Green Car Congress

OCTOBER 4, 2021

This year alone, Xcel Energy has released a suite of programs to help residential and commercial customers make the transition to electric vehicles and lower certain costs. Public Fast Charging Program will help expand fast charging options for EV drivers away from home.

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Green Car Congress

SEPTEMBER 18, 2015

Fuel Efficiency Improvements in Passenger Vehicles and Commercial Trucks. This project will develop a low cost, ultra-compact power module using innovative integrated-cooling to increase power density, improve performance, and reduce cost. Delphi Automotive Systems. The Curators of The University of Missouri. Ford Motor.

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Green Car Congress

JULY 31, 2012

The US Department of Energy (DOE) has selected 7 projects that will help develop low-cost solid oxide fuel cell (SOFC) technology for central power generation from fossil energy resources for further research. Four of the selected projects will pursue advances in cathode performance, enabling higher efficiency, lower cost systems.

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Green Car Congress

AUGUST 21, 2014

A Commercially Scalable Process for Silicon Anode Prelithiation his project will develop a cost- effective and scalable pre- lithiation process. University of Wisconsin - Madison. Lambda Technologies, Inc. University of Colorado Boulder. The Ohio State University. 799,336.

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Green Car Congress

AUGUST 10, 2011

This project will identify fuel properties that can be used to enable novel combustion strategies with low emissions of nitrogen oxides in an engine, and enhance existing models to capture the effect of additional key fuel properties on combustion. Wisconsin Engine Research Consultants LLC. Light-weighting materials. 3,748,865. .

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Green Car Congress

NOVEMBER 24, 2015

The unthrottled nature of the compression ignition process provides high engine efficiency while achieving compliant exhaust emissions with conventional, low-cost aftertreatment. This—in addition to the opposed engine architecture—could increase fuel efficiency by 40-50% over the comparable spark-ignited gasoline engine, Achates said.

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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

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 16, 2016

SuperTruck II builds on the successful SuperTruck I program, which has already led to more than twenty fuel saving technologies that have reached the commercial market, said Acting Assistant Secretary David Friedman. Accelerated Development and Deployment of Low‐Cost Automotive Mg Sheet Components (Area of Interest 3).

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Green Car Congress

MARCH 15, 2010

The synthesis process is simple, low-cost, safe and broadly applicable, they say, providing new avenues for the rational engineering of electrode materials with enhanced conductivity and power. This is a significant step toward commercial production of silicon-based anode materials for lithium-ion batteries.

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Green Car Congress

JULY 17, 2017

The University of Wisconsin-Madison and ExxonMobil announced a two-year renewal of an agreement to research the fundamental chemistry of converting biomass into transportation fuels. UW-Madison has long been known for its expertise in biomass conversion.

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Green Car Congress

JANUARY 9, 2018

The bumper component offers commercial value by providing reduction of mass in the front of the vehicle, affording an improved ride and handling benefit in addition to mass reduction. A Way to Low-Cost, Yet High-Performing Aluminum. A Model to Join Dissimilar Materials.

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Green Car Congress

JUNE 25, 2016

Researchers at Tsinghua University, along with Professor Rolf Reitz at the Engine Research Center, University of Wisconsin-Madison, have investigated for the first time the the characteristics of homogenous charge compression ignition (HCCI) of polyoxymethylene dimethyl ether (PODE). PODE can be synthesized from methanol.

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Diesel Fuel Gasoline Wisconsin 150

Green Car Congress

AUGUST 23, 2017

data center energy consumption and operating cost while creating a high-volume commercial market for SiC-based power converters. Low Cost e-mode GaN HEMT Gate Driver IC: Enables Revolutionary Energy Savings in Variable Speed Drives for Appliance Motors. University of Wisconsin-Madison. Empower Semiconductor.

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Green Car Congress

JUNE 19, 2015

will advance improved commercial seed cultivars. The team will also incorporate a double-helix spring for energy storage, which allows for high frequency operation—key to producing a system with compact size, low weight and low cost. Wisconsin Engine Research Consultants (WERC) LLC. Finally, Chromatin Inc.

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Green Car Congress

JULY 17, 2015

He was formerly with the University of Wisconsin and Rockwell International, and holds a Ph.D. The vehicle can also be used to transfer the energy to another location—for example, from a solar charging station at work to the vehicle owner’s home or from a home solar set-up to a vacation dwelling or to a jobsite in a commercial setting.

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Green Car Congress

APRIL 10, 2010

In 2015–expanded to emissions from residential, commercial, and other industrial combustion, and transportation fuels. states (Illinois, Iowa, Kansas, Michigan, Minnesota, and Wisconsin) and one Canadian province (Manitoba). a third-party vendor has successfully run auctions on behalf of federal or state agencies at low cost.

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