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Friend Family Distinguished Professor of Engineering, have been exploring the use of low-cost materials to create rechargeable batteries that will make energystorage more affordable. A paper on the work is published in Nature Energy. This magnified image shows aluminum deposited on carbonfibers in a battery electrode.
Range extending hybrids are a synergy between electric trucks and series hybrids, and their design reduces the energystorage size required for trucks to run on batteries alone. These shorter trips reduce the vehicles’ average trip speed and create more opportunities to recover energy through regenerative braking.
This project will optimize fuel-based control of novel combustion strategies in light- and heavy-duty vehicles to enable diesel-like efficiencies with ultra-low engine-out emissions. Light-weighting materials. Increased availability of low cost carbonfiber can enable vehicle weight reduction and improvement in fuel economy.
The FOA will give equal consideration to all proposals submitted, including submissions that address the following Areas of Interest: EnergyStorage R&D. CarbonFiber or Lightweight Materials. Most critical is the cost of the carbonfiber. The cost to manufacture the carbonfiber is high.
(Aza compounds replace a carbon atom with a nitrogen atom; π-conjugated compounds have alternating single and multiple bonds in their structure.) Supercapacitors work on a different charge-storage principle than rechargeable batteries, and consist of electrochemical double layers on electrodes, which are wetted by an electrolyte.
Fiscal year 2017 funding will also be targeted at the development of low-cost, high-strength precursors for carbonfibers that can be used in vehicular hydrogen storage vessels. Source: “2015 Fuel Cell Technologies Market Report” Click to enlarge. Source: “2015 Fuel Cell Technologies Market Report” Click to enlarge.
Its partner, the Life module, consists primarily of a high-strength and extremely lightweight passenger cell made from carbonfiber reinforced plastic (CFRP). The new vehicle architecture enables new production processes which are both simpler and more flexible, and use less energy, BMW said. Earlier post.).
The technological goal of the project is to enable Lamborghini to address the future of the super sports car in five different dimensions: energystorage systems; innovative materials; propulsion system; visionary design; and emotion. Energystorage systems. Two MIT labs—the Dinca Research Lab, led by Prof.
The team projects that reasonable estimates for production costs and loss of performance due to system implementation result in total energystorage costs roughly 5 times cheaper than those for 700 bar tanks, potentially opening doors for increased adoption of hydrogen as an energy vector. —Skipper et al.
mpg) for light trucks by 2025 (54.5 mpg light duty average, or 4.3 Integrated computational materials engineering (ICME) development of carbonfiber composites for lightweight vehicles. mpg) for cars and 203 gCO 2 /mi (43.7
This includes improving “beyond lithium-ion technologies” that use higher energystorage materials, and developing and commercializing wide bandgap (WBG) semiconductors that offer significant advances in performance while reducing the price of vehicle power electronics. Ford Motor Company. Dual-Fuel Technologies (Area of Interest 9).
While battery-electric vehicles, super-lightcarbonfiber composites, and hydrogen fuel cells will all be available, a new report from Lux Research has concluded that micro-hybrids will provide the most economical route—$1,700 additional average vehicle cost—to meet aggressive fuel efficiency targets in 2025: 54.5
These areas of interest apply to light, medium and heavy duty on-road vehicles. AOI 2: Integrated Computational Materials Engineering (ICME) Development of CarbonFiber Composites for Lightweight Vehicles. ($6M) The fibers can be continuous or discontinuous and the resin can be either a thermoplastic or thermoset polymer.
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 CarbonFiber for Lightweight Vehicles.
Nearly six times more efficient than a diesel or CNG bus, the Catalyst is also ~15% more energy efficient per mile than its closest competitor’s electric bus on the same test (BYD, which averaged 1.988 kWh/mile), which translates to a lower lifetime energy consumption of 15%. Click to enlarge. The Catalyst conquered a 15.5%
This animated 3-D rendering, generated by an X-ray-based imaging technique at Berkeley Lab’s Advanced Light Source, shows tiny pockets of water (blue) in a fibrous sample. The Advanced Light Source and the Advanced Photon Source are DOE Office of Science User Facilities that are open to visiting scientists from around the US and world.
The energystorage unit is charged with household current (230 volts, 16 amperes) via a cable and a plug. All add-on parts—doors, covers, sidewalls and roof—are made of a fiber-reinforced plastic. The combination of aluminum and carbonfiber-reinforced composite material delivers rigidity coupled with low weight.
ASCEND projects work to develop innovative, lightweight, and ultra-efficient all-electric powertrain with advanced thermal management systems that help enable efficient net-zero carbon emissions for single-aisle passenger commercial aircraft. Zero-carbon Ammonia-Powered Turboelectric (ZAPTurbo) Propulsion System; $2,652,778.
The selected projects—spanning 22 states and coordinated at universities, national laboratories, and private companies—will advance technologies for a wide range of areas, including electric vehicles, offshore wind, storage and nuclear recycling. Harvesting Infrared Light to Improve Photosynthetic Biomass Production - $1,347,122.
Therefore, Audi has increased the capacity of the energystorage system as well. The encapsulated WHP flywheel energystorage system that sits in the cockpit alongside the driver can store up to 700 kilojoules (KJ) of energy that it subsequently returns to the electrical machine—about 17% more than in 2014.
The passenger cell forms the core of the Life module, which is built from carbonfiber-reinforced plastic (CFRP). On the BMW i3 Concept Coupé, the drive system, chassis and energystorage unit, along with the structural and crash functions, are once again incorporated into the Drive module that is made chiefly of aluminium.
Applicants are sought to develop electrochemical energystorage technologies which support commercialization of micro, mild, and full HEVs, PHEVs, and EVs. EERE’s Vehicles Technologies Program (VTP) is focused on developing technologies to enable average new vehicle fuel economy of more than 60 mpg (3.9 L/100 km) for trucks by 2025.
Advanced Materials for Lightweight Vehicles Lightweight materials in automobile structures can provide significant fuel savings, but they also must be able to withstand or absorb the energy of impact in order to protect occupants in collisions. Office of Nuclear Energy. Buildings Technologies. Geothermal Technologies.
Higher energy density batteries would have a major impact on the development of electric vehicles by extending driving range and lowering costs. Develop a distributed fiber-optic sensing technology to enable real-time monitoring, identifying and locating disturbances and changes over long stretches of pipelines. MesoCoat, Inc.
The aluminum Drive module combines the powertrain, high-voltage battery, suspension, crash system and structural functions, while the Life module takes the form of a passenger cell made out of carbon-fiber-reinforced plastic (CFRP).
“It is not an energy race, and braking isn’t huge due to poor grip in most of the conditions we’ll encounter, hence there’s very little energy to recover compared to Formula E,” Pierre Prunin told Charged. Extreme charging by AFC Energy. We have an asset light manufacturing strategy—a lot of our parts are outsourced.
The CEMI announcement was made at the ribbon cutting of the Department’s CarbonFiber Technology Facility in Oak Ridge, Tennessee, a new advanced manufacturing facility to reduce the cost of carbonfiber. Estimates suggest the system would generate net income in three years and provide national energy savings of 0.90
The objective of this AOI is to develop and demonstrate the capability of multi-material joining techniques for aluminum to advanced steel for light-duty vehicle body-in-white (BIW) joints. CarbonFiber Polymer Composite. The critical performance metrics for Li- ion batteries in EDVs are: EnergyStorage Requirements.
But we do actually need that energy to be generated,” says Alper Bozkurt, who with Veena Misra codirects the Center for Advanced Self-Powered Systems of Integrated Sensors and Technologies (ASSIST) at North Carolina State University. Not least of those considerations is energystorage [and generation].”
Another strikingly different concept evidenced by the PHEV is that it is essentially a large, portable battery that can store energy gathered during one part of the day, and then use it later to power not only itself but also the vehicle owner’s home. It is wasteful and destructive to be burning this versatile molecule; we must stop.
US Energy Secretary Ernest Moniz used the Washington DC Auto show as the venue to announce $58 million in funding for vehicle technology advancements. These areas of interest apply to light, medium, and heavy-duty on-road vehicles. CarbonFiber Polymer Composite. Steel (Mild, HSLA, AHSS, or Boron automotive alloy).
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