Green Car Congress

JULY 12, 2017

The three selected EEMS projects will conduct research that evaluates energy savings benefits from connected and automated vehicles. ICME Low Cost Carbon Fiber (Area of Interest 2). Reactive Force Field and coarse-grained molecular dynamics simulations of conversion processes will help identify promising precursors.

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Green Car Congress

AUGUST 21, 2014

High active loading cathodes by new manufacturing approach This project will demonstrate a novel semi-solid electrode, cell, and manufacturing approach to prismatic cells for automotive applications. 24M Technologies, Inc. 1,260,000. . Lambda Technologies, Inc. Parthian Energy LLC. University of Colorado Boulder.

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Engine Carbon Fiber Fuel Batteries 231

Green Car Congress

JUNE 14, 2010

We’re about to enact the “Home Star” and “Building Star” programs—putting people to work on “Cash for Caulkers” retrofits that will make buildings more comfortable and cut owners’ fuel costs. Cash for Conversions” will start by fixing many of our 100 million trucks, vans, and buses. They now gulp down one third of the oil we use.

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Oil Conversion 2020 Oil-Sands 252

Green Car Congress

NOVEMBER 18, 2020

CSIRO’s contributions will improve understanding of how sCO 2 power plants can enable lower and zero emission technology solutions, and how those plants might be used in remote mining and community locations as a low-cost alternative to diesel fuel power generation.

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Green Car Congress

JULY 10, 2022

Starting with biochar, we see a future where suppliers and users of Greenhouse Gas Removal (GGR) technologies are connected through our easy-to-use online platform that allows them to buy, sell and verify the impacts of their GGR solution. Technology’s manufactured limestone (M-LS) production, into greater focus.

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Carbon Coal Gas-Electric Waste 305

Green Car Congress

MARCH 11, 2016

For Round 1, the small businesses and laboratories will collaborate on advancing a number of clean energy technologies, including water, wind, bioenergy, solar, buildings, vehicles, fuel cells, geothermal technologies, and advanced manufacturing. Connected Signals, working with ANL. Advanced Manufacturing. car tires).

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Clean Cleaning Energy Li-ion 150

Green Car Congress

SEPTEMBER 26, 2014

A team led by Dr. Michael Grätzel at EPFL (Ecole Polytechnique Fédérale de Lausanne) in Switzerland has developed a highly efficient and low-cost water-splitting cell combining an advanced perovskite tandem solar cell and a bi-functional Earth-abundant catalyst. Jingshan Luo, post-doctoral researcher, explains how. Credit: EPFL.

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Low Cost Water Solar Hydrogen 278

Green Car Congress

SEPTEMBER 10, 2010

The goal is to develop an optimal generator for current energy conversion. Boston, Massachusetts) will develop a cost-effective, high efficiency, power take-off system for a wave energy converter, a mechanism to convert water’s mechanical energy into usable electricity. DOE Funding: $160,000. Total Project Value: $192,000.

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Mariner Energy Alaska New Jersey 210

Green Car Congress

APRIL 30, 2009

A collaboration led by the UK’s Cranfield University has developed a retrofit plug-in hybrid conversion system for a conventional internal combustion engine vehicle. Electric machine design and manufacture, drive system development and integration. Tags: Conversions Hybrids Plug-ins. Source: Cranfield. Click to enlarge.

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Plug-in Plug Lead Acid Hybrid 150

Green Car Congress

SEPTEMBER 30, 2011

Researchers led by MIT professor Daniel Nocera have produced an “artificial leaf”—a solar water-splitting cell producing hydrogen and oxygen that operates in near-neutral pH conditions, both with and without connecting wires. aligned with the low-cost systems engineering and. Earlier post.). —Reece et al.

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MIT Water Solar Hydrogen 278

Green Car Congress

APRIL 30, 2010

Novel Biological Conversion of Hydrogen and Carbon Dioxide Directly into Biodiesel. This project will develop and optimize a novel, engineered microorganism that produces a biodiesel-equivalent fuel from renewable hydrogen and carbon dioxide, at costs of less than $2.50 OPX Biotechnologies Inc. NREL, Johnson Matthey Catalysts).

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Carbon Batteries Battery Li-ion 249

Green Car Congress

MAY 29, 2010

When incorporated into resins, fuzzy fibers enable composites to be tailored for electrical and thermal conductivity, chemical and biological sensing, energy storage and conversion, thermal management and other properties. This is going to disrupt the way we think about materials. Everybody is growing carbon nanotubes on substrates.

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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. We make robots for a future smart and connected society.

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New York City Environment New York Engine 119

Green Car Congress

OCTOBER 22, 2013

The US Energy Department’s Advanced Research Projects Agency-Energy (ARPA-E) has selected 14 projects for $27 million in funding to support the development of next-generation power conversion devices. High Quality, Low-Cost GaN Single Crystal Substrates for High Power Devices. High Quality, Low Cost GaN Substrate Technology.

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Power Powered Low Cost Universal 296

Charged EVs

SEPTEMBER 28, 2021

What we’re talking about at TeraWatt is having dozens of chargers in one location, dozens of vehicles charging simultaneously, which requires more than just a simple grid connection. We’re having conversations with OEMs where they’re saying that this could be a really interesting partnership opportunity. OEMs are certainly interested.

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Green Car Congress

SEPTEMBER 30, 2011

High Performance, Low Cost Superconducting Wires and Coils. for High Power Wind Generators The University of Houston will develop a new, low-cost. manufacturing process that, if successful, has the potential to. yield a several-fold reduction in wire costs, making. efficiency at less cost.

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Cars That Think

MAY 9, 2024

The accelerating buildout of solar farms on Earth is already hitting speed bumps, including public pushback against the large tracts of land required and a ballooning backlog of requests for new transmission lines and grid connections. Points plotted here show the highest efficiency reported in five-year intervals.

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Power Powered Solar Fusion 138

Green Car Congress

AUGUST 27, 2020

REEACH projects seek to create innovative, cost-effective, and high-performance energy storage and power generation sub-systems for electric aircraft, with a focus on fuel-to-electric power conversion technologies. The proposed system is projected to operate in cruising phase of flight with a 66% energy conversion efficiency.

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Carbon Hybrid Electric Electrical 218

Green Car Congress

JANUARY 4, 2020

Low-Cost Retrofit Kit for Integral Reciprocating Compressors to Reduce Emissions and Enhance Efficiency. The University of Oklahoma (Norman, OK) plans to develop, build, and validate a low-cost, field-installable, remotely-controlled natural gas compressor retrofit kit. AOI 2A: Multifunction Catalyst.

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Gas Gas-Electric West Virginia Carbon Fiber 186

Green Car Congress

APRIL 20, 2016

Both buses use 50 kW PEM fuel cell stacks (from different manufacturers) as the primary power source, with LiMn 2 O 4 battery packs as secondary power sources. The fuel cell stack is connected in parallel to the battery system via a DC/DC converter. The supply path for the fuel cell accessories also differs. Click to enlarge.

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Motor Motors Motoring Fuel 150

Green Cars News

APRIL 29, 2009

A collaboration between the UK’s leading automotive engineering facilities has resulted in the development of the first plug-in retro-fit hybrid conversion of a combustion engine vehicle. This transformed the van into a hybrid vehicle, capable of achieving an all electric range of over 20 km, from one charge.

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Green Car Congress

FEBRUARY 8, 2019

Drexel University aims to design a significantly more efficient, fast, low-cost, compact, and reliable circuit breaker for medium-voltage direct-current (MVDC) power system. The Ohio State University will develop gallium nitride (GaN) semiconductor materials suitable for high voltage (15-20 kV) power control and conversion.

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Grid Transportation Industrial Industry 207

Green Car Congress

JANUARY 22, 2011

The agency has now set up a feature on its website, “ Fostering Applicant Connections ” to try to connect its “Encouraged Applicants” that were not selected for an award and potential investors, partners and customers. However, ARPA-E can only fund a fraction of these promising ideas at the levels required.

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Energy Storage Renewable Power Powered 210

Green Car Congress

JUNE 13, 2013

Their widespread adoption, enabled by low-cost, high-performance power electronics could yield up to a 20% reduction in U.S. Automotive: High costs have thus far prevented the widespread electrification of vehicles. Achieving high power conversion efficiency requires low-loss power semiconductor switches.

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Get Electric Vehicle

FEBRUARY 16, 2022

The idea here is that you can connect your EV to the power grid and flow power from your EV to the Grid. Simulation of the vehicle to a grid-connected system at a private charging station and finding how to flatten the load curve. Battery manufacturing etc. Vehicle to Grid is a really interesting area to do projects.

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IDEA Electric Vehicles Vehicles Electric 98

Green Car Congress

AUGUST 23, 2017

If successful, the project team will drastically reduce the power consumption of a digital integrated circuit while also enabling a much smaller form factor and lower cost solution. Grid-Connected Modular Soft-Switching Solid State Transformers. Power Conversion Through Novel Current Source Matrix Converter (MxC). 1,899,939.

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Convert Power Powered DC 170

Green Car Congress

OCTOBER 13, 2009

Under the agreement, Lockheed Martin will provide its expertise in systems integration, lean manufacturing, and test and optimization analysis to enhance OPT’s innovative PowerBuoy wave power generation technology to utility-scale. This approach minimizes costs of submarine transmission cable to the shore based interconnection.

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Cars That Think

JULY 29, 2021

We've grown accustomed to a near-yearly introduction of new processors with substantially more computational power, thanks to advances in semiconductor manufacturing. Low-dropout voltage regulators (LDOs) allow multiple processor cores on the same input voltage rail (VIN) to operate at different voltages according to their workloads.

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Batteries Battery Supplies Design 108

Green Car Congress

JUNE 25, 2012

These electrode assemblies are then sandwiched together with conventional separators and positive electrodes to make the battery, which is filled with an acid electrolyte, sealed and connected in series to the other cells. The same building block technology is used in the manufacture of smaller cubes, 100 kW all the way down to 10kW.

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Lead Acid Hybrid Batteries Battery 225

Green Car Congress

JULY 17, 2015

In order to accomplish this transition in a timely way, we must start the mass manufacturing of PHEV vehicles and renewable energy generation and distribution systems now. The designs can be greatly improved to be more cost-effective. We must act quickly as the planet is warming due to CO 2 production from burning fossil fuels.

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PHEV Plug-in Renewable Energy 150

Green Car Congress

DECEMBER 10, 2009

A multi-cylinder version is practical for a wide variety of vehicles and offers greatest benefit to C and D class passenger cars which can take advantage of the low cost architecture and significantly improved fuel economy and emissions. IMEP (Bar) Homogeneous GDI 1 Spray-Guided GDI 2. Charge Trapping Valve. Other Components.

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Fuel Economy Engine Light Fuel 218

Green Car Congress

JANUARY 22, 2014

Area Of Interest (AOI) 1: Development of Low-Cost, High-Strength Automotive Aluminum Sheet. This AOI is to address two major technical gaps in the performance of automotive aluminum alloys: Low strength among cost competitive automotive sheet alloys such as 5xxx and 6xxx series. Click to enlarge.

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Emissions Vehicles Fuel Economy Carbon Fiber 252

Tony Karrer Delicious EVdriven

APRIL 21, 2009

Several after-market companies have done PHEV conversions of the Ford Escape hybrid and one has done a retrofit of the F-150 pickup -- see Where PHEVs Are and ICE-Conversions.) 2010 Prius designed to be manufactured with NiMH or Lithium batteries. Has shown some concept fuel-cell PHEVs. That would be our preference," said Furia.

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Tony Karrer Delicious EVdriven

APRIL 16, 2009

Not to be outdone, on Tuesday the Norwegian electric car startup, Think, was in Portland being wooed by the state as one of 8 potential places to site their first car manufacturing facility in the United States. “Families could be making that drive in an emission-free vehicle manufactured in Oregon by Oregonians.&#

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Oregon Green Electric Cars Lead Acid 58