Green Car Congress

DECEMBER 12, 2014

Virent’s production of paraxylene at its Madison, Wisconsin laboratory, has reached a capacity of 10 tons per year which will allow Virent to serve the needs of multiple collaborators for product validation and market demonstrations. Click to enlarge.

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Green Car Congress

MAY 26, 2022

Created with the mission to build cleaner, more efficient engines, Achates Power has an experienced staff of engineers and scientists working with leading engine manufacturers to bring the opposed piston engine to market. Engine Research Center, University of Wisconsin-Madison, Madison, WI. SuperTurbo Technologies, Inc.

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Green Car Congress

SEPTEMBER 8, 2023

The bottom overall US states in the HERE – SBD Automotive EV Index: (42) Wisconsin (43) Indiana (44) Louisiana (45) Kentucky (46) Texas (47) Nebraska (48) Tennessee (49) Idaho (50) Arkansas (51) Alaska. These include free, paid, and access-restricted charging stations (for example, public, yet commercial ones found on retail parking lots).

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Blink Charging

SEPTEMBER 8, 2022

In Wisconsin, an EV bill in the state Senate was introduced, which would have allowed private entities to own EV charging stations and bill customers for connecting to them (or “parking near” them).

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Green Car Congress

MARCH 14, 2018

These systems could ultimately be used by both commercial and industrial end users—including hospitals, hotels, office buildings, factories, and others. The fuel cell stack will build on lessons learned during Saint-Gobain’s work with NASA to create more robust fuel cells assemblies.

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Green Car Congress

OCTOBER 16, 2014

Farnesene is a building block hydrocarbon that can be converted into a renewable, drop-in replacement for petroleum diesel without certain drawbacks of first-generation biofuels. Stahl of the University of Wisconsin-Madison for the Academic award for aerobic oxidation methods for pharmaceutical synthesis. Professor Shannon S.

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Green Car Congress

OCTOBER 4, 2021

This year alone, Xcel Energy has released a suite of programs to help residential and commercial customers make the transition to electric vehicles and lower certain costs. Xcel Energy will also build, own, and operate a limited number of public fast charging stations where gaps are identified.

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Green Car Congress

JUNE 24, 2013

This new institute is part of a $10-million commitment over the next five years toward building a stronger materials innovation ecosystem. University of Wisconsin-Madison invests $5 million+ in new institute for materials. DOE building on FY12 investments to advance MGI.

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Cars That Think

SEPTEMBER 7, 2022

Kolb doesn’t expect to see commercially viable products four years from now, however. Many of the teams will also need to design and build their own validation techniques because existing methods for assessing antenna performance likely won’t be up to snuff. Kolb admits the threshold will be difficult to reach.

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Green Car Congress

DECEMBER 14, 2009

Chemrec is currently building BioDME production plants in Sweden. The other, a commercial-scale plant, is to be in production in 2012. Chemrec pioneered the Fuels-from-the-Forest biofuels biorefinery concept, which can produce BioDME. One, a demonstration-scale facility, is scheduled to begin biofuels production in 2010.

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Green Car Congress

FEBRUARY 25, 2014

Obama also launched a competition for a new manufacturing innovation institute to build US strength in manufacturing advanced composites, the first of four new competitions to be launched this year. There are significant challenges for new lightweight and modern metals to reach widespread commercial production. Earlier post.).

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Green Car Congress

JUNE 26, 2021

The US Department of Energy (DOE) announced more than $30 million in federal funding, matched by more than $35 million in private sector funds, for 68 projects that will accelerate the commercialization of promising energy technologies—ranging from clean energy and advanced manufacturing, to building efficiency and next-generation materials.

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Green Car Congress

SEPTEMBER 18, 2015

Fuel Efficiency Improvements in Passenger Vehicles and Commercial Trucks. Building on the SuperTruck activity, other projects aim at developing enabling technologies to improve the efficiency of heavy-duty diesel engines. This project will demonstrate a commercially scalable process to fabricate nanocomposite silicon anodes.

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Green Car Congress

SEPTEMBER 21, 2011

Shedd says the prototype will allow detailed testing of the engine’s actual capabilities, and bring the technology closer to commercialization. Furthermore, the K6 wouldn’t require computer control for operation, making an individual engine as much as $100 cheaper, and much simpler to build.

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Green Car Congress

JUNE 24, 2010

Assuming an average biorefinery size of 40 million gallons per year, USDA estimates it meeting the RFS2 advanced biofuels goals will mean building of 527 biorefineries, at a cost of $168 billion. This will take $72 billion in cumulative investments to build 226 biorefineries with an estimated capacity of 40 million gallons per year.

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Blink Charging

OCTOBER 6, 2023

As of October 1, 2023, every US state except Michigan, Nebraska, Tennessee, and Wisconsin has passed the legislation needed to redefine a utility and allow kWh pricing. While many businesses installed non-networked EV charging stations earlier in the industry, it is now essential to connect all commercial chargers to a charging network.

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Green Car Congress

AUGUST 10, 2011

Wisconsin Engine Research Consultants LLC. 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. Light-weighting materials. Fleet efficiency. Grantee Description.

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AUGUST 16, 2016

SuperTruck II builds on the successful SuperTruck I program, which has already led to more than twenty fuel saving technologies that have reached the commercial market, said Acting Assistant Secretary David Friedman. Develop, build and test a production‐feasible electrically‐actuated dynamic skip fire cylinder deactivation valvetrain.

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Green Car Congress

MAY 15, 2021

LanzaTech will create transformative technology to enable direct conversion of carbon dioxide (CO 2 ) to ethanol, a building block for low carbon intensity fuels and chemicals, at 100% carbon conversion efficiency to products. University of Wisconsin-Madison.

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DECEMBER 3, 2019

As commercial vehicle manufacturers and fleet owners transition to battery-electric powertrains, they must manage a new set of mobility variables. a Wisconsin-based telematics company, also allows XALT to monitor the system data to analyze needs such as the actual energy required to optimize vehicle performance. —Chad Repp.

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JULY 17, 2017

The University of Wisconsin-Madison and ExxonMobil announced a two-year renewal of an agreement to research the fundamental chemistry of converting biomass into transportation fuels. UW-Madison has long been known for its expertise in biomass conversion.

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Green Car Congress

AUGUST 26, 2009

Selected projects, by size of award, are: State of Wisconsin’s Wisconsin Clean Transportation Program. Team partners will purchase a total of 191 commercially available light- to heavy-duty alternative-fuel and advanced-technology vehicles. The project also includes construction of a B20 station. Total DOE award: $14,983,167.

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Green Car Congress

JUNE 19, 2015

Researchers will design and build cutting-edge phenotyping platforms that can rapidly collect visual imagery, hyperspectral imagery and 3-D shape data of test crops multiple times daily. will advance improved commercial seed cultivars. Wisconsin Engine Research Consultants (WERC) LLC. Finally, Chromatin Inc. Purdue University.

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Green Car Congress

SEPTEMBER 19, 2017

Macroalgae can be utilized as a feedstock for domestic transportation fuels, chemicals and other commercial products without competing with food crops for land and water. Eucheuma is a commercially valuable species of “red” macroalgae that has been difficult to propagate in a cost-effective manner. Category II MARINER Projects.

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Green Car Congress

AUGUST 23, 2017

CIRCUITS projects will establish the building blocks of this class of power converter by advancing higher efficiency designs that exhibit enhanced reliability and superior total cost of ownership. data center energy consumption and operating cost while creating a high-volume commercial market for SiC-based power converters.

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Green Car Congress

AUGUST 14, 2015

The work, published in the journal Metabolic Engineering , builds on results from 2011 in which researchers reported on the first genetically engineered microbe to produce isobutanol directly from cellulose. Earlier post.). Lin, Luo Mi, Amy H. Morioka, Kouki M. Yoshino, Sawako Konishi, Sharon C. Xu, Beth A. Papanek, Lauren A.

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Green Car Congress

JULY 17, 2015

He was formerly with the University of Wisconsin and Rockwell International, and holds a Ph.D. The vehicle can also be used to transfer the energy to another location—for example, from a solar charging station at work to the vehicle owner’s home or from a home solar set-up to a vacation dwelling or to a jobsite in a commercial setting.

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Green Car Congress

APRIL 10, 2010

In 2015–expanded to emissions from residential, commercial, and other industrial combustion, and transportation fuels. states (Illinois, Iowa, Kansas, Michigan, Minnesota, and Wisconsin) and one Canadian province (Manitoba). These attributes can be expected to help build public trust in the allowance market.

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