Cars That Think

OCTOBER 2, 2022

In 2012, with California in the midst of a severe drought, Schneider, then a mechanical engineering graduate student at Stanford University , once again tossed out a “cool idea.” He imagined a shower head that would sense when the person showering moved out from under the stream of water. You’d waste more water than you saved.

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Green Car Congress

JUNE 9, 2017

million for 30 new projects aimed at discovery and development of novel, low-cost materials necessary for hydrogen production and storage and for fuel cells onboard light-duty vehicles. Advanced Water Splitting Materials. Carnegie Mellon University. Advanced Water Splitting Materials. University of Connecticut.

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Green Car Congress

JUNE 28, 2020

Access to the latest technologies is gained through long-standing partnerships with leading manufacturers and universities, and by successfully scouting for industry newcomers. Close collaborations with Desktop Metal continue.

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FEBRUARY 27, 2017

Duke University researchers have engineered rhodium nanoparticles that can harness the energy in ultraviolet light and use it to catalyze the conversion of carbon dioxide to methane, a key building block for many types of fuels. An open-access paper on the work is published in Nature Communications. —Zhang et al.

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Green Car Congress

APRIL 11, 2017

Researchers in Japan and China developed an efficient method for CO 2 reduction over elemental boron catalysts in the presence of only water and light irradiation through a photothermocatalytic process. At this temperature it reacts with water, forming hydrogen and boron oxides in situ.

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Green Car Congress

JULY 2, 2017

The University of Kentucky Center for Applied Energy Research (CAER) received a $1 million U.S. The funding was part of DOE’s strategy to invest in discovery and development of novel, low-cost materials necessary for hydrogen storage and for fuel cells onboard light-duty vehicles.

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Green Car Congress

APRIL 14, 2017

The advancement could significantly boost the production of hydrogen from sunlight by using the cell to split water at a higher efficiency and lower cost than current photoelectrochemical approaches. Light is absorbed at the photoanode within the QD layer producing free electrons and holes. Yong Yan, Ryan W. Crisp, Jing Gu, Boris D.

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Green Car Congress

NOVEMBER 14, 2017

A team from Lawrence Berkeley and Argonne National Laboratories, Tufts University and the Norwegian University of Science and Technology have now used X-ray based imaging techniques to study the inner workings of PEM fuelcell components subjected to a range of temperature and moisture conditions. —Shum et al.

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Green Car Congress

JULY 25, 2017

Washington State University (WSU) researchers have developed a unique biofilm reactor that recycles gasses and uses less water and lower light than typical reactors. Furthermore, microalgal bio-film production reduces harvesting costs with more efficient water utilization and a smaller areal footprint. 2017.07.014.

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DECEMBER 1, 2016

The GDL in polymer electrolyte membrane (PEM) fuel cell provides a steady supply of gas to the catalyst layers, which are located on both sides of the ion exchange membrane and which convert hydrogen and oxygen into electrical energy and water. W/cm 2 at 0.6 CNRS Montpellier, VTT Technical Research Centre of Finland Ltd., 2011.12.148.

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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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Cars That Think

NOVEMBER 25, 2023

On the rooftop of a quiet building, a set of panels cools the rooms within and keeps the lights on, removing heat and generating electricity using the coldness of the sky. Yes, it’s far away, but distance doesn’t prevent its use, particularly when we consider just how cold the vast empty space of the universe is—approximately 3 kelvins.

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Green Car Congress

JANUARY 30, 2017

A team from the University of Illinois has found that compared to top leaves, the shaded lower level leaves of C4 crops planted in dense stands such as corn and Miscanthus underperform, costing farmers about 10% of potential yield. Long (2017) “Loss of photosynthetic efficiency in the shade. —Pignon et al. McGrath, Stephen P.

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Green Car Congress

NOVEMBER 3, 2017

A team of researchers at Sandia’s Combustion Research Facility and the Technical University of Denmark have developed an optical setup for quantitative, high-temporal resolution line-of-sight extinction imaging in harsh optical environments. The soot cloud downstream appears dark mainly due to absorption of light by the soot particles.

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Green Car Congress

FEBRUARY 16, 2018

This FOA, issued in August 2017, is a $50-million funding opportunity for projects supporting cost-shared research and development to design, construct, and operate two large-scale pilots to demonstrate transformational coal technologies. University of Illinois. University of Alaska Fairbanks. Organization. Description.

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Green Car Congress

JUNE 21, 2017

Of those 30 projects, Carnegie Mellon University Mechanical Engineering Associate Professor Shawn Litster has been selected to receive $2 million in funding as principal investigator of his multi-institution team’s research project, “Advanced PGM-free Cathode Engineering for Higher Power Density and Durability.”. —Shawn Litster.

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Green Car Congress

DECEMBER 18, 2012

In a new research brief , Pike Research forecasts that wireless charging equipment for light duty plug-in vehicle sales will grow by a CAGR of 91% from 2013 to 2020, as wireless systems move from a retrofit technology to an integrated part of new EVs, reaching annual sales of 283,000 units in 2020.

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Green Car Congress

JULY 31, 2017

An international research team led by scientists at the Department of Energy’s Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory (Berkeley Lab) and Nanyang Technological University (NTU) in Singapore have developed a light-activated material that can chemically convert carbon dioxide into carbon monoxide without generating unwanted byproducts.

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Cars That Think

SEPTEMBER 6, 2023

Water covers 72 percent of the Earth’s surface, its volumes host 80 percent of biodiversity and play a pivotal role in global phenomena, such as climate change. The adventure of the startup began at the University of Sapienza in Rome , where Professor Chiara Petrioli is in charge of a research laboratory. “We and Norway.

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Green Car Congress

JULY 21, 2016

35 new businesses, non-profits, universities, and utilities signing on to DOE’s Workplace Charging Challenge and committing to provide electric vehicle charging access for their workforce. Dayton Power & Light Company. Florida Power and Light Company. Hawai`i Electric Light. Indianapolis Power & Light Company.

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Cars That Think

OCTOBER 26, 2021

You notice the smell of smoke, and when you try to turn on your bedside light you discover that the power is out. 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.

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Green Car Congress

OCTOBER 16, 2017

A team led by researchers at the US Department of Energy’s Argonne National Laboratory has developed a new way to produce solar fuels by using completely synthetic bionano machinery to harvest light without the need for a living cell. In a natural purple membrane, bacteria use bacteriorhodopsin to harvest energy from light.

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Green Car Congress

APRIL 8, 2014

These include technologies to improve conventional vehicles with the use of advanced lightweight materials; improvements in aerodynamics; and engines and powertrain technologies that improve vehicle efficiency for both light-duty vehicles and heavy trucks. Demonstrate three grid-connected advanced offshore wind concepts by 2017. ?.

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OCTOBER 6, 2017

Researchers at the University of Central Florida, with colleagues at Pacific Northwest National Laboratory (PNNL) and Tsinghua University, developed a new hybrid nanomaterial—a nonmetal plasmonic MoS 2 @TiO 2 heterostructure—for highly efficient photocatalytic H 2 generation from water.

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MARCH 24, 2017

Researchers at Rice University and the University of Houston created an efficient, simple-to-manufacture core/shell photoanode with a highly active oxygen evolution electrocatalyst shell (FeMnP) and semiconductor core (rutile TiO 2 ) for the photoelectrochemical oxygen evolution reaction (PEC-OER) for solar water splitting.

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Cars That Think

FEBRUARY 4, 2022

The ship’s captain stopped the engines, and the aircraft flashed its lights at the rubber boat. In early 2017, in the forest highlands of eastern Guinea, a man I’ll call Jacob began a journey that would take him across five Saharan countries and multiple failed sea crossings. But neither the ship nor the aircraft came to the rescue.

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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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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

NOVEMBER 19, 2021

We first met Cleo Robotics at CES 2017, when they were showing off a consumer prototype of their unique ducted-fan drone. announced today that it has developed a blade-free, blimp-type drone equipped with a high-resolution video camera that captures high-quality video and full-color LED lights glow in radiant colors. [

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Cars That Think

DECEMBER 19, 2021

Up there, 10 to 50 kilometers above the Earth’s surface, ozone molecules absorb the sun’s ultraviolet light, protecting life far below. That idea didn’t advance, but in 2017, Keith became faculty director of Harvard’s. But sulfate aerosols—the combination of particles and water—can destroy the planet-protecting ozone layer.

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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. Earlier post.) Mobile and emergency backup power generation.

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APRIL 3, 2017

Researchers from the University of Antwerp and KU Leuven have devised an all-gas-phase photo-electrochemical cell (PEC) that produces hydrogen gas from contaminated gas. Martens and Silvia Lenaerts (2017) “Harvesting Hydrogen Gas from Air Pollutants with an Unbiased Gas Phase Photoelectrochemical Cell” ChemSusChem doi: 10.1002/cssc.201601806.

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OCTOBER 23, 2017

While the combination of materials they used were believed to be compatible and nonreactive in the battery’s resting state, experiments at Berkeley Lab’s Advanced Light Source (ALS), an X-ray source called a synchrotron, uncovered that this is not the case and led the study in new directions. Credit: Berkeley Lab) Click to enlarge.

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NOVEMBER 17, 2015

Market launch is scheduled to begin in 2017. The company hopes to launch AWC in 2017. mi) on a single tank, with nothing more than a few drops of water leaving the tailpipe. The protons migrate through the membrane to the cathode, where they react with oxygen present in air to form water vapor.

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Tony Karrer Delicious EVdriven

APRIL 16, 2009

I would say that electricity is a vastly superior fuel for the light vehicle fleet,” said Willett Kempton , a professor and alternative energy specialist at the University of Delaware. Dimming the Lights to Meet Demand About Green Inc. Posts | Profile Kate Galbraith Reporter Ms. Powered by Blogrunner Latest From Green Inc.

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