Green Car Congress

DECEMBER 15, 2021

The US Department of Energy (DOE) has awarded power management company Eaton $4.9 As part of the award, Eaton is leading the project with partners including the National Renewable Energy Lab (NREL), North Carolina State University (NCSU), University of Pittsburgh (Pitt), ITC Holdings, and CALSTART.

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Cars That Think

SEPTEMBER 6, 2023

And Parker, a professor of electrical and computer engineering at the University of Southern California has delivered. Her father, a chemist, was on the team that first synthesized vitamin B1 at pharmaceutical company Merck in Charlotte, N.C. At the time, her father was a professor at the University of Alabama at Birmingham.

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Green Car Congress

AUGUST 13, 2021

Researchers at the University of Pittsburgh (Pitt) Swanson School of Engineering are working with Powdermet Inc. , a nanomaterials and advanced materials research and development company in Ohio, to develop a rare-earth-mineral-free electric motor.

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Green Car Congress

AUGUST 5, 2019

A new study from North Carolina State University finds that while shared e-scooters may be greener than most cars, they can be less green than several other options, including, in some cases, buses. E-scooter companies tout themselves as having little or no carbon footprint, which is a bold statement.

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Green Car Congress

OCTOBER 23, 2014

An Asplundh-affiliated company also operates a chip dump truck in California where emissions regulations are stringent. A North Carolina State University grant for Clean Fuel Advanced Technology helped fund one of Asplundh’s vehicles.

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Green Car Congress

NOVEMBER 3, 2010

Ford Motor Company and Progress Energy are working together to help prepare the Research Triangle area of North Carolina for the operation of electric vehicles. This will include installing about 600 stations across the company’s territory in the Carolinas and Florida.

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SEPTEMBER 28, 2016

While this anode is an independent technology, the Company will seek synergies with the Super Cathode technology it has been developing. Dr. Sung-Jin Cho, Assistant Professor in the Nanoengineering Department at the university, is the lead investigator of the newly initiated sponsored research program. Earlier post.).

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SEPTEMBER 21, 2022

to survey the status of various chargers in the company’s Destination Charger Network. The company offers on-demand repairs and maintenance support from local workforces, which can come and service a malfunctioning EV charger in Tesla’s Destination Charger Network. Ford Motor Company announced it will invest $3.7

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Green Car Congress

NOVEMBER 24, 2015

The winning concepts were: A molten air battery that uses a molten salt electrolyte at elevated temperature from Professor Stuart Licht at George Washington University. A novel rechargeable zinc battery from the research group of Professors Paul Wright and James Evans from the University of California, Berkeley.

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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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Green Car Congress

AUGUST 31, 2011

The GRI Research Board is an independent body established by BP to administer the company’s 10-year, $500 million commitment to independent research into the effects of the Deepwater Horizon incident. The Research Consortia funded are: Lead Institution: The University of Texas at Austin, Marine Science Institute. Buskey, Ph.D.

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Green Car Congress

OCTOBER 3, 2017

is expanding its partnership with the University of Florida (UF) to advance the supply of biojet fuel in the United States. The Québec-based company and its subsidiary, Agrisoma USA, is working with a network of 40 academic researchers from seven universities associated with UF’s Institute of Food and Agricultural Science.

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Green Car Congress

MAY 31, 2012

Chairman and CEO Nicholas DeBenedict made the announcement before the Pennsylvania Public Utility Commission’s Alternative Fuel Vehicles forum held at Drexel University in Philadelphia. Aqua America serves almost 3 million residents in Pennsylvania, Ohio, North Carolina, Illinois, Texas, New Jersey, Indiana, Florida, Virginia, and Georgia.

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Cars That Think

NOVEMBER 1, 2023

Which seems plenty attractive to a range of companies and researchers. But we do actually need that energy to be generated,” says Alper Bozkurt, who with Veena Misra codirects the Center for Advanced Self-Powered Systems of Integrated Sensors and Technologies (ASSIST) at North Carolina State University.

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Green Car Congress

JULY 13, 2016

and Allegheny Science and Technology). Volume 2 of the report is set for release later this year, and will consist of a collection of analyses on the potential environmental sustainability effects of a subset of agricultural and forestry biomass production scenarios presented in volume 1.

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Green Car Congress

JUNE 4, 2018

North Carolina State University: Development of a Nearly Autonomous Management and Control System for Advanced Reactors – $3,386,834. State University of New York at Buffalo: Reducing Overnight Capital Cost of Advanced Reactors Using Equipment-based Seismic Protective Technologies – $1,443,635.

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Green Car Congress

JANUARY 27, 2014

Porter Machinery Company; Honeywell Aerospace; Montana Tech of The University of Montana; and TechSolve, Inc.). University of Pittsburgh (Acutec Precision Machining Inc.; McGowan Institute for Regenerative Medicine at the University of Pittsburgh (ExOne and Magnesium Elektron Powders). Description. ANSYS, Inc.;

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Green Car Congress

JANUARY 16, 2012

Citing a lack of acceptance for plant technology in many parts of Europe, BASF announced that it is concentrating its plant biotechnology activities on the main markets in North and South America. The company will adjust the portfolio and site footprint of its subsidiary BASF Plant Science to reflect this change.

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FEBRUARY 21, 2015

Metabolix in collaboration with North Carolina State University. The Ohio State University in collaboration with the University of Alabama and Green Biologics. The University of California, Riverside in collaboration with the University of Tennessee-Knoxville and CogniTek. BETO awards. Organizations.

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Green Car Congress

OCTOBER 20, 2022

The project objective is to construct a new, commercial-scale lithium materials processing plant at Kings Mountain, North Carolina, that uses sustainably extracted spodumene minerals from the site’s lithium mine. Albemarle US , Kings Mountain Lithium Materials Processing Plant, $149,658,312. Li 2 O spodumene concentrate.

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Green Car Congress

OCTOBER 14, 2009

Researchers from Duke University Medical Center, the University of North Carolina, and Brazil have sequenced the genome of PE-2, a strain of the yeast Saccharomyces cerevisiae that thrives on turning sugarcane into ethanol. Mieczkowski, of the Department of Genetics at the University of North Carolina, Chapel Hill.

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Green Car Congress

JUNE 9, 2014

In 2009, ARPA-E began its electrofuels program ( earlier post ) , providing $49 million in funding to 11 academic institutions and an additional two companies to develop microbial organisms capable of converting carbon dioxide and hydrogen into liquid fuels.

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Cars That Think

JANUARY 28, 2022

Tevel ] Researchers from North Carolina State University have demonstrated a new type of flexible, robotic grippers that are able to lift delicate egg yolks without breaking them, and that are precise enough to lift a human hair. I’m not sure that this can be commercially sustainable, but I’d absolutely love it if that were so.

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Cars That Think

JANUARY 24, 2022

A company called Canary Speech is creating technology to do just that. Other voice-based technologies have had similar success, says Frank Rudzicz , an associate professor of computer science at the University of Toronto and co-founder of Winterlight Labs , which makes a similar product to Canary Speech.

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SEPTEMBER 11, 2010

Light’N’Up has been South and North Carolina’s police force vehicle specialist for 21 years. The program is managed and administered by the Virginia Department of Mines, Minerals and Energy and Virginia Clean Cities at James Madison University. —Alan Fairfield, Greenville County fleet director.

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Green Car Congress

MAY 28, 2010

The Hub, which includes partners from universities, industry and other national labs, will use advanced modeling and simulation capabilities (e.g., North Carolina State University, Sandia National Laboratories. University of Michigan. Westinghouse Electric Company. Idaho National Laboratory.

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Green Car Congress

MARCH 2, 2010

A project team led by the University of Alabama at Birmingham is conducting the injection. Southern Company of Birmingham, Ala., Project performers include the University of Alabama at Birmingham (Birmingham, Ala); Alabama Agricultural and Mechanical University (Normal, Ala.); Southern Company, (Birmingham, Ala.);

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Green Car Congress

FEBRUARY 10, 2015

Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory (Berkeley Lab) battery scientist Nitash Balsara and co-inventor Joseph DeSimone of the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill, have launched Blue Current , a startup company backed by investment firm Faster LLC, to commercialize their non-flammable electrolytes for Li-ion batteries.

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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. Nothing like this has ever been attempted on a large scale. government agencies.

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Green Car Congress

SEPTEMBER 27, 2009

and Duke Energy last week announced a 10-year commitment to transition their company cars and trucks to plug-in hybrid or all-electric vehicles. 2010, when both companies will begin tracking their commitment. Duke Energy is the third largest electric power holding company in the United States, based on kilowatt-hour sales.

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Green Car Congress

NOVEMBER 14, 2009

The reactor will then be transported to the Energy and Environmental Research Center (EERC) in Grand Forks, North Dakota for integration with upstream and downstream processing equipment, before proceeding into testing next summer. Earlier post.) The 24-month, $5.2M Earlier post.).

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Green Car Congress

DECEMBER 18, 2015

Sandia National Laboratories and Arizona State University (ASU) have teamed up to improve computational models of algae growth in raceway ponds that can predict performance, improve pond design and operation and discover ways to improve algae yield outdoors.

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Cars That Think

FEBRUARY 8, 2022

Johnson held a number of technical leadership positions in IBM offices around the world during her more than 25 years with the company. In 2018 she launched the fintech company and is currently its only employee. She also has a consulting company, SKJ Visioneering , in Research Triangle Park, N.C. She left IBM in 2014.

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Green Car Congress

SEPTEMBER 12, 2022

Wolfspeed, a global leader in Silicon Carbide technology, will build a new multi-billion-dollar Materials manufacturing facility in Chatham County, North Carolina. Between 2024 and the end of the decade, the company will add additional capacity as needed, eventually occupying more than one million square feet on the 445-acre site.

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Green Car Congress

JULY 7, 2010

The projects are located in North Carolina, New Jersey, Massachusetts, Rhode Island, Georgia, and Quebec, Canada (through collaboration with a company based in Lexington, Ky.). Brown University (Providence, R.I.). McGill University (Quebec, Canada). In collaboration with 3H Company (Lexington, Ky.),

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Green Car Congress

JUNE 21, 2016

Texas A&M University will lead the Gulf Coast center—a region anchored in the chemical, oil and gas sectors—and Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute (RPI) will lead the Northeast center, where glass, ceramic and microelectronic manufacturing has a strong presence. Missouri U. of Science & Technology; Montana Gallatin College; Montana State U.;

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Green Car Congress

JUNE 16, 2009

In December 2008, DOE announced the initial selection of three battery materials and manufacturing projects for negotiation of award from the FOA, including: 3M Company; BASF Catalyst LLC; and FMC Corporation. Earlier post.) Earlier post.). These three initial contracts total up to $13.9 million, subject to annual appropriations.

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