Cars That Think

SEPTEMBER 21, 2023

Using a new kind of hydrogel material, researchers at the University of Texas at Austin have pulled water out of thin air at temperatures low enough to be achieved with sunlight. Atmospheric water harvesting draws water from humidity in the air. The UT Austin technique is aimed at the latter.

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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

APRIL 11, 2023

With funding from the Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency (DARPA) Environmental Microbes as a BioEngineering Resource ( EMBER ) program ( earlier post ), San Diego State University researchers are developing advanced extraction methods with the aim of boosting the domestic supply of REEs.

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Design San Diego Phoenix Environment 225

Green Car Congress

SEPTEMBER 3, 2020

The project team will integrate FERMI’s capabilities and demonstrate utility by simulating and assessing the innovative and potentially transformative liquid-immersion blanket concept that could enable a compact, high- field path to commercial fusion energy. University of California, San Diego. University of Houston.

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Charged EVs

APRIL 19, 2023

This is your Lightning eMotors, Motiv, Phoenix Motors—early days. This is LADWP [Los Angeles Department of Water and Power] and this is LAWA, so you’d imagine that there’s some sort of priority. I watched the BMW i3s at Delaware University [an early V2X pilot], and my mind was blown. I want to be able to prove their concept.

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Tony Karrer Delicious EVdriven

APRIL 16, 2009

Credit: GM) General Motors and Segway plan to take a two-wheel concept vehicle for a spin around New York City on Tuesday. The PUMA looks like it might sell well in university and corporate campuses and those large empty subdivisions in SoCal and Vegas. by neowolfwitch April 7, 2009 6:23 AM PDT Is this a week late?

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