Cars That Think

APRIL 21, 2025

to commercialize the technology. For these advances, along with contributions to expanding science, technology, engineering, and math (STEM) education, Samueli is the recipient of the 2025 IEEE Medal of Honor. Its a tremendous opportunity to learn because youre dealing with superhigh tech, the greatest technology at the time.

Atlanta

Cars That Think

MAY 29, 2025

million grant. Floating turbines are designed to function farther offshore in waters too deep to anchor turbine towers to the sea floor, and the fledgling industry has yet to install a single commercial-scale turbine in U.S. But on the very same day, university officials received a letter from the U.S. F loating turbines are the U.S.

Wind

Cars That Think

OCTOBER 28, 2024

The team’s use of permanent magnets may not be the ticket to producing commercial-scale energy, but PPPL’s accelerated design-build-test strategy could crank out new insights on plasma behavior that could push the field forward more rapidly. This technology is designed to be a stepping stone toward a fusion power plant.”

IDEA

InsideEVs

AUGUST 7, 2025

Photo by: Zoox Zoox applied for the exemption in June, and now the NHTSA has granted it. The exemption, however, does not allow Zoox to operate its robotaxis commercially. Sign In Browse this and many other websites without banner ads, personalized tracking and video ads. Zooxs autonomous EV doesnt have a steering wheel or pedals.

Taxi

Plug in America

AUGUST 4, 2025

Termination of consumer clean vehicle tax credits – September 30 The last reconciliation package passed in 2022 reauthorized and expanded consumer tax credits for new, used, and commercial electric vehicles. Switching to an entirely new technology requires investment and a learning curve that creates some inefficiencies.

Tax Credit

InsideEVs

JULY 31, 2025

The reality is the EV landscape has changed materially over the last few years, and we saw an opportunity for us to place these tons on behalf of Ford with another customer who wanted the product,” Liontown’s Chief Commercial Officer Grant Donald told investors Tuesday. All rights reserved.

Prius

Charged EVs

MAY 22, 2025

And its not just a question of finding the capitalinvesting such large sums in a developing technology thats outside of a companys core competency carries substantial risks. Were technology-agnostic. We warehouse all the technology risks on behalf of customers. Scott Davidson: Correct. Scott Davidson: Its a great question.

Fleet

Cars That Think

JUNE 17, 2025

they wondered, observing that “20 years or so down the road” technology could be so advanced that planes would fly themselves. “So So would it really be useful for a person to go to college now and be an airline pilot if a few years down the road they will be phased out by technology?”

Taxi

Green Car Congress

AUGUST 9, 2022

a leading AI company with strong internet foundation, has secured the first permits in China to offer commercial fully driverless robotaxi services to the public on open roads. The permits were granted to Baidu by government agencies in Wuhan and Chongqing's Yongchuan District. Baidu, Inc.,

Grant

InsideEVs

JULY 28, 2025

They’ve done that for a little over a century, so we take it for granted. On July 16, Vertical Aerospace’s VX4 prototype completed the world’s first airport-to-airport flight by a full-scale, piloted winged tilt-rotor eVTOL designed for commercial service. The vertical take-off and landing aircraft isn’t ready for mass production yet.

Taxi

Green Car Congress

JANUARY 22, 2021

Phillips 66 has received a $3-million grant from the U.S. Phillips 66 will collaborate with the Georgia Institute of Technology (Georgia Tech) to demonstrate the commercial feasibility of a low-cost and highly efficient RSOFC system for hydrogen and electricity generation. Earlier post.)

Grant

Green Car Congress

NOVEMBER 25, 2022

Volta, an electric vehicle (EV) charging and media company, announced that a project application it collaborated on with Imagen Energy, a developer of compact high-power EV chargers, was awarded a $12-million grant from the US Department of Energy Advanced Research Projects Agency-Energy (ARPA-E). Earlier post.).

Commercial

Green Car Congress

JANUARY 21, 2023

RWE's FUREC project, which aims to produce circular and green hydrogen from non-recyclable municipal solid waste in Limburg, the Netherlands, received a €108-million grant from the EU’s Innovation Fund. FUREC receives funding from the EU Innovation Fund, which is 100% financed by the EU Emissions Trading System (ETS).

Waste

Green Car Congress

SEPTEMBER 21, 2020

Furthering its success in powering traditional medium-duty shuttles and trucks with its cutting-edge electric drivetrain technology, Phoenix Motorcars will integrate EasyMile’s driverless technology to its range of zero emission vehicles. The company’s electric vehicles have logged more than 2.3-million million zero emission miles.

Phoenix

Green Car Congress

JULY 30, 2021

The Volvo Cars Tech Fund and Volta Energy Technologies join existing investors Anzu Partners and the University of Minnesota. Niron will use the funding to build its pilot production facility in Minnesota and accelerate the development of its Clean Earth Magnet technology. million in new financing. 2019.165962.

Minnesota

Teslarati

JUNE 11, 2025

Starlink’s license approval in India paves the way for commercial operations to begin, marking a significant milestone after a three-year wait. The Department of Telecommunications granted Starlink a Global Mobile Personal Communication by Satellite (GMPCS) license, enabling it to roll out its high-speed internet service.

India

Green Car Congress

JANUARY 18, 2023

Chartwell Marine has won a £320k Innovate UK Smart Grant. Though half as energy dense as diesel, methanol can take advantage of reforming technology alongside fuel-cells to create energy with low carbon emissions.

Grant

Green Car Congress

NOVEMBER 23, 2022

million grant as part of its Seeding Critical Advances for Leading Energy technologies with Untapped Potential (SCALEUP) program. The project will expand Niron’s current capacity to sample to customers, accelerating the prototyping and qualification of Clean Earth Magnets in commercial products. Earlier post.).

Grant

Green Car Congress

DECEMBER 21, 2020

ZeroAvia, an innovator in decarbonizing commercial aviation, secured £12.3 The grant award follows ZeroAvia’s world first flight of a commercial-grade hydrogen-electric aircraft at Cranfield in September ( earlier post ), utilizing a smaller version of ZeroAvia’s hydrogen fuel cell powertrain in a 6-seat Piper Malibu M350.

Hydrogen

Green Car Congress

APRIL 9, 2021

The European innovation project Flagships will deploy the world’s first commercial cargo transport vessel operating on hydrogen, plying the river Seine in Paris. Commercial operations are set to commence in 2021. As we move through the energy transition, hydrogen technologies are gaining traction in the maritime sector.

Hydrogen

Green Car Congress

MAY 19, 2022

Element 1 Corporation (e1NA), Zhejiang Methanol Hydrogen Technology (ZMHT) and Zhejiang Element 1 (e1China) have formed a joint venture company—Zhejiang Hydrogen One Energy Technology Co., — to drive methanol-based hydrogen generation technology and commercialize e1NA’s technology throughout Greater China.

Hydrogen

Green Car Congress

JUNE 15, 2020

million) of grant funding for the Altalto waste-to-fuels project from the UK Department for Transport (DfT), under the Future Fuels for Flight and Freight Competition (F4C). Velocys was awarded a grant of £0.4 of the Stage Two grant available to Velocys. Velocys plc has secured a further £0.5 million (US$0.63

Grant

Green Car Congress

MARCH 5, 2021

a developer of advanced rotary internal combustion engines, has adapted its X-Engine technology for the United States Air Force to use in unmanned aerial systems (UAS) as well as “orbs”—urban air mobility (UAM) vehicles designed to carry people and cargo. LiquidPiston, Inc., Earlier post.).

Engine

Green Car Congress

OCTOBER 29, 2021

ClearFlame Engine Technologies , a startup developing net-zero engine technology ( earlier post ), has secured $17 million in Series A financing, which will enable commercialization of the company’s innovative engine technology for the long-haul trucking, agriculture and power generation sectors.

Financing

Green Car Congress

DECEMBER 13, 2021

Maritime classification society the American Bureau of Shipping (ABS) has granted Alfa Laval the first marine approval for operating boilers on methanol. —Lars Skytte Jørgensen, Vice President Technology Development, Energy Systems, Alfa Laval Marine Division.

Mariner

Green Car Congress

OCTOBER 9, 2020

The US Department of Energy (DOE) announced funding for three domestic projects that will accelerate advanced nuclear technology development. million including industry cost-share contributions, will allow industry-led teams to advance the state of domestic commercial nuclear capability. These projects, valued at $26.9

Hydrogen

Green Car Congress

AUGUST 22, 2020

million in research, education, and training grants to universities that comprise the agency’s Air Transportation Center of Excellence (COE) for Unmanned Aircraft Systems (UAS), also known as the Alliance for System Safety of UAS through Research Excellence (ASSURE). million recreational and commercial drones (PDF) in the active UAS fleet.

Grant

Green Car Congress

MAY 9, 2023

The seven projects, each involving a group of companies working in partnership on green transport technology, will each benefit from industry support, together with a government grant. This project will explore and develop technology for inverters. The £77 million is made up of £38.4 million from the automotive industry.

Commercial

Green Car Congress

MARCH 29, 2022

Blackstone Technology GmbH may begin commercialization of 3D-printed solid-state sodium-ion batteries as early as 2025. million (subject to the grant decision becoming legally valid). The Zeiss company is contributing its extensive expertise in metrology and microscopy.

Sodium

Green Car Congress

DECEMBER 24, 2022

The UK’s Civil Aviation Authority (CAA) has granted a permit to fly for ZeroAvia’s Dornier 228 aircraft, which has been retrofitted with its prototype hydrogen-electric powertrain. Securing this permit to fly is a significant milestone in ZeroAvia’s path towards commercialization. Earlier post.). Ground testing (credit Oliver Kay).

Grant

Green Car Congress

SEPTEMBER 15, 2022

million in 2021 Targeted Airshed Grant (TAG) funding from the US Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) to deploy five XCIENT Fuel Cell electric trucks in California. This will be the largest commercial deployment of Class 8 hydrogen fuel cell electric trucks in the US. Hyundai Motor has secured $3.5 Earlier post.) Earlier post.)

EPA

Green Car Congress

AUGUST 24, 2019

The California Air Resources Board (CARB) announced a competitive grant solicitation for one or more grantees to implement the Clean Mobility in Schools Pilot Project for Fiscal Year (FY) 2018-19. This solicitation includes an option for new Grant Agreements for fiscal years FY 2019-20 and FY 2020-21, if additional funds become available.

Grant

Green Car Congress

MARCH 18, 2021

a leader in non-aqueous sodium-ion battery technolog ( earlier post ), announced a collaboration which combines Faradion’s IP with AMTE Power’s design and manufacturing capabilities. Faradion’s patented technology is highly scalable as it can leverage AMTE Power’s existing lithium-ion manufacturing facilities in Thurso.

Manufacturer

Green Car Congress

JANUARY 20, 2021

The FLITE (Fuel via Low Carbon Integrated Technology from Ethanol) consortium, led by SkyNRG and with LanzaTech as the technology provider, will build the first-of-its-kind LanzaJet Alcohol to Jet (AtJ) facility. To meet these targets in the years to come, feedstock and technology options for SAF production need to be diversified.

Building

Green Car Congress

DECEMBER 21, 2018

Daimler Trucks North America (DTNA) has delivered the first vehicle in its Freightliner Electric Innovation Fleet—a Freightliner eM2 ( earlier post )—to Penske Truck Leasing, fulfilling its promise to put an electric commercial truck in customer hands in 2018.

North America

Green Car Congress

MARCH 9, 2023

Most recently in November 2022, ABTC was selected for a competitive US DOE grant for a $20-million project to develop and commercialize a set of next-generation battery recycling technologies to even further enhance the recovery of recycled products and reduce the cost of operations.

Lithium Ion

Green Car Congress

JUNE 4, 2023

Fuel cell systems company Advent Technologies Holdings signed a Memorandum of Understanding (MoU) with Safran Power Units, a leader in auxiliary power systems and turbojet engines. Led by Safran Power Units and with the support of Advent, the consortium has secured a grant for the Clean Hydrogen Partnership TC3-08 NIMPHEA Project.

Fuel