Green Car Congress

JULY 22, 2022

After achieving temperatures greater than 75 million degrees Celsius and demonstrating unmatched real-time control of plasma with its fifth-generation fusion research reactor, Norman, TAE Technologies has secured strategic and institutional investments to fund the construction of its next research reactor, the sixth-generation Copernicus.

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Green Car Congress

MARCH 13, 2023

Eni and Commonwealth Fusion Systems (CFS), a spin-out of the Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT) signed a Collaboration Framework Agreement with the aim of accelerating the industrialization of fusion energy. Eni says CFS has the fastest pathway to commercial deployment of fusion energy.

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APRIL 8, 2020

The US Department of Energy announced the winners of $32 million in funding for 15 projects as part of the ARPA-E Breakthroughs Enabling THermonuclear-fusion Energy ( BETHE ) program. —Under Secretary of Energy Mark W. Commercial fusion technology has long been viewed as an ideal energy source.

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Green Car Congress

NOVEMBER 11, 2022

Canadian Nuclear Laboratories (CNL), Canada’s premier nuclear science and technology organization, and General Fusion have signed a Memorandum of Understanding (MOU) to pursue a series of joint projects to accelerate the deployment of commercial fusion power in Canada.

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Cars That Think

APRIL 9, 2025

For decades, nuclear fusion the reaction that powers the sunhas been the ultimate energy dream. Fusion requires temperatures hotter than the suns core and a mastery of plasmathe superheated gas in which atoms that have been stripped of their electrons collide, their nuclei fusing. But the challenge is huge. The downside?

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Green Car Congress

DECEMBER 5, 2014

Siemens Energy Management Division has teamed with Duke Energy and Ford to demonstrate the results of an 18-month effort to reduce the cost and expand electric vehicle charging technologies. Held at the Duke Energy Envision Center in Erlanger, Ky., Held at the Duke Energy Envision Center in Erlanger, Ky.,

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Green Car Congress

NOVEMBER 14, 2022

Fusion Fuel ( earlier post ) completed the interconnection of its H2Évora plant to the Portuguese electric grid and has successfully commissioned the facility. HEVO is Fusion Fuel’s proprietary miniaturized PEM electrolyzer, designed to be small, lightweight, and mass-producible.

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Green Car Congress

MAY 31, 2023

The US Department of Energy Advanced Research Projects Agency - Energy (ARPA-E) announced up to $10 million in funding to develop novel manufacturing technologies for superconducting tapes. ( Although they have superior performance, HTS are more difficult to manufacture than low-temperature superconductors (LTS).

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Cars That Think

OCTOBER 28, 2024

The PPPL team invented this nuclear-fusion reactor, completed last year, using mainly off-the-shelf components. Within this enigmatic fourth state of matter, atoms that have been stripped of their electrons collide, their nuclei fusing and releasing energy in the same process that powers the sun and other stars.

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Cars That Think

MARCH 29, 2024

The upper 10 kilometers of the Earth’s crust contains vast geothermal reserves , essentially awaiting human energy consumption to begin to tap into its unstinting power output —which itself yields no greenhouse gasses. Quaise Energy , based in Cambridge, Mass.,

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Green Car Congress

JANUARY 8, 2013

At the Consumer Electronics Show in Las Vegas, Ford Motor Company announced a strategic collaboration that will demonstrate the integration of home appliance technology, plug-in vehicle and a renewable energy source to achieve an energy-efficient lifestyle. Connected appliances can use less energy during peak periods.

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DECEMBER 27, 2021

Tokamaks, which use magnets to contain the high-temperature plasma in which atomic nuclei fuse and release energy, have captured the spotlight in recent months, due to tremendous advances in superconducting magnets. But tokamaks aren’t the only path to fusion power. But tokamaks aren’t the only path to fusion power.

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Cars That Think

FEBRUARY 6, 2024

The dream of fusion power inched closer to reality in December 2022, when researchers at Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory (LLNL) revealed that a fusion reaction had produced more energy than what was required to kick-start it. The atoms then fuse together, releasing huge amounts of energy. “It Why is fusion so hard?

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Cars That Think

FEBRUARY 27, 2022

It took researchers many years to unravel the secrets by which lighter elements are smashed together into heavier ones inside stars, releasing energy in the process. And scientists and engineers have continued to study the sun’s fusion process in hopes of one day using nuclear fusion to generate heat or electricity. At nearly 1.4

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Green Car Congress

AUGUST 14, 2014

Ford Motor Company is teaming with DTE Energy to build Michigan’s largest solar array at Ford World Headquarters. The project, funded by DTE Energy, will provide employees with 360 covered parking spaces and 30 charging stations for plug-in electric vehicles such as the company’s Ford Fusion Energi and C-MAX Hybrid Energi.

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Green Car Congress

DECEMBER 16, 2019

million) of funding from the UK Government’s Department for Business, Energy and Industrial Strategy (BEIS) to lead strategic partners in the project. Sheffield Forgemasters will collaborate with partners from Cambridge Vacuum Engineering (CVE), TWI, Arc Energy, NAMRC, The University of Manchester and Cambridge University. high x by 3.0m

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AUGUST 27, 2021

If it had ever left the spotlight, nuclear fusion is certainly now back. There have recently been new books , big announcements from small fusion companies , and the widely-shared news of a new record for energy produced at the National Ignition Facility , at the U.S. As the joke goes, fusion is always 40 years away.

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Cars That Think

DECEMBER 24, 2024

IEEE Spectrum s most-read energy stories of 2024 centered on creative ways to produce, store and connect more carbon-free energy. Big Techs bold moves to secure nuclear energy for future data centers dominated international headlines in 2024, and readers liked Spectrum s tech-focused coverage of the topic.

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NOVEMBER 18, 2022

Experts from EUROfusion discuss how public research helps the entire field to get fusion power ready for the grid. The post The path toward fusion power commercialisation appeared first on Innovation News Network.

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Green Car Congress

APRIL 8, 2014

The US Department of Energy (DOE) released its five-year 2014-2018 Strategic Plan. The plan is organized into 12 strategic objectives aimed at three distinct goals: Science and Energy; Nuclear Security; and Management and Performance. Leverage increased private sector financing for deployment of “all of the above” energy technologies.

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Cars That Think

JULY 15, 2023

Brandon Sorbom , the scientific director of Commonwealth Fusion Systems (CFS) , leads me toward the center of the building’s cross-shaped footprint, weaving among scaffolding, forklifts, and teams of welders and painters. On the site of a former U.S. Army Reserve base near Boston, an unusual structure is rising from the rolling hills.

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Green Car Congress

NOVEMBER 10, 2021

Sensor Fusion technology is a core component of delivering true autonomous vehicles and is crucial to helping the industry achieve the vision of Zero Autonomous Driving Accidents. Prominent technology and industry thought leaders like Larry will be instrumental in helping us make this vision a reality. He received a B.S.

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Cars That Think

NOVEMBER 25, 2024

In 2014 I went to my managers with an audacious proposal: Let’s create a nuclear energy research and development group at Google. In subsequent years I got interested in energy and was part of the design team for Google’s first energy-efficient data center.

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Green Car Congress

FEBRUARY 16, 2018

Researchers at the University of Michigan and Ford Motor Company have found that using a Level 4 connected and automated vehicle (CAV) subsystem could increase vehicle primary energy use and GHG emissions by 3–20% due to increases in power consumption, weight, drag, and data transmission. Credit: ACS, Gawron et al. Click to enlarge.

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Green Car Congress

JUNE 4, 2014

We are currently expanding our Auto Start-Stop technology across 70 percent of our lineup, and this dual-battery system has the potential to bring even more levels of hybridization to our vehicles for greater energy savings across the board. —Ted Miller, senior manager, Energy Storage Strategy and Research, Ford Motor Company.

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Green Car Congress

SEPTEMBER 16, 2009

A consortium of Ford, Scottish and Southern Energy and Strathclyde University will use the fleet of fifteen prototype Ford Focus BEV vehicles and a charging infrastructure in and around the London Borough of Hillingdon from early 2010. Charging the batteries will take between 6-8 hours using a common 230 volt grid.

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Green Car Congress

JANUARY 13, 2011

The program allocates hours to large-scale, computationally-intensive research projects in a range of areas including fusion, climate, and materials. They are also able to do grid independence studies, which means refining the simulations until the results no longer change. NETL funded the research.

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Green Car Congress

FEBRUARY 3, 2015

billion for the US Department of Energy (DOE). billion (35.8%) science and energy Budget Request, $1.3 billion for applied energy activities, including: $2.72 billion for applied energy activities, including: $2.72 President Barack Obama’s 2016 Budget requests $29.9 billion) above the FY 2015 enacted level.

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Green Car Congress

MAY 27, 2015

At Consumer Electronics Show Asia, Ford launched a strategic collaboration with Haier (home appliance), Trina Solar (solar power) and Delta Electronics (power management) to introduce MyEnergi Lifestyle ( earlier post ) to China, a holistic approach for lowering the energy costs and carbon footprint of Chinese families.

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Green Car Congress

MARCH 23, 2019

The US Department of Energy’s Advanced Research Projects Agency - Energy (ARPA-E) announced $36 million in awards for 18 projects as part of the High Intensity Thermal Exchange through Materials and Manufacturing Processes (HITEMMP) program , as well as the final OPEN+ Cohort, High Temperature Devices. Carnegie Mellon University.

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Green Car Congress

OCTOBER 29, 2014

The first workshop focused on hydrogen transmission and distribution and was held at DOE’s National Renewable Energy Laboratory (NREL) 25-26 February 2014. Additionally, heat is usually a lower cost form of energy on a kWh basis than electricity. retail, light-duty vehicle stations and other applications). Manufacturing & Scale-Up.

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SEPTEMBER 18, 2023

Those high magnetic fields may one day enable nuclear fusion energy, which I wrote about recently [see “ This Fusion Reactor Is Held Together With Tape ”]. But the materials could show up sooner in a wide array of practical applications, including wind power, energy storage, and nuclear magnetic-resonance machines.

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Green Car Congress

SEPTEMBER 8, 2016

The Department of Energy’s Exascale Computing Project (ECP) announced its first round of funding with the selection of 15 application development proposals for full funding and seven proposals for seed funding, representing teams from 45 research and academic organizations. The awards, totaling $39.8 Dunning, Jr.

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AUGUST 5, 2009

The US Department of Energy will dish out more than $327million for laboratory infrastructure projects, instrumentation and scientific research that will include fusion energy research, biofuels and the smart grid. Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory: $810,000 for fusion energy research.

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Green Car Congress

SEPTEMBER 18, 2015

The US Department of Energy announced up to $70 million in funding ( DE-FOA-0001263 ) for the next Clean Energy Manufacturing Innovation Institute, which will be focused on smart manufacturing. Background. The manufacturing sector converts raw materials, components, and parts into finished goods that meet market needs and expectations.

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Teslarati

NOVEMBER 16, 2023

Combining design excellence with spacious interiors and versatility, the Gravity is a fusion of aesthetics and utility from an exterior standpoint. “Gravity will take our customers farther with less batteries and therefore using less precious energy,” Rawlinson added regarding the new release.

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SEPTEMBER 27, 2021

We plugged it in five times, and despite an overall route that skewed more to long-distance highway travel than around-town errands, we managed to do 138 miles on grid electricity alone. Plug-in hybrids that never connect to the grid might as well not have a plug at all. Over five days, we put 276 miles on our test Wrangler 4xe.

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