Green Car Congress

SEPTEMBER 26, 2022

million research center, led by Michigan Engineering and funded by the US Department of Energy, will focus on understanding an emerging branch of science involving mechanical and chemical phenomena that affect advanced battery designs. —Jeff Sakamoto, professor of mechanical engineering at U-M and director of the new center.

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Green Car Congress

JANUARY 21, 2014

Researchers at the University of Texas at Austin’s Cockrell School of Engineering have rewired the native metabolism of the yeast Yarrowia lipolytica for superior production of lipids (lipogenesis). Traditional methods to increase lipids yield rely on nitrogen starvation to trick yeast cells into storing fat and materials.

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Green Car Congress

DECEMBER 1, 2020

The other circumvents the difficulties by storing magnesium cation in its complex forms. This new class of redox chemistry bypasses the need of solid-state intercalation while solely storing magnesium, instead of its complex forms, creating a new paradigm in magnesium battery electrode design. Neither approach is practical.

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Green Car Congress

JULY 2, 2015

Duke Energy, Samsung SDI and Younicos are partnering to update Duke Energy’s 36-megawatt (MW) energy storage and power management system at the company’s Notrees Windpower Project in west Texas. By rapidly storing or releasing energy, the system can respond quickly to regulate frequency and provide additional services for grid management.

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Green Car Congress

APRIL 7, 2016

Now, a team led by researchers from Texas A&M AgriLife Research has identified the first committed step in the biosynthesis of hydrocarbon oil in B. The green microalga Botryococcus braunii is considered a promising biofuel feedstock producer due to its prodigious accumulation of hydrocarbon oils that can be converted into fuels.

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Teslarati

JUNE 15, 2023

Tesla Energy is working to launch a virtual power plant (VPP) in Puerto Rico, Senior Vice President of Energy Engineering and Powertrain Drew Baglino said. It allowed owners to earn money by contributing stored energy through their Powerwalls to provide grid services. Coming to Texas Tesla Electric customers soon!

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Green Car Congress

OCTOBER 22, 2009

The Department of Energy (DOE) recently awarded The University of Texas at El Paso grants totaling nearly $1.3 million for research to improve the efficiency of engines and creating technologies for detecting, capturing and storing carbon emissions. Assistant Professor of Mechanical Engineering Chintalapalle V.

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Cars That Think

SEPTEMBER 21, 2023

Using a new kind of hydrogel material, researchers at the University of Texas at Austin have pulled water out of thin air at temperatures low enough to be achieved with sunlight. The gel’s thermoreactive nature, meanwhile, is key for releasing the stored water. Atmospheric water harvesting draws water from humidity in the air.

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Green Car Congress

JULY 31, 2014

Unlike other devices, the team’s is the first to utilize oxygen anions (negatively-charged ions) instead of cations (positive ions) to store its energy. The device uses a perovskite material (LaMnO 3 ), a structure containing vacant sites where oxygen anions can be stored, making these advancements a possibility.

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Green Car Congress

APRIL 22, 2019

Yan Yao, associate professor of electrical and computer engineering at the University of Houston and corresponding author of the paper, said the organic cathode—known as PTO, for pyrene-4,5,9,10-tetraone—offers unique advantages over previous inorganic cathodes. Credit: University of Houston.

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Cars That Think

DECEMBER 30, 2021

No battery is perfect, however, so engineers keep pushing for new and improved ways to store those electrons. The gravity batteries described in this story lift giant weights in the air or up mine shafts to store excess electricity, releasing the weights later on to recover the stored energy.

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Teslarati

JULY 13, 2021

A SpaceX Super Heavy booster prototype has survived its first major test seemingly without issue, potentially opening the door for a static fire test with several Raptor engines as early as this week. The booster completed Monday’s testing with one Raptor installed, while the most engines ever tested simultaneously is three.

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Cars That Think

JUNE 16, 2022

Rao was a professor of electrical engineering at the. University of Texas at Arlington for more than 50 years. Hwang is a professor of IT convergence and communication engineering at. is a professor of electrical engineering, also at the University of Belgrade. College of Engineering, Guindy , in Chennai, India.

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Green Car Congress

AUGUST 23, 2013

The fuel cells will do the work normally done by a small diesel engine, which keeps the cargo at the proper temperature while the trucks are making deliveries. Each of the four trucks will still be equipped with a main diesel engine that actually powers the truck. This is a great application for a fuel cell. —Kriston Brooks.

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Green Car Congress

JULY 22, 2011

Summit Power Group, LLC and Blue Strategies, LLC have signed a 15-year CO 2 offtake agreement with Whiting Petroleum Corporation for some of the CO 2 that will be captured by Summit’s Texas Clean Energy Project ( TCEP ), a coal gasification with carbon capture polygen project being developed in Penwell, Texas, outside Odessa.

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Green Car Congress

JANUARY 21, 2013

John Goodenough at the University of Texas at Austin and colleague Kyu-Sung Park have written a perspective paper on Li-ion batteries (LIBs), published in the Journal of the American Chemical Society. More recently, at the University of Texas, Austin, Dr. Goodenough patented a new class of iron phosphate materials. Earlier post.).

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Green Car Congress

FEBRUARY 3, 2020

The new electrode concept comes from the laboratory of Ju Li, the Battelle Energy Alliance Professor of Nuclear Science and Engineering and professor of materials science and engineering. The expanding and contracting lithium inside these tubes moves in and out, sort of like a car engine’s pistons inside their cylinders.

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Teslarati

APRIL 15, 2021

testing windows) active – an exceedingly rare occurrence in Boca Chica, Texas. Instead of testing SN15’s main tanks, though, the second round focused on Starship’s secondary header tanks – meant to store propellant specifically for landing. Assuming SpaceX wants to continue testing as soon as possible (i.e.

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Clean Fleet Report

MAY 22, 2022

Buying an EV is relatively easy, if a bit more expensive than an internal combustion engine car or truck, but that might not be the case in the future. Even beer disappeared from store shelves as companies contended with an aluminum shortage. How will material scarcity affect EV production moving forward? Missing Some Basic Materials.

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Green Car Congress

SEPTEMBER 8, 2014

Researchers at Southwest Research Institute (SwRI) and The University of Texas at San Antonio (UTSA) have determined that biochar, a substance produced from plant matter, is a safe, effective and inexpensive method to treat flowback water following hydraulic fracturing, or fracking.

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Green Car Congress

JANUARY 15, 2014

This laboratory test framework, using light bulbs in place of the vehicle chargers, allows SwRI engineers to continue to test and fine-tune the system post-deployment. Electricity is difficult to store yet has to be available on demand. Click to enlarge. —Sean Mitchem.

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Green Car Congress

NOVEMBER 12, 2016

Previously, Gevo and its partners have focused on specialty markets such as marinas and off-road engines. Buc-ee’s, a 37-store regional chain of rest stops in Texas, is the first company to sell the blend, marketed as a high-performance ethanol-free gasoline. Earlier post.).

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Cars That Think

SEPTEMBER 18, 2023

“Over the past 15 years, the emphasis has moved toward using [these materials] less as high-temperature superconductors and more as high-field superconductors,” says Venkat Selvamanickam , who directs the Applied Research Hub of the Texas Center for Superconductivity at the University of Houston.

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Cars That Think

JULY 7, 2023

The team built 11 devices, which currently are stored in the NAB library. The project provided me with the opportunity to apply my engineering skills to product development,” one member of the team says. The assistive device works with or without Wi-Fi. Users must sign them out. The team worked closely with the organization.

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Cars That Think

SEPTEMBER 30, 2023

The effect that access to reliable electricity has had on the village is amazing,” says Morgan Kiani , an engineering professor at Texas Christian University , in Fort Worth. While in Cairns, she visited a store that sold purses and clothes made by Melamchi villagers.

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Green Car Congress

MARCH 19, 2014

PNNL’s participation in the group builds on several contributions its scientists and engineers have already made to fuel cell technology. The tool, developed with funding from DOE’s Office of Energy Efficiency and Renewable Energy, is available for free download through the Apple App Store.

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Teslarati

MAY 3, 2021

However, recent reports from Germany suggest a more long-term delay is in store for Tesla because battery pack output won’t allow for vehicle production. Both Texas and Berlin are progressing well, and we expect to have initial limited production from those factories this year and volume production from Texas and Berlin next year.”

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Green Car Congress

JULY 23, 2014

Enerpulse Technologies said that it has further identified the underlying mechanism by which its its pulsed energy ignition technology improves fuel economy, reduces emission and delivers higher torque in spark ignited (SI) internal combustion (IC) engines. —Wes Helgeson, senior research engineer. Earlier post.)

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Green Car Congress

MARCH 17, 2021

But the promise is worth pursuing, says MIT Professor Yet-Ming Chiang, because the amount of energy that can be stored in experimental versions of such cells is already nearly double that of conventional lithium-ion batteries. —Co-author Venkatasubramanian Viswanathan, professor of mechanical engineering at Carnegie Mellon University.

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Teslarati

JUNE 21, 2021

Karpathy detailed Tesla’s current Supercomputer that is assisting the company’s Neural Network store some of the most important data for Tesla’s mission to introduce fully autonomous vehicles in the coming years. No concrete date for AI Day has been announced yet. Tesla will likely give more details in the coming weeks.

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The Truth About Cars

APRIL 29, 2023

Perry would never last long at a store because he possessed an ability to p**s off every one of his co-workers and managers. The car business being a small, inbred industry would result in me bumping into Perry& several more times, once while he was selling Mercedes-Benz vehicles in Texas in 2003. Customers absolutely adored him.

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Green Car Congress

JUNE 2, 2013

A combined team of engineers and technicians from Ad Astra Rocket Company and Cummins Power Generation have successfully powered a Cummins-built electrical generator using mixtures of hydrogen and biogas. The effort is in parallel with an ongoing technology development to store hydrogen affordably.

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Baua Electric

AUGUST 21, 2023

In spite of developments in energy and length for battery-powered automobiles, ICE engines store the majority of vehicle gross sales international. Customers in Monterey noticed the 2024 Aston Martin DB12 Volante, the open-top model of the Aston Martin DB12, with a twin-turbo V-8 engine generating 670 hp. million Hypercar.

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Green Car Congress

AUGUST 18, 2013

Skyonic Corporation, developer of the SkyMine mineralization process which can serve as a potential replacement for existing scrubber technology ( earlier post ), recently awarded the $117M construction contract for the Capitol SkyMine plant in San Antonio, Texas, to Toyo-Thai-USA Corporation (TTUS).

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Teslarati

MAY 27, 2021

Tesla’s next generation of vehicles like the Cybertruck and the Made-in-Texas Model Y will likely be built with a structural battery pack. During Battery Day, Elon Musk explained that the use of structural batteries on electric cars could be compared to how passenger aircraft eventually used their wings to store fuel.

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Baua Electric

MARCH 16, 2024

This week’s entry in the future Pulitzer Prize-winning column Awesomely Weird Alibaba Electric Vehicle of the Week is a set of electric airplane stairs that you can drive to the grocery store, bowling alley, or to visit your friend in jail. I was just in Austin, Texas this week and saw a pile of Cybertrucks already. Boring… Next!

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Teslarati

FEBRUARY 14, 2022

Starship’s Raptor engines burn about 3.55 Those horizontal tanks appear to store about 1000 cubic meters (~35,000 ft^3) of LCH4, while the vertical tanks would have stored about 1800 m^3. kilograms of LOx for every 1 kilogram of LCH4. NASASpaceflight). lb) of LN2 and 4200 tons (~9.3M lb) of LOx.

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