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 The hydrogen gas produced in the summer will be stored and converted into electricity and heat in the winter.

Solar

Green Car Congress

JANUARY 11, 2014

Quinones are naturally abundant, inexpensive, small organic molecules, and similar to molecules that store energy in plants and animals. The technology could fundamentally transform the way electricity is stored on the grid, making power from renewable energy sources such as wind and sun far more economical and reliable. Background.

Low Cost

Green Car Congress

JULY 31, 2014

Unlike other devices, the team’s is the first to utilize oxygen anions (negatively-charged ions) instead of cations (positive ions) to store its energy. The device uses a perovskite material (LaMnO 3 ), a structure containing vacant sites where oxygen anions can be stored, making these advancements a possibility.

Energy Storage

Cars That Think

JANUARY 18, 2023

In a region known for long, dark winter nights, Polar Night Energy is building a system in the city of Tampere that can heat buildings with stored solar energy — all day, all night, and all winter long. This means that storing and distributing energy is as important as its generation. The apparent contradictions do not end there.

Store

Green Car Congress

MAY 26, 2011

Flywheel KERS has the potential for reducing fuel consumption by up to 20% while giving a four-cylinder engine acceleration like a six-cylinder unit, says Derek Crabb, Vice President VCC Powertrain Engineering. The combustion engine that drives the front wheels is switched off as soon as the braking begins. Flywheel module.

Corporation

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.

Hydrogen

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. Silicon based PV, on the other hand, is hugely scalable and relatively cheap. by Henry Hewitt for Oilprice.com. Click to enlarge.

Miles

Green Car Congress

SEPTEMBER 30, 2011

aligned with the low-cost systems engineering and. If placed in a container that has a barrier to separate the two sides, the two streams of bubbles can be collected and stored, and used later to deliver power: for example, by feeding them into a fuel cell that combines them once again into water while delivering an electric current.

MIT

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JULY 21, 2023

Woodruff School of Mechanical Engineering and the School of Materials Science and Engineering, is using an aluminum-foil-based anode in a solid-state Li-ion battery to create batteries with higher energy density and greater stability. The new battery system is detailed in an open-access paper in Nature Communications. mA cm −2 ).

Li-ion

Green Car Congress

MARCH 20, 2019

Professor Kondo-Francois Aguey-Zinsou and his team at UNSW’s School of Chemical Engineering have developed a system that provides cheap storage and transportation of hydrogen which they expect will provide a new alternative for energy storage within two years. with a particle size below 10 nm).

Hydrogen

Green Car Congress

JULY 25, 2016

—Ju Li, the Battelle Energy Alliance Professor of Nuclear Science and Engineering at MIT. Because these “solid oxygen” cathodes are much lighter than conventional lithium-ion battery cathodes, the new design could store as much as double the amount of energy for a given cathode weight, the team says.

Cheap

Green Car Congress

AUGUST 29, 2009

The funding from A*STAR’s Science and Engineering Research Council (SERC) will support research teams from A*STAR research institutes and local institutes of higher learning to develop solutions to manage environmental deterioration, pressures on natural resources and climate change brought on by rapid growth and urbanization.

Singapore

Green Car Congress

JUNE 23, 2009

Their research was presented at ACS Green Chemistry Institute’s 13 th Annual Green Chemistry & Engineering Conference on 23 June. It is crucial that the material that will serve as a hydrogen adsorbent in fuel cell vehicles is cheap and is environmentally benign. Additionally, the prices of these materials are extremely expensive.

Hydrogen

Green Car Congress

OCTOBER 12, 2012

Professor Stuart James in Queen’s School of Chemistry and Chemical Engineering patented a novel technique for the synthesis of MOFs without using any solvents, even water, and on greatly reduced timescales, by making use of mechanochemistry. There are an abundance of sites where gas molecules can adsorb to the material.

Gas

Green Car Congress

MAY 29, 2020

A Northwestern Engineering-led team has developed a highly porous smart sponge that selectively soaks up oil in water. The research was published in the ACS journal Industrial Engineering and Chemical Research. The OHM (oleophobic hydrophobic magnetic) nanocomposite slurry can be used to coat any cheap, commercially available sponge.

Oil

Porsche 914 EV Conversion

OCTOBER 12, 2007

The major project of the day was finishing the rain gutter under the engine compartment lid. Here's the plastic installed on the underside of the engine compartment lid. Here's the engine compartment lid re-installed. The original gutter was too deep and interfered with the rear battery box.

Engine

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. The world’s largest pumped-energy-storage station—a technique that stores energy by pumping it uphill to a reservoir—is set to complete phase two of its construction in 2023.

Engine

Green Car Congress

JUNE 26, 2018

The scientists discovered that OSPC-1 is able to store more than twice as many lithium ions, and therefore power, as graphite at the same mid-range speed of charging. In addition, OSPC-1 is able to store lithium ions at more than double the rate as graphite—i.e., charging speeds can be twice as fast. Heasman, P., Lambert, C.,

Li-ion

Green Car Congress

SEPTEMBER 16, 2022

We have the utmost confidence in Topsoe and its storied scientists and engineers, which is why we have chosen Topsoe as our partner. Green ammonia has the highest volumetric energy density out of all the hydrogen-based energy sources—much more than pure hydrogen—which makes it cheap and easy to store and transport.

Green

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JUNE 26, 2019

Scientists from the Department of Energy’s SLAC National Accelerator Laboratory and Stanford University have taken the first images of carbon dioxide molecules within a molecular cage—part of a metal-organic framework (MOF), with great potential for separating and storing gases and liquids. The MOF they studied is called ZIF-8.

Carbon

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. The compressed air, now cool and easier to store, is housed in a large air tank.

Energy Storage

Plugs and Cars

APRIL 23, 2007

If you're going to the trouble of building a plug-in and therefore have an electric drive train and a battery capable of storing a charge, then you could have a cheap gasoline engine along with you, or an expensive fuel cell." Consumers will likely opt for the cheaper version, Romm notes.

Volt

Cars That Think

JUNE 14, 2022

For decades, hopeful techies have been promising a world where absolutely every object you encounter—bandages, bottles, bananas—will have some kind of smarts thanks to super-cheap programmable plastic processors. You might be wondering why silicon processors can’t do the job of super-cheap flexible computing. Why Not Silicon?

Illinois

DIY Electric Car

MARCH 27, 2008

Conventional cars work by exploding fuel and air in a chamber to exert force on the pistons, but what if rather than using an explosion to provide that pressure on the piston, you just stored your ‘fuel’ at a constant high pressure. As the air expands in the engine it actually cools it, which can be used for passenger comfort.

Green Cars

Cars That Think

SEPTEMBER 9, 2021

For stick-on displays , smart bandages , and cheap flexible plastic sensors to really take off, they'll need some way of storing data for the long-term that can be built on plastic. "In In the ecosystem of flexible electronics, having memory options is very important," says Stanford electrical engineering professor Eric Pop.

Store

Cars That Think

FEBRUARY 17, 2024

Consider further the many varied devices and sensors now streaming data onto the Web, and the cars, airplanes, and other vehicles that store trip data for later use. All those billions of things on the Internet of Things produce data, and all that information also needs to be stored somewhere.

Store

Cars That Think

DECEMBER 10, 2022

That device, now known by a variety of names—including memory stick, USB stick, flash drive, as well as thumb drive—changed the way computer files are stored and transferred. Good-bye, floppy disk Before the invention of the thumb drive, computer users stored and transported their files using floppy disks. It was called the ThumbDrive.

Singapore

Cars That Think

AUGUST 18, 2024

For decades, however, engineers have been tantalized by the virtues of motors based on an entirely different principle: electrostatics. And, perhaps even better, they would use only cheap, plentiful materials, rather than the rare-earth elements, special steel alloys, and copious quantities of copper found in conventional motors.

Motoring

Green Car Congress

OCTOBER 20, 2016

Similarly, rechargeable organic liquids—used to store hydrogen in a liquid carrier form—must be handled with great care as several react violently with strong oxidants, have fire and explosion hazards and, in certain cases, carry toxicity concerns from occupational exposure. Gonzalez-Cortes et al. Click to enlarge.

Hydrogen

Clean Fleet Report

APRIL 17, 2025

The Check Engine Light Isnt Just for Show Youve probably seen it beforethat little orange or yellow light on the dashboard that pops up when somethings not right. Its called the check engine light. Its kind of like reading a message sent from the engine. Cars arent just engines and wheels anymoretheyve got brains.

Cars

Green Car Congress

OCTOBER 9, 2017

Moreover, it is a cheap carbon source which can increase the atom utilization of CO 2 hydrogenation due to the stoichiometric ratio of C and O atoms, as well as reducing the formation of water. … Xin Tu, from the University’s Department of Electrical Engineering and Electronics. natural gas, shale gas, biogas and flared gas).

Conversion

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. tall (90ft) Starship-derived tanks that should be capable of storing ~2200 tons (4.9

Building

Green Car Congress

DECEMBER 30, 2016

Mobileye’s Road Experience Management (REM) is an end-to-end mapping and localization engine. Mobileye software running within the map-consuming agent (the autonomous vehicle) automatically localizes the vehicle within the Roadbook by real-time detection of all landmarks stored in it. The car is driving based on the map alone.

Motoring

Teslarati

FEBRUARY 8, 2022

In theory, propulsive space tugs could potentially give rideshare payloads the best of both worlds – ultra-cheap launch costs and, within reason, delivery to a specific orbit of choice. Trying to keep up [link] — Max Haot (@maxhaot) February 3, 2022. Launcher’s Orbiter is perhaps the most promising of the lot.

Affordable

Cars That Think

DECEMBER 26, 2024

The companys plan is to electrochemically strip carbon dioxide out of the ocean, store or use the CO 2 , and then return the water to the sea, where it will naturally absorb more CO 2 from the air. Both have inspired the engineering of novel, highly efficient electrochemical systems to treat copious amounts of seawater.

Mariner

EV Central

SEPTEMBER 3, 2023

Called MMA, for Mercedes-Benz Modular Architecture, it draws on innovative engineering ideas tried out in the Vision EQXX. “Ninety three percent of the energy stored in the (MMA) battery will actually arrive at the wheels,” Källenius went on. In summary, this is an engineering masterpiece.”

Mercedes

Cars That Think

MARCH 11, 2023

In 2001, a team of engineers at a then-obscure R&D company called AC Propulsion quietly began a groundbreaking experiment. Electricity is a commodity that is bought and sold, and yet unlike most other commodities, it cannot easily be stored. They wanted to see whether an electric vehicle could feed electricity back to the grid.

Grid