Green Car Congress

JULY 31, 2012

Westport LD recently officially opened the Westport Kentucky Integration Center (WKIC) in Louisville where the natural gas WiNG power systems are installed on Ford F250 and F350 bi-fuel pickup trucks.

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Green Car Congress

FEBRUARY 25, 2014

There are significant challenges for new lightweight and modern metals to reach widespread commercial production. The integrated design, development, and production of highly complex systems, leveraging software, can speed ideas from the lab into commercial production, reduce costs, and shorten production lifecycles.

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Green Car Congress

FEBRUARY 16, 2018

This FOA, issued in August 2017, is a $50-million funding opportunity for projects supporting cost-shared research and development to design, construct, and operate two large-scale pilots to demonstrate transformational coal technologies. DOE funding: $741,194 Non-DOE: $188,333 Total: $929,527. University of Illinois. Echogen Power Systems.

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Green Car Congress

JUNE 20, 2017

The new North America Focus production plan saves $1 billion in investment costs versus the original plan—$500 million on top of the $500 million savings announced earlier this year by cancelling plans for an all-new manufacturing facility in San Luis Potosi, Mexico, and moving Focus production to Ford’s Hermosillo, Mexico, plant.

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Green Car Congress

OCTOBER 28, 2022

The selected projects, led by universities, national laboratories, and the private sector aim to develop commercially scalable technologies that will enable greater domestic supplies of copper, nickel, lithium, cobalt, rare earth elements, and other critical elements. University of Kentucky Research Foundation.

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Green Car Congress

APRIL 15, 2011

Allison Transmission has unveiled a new fully automatic 10-speed transmission for tractor units at the 2011 Mid-America Trucking Show in Louisville, Kentucky. The novel gearbox, set to debut in North America in late 2012, has been designed specifically to maximize productivity and fuel efficiency during both cruising and stop-start operation.

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Green Car Congress

JULY 21, 2017

Now, separate research teams in China and the US report two new approaches toward a commercially viable SiO x electrode. A team at the University of Kentucky (Chen et al. ) A number of research efforts have tackled those challenges as well. The SiO x /C composite electrode delivered a reversible specific capacity of 1296.3

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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. The Energy Department’s $7 million investment—leveraged with recipient cost-share to support approximately $9.4

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SEPTEMBER 3, 2020

Under this cost-shared research and development (R&D), DOE is awarding $51 million to nine new projects for coal and natural gas power and industrial sources. will prepare an initial engineering design study to use commercial-scale membrane CO 2 capture technology at the CEMEX Balcones cement plant in New Braunfels, TX.

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Green Car Congress

APRIL 22, 2010

Azure Dynamics Corporation, which partners with Ford commercial truck dealerships across North America to market its hybrid technology to fleet operators, reports sales of 16 additional Balance Hybrid Electric vans and buses. 3 Balance Hybrid Electric shuttle buses to the City of Paducah, Kentucky.

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Green Car Congress

DECEMBER 21, 2009

Even given that, as with Li-ion batteries, it will take one to two decades before the technology could be commercially adopted, Argonne says. It is going to take time and collaborations across several scientific disciplines to address the four main challenges of this battery development effort: safety, cost, life and performance.

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Green Car Congress

SEPTEMBER 2, 2015

The US Department of Energy’s (DOE) National Energy Technology Laboratory (NETL) has selected eight projects to receive almost $25 million in funding to construct small- and large-scale pilots for reducing the cost of CO 2 capture and compression through DOE’s Carbon Capture Program. FuelCell Energy Inc. Source: FuelCell Energy.

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Green Car Congress

AUGUST 22, 2012

USF is planning a first facility located near Central City in Muhlenberg County, Kentucky. Upon completion of this first facility, US Fuel intends to replicate its proprietary process in multiple, larger scaled commercial facilities.

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Blink Charging

OCTOBER 6, 2023

kWh Pricing State Policies Transitioning to kWh pricing for EV charging stations offers several benefits, such as more precise pricing based on actual energy use and real-time data for EV owners to monitor their charging sessions, allowing them to make cost-saving adjustments. Kentucky will implement the kWh tax starting in January 2024.

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Green Car Congress

OCTOBER 20, 2022

It has been demonstrated that these advanced anodes can be paired with any commercial cathode material, resulting in significant improvements in cell energy density, power density, cycle life and charge rate. SCC55 can be deployed directly in current LIB production equipment with very low switching costs and rapid implementation timelines.

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EV Connect

AUGUST 2, 2021

Tax credits for installing EV charging stations are available in a variety of forms, and many of them apply toward the cost of equipment and installation. It covers 30% of the cost for equipment and installation, up to $30,000. Washington state offers tax credits for up to 50% of the costs of equipment and related costs.

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Green Car Congress

AUGUST 20, 2010

million of non-Federal cost sharing. CoalTek, teaming with the University of Kentucky Center for Applied Energy Research in Lexington, Ky., Partnering with the University of Kentucky in Lexington, Ky.; The total value of the projects is approximately $8.2 million, with $6.4 million of DOE funding and $1.8 CoalTek, Inc.

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Green Car Congress

OCTOBER 19, 2022

It has been demonstrated that these advanced anodes can be paired with any commercial cathode material, resulting in significant improvements in cell energy density, power density, cycle life and charge rate. SCC55 can be deployed directly in current LIB production equipment with very low switching costs and rapid implementation timelines.

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Green Car Congress

JUNE 26, 2021

The US Department of Energy (DOE) announced more than $30 million in federal funding, matched by more than $35 million in private sector funds, for 68 projects that will accelerate the commercialization of promising energy technologies—ranging from clean energy and advanced manufacturing, to building efficiency and next-generation materials.

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Green Car Congress

AUGUST 17, 2012

Under laboratory-simulated diesel exhaust conditions, this mixed-phase oxide material was superior to Pt in terms of cost, thermal durability, and catalytic activity for NO oxidation. To determine how MnCe-7:1 performed in simulated diesel exhaust, the team added MnCe-7:1 as a top layer to a commercial-style PtPd diesel oxidation catalyst.

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Green Car Congress

JULY 21, 2016

During past eight years the number of plug-in electric vehicle models has increased from one to more than 20, battery costs have decreased 70%, and the number of electric vehicle charging stations has increased from less than 500 in 2008 to more than 16,000 today—a 40-fold increase. Louisville Gas & Electric and Kentucky Utilities.

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Green Car Congress

FEBRUARY 13, 2009

the technology reduced the moisture to a level that the waste coal can now be marketed commercially. Based on the successful test result, the company is currently building a full-size commercial unit with a capacity of 600 gallons per minute. During recent prototype tests at Arch Coal Company’s Cardinal plant in Logan County, W.Va.,

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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. U of Kentucky).

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Green Car Congress

AUGUST 26, 2009

The US Department of Energy (DOE) has selected 25 cost-share projects under the Clean Cities program that will be funded with nearly $300 million from the American Recovery and Reinvestment Act. Team partners will purchase a total of 191 commercially available light- to heavy-duty alternative-fuel and advanced-technology vehicles.

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Green Car Congress

JUNE 24, 2010

Assuming an average biorefinery size of 40 million gallons per year, USDA estimates it meeting the RFS2 advanced biofuels goals will mean building of 527 biorefineries, at a cost of $168 billion. Alabama, Arkansas, Florida, Georgia, Hawaii, Kentucky, Louisiana, Mississippi, North Carolina, South Carolina, Tennessee, Texas.

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Green Car Congress

SEPTEMBER 17, 2017

The funding is for the incremental cost of a battery electric bus over a CNG bus and leverages federal, state, local utilities and local match to purchase the battery electric buses for service expansion. This project will be the first commercial deployment of articulated fuel cell buses in the US. . Champaign-Urbana Mass Transit.

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Green Car Congress

OCTOBER 20, 2022

The companies will build and expand commercial-scale facilities in 12 states to extract and process lithium, graphite and other battery materials; manufacture components; and demonstrate new approaches, including manufacturing components from recycled materials. The US Department of Energy (DOE) will award a combined $2.8

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Charged EVs

AUGUST 1, 2023

Now Jacobs is Chief Commercial Officer at Westwater Resources, and he spoke to Charged about his company’s plans to start supplying graphite anode material in the heart of the Battery Belt. Just one of SK’s plants in Kentucky or Georgia or Tennessee would require roughly that amount of graphite.

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Green Car Congress

AUGUST 25, 2009

million of non-Federal cost sharing. In order for low-cost electricity from coal-fired power plants to remain available, the DOE said, economical methods for capturing and storing the greenhouse gas emissions from these plants must be developed. The projects’ total value is approximately $35.8 million over four years, with $27.6

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The Truth About Cars

APRIL 1, 2024

Since this car was built in Smyrna, Tennessee , it's #14 in the standings for American-made vehicles in the Murilee Martin Junkyard Odometer Hall of Fame (#1 is a Kentucky-built Camry wagon and #2 is a 1990 Sentra ). The Mexican-market commercials for this car are more fun. Naturally, the JDM advertising is the most frantic.

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Green Car Congress

MAY 26, 2009

In another invited paper at ECS 215, Mark Verbrugge, Materials and Processes Laboratory, General Motors R&D Center, presented an update of work done in collaboration with Professor Yang-Tse Cheng at the University of Kentucky on the role of mechanical deformation on the life of electrode materials for traction batteries.

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Push EVs

JULY 21, 2022

Ford will use module-less LFP (LiFePO4) batteries from CATL to cut costs by 10-15 percent starting next year. It also reduces the reliance on scarce critical minerals such as nickel and, at current costs, brings a 10 to 15% bill of material savings for Ford versus NCM batteries. DEARBORN, Mich., Most of that increase is for full EVs.

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