Green Car Congress

FEBRUARY 15, 2022

The selected projects—spanning 22 states and coordinated at universities, national laboratories, and private companies—will advance technologies for a wide range of areas, including electric vehicles, offshore wind, storage and nuclear recycling. Cornell University. Stanford University.

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Green Car Congress

FEBRUARY 6, 2009

Traditionally, fuel cells employ expensive platinum-based electrocatalysts, which cost about $4,000 for a passenger car. The goal is to reduce the major cost of a fuel cell in order to compete with current market technologies, including gasoline engines. From Gong et al. 2009) Click to enlarge. Kuanping Gong et al.

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Green Car Congress

JULY 21, 2016

35 new businesses, non-profits, universities, and utilities signing on to DOE’s Workplace Charging Challenge and committing to provide electric vehicle charging access for their workforce. Enhance American manufacturing competitiveness, innovation, and the development of advanced technology.

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Green Car Congress

APRIL 30, 2010

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 Ohio State Univ. NC State University. Medical University of South Carolina. Columbia University. per gallon. of Georgia).

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Green Car Congress

MARCH 23, 2019

The US Department of Energy’s Advanced Research Projects Agency - Energy (ARPA-E) announced $36 million in awards for 18 projects as part of the High Intensity Thermal Exchange through Materials and Manufacturing Processes (HITEMMP) program , as well as the final OPEN+ Cohort, High Temperature Devices. Michigan Technological University.

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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. The project will assess the cost of manufacturing these systems at various scales.

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Green Car Congress

JANUARY 20, 2010

Favorable ZEVs policies would include tax credits to owners/drivers, incentives for battery/fuel cell manufacturers to produce domestically, and rebates to utilities that fuel ZEVs with electricity/hydrogen at lower rates. Earlier post.).

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Green Car Congress

AUGUST 19, 2023

The US Department of Energy (DOE) awarded nearly $34 million to 19 industry- and university-led research projects that will advance technology solutions to make clean hydrogen a more available and affordable fuel for electricity generation, industrial decarbonization, and transportation. Earlier post.)

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Green Car Congress

JUNE 12, 2012

The US Department of Energy (DOE) awarded more than $54 million—leveraging approximately an additional $17 million in cost share from the private sector—for 13 projects to advance transformational technologies and materials that can help manufacturers significantly increase the energy efficiency of their operations and reduce costs.

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Green Car Congress

NOVEMBER 25, 2009

Smart grid regional demonstrations involving plug-in vehicles include (ranked by DOE funding): Columbus Southern Power Company (doing business as AEP Ohio). DOE funding $75,161,246, total project value with cost share $150,322,492). East Penn Manufacturing Co. (PA). A full list by state of the all the projects is available here.

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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. Sustainable, High-Energy Density, Low-Cost Electrochemical Energy Storage: Metal-Air Ionic Liquid (MAIL) Batteries. Arizona State University, in partnership with Fluidic Energy Inc.,

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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. University of North Dakota. Ohio State University.

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Cars That Think

APRIL 27, 2024

Editor’s note: This article is adapted from the author’s book War Virtually: The Quest to Automate Conflict, Militarize Data, and Predict the Future (University of California Press, published in paperback April 2024). As a result, warfighter demands become exceedingly complex, especially since the potential costs of failure are unacceptable.

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