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NOVEMBER 26, 2021

Together with eight project partners, it is now seeking public funding to build one of the world’s first hydrogen-powered high-speed vessels. TECO 2030 has signed an agreement with UiT The Arctic University of Norway—which has a campus in Narvik—to cooperate on enhancing research and education in Norway on hydrogen and fuel cells.

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JANUARY 29, 2014

Johnson Controls will partner with Lawrence Technological University (LTU) in Southfield, Mich. to identify and validate new energy storage technologies within the total vehicle system. We believe strongly in building the next generation of technical leaders through academic partnerships.

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Electric Cars Report

SEPTEMBER 23, 2023

Solar Team Eindhoven students from Eindhoven University of Technology (TU/e) have created the world’s first off-road vehicle solely powered by solar energy. Known as the “Stella Terra,” the off-roader is robust enough to navigate not only on paved roads but also on rough terrain.

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JULY 26, 2022

Researchers at the US Department of Energy’s (DOE) Princeton Plasma Physics Laboratory (PPPL) have found a way to build high-temperature superconducting magnets made of material that conducts electricity with little or no resistance at temperatures warmer than before. —Jon Menard, PPPL’s deputy director for research and co-author.

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AUGUST 27, 2021

To fill these roles, Nuro is looking to partner with local universities, community colleges, and career training programs to build a talent pipeline specifically targeting individuals traditionally underrepresented in current technology roles.

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AUGUST 31, 2022

Abilene Christian University’s (ACU) Nuclear Energy eXperimental Testing (NEXT) Lab submitted an application for a construction permit for a molten-salt research reactor (MSRR) with the US Nuclear Regulatory Commission (NRC).

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Cars That Think

FEBRUARY 15, 2024

is pursuing an electrical engineering degree at the University of Scranton , in Pennsylvania. The junior is president of the university’s W3USR amateur radio club. The Scranton team competed against other student branches to build and program small robots to navigate a maze in the shortest time possible.

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Cars That Think

SEPTEMBER 17, 2021

This article is sponsored by California State University, Northridge (CSUN). Because for those with disabilities, assistive technologies mean more than convenience. So, what is an assistive technology (AT), and who designs it? They're all assistive technologies. CSUN Master of Science in Assistive Technology Engineering.

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MARCH 15, 2021

million contract to Southwest Research Institute (SwRI) to continue developing connected and automated vehicle (CAV) technologies to help passenger vehicles operate more efficiently and reduce energy consumption and carbon emissions. The US Department of Energy Advanced Research Projects Agency - Energy (ARPA-E) awarded a three-year, $5.25-million

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NOVEMBER 29, 2021

A team of researchers from the US NSF Center for Sustainable Polymers based at the University of Minnesota Twin Cities has demonstrated the use of a dual cellular–heterogeneous catalytic strategy to produce olefins from glucose. Wang et al. —Paul Dauenhauer, co-author.

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CleanTechnica EVs

JUNE 1, 2022

Students at University of Illinois Chicago (UIC) recently gained experience with solar technology and EVs by building a charging station for one of the school’s vehicles which is used to deliver food and reduce food waste. The little car even has a name: Gemma, but we’ll get to why that is in a minute. “To

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APRIL 14, 2016

(BAIC BJEV), a subsidiary of BAIC, signed a strategic cooperation agreement with Dresden University of Technology (TUD) to create the Sino-German Automotive Light Weighting Technology Joint R&D Center. TUD Distinguished Senior Professor Werner Hufenbach was named chief scientist in lightweight technology for BAIC BJEV.

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MAY 8, 2012

Balqon Corporation, a developer of heavy-duty electric vehicles, drive systems and lithium-ion battery storage devices, has installed a one MWh lithium-ion battery storage system at the University of California, Riverside (UCR); the system has gone operational, providing electric power to the Bourns College of Engineering building.

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JULY 10, 2022

The UK government is awarding £54 million to 15 projects to develop technologies that remove carbon emissions from the atmosphere. The funding comes under Phase 2 of the Direct Air Capture and Greenhouse Gas Removal technologies competition. CO 2 LOC technology. The competition is worth a total of £60 million (US$72 million).

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OCTOBER 19, 2013

The University of Michigan Board of Regents approved plans to proceed with the design of a unique environment for testing connected and automated vehicles. Launched last spring, the MTC builds on U-M’s broad base of expertise and experience working with government and industry on transportation research over the years.

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OCTOBER 14, 2013

Ford and the University of Michigan opened a new $8-million battery lab, housed at the U-M Energy Institute, which will serve as a battery manufacturing facility designed to support pilot projects. Other investors include the University of Michigan, Michigan Economic Development Corporation and the US Department of Energy.

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MARCH 18, 2023

Saudi Arabia-based Aramco, one of the world’s leading integrated energy and chemicals companies, and Linde Engineering, a global leader in the production and processing of gases, signed an agreement jointly to develop a new ammonia cracking technology. At an optimum Ru loading of 3% wt, catalysts with a K/Ru atomic ratio of 0.9

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Baua Electric

APRIL 9, 2024

Italian sportscar major, Ferrari, has collaborated with University of Bologna and NXP to inaugurate E-Cells Lab for Electrochemical Research. The inauguration of the E-Cells Lab, a research center for electrochemistry at the University of Bologna, took place on March 8, 2024.

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SEPTEMBER 3, 2020

GAMOW teams will work to close multiple fusion-specific technological gaps that will be needed to connect a net-energy-gain “fusion core," once it is ready, to a deployable, commercially attractive fusion system. University of California, San Diego. Currently, scalable tritium extraction and pumping technologies do not exist.

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JUNE 9, 2023

Sutherland led the development of many of the technologies animators now use. Their groundbreaking research, conducted at the University of Utah , in Salt Lake City, and at their company, Evans and Sutherland , helped jump-start the computer graphics industry. military to develop technologies for aviation, radar, and rocketry.

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OCTOBER 25, 2020

Researchers at the University of Turku in Finland have developed a thin-layer artificial biofilm technology for sustainable and long-term ethylene photoproduction. It is the main building block in the production of plastics, fibers and other organic materials. —Vajravel et al.

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MAY 11, 2020

The global transportation of ammonia by pipeline and bulk carrier is already a well-developed technology. Researchers at Monash University in Australia are proposing a roadmap to renewable ammonia being produced in the future at a scale that is significant in terms of global fossil fuel use. Credit: Joule , MacFarlane et al.

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DECEMBER 5, 2022

The company will build two plants with a total capacity of 2 GW to produce green hydrogen. The company will work on training new job skills through its own training centers at its Energy Parks, as well as through its partnerships with different universities in the area. Of these, 1,000 will be direct employment opportunities.

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APRIL 3, 2022

Chiyoda Corporation, which is headquartered in Japan, will serve as NTU’s key partner in the project, and will offer technical contribution based on their proprietary dehydrogenation catalyst technology, SPERA Hydrogen ( earlier post ), to the University to be developed and implemented on a national scale.

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JANUARY 28, 2021

The consortium aims to pave the way for a new and competitive hydrogen industry based on European know-how through innovation by developing, building, operating and demonstrating the sustainability of a 100 MW high-pressure alkaline electrolyzer.

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OCTOBER 20, 2021

reflective, developed by engineers at Purdue University, has earned a Guinness World Records title for the whitest paint. Such paints are considered to be a potential technology for keeping cities cooler and reducing electricity use; buildings with a coating of this would need to rely far less on energy-hungry air conditioning.

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DECEMBER 28, 2022

In February 2022, GTI Energy, S&P Global Commodity Insights and the National Energy Technology Laboratory (NETL) launched the Open Hydrogen Initiative (OHI), a collaboration to further transparency into the environmental impact of hydrogen production and help unlock its full potential as an important driver of energy transitions.

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Cars That Think

JANUARY 7, 2022

While growing up in Germany, Heike Riel helped her father design and build furniture in the family workshop. She says the experience taught her that “precision and creativity are necessary to build something excellent.” When I go back to my hometown, many of our clients still have the furniture that I helped build for them.”

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JULY 20, 2019

Haldor Topsoe will build a 10 kg/hour methanol plant to demonstrate the company’s electrified and extremely compact eSMR Methanol technology for cost-competitive production of sustainable methanol from biogas. The technology heats the process using green electricity from wind turbines or solar panels instead of natural gas.

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SEPTEMBER 20, 2022

Ford Motor Company is researching new smartphone-based communications technology that could potentially help warn drivers of pedestrians, bicyclists and more—even those approaching a vehicle’s path but blocked from a driver’s view. BLE connectivity technology creates wireless personal area networks using radio waves in the 2.4-gigahertz

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MAY 14, 2020

These projects will work to develop digital twin technology to reduce O&M costs in the next generation of nuclear power plants. GEMINA is focused on novel digital technologies to achieve significant and sustainable reductions in O&M costs. The team will develop two modeling frameworks to evaluate and validate these solutions.

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NOVEMBER 12, 2020

GTI and partners, The Ohio State University, Wyoming Integrated Test Center (ITC), and Trimeric Corporation (Trimeric), have been selected for award on a project to advance Ohio State’s transformational membrane technology to provide step-out reductions in CO 2 capture cost and energy penalties.

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Cars That Think

NOVEMBER 1, 2023

And today, technology is maturing to the point that meaningful amounts of these energy giveaways can be harvested to liberate wearables from ever needing a battery. Much talk of wearable technology focuses on health or other human needs. Fortunately, though, at wearables’ modest power budgets, energy is effectively everywhere.

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NOVEMBER 22, 2011

The agreements are part of the White House’s Startup America initiative, which was launched in January and is designed to help young companies grow, move innovative technologies into the marketplace and create good-paying jobs in the United States. A third option was granted based on PNNL’s millimeter wave technology.

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MARCH 6, 2017

Nissan, Mitsubishi Corporation, Mitsubishi Motors Corporation, PSA Groupe, NUVVE, Frederiksberg Forsyning, Enel, Insero and DTU (Technical University of Denmark) Electrical Engineering (PowerLabDK) are partnering in the Danish project Parker to develop a universal definition for grid integration for electric vehicles.

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JULY 30, 2021

The Volvo Cars Tech Fund and Volta Energy Technologies join existing investors Anzu Partners and the University of Minnesota. Niron will use the funding to build its pilot production facility in Minnesota and accelerate the development of its Clean Earth Magnet technology. million in new financing. Background.

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OCTOBER 17, 2023

As a member of the Kappa Sigma chapter at Boston University , he learned leadership and communications skills while accepting different roles. It was really those experiences that helped show me the fascinating products you can realize and the amazing applications you can apply those technologies to with a little bit of engineering know-how.”

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