Green Car Congress

SEPTEMBER 21, 2020

The city of Houston is set to receive the first Federal Motor Vehicle Safety Standards (FMVSS), Americans with Disabilities Act (ADA), and Buy America-compliant mid-size autonomous bus in the US. Jointly developed by Phoenix Motorcars and EasyMile , the EZ Zeus self-driving bus will be deployed in real-life traffic conditions.

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Green Car Congress

AUGUST 22, 2012

partnering with with the City of Houston, Texas, to launch a municipal electric vehicle (EV) fleet sharing program: Houston Fleet Share. The City of Houston selected Zipcar as its fleet technology provider through a competitive bidding process. Zipcar, Inc.is

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Green Car Congress

NOVEMBER 28, 2022

When illuminated with light-emitting diodes rather than lasers, the photocatalytic efficiencies remain comparable, even when the scale of reaction increases by nearly three orders of magnitude. Unlike traditional catalysts, it doesn’t require heat; it harvests energy from light. —Peter Nordlander, co-author.

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Green Car Congress

APRIL 27, 2011

have agreed to form a 50/50 joint venture to design and construct a crude oil pipeline from Cushing, Oklahoma to Houston, Texas. per barrel to Louisiana Light Sweet and Brent crude oil, respectively. Enterprise Products Partners L.P. and Energy Transfer Partners, L.P. per barrel and $10.54 Earlier post , earlier post.).

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Green Car Congress

FEBRUARY 26, 2022

The stations will initially fuel light-duty vehicles while retaining the flexibility to service heavy-duty vehicles over the long term. Iwatani Corporation of America has headquarters offices in Houston, Texas and Santa Clara, California.

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Green Car Congress

DECEMBER 24, 2013

Researchers led by a team from the University of Houston have characterized the platinum group elemental composition of PM 2.5 and PM 10 emissions—mainly from gasoline-fueled light-duty vehicles (LDVs)—in the Washburn Tunnel in Houston Texas as a mechanism for better determining the contribution of LDVs to particulate emissions.

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Green Car Congress

JUNE 25, 2021

The Kodiak Driver incorporates numerous autonomous trucking-specific innovations including its light-weight mapping technology. Kodiak delivers freight daily for its customers between Dallas-Fort Worth and Houston, operating autonomously on the highway portion of the route.

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Green Car Congress

SEPTEMBER 23, 2011

In this project, traffic light timing systems estimate the number of vehicles by registering Bluetooth signals emitted by the drivers’ cell phones and adjust the phases of red and green light accordingly. In an emergency, the system can centrally control all traffic lights. Short Range Communications (DSRC) antennas.

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Green Car Congress

AUGUST 20, 2019

Other participants include angel investors from the Creative Destruction Lab program and the Houston area. The Antenna-Reactor is the combination of a larger light-harvesting plasmonic nanoparticle (the ‘Antenna’), and smaller traditional catalyst nanoparticles (the ‘Reactor’).

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Green Car Congress

JULY 21, 2021

Collectively, gasoline superusers burn nearly one-third of all gasoline consumed in the US by light-duty vehicles. Louisiana, Wyoming, and Mississippi are the states with the highest concentration of superusers, while Houston, Detroit, St. This is more than the bottom 60% of users combined. The top 20% of gasoline users burn 48%.

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Teslarati

DECEMBER 19, 2023

You will solve for light and heavy-duty vehicle fleet infrastructure solutions at the lowest possible cost and enable electrification for entirely new industries across North America,” described Tesla in the ‘What to Expect’ section of the job post. In October, Tesla sold $100 million Supercharger hardware units to bp America.

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Green Car Congress

APRIL 10, 2021

The Antenna-Reactor is the combination of a larger light-harvesting plasmonic nanoparticle (the ‘Antenna’), and smaller traditional catalyst nanoparticles (the ‘Reactor’). Syzygy’s team brings together world-class academic, entrepreneurial and chemical and engineering talent from Rice University, University of Houston and Baker Hughes.

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Green Car Congress

MAY 26, 2010

The DOE laboratories are providing on-the-ground technical, engineering and scientific support at BP’s Houston Headquarters. Earlier, the Obama Administration outlined the “round-the-clock” scientific support from the Department of Energy and National Labs to help inform strategies to stop the BP oil spill.

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Green Car Congress

AUGUST 22, 2014

The Valero Memphis Refinery originally was constructed in 1941 with numerous expansions to its present rated capacity of 195,000 barrels per day (BPD) of light, low-sulfur crude oil. The refinery currently primarily processes light and sweet crude oil received through the Capline pipeline. PAA is headquartered in Houston, Texas.

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Cars That Think

OCTOBER 29, 2023

Three locations, one common goal This year, the TryEngineering Summer Institute was held at the University of Pennsylvania , in Philadelphia; Rice University , in Houston; and the University of San Diego. A highlight for the campers in Houston was a daylong visit to NASA’s Johnson Space Center.

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Cars That Think

DECEMBER 3, 2021

In much of the world, December is a month of twinkling lights. Whether for religious or secular celebrations, the variety and functionality of lights have exploded in recent years, abetted by cheap and colorful LEDs and compact electronics. But decorative lights aren't new. His tree now boasted 120 lights and more colors.

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Cars That Think

JANUARY 8, 2024

Richards-Kortum is a professor of bioengineering at Rice University , in Houston, and codirector of the Rice360 Institute for Global Health Technologies , which is developing affordable medical equipment for underresourced hospitals. The light source is a blue LED with a peak wavelength of 455 nm.

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Cars That Think

APRIL 21, 2023

Today this technology is advanced enough to resurrect pop stars, like Whitney Houston , for convincing stage shows, but the depth of these projections mean that the hologram experience lacks convincing three-dimensionality. As a result, blurred images are created when this light bleeds through.

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Green Car Congress

FEBRUARY 10, 2016

UPS stations in Houston and Mesquite will dispense the RLNG to a fleet of about 140 UPS tractors. Its fleet includes more than 6,840 all-electric, hybrid electric, hydraulic hybrid, CNG, LNG, propane and light-weight fuel-saving composite body vehicles. Earlier post.).

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Baua Electric

APRIL 27, 2023

BMW was once again spotted testing a prototype for its redesigned M5, and this time the test vehicle sported the production-bound lights and wheels. Aurora Innovation plans to launch a commercial service next year with self-driving trucks transporting goods between Dallas and Houston.

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EV Central

AUGUST 11, 2023

Then I was lucky enough to drive the Ora in light rain, and wow, that was something. This a five-star NCAP rated car, and it has more bongs, whistles, alarms and flashing lights connected to its safety systems than the entirety of the control panels at Mission Control in Houston.

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Green Car Congress

APRIL 1, 2015

Houston Baytown, Texas; Latta, S.C.; The use of natural gas fuel not only reduces operating costs for vehicles, but also reduces greenhouse gas emissions up to 30% in light-duty vehicles and 23% in medium to heavy-duty vehicles. Clean Energy will support this fleet by opening truck-friendly natural gas fueling stations in Atlanta, Ga.;

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Green Car Congress

NOVEMBER 1, 2022

An illustration of the light-powered, one-step remediation process for hydrogen sulfide gas made possible by a gold photocatalyst created at Rice University. Each island was a gold nanoparticle about 10 billionths of a meter across that would interact strongly with a specific wavelength of visible light. —Naomi Halas.

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Cars That Think

JANUARY 21, 2022

Agility Robotics ] Houston Mechatronics is now Nauticus Robotics, and they have a fancy new video to prove it. In addition, a KR AGILUS performs as a light artist and enchants with soft and expansive movements. All in all, the show cell is home to a cool group called the Kjays. And if that was too much for you to handle (?)

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Green Car Congress

OCTOBER 14, 2014

CALSTART, which will administer the project for the FTA, received the green light from the FTA for work to proceed. The announcement of the fuel cell bus follows New Flyer’s unveiling of a battery-electric propulsion system to the Xcelsior transit bus lineup at the American Public Transit Association Expo tradeshow in Houston, Texas.

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Green Car Congress

MARCH 27, 2012

The expansion of the reversed Seaway Pipeline will more than double its capacity to 850,000 barrels per day (bpd) by mid-2014 and transport oil originating in the Canadian oil sands and the US Bakken shale from Cushing, Oklahoma to the US Gulf Coast at Houston, with an extension to Port Arthur/Beaumont.

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Green Car Congress

JUNE 5, 2012

Nationally, light rail (modern streetcars, trolleys, and heritage trolleys) ridership increased 6.7% Twenty-five of twenty-seven light rail systems reported ridership increases. (Ann Arbor, MI; Boston, MA; Charlotte, NC; Fort Myers, FL; Indianapolis, IN; Ithaca, NY; New York, NY; Oakland, CA; Olympia, WA; San Diego, CA; and Tampa, FL).

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Green Car Congress

NOVEMBER 2, 2011

The 19 launch markets include: Atlanta, Austin and Houston, Texas; Boston, Chicago, Denver, Detroit, Los Angeles, San Francisco, San Diego, New York, Orlando, Fla., A limited number of Focus Electrics will first be available in California and the New York/New Jersey regions. Phoenix and Tucson, Ariz.; Portland, Ore.; Raleigh Durham, N.C.;

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Green Car Congress

SEPTEMBER 27, 2018

An Advanced Meso-Scale Peridynamic Modeling Technology Using High Performance Computing for Cost-Effective Product Design and Testing of Carbon Fiber-Reinforced Polymer Composites in Light-Weight Vehicles – Ford Motor Company (Dearborn, MI) will improve the prediction of crash response of carbon composites in auto parts.

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Green Car Congress

AUGUST 27, 2015

In order to reliably arrive on time for important freeway trips, travelers had to allow 48 minutes to make a trip that takes 20 minutes in light traffic. last year, including Los Angeles, San Francisco, San Jose, Seattle, Houston and Riverside, CA. nationally) including Riverside, Houston, Los Angeles, San Jose, Boston and Chicago.

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Green Car Congress

FEBRUARY 16, 2009

The Houston Advanced Research Center ( HARC ) and the Harold Vance Department of Petroleum Engineering at Texas A&M University are establishing a collaborative research program to promote advanced technology for low-impact oil and gas drilling. Sam Houston State University. University of Colorado. Utah State University.

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Green Car Congress

JANUARY 18, 2013

The MTG process first dehydrates methanol to dimethylether (DME); an equilibrium mixture of methanol, DME and water is then converted to light olefins (C 2 -C 4 ). The shape-selective catalyst limits hydrocarbon synthesis to 10 carbons—i.e., gasoline range. Source: EMRE. Click to enlarge.

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Cars That Think

NOVEMBER 8, 2021

Microgravity can be somewhat unpredictable, but you have a very good idea of the characteristics of objects (and even of lighting) because everything that's up there is excessively well defined.

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Cars That Think

JUNE 23, 2023

And they did, and it did a lot of really bad things; it ran red lights. O’Dowd: In March, in North Carolina, a self-driving Tesla blew past a school bus with its red lights flashing and hit a child in the road, just like we showed in our Super Bowl commercial. Cruise just announced they were going to open Dallas and Houston.

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Cars That Think

MAY 26, 2023

We also post a weekly calendar of upcoming robotics events for the next few months. Please send us your events for inclusion. The other half is still a work in progress, but here’s progress: [ Apptronik ] A spotted-lanternfly-murdering robot is my kind of murdering robot. [

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Green Car Congress

MARCH 10, 2014

Light rail (modern streetcars, trolleys, and heritage trolleys) ridership increased 1.6% Large bus systems with increases were located in the following areas: Washington, DC (3.5%); Houston, TX (3.4%); Cincinnati, OH (3.4%); and Seattle, WA (3.1%). in 2013 with 17 out of 27 transit systems reporting increases.

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Green Car Congress

FEBRUARY 10, 2011

Pike projections of cumulative light duty plug-in electric vehicle sales, 10 largest MSAs by population, 2011-2017. Dallas, Philadelphia, Houston, Atlanta and Washington DC are not expected to show strong sales of PEVs; all are forecast to have fewer than 28,000 PEVs in their markets by 2017. Click to enlarge. Earlier post.)

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