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JUNE 13, 2011

The University of California, Davis and the BMW Group released the largest publicly available study of electric-car users yet conducted, including more than 120 families who drove the fully electric MINI E automobile more than 1 million miles in California, New York and New Jersey from June 2009 to June 2010.

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DECEMBER 30, 2013

Any forecast of future economic outcomes under the LCFS requires knowledge of the availability of alternative fuels at different market prices, the cost of producing each fuel, long-run trends in alternative fueling infrastructure, consumer preferences for alternative fuel and alternative fuel vehicles, as well as many other unknowns.

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MAY 30, 2011

Research from the Institute of Transportation Studies, University of California at Davis (ITS-Davis) suggests it will take more than a reasonable price and good information to get consumers to make more sustainable transportation choices, such as the purchase of a plug-in hybrid electric vehicle (PHEV). —Axsen and Kurani.

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FEBRUARY 2, 2021

These are the observations in an in-depth study of the industry by management professors at the University of California, Davis, and Dartmouth College. There are about 4,000 high-voltage super-fast charging stations in the US, and the majority of them are available only to Tesla vehicles. Tesla has played the platform game.

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FEBRUARY 27, 2014

Plant-based diesel has been available for many years now but making a true gasoline-like hydrocarbon from plant oils has proven a lot more difficult. Chemists at the University of California, Davis think they''ve cracked it, though, using a new technique to make "biogasoline" from plant waste.

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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 11, 2010

The California Center for Sustainable Energy (CCSE) will lead a joint research study of how the useful lifespan of electric vehicle batteries could be extended by repurposing them as household electric storage devices with a $992,000 grant from the University of California. of Monrovia, Calif.; Flux Power of Vista, Calif.; A total of $3.7

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NOVEMBER 7, 2013

Strong utilization on the campuses of UC Davis and California State University - Sacramento has led to consumer and business demand in the city, making it possible for Zipcar to invest in Sacramento and make it our 26 th metro market. —Zipcar President Mark Norman.

Sacramento

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NOVEMBER 22, 2012

In an Opinion Piece for the CAB, Dr. Lew Fulton from the University of California Davis, a GFEI partner, warns that the oil importing countries, which make up the vast majority of the Commonwealth, could face high economic costs given the explosion in the number of vehicles on their roads over the next few decades. spare Commonwealth.

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JULY 29, 2013

The first participants included Google, Hertz Rent-a-Car, Duke Energy and Clemson University, with installations in the Spring of 2012. The last of the Apollo Program Plugless units will be installed next month at UC Davis and the City of Sacramento.

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DECEMBER 1, 2009

A new study by researchers at the Institute of Transportation Studies, University of California Davis, examines a range of sustainability requirements for biofuels and considers a possible framework for implementing the LCFS sustainability provision. or Version 1.0

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NOVEMBER 4, 2011

Image from Insuk Lee, Yonsei University. Pamela Ronald, JBEI and UC Davis. Click to enlarge. With RiceNet, instead of working on one gene at a time based on data from a single experimental set, we can predict the function of entire networks of genes, as well as entire genetic pathways that regulate a particular biological process.

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FEBRUARY 16, 2018

One challenge has been the lack of available atmospheric measurements of oxygenated volatile organic compounds (OVOCs) common in everyday household products. Jathar, Colorado State University and UC Davis; Ali Akherati, Colorado State University; Jose L. You don’t do this with gasoline. McDonald, Joost A. Cappa, Jose L.

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OCTOBER 16, 2015

The research, conducted by Argonne researchers in collaboration with Stanford University and the University of California, Davis, analyzed the Eagle Ford shale formation in Texas and the Bakken play mainly in North Dakota. —Adam Brandt, lead author of the Bakken study and a professor at Stanford University.

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AUGUST 8, 2012

This real-world experience was complemented by significant contributions from the University of California at Davis for stakeholder and cluster model research, and the STREET [Spatially and Temporally Resolved Energy and Environment Tool] computer modeling developed by the University of California at Irvine. Resources.

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FEBRUARY 7, 2018

Over the past few years, researchers at Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory (Berkeley Lab), University of California at Davis (UC Davis) and University of Stavanger in Norway have developed a new protocol, called BChain, which makes blockchain even more robust.

Davis

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MARCH 25, 2015

The California Energy Commissions has selected 9 projects to receive a combined $24,873,512 in proposed funding for cost share in the field demonstration of advanced medium- and heavy-duty on-road vehicle technologies—primarily battery electric and fuel cell technology—that may become commercially available in California.

California

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SEPTEMBER 19, 2013

The use of renewable and readily available solar energy reduces equipment costs and greenhouse gas emissions. Northwestern University. Northwestern University will engineer an entirely new biocatalyst for highly efficient methane activation, the first step required to convert methane into a liquid fuel. University of Michigan.

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JULY 17, 2014

Patrick Brown, University of Illinois, Urbana-Champaign. Amy Brunner, Virginia Polytechnic Institute and State University. Robin Buell, Michigan State University. Luca Comai, University of California, Davis. Michael Marks, University of Minnesota, Minneapolis. John McKay, Colorado State University.

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AUGUST 30, 2015

A working paper by a team at the Energy Institute at Haas, University of California, Berkeley, has found that 60% of the $18 billion in US federal income clean energy tax credits issued between 2006 and 2012—e.g., Source: Borenstein and Davis. —Borenstein and Davis (2015). —Borenstein and Davis.

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MAY 18, 2019

An additional $10 million will be made available once matching funds are committed by other partners.

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MARCH 30, 2012

SDAV is a collaboration tapping the expertise of researchers at six laboratories: Argonne, Lawrence Berkeley, Lawrence Livermore, Los Alamos, Oak Ridge, and Sandia national laboratories and in seven universities: Georgia Tech, North Carolina State, Northwestern, Ohio State, Rutgers, the University of California at Davis, and the University of Utah.

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MAY 1, 2013

If all are available for use, the bank of excess credits represents about half of what is needed to cover the 2013 obligation. UC Davis researchers helped create the framework for the LCFS, the US’ first, in 2007. Institute of Transportation Studies, University of California, Davis, Research Report UCD-ITS-RR-13-06.

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JANUARY 14, 2016

In particular, the biocatalysts we found to be most effective at solubilizing biomass are non-model microorganisms for which limited molecular tools are available and extensive development and testing under industrial conditions are required, e.g. with respect to solids loading. Davis, Brian H. Paye, Anna Guseva, Sarah K.

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MAY 13, 2017

Researchers at the University of Illinois, Xerion Advanced Battery Corporation and Nanjing University in China have developed a method for electroplating lithium-ion battery cathodes, yielding high-quality, high-performance battery materials that could also enable flexible and solid-state batteries. Zhang et al. Click to enlarge.

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JULY 18, 2014

By gaining a better understanding of how these parameter uncertainties affect outcomes, the VERIFI researchers, along with colleagues at the University of Connecticut, are seeking to create cleaner and more efficient engines. —Sibendu Som, Argonne National Laboratory (ANL). —Sibendu Som.

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JULY 30, 2014

The team was led by Forman Williams, a professor of mechanical and aerospace engineering at the University of California, San Diego. Results were analyzed by a team of scientists from UC San Diego, the University of Connecticut, NASA, Princeton, the University of South Carolina, UC Davis, and Cornell. Hicks, Paul V.

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FEBRUARY 6, 2018

A recent study from the University of California, Davis suggested that awareness of available plug-in electric cars among potential buyers was no higher in 2017 than it had been in 2014.

Davis

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AUGUST 10, 2015

One of these, the Engineering Research Center for Power Optimization for Electro-Thermal Systems (POETS), aims to enhance or increase the electric power density available in tightly constrained mobile environments by changing the design. The US National Science Foundation (NSF) has invested $55.5 Nature-inspired soil engineering.

El Paso

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MAY 11, 2016

The Consortium for Algal Biofuel Commercialization (CAB-Comm), led by the University of California, San Diego, has released its final report , detailing the accomplishments and contributions achieved in its six years of operation. Earlier post.)

Commercial

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NOVEMBER 7, 2014

With global leading car OEMs such as Toyota, Honda, Hyundai all recently announcing their intentions to make their FCEVs available to the consumer, there is no doubt that the OEMs have done their homework. Hydrogen is the most abundant element in the Universe but, on earth, it must normally be extracted from water or organic compounds.

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APRIL 22, 2021

A team of transportation and policy experts from the University of California released a report to the California Environmental Protection Agency (CalEPA) outlining policy options to significantly reduce transportation-related fossil fuel demand and emissions. —Dan Sperling, director of the UC Davis Institute of Transportation Studies.

Transportation

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JANUARY 11, 2010

As it becomes available, data from the program vehicles will be posted to a dedicated Web site. This in-use, readily available data will help consumers understand how the vehicles are being used and how they’pre performing. TMS and Toyota Motor Manufacturing and Engineering North America, Inc.

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JANUARY 3, 2017

The three automakers acquired HERE from Nokia in 2015 ( earlier post ) with the goal of securing the long-term availability of HERE’s products and services as an open, independent and value-creating platform for cloud-based maps and other mobility services accessible to all customers from the automotive industry and other sectors.

Companies

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FEBRUARY 10, 2011

NSF anticipates that up to four awards will be made in FY 2011, pending availability of funds, with a total of US$2 million available in FY2011. NSF also anticipates that approximately $12 million in total, over 3 years, will be available from NSF and JST to support awards made under this competition.

Environment

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MARCH 26, 2012

Given these two examples and the numerous other naturally occurring sensors available, it should be possible to regulate nearly any biosynthetic pathway for which a natural sensor for the product or an intermediate exists or for which a sensor can be easily evolved. —Zhang et al.

Production

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DECEMBER 30, 2009

The main driver behind the GEBA project is that while the currently available sequenced genomes cover a wide range of biological and functional diversity, they have not covered a wide enough range of phylogenetic diversity. —senior author Jonathan Eisen, DOE JGI Phylogenomics Program Head and Professor at UC Davis.

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