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JANUARY 4, 2021

Current Direct , a new €12-million research and innovation project funded by the European Commission’s Horizon 2020 program, is proposing an innovative lithium-ion cell optimized for waterborne transport, using novel manufacturing techniques allowing for a consistent cost reduction compared to the current market prices.

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APRIL 25, 2023

Toyota Motor Manufacturing UK has signed a deal with the University of Sheffield Advanced Manufacturing Research Centre (AMRC) Cymru to optimize hydrogen fuel cell assembly. Advancements have been made to the Hydrogen Electric Propulsion Systems (HEPS) assembly testbed, based at AMRC Cymru in North Wales since work began in October 2022.

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JUNE 2, 2023

Projects from this solicitation, which will be implemented over the next 1–3 years, will focus on lowering the cost of heliostats and heliostat technologies and creating new market opportunities for the heliostat industry. Low-cost heliostats offer significant renewable energy potential.

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NOVEMBER 16, 2018

The selected OPEN 2018 projects are in 21 states and fall into 9 technical categories, including transportation, electricity generation and delivery, and energy efficiency. . Transportation. Of the 40 projects, 15 are transportation-related, with total funding of $41.5 Georgia Tech Research Corporation. Ecolectro, Inc.

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SEPTEMBER 5, 2019

The ultimate aim of the research is to facilitate improvements in batteries used for transport and other applications such as grid storage with improved performance and cost characteristics. The project’s Principal Investigator is Professor Patrick Grant of the University of Oxford. Next generation lithium ion cathode materials.

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AUGUST 22, 2013

The US Department of Energy (DOE) Advanced Research Projects Agency - Energy (ARPA-E) will award approximately $36 million to 22 projects to develop transformational electric vehicle (EV) energy storage systems using innovative chemistries, architectures and designs. University of Houston. Princeton University. Description.

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MARCH 7, 2013

The “H2USA” name was used before by DOE in a program that began in 2005 to develop hydrogen technology learning centers at universities within the State Technologies Advancement Collaborative (STAC) hydrogen project area.). will optimize the cost and performance of composite cylinders for hydrogen storage using a graded construction.

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SEPTEMBER 23, 2013

LanzaTech, a producer of low-carbon fuels and chemicals from waste gases, was awarded a $4-million grant by the Advanced Research Projects Agency-Energy (ARPA-E) as one of the 15 REMOTE projects ( earlier post ) receiving a combined $34 million to find advanced biocatalyst technologies that can convert natural gas to liquid fuel for transportation.

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DECEMBER 3, 2014

Researchers from UC Berkeley, Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory and Nanyang Technological University, Singapore have developed a new technology for direct solar water-splitting—i.e., an “artificial leaf” to produce hydrogen—based on a nanowire mesh that lends itself to large-scale, low-cost production.

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APRIL 6, 2021

Friend Family Distinguished Professor of Engineering, have been exploring the use of low-cost materials to create rechargeable batteries that will make energy storage more affordable. The researchers’ solution was to design a substrate of interwoven carbon fibers that forms an even stronger chemical bond with aluminum.

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JUNE 9, 2017

million for 30 new projects aimed at discovery and development of novel, low-cost materials necessary for hydrogen production and storage and for fuel cells onboard light-duty vehicles. Precursor Development for Low-Cost, High-Strength Carbon Fiber. Carnegie Mellon University. University of Connecticut.

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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. We tackled this by turning our attention to the solvent in order to reduce its binding to the magnesium ions and improve the bulk transport kinetics.

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JULY 10, 2022

The money will help projects further develop their greenhouse gas removal technologies, which include a machine that can pull carbon dioxide out of the air, a plant to convert household waste into hydrogen for use in the transport industry, and a system to remove carbon dioxide from seawater. Project funding: £4,750,429.16. SMART-DAC”.

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AUGUST 25, 2020

In recent years, ammonia has been considered by various industries for use in power generation as its consumption is carbon free, offers high energy density and has an established transportation network in contrast to hydrogen which has issues with both storage and distribution. —Dr James Barth, engineering lead at Reaction Engines.

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DECEMBER 13, 2013

Hamid Mohsenian-Rad of University of California, Riverside will receive $95,000 to determine the optimum balance of active and reactive power in plug-in electric vehicles to achieve lower energy costs and improve power distribution networks. The project aims to increase the generation of clean, low cost, efficient energy.

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SEPTEMBER 4, 2013

University of Michigan. The Ohio State University. Arizona State University. Mississippi State University. Johns Hopkins University. The Ohio State University. Michigan State University, Composite Vehicle Research Center. Advanced lightweighting and propulsion materials. Lead organization.

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NOVEMBER 2, 2012

Researchers at Rice University have created an inexpensive silicon-based anode material for Li-ion batteries consisting of macroporous silicon particulates (MPSPs) created by crushing porous silicon films they had earlier developed. Thakur et al. Click to enlarge. Earlier post.)

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JUNE 21, 2023

Researchers from the Department of Energy’s Oak Ridge National Laboratory (ORNL) and Western Michigan University (WMU) have enabled standard raised pavement markers to transmit GPS information that helps autonomous driving features function better in remote areas or in bad weather. —Zachary Asher Resources S. Sharma et al.

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MAY 14, 2020

Advanced nuclear reactors have the potential to provide reliable and low-cost clean power to millions of American homes. These GEMINA teams are working to develop tools for the advanced reactors of tomorrow to improve operations and lower maintenance costs by designing more autonomous, and efficient processes.

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JULY 15, 2015

The funded research projects fall under two subtopic areas: development of gasification technologies applicable to in situ bio-gasification of coal to methane; and the development of low cost advanced air separation technologies that can produce oxygen for use in coal gasification processes. Montana State University.

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Cars That Think

SEPTEMBER 14, 2021

Seeing the need for a more transportable system that can analyze blood samples in rural and remote areas, two researchers in India have developed a new design that is simple, affordable, and easily deployed anywhere where a source of electricity is available.

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SEPTEMBER 5, 2023

We have proven carbon-neutral eFuels are a real solution to help decarbonize transportation. Now we are accelerating Direct Air Capture technology that enables efficient and low-cost CO 2 capture—the future of CO 2 recycling. We are not waiting for solutions to come to us; we are creating them and leading the way.

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APRIL 4, 2019

New designs of the sulfur cathode host to achieve high sulfur loading (>6 mg/cm 2 ) good sulfur utilization, minimal polysulfide diffusion, and limited excess electrolyte (goal of electrolyte to sulfur ratio of 3 ml/mg). Topic 2: Electric Motor Research Increasing Power Density 8x (up to $3.5

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AUGUST 21, 2014

million in 14 cooperative agreements with small businesses and institutions of higher education to develop and to deploy efficient and environmentally friendly highway transportation technologies that will help reduce petroleum use in the United States. University of Colorado Boulder. University of Wisconsin - Madison.

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AUGUST 16, 2016

These trucks haul 80% of goods in the United States and use about 28 billion gallons of fuel per year, accounting for around 22% of total transportation energy usage—presenting a significant opportunity for carbon emissions reduction and energy savings for a key segment of the US transportation sector. Ohio State University.

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NOVEMBER 17, 2016

DOE’s Vehicle Technologies Office supports a broad technology portfolio of advanced highway transportation technologies. Integrated Computational Materials Engineering (ICME) Development of Low Cost Carbon Fiber for Lightweight Vehicles. Targeted cost is equal to or less than $5/lb. Open Topic.

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FEBRUARY 21, 2018

SPLT operates a platform that allows companies, universities, and municipal authorities to offer their workforces ridesharing services. The B2B approach is designed especially for commuters. According to the German Federal Motor Transport Authority, there are more than 60 million vehicles on Germany’s roads alone.

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JULY 15, 2020

FLECCS Phase 1 teams will design, model, and optimize CCS processes that enable flexibility on a high-VRE grid. Later in the program, teams that move to Phase 2 will focus on building components, unit operations, and prototype systems to reduce technical risks and costs. Colorado State University. University of Pittsburgh.

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NOVEMBER 7, 2010

His paper, Kreutz noted, is only a preliminary scoping study designed to sketch out the rough outlines of each system’s prospective performance and economics as related primarily to GHG. owned by) a power plant; careful integration between the two plants will reduce costs (not studied in detail here). their CO 2 (e.g. ~90%)

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SEPTEMBER 16, 2016

million in funding to a team that includes 24M, Sepion Technologies , Berkeley Lab, and Carnegie Mellon University. The funds will be used to develop novel membranes and lithium-metal anodes for the next generation of high-energy-density, low-cost batteries. Click to enlarge.

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JUNE 16, 2023

EPFL ] This video details the creation of the Dingo, a low-cost robot quadruped designed and built by Alexander Calvert and Nathan Ferguson as a capstone engineering project for the bachelor of Robotics and Mechatronics Engineering at Monash University. Total cost is about $1,300 AUD. GitHub ] Thanks, Michael! (iii)

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JULY 29, 2014

UK transport operator Go-Ahead Group has ordered 500 electric flywheel Gyrodrive systems from GKN Hybrid Power for use in buses. Key benefits of low mass, compact packaging, electric only coupling to vehicle drive, and low cost point make the Mk4 eFES system a turn-key retro-fit solution. Earlier post.).

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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. Click to enlarge.

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JUNE 21, 2017

million for 30 projects working toward the discovery and development of innovative, low-cost materials needed for hydrogen production and storage and for automotive fuel cells ( earlier post ). The US Department of Energy is awarding roughly $15.8

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APRIL 7, 2009

A new high-energy cathode material that can greatly increase the safety and extend the life-span of future lithium-ion batteries has been developed through the close international collaboration of researchers led by the US Department of Energy’s (DOE) Argonne National Laboratory and Hanyang University in South Korea.

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MAY 27, 2013

Researchers at Nankai University in China have assembled spinel-type LiNi 0.5 Nanostructured active materials with confined dimensions benefit fast Li + transport due to dramatically decreased distance over which Li + must diffuse in the solid state. The fabricated LiNi 0.5 Spinel LiNi 0.5

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MAY 16, 2016

Researchers from Hunan University and Changsha University in China have designed 3D hierarchical porous nitrogen-doped aligned carbon nanotubes (HPNACNTs) with well-directed 1D conductive electron paths as scaffold to load sulfur for use as a high-performance cathode in Li-S batteries. These, in turn, have their own issues.

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