Green Car Congress

MARCH 7, 2011

The US Environmental Protection Agency has awarded $32 million to fund four new Clean Air Research Centers at universities conducting advanced air pollution research. They are located at: Emory University and Georgia Institute of Technology, Atlanta, Ga. Harvard University, Boston, Mass.

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AUGUST 26, 2014

Zipcar has introduced a 2014 Honda Fit battery electric vehicle (EV) at The University of California, Davis’ (UC Davis) West Village , the largest planned zero net energy community in the United States. In the course of a year, the community is designed to generate as much energy as it consumes.

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Green Car Congress

JUNE 21, 2023

It encompasses nearly all vehicle classes, ranging from small and large SUVs to pickup trucks, along with the flagship models of the Genesis brand. Hyundai Motor plans to apply a range of battery solutions, including next-generation NCM batteries and LFP batteries, for the second-generation platform.

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Green Car Congress

JUNE 14, 2017

Processing of SOFC Anodes for Enhanced Intermediate Temperature Catalytic Activity at High Fuel Utilization — Boston University will demonstrate advancements to SOFC technology including the ability to deposit fine nano-sized nickel catalyst particles into full-sized SOFCs. DOE Funding: $606,386. DOE Funding: $600,000.

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MARCH 29, 2024

Columbia ] Researchers at Stanford University have invented a way to augment electric motors to make them much more efficient at performing dynamic movements through a new type of actuator, a device that uses energy to make things move. Paper ] Thanks, Kelly! Our mobile manipulator Digit worked continuously for 26 hours split over the 3.5

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Green Car Congress

FEBRUARY 12, 2018

Board of Trustees of the University of Illinois. The University of Illinois will conduct research to develop a composite plastic heat exchanger for a low temperature gas streams common in industry. Boston Electrometallurgical Corporation. Colorado State University. Iowa State University. Michigan State University.

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NOVEMBER 12, 2023

Back in 2005, before smartphones were generally available, MIT Professor Hari Balakrishnan was so fed up with commuting delays in Boston that he built a mobile system to monitor road conditions. Their research won several awards, and the system was covered by The Boston Globe. GPS only works outdoors,” Balakrishnan says.

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APRIL 21, 2023

CHI 2023 ] This video captures a series of experiments carried out at West Virginia University on how to rescue a stuck planetary rover with another rover. Boston Dynamics ] What can robots actually do.today? Video Friday is your weekly selection of awesome robotics videos, collected by your friends at IEEE Spectrum robotics.

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FEBRUARY 18, 2022

Boston Dynamics put together a behind-the-scenes video of sorts about the Super Bowl commercial they did in collaboration with some beer company or other. Boston Dynamics ] Power-line perching could be an easy way for urban drones to keep their batteries topped up, but landing on power lines can be tricky. CMU RI ].

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Green Car Congress

MAY 22, 2019

The Boston Consulting Group predicts that people around the world will take 1 billion flights in air taxis in 2030, once sharing services have also established a presence on fixed routes above the ground; most of those air taxis will be capable of operating without a pilot. Bosch is working on sensor technology for air taxis.

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Green Car Congress

APRIL 6, 2017

Zunum is targeting 700 miles of range at launch to more than 1,000 miles by 2030. The shift of the industry to large aircraft and long ranges driven by gas turbines has concentrated almost all air traffic to just two percent of our airports, creating a massive transport gap over regional distances where there is no high-speed alternative.

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JULY 1, 2022

With a strong lineage connected to Carnegie Mellon University, we're proud to maintain a presence in this great city. Since then, researchers at SRI have continued to optimize the system to work with today’s commercial robot arms, bringing high dexterity telemanipulation to a wide range of industries. [

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Green Car Congress

MARCH 4, 2015

Researchers at the University of Houston, with their colleagues at Boston College, have created a new thermoelectric material—germanium-doped magnesium stannide (Mg 2 Sn 0.75 2 over the temperature range of 25–450 °C, a peak ZT of 1.4 It was found that Mg 2 Sn 0.75 has an average ZT of 0.9 and PF of 52 ?W?cm 2 at 350 °C.

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JUNE 9, 2023

Boston Dynamics ] For too long, dogs and vacuums have existed in a state of conflict. Agility ] Battery endurance represents a key challenge for long-term autonomy and long-range operations, especially in the case of aerial robots. Moderated by Catie Cuan, Stanford University. But Roomba robots are finally ready to make peace.

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OCTOBER 4, 2022

Assistant Professor, University of Toronto. In short, I’d bet that any decent university or corporate robotics lab with a similar budget and an active PR team would be able to pull this off. Surprised Tesla went full Boston Dynamics mode with classical control/planning when it’s been around for a while…. BACK TO TOP ↑ ].

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Green Car Congress

JULY 21, 2010

The American Chemical Society (ACS) will hold a special day-long symposium on the Deepwater Horizon oil spill on Tuesday, 24 Aug during its 240 th National Meeting & Exposition in Boston. co-organizer Dr. Kermit Murray, professor of chemistry at Louisiana State University. also of LSU.

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JULY 29, 2018

Considering electrification, autonomy and sharing (the “Three Revolutions”), a team from Boston University and the University of California, Berkeley projects that electricity use from light duty vehicle (LDV) transport will likely be in the 570–1140?TWh Their open-access study appears in the journal Energy Policy.

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JANUARY 18, 2011

A collaboration including researchers from Boston College, MIT, the University of Virginia and Clemson University have achieved a peak ZT (thermoelectric figure of merit) of 0.8 And a team from Northwestern University and the University of Michigan reported experimentally achieving a ZT of 1.7

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JULY 7, 2020

University of Colorado Boulder researchers, with colleagues at Boston University, have developed a new optical phased array concept—the serpentine OPA (SOPA)—that could support medium- to long-range lidar. co-author and associate professor of engineering at Boston University. —Miloš A.

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SEPTEMBER 1, 2012

Calculated E abs from core-shell Mie theory (lines) are shown for the differently sized BC particles and are in generally good agreement with the observations; the colored bands show the uncertainty range in the calculations. —Boston College Professor of Chemistry Paul Davidovits. Credit: Cappa et al. Click to enlarge.

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JUNE 6, 2013

To better understand the impact road frustrations have on motorists today, Audi joined forces with the MIT SENSEable City Laboratory to explore a wide range of measurements aimed at quantifying driver stress on the road today. Preliminary trials have taken place in the Boston metropolitan area over a 12-month period.

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Green Car Congress

APRIL 14, 2017

Chicago, Portland, Boston, Seattle, Philadelphia, Denver, Houston, Miami, and Raleigh—and several highway corridors. Level 2 AC charging (L2) with universally accepted J1772 connectors will serve charging at long dwell-time locations.

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Clean Fleet Report

MARCH 31, 2023

Zipcars can be found in Atlanta, Austin, Baltimore, Boston, Chicago, Dallas, Denver, Detroit, Houston, Los Angeles, Miami, Minneapolis, Milwaukee, New York, Philadelphia, Providence, Sacramento, San Diego, Zipcar users have a card that unlocks their local cars San Francisco, Seattle and Washington, D.C. Zipcar’s potential is enormous.

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AUGUST 20, 2010

CoalTek, teaming with the University of Kentucky Center for Applied Energy Research in Lexington, Ky., Duke University in Durham, N.C., and the University of North Dakota Energy and Environment Research Center in Grand Forks, N.D., Virginia Polytechnic Institute and State University (Blacksburg, Va.)-Partnering

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JANUARY 17, 2015

However, the report notes, renewable energy price improvements are not universal, and costs range widely according to resources and the availability of financing. per kilowatt-hour (kWh) without financial support, compared to a range of US$0.045 to 0.14/kWh The average cost of wind energy ranges from US$0.06/kWh

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Get Electric Vehicle

NOVEMBER 27, 2021

In the announcement of the Hyundai deal, Factorial calls its “FEST” technology (Factorial Electrolyte System Technology) “breakthrough” because it addresses the key issues that “hinder the widespread adoption of electric vehicles by consumers: Range and Safety”. First Time For Factorial. Why Solid-state Batteries?

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Green Car Congress

JULY 14, 2015

The University of South Carolina. The Tennessee Technological University. Montana State University. The University of California, San Diego. The University of Maryland. DOE: $2,500,000 Non DOE: $625,149 Total: $3,125,149 (20% cost share). DOE: $200,000 Non DOE: $91,152 Total: $291,152 (31% cost share).

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NOVEMBER 18, 2022

This video shows the Covariant Robotic Induction solution picking a wide range of item types from totes, scanning barcodes, and inducting items onto a unit sorter. Covariant ] The solution will integrate Boston Dynamics' Spot® robot, the ExynPak™ powered by ExynAI™ and the Trimble® X7 total station.

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Green Car Congress

AUGUST 21, 2015

A team led by Dr. Stuart Licht at The George Washington University in Washington, DC has developed a low-cost, high-yield and scalable process for the electrolytic conversion of atmospheric CO 2 dissolved in molten carbonates into carbon nanofibers (CNFs.)

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Green Car Congress

JUNE 24, 2013

Industry, academic, and government researchers working at the Center will collectively identify critical technical barriers to progress on a wide range of advanced materials research topics. University of Wisconsin-Madison invests $5 million+ in new institute for materials. Harvard debuts database of 2.3

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JULY 30, 2023

Those talks in turn led to a collaboration and an invention: the Boston Arm, an early myoelectric prosthesis. What was the Boston Arm? Discussions between cyberneticist Norbert Wiener [left] and surgeon Melvin Glimcher [right] inspired the Boston Arm. Wiener suggested that Amar G.

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Green Car Congress

JUNE 9, 2009

Ranges in passenger occupancy can easily change the relative performance of modes, with large aircraft performing better than light rail in some of the areas investigated. In terms of GHG emissions, large aircraft on a total g CO 2 e/PKT basis outperforms Boston light rail (the Green Line). Chester and Horvath (2009).

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Green Car Congress

AUGUST 3, 2010

If internal energy is excluded, and only purchased energy is used as input, then the EROI calculated is in the range of 2 to 16. An EROI of 1:1 means there is no energy “profit” from the investment of energy. While one could argue that the char and gas produced and consumed within the shale conversion process has zero opportunity cost—i.e.,

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Green Car Congress

OCTOBER 1, 2014

Engineers from Nanyang Technological University (NTU) and the German Aerospace Centre (DLR) have designed a “2-in-1” electric motor unit which can increase the range of electric vehicles in hot climates. Click to enlarge. TECO, a Taiwan-based company, is one of the largest manufacturers of electrical drive technology.).

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Green Car Congress

JANUARY 27, 2015

Concentrations of engine-generated PM were very low ( 3 ) at all exposure levels (in the ultrafine range of 20–40 nm in diameter), as were concentrations of sulfur dioxide and semivolatile and volatile organic species. Boston, MA:Health Effects Institute. These ancillary studies evaluated endpoints not examined in the core study.

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OCTOBER 26, 2021

At Northeastern University , in Boston, Matteo Rinaldi's group has demonstrated an event-driven sensor that could help detect a forest fire by reacting to the infrared light emitted from a hot object. Matthew Modoono/Northeastern University. A warning system using this type of sensor could go a decade without a battery change.

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FEBRUARY 2, 2024

Going beyond focusing on a single locomotion skill, we develop a general control solution that can be used for a range of dynamic bipedal skills, from periodic walking and running to aperiodic jumping and standing. SRL ETHZ ] Adaptive Mobile Manipulation project from Carnegie Mellon University! Paper ] Thanks Ram! The result?

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