Green Car Congress

APRIL 3, 2010

A new MIT report outlines a system-oriented set of coordinated policies to help the light-duty vehicle sector reduce petroleum-based consumption and its accompanying global warming emissions. Interest groups are constantly diverging into separate camps and lobbying for separate policies. “We Heywood et al.

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Green Car Congress

JUNE 26, 2010

Natural gas will play a leading role in reducing greenhouse-gas emissions over the next several decades, largely by replacing older, inefficient coal plants with highly efficient combined-cycle gas generation, according to a major new interim report out from MIT. The Future of Natural Gas: An Interdisciplinary MIT Study.

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Green Car Congress

FEBRUARY 13, 2012

At the 2011 Algae Biomass Summit in Minneapolis, Dr. Michael Matturro, Corporate Programs Laboratory Director for ExxonMobil, provided a brief overview of the scope of the work. These oil recovery options may be grouped into two broad classes: accumulation (or storage) and secretion, they noted. Craig Venter. Earlier post.).

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Cars That Think

OCTOBER 21, 2022

In this video, we explore a future concept-of-operations for swarm management and how large groups of robots and drones will be able to interact and work together. MIT CSAIL ] Thanks, Rachel! Imagine being able to control a swarm of drones with just your hands or gestures. Paper at IROS next week! [

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The Truth About Cars

JUNE 26, 2023

Meanwhile, China’s state-owned Guangzhou Automobile Group Company (GAC) has announced it had developed an engine powered by ammonia with help from Toyota Motor Corporation during its annual technology showcase.

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Green Car Congress

AUGUST 3, 2014

Rusatom Overseas, a subsidiary of Russia’s State Atomic Energy Corporation ROSATOM, and CNNC New Energy (China) signed a Memorandum of Intent to cooperate in the development of floating nuclear power plants. The next step in the implementation of the project will be establishment of a joint Chinese-Russian working group.

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Green Car Congress

AUGUST 1, 2009

Panasonic Corporation is supporting the Solar Electric Vehicle Team at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT SEVT), in its participation of the Global Green Challenge (GGC), to be held in October 2009 in Australia. Under the sponsorship agreement, Panasonic is providing the MIT SEVT team with its 2.9

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JUNE 20, 2023

Bob Kahn: I got my PhD from Princeton in 1964 and took a job as an assistant professor at MIT in the electrical engineering department. There was a series of reports that Paul Baran wrote at the RAND Corporation on distributed communications. Licklider who came to ARPA from BBN (and MIT before that). I was there for a few years.

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Green Car Congress

NOVEMBER 21, 2016

The company’s autonomous and robotics technology system grew out of research conducted in MIT labs run by nuTonomy co-founders Karl Iagnemma and Emilio Frazzoli. As companies look to begin testing autonomous vehicles, MassDOT will work through the AV Working Group created by Massachusetts Executive Order No. Earlier post.).

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Cars That Think

AUGUST 3, 2021

Rather, the original spark often comes from a university lab , a renegade group at a large company, or a hobbyist building stuff for fun. Pixar's story doesn't even start with the creation of Lucasfilm's Computer Graphics Group, which developed the Pixar Image Computer, the company's first product. It had to be hardware.

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Cars That Think

JULY 21, 2021

And in 2005, the Chinese computer maker Lenovo Group purchased IBM's PC business. The product also had to attract corporate customers, although it was unclear how many of those there would be. Corporate users who did not want to rely on their company's centralized data centers began turning to these new machines.

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Green Car Congress

SEPTEMBER 2, 2014

WiTricity, the MIT spin-off commercializing strongly coupled magnetic resonance wireless charging technology for EVs as well as consumer devices, industrial, medical and military applications ( earlier post ), has work underway to deliver wireless charging systems capable of delivering 10s of kilowatts for plug-ins, compared to the current 3.3

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Green Car Congress

MAY 31, 2016

Ceder also has an appointment at UC Berkeley’s Department of Materials Science and Engineering, and all the co-authors are also affiliated with the Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT), where some of the work was done. —Seo et al.

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Green Car Congress

AUGUST 10, 2011

Chrysler Group LLC. Optodot Corporation. Eaton Corporation. This project will optimize fuel-based control of novel combustion strategies in light- and heavy-duty vehicles to enable diesel-like efficiencies with ultra-low engine-out emissions. valve train vs. bearings). 10,000,000. 10,000,000. 914,551.

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Green Car Congress

JUNE 25, 2010

CFM International is a 50/50 joint company of GE and Snecma (Safran Group).). Honeywell will be working with Gulfstream Aerospace Corporation, a division of General Dynamics Corporation, and Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT) in this contract. Earlier post.) (CFM Pratt & Whitney.

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Cars That Think

OCTOBER 18, 2023

Wong describes the new digital afterlife industry in a chapter of her new book from MIT Press, We the Data: Human Rights in the Digital Age. And in our conception now, it’s usually states have obligations to individuals or groups. Wendy, thanks so much for joining me on Fixing the Future. Would it be the same as that physical person?

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AUGUST 16, 2021

Those objections added to the concerns environmentalists were raising about the ozone layer—a scenario seemingly justified a few years later by MIT researchers, who concluded that a future fleet of 500 supersonic airliners would deplete the ozone layer by 16 percent. Clearly, nobody would accept stone-fracturing sonic booms. Boom Supersonic.

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MARCH 11, 2023

During the 1990s, Brooks formed a team at AeroVironment that provided support for GM’s EV programs until he too tired of the corporate routine and joined ACP in 1999. Parts of this article are adapted from the author’s new book, Age of Auto Electric ( MIT Press, 2022). He recruited Rippel and Cocconi for both jobs.

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Green Car Congress

APRIL 29, 2009

the session counted among its panelists: Professor John Heywood, Sun Jae Professor of Mechanical Engineering and Director of the Sloan Auto Laboratory at MIT. Corporate Average Fuel Efficiency (CAFE) challenge. Organized by Shane Chang at Honda Research Institute USA Inc., Bandivadekar, A., Heywood, J., Kasseris, E.,

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MARCH 1, 2023

So the broad vision for computing’s future was well in place when, at the close of the 1960s, Xerox decided to create a new corporate R&D laboratory. There, Kay established the Learning Research Group centered around his conception of a hand-held, screen-oriented, graphical, networked personal computer, which he called the Dynabook.

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Cars That Think

JUNE 4, 2022

When the center opened in 1970, it was unlike other major industrial research laboratories; its work wasn’t tied, even loosely, to its corporate parent’s current product lines. The group thought it should have a computer of its own. PARC is one of three research centers within Xerox; the other two are in Webster, N.Y.,

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Green Car Congress

MARCH 16, 2016

Market-based incentives should be implemented to support the US Corporate Average Fuel Economy (CAFE) LDV requirements. It is the third report in a series that records the research findings of this group; “On the Road in 2020” was published in 2000 and “On the Road in 2035” was published in 2008.

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Green Car Congress

SEPTEMBER 19, 2013

Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT) will develop a comprehensive process to directly convert methane into a usable transportation fuel in a single step. MIT’s unique technologies integrate methane activation and fuel synthesis—two distinct processes required to convert methane that are typically performed separately—into one step.

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Tony Karrer Delicious EVdriven

APRIL 21, 2009

Chicago Tribune ) DaimlerChrysler 12/22/06 [DaimlerChrysler Group research chief Thomas Weber] played down the importance for passenger cars of plug-in hybrid technology that is getting lots of attention in the U.S. But we want to give them cause to continue to press forward." ( MIT Technology Review ). Marketwatch ). Detroit News ).

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Green Car Congress

MARCH 29, 2018

Prior to co-founding XL, Clay was in strategic roles at Hudson Capital Group, an energy commodity trading firm, Smart Energy, a deregulated electricity and gas supplier, and Start Space, a consumer products company. Clay earned a master’s degree in Supply Chain Management from MIT, and a bachelor’s degree from Trinity College.

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EV Adoption

MARCH 15, 2021

The tie-up with Singapore-based SolidEnergy Systems, which was founded by MIT grad Qichao Hu, is focused on new battery chemistry to reduce the size of the batteries while increasing an EV’s range. The chargers will be located in places where travelers will be able to rest and relax while their cars are connected to the chargers.

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