Green Car Congress

AUGUST 3, 2021

A common farm weed could make a jet fuel with fewer production-related environmental impacts than other biofuels, according to a new lifecycle study by researchers at The Ohio State University. Such techniques can add to the financial cost of growing crops, but reduce their environmental footprints.

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Green Car Congress

FEBRUARY 6, 2009

The ability to replace costly platinum with a much lower-cost carbon-based catalyst could lead to more efficient fuel cells that can be affordably mass-produced. Traditionally, fuel cells employ expensive platinum-based electrocatalysts, which cost about $4,000 for a passenger car. volts for a platinum-carbon electrode.

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Green Car Congress

APRIL 30, 2010

ARPA-E’s first solicitation awarded $151 million to 37 projects aimed at transformational innovations in energy storage, biofuels, carbon capture, renewable power, building efficiency, vehicles, and other areas. Novel Biological Conversion of Hydrogen and Carbon Dioxide Directly into Biodiesel. Ohio State Univ. Earlier post.)

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Green Car Congress

JANUARY 9, 2015

The Institute will focus on lowering the overall manufacturing costs of advanced composites by 50%, reducing the energy used to make composites by 75% and increasing the recyclability of composites to over 95% within the next decade. Doubling the length of a turbine blade can help quadruple the amount of electricity generated.

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Green Car Congress

MARCH 8, 2017

The Letters of Intent have come from Duke Energy, Portland General Electric, the City of Orlando, Southern California Public Power Authority, Clean Fuels Ohio and one other utility. To reduce weight, the W-15’s body panels are made of a carbon fiber composite which also have the benefit of being rustproof. Workhorse Group Inc.

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Green Car Congress

FEBRUARY 16, 2018

The design of the large pilot plant will incorporate an advanced combustion design and control features that have been verified through performance testing on the sub-pilot unit at Ohio State University and further testing on the small-scale pilot at Babcock & Wilcox. DOE funding: $852,820 Non-DOE: $220,991 Total: $1,073,811.

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Clean Fleet Report

JUNE 15, 2023

However, owning an EV is about more than just zero emissions and torque—it’s about understanding the total cost of ownership. One crucial aspect often overlooked is the insurance cost associated with EVs. From the state of residence, driving history and the specific model of EV, many factors can influence the cost.

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Green Car Congress

AUGUST 8, 2011

The technology could help offset the cost of geologic carbon storage. Carbon storage takes a lot of power—large pumps and compressors are needed. We may be able to bring down its costs by generating electricity on the side. —Barry Freifeld, Berkeley Lab’s Earth Sciences Division. —Barry Freifeld.

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Green Car Congress

MARCH 31, 2014

By the end of Phase II, Mainstream plans to demonstrate a production-ready prototype that exceeds DOE targets for fuel economy, operating range, and cost. To further reduce harmful pollutants such as nitrogen oxides, volatile organic compounds and carbon monoxide from diesel engines, TDA Research, Inc. Nextech Materials. nGimat LLC.

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Green Car Congress

SEPTEMBER 4, 2013

The Ohio State University. This project will demonstrate a robust, cost effective, and versatile technique to join die cast magnesium to dissimilar aluminum alloys and mild and high strength steels. This project will demonstrate laser-assisted joining of aluminum and carbon fiber components to reduce vehicle weight. Description.

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Green Car Congress

AUGUST 31, 2016

Sepion envisions that successes could catalyze a transformation in aviation, in which fuel-burning aircraft are replaced with hybrid-electric planes featuring 30–50% reductions in fuel costs and emissions. Harper International Corp.

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Green Car Congress

APRIL 16, 2015

Reduction in annual generation cost and external emissions costs due to controlled charging compared to uncontrolled charging ($2010). Stacked bars show the change in generation cost combined with the median damages by pollutant assuming the 2010 social cost of carbon given by the Office of Management and Budget ($31 in $2010).

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Green Car Congress

FEBRUARY 21, 2015

The Ohio State University in collaboration with the University of Alabama and Green Biologics. Develop a cellulosic butanol production process with high productivities, yields, and carbon conversion through novel metabolic engineering of two different pathways.

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Green Car Congress

JUNE 7, 2012

Research projects will also develop new processes and computational design methods to develop these materials, improve efficiency and reduce the costs of cleaner power generation systems. Ohio State University. The Energy Department’s $2.7 million investment will be leveraged with additional funds from the universities to support $3.1

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Green Car Congress

MAY 21, 2010

Investing in fuel efficiency technologies for heavy-duty trucks would create jobs in the manufacturing sector and throughout the entire economy because fuel savings outweigh the cost of more efficient trucks. UCS found that net cost savings from more efficient trucks would total $24 billion in 2030 at fuel prices of about $3.50

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Green Car Congress

OCTOBER 3, 2014

Researchers at The Ohio State University have developed a novel strategy to improve the efficiency and performance of non-aqueous lithium-oxygen (Li-air) batteries. The solar battery contains three electrodes: a Li-metal anode, an oxygen electrode made from carbon paper and a photoelectrode. Any time you can do that, you reduce cost.

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Green Car Congress

AUGUST 19, 2023

DOE’s National Energy Technology Laboratory (NETL), under the purview of DOE’s Office of Fossil Energy and Carbon Management (FECM), will manage the selected projects. The projects are additional selections for the $160-million funding opportunity DE-FOA-0002400, announced in January 2021. Earlier post.)

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FEBRUARY 15, 2022

The selected projects will focus on technologies such as revolutionizing fuel cells for light- and heavy-duty vehicles, and technologies to generate less nuclear waste and reduce the cost of fuel. The Ohio State University. 3D-Printed Ceramic Thermocatalytic CO 2 Reactor with High Carbon Conversion and Energy Efficiencies - $3,100,104.

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Green Car Congress

JANUARY 20, 2010

David Greene, Corporate Fellow, Oak Ridge National Laboratory; Dr. Joan Ogden, Professor and Research Director, University of California, Davis; and Dr. Giorgio Rizzoni, Professor and Research Director, Ohio State University—were invited to provide independent scientific advice on the ZEV documents released by staff on 25 November 2009.

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Green Car Congress

AUGUST 25, 2011

The US Department of Energy has selected 16 projects for almost $29 million in funding to develop advanced post-combustion technologies for capturing carbon dioxide from coal–fired power plants. Carbon Capture Scientific. Awardee Project description. The application of ultrasonic energy forces dissolved CO 2 into gas bubbles.

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Green Car Congress

MARCH 23, 2019

The Ohio State University. Additively Manufactured High Efficiency and Low-Cost sCO 2 Heat Exchangers – $1,500,000. The Ohio State University will design, manufacture, and test high-performance, compact heat exchangers for supercritical CO 2 power cycles. This would substantially reduce aviation fuel usage and carbon emissions.

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Green Car Congress

SEPTEMBER 22, 2009

Stationary Fuel Cells and Hybrid Transit Buses Incremental Costs: The purchase of diesel-electric hybrid transit buses and stationary fuel cells for use in the statewide bus system in Connecticut. Hybrid Electric Buses Incremental Costs: For the incremental cost of making transit buses hybrid electric.

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Green Car Congress

NOVEMBER 25, 2009

Smart grid regional demonstrations involving plug-in vehicles include (ranked by DOE funding): Columbus Southern Power Company (doing business as AEP Ohio). The project will provide operating data and experience to help the plant maintain its daily power output requirement more efficiently while reducing its carbon footprint.

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JUNE 12, 2012

The top two awards, one of $9 million to a project led by Dow Chemical, and one of $8.999 million to a project led by PolyPlus, will fund projects tackling, respectively, the manufacturing of low-cost carbon fibers and the manufacturing of electrodes for ultra-high-energy-density lithium-sulfur, lithium-seawater and lithium-air batteries.

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Clean Fleet Report

APRIL 12, 2024

For all operations, the company aims to reach carbon neutrality by 2050. Carbon neutrality for all Honda products and corporate activities by 2050. Versus an electric car, the cost of fueling difference is substantial. Two (or is it three?) Hydrogen prices fluctuate in a broader range than gasoline or electricity.

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Green Car Congress

JULY 21, 2016

A multi-partner team, led by PNNL as part of the Battery500 research consortium, will receive an award of up to $10 million per year for five years to drive progress on DOE’s goal of reducing the cost of vehicle battery technologies. Duke Energy Ohio. City of Seattle. Clean Future, Inc. Confluence Environmental Center. Con Edison.

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Green Car Congress

OCTOBER 26, 2009

Carbon Capture (5 projects). If successfully developed, this transformational new energy storage technology would greatly reduce the cost of hybrid and electric vehicles. Sustainable, High-Energy Density, Low-Cost Electrochemical Energy Storage: Metal-Air Ionic Liquid (MAIL) Batteries. CARBON CAPTURE. BIOMASS ENERGY.

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Creative Greenius

JUNE 11, 2009

We’ve now got some Mo going with: California solar loan financing that will eliminate the big up front cost of solar. To put that in perspective for you, if Los Angeles County were a state, it would rank ninth in population behind the states of California, New York, Texas, Florida, Pennsylvania, Illinois, Ohio, and Michigan.

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Charged EVs

AUGUST 16, 2022

We EVangelists have gotten used to smugly pointing to the steadily declining costs of batteries (and renewable energy). The cost of battery cells using NMC/NCA chemistries is also being driven higher by substantially large increases in nickel and cobalt prices. Farewell to falling prices.

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EV Adoption

NOVEMBER 26, 2021

These lower cost EVs will also come with smaller batteries that produce fewer carbon emissions than their larger counter parts. And GM will increasingly produce its battery cells in two joint-venture plants with LG Energy Solution, located in Lordstown, Ohio and Springhill, Tennessee.

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