Green Car Congress

DECEMBER 19, 2021

According to a 2021 report by the International Energy Agency, the average amount of minerals needed for a new unit of power generation capacity has risen by 50% since 2010, as renewable energy technologies using these metals expand their reach. This research was supported by the US Department of Energy and the US National Science Foundation.

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Green Car Congress

NOVEMBER 25, 2009

Ford Motor Company is teaming with the University of Detroit Mercy (UDM) to retrain its traditional automotive engineers, providing them with the skills and expertise to develop the next generation of advanced electric and hybrid vehicles. Electric Drives/Electromechanical Energy Conversion. Energy Storage Systems.

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Green Car Congress

OCTOBER 20, 2022

The project involves strong partnerships, commitments, and support from domestic technology and equipment suppliers such as Phillips 66 and Harper International, validation partners such as Oak Ridge and Argonne National Labs, and cell manufacturers and automotive original equipment manufacturers (OEMs).

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Green Car Congress

NOVEMBER 16, 2018

Of those selected, approximately 43% of OPEN 2018 projects will be led by universities, 35% by small businesses, and the remainder by large businesses, non-profit organizations or federally funded research and development centers (FFRDCs). Georgia Tech Research Corporation. University of California, San Diego.

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Green Car Congress

MARCH 7, 2019

Michigan Technological University and Westport will address natural gas engine emissions and efficiency improvements by demonstrating the feasibility of compression ignition of directly injected natural gas. This research will enable development of mono-fuel natural gas internal combustion engine technology.

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JULY 1, 2013

The University of Tennessee-Knoxville, Georgia Institute of Technology, Pall Corporation, OmniTech International, and FuelCellsEtc will also participate in this project. University of Oklahoma (up to $4 million).

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Green Car Congress

MARCH 23, 2010

The company will be an engineering partner on each of six processes for biofuel production being evaluated under the program: fermentation, catalytic conversion, catalytic fast pyrolysis, hydropyrolysis, hydrothermal liquefaction, and a low-cost, one-step syngas-to-distillates process. Earlier post.).

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Green Car Congress

JANUARY 26, 2015

Hydrogenics Corporation will supply a 1MW electrolyzer and provide engineering expertise to a consortium of companies working on the European project MefCO2 (methanol fuel from CO 2 ) in Germany. Carbon Capture and Conversion (CCC) Emissions Hydrogen Methanol Power-to-Gas' The project has a budget of €11 million (US$12.4

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Green Car Congress

JULY 10, 2019

Purdue University, West Lafayette, Ind. Quanex Building Products Corporation, Houston, Texas SCP SYS LLC, San Francisco, Calif. Novel chemical looping process for conversion of natural gas to pure hydrogen, $150,000 CanmetENERGY, Ottawa, Canada Glowink Inc., MetalTek International, Watertown, Wis. Pipersville, Pa.

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Green Car Congress

OCTOBER 16, 2017

Toyota Motor Corporation is expanding its “Toyota Concept-i” electric concept car into a series that embodies the future vision of a mobility society through which artificial intelligence (AI) enables cars to understand the driver, effectively allowing people and cars to become partners. These will be shown at the upcoming Tokyo Motor Show.

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Green Car Congress

JANUARY 14, 2010

The selected projects consist of leading scientists and engineers from universities, private industry, and government, and will facilitate sharing expertise and technologies. Catchlight Energy, LLC; Colorado School of Mines; Iowa State University; Los Alamos National Laboratory; Pall Corporation; RTI International; Tesoro Companies Inc.;

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Green Car Congress

DECEMBER 15, 2009

Accelergy Corporation, an advanced coal-to-liquids company, has formed a strategic partnership with the Energy & Environmental Research Center (EERC) at the University of North Dakota. In July, EERC was awarded a subcontract by Science Applications International Corporation (SAIC) to help produce renewable jet fuel from algae.

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Green Car Congress

MAY 14, 2020

ASTM International has approved and published a seventh annex to D7566 , the sustainable aviation fuel (SAF) specification, with support from the Commercial Aviation Alternative Fuels Initiative (CAAFI). Earlier post.).

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Green Car Congress

JULY 30, 2013

A German consortium involving four companies and and two universities is developing dielectric elastomers (electroactive polymers) for the conversion of mechanical energy—in this case wave power—into electrical power. The Technical University of Darmstadt is developing a method for testing the electroactive polymers.

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Green Car Congress

JANUARY 20, 2015

Based on Anellotech’s innovative proprietary CFP technology, patents licensed from the University of Massachusetts-Amherst, and Axens’ proprietary post-treatment hydrotreating process, this new technology will open the way to a competitive production of bio-aromatics from renewable resources with lower energy consumption and lower CO 2 emissions.

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Green Car Congress

SEPTEMBER 3, 2020

University of North Dakota Energy & Environmental Research Center (Grand Forks, ND) will complete an initial engineering design for a hybrid capture system and estimate associated costs for retrofitting the Red Trail Energy ethanol plant. RTI International plans to develop two different novel materials, metal organic frameworks (i.e.,

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Green Car Congress

MARCH 22, 2012

These university-industry partnerships will receive almost $34 million in total project support. This project is led by Steven Holdcroft, Simon Fraser University, in partnership with Automotive Fuel Cell Corporation, Ballard Power Systems, Hyteon Inc., GM Canada, and Hydrogenics. APC Investment: $3,713,044 (NSERC and CFI).

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Baua Electric

APRIL 25, 2024

“The requirements and wishes of our customers are constantly driving us to create new internal start-ups. New machines and automation solutions are purchased for the new factory in Cologne where many of the internal start-ups are based, forming a motion plastics tech centre.

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Green Car Congress

NOVEMBER 5, 2014

A team from the University of Utah and CFD Research Corporation (CFDRC) reports the first bioelectrocatalysis of alkanes to produce electricity. The dominant mechanism for decomposing JP-8 is through a standard internal combustion engine or tactical quiet generator (TQG). Credit: ACS, Ulyanova et al. Click to enlarge.

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Green Car Congress

MAY 4, 2009

The US Department of Energy (DOE) selected six cost-shared University Advanced Combustion and Emissions Controls research and development projects totaling up to $13 million in DOE funding, subject to annual appropriations. The following projects were selected for award negotiation and will be cost shared at a minimum of 20%.

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AUGUST 10, 2011

This project will develop a novel low cost route to carbon fiber using a lignin/PAN hybrid precursor and carbon fiber conversion technologies leading to high performance, low-cost carbon fiber. Vehma International of America, Inc. The Pennsylvania State University. Miltec UV International, LLC. Optodot Corporation.

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Green Car Congress

OCTOBER 8, 2009

Once that has been done, the researchers plan to replace those genes with genes from other organisms to produce the desired fatty acids and overcome the internal regulatory mechanisms that could potentially limit fatty acid production. Diversified Energy Corporation holds an exclusive license to the Centia technology, developed at NC State.

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Green Car Congress

SEPTEMBER 10, 2010

The Department of Energy is working with industry, universities, national laboratories, and other groups to develop technologies capable of harnessing these resources to generate environmentally sustainable, cost-competitive power. The goal is to develop an optimal generator for current energy conversion. DOE Funding: $160,000.

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Green Car Congress

MAY 28, 2015

Mainstream Engineering Corporation. US Hybrid Corporation. American Lithium Energy Corporation. Novarials Corporation. Phase III offers opportunities to small businesses to continue their Phase I and II R&D work to pursue commercial applications of their R&D with non-SBIR/STTR funding. Organization. Description.

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Green Car Congress

FEBRUARY 25, 2009

Rocky Mountain Institute (RMI) launched Project Get Ready , an initiative that emerged from its Smart Garage Summit in October 2008 and that is intended to help communities prepare for plug-in vehicles including full battery electric, plug-in hybrid electric, and converted hybrid or internal combustion vehicles.

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Electric Auto Association

JANUARY 5, 2023

When Straubel—also known for his 1984 Porsche 944 EV conversion—left Tesla, he founded Redwood Materials , a leading lithium battery recycling company in Carson City, Nevada. That was quite a conversion.” Once held on the Stanford University campus, “The chapter had a rally course in downtown Palo Alto,” Pohorsky recalled. “It

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Green Car Congress

JUNE 7, 2017

A new study by researchers at the University of Colorado at Boulder projects the emission impacts of the widespread introduction of inexpensive and efficient electric vehicles into the US light duty vehicle (LDV) sector. output of mining or importing technologies) to conversion or process technologies (e.g.,

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Green Car Congress

OCTOBER 3, 2009

ConocoPhillips will demonstrate new advancements that improve conversion efficiency and economies of scale for carbon capture systems at a petcoke-based 683-megawatt integrated gasification combined cycle (IGCC) power plant adjacent to its existing refinery in Sweeny, Texas. University of Utah. Archer Daniels Midland Corporation.

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Green Car Congress

NOVEMBER 28, 2012

The projects are based in 24 states, with approximately 47% of the projects led by universities; 29% by small businesses; 15% by large businesses; 7.5% Natural Gas Reactor for Remote Chemical Conversion. University. Researchers from Colorado State University will develop a system. University. by non-profits.

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Green Car Congress

MARCH 3, 2015

FCTO is encouraging teaming between universities, National Laboratories, and industry. Subtopics include Microbial Biomass Conversion. Subtopic 1a: Microbial biomass conversion. One renewable, low carbon pathway that has not been included in recent funding opportunities is biological biomass conversion.

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Green Car Congress

FEBRUARY 8, 2019

BREAKERS projects include: Drexel University, Ultra-Efficient Intelligent MVDC Hybrid Circuit Breaker – $4,413,913. 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.

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Green Car Congress

MARCH 15, 2010

Although the starch-to-ethanol pathway is similar to that used for corn ethanol, based upon initial calculations from Drexel University, OBE’s winter barley ethanol has the potential to meet the criteria of an Advanced Biofuel as defined by the Renewable Fuel Standard-2 (RFS-2) and the Energy Independence and Security Act of 2007 (EISA 2007).

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Cars That Think

APRIL 20, 2024

Kahn Current job: Chairman, CEO, and president of the Corporation for National Research Initiatives (CNRI) Date of birth: 23 December 1938 Birthplace: Brooklyn, New York Family: Patrice Ann Lyons, his wife Education: BEE 1960, City College of New York ; M.A. You were just trying to figure out how to enable conversations.”

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Green Car Congress

MARCH 23, 2019

Durable and affordable higher-temperature heat exchangers could make energy conversion much more efficient, which in turn could reduce fuel consumption, system footprint, capital and operational cost, and emissions. HITEMMP projects include: Michigan State University. Missouri University of Science and Technology.

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Green Car Congress

DECEMBER 17, 2016

Most of the selected REFUEL projects target the production of ammonia or its conversion to hydrogen or electricity, due ammonia’s attractiveness as a hydrogen and energy carrier. Bettergy Corporation. Renewable Electricity-Powered Carbon Dioxide Conversion to Ethanol for Storage and Transportation (Category 1) The Opus 12, Inc.

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Green Car Congress

OCTOBER 15, 2009

It first gasifies the feedstock to syngas (CO and H 2 ), then uses proprietary microorganisms—licensed from Oklahoma State University and the University of Oklahoma—to convert simultaneously both CO and H 2 into ethanol. Earlier post.).

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Tony Karrer Delicious EVdriven

APRIL 21, 2009

Conversions are mostly for the Prius, with a few for the Ford Escape/Mercury Mariner hybrid SUVs. At that point, we expect the aftermarket companies prices to have come down sufficiently so that their conversions will be attractive to owners of hundreds of thousands of hybrids already on the road. So far, most start as hybrids.

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