: 10.1002/slct.201601169.

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Green Car Congress

JUNE 25, 2009

The renewable diesel fuel powered a 30-passenger hybrid diesel bus that provided local transportation to International Olympic Committee members who were visiting Chicago to assess the city’s bid to host the 2016 Olympic Games in April.

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MARCH 18, 2013

Projected rates of fuel consumption improvement under different scenarios relative to past experience and the 2016 and 2025 CAFE standards. Making hydrogen with low GHG emissions is more costly (e.g., Making hydrogen with low GHG emissions is more costly (e.g., Source: NRC. Click to enlarge.

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Green Car Congress

MAY 4, 2018

lignin, CO 2 , and biosolids), improving organic and inorganic catalysts to increase conversion efficiency and decrease costs, and creating high-value performance-advantaged bioproducts to allow for more profitable biorefineries. These resources thus offer potential opportunity for conversion into biofuels, bioproducts, and biopower.

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Green Car Congress

SEPTEMBER 21, 2016

Ford is showcasing the latest Transit and Transit Custom line-up powered by the Ford EcoBlue diesel engine ( earlier post ) at 2016 IAA Hannover Commercial Vehicle Show. Ford’s Transit Custom Kombi M1 and Tourneo Custom models are now available to order with a unique-to-segment rear air suspension system, for customer delivery in late 2016.

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Green Car Congress

AUGUST 26, 2017

announced in January 2016. The funding for the research came from the US Department of Energy’s (DOE) SunShot Initiative which aims to make solar energy a low-cost electricity source for all Americans through research and development efforts in collaboration with public and private partners and from the Swiss Confederation and the Nano-Tera.ch

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Green Car Congress

APRIL 20, 2016

Powertrain A—with the centralized IM—is low cost and easier to install in a conventional vehicle. Dawei Gao, Zhenhua Jin, Junzhi Zhang, Jianqiu Li, Minggao Ouyang (2016) “Comparative study of two different powertrains for a fuel cell hybrid bus,” Journal of Power Sources , Volume 319, Pages 9-18 doi: 10.1016/j.jpowsour.2016.04.046.

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Green Car Congress

MARCH 10, 2018

For 20 years, researchers have shown that CNT membranes offer tremendous promise for a wide variety of uses including the low-cost production of ethanol fuel, precision drug delivery, low-energy desalination of seawater, purification of pharmaceutical compounds, and high-performance catalysis for the production of fuels.

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Green Car Congress

JULY 17, 2015

Already Porsche, Mercedes and other high-end automotive manufacturers are making such PHEVs because of the availability of low-cost electricity from wind and solar and the availability of government incentives which make them competitively priced in the beginning. The convenience and low cost of this concept alone merit attention.

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