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Harvard team demonstrates new metal-free organic–inorganic aqueous flow battery; potential breakthrough for low-cost grid-scale storage

Green Car Congress

JANUARY 11, 2014

AQDSH 2 refers to the reduced form of AQDS. In a paper in Nature , they suggest that the use of such redox-active organic molecules instead of redox-active metals represents a new and promising direction for realizing massive electrical energy storage at greatly reduced cost. Cell schematic. Huskinson et al. Click to enlarge.

Low Cost

Low Cost Grid Batteries Battery

Altex & Unitel partner to demonstrate a new technology for making synthetic gasoline from biomass

Green Car Congress

APRIL 5, 2016

Altex Technologies has selected Unitel to provide engineering services to design and build a pilot system that will produce 1 BPD of synthetic gasoline from biomass (Biomass Conversion to Synthetic Gasoline System, BCSGS). lower cost) and gasification/F-T processes (e.g., —US 9199889. —Serge Randhava, CEO of Unitel.

Gasoline

Gasoline Coal Convert Conversion

ARPA-E adds five new funding topics to FOA to advance critical energy innovation

Green Car Congress

MAY 30, 2020

The program is designed to support early stage, transformative energy technologies. All applicants should identify which of these challenges are applicable to their technology, and how they would mitigate these risks. million; 1-5 awards. Full applications for these five topics are due at 9:30 AM ET on 22 July 2020.

Energy

Energy Waste Carbon Emissions

Lloyd’s Register and UMAS release Zero Emission Vessels 2030 study

Green Car Congress

DECEMBER 20, 2017

Although none of the ZEVs are estimated to be more competitive than conventional shipping by 2030, the technology options are evolving rapidly and it is possible that over the next 10 years the gap could reduce even further than this study estimates. All analyses are performed against a heavy fuel oil (HFO) reference ship.

Emissions

Emissions Mariner Low Cost Hydrogen

Nitrogen-doped graphene nanoplatelets offer high catalytic performance in fuel cells and solar cells; possible replacement for Pt

Green Car Congress

JULY 23, 2013

Researchers in South Korea have developed a simple, low-cost and eco-friendly method of creating nitrogen-doped graphene nanoplatelets (NGnPs) with excellent catalytic performance in both dye-sensitized solar cells and fuel cells to replace conventional platinum (Pt)-based catalysts for energy conversion. —Jeon et al.

Solar

Solar Fuel Low Cost South Korea

IDTechEx calculates ~31 GWh of electric vehicle markets beyond cars in 2021

Green Car Congress

OCTOBER 30, 2022

IDTechEx calculates that non-automotive EV sectors in 2021 demanded approximately 31 GWh globally in 2021; for reference, battery-electric and plug-in hybrid cars demanded approximately 280 GWh globally in 2021. Battery Demand From Non-automotive EV Sectors in 2021. Source: IDTechEx - “Electric Vehicles: Land, Sea & Air 2022-2042”.

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Researchers develop rechargeable hybrid-seawater fuel cell; highly energy density, stable cycling

Green Car Congress

NOVEMBER 24, 2014

Researchers from Ulsan National Institute of Science and Technology (UNIST) in Korea and Karlsruher Institute of Technology in Germany have developed a novel energy conversion and storage system using seawater as a cathode. In addition, this system can be easily scaled up. —Kim et al. 2014.106.

Recharge

Recharge Sodium Hybrid Fuel

DOE releases SBIR/STTR FY16 Phase 1 Release 2 topics; hydrogen, electric vehicles, more efficient combustion engines; biogas-to-fuels

Green Car Congress

NOVEMBER 16, 2015

The US Department of Energy has announced the 2016 Small Business Innovation Research and Small Business Technology Transfer (SBIR/STTR) Phase I Release 2 Topics, covering eight DOE research program organizations. The second TTO is focused on safety sensors for hydrogen infrastructure applications. Electric drive vehicle batteries.

Hydrogen

Hydrogen Engine Fuel Electric Vehicles

SEAT pushes forward with CNG line-up

Green Car Congress

APRIL 9, 2019

SEAT, a member of the Volkswagen Group, continues to spearhead the introduction of compressed natural gas (CNG) technology, giving customers the widest choice of vehicles that are cleaner, more sustainable and offer even greater efficiency. A CNG vehicle reduces CO 2 emissions by about 25% compared to a gasoline-driven equivalent.

Gasoline-Electric

Gasoline-Electric Gasoline Gas Gas-Electric

DOE selects 33 clean energy businesses for nearly $6.7M in support under Small Business Vouchers pilot

Green Car Congress

MARCH 11, 2016

The US Department of Energy (DOE) selected 33 small businesses to work directly with DOE national labs to accelerate the commercialization of new clean energy technologies. Work in the vehicles area will focus on improved technologies for making vehicles safer, more efficient, and reducing greenhouse gas emissions. Organization.

Clean

Clean Cleaning Energy Li-ion

Study suggests that decarbonizing US transport sector by converting waste CO2 to fuels would require economical air-capture of CO2

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NOVEMBER 7, 2010

pre- and post- decarbonization of the electric power sector—to which he referred as pre-CCS and post-CCS, respectively (although decarbonization was not necessarily via CCS—carbon capture and storage).) 90%) or to “repower” using lower carbon feedstocks or generation technologies (e.g. their CO 2 (e.g. ~90%)

Transportation

Transportation Convert Waste CO2

LIVE BLOG: Tesla Q1 2024 earnings call

Teslarati

APRIL 23, 2024

Low cost, simple, and it just works. “We’re in conversation with one automaker,” Musk said. Musk also noted that “Tesla will be operating the fleet,” seemingly referring to the company’s Robotaxi network. to 18.5%, though this was mostly due to seasonality and some microeconomics.

Tesla

Tesla Companies Buy Price

After 50 Years, Digital Voices Speak Again

Cars That Think

NOVEMBER 7, 2022

And there they would have stayed without a chance conversation and assistance from some very capable librarians and archivists. The technology had many precursors, including German “ gramophone postcards ” and Soviet “ bone music ”—jazz or rock recordings pressed on to discarded X-ray film to avoid government censorship.

Kansas City

Kansas City Kansas Missouri Downsizing

BMW Group, Airbus and Quantinuum present classical/quantum computation study of the ORR in fuel cells

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AUGUST 3, 2023

Airbus, BMW Group and Quantinuum , world leaders in mobility and quantum technologies, have developed a hybrid quantum-classical workflow to speed up future research using quantum computers to simulate quantum systems, focusing on the chemical reactions of catalysts in fuel cells. —Di Paola et al.

BMW

BMW Fuel Hydrogen Future

ARPA-E awarding $60M to 23 projects; dry cooling and fusion power

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MAY 15, 2015

The Energy Department’s Advanced Research Projects Agency-Energy (ARPA-E) will award $60 million in funding to 23 new projects aimed at creating highly efficient and scalable dry-cooling technologies for thermoelectric power plants and developing prototype technologies to explore new pathways for fusion power. ARID AWARDS. Description.

Fusion

Fusion Power Powered Low Cost

A Skeptic’s Take on Beaming Power to Earth from Space

Cars That Think

MAY 9, 2024

Instead, the program aims to spend three years and €60 million (US $65 million) to figure out whether solar cells, DC-to-RF converters, assembly robots, beam-steering antennas, and other must-have technologies will improve drastically enough over the next 10 to 20 years to make orbital solar power feasible and competitive.

Power

Power Powered Solar Fusion

DOE to award $49.4M for advanced vehicle technologies research; meeting Tier 3 emissions

Green Car Congress

JANUARY 22, 2014

million to projects to to accelerate research and development of new vehicle technologies. Area Of Interest (AOI) 1: Development of Low-Cost, High-Strength Automotive Aluminum Sheet. Replacement technology must achieve function and packaging requirements of technology to be replaced. Click to enlarge. ≥ 35%. ≤

Emissions

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ARPA-E to award up to $55M in two programs to support electric aviation

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DECEMBER 18, 2019

The US Department of Energy’s (DOE’s) Advanced Research Projects Agency-Energy (ARPA-E) announced up to $55 million in funding for two programs to support the development of low-cost electric aviation engine technology and powertrain systems. Both programs will develop technology for use in narrow-body, passenger aircraft.

Electric

Electric Electrical Emissions All-Electric

A Circuit to Boost Battery Life

Cars That Think

JULY 29, 2021

The basic analog low-dropout voltage regulator [left] controls voltage through a feedback loop. It tries to make the output voltage (VDD) equal to the reference voltage by controlling the current through the power PFET. Second, they don't operate properly when VIN is low, limiting how low a VDD they can deliver to a core.

Batteries

Batteries Battery Supplies Design

Report from the REFF-Wall Street; Themes in Renewable Energy Finance

Green Car Congress

JULY 22, 2009

Dr. Don Paul is the Executive Director, University of Southern California Energy Institute and a former vice president and chief technology officer of Chevron. Attendees believe that renewable energy needs two elements to be successful: technical progress leading to lower costs and a price on carbon. Earlier post.). Eight months ago.

Financing

Financing Renewable Stimulus Package Energy

ARPA-E awards $55M to 18 projects in two new programs: TERRA for transportation energy and GENSETS for distributed generation

Green Car Congress

JUNE 19, 2015

The six TERRA projects will receive a total of $30 million to accelerate energy crop development for the production of renewable transportation fuels from biomass and the 12 GENSETS projects are aimed at developing generator technologies that will improve efficiencies in residential Combined Heat and Power (CHP) generation.

Transportation

Transportation Energy West Virginia Engine

PNNL study outlines requirements for grid storage, reviews four electrochemical energy storage systems: vanadium redox flow, Na-beta, Li-ion and lead-carbon

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MARCH 15, 2011

However, while a number of potential technologies for EES exist, and some have been applied or demonstrated, they face either challenges in meeting the performance and economic matrix for the stationary applications, or limits in environment, site selection, and so on, Yang et al. In their study, Yang et al. Credit: ACS, Yang et al.

Li-ion

Li-ion Energy Storage Grid Carbon

Electric Vehicle Project Ideas | Ph.D., MTech, MSc | Electrical, Management, Mechanical & More…

Get Electric Vehicle

FEBRUARY 16, 2022

I recommend you to focus on the peak load shaving and other advantages of the V2G technologies from a utility perspective. Impacts of Vehicle to Grid on power quality (DC – AC conversion and power injection happens) You may start as follows. A BMS with low cost, high efficiency, etc. Electric scooter conversion 3.

IDEA

IDEA Electric Vehicles Vehicles Electric

Using the PHEV (Plug-In Hybrid Electric Vehicle) to Transition Society Seamlessly and Profitably From Fossil Fuel to 100% Renewable Energy

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JULY 17, 2015

In this paper PHEV refers solely to the long-range PHEV of 60 miles (100 km) electric-only range.) At present, PHEV technology alone is equipped to improve the current electric grid. In fact, the PHEV is the only existing technology that acts as a vector for transitioning our society to exclusive use of renewable resources.

PHEV

PHEV Plug-in Renewable Energy

RESPONSE TO: Ministry of Transport’s Charging Our Future: Discussion Document

Drive Electric

MAY 16, 2023

Over the coming decade, driven by technological advancements and requirements to decarbonise, the transport system will shift away from being powered by fossil fuels. Public charging gives users the confidence to adopt EV technology, and alongside the sticker price of EVs, is probably the greatest enabler of uptake. Focus Area 4b.

Future

Future Charging New Zealand Installation

How Carmakers Are Responding to the Plug-In Hybrid Opportunity

Tony Karrer Delicious EVdriven

APRIL 21, 2009

Fisker $80,000 Karma series luxury 50-mile range series PHEV, S Sunset convertible version.Partnering with Quantum Technologies. 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.)

Plug-in

Plug-in Plug Hybrid PHEV

Why Warren Buffett is investing in electric car company BYD - Apr. 13, 2009

Tony Karrer Delicious EVdriven

APRIL 16, 2009

News | Markets | Technology | Personal Finance | Small Business | CNN.com RSS Newsletters Video Home Fortune 500 Technology Investing Management Rankings Warren Buffett takes charge Warren Buffett hasnt just seen the car of the future, hes sitting in the drivers seat. "Its a completely different business model."

BYD

BYD 2009 Companies Electric Cars

EV Driven

Harvard team demonstrates new metal-free organic–inorganic aqueous flow battery; potential breakthrough for low-cost grid-scale storage

Altex & Unitel partner to demonstrate a new technology for making synthetic gasoline from biomass

ARPA-E adds five new funding topics to FOA to advance critical energy innovation

Lloyd’s Register and UMAS release Zero Emission Vessels 2030 study

Nitrogen-doped graphene nanoplatelets offer high catalytic performance in fuel cells and solar cells; possible replacement for Pt

IDTechEx calculates ~31 GWh of electric vehicle markets beyond cars in 2021

Researchers develop rechargeable hybrid-seawater fuel cell; highly energy density, stable cycling

DOE releases SBIR/STTR FY16 Phase 1 Release 2 topics; hydrogen, electric vehicles, more efficient combustion engines; biogas-to-fuels

SEAT pushes forward with CNG line-up

DOE selects 33 clean energy businesses for nearly $6.7M in support under Small Business Vouchers pilot

Study suggests that decarbonizing US transport sector by converting waste CO2 to fuels would require economical air-capture of CO2

LIVE BLOG: Tesla Q1 2024 earnings call

After 50 Years, Digital Voices Speak Again

BMW Group, Airbus and Quantinuum present classical/quantum computation study of the ORR in fuel cells

ARPA-E awarding $60M to 23 projects; dry cooling and fusion power

A Skeptic’s Take on Beaming Power to Earth from Space

DOE to award $49.4M for advanced vehicle technologies research; meeting Tier 3 emissions

ARPA-E to award up to $55M in two programs to support electric aviation

A Circuit to Boost Battery Life

Report from the REFF-Wall Street; Themes in Renewable Energy Finance

ARPA-E awards $55M to 18 projects in two new programs: TERRA for transportation energy and GENSETS for distributed generation

PNNL study outlines requirements for grid storage, reviews four electrochemical energy storage systems: vanadium redox flow, Na-beta, Li-ion and lead-carbon

Electric Vehicle Project Ideas | Ph.D., MTech, MSc | Electrical, Management, Mechanical & More…

Using the PHEV (Plug-In Hybrid Electric Vehicle) to Transition Society Seamlessly and Profitably From Fossil Fuel to 100% Renewable Energy

RESPONSE TO: Ministry of Transport’s Charging Our Future: Discussion Document

How Carmakers Are Responding to the Plug-In Hybrid Opportunity

Why Warren Buffett is investing in electric car company BYD - Apr. 13, 2009

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