Green Car Congress

JANUARY 21, 2012

The California Independent System Operator Corporation (ISO), California’s non-profit grid operator, released its new five-year (2012-2016) strategic plan. Between now and 2020, wind and solar generation will quadruple within the ISO transmission grid at the same time electric vehicle charging increases significantly.

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Baua Electric

MAY 29, 2024

Hydrogen is the most abundant substance in the universe, and a crucial element in the creation of our most precious resource: water. Recently, industry has turned to green hydrogen, created by running an electric current through water with an electrolyte. Put this in a car and you have a fuel-cell electric vehicle. Hyundai Motor Co.

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Future Auto South Korea Hydrogen 52

Green Car Congress

MARCH 11, 2022

Its energy division—CIMC ENRIC—is a world-leading manufacturer of key equipment and services provider of engineering and system solutions for the clean energy, chemical and liquid food industries. European Energy is a global renewable energy company and project developer (wind, solar and Power to X). Orsted (Denmark).

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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. University of California at San Diego will receive $95,000 to reduce the cost of biomass power generation by removing tar from the producer gas in the gasifier.

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Green Car Congress

MARCH 27, 2015

Testing was also conducted at the DTNA Detroit engineering facility to demonstrate engine efficiency by achieving 50.2% engine brake thermal efficiency. liter engine, a hybrid system, a Waste Heat Recovery (WHR) system, along with a number of other upgrades. mpg (19.26

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2009 Engine Detroit Oregon 150

Baua Electric

MAY 21, 2024

Its cofounders, Mitch Lee and Ryan Cook, are engineers who met while working at Boeing. The Arc Sport has an adjustable tower which raises and lowers, to offer a higher angle to help pull riders up out of the water, or lower clearance in case that’s needed for navigating around a marina.

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Green Car Congress

JULY 10, 2019

High-fidelity ignition models to boost engine thermal efficiency, $720,000 Convergent Science Inc., Neutron Spectrum Generator, $75,000 Rapid Field Chemical Detection and Determination of Actinides, $42,500 Switchable Solvent Water Extraction for Material Processing and Isolation, $150,000 Trevi Systems Inc., Madison, Wis. Louis , Mo.

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Green Car Congress

MAY 4, 2018

Renewable diesel is a 100% hydrocarbon renewable fuel produced by hydrotreating fats and oils; it can be used in existing diesel engines without modification. Increased cetane aids self-ignition of fuel and allows for easier starting, smoother running engines and reliable operation. removing sulfur molecules (hydrodesulfurization) ?from

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Renewable Diesel New York City New York 210

Green Car Congress

JANUARY 27, 2023

MicroBio Engineering Inc., University of California Riverside, “Scale-up Demonstration of Hybrid Catalytic Biorefining of Biomass to Sustainable Aviation and Marine Fuels”, $2,000,000. MicroBio Engineering Inc., Scale-up of Hydrothermal Liquefaction with Supercritical Water Oxidation in an Integrated Biorefinery”, $579,673.

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Green Car Congress

NOVEMBER 20, 2013

GE Aviation has already entered into a multi-year agreement with DG to purchase up to 10 million gallons annually of DG’s low CO 2 emissions jet fuel for production and development testing of GE jet engines. Earlier post.). Under the contract, Life Cycle Associates will conduct the environmental analysis of the project.

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Environment Energy Renewable Alternative Fuels 199

Green Car Congress

MARCH 20, 2013

The Los Angeles Department of Water and Power (LADWP) has taken steps to transition out of the use of coal-fired electricity earlier than mandated by California state law. IPP is owned by 23 municipal utilities in Utah and supplies power to 30 utilities in Utah and six utilities in Southern California, including LADWP.

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The Truth About Cars

FEBRUARY 27, 2024

Hurricanes are brutal forces of nature that involve whipping winds, flying debris, and extremely choppy waters. Jeep’s Grand Wagoneer got the Hurricane treatment for the 2023 model year – those engines have now found their way into the 2025 Ram 1500 , as well. liter, twin-turbocharged, inline-six-cylinder engines.

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Cars That Think

DECEMBER 29, 2021

About 160 kilometers northwest of Beijing, the city of Zhangjiakou with its rugged terrain boasts some of the richest wind and solar resources in China. Renewables account for nearly half of the city’s electricity output with less than a third of its full solar and wind potential of 70 gigawatts installed so far.

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Green Car Congress

APRIL 17, 2013

At SAE World Congress in Detroit, Honda engineers presented several papers on the development of the new Accord plug-in hybrid, describing work on the new gasoline engine (which will also be featured in the coming full hybrid version of the Accord), and the development of the new two-motor system. gasoline engine. New engine.

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Honda Plug-in Plug Hybrid 296

Green Car Congress

SEPTEMBER 17, 2012

A committee of Stanford faculty and senior staff awarded the grants to researchers from a broad range of disciplines, including engineering, economics and psychology. Principal Investigator (PI): Zhenan Bao, chemical engineering. PIs: Stacey Bent, chemical engineering, and Mark Brongersma, materials science and engineering (MSE).

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Energy Vehicles Power Powered 239

Green Car Congress

JULY 15, 2020

At the conclusion of the Phase 1 period, teams will be down-selected based on an engineering design review and the projected economic impact of their Phase 1 projects on a future electricity grid. In FLECCS Phase 2, up to $31 million in additional funding will be available for teams. 8 Rivers Capital. Southwest Research Institute.

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Carbon Gas-Electric Grid Gas 333

Cars That Think

JULY 19, 2021

With wind and solar prices dropping, it can be easy to forget that two-thirds of the globe’s renewable energy comes from hydropower. They help stop floods and supply farms and families with water, but they’re not generating electricity—especially in developing countries. Most dams weren’t, in fact, actually built for hydropower.

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Spain Wind Renewable Solar 52

Cars That Think

JUNE 12, 2023

The shipping containers, which house a Frankenstein-like assortment of machine parts—motors repurposed from Volvo truck engines, giant tanks of compressed air, huge silos of piping hot sand—are produced by a company called Cheesecake Energy. Despite its name, Cheesecake Energy isn’t in the food business.

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Teslarati

APRIL 20, 2022

The National Academies of Sciences, Engineering, and Medicine have published their latest decadal survey of planetary science and astrobiology, revealing a recommendation that NASA prioritize the development of a flagship mission to Uranus baselined to launch on SpaceX’s Falcon Heavy rocket.

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Cars That Think

SEPTEMBER 1, 2023

The violent vertical thrusts of the quake ruptured gas lines and water mains. In Tokyo, the fires merged into a firestorm so intense that it created its own wind system and set alight the city’s many wooden buildings. It has to be manually reset after water mains and gas lines have been checked and, if necessary, repaired.

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Japan Mercury Syria Gas-Electric 117

Green Car Congress

NOVEMBER 29, 2010

China is installing wind power at a faster rate than any nation in the world, and manufactures 40% of the world’s solar photovoltaic (PV) systems. It is home to three of the world’s top ten wind turbine manufacturers and five of the top ten silicon based PV manufacturers in the world. Renewable Energy. Solar fuels.

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Energy China Clean Cleaning 342

Clean Fleet Report

JANUARY 5, 2023

After spending a fun week tooling around Southern California in the BRZ, there isn’t any argument coming from us. liter, 4-cylinder, naturally aspirated boxer engine that produces 228 horsepower and 184 pound-feet of torque. In our week driving through Southern California we averaged 24.7 Road Test: 2022 Subaru BRZ Limited.

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MPG Clean Cleaning Miles 83

Green Car Congress

NOVEMBER 25, 2009

Improved energy storage technologies will allow for expanded integration of renewable energy resources like wind and photovoltaic systems and will improve frequency regulation and peak energy management. Los Angeles Department of Water and Power. 355,938,600 Southern California Edison Company. Notrees Wind Storage.

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Energy Storage Grid Energy Wind 270

Cars That Think

JULY 9, 2022

Fuzzy theory is wrong, wrong, and pernicious,” said William Kahan, a highly regarded professor of computer sciences and mathematics at the University of California at Berkeley in 1975. His career goal, for as long as he can remember, was to be an engineering professor. The denunciations were sometimes extreme.

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Electric Auto Association

JANUARY 5, 2023

“Palmer worked at General Electric’s Nuclear Energy Division back then, while Stan Skokan, our treasurer, was the engineer at Hewlett-Packard (HP) who measured BIll Hewlett’s shirt pocket to make sure their calculator would fit.” “So So many of our members have been practicing engineers, not just tinkerers,” Freund continued.

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Green Car Congress

MAY 8, 2009

The authors point out their study looked at only two criteria, kilometers travelled and greenhouse gas offsets, but did not examine the performance of electricity and ethanol for other policy-relevant criteria such as water consumption, air pollution or economic costs. “We Campbell et al.

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Transportation Emissions Coal Climate 199

Green Car Congress

MAY 12, 2015

In order to prepare for the FCEV market, there have been three main areas where hydrogen infrastructure has started to roll out: Europe (Germany, France, UK and Scandinavia), the US (mainly in California) and in Japan. The Hyundai Fuel Cell also won this year’s Wards “10 best engines” which is a first for this technology.

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Congress Commercial Fuel Hydrogen 150

Green Car Congress

SEPTEMBER 22, 2009

AC Transit, California (Hayward, headquarters in Oakland): $6,400,000. City of Santa Clarita, California: $4,620,000. Los Angeles County Metropolitan Transportation Authority, California: $4,466,000. North County Transit District, California: $2,000,000. Red Rose Transit Authority – RRTA, Pennsylvania: $2,450,000.

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Emissions Gas Energy Maintenance 256

Green Car Congress

JUNE 26, 2021

Sunnyvale, California). Wireless Radio Frequency Signal Identification and Protocol Reverse Engineering (WiFIRE), $750,000. Bright Silicon Technologies (San Francisco, California). Kairos Power (Alameda, California). Oberon Fuels (San Diego, California). Marrone Bio Innovations (Davis, California).

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Commercial Energy Albuquerque New York 170

Clean Fleet Report

AUGUST 25, 2022

In the parallel hybrid system the electric motor can power the car by itself, the gas engine can power the car by itself or they can power the car together. liter V6 engine that runs on 95 octane and three motors that produce a total 308 horsepower and 247 pound-feet of torque. The system comprises a 3.5-liter Safety and Convenience.

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Lexus Fuel Economy Hybrid Nickel Metal Hydride 92

Green Car Congress

JUNE 23, 2012

Projected sea-level rise off California, Oregon, and Washington for 2030 (blue), 2050 (green), and 2100 (pink), relative to 2000, as a function of latitude. Sea levels off Washington, Oregon, and northern California will likely rise less, about 60 centimeters over the same period of time.

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Green Car Congress

AUGUST 29, 2013

EA888 TSI engine (red) delivers its peak 250 N·m of torque as early as 1,400 rpm, and maintains the strong and flat torque curve through 4,750 rpm—far outpacing the performance of the 5-cylinder 2.5-liter liter engine (blue) it replaces. Volkswagen first launched the EA888 engine generation in spring 2007 (Gen 1).

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Clean Fleet Report

AUGUST 27, 2021

The all-wheel drive 2021 NX 300h is powered by the Lexus Hybrid Drive system, a parallel hybrid system where the electric motor can power the car by itself for short distances, the gas engine can power the car by itself, or they can power the car together. Wind noise was low with a respectable 0.34 The parallel system comprises a 2.5-liter,

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Lexus Fuel Economy Hybrid MPG 83

Green Car Congress

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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Clean Cleaning Energy Solar 371

Green Car Congress

NOVEMBER 2, 2015

The car is tightly engineered, and drives, as one would expect, like an Audi. On a drive along tightly winding, climbing and descending, and sometimes narrow roads, the A3 Sportback e-tron stayed planted to the pavement on its line through tight curves taken at speed. The drive unit. Bottom: major components. Click to enlarge.

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Green Car Congress

JULY 17, 2015

The PHEV (Plug-in Hybrid Electric Vehicle), a subset of the electric car, combines a primary electric motor with a much smaller back-up engine fueled with a hydrocarbon/biofuel mix. (In Engineering Advantages of PHEV. Distributed Solar and Wind with the PHEV. It is much more than that. Table of Contents. Conclusions.

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PHEV Plug-in Renewable Energy 150

Creative Greenius

MAY 14, 2009

He’s tried the sugar and honey approach for ten years but instead of catching flies he’s caught hassles and obstructions from local Southern California city officials who haven’t kept up with modern technology and remain both ignorant and adversarial when it comes to helping their citizens go solar. “ Idiots !

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