article thumbnail

Leclanché to provide 10 MWh battery system for Scandlines’ PR24 zero-emission freight ferry

Green Car Congress

The ferry was designed by LMG Marin AS, Norway, and will be constructed at Cemre Shipyard in Turkey. Leclanché’s Marine Rack System (MRS) helps vessel owners and operators to meet or even surpass international marine regulations for SOx and NO x emissions. meters design draft. meters long, 25.4 meters wide and 5.3

Emissions 273
article thumbnail

Car Crash Prevention System Wins Student $10,000 IEEE Scholarship

Cars That Think

Underride car crashes are among the most deadly accidents in Turkey, according to a report by the country's. zmit, Turkey, is set to study medicine this semester at. The award was presented during the Regeneron International Science and Engineering Fair. The TOGG is working on designing electric vehicles.

Turkey 105
article thumbnail

WEC report: EVs need 16% market share by 2020 for fuel economy standards to be met

Green Car Congress

While EVs currently represent less than 1% combined market share across the world’s largest markets for new passenger cars, they should be considered central to any policy and technology portfolio designed to lower transport emissions, WEC said. In the EU, the EV gap is 1.4 million (11%) and in China roughly 5.3

article thumbnail

DOE awards $4M to carbon capture and storage projects selected as part of ACT

Green Car Congress

The US Department of Energy’s (DOE) Office of Fossil Energy (FE) announced $4 million in federal funding for national laboratories to collaborate with international partners on seven projects out of the 12 that were selected as a part of the Accelerating Carbon Capture and Storage Technologies (ACT) Initiative.

Carbon 150
article thumbnail

SpaceX astronaut launch slips into November

Teslarati

Put simply, SpaceX’s internal Starlink launch cadence fell off a cliff in July and hasn’t recovered since. satellites, seemingly ruling out design or qualification issues. In H1 2021, 14 of 20 launches primarily carried Starlink satellites. So far, SpaceX has only launched one batch of 51 new Starlink V1.5

Turkey 137
article thumbnail

Nuclear Energy Brinkmanship in Ukraine

Cars That Think

Nikolai Steinberg, a former chief engineer at Chernobyl and member of the International Atomic Energy Agency’s governing board, called running the plant “a crime” in an email interview with IEEE Spectrum. Batteries and diesel backup generators are designed to power the plant’s cooling systems for 10 days.

Ukraine 142
article thumbnail

Rolls-Royce consortium secures funding for mini nuclear reactors

EV Info

A Rolls-Royce-led consortium creating a compact nuclear power station, or small modular reactor (SMR) has revealed its latest design with increased power. We are ready to go and hope to be first in line to start the rigorous Generic Design Assessment process in the Autumn of this year.”. billion per unit dropping to £1.8