Cars That Think

DECEMBER 27, 2021

Despite these gains, though, traditional magnetic-confinement fusion is still years away from fulfilling nuclear fusion’s promise of generating abundant and carbon-free electricity. But tokamaks aren’t the only path to fusion power. The company produced its first fusion reactions the very next year. Seattle-based.

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Green Car Congress

DECEMBER 5, 2014

and utilizing a Ford Fusion Energi Plug-In Hybrid, Siemens provided the first UL-approved residential electric vehicle supply equipment (EVSE) to demonstrate the ability to monitor status, report energy use, and be controlled locally from the local area network and from the cloud. Held at the Duke Energy Envision Center in Erlanger, Ky.,

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Cars That Think

MARCH 29, 2024

Invented by Soviet scientists in the 1960s , gyrotons are used in nuclear fusion research experiments to heat and control plasma. Microwaves meet rocks “But an energy beam doesn’t have those kinds of limits,” says Paul Woskov , senior research engineer at MIT’s Plasma Science and Fusion Center.

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Cars That Think

AUGUST 27, 2021

If it had ever left the spotlight, nuclear fusion is certainly now back. There have recently been new books , big announcements from small fusion companies , and the widely-shared news of a new record for energy produced at the National Ignition Facility , at the U.S. As the joke goes, fusion is always 40 years away.

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Green Car Congress

NOVEMBER 10, 2021

Sensor Fusion technology is a core component of delivering true autonomous vehicles and is crucial to helping the industry achieve the vision of Zero Autonomous Driving Accidents. Prominent technology and industry thought leaders like Larry will be instrumental in helping us make this vision a reality. He received a B.S. He received a B.S.

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Cars That Think

JULY 15, 2023

Brandon Sorbom , the scientific director of Commonwealth Fusion Systems (CFS) , leads me toward the center of the building’s cross-shaped footprint, weaving among scaffolding, forklifts, and teams of welders and painters. On the site of a former U.S. Army Reserve base near Boston, an unusual structure is rising from the rolling hills.

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Cars That Think

DECEMBER 24, 2024

Our readers wanted to know more about power beaming , new kinds of nuclear fusion, vertical solar farms, powerful ways to drill deeper into the Earths crust to harness geothermal energy, and grid hardware that connects renewable energy projects. It beat compressed air and four types of batteries in terms of scale, cost and suitability.

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Green Car Congress

FEBRUARY 3, 2015

420 million for fusion energy sciences, $48 million below the FY 2015 Enacted level, to understand the behavior of matter at high temperatures and densities and to develop fusion as a future energy source, including funding for the U.S. contribution to the International Thermonuclear Experimental Reactor (ITER) project.

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Green Car Congress

SEPTEMBER 16, 2009

The research program aims to test the technology’s suitability for potential future application in Ford’s European passenger car range. Charging the batteries will take between 6-8 hours using a common 230 volt grid. The Focus BEV prototype. Click to enlarge.

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Cars That Think

NOVEMBER 25, 2024

Therefore, efforts to decarbonize the grid affordably depend on what happens with always-on or always-available hydro, geothermal, and nuclear power plants. I grew up in Ontario, Canada, which achieved a climate-friendly electric grid in the 1970s by deploying nuclear power plants.

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Spark Powered

DECEMBER 29, 2022

News of a major breakthrough in fusion technology has recently swept through the media outlets. Not much yet, but most likely it will open the flood gates to additional funding for future fusion research. And that future is all electric. Image from Popular Mechanics. This kills that silly argument once and for all.

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Green Car Congress

APRIL 8, 2014

Demonstrate three grid-connected advanced offshore wind concepts by 2017. ?. Areas of concentration here include: Advanced scientific computing to analyze, model, simulate, and predict complex phenomena, including the scientific potential that exascale simulation and data will provide in the future.

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Green Car Congress

MAY 27, 2015

If every home in the United States were to implement these energy-saving technologies, it would be the equivalent of taking all the homes in California, New York and Texas—32 million homes—off the power grid. Technologies in the MyEnergi Lifestyle program include: Ford Fusion Energi Plug-In Hybrid.

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Green Car Congress

SEPTEMBER 8, 2016

In addition to applications, the DOE project addresses hardware, software, platforms and workforce development needs critical to the effective development and deployment of future exascale systems. Optimizing Stochastic Grid Dynamics at Exascale, Henry Huang (PNNL) with ANL, NREL. Dunning, Jr.

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Cars That Think

SEPTEMBER 18, 2023

Those high magnetic fields may one day enable nuclear fusion energy, which I wrote about recently [see “ This Fusion Reactor Is Held Together With Tape ”]. But the materials could show up sooner in a wide array of practical applications, including wind power, energy storage, and nuclear magnetic-resonance machines.

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Green Car Congress

MARCH 23, 2019

Missouri S&T will combine a novel additive manufacturing technique, called ceramic on-demand extrusion, and ceramic fusion welding techniques to manufacture very high temperature heat exchangers for power cycles with intense heat sources. Michigan Technological University. Pennsylvania State University.

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Baua Electric

SEPTEMBER 19, 2024

According to its website, it has tasked itself with developing innovative hardware and software solutions that optimize its customers’ operations, user experiences, and use of the power grid. i-charging CEO Pedro Moreira da Silva elaborated: With i-light, we are making a statement about the future of heavy-duty transport.

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Green Cars News

AUGUST 11, 2009

I want the cars of the future and the technologies that power them to be built right here,” the President said. So this raises the question as to whether so much money should be poured into existing battery technologies ahead of research and development projects for battery designs of the future. Our verdict.

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Baua Electric

MAY 11, 2024

Unlike traditional internal combustion engine vehicles, EVs represent a fusion of hardware and software, where the latter plays a pivotal role in enhancing functionality and driving innovation. EVs, often likened to digital devices on wheels, epitomise the convergence of cutting-edge technology and transportation.

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Green Car Congress

SEPTEMBER 18, 2015

The sector provides about 12% of US Gross Domestic Product (GDP), employs more than 12 million Americans, and is critical to future US global economic competitiveness. The manufacturing sector converts raw materials, components, and parts into finished goods that meet market needs and expectations. in additional economic activity.

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Tony Karrer Delicious EVdriven

APRIL 20, 2009

HDMI is great, but, not future proof, you need something that will still be a standard in 25 years. Low Ranked richii @ Apr 19th 2009 4:29PM for some reason this makes me think of the future. Once weve consolidated everything to depend on the grid, we can clean up everything by cleaning up the grid. yay same plug!

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Tony Karrer Delicious EVdriven

APRIL 22, 2009

Our ENVI electric minivan concepts illustrate Chryslers innovation with electric vehicle technology and show what the future could hold." Because robust grid integration is essential for widespread customer acceptance of electric vehicles, Chrysler has enlisted the involvement of key utility partners, including Duke, ConEd and DTE.

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Cars That Think

JUNE 29, 2023

The future of carbon-free energy smells like teriyaki and sounds like a low-flying 737. 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.

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Tony Karrer Delicious EVdriven

APRIL 19, 2009

And for this ecosystem to be robust, there must be commonality, especially when owners are plugging into the electrical grid. Outlet voltages wont always be the same and the weather will vary based on location, but the vehicles charge cord plug and how you use it should always remain the same - regardless of make or model."

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Cars That Think

DECEMBER 31, 2023

Energy storage and nuclear fusion—two reliable crowd pleasers when the crowd you’re talking about is readers of IEEE Spectrum —are well represented among our most widely read energy stories of 2023. Heat Pumps—The Well-Tempered Future of A/Cs A window-mounted air-conditioning system includes an electric heat pump for heating.

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Green Car Congress

FEBRUARY 2, 2013

Applicants must articulate how output from this research will be made broadly available to the scientific and engineering community, and how the results can be used to support future development of high performance automotive die-casting alloys.

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Green Car Congress

JANUARY 24, 2017

Eighty percent of executives in the KPMG study agree that data will be the fuel for future business models, and 83% believe they will make money off of that data. Good-bye to auto-digital fusion, hello to co-integration. This means that we need to let go of the vision of a complete auto-digital fusion.

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Cars That Think

OCTOBER 4, 2021

We have a fusion mechanism by which we combine these two signals," says Peeyush Kumar , a senior research scientist at Microsoft Research and the study's lead author. DeepMC works by training an AI to precisely find the error between the local weather forecast and the micro-climate weather conditions.

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Green Car Congress

DECEMBER 20, 2009

But starting to raise immediate finance is more important than determining its exact future size. The precise amount of money that will be required over the coming decades to help developing countries adapt to the inevitable and reduce emissions is a moving target. A ballpark figure could be on the order of US$ 250 billion in 2020.

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Tony Karrer Delicious EVdriven

JANUARY 28, 2009

Use this information at your own risk: There is no warranty expressed nor implied and we are not liable for any of your past, present, nor future actions.Even should you perform these modifications to the letter you could still damage any number of components in your vehicle causing it to no longer function.

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EV Info

SEPTEMBER 23, 2021

Yet this crisis is a mere harbinger of the candle-lit future that awaits us if we do not change course. The task of balancing the grid and maintaining electrical frequency has grown dangerously the more reliant on wind power we have become – as demonstrated by the widespread power cuts of August 2019.

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Tony Karrer Delicious EVdriven

APRIL 16, 2009

In the future, utilities will pay you to plug-in your vehicle. Vehicle to Grid (V2G) technology is a bi-directional electric grid interface that allows a plug-in to take energy from the grid or put it back on the grid. The current electrical grid is poorly designed for distributed generation of power.

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Cars That Think

APRIL 29, 2025

But to some observers of Chinese tech development, its yet more evidence that China may be on the verge of pulling ahead in one of the most consequential technological races of our time: the quest to achieve commercial nuclear fusion. Fusion is a marathon, not a sprintand China is pacing itself to win.

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