Cars That Think

JUNE 27, 2022

It’s been 25 years since University of Delaware energy and environmental expert Willett Kempton and Green Mountain College energy economist Steve Letendre outlined what they saw as a “dawning interaction between electric-drive vehicles and the electric supply system.” We Drive Solar from his Utrecht home in 2016.

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Green Car Congress

AUGUST 2, 2019

Alabama A&M University. Alabama A&M University will receive funds to replace diesel buses that have reached the end of useful life with zero-emission electric buses, including all related electrical charging station infrastructure. Delaware Transit Corporation. Metro Transit. City Utilities of Springfield, Missouri.

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Green Car Congress

FEBRUARY 26, 2015

Northeastern University. University of California, Irvine. Develop a novel photocatalyst particle-based slurry reactor with the potential for low-cost renewable hydrogen production via solar water splitting. University of Delaware. University of New Mexico. Giner, Inc. Versa Power Systems.

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Green Car Congress

JUNE 23, 2013

Researchers at the University of Delaware have developed an inexpensive bismuth?carbon Storage of solar and other sources of renewable electricity may be enabled by the catalytic production of fuels such as H 2 or reduced carbon-containing compounds via the electro-chemical reduction of H 2 O or CO 2 , respectively.

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Green Car Congress

SEPTEMBER 3, 2020

University of North Dakota Energy & Environmental Research Center (Grand Forks, ND) will complete an initial engineering design for a hybrid capture system and estimate associated costs for retrofitting the Red Trail Energy ethanol plant. DOE Funding: $1,500,000; Non-DOE Funding: $405,328; Total: $1,905,328.

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Green Car Congress

AUGUST 7, 2009

US Energy Secretary Steven Chu announced the delivery of $377 million in funding for 46 new multi-million-dollar Energy Frontier Research Centers (EFRCs) ( earlier post ) located at universities, national laboratories, nonprofit organizations, and private firms across the nation. Pennsylvania State University. Purdue University.

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Green Car Congress

SEPTEMBER 17, 2017

Alabama A&M University. Alabama A&M University’s Bulldog Transit System will receive funding to purchase electric buses, charging stations, and other associated equipment. Delaware Transit Corporation. BTS has a commitment to replace buses that have reached the end of their useful life with zero emission buses.

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Cars That Think

MARCH 11, 2023

In 1997, Willett Kempton , a professor at the University of Delaware, and Steve Letendre , a professor at Green Mountain College, in Vermont, began publishing a series of journal articles that imagined the bidirectional EV as a resource for electricity utilities. After earning a Ph.D. He recruited Rippel and Cocconi for both jobs.

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Charged EVs

MAY 8, 2023

But in places like Delaware or in PJM territory, which covers a very large percentage of the US population, this is getting implemented right now. Gregory Poilasne: We have an AC charging station that we rolled out that came from our relationship with the University of Delaware. That’s our product. PSA has been working on it.

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MARCH 17, 2015

The two Cu-Cu-Ti hollow sites exhibit HBE values close to that of Pt. The Cu-Ti-Ti hollow site binds hydrogen too strongly. Click to enlarge.

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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. The Ohio State University.

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SEPTEMBER 29, 2009

Ribeiro, all from Purdue University. The project “Lignin Deconstruction for the Production of Liquid Fuels” (0937657) will be led by Rodney Andrews, with collaboration from researchers Mark Crocker, Seth DeBolt, Mark Meier, and Samuel Morton, all from the University of Kentucky. Stikeleather, all from North Carolina State University.

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Green Car Congress

OCTOBER 26, 2011

The University of Pittsburgh Medical Center (UPMC) will receive $500,000 to replace 20 diesel-fueled shuttle buses with 20 shuttle buses powered by compressed natural gas. will receive $400,000 for the construction of a compressed natural gas fueling station at its Delaware Valley North hauling facility in Bristol Borough.

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Green Car Congress

NOVEMBER 20, 2012

Delaware Valley. University, North. Carolina Solar Center. University of Central. Purchasing Agreements; train and deploy Energy Coaches who will work. directly with public and private fleets to assess and successfully implement. opportunities for alternative fuel vehicle use; conduct an audit of the State. Commission.

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Green Car Congress

JUNE 24, 2014

Twenty-three of the projects receiving funding are headed by universities, eight are led by the Energy Department’s National Laboratories and one project is run by a non-profit organization. University of California, Berkeley. University of California, Riverside. Northwestern University. Purdue University.

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Plug In Partners

JUNE 26, 2007

announced that it has switched on the solar panel installation at its Mountain View, Calif. headquarters, which will help the company reduce its environmental footprint and power its plug-ins with clean solar electricity. In addition, Google Inc.

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Green Car Congress

APRIL 30, 2010

Electrofuels approaches will use organisms able to extract energy from other sources, such as solar-derived electricity or hydrogen or earth-abundant metal ions. of Delaware). NC State University. Medical University of South Carolina. from solar PV) to convert carbon dioxide into liquid alcohol fuels. of Georgia).

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SEPTEMBER 30, 2011

The new ARPA-E selections focus on accelerating innovations in clean technology while increasing US competitiveness in rare earth alternatives and breakthroughs in biofuels, thermal storage, grid controls, and solar power electronics. Solar ADEPT: Solar Agile Delivery of Electrical Power Technology ($14.7 University of Illinois.

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MAY 29, 2014

Electric school bus fleets with vehicle-to-grid (V2G) capabilities are cost-effective with today’s technology, and could save schools money while reducing greenhouse gas emissions and improving public health, according to a new study by a team at the University of Delaware’s College of Earth, Ocean, and Environment (CEOE).

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JANUARY 5, 2020

The amount of cobalt, copper, lithium, cadmium, and rare earth elements needed for solar photovoltaics, batteries, electric vehicle (EV) motors, wind turbines, fuel cells, and nuclear reactors will likely grow at a rapid pace in the upcoming years. Sovacool, Professor of Energy Policy at the University of Sussex. —Sovacool et al.

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JUNE 26, 2021

To date, the TCF has funded more than 380 projects by unlocking more than $170 million in funding from more than 300 private sector partners, including automotive manufacturers, energy storage companies, utilities, bioenergy companies, solar providers, and aerospace companies. Northern Illinois University (DeKalb, Illinois).

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Spirit of DC - PHEV3A

NOVEMBER 7, 2008

The basis for the "Spirit of DC" staying over in Arizona through the winter results from the gifting of a state-of-the-art Li-ion battery pack and charger from Delaware Power Systems out of Vancouver, British Columbia, Canada. DPS is building commercial battery packs from smart universal battery modules ("UBM(TM)") as building block.

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Green Car Congress

NOVEMBER 8, 2018

As part of this project, Greenlots will outfit warehouses with heavy- and light-duty charging infrastructure, integrate the chargers with onsite solar PV and energy storage systems and leverage Greenlots’ charging network management software to deploy Volvo’s first electrified trucks in North America. CARB awarded $44.8

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Green Car Congress

SEPTEMBER 19, 2013

The use of renewable and readily available solar energy reduces equipment costs and greenhouse gas emissions. Northwestern University. Northwestern University will engineer an entirely new biocatalyst for highly efficient methane activation, the first step required to convert methane into a liquid fuel. University of Michigan.

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Green Car Congress

OCTOBER 26, 2009

Direct Solar Fuels (5 projects). Arizona State University, in partnership with Fluidic Energy Inc., Teaming with Ohio State University are PSRI, CONSOL Energy, Shell/CRI, and Babcock and Wilcox to accelerate this technology towards commercialization and deployment. DIRECT SOLAR FUELS. Biomass Energy (5 projects).

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Green Car Congress

OCTOBER 3, 2016

To avoid CO 2 emissions associated with H2-production, electrolysis of water powered by solar, wind or hydroelectricity would be a preferred source and has achieved a level of maturity and success. Alternatively, syngas can be added to sugar fermentation to provide the necessary reducing power and carbon. …

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Charged EVs

APRIL 19, 2023

I watched the BMW i3s at Delaware University [an early V2X pilot], and my mind was blown. Charged : What about solar+storage? Paul Gioupis: There’s not enough on-site generation possible from solar to support a large commercial EV depot.

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Tony Karrer Delicious EVdriven

APRIL 21, 2009

For more on plug-in hybrids and V2G, see CalCars Resources , University of Delaware V2G Research Center , and papers from a June 2005 conference in Seattle. I love the idea of powering my car from solar power. What do environmental groups think of PHEVs? How about putting PV cells on the roof of a PHEV? How can I help?

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Tony Karrer Delicious EVdriven

APRIL 16, 2009

I would say that electricity is a vastly superior fuel for the light vehicle fleet,” said Willett Kempton , a professor and alternative energy specialist at the University of Delaware. Wind, solar and nuclear could easily change our electrical sources. The closest to that source is solar. but not all of it.

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Green Car Congress

APRIL 10, 2010

The legislation would also provide new incentives for domestic oil and gas drilling, nuclear power plant construction, carbon capture and storage, and renewable energy sources like wind and solar. Graham recently declared, “ Economy-wide cap-and-trade is dead. ” There will never be a cap-and-trade bill passed by the United States Senate.

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