Green Car Congress

APRIL 9, 2021

million for technologies that produce low-cost, low-carbon biofuels. ( municipal solid waste, biosolids) into low-carbon biofuels and bioproducts. This FOA supports high-impact technology RDD&D to accelerate the bioeconomy and, in particular, the production of low-carbon fuels for the aviation industry.

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Green Car Congress

OCTOBER 10, 2021

The 10 winning teams for Stage 1 submitted breakthrough concepts for more conductive and affordable materials for both electrical and thermal (heat-based) energy applications. Each winning team has earned a $25,000 cash prize and a stipend for third-party conductivity testing in Stage 2.

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Green Car Congress

JULY 11, 2017

The goal is to improve BOP component efficiency and reliability, reducing costs and presenting a stable supply chain to the European car manufacturers and system integrators. Total cost of the project, which involves 10 European organizations, is €6.2 million (US$7.1 million), with €5 million (US$5.7 million) provided by the EU.

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Green Car Congress

DECEMBER 11, 2020

The Vehicle Technologies Office funds a broad portfolio of early-stage research to develop new affordable, efficient and clean transportation options to enable industry to accelerate the development and widespread use of a variety of innovative transportation technologies. a 2015 baseline of 36 miles per gallon).

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Green Car Congress

SEPTEMBER 11, 2016

Preliminary analysis performed by the national laboratories on the H2@Scale concept indicated that nearly a 50% reduction in greenhouse gas emissions is possible by 2050 via such large-scale hydrogen production and use. The RFI seeks input on six specific areas: Concept of H2@Scale. Click to enlarge.

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Cars That Think

MARCH 14, 2022

The California-based Hyperlight Energy will be piloting an installation where they plan to use existing oil wells as solar thermal wellsprings, with the stored energy being converted back to clean electricity when required. Thermal energy storage is a known low-cost, low-risk approach for storing solar energy in the form of heat,” adds Codd.

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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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Green Car Congress

AUGUST 19, 2023

The US Department of Energy (DOE) awarded nearly $34 million to 19 industry- and university-led research projects that will advance technology solutions to make clean hydrogen a more available and affordable fuel for electricity generation, industrial decarbonization, and transportation. Earlier post.)

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Green Car Congress

JANUARY 13, 2021

SCALEUP awardees will focus on further developing existing technologies, for which the proof-of-concept R&D challenges have been addressed, that can establish real-world impact through scaling. Over the last decade, the cost of lithium-ion (Li-ion) energy storage systems has fallen while energy density has improved steadily.

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Green Car Congress

DECEMBER 13, 2013

The California Energy Commission (CEC) is awarding $1,135,862 to 12 small-scale projects to research that will reduce the cost of producing electricity, save energy and improve the environment. The program provides up to $95,000 for hardware projects and up to $50,000 for modeling concepts. billion in follow-on investment.

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Green Car Congress

MARCH 16, 2023

The US Department of Energy (DOE) will award up to $750 million for research, development, and demonstration efforts to reduce the cost of clean hydrogen. ( The US Department of Energy (DOE) will award up to $750 million for research, development, and demonstration efforts to reduce the cost of clean hydrogen. (

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Green Car Congress

NOVEMBER 6, 2014

The funded research projects will focus on developing technologies that can significantly reduce the cost of producing hydrogen-rich syngas derived from fossil fuels, enabling coal resources to both improve US economic competitiveness and provide global environmental benefits, DOE said. Aerojet Rocketdyne Inc.,

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Green Car Congress

SEPTEMBER 17, 2012

million for promising new research in clean technology and energy efficiency. Seed funding supports early work on concepts that have the potential for very high impact on energy production and use. One way to lower the cost of solar power is to dramatically reduce the thickness of light-absorbing layers in solar cells.

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Green Car Congress

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. Select OPEN 2021 projects include: Synteris. Stanford University. The Ohio State University. University of Washington. Columbia University.

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Green Car Congress

JUNE 11, 2016

The SIA conference was focused on clean compression-ignition engines of the future. Future RDE emissions legislation and fleet average CO 2 targets represent a challenge for automakers wishing to provide cost-effective light duty diesel vehicles. —Ian Penny, managing director – engines business, Ricardo.

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Green Car Congress

FEBRUARY 11, 2016

PEVs are proliferating in California under the Advanced Clean Cars Program, sometimes in geographic clusters; this is creating potential load management issues for electrical utility grids at the feeder and transformer level. SEP2); Zigbee; Society of Automotive Engineers J1772; International Standards Organization 15118; etc.,

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Green Car Congress

JULY 15, 2020

The post-combustion outlet gas is more easily separated into water and CO 2 to the pipeline, thereby lowering the electricity costs of grids with high levels of VRE. Colorado State University will develop a thermal energy storage system combined with partner ION Clean Energy’s flexible advanced solvent carbon capture technology.

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Green Car Congress

FEBRUARY 1, 2013

President Obama announced the DOE “Clean Energy Grand Challenge” in March 2012 with the goal of enabling US companies to be the first in the world to produce plug-in electric vehicles (PEVs) that are as affordable and convenient for the average American family as today’s gasoline-powered vehicles within the next 10 years. kW/kg to 1.4

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Green Car Congress

MAY 14, 2020

These projects will work to develop digital twin technology to reduce O&M costs in the next generation of nuclear power plants. Advanced nuclear reactors have the potential to provide reliable and low-cost clean power to millions of American homes.

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Green Car Congress

AUGUST 10, 2011

This project will develop a new process that enables low-cost, domestic manufacturing of magnesium. This project will develop a novel low cost route to carbon fiber using a lignin/PAN hybrid precursor and carbon fiber conversion technologies leading to high performance, low-cost carbon fiber. 10,000,000. .

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Green Car Congress

MAY 8, 2010

The US Department of Energy has selected 13 projects for investment of up to $62 million over five years to research, develop, and demonstrate Concentrating Solar Power (CSP) systems capable of providing low-cost electrical power. These improvements will all be made in the hopes of driving down the cost of solar energy.

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Green Car Congress

JUNE 6, 2014

Consideration must also be given to the system mass, cost and refill time for proposed concepts as compared with DOE system targets. Manufacturing solutions for low-cost, standardized skid-mounted hydrogen fueling stations; and business models/financial approaches to address infrastructure costs (e.g.,

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Green Car Congress

JULY 14, 2015

Cost: DOE: $6,000,000/Non DOE: $4,917,887/Total: $10,917,887 (45% cost share). The other fifteen projects were awarded funding under two topic areas: Innovative Concepts, geared towards undercutting current SOFC technology costs, and SOFC Core Technology, aimed at laboratory- and bench-scale projects that improve SOFC design.

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Green Car Congress

AUGUST 6, 2014

This flexibility offers a high degree of freedom for design and engine manufacturers need to balance the cost of hardware testing with turn-around time and practicality for mass production. Multi-hole sprays offer the flexibility of manufacturing the nozzle holes at various orientations to engineer a variety of spray patterns. Knight (ANL).

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Green Car Congress

APRIL 5, 2011

The market would focus, consolidate and find some very innovative ways to produce low-cost clean energy. Another misconception is that the USA public will not tolerate a premium for clean electricity. Even ruling Hawaii out as an outlier, the cost of electricity in Connecticut was 17.79 cents/ kWh in Hawaii to 5.61

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Green Car Congress

JULY 26, 2012

The US Department of Energy (DOE) selected eight projects to advance the development of transformational oxy-combustion technologies capable of high-efficiency, low-cost carbon dioxide capture from coal-fired power plants. DOE Investment: $988,000; Recipient Cost-Share: $828,000. Gas Technology Institute.

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Green Car Congress

OCTOBER 30, 2013

million to Stanford faculty for promising new research in clean technology and energy efficiency. The seed funding supports early work on concepts that have the potential for very high impact on energy production and use. Efficiency and Group Behavior in Power Distribution Networks.

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Green Car Congress

JULY 10, 2010

Specifically, low cost and energy-efficient processes are sought that can be demonstrated and validated under field conditions to meet needs of the nascent algal biomass industry. Algae cultures tend to be relatively dilute, and the energy requirement to remove water from the cultures can be a significant portion of the energy balance.

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Green Car Congress

SEPTEMBER 30, 2011

The new ARPA-E selections focus on accelerating innovations in clean technology while increasing US competitiveness in rare earth alternatives and breakthroughs in biofuels, thermal storage, grid controls, and solar power electronics. High Performance, Low Cost Superconducting Wires and Coils. National Renewable. Arlington).

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Green Car Congress

SEPTEMBER 3, 2020

ION Clean Energy Inc. will demonstrate its low-cost ICE-31 solvent with enhanced stability technology on a flue gas slipstream at Los Medanos Energy Center, a commercially dispatched natural gas combined-cycle power plant in Pittsburg, CA. DOE Funding: $13,000,000; Non-DOE Funding: $3,272,127; Total: $16,272,127.

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Clean Fleet Report

OCTOBER 21, 2021

has fully embraced EVs and, after years of teasing with snazzy concepts, the real hardware is for sale–and is selling well. In its cavalcade of concepts, VW also recently showed an entry-level model that appeared to be an electric reincarnation of the Beetle, but without its iconic shape. Kia/Hyundai/Genesis – Coming on Strong.

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Green Car Congress

APRIL 5, 2010

Proof of concept for treatment of ethanol stillage by MFC technology could provide a completely new way to optimize the ethanol value-chain and surrounding infrastructure and lead to significant decreases in waste production. Low-Cost Retrofit Emissions Control in Off-Road Sources”, $69,999.

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Green Car Congress

MARCH 21, 2013

The California Energy Commission (CEC) approved $5,580,773 for clean-energy transportation projects including biodiesel production, power control electronics for medium-and heavy-duty battery electric vehicles, and buydowns for propane vehicles. The program provides up to $95,000 for hardware projects and up to $50,000 for modeling concepts.

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Green Car Congress

DECEMBER 22, 2010

With this FOA, DOE is seeking applications in seven technical areas of interest: balance-of-plant components; fuel processors; high-temperature stack component research; proton exchange membrane fuel cell membrane electrode assembly integration (PEMFC MEA); catalyst/electrodes; membranes; and innovative concepts. water-gas-shift); and.

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Green Car Congress

JANUARY 22, 2014

Area Of Interest (AOI) 1: Development of Low-Cost, High-Strength Automotive Aluminum Sheet. This AOI is to address two major technical gaps in the performance of automotive aluminum alloys: Low strength among cost competitive automotive sheet alloys such as 5xxx and 6xxx series.

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Green Car Congress

JULY 17, 2015

Another strikingly different concept evidenced by the PHEV is that it is essentially a large, portable battery that can store energy gathered during one part of the day, and then use it later to power not only itself but also the vehicle owner’s home. More information on e-mile comparisons is given by Reference Nº 2.

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Tony Karrer Delicious EVdriven

APRIL 21, 2009

Audi Volkswagen-owned company exploring PHEVs Metroproject Quattro Sub-compact PHEV Concept Car shown October 2007; PHEV of A1 Sportback under consideration Bright Automotive For-profit spin off from Rocky Mountain Institute designing lightweight PHEVs, successor to RMIs 1990s "Hypercar" concept. Has shown some concept fuel-cell PHEVs.

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