Green Car Congress

MARCH 8, 2010

Global engineering services provider EDAG showcased its latest technical advances in the development of its concept car, the “Light Car - Open Source”, at this year’s Geneva Motor Show. EDAG introduced the Light Car last year as an independent design concept for the electric-powered car of the future. The drive system.

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Green Car Congress

MAY 23, 2009

Before realizing the design of a hybrid pneumatic engine (HPE) in hardware, the researchers evaluated the different pneumatic engine modes (motor mode and pump mode) associated with both two-stroke and four-stroke implementations of the pneumatic concept. However, this setup adds complexity and cost. [In The hardware concept.

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Cars That Think

NOVEMBER 18, 2023

While discussing with his wife what his next career move should be, an idea suddenly came to him in the form of a vision. They were taught how to design a low-cost emergency ventilator system using a Raspberry Pi computer and automated versions of manual bag-based resuscitator devices, commonly known as Ambu bags.

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Green Car Congress

JUNE 6, 2014

The FOA is open to any and all impactful ideas which will significantly advance the mission of the FCTO and that are relevant to its Multi-Year Program Plan (MYPP); however, specific areas of interest include: Platinum Group Metal (PGM)-free catalysts and membrane electrode assemblies (TRL 2- 4). including soft costs) are of interest.

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Cars That Think

NOVEMBER 1, 2021

Or, new-ish, at least—there's a ruggedized and ultra low-cost GelSight-style fingertip sensor, plus a nifty new kind of tactile sensing skin based on suspended magnetic particles and machine learning. ReSkin operates on a fairly simple concept: it's a flexible sheet of 2mm thick silicone with magnetic particles carelessly mixed in.

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Cars That Think

APRIL 14, 2022

Last year the IEEE Future Networks initiative ran the inaugural IEEE Connecting the Unconnected Challenge to seek out innovative projects and ideas aimed at increasing connectivity. It solicited early-stage projects that have already been piloted but not yet widely deployed, plus theoretical concepts that have potential.

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Green Car Congress

DECEMBER 7, 2009

In this topic, ARPA-E seeks to develop a new generation of ultra-high energy density, low-cost battery technologies for long electric range plug-in hybrid electric vehicles and electric vehicles (EVs). Batteries for Electrical Energy Storage in Transportation (BEEST).

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Green Car Congress

AUGUST 18, 2011

Their basic concept stems from electric railways, where each car of the train is powered from an overhead wire. The researchers conducted feasibility experiments to test their ideas, and to explore the RF frequencies where such power transfer is effective and practical. Click to enlarge. The proposed model and measurement model.

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Green Car Congress

JUNE 1, 2010

The new technology offers improved cost, performance and efficiency of hybrid and electric vehicle powertrains; applications include hybrid, plug-in hybrid and all-electric vehicles, range extenders, auxiliary power units (APU) and integrated starter-generator (ISG) systems. EVO Electric Ltd. , Earlier post.). Earlier post.) earlier post ).

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Green Car Congress

SEPTEMBER 16, 2010

The awards range from $500,000 to $3 million and will provide small innovative companies with the staying power they need to develop the processes that are necessary to reduce the manufacturing costs for their products and enable manufacturing at scale. Algal biofuels ($3 million). manufacturing base for permanent magnets. Dynalene, Inc.

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Green Car Congress

JANUARY 10, 2014

In a paper published in Nature Communications , the researchers suggest that this simple hybrid concept may also provide scientific strategies for protecting metal anodes in other energy-storage devices. Sulphur is also of low cost, and is abundant and non-toxic, making this system attractive for large-scale applications.

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Cars That Think

APRIL 23, 2022

Back then, Warnock already had a rough idea how to “Print Anything.” The time was right because of the imminence of three hardware developments: the first low-cost, bit-mapped personal computer, the first low-cost laser printer, and a decline in price of high-density memory chips. in Mountain View, Calif.

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Green Cars News

AUGUST 16, 2009

The talented engineers at General Motors’ research and development centre are hard at work developing a new low-cost concept for nitrogen oxide control. Currently there are two technologies used for nitrogen oxide reduction - lean traps and urea selective catalytic reduction (SCR).

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Green Car Congress

JULY 8, 2013

The working concept of I3 – /I – redox reaction in the aqueous Li-I 2 battery. They suggest that a low cost, non-flammable and heavy-metal-free aqueous cathode can contribute to the feasibility of scale-up of lithium-iodine batteries for practical energy storage. Zhao et al. Click to enlarge. kWh kg -1 cell (1.0

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Get Electric Vehicle

NOVEMBER 9, 2022

Highly detailed , accurate to micro levels , and smooth scale models made using 3D printing technology are frequently used to exhibit design concepts. With the ability to make modifications with the press of a button, new and innovative ideas and designs may be immediately tested. #3 Advantages Of 3D Printing In EV. 1 Personalization.

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Cars That Think

MAY 9, 2024

Space-based solar power is an idea so beautiful, so tantalizing that some argue it is a wish worth fulfilling. Space authorities in China aim to put a small test satellite in low Earth orbit (LEO) later this decade. Ideas to put megawatt-scale systems in GEO sometime in the 2030s have been floated but not yet funded.

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Green Car Congress

FEBRUARY 2, 2013

High Temperature DC Bus Capacitor Cost Reduction & Performance Improvements. Further, alloying or coating pathways towards low-cost, effective passive films, have not been sufficiently explored in a sound and scientific way. AOI 6: High Temperature DC Bus Capacitor Cost Reduction & Performance Improvements.

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EV Info

MARCH 26, 2021

According to the Department for Business, the average cost for standard electricity in the UK in 2020 was 17.2p/kWh. That rate would give the LEAF a cost of 17.2 * 24 to drive 100 miles. At the time Scottish Power had little if any concept of Eco7 and ‘smart’ meters. Or around 4p pe rmile. So what exactly is a kilowatt hour?

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Cars That Think

DECEMBER 7, 2021

Besides creating new possibilities in the field of autonomous machines, he is making robots accessible to more researchers with the Solo 8 and 12 projects, a low-cost, open source alternative to prohibitively expensive quadruped robots. How did you all find each other and how did the idea for the initiative develop?

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Cars That Think

OCTOBER 2, 2022

At the end of Tesla’s 2021 AI Day last August, Elon Musk introduced a concept for “Tesla Bot,” an electromechanically-actuated, autonomous bipedal “general purpose” humanoid robot. I think that it won’t look all that much like the concept images in this presentation. I think that it’ll be able to stand up, and perhaps walk.

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Green Car Congress

DECEMBER 22, 2010

The solicitations include up to $65 million over three years to fund continued research and development (R&D) on fuel cell components with the goal of reducing costs, improving durability and increasing the efficiency of fuel cell systems. Topic 1: Balance-of-Plant Components. cold start-up time.

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Cars That Think

NOVEMBER 10, 2022

Just last year, a half dozen precisely targeted malicious drones managed to slow oil production in Saudi Arabia for days, and more recently, several low-cost drones caused significant damage to oil tankers in the UAE. The fundamental concept is to never trust and always verify the provenance of each request.

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Green Car Congress

JANUARY 21, 2016

Secretary Moniz also announced that two innovative projects at CALSTART and the National Association of Regional Councils will receive $3 million to develop systems that help companies combine their purchasing of advanced vehicles, components, and infrastructure to reduce incremental cost and achieve economies of scale.

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Green Car Congress

JANUARY 22, 2011

Since its first funding opportunity announcement in April 2009, the US Department of Energy’s (DOE) ARPA-E (Advanced Research Projects Agency - Energy) has received scores of promising ideas for the next generation of energy technologies. However, ARPA-E can only fund a fraction of these promising ideas at the levels required.

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Cars That Think

NOVEMBER 20, 2022

It took some 30 years of effort by engineers and computer scientists in universities, government laboratories, and corporate research groups, piggybacking on each other’s work, trying new ideas, repeating each other’s mistakes. In 1984, the low-cost Macintosh from Apple Computer Inc., More than 1200 Altos were built and tested.

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Cars That Think

JULY 2, 2023

In 1979 the Macintosh personal computer existed only as the pet idea of Jef Raskin, a veteran of the Apple II team, who had proposed that Apple Computer Inc. make a low-cost “appliance”-type computer that would be as easy to use as a toaster. Raskin as “the man who’s going to design your Macintosh.” It’ll never work.’

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Green Car Congress

AUGUST 25, 2011

The projects, with an overall value of more than $40 million over three years, are focused on reducing the energy and cost penalties associated with applying currently available carbon capture technologies to existing and new power plants. DOE share: $2,999,815; recipient share: $749,954. Area of Interest: Sorbents.

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Green Car Congress

JULY 17, 2015

Another strikingly different concept evidenced by the PHEV is that it is essentially a large, portable battery that can store energy gathered during one part of the day, and then use it later to power not only itself but also the vehicle owner’s home. The designs can be greatly improved to be more cost-effective.

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Green Car Congress

APRIL 6, 2015

The objective of CAEBAT is to incorporate existing and new models into design suites/tools with the goal of shortening design cycles and optimizing batteries (cells and packs) for improved performance, safety, long life, and low cost. Cost Model: ANL. Mechanics: EPIC; LS-Dyna; LIGGGHTS/LAMMPS. EC Power’s Autolion.

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Cars That Think

SEPTEMBER 27, 2022

This is especially true for home robots, which need to be low cost(ish) as well as robust enough to be effective in whatever home they find themselves in. It’s a fundamentally flawed concept that doesn’t work. Robots tend to do best when you optimize them for one single, specific task. This is certainly better than.

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Cars That Think

OCTOBER 8, 2022

The idea that a researcher should program computer systems interactively was anathema to them. Busicom had hired Intel to develop a set of custom chips for a low-cost calculator and had sent three engineers to Santa Clara to work on the chip designs. They were rather hostile to the idea,” he recalled, for several reasons.

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Green Car Congress

JUNE 25, 2015

The US$30-million Google Lunar XPRIZE is a competition to challenge and inspire engineers and entrepreneurs from around the world to develop low‑cost methods of robotic space exploration. The concept of a privately financed mission to the moon is fascinating. And innovative ideas need supporters that promote them.

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Cars That Think

APRIL 17, 2024

Your range and long range and low cost. And a fixed-wing aircraft over something that can hover has something like an 800% advantage in range and cost. And not just from a cost perspective, but again, from— we’re all familiar with the nightmare of packaging from deliveries we get. Same idea, right?

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Drive Electric

MAY 16, 2023

There are also innovative ideas that could be explored if businesses wish to install chargers in their employee’s home – e.g. forms of tax incentives. Careful consideration needs to be given to the concept of ‘load control tariffs’ as they apply to public charging services. Outcome 3 8.1

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Baua Electric

MARCH 6, 2024

Second, many newcomers to the e-bike industry just aren’t prepared to drop several thousand dollars on a brand-new concept, making this price range critical for many first-time e-bike shoppers. It’s hard to find a better combination of low cost and high performance anywhere in the e-bike market right now. The XP 3.0

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Baua Electric

JANUARY 13, 2024

Second, many newcomers to the e-bike industry just aren’t prepared to drop several thousand dollars on a brand-new concept, making this price range critical for many first-time e-bike shoppers. It’s hard to find a better combination of low cost and high performance anywhere in the e-bike market right now. The XP 3.0

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Tony Karrer Delicious EVdriven

APRIL 21, 2009

Audi Volkswagen-owned company exploring PHEVs Metroproject Quattro Sub-compact PHEV Concept Car shown October 2007; PHEV of A1 Sportback under consideration Bright Automotive For-profit spin off from Rocky Mountain Institute designing lightweight PHEVs, successor to RMIs 1990s "Hypercar" concept. Has shown some concept fuel-cell PHEVs.

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