Green Car Congress

MAY 24, 2018

Toyota’s hydrogen tanks are made of extra-thick carbon fiber and are built to withstand major impacts. Annual production and sales have increased yearly, going from about 700 units in 2015, to around 2,000 units in 2016, and, most recently, approximately 3,000 units in 2017.

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Green Car Congress

OCTOBER 6, 2016

Applicants to the Energy Department’s Fuel Cell Technologies Office’s fiscal year 2017 funding opportunity will collaborate with national lab consortia stemming from the EMN initiative. Source: “2015 Fuel Cell Technologies Market Report” Click to enlarge. According to the DOE’s 2015 Fuel Cell Technologies Market Report, many U.S.

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Green Car Congress

JUNE 7, 2013

The goal is to enable the widespread commercialization of hydrogen and fuel cell technologies and specifically to provide adequate hydrogen storage for onboard vehicle, material handling, and portable power applications that meet the DOE hydrogen storage targets. The estimated maximum period of performance for each award will be three years.

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Green Car Congress

NOVEMBER 18, 2016

The US Department of Energy (DOE) announced approximately $30 million in available funding ( DE-FOA-0001647 ), subject to appropriations, for research and development of low-cost hydrogen production, onboard hydrogen storage, and proton exchange membrane fuel cells to advance the widespread commercialization of fuel cell electric vehicles.

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Green Car Congress

NOVEMBER 14, 2017

The sample cell included thin carbon-fiber layers, known as gas-diffusion layers, which in a working cell sandwich a central polymer-based membrane coated with catalyst layers on both sides. The study used materials that are relevant to commercial fuel cells. Shum, Dilworth Y. Parkinson, Xianghui Xiao, Adam Z. Weber, Odne S.

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Green Car Congress

FEBRUARY 25, 2016

Leveraging $40 million in federal funding in its first year, EMN will focus on tackling one of the major barriers to widespread commercialization of clean energy technologies: the design, testing, and production of advanced materials.

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Green Car Congress

SEPTEMBER 15, 2016

A new turbo compounding system was designed to recover normally wasted energy on the 2017 Volvo D13 with Turbo Compound, helping boost fuel efficiency by up to 6.5%. While some of these, like recycled carbon fiber, were not used in the SuperTruck, the knowledge gained in material science will be applied to future programs.

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Green Car Congress

MARCH 7, 2013

The company is also aggressively investing in advanced materials, including nano steels, carbon fiber and resistance spot welding for aluminum structures. Akerson also spoke briefly about the benefits of natural gas for vehicles, especially for commercial fleets and long-haul truckers. Clean diesel. Earlier post.).

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Cars That Think

DECEMBER 19, 2021

The quantity of calcium carbonate to be released—about 1 kilogram—won’t be enough to trigger any measurable cooling, and it roughly equals the particle pollution that a large commercial airliner releases every minute of flight, says. That idea didn’t advance, but in 2017, Keith became faculty director of Harvard’s.

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Green Car Congress

MARCH 27, 2018

The ISC break-through received the prestigious R&D100 Award in 2016 and was runner-up NASA invention of the year in 2017 and is now part of NASA’s “Crewed Space Vehicle Battery Safety Requirements.”. This makes it possible to accurately pinpoint and fix problems leading to malfunctions.

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Green Car Congress

OCTOBER 2, 2016

The last three letters of the vehicle’s name, the CatalIST, stand for “International SuperTruck,” referencing the company’s International commercial truck brand. Innovative use of lighter-weight carbon-fiber panels in the upper body, roof headers, back panel, and dash panel. Fuel economy.

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Green Car Congress

MAY 11, 2015

The testing is the next major milestone in a two-year program that will culminate in engine certification in 2016 and delivery of the first Boeing 737 MAX in 2017. —Keith Leverkuhn, vice president and general manager, 737 MAX program, Boeing Commercial Airplanes. Click to enlarge.

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Carbon Fiber Fuel Engine International 150

Green Car Congress

APRIL 10, 2012

In Phase II, devices suitable for near-commercial applications must be built and tested, and issues associated with manufacturing the units in large volumes at a competitive price must be addressed. Applicant also must demonstrate a reasonable context of commercial viability. L/100 km) for cars and more than 43 mpg (5.5

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Hydrogen Fuel Range Vehicles 210

Cars That Think

APRIL 25, 2024

For larger aircraft like the big Boeing commercial jets and larger helicopters, the standard is even more stringent. In 2014, IEEE Spectrum reported about Aerofex’s pledge to deliver a commercially available hoverbike, the Aero-X, by 2017. It’s one in one billion flight hours.” Where Are They Now? meter wide, 6.1-meter-long

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Clean Fleet Report

MARCH 18, 2024

Newsom signed a funding bill to invest $106 million in the construction of additional hydrogen stations through the end of the decade, for the first time backing stations for commercial vehicles as well as passenger cars. 2017 Mirai review here. Here are the important propulsion details. 2019 Mirai review here.

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