Green Car Congress

APRIL 1, 2013

Genetically engineered Arabidopsis plants (#89) yielded as much biomass as wild types (WT) but with enhanced polysaccharide deposition in the fibers of their cell walls. One of these challenges is finding ways to more cost-effectively extract those sugars. Engineering secondary cell wall deposition in plants. Click to enlarge.

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Green Car Congress

FEBRUARY 20, 2015

Switching from diesel fuel to natural gas may hold advantages for the US heavy-duty trucking fleet, but more needs to be done to reach the full environmental benefits, according to a new white paper released by the Institute of Transportation Studies at the University of California, Davis, and Rice University. Source: Myers Jaffe et al.

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Cars That Think

AUGUST 25, 2022

To help lower the cost and make it easier to install scanners, four Oxford Instruments scientists—John Bird, Frank Davis, IEEE Member David Hawksworth , and John Woodgate—in 1986 enhanced the scanner with a second set of actively shielded superconducting magnets. The coils are embedded in copper.

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Cars That Think

MARCH 16, 2024

EVs are at the point where their sticker prices have fallen or will soon fall below those of comparable vehicles with internal combustion engines. Cost parity between battery- and petrol-powered vehicles will happen by 2026 in the U.S. Rapson, a professor at the University of California, Davis. “It

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Green Car Congress

MAY 26, 2010

The introduction of electric vehicles on a large scale in the UK can only have a beneficial effect on CO 2 emissions if low-carbon electricity, universal broadband provision and smart grids are in place to support the transition, according to a new report published by the UK Royal Academy of Engineering. Davy Thielena, KEMA Consulting.

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Green Car Congress

NOVEMBER 8, 2013

The GFEI, a partnership of international agencies and top energy policy experts, suggests that these cost savings could in part be used to help offset the costs of developing a global market for electric vehicles over this time frame, since the savings are estimated to be at least four times bigger than these costs.

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Green Car Congress

APRIL 14, 2011

Rentech has signed a detailed term sheet with White Construction for the engineering, procurement and construction (EPC) work that is intended to serve as a basis for a definitive lump-sum turn-key EPC contract. White Construction and Ford, Bacon & Davis LLC are finalizing the engineering work necessary to enter the EPC phase of the project.

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Green Car Congress

JULY 18, 2012

million investment in three university-led projects, helping to train and educate the next generation of nuclear energy scientists and engineers. the cost of electricity production in both nuclear. California - Davis (Los Alamos National Laboratory). Additionally, the Energy Department announced today a $1.6 University of.

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Green Car Congress

APRIL 22, 2021

The University of California demand study was conducted by researchers from the UC Institute of Transportation Studies , a network with branches at UC Davis, UC Berkeley, UC Irvine, and UCLA. —Dan Sperling, director of the UC Davis Institute of Transportation Studies. Fuels: About 86% of transportation fuel is petroleum.

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Revenge of the Electric Car

JANUARY 27, 2009

By reducing wind resistance and weight, the company’s engineers effectively are reducing the amount of work an electric engine will have to perform to get the car up to driving speeds, which in turn conserves battery power.&#. The car will go 30 miles on batteries before the gas engine kicks in and be street-legal.

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Plug In Partners

FEBRUARY 15, 2008

I t's fair to say that the plug in hybrid ( watch video ) was born in California at UC Davis through the vision and tenacity of Andy Frank; but now, as the idea and the technology begins to mature and spread, another State and another University is joining the effort: Here's the story from Channel Nine news : N.C.

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Transportation North Carolina VUE Plug-in 100

Green Car Congress

APRIL 30, 2010

Engineering E. This project seeks to develop an “electrofuels chassis” by using engineered E. This project will develop and optimize a novel, engineered microorganism that produces a biodiesel-equivalent fuel from renewable hydrogen and carbon dioxide, at costs of less than $2.50 Engineering a Bacterial Reverse Fuel Cell.

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Green Car Congress

SEPTEMBER 10, 2010

(Boston, Massachusetts) will develop a cost-effective, high efficiency, power take-off system for a wave energy converter, a mechanism to convert water’s mechanical energy into usable electricity. The project will assess the cost of manufacturing these systems at various scales. Makai Ocean Engineering, Inc.

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Plug In Partners

JANUARY 26, 2006

FIALKA Staff Reporter THE WALL STREET JOURNAL January 25, 2006 DAVIS, Calif. -- In the 1950s, an aspiring Pasadena hot-rodder named Andrew Frank shocked the competition by powering his 1936 Ford with a Cadillac V-12 engine. "It Hybrid automobiles work with two engines. It had gobs of torque," he recalls.

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Green Car Congress

JANUARY 20, 2010

The basic goal of the revised ZEV program should be to help demonstration-stage, low-GHG emitting technologies to commercialization, include fuel cell vehicles (FCVs); battery-electric vehicles (BEVs); and Enhanced AT PZEVs, which currently include plug-in HEVs (PHEV) and hydrogen internal combustion engine (HICE) vehicles, according to ARB staff.

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Green Car Congress

AUGUST 19, 2023

plans to develop a novel membrane system from Osmoses’ proprietary polymer composition that can produce enriched oxygen from air for integration into modular gasification systems for low-cost hydrogen production.

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Green Car Congress

MARCH 21, 2013

Funds for these projects—which span areas as diverse as a new crossover valve for the split-cycle Tour Engine ( earlier post ) to a new solar thermal storage device capable of integration with utility scale solar thermal power plants—come from Commission’s Energy Innovations Small Grant (EISG) program. Tour Engine, Inc. ,

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Green Car Congress

JULY 22, 2009

Grant Davis is a Managing Director at New York Life Investments. Davis is responsible for the firm’s Energy and Project Finance group and has more than 25 years of experience in corporate finance and investments. Davis gives the following synopsis: ” In 4Q 2008 the markets were frozen.

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Green Car Congress

JULY 17, 2015

and UC-Davis Emeritus and Catherine JJ DeMauro. The PHEV (Plug-in Hybrid Electric Vehicle), a subset of the electric car, combines a primary electric motor with a much smaller back-up engine fueled with a hydrocarbon/biofuel mix. Engineering Advantages of PHEV. Engineering Advantages of the PHEV. Table of Contents.

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Plug In Partners

JANUARY 24, 2006

Nothing has to be invented to produce a plug-in hybrid vehicle,” says Dr. Andrew Frank, a mechanical engineering professor at the University of California at Davis and Director of the UCD Hybrid Electric Research Center. All we need is for one of the large auto manufacturers to step up to the plate.”

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Green Car Congress

NOVEMBER 7, 2014

Despite the recent progress, a number of myths around the use, power efficiency and cost of fuel cells still exist. The cost of making fuel cell vehicles has recently dropped dramatically. Recent advances in fuel cell manufacturing and catalyst performance have led to a dramatic decrease in the cost of fuel cell production.

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Green Car Congress

JUNE 2, 2010

Researchers from UC Davis and Lawrence Livermore National laboratory have developed a new mode for dynamic transmission electron microscopes (DTEMs) that can enable direct time-resolved observation of processes such as nanowire growth, catalyst poisoning, and Ostwald ripening at nanosecond timescales. Masiel, Bryan W. Reed, Thomas B.

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Cars That Think

OCTOBER 3, 2023

But there is already an event camera called DAVIS that outputs both frames and events between the frames. But there is a good news, because you also asked me another question about cost of this camera. This has been available already since 2016, but at the very low resolution, and only last year it reached the VGA resolution.

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Green Car Congress

JANUARY 28, 2010

Deploying the tools of synthetic biology, the JBEI researchers engineered a strain of Escherichia coli bacteria to produce biodiesel fuel and other important chemicals derived from fatty acids. Further, we engineered our E. Engineering E. Normally E. coli to no longer eat fatty acids or use them for energy. —Eric Steen.

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Tony Karrer Delicious EVdriven

APRIL 21, 2009

Its like having a second fuel tank that you always use first -- only you fill up at home, from a regular outlet, at an equivalent cost of under $1/gallon. People routinely pay more for such options as sunroofs, automatic transmissions, V8 engines and leather seats. You dont have to plug it in. See CalCars-News Archive for updates.

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Green Car Congress

OCTOBER 23, 2012

However, concerns about engine performance and the cost of fuel production led the state to allow higher aromatic levels in diesel fuel. Dallmann, Laura Davis, Shang Liu, Douglas A. By way of background, in 1993, California regulated diesel fuel to have less than 10% single-ring aromatics and 1.4% —Gentner et al.

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Green Car Congress

SEPTEMBER 19, 2013

This program aims to lower the cost of GTL conversion while enabling the use of low-cost, low-carbon, domestically sourced natural gas. Arzeda will leverage computational algorithms to engineer proteins for the creation of new synthetic enzymes to activate methane, the first step in producing a liquid fuel from natural gas.

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Green Car Congress

JANUARY 11, 2010

Lentz said that advanced electric drive vehicles—battery-electric and hydrogen fuel cell vehicles—both face challenges including cost, fueling infrastructure and range. The cost of lithium ion batteries…needs to be reduced significantly…or a more affordable alternative developed. Panasonic EVE Battery Production Capacity.

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Tony Karrer Delicious EVdriven

APRIL 21, 2009

Honda Sees PHEVs as having "unnecessary fuel engine and fuel tank;" promises all-electrics "assuming we can come up with a really high-performing battery that we are working on currently." Cischke, Ford senior vice president for sustainability, environment and safety engineering. "By See Chevy Volt for latest.

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Tony Karrer Delicious EVdriven

APRIL 28, 2009

Think Global managers want to develop the car plant and launch an engineering center, perhaps alongside. I wonder how the hapless car buyers without the PhD’s in engineering are going to deal with all of this? This is a much bigger call than choosing VHS over Betamax, because owning a dead end technology could cost you $50,000.

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Green Car Congress

AUGUST 3, 2018

A large component of the Administration’s rationale for the change hinges on its analysis of the cost of clean technology, the resultant savings to motorists, and an associated reduction in injuries and fatalities due to more motorists presumably buying newer, safer cars because the cost would be less.

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Tony Karrer Delicious EVdriven

APRIL 16, 2009

Current consortium members include Accenture ( ACN ), Current Group, Schweitzer Engineering Laboratories and Ventyx. Annual use of an EV should be less than the average cost of $8,000 per year for using a gasoline in many countries including the USA. Smart meters and substations will be integral.

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