Green Car Congress

SEPTEMBER 2, 2014

WiTricity, the MIT spin-off commercializing strongly coupled magnetic resonance wireless charging technology for EVs as well as consumer devices, industrial, medical and military applications ( earlier post ), has work underway to deliver wireless charging systems capable of delivering 10s of kilowatts for plug-ins, compared to the current 3.3

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JULY 13, 2023

He probably is best known for developing the lithium cobalt oxide cathode in 1980—which became the foundation for Sony’s first commercial lithium-ion battery in 1991. His third, lithium iron phosphate, is now one of the most popular battery chemistries in the automotive industry. His ability to cross disciplines started at MIT. “At

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Green Car Congress

MAY 13, 2012

OsComp Systems, a startup formed by MIT alumni, has developed , with support from the US Department of Energy (DOE), a hybrid rotary compressor design that decreases the energy required to compress and transport natural gas, lowers operating costs, improves efficiencies and reduces the environmental footprint of well site operations.

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AUGUST 12, 2021

Commercial trucks already have guard bars on the back to prevent such accidents, so instead of looking to improve trucks, Bayhan decided to build an attachment for cars. The incoming freshman at MIT won $600. He says that the unsustainable cost of building spaceships is what prevents long-term space travel. Brian Minnick.

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Green Car Congress

JANUARY 13, 2011

The MIT Energy Initiative (MITEI) has released a report on the proceedings—and papers that informed those proceedings—of the 8 April 2010 symposium on The Electrification of the Transportation System: Issues and Opportunities. The symposium was sponsored by the MIT Energy Initiative, together with Ormat, Hess, Cummins and Entergy.

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Green Car Congress

AUGUST 10, 2011

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. valve train vs. bearings). Light-weighting materials. Johnson Controls, Inc. A123 Systems, Inc. A123 Systems, Inc.

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Green Car Congress

JULY 26, 2012

As a promising near-term technology, oxy-combustion applied at facilities using pulverized coal-fired boilers for power or industrial applications, will support CCUS efforts and result in ultra-low emissions. DOE Investment: $988,000; Recipient Cost-Share: $828,000. Gas Technology Institute. Unity Power Alliance.

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Green Car Congress

OCTOBER 3, 2014

Boosting the yield and lowering the cost of fermentative production of biofuel would not only result in a significant immediate financial impact to commercial ethanol operations, but also support cost reductions that would be helpful to advance other advanced biofuels using the same or a similar pathway. Ethanol tolerance.

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Green Car Congress

NOVEMBER 16, 2010

This partnership expands use of GM’s 8L long-block engine, originally intended for industrial and marine markets, to new on-highway applications of up to 33,000 lb GVW (gross vehicle weight). Conversion kits also will be available to switch medium-duty gasoline vehicles to run on propane. Stored and transported like.

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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 The team anticipates at least a twofold productivity improvement over current levels and a cost that can be competitive with gasoline. per gallon.

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Cars That Think

AUGUST 16, 2021

Although military aircraft were breaking the sound barrier daily during the 1950s and '60s, commercial passenger flights during this time remained limited to subsonic speeds. Today's airliners travel no faster than their counterparts of 60 years ago—indeed, they tend to fly somewhat slower to reduce fuel costs.

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AUGUST 3, 2021

But with Moore's Law cranking along at a steady pace, there was every reason to think that the cost of computing power would come down sufficiently within a decade or so. Here I'll pick up the story as adapted from my narrative in A Biography of the Pixel , published this month by MIT Press. George and Marcia Lucas divorced in 1983.

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JULY 30, 2023

Left: MIT Museum; Right: Stephanie Mitchell/Harvard University Instead, it was Russian scientist Alexander Kobrinski who debuted the first clinically significant myoelectric prosthesis in 1960. A search of the MIT Museum’s database came up empty (no known example of the hearing glove exists), but I did find the entry on the Boston Arm.

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JULY 21, 2021

IBM's large commercial customers faced the implications of this emerging technology: Who would maintain the equipment and its software? By 1980, customers in many industries were telling their IBM contacts to enter the fray. As developers began writing software for the IBM PC, they embraced DOS as the industry standard.

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NOVEMBER 20, 2023

Jesse Jenkins, Princeton University When I entered the field, commercial wind was starting to scale up and the questions were about engineering feasibility. If you ask a bunch of experts to predict the cost of a technology 10 years from now, they’re all over the map—9 out of 10 are wrong, and you don’t know which one is right.

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JULY 19, 2011

In general the passenger vehicle industry is also exceedingly cost conscious.As The time required to achieve sufficient penetration in the fleet, such that some benefits (value) are obvious to the owner, is longer than that which would motivate the installation (and cost) of the equipment. MIT and smart intersections.

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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. Pratt & Whitney will design a novel, high-efficiency hydrogen-power turbomachine for commercial aviation. Argonne National Laboratory.

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Green Car Congress

APRIL 29, 2009

the session counted among its panelists: Professor John Heywood, Sun Jae Professor of Mechanical Engineering and Director of the Sloan Auto Laboratory at MIT. Weiss, M., “ On the Road in 2035: Reducing Transportation’s Petroleum Consumption ans GHG Emissions ,” MIT Laboratory for Energy and the Environment, Report No. Earlier post.)].

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MARCH 1, 2023

The people who developed the Alto came to Xerox PARC from universities, industrial labs, and commercial ventures, bringing with them diverse experiences and skills. Alan Kay Metcalfe left PARC in 1979 to found 3Com, which, along with other startups, commercialized Ethernet. The two were disciples of J.C.R.

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AUGUST 20, 2023

The mechanical complexity and high cost of most lidar sensors—which not long ago would have added tens of thousands of dollars to the price of each vehicle—no doubt helped shaped Musk’s views. We and others at our company, Analog Photonics , which spun out of MIT in 2016, hope to break this impasse.

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OCTOBER 3, 2023

Foundation for Skydio’s drones can be traced back to Adam’s work on autonomous agile drones at MIT , and after spending a few years at Google working on Project Wing’s delivery drones , Adam cofounded Skydio in 2014. In the industrial world, it’s entirely different. It’s around €3,000. So that’s a very good news.

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Green Car Congress

SEPTEMBER 30, 2011

exceeding the magnetic properties of industrially important. that substantially reduce costs of the motor. the cost of wind turbines and electric vehicles by developing a. industries, without the need for these costly and scarce. potential to substantially reduce the costs of an electric. rare earth magnets.

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Green Car Congress

NOVEMBER 28, 2012

The Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT) will develop a. gas, the first step in the commercial process of converting natural. deployed remotely, MIT’s reformer could be used for small, remote sources of gas. If successful, the new crop would have a lower cost of. Turbo-POx For Ultra Low-Cost Gasoline.

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Green Car Congress

OCTOBER 27, 2013

Based on the interim results of a new study, MIT researchers are warning smaller nations to proceed with caution in pursuing the development of their natural gas resources. The cost for these smaller nations makes up a larger portion of their economies, so before spending the money, they need to have the proper expectations.

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JANUARY 23, 2023

Many in the auto industry are warning that realistic BEV range numbers under varying conditions need to be widely published , else risk creating a backlash against EVs in general. How long GM will be able to keep that price in the face of battery cost increases and inflationary pressure, is anyone’s guess.

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Tony Karrer Delicious EVdriven

APRIL 21, 2009

This is from "Commercializing Plug-In Hybrids" (pdf), the current CalCars 24-slide presentation about PHEVs available along with other documents at CalCars Downloads. DaimlerChrysler has presented plug-in hybrids in commercial vans that have enough room to store the batteries, but the technology is not quite ripe for cars."Plug-in

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EV Adoption

MARCH 15, 2021

– March 12, via Commercial Appeal. GM To Develop Solid State Batteries With SolidEnergy Systems – General Motors has signed a deal with a Massachusetts Institute of Technology spinout for joint development of next-generation electric vehicle batteries that are expected to cut the cost of the technology by 60%.

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Tony Karrer Delicious EVdriven

APRIL 16, 2009

Earlier this month, researchers from MIT said they had developed a process that within three years could lead to electric car batteries able to recharge in as little as five minutes. “A 480V outlet is a little unusual,&# used mostly for higher-power industrial applications, Omotoso said. outlet is 120V. a gallon , that’s 5.7

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Tony Karrer Delicious EVdriven

APRIL 16, 2009

It is simply the cost of doing business. "On some products, the costs, particularly in advanced technologies, are high," he said in a lengthy interview with Automotive News (free subscription required). Its been improving over time, but the power density and cost issues are still steep for what exists thus far.

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