Cars That Think
FEBRUARY 26, 2024
Twenty homes scattered across Canada and the northern United States are keeping warm this winter using prototypes of the latest iteration in residential heating systems: cold climate heat pumps. To prove it, eight manufacturers are publicly testing their prototypes in the Cold-Climate Heat Pump Technology Challenge , hosted by the U.S.
Green Car Congress
JUNE 13, 2009
University of California, Davis researchers will receive $2.8 million in new grants to study the use and impacts of escaped nitrogen from agricultural production. These environmental impacts are not fully documented, according to Tom Tomich, director of the Agricultural Sustainability Institute at UC Davis.
Green Car Congress
FEBRUARY 9, 2012
The California Energy Commission’s (CEC) Alternative and Renewable Fuel and Vehicle Technology Program (ARFVTP) approved four regional planning grants to prepare for electric vehicles. These areas of the state are expected to experience heavy electric vehicle use within the next ten years.
Green Car Congress
AUGUST 5, 2019
FastOx technology, developed by Sierra Energy and supported by grant funding from the Department of Defense and the California Energy Commission, uses oxygen and steam to heat waste to 4,000°F (2,200°C). Sierra Energy was founded in Davis, California in 2004.
Green Car Congress
AUGUST 6, 2014
For 2014, 42 awards were made, supporting scientific and technological research in fields spanning Bioenergy, Engine Efficiency, Turbomachinery Design, Fusion Energy Sciences, High Energy Physics, Materials Science, Nuclear Physics, Nuclear Reactor Safety, Climate Modeling, and Seismology. Davis (UC Davis), R.Sankaran (ORNL).
Green Car Congress
APRIL 22, 2016
and UC-Davis Emeritus and Bruce R. 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.
Green Car Congress
MARCH 30, 2012
SDAV is a collaboration tapping the expertise of researchers at six laboratories: Argonne, Lawrence Berkeley, Lawrence Livermore, Los Alamos, Oak Ridge, and Sandia national laboratories and in seven universities: Georgia Tech, North Carolina State, Northwestern, Ohio State, Rutgers, the University of California at Davis, and the University of Utah.
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