Green Car Congress

JULY 29, 2020

With the switch to 5G costing global carriers a 60% to 300% increase in infrastructure costs, GenXComm’s technology has the potential to save 5G providers billions of dollars, reducing the cost of implementing 5G by up to 80%.

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Green Car Congress

DECEMBER 19, 2014

Researchers at the University of Texas at Austin, led by Prof. enables the direct use of commercially available bulk Li 2 S particles as high-capacity cathode materials for rechargeable Li?S The ability to use commercially available bulk particles could significantly decrease the manufacturing cost of Li?S S batteries.

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Green Car Congress

JULY 24, 2020

Researchers from the University of California San Diego (UCSD) and the University of Texas at Austin, with colleagues at the US Army Research Laboratory and Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory, have developed a thick cobalt-free high voltage spinel (LiNi 0.5 O 4 (LNMO)) cathode material with high areal capacity. —Li et al. (a)

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Green Car Congress

JANUARY 13, 2022

The selected projects include: Geothermix, LLC (Austin, TX) Geothermix will harvest waste heat from existing oil and gas wells in Texas to generate commercial quantities of geothermal electricity. ICE Thermal Harvesting (Houston, TX).

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Cars That Think

SEPTEMBER 21, 2023

Using a new kind of hydrogel material, researchers at the University of Texas at Austin have pulled water out of thin air at temperatures low enough to be achieved with sunlight. The UT Austin technique is aimed at the latter. But Yu and his colleagues at UT Austin developed theirs with arid atmospheres in mind.

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Green Car Congress

OCTOBER 10, 2021

These conductivity-enhanced materials have the potential to lower the costs and impacts of adding renewables and electric cars to the grid, maximize next-generation energy storage technologies, and support electrification for energy-intensive sectors.

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Green Car Congress

SEPTEMBER 26, 2022

Critical barriers remain before widespread commercialization can be realized—many of which center around the unique mechanical properties that emerge at solid-solid interfaces in electrochemical cells. MUSIC researchers will look at manufacturing techniques using new materials as a means of lowering battery costs.

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Green Car Congress

APRIL 10, 2012

Coulomb Technologies has shipped more than 2,400 public and commercial charging stations for electric vehicles through its $37-million ChargePoint America program. Coulomb says it has seen strong demand in all 10 regions of the program and is finalizing the installation of charging stations within these regions.

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Green Car Congress

JANUARY 21, 2021

Projects selected under this funding opportunity announcement will reduce both the costs of critical materials and the environmental impacts of production. DOE funding: $5,577,738; cost share: $5,925,475; Total costs: $11,503,213. DOE funding: $2,272,112; costs share: $2,272,112; Total costs: $4,544,224.

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Teslarati

SEPTEMBER 2, 2022

SpaceX recently filed for a massive building in Bastrop County, Texas which is just east of Austin. The estimated cost of the project is $43 million and the building is expected to be completed by July 2023. We don’t know.

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Green Car Congress

APRIL 13, 2011

Newmark Energy Solutions, LLC has formed strategic relationships with Newmark Knight Frank, UTC Power Corporation (UTC) and Austin Energy Partners Solutions, LLC (AEP) to market, deliver, maintain and warranty UTC fuel cells to commercial real estate markets across the United States.

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Teslarati

AUGUST 15, 2022

On August 9, the City of Austin officially approved the project, which has no set capacity as of yet but is listed at 53.27 Tesla’s planned capacity for the BESS project, which will utilize the company’s commercial battery known as Megapack , will likely be revealed in the site plan when it is finalized by the automaker.

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Green Car Congress

SEPTEMBER 9, 2020

The NSF grant will address challenges that remain before the renewable strategy can be applied practically on a commercial scale. Koch School of Chemical Engineering Practice at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology; and Yuanyue Liu, an assistant professor of mechanical engineering at the University of Texas at Austin.

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Green Car Congress

JULY 19, 2020

Researchers from the Cockrell School of Engineering at The University of Texas at Austin have developed a cobalt-free high-energy lithium-ion battery, eliminating the cobalt and opening the door to reducing the costs of producing batteries while boosting performance in some ways. In pouch cells paired with graphite, high?Ni

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Green Car Congress

AUGUST 4, 2021

H2@Scale in Texas and Beyond intends to show that renewable hydrogen can be a cost-effective fuel for multiple end-use applications, including fuel-cell-electric vehicles, when coupled with large, baseload consumers that use hydrogen for clean, reliable stationary power.

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Green Car Congress

MARCH 1, 2017

Replacing a conventional host insertion compound as a cathode by a redox center for plating an alkali-metal cathode provides a safe, low-cost, all-solid-state cell with a large capacity resulting in high energy density and a long cycle life. Murchison at UT Austin. —Braga et al. Braga et al. Click to enlarge.

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Green Car Congress

OCTOBER 7, 2015

A team led by researchers from Sandia National Laboratories has shown that molybdenum disulfide (MoS 2 ), exfoliated with lithiation intercalation to change its physical structure, performs as well as the best state-of-the-art catalysts for the hydrogen evolution reaction (HER) but at a significantly lower cost. —Bryan Kaehr.

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Green Car Congress

SEPTEMBER 16, 2017

Typically, these light hydrocarbon gases are transported from well sites to large-scale refineries where they are turned into polypropylene and polyethylene (plastics), accruing costs and an environmental footprint along the way. Within the next five to seven years, CISTAR leaders hope to commercialize their technologies.

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Cars That Think

JULY 13, 2023

Goodenough, a professor of electrical and computer engineering at the University of Texas at Austin , authored more than 800 technical papers during his career. He probably is best known for developing the lithium cobalt oxide cathode in 1980—which became the foundation for Sony’s first commercial lithium-ion battery in 1991.

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Green Car Congress

APRIL 9, 2022

These new concepts represent an enormous opportunity for commercial flight, space exploration and national defense: Hypersonic aircraft could serve as reusable launch vehicles for spacecraft, for example. At hypersonic speeds, the air friction created is so strong that it could melt parts of a conventional commercial plane.

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Green Car Congress

OCTOBER 28, 2022

The selected projects, led by universities, national laboratories, and the private sector aim to develop commercially scalable technologies that will enable greater domestic supplies of copper, nickel, lithium, cobalt, rare earth elements, and other critical elements. The University of Texas at Austin.

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Green Car Congress

JANUARY 21, 2013

John Goodenough at the University of Texas at Austin and colleague Kyu-Sung Park have written a perspective paper on Li-ion batteries (LIBs), published in the Journal of the American Chemical Society. More recently, at the University of Texas, Austin, Dr. Goodenough patented a new class of iron phosphate materials. Earlier post.).

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Green Car Congress

MAY 5, 2010

car2go offers mobility to urbanspace clients who are moving to downtown Austin, one of the fastest growing urban areas in the country. As a complement to existing public transportation options, car2go eliminates the burdens of limited downtown parking, high gas costs and congestion.

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Green Car Congress

NOVEMBER 10, 2009

ActaCell, a Li-ion battery spin-off from the University of Texas at Austin, was selected by the state of Texas, through the Austin Chamber of Commerce and the Central Texas Regional Center of Innovation and Commercialization (CenTex RCIC), to be awarded investment by the Texas Emerging Technology Fund (ETF). Earlier post.)

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Green Car Congress

DECEMBER 21, 2010

Funded projects include: Next Generation Fuel Cell Power System Development Towards Transit Bus Commercialization (Phase I). The first phase of a multi-phase project to develop a next generation fuel cell power system, leading to commercialization of a fuel cell bus that is compliant with FTA Buy America regulations. Amount: $133,774.

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DECEMBER 1, 2023

Humanoids 2023 : 12–14 December 2023, AUSTIN, TEX. By incorporating a commercially available product, we seamlessly integrated an SBC (Orange PI Lite 2), a camera, and an IMU to create a cost-effective humanoid robot, priced at less than $700 in total. Please send us your events for inclusion.

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Green Car Congress

MARCH 1, 2013

Austin, Texas-based Zero Emission Energy Plant Ltd. To secure the project, the state will offer an incentives package that includes a $5 million performance-based grant for infrastructure costs, and services of Louisiana’s workforce development program, LED FastStart. James Parish. ZEEP) and New Zealand-based Todd Corp.

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Green Car Congress

JULY 17, 2020

AOI 02: Low Cost Electric Traction Drive Systems Using No Heavy Rare Earth Materials. Low Cost, High-Performance, Heavy Rare Earth-Free 3-In-1 Electric Drive Unit. Low-Cost Rare-Earth Free Electric Drivetrain Enabled by Novel Permanent Magnets, Inverter, Integrated Design and Advanced Thermal Management. Marquette University.

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Teslarati

NOVEMBER 23, 2021

Most of the Tesla Bot jobs are located in California except one located in Austin, Texas. . Tesla has posted new jobs for its Tesla Bot team on its Careers page. A few of the openings have been posted for quite some time. Software Engineer – Tesla Bot. Responsibilities. Mechanical Design Engineer – Tesla Bot. Responsibilities.

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Teslarati

APRIL 19, 2023

17:29 CDT – Following a question from Barclays, who asked about the margin profile of Berlin and Austin and how it compares to Shanghai. He also mentioned upcoming projects such as heat pumps for homes and commercial offices. So far, Giga Texas’ cost optimizations are focused on stabilizing production and lowering 4680 costs. “We

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Cars That Think

DECEMBER 22, 2023

But in 2024, at least six companies will be testing or even commercializing the first chips that accelerate FHE to the point where computing on encrypted data is nearly as quick as computing on unencrypted data. FHE’s Road Ahead “Ultimately, if it’s fast enough and cost effective enough, there’s no reason not to use FHE,” says New.

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EV Match

JANUARY 13, 2023

In this follow-up to our article covering commercial incentives from last month, we’ll explore some of the rebates that can help you bring EV charging home on the cheap. Conversely, the abundance of available electricity during off-peak hours provides cost-efficiency for everyone. Alternative Fuel Infrastructure Tax Credit.

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Green Car Congress

DECEMBER 23, 2010

The competitively bid contract awards are funded by the US Department of Energy (DOE) and include a 50% cost-share from each of the contracted companies. million in advanced battery development and technology assessment contracts to five firms. Earlier post.) Quallion LLC of Los Angeles, Calif., which was awarded a $1.41-million

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Green Car Congress

FEBRUARY 25, 2014

There are significant challenges for new lightweight and modern metals to reach widespread commercial production. The integrated design, development, and production of highly complex systems, leveraging software, can speed ideas from the lab into commercial production, reduce costs, and shorten production lifecycles.

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Green Car Congress

AUGUST 20, 2021

A new microchannel reactor design further reduces costs while delivering a scalable modular processing system. Using sustainably derived n-butene as a starting point, existing processes can further refine the chemical for multiple commercial uses, including diesel and jet fuels, and industrial lubricants.

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Green Car Congress

MAY 13, 2011

Through these cost-shared projects, DOE will collect information about how consumers use and charge electric vehicles, which will be critical to informing the broader rollout of electric vehicles and chargers nationwide. million in cost share for a total project value of $37.9 New York, NY; Orlando, Fla.; Redmond, Wash.;

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Green Car Congress

MARCH 26, 2013

The CEMI announcement was made at the ribbon cutting of the Department’s Carbon Fiber Technology Facility in Oak Ridge, Tennessee, a new advanced manufacturing facility to reduce the cost of carbon fiber. University of Texas at Austin. Earlier post.) Clean Energy Manufacturing Initiative.

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