Green Car Congress

JUNE 26, 2017

A team at Osaka University in Japan has developed a new material based on gold and black phosphorus to harvest a broader spectrum of sunlight for water-splitting to produce hydrogen. The three-part composite maximizes both absorbing light and its efficiency for water splitting. The LTO surface is partly coated with gold nanoparticles.

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JUNE 24, 2016

Chemists from the Universities of Basel and Zurich have reproduced one of the crucial phases of natural photosynthesis using artificial molecules. Green plants are able to temporarily store electric charges after the absorption of sunlight by using a molecular charge accumulator. Oliver Wenger (University of Basel) and Prof.

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Green Car Congress

MARCH 8, 2023

A Southwest Research Institute (SwRI) team has developed a mechanical testing device to analyze fluids and lubricants formulated for electric vehicles. The challenges for evaluating behavior in EVs is the presence of an applied electrical potential at component and lubricant interfaces. That extends to tribology testing as well.

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Green Car Congress

JANUARY 23, 2018

Researchers at the University of Twente’s MESA+ research institute have made significant efficiency improvements to the technology used to generate solar fuels. They fabricated a highly efficient photocathode by spatially and functionally decoupling light absorption and catalytic activity. — Vijselaar et al. Although 10.8%

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FEBRUARY 1, 2021

million in funding for three projects developing fuel cell and battery-electric drives for commercial vehicles. The question is not whether, but rather when battery-electric and hydrogen drives will become competitive in road freight transport. We want to work towards zero emissions road logistics with alternative drives.

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Green Car Congress

FEBRUARY 16, 2016

A team of researchers at Ulsan National Institute of Science and Technology (UNIST), Korea University, and the Korea Advanced Institute of Science and Technology (KAIST) has developed a new type of multilayered (Au NPs/TiO 2 /Au) photoelectrode that could boost the ability of solar water-splitting to produce hydrogen. —Park et al.

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Green Car Congress

MAY 6, 2020

Improvements in the lifecycle energy consumption of products of interest: This includes jet engine efficiency; materials and shape optimization for light-weighting in transport technologies; semiconductor electrical efficiency; and recycling and reuse for industrial-scale materials production and processing waste.

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Green Car Congress

OCTOBER 9, 2014

The Global Climate and Energy Project (GCEP) at Stanford University has awarded $10.5 The goal is to develop high-energy, durable lithium-ion batteries for electric vehicles by improving the cycle life of the battery electrodes. Light trapping in high?efficiency, Investigator: Hongjie Dai, Chemistry.

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Green Car Congress

MAY 11, 2020

A research group led by Associate Professor Takashi Tachikawa of Kobe University’s Molecular Photoscience Research Center has developed a strategy that greatly increases the amount of hydrogen produced from sunlight and water using hematite (??Fe Fe 2 O 3 ) photocatalysts. Hematite is a type of iron oxide ore. under 600nm). Nagashima, H.

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Green Car Congress

AUGUST 31, 2021

The US Department of Energy’s Oak Ridge National Laboratory (ORNL) has licensed its high-power wireless charging technology for electric vehicles to HEVO. The system provides the world’s highest power levels in the smallest package and could one day enable electric vehicles to be charged as they are driven at highway speeds.

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Green Car Congress

JULY 11, 2011

The US Department of Energy (DOE) has selected eight new projects to further advanced coal research under the University Coal Research Program. The selected projects are intended to improve coal conversion and use and will help propel technologies for future advanced coal power systems. Princeton University, Princeton, NJ.

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DECEMBER 29, 2021

The University of Michigan - Shanghai Jiao Tong University Joint Institute (UM-SJTU JI,) Professor Qianli Chen and her collaborators are proposing a new design principle for perovskite materials with high proton conductivity for use as electrolyte materials in solid oxide fuel cells.

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Green Car Congress

JULY 13, 2019

Efforts to shift away from fossil fuels and replace oil and coal with renewable energy sources can help reduce carbon emissions but do so at the expense of increased inequality, according to a new study by researchers at Portland State University (PSU) and Vanderbilt University. —Julius McGee.

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Green Car Congress

MARCH 25, 2014

Honda marked the opening of Honda Smart Home US, showcasing technologies that enable zero net energy living and transportation, including Honda’s home energy management system (HEMS), a proprietary hardware and software system that monitors, controls and optimizes electrical generation and consumption throughout the home’s microgrid.

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Green Car Congress

JULY 2, 2017

The University of Kentucky Center for Applied Energy Research (CAER) received a $1 million U.S. The funding was part of DOE’s strategy to invest in discovery and development of novel, low-cost materials necessary for hydrogen storage and for fuel cells onboard light-duty vehicles.

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Green Car Congress

JUNE 9, 2014

The cost of electrofuels—fuels produced by catalyst-based systems for light capture, water electrolysis, and catalytic conversion of carbon dioxide and hydrogen to liquid fuels—remains far away from viable, according to a new analysis by Lux Research. Hydrogen-to-fuels.

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Green Car Congress

NOVEMBER 16, 2018

The selected OPEN 2018 projects are in 21 states and fall into 9 technical categories, including transportation, electricity generation and delivery, and energy efficiency. . Electric motor-generators on each crankshaft will improve engine efficiency by modifying the piston dynamics and resulting combustion process.

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Green Car Congress

APRIL 21, 2011

ALTe Powertrain Technologies, the developer of a Range Extended Electric Powertrain used to repower light commercial vehicles up to 26,000 GVW ( earlier post ), has signed a Letter of Intent (LOI) to form a joint venture with Inmatech, Inc. , Earlier post.).

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Cars That Think

JUNE 9, 2023

This is an example of bridging the conversational nature of Chat GPT and other LLMs to generate real-world physical action. Together with the visitors of the Nerdland Festival, they created the longest chain of robots ever, which also respond to light. Moderated by Catie Cuan, Stanford University. Intrinsic ] Thanks, Scott!

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Green Car Congress

APRIL 1, 2010

GE Aviation will create an Electrical Power Integrated Systems Research & amp Development Center (EPISCENTER) near Dayton, Ohio. The center will be directed at several markets including on- and off-highway hybrid and electric vehicles, more electric aircraft and marine applications. million in support of the center.

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Green Car Congress

MAY 4, 2018

nm), the energy conversion efficiency and apparent quantum yield reaches ~8.75% and ~20%, respectively—the highest values ever reported for one-step visible-light driven photocatalytic overall pure water splitting. in neutral (pH?~?7.0) overall water splitting reaction. In part of the visible spectrum (400–485?nm),

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Green Car Congress

AUGUST 7, 2009

US Energy Secretary Steven Chu announced the delivery of $377 million in funding for 46 new multi-million-dollar Energy Frontier Research Centers (EFRCs) ( earlier post ) located at universities, national laboratories, nonprofit organizations, and private firms across the nation. Pennsylvania State University. Purdue University.

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Baua Electric

JANUARY 13, 2024

These models aim to go “thin, light, and wise,” with high efficiency and low battery degradation, and they include by-wire steering. And Kia revealed a new global family of PBV concept electric vans that will provide a modular basis for last-mile delivery, cargo operations, and even robotaxis. Looking at 14 different U.S.

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Green Car Congress

MAY 28, 2019

Raising the penetration of renewable —an intermittent—sources of energy into the grid will require large scale electrical energy storage and retrieval. Adding electrically engineered (synthetic or non-biological) elements could make this approach even more productive and efficient than microbes alone.

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Green Car Congress

AUGUST 28, 2019

Researchers at MIT and the Ford Motor Company have found that depending on the location, lightweight conventional vehicles could have a lower lifecycle greenhouse gas impact than electric vehicles, at least in the near term. Their paper is published in the ACS journal Environmental Science & Technology. —Wu et al.

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Green Car Congress

SEPTEMBER 5, 2009

Light harvesting can use various optical concentrators and beam splitters can redirect sub-bandgap radiation away from the PV onto the electrolyzer. This, together with the additional CO 2 from electrical generation, heating and transportation, comprise the majority of CO 2 emissions. Licht, 2009. Click to enlarge.

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Green Car Congress

MAY 11, 2020

Researchers at Monash University in Australia are proposing a roadmap to renewable ammonia being produced in the future at a scale that is significant in terms of global fossil fuel use. Generation 3 avoids the need for the Haber-Bosch process entirely by direct electrochemical conversion of N 2 to NH 3.

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Green Car Congress

JUNE 9, 2019

Researchers at the US Department of Energy’s (DOE) Brookhaven National Laboratory and the University of Arkansas have developed a highly efficient catalyst for extracting electrical energy from ethanol. —Jia Wang, the Brookhaven Lab chemist who led the work.

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Cars That Think

AUGUST 24, 2022

For half a century, the electric power hub controlled the flow of current that met one-fifth of London’s electricity demand. Hearing With Light. Figuring out how to use pulses of electric current to stimulate the cochlear nerve that feeds auditory information to the brain was a big achievement. MOJO VISION.

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Green Car Congress

FEBRUARY 27, 2010

Left, global light-duty fleet in the electric-favoring case; right, the hydrogen-favoring case. In both electric- and hydrogen-favoring cases, availability of low-carbon electricity and hydrogen prolonged the use of petroleum-fueled ICE vehicles. Top, without CCS and CSP; bottom, with CCS and CSP. Click to enlarge.

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EV Connect

JANUARY 9, 2023

Electric vehicle (EV) technology is advancing quickly. With bidirectional charging, the batteries in our vehicles can not only provide fuel for the road but energy for our homes and even our shared electrical grid. This conversion can happen within the charger or in the vehicle, depending on which device is equipped with a converter.

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Green Car Congress

JUNE 24, 2013

The lower-weight body design—light-weight composite materials save 600 lbs (272 kg) of weight per vehicle—along with the engine, allows every Reach to significantly reduce fuel consumption and exhaust emissions compared to conventional walk-in vans. The Reach van, with its four-cylinder, 3.0-liter In 2008, FedEx Corp.

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APRIL 14, 2017

All are from NREL; Crisp also is affiliated with the Colorado School of Mines, and Pach and Marshall are affiliated with the University of Colorado, Boulder. The major difference here is that we captured that MEG enhancement in a chemical bond rather than just in the electrical current. —Matthew Beard.

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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. In larger refineries light olefins—ethylene, propylene and butenes—are separated from this fraction.

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JULY 1, 2019

The research, published in the journal Joule , builds on innovations first reported in Science in 2017 by the same research group at the University of California San Diego and the university spinout South 8 Technologies. In contrast, most of conventional electrolytes fail to work below minus 20 ?C.

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Green Car Congress

JUNE 2, 2013

Project Volt Gas Volt is based on a long-term financing plan and the use of existing technologies for the large-scale conversion of surplus renewable electricity to methane, with subsequent reuse. Project VGV uses surplus electricity generated by renewable and nuclear sources to produce hydrogen via electrolysis.

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Electric Auto Association

NOVEMBER 2, 2021

The Gateway Electric Vehicle Association (GEVA) has forged partnerships in the St. For GEVA, the center has provided needed space for chapter meetings, as well as larger space for National Drive Electric Week (NDEW) events. For the Science Center, GEVA is an important resource when it comes to electric vehicles (EVs).

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