Green Car Reports

DECEMBER 17, 2021

Rivian decides on Georgia for its second plant. From its retro style to its leading-edge platform and charging tech, it’s one of the most eagerly anticipated new EVs of. The Mustang Mach-E gets a range boost. And we drive the Ioniq 5. This and more, here at Green Car Reports.

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Teslarati

APRIL 28, 2022

The Joint Development Authority (JDA) approved the final Economic Development Agreement (EDA) for Rivian’s upcoming manufacturing plant in Georgia. The EDA covers agreements between the JDA, the State of Georgia, and Rivian. Rivian Georgia plant pushing lawmakers to revisit direct sales legislation.

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DECEMBER 25, 2021

Team members include Georgia Tech, Purdue University, Boeing, GE Research, ANSYS, Southwest Research Institute, and the Greater Orlando Aviation Authority. Team members include Florida Agricultural and Mechanical University, University at Buffalo, University of Kentucky, Georgia Tech, Raytheon, Boeing, and Advanced Magnet Lab.

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JULY 30, 2019

Physicists at the Georgia Institute of Technology and Multiscale Systems, Inc. —Peter Yunker, who co-led the study and is an assistant professor in Georgia Tech’s School of Physics. have simulated what it would take for hackers to wreak widespread havoc in a city by randomly stranding cars.

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MAY 13, 2011

The Ford Motor Company Fund and the Georgia Institute of Technology are partnering on the US’ first conversion of a traditional school bus to a hydraulic hybrid vehicle that runs on recycled biofuel. Atlanta Public Schools (APS) donated the bus for the project.

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JULY 24, 2015

A team led by researchers at Georgia Tech has developed a new fabrication technique to produce platinum-based hollow nanocages with ultra-thin walls that could significantly reduce the amount of the costly metal needed to provide catalytic activity. The Georgia Tech-led team took that last approach. —Zhang et al.

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AUGUST 19, 2016

Scientists from ExxonMobil and the Georgia Institute of Technology have developed new free-standing carbon molecular sieve (CMS) membrane technology that could significantly reduce the amount of energy and emissions associated with manufacturing plastics. Results of the research were published in Science.

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MARCH 17, 2018

Researchers at Georgia Tech, with colleagues in China and Saudi Arabia, have developed a rationally designed, multi-phase catalyst that significantly enhances the kinetics of oxygen reduction of the state-of-the-art solid oxide fuel cell cathode.

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OCTOBER 22, 2013

The US Department of Energy (DOE) has awarded a 3-year, $600,000 grant to help researchers at Georgia Tech advance an additive manufacturing technique for fabricating three-dimensional (3D) nanoscale structures from a variety of materials.

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MARCH 3, 2017

Now, researchers at Georgia Institute of Technology have shown how these vehicle-emitted metals—such as copper, iron and manganese—interact with acidic sulfate-rich particles already in the air to produce an aerosol that, when inhaled, is more likely to cause oxidative stress and impact respiratory health. 1360730 and the U.S.

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JANUARY 20, 2017

Researchers at Georgia Tech have developed a simple technique for producing oxide nanowires directly from bulk materials under ambient conditions without the use of catalysts or any external stimuli. Instead of the membrane they had hoped to fabricate, the process generated powders composed of elongated particles. 355, Issue 6322, pp.

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JANUARY 22, 2021

Phillips 66 will collaborate with the Georgia Institute of Technology (Georgia Tech) to demonstrate the commercial feasibility of a low-cost and highly efficient RSOFC system for hydrogen and electricity generation. Phillips 66 will be the research lead on the grant, with Georgia Tech as a collaborative partner.

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FEBRUARY 17, 2017

Fedorov, a professor in Georgia Tech’s George W. However, due to its high operating temperature and use of sequential units for the reaction stages, industrial SMR does not scale down well for distributed, point-of-use applications such as fuel cell vehicle refueling stations. All of the pieces of the puzzle have come together.

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OCTOBER 14, 2013

Researchers at Georgia Tech have developed an inexpensive and simple prototype of a triboelectric nanogenerator that could be used to produce energy from ocean waves by making use of contact electrification between a patterned plastic nanoarray and water. A report on their work is published in the journal Angewandte Chemie.

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Green Car Reports

OCTOBER 29, 2022

Which brand confirmed this week it will build EVs in Georgia? Which electric sedan can charge at home at 80 miles per hour? This is our look back at the Week In Reverse—right here at Green Car Reports—for the week ending October 28, 2022.

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CleanTechnica EVs

DECEMBER 27, 2022

According to recent research from Georgia Tech’s School of Public Policy, a scooter ban may ease sidewalk congestion and keep potential riders and pedestrians safer, but it has a price.

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APRIL 8, 2015

Results of a study by a team from Georgia Tech and their colleagues at NASA Goddard Institute for Space Studies and Northeast States for Coordinated Air Use Management show that national CO 2 emissions reductions strategies will play an important role in impacting air quality over the US.

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Climate Change Georgia Climate Emissions 150

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JULY 6, 2013

Comparing life-cycle energy consumption, greenhouse gas (GHG) emissions, and total cost of ownership (TCO) of medium-duty electric and diesel urban delivery trucks for a range of drive cycles and electricity generation scenarios, a team from Georgia Tech found that all in all, the life-cycle energy use and GHG emissions of the electric truck are lower (..)

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SEPTEMBER 26, 2013

Researchers at Georgia Tech have compared medium-duty (MD) electric and diesel urban delivery trucks in terms of life-cycle energy consumption, greenhouse gas (GHG) emissions, and total cost of ownership (TCO). —Marilyn Brown, co-author and a professor in Georgia Tech’s School of Public Policy. Click to enlarge.

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OCTOBER 6, 2021

Georgia Tech in Atlanta, Ga.; Georgia Tech. Georgia Tech proposes TESLA, an SF 6 -free high-voltage circuit breaker. However, SF 6 is also an extremely potent greenhouse gas with 23,500 times the comparative Global Warming Potential of CO 2 and a lifetime of 3,200 years in the atmosphere.

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NOVEMBER 20, 2012

The two companies will also work with researchers from Georgia Institute of Technology to study GE employee driving and charging habits, with the goal of improving all-electric driving and charging performance.

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Alternative Fuels Georgia Purchase Plug-in 210

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APRIL 23, 2022

Georgia Institute of Technology (Atlanta, GA). Virginia Tech (Blacksburg, VA). Teams from the following universities have been selected to begin the competition this fall: Embry-Riddle Aeronautical University (Daytona Beach, FL) / Bethune-Cookman University (Daytona Beach, FL). Illinois Institute of Technology (Chicago, IL).

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APRIL 24, 2017

Sally Xia, Masters in Digital Media, Georgia Tech. Riley Keen, Masters in Industrial Design, Georgia Tech. Pranav Nair, Masters in Industrial and Product Design, Georgia Tech. Kris Weng, BS in Mechanical Engineering, Georgia Tech.

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OCTOBER 28, 2020

The applications will be developed at the Infrastructure Automotive Technology Laboratory (iATL) in Alpharetta, Georgia. The iATL was established to encourage automakers to test connected vehicle technology in a true streetscape setting featuring real-world interferences and obstructions.

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Cars That Think

DECEMBER 17, 2021

To solve this problem, the Georgia Tech Research Institute (GTRI) has developed an intelligent robot designed to handle the human-based tasks of thinning peach trees, which could result in significant cost savings for peach farms in Georgia. Georgia Tech Research Institute ] ROBO FIGHT is a Humanoid robot fighting sports.

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Cars That Think

JUNE 23, 2023

Sanctuary ] This wheelchair tennis-playing robot from Georgia Tech is named ESTHER, for (Experimental Sport Tennis wHEelchair Robot). Georgia Tech ] This video is not that impressive, but I still really like the concept behind these squishy robots. Sounds like a slight, but it’s really not, for a robot.

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OCTOBER 24, 2017

Phase 1 of the ABBA Integrated Biorefinery project, to be built at the AVAPCO Thomaston Georgia site, has begun. The project, which will co-produce full replacement renewable jet fuel, gasoline, diesel and Bioplus nanocellulose from woody biomass in an integrated biorefinery at AVAPCO’s site in Thomaston, Georgia, has received a $3.7-million

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OCTOBER 25, 2018

Georgia Tech. Virginia Tech. The participating universities include: Colorado State University. Embry-Riddle Aeronautical University. McMaster University. Mississippi State University. The Ohio State University. University of Alabama. University of Tennessee, Knoxville. University of Washington. University of Waterloo.

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JUNE 10, 2020

Now, researchers at Georgia Tech, with colleagues at ETH Zürich and Oak Ridge National Laboratory, have discovered that sufficiently small antimony nanocrystals spontaneously form uniform voids on the removal of lithium, which are then reversibly filled and vacated during cycling, allowing more ion flow without damaging the anodes.

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Batteries Battery ECC Georgia 221

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AUGUST 12, 2016

These include the heavy-duty manufacturing regions of the upper Midwest; technology hubs in California and along the Pacific Coast; technology innovators on the East Coast including Massachusetts, New York, and the Carolinas; and a corridor that runs through, Georgia, Alabama, Tennessee, Indiana and Ohio.

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JULY 19, 2022

Using flight demand data from NASA’s contractors at the National Institute of Aerospace and at Georgia Tech, NREL is modeling scenarios that could play out with electrified and regional air transit. Regional air mobility continues the conversation to include electrified (and maybe automated) aircraft.

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Cars That Think

SEPTEMBER 1, 2023

The Georgia Institute of Technology in Atlanta is an, er, textbook example of a school whose academic departments place a much lower premium on writing skill and proudly hold more of a protechnology bias than do those at the aforementioned liberal arts colleges.

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Baua Electric

JANUARY 24, 2024

Liviu Tudoran’s That said, in 2021, Apple and Hyundai were in talks to share development , and the tech giant reportedly focused on Kia for manufacturing —perhaps in Georgia. While the autonomous-driving tech may have been a bridge too far, a 2020 report also said the Apple Car was due to use next-level battery tech.

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JANUARY 2, 2014

and Georgia Tech. Because the PV cells alone would generate only about 300W—insufficient to charge the vehicle’s battery—Ford turned to Georgia Institute of Technology for a way to amplify the sunlight in order to make a solar-powered hybrid feasible for daily use. Ford C-MAX Solar Energi Concept. Click to enlarge.

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MARCH 31, 2014

A team led by researchers from Georgia Tech have used an electropolymerization process to produce aligned arrays of polymer nanofibers that function as a thermal interface material able to conduct heat 20 times better than the original polymer. It is a member of Georgia Tech''s VentureLab program. Credit: Virendra Singh.

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Teslarati

OCTOBER 14, 2021

Canada-based Rock Tech Lithium announced the construction of Europe’s first lithium refining facility in Guben, Brandenburg. Rock Tech Lithium has a lithium hydroxide mine project in Georgia Lake, Ontario in Canada. Rock Tech Lithium has a lithium hydroxide mine project in Georgia Lake, Ontario in Canada.

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MAY 3, 2021

Gulf Coast Basin (Alabama, Arkansas, Georgia, Louisiana, Mississippi and Texas): The University of Texas at Austin plans to quantify coal from mines and coal ash from power plant resources and refuse as feedstocks for rare earth elements and critical minerals within the US Gulf Coast Basin. DOE Funding: $1,204,129. DOE Funding: $1,499,999.

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