Green Car Congress

FEBRUARY 19, 2021

The University of Birmingham is working with Bentley Motors and others on a three-year research project to deliver a sustainable source of rare earth magnets for electric and hybrid vehicles. HyProMag has since received substantial investment from Mkango Resources, which will be fully funding HyProMag’s contribution to RaRE.

Bentley 449

Bentley Universal Hydrogen Motor 449

Green Car Congress

JANUARY 7, 2021

According to the latest report from the United Nations (UN), the global population in 2018 was 7.6 Credit: The University of Hong Kong. The country had undergone the biggest urban expansion in the period, between 2001 and 2018, its BUA increase accounted for 47.5% billion and the urban population was 4.2

Global 433

Global 2001 2018 Green 433

Green Car Congress

AUGUST 18, 2022

Toyota Research Institute (TRI) and Northwestern University are collaborating to help accelerate new materials discovery, design and development with the world’s first nanomaterial “data factory.”. 2018) “Catalyst discovery through megalibraries of nanomaterials” PNAS doi: 10.1073/pnas.1815358116. Kluender, Edward et al. 1815358116.

Chad 396

Chad Toyota Fuel Clean 396

Green Car Congress

SEPTEMBER 27, 2018

Volkswagen and Stanford University have developed in partnership a new catalyst production process to reduce the comparatively high cost of automotive fuel cell technology. One of the biggest cost drivers for fuel cells is the use of the precious metal platinum as a catalyst to operate the fuel cell. Jaramillo & Fritz B.

Universal 246

Universal Fuel Carbon Lithium Ion 246

Cars That Think

OCTOBER 17, 2023

As a member of the Kappa Sigma chapter at Boston University , he learned leadership and communications skills while accepting different roles. It makes sure you have the opportunity, resources, and network to thrive and succeed.”

Boston 102

Boston Universal Green Georgia 102

Green Car Congress

MARCH 6, 2017

Nissan, Mitsubishi Corporation, Mitsubishi Motors Corporation, PSA Groupe, NUVVE, Frederiksberg Forsyning, Enel, Insero and DTU (Technical University of Denmark) Electrical Engineering (PowerLabDK) are partnering in the Danish project Parker to develop a universal definition for grid integration for electric vehicles.

Grid 231

Grid Universal Power Grid Mitsubishi 231

Green Car Congress

MAY 19, 2019

NASA will provide $6 million over the course of three years to support a University Leadership Initiative (ULI) project focused on the development of a fully electric aircraft platform that uses cryogenic liquid hydrogen as an energy storage method. The two other awards are: Carnegie Mellon University. University of Wisconsin, Madison.

Hydrogen 331

Hydrogen Illinois Arkansas Universal 331

Green Car Congress

FEBRUARY 25, 2018

Researchers at Wuhan University of Science and Technology in China have proposed a control method based on a speed loop structure-variable sliding mode controller (SMC) for interior permanent magnet synchronous motors in electric vehicles. The method combines maximum torque per ampere with a vector control strategy. —Liu et al.

Universal 210

Universal Motor Motors Motoring 210

Green Car Congress

SEPTEMBER 20, 2018

Researchers at Columbia University have solved the first piece of the puzzle; they have proved that CO 2 electroreduction begins with one common intermediate, not two as was commonly thought. Their paper is published in Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences (PNAS). 1802256115.

Conversion 199

Conversion Universal CO2 Engine 199

Green Car Congress

FEBRUARY 21, 2017

Further, MAN intends to begin producing electric versions of the MAN TGM series—manufactured at its Steyr, Austria site—from the end of 2018. As part of its e-mobility roadmap, MAN is initially planning to unveil a pre-production bus version of a battery-electric vehicle (BEV) to the public by 2018.

2018 170

2018 Production Concept 2017 170

Green Car Congress

JULY 16, 2021

Unitrans, the University of California, Davis transit system, has purchased six Xcelsior CHARGE battery-electric, forty-foot heavy-duty transit buses from NFI subsidiary New Flyer of America Inc. UC Davis utilized the California Department of General Services (DGS) contract for the procurement.

Davis 218

Davis California Buy Charging 218

Green Car Congress

AUGUST 16, 2020

Founded in 2018, Zap Energy’s technology stabilizes plasma using sheared flows rather than magnetic fields to confine and compress the plasma. Resources. “ Viable fusion energy approaches must confine high-temperature plasmas at sufficient density for long durations. —Barbara Burger, president of Chevron Technology Ventures.

Fusion 334

Fusion Chevron Energy Seattle 334

Green Car Congress

DECEMBER 28, 2017

Open educational resources (OER) have long been touted as “the next big thing” in higher education, but the drawn-out hype has led many educators and administrators to wonder if it would ever live up to its expectations. For example, both the City and State University of New York systems are investing millions in OER.

2017 400

2017 2018 Ohio New York 400

Green Car Congress

JUNE 22, 2021

The researchers took eighteen samples of airborne particles at street level in Marylebone in the summer of 2018, and 20 samples on a 24-meter-high rooftop at Imperial’s South Kensington campus between 2014 and 2018. —Dr Resongles. Eléonore Resongles, Volker Dietze, David C. Green, Roy M. Harrison, Raquel Ochoa-Gonzalez, Anja H.

London 295

London Gasoline 2018 Petrol 295

Green Car Congress

APRIL 8, 2014

The US Department of Energy (DOE) released its five-year 2014-2018 Strategic Plan. To achieve this first objective, DOE intends to pursue parallel strategies: Advance options for diverse energy resources and conversion devices for power. DOE will continue to pursue carbon capture and storage technologies as well as nuclear power.

2014 225

2014 2018 Energy Climate Change 225

Green Car Congress

SEPTEMBER 2, 2022

The US Department of Energy’s Nuclear Energy University Program ( NEUP ) has awarded research funds to the MIT Energy Initiative, CORE POWER, and the Idaho National Laboratory for a three-year study into the development of offshore floating nuclear power generation in the US. Jacopo Buongiorno et al.

MIT 259

MIT Power Powered Energy 259

Green Car Congress

APRIL 29, 2021

A 2018 finalist for the Association for Computing Machinery’s Gordon Bell Prize and a 2018 R&D 100 Award winner, MENNDL uses an evolutionary algorithm that not only creates deep learning networks to solve problems but also evolves network design on the fly. Credit: ORNL, US Dept. of Energy.

GM 448

GM General Motors 2018 Design 448

Green Car Congress

MARCH 23, 2021

Researchers from Chalmers University of Technology, in collaboration with KTH Royal Institute of Technology in Stockholm, have produced a structural battery that performs ten times better than all previous versions. This earlier work was named by Physics World as one of 2018’s ten biggest scientific breakthroughs. Carlstedt, D.,

Carbon Fiber 416

Carbon Fiber Batteries Battery Lithium Ion 416

Green Car Congress

DECEMBER 4, 2018

The researchers from the University of Otago, Wellington and Victoria University studied the impact of new cycling and walking paths built in New Plymouth and Hastings in 2011. Researchers in New Zealand have shown that investing in cycle lanes and walkways encourages people to drive less and cuts carbon emissions.

Emissions 283

Emissions New Zealand Cars Universal 283

Green Car Congress

MAY 24, 2019

The Ohio State University has been named The EcoCAR Mobility Challenge Year One champion, taking the lead in the premier four-year collegiate engineering competition. Rounding out the top three are Virginia Tech in second place and the University of Alabama in third place.

Ohio 223

Ohio General Motors Alabama Virginia 223

Green Car Congress

DECEMBER 31, 2018

Tsinghua University researchers have synthesized a novel layered-spinel lithium manganite hydrate for high capacity and ultrafast lithium storage. A paper on their work is published in the Journal of Power Sources. The team used a simple one-step hydrothermal lithiation process to create the material. —Jiang et al. 2018.12.067.

Li-ion 259

Li-ion 2018 Water Universal 259

Green Car Congress

MARCH 26, 2021

The California Air Resources Board (CARB) adopted its Triennial Strategic Research Plan. It acts as a resource for those interested in CARB’s research priorities for the 2021-2024 fiscal years, informing sister agencies, universities and communities of the agency’s priorities.

California 186

California CO2 Climate Transportation 186

Green Car Congress

JULY 9, 2020

Replacing a gasoline-powered ride-hailing vehicle with an electric vehicle can deliver three times the carbon benefits of a personally owned electric vehicle, according to a study by a University of California, Davis, researcher of Uber and Lyft data. The paper is published in the journal Nature Energy. Nat Energy (2020).

Davis 239

Davis Personal Emissions Cleaner 239

Green Car Congress

JULY 24, 2022

Now, a team of researchers at MIT, the University of Houston, and other institutions have shown that cubic boron arsenide overcomes these two limitations of silicon as a semiconductor material. Furthermore, silicon is not very good at conducting heat, which is why overheating issues and expensive cooling systems are common in computers.

MIT 300

MIT Houston Universal Boston 300

Green Car Congress

FEBRUARY 17, 2020

However, the spike in vanadium prices (ferrovanadium prices increased by about 200% in 2018) caused Chinese mills to substitute niobium to vanadium and Chinese niobium imports increased 30% year-on-year both in 2018 and 2019. was published in the journal Nature in 2018. The paper (Griffith et al. ) —Griffith et al.

Li-ion 378

Li-ion Industrial Industry Lithium Ion 378

Green Car Congress

JANUARY 10, 2020

Researchers at the University of California San Francisco have found a significant increase in e-scooter injuries and hospital admissions between 2014 and 2018—particularly over the last year—with people aged 18 to 34 years becoming the most injured group. In 2018, 4,707 of 14,651 e-scooter injuries involved the head (32%).

San Francisco 231

San Francisco United States 2018 2014 231

Green Car Congress

NOVEMBER 5, 2018

Researchers at the University of Waterloo have now shown that the lightweight superconductor MgB 2 (magnesium diboride)—the average mass/atom of which is comparable with carbon—as a metallic sulfur host fulfills both electron conduction and polysulfide immobilization properties. 2018.09.024.

Lithium Sulfur 304

Lithium Sulfur Li-ion Batteries Battery 304

Green Car Congress

SEPTEMBER 13, 2022

Thacker Pass is the largest known lithium resource in the United States. In 2018, Lithium Americas completed a pre-feasibility study (PFS) on a two-phase project with a production capacity designed to reach 60,000 tpa of battery- quality lithium carbonate (Li 2 CO 3 ) and 46-year mine life. Earlier post.). Thacker Pass. Background.

Nevada 273

Nevada Coal Pollution Argentina 273

Green Car Congress

DECEMBER 29, 2018

Researchers at the Northwestern Polytechnical University and Shaanxi Joint Lab of Graphene in China have synthesized onion-like nanospheres of carbon encapsulated few-layer MoS2 nanosheets for use as an anode material in Li-ion batteries. The nanocomposite delivers a specific capacity of 1119?mAh 2018.12.055.

Li-ion 287

Li-ion Carbon 2018 Hybrid 287

Green Car Congress

APRIL 11, 2018

In 2013, Professor Yasuhiro Kato from the University of Tokyo and his research team conducted a research cruise to collect deep-sea mud in the Exclusive Economic Zone (EEZ) around Minami-Torishima, 1,900 km southeast of Tokyo, in collaboration with the Japan Agency for Marine-Earth Science and Technology (JAMSTEC). 2018) Click to enlarge.

Japan 265

Japan Supplies Grid 2018 265

Green Car Congress

DECEMBER 26, 2018

Researchers at Columbia University, with colleagues at Boston University and Abt Associates, have identified concentration-response (C-R) functions for a number of adverse health outcomes in children associated with air pollutants largely from fossil fuel combustion. Resources. Ashrafi, P. 2018.12.016.

Pollution 247

Pollution Climate Change Available Climate 247

Green Car Congress

OCTOBER 20, 2014

Early in September, the California Air Resources Board (ARB) announced it would consider in a 23-24 October meeting amendments to the Zero Emission Vehicle (ZEV) regulation that would modify the requirements for intermediate volume manufacturers (IVMs) selling into the state to allow them more time to come into the market. Earlier post.).

2018 257

2018 California 2012 Plug-in 257

Green Car Congress

MARCH 1, 2019

New research from Rice University and Texas Tech University has found that drivers often fail to spot hazards missed by automated vehicles, and it only gets worse the longer drivers ride in them. The study is published in the journal Human Factors. —Grenlee et al. Greenlee, Patricia R. DeLucia, David C.

Texas 290

Texas Cars Universal 2018 290

Green Car Congress

DECEMBER 1, 2020

Yan Yao, Cullen Professor of Electrical and Computer Engineering at the University of Houston and co-corresponding author for the paper, said the groundbreaking results came from combining both an organic quinone cathode and a new tailored boron cluster-based electrolyte solution. Neither approach is practical. —first author Hui Dong.

Li-ion 373

Li-ion Batteries Battery Power 373

Green Car Congress

SEPTEMBER 23, 2018

The Toyota Mobility Foundation (TMF) is calling for research proposals from Japan for 2018 under the Hydrogen Research Initiative established in 2017. It also underscores the foundation’s commitment to tackle energy-related issues such as environmental degradation and resource depletion. Earlier post.). Hydrogen carriers.

Hydrogen 220

Hydrogen Toyota Energy Japan 220

Green Car Congress

OCTOBER 20, 2018

A new study led by researchers at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill has found that deaths related to air pollution in the US were nearly halved between 1990 and 2010. We’ve invested a lot of resources as a society to clean up our air. 18, 15003-15016 doi: 10.5194/acp-18-15003-2018. Units are deaths year ?1.

Pollution 265

Pollution 2010 Ozone North Carolina 265

Green Car Congress

JULY 6, 2020

Peter Simmonds at the University of Bristol, UK, and his colleagues calculated annual emissions of SF 6 between 1978 and 2018. Between 2008 and 2018, annual emissions of the gas increased by about 24% to around 9,000 tonnes a year. —Simmonds et al. —Simmonds et al. Simmonds, P. Manning, A. Stanley, K.

South Africa 221

South Africa Gas-Electric 2003 2018 221