Green Car Congress

OCTOBER 18, 2020

The US Department of Energy (DOE) announced more than $27 million in funding for 12 projects that will support the development of advanced plastics recycling technologies and new plastics that are recyclable-by-design. Partners include Algenesis, BASF, Pepsi, Reef, and University of California – Davis.

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Green Car Congress

JULY 29, 2021

The project was selected for funding by the California Energy Commission, which awarded Sierra Northern Railway and GTI nearly $4 million in March to fund the design and demonstration of the train in Sacramento, with the goal of creating a clean alternative to diesel locomotives.

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Green Car Congress

MARCH 25, 2021

The California Energy Commission has awarded GTI and Sierra Northern Railway nearly $4,000,000 to fund the design, integration, and demonstration of a hydrogen fuel cell switching locomotive to support the Hydrogen Fuel Cell Demonstrations in Rail and Marine Applications at Ports (H2RAM) initiative.

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Green Car Congress

SEPTEMBER 19, 2013

While chemically converting natural gas to liquid fuels (GTL) is a proven technology that increases volumetric energy density, the current conversion approach through Fischer-Tropsch (FT-GTL) is challenged by both high capital costs and low conversion efficiencies. process intensification approaches for biological methane conversion.

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Green Car Congress

DECEMBER 1, 2009

A new study by researchers at the Institute of Transportation Studies, University of California Davis, examines a range of sustainability requirements for biofuels and considers a possible framework for implementing the LCFS sustainability provision. Ogden, Bryan M.

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Green Car Congress

MAY 12, 2022

—Amy Davis, Vice President and President of New Power at Cummins. Hydrogen fuel cells are a promising solution for the demanding requirements of heavy-duty trucking. Our collaboration in this market is an important milestone for both companies as we work to accelerate the shift to a carbon-free economy.

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Green Car Congress

SEPTEMBER 26, 2012

This study suggests that Synechocystis , expressing the modified efe gene, has potential to be an efficient biological catalyst for the uptake and conversion of CO 2 to ethylene. Conversely, the process recycles carbon dioxide, a greenhouse gas, since the organism utilizes the gas as part of its metabolic cycle. —Ungerer et al.

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Green Car Congress

AUGUST 13, 2020

The first-of-its-kind continuous catalytic process was designed to reduce production costs relative to batch chemistry, the prior state-of-the-art technology. With this research, we looked to make a new biofuel conversion process that is relevant and applicable to renewable and waste-to-energy technology. Huq, Davis R.

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Green Car Congress

APRIL 30, 2013

750,000 to research value-based design options for the standardization of plug-in electric vehicle (PEV) batteries. University of California, Davis was awarded $900,000 to investigate emissions and leakages within California’s natural gas infrastructure. The California Energy Commission has awarded Electricore, Inc.

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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.

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Green Car Congress

AUGUST 17, 2012

NO conversion versus ramp-up and ramp-down temperatures for MnCe-7:1 (?), The new material is active at temperatures as low as 120 °C with conversion maxima of ~45% higher than that achieved with Pt. Proposed reaction mechanism of NO conversion into NO 2 (g) on the stepped mullite (110) surface. SmMn 2 O 5 (?), and Pt (?).

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Cars That Think

OCTOBER 1, 2024

Today, BrainChip announced their chip design, the Akida Pico, is now available. Akida Pico, which was developed for use in power-constrained devices, is a stripped-down, miniaturized version of BrainChip’s Akida design, introduced last year. It’s suited for a streaming, real-time mode of operation,” Davies says.

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Green Car Congress

SEPTEMBER 10, 2010

The 27 projects range from concept studies and component design research to prototype development and in-water device testing. Lee, New Hampshire) will design and optimize a rugged submersible generator capable of coupling to a broad range of tidal and river current turbines, for use in a wide range of operational conditions.

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Green Car Congress

DECEMBER 2, 2011

This blockage is achieved by a precisely designed geometry that only allows rays that fall within a very tiny range of angles to escape, while the rest stay in the material and heat it up. That, in turn, exceeds the Shockley-Quiesser efficiency limit of 31% for photovoltaic conversion under unconcentrated sunlight. and four students.

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Green Car Congress

JANUARY 8, 2010

Fort Lauderdale-Davis, Fla.) for an Advanced Nanocomposites in Renewable Energy Laboratory for designing, prototyping and testing large structural hybrid composite and nanocomposite components for the deep water offshore wind energy industry; $12.3 for a Center of Excellence for Coral Reef Ecosystem Science research facility; $12.4

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Green Car Congress

FEBRUARY 23, 2012

Design of the AFRI project is underway and the equipment modules are expected to be installed in 2013. ZeaChem Inc., Production of bio-based jet and diesel is expected to begin in 2013 and production of bio-based gasoline, part of the C 3 product platform, will follow in 2015.

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Green Car Congress

AUGUST 12, 2011

Overall, the USDA and DOE projects are designed to improve special crops to be grown for biofuels—including selected trees and grasses—by increasing their yield, quality and ability to adapt to extreme environments. Luca Comai, University of California, Davis.

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Green Car Congress

APRIL 29, 2009

The piston has a shallow bowl designed to ensure stable combustion during engine cold-start operations. In developing the system, Ford engineers focused on fundamental physics, with an emphasis including injector spray pattern, piston geometry, intake port design, and innovation of operating strategies. Configuration of the 3.5L

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Green Car Congress

JULY 5, 2011

The past decade was the first in two centuries with increasing CO2 emissions intensities, owing to a “coal revival”, in contrast with the rapid conversion to natural gas in the 1990s. Global CO 2 emissions have increased at an annual rate of more than 3 per cent, considerably faster than in previous decades (van Vuuren and Riahi, 2008).

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Green Car Congress

SEPTEMBER 8, 2016

DOE, the Department of Defense and the National Science Foundation have been designated as NSCI lead agencies, and ECP is the primary DOE contribution to the initiative. High Performance, Multidisciplinary Simulations for Regional Scale Seismic Hazard and Risk Assessments, David McCallen (LBNL) with LLNL, UC Davis, UC Berkeley.

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Green Car Congress

JUNE 26, 2021

Enhancement of PyARC for Westinghouse Electric Company’s Lead Fast Reactor design and modeling, $450,000. Highly Efficient Electrocatalysts for Direct Conversion Of CO2 To Chemicals, $250,000. Multiscale Manufacturing Design Tool Based on Machine Learning Workflow, $250,000. Marrone Bio Innovations (Davis, California).

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Plug In Partners

MAY 16, 2006

First customers for the conversions of several dozen SUVs would be cities, utilities, CEOs, entrepreneurs and celebrities. The vehicles would demonstrate a range of energy storage and propulsion components, flex-fuel (E85) capability and other design solutions.

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Tony Karrer Delicious EVdriven

APRIL 21, 2009

Our PRIUS+ Project Photos PHEV Resources Global Warming Take Action News and Events Contact Us Where Plug-In Hybrid Conversions (mostly Priuses) Are This is a mirror of the map at Googles RechargeIt site (including icons for YouTube videos on both PHEVs and EVs). In addition, see the EAA-PHEV list , which sometimes gets ahead of this list.

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Green Car Congress

AUGUST 19, 2023

DOE Funding: $1,249,997; Non-DOE Funding: $312,516; Total Value: $1,562,513 Oxygen Integrated Unit for Modular Biomass Conversion to Hydrogen — Palo Alto Research Center Inc.,

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Green Car Congress

APRIL 30, 2010

Novel Biological Conversion of Hydrogen and Carbon Dioxide Directly into Biodiesel. Johnson Matthey will investigate the catalytic conversion of this microbial biodiesel into additional fuel molecules, most importantly jet fuel. Easel Biotechnologies, UC Davis). OPX Biotechnologies Inc. NREL, Johnson Matthey Catalysts).

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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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Spirit of DC - PHEV3A

NOVEMBER 7, 2008

And a return to Professor Andy Frank at UC- Davis 2. Kansas City, New Orleans, Memphis,) with Green Train and the "Spirit" and the "Xtreme BugE" some time after the 5th EPA National Sustainable Design Expo on the Capitol Mall on Earth Day weekend in April 2009. Nevada: Las Vegas EVA 3. Arizona: Flagstaff EAA and Phoenix EAA.

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Baua Electric

OCTOBER 25, 2024

It’s designed to be set up in just one day. It’s our own design, and we make it here in the United States. Tom McCalmont: With our design software, we can basically accommodate any size. The city of Davis, California is putting two in. PairTree is an off-grid EV charger featuring a pop-up solar canopy, a 42.4

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Green Car Congress

JULY 17, 2015

and UC-Davis Emeritus and Catherine JJ DeMauro. Frank has spent more than 30 years in breakthrough vehicle development, during which he received two world records for vehicle fuel economy, designed nine generations of PHEVs, and was a four-time winner of US DOE Advanced Vehicle Design competitions. CTO Efficient Drivetrains Inc.

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Tony Karrer Delicious EVdriven

APRIL 21, 2009

Audi Volkswagen-owned company exploring PHEVs Metroproject Quattro Sub-compact PHEV Concept Car shown October 2007; PHEV of A1 Sportback under consideration Bright Automotive For-profit spin off from Rocky Mountain Institute designing lightweight PHEVs, successor to RMIs 1990s "Hypercar" concept. Has shown some concept fuel-cell PHEVs.

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Green Car Congress

APRIL 23, 2015

After proving a initial look at the design and capability of the different components ( earlier post ) late last year, GM is now providing deeper technical insight into the second-generation platform. In designing the second-generation system, GM engineers built on the knowledge and data gained from the first-generation Volt. (A

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Green Car Congress

JULY 22, 2009

Biofuel projects are going to have trouble getting financing from Wall Street this year because all of them have questions about the long term pricing of petroleum; most of them have concerns about the pricing stability of their feedstocks; and many of the cellulosic projects have concerns about the conversion technologies. Billion vs. $28.3

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EV Adoption

AUGUST 8, 2021

Secondly, according to analysis from Jeff Davis at the Eno Center for Transportation , there is an additional $5 billion earmarked for EV charging infrastructure in the USDOT Appropriations grants that would be disbursed through state and local governments. Source: Jeff Davis, Eno Center for Transportation.

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Teslarati

JUNE 18, 2024

We design our manufacturing processes to use less water per vehicle than the industry average, and for the third year in a row, we power our Supercharger network with 100 percent renewable energy. Brandon Erhart: Thank you, Dr. Davis. It’s also worth noting that Tesla is actually pretty good at chip design.

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