Cars That Think

SEPTEMBER 16, 2023

People, Power, and the Sun: Honnold Foundation x Adjuntas, Puerto Rico Although most microgrids today operate independently, one way to get the maximum benefit from them is to connect them, letting them share resources wherever and whenever possible. To that end, engineers at the U.S. percent to 2.8 megawatts to 224.6

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Green Car Congress

MARCH 23, 2021

Smart charging EVs can reduce greenhouse gas emissions by an additional 32% on average in Northern California, according to research from the University of California Berkeley. Highlights from the ChargeForward Phase 2 pilot include: More than 1 million miles were powered by 100% renewable energy charging during a one-year period.

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Green Car Congress

NOVEMBER 25, 2019

Women in their 70s and 80s who were exposed to higher levels of air pollution experienced greater declines in memory and more Alzheimer’s-like brain atrophy than their counterparts who breathed cleaner air, according to a new study by researchers at USC, Wake Forest School of Medicine, and their colleagues at other institutions.

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Green Car Congress

APRIL 14, 2016

EV Connect Inc.; The University of California, Irvine, administers the program. These incentives can help fleet managers replace aging gasoline and diesel vehicles with cleaner alternatives. California State University, Fresno Foundation, and Cleantech San Diego Association. NRG EV Services LLC; and Recargo, Inc.—which

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Green Car Congress

JUNE 15, 2016

The services will be accessed using enhanced mobility and connectivity technologies from Ford vehicles. Those challenges take us to remote areas where we can use advanced vehicle and connectivity technologies to change people’s lives and make the world a better place. —Bill Ford, executive chairman. Earlier post.). Investing $4.5

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Green Car Congress

APRIL 13, 2011

Using aluminum in select automotive components could reduce vehicle body structure weight safely by as much as an additional 40% compared to today’s vehicles, according to a recent study by the University of Aachen (Germany) for the European Aluminium Association (EAA).

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Green Car Congress

FEBRUARY 19, 2015

A number of groups have recently or are currently investigating the use of free piston engine power generation applications with a focus on automotive, including work at West Virginia University (WVU), Sandia National Laboratory (SNL), Chalmers University of Technology (Sweden), and Shanghai Jiaotong University. Earlier post.)

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Green Car Congress

SEPTEMBER 17, 2017

Alabama A&M University. Alabama A&M University’s Bulldog Transit System will receive funding to purchase electric buses, charging stations, and other associated equipment. This project will begin to fulfill Mountain Rides' goal of moving from diesel powered buses to cleaner, cheaper, easier to maintain battery electric buses.

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Green Car Congress

AUGUST 22, 2017

These will plug the gaps in the existing legislation and will help to ensure that diesel vehicles in particular become considerably cleaner as regards their NO x emissions. The team included experts from the Swiss Federal Office for the Environment (FOEN), the Federal Roads Office (FEDRO), Bern University of Applied Sciences and Empa.

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Cars That Think

JANUARY 28, 2023

For instance, Alexandre Milovanoff at the University of Toronto and his colleagues’ research (which is described in depth in a recent Spectrum article ) demonstrates the U.S. Just accounting for miles driven , however, BEVs cars and trucks appear cleaner than ICE equivalents nearly everywhere in the U.S.

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Green Car Congress

DECEMBER 1, 2009

The initial phase of the Model Fuels Consortium was launched four years ago by Reaction Design to enable the design of cleaner-burning, more-efficient engines and fuels. Expanded capability to connect detailed kinetics with multidimensional engine simulation.

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Green Car Congress

JUNE 6, 2009

Australia-based Revetec is designing what it calls the Controlled Combustion Engine (CCE)—a cam-drive gasoline spark-ignited internal combustion engine that is smaller, lighter, cleaner, less expensive to manufacture and that produces higher torque due to higher mechanical transfer than equivalent conventional engines. The trilobate cams.

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Green Car Congress

MARCH 11, 2010

This will extend the possibilities of implementing these pathways in industrial fermentation hosts to overcome the furanic aldehyde inhibition connected with the use of lignocellulosic hydrolysate as renewable fermentation feedstock. The research by Koopman, Wierckx, Ruijssenaars and De Winde forms part of the B-BASIC consortium.

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Teslarati

AUGUST 15, 2022

When clean energy is available, carbon sequestration and desalination will be cheaper, climate change and water shortages will be solved, and when fossil fuels are out of the picture, the skies will be cleaner, the world will be quieter, the air will be fresher, and the future will be brighter. . Clean Energy: The Future of Sustainability.

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Green Car Congress

APRIL 22, 2016

Frank (email: afrank@efficientdrivetrains.com) Dr. Frank is Professor Emeritus, Mechanical and Aeronautical Engineering at the University of California, Davis, where he established the Institute for Transportation Studies (ITS-Davis), and was director of the US Department of Energy’s National Center of Hybrid Excellence at UC Davis.

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Cars That Think

MARCH 18, 2022

The electric truck and battery is considered a generation technology similar to rooftop solar and home energy battery storage, and in PG&E’s service area (which is northern California) Lightning owners with bidirectional charging to the home will need to apply for approval to connect charger to grid.

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Green Car Congress

FEBRUARY 8, 2015

This breakthrough has generated data on QOOH reaction rates and outcomes that will improve the fidelity of models used by engine manufacturers to create cleaner and more efficient cars and trucks. Decades of research worldwide have shown that QOOH must be a central connection in the network of ignition reactions. —Savee et al.

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Creative Greenius

MARCH 11, 2015

Sure I’m a white guy and a card carrying member of the Lucky Sperm Club , but my family roots connect me with the struggles of a broader community with whom I share deep kinship. Neither of them with any money, any education beyond high school, or any connections. “What’s in it for me?”

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Get Electric Vehicle

OCTOBER 20, 2022

High-level humaniform robots could do tasks such as warehouse workers, fast food workers, janitors, factory workers, construction workers, cleaners, gardening workers, shipping and receiving staff, and stocking clerks. However, roboticists doubt Tesla’s ability to deliver them anytime soon. The Hurdles.

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Green Car Congress

JUNE 9, 2009

Reduction in concrete use or switching to lower energy input and GHG-intensity materials would improve infrastructure construction performance while reduced electricity consumption and cleaner fuels for electricity generation would improve infrastructure operation for rail, they noted. Chester and Horvath (2009). Click to enlarge.

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Green Car Congress

JUNE 26, 2021

Some of the world’s cities suffer disproportionate economic losses because of the health consequences of in-car air pollution, according to a new study by an international team led by researchers at the University of Surrey (UK). Surrey’s Global Centre for Clean Air Research (GCARE) set out to investigate whether the amount of PM 2.5

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Green Car Congress

FEBRUARY 4, 2011

A new study sponsored by Indiana University concludes that President Obama’s vision of one million plug-in electric vehicles (PEVs) on US roads by 2015 will require concentrated efforts action from all stakeholders— the auto industry, federal government, the scientific community, and consumers—to be realized.

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Green Car Congress

OCTOBER 30, 2018

A team from Georgia Tech, with colleagues at the university of Kansas, has designed a high-performance solid-oxide fuel cell that operates directly on nearly dry (only ~3.5 When you get that low, it makes the job of the engineer designing the stack and connected technologies much easier. Very few people have even tried it.

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EV Connect

MAY 22, 2023

And it allows them to ensure that their car is not only cleaner but also powered by renewable energy. One study by the University of Maryland School of Public Policy found that those who purchased an EV increased their hourly power usage by 0.4 EV Connect can help. Fast Company - America has eight parking spaces for every car.

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Green Car Congress

JUNE 24, 2015

The most promising application identified for second use batteries is to replace grid-connected combustion turbine peaker plants and provide peak-shaving services. Laboratories, Universities, Future Repurposers, and other Third Parties. Even with these variables, the system has been operating successfully since late 2013.

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Drive EV

SEPTEMBER 3, 2020

Zap-Pay addresses this problem by providing a simple, universal payment system. As the EV market continues to go from strength to strength, journey planning and paying with one app or membership card must also follow – Zap-Pay will help do just that, propelling us towards cleaner towns and cities and a zero emission future.”.

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Green Car Congress

MARCH 28, 2011

In cities, switching to cleaner transport is facilitated by the lower requirements for vehicle range and higher population density, the paper notes. More resource-efficient vehicles and cleaner fuels are unlikely to achieve on their own the necessary cuts in emissions and they would not solve the problem of congestion.

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Green Car Congress

AUGUST 12, 2021

Southwest Research Institute and The University of Texas at San Antonio (USTA) are collaborating to combine two catalytic processes into a single reactor, with the overall goal of recycling carbon from COCO 2 2 to produce low-cost hydrocarbon fuels. We’re facing a lack of renewable fuels and the technology to deliver cleaner power generation.

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Cars That Think

MARCH 25, 2024

Sweet of Stanford University developed a chart recorder in which the jet of ink was broken into a uniform stream of electrically charged droplets. Hewlett-Packard’s HP ThinkJet was its first desktop inkjet printer based on its thermal technology, and it was designed to connect to a personal computer for everyday printing.

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Green Car Congress

JULY 17, 2015

Frank is Professor Emeritus, Mechanical and Aeronautical Engineering at the University of California, Davis, where he established the Institute for Transportation Studies (ITS-Davis), and was director of the US Department of Energy’s National Center of Hybrid Excellence at UC Davis. Table of Contents. Engineering Advantages of PHEV.

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Tony Karrer Delicious EVdriven

APRIL 16, 2009

Individuals and businesses lose months and connect fees when they add solar and other forms of renewable energy to the grid. Installation will be made of thousands of in-home control devices and the necessary systems to fully automate home energy use. The current electrical grid is poorly designed for distributed generation of power.

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My Energi

AUGUST 12, 2021

Though, we get it… you’ve had a busy week at work and now the kids are off school, and so starts that great juggling act between your job and then being head chef, cleaner, taxi driver, events planner, and children’s entertainer, the list goes on! myenergi set to leave a lasting legacy after Arctic X Prix.

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