Green Car Congress

SEPTEMBER 21, 2020

The autonomous bus will serve Texas Southern University, the University of Houston, and Houston’s Third Ward community connecting to Metro buses and light rail. As the inaugural class of AIM incubators, provide industry leadership in sharing project outcomes with the public transportation community.

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OCTOBER 31, 2014

The US Department of Energy (DOE) is awarding $13 million to five companies to lead key nuclear energy research and development projects supporting advanced reactor technologies. Westinghouse Electric Company partnering with ANL and the University of Pittsburg - Development of thermo-acoustic sensors for Sodium-cooled Fast Reactors (SFR).

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Green Car Congress

NOVEMBER 3, 2020

Furthermore, the potential to use eFuels instead of hydrogen can provide a significantly lower total cost of ownership and allow for faster deployment of fuel cell technology across the industry. The program is funded by an Advanced Research Projects Agency–Energy (ARPA-E) OPEN award.

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Green Car Congress

AUGUST 17, 2023

million, with an industry match of $3.6 With this funding, industry and DOE national laboratories will partner to advance lab-developed clean transportation technologies towards commercialization in technology areas, including vehicle electrification, batteries, materials, decarbonized off-road vehicles, and energy efficient mobility systems.

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AUGUST 15, 2012

BP Biofuels and Texas AgriLife Research, part of The Texas A&M University System, have signed a three-year agreement to develop and commercialize cellulosic feedstocks for the production of advanced biofuels. —Tom Campbell, technology vice president at BP Biofuels.

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Green Car Congress

MAY 10, 2021

Texas Mineral Resources Corp. TMRC’s project partners include Penn State, Jeddo Coal Company and McCarl’s. This is the fourth US Government award relating to the production of rare earth minerals in which Texas Mineral Resources has participated. The award value is approximately $1.1

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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. Columbia University. Harvard University.

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Green Car Congress

JANUARY 8, 2015

The US Department of Energy’s (DOE) Argonne National Laboratory will work with three of the world’s leading nuclear products and services companies on advanced nuclear reactor design projects. and Westinghouse Electric Company (Monroeville, Pa.) The three projects partner Argonne with AREVA Federal Services (Aiken, S.C.);

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Green Car Congress

JUNE 30, 2016

Management consulting firm Zinnov released its latest study conducted on the Automotive R&D Globalization Landscape, presenting a global engineering R&D analysis on the top 60 automotive companies and how are they leveraging the global R&D ecosystems to improve engineering output and efficiency. —Sidhant Rastogi, Partner, Zinnov.

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Green Car Congress

JULY 16, 2021

Thirteen companies and one university have signed agreements with NASA’s Advanced Air Mobility (AAM) project’s National Campaign to continue work towards integrating air taxis, cargo delivery aircraft and other new air vehicle concepts into the national airspace system. SkyGrid, and The University of North Texas.

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Green Car Congress

AUGUST 14, 2021

This hydrogen is currently sold back to refineries and other industries where it is used to remove impurities such as sulfur during the refining process. Captured CO 2 can be directed to industries that require it for production, such as steel, or that assimilate it, such as cement.

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Green Car Congress

AUGUST 1, 2010

Texas Governor Rick Perry has awarded $2.75 million from the Texas Emerging Technology Fund (TETF) to Terrabon for its work in biofuel technology development. Terrabon also has successfully produced high-octane gasoline made from non-food biomass at its demonstration facility in Bryan, Texas. Earlier post.).

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Green Car Congress

MAY 30, 2019

In Brazil, the company has acquired 2.3 In Brazil, the company has acquired 2.3 In Papua New Guinea, the company is planning a three-train liquefied natural gas expansion as it continues to explore for gas in the country’s Highlands region. billion barrels of discovered recoverable resource. —Darren Woods.

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Green Car Congress

NOVEMBER 10, 2009

ActaCell, a Li-ion battery spin-off from the University of Texas at Austin, was selected by the state of Texas, through the Austin Chamber of Commerce and the Central Texas Regional Center of Innovation and Commercialization (CenTex RCIC), to be awarded investment by the Texas Emerging Technology Fund (ETF).

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Cars That Think

JULY 8, 2023

All over the world, startup companies, government agencies, universities, and airlines are collaborating to launch an entirely new category of aviation based on electric aircraft capable of both vertical takeoff and efficient horizontal flight.

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Green Car Congress

AUGUST 21, 2019

Researchers at the University of Waterloo examined data from 28 million trips for possible links between four bad driving behaviors—speeding, hard braking, hard acceleration and hard cornering—and the likelihood of crashes. Some of the results are no surprise, but prior to this we had a whole industry based on intuition.

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JUNE 1, 2018

The institute received up to $70 million in federal funding from DOE’s Advanced Manufacturing Office (AMO) that is matched by $70 million in private cost-share commitments from industry, consortium members, and partners. The selected organizations (and project descriptions) from this first call selection are: University of Connecticut.

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Cars That Think

DECEMBER 28, 2021

MADNI University of California, Los Angeles “For pioneering contributions to the development and commercialization of innovative sensing and systems technologies, and for distinguished research leadership.” Kumar Texas A&M University College Station “For seminal contributions to the modeling, analysis, and design of wireless networks.”

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Green Car Congress

FEBRUARY 25, 2014

The Institute will achieve this through leadership in pre-competitive advanced research and partnerships across defense, aerospace, automotive, energy, and consumer products industries. There are significant challenges for new lightweight and modern metals to reach widespread commercial production. ThermoCalc; TIMET; Trumpf, Inc.;

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Green Car Congress

FEBRUARY 16, 2023

This project will develop a flexible and scalable blueprint plan for an investment-ready hydrogen fueling and heavy-duty freight truck network from Houston to LA (H2LA) along I-10, including the Texas Triangle region, and in the process develop methodology for future corridor plans across the country.

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Green Car Congress

SEPTEMBER 14, 2009

Süd-Chemie AG will supply Evonik Industries AG with novel lithium iron phosphate materials for use in the next generation of lithium-ion batteries for automobiles and other industrial applications. Li-Tec—a joint venture operated by Evonik Industries (50.1%) and Daimler AG (49.9%—uses Earlier post.).

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DECEMBER 15, 2010

an early-stage biotechnology company developing drop-in fuels and chemical products, has joined the Austin Technology Incubator (ATI), a not-for-profit unit of The University of Texas at Austin. Since its founding in 1989, ATI has worked with more than 200 companies, helping them raise close to $750 million in investor capital.

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Cars That Think

JULY 13, 2023

Goodenough, a professor of electrical and computer engineering at the University of Texas at Austin , authored more than 800 technical papers during his career. His third, lithium iron phosphate, is now one of the most popular battery chemistries in the automotive industry. Nobel Laureate John B.

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Green Car Congress

JULY 10, 2019

Purdue University, West Lafayette, Ind. Extension of Core Restrain Design Code NUBOW-3D to Lead Cooled Fast Reactor Systems, $75,000 Westinghouse Electric Company, Cranberry Township, Pa. Quanex Building Products Corporation, Houston, Texas SCP SYS LLC, San Francisco, Calif. Austin, Texas First Solar Inc., New York, N.Y.

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Green Car Congress

SEPTEMBER 26, 2017

The company is testing the latest ground-based, mobile and aerial solutions to help reduce methane emissions. Increasing research with ExxonMobil’s Upstream Research Company and in collaboration with academia, government and technology providers. Expanding personnel training and sharing best practices across the company.

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APRIL 10, 2012

plans to take up to a 10% stake in alcohol-to-jet (ATJ) fuel company Byogy Renewables Inc., Alcohol is attractive as a feedstock for the production of renewable jet fuel partly because the steps required are currently in use at commercial scale in the petrochemical industry. Bloomberg reports that Qatar Airways Ltd. Earlier post.)

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DECEMBER 3, 2021

The US Department of Energy (DOE) announced $35 million in funding for twelve projects focused on developing technologies to reduce methane emissions in the oil, gas, and coal industries. University of Michigan will use additive manufacturing and machine learning to scale up their advanced burner. Selection amount: $3,257,089).

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Green Car Congress

JULY 17, 2020

The Research Foundation for The SUNY Stony Brook University. University of Delaware. University of Maryland. Marquette University. Washington State University. Colorado State University. Regents of University of Minnesota. Purdue University. Ford Motor Company. Achates Power.

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Teslarati

MARCH 11, 2022

But if the company succeeds in ramping the production of its 4680 cells, Tesla could very well pave the way for electric vehicles to become the dominant form of personal transportation in the decades to come. Industry researcher Benchmark Mineral Intelligence estimates that one million 4680 cells are enough for just about 1,200 Model Ys.

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Green Car Congress

SEPTEMBER 19, 2013

NIST is awarding $5 million to the National Additive Manufacturing Innovation Institute (NAMII) in Youngstown, Ohio, which is operated by the National Center for Defense Manufacturing and Machining, for a three-phase collaborative research effort involving 27 companies, universities and national laboratories. NIST is also awarding $2.4

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OCTOBER 3, 2009

billion from the American Recovery and Reinvestment Act for the capture carbon dioxide from industrial sources for storage or beneficial use. Steven Chu, Science Large-scale industrial carbon capture and storage selections (by amount of DOE award) include: ConocoPhillips. Shell Chemical Capital Company. University of Utah.

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SEPTEMBER 8, 2014

Researchers at Southwest Research Institute (SwRI) and The University of Texas at San Antonio (UTSA) have determined that biochar, a substance produced from plant matter, is a safe, effective and inexpensive method to treat flowback water following hydraulic fracturing, or fracking. —Zhigang Feng, USTA.

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Cars That Think

APRIL 21, 2022

That might change now that French robotics company Interactive Autonomous Dynamic Systems (IADYS) has introduced the Jellyfishbot. University of Washington has designed tiny sensors that mimic the shape and aerodynamic capability of the dandelion’s fuzzy, seed-bearing spores. Mark Stone/University of Washington AI on the Fusion Menu.

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Cars That Think

JUNE 9, 2023

The industry standard for dangerous and routine autonomous inspections just got better, now with a brand-new set of features and hardware. Unitree B-W, the ultimate speed all-rounder, combines the advantages of both types of two robots, and continues to bring new exploration and change to the industry. ICRA 2023 ] Thanks, Ken!

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Green Car Congress

FEBRUARY 15, 2013

Preliminary industry data reveals that year-end geothermal growth in 2012 was up 5% from the previous year, according to the Geothermal Energy Association ( GEA ). In addition to these seven projects, GEA identified 13 geothermal companies with projects in stage 3 or 4 of development. Tuscarora (NV): Ormat, 18 MW.

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MAY 11, 2021

The company has chosen Prashanth R. Menon, who has been with Tesla for four years, to oversee the company’s introduction into the Indian market. The in-house hire will be advantageous to Tesla for several reasons, but the most notable is that Menon already knows the company very well from his previous experience.

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Green Car Congress

JUNE 21, 2016

The winning coalition, headquartered in Los Angeles, California brings together a consortium of nearly 200 partners from across academia, industry, and non-profits to spur advances in smart sensors and digital process controls that can significantly improve the efficiency of US advanced manufacturing. Industry-proposed Institutes Competition.

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