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APRIL 13, 2016

The 2016 SAE World Congress is again featuring a technical track (PFL 720) on advances in hydrogen fuel cell vehicle technology, followed by a technical expert panel discussion (PFL 799) on the commercialization of fuel cell vehicles and hydrogen infrastructure. Earlier post.). Earlier post.).

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FEBRUARY 3, 2015

President Barack Obama’s 2016 Budget requests $29.9 The FY 2016 DOE Budget Request represents a 9% increase ($2.5 billion, the FY 2016 Budget requests $4.8 billion, the FY 2016 Budget Request provides $5.34 billion for the US Department of Energy (DOE). billion) above the FY 2015 enacted level. Within the $10.7

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NOVEMBER 28, 2022

This result demonstrates the potential for highly efficient, electrically driven production of hydrogen from an ammonia carrier with earth-abundant transition metals. The new catalyst breaks those molecules into hydrogen gas and nitrogen gas, the largest component of Earth’s atmosphere. —Yuan et al.

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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. Natural Gas.

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MARCH 30, 2011

Obama was delivering a speech on energy policy at Georgetown University. This includes almost 24 million inactive leased acres in the Gulf of Mexico, which potentially could hold more than 11 billion barrels of oil and 50 trillion cubic feet of natural gas. America holds only about two percent of the world’s proven oil reserves.

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AUGUST 20, 2021

Electric vehicle charging stations worth a complete of quite $1.7 million is coming to 26 government agencies, universities, and electric utilities in Louisiana. million shares of an almost $3 billion settlement in 2016 between the U.S. Xavier University, two light-duty chargers, one fast charger, $47,200.

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JUNE 3, 2015

Toshiba Corporation will supply a large-scale battery energy storage system (BESS) to Tohoku Electric Power Company’s “Minami-Soma Substation Project to Verify the Improvement of Supply-demand Balance With Large-capacity Power Storage Systems″. end of February 2016.

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JANUARY 30, 2018

a startup founded by former Stanford University researchers developing next-generation battery technology for potential aerospace and industrial applications. Cuberg previously participated in the TomKat Center for Sustainable Energy’s Innovation Transfer Program at Stanford University and was named one of the top seven startups in the U.S.

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DECEMBER 1, 2016

SGL Group brings its long-established expertise as a component developer to the project, and is responsible for the development of the gas diffusion layers (GDL), which will be manufactured based on carbon fibers. CNRS Montpellier, VTT Technical Research Centre of Finland Ltd., Project management support is being provided by Pretexo.

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JUNE 6, 2015

Virginia Tech and the University of Waterloo took second and third place respectively. As part of the EcoCAR 3 Competition, each university team chose a different innovation that they will incorporate into their competition vehicle. Each team will receive their 2016 Camaro this fall. Earlier post.)

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JULY 27, 2016

Sheet conductivity versus electron density for various 2DEGs (2DEG = two-dimensional electron gas free to move in two dimensions, but tightly confined in the third. Today, electronics manufacturers use gallium nitride for transistors in power supplies and other electronics that carry large electrical currents. not conductive at all.

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FEBRUARY 5, 2018

The Outlook predicts a rise in electric vehicles as well as efficiency improvements in conventional engines, both trends likely leading to a peak in liquid fuels use by the world’s light-duty vehicle fleet by 2030. In the forecast, global transportation-related energy demand grows close to 30% from 2016 to 2040. l/100 km) in 2040.

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MAY 21, 2018

UK-based renewable power generator Drax will pilot the first bioenergy carbon capture storage (BECCS) project of its kind in Europe, which, if successful, could make the renewable electricity produced at its North Yorkshire power station carbon negative.

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APRIL 20, 2016

million toward transit buses and related facilities that utilize battery-electric, fuel cell, and other innovative technologies to reduce greenhouse gas emissions and improve operating efficiency. This electric bus infrastructure will serve the Metro Orange Line bus rapid transit corridor in the City of Los Angeles. King County.

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FEBRUARY 9, 2018

The study, “Life Cycle Greenhouse Gas and Energy Study of Automotive Lightweighting,” found that AHSS-intensive vehicles had lower or equivalent life cycle emissions than aluminum-intensive vehicles for every class of vehicles tested: sedans, trucks, SUVs and alternative power train vehicles. Source: SRI. Click to enlarge. million US homes.

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JULY 3, 2016

A study by a team at University of Illinois at Urbana−Champaign has found that, with currently achievable performance levels, synthetic fuels produced via the electrochemical reduction of CO 2 and the Fischer-Tropsch (FT) process system are not economically and environmentally competitive with using petroleum-based fuel. —Li et al.

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MARCH 15, 2014

VeDeCoM aims to become a reference in three main fields: Vehicle electrification in terms of electric and power electronic machines, reliability, integration and testing of electric energy sources (accumulators, batteries), thermal management, virtual design platforms and electromagnetic compatibility.

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MAY 11, 2017

The Long Beach Harbor Department incorporates 14 electric vehicle charging stations; 12 battery electric yard tractors; 9 battery electric rubber-tired gantry cranes; and 4 plug-in hybrid drayage trucks. Recipients included Motiv Power Systems, Inc., Recipients included Motiv Power Systems, Inc.,

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APRIL 8, 2014

DOE will continue to focus on significantly increasing the amount of cost-competitive electric power from renewable resources across the nation by further accelerating the development and commercialization of these technologies. Contribute to international efforts to address global climate change.

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NOVEMBER 23, 2016

million grant to develop a new lithium-ion conductor for the protection of lithium metal used in next-generation battery technologies for electric vehicles. Once the protective layer is in place over the anode, Wang believes he can create a safer, lighter, more powerful, more efficient electrical vehicle battery. Earlier post.).

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JANUARY 24, 2017

million OTTO-R project for the production of gasoline from “green” methanol produced from CO 2 , water and renewable electricity. STF first converts natural gas-based synthesis gas to methanol in an isothermal reactor; the methanol is then transformed into high-octane gasoline via the intermediate methanol.

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APRIL 22, 2016

The Plug-in Hybrid Electric Vehicle with Long Electric Range (PHEVLER - pronounced “fevler”) is a new category emerging in the electric vehicle marketplace. PHEVLERs are defined as PHEVs with sufficient battery capacity for all electric driving of twice the average daily distance. [ and UC-Davis Emeritus and Bruce R.

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SEPTEMBER 9, 2014

Ricardo will display the first functional integration prototype of the Advanced Diesel Electric Powertrain (ADEPT) collaborative research project ( earlier post ) in public for the first time this week at the Low Carbon Vehicle Event (LCV 2014) in the UK. ADEPT schematic. Click to enlarge. 48V Diesel Fuel Efficiency'

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JULY 21, 2016

The collaboration, forged by the White House in partnership with DOE and the Department of Transportation (DOT), the US Air Force and US Army, and the Environmental Protection Agency, is centered on a set of Guiding Principles to Promote Electric Vehicles and Charging Infrastructure. Electric vehicle coalition.

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FEBRUARY 24, 2016

A paper by a team from the University of Chicago and MIT suggests that technology-driven cost reductions in fossil fuels will lead to the continued use of fossil fuels—oil, gas, and coal—unless governments pass new taxes on carbon emissions. for oil, 24% for coal, and 20% for natural gas.

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NOVEMBER 24, 2021

They used the 10-meter Keck II telescope atop Mauna Kea in Hawaii, one of the five largest in the world, to take spectrographic readings of the planet on two nights: 14 April 2016 and 25 January 2017. Wong/University of California, Berkeley/OPAL/ESA/NASA; Gemini Observatory/AURA/NSF/UC Berkeley; J. Where does this lead?

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AUGUST 24, 2023

After he graduated from the Federal University of Technology in Owerri, Nigeria, his plan was to get a high-paying job at one of the multinational oil and gas companies based in the country. In 2008 only about half of Nigeria’s 152 million citizens had electricity, according to a Macrotrends report.

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FEBRUARY 12, 2016

Electric vehicles charged in coal-heavy regions can create more human health and environmental damages from life cycle air emissions than gasoline vehicles, according to a new consequential life cycle analysis by researchers from Carnegie Mellon University.

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MARCH 3, 2016

Researchers from George Washington University and Vanderbilt University have demonstrated the conversion of atmospheric CO 2 into carbon nanofibers (CNFs) and carbon nanotubes (CNTs) for use as high-performance anodes in both lithium-ion and sodium-ion batteries. 5b00400.

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JULY 25, 2016

An international team from MIT, Argonne National Laboratory and Peking University has demonstrated a lab-scale proof-of-concept of a new type of cathode for Li-air batteries that could overcome the current drawbacks to the technology, including a high potential gap (>1.2 V) V in O 2 (gas) → O x− (condensed phase), and η charging > 1.1

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MAY 10, 2016

In addition, high reversible capacity, almost no solid electrolyte interphase (SEI) layer, promising high rate capability, and low self-discharge are some of the trademark properties of the LTO material, making them attractive candidates for the high energy applications, especially for electric vehicles sector. 6b00895.

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MAY 16, 2016

Agricultural air pollution comes mainly in the form of ammonia, which enters the air as a gas from heavily fertilized fields and livestock waste. —Fabien Paulot, an atmospheric chemist with Princeton University and the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration who was not involved in the study. Tsigaridis, and R.

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NOVEMBER 20, 2016

A team at Carnegie Mellon University (CMU) led by Dr. Jeremy Michalek has investigated the implications of regional and drive cycle variations on the degradation of a plug-in hybrid electric (PHEV) battery. Tugce Yuksel, Shawn Litster, Venkatasubramanian Viswanathan, Jeremy J. 2016.10.104.

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JANUARY 7, 2014

Fuel cell electric vehicles will be in our future sooner than many people believe, and in much greater numbers than anyone expected. ”. For years, the use of hydrogen gas to power an electric vehicle has been seen by many smart people as a foolish quest. We are the world leader in hybrid electrics. We love batteries.

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APRIL 9, 2018

Stuart Licht, a chemistry professor at the George Washington University, and his team of researchers are among the finalists announced today in the $20-million Carbon XPRIZE competition. Illustration credit: Licht, from Scientific Reports at Nature.com, 6:27760, 2016. Illustration credit: Stuart Licht. Click to enlarge. Stuart Licht.

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OCTOBER 17, 2022

There won’t be Scotch tape on the final model,” says Costanzo , as he rearranges the gear in his lab at Virginia Commonwealth University (VCU), in Richmond. In 2016 the two researchers were awarded a U.S. And on one occasion he was oblivious to a gas leak, only realizing the danger when his wife came home and raised the alarm.

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JULY 3, 2017

Third, using alternative fuels such as natural gas, biofuels, electricity and hydrogen can diversify fuel supply away from oil and also help reduce carbon emissions, especially if produced from low-carbon pathways. Modern Truck Scenario. —“The Future of Trucks”.

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