Green Car Congress

NOVEMBER 16, 2018

The top awardee in this segment is Pinnacle Engines ( earlier post ), which is receiving $8 million for the design and demonstration of an electrification-enabled full-featured opposed piston 4-stroke engine for hybrid and range extender applications. University of California, San Diego. Ecolectro, Inc.

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OCTOBER 31, 2014

The cost-share agreements will help address significant technical challenges to the design, construction and operation of next generation nuclear reactors, based off needs identified by industry designers and technical experts.

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The Truth About Cars

DECEMBER 18, 2023

I remember some years ago, before joining TTAC, going to San Diego for the launch of the first-generation Trax. It’s not all about the drive, either – the interior design is interesting, if not attractive (beauty is in the eye of the beholder and all), and the feature list is nice. What a concept.

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Green Car Congress

MAY 21, 2016

Researchers at the US Department of Energy (DOE)’s Joint BioEnergy Institute (JBEI), in collaboration with researchers at the University of California, San Diego, have developed a workflow that integrates various “omics” data and genome-scale models to study the effects of biofuel production in a microbial host.

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SEPTEMBER 3, 2020

ORNL and its partners will develop an integrated simulation environment, the Fusion Energy Reactor Models Integrator (FERMI), to assess and accelerate the design cycle of integrated fusion-energy systems. FERMI will substantially shorten the overall design cycle and reduce costs, while significantly improving accuracy.

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OCTOBER 19, 2015

This included collaboration during the design approval, construction and commissioning the ship to operate safely and effectively on natural gas. The Jones Act-qualified ships will operate between Jacksonville, Florida, and San Juan, Puerto Rico. LNG-conversion-ready ECO tanker.

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Green Car Congress

MAY 26, 2022

Papers from BMW and Hydrogen Energy Research Lab show that sufficiently lean hydrogen combustion in properly designed combustion chamber results in close to zero NO x. The addition of a spark plug is a new design element. The founding members of the Hydrogen Opposed Piston Engine Working Group include: Achates Power, San Diego, CA.

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Cars That Think

MARCH 29, 2024

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Green Car Congress

FEBRUARY 9, 2010

The APU is designed as a flexible, compact unit using proven technology, combined to bring 40kW of power to EV architecture. president and CEO, made the announcement in conjunction with the 2010 SAE Hybrid Vehicle Technologies Symposium, opening tomorrow in San Diego, Calif. FEV, Inc., Gary Rogers, FEV, Inc. —Gary Rogers.

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JULY 10, 2019

Concentric Ring Gas Atomization Die Design for Optimized Particle Production, $150,000 Praxair, Indianapolis, Ind. Extension of Core Restrain Design Code NUBOW-3D to Lead Cooled Fast Reactor Systems, $75,000 Westinghouse Electric Company, Cranberry Township, Pa. San Diego, Calif. Selected Labs and Partners. New York, N.Y.

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FEBRUARY 24, 2021

Source: Designing Electricity Rates for An Equitable Energy Transition. Source: Designing Electricity Rates for An Equitable Energy Transition. Prices for Pacific Gas & Electric (PG&E) are about 80% higher, and prices in the San Diego Gas & Electric (SDG&E) territory are roughly double the national average.

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Green Car Congress

JUNE 20, 2014

The Energy Commission approved 15 grants totaling more than $5 million to install 475 electric vehicle chargers in communities throughout California, including the cities of San Francisco, Burbank, Torrance and San Diego and the counties of Ventura, Santa Barbara, San Luis Obispo, Orange, Riverside and Los Angeles.

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Cars That Think

MAY 28, 2024

There, Kroemer originated the concept of the heterostructure bipolar transistor (HBT), a device that contains differing semiconductor materials for the emitter and base regions, creating a heterojunction. His initial work focused on developing CAD programs to help researchers design microwave circuits and communications networks.

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Green Car Congress

DECEMBER 13, 2013

The Energy Innovations Small Grant Program provides funding to small businesses, non-profit organizations, individuals, and academic institutions to conduct research that establishes the feasibility of new, innovative energy concepts. The program provides up to $95,000 for hardware projects and up to $50,000 for modeling concepts.

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Green Car Congress

AUGUST 6, 2014

and the cloud—to be able ultimately to design a vehicle that can learn, predict and adapt to drivers. This means being in touch with customers in and out of the car using cloud and connected devices, and ultimately designing a vehicle capable of learning, predicting, and adapting to drivers’ needs and wishes. —Chuhee Lee.

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Green Car Congress

NOVEMBER 8, 2016

The Oak Ridge team will be presenting 8 papers on the work on the new aluminum alloy at the upcoming TMS 2017 146 th Annual Meeting in San Diego in February. A key and very valuable element in ORNL’s propulsion material work is the use of the Titan supercomputer to accelerate design of advanced materials via high performance computing.

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Green Car Congress

OCTOBER 10, 2011

Seeo’s cell design couples a solid lithium metal anode with a conventional porous lithium iron phosphate cathode yielding a pouch cell energy density of 235 Wh/kg and 410 Wh/l. Seeo is targeting the production of a total of 1,000 cells with optimized power and energy by December 2011, with final pack design by June 2012.

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JUNE 21, 2016

The concept announced at EVS29 is the first market-ready home storage system using a second-life automotive BMW i3 high-voltage battery integrated by BECK Automation (Würzburg, Germany). The system has been designed to be integrated into the house energy supply chain. BMW i 360° Electric.

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Cars That Think

DECEMBER 16, 2022

DEBOY Infineon Technologies Austria AG Villach, Austria TATSUHIKO FUJIHIRA Fuji Electric Matsumoto, Japan “For contributions to the concept and realization of superjunction power devices that significantly improve power efficiency.” Corecipients: DAVID JAMES COE Philips Research Laboratories Redhill, Surrey, England GERALD F. IEEE RICHARD M.

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Green Car Congress

FEBRUARY 12, 2014

The Proving Factory is a UK collaborative project designed to bridge the market gap between technology developers making innovative, low-carbon “proof of concept” prototypes, and the need to develop vehicle manufacturer’s confidence in the new technology by providing volume supply.).

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Green Car Congress

JUNE 5, 2014

Mats Johansson at Sweden’s KTH Royal Institute of Technology says the work is about improving the mechanical properties of batteries so that it not only stores energy but is part of the design. For example, he suggests, the hood of the car could be part of the battery. These are a trunk lid and a plenum cover, tested within the Volvo S80.

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Green Car Congress

JUNE 13, 2023

NASA and Boeing announced Monday evening at a presentation at AIAA Aviation in San Diego that the aircraft produced through the agency’s Sustainable Flight Demonstrator project has been designated by the US Air Force as the X-66A. The designation is for research aircraft. Earlier post.)

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Green Car Congress

JULY 29, 2014

The goal of this program is to develop a cloud-based, central server that would receive grid requests from a utility—such as Demand Response—and then translate and standardize that request so it could be relayed to all appropriate plug-in vehicles in the designated area. Automakers and V2G.

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SEPTEMBER 3, 2020

Under the first FOA (DE-FOA-0002187), Capture Research and Development (R&D): Engineering Scale Testing from Coal- and Natural-Gas-Based Flue Gas and Initial Engineering Design for Industrial Sources, DOE selected nine projects to receive $51 million for cost-shared R&D. DOE Funding: $1,500,000; Non-DOE Funding: $430,524; Total: $1,930,524.

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Green Car Congress

JUNE 20, 2009

The US Department of Energy is planning to hold the 2009 Thermoelectrics Applications Workshop 29 September to 2 October in San Diego, CA. Project Engineers on the DOE/VC TEG and TE HVAC efforts will provide a summary of their design efforts. The workshop will have Key Principal Investigators summarize their work.

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JULY 14, 2015

The FOAs were awarded with two primary objectives: to design, construct, and field-test a SOFC prototype system; and to support innovations that improve the reliability, robustness, and endurance of SOFC cell and stack technology. The University of California, San Diego. FuelCell Energy, Inc.

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MAY 8, 2010

The selected projects will seek to improve component and system designs to extend operation to an average of about 18 hours per day, a level of production that would make it possible for these plants to displace traditional coal-burning power plants. These selections include: General Atomics – San Diego, CA – up to $2.1

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Green Car Congress

MARCH 21, 2013

The award recipients are: Buster Biofuels, LLC, based in the San Diego area, will receive $2,641,723 to convert a 7,300 square foot industrial warehouse building into a biodiesel manufacturing and fueling facility. The program provides up to $95,000 for hardware projects and up to $50,000 for modeling concepts.

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Green Car Congress

JULY 22, 2011

The ultimate goal is the concept of a Megacity Vehicle, the BMW i3 that meets the demands of a sustainable mobility solution for congested urban areas. kW (208/240 V @ 30 A) Level 2 charging ports and are designed for the North American marketplace. Earlier post.) Both products provide two 7.2

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NOVEMBER 25, 2013

The judges of the 10 th annual LA Auto Show Design Challenge named SAIC Motor the winner of the 2013 competition. SAIC Motor beat out eight world-renowned auto design studios for the honor with an innovative public transit solution aimed at alleviating urban problems such as air pollution and traffic congestion. SAIC’s Mobiliant.

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JUNE 8, 2009

Usually the vehicle must be equipped with wheels or other forms of support for takeoff and landing because an EDS levitation design will not operate at speeds below approximately 20 mph. Both rely on the principle of stator motor design and magnetic induction to create propulsive physical forces. Forward or reverse propulsion.

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Revenge of the Electric Car

NOVEMBER 20, 2009

During the past 12 months, the company’s initial offering – the aerodynamic Aptera 2e, an all-electric, three-wheeled two-seater that gets the equivalent of 200-plus mpg – has evolved from concept to near reality. However, according to Wilbur, the vehicle development progress has been outpacing the rate of fundraising.

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Green Car Congress

FEBRUARY 6, 2014

At the Chicago Auto Show, Nissan debuted a concept diesel-powered mid-size pickup: the Frontier Diesel Runner Powered by Cummins. ATLAS engine makes extensive use of aluminium as well as space saving design features, resulting in a 362 lb ATLAS engine compared to the 480 lb production 2.8L Click to enlarge.

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AUGUST 27, 2020

The University of Louisiana at Lafayette will design and optimize an energy storage and power generation (ESPG) system for aircraft propulsion. University of California, San Diego. In the project’s first phase, the team will develop concepts and tradeoff studies and perform sub-component/component testing and risk retirement.

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Green Car Congress

OCTOBER 27, 2014

The company says that its 3D printed graphene battery potentially could outperform a conventional battery because the shape, size and specifications can be freely adjusted to fit the particular design of a device. Earlier post.). Earlier post.).

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Green Car Congress

AUGUST 7, 2017

Engineers at Stanford University and the University of California San Diego (UCSD) have developed a monocentric lens with multiple sensors using microlens arrays, allowing light field (LF) capture with an unprecedented field of view (FOV)—a camera that generates four-dimensional images and can capture 138 degrees of information.

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JULY 27, 2012

The scalable sCO 2 expander design and improved heat exchanger will address and close two critical technology gaps required for an optimized CSP sCO 2 power plant and provide a major pathway to achieving CSP power at $0.06 In phase 1, researchers will design the expander and heat exchanger. Turbine combustor.

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