Green Car Congress

APRIL 3, 2018

Researchers at Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute (RPI) have now developed a method to use this cheap and abundant waste byproduct to build a components for lithium-sulfur batteries. Lignosulfonate, a sulfonated carbon waste material, is a major by-product in the papermaking industry. Click to enlarge.

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Green Car Congress

JULY 31, 2019

BNEF’s Energy Storage Outlook 2019 predicts a further halving of lithium-ion battery costs per kilowatt-hour by 2030, as demand takes off in two different markets: stationary storage and electric vehicles. The report goes on to model the impact of this on a global electricity system increasingly penetrated by low-cost wind and solar.

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Baua Electric

JANUARY 22, 2024

Back in September, the EU launched an investigation into the Chinese EV industry, as European companies are struggling to compete with the cheap, high-tech Chinese imports, made by low-cost labor, entering the EU.

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Green Car Congress

DECEMBER 1, 2021

The report “Decarbonizing Steel: A Net-Zero Pathway” outlines the path to making profitable, low-emissions steel and describes how a combination of falling hydrogen costs, cheap clean power, and increased recycling could reduce emissions to net zero, even while total output increases.

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Baua Electric

MARCH 6, 2024

Back in October 2023, Europe launched its formal investigation into the Chinese EV industry, as European companies are struggling to compete with the cheap, high-tech Chinese imports, made by low-cost labor, entering the European Union.

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Baua Electric

FEBRUARY 29, 2024

Solar is cheapest and falling The significant drop in solar power costs, by 23% in 2023, signals the end of supply chain disruptions and inflationary pressures. New-build solar project costs are expected to fall by another 20% by 2030 due to lower module prices and an oversupply from China.

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Cars That Think

FEBRUARY 15, 2024

The Scranton team competed against other student branches to build and program small robots to navigate a maze in the shortest time possible. Piccini now is helping to develop a low-cost, low-power system to send a signal into the ionosphere and measure the time it takes to return. The team placed second.

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Green Car Congress

JUNE 5, 2017

Powervault units can also automatically charge using low-cost, off-peak energy from the grid. As well as reducing the cost of production of a Powervault, the use of second-life batteries will also optimize the life-cycle of the Renault batteries before they are recycled.

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Teslarati

APRIL 18, 2021

One thing that Boring Company critics typically forget is the fact that the LVCC Loop’s tunnels are incredibly cheap and quick to build. The other company was Austria-based Doppelmayr Garaventa Group, which proposed a traditional above-ground campus transit system estimated to cost $215 million to complete.

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Green Car Congress

MARCH 5, 2015

The two companies have agreed to collaborate on the following activities: Introduction of V2G services in the European market; Exploring the use of second-life EV batteries for stationary applications (including households, buildings, grid); and. Designing and evaluating potential affordable energy and mobility pack offers.

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Green Car Congress

JANUARY 28, 2016

The method can be applied to other electrode materials, too, making energy-dense, low-cost battery materials a realistic possibility. There are huge challenges associated with using low-cost,micrometre-sized Si source materials. —Yi Cui. Here we introduce a method to encapsulate Si microparticles (∼1–3 µm).

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Green Car Congress

NOVEMBER 1, 2017

It is a simple, low-cost approach that can be applied to a broad range of alloy systems with various working ions such as Li, Na, or Mg. Recent efforts to improve lithium-ion battery electrodes have focused on building new nanomaterials atom by atom. —Kreder et al. —Karl Kreder.

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Cars That Think

SEPTEMBER 12, 2021

One of the benefits of using print electronics is being able to mass-produce at a low cost, says Gregory Whiting at the University of Colorado, Boulder, one of the principal investigators of the team working on the sensors. Building electronics made of zinc and wood and waxes—it's just very weird and cool," Whiting says.

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Green Car Congress

MAY 26, 2011

SKF is also a partner in the Ricardo-led KinerStor project to demonstrate the viability of low-cost flywheel hybrid systems ( earlier post ). The flywheel technology is relatively cheap. Volvo Car Corporation (VCC) has received a grant of 6.57 million Swedish kronor (US$1.05 Click to enlarge.

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Green Car Congress

JUNE 1, 2015

While some specially designed 3D porous graphene networks show good pore connectivity and conductivity, large-scale and low-cost fabrication of such graphene networks remains a challenge. The general strategy toward the above-mentioned graphene networks is to use graphene oxides (GOs) as building blocks. —To et al.

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Green Car Congress

DECEMBER 7, 2009

ARPA-E’s first solicitation, announced earlier this year, was highly competitive and resulted in awarding $151 million to 37 projects aimed at transformational innovations in energy storage, biofuels, carbon capture, renewable power, building efficiency, vehicles, and other areas. Earlier post.)

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Cars That Think

NOVEMBER 10, 2022

It’s cloud-based, so you can access your robot remotely, and you can build your own applications for Rae and share them with other users. This is a shame, because it was a shockingly cheap $299. As of now-ish, Rae has more than 400 backers and is nearing $200,000 on Kickstarter, close to 10x-ing its goal.

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Green Car Congress

MAY 26, 2015

This proprietary novel gas fermentation technology converts the carbon monoxide-containing waste gases emitted by blast furnace, coke oven and BOF (basic oxygen furnace) operations into low-cost ethanol and high-value chemicals. So here our isobutene would allow us to integrate this very cheap fossil component into the fuel.

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Green Car Congress

MARCH 22, 2015

Currently, renewable hydrogen may be produced from water by electrolysis with either low efficiency alkaline electrolyzers that suffer 50–65% losses, or by more efficient acidic electrolyzers using expensive rare platinum group metal catalysts (Pt). Our new HER catalyst, Ni 5 P 4 , has the strong potential to overcome this challenge.

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Cars That Think

MAY 7, 2022

For most of the 10 years that I idly thought about thermostats, I had no intention of building one. Adapted from the book BUILD: An Unorthodox Guide to Making Things Worth Making by Tony Fadell. But the technology that I needed to make it happen—reliable low-cost communications, cheap screens and processors—didn’t exist yet.

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Green Car Congress

OCTOBER 15, 2020

To help California mitigate its ever-growing wildfires, this year CalSEED has included companies that are innovating in technologies that will build wildfire resiliency into the grid. Their goal is to test an innovative electrolyzer concept for the cheap production of green (CO 2 -free) hydrogen for a decarbonized future.

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Get Electric Vehicle

OCTOBER 20, 2022

Given Tesla’s degree of mechanical ability, we can expect these to be completely adequate, but nothing here is crazy small, cheap, efficient, powerful, or anything else. “Our goal is to build a viable humanoid robot as soon as possible,” Musk explained. Given the task’s intricacy, this is difficult.

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Green Car Congress

JUNE 14, 2010

And oil only seems cheap. When our country was attacked at Pearl Harbor, no one believed we could build 30,000 planes and tanks in just one year. And no one asked what it would cost. It helps that the auto industry will be building more efficient new vehicles. Its impacts are increasingly unaffordable.

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Cars That Think

APRIL 23, 2022

The time was right because of the imminence of three hardware developments: the first low-cost, bit-mapped personal computer, the first low-cost laser printer, and a decline in price of high-density memory chips. As noted earlier, one was a cheap laser printer. Today, even Hewlett-Packard Co.

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Plugs and Cars

JULY 31, 2008

All the wind farms and solar panels in the world won’t do anything to lower the outflow of hundreds billions of dollars annually or decrease our pump-fueled funding of Islamic fundamentalism unless we build cars that can use that cleaner electricity. I wish I knew what’s holding Gore back from full-throated support for plug-in cars.

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EV Info

SEPTEMBER 23, 2021

It comes upon us when we have barely started ripping out our gas boilers to make way for the expensive and inefficient heat pumps the Government is telling us to buy, or building the costly new power stations that will be needed to charge the electric cars we will all soon require. Energy Solutions. Gas is the only answer.

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Green Car Congress

JULY 22, 2009

Who is going to take the lead on building the transmission capability that is needed: private industry, states or the federal government? In general, the sponsor’s goal is to use as much cheap debt financing and as little equity as possible to complete the deal. It is not how can we get low cost capital to take more risk.

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Green Car Congress

JUNE 6, 2013

The technology to make the metal-free ORR catalysts builds on a simple and cheap industrial process several of the researchers developed to make graphene sheets from graphite. —Jeon et al. Inside a ball miller—a canister filled with steel balls—the researchers broke graphite down into single-layer graphene nanoparticles.

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Green Car Congress

JULY 10, 2012

This allows building a pair of wings which are optimized in terms of weight, aerodynamics and stability and yet cheap to produce. ALM technology makes it possible to produce the complex contoured shape at a low cost. Due to the tests performed, both the angle of incidence and the angle of twist could be optimized.

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Cars That Think

OCTOBER 2, 2022

For some context on what you’re about to see, a brief callback to a year ago last August, when I predicted what was in store for 2022: It’s possible, even likely, that Tesla will build some sort of Tesla Bot by sometime next year, as Musk says. And it is expected to cost much less than a car—much less than $20,000 would be my guess.

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Baua Electric

MARCH 6, 2024

Fortunately, we’ve found some excellent options for cheap electric bikes that can still save you some serious dough. If you like the idea of a low-cost US-based company like Lectric eBikes but want something with more power than their XP LITE, consider the $999 Lectric XP 3.0. For years, the $999 Lectric XP 3.0 The XP 3.0

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Baua Electric

JANUARY 13, 2024

Fortunately, we’ve found some excellent options for cheap electric bikes that can still save you some serious dough. If you like the idea of a low-cost US-based company like Lectric eBikes but want something with more power than their XP LITE, consider the $999 Lectric XP 3.0. For years, the $999 Lectric XP 3.0 The XP 3.0

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Cars That Think

APRIL 29, 2022

For example, the quantum effect known as superposition allows atoms and other building blocks of the cosmos to essentially exist in two or more places at the same time, while another quantum effect known as entanglement can link particles so they can influence each other instantly regardless of how far apart they are.

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Cars That Think

APRIL 2, 2022

You waste a little bit of silicon, but silicon’s pretty cheap. Not only were development costs absorbed in company overhead, but there was no markup to pay, as there would have been inf the chips had been built by another company. When the design of the Commodore 64 began, the overriding goals were simplicity and low cost.

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Tony Karrer Delicious EVdriven

APRIL 16, 2009

The first buyers will be fleet users, which will build central fast-charging facilities. Put simply, this little-known upstart has accelerated ahead of its much bigger rivals in the race to build an affordable electric car. BYDs breakthrough all-electric E6, photographed at this years Detroit auto show. executive who has studied BYD.

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Green Car Congress

NOVEMBER 29, 2021

The Democratic Republic of the Congo (DRC) can leverage its abundant cobalt resources and hydroelectric power to become a low-cost and low-emissions producer of lithium-ion battery cathode precursor materials, according to a new study on a unified African supply chain by BloombergNEF (BNEF). Source: BNEF.

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Tony Karrer Delicious EVdriven

APRIL 16, 2009

In a flurry of electric vehicle activity, three back-to-back announcements this week have placed a spotlight on Oregon’s plans to be the friendliest state in the nation in which to build, sell and buy electric cars. But that cost in a built as an EV is much less than an ICE’s costs by about 1/2.

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