Green Car Congress

APRIL 12, 2016

Ford Motor Company unveiled its plans to transform its Dearborn facilities into a modern, green and high-tech campus to foster innovation and help drive the company’s transition to an auto and a mobility company. SmithGroupJJR designed the new campus layout, applying inspiration from tech companies and university campuses. More than 7.5

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Green Car Congress

AUGUST 23, 2022

They are everywhere in the environment but are highly dispersed and bound in minerals (“earths”); large deposits are rare. Reclaiming these elements from electronic waste is becoming more important. The name is misleading because the rare-earth metals are not actually rare. Their states of hydration are different and may change.

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Green Car Congress

DECEMBER 2, 2022

Material, previously stored in dumps and considered waste, can now be tapped into with this new form of resource-conserving extraction. Earlier this year, Jetti and the University of British Columbia (UBC) published the research that underpins Jetti’s technology in a paper in Acta Materialia.

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Drive Electric

APRIL 4, 2023

In New Zealand, the Ministry for the Environment and the New Zealand Automobile Associatio n are working together to ensure that old EV batteries are handled in an environmentally responsible way. If you want to learn more about whether EV’s are good for the environment, check out our previous resource here. How would the scheme work?

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Green Car Congress

FEBRUARY 12, 2018

Board of Trustees of the University of Illinois. The University of Illinois will conduct research to develop a composite plastic heat exchanger for a low temperature gas streams common in industry. Colorado State University. Iowa State University. Michigan State University. Idaho National Laboratory.

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Green Car Congress

DECEMBER 13, 2013

The California Energy Commission (CEC) is awarding $1,135,862 to 12 small-scale projects to research that will reduce the cost of producing electricity, save energy and improve the environment. Lee Huang of Eneron Inc. will receive $95,000 to research a gas stove burner that is 30% more efficient than conventional gas stove burners.

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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. General Motors. Michigan Technological University. The Ohio State University. The Pennsylvania State University.

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Green Car Congress

DECEMBER 30, 2010

At that level of efficiency, TE materials become useful in practical applications such as waste heat recovery in vehicles, Kaviany noted. The ideal environments for these materials are spots where large differences in temperatures exist. One such place is the pipe system of a car between the motor and the catalytic converter.

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Green Car Congress

JUNE 15, 2016

A new Ford Motor Company pilot program aims to enhance mobility health services in rural areas of South Africa and Nigeria. Ford Motor Company and its philanthropic arm, Ford Fund, have worked for decades on multiple projects globally to advance human welfare; Project Better World is the latest example. Mobility and electrification.

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Green Car Congress

FEBRUARY 9, 2011

Among the awards is support for a Syracuse University (with BorgWarner of Ithaca) project to prepare, inject and combust supercritical (SC) diesel fuel. Stony Brook University seeks to improve vehicle fuel economy with a thermoelectric generator that would capture energy previously lost through heat exhaust. Earlier post.).

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Green Car Congress

FEBRUARY 18, 2014

The switched reluctance (SR) motor-based SpeedStart and TIGERS technology are being incorporated into the recently announced Advanced Diesel Electric Powertrain project known as ADEPT. Earlier post.) The management of the project is being handled by Ricardo.

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Green Car Congress

SEPTEMBER 17, 2010

The Hybrid Integrated Urban Commercial Vehicle (HIUCV) is a lightweight Heavy Goods Vehicle designed for refuse collection in an urban environment. The HiUCV is targeted to halve the overall carbon emissions per tonne of waste collected of current best-in-class Refuse Collection Vehicles (RCVs) in the urban environment.

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Green Car Congress

AUGUST 30, 2011

These university-industry partnerships will receive more than C$16 million (US$16.4 Partners: Simon Fraser University and Future Vehicle Technologies Inc. This project builds on an existing collaboration between Simon Fraser University and Future Vehicle Technologies Inc. million) in total project support. This includes C$6.5

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Cars That Think

JANUARY 20, 2024

Vard Group is part of NuProShip , a consortium of the Norwegian maritime authority, universities, shipbuilders, and shipping companies that aims to develop a Generation IV reactor for marine vessels. The reactor would produce steam to spin turbines that would generate electricity to power motors.

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Green Car Congress

JULY 8, 2012

The paper by researchers from Peking University and Environment Canada appears in the ACS journal Environmental Science & Technology. In addition, predicted oil consumption for use in motor vehicles between 2008 and 2050 were used to develop the inventory. 1970); national data from the International Energy Agency (IEA) (1971?

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Green Car Congress

FEBRUARY 15, 2022

The selected projects—spanning 22 states and coordinated at universities, national laboratories, and private companies—will advance technologies for a wide range of areas, including electric vehicles, offshore wind, storage and nuclear recycling. Cornell University. Stanford University. The Ohio State University.

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Cars That Think

DECEMBER 29, 2021

The event has already helped Beijing clean up its skies and environment, and has fired up local energy-technology markets. Powering them with clean energy sources won’t be difficult given China’s plentiful renewable capacity, says Michael Davidson , an engineering-systems and global-policy expert at the University of California, San Diego.

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Get Electric Vehicle

SEPTEMBER 16, 2022

Standardization: Being Nice To the Environment. According to a recent analysis, the number of electric vehicles sold in 2017 will generate 250,000 metric tonnes of battery waste. How standardization helps the environment. Standardization helps the environment. Standardization helps the environment. Conclusion.

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Green Car Congress

APRIL 30, 2010

The project also includes a proprietary process to convert waste biomass into carbon dioxide and hydrogen to feed the bioreactor, allowing butanol production from waste feedstocks. NC State University. Medical University of South Carolina. Columbia University. Lawrence Berkeley National Lab. (UC of Georgia).

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Green Car Congress

NOVEMBER 30, 2022

The CIRCLES project aims to reduce instabilities in traffic flow, called phantom jams, that cause congestion and waste energy. The test was conducted on the recently opened I-24 MOTION testbed, the only real-world automotive testing environment of its kind in the world. The experiment—which ran 14 Nov. through 18 Nov.

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Green Car Congress

JANUARY 5, 2020

The amount of cobalt, copper, lithium, cadmium, and rare earth elements needed for solar photovoltaics, batteries, electric vehicle (EV) motors, wind turbines, fuel cells, and nuclear reactors will likely grow at a rapid pace in the upcoming years. Sovacool, Professor of Energy Policy at the University of Sussex. —Sovacool et al.

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Green Car Congress

JUNE 9, 2009

Future work should also focus on environmental effects not quantified herein, such as the use of water, generation of waste water, and toxic emissions. Detailed assessments of the end-of-life fate of vehicles, motor oil and infrastructure should also be factored into decisions. Chester and Horvath (2009). Click to enlarge.

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Cars That Think

SEPTEMBER 4, 2022

Those heavy metals are key elements in lithium-ion batteries, electric motors, and other technologies crucial for the renewable transition. The Frasch process can be tremendously damaging to the surrounding environment and mineworkers’ health. Today, more than 80 percent of the world’s sulfur comes from these acts of waste management.

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Green Car Congress

MAY 9, 2013

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. The main potential applications are in electricity storage, transport and the recovery of waste heat.

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Green Car Congress

FEBRUARY 2, 2013

When the final funding opportunity announcement is released following this public comment period, DOE will accept applications from industry, national laboratories, and university-led teams to address these challenges and enable technologies that drive innovation in vehicle design. Advanced Climate Control Auxiliary Load Reduction.

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Green Car Congress

JULY 19, 2011

These technologies may potentially address up to 82% of crash scenarios with unimpaired drivers, preventing tens of thousands of automobile crashes every year (further research will incorporate heavy vehicle crashes including buses, motor carriers, and rail). Michele Weigle, Old Dominion University, 2008). If vehicles approaching from.

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Green Car Congress

OCTOBER 26, 2009

Waste Heat Capture (2 projects). Arizona State University, in partnership with Fluidic Energy Inc., Teaming with Ohio State University are PSRI, CONSOL Energy, Shell/CRI, and Babcock and Wilcox to accelerate this technology towards commercialization and deployment. Biomass Energy (5 projects). Carbon Capture (5 projects).

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Green Car Congress

MARCH 19, 2014

Recent publications have also focused on how global trade flows of REEs influence scarcity and the possibility of recovering REEs from the bottom ash of municipal solid waste incinerators. For the purpose of the study, they assumed the magnets would be used invoice coil motors, as found in computer hard drives (HDDs).

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Cars That Think

APRIL 7, 2022

I climb into an upper-body exoskeleton that’s covered in sensors, motors, gears, and bearings, and then lean forward, tilting my head up to press my face against the eyepieces of a vision system hanging from the ceiling. The project began in 1991, when I pitched the effort as part of my doctoral research at Stanford University.

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Green Charging

FEBRUARY 15, 2021

We do not want to waste money on cheap, low-quality commodities. The automobile industry is investing in protecting the environment. It’s because a motor drives these vehicles, while the rechargeable batteries provide power to run the engine. This type is widely becoming accepted as the universal charger type.

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Green Car Congress

NOVEMBER 17, 2015

The electric motor produces 94 kW of power and 350 N·m (258.1 During everyday driving, most braking operations use the electric motor, which then works as a generator. This makes it possible for the waste heat from the electrical drive components to be made available to the interior of the Q7 e-tron quattro.

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Green Car Congress

JULY 17, 2015

The PHEV (Plug-in Hybrid Electric Vehicle), a subset of the electric car, combines a primary electric motor with a much smaller back-up engine fueled with a hydrocarbon/biofuel mix. (In He was formerly with the University of Wisconsin and Rockwell International, and holds a Ph.D. To ignore this potential is wasteful and foolish.

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Creative Greenius

JULY 2, 2009

Steve Westly (left) with Jeremy Snyder, General Manager, Tesla Motors (c) 2009 Joe Galliani. Don’t forget that the big brains at General Motors used toasters, lamps and electric fans as the spokespeople last time they had a sexy electric car to market. Not only for the environment, but also for national defense.

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Tony Karrer Delicious EVdriven

APRIL 16, 2009

Credit: GM) General Motors and Segway plan to take a two-wheel concept vehicle for a spin around New York City on Tuesday. The PUMA looks like it might sell well in university and corporate campuses and those large empty subdivisions in SoCal and Vegas. by neowolfwitch April 7, 2009 6:23 AM PDT Is this a week late?

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Tony Karrer Delicious EVdriven

APRIL 16, 2009

Home Page Todays Paper Video Most Popular Times Topics Search All NYTimes.com Energy & Environment World U.S. I would say that electricity is a vastly superior fuel for the light vehicle fleet,” said Willett Kempton , a professor and alternative energy specialist at the University of Delaware.

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Creative Greenius

APRIL 22, 2012

Today is Earth Day 2012, a day filled with celebrations of the environment and all the things being done to try and improve it and make it more sustainable. You can go to events where you recycle your old paper tax records, your motor oil, your cellphone, computers and other electronics. .

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Creative Greenius

APRIL 22, 2012

Today is Earth Day 2012, a day filled with celebrations of the environment and all the things being done to try and improve it and make it more sustainable. You can go to events where you recycle your old paper tax records, your motor oil, your cellphone, computers and other electronics. .

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