Cars That Think

JUNE 12, 2023

The shipping containers, which house a Frankenstein-like assortment of machine parts—motors repurposed from Volvo truck engines, giant tanks of compressed air, huge silos of piping hot sand—are produced by a company called Cheesecake Energy. The compressed air, now cool and easier to store, is housed in a large air tank.

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Energy Storage Energy Molten Salt Grid 96

Green Car Congress

SEPTEMBER 22, 2019

In addition, around half the vehicles that will be on the road in 2030 have already been sold—most with gasoline or diesel engines. The Fischer-Tropsch process produces renewable synthetic fuels that can be used with today’s infrastructure and engines. Legacy vehicles will also have to play their part in cutting CO?

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Green Car Congress

FEBRUARY 27, 2012

A team of engineers from the University of Lincoln, with funding from the UK’s Engineering and Physical Sciences Research Council (EPSRC), has confirmed the feasibility of aircraft regenerate braking from the landing gear to provide power for taxiing to and from airport buildings, reducing the need to use jet engines.

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Green Car Congress

JULY 11, 2017

The basic engineering for the 40-million liter per year (10.6 LanzaTech’s first commercial facility converting waste emissions from steel production to ethanol will come online in China in late 2017.

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Green Car Congress

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. Biohydrogen Greenhouse Gas Removal Demonstration”.

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Green Car Congress

MAY 16, 2018

In Jawor (Poland), a new CO 2 -neutral engine plant is being built. The production hall uses renewable energy and reduces water consumption and waste significantly. However, today’s production grids are powered by alternating current—which has to be converted. The plant will start operating in 2019.

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Germany Mercedes CO2 Supplies 170

Green Car Congress

JANUARY 13, 2021

These new SCALEUP teams are receiving funding to support the scaling of high-risk and potentially disruptive new electric vehicle battery, data center efficiency, grid modernization, emissions mitigation, and storage technologies. Scaling Up Cost-Effective Grid Modernization – $8,560,000. Earlier post.) 24M Technologies, Inc.

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Clean Fleet Report

DECEMBER 29, 2022

It’s possible to construct off-grid charging stations, but they come with hassles, such as storing power when the sun doesn’t shine. Connecting to the grid allows businesses to sell back unused capacity, saving money and preventing wasting energy when surpluses occur. Retrofitting Woes.

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Green Car Congress

OCTOBER 16, 2014

LPG already provides our customers with a cleaner rural energy choice to the high-carbon fuel alternatives many are dependent on in off-grid areas. Neste Oil’s Rotterdam refinery primarily produces premium-quality renewable diesel (NExBTL) from various bio-based inputs and waste. Biopropane means this option will become even cleaner.

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Green Car Congress

MARCH 31, 2017

Instead, the excess electricity can be used to make hydrogen that can be integrated into existing natural gas pipeline infrastructure and stored for later use. This is a significant advantage over lithium ion batteries, which store energy for shorter time periods and will require extensive construction of battery systems and infrastructure.

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Green Car Congress

APRIL 17, 2014

Many hybrid vehicles waste energy when driving downhill, Mercedes says, because frequently the high-voltage battery has too high a charge at the wrong time to be able to store the additional recuperation energy thereby generated. miles) in advance. Controls and controllers Hybrids'

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Mercedes Hybrid Energy Store 246

Green Car Congress

APRIL 7, 2014

Main technology trends and the vision share of engines in Europe. Surplus electricity generated from renewables could be stored in batteries or could be converted via power-to-gas technology into synthetic methane (SNG), liquid fuels or hydrogen. Liquid Air technically does not store any energy, as energy has been removed to create it.

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Gas Energy Power Powered 246

Green Car Congress

FEBRUARY 7, 2014

Under the FOCUS program, projects will develop advanced solar converters that turn sunlight into electricity for immediate use, while also producing heat that can be stored at low cost for later use as well as innovative storage systems that accept both heat and electricity from variable solar sources. Earlier post.). MicroLink Devices.

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Green Car Congress

JULY 7, 2014

In China, where cities have been the engines of much of the country’s economic growth over the past decade, the government has launched the “Airborne Pollution Prevention and Control Action Plan” as it moves to safeguard the health of approximately 700 million people living in urban areas. Urban air quality management.

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Green Car Congress

APRIL 22, 2016

Frank (email: afrank@efficientdrivetrains.com) Dr. Frank is Professor Emeritus, Mechanical and Aeronautical Engineering at the University of California, Davis, where he established the Institute for Transportation Studies (ITS-Davis), and was director of the US Department of Energy’s National Center of Hybrid Excellence at UC Davis.

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Clean Cleaning Future Green 150

Green Car Congress

MAY 13, 2011

Starting in 2013, Audi will begin series production of TCNG models whose engines—derived from TFSI units—will be powered by e-gas: synthetic methane produced via the methanation of hydrogen produced by electrolysis using renewable electricity. Audi A3 TCNG for e-gas project. Click to enlarge.

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Drive Electric

MARCH 25, 2021

They are also much more efficient with the energy they do use compared to an internal combustion engine (ICE) vehicle. The UK also hopes to connect more and more EVs to the electricity grid to share power at peak times, in something called vehicle to grid charging (V2G). Are EVs suitable for business use?

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Electric Cars Cars Electric Electrical 98

Teslarati

JUNE 20, 2022

Thanks to their more spherical shape, they should also be more efficient, allowing future Starship tanks to store a bit more propellant while taking up the same amount of vertical space. Oddly, it is missing cutouts for grid fins, and the tank’s forward dome does not have the reaction frame those hypothetical grid fins would anchor to.

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Green Car Congress

APRIL 25, 2013

These structures would serve both as anchors to moor the floating turbines and as a means of storing the energy they produce. The key to this Ocean Renewable Energy Storage (ORES) system is the placement of 30-meter-diameter hollow concrete spheres on the seafloor under the wind turbines. Earlier post.).

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Green Car Congress

MARCH 11, 2010

The awards are being made to companies and universities across New York that are involved in advanced research and development of energy storage applications that could benefit transportation, utility Smart Grid applications, renewable energy technologies, and other industries. Murray, Jr., Ultralife Corporation. Technology Development: $3.2

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Cars That Think

JUNE 29, 2023

But here, and in an even more anonymous office park nearby, startup Zap Energy is trialing a prototype reactor that is already producing high-energy neutrons from nuclear fusion—if not yet enough to send power back into the grid. Zap’s capacitor bank will store 1.5 Workers construct banks of capacitors at Helion Energy.

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Setec Powerr

DECEMBER 5, 2022

A critical issue in decarbonization will also be the role of the electrical grid itself. We need off-grid and on-grid solutions. In the last two decades of the 20th century, we identified thousands of toxic waste dumps and worked to ensure that people were not in the pathways of exposure to poison.

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Renewable Energy Fuel New York City 98

Get Electric Vehicle

JUNE 7, 2023

An electric vehicle is a type of vehicle that uses one or more electric motors for propulsion instead of an internal combustion engine that runs on fossil fuels like gasoline or diesel. Electric vehicles are powered by electricity stored in rechargeable batteries or obtained from other sources such as hydrogen fuel cells.

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Electric Vehicles Vehicles Electric Electrical 52

Green Car Congress

FEBRUARY 18, 2015

Cold temperatures, on the other hand, are particularly disadvantageous for BEVs, since vehicles with internal combustion engines can use engine waste heat for cabin heating, whereas in BEVs heat must be generated using limited onboard stored electrical energy. —Yuksel and Michalek.

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Emissions Range Grid Nissan 150

Green Car Congress

AUGUST 29, 2009

The funding from A*STAR’s Science and Engineering Research Council (SERC) will support research teams from A*STAR research institutes and local institutes of higher learning to develop solutions to manage environmental deterioration, pressures on natural resources and climate change brought on by rapid growth and urbanization.

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Cars That Think

NOVEMBER 12, 2022

The field included startups that aim to improve battery technology and solve the battery materials problem, coordinate energy flow from home and car batteries to the grid and back again, gather and use data for energy and carbon management, improve solar cell efficiency, and recycle agricultural waste. There are 2.6

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Climate Hydrogen Los Angeles Climate Change 92

Green Car Congress

NOVEMBER 4, 2010

KTSi trackside flywheel systems provide voltage support to overtaxed sections of electric rail systems, eliminating slowdowns, as well as capturing, storing and reusing the regenerative braking energy of rail cars. Kinetic Traction was formed earlier this year in the wake of the collapse of advanced flywheel energy storage company Pentadyne.

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Green Car Congress

MARCH 1, 2013

The engine is based on the new 1.4 If the pressure in the tank drops below 10 bar, the engine management system automatically switches over to gasoline operation. After refueling, and whenever it is very cold, the engine is started with gasoline initially, then it is switched over to natural gas as quickly as possible.

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Charged EVs

DECEMBER 13, 2022

By cutting red tape and avoiding costs for construction and electrical work, combined with free solar energy, Beam Global says its EV ARC systems can offer customers a lower total cost of ownership compared to grid-tied charging stations. This may well be the case with the EV ARC, a solar-powered off-grid charging station made by Beam Global.

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Grid Solar Charging Power 143

Green Car Congress

AUGUST 16, 2013

James Clark School of Engineering, are the foundation of a system being commercialized by Redox that provides safe, efficient, reliable, uninterrupted power, on–site and optionally off the grid, at a price competitive with current energy sources. Redox Chief Technology Officer Bryan Blackburn presents the PowerSERG 2-80 “Cube”.

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Maryland Commercial Transportation Fuel 296

Green Car Congress

MARCH 27, 2014

They also note that large-scale production of synthetic fuels or hydrogen from coal or gas offers the potential for GHG emissions reduction—but only if CO 2 can be captured and stored. Beyond 2020, greater engine efficiency gains are predicted for CNG vehicles—WTW GHG emissions will approach those of diesel.

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Green Car Congress

FEBRUARY 5, 2009

Hydrogen produced by water electrolysis has the potential to be a useful means of storing excess electricity generated using wind, solar, and other intermittent renewable energy. Analysis of excess and/or waste hydrogen sources. Integrated renewable hydrogen systems and public-private community-based partnerships.

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Congress Hydrogen Market Fuel 150

Green Car Congress

MAY 9, 2013

liquid air) Dearman piston engine. Source: Dearman Engine Company. A new new forum for the advocacy and development of liquid air as an alternative technology to harness waste and surplus energy within power and transport—the Liquid Air Energy Network (LAEN)—has formed in the UK. Click to enlarge.

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Green Car Congress

JUNE 4, 2014

Dearman liquid air engine in a TRU system. The Dearman Engine Company has signed a Memorandum of Understanding with Hubbard Products Ltd to manage the vehicle integration of the Dearman engine liquid air transport refrigeration system (TRU) ( earlier post ). This can be used to drive an engine. Click to enlarge.

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Cars That Think

JANUARY 26, 2023

That’s according to 2023 IEEE President Saifur Rahman , who was among the speakers from engineering organizations at the COP27 event held in Egypt in November. Rahman, a power expert and professor of electrical and computer engineering at Virginia Tech , is the former chair of the IEEE ad hoc committee on climate change.

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Climate Change Climate Coal Grid 95

Baua Electric

MARCH 28, 2024

For now we’ll estimate about 14 kwh dedicated to plugging in; but engineers cautioned that will vary. Simply put, wafer-like layers host and harness a chemical reaction between oxygen and hydrogen, producing electricity, waste heat, and some water vapor. kwh toward energy buffering for the fuel cell, which doesn’t ramp up instantly.

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Cars That Think

SEPTEMBER 16, 2023

A microgrid is like a miniaturized, tightly controlled version of a power grid. To that end, engineers at the U.S. Such networked microgrids can be isolated for longer periods from the main grid, which is crucial during long-term outages caused by severe weather and other natural disasters. percent to 2.8 megawatts to 224.6

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