Green Car Congress

JULY 8, 2015

In collaboration with the farming community of the Indian Creek Watershed in central Illinois, researchers from Argonne National Laboratory (ANL) are finding ways to meet three agrarian land management objectives simultaneously: maximizing a farmer’s production; growing feedstock for bioenergy; and protecting the environment.

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Teslarati

APRIL 22, 2024

It is about fostering a safer, healthier environment for mine operators, particularly in subterranean settings where the elimination of tailpipe emissions is paramount. Earlier this month, Rivian celebrated its 100,000th vehicle milestone in Normal, Illinois.

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Green Car Congress

FEBRUARY 23, 2011

Researchers at the University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign are applying new materials and concepts integrated within the battery cell to enable a variety of critical features including fail-safe or autonomic shutdown, self-healing of battery performance, and greatly extended lifetimes. Photo credit: Marta Baginska. Click to enlarge.

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Green Car Congress

MAY 23, 2013

Transitioning our fleet to propane autogas was an extremely easy decision to make because we are saving taxpayer dollars, improving the environment through cleaner auto emissions and supporting a domestically produced fuel source. We estimate our fuel savings in the first year alone to be more than $82,000.

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Teslarati

MARCH 27, 2024

Rivian plans to shut down production at its factory in Normal, Illinois, between April 5 to 30, 2024. The email mentioned that the company faced “a challenging macroeconomic environment — including historically high interest rates and geopolitical uncertainty — and we need to make changes now to ensure our promising future.”

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Green Car Congress

JULY 14, 2022

The United States depends on other countries for nearly all its lithium supply and mining the mineral strains water resources and can harm the environment. University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign – Team SelectPureLi: “A Redox Membrane for LiOH Extraction”. Rice University – Team LiSED: “Lithium Selective ElectroDialysis”.

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Green Car Congress

DECEMBER 25, 2021

University of Illinois, Urbana-Champaign. The team aims to deliver trustworthy autonomy tools to help Advanced Air Mobility aircraft fly safely through complex airspace, typical of dense urban environments.

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Green Car Congress

FEBRUARY 25, 2023

Researchers at the Illinois Institute of Technology (IIT) and US Department of Energy’s (DOE) Argonne National Laboratory have developed a lithium-air battery with a solid electrolyte. It also operates with oxygen supplied by air from the surrounding environment. A paper on their work is published in the journal Science.

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Cars That Think

NOVEMBER 30, 2022

The Spurlock Museum/University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign Bell Labs used one of the boxes to demonstrate the transistor’s portability. Bardeen brought his box to the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, when he joined the faculty in 1951. Dallesasse’s mentor at Illinois was Holoynak , whose mentor was Bardeen.

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Green Car Congress

JANUARY 8, 2021

Maize and other annual crops are easier to manage with traditional farming, but they are tougher on the environment. giganteus at the Illinois Energy Farm during the 2018 growing season, a near-average year in terms of temperature, rainfall, and soil moisture.

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Teslarati

OCTOBER 20, 2022

Rivian is holding a job fair on Saturday at its factory in Normal, Illinois. We need to be able to continue to grow and scale without additional financing in this macro environment,” CEO RJ Scaringe wrote in a memo. “To Rivian produced and delivered 7,363 vehicles in Normal, Illinois, and delivered 6,584 in Q3.

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Green Car Congress

APRIL 15, 2018

And never has it been done in a live combusting environment. Lee, while remaining a faculty member at UIUC, recently accepted an additional position as a researcher on the laboratory’s regional office in Illinois, ARL Central. Tonghun Lee.

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Green Car Congress

OCTOBER 10, 2017

The team will then deploy these genes using tools of the emerging field of synthetic biology to accelerate development of elite energy sorghum varieties for production under marginal environments. This project aims to deliver stress-tolerant sorghum lines, addressing DOE’s mission in the generation of renewable energy resources.

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Green Car Congress

AUGUST 29, 2011

A team from the University of Illinois, Urbana-Champaign and University of California, Berkeley, have engineered a new strain of yeast that co-ferments cellobiose and galactose from hydrolysates of seaweed, thereby converting the biomass into ethanol in half the time. Galazka and Jamie Cate of the University of California, Berkeley.

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Green Car Congress

MAY 10, 2018

Researchers at the University of Illinois have developed a new polymer-curing process that could reduce the cost, time and energy needed, compared with the current manufacturing process. The team has demonstrated that this reaction can produce safe, high-quality polymers in a well-controlled laboratory environment. —Nancy Sottos.

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Electric Vehicles India

DECEMBER 17, 2021

The company has also announced that it is expanding production at its Illinois factory from 150,000 units a year to over 200,000 and expects annual production at the Georgia factory will be nearly double at 400,000 vehicles a year. The Rivian’s current factory in Illinois has a capacity for as many as 300,000 vehicles per year.

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Green Car Congress

AUGUST 25, 2017

A team from the Prairie Research Institute at the University of Illinois, with colleagues from the University of Birmingham and Aarhus University, have developed a nanosized bio-Pd/C catalyst for upgrading algal bio-oil. The Natural Environment Research Council, UK also supported this research.

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Green Car Congress

JULY 24, 2018

—Reza Shahbazian-Yassar, associate professor of mechanical and industrial engineering in the University of Illinois at Chicago College of Engineering and lead author. This is a newly discovered reason why these promising batteries have such a steep drop off in efficiency and yield after relatively few charge/discharge cycles.

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Green Car Congress

FEBRUARY 16, 2018

University of Illinois. Large Pilot Testing of Linde/BASF Advanced Post-Combustion CO 2 Capture Technology at a Coal-Fired Power Plant The University of Illinois will design, construct, and operate an advanced amine-based post-combustion carbon dioxide capture system at a coal-fired power plant. University of Alaska Fairbanks.

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The Truth About Cars

JANUARY 5, 2024

Stellantis is planning to invest almost $5 billion in its Belvidere, Illinois plant. It’s very easy, especially with today’s discourse environment, to have a hot take about any major news event. There may be lasting effects from last year’s prolonged UAW strike. Stellantis is trying to play catchup with electric vehicles.

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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. But during her time as a freshman at the University of Illinois in Urbana-Champaign, the aerospace industry went through a period of mass layoffs.

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Green Car Congress

JUNE 4, 2018

This saves time and allows quality control to be conducted in a standardized, efficient environment, creating significant opportunities for reducing construction time and capital cost. University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign: Enabling Load Following Capability in the Transatomic Power MSR – $774,879.

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Green Car Congress

FEBRUARY 27, 2021

Addressing partial discharge related reliability issues that arise from low air pressure environments in aviation. Illinois Institute of Technology. Illinois Institute of Technology will develop a 10 kV/150A superconducting momentary circuit interrupter (SMCI) to provide fault protection with ultralow power loss (.

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Green Car Congress

AUGUST 31, 2011

The US Department of Energy (DOE) is awarding up to $12 million to fund three small-scale projects in Illinois, Wisconsin, and North Carolina that aim to commercialize novel conversion technologies to accelerate the development of advanced, drop-in biofuels and other valuable bio-based chemicals. Earlier post.) Earlier post.)

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Green Car Congress

SEPTEMBER 13, 2013

The US Federal Aviation Administration (FAA) has selected a team of universities to lead a new Air Transportation Center of Excellence ( COE ) for alternative jet fuels and the environment.

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Green Car Congress

JULY 18, 2012

The five projects—located in California, Illinois, and Connecticut—will track the performance and technical progress of innovative refueling systems at planned or existing hydrogen fueling stations to find ways to lower costs and improve operation. The US Department of Energy (DOE) is awarding $2.4

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Teslarati

JULY 16, 2021

” Scaringe explained that the impacts had affected everything from the construction of its Normal, Illinois, facility to the widespread semiconductor shortage. “Everything from facility construction to equipment installation, to vehicle component supply (especially semiconductors) has been impacted by the pandemic.

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Green Car Congress

JUNE 10, 2016

We are dedicated to making sure our new headquarters campus supports—even redefines—Toyota’s commitment to the environment. MP2 Energy is a full service power company, serving approximately 1,300 MW to commercial, industrial and residential customers in Texas, Illinois, Pennsylvania and Ohio.

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Green Car Congress

JUNE 6, 2011

The Keystone pipeline is approximately 1,316 miles in length and transports crude oil from the US-Canadian Border in North Dakota to Patoka, Illinois and includes an extension running from Jefferson County, Nebraska to Cushing, Oklahoma. On May 29, 2011, a second reportable failure incident occurred on piping at another pump station.

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Green Car Congress

JULY 12, 2011

A new modeled study by researchers at Colorado State University, the University of Illinois, and the USDA Agricultural Research Service (ARS) finds that biofuel grasses have the potential to replace corn-based ethanol in a way that is both environmentally and economically beneficial.

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Baua Electric

MAY 26, 2023

The R2 is anticipated to be constructed at Rivian’s unused Georgia manufacturing facility to complement its wave Illinois manufacturing facility, which is a repurposed facility prior to now impaired by means of Mitsubishi.

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Teslarati

JULY 21, 2022

“Fighting the effects of climate change requires constant innovation and action, and Amazon is partnering with companies who share our passion for inventing new ways to minimize our impact on the environment. Rivian builds its vehicles in Normal, Illinois.

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Green Car Congress

MAY 5, 2011

One of the primary goals of the WPI, Somerday said, is to change the research university environment in Japan by fostering more direct collaborations with non-Japanese entities. In addition, Somerday has already developed a number of research contacts in Japan and is planning on attending an I 2 CNER program review there in June.

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Green Car Congress

AUGUST 26, 2013

The island environment also makes it easier to strategically place charging points so that EV drivers have easy access to reach key destinations. San Diego ranks in the top LEAF cities for many of the same reasons in other California and West Coast markets: state tax incentives, HOV/HOT access and general environment-mindedness.

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Electric Auto Association

OCTOBER 4, 2021

Governors of Illinois, Indiana, Michigan, Minnesota, and Wisconsin. Clean Trucks Report affirms major impact A study has been released analyzing the impact of zero-emission medium and heavy duty trucks on public health and the environment. Rural America welcomes EVs. Electric municipal truck. Rolls Royce Spectre. Climate rally poster.

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Electric Auto Association

OCTOBER 4, 2021

Governors of Illinois, Indiana, Michigan, Minnesota, and Wisconsin. Clean Trucks Report affirms major impact A study has been released analyzing the impact of zero-emission medium and heavy duty trucks on public health and the environment. Rural America welcomes EVs. Electric municipal truck. Rolls Royce Spectre. Climate rally poster.

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Green Car Congress

APRIL 1, 2009

More than two dozen scientists from the University of California at Berkeley, Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory, and the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign will participate in the investigations. He and his co-principal investigators will direct teams in different aspects of the process. Terry Hazen. Earlier post.)

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