Green Car Congress

AUGUST 6, 2014

Houston-based Biofuels Power Corporation ( BFLS ) has signed a letter of intent with ThyssenKrupp Industrial Solutions (Africa) (Pty) Ltd and Liberty GTL, Inc. to build a small-scale gas-to-liquid demonstration facility in Houston.

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Green Car Congress

JANUARY 29, 2021

A team of researchers led by Zhifeng Ren, director of the Texas Center for Superconductivity at the University of Houston, has developed an oxygen-evolving catalyst that takes just minutes to grow at room temperature on commercially available nickel foam. That requires substantial amounts of energy and drives up the cost.

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Green Car Congress

JUNE 11, 2014

A Houston, Texas start-up is proposing a different approach to building out a hydrogen refueling infrastructure. Hydrogen-XT said its station is designed to be extremely cost-effective, estimated to be 100-times less expensive than conventional H 2 stations available today. The station is also easily upgraded due to its modular design.

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Baua Electric

APRIL 25, 2024

Southwest Airlines is ceasing operations at four airports, and reducing flights from others, in an effort to cut costs as its growth plans were also curtailed by fewer-than-expected plane deliveries from Boeing. The post Southwest Quits Four Airports in Cost-Cutting Drive appeared first on Bauaelectric Auto News.

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Green Car Congress

NOVEMBER 6, 2014

Greyrock Energy, a company transforming natural gas into premium transportation fuels ( earlier post ), announced a final investment decision (FID) to build a small-scale Gas-to-Liquids (GTL) facility near Houston, Texas. The plant will be commercially operational by the end of 2015.

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Green Car Congress

AUGUST 22, 2012

partnering with with the City of Houston, Texas, to launch a municipal electric vehicle (EV) fleet sharing program: Houston Fleet Share. The City of Houston selected Zipcar as its fleet technology provider through a competitive bidding process. Zipcar, Inc.is

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Green Car Congress

SEPTEMBER 16, 2013

The Delft University of Technology, Royal HaskoningDHV and Iv Infra are exploring possible designs for a flood barrier off the coast of Houston to provide coastal defense against hurricanes such as Hurricane Ike. A key element of the concept is a movable flood barrier that can seal off the bay near Galveston and Houston during a hurricane.

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Green Car Congress

DECEMBER 16, 2013

Researchers from the University of Houston (UH) have developed a cobalt(II) oxide (CoO) nanocrystalline catalyst that can carry out overall water splitting with a solar-to-hydrogen efficiency of around 5%. They report on their work in a paper in the journal Nature Nanotechnology.

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Green Car Congress

OCTOBER 11, 2012

and the University of Houston will work together to further understanding of the geology and composition of crude oil. In addition, improvements in the methods used to characterize crude oil will allow it to be processed more efficiently, which can improve the yield from each barrel and lower the cost of refined products.

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Green Car Congress

JUNE 19, 2023

Airbus Ventures has invested in Venus Aerospace , a Houston-based hypersonic flight startup seeking to enable cost-effective one-hour global transport. RDRE technology is now gaining more interest due to the potential for increased performance and to the availability of lower-cost, higher-capability instrumentation.

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Green Car Congress

FEBRUARY 24, 2022

Other collaborators include EXP (a global engineering and consulting firm); and The Center for Houston’s Future (a nonprofit organization devoted to fact-based strategic planning, collaboration, and action on issues of great importance to the long-term future of Houston).

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Green Car Congress

FEBRUARY 5, 2020

Houston-based Trillium is a leading provider of renewable fuels and alternative energy solutions for fleets around the country. Currently 10 buses are equipped for hydrogen, but the station allows the fleet to grow to 50 with only minimal additional capital costs.

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Green Car Congress

MARCH 30, 2009

The AMS is designed to give Houston-area electric consumers the ability to better monitor and manage electric use and cost in near real-time—a first step toward developing and deploying a full smart grid. More than 145,000 smart meters will be installed across the Houston area by the end of 2009. Click to enlarge.

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Green Car Congress

OCTOBER 14, 2021

Shell and the consortium partners—including McDermott’s CB&I Storage Solutions, NASA’s Kennedy Space Center, GenH2 and the University of Houston—have been selected by the U.S. The University of Houston will focus their efforts on the creation of detailed thermal models of the proposed insulation systems.

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Green Car Congress

JANUARY 13, 2022

ICE Thermal Harvesting (Houston, TX). Wells of Opportunity initiative, funded by the Geothermal Technologies Office, that launched in 2020 and focuses on bringing geothermal online using existing infrastructure to lower costs and reduce development timelines.

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Green Car Congress

FEBRUARY 16, 2023

The projects would also help improve air quality in underserved areas of major American cities, including New York, Los Angeles, Houston, Chicago, San Francisco, Oakland, and Salt Lake City. Gas Technology Institute: Houston to Los Angeles (H2LA)–I-10 Hydrogen Corridor Project.

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Green Car Congress

NOVEMBER 28, 2022

This discovery paves the way for sustainable, low-cost hydrogen that could be produced locally rather than in massive centralized plants. A reaction cell (left) and the photocatalytic platform (right) used on tests of copper-iron plasmonic photocatalysts for hydrogen production from ammonia at Syzygy Plasmonics in Houston.

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Teslarati

DECEMBER 17, 2023

Following the fix, however, one Mercedes-Benz dealership in Houston, Texas, was caught apparently giving a customer a printed handout of the story from CNN , as shared by one user in the Tesla Club of Greater Houston group on Facebook on Sunday (via X user BrianX2023). Wow that’s just sad Mercedes.

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Green Car Congress

AUGUST 20, 2019

Other participants include angel investors from the Creative Destruction Lab program and the Houston area. Syzygy is advancing a new photocatalytic chemical reactor that could significantly reduce the cost and carbon emissions in the production process for a wide range of major chemicals such as fuel, fertilizer, and plastic.

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Green Car Congress

SEPTEMBER 16, 2020

H2@Scale in Texas and Beyond intends to show that renewable hydrogen can be a cost-effective fuel for multiple end-use applications, including fuel cell electric vehicles, when coupled with large, baseload consumers that use hydrogen for clean, reliable stationary power.

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Teslarati

DECEMBER 19, 2023

You will solve for light and heavy-duty vehicle fleet infrastructure solutions at the lowest possible cost and enable electrification for entirely new industries across North America,” described Tesla in the ‘What to Expect’ section of the job post. Below are the responsibilities of Tesla’s Sr.

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Green Car Congress

NOVEMBER 23, 2022

These practical electrified technologies could save more than 50% on fuel and emissions, and 25% on operating costs. Imagen Energy will scale up and commercially demonstrate efficient, cost-effective US-manufactured EV fast charging equipment. Award amount: $9,000,000). CorePower Magnetics, Inc. Award amount: $5,000,000).

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Green Car Congress

DECEMBER 15, 2020

The integration of the fully proven H2bridge hydrogen technology with the HydroFlex technology enables Grön Fuels to produce renewable bio-hydrogen equivalent to the production of a 1,000 MW hydrolyzer plant at a fraction of the cost.

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Green Car Congress

SEPTEMBER 1, 2023

To reduce the number of accidents in the global oil and gas industry caused by damaged pipelines, University of Houston researchers are developing an autonomous robot to identify potential pipeline leaks and structural failures during subsea inspections.

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Green Car Congress

APRIL 11, 2022

Based on its world-leading chlor-alkali electrolysis and decades of experience in industrial large-scale electrolysis applications, thyssenkrupp nucera has developed a modularized and cost-efficient solution for large scale hydrogen production. Earlier post.) —Denis Krude, Chief Executive Officer at thyssenkrupp nucera.

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Green Car Congress

APRIL 23, 2021

The plant will produce cleaner gasoline from low-cost natural gas, captured bio-methane from farms and landfills, and mitigated flared gas from the Permian basin. Nacero’s Pemwell-facility in Houston, Texas. The TIGAS technology enables us to cut both the production cost and the lifecycle carbon footprint of everyday fuel by 50%.

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Green Car Congress

DECEMBER 1, 2020

The cathode and electrolyte chemistries elucidated here propel the development of magnesium batteries and would accelerate the adoption of this low-cost and safe battery technology. 1 , nearly two orders of magnitude higher than that of state-of-the-art Mg batteries. —Dong et al. Neither approach is practical.

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Green Car Congress

JUNE 3, 2014

Scientists in the Rice University lab of chemist James Tour have developed materials that offer a lower cost, less energy-intensive way to separate carbon dioxide from natural gas at wellheads. a Houston-based oil and gas exploration and production company, funded the research at Rice and licensed the technology. Click to enlarge.

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Green Car Congress

MAY 23, 2014

Dallas-Fort Worth and Houston are among 10 launch markets for “No Charge to Charge,” a new promotion that provides two years of no-cost public charging to new LEAF buyers who took delivery of their car after April 1, 2014.

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Green Car Congress

APRIL 10, 2021

Suman Khatiwada, Syzygy’s light-powered reactors are modular and scalable, built from lower-cost materials with far milder operating conditions than their traditional counterparts.

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Green Car Congress

NOVEMBER 18, 2015

ChargeNow DC Fast also includes two years of no-cost charging for qualifying BMW i3 drivers in those areas. Program participants can enjoy unlimited no-cost 30-minute DC Fast Combo charging and no-cost 1 hour Level 2 charging for their BMW i3, at EVgo Stations, for 24 months from date of enrollment at chargenow.com/us.

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Green Car Congress

OCTOBER 4, 2012

The Houston-Galveston Area Council (H-GAC) has been selected to negotiate the terms of a US Department of Energy (DOE) Zero Emission Cargo Transport (ZECT) Demonstration grant. The submitted grant proposal is subject to a 48/52% cost-share between the DOE and the Cleantech Alliance. Earlier post.) Earlier post.).

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The Truth About Cars

MAY 30, 2023

09/kWh in most places and up to $0.095 in Houston.& Providing free overnight charging may cost the company a few hundred dollars per year, but it gets buyers that may be willing to pay for other services, such as its “Full Self-Driving” system. The automaker noted that electricity rates in Texas are around $.09/kWh

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Baua Electric

JANUARY 8, 2024

A new University of Michigan study compares the cost of ownership for EVs and internal-combustion vehicles across 14 U.S. cities, finding that the path to cost parity between the two varies by region. The study found that the total cost of ownership for a 300-mile midsize electric SUV varies by $52,000 across all the cities studied.

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Green Car Congress

MARCH 6, 2018

Of this, $4 million goes to three new cost-shared research projects focused on medium- and heavy-duty, on-road natural gas engines and $3 million goes to support two new cost-shared research projects for advancing fluid power systems for off-road vehicles.

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Green Car Congress

SEPTEMBER 9, 2020

Currently, liquid products generated by electrochemical carbon dioxide reduction-reaction systems have been mixed with liquid electrolytes/soluble solutes, which requires energy- and cost-intensive separation processes to recover pure liquid fuel solutions. —Rafael Verduzco. Welch Foundation for related research.

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Green Car Congress

SEPTEMBER 3, 2020

Projects will address one or more R&D categories, including: Technologies, materials, and superconducting-magnet and fuel-cycle subsystems between the fusion plasma and balance of plant; Cost-effective, high-efficiency, high-duty-cycle, electrical-driver technologies; and. University of Houston. Savannah River National Laboratory.

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