Green Car Congress

AUGUST 25, 2017

A team from the Prairie Research Institute at the University of Illinois, with colleagues from the University of Birmingham and Aarhus University, have developed a nanosized bio-Pd/C catalyst for upgrading algal bio-oil. Bio-Pd/C resulted in similar catalytic activities as commercial Pd/C.

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Green Car Congress

DECEMBER 8, 2017

Researchers at Argonne National Laboratory, Tufts University and Oak Ridge National Laboratory have shown that mononuclear rhodium species, anchored on a zeolite or titanium dioxide support suspended in aqueous solution, can catalyze the direct conversion of methane to methanol and acetic acid using oxygen and carbon monoxide under mild conditions.

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Green Car Congress

OCTOBER 30, 2019

Mærsk and Wallenius Wilhelmsen have teamed up with the University of Copenhagen and major customers including BMW Group, H&M Group, Levi Strauss & Co. and Marks & Spencer to form the LEO Coalition, which will explore the environmental and commercial viability of LEO fuel for shipping. Nielsen, Anders Jensen, Line R. Madsen, Flemming H.

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Green Car Congress

NOVEMBER 9, 2016

An electrolysis unit developed by Lappeenranta University of Technology (LUT) produces the required hydrogen by means of solar power. A microstructured, chemical reactor—the key component of the plant—converts the hydrogen produced from solar power together with carbon dioxide into liquid fuels.

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Green Car Congress

FEBRUARY 6, 2018

The technology converts non-recyclable, non-compostable municipal solid waste into methanol, ethanol and other widely-used chemicals. In November 2017, Enerkem received approval from the US Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) to sell cellulosic ethanol produced at its Edmonton facility under the US Renewable Fuels Standard (RFS).

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Green Car Congress

SEPTEMBER 12, 2018

The joint venture was inspired by H1PERBAT—an Advanced Propulsion Centre (APC)-funded, Williams Advanced Engineering-led consortium of organizations, set up in 2017, which also includes Unipart, Coventry University, Aston Martin and others. Unipart is well-known for its expertise in automotive manufacturing, logistics and supply.

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Green Car Congress

JULY 5, 2017

Researchers at Feng Chia University in Taiwan have engineered the bacterium Escherichia coli to produce n-butanol from crude glycerol—a byproduct of the production of biodiesel. A commercialized bioprocess of n-butanol can be readily realized by a cost-effective feedstock. g/L n-butanol from 20 g/L crude glycerol.

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Green Car Congress

APRIL 6, 2017

A multi-institutional team led by the University of Illinois has genetically engineered sugarcane to produce lipids in its leaves and stems for biodiesel production (lipid-cane). To date, PETROSS has engineered sugarcane with 13% oil, 8% of which is the oil (triacylglycerols) that can be converted into biodiesel. Haibo Huang, Robert A.

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Green Car Congress

JULY 2, 2017

Researchers from the University of Minnesota, with colleagues at the University of Massachusetts Amherst, have developed a new high-yield process—a hybrid of fermentation followed by thermochemical catalysis—to produce renewable isoprene from biomass. Joseph McAuliffe ( earlier post ).

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Green Car Congress

NOVEMBER 17, 2017

A University of Washington team is trying to make poplar an economically viable biofuel feedstock by testing the production of younger poplar trees that could be harvested more frequently—after only two or three years—instead of the usual 10- to 20-year cycle. Chang Dou/University of Washington. Click to enlarge.

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Green Car Congress

NOVEMBER 1, 2017

Researchers in the Cockrell School of Engineering at The University of Texas at Austin have developed a new family of anode materials that can double the charge capacity of lithium-ion battery anodes. Eutectic alloys are fusible: upon cooling they convert from liquids to intimately mixed solids. Earlier post.). —Karl Kreder.

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Green Car Congress

APRIL 29, 2017

Researchers at Oita University in Japan have developed an innovative process for the production of hydrogen from ammonia without the need for an external heat source to initiate or maintain the reaction. An open access paper on their work is published in the journal Science Advances. of ammonia to its decomposition products at 0.1

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Green Car Congress

APRIL 27, 2018

With the mission to enable the transition to renewable energy and electrification, Northvolt in March 2017 launched its plans to build Europe’s largest lithium-ion battery cell factory. It also marks the first step towards the creation of a European value chain for large-scale battery cell manufacturing.

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Green Car Congress

SEPTEMBER 17, 2010

Hybrid Integrated Urban Commercial Vehicle. The Hybrid Integrated Urban Commercial Vehicle (HIUCV) is a lightweight Heavy Goods Vehicle designed for refuse collection in an urban environment. Jaguar Land Rover (lead company), Ford Motor Company, IAV (UK), CPT, BP, University of Nottingham, Imperial College London.

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Green Car Congress

MAY 23, 2012

GraalBio, a biotechnology company of the Graal Group, is planning to build a commercial plant for the production of cellulosic ethanol in Brazil. GraalBio’s commercial-scale cellulosic ethanol plant will be the first of its kind in the Southern Hemisphere. GraalBio will use the Chemtex PROESA cellulosic ethanol process.

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Green Car Congress

FEBRUARY 28, 2017

Scientists led by a team at Caltech and BP, and in collaboration with researchers at UCLA, ETH Zürich, and China’s Nanjing University, have developed a new method for potentially removing nearly all sulfur compounds (down to ~2 ppm) from gas and diesel fuel. Toutov is co-founding a new company, Fuzionaire , to commercialize this technology.

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Green Car Congress

MARCH 27, 2015

Working in conjunction with Daimler Advanced Engineering, the team developed an innovative organic Rankine cycle (ORC) waste heat recovery (WHR) system that converts a portion of the exhaust heat into usable energy. Other components, due to regulatory or economic barriers, may not be commercially viable in the near future.

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Cars That Think

JUNE 29, 2022

Today’s commercial high-resolution satellites can have a resolution of 30 centimeters. A multiplexer processed this data, and an analog-to-digital converter changed it to a pulse-code modulated signal. ERTS had a spatial resolution of 80 meters. The Soviet grain deal gave Landsat a new use: predicting crop yields worldwide The U.S.

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Cars That Think

OCTOBER 26, 2021

In the case of the 2017 Tubbs Fire, the 2018 Camp Fire, and the 2020 August Complex Fires, high winds blasted flames through populated areas in the early morning hours while residents were sleeping. government, and PurpleAir , created via crowd-sourcing of commercial sensors. Matthew Modoono/Northeastern University.

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Electric Auto Association

OCTOBER 28, 2021

About Joe: Joe has driven electric since 2017 with two BMWs: i3 REX and X5 40e. 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.

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Green Car Congress

JULY 27, 2017

Researchers at Queen’s University Belfast have developed a novel green route to convert aluminium foil waste into highly active nano-mesoporous alumina (γ-Al 2 O 3 ) (designated as ACFL550). Osman says making the catalyst from aluminium foil cost about £120/kg while the commercial alumina catalyst comes in at around £305/kg.

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Electric Auto Association

OCTOBER 28, 2021

About Joe: Joe has driven electric since 2017 with two BMWs: i3 REX and X5 40e. 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.

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Cars That Think

FEBRUARY 15, 2022

The VPU converts the images to simple patterns of 60 pixels and sends that information to a transmitter on the user’s glasses. optimistic news story on receiving her Argus II in New York in 2017, she found the implant more distracting than enabling. “I approval in 2013. James Provost. Top: Phanie/Alamy; Bottom: Ross Doerr.

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Green Car Congress

OCTOBER 7, 2017

Earlier this month, GM outlined its electric path to zero emissions, and introduced SURUS—the Silent Utility Rover Universal Superstructure (SURUS)—a fuel-cell-powered, four-wheel steer concept vehicle on a heavy-duty truck frame that’s driven by two electric motors. Commercial freight. Earlier post.)

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Green Car Congress

JUNE 19, 2017

Researchers from the universities of Kaiserslautern, Bochum, and Rostock have developed a method for producing a petroleum diesel-like fuel from conventional biodiesel (rapeseed oil methyl ester, RME). The researchers present their work in an open access paper in Science Advances.

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My Electric Car

AUGUST 21, 2020

Little seems developed in any wide commercial sense and certainly not to the extent of the pure electric car. Hydrogen’s fuel-path inefficiency problems are also discussed in another paper by Tom Baxter of Aberdeen University, “ Hydrogen cars won’t overtake electric vehicles because they’re hampered by the laws of science ” [10].

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Green Car Congress

MAY 25, 2017

Researchers from Chalmers University of Technology and Technical University of Denmark have shown that thin alloy films of single-target co-sputtered platinum-yttrium exhibit up to 7x higher specific activity (13.4 ± 0.4 Niklas Lindahl /Chalmers University of Technology. A mg −1 ) than platinum nanoparticles. Click to enlarge.

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Cars That Think

DECEMBER 1, 2023

Customers could convert U.S. dollars into amazons—and, at least for the time being, they could convert them back, on demand, at a 1:1 exchange rate, perhaps for a small fee. The amazons could be converted frictionlessly into dollars. To see how this works, let’s start with Filecoin , which raised $257 million in 2017 in its ICO.

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Green Car Congress

MARCH 19, 2021

Solid carbon that accumulates on the catalyst is washed and separated for commercial use, while the metallic precursors are re-synthesized and recycled back into the reactor. Hu experimented with catalysts and processes that could cleanly convert methane into both hydrogen and carbon using catalytic pyrolysis. —Xu et al.

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Green Car Congress

MARCH 10, 2018

Benny Freeman at The University of Texas at Austin and Dr. Jeffrey McCutcheon at the University of Connecticut confirmed that Mattershift’s large-scale CNT membranes match the characteristics and performance of small prototype CNT membranes previously reported on in the scientific literature. Source: Mattershift. Click to enlarge.

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Green Car Congress

JANUARY 10, 2017

CIRCUITS seeks to accelerate the development and deployment of a new class of efficient, lightweight, and reliable power converters based on wide bandgap (WBG) semiconductors through transformational system-level advances that enable effective operation at high switching frequency, high temperature, and low loss. Earlier post.).

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Charged EVs

MAY 7, 2024

The company was founded by three former Siemens professionals in 2017. EcoG’s Universal Core is a universal operating system designed to give charger manufacturers maximum flexibility. EcoG’s Universal Core is a universal operating system designed to give charger manufacturers maximum flexibility.

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Baua Electric

MAY 7, 2024

The company was founded by three former Siemens professionals in 2017. EcoG’s Universal Core is a universal operating system designed to give charger manufacturers maximum flexibility. EcoG’s Universal Core is a universal operating system designed to give charger manufacturers maximum flexibility.

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Green Car Congress

JUNE 28, 2017

Based on a controlled sintering rate to avoid the oxidation of Ni 2+ , the rapid—and cost effective—lithiation of the precursor with the lithium deficiency acts as a driving force partially to convert the layered material to a spinel phase—yielding a multiphase structure (MPS) cathode material. —Cho et al. Resources.

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Green Car Congress

OCTOBER 12, 2017

The pump was developed by researchers from the Georgia Institute of Technology, with collaborators from Purdue University and Stanford University. Thermal energy is of greatest value—that is, has the highest available work or ‘exergy’—when it can be transported, stored and converted at the highest possible temperatures.

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Green Car Congress

JUNE 30, 2017

Scientists at Rice University and their colleagues in China have fabricated a durable catalyst for high-performance fuel cells by attaching single ruthenium atoms to nitrogen-doped graphene. M HClO 4 , together with better durability and tolerance toward methanol and carbon monoxide poisoning than seen in commercial Pt/C catalysts.

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Cars That Think

OCTOBER 26, 2021

Will we have a universal standard for charging? But Nissan has announced that for North America, they too are converting over to CCS. Importantly, Tesla is about to offer a converter that allows Teslas to use CCS charging sites. What about the road trip my partner and I have in mind for next summer, to Yosemite and back?

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