Green Car Congress

AUGUST 15, 2017

the largest transit bus and motor coach manufacturer and parts distributor in North America, is advancing production of 105 Xcelsior diesel-electric hybrid, forty-foot heavy-duty transit buses for the Southeastern Pennsylvania Transportation Authority (SEPTA). New Flyer of America Inc., the US subsidiary of New Flyer Industries Inc.,

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Green Car Congress

APRIL 13, 2009

has signed a definitive Memorandum of Understanding for a multi-year, global supply relationship with Alpharetta, GA-based Exide Technologies for the purchase of Axion PbC batteries—multi-celled asymmetrically supercapacitive lead-acid-carbon hybrid batteries ( earlier post )—and other Axion technologies. Axion Power International Inc.

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Green Car Congress

SEPTEMBER 22, 2009

Stationary Fuel Cells and Hybrid Transit Buses Incremental Costs: The purchase of diesel-electric hybrid transit buses and stationary fuel cells for use in the statewide bus system in Connecticut. Statewide Paratransit Bus Hybrid Program: Purchase 31 paratransit hybrid buses to replace 31 gas and diesel vehicles.

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Green Car Congress

APRIL 30, 2010

Today’s technologies for making biofuels all rely on photosynthesis—either indirectly by converting plants to fuels or directly by harnessing photosynthetic organisms such as algae. This process is less than 1% efficient at converting sunlight to stored chemical energy. Electrofuels: Biofuels from Electricity. Engineering E.

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Green Car Congress

JUNE 26, 2021

Bunting-Dubois (Dubois, Pennsylvania). Westinghouse Electric Company (Cranberry Township, Pennsylvania). High Efficiency Power-to-Gas in a Modular Hybrid Electrobioreactor, $1,000,000. Field Testing and Validation of Hybrid Optimization and Performance Platform (HOPP) , $500,000. Intellimation, LLC (Berwyn, Pennsylvania).

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Green Car Congress

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. The Pennsylvania State University. Increased availability of magnesium can enable vehicle weight reduction and improvement in fuel efficiency.

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Green Car Congress

AUGUST 7, 2009

Pennsylvania State University. Dramatically increase our fundamental knowledge of the physical structure of biopolymers in plant cell walls to provide a basis for improved methods for converting biomass into fuels. Center for Interface Science: Hybrid Solar-Electric Materials (CIS:HSEM). $15. EFRC Name. Funding ($mil).

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JUNE 24, 2014

Understand catalytic processes that will enable the viable, economic operation of biorefineries with lignocellulosic biomass feedstocks converted to a range of fuels and chemicals. Develop artificial materials, inspired by biological systems, that can change the way we convert and use energy. The Pennsylvania State University.

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Green Car Congress

MARCH 23, 2019

UCLA will develop extreme-condition heat exchanger technology targeted to ultra-high-efficiency hybrid aviation power cycles. The heat exchanger will significantly improve efficiency and power density for new hybrid aviation power cycles. Pennsylvania State University. Vacuum Process Engineering.

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Get Electric Vehicle

APRIL 13, 2023

” – Elon Musk “Within a decade, the internal combustion engine automobile is likely to look exactly like what it is – a machine that converts gasoline into much more heat than forward motion, a bizarre antiquity.” This corresponds to fuel consumption of about fout litres (per 100 kilometers; about 59 mpg).

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Cars That Think

OCTOBER 26, 2021

Is 381 miles by the shortest route and 420 miles if I take the Pennsylvania Turnpike. But Nissan has announced that for North America, they too are converting over to CCS. Importantly, Tesla is about to offer a converter that allows Teslas to use CCS charging sites. But what about plug-in hybrids?

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Cars That Think

OCTOBER 26, 2021

Is 381 miles by the shortest route and 420 miles if I take the Pennsylvania Turnpike. But Nissan has announced that for North America, they too are converting over to CCS. Importantly, Tesla is about to offer a converter that allows Teslas to use CCS charging sites. But what about plug-in hybrids?

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Green Car Congress

OCTOBER 26, 2009

If successfully developed, this transformational new energy storage technology would greatly reduce the cost of hybrid and electric vehicles. A novel process known as Syngas Chemical Looping (SCL), in which coal and biomass are converted to electricity and CO 2 is efficiently captured, has been successfully demonstrated on a laboratory scale.

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Green Car Congress

SEPTEMBER 19, 2013

One program, Reducing Emissions using Methanotrophic Organisms for Transportation Energy (REMOTE, earlier post ), provides $34 million to 15 projects to find advanced biocatalyst technologies that can convert natural gas to liquid fuel for transportation. Pennsylvania State University. Multicopper Oxidases for Methane Activation.

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Green Car Congress

JUNE 12, 2012

Research Triangle Institute, Advanced, Energy-Efficient Hybrid Membrane. This project will develop and demonstrate a single hybrid system for industrial wastewater treatment and reuse that combines two known processes: forward osmosis and membrane distillation. The Pennsylvania State. System for Industrial Water Reuse.

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Creative Greenius

JUNE 11, 2009

To put that in perspective for you, if Los Angeles County were a state, it would rank ninth in population behind the states of California, New York, Texas, Florida, Pennsylvania, Illinois, Ohio, and Michigan. Convert your Prius to a plug-in hybrid and rock the world. NO PURCHASE! Plug In Conversions Corp.

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Spirit of DC - PHEV3A

AUGUST 3, 2009

This converted Toyota Prius is another type of Plug-in --a PHEV (Plug-in Hybrid Electric Vehicle). RAR also received help from an east coast Tesla Roadster owner who converted his Tesla Motors High Power Connector (HPC) assembly that can handle up to 70 Amps of current from a 240-VAC single phase source.

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