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OCTOBER 31, 2019

Magna has been awarded a grant by the US Department of Energy to develop and ‘auto-qualify’ advanced electric motor technologies for next-generation vehicle propulsion systems. Designing for automotive standards and low-cost manufacturing using Magna’s comprehensive design framework is another key element of the project.

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SEPTEMBER 19, 2013

The US Department of Commerce’s National Institute of Standards and Technology (NIST) is awarding grants totaling $7.4 million to fund two research projects aimed at improving measurement and standards for the rapidly developing field of additive manufacturing (AM). million to Northern Illinois University (NIU) in DeKalb, Ill.,to

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JANUARY 25, 2024

The Federal Highway Administration is seeking feedback on how government rules should be updated to support the new NACS/J3400 standard, which enables other companies to manufacture and use Tesla’s formerly proprietary charging connector. A standard was born. The Bipartisan Infrastructure Law includes $7.5

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JANUARY 30, 2018

The University of Maryland (UMD) Institute for Bioscience and Biotechnology Research (IBBR) has been award ed a $1.1million US Department of Energy (DOE) grant to elucidate the mechanism of rust pathogenesis in poplar in an effort to engineer durable resistance for this important, second-generation biofuel crop. Eisenstein.

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DECEMBER 30, 2020

The US Department of Commerce’s National Institute of Standards and Technology (NIST) has awarded nearly $4 million in grants to help accelerate the adoption of new measurement methods and standards to advance US competitiveness in metals-based additive manufacturing (AM). University of Texas at El Paso ($1 million).

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SEPTEMBER 3, 2013

The US Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) has granted Aemetis, an advanced fuels and renewable chemicals company formerly known as AE Biofuels, approval to produce ethanol using grain sorghum and biogas at its converted corn ethanol plant to generate D5 Advanced Biofuels Renewable Identification Numbers (RINs).

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DECEMBER 13, 2012

SAE International’s Hybrid Technical Committee has completed the technical standard “ J2990 —Hybrid and EV First and Second Responder Recommended Practice,” which offers recommended practices for emergency personnel responding to incidents involving hybrid or electric vehicles. Earlier post.). Earlier post.).

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SEPTEMBER 21, 2019

California Governor Gavin Newsom signed two bills to strengthen emission standards for trucks, semis and other high-pollution vehicles. Other elements of the executive order include: State Investments: California has an investment portfolio of more than $700 billion through CalPERS, CalSTRs, and the University of California Retirement System.

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JUNE 12, 2015

million grant to the Center for Sustainable Energy (CSE) to lead development of an advanced management platform for integrating electric vehicle (EV) charging with utility-scale energy systems. The California Energy Commission has awarded a $1.5 Part 7: Network and application protocol requirements for wireless communication.

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AUGUST 5, 2013

The Academic Senate of the University of California has passed an Open Access Policy, ensuring that future research articles authored by faculty at all 10 campuses of the UC will be made available to the public at no charge. It follows more than 175 other universities who have adopted similar so-called “green” open access policies.

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MAY 6, 2022

The internally funded advancement successfully reduced heavy-duty diesel engine nitrogen oxide (NO x ) emissions to meet the California Air Resources Board (CARB) 2027 standards. Both formulations met the CARB 2027 PM standards, but only the modified UWS met the CARB 2027 low NOX 0.02 g/hp-hr standard. DEF—a 32.5

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JUNE 1, 2021

Low-sulfur gasoline standards and regulations on power plants have successfully cut sulfate concentrations in the air, reducing the fine particulate matter that harms human health and cleaning up the environmental hazard of acid rain. —co-author and leader of SE-Dome ice core project Yoshinori Iizuka, Hokkaido University.

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FEBRUARY 12, 2022

Researchers at Stanford University have shown that porous polymer encapsulation of metal-supported catalysts can drive the selectivity of CO 2 conversion to hydrocarbons. This work was supported by grants from the Packard Foundation and the Precourt Institute for Energy at Stanford University. That would be a big deal.

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JUNE 30, 2015

million research grant to establish an Automotive Research Center (ARC) at the U-M. ” It carries the air of a family reunion in bringing all of the ARC’s university partners together, but remains focused on the goal of sharing the latest research developments. Footnotes. [ 1 ] Gilbert, D., Automotive Research Center.”

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OCTOBER 16, 2013

A policy analysis by two University of Illinois researchers argues that Congress should minimally modify, not repeal, the Renewable Fuel Standard (RFS). As a result, in its latest setting of the percentage standards for the four fuel categories covered for 2013, EPA specified biomass-based diesel (1.28 Kesan and Timothy A.

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MARCH 28, 2013

The fuels produced from the Primus STG+ technology are very low in sulfur and benzene compared to fuels produced from petroleum, and they can be used directly in vehicle engines as a component of standard fuel formulas and transported via the existing fuel delivery infrastructure. Primus Green Energy Inc., Department of Agriculture.

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MAY 18, 2021

ClearFlame’s solution, grounded in technology developed during doctoral studies at Stanford University and validated using more than $3 million in grant funding, addresses this problem by elevating combustion temperatures in order to enable use of non-traditional fuels without sacrificing performance.

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SEPTEMBER 29, 2011

A team from the National University of Singapore's Nanoscience and Nanotechnology Initiative (NUSNNI), led by principle investigator Dr. Xian Ning Xie, has developed a polystyrene membrane-based supercapacitor that they say will be easier to scale up than the current alternatives. Click to enlarge. —Xian Ning Xie.

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AUGUST 15, 2018

million in grant funding for the new Kenworth T680 trucks ( earlier post ) which started making deliveries today. The company is on the wait list for an additional $900,000 in Prop 1B grants from the San Diego Air Pollution Control District, which would be used to purchase another 9 trucks.

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OCTOBER 21, 2020

Laurens Mets at the University of Chicago. In August, Electrochaea announced it was receiving an EU grant of €2.5 million and an equity investment of €15 million for the scaling up of its technology and construction of the first standard 10-megawatt (MWe) plant.

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JULY 17, 2017

Ozone concentrations were lower than the levels capable of influencing pulmonary function, which is the main basis for current regulatory standards. The study, by a team from Duke University, Tsinghua University, Duke Kunshan University and Peking University, appears in the journal JAMA Internal Medicine.

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APRIL 10, 2009

Plug In America , the non-profit plug-in vehicle advocacy organization, has awarded grants of $15,000 each to student teams at Cal Poly Pomona, Cal Poly San Luis Obispo, UC Irvine and UC San Diego to design, build and race plug-in hybrid cars in the 2009 Formula Hybrid International Competition.

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JANUARY 8, 2010

The US Commerce Department’s National Institute of Standards and Technology (NIST) has awarded more than $123 million in American Recovery and Reinvestment Act grants to support the construction of new scientific research facilities at 11 universities and one non-profit research organization. Fort Lauderdale-Davis, Fla.)

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Cars That Think

NOVEMBER 16, 2023

Ethernet has become the standard wired local area network around the world, and it is widely used in businesses and homes. The Ethernet design was inspired by the Additive Links On-line Hawaii Area network (ALOHAnet), a radio-based system at the University of Hawai’i. Lampson were granted a U.S. 1985 Standard.

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DECEMBER 15, 2009

and the University of South Florida announced that they have exceeded the 2010 Department of Energy (DOE) goals for solid state hydrogen storage. These results have been confirmed independently by the Southwest Research Institute (SWRI) and the National Institute of Standards and Technology (NIST). QuantumSphere, Inc.

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APRIL 3, 2022

Chiyoda Corporation, which is headquartered in Japan, will serve as NTU’s key partner in the project, and will offer technical contribution based on their proprietary dehydrogenation catalyst technology, SPERA Hydrogen ( earlier post ), to the University to be developed and implemented on a national scale.

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OCTOBER 30, 2018

A first demonstrator shows how access rights, e.g. for car sharing, can be granted decentrally with a smartphone app. Essentially, it is all about the granting of access rights—to the car itself or to specific data in the vehicle. XAIN began as a University of Oxford research project in 2014.

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MARCH 23, 2011

The National Science Foundation (NSF) recently awarded a collaboration between Stanford University, the University of South Florida and Bosch Research and Technology Center North America a $1.2-million, Research discoveries will be integrated in undergraduate and graduate classes at both Stanford and The University of South Florida.

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JULY 18, 2023

Christopher Davis Codeveloper of a lunar retroreflector Life Fellow, 78; died 1 April Davis taught engineering at the University of Maryland in College Park for 48 years. He left two years later and joined the faculty in the University of Maryland’s electrical and computer engineering department. of Ontario, Canada.

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NOVEMBER 13, 2017

The University of California, Los Angeles (UCLA) has placed an order for a new all-electric shuttle bus powered by Motiv Power Systems ’ All-Electric Powertrain. This battery-electric buse is the first Motiv powered shuttle bus to operate on a university campus.

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JUNE 24, 2014

Southwest Research Institute (SwRI) and The University of Texas at San Antonio (UTSA) announced funding for a new joint research projects to advance clean emission technologies. Funding through the organizations’ Connecting through Research Partnerships (“Connect”) program has been granted for $125,000 for this project.

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MAY 1, 2022

ClearFlame’s solution, grounded in technology developed during doctoral studies at Stanford University and validated using more than $3 million in grant funding, addresses this problem by elevating combustion temperatures in order to enable use of non-traditional fuels without sacrificing performance.

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FEBRUARY 26, 2021

As the company readies for the transition from technology and standards development to broad market adoption, WiTricity has secured advisory support from several of the world’s leading authorities on designing consumer experiences, building leading edge technology, and monetizing intellectual property.

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OCTOBER 4, 2016

Now, a new project in Sweden, “ Research and Innovation Platform for Electric Roads ”, will explore how to make the step to large-scale operation along with the supporting business ecosystem as well as technical issues such as the standardization of interfaces. The project has been granted SEK19 million (US$2.2

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JULY 14, 2021

The goal is to create a unique concept that can be standardized and implemented worldwide, allowing for large-scale hydrogen production. The BEHYOND project was selected for support by the Blue Growth Programme of the European Economic Area Financial Mechanism (EEA Grants).

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JUNE 25, 2013

Among the transportation-related elements of US President Barack Obama’s new climate action plan, which he is outlining today in a speech at Georgetown University, is the development of new fuel economy standards for heavy-duty vehicles post-2018. New energy efficiency standards. Earlier post.).

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NOVEMBER 13, 2009

The US Departments of Agriculture and Energy selected projects for more than $24 million in grants to research and develop technologies to produce biofuels, bioenergy and high-value biobased products. University of Minnesota (St. Of the $24.4 million announced today, DOE plans to invest up to $4.9 BIOFUELS DEVELOPMENT ANALYSIS.

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