CleanTechnica EVs

JUNE 29, 2022

Later this year, the vehicle test track at Rivian’s Normal, Illinois, facility is going to get something really cool: a wind turbine that’s hundreds of feet tall. The turbine is rated for 2.8 megawatts, and can generate up to 10 million kilowatt-hours (kWh) of electricity annually. Why do this?

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Electrek

MAY 5, 2021

Enel Green Power North America , headquartered in Andover, Massachusetts, has started construction on five new clean energy projects in the US. The new wind, solar, and hybrid projects announced today represent more than 1.5 The five new projects under construction in Texas, Illinois, and Oklahoma will generate over 4.1

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Green Car Congress

JANUARY 8, 2021

Now, a study by researchers at the US Department of Energy (DOE) Center for Advanced Bioenergy and Bioproducts Innovation (CABBI) has found that energy sorghum ( Sorghum bicolor ) behaves more like miscanthus in the way it efficiently captures light and uses water to produce abundant biomass. Energy sorghum falls somewhere in between.

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Teslarati

JUNE 17, 2022

Rivian R1 vehicles coming from the company’s Normal, Il plant will soon be delivered to customers with a battery fully charged from wind energy. This is due to the company’s plans to build a large-scale wind turbine at its Normal site. “To us, our job isn’t done when our vehicles come off the line.

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Green Car Congress

SEPTEMBER 10, 2023

Phil Ansell, an aerospace engineer at the University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign, modeled the life cycle carbon dioxide equivalent emissions of liquid hydrogen production required to meet the fuel needs of Chicago’s O’Hare International Airport (ORD) with today’s electric grid mix. Ansell presented his findings at AIAA Aviation 2023 in June.

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Teslarati

DECEMBER 5, 2022

Rivian has signed a power purchase agreement with Apex Clean Energy to supply their Normal, Illinois, manufacturing facility with wind power. Now, Rivian will invest an undisclosed amount of money into 50MW of wind energy that will supply the company’s operations in Normal, Illinois.

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Green Car Congress

MAY 3, 2021

The US Department of Energy (DOE) awarded $19 million for 13 projects in traditionally fossil-fuel-producing communities across the country to support production of rare earth elements and critical minerals essential to the manufacturing of batteries, magnets, and other components important to the clean energy economy.

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Green Car Congress

MAY 1, 2012

Large wind farms in certain areas in the United States appear to affect local land surface temperatures, according to a paper published in the journal Nature Climate Change. Night-time land surface temperature differences near wind farms between 2010 and 2013. Credit: Liming Zhou et al., Nature Climate Change. Click to enlarge.

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Green Car Congress

JUNE 10, 2016

Toyota Motor North America has awarded MP2 Energy, a full-service power company based in The Woodlands, Texas, a five-year retail electricity contract to provide 100% renewable energy solutions to Toyota’s new North American headquarters in Plano, Texas. The five-year deal also supports 7.75 The approximately 2.1

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Green Car Congress

DECEMBER 19, 2012

Invenergy LLC, a Chicago-based renewable energy generation company, and Xtreme Power, a provider of real-time power management and energy storage solutions, launched a joint venture to deploy a fast-acting energy storage system in Illinois. Xtreme Power’s 1.5

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Green Car Congress

MARCH 3, 2017

Scientists at Rice University, the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign and the University of Chile are proposing that quantum-controlled motion of nuclei, starting from the nanometer-size ground state of a molecule, can potentially overcome some of the difficulties of thermonuclear fusion by compression of a fuel pellet or in a bulk plasma.

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Green Car Congress

OCTOBER 31, 2019

Magna has been awarded a grant by the US Department of Energy to develop and ‘auto-qualify’ advanced electric motor technologies for next-generation vehicle propulsion systems. The project will integrate the exclusive electric motor technologies with a transmission and inverter as part of an overall e-drive system.

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Cars That Think

FEBRUARY 22, 2024

The deficit is driving up electricity prices, reducing grid reliability, and hobbling renewable energy deployment. Many Lines, Stable Power High-voltage transmission lines move large amounts of energy over long distances, linking power generation to consumption. Department of Energy reveals the severity of the problem.

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Green Car Congress

FEBRUARY 25, 2014

The Institute will achieve this through leadership in pre-competitive advanced research and partnerships across defense, aerospace, automotive, energy, and consumer products industries. performing metals and alloys by removing technological barriers to their manufacture. UTRC; Wolf Robotics. Digital Manufacturing And Design Innovation.

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Green Car Congress

JANUARY 23, 2012

OnStar and Google are working together to demonstrate a new OnStar service for managing the charging of Chevrolet Volts with renewable energy, using the 17 Chevrolet Volts in Google’s “Gfleet” based at the company’s headquarters in Mountain View, Calif. A mobile app could also be used to alert customers when renewable energy is available.

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Green Car Congress

NOVEMBER 25, 2009

The US Department of Energy is awarding $620 million for projects around the country to demonstrate advanced Smart Grid technologies and integrated systems. The selected projects include advanced battery systems (including flow batteries), flywheels, and compressed air energy systems.

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Green Car Congress

MARCH 10, 2011

an international maker of stator technology used in hybrid and electric automobiles, filed a $110-million lawsuit today in United States District Court for the Northern District of Illinois against Remy, Inc. Tecnomatic S.p.A. ,

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Green Car Congress

APRIL 2, 2019

The paper, published in Nature Sustainability , presents how researchers have estimated for the first time the health damages caused by corn production using detailed information on pollution emissions, pollution transport by wind, and human exposure to increased air pollution levels. a, Absolute mortality.

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Green Car Congress

SEPTEMBER 22, 2009

The US Department of Transportation (DOT) is awarding $100 million in Economic Recovery Act funding to 43 transit agencies for projects to reduce energy consumption and greenhouse gas emissions from both vehicles and facilities. Illinois Department of Transportation on behalf of seven transit agencies, Illinois: $4,030,000.

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Cars That Think

MAY 12, 2023

Adolf Goetzberger Photovoltaics pioneer Life Fellow, 94; died 24 February Goetzberger was an early proponent of solar energy technologies. Today solar is the third largest renewable-electricity sector behind hydropower and wind. He then served as president of the German Solar Energy Society (DGS) , from 1993 to 1997.

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Green Car Congress

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.

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Green Car Congress

JUNE 4, 2018

The US Department of Energy (DOE) will award up to $24 million in funding for 10 projects as part of a new Advanced Research Projects Agency-Energy (ARPA-E) program: Modeling-Enhanced Innovations Trailblazing Nuclear Energy Reinvigoration ( MEITNER ). GW by 2050.

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Baua Electric

MAY 10, 2024

The increase in global energy demands, diminution of fossil fuels , and its harmful effects on the environment have attracted the use of lignocellulosic biomass as an alternative sustainable source for chemicals, materials, and liquid fuels. Currently, biomass contributes 10% (5 x 10 -19 kJ) to global energy consumption.

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Green Car Congress

SEPTEMBER 3, 2020

The Advanced Research Projects Agency-Energy (APRA-E) will award $16.5 Project descriptions: University of Illinois – Urbana. The University of Illinois will develop a commercial solution, SYMFONI, to estimate soil organic carbon and the dynamics of nitrous oxide emissions at an individual field level.

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Green Car Congress

FEBRUARY 12, 2018

The US Department of Energy (DOE) announced up to $35 million for 24 projects to support early-stage, innovative technologies and solutions in advanced manufacturing. manufacturers that could improve their competitiveness and enhance their energy efficiency. Board of Trustees of the University of Illinois. 1,215,204.

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Cars That Think

MARCH 18, 2022

The electric truck and battery is considered a generation technology similar to rooftop solar and home energy battery storage, and in PG&E’s service area (which is northern California) Lightning owners with bidirectional charging to the home will need to apply for approval to connect charger to grid. Not so independent.

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Green Car Congress

JUNE 26, 2021

The US Department of Energy (DOE) announced more than $30 million in federal funding, matched by more than $35 million in private sector funds, for 68 projects that will accelerate the commercialization of promising energy technologies—ranging from clean energy and advanced manufacturing, to building efficiency and next-generation materials.

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Green Car Congress

OCTOBER 7, 2011

Now, University of Illinois chemical and biomolecular engineering professor Paul Kenis and his research group and researchers at startup Dioxide Materials report on the development of an electrocatalytic system that reduces CO 2 to carbon monoxide at overpotentials below 0.2 This is very energy. inefficient. intermediate, which then.

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Green Car Congress

JULY 21, 2009

The US Department of Energy delivered more than $47 million in funding under the American Recovery and Reinvestment Act for eight projects to further smart grid demonstration projects in seven states. Energy Secretary Chu also announced $10.5 Illinois Institute of Technology (IIT). Smart Grid System Report Annex A.

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Cars That Think

JUNE 27, 2022

This initiative is taking place in an environment where everyday citizens want to travel without causing emissions and are increasingly aware of the value of renewables and energy security. “We In the United States in 2011, the University of Delaware and the New Jersey–based utility NRG Energy signed a. This is good for the grid.

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Green Car Congress

AUGUST 29, 2009

The US Department of Energy (DOE) has selected national laboratory-led projects for up to $11 million this year, as well as future years, subject to annual appropriations, under DOE’s competitive laboratory solicitation for the development of Advanced Water Power Technologies. Earlier post.) DOE Marine and Hydrokinetic Technologies listing.

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Green Car Congress

JANUARY 29, 2016

Sandia National Laboratories researchers are working on a new design for 200-meter blades that could enable offshore 50MW wind turbines. Sandia’s work on extreme-scale Segmented Ultralight Morphing Rotor (SUMR) is funded by the Department of Energy’s (DOE) Advanced Research Projects Agency-Energy program.

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Green Car Congress

SEPTEMBER 30, 2011

The Department of Energy’s Advanced Research Projects Agency-Energy (ARPA-E) has selected 60 research projects for up to a combined $156 million in funding from the Fiscal Year 2011 budget. million in funds to approximately 120 energy projects within seven program areas. HEATS: High Energy Advanced Thermal Storage ($37.3

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Green Car Congress

OCTOBER 26, 2009

The Department of Energy (DOE) has selected 37 energy research projects for $151 million in funding through the recently formed Advanced Research Projects Agency-Energy (ARPA-E). The projects selected are grouped into 10 areas: Energy Storage (6 projects). Biomass Energy (5 projects). ENERGY STORAGE.

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Cars That Think

DECEMBER 24, 2023

Monique closes her EV’s fueling port and heads onto the highway with enough stored energy to drive 640 kilometers (400 miles). Nanoparticles add greatly to the energy density of the fuel of the flow battery, making it suitable for use in EVs. An example, she says, is the task of balancing energy flows in the power grid.

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Baua Electric

MARCH 25, 2024

Photo: Rondo Alcoholic drinks giant Diageo will replace natural gas-fired heat with Rondo Energy’s Heat Batteries at its production sites in Kentucky and Illinois. The US Department of Energy (DOE) has awarded the Diageo–Rondo Energy project up to $75 million. Get started here. –

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Cars That Think

DECEMBER 18, 2022

Another such machine, Aurora , is seemingly on track to be completed any day at Argonne National Laboratory in Illinois. Even as supercomputers get faster and larger, they must work harder to be more energy efficient. That’s especially important in Europe, which is enduring what may be a long, costly energy crisis.

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