Green Car Congress

JUNE 9, 2014

Similarly in 2009 and 2010, the US Department of Energy (DOE) funded the University of North Carolina – Energy Frontier Research Center (UNC EFRC) and the Joint Center for Artificial Photosynthesis, respectively. Hydrogen-to-fuels. Biotech Fuels Solar'

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Cars That Think

APRIL 20, 2023

Waterproof sensors that track flooding As part of the Sunny Day Flooding Project, Katherine Anarde, assistant professor in North Carolina State University’s Environmental, Water Resources, and Coastal Engineering Group [right] and another researcher install low-cost water-level sensors in storm drains. Here are four of the 10 projects.

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Green Car Congress

APRIL 15, 2011

builds upon a 23-year history of DOE Advanced Vehicle Technology Competitions (AVTC). EcoCAR 2 requires students to explore a variety of powertrain architectures focusing on electric drive vehicle technology. Using the VDP enables students to design, build and refine their advanced technology vehicles.

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Green Car Congress

SEPTEMBER 4, 2014

to Fulcrum Sierra Biofuels, LLC to build a biorefinery to produce jet fuel from municipal solid waste (MSW) via a proprietary two-stage thermochemical process. A venturi scrubber captures and removes any entrained particulate, and the syngas is further cooled in a packed gas cooler scrubber. Earlier post.). which received a $12.8-million

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Baua Electric

MARCH 1, 2024

In an interview with Automotive News , Toyota CEO Ted Ogawa said that the Japanese automaker plans to go with customer demand – and in his view, that’s varying degrees of “electrification,” usually in the form of hybrids with gas-burning engines. Currently, the company is building a $13.9 Still, we have the better product.

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Green Car Congress

JUNE 4, 2018

Nuclear power generates nearly 20% of US electricity, delivering reliable, low-emission baseload power to the grid. As utilities have begun retiring older plants, however, comparatively high costs have made it difficult to justify building new nuclear power plants. GW by 2050.

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Green Car Congress

OCTOBER 29, 2015

Panda Power Funds has financed the 1,124 megawatt Panda “Hummel Station” power plant—one of the largest coal-to-natural gas power conversion projects in the United States. The Panda Hummel generating station will be fueled with Marcellus Shale gas, which is expected to provide the project with a significant operating cost advantage.

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Clean Fleet Report

OCTOBER 25, 2023

The current line-up, a combination of gasoline-powered and battery electric sedans and SUVs, will be all-electric in 2030. The Hyundai Motor Group has made a $10 billion investment to build and sell electric vehicles in North America; the first is the 2023 Electrified GV70 built at the new manufacturing facility in Montgomery, Alabama.

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Clean Fleet Report

MAY 12, 2023

VinFast invited Canadian and American automotive journalists to California to drive the 2023 VF 8, an all-electric midsize two-row SUV. The company has ambitious plans to import the three-row VF 9 by the end of 2023 and the two-row VF 7 in the first part of 2024, both of which are electric SUVs built in Hai Phong, Vietnam.

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Noodoe

DECEMBER 23, 2021

UK Law Requires EV Chargers for All New Buildings. New buildings will be required to include EV charging stations, as will renovated structures that have 10 or more parking spaces. Shifting fleets to electric means also boosting the number of EVs in the second-hand car market. Interested in electric efficiency?

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Green Car Congress

AUGUST 26, 2009

The vehicles and infrastructure being funded include the use of natural and renewable gas, propane, ethanol, biodiesel, electricity, and hybrid technologies. The program includes the installation of 10 alternative fuel refueling sites (two B20, one Electric Recharging, and seven CNG). Total DOE award: $15,000,000.

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Green Car Congress

MARCH 10, 2015

The US Department of Energy (DOE) is awarding $6 million to 11 projects aimed at improving potential buyers’ experiences with alternative fuel and plug-in electric vehicles, supporting training, and integrating alternative fuels into emergency planning. Florida Department of Agriculture and Consumer Services - Office of Energy.

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Green Car Congress

SEPTEMBER 22, 2009

The US Department of Transportation (DOT) is awarding $100 million in Economic Recovery Act funding to 43 transit agencies for projects to reduce energy consumption and greenhouse gas emissions from both vehicles and facilities. The Federal Transit Administration reviewed more than $2 billion in applications for these funds.

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Green Car Congress

SEPTEMBER 3, 2014

energy companies—Dominion, Duke Energy, Piedmont Natural Gas and AGL Resources—have formed a joint venture to build and own the proposed Atlantic Coast Pipeline. billion to $5-billion, 550-mile (885 km) natural gas pipeline would run from Harrison County, W. Four major U.S.

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Revenge of the Electric Car

FEBRUARY 26, 2009

Nissan is a first tier OEM building a pure EV in the U.S. - Regardless, once the $7,500 tax credit is accounted for, and the much lower maintenance costs, these should be about the same as buying a gas car, only the fuel will be less than a dollar a gallon equivalent. Check out the article: Nissan to launch electric car in Tennessee.

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Green Car Congress

FEBRUARY 25, 2009

Rocky Mountain Institute (RMI) launched Project Get Ready , an initiative that emerged from its Smart Garage Summit in October 2008 and that is intended to help communities prepare for plug-in vehicles including full battery electric, plug-in hybrid electric, and converted hybrid or internal combustion vehicles.

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Cars That Think

JULY 8, 2023

All over the world, startup companies, government agencies, universities, and airlines are collaborating to launch an entirely new category of aviation based on electric aircraft capable of both vertical takeoff and efficient horizontal flight. In so doing, they could reduce travel times and greenhouse-gas emissions.

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Green Car Congress

AUGUST 19, 2023

The US Department of Energy (DOE) awarded nearly $34 million to 19 industry- and university-led research projects that will advance technology solutions to make clean hydrogen a more available and affordable fuel for electricity generation, industrial decarbonization, and transportation. Earlier post.)

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Green Car Congress

AUGUST 7, 2009

Study complex material structures on the nanoscale to identify key features for their potential use as materials to convert solar energy and heat to electricity. University of North Carolina. Use novel, self-assembled polymer materials in systems for the conversion of sunlight into electricity. Center for Excitonics. $19.

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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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Electric Auto Association

OCTOBER 28, 2021

Meet the 17 Electric Auto Association members nominated for the National Board BY APRIL BOLDUC: PRESIDENT OF THE ELECTRIC AUTO ASSOCIATION It’s the most board candidates in our history. He recognizes the diminishing power of the oil and gas industry, and embraces the imminent future of electrically powered transportation.

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Electric Auto Association

OCTOBER 28, 2021

Meet the 17 Electric Auto Association members nominated for the National Board BY APRIL BOLDUC: PRESIDENT OF THE ELECTRIC AUTO ASSOCIATION It’s the most board candidates in our history. He recognizes the diminishing power of the oil and gas industry, and embraces the imminent future of electrically powered transportation.

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Setec Powerr

DECEMBER 1, 2022

billion for electric vehicle charging infrastructure, with the goal of installing it across the United States by 2030. As charging stations follow electric car stations to center stage, U.S. As charging stations follow electric car stations to center stage, U.S. 500,000 public charging piles.

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Driivz

MAY 1, 2022

Utilities are emerging as dominant players in the global race to electric vehicle adoption beyond just the power supplier. They have insights to the customers’ electrical usage. E.ON, a German power company; EDF, based in France; and Italy’s Enel are partnering with Nissan to build V2G networks. California as the EV Leader.

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Green Car Congress

JANUARY 4, 2020

Department of Energy (DOE) selected 16 projects to receive nearly $25 million in federal funding for cost-shared projects to advance natural gas infrastructure technology development. AOI 2: Process-Intensified Technologies for the Upcycling of Flare Gas into Transportable, Value-Added Products.

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Teslarati

JANUARY 28, 2022

In late December , GMC announced the Hummer EV would make its way from the Factory Zero facility in Hamtramck, Michigan to customers, finally completing the first deliveries of the notorious gas-hog name turned sustainable. After all, the Hummer EV was actually GM’s second-most-produced electric vehicle in December 2021.

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Green Car Congress

NOVEMBER 19, 2014

Augmenting its existing LC Super Hybrid program ( earlier post ), which deploys a downsized gasoline-electric powertrain, ALABC is working on advanced diesel-electric applications in development programs being undertaken with car makers including Ford and Kia. These compact electrical machines can be rated up to 12.5

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Electric Vehicles India

JUNE 23, 2021

The internal combustion engine is a mature technology that’s being superseded by battery electric vehicles (BEVs). The BEVs are becoming cheaper than conventional cars and current technology could already electrify over 70% of transport energy demand and lead to a large reduction in greenhouse gas (GHG) emissions. Global EV sales.

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Green Car Congress

JUNE 19, 2015

The Energy Department’s Advanced Research Projects Agency-Energy (ARPA-E) announced $55 million in funding for 18 innovative projects as part of ARPA-E’s two newest programs: Transportation Energy Resources from Renewable Agriculture (TERRA) and GENerators for Small Electrical and Thermal Systems (GENSETS). Description. Aerodyne Research Inc.

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Cars That Think

JANUARY 17, 2023

2050 net-zero strategy document , which explains how America will get to net-zero greenhouse gas emissions by 2050. Electric vehicles require new or re-tooled factories , each requiring thousands of employees. Toyota CEO Akio Toyoda has stated that moving to battery electric vehicles only would mean “risk losing the majority of 5.5

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AUGUST 8, 2021

And now that the Senate’s version of the Biden Infrastructure Bill is close to passing, a potential estimated $10 billion could fund grants for building out EV charging infrastructure in the US. So with that out of the way, let’s get back to the question of “How many electric vehicle charging stations will $10 billion buy for America?”.

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EV Adoption

MARCH 9, 2021

This past week was a whirlwind of EV news and developments from FedEx’s plans to electrify its fleet by 2040, VW saying it expects 50% of its US sales to be from EVs, to GM’s likely plans to build a second battery factory with LG Chem, and much more … Automaker/EV Models. VW expects half of U.S. Batteries and Charging.

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Cars That Think

FEBRUARY 21, 2024

He hopes to start what he calls the billion scientist movement by building AI-enabled research robots that are accessible to all. And so that’s where we’re trying to go with science now, is that instead of only those of us who have access to big labs, we’re building research robots. Benji, thank you for coming on the show.

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Baua Electric

APRIL 19, 2024

New factories producing EVs and their batteries are bringing more jobs to the Southeast, but utilities are trying to meet the power demands of these factories with natural-gas power plants rather than renewable energy, reports Energy News Network. for the past decade and a half.

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Plug in America

APRIL 30, 2021

I watched President Biden’s speech to the joint session of Congress on April 28, and I was dazzled to see the role that electric vehicles play in his plans. He repeated his commitment from the campaign to building 500,000 charging stations so we can “own the electric car market.”

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