Green Car Congress

APRIL 1, 2022

The US Department of Energy’s Office of Fossil Energy and Carbon Management (FECM) recently awarded $2.4 million in funding for three projects to advance novel thermal and hydrogen energy storage technologies toward increased duration, reliability and affordability. WE New Energy Inc.

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Green Car Congress

AUGUST 13, 2020

Electric vehicles are the next frontier in the clean energy transition, and we are committed to making charging EVs easy, convenient and affordable for customers. million EVs would reduce carbon emissions by nearly 5 million tons annually by 2030, or about three tons of carbon reduction per vehicle. Powering 1.5

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MAY 18, 2021

When used as an alternative to fossil fuels, green hydrogen can enable deep decarbonization of hard-to-abate sectors, enable the repurposing of valuable existing infrastructure and support an affordable, responsible energy transition. —Martin Adams, General Manager and Chief Engineer at LADWP. kg before 2030.

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DECEMBER 7, 2018

and Renmatix, the leader in affordable cellulosic sugars, announced a joint development agreement to evaluate the commercial feasibility of creating renewable jet fuel by integrating Renmatix’s Plantrose Process ( earlier post ) with Gevo’s GIFT technology and alcohol to jet process ( earlier post ).

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DECEMBER 1, 2021

Steel production could be made with almost no carbon emissions through $278 billion of extra investment by 2050, according to a new report from research firm BloombergNEF (BNEF). Steel is responsible for around 7% of man-made greenhouse gas emissions every year and is one of the world’s most polluting industries. Source: BloombergNEF.

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Green Car Congress

DECEMBER 17, 2019

The keys to continued advancement of H2@Scale are scaling up affordable hydrogen production and developing new uses for hydrogen, to grow the overall market size and develop technology that integrates hydrogen into the energy system. Advanced Carbon Fiber for Compressed Hydrogen and Natural Gas Storage Tanks.

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Green Car Congress

NOVEMBER 30, 2021

Compared to conventional fuels, renewable methanol produced from biomass, wind and other processes cuts carbon dioxide emissions by up to 95%, reduces nitrogen oxide emissions by up to 90%, and completely eliminates sulfur oxide and particulate matter emissions.

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Green Car Congress

JUNE 10, 2011

World primary energy demand by fuel in the IEA high gas scenario. Separately, the International Energy Agency (IEA) released its own report exploring the potential for a “golden age” of gas. Both reports also emphasized that although natural gas is the lowest carbon fossil fuel, it is still a fossil fuel. Source: IEA.

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OCTOBER 10, 2013

Bank of America has joined Stanford University’s Global Climate & Energy Project (GCEP), a collaboration of academic and business experts that identifies and supports new avenues of research to make environmentally sustainable, low-cost energy available to everyone.

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Green Car Congress

DECEMBER 13, 2019

Low-cost electric traction drive systems using no heavy rare earth materials. The objective of this potential area of interest is to research, develop, and test a heavy rare earth mineral free advanced motor and inverter drive system that costs ? Technology integration.

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Green Car Congress

DECEMBER 1, 2020

The growth of global industrialization, increasing demand on energy resources and rising carbon emissions are deepening the need for energy infrastructure that is increasingly green, distributed, flexible, and resilient. Grid balancing and resilience is not a challenge borne out of our transition to a net-zero carbon economy.

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Green Car Congress

MAY 25, 2017

Conversion of Landfill Gas to Drop-in Renewable Fuel This project closes the logistic loop from feedstock to end point user by allowing waste hauling trucks to unload and refuel at the same landfill site with a renewable diesel fuel derived from the very waste they hauled. Trash2Cash-Energy LLC. Reaction 35, LLC. NanoSonic, Inc.

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Green Car Congress

JULY 5, 2016

Whereas fuel cost used to be a major driver for fleet managers, the lowering of oil prices and the availability of low-cost natural gas has reduced this concern, Navigant notes. A major factor has always been the cost of battery packs. Medium- and heavy-trucks represent 4.3% of vehicles in the US, drive 9.3%

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Green Car Congress

JULY 29, 2021

The US Department of Energy (DOE) is awarding $60 million to 24 research and development projects aimed at reducing carbon dioxide emissions from passenger cars and light- and heavy-duty trucks. (DE-FOA-0002420) These advancements would increase the useful life of EVs and enable more affordable, better performing vehicles. AOI 6: Low?cost

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Green Car Congress

OCTOBER 15, 2019

Researchers at the Department of Energy’s SLAC National Accelerator Laboratory and Stanford University have shown for the first time that a low-cost, non-precious metal cobalt phosphide (CoP) catalyst catalyst can split water and generate hydrogen gas for hours on end in the harsh environment of a commercial device.

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Green Car Congress

DECEMBER 18, 2012

A gas diffusion layer without any catalysts was used as the baseline air electrode for comparison. Inspired by the tetrapod structures of a breakwater, the novel material for electrodes is created from affordable melamine foam and carbon black. They carbonized this product and extracted it with sulfuric acid. A team of S.

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JANUARY 18, 2014

VTO is seeking projects in this area not represented by, or similar to, current R&D projects at DOE) that focus on the following key barriers: Cost Reduction. The components to enable electric drive vehicles must be more affordable. board charger must be offset by the cost savings in operational costs as seen by the customer.

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Green Car Congress

SEPTEMBER 18, 2015

The US Department of Energy (DOE) is awarding nearly $55 million for 24 projects to develop and deploy advanced vehicle technologies, supporting the Energy Department’s EV Everywhere Grand Challenge to make plug-in electric vehicles as affordable to own and operate as today’s gasoline-powered vehicles by 2022. Delphi Automotive Systems.

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Green Car Congress

SEPTEMBER 24, 2015

Researchers at Japan’s National Institute of Advanced Industrial Science and Technology have developed a simple method for producing a palladium-based nanomaterial that can spur the breakdown of formic acid (FA) into hydrogen and carbon dioxide. Its efficiency far exceeds that of any other reported heterogeneous catalyst, they say.

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Cars That Think

DECEMBER 25, 2022

The task: make the most of a 30-watt fuel cell and 14 grams of hydrogen gas. The carbon-free rigs will pack 50 kilos of hydrogen zapped from water using electricity from the refinery’s dedicated solar power plant. Time is money, says Kim, because occupying a berth in port can cost a whopping AUS $22,000 (US $13,800) a day.

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Green Car Congress

JULY 12, 2010

The only truly disruptive technologies are those that can provide not only payback in months but also economic and carbon benefits to large segments of the world’s population without the need for subsidies or massive infrastructure investments. —Vinod Khosla. —Vinod Khosla. —Bill Gates.

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MARCH 6, 2016

The SOFC uses natural gas as a fuel to produce electricity. By using standard processes developed for the solar industry and conventional materials such as steel, this project has been key to demonstrate that the Steel Cell can be mass-produced at an affordable price. Earlier post.). 68(1): 95-107; doi: 10.1149/06801.0095ecst.

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AUGUST 2, 2012

Among the findings of the two-year study are that—if technology hurdles and infrastructure challenges can be overcome—economically competitive low-carbon fuels and improvements in fuel economy will result in substantial reductions in GHG emissions. Earlier post.). vehicle advances are not assured, the report cautioned.

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AUGUST 19, 2023

The US Department of Energy (DOE) awarded nearly $34 million to 19 industry- and university-led research projects that will advance technology solutions to make clean hydrogen a more available and affordable fuel for electricity generation, industrial decarbonization, and transportation. Earlier post.)

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Green Car Congress

AUGUST 16, 2016

These trucks haul 80% of goods in the United States and use about 28 billion gallons of fuel per year, accounting for around 22% of total transportation energy usage—presenting a significant opportunity for carbon emissions reduction and energy savings for a key segment of the US transportation sector. Description. Federal funding.

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EV Info

SEPTEMBER 23, 2021

Wind farms stand idle for days on end, a fire interrupts a vital cable from France, a combination of post-Covid economic recovery and Russia tightening supply means the gas price has shot through the roof – and so the market price of both home heating and electricity is rocketing. Climate Change.

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Green Car Congress

OCTOBER 15, 2020

The solicitation was designed as a call for early-stage clean energy innovations that fall within five defined technology areas: energy efficiency; energy storage; AI/machine learning; advanced power electronics/power conditioning; and zero- and negative-carbon emission generation.

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EV Connect

AUGUST 28, 2023

Today’s gas station is no longer just a row of pumps, but has typically expanded to a grocery store, coffee stop, ATM and car wash. You can even capitalize on tax credits and a low-cost energy source through solar carport options. However, it’s worth noting that EV costs are far less volatile than gas prices.

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Green Car Congress

DECEMBER 16, 2010

The objective of this AOI is to accelerate the realization of lighter weight vehicle materials made from magnesium and carbon fiber capable of attaining 50% weight reduction of passenger vehicles. For this reason the focus of this AOI includes the development of low-cost approaches to the manufacturing of both magnesium and carbon fiber.

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Green Car Congress

NOVEMBER 25, 2009

DOE funding $10,403,570, total project value including cost share $24,656,485). NSTAR Electric & Gas Corporation (MA). This project will demonstrate the use of advanced sensors and monitoring instrumentation on low voltage (secondary) networks in downtown Boston to improve grid reliability and safety. 29,561,142. 25,000,000.

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Green Car Congress

AUGUST 31, 2022

H2Carrier developed the P2XFloater concept in a close co-operation with leading maritime and process engineering companies in Norway, thus building on decades of experience and competence from the oil & gas sector, the marine industry and the offshore wind installation industry.

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Green Car Congress

SEPTEMBER 29, 2011

Unlike crankshaft-driven superchargers and exhaust-gas-driven turbochargers, an electric supercharger is mechanically decoupled from the engine, meaning it can deliver the air almost instantaneously into the engine—spinning up to 70,000 rpm in less than a third of a second.

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JULY 24, 2020

million US Department of Energy (DOE) grant to demonstrate a pre-production Renewable Natural Gas (RNG) hybrid 4,300 hp line-haul locomotive. In several weeks, OptiFuel will start taking orders, in 49 of the US states, for a new line of affordable 800 hp to 3,200 hp, 100% natural gas freight and transit locomotives.

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Green Car Congress

JUNE 14, 2010

For $100 million in one year, we’ll demonstrate how to rapidly reduce use of oil in transportation with safe, warrantied retrofits of tens of millions gas-guzzlers. We now have a sprinkling of promising companies working to get funded to convert gas-guzzlers. In the key area of transportation, we submit our Drive Star proposal.

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Green Car Congress

MARCH 23, 2019

Durable and affordable higher-temperature heat exchangers could make energy conversion much more efficient, which in turn could reduce fuel consumption, system footprint, capital and operational cost, and emissions. Additively Manufactured High Efficiency and Low-Cost sCO 2 Heat Exchangers – $1,500,000.

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Green Car Congress

JULY 21, 2016

Louisville Gas & Electric and Kentucky Utilities. Pacific Gas & Electric. A multi-partner team, led by PNNL as part of the Battery500 research consortium, will receive an award of up to $10 million per year for five years to drive progress on DOE’s goal of reducing the cost of vehicle battery technologies. National Grid.

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JULY 12, 2012

The US Department of Energy Advanced Research Projects Agency – Energy (ARPA-E) will award $30 million to 13 projects to advance natural gas vehicle technologies in its new program titled “ Methane Opportunities for Vehicular Energy ” (MOVE). Single-Piston Four-Stage Linear Home Natural Gas. Engine-Integrated Natural Gas Compressor.

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