Green Car Congress

AUGUST 10, 2011

Ford Motor Company. Ford Motor Company. Light-weighting materials : Five projects awarded to accelerate commercial availability of lighter weight vehicles using advanced materials that dramatically reduce vehicle weight while maintaining the highest safety standards. Zoltek Companies, Inc. 3M Company. 4,577,909.

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Carbon Fiber Lithium Ion Li-ion Vehicles 268

Green Car Congress

AUGUST 31, 2016

Efforts to commercialize light-weight, energy-dense lithium-sulfur secondary batteries (2510 Wh kg –1 ) have been stalled by ongoing problems with the battery’s membrane, which limits cycle-life. Partners range from small to large companies, industry consortiums and institutes. Harper International Corp.

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Manufacturer EPRI Lithium Sulfur Carbon Fiber 150

Green Car Congress

SEPTEMBER 10, 2010

The US Department of Energy (DOE) has selected 27 projects for more than $37 million in funding to accelerate the technological and commercial readiness of emerging marine and hydrokinetic (MHK) technologies, which seek to generate renewable electricity from oceans and free-flowing rivers and streams. DOE Funding: $160,000.

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Mariner Energy Alaska New Jersey 210

Green Car Congress

JUNE 21, 2016

The Smart Manufacturing Innovation Institute will focus on accelerating the development and adoption of advanced sensors, data analytics, and controls in manufacturing, while reducing the cost of these technologies by half and improving the efficiency of US advanced manufacturing. Pacific Northwest National Laboratory; Pennsylvania State U.;

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Manufacturer Los Angeles Oregon Connecticut 150

Green Car Congress

MARCH 23, 2019

Currently, the cost of recuperators of power systems operating in these conditions is prohibitive. Laser welding micro tubes offers a low-cost approach to fabricating heat exchangers, which will increase the economic competitiveness of sCO 2 power cycles. General Electric Company, GE Global Research. The Boeing Company.

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Low Cost Universal Power Powered 207

Green Car Congress

SEPTEMBER 14, 2016

By creating high performance parts built with solid ion conductors—solids in which ions can be mobile and store energy—the IONICS program will focus on new ways to process and integrate these parts into devices with the goal of accelerating their commercial deployment. Pennsylvania State University. 5,250,000.

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Li-ion Polymer Batteries Battery 150

Green Car Congress

APRIL 30, 2010

This project will develop and optimize a novel, engineered microorganism that produces a biodiesel-equivalent fuel from renewable hydrogen and carbon dioxide, at costs of less than $2.50 PolyPlus Battery Company. Mg-Ion Battery : Low-Cost Rechargeable Magnesium Ion Batteries with High Energy Density. per gallon.

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Carbon Batteries Battery Li-ion 249

Cars That Think

MARCH 4, 2023

After six months of 80-hour weeks and sleepless nights, SS MAPR was able to finish its maiden voyage with water samples and data collected from the bottom of the Schuylkill River, in Pennsylvania. Many wind-farm operators have to hire technicians from out of state at a high cost, which pushes up the overall cost of wind energy.

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Climate Change Climate Wind Renewable 91

Green Car Congress

AUGUST 2, 2012

Ford Motor Company. Ford Motor Company and Arbin Instruments will develop a. measurement capabilities and lowering the cost of electric. Pennsylvania State University. Pennsylvania State University is developing an innovative. optimize the operation of commercial-scale hybrid electric. These compact.

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Energy Storage Grid Electric Vehicles Energy 299

Green Car Congress

JUNE 12, 2012

The selected projects range from improving manufacturing processes that reduce the energy needed to make components for aircraft and vehicles, to lowering the production costs of carbon fiber for a wide range of clean energy products. The projects selected for awards include: The Dow Chemical Company, Scale-Up of Novel Low-Cost Carbon Fibers.

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Carbon Fiber Manufacturer Carbon Lithium Sulfur 210

Cars That Think

OCTOBER 26, 2021

Is 381 miles by the shortest route and 420 miles if I take the Pennsylvania Turnpike. Tesla, one of the smartest things the company did was to recognize early on that if electric cars were to be accepted as viable substitutes for cars with engines, they couldn't be limited to low-range city-only [driving]. I'm into EVs too."

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Electric Vehicles Charging Vehicles Electric 91

Cars That Think

OCTOBER 26, 2021

Is 381 miles by the shortest route and 420 miles if I take the Pennsylvania Turnpike. Tesla, one of the smartest things the company did was to recognize early on that if electric cars were to be accepted as viable substitutes for cars with engines, they couldn't be limited to low-range city-only [driving]. I'm into EVs too."

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Electric Vehicles Charging Vehicles Electric 89

Cars That Think

APRIL 2, 2022

Designing the next great chips In the late 1970s, MOS Technology was a successful semiconductor company; its engineers had designed the popular 6502 microprocessor, and it manufactured several other solidly selling products. We tried to get a feel for what these companies could do in the future by extrapolating from their current technology.

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Engine Design Personal Production 116