Green Car Congress

JUNE 10, 2009

International Battery , a US-based manufacturer, designer, and developer of large-format lithium-ion rechargeable cells, modules and packs, introduced three classes of standardized modules for its large-format lithium batteries—Nested, Slim and Wide—to accommodate various customer-specific geometries. Chemistries. Water-based process.

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Green Car Congress

MARCH 11, 2021

A unique cell design and process architecture offers an opportunity to reduce electricity consumption and increase hydrogen output, significantly lowering the cost of green hydrogen production from PEM electrolysis. Leveraging SINTEF’s work in its HieffPEM project, the Hystar technology features the use of a thin membrane.

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Green Car Congress

MAY 20, 2019

The hybrid FSTAR (flying sprawl-tuned autonomous robot) will be introduced at the International Conference on Robotics and Automation 2019 in Montréal on 21 May. It was developed in the BGU Bio-Inspired and Medical Robotics Lab by Prof.

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Green Car Congress

APRIL 28, 2015

DOE announced the Wave Energy Prize at the International Marine Renewable Energy Conference co-located at the National Hydropower Association Annual Conference. Marine and hydrokinetic energy technologies convert the energy of waves, tides, and river and ocean currents into electricity.

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Green Car Congress

OCTOBER 12, 2018

Attaining environmental benefits and lower cost of ownership are driving more commercial fleets to electrify, according to a new study by UPS and GreenBiz. A lower total cost of ownership—factoring in both direct and indirect costs and savings over the life of the vehicle—is the second biggest driver, cited by 64% of respondents.

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Green Car Congress

JUNE 11, 2016

A range of aftertreatment technology options are available to automakers seeking to achieve compliance with the impending EU Real Driving Emissions (RDE) regulations, according to the results of a Ricardo research project presented recently at the SIA Powertrain international conference and exhibition in Rouen, France.

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Green Car Congress

NOVEMBER 24, 2010

Although co-production plants are much more costly than liquids-only configurations in terms of capital cost, Hari Mantripragadaa1 and Edward Rubin found, because of the high electricity revenues the cost of liquid product is lower than that of the liquids-only case, at market prices of electricity. Source: Mantripragada and Rubin.

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Green Car Congress

NOVEMBER 12, 2013

BASF Battery Materials will discuss its latest improvements in Nickel Metal Hydride (NiMH) battery technology for grid energy storage applications at the 8 th International Renewable Energy Storage Conference and Exhibition (IRES 2013), being held 18-20 November 2013 in Berlin, Germany.

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Teslarati

SEPTEMBER 5, 2022

M3P batteries will be made from new materials that CATL states will lower the costs of the cells compared to nickel and cobalt-based batteries. Representatives at the 2022 World New Energy Vehicle Congress in Beijing brought up concerns about emissions from manufacturing plants and the rising costs of raw materials during the event.

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Green Car Congress

JULY 14, 2016

Outreach activities will include a website, representation at key national and international events and an annual community conference, held in conjunction with the Advanced Propulsion Centre Power Electronics Spoke. —Professor Mark Johnson, Principal Investigator, Faculty of Engineering at Nottingham.

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Green Car Congress

JULY 14, 2009

The system also holds the potential to reduce the cost of producing chemicals, transportation fuels, and substitute natural gas from gasified coal. In 2008, RTI International and Eastman Chemical Company agreed to develop and commercialize jointly developed syngas cleanup technology. Background.

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Green Car Congress

MAY 3, 2017

Speaking this week at the Bloomberg New Energy Finance conference in New York, Total SA’s chief energy economist, Joel Couse, forecasted that EVs will make up 15 to 30 percent of global new vehicle sales by 2030. One barrier is the cost of owning an electric vehicle versus a cheaper, comparable gasoline-engine vehicle.

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Green Car Congress

MARCH 15, 2011

Chromatin’s Chief Technology Officer, David Jessen, presented data on SweetFuel hybrids at the International Bioenergy and Bioproducts Conference and BioPro Expo in Atlanta. Replacing fossil fuels with an energy crop requires a systems approach.

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Green Car Congress

AUGUST 1, 2013

US Energy Secretary Ernest Moniz announced more than $22 million in new investments to help develop cost-competitive algae fuels and streamline the biomass feedstock supply chain for advanced biofuels. Moniz was speaking at the US Department of Energy’s (DOE’s) Biomass 2013 conference. Nearly $16.5

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JULY 28, 2022

In August 2018, the China Electricity Council and the CHAdeMO Association of Japan signed a technology and standards cooperation agreement to jointly promote the research of high-power charging technology and the development of international standards.

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Cars That Think

NOVEMBER 19, 2021

The girl's family could not afford the cost of getting her a prosthetic leg, so she used a tree branch as a crutch to help her walk. He has presented papers on Psyonic's work at the IEEE/RSJ International Conference on Intelligent Robots and Systems and the IEEE International Conference on Robotics and Automation.

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Green Car Congress

AUGUST 21, 2011

Governments use fossil-fuel subsidies as policy tools to achieve objectives such as alleviating energy poverty; increasing domestic production; reducing living costs of the poor; or gaining political support, IISD notes.

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Teslarati

MAY 13, 2021

Together, over the course of the 19 orbital launches those two Falcon 9 boosters have supported in ~30 months, B1049 and B1051 have collectively delivered more than 260 metric tons (~570,000 lb) of satellites and spacecraft to low Earth orbit (LEO), geostationary transfer orbit (GTO), and the International Space Station (ISS).

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Green Car Congress

MARCH 25, 2014

These shapes are, in principle, highly efficient in withstanding internal pressure, but rather inefficient in terms of space utilization. The box-shaped pressure vessel has an internal, load-carrying lattice-type structure. The manufacturing cost of a pressure vessel would be reduced as well. Click to enlarge.

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Green Car Congress

DECEMBER 20, 2011

Researchers from SRI International (SRI) are developing a methane-and-coal-to-liquids process that consumes negligible amounts of water and does not generate carbon dioxide. director, Chemical Science and Technology Laboratory, SRI International. Production cost of JP8 less than $3.00/gallon. Top: Conventional F-T process.

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Green Car Congress

JULY 20, 2015

New process technology such as accelerated cooling enabled the development of even higher strengths with much leaner Mo-free alloy designs, according to the International Molybdenum Association. The NIST study is part of a federal effort to reduce the overall costs of hydrogen fuel. —James Fekete, a co-author of the study.

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Green Car Congress

FEBRUARY 5, 2011

The 2008 Review attempted to answer, from the perspective of Australian national interest, the question: What extent of global mitigation, with Australia playing its proportionate part, provides the greatest excess of gains from reduced risks of climate change over costs of mitigation?

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Green Car Congress

FEBRUARY 20, 2014

Non-GAAP R&D was up 21% from Q3, as engineering work accelerated on Model X and efforts continued for the adaptation of Model S in international markets. “We Research and development (R&D) expenses in Q4 were $58 million non-GAAP and $68 million on a GAAP basis. We see good demand in China and right-hand drive markets. —Elon Musk.

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Green Car Congress

FEBRUARY 11, 2016

The proposed “Open Vehicle and Building Operation System Services” (OpenVBOSS) software platform will be designed to be implemented at local residential and small commercial settings with minimal costs of implementation to achieve key utility grid support goals.

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Green Car Congress

SEPTEMBER 13, 2010

22 nd International AVL Conference “Engine & Environment”). This compares with €6,000 to more than €18,000 for a full hybrid or electric vehicle. This compares with €6,000 to more than €18,000 for a full hybrid or electric vehicle. —Guy Morris. Guy Morris et al.

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Green Car Congress

OCTOBER 4, 2009

Toyota’s targeted cost reductions in fuel cell vehicles. In a news conference at the Japan National Press Club on Friday, Toyota Motor President Akio Toyoda said that the company plans to begin mass production of electric vehicles in the US in 2012, followed by US production of fuel cell vehicles in 2015. Source: Toyota.

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Green Car Congress

MAY 12, 2009

GE Chairman and CEO Jeff Immelt shows a sodium-metal halide battery cell at the press conference announcing the battery plant. At the AABC 2008 conference, Robert King from GE Global Research outlined requirements and challenges for hybrid locomotive batteries, including: 1,300 kW continuous chare/discharge power. Click to enlarge.

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Green Car Congress

MAY 24, 2011

The “ Electric Vehicles—Land, Sea & Air Europe 2011 ” conference and exhibition will take place in Stuttgart, Germany 27–28 June. The company is also producing a US variant of the conference in San Jose, California in November. These second generation engines retain piston-driven, internal combustion technology.

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Green Car Congress

NOVEMBER 1, 2011

version of its vehicle (a 2009 Ford Focus) but with fuel economy and CO 2 emissions approaching those of a Prius, according to David Boggs, Ricardo Technical Specialist, Engines, in a presentation at the recent 2011 Directions in Engine-Efficiency and Emissions Research Conference (DEER) hosted by the Department of Energy in Detroit.

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Green Car Congress

MARCH 11, 2014

Tanaka said that Toyota designed a new fuel cell stack that allows water to recirculate within, from cathode to anode, humidifying internally and maintaining the proper moisture balance. Eliminating the need for a humidifier allowed Toyota to simplify the structure of the fuel cell system, making it lighter, smaller and more cost-effective.

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Green Car Congress

NOVEMBER 1, 2013

For the target market (the Asian scooter market), the low NO x capability of the Pinnacle engine provides a significant cost benefit to manufacturers. When the entire vehicle costs around $700, that’s a significant difference.

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Green Car Congress

DECEMBER 16, 2009

The 2 ºC maximal warming limit was cited at the UN Conference on the Human Environment in Stockholm in 1972, and revisited several decades later, in 1995, by the Wissenschaftlicher Beirat Globale Unweltveränderungen (WGBU), Germany’s national advisory council on climate change. “We Source: WGBU. Click to enlarge. The >2 Degree Target.

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Green Car Congress

FEBRUARY 4, 2009

Comparison of Fuel Consumption, Fun to Drive and System Cost of the different powertrain concepts. However, the system cost of the Turbohybrid was 150% that of the baseline, while the system cost of the full hybrid was more than 300% that of the baseline. Click to enlarge. In testing on a BMW demo 3-Series vehicle, a 1.6-liter

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Green Car Congress

SEPTEMBER 22, 2009

The VTES technology can also help reduce soot and particulate emissions from diesel engines, particularly when the driver accelerates at low engine revs, which, in turn, creates an opportunity to reduce the size and cost of the diesel particulate filter (DPF). Mark Criddle, CPT senior engineering manager.

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Green Car Congress

NOVEMBER 7, 2010

Kreutz presented the paper at the 10 th International Conference on Greenhouse Gas Control Technologies ( GHGT-10 ) earlier this fall in The Netherlands. In the near-term pre-CCS era, with a low cost of carbon, the economical solution for power providers is to vent the CO 2 and pay the fees, passing on the costs to customers.

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Green Car Congress

SEPTEMBER 29, 2011

There will be no torque deficit or other tradeoffs from essential engine downsizing and higher gearing, which now dominates the development of internal combustion engines. The torque response of these future VTES equipped vehicles will be equivalent to the best mass market vehicles on the road today. With performance similar to that of the 1.8

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Green Car Congress

OCTOBER 20, 2015

At a conference in Moscow on October 14, President Putin said that Russia had reached if not passed the peak of its economic crisis and predicted economic growth in coming years. It cited price increases that the car manufactures were forced to take to cover the increased cost of foreign parts and systems used in domestic auto manufacturing.

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