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. Some companies have landed on thermal storage.

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Clean Fleet Report

NOVEMBER 12, 2021

You may be wondering if electric and hybrid cars are cheap to insure. You’ll be happy to hear that auto insurance companies are competing for green customers by offering discounts. By supporting companies that strive for better green practices, you’ll enable them to invest in even better earth-friendly initiatives.

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Green Car Congress

OCTOBER 12, 2012

One of the first areas expected to benefit from the technology is storage tanks for natural gas vehicles (NGVs), according to the company. The technology is to be commercialized by a spin-out from the University, MOF Technologies. —Prof. Granting of the patent enabled the formation of MOF Technologies from Queen’s spin-out arm QUBIS.

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Baua Electric

MAY 17, 2024

For a company built around a wearable item with a finite service life, that’s an unexpected tack. “Our Our goal is not just to sell more tires; we want to sell better tires—in multiple ways,” summed the company’s North American CEO Alexis Garcin at a recent sustainability summit the company hosted in Sonoma, California.

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Green Car Congress

JANUARY 30, 2011

The material could allow hydrogen to be stored in a cheap and practical way for transport applications, the company says. The hydride beads would then pumped to a hot cell where waste heat from the engine exhaust is used to drive the hydrogen into a small buffer volume. Credit: ACS, Kurban et al. Click to enlarge. Jones, Neal T.

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Green Car Congress

FEBRUARY 15, 2012

The report calculated that if companies had to pay for the full environmental costs of their production, they would lose 41 cents for every US$1 in earnings on average. Scarcity also creates opportunities to develop substitute materials or to recover materials from waste. Source: KPMG. Click to enlarge.

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Cars That Think

DECEMBER 30, 2022

It’s about one-twentieth the size of the minibus-scale geostationary satellites already in orbit, allowing for cheap and quick deployment. That same year, the company plans to launch four more microGEOs. Laptops will have to follow sometime in 2026. This law is the first of its kind anywhere in the world. Several U.S.

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Green Car Congress

MAY 26, 2015

LanzaTech, founded in 2005, has developed a novel gas-liquid fermentation process that produces fuels and chemicals from gas resources and is the first company to successfully demonstrate production of fuel-grade ethanol from steel mill gases. So here our isobutene would allow us to integrate this very cheap fossil component into the fuel.

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Green Car Congress

MAY 2, 2014

However, in liquid sulfides, some free electrons are allowed to pass through the solution without causing the desired chemical transformations on the electrodes; this allows their energy to be wasted as heat but doesn’t contribute to metal separation. One of those efforts, in collaboration with Donald R. Sadoway, John F.

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Teslarati

MARCH 1, 2023

From Elon Musk’s Master Plan Part 3, details on the company’s third-generation platform, and discussions on how Tesla could each extreme scale, Investor Day promises to be an event that is one for the books. Elon Musk has emphasized that Investor Day is really a lot bigger than the company’s shareholders.

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Green Car Congress

DECEMBER 7, 2009

Most of the methods currently under development involve converting biomass or waste, while there are also approaches to directly produce liquid transportation fuels from sunlight and carbon dioxide, typically using photosynthesis. Innovative Materials & Processes for Advanced Carbon Capture Technologies (IMPACCT).

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EV Info

SEPTEMBER 21, 2021

Why, simple the US embraced Fracking to produce bountifully supplies of cheap gas. OfGem started to do this well and we now have an abundance of retailers you can select as your power company. Expect plenty of company failures. Smart Meters waste. Right now, production is low in Russia, so the cost has increased.

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Green Car Congress

JUNE 14, 2010

We now have a sprinkling of promising companies working to get funded to convert gas-guzzlers. And oil only seems cheap. We’ve already decided we’re going to fix already-built houses, offices and factories that waste energy. (We expected it would come from higher prices or a supply disruption—we’ve all been surprised.)

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Green Car Congress

OCTOBER 20, 2020

a Texas-based materials science company that is focused on extracting critical metals from electronic waste, has licensed an Oak Ridge National Laboratory (ORNL) process for recovering cobalt and other metals from spent lithium-ion batteries. We completely recycle end-of-life products without generating hazardous waste.

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Plug In India

FEBRUARY 25, 2022

Many of want to get an electric scooter that has operations all over India, companies that invest in RnD, companies that offer performance scooters. First we will talk about companies and models that are registered for FAME 2 scheme. Then we will talk about models sold by companies that have not registered for FAME 2.

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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. Details of the 28 companies awarded a total of $4.2

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Cars That Think

MAY 18, 2024

It was wasteful, made being a hardware manufacturer more costly, and added to consumer confusion. And laterally, the company suddenly found itself competing with a triple threat of IBM, Motorola, and Apple, whose PowerPC chip was about to hit the market. And some are as cheap as high-end PCs.

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Green Car Congress

NOVEMBER 13, 2011

Subsidies that encourage wasteful consumption of fossil fuels jumped to over $400 billion. Oil and the Transport Sector: Reconfirming the End of Cheap Oil. Oil companies will be forced to turn to more difficult and costly sources to replace lost capacity and meet rising demand. billion, around 20% of the world’s population.

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My Electric Car

AUGUST 21, 2020

The only by products are water and a fair degree of heat, the latter indicating a degree of inefficiency and wasted energy. Hence its supply would not be cheap, renewable nor sustainable in the long term. Nonetheless, hydrogen fuel cell cars are, like pure battery powered cars, classed as Zero Emission Vehicles (ZEV).

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Cars That Think

DECEMBER 21, 2021

Companies like the Manufacturing Technology Centre are revolutionizing the designs of additive manufactured parts by first building simulation apps from COMSOL models, allowing them to share their analyses with different teams and explore new manufacturing opportunities with their own customers. And it was a great waste of time.

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Green Car Congress

JULY 22, 2009

ACORE is an organization of member companies and institutions that are dedicated to moving renewable energy into the mainstream of America’s economy. As another panelist pointed out, “ The New York Times is well-equipped to write the article about how Stimulus Funds have been wasted ”. They spend $400 billion/year.”

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Plug In India

JUNE 11, 2021

Many of want to get an electric scooter that has operations all over India, companies that invest in RnD, companies that offer performance scooters. So, without wasting any more time, let's beg in in alphabetical order! We mailed the company but no one responded to our questions. Especially those who want no compromises.

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Tony Karrer Delicious EVdriven

JANUARY 28, 2009

HEV - The current generation of production Hybrids are 100% gas fueled vehicles with a few EV tricks like Regen Braking and no wasteful Idling. They use cheap, clean, and domestic electricity for short trips and daily commutes, displacing or eliminating oil consumption and CO2 pollution. James Woolsey, former director of the CIA.

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Tony Karrer Delicious EVdriven

APRIL 16, 2009

Why hes banking on an obscure Chinese electric car company and a CEO who - no joke - drinks his own battery fluid. MidAmericans David Sokol, BYDs Wang, and company advisor Li Lu flew with Sokol from Detroit to Omaha so that Wang could meet Buffett in person. EMAIL | PRINT | SHARE | RSS DIGG FACEBOOK DEL.ICIO.US

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Green Car Congress

APRIL 9, 2009

A German company, vv-tec GmbH , is developing a compact piston-driven turbine—the Reinhardt Turbine, named after its inventor—that it says is a two-cycle (gas and steam) thermodynamic process machine that can be built with conventional components and can achieve efficiency of at least 60%. Click to enlarge. About the Inventor.

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Green Charging

FEBRUARY 15, 2021

We do not want to waste money on cheap, low-quality commodities. Tesla’s company specifically designs the proprietary connector for its vehicles. Since we live in a world of scarce resources, it pays to be more economical. We want to save money. However, we want to make sure we maximise satisfaction.

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Cars That Think

APRIL 2, 2022

Designing the next great chips In the late 1970s, MOS Technology was a successful semiconductor company; its engineers had designed the popular 6502 microprocessor, and it manufactured several other solidly selling products. We tried to get a feel for what these companies could do in the future by extrapolating from their current technology.

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Cars That Think

APRIL 7, 2022

Adjusted for inflation, they cost about US $8,000 and weren’t even a thousandth as fast as a cheap gaming computer today. In fact, I was so inspired by the enthusiastic reactions people had when they tried those early prototypes, I founded a company in 1993— Immersion —with the goal of pursuing mainstream consumer applications.

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EV Central

JANUARY 2, 2023

It won’t be cheap, but Audi’s e-Tron GT and its more potent RS e-Tron GT sibling promise big performance. That’s if it’s called the Dolphin; importer EV Direct has previously suggested the name would change, although the company admits it is now open to keeping the Dolphin moniker. READ MORE: Best EVs of 2022. Audi e-Tron GT quattro.

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Cars That Think

SEPTEMBER 13, 2021

Some companies want to harvest metallic treasures from the sea. The Metals Company (previously DeepGreen Metals) in Vancouver expects to be the first to commercially produce metals from these nodules by 2024. Texas is top of The Metals Company's list for the processing plant given the state's ports and access to cheap renewables. "We

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Tony Karrer Delicious EVdriven

APRIL 28, 2009

A troubled company. As a long time Mopar fan, seeing this company go under will hurt. I also think it will be cheap, which is why I think someone will buy the group. Small size. New technology. An (expected) high price tag. Can these things add up to make a car that people want to buy? What exactly do they have to sell?

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Tony Karrer Delicious EVdriven

APRIL 16, 2009

Every scrap of waste food, garden trimmings and even sewage would be used to ferment gas. “If any energy company ignores the long-term impact on future fossil-fuel-backed energy sales, they will be in for a shock.&# So how do energy companies cope with such upheaval? Much of the technology needed is still a distant dream

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Tony Karrer Delicious EVdriven

APRIL 21, 2009

Cheap to run but expensive to buy, they offer theprospect of low or zero carbon emissions, but manufacturers won’t sell themunless motorists want to buy them – and motorists won’t buy unless the priceis right and there are enough places to charge the batteries. These both cost much less than lithium cells.

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Tony Karrer Delicious EVdriven

APRIL 16, 2009

Millions will plug-in their electric vehicles [EV], plug-in hybrids [PHEV] and fuel cell vehicles [FCV] at night when electricity is cheap, then plug-in during the day when energy is expensive and sell those extra electrons at a profit. Feature your company/blog/book Interview a contributor Whats New? Whats new at Seeking Alpha?

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Tony Karrer Delicious EVdriven

APRIL 16, 2009

Millions will plug-in their electric vehicles (EV), plug-in hybrids (PHEV) and fuel cell vehicles (FCV) at night when electricity is cheap, then plug-in during the day when energy is expensive and sell those extra electrons at a profit. 1) XEL (1) XPV Capital (1) YGE (1) YHOO (1) ZENN Motor Company (1) ZNN.V (1) Remember its PURE D.C.

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Tony Karrer Delicious EVdriven

APRIL 16, 2009

According to Nissan, the company plans to introduce its upcoming electric car in Oregon in late 2010. Although Think has been plagued by bad financial news recently, the company’s North American C.E.O., One thing is for sure; - electric cars bring down the air pollution, but they sure create another waste pollution problem.

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Tony Karrer Delicious EVdriven

APRIL 16, 2009

Large companies have typically employed people to optimize their own energy use. Create cheap clean energy, new badly needed green jobs, and reduce our dependence on foreign oil. A small, but world renowned US employee owned company, not a global conglomerate owned by a bunch of greedy shareholder and venture capitalists?

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