Green Car Congress

SEPTEMBER 20, 2022

These insights led to the development, testing, refinement and now commercialization of the Trace Grocery, BrightDrop’s first product purpose-built for online grocery and retail order fulfillment. The BrightDrop Trace Platform, including Trace Grocery, is available today. Concept rendering.

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Green Car Congress

MARCH 11, 2022

Additionally, PG&E expects to learn more about the overall customer experience to help inform future collaborations as this emerging technology becomes more readily available. Today, we are seeing breakthrough opportunities at the intersection of the energy and transportation industries. —PG&E Corporation CEO Patti Poppe.

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Green Car Congress

DECEMBER 22, 2019

The total oxidation time and material properties verified by BV support LeMond’s claims to lower costs and significantly increased output versus traditional carbon fiber technology. The rapid oxidation process enables LeMond to produce carbon fiber with the lowest embodied energy of any standard PAN-based carbon fiber available today.

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Green Car Congress

SEPTEMBER 13, 2019

Lightning Systems, a developer of zero-emission powertrains for commercial fleets, has received an Executive Order from the California Air Resources Board (CARB) for the Lightning Electric Transit Bus Repower, with HVIP approval expected within the next several weeks. A repower is a cost-effective and timely solution for transit agencies.

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Green Car Congress

MARCH 5, 2020

GM’s joint venture with LG Chem to develop and mass produce battery cells will drive cell costs below $100 per kWh. Ongoing technological and manufacturing breakthroughs will drive costs even lower, the company said. Third-party forecasters expect US EV volumes to more than double from 2025 to 2030 to about 3 million units on average.

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Cars That Think

DECEMBER 15, 2023

If you go back far enough, a bunch of the initial funding for quadrupedal robots that enabled the commercial platforms that are available today was tied into the idea of robotic pack animals. This results in a robot with more payload capabilities and a lower cost of transport.”

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Teslarati

JUNE 13, 2023

Such innovations are also expected to cut the costs for the company’s electric vehicles. The company also mentioned a “technological breakthrough” that addresses issues in solid-state batteries, and it also stated that it is developing a means to produce those batteries commercially by 2027-2028.

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Baua Electric

FEBRUARY 29, 2024

The electrification of commercial vehicles, including trucks, buses and fleet vehicles, is gaining significant momentum globally. According to a report by Smart Energy Decisions , there were more than one million electric vehicles (EVs) in commercial and government fleets in the United States as of 2021, up from just over 300,000 in 2019.

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Green Car Congress

JANUARY 8, 2020

The Velabit leverages Velodyne’s lidar technology and manufacturing partnerships for cost optimization and high-volume production. The Velabit addresses the cost, safety and design challenges of autonomous solutions while delivering strong sensor performance. Velodyne Lidar, Inc. Earlier post.).

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Cars That Think

MARCH 2, 2023

Today, a robotics startup called Figure is unveiling “the world’s first commercially viable general purpose humanoid robot,” called Figure 01. And if anyone is going to take a useful humanoid robot from an engineering concept to commercial reality, these are the folks to do it. The final robot will be fully electric, 1.6m

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Green Car Congress

JULY 10, 2023

Purifying the sulfuric acid as well prevents additional mercury emissions, while allowing industry to operate more cost-effectively and produce a high-purity, non-toxic product. Sulfuric acid for commercial purposes is considered to be of acceptable quality when its mercury content is below 0.30 milligrams per kilogram.

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Green Car Congress

MARCH 5, 2015

Novelis, the world leader in automotive aluminum sheet, and Henkel Adhesive Technologies today signed a long-term agreement to collaborate on the development of advanced bonding technologies for the use of aluminum in high-volume vehicles. BONDERITE M-NT 8453 is initially being manufactured at Henkel’s Warren, Michigan, plant.

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Green Car Congress

OCTOBER 29, 2018

The committee concluded that the NETs available today could be safely scaled up to capture and store a significant fraction of the total emissions both in the US and globally, but not enough to keep total global warming below two degrees Celsius, the target of the Paris agreement. However, it is currently limited by high cost.

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Green Car Congress

MARCH 14, 2012

The company says that the cost of a 14V, 6-cell supercapacitor module for stop-start would be around US$60. milliohms, the CAP-XX module offers the best power density available today, the company claims, and the energy necessary to support frequent start cycles in all weather and traffic conditions. Source: CAP-XX.

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Driivz

MAY 3, 2023

In practice, V2H, V2B, and V2L are closer to broad commercial availability than V2G because they are less technically complex. V2H can also reduce energy costs, helping to offset the initial investment in the EV and the supporting V2H technology. V2H combined with home solar panels is even more planet friendly.

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Green Car Congress

FEBRUARY 24, 2014

Advanced features such as dynamic partial reconfiguration (DPR); AES encryption; and an integrated Analog Mixed Signal (AMS) block made up of 12-bit 17-channel 1Msps Analog to Digital Converters (ADC) with internal temperature and supply voltage sensors, enable overall ECU BOM cost optimization.

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Green Car Congress

FEBRUARY 24, 2009

Novozymes says it has cut cellulosic ethanol enzyme costs by more than half and is on track to deliver commercially viable enzymes by 2010. This new enzyme family is the highest performing and most cost-effective enzyme solution available today, according to the company. —Peder Holk Nielsen.

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Green Car Congress

MARCH 12, 2012

According to a recent report examining batteries for electric vehicles from Pike Research, as manufacturing efficiencies improve and access to lithium expands, the installed cost of Li-ion batteries will fall by more than one-third by the end of 2017. of Li-ion chemistries are available today, none of them can claim to be the ideal solution.

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Green Car Congress

JUNE 11, 2022

Just 17 months after launching the business, and on the heels of delivering its first commercial electric vehicles to FedEx, this move signals BrightDrop’s continued growth and momentum to capture a winning share of the $250-billion last-mile delivery market.

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Green Car Congress

AUGUST 6, 2012

One of the challenges with currently available AHSS materials is the need to form parts at elevated temperatures—increasing cost and production cycle times. The NanoSteel design is an alternative to other light-weighting materials which may cost more, require new investment in parts production and have performance limitations.

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Green Car Congress

JULY 10, 2010

The purpose of this Phase III program is for the grantee to pursue commercial applications of work that derives from, extends, or logically concludes effort(s) performed under prior (Phase I/II) Small Business Innovation Research (SBIR) or Small Business Technology Transfer (STTR) funding agreements. saline water).

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Green Car Congress

DECEMBER 9, 2010

The system will enable the new advanced bus platform to achieve 45-70% increased fuel economy over average diesel powertrains and more than double the fuel economy improvement of hybrid-electrics, contributing to an overall lower cost of ownership for transit authorities and reduced emissions.

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Green Car Congress

AUGUST 16, 2013

That is about three times as much power per square centimeter as other membrane-less system—a power density that is an order of magnitude higher than that of many lithium-ion batteries and other commercial and experimental energy-storage systems. A paper on the work is published in Nature Communications.

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The Truth About Cars

DECEMBER 14, 2023

Though we imagine the real trick will be finding a way of having this equipped to vehicles that won’t make tire changes cost a fortune. Tire wear is supposed to be comparable to what’s available today and owners should be able to easily recognize when it’s time to buy some new rubber without special training.

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Charged EVs

MAY 8, 2023

In recent testimony, Nuvve CEO Gregory Poilasne told the lawmakers that bidirectional charging can reduce the total cost of EV ownership, and that it’s essential for integrating more renewable energy into the grid. A handful of bidirectional-capable EVs are available today, and automakers are quickly implementing the technology.

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Green Car Congress

APRIL 14, 2017

As a part of the first cycle of investment, Volkswagen’s “Electrify America” program is earmarked to spend $300 million, with the most focus on the installation of hundreds of electric vehicle (EV) charging stations at multi-family residences, workplaces, highway rest-stops, commercial and retail sites, and municipal lots and garages.

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Green Car Congress

AUGUST 16, 2016

The investment will allow Velodyne to rapidly expand the design and production of high-performance, cost-effective automotive LiDAR sensors, accelerating mass adoption in autonomous vehicle and ADAS applications and therefore accelerating the critical, transformative benefits they provide. Velodyne LiDAR, Inc.,

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Green Car Congress

SEPTEMBER 20, 2012

Among the key findings of this report are: Most technologies for improving the fuel economy of two-wheelers, light-duty vehicles (LDV) and heavy-duty vehicles (HDV) are already commercially available and cost-effective. Although fuel-efficient technologies are commercially available, they are not yet widely enough deployed.

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Green Car Congress

AUGUST 12, 2009

has developed an advanced borehole imaging system that is near commercialization. No drill bit seismic-while-drilling system available today has the full capabilities of the new system, according to the DOE. In a project sponsored by the US Department of Energy (DOE), Technology International Inc.

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Green Car Congress

MARCH 20, 2015

Individual awards may vary between $3 million and $5 million, not including the recipient cost share. The inverter must use WBG devices that exist either commercially or on a custom basis, and can use any topology. 0001208 ), that demonstrate the benefits of using wide bandgap (WBG) variable-speed drives. The FOA seeks to integrate MV?VSD

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Green Car Congress

OCTOBER 26, 2012

Dresser-Rand believes that the patented VX Cycle is the first technology to provide a cost-effective small-scale LNG production process with capacities as low as 1,500 gallons per day—smaller than any other LNG production system commercially available today.

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Green Car Congress

JUNE 24, 2011

The US Government has had a long history of partnership with companies and universities in developing and commercializing the new technologies that have been the foundation of economic success, from the telephone, to the microwave, to the jet engine, to the internet.

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Green Car Congress

MARCH 30, 2010

million (US$25,800) and then a monthly fee of ¥10,000 (US$108), which includes the cost for electricity. Nissan also announced that it is developing a new quick charger that is almost half the current market price of quick chargers available today. The unit will be available commercially in the future.

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Green Car Congress

APRIL 25, 2009

Among the technologies commercially available are FCC (catalytic cracking) and hydrotreatment/hydrocracking. For a proof-of-concept, Dynamotive hydrotreated UBA over a commercial catalyst at 350°C and ~1,700 psi (11.7 Dynamotive’s pyrolysis platform is available today, with plants of 130 Mt and 200 Mt per day completed.

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Green Car Congress

NOVEMBER 14, 2012

The Model Fuel Library provides a set of accurate models for real-fuel components that enables engine designers to develop low-emission, high-efficiency engines in a more timely and cost-effective manner. The current commercial offering thus offers the library as it was two years ago, Sanders said. With the MFC coming to an end in Dec.

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Green Car Congress

MAY 31, 2020

The US Department of Energy’s (DOE’s) Office of Fossil Energy (FE) has announced up to $30 million in federal funding for cost-shared research and development projects under a funding opportunity announcement ( DE-FOA-0002300 ) for Small-Scale Solid Oxide Fuel Cell Systems and Hybrid Energy Systems.

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EV Connect

JANUARY 11, 2021

But there are dozens of EV models available today and hundreds more from every major automaker set to hit the roads over the next decade. Instead of ensuring that all electric cars can use Tesla charging stations, the company has so far resisted the idea of open network equipment in favor of serving only Tesla drivers.

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