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OCTOBER 11, 2017

Researchers from Carnegie Mellon University and the University of Pittsburgh have found that the air pollution and greenhouse gas costs of shipping crude by rail are nearly twice as large as those for oil pipelines. Air pollution and greenhouse gas damages for transportation by railroad and pipelines to the gulf coast.

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OCTOBER 22, 2018

Auburn University researchers are leading a $2-million US Department of Energy Co-Optima project ( earlier post ) that will evaluate renewable butyl acetate (BA) as a bio-based fuel additive that can be blended with diesel fuel to reduce soot and greenhouse gas emissions and yield cleaner engine operation in cold-weather conditions.

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JANUARY 12, 2023

During a keynote speech to the Transportation Research Board annual meeting Wednesday, National Transportation Safety Board (NTSB) Chair Jennifer Homendy questioned the safety impact of electric vehicles. Safety, especially when it comes to new transportation policies and new technologies, cannot be overlooked.

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JUNE 3, 2021

A team of battery researchers at Canada’s Dalhousie University are the recipients of a $6 million grant from the Natural Sciences and Engineering Research Council (NSERC). Tesla renews contract with Jeff Dahn’s battery team at Dalhousie University. The NSERC will give the team, headed by Dr. Jeff Dahn, $2.9

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AUGUST 25, 2010

The Efficient and Reliable Transportation of Consignments ( ERTOC ) project, part funded by the UK government-backed Technology Strategy Board, has been launched by GS1 UK, Ricardo, Unipart Logistics, IRIS Technology and Coventry University to drive business improvement and sustainability throughout the supply chain from factory to point of sale.

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FEBRUARY 2, 2016

Battery-electric transit bus manufacturer Proterra has entered the university market with its first order from the Associated Students of the University of Montana ( ASUM ) Transportation for two Proterra 40-foot Catalyst Fast Charge buses and one semi-autonomous fast charger for its UDASH routes.

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AUGUST 24, 2022

To further decarbonize the grid, DOE is also launching a $20-million university research consortium to help states and Tribal communities successfully implement grid resilience programs and achieve decarbonization goals. ( DE-FOA-0002792 ).

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OCTOBER 19, 2013

The University of Michigan Board of Regents approved plans to proceed with the design of a unique environment for testing connected and automated vehicles. Current plans call for the facility to be completed by fall 2014 at a cost of about $6.5

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MARCH 30, 2022

Danish Minister for Transport Trine Bramsen, Aalborg municipal government representatives, and European media were invited to witness the first test runs of Geely methanol vehicles on Danish roads and visit the e-methanol production facility at Aalborg University.

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MARCH 21, 2022

In an open access paper published in Nature Communications , researchers from the University of Wollongong in Australia report that their capillary-fed electrolysis cell demonstrates water electrolysis performance exceeding commercial electrolysis cells, with a cell voltage at 0.5 2 and 85 °C of only 1.51 kWh/kg hydrogen (vs. Hodges et al.

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OCTOBER 31, 2022

The Responsible Battery Coalition, in partnership with the University of Michigan Center for Sustainable Systems, launched a comprehensive research project to compare the total cost of ownership of gas and electric vehicles (EVs). Gregory Keoleian, Director of the Center for Sustainable Systems at the University of Michigan.

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NOVEMBER 3, 2020

Emory DeCastro, Advent’s Chief Technology Officer, added that these developments have the potential to drop overall fuel cell system costs by 25% and enable higher power density and simplify packaging constraints. The purpose of the development program is to use HT-PEM technology operating at 80 ?

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MAY 23, 2023

million to establish a new North American university research consortium that will help states and tribal communities implement grid resilience programs and achieve decarbonization goals. They will support DOE’s H2@Scale initiative, which aims to augment the affordable production, transport, storage, and utilization of clean hydrogen.

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SEPTEMBER 28, 2021

Ricardo has won two UK Government-backed innovation competitions to develop novel solutions for heavy-duty vehicles focusing on improving efficiency and performance and reducing the cost of future electric trucks. Ricardo will be partnering with the University of Bath for both projects. of these are using cleaner propulsion.

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APRIL 20, 2020

A study by an international team of researchers led by Aalto University finds that less than one-third of the world’s population could currently meet their demand for food with food produced in their local vicinity. The paper is published in the journal Nature Food. —Pekka Kinnunen.

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JULY 15, 2015

The projects conducted through this program are geared toward reducing the cost of coal conversion and mitigating the environmental impacts of fossil-fueled power generation. Montana State University. DOE: $650,000 Non DOE: $162,500 Total: $812,500 (20% cost share). The Pennsylvania State University. Lead organization.

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JUNE 28, 2013

Diesel vehicles generally saved owners between $2,000 to $6,000 in total ownership costs during a three to five year period when compared to similar gasoline vehicles, according to data compiled by the University of Michigan Transportation Research Institute (UMTRI). —“Total Cost of Ownership”.

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JULY 9, 2019

The arrival of ridehailing is associated with an increase of approximately 3 percent in the number of motor vehicle fatalities and fatal accidents, according to research from the University of Chicago Booth School of Business and Rice University. Finally, the researchers quantify the financial costs of the additional fatalities.

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SEPTEMBER 2, 2022

The US Department of Energy’s Nuclear Energy University Program ( NEUP ) has awarded research funds to the MIT Energy Initiative, CORE POWER, and the Idaho National Laboratory for a three-year study into the development of offshore floating nuclear power generation in the US.

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MAY 27, 2015

General Motors and Shanghai Jiao Tong University (SJTU) have begun a two-year vehicle sharing pilot program in Shanghai featuring 16 Chevrolet EN-V 2.0 ( earlier post ) electric concept vehicles. pilot vehicles will be integrated into the multi-modal transportation system at SJTU’s Minhang campus alongside bicycles, cars and shuttle buses.

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JULY 14, 2016

The University of Nottingham (UK) is leading a 3-year, £830,000 (US$1.1-million) This is critical as manufacturers race to meet higher fuel-efficiency standards and cut the cost of in-car electrics, which currently make up 45% of costs in modern hybrid cars.

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SEPTEMBER 19, 2014

Fulton, UC Davis, examines how major changes in urban transport investments worldwide would affect urban passenger transport emissions as well as mobility by different income groups. Overall, the total costs of the baseline between 2010-2050 are roughly $500 trillion ($200T in OECD and $300T in non-OECD countries).

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JULY 6, 2020

The goal of robotaxis is to eliminate the need for human drivers, which is how we can cut costs and make profits. —Yang Ming, an autonomous vehicle expert at Shanghai Jiao Tong University. The spinning sensor, which is used to detect traffic conditions, can cost tens of thousands of dollars by itself, Yang said.

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JANUARY 4, 2021

Current Direct , a new €12-million research and innovation project funded by the European Commission’s Horizon 2020 program, is proposing an innovative lithium-ion cell optimized for waterborne transport, using novel manufacturing techniques allowing for a consistent cost reduction compared to the current market prices.

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JANUARY 29, 2010

An new study from the Smith School of Enterprise and the Environment at Oxford University suggests that best way to reduce transport greenhouse gas (GHG) emissions in the short term is a “drastic downscaling of both size and weight” of conventional gasoline and diesel cars.

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JUNE 23, 2023

They used the model and the data to estimate the life cycle air pollution, greenhouse gas, and traffic externality benefits and costs of serving rides based on Chicago TNC trip data from 2019 to 2022 with fully electric vehicles. A paper on their work is published in the ACS journal Environmental Science & Technology.

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FEBRUARY 26, 2016

A study by a team from the University of Leeds (UK), University of Washington (USA) and Oak Ridge National Laboratory has found that vehicle automation might plausibly reduce road transport GHG emissions and energy use by nearly half—or nearly double them—depending on the scenario.

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JULY 31, 2015

million in funding for five projects in ARPA-E’s newest program, the Traveler Response Architecture using Novel Signaling for Network Efficiency in Transportation (TRANSNET). Project teams will each design a system model that dynamically simulates an urban transportation network and its energy use. Georgia Tech Research Corporation.

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MARCH 7, 2013

The “H2USA” name was used before by DOE in a program that began in 2005 to develop hydrogen technology learning centers at universities within the State Technologies Advancement Collaborative (STAC) hydrogen project area.). will optimize the cost and performance of composite cylinders for hydrogen storage using a graded construction.

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OCTOBER 10, 2021

million, three-stage competition will work to develop affordable, manufacturable materials that conduct electricity more efficiently and upgrade the US manufacturing and transportation infrastructures. The 10 teams selected in Stage 1 of this $4.5-million,

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JUNE 18, 2022

Development work is also conducted at the Roll-to-Roll Fabrication and Processing core facility at the University of Massachusetts Amherst. A battery separator—a porous membrane placed between the electrodes of a battery—prevents contact between the anode and cathode while facilitating the transport of lithium ions.

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OCTOBER 10, 2020

Partners in this project of the Federal Ministry of Transport and the German National Organization for Hydrogen and Fuel Cell Technology (NOW - Nationale Organisation für Wasserstoff- und Brennstoffzellentechnologie) are the car manufacturer BMW, the University of Siegen and other suppliers.

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JANUARY 29, 2020

Researchers from the Chinese Academy of Sciences and Tsinghua University have used a gallium, indium, tin and bismuth alloy to generate hydrogen, when placed in contact with an aluminum plate immersed in water. In addition, the high cost of hydrogen transport is a key barrier to hydrogen utilization. In 2015, Zhang et al.

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AUGUST 20, 2021

Solid-state batteries offer significant potential advantages over conventional lithium-ion batteries and could be transformational in meeting the UK’s net zero commitments through the electrification of transport. E+R (Emerson & Renwick) – a world leading designer of manufacturing equipment.

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OCTOBER 18, 2011

Working within the Academy of Finland’s research program Sustainable Energy (SusEn), researchers have studied the processing of both biobutanol and biogas into transport fuels. The research project investigating the production of biobutanol involves researchers from the University of Oulu and Åbo Akademi University.

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NOVEMBER 1, 2011

Funded by a $2-million grant from the US Department of Energy, a team of scientists at Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory (Berkeley Lab) led by Eric Masanet is building a sophisticated cost model for fuel cells that will will take into account the total cost of ownership. Analytica Technology.

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FEBRUARY 9, 2021

A team from the University of Chicago, University of California, Davis, and UC Berkeley combined billions of hourly electricity meter measurements with address-level EV registration records in California—home to about half of the EVs in the United States. The takeaway here is not that EVs should never or will never be our future.

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