Green Car Congress

MAY 20, 2023

The Bridgestone Turanza EV tire is the first replacement market tire in North America to feature ENLITEN technology ( earlier post ), which is engineered to help optimize all-season performance, provide longer wear life, and allow for the incorporation of renewable and recycled materials in its tire products.

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Green Car Congress

OCTOBER 3, 2013

BASF is investing $25 million in renovating and expanding its research and development (R&D) facility in Beachwood, Ohio. The existing battery materials research team was established in 2009 to focus on advanced materials for lithium-ion batteries in advance of the opening in 2012 of a new materials production facility in nearby Elyria, Ohio.

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Green Car Congress

OCTOBER 25, 2018

SAE Level 2 automation refers to a vehicle that combines automated functions, like acceleration and steering, but the driver must remain engaged with the driving task and monitor the environment at all times. The Ohio State University. The participating universities include: Colorado State University. Georgia Tech. McMaster University.

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Green Car Congress

JULY 12, 2013

NASA and Aerojet Rocketdyne recently finished testing a rocket engine injector made through additive manufacturing (also called 3-D printing). Liquid oxygen/gaseous hydrogen rocket injector assembly built using additive manufacturing technology is hot-fire tested at NASA Glenn Research Center’s Rocket Combustion Laboratory in Cleveland, Ohio.

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Green Car Congress

MARCH 22, 2022

Honda opened its new $124-million wind tunnel facility in Ohio, ushering in a new era of development testing capabilities for Honda and Acura products, as well as the company’s race vehicles. The new Honda Automotive Laboratories of Ohio (HALO) facility, located at the independent Transportation Research Center Inc. Investment.

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Green Car Congress

JULY 11, 2018

The results of this open-access study are published in the International Journal of Energy and Environmental Engineering. A Greyrock Flare Gas-to-Fuels conversion process at an Ohio oil well was used as the base case for this LCA. Tan, E.C.D., Schuetzle, D.,

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Teslarati

JUNE 5, 2022

billion to add over 6,200 union jobs to its manufacturing plants in Michigan, Ohio, and Missouri. The legacy OEM also plans to invest another $1 billion in the next five years to improve the workplace environment in its factories based in the United States. Ohio: Ford plans to invest $1.5 Ford plans to invest $3.7

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Green Car Congress

MARCH 5, 2023

It features the flexibility to change the layout of the fuel cell units to suit the installation environment and to accommodate cubic, L-shaped, Z-shaped, and other packaging configurations. The company has been developing hydrogen technologies and fuel cell vehicles for more than 30 years.

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Green Car Congress

DECEMBER 27, 2011

Simulations of pulsing vortex generating jets, a type of flow control device, created on Ohio Supercomputer Center systems. Researchers at the Ohio State University led by Dr. Jen-Ping Chen are working to improve the computational fluid dynamics (CFD) software that engineers use to simulate and evaluate the operation of turbomachinery.

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Green Car Congress

FEBRUARY 11, 2013

An Ohio State University team has demonstrated the successful operation of Coal-Direct Chemical Looping (CDCL)—which chemically harnesses coal’s energy and efficiently contains the carbon dioxide produced before it can be released into the atmosphere. The technology is now ready for testing at a larger scale.

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Cars That Think

JUNE 28, 2023

That was the case for Melba Crawford , who as a teenager couldn’t wait to leave her family’s farm in Illinois to pursue an engineering career. Crawford is a professor of civil engineering, agronomy, and electrical and computer engineering at Purdue University , in West Lafayette, Ind. She then pursued a Ph.D.

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Green Car Congress

OCTOBER 31, 2013

GE Aviation, in collaboration with the University of Cincinnati Research Institute (UCRI), has created the GE Aviation Research Center at the company’s world headquarters in Evendale, Ohio. The scope of this agreement marks a first in Ohio between a leading aerospace company and a leading university research institute.

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Green Car Congress

SEPTEMBER 10, 2018

Motiv Power Systems all-electric/zero-emissions EPIC chassis, removing the need to idle an engine. Winnebago anticipates the ROI of eMLU vehicles compared to internal combustion engine versions to be as little as three years. Enough charge for eight hours of service plus round-trip travel to and from its home facility.

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Green Car Congress

MAY 24, 2012

The plan marks the latest milestone in a multi-year endeavor to find ways to make the military more energy efficient, said Katherine Hammack, the assistant secretary of the Army for installations, energy and environment, and Terry Yonkers, the assistant secretary of the Air Force for installations, environment and logistics.

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Green Car Congress

JUNE 12, 2009

Basic rendering of an open rotor engine. Following several months refurbishing a special NASA test rig, GE Aviation and NASA this summer will begin a wind-tunnel test program to evaluate counter-rotating fan-blade systems for open rotor jet engine designs. Source: GE. Click to enlarge. Earlier post.). The refurbished NASA test rig.

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Green Car Congress

AUGUST 12, 2015

Energy Industries of Ohio. The Ohio State University. The Ohio State University will partner with Babcock & Wilcox, Tech4Imaging, and American Electric Power to develop an advanced autonomous control architecture and imaging and optimization sensor for the Ohio State chemical looping process. Ohio University.

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Green Car Congress

MARCH 20, 2014

Scientists and engineers at Johnson Controls will work with both Fraunhofer’s Institute for Environmental, Safety and Energy Technology (UMSICHT) and with its Institute for Manufacturing Technology and Advanced Materials (IFAM). —MaryAnn Wright, vice president of Engineering and Product Development for Johnson Controls Power Solutions.

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Green Car Congress

MARCH 12, 2021

Launched in 2016, ARPA-E’s NEXTCAR program focuses on reducing vehicle energy consumption by developing Connected and Automated Vehicle (CAV) technologies that optimize vehicle dynamic controls and powertrain operation, allowing a vehicle to automatically process and react to its surrounding environment, traffic conditions and nearby vehicles.

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Electric Auto Association

NOVEMBER 4, 2021

Drive Electric Dayton Systems Map of 2021 EV Environment. They are all connected in common cause to accelerate the adoption of EVs, either due to the belief that EVs are simply better than internal combustion engine (ICE) vehicles, or because EV adoption would, on balance, reduce carbon emissions and help tackle climate change.

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Green Car Congress

AUGUST 25, 2016

The newest technology resulting from such research, Sport Hybrid Super Handling All-Wheel Drive (Sport Hybrid SH-AWD), was adopted for the all-new NSX to pursue the new joy of driving made possible by a high-level response and handling performance that are difficult to be achieved solely by an engine.

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Green Car Congress

JULY 17, 2020

Rationally Designed Lithium Ion Batteries Towards Displacing Internal Combustion Engines. AOI 04: Platinum Group Metals (PGM) Content Reduction to Enable Cost-Effective Aftertreatment for Gasoline and Diesel Engines. Greatly Reduced Vehicle Platinum Group Metals Content Using Engineered, Highly Dispersed Precious Metal Catalysts.

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Green Car Congress

JANUARY 13, 2015

The high performance hybrid features a new twin-turbocharged 75-degree DOHC V6 engine with an Acura-designed 9-speed dual clutch transmission (DCT) and three-electric motor Sport Hybrid system, all integrated with an ultra-rigid and lightweight multi-material body with world’s-first material applications and manufacturing processes.

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Green Car Congress

JUNE 17, 2021

Key factors changing the decision landscape include strong public reaction to the GMC HUMMER EV and HUMMER EV SUV, the Cadillac LYRIQ and the Chevrolet Silverado electric pickup; GM and dealer investments in the EV customer experience; public and private investment in EV charging infrastructure; and the global policy environment.

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Green Car Congress

FEBRUARY 17, 2011

The letter to House Speaker John Boehner (R-Ohio) and Minority Leader Nancy Pelosi (D-Calif.), The amendment is necessary to protect consumers and the environment and deserves your strong support. Protection of the environment and the nation’s motorists must take precedence over the politics of biofuels.

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Green Car Congress

NOVEMBER 3, 2016

Connected and automated vehicle (CAV) technology utilizes on-board or cloud-based sensors, data and computational capabilities to help a vehicle better process and react to its surrounding environment. The GM team draws on experience in engine technologies and connected and autonomous vehicles to expedite the project development process.

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Green Car Congress

JULY 16, 2012

Testing was performed at Battelle’s High Energy Research Laboratory in West Jefferson, Ohio, as well as at vehicle crash facilities in Texas and Ohio. One of the important elements in any of these systems is the vehicle duty cycle—the service environment for the vehicle. Denny Stephens.

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Green Car Congress

JUNE 7, 2012

Engines such as those found in integrated gasification combined cycle (IGCC) power plants and fueled by coal-derived syngas generally operate at higher temperatures than their natural-gas-fired counterparts. Texas Engineering Experiment Station. Ohio State University. (DOE Share: $293,519). Brown University.

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Electric Auto Association

NOVEMBER 12, 2021

Drive Electric Dayton Systems Map of 2021 EV Environment. They are all connected in common cause to accelerate the adoption of EVs, either due to the belief that EVs are simply better than internal combustion engine (ICE) vehicles, or because EV adoption would, on balance, reduce carbon emissions and help tackle climate change.

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Green Car Congress

AUGUST 20, 2009

Researchers at Ohio State University and Shanghai Institute of Plant Physiology and Ecology, Chinese Academy of Sciences, have developed a method that can double the output of biobutanol compared to conventional bacterial fermentation through the use of a new strain of bacteria and a new bioreactor.

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Green Car Congress

FEBRUARY 26, 2013

Battelle staff developed the new Grid Command Distribution software internally as part of its work over the past two years as part of an ongoing smart grid demonstration project in Ohio: AEP Ohio’s gridSMART program, sponsored by the DOE. This is [also] used for the analysis afterward. —Jason Black, a Research Leader at Battelle.

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Green Car Congress

JULY 10, 2019

High-fidelity ignition models to boost engine thermal efficiency, $720,000 Convergent Science Inc., Advanced Flow Meter for Extreme Environments (AFMEE), $100,000 MicroNuclear LLC, Franklin, Tenn. Development of low-cost magnetocaloric materials, $150,000 General Engineering and Research, L.L.C., Madison, Wis. El Centro, Calif.

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Green Car Congress

FEBRUARY 16, 2018

Phase II (Design) selected projects will complete a front-end engineering design study and complete the National Environmental Policy Act process. The FEED will include technologies for lowering sulfur oxide and nitrogen oxide emissions to allow for operating the diesel engine on. syngas.DOE: $15,908 Non-DOE: $3,978 Total: $19,886.

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Green Car Congress

OCTOBER 13, 2009

The four GM plants include Flint Engine South, Flint Metal Center, Flint Tool & Die and Grand Blanc Weld Tool Center. four-cylinder engine generator for the Volt and the 1.4L four-cylinder turbo engine for the Cruze. four-cylinder engine generator for the Volt and the 1.4L four-cylinder turbo engine for the Cruze.

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Green Car Congress

JANUARY 11, 2013

Awardees must pursue projects that integrate science and engineering research in three areas: feedstocks development, biofuels and biobased products development, and biofuels and bioproducts development analysis. Ohio State University, $6,510,183.

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Cars That Think

JUNE 9, 2023

Evans and Sutherland, then computer science professors at the University of Utah, wanted to expand on the use of such tools by finding a way for computers to simulate objects and environments. In 1968 they founded Evans and Sutherland, locating the E&S headquarters in the university’s research park. thesis in 1963 at MIT.

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Green Car Congress

SEPTEMBER 3, 2020

Under the first FOA (DE-FOA-0002187), Capture Research and Development (R&D): Engineering Scale Testing from Coal- and Natural-Gas-Based Flue Gas and Initial Engineering Design for Industrial Sources, DOE selected nine projects to receive $51 million for cost-shared R&D. LH CO 2 MENT Colorado Project.

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Green Car Congress

JUNE 19, 2014

Importantly, many of the risks identified in the literature thus far appear possible to mitigate with increased engineering controls during well construction and alternative water-management or water-disposal options to alleviate the impact of shale-gas development on water resources. —Vengosh et al.

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