Green Car Congress
JUNE 22, 2012
The California Energy Commission CEC is awarding Silicon Valley startup Wrightspeed a $5.789-million grant for Advanced Vehicle Technology Manufacturing. The grant is part of the CEC’s Alternative and Renewable Fuel and Vehicle Technology Program. Wrightspeed made its first conversion kit for the Isuzu NPR.
Green Car Congress
OCTOBER 25, 2015
The US Department of Agriculture (USDA) and the US Department of Energy (DOE) are partnering to award nearly $5 million in grants to scientists to study the use of plants to further bioenergy development. million in research grants is awarded under a joint DOE-USDA program that began in 2006; DOE is providing $2.9 Lead Awardee.
Green Car Congress
NOVEMBER 16, 2010
Conversion kits also will be available to switch medium-duty gasoline vehicles to run on propane. million grant to support the project’s development. Renewable propane. In addition to being an alternative fuel, Perkins noted, propane may also be able to be produced as a renewable fuel.
Green Car Congress
MARCH 27, 2015
Friction-reducing measures include a variable speed water pump, a clutched air compressor, low-viscosity oil and an improved cylinder kit. DTNA and three other major truck OEMs were awarded multi-million dollar grants by the DOE and each matched the DOE funding dollar for dollar. Fleet: Schneider, Walmart.
Cars That Think
DECEMBER 7, 2021
He recently received an equipment donation from Intuitive Foundation comprising a Da Vinci research kit which is a surgical system that will allow his team to devise means by which a surgeon in one location may be able to operate on a patient located somewhere else—a different city, region or even continent.
Get Electric Vehicle
SEPTEMBER 25, 2023
The Evolution of Smart Grids Speaking of electric vehicle batteries, 2023 will mark a turning point in the use of used EV batteries to store renewable energy and feed it back into the grid when the sun isn’t out or the wind isn’t blowing.
Cars That Think
MAY 15, 2024
But now, I mean, today we have over 300 granted patents, another 90 that will be approved soon. We run the factories on 100 percent renewable energy. They can buy, they can order from our website, like development kits. It’s pretty difficult specification to give to a machine builder. We’re like 50 guys building machines, so.
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