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Ricardo TorqStor flywheel energy storage technology receives SAE 2014 World Congress Tech Award

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Ricardo’s TorqStor high speed flywheel energy storage technology ( earlier post ) has been selected to receive the SAE Tech Award, as one of the top five technologies to be on display at the SAE World Congress 8-10 at the COBO Center, Detroit. Ricardo’s TorqStor. Click to enlarge.

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DOE awards $17M for vehicle technologies; batteries, PEEM, engines, materials, fuel

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The newly selected projects are in five areas: energy storage; power electronics and electric motors (PEEM); advanced combustion engines; materials technologies, and fuels and lubricant technologies. Energy storage (Area of Interest 1). Miltec UV International, LLC. Awardees are: AWARD TABLE. Technology.

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European Researchers Developing Multifunctional Structural Composite Material That Can Double as Energy Storage

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Researchers from Imperial College London and their European partners, including Volvo Car Corporation, are developing a prototype multifunctional structural composite material composed of carbon fibers and a polymer resin which can store and discharge electrical energy and which is also strong and lightweight enough to be used for car parts.

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Lux Research: battery electric vehicles will be less reliant on lightweighting by 2030

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Lightweighting has been a key tool for improving the fuel economy of internal combustion engine (ICE) vehicles over the past years. Bumpers are expected to benefit from design advancements that utilize glass fiber, carbon fiber, and thermoplastics. —Anthony Schiavo, Senior Analyst at Lux.

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Manganese hydride molecular sieve for practical hydrogen storage could cost roughly 5x less than 700 bar tanks

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An international team of researchers has developed a manganese hydride molecular sieve that can be readily synthesized from inexpensive precursors and demonstrates a reversible excess adsorption performance of 10.5 An open-access paper on their work is published in the RSC journal Energy & Environmental Science.

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Altran and Quimera to present All Electric GT prototype at Frankfurt

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Altran and Quimera worked with Technopark Motorland and Sunrace Engineering Development on the AEGT project. The monocoque chassis is made entirely of carbon fiber to make it lighter and more rigid. Supplied by a series of lithium-polymer EIG batteries, the AEGT can run for about 30 minutes.

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DOE to issue $47M FY17 Vehicle Technologies program-wide funding opportunity

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Analysis suggests that cost parity between electric drive and internal combustion vehicles is possible under certain scenarios when battery pack costs fall below $125/kWh (useable energy). Integrated Computational Materials Engineering (ICME) Development of Low Cost Carbon Fiber for Lightweight Vehicles.