Green Car Congress

MAY 3, 2022

Improved low-temperature performance: Current batteries for electric vehicles lose performance when temperatures drop below freezing. Identify a compelling pathway to a battery cost of. No/low cobalt and no/low nickel-content cathodes [e.g., maintain area specific resistance (ASR), reduce loss of active material, etc.].

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Cars That Think

SEPTEMBER 8, 2024

The conversion is an essential step in steel production and the most emissions-spewing part. The plummeting cost of photovoltaic panels and wind turbines, for example, has led to more affordable renewable electricity. Three decades ago, electrochemical engineering courses were, for the most part, electives and graduate-level.

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Engine Production Cleaner Wind 101

Green Car Congress

MAY 19, 2018

AvCarb Material Solutions, LLC: Development of Innovative Gas Diffusion Layers for Polymer Electrolyte Membrane Fuel Cells. Proton exchange membrane fuel cells provide clean energy for applications such as automotive, backup and portable power, but many technical and cost challenges limit their adoption. Techverse, Inc.: Giner, Inc.:

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Hydrogen Fuel Low Cost Polymer 199

Green Car Congress

AUGUST 23, 2017

HRL Laboratories has received an award as part of NASA’s Space Technology Research, Development, Demonstration, and Infusion program to develop additive manufactured (3D-printed) ceramic rocket engine components. This will enable new designs, lower costs and reduced lead time. Earlier post.).

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Engine Polymer General Motors Low Cost 150

Green Car Congress

JULY 22, 2012

Cost reduction potential of a polymer fuel cell system using an ITM Power membrane. ITM Power has published figures showing what it believes is the highest ever polymer fuel cell power density using hydrogen as the fuel and ordinary air, rather than pure oxygen. DOE says that 2011 costs are $49/kW. Source: Carbon Trust.

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Green Car Congress

OCTOBER 15, 2019

Researchers at the Department of Energy’s SLAC National Accelerator Laboratory and Stanford University have shown for the first time that a low-cost, non-precious metal cobalt phosphide (CoP) catalyst catalyst can split water and generate hydrogen gas for hours on end in the harsh environment of a commercial device.

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Green Car Congress

NOVEMBER 11, 2014

Teijin Limited is developing a non-platinum carbon alloy catalyst (CAC) for the cathode oxygen reduction reaction (ORR) in polymer electrolyte fuel cells. Less expensive and more readily available than platinum, PAN enables the catalyst to be produced at reduced cost and in higher volumes. —Chai et al. 2010.01.012.

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Carbon Fuel Polymer Production 210

Green Car Congress

AUGUST 7, 2020

The US Department of Energy announced $33 million in funding for 10 projects as part of the Advanced Research Projects Agency-Energy’s (ARPA-E) Rapid Encapsulation of Pipelines Avoiding Intensive Replacement (REPAIR) program. This will lower the costs of rehabilitating pipelines. —ARPA-E Director Lane Genatowski.

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Gas Gas-Electric Universal Colorado 297

Green Car Congress

NOVEMBER 22, 2011

The agreements are part of the White House’s Startup America initiative, which was launched in January and is designed to help young companies grow, move innovative technologies into the marketplace and create good-paying jobs in the United States. PEM fuel cells are primarily used for backup power.

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Green Cars News

FEBRUARY 14, 2011

A new fuel cell technology which could cut the cost of hydrogen-fuelled cars has been selected for a £1million investment by the Carbon Trust as part of its Polymer Fuel Cell Challenge.

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Low Cost Hydrogen Carbon Polymer 44

Green Car Congress

JUNE 24, 2023

Researchers from the Karlsruhe Institute of Technology (KIT) and their Canadian partners have designed a low-cost photoreactor design for solar-driven synthesis. The photoreactors have a low level of complexity, are readily manufacturable via mass fabrication techniques in polymers, and are easy to adapt to diverse photocatalysts.

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Green Car Congress

APRIL 18, 2018

This topic seeks platinum group metal-free oxygen reduction electrocatalyst and electrode R&D enabling cost-competitive polymer electrolyte membrane fuel cells, as part of DOE’s Energy Materials Network. 2c) Breakthrough Infrastructure R&D: materials and component R&D to reduce cost and station footprint.

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Hydrogen Fuel Polymer Concept 231

Green Car Congress

MARCH 22, 2012

Polymer electrolyte membrane fuel cells (PEMFCs) are being developed worldwide as clean energy conversion devices. Long-Lived, High-Energy-Density and Low-Cost Lithium-Ion Batteries for Automotive, Grid Energy and Medical. These university-industry partnerships will receive almost $34 million in total project support.

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Canada Li-ion Fuel Batteries 262

Green Car Congress

JANUARY 9, 2015

The new Institute for Advanced Composites Manufacturing Innovation (IACMI), announced today by President Obama, will focus on advanced fiber-reinforced polymer composites that combine strong fibers with tough plastics to yield materials that are lighter and stronger than steel. 36 Consortia Members: Alcoa Inc.;

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Green Car Congress

AUGUST 10, 2011

This project will develop a new process that enables low-cost, domestic manufacturing of magnesium. 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. Dow Kokam, LLC.

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Carbon Fiber Lithium Ion Li-ion Vehicles 268

Green Car Congress

NOVEMBER 16, 2015

The first hydrogen TTO is focused on durable, high activity electrocatalyst with low platinum content and low cost for polymer electrolyte membrane fuel cell applications. DOE plans to issue the full Funding Opportunity Announcement (FOA) on 30 November 2015.

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Hydrogen Engine Fuel Electric Vehicles 150

Green Car Congress

AUGUST 30, 2016

LeMond Composites, founded by three-time Tour de France champion Greg LeMond, has licensed a low-cost, high-volume carbon fiber manufacturing process developed at the US Department of Energy’s Oak Ridge National Laboratory (ORNL). Earlier post.) Thom Mason, Oak Ridge National Laboratory Director.

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Carbon Fiber Low Cost Carbon Manufacturer 218

Green Car Congress

AUGUST 6, 2014

As part of its 2014 ASCR Leadership Computing Challenge ( ALCC ) awards of processor time (totaling more than 3 billion processor hours), the US Department of Energy’s (DOE) Office of Science has awarded 15 million hours on Oak Ridge National Laboratory’s (ORNL) Titan supercomputer to a project led by General Motors, and 17.5 Knight (ANL).

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Engine GM Ford 2014 335

Green Car Congress

APRIL 6, 2009

One of the obstacles to commercializing hydrogen fuel cell vehicles is the cost of the fuel cells themselves. Polymer electrolyte membrane (PEM) cells, widely studied for such mobile applications, generally use carbon-supported platinum (Pt/C) catalysts at the electrodes. Earlier post , earlier post.). Lefèvre et al. Science Vol.

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Fuel Polymer 2009 Carbon 150

Green Car Congress

SEPTEMBER 7, 2016

The innovative combustion process features a shortened compression stroke and a long power stroke as well as an increased compression ratio that has been specially designed for part load operation—by far the most common operating mode. The drive unit’s high efficiency means low costs of ownership. kilogram (1.3

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Green Car Congress

AUGUST 1, 2010

BATT is funded by the Department of Energy’s Office of Vehicle Technologies and is managed by the Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory as part of its Carbon Cycle 2.0 These projects focus on developing next-generation anodes to increase the energy and decrease the cost of lithium batteries while maintaining safety and cycle life.

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Li-ion Batteries Battery Lithium Ion 186

Green Car Congress

MAY 7, 2014

FCTO is specifically interested in information on R&D needs and priorities concerning the development of low-cost fuel cell components and pathways leading to improved fuel cell performance and durability. Input received from this RFI will be considered prior to FCTO issuing a fuel cell FOA (subject to Congressional appropriations).

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Fuel Carbon Low Cost Transportation 199

Green Car Congress

MARCH 3, 2015

Design, Deployment, and Validation of Advanced, Low-cost Mobile Hydrogen Refuelers. The long-term goal of hydrogen production and delivery R&D is a high-volume hydrogen cost of. Innovative materials, processes, and systems are needed to establish the technical and cost feasibility for renewable, low carbon hydrogen production.

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Hydrogen Fuel Range Hybrid 150

Green Car Congress

JUNE 17, 2010

Cenovus anticipates achieving that growth at long term estimated average finding and development costs of approximately $8.00 Cenovus’s Greater Pelican Region also includes the current Pelican Lake polymer flood operation in the Wabiskaw formation and a potential future project in the Grosmont carbonate formation. per barrel.

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2019 Production Energy Oil 199

Green Car Congress

MARCH 23, 2012

Replacing cast iron and traditional steel components with lightweight materials—including advanced high-strength steel, magnesium, aluminum, and polymer composites—allows manufacturers to include additional safety devices, integrated electronic systems, and emissions control equipment on vehicles without increasing their weight, DOE notes.

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Carbon Fiber Vehicles Carbon Engine 218

Green Car Congress

SEPTEMBER 14, 2016

The US Department of Energy (DOE) Advanced Research Projects Agency-Energy (ARPA-E) announced $37 million in funding for 16 innovative new projects as part of a new ARPA-E program: Integration and Optimization of Novel Ion-Conducting Solids ( IONICS ). —ARPA-E Director Dr. Ellen D. 3,500,000.

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Li-ion Polymer Batteries Battery 150

Green Car Congress

NOVEMBER 25, 2009

This three-year project incorporates engineering of fleet control, manufacturing and installation of seven 500-kW/6-hour TransFlow 2000 energy storage systems in California, Massachusetts, and New York to lower peak energy demand and reduce the costs of power interruptions. 16,080,554. Seeo, Inc (CA). 12,392,120. SustainX, Inc. (NH).

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Energy Storage Grid Energy Wind 270

Green Car Congress

MARCH 11, 2016

Big Delta will demonstrate that the new process at the core of its manufacturing technology is scalable, reliable and significantly reduces the cost of manufacturing high-performance Li-ion cells. Amsen will characterize its new polymer electrolyte membranes and evaluate against DOE targets for fuel cell applications.

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Clean Cleaning Energy Li-ion 150

Green Car Congress

FEBRUARY 2, 2013

As part of the Advanced Vehicle Power Technology Alliance between DOE and the Department of the Army, the Army plans to contribute $3.5 Further, alloying or coating pathways towards low-cost, effective passive films, have not been sufficiently explored in a sound and scientific way. Carbon Fiber Polymer Composite.

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Li-ion Fuel Vehicles Lithium Ion 240

Green Car Congress

MARCH 10, 2018

A) SEM image of the CNT membrane surface, showing CNT tips emerging from the polymer. The difficulty and high cost of making CNT membranes has confined them to university laboratories and has been frequently cited as the limiting factor in their widespread use. Images of the membranes tested in the study. (A) —Rob McGinnis.

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Carbon Fuel Polymer Austin 199

Green Car Congress

AUGUST 4, 2017

In order to reduce the cost of next-generation polymer electrolyte fuel cells for vehicles, researchers have been developing alternatives to the prohibitively expensive platinum and platinum-group metal (PGM) catalysts currently used in fuel cell electrodes. The research is described this week in the journal Science.

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Insight Fuel Polymer Low Cost 150

Green Car Congress

FEBRUARY 19, 2009

Manganese is also abundant and low-cost and with the use of proprietary additives, CPI believes a calendar life of more than 15 years is achievable within a vehicle with proper design and operation. The cell is the smallest part of the battery pack that can be handled independently. The first is the cost of the battery pack.

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Green Car Congress

OCTOBER 4, 2011

The project was supported by the Carbon Trust as part of the Polymer Fuel Cells Challenge. Increasing power density is a critical factor in reducing the cost of fuel cells. ITM Power is exploring partnering with large polymer processing companies. cm 2 ) or air (>2.1W/cm cm 2 ) or air (>2.1W/cm Manufacturing routes.

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Power Powered Fuel Polymer 210

Green Car Congress

OCTOBER 26, 2009

In July, the DOE announced that ARPA-E had received approximately 3,500 submissions for the approximately $150 million available as part of the first Funding Opportunity Announcement (DE-FOA-0000065) released 27 April 2009. Low Cost, High Energy and Power Density, Nanotube-Enhanced Ultracapacitors. Earlier post.)

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Energy Grant Low Cost Li-ion 231

Green Car Congress

MAY 4, 2018

Further, in many cases, they are already being collected, and in some cases separated, as part of existing waste management practices. BETO’s Algae Program is implementing a long-term applied research and development strategy to support the bioeconomy by lowering the costs of production for algal biofuels and bioproducts.

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Waste Renewable Conversion Carbon 170

Green Car Congress

APRIL 29, 2015

The Toyota papers were part of a larger World Congress technical session on practical hydrogen fuel cell technology: PFL 720, Advances in Fuel Cell Vehicle Applications, chaired by Jesse Schneider from BMW (who is BMW’s Manager, Fuel Cell, EV, Hydrogen and Standards and the lead of the SAE hydrogen fueling standards SAE J2601). Hasuka et al.

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Congress Toyota Fuel Carbon Fiber 150

Green Car Congress

AUGUST 25, 2011

The selected projects will focus on developing carbon capture technologies that can achieve at least 90% CO 2 removal and reduce the added costs at power plants with carbon capture systems to no more than a 35% increase in the cost of electricity produced at the plant. DOE share: $2,999,756; recipient share: $751,169.

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