Cars That Think

SEPTEMBER 16, 2023

People, Power, and the Sun: Honnold Foundation x Adjuntas, Puerto Rico Although most microgrids today operate independently, one way to get the maximum benefit from them is to connect them, letting them share resources wherever and whenever possible. To that end, engineers at the U.S. percent to 2.8 megawatts to 224.6

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Green Car Congress

JULY 3, 2014

The unit was fitted for the first time into an Iveco Daily van as an Auxiliary Power Unit (APU), and was able to supply electrical energy for air conditioning, auxiliary heating and lighting. The University of Turin (UNITO, Italy) coordinated the EU research project SSH2S. Partners in a 42-month, €3.5-million million (US$4.8-million)

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Green Car Congress

FEBRUARY 7, 2018

Several banks, corporations, governments and scientists have already implemented some form of blockchain to inexpensively, securely and expediently store and share information. A blockchain is essentially a fault-tolerant, decentralized collection of records, or blocks, that are connected and secured by cryptography.

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Green Car Congress

JUNE 21, 2016

—Cliff Fietzek, Manager Connected eMobility at BMW of North America. The system has been designed to be integrated into the house energy supply chain. BMW i has worked with universities, national laboratories, utilities and industry partners to maximize residential energy efficiency.

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Electric Auto Association

APRIL 5, 2022

In contrast, internal combustion engine (ICE) vehicles can only refuel at a gas station licensed to handle and store an inflammable liquid. Installation costs will be impacted by the charger’s distance from an available power supply and electrical panel, as well as by the age of the facility involved.

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Cars That Think

AUGUST 24, 2023

After he graduated from the Federal University of Technology in Owerri, Nigeria, his plan was to get a high-paying job at one of the multinational oil and gas companies based in the country. Based on what he learned, he and three classmates built a solar-powered 6-kilowatt minigrid that supplied power to about 60 homes in a village.

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Green Car Congress

JUNE 6, 2014

Researchers at the Institute of Environmental Sciences at Leiden University, The Netherlands) have concluded that the energy demand and climate impacts of using CO 2 to produce synthetic hydrocarbon fuels by using existing technologies can be greater than the impacts of existing hydrocarbon fuels. Credit: ACS, van der Giesen et al.

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Green Car Congress

MARCH 25, 2014

The home, located on the West Village campus of the University of California, Davis, is capable of producing more energy on-site from renewable sources than it consumes annually, including enough energy to power a Honda Fit EV for daily commuting. The home is also three times more water-efficient than a typical US home.

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Blink Charging

JANUARY 3, 2024

Ensure that every EV driver can use your chargers by purchasing chargers that come with universal payment systems, like the Blink Series 8 Commercial Level 2 EV Charging Station. Encourage drivers to disconnect right away when they’re done and make room for others when their vehicle has completed charging. Need to add more stations?

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Green Car Congress

APRIL 3, 2013

Electricity is stored in a newly developed lithium-ion battery, which at 9.4 Electricity is stored in a newly developed lithium-ion battery, which at 9.4 The electric drive produces 95 hp (71 kW), more than double the power of the previous model’s electric motor (47 hp, 35 kW). kWh has increased capacity over the previous battery (1.7

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Green Car Congress

AUGUST 2, 2013

The technique is popular for bonding thermoplastics, as well as wires, microcircuit connections, sheet metal, foils, ribbons and meshes. m), 435-pound (198 kg) pack supplies energy to an advanced electric drive unit capable of 295 lb-ft of torque (400 N·m). foot-long (1.6

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Green Car Congress

OCTOBER 9, 2017

Researchers from the University of Liverpool (UK), with colleagues from Dalian University of Technology (China) and the University of Hull (UK), have developed a new process for the direct, one-step activation of carbon dioxide and methane (dry reforming of methane) into higher value liquid fuels and chemicals (e.g.,

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Teslarati

AUGUST 15, 2022

The starting point for my thinking about clean energy is how to create and store energy sustainably and for the long term, and how to provide a constant source of power for the future of productive life. Today’s cars are increasingly like smart, web-connected robots on wheels. Clean Energy: The Future of Sustainability.

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Cars That Think

JANUARY 28, 2023

For instance, Alexandre Milovanoff at the University of Toronto and his colleagues’ research (which is described in depth in a recent Spectrum article ) demonstrates the U.S. Dronning Louise’s Bro (Queen Louise’s Bridge) connects inner Copenhagen and Nørrebro and is frequented by many cyclists and pedestrians every day.

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Cars That Think

MARCH 27, 2022

In the Apollo missions to the moon during the 1960s and ’70s, magnetic amplifiers controlled power supplies and fan blowers. Universal Images Group/Getty Images. Amplistat , CGS Laboratories’ Increductor , Westinghouse’s Cypak (cybernetic package), and Librascope ’s Unidec (universal decision element).

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Cars That Think

MARCH 17, 2022

In the morning, my working day usually began with a lecture to students at the university, and in the afternoon, I spent teaching classes at the college. We are limited in time, because in the morning goods are not yet in stores, and when they are delivered, there are long queues, or there are air raid alerts.

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Cars That Think

AUGUST 3, 2021

Others may soon follow in their footsteps, says Axel Foery, an executive at Swiss company ID Quantique , which supplies QRNG chips used by both Alibaba and Samsung. I wouldn't have expected a few years ago that something you can buy in a store will have a QRNG inside," he said.

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Green Car Congress

JANUARY 10, 2013

The California Energy Commission (CEC) approved funding to advance further the development of its pioneering 42 MW peak microgrid and expand electric vehicle charging at the University of California, San Diego (UCSD). million award to increase its previously awarded funding of $1,394,298 for the university’s microgrid.

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Cars That Think

NOVEMBER 12, 2022

That’s what John Hennessy, Stanford professor (and former president) and chairman of Alphabet , told attendees at the Stanford Global Energy Forum , held in-person this month on the Stanford University campus. It’s challenging in the energy field. It takes longer.” There are 2.6 Renewell recently received a $2.7 million grant from the U.S.

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Green Car Congress

JUNE 9, 2017

VTT Technical Research Centre of Finland and Lappeenranta University of Technology (LUT) are beginning testing of the Soletair demo plant, which uses air-captured carbon dioxide to produce renewable fuels and chemicals. The hydrogen production system is built in a standard shipping container and virtually connected to the 206.5

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Cars That Think

SEPTEMBER 29, 2021

In subsequent decades, the company was accused of stealing Western intellectual property , supplying sensitive telecoms equipment to North Korea and Iran , and expanding its global market share by undercutting Western telecom equipment prices by as much as a third. That's a problem for all governments connected to the network. "If

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Charged EVs

AUGUST 7, 2022

On the minus side, back EMF—or the voltage generated by the motor which opposes its supply—is proportional to field strength and RPM, so the top speed is severely limited in a PMSM without either employing field weakening or a ridiculously high battery voltage. BMW’s eDrive stator. the field-weakened region of operation).

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Cars That Think

JUNE 27, 2022

It’s been 25 years since University of Delaware energy and environmental expert Willett Kempton and Green Mountain College energy economist Steve Letendre outlined what they saw as a “dawning interaction between electric-drive vehicles and the electric supply system.” This is good for the grid. Kempton and Letendre’s.

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Green Car Congress

OCTOBER 3, 2009

Projects selected include large-scale industrial carbon capture and storage projects that capture carbon dioxide emissions from industrial sources—such as cement plants, chemical plants, refineries, paper mills, and manufacturing facilities—and store the carbon dioxide in deep saline formations and other geologic systems. University of Utah.

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Green Car Congress

APRIL 22, 2016

Frank (email: afrank@efficientdrivetrains.com) Dr. Frank is Professor Emeritus, Mechanical and Aeronautical Engineering at the University of California, Davis, where he established the Institute for Transportation Studies (ITS-Davis), and was director of the US Department of Energy’s National Center of Hybrid Excellence at UC Davis.

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Cars That Think

NOVEMBER 28, 2022

Supplies for distribution transformers are low, and costs have skyrocketed from $3,000 to $4,000 to $20,000 each. This situation is not true universally. Further, like other industries, the energy business has become digitized , meaning the skills needed are different from those previously required.

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Green Car Congress

JUNE 29, 2011

Volkswagen, for example, has installed one of the highest performance wind power systems in the world at its German plant in Emden; it already supplies one-third of the factory’s energy requirements. The electric traction motor of the plug-in hybrid powertrain outputs 85 kW and supplies 600 N·m (443 lb-ft) of torque from standstill.

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Cars That Think

AUGUST 10, 2022

Ethereum , gained popularity because they allow for complex “smart contracts”—executable code stored in the blockchain. Liu Xiaofan , an assistant professor in the department of media and communication at City University of Hong Kong who coauthored a paper on CryptoKitties ’ rise and fall , sees this as a flaw the game could never overcome.

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Green Car Congress

APRIL 30, 2010

This process is less than 1% efficient at converting sunlight to stored chemical energy. NC State University. Medical University of South Carolina. Columbia University. of Georgia). Hydrogen-Dependent Conversion of Carbon Dioxide To Liquid Electrofuels By Extremely Thermophilic Archaea. Clemson Univ., of South Carolina).

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Green Car Congress

NOVEMBER 25, 2009

In partnership with a consortium of local research institutions, this project deploy smart grid systems at partners’ university campus properties and technology transfer laboratories. The 1 MW/4hr system will store potential energy in the form of compressed air in above-ground industrial pressure facilities. 24,978,264. 53,510,209.

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Cars That Think

AUGUST 18, 2024

Electrification has its sustainability challenges,” notes Daniel Ludois , a professor of electrical engineering at the University of Wisconsin in Madison. Krein does not have any financial connection to C-Motive.) As a dielectric, air has low permittivity, meaning that an electric field in air can not store much energy.

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Cars That Think

MARCH 6, 2024

Goldstein: Oh, that’s interesting because the—I mean, where I was going with that connection to legislation is that—I think what Bob found in the EV transition is that the knowledge base of the people who are charged with making decisions about regulations is pretty small. It was very much front and center. We had Blu-ray. And it bundles up.

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Cars That Think

JANUARY 30, 2022

This facility, known as the Lunar Gateway , would store supplies, host visiting astronauts, and facilitate communication between the moon and Earth. A better solution to lunar connectivity is a network of relay spacecraft orbiting the moon to provide continuous coverage everywhere. If that comes to pass, lunar denizens.

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Green Car Congress

SEPTEMBER 30, 2011

The projects selected are located in 25 states, with 50% of projects led by universities, 23% by small businesses, 12% by large businesses, 13% by national labs, and 2% by non-profits. University of Massachusetts, Amherst. Development of a Dedicated, High-Value Biofuels Crop The University of Massachusetts, Amherst will develop an.

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Green Cars News

APRIL 29, 2009

The batteries are charged through specially-devised control software and power management systems created by Cranfield University and Provector. As a result, drivers have two options for charge - either by connecting to the electricity grid or via the internal combustion engine that generates and stores energy when the vehicle is in motion.

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Green Car Congress

MARCH 25, 2009

The Smith website mentions that Sainsbury, a UK grocery store with on-line food ordering, aims to have 20% of their home delivery fleet electrified by 2009. UK Business Secretary Lord Mandelson behind the wheel of the Smith Ampere electric van, based on the Ford Transit Connect. gallon in January 2009. Click to enlarge.

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Green Car Congress

NOVEMBER 18, 2014

Two tanks with a three-layer structure made of carbon fiber-reinforced plastic and other materials are used to store hydrogen at 70 MPa (approximately 700 bars or 10,000 psi). A new technique has been employed in the front face design to emphasize the left and right grilles that draw in air for the oxygen supply and for FC system cooling.

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