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JULY 26, 2017

Toyota, which has been working on solid-state batteries for EVs for a number of years ( earlier post ), is in the news with a report by the Wall Street Journal that it will be ready to commercialize a solid-state battery by 2022. However, there remain a number of unresolved issues precluding commercialization at this point.

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DECEMBER 1, 2021

More than half (55%) of respondents selected descriptions that are aligned with driver assist technology, which describe lower levels of automation currently available in many product offerings. Power, MIT Advanced Vehicle Technology Consortium (MIT AVT) and Partners for Automated Vehicle Education (PAVE).

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DECEMBER 1, 2023

Gravis Robotics ] Universal Robots introduced the UR30 at IREX, which can lift 30kg- not the 63.5kg that it says on the tire, that’s the weight of the UR30 itself. Available for preorder now. Universal Robots ] IREX is taking place in Japan right now, and here’s a demo of Kaleido, a humanoid robot from Kawasaki.

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MARCH 19, 2024

Perovskite and printing presses Perovskite can be formulated into inks and printed on widely available industrial printers. The CSIRO-led team says the dramatic increase in efficiency has paved the way for commercially viable perovskite solar cell manufacture at scale. That led to a substantial increase in efficiency outcomes.

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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. Other water-harvesting devices currently available, like those from Source and Watergen , are primarily intended for use in moderate conditions, Yu says.

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JANUARY 9, 2013

The new Hub will focus on technologies to enable better use of available materials as well as to eliminate the need for materials that are subject to supply disruptions. Earlier post.). In recent years, DOE and others have scaled up work to address these challenges. SpinTek Filtration, Inc.; Advanced Recovery; Cytec, Inc.; Molycorp, Inc.;

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JUNE 24, 2013

University of Wisconsin-Madison invests $5 million+ in new institute for materials. Moreover, the DOE Basic Energy Sciences (BES) Program has an active university and national laboratory research portfolio in Predictive Theory and Modeling, with 19 awards made in FY 2012. Harvard debuts database of 2.3

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JULY 15, 2023

Gretchen Ertl/CFS/MIT Plasma Science and Fusion Center CFS, a startup spun out of decades of research at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT), is among the leaders of a new wave of fusion-energy projects that have emerged in the past decade, taking advantage of technological advances as well as a surge in private-sector investment.

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AUGUST 12, 2021

Hacettepe University , in Ankara. Commercial trucks already have guard bars on the back to prevent such accidents, so instead of looking to improve trucks, Bayhan decided to build an attachment for cars. IEEE Presidents' Scholarship , which is payable over four years of undergraduate university study. Bayhan, who lives in ?zmit,

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APRIL 12, 2012

Without significant additional policy interventions to induce market penetration of breakthrough passenger car and aircraft technologies, the overall European (EU27) greenhouse gas (GHG) emissions reduction goals for 2050 will be difficult to meet, according to a new study by researchers from the University of Cambridge, Stanford University and MIT.

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AUGUST 10, 2011

Light-weighting materials : Five projects awarded to accelerate commercial availability of lighter weight vehicles using advanced materials that dramatically reduce vehicle weight while maintaining the highest safety standards. Increased availability of magnesium can enable vehicle weight reduction and improvement in fuel efficiency.

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APRIL 12, 2015

Researchers at the Skoltech Center for Electrochemical Energy Storage (CEES), a partnership between the MIT Materials Processing Center and Lomonosov Moscow State University, are focusing on the development of higher capacity batteries. Chiang, MIT colleague W. Advanced Li-ion and multivalent ion batteries.

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Green Car Congress

NOVEMBER 16, 2010

CleanFUEL expects the engine to be available for 2012 vehicles. Conversion kits also will be available to switch medium-duty gasoline vehicles to run on propane. Of all available alternative fuels, propane offers the best mix of vehicle driving range, durability and performance, PERC claims. Stored and transported like.

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Green Car Congress

FEBRUARY 19, 2016

The biomass-degrading enzymes from the anaerobic gut fungi are competitive with optimized commercial enzyme preparations from Aspergillus and Trichoderma. O'Malley’s team also included scientists from PNNL, DOE JGI, the Broad Institute of MIT and Harvard, and Harper Adams University.

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MAY 31, 2016

Ceder also has an appointment at UC Berkeley’s Department of Materials Science and Engineering, and all the co-authors are also affiliated with the Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT), where some of the work was done. That limited choice constrains battery design; further, their availability is limited. —Jinhyuk Lee.

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AUGUST 18, 2014

Researchers at MIT have devised an environmentally-responsible process to recycle materials from discarded automotive lead-acid batteries to fabricate efficient organolead halide perovskite solar cells (PSCs)—a promising new large-scale and cost-competitive photovoltaic technology. C&EN quoted University of Oxford physicist Henry J.

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MARCH 23, 2016

MIT professor Donald Sadoway and his team have demonstrated a long-cycle-life calcium-metal-based liquid-metal rechargeable battery for grid-scale energy storage, overcoming the problems that have precluded the use of the element: its high melting temperature, high reactivity and unfavorably high solubility in molten salts. Earlier post.).

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MARCH 20, 2012

Credit: Tohoku University. Professor Kusunose’s group at Tohoku University in Japan verified that the Busemann biplane configuration reduces shock wave effects felt on the ground by 85%. For decades, the speed of commercial aircraft was constrained by the sound barrier. Silent Supersonic Transport (Tohoku University).

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NOVEMBER 20, 2023

Among the most articulate and almost certainly the wonkiest is Jesse Jenkins , a professor of engineering at Princeton University, where he heads the ZERO Lab—the Zero-carbon Energy systems Research and Optimization Laboratory, that is. Much of the data was made available, but some was redacted for various competitive concerns.

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JULY 30, 2023

Left: MIT Museum; Right: Stephanie Mitchell/Harvard University Instead, it was Russian scientist Alexander Kobrinski who debuted the first clinically significant myoelectric prosthesis in 1960. A search of the MIT Museum’s database came up empty (no known example of the hearing glove exists), but I did find the entry on the Boston Arm.

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JULY 21, 2021

IBM's large commercial customers faced the implications of this emerging technology: Who would maintain the equipment and its software? It could run various software packages and a nice collection of commercial and consumer tools, including the accessible BASIC programming language. Tom Munnecke/Getty Images.

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Green Car Congress

JULY 19, 2011

Early assessments suggested that safety applications would not consume the entire available bandwidth, and, therefore, the program proceeded with an assumption that both safety and non-safety applications would be supported through this nationwide network of DSRC equipment. MIT and smart intersections. — Mike Shulman.

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OCTOBER 3, 2023

Foundation for Skydio’s drones can be traced back to Adam’s work on autonomous agile drones at MIT , and after spending a few years at Google working on Project Wing’s delivery drones , Adam cofounded Skydio in 2014. Davide Scaramuzza directs the Robotics and Perception group at the University of Zürich.

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Green Car Congress

FEBRUARY 8, 2012

A theoretical investigation of the effects of elastic coherency on the thermodynamics, kinetics, and morphology of intercalation in single lithium iron phosphate nanoparticles by MIT associate professor Martin Z. At higher current levels, this separation never occurs, the MIT team found. It’s a size-dependent effect ,” Bazant says.

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Green Car Congress

APRIL 29, 2009

the session counted among its panelists: Professor John Heywood, Sun Jae Professor of Mechanical Engineering and Director of the Sloan Auto Laboratory at MIT. Professor Robert Cervero, Department of City and Regional Planning, University of California-Berkeley. Professor Sebastian Thrun, Stanford University. Bandivadekar, A.,

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Green Car Congress

AUGUST 11, 2014

GMZ Energy, a provider of advanced nano-structured thermoelectric generation technology, was co-founded by MITs Professor Gang Chen and collaborator Zhifeng Ren of the University of Houston. Thermoelectric materials convert temperature differences into electric voltage; a TEG in a vehicle is designed to convert waste heat to power.

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Green Car Congress

NOVEMBER 28, 2012

The projects are based in 24 states, with approximately 47% of the projects led by universities; 29% by small businesses; 15% by large businesses; 7.5% University. Researchers from Colorado State University will develop a system. Researchers from Colorado State University will develop a system. University.

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JULY 18, 2022

For 15 years, my team at the University of Göttingen, in Germany, has been collaborating with colleagues at the University of Freiburg and beyond to reinvent the cochlear implant in a strikingly counterintuitive way: using light. Yet they make limited use of the neurons available for sound encoding in the cochlea.

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JUNE 4, 2022

A PDF version is available on IEEE Xplore. Structured VLSI design, now taught in more than 100 universities. And unlike university research laboratories, PARC had one unifying vision: it would develop “the architecture of information.” This article was first published as “Inside the PARC: the ‘information architects’.”

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NOVEMBER 27, 2023

Joy Buolamwini ‘s AI research was attracting attention years before she received her PhD from the MIT Media Lab in 2022. She explains her research on facial recognition systems and the Gender Shades research project, in which she showed that commercial gender classification systems consistently misclassified dark-skinned women.

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Green Car Congress

APRIL 16, 2010

While homogeneous charge compression ignition (HCCI) engines can offer both high efficiency and low emissions (NO x and PM), commercial automotive application continues to face the challenge of a limited operating range. A study by Kulzer et al. Click to enlarge. HCCI Combustion. Boosting strategies. Dec and Ying.

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AUGUST 20, 2023

We and others at our company, Analog Photonics , which spun out of MIT in 2016, hope to break this impasse. Here we’d like to explain some of the technical challenges we’ve encountered and how very close we are to commercialization. From Radar to Lidar Today, more than half of new cars are equipped with one or more radar sensors.

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APRIL 21, 2009

This is from "Commercializing Plug-In Hybrids" (pdf), the current CalCars 24-slide presentation about PHEVs available along with other documents at CalCars Downloads. The table and this introduction are also available in multiple foreign languages which occasionally have a translation "lag time" (follow links at bottom of home page).

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JANUARY 23, 2023

Range risk concerns obviously are tightly coupled to EV charging availability. Even those with homes, their garages may not be available for EV charging. Recent research from Stanford University says this is wrong , at least for Western states. Ford believes it will earn $20 billion, Stellantis some $22.5

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APRIL 21, 2023

Using a hand-me-down television set as a monitor, and a dial-up modem, he connected the computer to CompuServe , one of the first commercial online service providers. “It Providing free access to books and legal decisions Much of Zittrain’s work looks at ways to make information more widely available. million U.S.

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