Green Car Congress

NOVEMBER 5, 2021

Lithium, a critical material used in high-charge-density batteries for electric vehicles and grid-scale electricity storage, is a crucial element in the clean energy supply chain. The Phase 1 semifinalists are: Boston University – Pober-Strauss. George Washington University – Ellexco. Oregon State University – Espiku.

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Green Car Congress

NOVEMBER 25, 2020

Hydrokinetic energy is an abundant renewable resource that can boost grid resiliency and reduce infrastructure vulnerability, but it is currently a cost prohibitive option compared to other energy generating sources. The University of Michigan. The turbine will be designed for power delivery to remote and local grids.

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Cars That Think

JUNE 24, 2023

This grid is designed to deliver power where it’s needed via a fleet of robotic rovers. John MacNeill A Lunar Power Grid LunaGrid will consist of a modular network of fixed power stations and mobile charging stations. What the stations cannot do for themselves is distribute power to locations separated from this grid.

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Green Car Congress

AUGUST 2, 2012

This latest round of ARPA-E projects seek to address the remaining challenges in energy storage technologies, which could revolutionize the way Americans store and use energy in electric vehicles, the grid and beyond, while also potentially improving the access to energy for the US. Utah State University. Pennsylvania State University.

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Green Car Congress

AUGUST 14, 2020

Recent US Supreme Court precedent has opened the door for states to enact laws requiring all new cars sold in the state to be electric as of a certain date, according to a paper by the nonprofit Coltura published in the University of Michigan Journal of Environmental and Administrative Law.

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Green Car Congress

JULY 20, 2010

At the Clean Energy Ministerial in Washington, DC, 19-20 July, ministers reaffirmed their commitment to previously-announced targets for the deployment of electric vehicles, which the International Energy Agency (IEA) estimates will create global market momentum leading to at least 20 million electric vehicles on the road worldwide by 2020.

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Green Car Congress

JULY 17, 2020

The Research Foundation for The SUNY Stony Brook University. University of Delaware. University of Maryland. Marquette University. e-Mosaic: Electrification Mosaic Platform for Grid- Informed Smart Charging Management. Utility Managed Smart Charging for Consumer and Grid Benefits. Colorado State University.

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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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Green Car Congress

JUNE 26, 2021

Northern Illinois University (DeKalb, Illinois). Microsoft Corporation (Redmond, Washington). Grid-Edge Intelligent Distribution Automation System for Self-Healing Distribution Grids, $550,000. Hydrogen Based Power Grid Support Using ElectrolyzeRs with Value Stacking (HYPER-V), $250,000. Seattle, Washington).

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Green Car Congress

JULY 27, 2016

The multi-disciplinary consortium includes leaders from DOE national labs, universities and industry, all of which are working together to make smaller, lighter and less expensive batteries that can be adopted by manufacturers. Binghamton University (State University of New York). Stanford University.

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Green Car Congress

NOVEMBER 24, 2015

The winning concepts were: A molten air battery that uses a molten salt electrolyte at elevated temperature from Professor Stuart Licht at George Washington University. A novel rechargeable zinc battery from the research group of Professors Paul Wright and James Evans from the University of California, Berkeley.

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Green Car Congress

JANUARY 17, 2013

Over the next three years, NREL engineers will work with teams led by Utah State University, Washington University, and Eaton Corporation to optimize utilization, life, and cost of lithium-ion batteries for electric-drive vehicles (EDVs) through improved battery management and controls.

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Cars That Think

MAY 27, 2023

Schweitzer III Employer: Schweitzer Engineering Laboratories Title: President and CTO Member grade: Life Fellow Alma maters: Purdue University, West Lafayette, Ind.; Washington State University, Pullman To develop and manufacture his relay, he launched Schweitzer Engineering Laboratories in 1982 from his basement in Pullman, Wash.

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Cars That Think

MAY 21, 2024

“These recent cyberattacks in Pennsylvania and Texas highlight the growing frequency of cyber threats to water systems,” says study author Nilufer Tuptuk , a lecturer in security and crime science at University College London. According to Katherine DeEmidio Ledesma , head of public policy and government affairs at Washington, D.C.-based

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Green Car Congress

JUNE 2, 2020

Sodium-ion batteries (SIBs), with the intrinsic advantages of resource abundance and geographic uniformity, are desired alternative battery technology to Li-ion batteries (LIBs) for grid-scale energy storage and transportation applications.

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CleanTechnica EVs

OCTOBER 27, 2022

The grants will reach over 400 school districts spanning all 50 states and Washington, D.C., The Biden administration under a new federal program is awarding grants to school districts all over the country. along with several tribes and U.S. territories.

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Cars That Think

DECEMBER 30, 2021

2021 was a big year for energy-related news, what with the ongoing hunt for new forms of energy storage and cleaner if not carbon-free electricity and events and research that spotlighted the weak links in our power grid. This article, by researchers at PARC and the University of Washington, is one possible answer.

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Green Car Congress

SEPTEMBER 30, 2011

The new ARPA-E selections focus on accelerating innovations in clean technology while increasing US competitiveness in rare earth alternatives and breakthroughs in biofuels, thermal storage, grid controls, and solar power electronics. University of Massachusetts, Amherst. University of Illinois. University. Description.

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Green Car Congress

MAY 20, 2013

Researchers at the Department of Energy’s Pacific Northwest National Laboratory (PNNL) and Bonneville Power Administration (BPA) have identified two compressed air energy storage methods for the temporary storage of the Northwest’s excess wind power and two eastern Washington locations to put them into practice.

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Cars That Think

NOVEMBER 20, 2023

Thousands of Washington insiders and climate activists have had a hand in these legislative breakthroughs. Jesse Jenkins, Princeton University When I entered the field, commercial wind was starting to scale up and the questions were about engineering feasibility. power-grid transmission. year grid study from the U.S.

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Green Car Congress

APRIL 8, 2020

If a grid-ready fusion demonstration can be realized within approximately 20 years, while achieving cost competitiveness, then fusion can contribute to meeting low-carbon energy demand and achieving cost-effective deep decarbonization in the latter half of the 21 st century. University of Wisconsin-Madison. University of Washington.

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EV Match

FEBRUARY 26, 2021

Ironically, Governor Abbott targeted renewable energy just as The New York Times was writing that Texas’ grid trouble is a sign of disruption to come as climate change induces more and more extreme weather events. … It just shows that fossil fuel is necessary.”. Credit: Los Angeles Times. Do We Have the Political Will?

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Green Car Congress

SEPTEMBER 14, 2016

In particular, IONICS projects will work to improve energy storage and conversion technologies in three categories: transportation batteries, grid-level storage, and fuel cells. Iowa State University. Pennsylvania State University. University of Colorado Boulder. grid, transforming domestic energy production.

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Green Car Congress

APRIL 14, 2012

These consortia—led in theUS by the National Renewable Energy Laboratory (NREL), the University of Florida, and Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory (LBNL)—will bring together experts from national laboratories, universities, and industry in both the US and India. MEMC Corporation; and Solarmer Energy Inc. .;

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Green Car Congress

AUGUST 16, 2016

Demonstrate plug‐in electric vehicles through public ride and drives for a wide variety of PEVs and short term extended test drives in key markets throughout Oregon and Washington. Grid Modernization for Electric Vehicles (Area of Interest 2). Ohio State University. Iowa State University. University of Pittsburgh.

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Green Car Congress

FEBRUARY 12, 2016

Electric vehicles charged in coal-heavy regions can create more human health and environmental damages from life cycle air emissions than gasoline vehicles, according to a new consequential life cycle analysis by researchers from Carnegie Mellon University. UC stands for uncontrolled charging and CC stands for controlled charging. Weis et al.

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Green Car Congress

JULY 10, 2019

Purdue University, West Lafayette, Ind. Solar Energy Industries Association, Washington, D.C. The Solar Foundation, Washington, D.C. Surface Acoustic Wave Sensor for Refrigerant Leak Detection, $375,000 Parker and Hannifin, Washington, Mo. Combustion Research & Flow Technology Inc., Pipersville, Pa. New York, N.Y.

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Cars That Think

DECEMBER 27, 2021

This Z-pinch approach—so named because the current pinches the plasma along the third, or Z , axis of a three-dimensional grid—could potentially produce energy in a device that’s simpler, smaller, and cheaper than the massive tokamaks or laser-fusion machines under development today. University of Washington.

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Green Car Congress

JULY 21, 2016

35 new businesses, non-profits, universities, and utilities signing on to DOE’s Workplace Charging Challenge and committing to provide electric vehicle charging access for their workforce. Enable smart charging and vehicle grid integration through solutions such as demand response, and other energy storage and load management strategies.

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Green Car Congress

NOVEMBER 28, 2012

The projects are based in 24 states, with approximately 47% of the projects led by universities; 29% by small businesses; 15% by large businesses; 7.5% University. Researchers from Colorado State University will develop a system. Researchers from Colorado State University will develop a system. University.

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Cars That Think

MAY 21, 2022

Naval Research Laboratory , in Washington, D.C., To underscore how safe the system was, the host of the BBC science program “ Bang Goes the Theory ” stuck his face fully into a power beam sent between buildings at the University of Maryland. Army’s Blossom Point test facility south of Washington, D.C. Lighthouse Dev in 2012.

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Green Car Congress

NOVEMBER 25, 2015

Leichter at Scripps Institution of Oceanography, University of California at San Diego, and a team led by Douglas C. Elliott at Pacific Northwest National Laboratory, Richland, Washington. This novel approach will grow kelp attached to large grids in the open ocean permanently towed by inexpensive robotic submarines.

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Green Car Congress

JANUARY 21, 2016

US Energy Secretary Ernest Moniz used the Washington DC Auto show as the venue to announce $58 million in funding for vehicle technology advancements. DOE will fund cost-shared projects with private industry, national laboratories, and university teams. Area of Interest (AOI) 2: Grid Modernization for Electric Vehicles.

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Cars That Think

JUNE 29, 2023

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. Washington in particular has been very friendly to fusion,” says Kirtley.

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Green Car Congress

MARCH 27, 2013

This product will certainly play an important role in the world’s energy future, ultimately improving the performance of a wide variety of energy storage devices—everything from hybrid and electric vehicles, to industrial cranes and forklifts, to a cleaner and more efficient global energy grid. Aaron Feaver.

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Green Car Congress

MARCH 3, 2016

Researchers from George Washington University and Vanderbilt University have demonstrated the conversion of atmospheric CO 2 into carbon nanofibers (CNFs) and carbon nanotubes (CNTs) for use as high-performance anodes in both lithium-ion and sodium-ion batteries. —Licht et al.

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Green Car Congress

AUGUST 26, 2013

Honolulu, with 26 quick chargers, has one of densest charging grids in the US. Washington D.C. Energy companies have been a major proponent in developing the West Coast Electric Highway that has helped to educate consumers and raise awareness for EVs. Oregon has a Chief EV Officer to promote EV use. Chicago and Denver (tied).

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