Green Car Congress

SEPTEMBER 5, 2023

Now we are accelerating Direct Air Capture technology that enables efficient and low-cost CO 2 capture—the future of CO 2 recycling. Since then, we have extensively studied the concept with regard to suitable technologies and economic viability with international partners in the research and industrial sectors.

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Green Car Congress

OCTOBER 10, 2011

The California Energy Commission has awarded $1,585,490 to spur research on projects including a solid-state Li-ion battery system for grid-scale energy storage. This technology would increase efficiency and lower production costs. Conventional Li-ion cell (left) compared to Seeo cell (right). Click to enlarge.

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Green Car Congress

JUNE 29, 2018

We look forward to working with Nikola on developing the world’s largest, most efficient network of low-cost hydrogen production and fueling sites. The Nel modular concept enables deliver of customized indoor hydrogen solutions for any application, configuration and size. —Jon André Løkke, Chief Executive Officer of Nel.

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Green Car Congress

AUGUST 14, 2009

Engineers at GM’s R&D Center are developing a new low-cost concept for NO x control from lean-burn spark ignition direct injection (SIDI) engines: passive ammonia SCR. GM’s passive ammonia SCR concept places a conventional three-way catalyst upstream of an SCR catalyst. Lean-burn (i.e., Earlier post.).

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Green Car Congress

APRIL 15, 2014

Engineers at the University of California, San Diego, have created new ceramic materials that could be used to store hydrogen safely and efficiently. They also have demonstrated that the compounds could be manufactured using a simple, low-cost manufacturing method known as combustion synthesis.

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Green Car Congress

JULY 29, 2021

University of California, San Diego. New Engineering Concepts to High Energy Density Li-S Batteries. AOI 6: Low?cost cost Infrastructure?based University of California: Irvine. Development of Li-S Battery Cells with High Energy Density and Long Cycling Life. University of Illinois at Chicago. Clemson University.

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Green Car Congress

FEBRUARY 11, 2016

The California Energy Commission is awarding the University of California, Berkeley $1.5 PEVs are proliferating in California under the Advanced Clean Cars Program, sometimes in geographic clusters; this is creating potential load management issues for electrical utility grids at the feeder and transformer level.

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Green Car Congress

JUNE 4, 2014

The ultra-lightweight battery concept offers a weight reduction of up to 40%, or 12 pounds (5.4 Ford also unveiled its Lightweight Concept vehicle, which reduces the weight of a 2013 Fusion to that of a Ford Fiesta—a nearly 25% weight reduction. Earlier post.). Batteries Fuel Efficiency Vehicle Systems Weight reduction'

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Green Car Congress

APRIL 15, 2014

Engineers at the University of California, San Diego, have created new ceramic materials that could be used to store hydrogen safely and efficiently. They also have demonstrated that the compounds could be manufactured using a simple, low-cost manufacturing method known as combustion synthesis.

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Green Car Congress

NOVEMBER 16, 2018

Ecolectro is developing alkaline exchange ionomers (AEIs) to enable low-cost fuel cell and electrolyzer technologies. University of California, San Diego. Low-Cost, Easy-to-integrate, and Reliable Grid Energy Storage System with 2nd Life Lithium Batteries – $1,894,705. University of Delaware.

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Green Car Congress

APRIL 18, 2018

Proposed cathode catalyst concepts should demonstrate the potential to meet or exceed activity of 0.044 A/cm 2 at 0.9 FCTO seeks applications on concepts for industry-led efforts on hydrogen-focused integrated renewable energy production, storage, and transportation fuel distribution R&D. Topic 3: Innovative Concepts.

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Cars That Think

SEPTEMBER 14, 2021

Recently, a team of engineers from the University of California San Diego (UCSD) have described a new artificial microfiber made from liquid crystal elastomer (LCE) that replicates the tensile strength, quick responsiveness, and high power density of human muscles. "We seconds, and a power density of 400 watts per kilogram.

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Green Car Congress

JULY 10, 2019

Low Cost Roll-to-Roll Manufacturing of Reusable Sorbents for Energy and Water Industries, $150,000 Qualification of SAS4A/SASSYS-1 for Sodium-Cooled Fast Reactor Authorization and Licensing, $674,484 Advanced Reactor Concepts LLC, Chevy Chase, Md. Touchstone Research Laboratory, Triadelphia, W. TerraPower LLC, Bellevue, Wash.

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Green Car Congress

AUGUST 15, 2014

Researchers at the Institute of Transportation Studies University of California, Davis suggest that a number of positive trends indicate that we may be seeing the beginning of a real hydrogen transition in transportation, despite earlier starts that fizzled. The station investment cost would be $100-$200 million. Transition issues.

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Green Car Congress

SEPTEMBER 17, 2012

Seed funding supports early work on concepts that have the potential for very high impact on energy production and use. This project explores the use of specially designed nanostructured polymers to make high-energy, low-cost, flexible and stretchable batteries. Principal Investigator (PI): Zhenan Bao, chemical engineering.

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Cars That Think

NOVEMBER 18, 2023

The league was recently named Nonprofit of the Year by its California Assembly district’s representative, Tasha Boerner. “It They were taught how to design a low-cost emergency ventilator system using a Raspberry Pi computer and automated versions of manual bag-based resuscitator devices, commonly known as Ambu bags.

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Green Car Congress

FEBRUARY 12, 2018

The selected projects vary in levels of maturity and industry-readiness—from concept definition (focused on specific experimental proof or detailed analysis) to proof-of-concept (requiring physical experimental validation). University of California, Los Angeles (UCLA). Colorado State University. Yale University.

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Green Car Congress

JULY 14, 2015

Cost: DOE: $6,000,000/Non DOE: $4,917,887/Total: $10,917,887 (45% cost share). The other fifteen projects were awarded funding under two topic areas: Innovative Concepts, geared towards undercutting current SOFC technology costs, and SOFC Core Technology, aimed at laboratory- and bench-scale projects that improve SOFC design.

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Green Car Congress

JULY 15, 2020

The system aims to decrease the levelized cost of electricity for natural gas-fired combined cycle (NGCC) power plants to 2 emissions when operating in highly variable renewable energy penetration markets. The team’s approach uses a novel and low-cost heat-pump thermal storage system. Southwest Research Institute.

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Cars That Think

NOVEMBER 21, 2023

in computer engineering in 1996 from the University of Southern California. He devised a way to use low-cost components and energy-saving techniques to distribute Google’s programs across thousands of servers, instead of the traditional method of relying on a few powerful, expensive machines.

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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. 3,500,000. .

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Green Car Congress

NOVEMBER 6, 2014

The funded research projects will focus on developing technologies that can significantly reduce the cost of producing hydrogen-rich syngas derived from fossil fuels, enabling coal resources to both improve US economic competitiveness and provide global environmental benefits, DOE said. Aerojet Rocketdyne Inc., Alstom Power Inc.,

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Green Car Congress

JANUARY 29, 2012

On Friday 27 January, the California Air Resources Board (ARB) adopted the new Advanced Clean Cars (ACC) package that sets out the regulatory emissions and technology requirements for light-duty automobiles through model year 2025. California Zero Emission Vehicle Program Regulations. Earlier post.) conventional vehicles.

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OCTOBER 15, 2020

The California Sustainable Energy Entrepreneur Development (CalSEED) program announced that the fourth cohort of innovative clean energy concepts has been approved by the California Energy Commission (CEC); 28 companies out of 212 were selected to receive grants of $150,000 each.

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Green Car Congress

JANUARY 27, 2023

University of California Riverside, “Scale-up Demonstration of Hybrid Catalytic Biorefining of Biomass to Sustainable Aviation and Marine Fuels”, $2,000,000. The pilot will consist of a low cost, easy to operate, air blown gasifier coupled with LanzaTech’s second generation bioreactor (2GBR).

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Green Car Congress

MARCH 21, 2013

The California Energy Commission (CEC) approved $5,580,773 for clean-energy transportation projects including biodiesel production, power control electronics for medium-and heavy-duty battery electric vehicles, and buydowns for propane vehicles. The program provides up to $95,000 for hardware projects and up to $50,000 for modeling concepts.

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Cars That Think

NOVEMBER 18, 2022

Stanford University professor Chelsea Finn has been tasked to explain this concept to 5 different people; a child, a teen, a college student, a grad student, and an expert. CoRL 2022 : 14–18 December 2022, AUCKLAND, NEW ZEALAND Enjoy today's videos! CMU ] This robot is designed as a preliminary platform for humanoid robot research.

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Green Car Congress

FEBRUARY 26, 2015

Assess the technical and economic feasibility of thermal compression for cost-effective pressurization of hydrogen to 700 bar for hydrogen fueling stations, as well as demonstrate the concept in a small-scale test system. University of California, Irvine. Giner, Inc. Northeastern University. University of Delaware.

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Green Car Congress

FEBRUARY 20, 2015

Concept for multifuel station that utilizes natural gas to produce three fuel streams: CNG, hydrogen, and electricity that can either charge electric vehicles or be fed to the grid. Figure courtesy of Jeff Reed, Southern California Gas Company. Click to enlarge.

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Green Car Congress

JULY 20, 2011

This has led to a change in thinking of how energy generation is optimized and a new strategy has developed in which flexible energy generating sources are deployed to meet peak requirements while maintaining a steady state base load from low cost less-flexible solutions. Click to enlarge.

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Green Car Congress

AUGUST 19, 2023

plans to develop a novel membrane system from Osmoses’ proprietary polymer composition that can produce enriched oxygen from air for integration into modular gasification systems for low-cost hydrogen production. The team intends to demonstrate high-purity (greater than 98% by volume, preferably above 99.5%

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Clean Fleet Report

OCTOBER 21, 2021

Plug-ins are trending in key markets around the country, although much of the action remains focused in California and other West Coast states. has fully embraced EVs and, after years of teasing with snazzy concepts, the real hardware is for sale–and is selling well. Kia/Hyundai/Genesis – Coming on Strong.

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Green Car Congress

SEPTEMBER 3, 2020

The plant will operate under realistic conditions at a California oil field for at least two months of continuous steady-state testing. Field testing will be conducted at a renewable power generation site in California to capture operational data on the novel process and material combination under real conditions. ION Clean Energy Inc.

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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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Green Car Congress

SEPTEMBER 10, 2010

The 27 projects range from concept studies and component design research to prototype development and in-water device testing. The Department of Energy will leverage private sector investments in marine and hydrokinetic energy technologies by providing cost-shared funding to industry and industry-led partnerships. Atargis Energy, Inc.

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Green Car Congress

FEBRUARY 15, 2022

These new GaN power devices will enable the next generation of low-cost, fast, small, and reliable power electronics, which are key for efficient power conversion in data centers, solar farms, power grids, and electric vehicles. University of California, Berkeley. Stanford University. The Ohio State University. Pratt & Whitney.

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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. Gee,’ I said, ‘A secret standard—I find this a hard concept to understand.’” of Cupertino, Calif.)

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