Green Car Congress

FEBRUARY 22, 2011

Navistar International Corporation has reached a development agreement with EcoMotors International in support of the company’s opoc (Opposed-Piston, Opposed-Cylinder) engine architecture. The opoc engine has very high power density of nearly one horsepower per pound. Cutaway diagram of the opoc engine.

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JULY 18, 2016

Christina Lampe-Onnerud, former CEO and founder of Boston Power ( earlier post ), has raised more than $5 million in growth capital. Cadenza Innovation is bringing to market a low-cost and high-performance technology platform—cell design and housing—for licensing to lithium-ion battery manufacturers worldwide.

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Green Car Congress

JULY 17, 2020

Enovix Corporation. Rationally Designed Lithium Ion Batteries Towards Displacing Internal Combustion Engines. Ultra-Low Volume Change Silicon-Dominant Nanocomposite Anodes for Long Calendar Life and Cycle Life. Solid Power Inc. AOI 02: Low Cost Electric Traction Drive Systems Using No Heavy Rare Earth Materials.

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Green Car Congress

MAY 28, 2015

Of these, 16 are vehicle-related, encompassing projects developing batteries, power electronics and improved combustion engine technology including on-board reformers, and two are specifically hydrogen fuel cell-related. Mainstream Engineering Corporation. US Hybrid Corporation. American Lithium Energy Corporation.

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Green Car Congress

APRIL 29, 2017

Global automotive supplier DENSO Corporation and electronics and ceramics company IBIDEN Co., This collaboration will combine IBIDEN’s advantages in high-performance ceramic materials with DENSO’s advantages in developing products as systems to develop high-performance, simple and low-cost vehicle exhaust systems.

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Green Car Congress

APRIL 30, 2022

NGen has now announced $76 million in funding for 15 new industry-led consortia that will execute projects in strategic areas such as critical minerals & metals, traction battery & efficiency gains, power electronics, fuel cells, and lightweight materials. Ballard Power Systems Inc. Palcan Energy Corporation.

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Green Car Congress

OCTOBER 20, 2022

The project involves strong partnerships, commitments, and support from domestic technology and equipment suppliers such as Phillips 66 and Harper International, validation partners such as Oak Ridge and Argonne National Labs, and cell manufacturers and automotive original equipment manufacturers (OEMs).

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Green Car Congress

JUNE 20, 2016

Intersil Corporation, a leading provider of power management and precision analog solutions, announced the ISL78610 12-cell lithium-ion (Li-ion) battery pack monitor. The device also offers four external temperature inputs, and includes fault detection and diagnostics for all key internal functions.

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Green Car Congress

AUGUST 9, 2019

Renesas Electronics Corporation announced its fourth-generation lithium-ion (Li-ion) battery management IC that offers unmatched lifetime accuracy. Together, we designed and integrated a low-voltage Li-ion battery management system featuring ISL78714 ICs and RH850 microcontrollers in Mahindra Racing electric race cars.

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Green Car Congress

JANUARY 9, 2015

IACMI is dedicated to overcoming these barriers by developing low-cost, high-production, energy-efficient manufacturing and recycling processes for composites applications. In the wind energy industry, advances in low-cost composite materials will help manufacturers build longer, lighter and stronger blades to create more energy.

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Green Car Congress

NOVEMBER 16, 2018

A second opposed-piston engine project is led by Achates Power ( earlier post ). Achates Power will develop a highly efficient opposed-piston engine for hybrid vehicles (“HOPE-Hybrid”) using a unique engine design that minimizes energy losses typical in conventional internal combustion engines. Georgia Tech Research Corporation.

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Green Car Congress

JULY 10, 2019

Industry-Informed Physics-Based Monitoring for Asset Management and Maintenance Optimization, $500,000 Electric Power Research Institute, Palo Alto, Calif. Integrated Power Block Heat Exchanger/Thermal Energy Storage System for CSP Plants, $348,000 CFOAM LLC, Triadelphia, W. Kairos Power, Oakland, Calif. Amesbury, Mass.

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Baua Electric

DECEMBER 10, 2023

Major chinese semiconductors manufacturers here is a list of some major Chinese semiconductor manufacturers: SMIC (Semiconductor Manufacturing International Corporation): SMIC is one of the largest and most well-known semiconductor foundries in China, providing services for the manufacturing of integrated circuits.

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Green Car Congress

JANUARY 23, 2019

Gevo has signed on to a Memorandum of Understanding (MOU) with a group of eight airlines and certain fuel producers to work cooperatively on expanding the use of Sustainable Aviation Fuels at San Francisco International Airport (SFO). Gevo’s ATJ has been used to power commercial flights since 2016. Earlier post.).

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Green Car Congress

JULY 1, 2015

TransAlta Corporation has been awarded $250,000 from Alberta Innovates - Energy & Environment Solutions (AI-EES) to help launch Alberta’s first large-scale commercial energy storage project. More than half of the total project costs will be covered by TransAlta as part of our commitment to the demonstration project.

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Baua Electric

APRIL 25, 2024

More favourable and better solutions for lubrication-free movements, low-cost automation and CO2-reducing products are the focal points. “The requirements and wishes of our customers are constantly driving us to create new internal start-ups. We combine our core technology of motion plastics with digitalisation and AI.

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Green Car Congress

AUGUST 10, 2011

This project will enable diesel-like efficiency and increased maximum power output in a gasoline engine by using a secondary fuel to suppress engine knock under high load. This project will develop a new process that enables low-cost, domestic manufacturing of magnesium. Vehma International of America, Inc. 10,000,000.

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Green Car Congress

OCTOBER 9, 2014

The new funding will be shared by six Stanford research teams and an international group from the United States and Europe. The zinc-air battery is a promising technology that has high energy density but limited power density. The mineral perovskite is a promising, low-cost material for enhancing the efficiency of silicon solar cells.

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Green Car Congress

SEPTEMBER 26, 2012

Comparison of brake thermal efficiency and specific fuel consumption at rated power (ICOMIA Mode 5), hydrogen vs. gasoline engines. Such an engine could provide a cost-effective solution for small recreational vehicle- and motorcycle applications. The brake thermal efficiency at rated power is 32.3%. Oh and Plante.

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Green Car Congress

NOVEMBER 5, 2010

Intersil Corporation, a designer and manufacturer of high-performance analog, mixed signal and power management semiconductors, introduced a system solution for hybrid and electric vehicle (HEV/EV) battery management control, featuring an automotive-grade Li-Ion battery management system and safety monitor. ISL78600 Management System.

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Green Car Congress

MARCH 22, 2012

This project is led by Steven Holdcroft, Simon Fraser University, in partnership with Automotive Fuel Cell Corporation, Ballard Power Systems, Hyteon Inc., Promising applications for these fuel cells include materials handling backup power, residential co-generation, fleet vehicles and portable electronics.

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Green Car Congress

JANUARY 4, 2017

The new MCU includes optimized, programmable digital signal processing, a dual core at 320 megahertz (MHz) with industry-leading high speed flash of 2 megabyte (MB), a 2 MB internal RAM, while meeting the industry’s highest temperature requirements. Low-power technology and embedded flash for more compact and low-cost radar sensors.

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Green Car Congress

JULY 12, 2011

The NYPD already uses electric scooters and electric powered golf carts on boardwalks, in parks and some transit hubs. The FDNY and NYPD initially will use the vehicles for non-emergency duties, including use by NYPD Traffic Enforcement Agents. The Chevrolet Volt is the first electric car being used by the NYPD.

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Cars That Think

DECEMBER 25, 2022

They’ve been studying up on renewable energy, hydrogen power, and electric vehicles, preparing for the big day in April when their remote-controlled vehicles will rumble for 4 hours in Gladstone, a port city in Queensland. And while coal plants still supplied over half of Australia’s power in 2021, change is afoot.

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Green Car Congress

OCTOBER 15, 2020

The solicitation was designed as a call for early-stage clean energy innovations that fall within five defined technology areas: energy efficiency; energy storage; AI/machine learning; advanced power electronics/power conditioning; and zero- and negative-carbon emission generation. Details of the 28 companies awarded a total of $4.2

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Green Car Congress

NOVEMBER 10, 2009

The resulting cells are to incorporate safe operation, low cost, long cycle life and high power performance. Runkle is currently CEO of EcoMotors International ( earlier post ), Chairman of EaglePicher Corporation and an operating executive with Tennenbaum Capital Partners.

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Baua Electric

MARCH 17, 2024

For the global head of an international automaker to devote so much time to one market may seem unusual, but for the Czech brand — that has been around in India for 20 years — the stakes in this country have never been higher. Klaus Zellmer, the global CEO of Skoda Auto, has visited India thrice in the past 18 months.

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Green Car Congress

SEPTEMBER 28, 2011

Within the stationary heat and power sector, the DOE-QTR finds that the Department should increase emphasis on efficiency and understanding the grid. As a result of this Review, we find that DOE is underinvested in the transportation sector relative to the stationary sector (energy efficiency, grid, and electric power).

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Green Car Congress

SEPTEMBER 11, 2010

In a 1995 paper, Cooper noted that the cost of the recovery unit is small compared with the cost of the battery because it operates continuously and hence at a lower power level than the battery. In addition, it lacks the expensive air electrode of the zinc/air battery, adding to the lower cost of the ZAFC solution.

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Green Car Congress

SEPTEMBER 3, 2020

Under this cost-shared research and development (R&D), DOE is awarding $51 million to nine new projects for coal and natural gas power and industrial sources. In prior work with DOE, MTR has advanced membrane CO 2 capture technology for coal power plants through small engineering scale testing and studies. ION Clean Energy Inc.

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Green Car Congress

AUGUST 16, 2016

The Vehicle Technologies Office Program Wide Selections will aim to reduce the cost and improve the efficiency of plug-in electric, alternative fuel, and conventional vehicles through thirty-five projects addressing 11 areas of interest. Electric Power Research Institute, Inc. Description. Federal funding. Description. Federal funding.

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Green Car Congress

DECEMBER 20, 2013

VTO supports a broad technology portfolio aimed at developing and deploying advanced highway transportation technologies to reduce petroleum consumption and greenhouse gas emissions, while meeting or exceeding vehicle performance and cost expectations. kW, specific power of 14.1 kW/kg, power density of 13.

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Green Car Congress

MARCH 3, 2015

Demonstration subtopics that will help to accelerate adoption of hydrogen and fuel cell technologies with specific interest in mobile hydrogen refuelers, fuel cell powered range extenders for light-duty hybrid electric vehicles, and a Communities of Excellence subtopic featuring hydrogen and fuel cell technologies. Low PGM Cathode Catalysts.

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Green Car Congress

MARCH 23, 2019

Michigan State University’s HIPPED technology is a highly scalable heat exchanger suited for high-efficiency power generation systems that use supercritical CO 2 as a working fluid and operate at high temperature and high pressure. It features a plate-type heat exchanger that enables lower cost, powder-based manufacturing.

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Green Car Congress

FEBRUARY 3, 2009

provide home wiring service at low/no-cost or financed thru low monthly utility bill); Provide free charging or compelling low-cost EV rates (3-4 cents/kWh); Provide “green” electricity options; Commit/fund commercial fleet purchases (25 high-profile vehicles). Large local employers (as early adopters).

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Green Car Congress

SEPTEMBER 10, 2010

The Department of Energy is working with industry, universities, national laboratories, and other groups to develop technologies capable of harnessing these resources to generate environmentally sustainable, cost-competitive power. Shift Power Solutions, Inc. DOE Funding: $240,000. Total Project Value: $300,000.

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Green Car Congress

JULY 21, 2016

Promote electric vehicle adoption by increasing access to charging infrastructure and supporting the development of plug-in electric vehicles that are as accessible, available, and convenient as gasoline-powered vehicles. Dayton Power & Light Company. Florida Power and Light Company. Georgia Power. Connecticut Green Bank.

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