Clean Fleet Report

SEPTEMBER 18, 2021

Lucid Air Tops Out with 520-mile range; Rivian Bests 300 with Pickup & SUV. The numbers tell the story—we’ve entered a new stage of long-range electric vehicles. EPA with a 520-mile range. While the average range of an EV has been moving higher during the past few years, Lucid’s announcement has set a new high bar.

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Range Miles EPA San Francisco 67

Green Car Congress

MARCH 3, 2021

In select markets within Colorado, Illinois, Maine, Maryland, Massachusetts, New York, and Rhode Island, Arcadia’s platform connects qualifying customers to community solar projects in their area. It was joined last year by the e-tron Sportback, which blends the utility of an SUV with a coupe-like design.

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Audi Renewable Purchase Rhode Island 397

Green Car Congress

FEBRUARY 16, 2018

This FOA, issued in August 2017, is a $50-million funding opportunity for projects supporting cost-shared research and development to design, construct, and operate two large-scale pilots to demonstrate transformational coal technologies. University of Illinois. DOE funding: $741,194 Non-DOE: $188,333 Total: $929,527.

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Coal North Dakota Illinois Universal 262

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AUGUST 31, 2022

ORNL has partnered with six universities on FaCT including The Pennsylvania State University; the University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign; Texas A&M University; the University of California, Santa Barbara; the University of Tennessee, Knoxville; and Georgia State University.

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Polymer Energy Storage Energy Li-ion 150

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MAY 10, 2017

a developer and manufacturer of heavy-duty range-extended electric vehicle (REV) powertrains ( earlier post ), has partnered with AxleTech International, a leading manufacturer of heavy-duty specialty drivetrain systems. Wrightspeed Inc.,

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Cars That Think

OCTOBER 1, 2022

holds a part of a stoplight that utilizes a newer LED designed by his students. Holonyak left GE in 1963 to become a professor of electrical and computer engineering and researcher at his alma mater, the University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign. Pioneering research at the University of Illinois. Nick Holonyak, Jr.

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Illinois Light Universal Japan 78

Green Car Congress

JULY 18, 2017

The centers—each led by a DOE National Laboratory or a top university—are designed to lay the scientific groundwork for a new bio-based economy that promises to yield a range of important new products and fuels derived directly from nonfood biomass.

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2018 Wisconsin Illinois Michigan 150

Baua Electric

MARCH 21, 2024

These “Electric Adventure Vehicles” are designed to take the road less traveled in style and comfort. With up to 400 miles estimated range and 104 cu ft of storage, the electric SUV can haul gear, car seats, and camping equipment or take the entire family on an adventure. As of January, Rivian offered leasing in 15 states.

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South Dakota North Dakota North Carolina F-150 52

Cars That Think

MAY 13, 2023

economy, there’s a potential problem: Where will the industry find the qualified workforce needed to run these plants and design the chips they’ll make? But for the CHIPS Act to succeed, each fab will need hundreds of skilled engineers and technicians of all stripes, with training ranging from two-year associate degrees to Ph.D.s.

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Universal Building Ohio Arizona 138

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SEPTEMBER 19, 2013

Technical challenges include inadequate data on the properties of materials used, limited process control, lack of standardized tests for qualifying machine performance and limited modeling and design tools. million to Northern Illinois University (NIU) in DeKalb, Ill.,to The new projects aim to address those challenges.

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Manufacturer Grant El Paso North Carolina 335

Green Car Congress

JUNE 1, 2010

Pratt & Whitney Rocketdyne successfully completed the first in a series of performance tests on its compact gasifier, which is designed to help reduce the cost of coal gasification. The tests, conducted using Illinois coal, each lasted 12 to 37 hours at the pilot plant in Des Plaines, Ill., Earlier post.)

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Coal Illinois 2010 Commercial 199

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OCTOBER 10, 2017

Understanding the network of genes involved in photosynthesis and drought tolerance will provide targets for plant breeders and genetic engineers to re-design sorghum specifically as a high value bioenergy feedstock to be grown on marginal soils and thus not compete with food crops. —principal investigator Thomas Brutnell, Ph.D.,

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Rhode Island Energy Minnesota Illinois 150

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FEBRUARY 2, 2018

DOE research has identified coal and coal by-products as a promising domestic source of REEs, which are critical elements in numerous modern technologies spanning a range of applications including electronics, computer and communication systems, transportation, health care, and national defense.

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North Dakota Coal Kentucky West Virginia 276

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AUGUST 5, 2010

With the funds announced today, the partner recipients will repower Ameren’s 200 megawatt Unit 4 in Meredosia, Illinois with advanced oxy-combustion technology. to build FutureGen 2.0, an advanced coal repowering program and carbon dioxide (CO 2 ) storage network.

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Coal Mercury Illinois CO2 218

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FEBRUARY 27, 2021

CABLES is one of a set of projects supported by an ongoing funding opportunity for a range of the most innovative and unconventional ideas across the energy technology spectrum, exploring high-risk R&D that could lead to the development of disruptive technologies. Illinois Institute of Technology. University of Tennessee.

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Fully Electric Electric Electrical DC 170

Teslarati

DECEMBER 13, 2021

market,” which is a massive achievement for Rivian, a startup from Normal, Illinois. The design contributes to highly-functioning torque vectoring for impressive handling and terrain navigation. MotorTrend named the R1T the 2022 Truck of the Year, calling it “the most remarkable pickup we’ve ever driven.”

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Illinois All-Electric United States Market 119

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SEPTEMBER 3, 2020

SMARTFARM teams will work to design and develop systems to quantify feedstock production life cycle GHG emissions at the field level reliably, accurately, and cost-effectively. Project descriptions: University of Illinois – Urbana. —ARPA-E Director Lane Genatowski.

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Supplies Carbon Utah Emissions 186

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AUGUST 6, 2014

This flexibility offers a high degree of freedom for design and engine manufacturers need to balance the cost of hardware testing with turn-around time and practicality for mass production. The current design optimization process is very time- and labor-intensive. Optimizing injector design. However, optimization is challenging.

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Engine GM Ford 2014 335

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APRIL 6, 2017

Zunum is targeting 700 miles of range at launch to more than 1,000 miles by 2030. Three interdisciplinary thrusts—optimization and control, system design and analysis, and materials and fabrication—coordinate the research activities. —Ashish Kumar, CEO and founder, Zunum Aero.

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Baua Electric

MARCH 8, 2024

The electric SUV will start at $45,000, with all trims boasting over 300 miles range. To accelerate the launch, Rivian will build the R2 at its Normal, Illinois facility rather than its new plant in Georgia. The new EVs are part of Kia’s wide-ranging electric car lineup, priced between $30,000 and $80,000.

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Kia Affordable Market Tesla 52

Cars That Think

NOVEMBER 19, 2021

Twenty-one years later, in 2015, the IEEE member founded Psyonic , which designs and builds advanced, affordable artificial limbs. Two years later he was accepted into the Medical Scholars Program at the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign. Akhtar is the CEO. The startup, headquartered in Champaign, Ill., and a Ph.D.

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Baua Electric

MARCH 11, 2024

After announcing that R2 production will kick off in Illinois, Rivian (RIVN) is poised to earn additional incentives with plans to expand its Normal EV plant. It will be based on Rivian’s next-gen EV platform designed to cut costs with maximum flexibility. Rivian’s R2 is essentially a smaller R1S offered at a cheaper price point.

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Illinois Production Georgia Affordable 52

Cars That Think

MARCH 6, 2024

“The announcement is clear progress toward creating a semiconductor manufacturing presence in India,” says Rakesh Kumar , a professor of electrical and computer engineering at University of Illinois Urbana Champaign and author of Reluctant Technophiles: India’s Complicated Relationship with Technology. Tata Electronics will build a $3.25

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Teslarati

AUGUST 10, 2022

With the vehicle’s range and the availability of charging infrastructure, we are excited to see how this vehicle performs in our operation and helps us understand the path forward to scale an electrification strategy for FedEx Office.”. ” Along with the Ford E-Transit , FedEx is currently designing Roxo, the FedEx SameDay Delivery Bot.

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Ford Miles North America Chicago 93

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SEPTEMBER 22, 2015

Utilizing advanced processing capabilities and intricate groove designs, BorgWarner’s latest friction plate technology is proving successful under a widening range of operating conditions and offers the same benefits in torque converter applications.

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GM Fuel Economy Cadillac Mississippi 150

Green Car Congress

FEBRUARY 12, 2018

AK Steel Corporation’s Research & Innovation Center will conduct alloy design, lab validation, manufacture, and testing of novel low density steels that possess mechanical properties exhibited by currently available advanced high strength steels. Board of Trustees of the University of Illinois. Advanced Manufacturing Awards.

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Green Car Congress

MARCH 3, 2010

MOREY, an Illinois-based Electronics Manufacturing Services (EMS) company, will provide a Data Acquisition System (DAS) to be installed on each one of the competing vehicles in the Progressive Insurance Automotive X PRIZE, a $10 million dollar competition designed to inspire a new generation of viable, safe and super fuel-efficient vehicles.

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Corporation Illinois Fuel Economy Battery Powered 170

Baua Electric

JANUARY 12, 2024

Charging woes I won’t knock the design of the EV as it is truly luxe inside and out, but on the performance side, this is one of the most frustrating and baffling vehicle’s I’ve driven. That said, the lack of real-world range in this EV made my road trip quite stressful and long. I averaged 2.7 I never got anywhere near that number.

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Iowa Chicago Miles Hyundai 52

Electric Cars Report

FEBRUARY 28, 2023

Researchers at the Illinois Institute of Technology (IIT) and U.S. Department of Energy’s (DOE) Argonne National Laboratory have developed a lithium-air battery that could make that dream a reality. […] The post New design for lithium-air battery could offer much longer driving range appeared first on Electric Cars Report.

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Lithium Air Design Illinois Range 123

Green Car Congress

DECEMBER 19, 2011

and the University of Illinois at Urbana – Champaign has developed a double-layered silicon-germanium nanotube array as an anode material for high-capacity lithium-ion batteries. thickness ranging from 10 nm to 15 nm on the surface of a silicon nanotube (SiNT) with a thickness ranging from 15 nm to 20 nm. Click to enlarge.

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Li-ion Lithium Ion Universal Illinois 225

Green Car Congress

MAY 28, 2015

It is designed to handle high Reynolds number, high-pressure, real-gas and/or liquid conditions over a wide Mach operating range. A noteworthy aspect of RAPTOR is it was designed specifically for LES using non-dissipative, discretely conservative, staggered, finite-volume differencing. — Oefelein (2013).

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Universal 2013 Engine Illinois 150

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SEPTEMBER 18, 2015

The new investments will go toward a wide range of research, development, and demonstration projects that aim to reduce the price and improve the efficiency of plug-in electric, alternative fuel, and conventional vehicles. Ultra-Light Door Design, Manufacturing and Demonstration (Area of Interest 2). Vehma International of America.

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Fuel Carbon Fiber Lithium Ion Vehicles 150

Cars That Think

DECEMBER 30, 2023

The Clapper also had an “away” setting that was activated by noise, designed to deter burglars while homeowners were on vacation. The electronics were quite simple: a microphone to pick up sound in the room, a bandpass filter in the range of 2,200 to 2,800 hertz (the typical range of a handclap), a few triode switches, and a microcontroller.

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Light San Francisco IDEA Plug-in 108

Green Car Congress

APRIL 20, 2013

The plot also includes the performance range of conventional power technologies and commercial batteries from A123 (high power) and Sony (high energy). Microbattery design. The energy and power density of our microbattery cells (A–H) at low to high C rates, along with previous microbattery cells having 3D electrodes (MB1 through MB3).

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Illinois Li-ion Power Powered 364

Green Car Congress

MARCH 21, 2012

To make the Energy Commission’s buy-down program as efficient and simple as possible, the incentive reservations are awarded in blocks to vehicle manufacturers or their designated dealers. The vehicles must be powered by natural gas and are in the 26,001 pounds and greater gross vehicle weight range. Navistar, Inc. Greenkraft, Inc.

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California Gas Power Powered 186

Green Car Congress

DECEMBER 23, 2009

TJ Lambrecht, headquartered in Joliet, Illinois, is one of the most recognized heavy, civil, and earthmoving contractors in the country, with one of the largest and most current fleets of Caterpillar equipment. The design of the radiator cooling systems reduces parasitic load and saves fuel. Caterpillar Inc. Earlier post.)

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Electric Electrical Illinois Water 199

Clean Fleet Report

MAY 30, 2023

One of the leaders in farm machine technology is John Deere & Company , based in Moline, Illinois. Big green and yellow John Deere tractor For the heavier machines that will need more range and driving distance, John Deere is turning to hybrid engines and conventional engines that will use biofuel-based diesel or a gasoline/ethanol blend.

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All-Electric Illinois Brazil Gasoline-Electric 94