Green Car Congress

NOVEMBER 8, 2019

BETHE projects will support the development of timely, commercially viable fusion energy, aiming to increase the number and performance levels of lower-cost fusion concepts. improvements to and application of existing fusion R&D capabilities to accelerate the development of multiple concepts.

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Fusion Energy Concept Low Cost 236

Green Car Congress

MARCH 2, 2010

ARPA-E’s first solicitation, announced in early 2009, was highly competitive and resulted in funding 37 projects aimed at transformational innovations in energy storage, biofuels, carbon capture, renewable power, building efficiency, vehicles, and other areas. Building Energy Efficiency Through Innovative Thermodevices (BEET-IT).

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Electrek

OCTOBER 6, 2024

Just a playful post on social media from a random Volvo account celebrating an obscure concept car from the early aughts. It couldn’t possibly mean that Volvo is actually going to build the thing … right? It’s probably nothing.

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Volvo Low Cost Concept Building 119

Green Car Congress

MARCH 1, 2012

The LC Super Hybrid, conceived by Controlled Power Technologies (CPT) and the Advanced Lead-Acid Battery Consortium (ALABC) to show that significant CO 2 reduction can be achieved through electric hybridization at low voltages (12-48 volts) using the latest lead-carbon batteries, will make its world debut at the Geneva Motor Show.

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Lead Acid Low Cost Hybrid Battery 231

Green Car Congress

MAY 8, 2019

By focusing on energy-related advanced manufacturing technologies, we are building a new era of manufacturing that will stimulate the economy, create jobs and build American energy independence. —US Secretary of Energy Rick Perry.

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Manufacturer Battery Batteries Energy Storage 304

Green Car Congress

FEBRUARY 18, 2020

The concept consists of a large-scale floating wind turbine (nominally 10 MW) with an integrated water treatment unit and electrolyzers for localized hydrogen production. The project aims to reduce the cost of electrolytic hydrogen significantly. This funding will enable the detailed design of a 2 MW prototype system. million (US$9.7

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Hydrogen Carbon Production Wind 386

Green Car Congress

OCTOBER 14, 2009

Global Bioenergies , a French startup located on the Genopole campus close to Paris, announced the proof-of-concept of a synthetic metabolic pathway for producing isobutene, a key chemical building block that can be converted into transportation fuels, polymers and various commodity chemicals. Macha Anissimova, Head of Research.

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Concept Companies Renewable Connecticut 186

Green Car Congress

NOVEMBER 16, 2016

Hyundai Motor Company introduced the Autonomous IONIQ concept during its press conference at AutoMobility LA (Los Angeles Auto Show). Hyundai’s goal for the autonomous IONIQ concept was to keep the self-driving systems as simple as possible. A Blind Spot Detection radar to ensure even simple lane changes are executed safely.

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Hyundai Concept Las Vegas Los Angeles 150

Green Car Congress

AUGUST 31, 2022

The concept is based on proven floating production, storage and off-take technologies combined with an e-control system capable of balancing renewable electricity feedstock through a fully integrated PEM and Haber-Bosch system. H2Carrier will build, own and operate a fleet of P2XFloaters.

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Hydrogen Norway Wind Renewable 243

Green Car Congress

SEPTEMBER 24, 2015

A research demonstration unveiled at the Department of Energy’s Oak Ridge National Laboratory (DOE ORNL) combines clean energy technologies into a 3D-printed building and a 3D-printed natural gas-powered hybrid vehicle to showcase a new approach to energy use, storage and consumption.

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Building Gas Powered Power 150

Green Car Congress

MAY 8, 2010

The US Department of Energy has selected 13 projects for investment of up to $62 million over five years to research, develop, and demonstrate Concentrating Solar Power (CSP) systems capable of providing low-cost electrical power. eSolar will design, build, and test a CSP power plant system with fundamentally new components.

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Solar Powered Power Molten Salt 240

Green Car Congress

NOVEMBER 24, 2009

Further potential Kinergy applications also include low-cost, compact energy management and storage systems for use in industrial and construction equipment, elevators, railway rolling stock, and local electrical substations and power distribution systems. Click to enlarge.

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Energy Storage Energy Land Rover Low Cost 231

Green Car Congress

NOVEMBER 2, 2021

Rural Reimagined: Building an EV Ecosystem and Green Economy for Transforming Lives in Economically Distressed Appalachia. A Solid State Technology Enabled Compact, Modular Design to Reduce DC Fast Charging Cost and Footprint. AOI 8: Natural Gas Vehicle Technology Proof of Concept. . $5,222,326. AOI 2: EV Workplace Charging.

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Emissions Eaton Minnesota Hybrid 304

Green Car Congress

JUNE 24, 2020

Based on the results reported in a paper in the journal Nature Energy , the design concept provides a promising path to high-energy, long-cycling Li metal batteries, the researchers said. Furthermore, the 1 M LiFSI/FDMB electrolyte is less flammable than commercial electrolytes and can be synthesized at large scale with low cost.

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Design Li-ion Battery Batteries 321

Cars That Think

OCTOBER 28, 2024

Jayme Thornton PPPL researchers say their simpler machine demonstrates a way to build stellarators far more cheaply and quickly, allowing researchers to easily test new concepts for future fusion power plants. Tokamaks vs. Stellarators The stellarator’s lack of toroidal symmetry made it challenging to build.

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IDEA Fusion Energy Design 145

Green Car Congress

AUGUST 10, 2011

This project will develop a new process that enables low-cost, domestic manufacturing of magnesium. This project will develop a novel low cost route to carbon fiber using a lignin/PAN hybrid precursor and carbon fiber conversion technologies leading to high performance, low-cost carbon fiber. Dow Kokam, LLC.

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Carbon Fiber Lithium Ion Li-ion Vehicles 268

Green Car Congress

JULY 13, 2010

The awards in this tranche focus on power electronics, grid-scale energy storage, and building efficiency; of the 43, three are categorized specifically for the automotive market—power electronics projects led by HRL Laboratories, LLC; Arkansas Power Electronics International, Inc.; and Case Western Reserve University.

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Powered Power Arkansas Grid 225

Green Car Congress

JANUARY 22, 2011

Building Efficiency (9). In this topic, ARPA-E seeks to develop a new generation of ultra-high energy density, low-cost battery technologies for long electric range plug in hybrid electric vehicles and electric vehicles (EVs). Building Energy Efficiency Through Innovative Thermodevices (BEETIT). Carbon Capture (7).

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Energy Storage Renewable Powered Power 210

Green Car Congress

JANUARY 24, 2020

Biopower and Products from Urban and Suburban Wastes: North American Multi-University Partnership for Research and Education (up to $15M): Developing innovative technologies to manage major forms of urban and suburban waste, with a focus on using plastic waste to make recycled products and using wastes to produce low-cost biopower.

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Waste Water 2020 Low Cost 186

Green Car Congress

JANUARY 24, 2020

The US Department of Energy announced up to $64 million in funding ( DE-FOA-0002229 ) to advance innovations that will build new markets for the H2@Scale initiative ( earlier post ). Concept papers are due 25 February 2020 and full applications are due 20 April 2020.

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Carbon Fiber Market Hydrogen Energy Storage 207

Green Car Congress

FEBRUARY 26, 2019

Automakers such as VW are building their next-generation EVs around the concept of a low-cost and scalable modular platform that will be shared across the maker’s model lineup, enabling it to thrust its EVs from niche to affordable mass market. At the model level, scalable modular platforms are the future.

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Market 2018 Sale Global 236

Green Car Congress

JULY 27, 2014

Delphi Automotive PLC will unveil the second generation of its Technology Truck concept highlighting future technologies at the upcoming IAA Commercial Vehicles show being held 25 Sept - 2 Oct in Hannover, Germany. Fundamental safety building blocks for future automated vehicles. Delphi co-developed the new HPDI injector with Westport.

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Gas Fuel Exhaust Diesel 231

Green Car Congress

JUNE 25, 2021

We are producing a hydrogen-rich molecule, moving it using existing, low-cost infrastructure, and converting it to hydrogen fuel on demand. This project builds on a previous bench-top demonstration of a DME steam reforming process conducted by researchers at the Laboratory, which produced 0.018 kg of hydrogen per day.

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Renewable Hydrogen Fuel Waste 221

Green Car Congress

APRIL 4, 2019

Potential technologies in response to this AOI include, but are not limited to, the following: Printable magnetic materials for motors – Instead of laminations, one approach to building high power density, high-speed motors is using solid 3D printed materials. Novel approaches are needed to build stators/rotors with no laminations.

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Vehicles Fuel Economy Alternative Fuels Motors 252

Cars That Think

NOVEMBER 10, 2022

Just last year, a half dozen precisely targeted malicious drones managed to slow oil production in Saudi Arabia for days, and more recently, several low-cost drones caused significant damage to oil tankers in the UAE. Building secure systems will need to address hardware, software, and protocols and their interplay.

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Building UAE Universal Design 145

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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Carbon Plug-in Energy Fuel 199

Green Car Congress

DECEMBER 13, 2013

The Energy Innovations Small Grant Program provides funding to small businesses, non-profit organizations, individuals, and academic institutions to conduct research that establishes the feasibility of new, innovative energy concepts. The program provides up to $95,000 for hardware projects and up to $50,000 for modeling concepts.

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Gas-Electric California Gas Energy 230

Green Car Congress

NOVEMBER 25, 2013

The US Department of Energy (DOE) Advanced Research Projects Agency - Energy (ARPA-E) will award up to $30 million to fund a new program focused on the development of transformational electrochemical technologies to enable low-cost distributed power generation. DE-FOA-0001026 ). Source: ARPA-E. Click to enlarge. Source: ARPA-E.

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Fuel Powered Power Gas-Electric 231

Green Car Congress

AUGUST 14, 2014

Development of Low-cost, High Strength Automotive Aluminum Sheet (Area of Interest 1). This project will develop an electroformed nanostructured aluminum sheet material, including the build and test of a vehicle component. Description. Alcoa, Inc. Xtalic Corp. Liox Power. University of Maryland. Brookhaven National Lab.

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Plug-in Li-ion Plug Vehicles 299

Green Car Congress

NOVEMBER 16, 2018

Ecolectro is developing alkaline exchange ionomers (AEIs) to enable low-cost fuel cell and electrolyzer technologies. Low-Cost, Easy-to-integrate, and Reliable Grid Energy Storage System with 2nd Life Lithium Batteries – $1,894,705. Superstrong, Low-cost Wood for Lightweight Vehicles – $3,600,000.

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Engine San Diego Polymer Lithium Ion 247

Green Car Congress

OCTOBER 2, 2014

In addition, Hyundai is premiering at the Paris show its first 7-speed dual-clutch transmission, fitted into the i30 CNG natural gas concept car, which contributes to improved fuel efficiency. Hyundai is also displaying the diesel i40 48V hybrid concept, featuring a lead-carbon battery. liter T-GDI. The new Kappa 1.0-liter

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Downsizing Hyundai Engine Hybrid 239

Green Car Congress

MAY 15, 2015

The projects are funded through ARPA-E’s two newest programs, Advanced Research In Dry cooling (ARID) and Accelerating Low-cost Plasma Heating and Assembly (ALPHA), which both seek to develop low-cost technology solutions. SRI will produce its STATIC cover using low-cost, scalable processing technologies.

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Fusion Powered Power Low Cost 150

Green Car Congress

SEPTEMBER 16, 2010

Other awards included funding for renewable energy resources, industrial and building energy efficiency, a modernized electricity grid, cleaner fossil fuels, and the next generation of nuclear power. DOE Funding: $3,000,000. Materials Innovation Technologies, LLC (Fletcher, N.C.) - Advanced Materials for Lightweight Vehicles.

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Fuel Energy Carbon Fiber Polymer 210

Green Car Congress

SEPTEMBER 30, 2011

High Performance, Low Cost Superconducting Wires and Coils. for High Power Wind Generators The University of Houston will develop a new, low-cost. American Superconductor will develop a new, low-cost. will conduct a one-year “proof-of-concept seedling” program. (National Renewable. Corporation).

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Energy Cleaning Clean Grid 294

Green Car Congress

JUNE 2, 2023

Projects from this solicitation, which will be implemented over the next 1–3 years, will focus on lowering the cost of heliostats and heliostat technologies and creating new market opportunities for the heliostat industry. Low-cost heliostats offer significant renewable energy potential.

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Solar Energy Storage Low Cost Concept 170

EV Central

APRIL 9, 2025

Taiwanese electronics giant Foxconn is reported to have locked in a deal with Mitsubishi to build an advanced all-new battery-powered compact SUV for Australia that will land in local dealerships in the first half of 2026. Foxconn Model C SUV concept Advanced tech include an active air suspension. Yes, you read that right.

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Mitsubishi Australia Pininfarina SUV 80

Green Car Congress

APRIL 2, 2010

The focus of the effort is on hydrogen separations technology, including advanced separation membranes (inorganic, metallic and both materials), that provide high purity hydrogen and/or offer a combination of hydrogen separation with low-cost removal of CO 2 and other trace impurities from hydrogen-CO 2 mixtures.

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CO2 Coal Hydrogen Water 218