Green Car Congress

SEPTEMBER 4, 2010

A new Albertsons supermarket in the San Diego, California community of Clairemont is generating nearly 90% of the electricity it needs with a PureCell 400 kW fuel cell from UTC Power, a United Technologies Corp. The PureCell 400 system uses a Fuel Processor (reformer) to reform natural gas to hydrogen to feed the Fuel Cell Stack.

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Green Car Congress

NOVEMBER 17, 2022

Leveraged with recipient cost share, this funding will help to provide more than $126 million. Federal Cost share. Advanced Separation and Processing Technologies for Enhanced Product Recovery and Improved Water Utilization, Cost Reduction, and Environmental Impact of an Integrated Lithium-Ion Battery Recycling System.

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Electrek

JANUARY 23, 2022

San Diego-based Juiced Bikes unveiled and then launched its newest e-bike model, the RipRacer, last November. more… The post Behind the scenes look at Juiced’s low-cost 28 MPH RipRacer electric bike production in China appeared first on Electrek.

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Green Car Congress

JANUARY 21, 2022

The MOU was signed by the Los Angeles Department of Water & Power (LADWP), Northern California Power Agency (NCPA), Pacific Gas and Electric Company (PG&E), Sacramento Municipal Utility District (SMUD), San Diego Gas & Electric Company (SDG&E) and Southern California Edison (SCE), with additional utilities planning to join soon.

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Green Car Congress

SEPTEMBER 15, 2021

4 owners receive three years of unlimited charging at Electrify America DC Fast Chargers at no additional cost. The 2021 ID.4 4 AWD Pro has a starting MSRP of $43,675, before a potential Federal tax credit of up to $7,500.

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Green Car Congress

JULY 24, 2022

Amazon has begun deploying its custom electric delivery vehicles from Rivian for package delivery, with the electric vehicles hitting the road in Baltimore, Chicago, Dallas, Kansas City, Nashville, Phoenix, San Diego, Seattle, and St. Batteries that are light, resilient, and low cost in addition to lasting the lifetime of the vehicle.

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Green Car Congress

APRIL 5, 2023

If adopted across the industry, battery recycling programs like this could help reduce battery costs as well as the need to mine and ship raw materials. The consumer recycling program officially launches at 14 dealerships on 22 April, with a soft launch at the Volkswagen booth during the New York International Auto Show 5 - 16 April.

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Green Car Congress

SEPTEMBER 18, 2020

a nationwide distributor of propane, fuel oil and related products and services, as well as a marketer of natural gas and electricity, is purchasing a 39% stake in Oberon Fuels, a San Diego, CA-based development-stage producer of low-carbon, renewable dimethyl ether (rDME) transportation fuel. Suburban Propane Partners, L.P.,

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Cars That Think

NOVEMBER 18, 2023

Wintriss Engineering, based in San Diego, makes smart cameras for sports imaging such as tracking golf balls and inspecting paper, textiles, and plastics. The San Diego–based nonprofit after-school program teaches coding in Java and Python to students in Grades 5 to 12.

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Green Car Congress

APRIL 18, 2019

Researchers at the University of California San Diego have improved their recycling process that regenerates degraded cathodes from spent lithium-ion batteries. Zheng Chen, a professor of nanoengineering who is affiliated with the Sustainable Power and Energy Center at UC San Diego, led the project. 2019) “Ambient?Pressure

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Green Car Congress

AUGUST 4, 2021

University of California: San Diego. Advancing Algal Productivity through Innovation in Cultivation Operation and Strain Traits (ADAPT-COST). Scripps Institution of Oceanography at UC San Diego. Enhanced Production of Algae Lipids and Carbohydrates for Fuel and Polyurethane Precursors. Colorado State University.

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Electrek

SEPTEMBER 25, 2023

Ride1Up , the San Diego-based electric bike maker known for its high-value electric bike offerings, has just released a new bike that pushes the boundary on what to expect from a budget e-bike company.

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The Truth About Cars

OCTOBER 13, 2023

An outfit called Flex has apparently been slinging these types of conversions for some spell but is now expanding its presence into America through a location in San Diego. Given the prices those things tend to command, especially in the SoCal market, it’s not entirely clear how much the kit itself costs.

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Green Car Congress

OCTOBER 30, 2020

As a result, while the number and diversity of distributed energy resources on the power grid is rapidly expanding, the adoption of these resources for power-grid balancing is hindered by concerns about safety, reliability and cost. UC San Diego is building on experience from NODES, a three-year, $2.88

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EV Match

AUGUST 30, 2021

EVmatch will use the funding to install 120 publicly available Level 2 EV charging stations – currently the most affordable charging option available – with EVmatch’s unique reservation-based sharing software at multi-family properties throughout Santa Clara, Los Angeles, and San Diego counties. What Does The Grant Cover?

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Green Car Congress

MARCH 30, 2021

California Assemblymembers Marc Berman (D-Menlo Park) and Lorena Gonzalez (D-San Diego) introduced legislation to phase out the sale of new gas-powered small off-road engines (SORE), which are primarily used in lawn and garden equipment, including leaf blowers, lawn mowers, and other outdoor power equipment.

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Green Car Congress

DECEMBER 10, 2021

Beyond PNNL, collaborators continuing from Phase 1 are Brookhaven National Laboratory, Idaho National Laboratory, SLAC National Accelerator Laboratory, Binghamton University, the University of Texas at Austin, Stanford University, the University of California at San Diego, and the University of Washington.

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Green Car Congress

MAY 17, 2016

San Diego Gas & Electric (SDG&E) announced it will invest $7.5 Fenton Company; I Love A Clean San Diego; Jewish Family Services; Menlo Equities; Palomar College; San Diego Housing Federation; Sea World; Sony; UCSD; and UTC Aerospace.

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All Cars Electric

JULY 15, 2011

City car-sharing schemes have become more popular in recent years as the cost of owning a car rockets, but until now they’ve focused on traditional gasoline-engined cars. The City of San Diego has just become the first North American city to host a carsharing scheme made up entirely of tiny two-seat electric cars.

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Green Car Congress

APRIL 11, 2023

With funding from the Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency (DARPA) Environmental Microbes as a BioEngineering Resource ( EMBER ) program ( earlier post ), San Diego State University researchers are developing advanced extraction methods with the aim of boosting the domestic supply of REEs.

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Green Car Congress

JULY 8, 2020

Chevron’s funding will allow truck operators to subsidize the cost of buying new RNG-powered trucks. For its part, Chevron will provide funding for Adopt-a-Port and supply RNG to Clean Energy stations near the ports. Clean Energy, meanwhile, will manage the program, including offering fueling services for qualified truck operators.

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Green Car Congress

JANUARY 28, 2020

The California Air Resources Board will launch its Clean Off-Road Equipment Voucher Incentive Project ( CORE ) at the Port of San Diego on 31 January. CORE also seeks to address climate concerns and cut emissions from a booming industry still reliant on heavy fossil-fuel-powered-equipment.

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Green Car Congress

JULY 24, 2020

Researchers from the University of California San Diego (UCSD) and the University of Texas at Austin, with colleagues at the US Army Research Laboratory and Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory, have developed a thick cobalt-free high voltage spinel (LiNi 0.5 O 4 (LNMO)) cathode material with high areal capacity. —Li et al. (a)

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Green Car Congress

JULY 1, 2019

The research, published in the journal Joule , builds on innovations first reported in Science in 2017 by the same research group at the University of California San Diego and the university spinout South 8 Technologies. At minus 60 ?C, C, the team demonstrated lithium-metal anode cycling efficiency of 98.4%.

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Green Car Congress

MARCH 27, 2019

From rebates for electric and plug-in vehicles to energy efficiency and solar installations that are reducing home energy costs, more than 125,000 individual projects were completed in 2018. These “implemented” funds have leveraged an additional $10.8 billion from other sources. Planting more than 3.6

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Green Car Congress

APRIL 15, 2014

Engineers at the University of California, San Diego, have created new ceramic materials that could be used to store hydrogen safely and efficiently. They also have demonstrated that the compounds could be manufactured using a simple, low-cost manufacturing method known as combustion synthesis. Click to enlarge.

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Green Car Congress

OCTOBER 5, 2021

No cost increase is passed on to U-Haul customers as a result of the renewable propane initiative. In September 2020, Suburban Propane took a 39% stake in Oberon Fuels, a San Diego, CA-based development-stage producer of low-carbon, renewable dimethyl ether (rDME) transportation fuel.

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Green Car Congress

SEPTEMBER 24, 2021

University of California San Diego nanoengineers, in collaboration with researchers at LG Energy Solution, have developed a battery that combines a solid-state electrolyte and an all-silicon anode. The initial rounds of tests show that the new battery is safe, long lasting, and energy dense. —Darren H. Tan, lead author.

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Green Car Congress

APRIL 15, 2014

Engineers at the University of California, San Diego, have created new ceramic materials that could be used to store hydrogen safely and efficiently. They also have demonstrated that the compounds could be manufactured using a simple, low-cost manufacturing method known as combustion synthesis. Click to enlarge.

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Green Car Congress

AUGUST 18, 2020

The project is to develop a cost-effective and efficient smart structural coating deposition system and advanced high-end technology tools to inspect and rehabilitate gas distribution pipelines. Diakont’s team members for this program includes project leader Oak Ridge National Laboratory, the University of Tennessee-Knoxville, and LifeLast.

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Green Car Congress

SEPTEMBER 11, 2020

API) of San Diego, Calif. The groundbreaking result will be a highly efficient gasoline engine with diesel-like levels of performance that can be cost-effective to deploy at scale. The newly-formed partnership between Ricardo North America (Ricardo) and Achates Power Inc. —API Chief Technical Officer Fabien Redon.

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Green Car Congress

JULY 31, 2020

million from the US Department of Energy (DOE) to develop and validate technology that will reduce the cost of manufacturing high-performance carbon fiber by 25% to make composite natural gas or hydrogen fuel tanks to power cars and trucks. Well over half of the composite fuel tank’s cost is attributed to carbon fiber used in its manufacture.

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Green Car Congress

NOVEMBER 20, 2019

The California Test Bed (CalTestBed) initiative is designed to reduce the stumbling blocks of time, cost, and bureaucracy most entrepreneurs face when trying to bring breakthrough concepts to market. The California Energy Commission (CEC) has launched a new funded program to help speed the commercialization of clean energy technologies.

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Green Car Congress

NOVEMBER 15, 2022

The LiGas electrolyte improves safety, increases energy density, achieves all-weather performance, enables fast-charge capability and reduces costs while also being compatible with existing lithium-ion cell production or Gigafactory manufacturing processes and supply chains. and Chief Technology Officer Jungwoo Lee, Ph.D.,

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Green Car Congress

JUNE 4, 2020

Their pure-play approach to testing will provide scale and focus that extends our capabilities and sustains cost competitiveness. Ricardo Inc., The Excel partnership enhances that objective by strengthening our testing capabilities and maintaining continuity with customers. —Marques McCammon, president of Ricardo, Inc.

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Green Car Congress

NOVEMBER 1, 2017

Testing is expected to take place in the San Diego Regional Proving Ground with the support of the San Diego Association of Governments (SANDAG), Caltrans, the City of Chula Vista, and intelligent transportation solutions (ITS) provider McCain, Inc. AT&T, Ford, Nokia, and Qualcomm Technologies Inc., Earlier post.)

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Green Car Congress

NOVEMBER 16, 2018

Pinnacle Engines will electrify its four-stroke, spark-ignited, opposed-piston engine to improve fuel efficiency and reduce its cost. Ecolectro is developing alkaline exchange ionomers (AEIs) to enable low-cost fuel cell and electrolyzer technologies. Los Alamos National Laboratory.

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