Green Car Congress

SEPTEMBER 11, 2018

Researchers at Chalmers University of Technology, Sweden, have identified two main challenges for renewable biofuel production from cheap sources: lowering the cost of developing microbial cell factories; and establishing more efficient methods for hydrolysis of biomass to sugars for fermentation.

Cheap

Green Car Congress

DECEMBER 18, 2020

Battery electric trucks should be the baseline for hydrogen fuel cells electric vehicle (HFCEV) comparisons, rather than any internal combustion engine alternative. Many factors will influence this, including emissions regulations, infrastructure, hydrogen availability and total costs of ownership. of hydrogen adoption in 2030.

Hydrogen

Green Car Congress

MARCH 8, 2019

Bioscience engineers at KU Leuven have created a solar panel that produces hydrogen gas from moisture in the air. The KU Leuven bioscience engineers solved this problem by designing a solar panel of 1.6 We’re using cheap raw materials and don't need precious metals or other expensive components. —Johan Martens.

Solar

Green Car Congress

NOVEMBER 17, 2017

Their results, published recently in two papers—one in ACS Sustainable Chemistry & Engineering and the other in Biotechnology for Biofuels (open access)—point to a promising future for using poplar coppice for biofuel. Chang Dou, Wilian F. Marcondes, Jessica E.

Washington

Green Car Congress

JUNE 4, 2015

Although cellulosic biomass such as corn stover, wheat straw and bagasse (the fibrous remains after sugar is extracted from sugarcane or sorghum) is abundant and cheap, because of recalcitrance—a plant’s resistance to releasing sugars for conversion to alcohol—it is much more difficult to utilize than corn. 1(3):e00323-13.

Engine

Green Car Congress

JULY 15, 2010

This will also require that the mass of the pack components be reduced by a factor of approximately 2 relative to state-of-the-art, an engineering and materials challenge that we consider achievable but outside of the scope of this paper. Wagner et al. The cathode is another matter entirely.

Li-ion

Green Car Congress

NOVEMBER 13, 2011

Oil and the Transport Sector: Reconfirming the End of Cheap Oil. Increased use of alternatives to oil-based transport fuels (gasoline, diesel and LPG) also help to temper oil-demand growth, though to a much smaller degree than efficiency gains in vehicles with internal combustion engines. Click to enlarge.

Oil

Green Car Congress

OCTOBER 5, 2014

In a 2008 brief on CARACaS, JPL engineers noted that the software was potentially applicable to diverse robotic systems that could include aircraft, spacecraft, ground vehicles, surface water vessels, and/or underwater vessels. —Adm. Jonathan Greenert, chief of naval operations.

Vehicles

Green Car Congress

MAY 11, 2019

Fuel cell plug-in hybrid electric vehicles (FC-PHEVs) can have extended range while utilizing cheap grid electricity, but has poor durability of onboard fuel cells due to dynamic loading. With our design approach, the cost could be comparable or even cheaper than gasoline engines. —Zhang et al. The future is very bright.

PHEV

Green Car Congress

APRIL 1, 2019

The Pb-acid SLI battery will still continue to be in demand for the many small and cheap ICE vehicles where cost of the battery replacement will always be the deciding factor. There will still be a need for a 12 V battery for the supply of auxiliary power that will not necessarily be a Pb-acid SLI battery. —Ferg et al.

Lead Acid

Green Car Congress

JUNE 29, 2015

During the late innings of the ICE-age (as in the Internal Combustion Engine age) it has become clear that feeding gasoline and diesel to the next billion new cars is not going to be easy, or cheap. It is generous to say that an acre of Iowa can provide 12,500 miles per year at a cost of 10 cents each. Click to enlarge.

Miles

Green Car Congress

JANUARY 11, 2014

Wide-scale utilization of flow batteries is, however, limited by the abundance and cost of these materials, particularly those using redox-active metals and precious-metal electrocatalysts. For this reason, a growing number of engineers have focused their attention on flow-battery technology. —Huskinson et al. Background.

Low Cost

Green Car Congress

SEPTEMBER 30, 2011

aligned with the low-cost systems engineering and. We show that water-splitting catalysts comprising earth- abundant materials can be integrated with amorphous silicon with minimal engineering to enable direct solar-to-fuels conversion based on water splitting. constructing a simple, stand-alone device composed of.

MIT

Green Car Congress

OCTOBER 15, 2020

EH Group Technologies Inc will develop an electrolyzer system based on a radical new design and with a transformative manufacturing technique that dramatically reduces costs. Their goal is to test an innovative electrolyzer concept for the cheap production of green (CO 2 -free) hydrogen for a decarbonized future. is developing a?rechargeable

Clean

EV Central

JUNE 4, 2024

Just days after Volkswagen said it would go it alone and produce its cheap €20,000 ($A32,500) EV without any help, Renault has announced that it has already found a new Chinese partner to help it create its low-cost Renault Twingo. The post Twingo is GO!

Cheap

Green Car Congress

OCTOBER 5, 2010

This provides sufficient charge for between 20-40 miles of travel at a cost of between 40p to £1, depending on the tariff. The journey data gathered is already showing that the current generation of vehicles are cheap to run as well as being comparable to petrol and diesel vehicles for speed, ease of use and daily journey distance.

Low Cost

Green Car Congress

DECEMBER 7, 2009

ARPA-E requests innovative proposals which can overcome these challenges through the utilization of metabolic engineering and synthetic biological approaches for the efficient conversion of carbon dioxide to liquid transportation fuels. Although photosynthetic routes show promise, overall efficiencies remain low.

Carbon

Green Car Congress

MARCH 16, 2015

Researchers from A*STAR in Singapore have developed a fungal culture for use in a cheap and efficient method to transform waste oil palm material into biofuels and environmentally friendly plastics. glucosidase can be added to the commercial preparations, which then ramps up the cost of converting oil palm biomass into biofuel and bioplastic.

Waste

Green Car Congress

JANUARY 17, 2018

Thus far, platinum-based materials supported on carbon exhibit the best electrocatalytic performance for HER; yet wide-spread commercial applications are hindered by the low natural abundance and high costs of platinum. However, durability remains an issue because of corrosion of the catalysts in acid electrolytes, a common medium for HER.

Hydrogen

Green Car Congress

JULY 9, 2014

Researchers at the University of California, Riverside’s Bourns College of Engineering have synthesized a porous nano-silicon material from beach sand (SiO 2 ) via a highly scalable heat scavenger-assisted magnesiothermic—i.e., using a combination of heat and magnesium—reduction. Credit: UC Riverside. Click to enlarge.

Li-ion

The Truth About Cars

SEPTEMBER 12, 2023

Large automakers save money by sharing platforms and engineering designs across individual brands, but the practice means that problems affecting one model tend to impact related vehicles.

Porsche

Teslarati

MARCH 10, 2024

In a press release shared on Thursday, research firm Gartner said it believes the upcoming generation of BEVs will be cheaper to produce on average than vehicles with internal combustion engines (ICEs) by 2027. “Today (not 2027), you can lease a Tesla Model 3 for $329/month and a Model Y for $379/month,” Patel wrote on X.

Gas

Green Car Congress

OCTOBER 23, 2009

Electricity is a cheap entity—not a commodity, but is its fundamentally very cheap. maintain a system as well as maintain and recover and investment on it that is fundamentally very cheap. The overarching question was not whether the light-duty transportation sector would electrify to a significant degree, but when.

Plug-in

Green Car Congress

NOVEMBER 29, 2021

The DRC’s cost competitiveness comes from its relatively cheap access to land and low engineering, procurement and construction, or EPC, cost compared to the US, Poland and China. This is due to the DRC’s proximity to cathode raw materials and heavy reliance on hydroelectric power plants.

Africa

Plug In India

APRIL 10, 2021

By Kamlesh & Atul There is a lot of misinformation in the mainstream media about the cost of electric vehicles. In the blog/video, we bust this myth and we show how petrol scooters cost same as electric scooters and you always save money when it comes to total cost of ownership when using an EV. These are mid range.

Petrol

Teslarati

APRIL 6, 2021

For SpaceX to design and build its own custom bulk commodity storage tanks instead of buying what is arguably a fairly routine and cheap off-the-shelf technology, Starship production has to be DIRT CHEAP. Just dawned on me that this is a much bigger deal than it might seem. link] — Eric Ralph (@13ericralph31) April 6, 2021.

Building

Green Car Congress

JUNE 2, 2017

The researchers suggested that their strategy offers a cheap and low temperature synthesis alternative able to replace Pt in the hydrogen evolution reaction (HER). However, the high cost and scarcity of Pt prohibits its application to fulfil the energy demand.

Low Cost

EV Central

JUNE 4, 2024

Announcing the cheap Jeep at a recent Bernstein investor conference, Tavares said the new $25k model would draw influence from the €20,000 ($A32,500) Citroen e-C3 the firm is currently developing for the European market, and that the same engineering tricks and component sourcing insights will dramatically lower the cost of the incoming SUV.

Jeep

Teslarati

FEBRUARY 8, 2022

To anyone unfamiliar with the cost of spaceflight, that might seem obscene, but it’s extraordinarily affordable and far cheaper than every advertised alternative. Trying to keep up [link] — Max Haot (@maxhaot) February 3, 2022.

Affordable

The Truth About Cars

SEPTEMBER 5, 2023

Though the second-generation North American Escort was a Mazda Protegé under the skin, Ford held onto the good old UK-developed CVH straight-four engine , a crypto-OHC design that displaced 1.9 liter engine, from the same family that powered the Mazda Miata and Mercury Capri. liters in this application.

Ford

EV Central

FEBRUARY 27, 2024

Since it’s made for life in a city, engineers say they have lowered the cost of repairs for the Spring by simply not painting vulnerable parts like the wheel-arches and lower sections of the front and rear bumpers. Super-cheap Dacia Spring electric SUV is going right-hand drive, but will it come to Australia as a Renault?

Australia

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. Batteries have a powerful spigot, but that comes at the cost of a small tub.

Energy Storage

Cars That Think

AUGUST 19, 2021

Running a startup isn't cheap. We've also found that our customers like to know we have some association with IEEE, as many of them are engineers," he says. LIFE SCIENCES DATA RESEARCH Joanne Wong launched SciosHub in 2020 to improve the data management, performance, and costs of conducting research in life sciences.

Powered

Charged EVs

JULY 1, 2024

It offers similar performance, but manganese is very cheap, and it operates at a higher voltage, which enables a significant increase in energy density. Recently, Wildcat has shifted its strategy—the company will become a producer of cathode materials, while continuing its research and engineering activities. No nickel, no cobalt.

Building

Clean Fleet Report

DECEMBER 25, 2021

Low-cost but not cheap. liter gasoline engine with multi-port injection, good for 120 horsepower and 112 pound-feet of torque, mated to an intelligent variable transmission (iVT). When the engine is winding-out at the highest rpms it can be bit noisy. Drivetrain. The front-wheel drive 2022 Kia Rio is powered by a 1.6-liter

Kia

Teslarati

NOVEMBER 10, 2022

If successful, the fully-reusable rocket will be able to launch at least five times the payload of SpaceX’s workhorse Falcon 9 rocket for even less than the smaller rocket’s already extraordinary marginal cost of ~$15 million. But it’s safe to assume that Shotwell’s deeper involvement is unlikely to hurt the programs.

Saturn

Supercharged EV

SEPTEMBER 29, 2020

and because electricity is cheap) You save on maintenance, as EVs are virtually maintenance free. EVs last longer than ICE, no engine, rock solid battery. Now lets get into details: Using a refferal code like mine [link] , will provide you with 1500 km of free supercharger use.

Future