Green Car Congress

JANUARY 16, 2021

The US Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) announced the availability of grant funding to implement projects which reduce emissions from the nation’s existing fleet of older diesel engines. Region 7 (Iowa, Kansas, Missouri, Nebraska will accept applications requesting up to $1,500,000 in grant funds.

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Electric Auto Association

OCTOBER 4, 2022

Eastern Nebraska Electric Vehicle Association (EVNEBRASKA) member Dr. Donald Cox likes to draw a comparison between electric vehicles (EVs) and the wireless phone technology he worked on at Bell Labs in the early 1970’s. “I I constructed the curriculum with another professor in the engineering school,” he said. Sound familiar?”

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Green Car Congress

OCTOBER 12, 2009

A study of flex-fuel vehicles operating on different ethanol blends (E10, E20, E30, and E85) found that higher ethanol blend ratios provide better energy conversion within the engine. The research was funded in part by the Nebraska Corn Board and through the Hatch Act (University of Nebraska Agricultural Research Division).

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Green Car Congress

JANUARY 26, 2018

One type of stacking fault, called a 9R phase, is particularly promising, said Xinghang Zhang, a professor in Purdue University’s School of Materials Engineering and the corresponding author of the Advanced Materials paper. Meanwhile, “twin boundaries” consisting of two layers of stacking faults can form. Sichuang Xue, Zhe Fan, Olawale B.

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Green Car Congress

OCTOBER 14, 2019

The states of Ohio, Michigan, Indiana, Wisconsin, Illinois, Minnesota, Iowa, Missouri, North and South Dakota, Nebraska and Kansas are home to a quarter of the US population and consume 30% of electric power generated in the US.

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EV Central

FEBRUARY 11, 2024

Researchers from the US university of Nebraska-Lincoln have made a shocking discovery that a modern highway’s guardrail and concrete block road partitions are not strong enough to withstand the impact of a large battery-electric pick-up truck travelling at 60mph (97km/h). appeared first on EV Central.

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Green Car Congress

SEPTEMBER 21, 2015

To advance research in nanoscale science, engineering and technology, the National Science Foundation (NSF) will provide a total of $81 million over five years to support 16 sites and a coordinating office as part of a new National Nanotechnology Coordinated Infrastructure (NNCI). Stanford Site, Stanford University, PI: Kathryn Moler.

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Green Car Congress

JULY 27, 2018

Researchers at the University of Nebraska-Lincoln (UNL), with colleagues from North Carolina State University and the University of Connecticut, have engineered the hyperthermophilic anaerobe Thermotoga maritima to produce 46% more hydrogen per cell than the wild type. The team’s highest reported yield—5.7

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Green Car Congress

AUGUST 6, 2009

BorgWarner VTG turbochargers are the first to help industrial diesel engines for the off-highway market meet new emissions regulations while improving fuel economy. diesel engines for agricultural, construction, forestry and OEM applications. Click to enlarge. Powered by the PowerTech Plus 9.0L

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Cars That Think

JANUARY 8, 2024

The award is sponsored by the IEEE Engineering in Medicine and Biology Society. But during her first year at the University of Nebraska–Lincoln , she took a physics class and fell in love with the field thanks to her professor, she says. in 1990, she joined the University of Texas at Austin as a professor of biomedical engineering.

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Green Car Congress

JULY 27, 2012

TransCanada Corporation has received the final of three key permits needed from the US Army Corps of Engineers in order to advance the 485-mile (780-kilometer) Gulf Coast Project. TransCanada also continues to work with the Nebraska Department of Environmental Quality to finalize a route. Earlier post.)

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Green Car Congress

SEPTEMBER 8, 2023

The number of EVs on the road versus internal combustion engine vehicles – EV fleet share. The bottom overall US states in the HERE – SBD Automotive EV Index: (42) Wisconsin (43) Indiana (44) Louisiana (45) Kentucky (46) Texas (47) Nebraska (48) Tennessee (49) Idaho (50) Arkansas (51) Alaska.

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Green Car Congress

AUGUST 28, 2018

violaceus plant’s biology and genetic makeup, researchers at Huazhong Agricultural University in Wuhan, China, and the University of Nebraska-Lincoln noticed the February orchid seed oils were unusual. The Orychophragmus violaceus plant is a purple flower native to China; it’s commonly referred to as the February orchid.

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Green Car Congress

JANUARY 22, 2021

Regionally, satisfaction with the availability of public charging infrastructure is highest in the West (616) and lowest in the West North Central region (563), which includes Iowa, Kansas, Minnesota, Missouri, Nebraska, North Dakota and South Dakota.

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Green Car Congress

FEBRUARY 26, 2016

The US Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) announced the availability of $26 million in grant funding to establish clean diesel projects aimed at reducing emissions from the US’ existing fleet of diesel engines. Grant funds may be used for clean diesel projects that use: EPA-verified retrofit technologies or certified engine configurations.

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Green Car Congress

JUNE 18, 2012

The three additional facilities are Little Sioux Corn Processors of Marcus, Iowa; Granite Falls Energy LLC of Granite Falls, Minnesota; and Siouxland Ethanol of Jackson, Nebraska. is the leading biofuels engineering, procurement and construction contractor, having built six billion gallons of annual production globally. Fagen, Inc.

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Green Car Congress

FEBRUARY 24, 2014

Researchers are engineering sugarcane into a more productive, oil-producing plant that can grow in cooler climes. Using genetic engineering, the researchers increased photosynthetic efficiency in sugarcane and sorghum by 30%, Long said. These are the first steps in a larger research initiative— supported by $3.2 —Stephen P.

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Green Car Congress

AUGUST 18, 2015

As reported in a paper in Plant Biotechnology Journal , this successful metabolic engineering and subsequent field production of the modified camelina crop marked the highest accumulation of the unusual oil achieved so far in transgenic plants. One of the team’s goals is to make commercial products using oils from the engineered plants.

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Green Car Congress

AUGUST 1, 2020

MicroBio Engineering, Inc. University of Nebraska - Lincoln. ASU’s Polymer-enhanced Cyanobacterial Bioproductivity (AUDACity). University of California - San Diego. Biomolecular Films for Direct Air Capture of CO 2. Microalgae Commodities Production with a Direct Air Capture Process. Lumen Bioscience, Incorporated. 2,035,602.

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Green Car Congress

OCTOBER 28, 2009

Tenneco will use the proceeds of the loan to design, engineer and produce emission control components for gas, hybrid and diesel-powered vehicle engines. The Advanced Technology Vehicles Manufacturing Loan Program is an open process designed to promote the development of fuel efficient advanced technology vehicles.

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Green Car Congress

FEBRUARY 1, 2017

The Urban Air Initiative (UAI), the Energy Future Coalition and the states of Kansas and Nebraska have petitioned the US Environmental Protection Agency to correct what they call the agency’s flawed models that limit the use of higher blends of ethanol. —Steven Vander Griend.

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Green Car Congress

MAY 31, 2017

Results have contributed to standards development at international bodies like the Society of Automotive Engineers (SAE). Another study, in collaboration with the Mind & Brain Health Labs at the University of Nebraska Medical Center, deployed real-time glucose monitoring systems in drivers with insulin-dependent diabetes.

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Green Car Congress

MAY 11, 2016

We have used this system to create and test over 70 genetic parts and devices including: origins of replication, improved broad-host-range plasmids, homology regions for chromosome engineering, antibiotic markers, and functional devices for gene expression.

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Green Car Congress

JANUARY 8, 2010

This facility will house energy research efforts including, but not limited to, studies of high efficiency combustion engines, biomass gasification kinetics, biochemical-enzymatic conversion of biomass, and carbon dioxide capture from sources including power plants and combustion engines; $10.3 for a nanoscience metrology facility; $6.9

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Cars That Think

NOVEMBER 15, 2023

Last March, Tesla’s director of power-train engineering caused a minor commotion by declaring that the company’s “next drive unit” included a permanent-magnet motor that would “not use any rare-earth elements at all.” GM isn’t the only automaker on a hunt for rare-earth-free permanent magnets.

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Green Car Congress

NOVEMBER 2, 2009

He will coordinate a team of chemists, material scientists, physicists, and engineers from the University of Delaware; University of Nebraska; Northeastern University; Virginia Commonwealth University; the US Department of Energy’s Ames Laboratory at Iowa State University, in Ames, Iowa; and the Electron Energy Corporation in Landisville, Pa.

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Green Car Congress

AUGUST 23, 2010

The analyses could be important for comparative studies with other oilseed crops, and could also allow for genetic engineering of castor bean to produce oil without ricin. They analyzed important metabolic pathways and regulatory genes involved in the production and storage of oils in the castor bean. Chan, Ph.D.,

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Cars That Think

JUNE 30, 2022

More than 150 public libraries throughout the central United States now lend out activity kits that let children explore just about any aspect of science, technology, engineering, and mathematics. The kits teach youngsters what engineers do, as well as how to code, build robots, design video games, and create animations.

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Cars That Think

SEPTEMBER 7, 2021

Compute North has operations in Texas, Nebraska and South Dakota, and is expanding rapidly to cope with demand, says Perrill, but all of their space is booked out until the second quarter of next year. To me, that is a huge testament to the architecture and the engineering and the foresight of the Bitcoin network."

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Green Car Congress

FEBRUARY 25, 2014

Boeing; Caron Engineering Inc.; The winning consortium, led by UI Labs and headquartered in Chicago, Illinois includes the following members: 41 Companies: 3D Systems; ANSYS; Autodesk; Big Kaiser Precision Tooling Inc.; Caterpillar; CG Tech; Cincinnati Inc.;

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Green Car Congress

JULY 18, 2012

million investment in three university-led projects, helping to train and educate the next generation of nuclear energy scientists and engineers. Nebraska (Massachusetts Institute of Technology; Texas A&M). Additionally, the Energy Department announced today a $1.6 Project will develop and demonstrate a. fabrication process.

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Blink Charging

OCTOBER 6, 2023

As both EV adoption increases and internal combustion engine vehicles have become more fuel efficient, states are seeking to offset lost revenue from the gas tax. Just as conventional internal combustion engine (ICE) cars measure fuel by the gallon, EV owners measure their energy consumption in kWh.

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Green Car Congress

JULY 7, 2023

The Elk Creek Project is centered within one 640-acre section of all private land 105 km southeast of Lincoln, Nebraska. Niobium also is a component of superalloys used in nearly all jet engines and power generation turbines. Scandium Trioxide (Sc 2 O 3 ): An average of 102 tpa of scandium trioxide.

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Green Car Congress

OCTOBER 29, 2020

The selected projects will complete (1) design development; (2) host site evaluation and an environmental information volume; (3) an investment case analysis; and (4) a system integration design study to advance the design of an engineering-scale prototype.

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Green Cars News

OCTOBER 26, 2009

Lightweight Thermal Energy Recovery System: A grant of $2,655,174 will help General Motors to develop a shape memory alloy energy recovery system that converts waste heat from car engines to electricity. The aim is to deliver power from batteries to electric motors with up to 50 per cent more efficiency.

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Green Car Congress

JUNE 17, 2012

The National Academy of Sciences, National Academy of Engineering, Institute of Medicine, and National Research Council make up the National Academies. —“Induced Seismicity Potential in Energy Technologies”. The study was sponsored by the US Department of Energy.

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Cars That Think

AUGUST 12, 2023

Representation in computer science and computer engineering is critical,” Nita Patel , the society’s president, said in a news release about the fund’s creation. Supporting the next generation of engineers These are the eight winning proposals: Inland Empire data science workshops. Each program will receive US $5,000 to $15,000.

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