Green Car Congress

MAY 9, 2012

James Muckerman at the US Department of Energy’s (DOE) Brookhaven National Laboratory (BNL) have developed a new class of high-activity, low-cost, non-noble metal electrocatalyst that generates hydrogen gas from water. In this new catalyst, nickel takes the reactive place of platinum, but it lacks a comparable electron density.

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Green Car Congress

NOVEMBER 1, 2020

IPG’s project will demonstrate the role of Flameless Ceramic Turbine technology in bringing EV charging to high-use and remote locations through clean, cheap, grid-independent power generation. Low-cost ceramics enable temperatures beyond the limitations of metals to deliver fuel efficiencies of power plants in small-scale distributed power.

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Green Car Congress

DECEMBER 30, 2019

Researchers at the Université de Sherbrooke, Canada, with colleagues at the Université de Toulouse, France, have developed a process for the direct production of levulinates from cheap residual lignocellulosic biomass using an affordable homogeneous catalyst. A paper on their work is published in Fuel.

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Green Car Congress

OCTOBER 5, 2010

The results form part of the CABLED project, which will see an overall total of 110 ultra low carbon vehicles from different manufacturers, tested on the roads of Birmingham and Coventry as part of a £7.5-million The low cost of ‘refuelling’ in relatively short periods of time reinforce this. million (US$11.9-million)

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Green Car Congress

JUNE 1, 2015

Stanford University scientists have created a new ultrahigh surface area three-dimensional porous graphitic carbon material that significantly boosts the performance of energy-storage technologies. The maximum surface area achieved with conventional activated carbon is about 3,000 m 2 g –1. cm –3 ), and hierarchical pore architecture.

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Green Car Congress

APRIL 3, 2018

Lignosulfonate, a sulfonated carbon waste material, is a major by-product in the papermaking industry. Researchers at Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute (RPI) have now developed a method to use this cheap and abundant waste byproduct to build a components for lithium-sulfur batteries. Click to enlarge.

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Green Car Congress

JUNE 23, 2009

Scientists at the University of Delaware are developing a new low-cost material for hydrogen storage—carbonized chicken feathers (CCFF)—that they say could meet the DOE requirements for hydrogen storage and are competitive with carbon nanotubes and metal hydrates at a tiny fraction of their cost.

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Green Car Congress

JANUARY 17, 2018

A low-cost, nanostructured composite material developed by researchers at UC Santa Cruz has shown performance comparable to Pt/C as a catalyst for the electrochemical splitting of water to produce hydrogen. An efficient, low-cost catalyst is essential for realizing the promise of hydrogen as a clean, environmentally friendly fuel.

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Green Car Congress

DECEMBER 1, 2021

Steel production could be made with almost no carbon emissions through $278 billion of extra investment by 2050, according to a new report from research firm BloombergNEF (BNEF). South Africa and India have good iron ore reserves and the potential to produce a large amount of low-cost clean power. Source: BloombergNEF.

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Green Car Congress

DECEMBER 7, 2009

ARPA-E’s first solicitation, announced earlier this year, was highly competitive and resulted in awarding $151 million to 37 projects aimed at transformational innovations in energy storage, biofuels, carbon capture, renewable power, building efficiency, vehicles, and other areas. Earlier post.)

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Baua Electric

FEBRUARY 29, 2024

Wind power isn’t far behind While solar is surging ahead in terms of cost-effectiveness, onshore wind isn’t far behind despite costs being 38% more than solar in 2023. But while low costs support a continued boom in renewables investments, there is concern among investors on profitability, grid integration, backup, and energy storage.

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Cars That Think

FEBRUARY 16, 2022

One problem with our current building methods is that they have a high carbon footprint , meaning that the act of building will increase the need for yet more building. Now, with 3D printing along with general-form geometric CAD, new shapes will become possible even for low-cost buildings.

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Green Car Congress

MAY 31, 2015

It is promising to use rGO-based slurry to continuously produce large-scale, low-cost, and bi-functional rGO coated separator for high-performance Li-S batteries. Songfeng Pei, Hui-Ming Cheng (2012) “The reduction of graphene oxide,” Carbon , Volume 50, Issue 9, Pages 3210-3228 doi: 10.1016/j.carbon.2011.11.010. Electrochem.

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Green Car Congress

NOVEMBER 26, 2012

Cobalt, like iron and other transition metals in the Periodic Table, is cheap and relatively abundant, but it has a propensity to undergo irreversible reactions rather than emerging unchanged from chemical reactions as is required of an effective catalyst. Click to enlarge.

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Driivz

NOVEMBER 2, 2023

All are counting on battery innovations to improve EV performance, drive down costs, and eliminate dependence on scarce materials. The ideal battery will be made of low-cost, plentiful materials that are lightweight and flexible enough to allow vehicle design innovations.

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Green Car Congress

JULY 9, 2014

Coated with carbon, the nano-silicon electrodes achieve high electrochemical performance with a capacity of 1024?mAhg Herein, we propose a facile and low cost alternative to production of nano-Si with excellent electrochemical performance using a highly abundant, non-toxic, and low cost Si precursor: sand.

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Green Car Congress

APRIL 24, 2013

Researchers at the US Department of Energy’s Brookhaven National Laboratory (BNL) have developed a low-cost, stable, effective catalyst made from earth-abundant molybdenum and common soybeans (MoSoy). Source: BNL. Click to enlarge. But these two approaches had not yet been tried together.

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Green Car Congress

MAY 26, 2011

SKF is also a partner in the Ricardo-led KinerStor project to demonstrate the viability of low-cost flywheel hybrid systems ( earlier post ). The flywheel technology is relatively cheap. The carbon fibre wheel spins in a vacuum to minimize frictional losses. Volvo Car Corporation (VCC) has received a grant of 6.57

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Green Car Congress

FEBRUARY 18, 2013

Addressing the worldwide problems of escalating energy demand and rising CO 2 emissions will require an increase in the use of carbon-neutral, sustainable energy sources. Electricity is produced from the oxidation of hydrogen in low-temperature fuel cells, but the best catalyst is platinum, a precious metal of low abundance.

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Green Car Congress

MAY 26, 2015

Although there has been no public announcement or discussion of what such an Audi/Global Bioenergies development effort might entail, in 2011, Global Bioenergies began a feasibility study to examine whether its artificial isobutene pathway could be functionally transferred into LanzaTech’s carbon monoxide-using organism ( earlier post ).

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Green Car Congress

MARCH 22, 2015

Currently, renewable hydrogen may be produced from water by electrolysis with either low efficiency alkaline electrolyzers that suffer 50–65% losses, or by more efficient acidic electrolyzers using expensive rare platinum group metal catalysts (Pt). Our new HER catalyst, Ni 5 P 4 , has the strong potential to overcome this challenge.

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Green Car Congress

OCTOBER 15, 2020

The solicitation was designed as a call for early-stage clean energy innovations that fall within five defined technology areas: energy efficiency; energy storage; AI/machine learning; advanced power electronics/power conditioning; and zero- and negative-carbon emission generation.

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Green Car Congress

DECEMBER 9, 2009

The Alpha System Fuel Cell is being developed as a low-cost, easy to maintain, mass manufactured unit that can be installed in modular blocks. New electrolyte immediately restores the performance of the system. At the larger commercial end, this will involve container-sized housings (approximately the size of a 12m shipping container).

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Green Car Congress

JUNE 14, 2010

Even on land, getting oil from tar sands depletes water and other resources and doubles oil’s carbon footprint. And oil only seems cheap. And magically, as more electricity comes from lower-carbon fuel sources, our cars will get cleaner as they get older! But let’s realize: defending our nation is never cheap.

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Green Car Congress

AUGUST 5, 2015

Aluminium should be an attractive anode material for rechargeable Li-ion batteries for many reasons, such as low cost (~$2,000 ton −1 ), high theoretical capacity (2,235 mAh g −1 if Li 9 Al 4 , low potential plateau (~0.19–0.45 V V against Li + /Li 3 ), high electrical conductivity and so on.

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EV Info

SEPTEMBER 23, 2021

When David Cameron’s energy bill was being discussed in Parliament in 2013, the word on everybody’s lips was ‘trilemma’: how to ensure that energy was affordable, reliable and low-carbon. Gas is the only answer. So that leaves gas with the task of keeping the lights on. Then came the shale gas revolution, pioneered in Texas.

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Green Car Congress

JULY 15, 2010

With respect to next-generation approaches, the Li-sulfur system, which relies on the use of low-cost sulfur on the positive electrode, offers promising specific energy because of the potential for storage of 2 moles of lithium for every mole of sulfur, the authors note. Wagner et al. Wagner et al.

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AUGUST 31, 2020

While China remains, for now, the world’s leading magnesium producer, alternative green technology-driven projects elsewhere are attracting attention as the industry in general looks to reduce its carbon footprint, and even China starts to close inefficient capacities, according to Roskill Information Services.

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Green Car Congress

JUNE 6, 2013

So far, high cost and scarce precious platinum (Pt) and its alloys have been considered to be the most reliable cathodic ORR electrocatalysts in fuel cells. In addition to the high cost, however, Pt and its alloys are also suffered from methanol crossover/carbon monoxide (CO) poisoning effects and poor operation stability.

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Cars That Think

SEPTEMBER 11, 2021

It opens up a path to making low-cost, compact sodium batteries practical. Abundant and cheap, and with similar chemical properties as lithium, sodium is a promising replacement for lithium in next-generation batteries. Some sodium battery developers are using activated carbon for the anode, which holds sodium ions in its pores.

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Green Car Congress

APRIL 25, 2017

Titanium oxide-based anodes are attractive because the working potential falls within the thermodynamic stability window of the standard organic carbonate electrolytes (>0.8 LNMO spinel oxide is a promising cathode material due to its large reversible capacity, high thermal stability, low cost—and lack of toxic, high-cost cobalt.

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Green Car Congress

JULY 22, 2009

Attendees believe that renewable energy needs two elements to be successful: technical progress leading to lower costs and a price on carbon. They were hoping it was going to be more aggressive in combating carbon directly through a stronger cap and trade and indirectly with a higher federal renewable energy standard.

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Green Car Congress

JUNE 28, 2011

Magnesium-based batteries are an attractive alternative to other batteries, such as lithium (Li) batteries, because magnesium (Mg) is cheap, safe to use, and its compounds are usually non-toxic. NETL researchers have synthesized Si-C (carbon fiber, carbon nanotube, carbon mattes, graphene) composite anodes. Earlier post.)

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Green Car Congress

JULY 10, 2012

This allows building a pair of wings which are optimized in terms of weight, aerodynamics and stability and yet cheap to produce. ALM technology makes it possible to produce the complex contoured shape at a low cost. Due to the tests performed, both the angle of incidence and the angle of twist could be optimized.

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Green Car Congress

AUGUST 25, 2012

They also demonstrated that the production of biodiesel using the lipids extracted from sewage sludge (SS) could be economically feasible because of its remarkably high yield of oil and low cost, as compared to conventional biodiesel feedstocks. Moreover, this study showed the economic feasibility of biodiesel production from SS.

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Baua Electric

MARCH 6, 2024

Fortunately, we’ve found some excellent options for cheap electric bikes that can still save you some serious dough. If you like the idea of a low-cost US-based company like Lectric eBikes but want something with more power than their XP LITE, consider the $999 Lectric XP 3.0. For years, the $999 Lectric XP 3.0 The XP 3.0

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Green Car Congress

JULY 26, 2010

After carbon coating, the prepared LiMnPO 4 cathode demonstrated a flat potential at 4.1 V), which is considered as the maximum energy density practically achievable within the stability window of well-known carbonate ester-based electrolytes. V) due to higher potential than that of LiFePO 4 (586 Wh/kg ) 170 mAh/g × 3.45 V) vs Li/Li+.7

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