Green Car Congress

SEPTEMBER 11, 2012

The Board of Directors of the San Francisco Municipal Transportation Agency (SFMTA), which oversees all transportation in the city, including the Municipal Railway (Muni), recently approved the purchase of 45 new hybrid electric 40-foot buses from New Flyer Industries. These new vehicles will replace 13-year-old buses currently in service.

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Green Car Congress

NOVEMBER 30, 2016

AmeriPride Services is taking delivery of 21 Ford F-59 trucks featuring XL Hybrids’ XL3 Hybrid Electric Drive System by the end of this year. AmeriPride will use the hybrid-electric F-59 trucks for uniform rental and linen supply delivery in North American metropolitan markets including Arizona and Minnesota.

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Baua Electric

MARCH 11, 2024

Just before Volvo continues its all-electric shift with the XC90-sized EX90 EV , it’s smoothed out its popular plug-in hybrid powertrain in the XC90. The latest plug-in hybrid powertrain in the XC90 features a ‘B’ mode for braking, which Volvo calls “one-pedal drive,” as it does with its electric cars.

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Plug In Partners

JUNE 12, 2006

R epresentative Frank Hornstein reports that House File 3718 has passed, and that Minnesota is the first state to join the push for plug-in hybrids. A task force has been created from business, government and utility representatives to develop a plan to build the cars in Minnesota.

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Green Car Congress

JULY 2, 2017

Researchers from the University of Minnesota, with colleagues at the University of Massachusetts Amherst, have developed a new high-yield process—a hybrid of fermentation followed by thermochemical catalysis—to produce renewable isoprene from biomass.

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Green Car Congress

APRIL 21, 2011

The Minnesota Department of Transportation (Mn/DOT) will recruit 500 people from Wright and Hennepin counties to take part in research to test technology that could someday be used to collect a mileage-based user fee (MBUF) in lieu of a gasoline tax. —Cory Johnson, project manager.

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Green Car Congress

FEBRUARY 15, 2018

Consumers in seven US Midwest states seeking information about plug-in electric and hybrid vehicles now have access to a new-vehicle purchase guidance tool created by Argonne National Laboratory. States currently covered by the new tool are Illinois, Indiana, Michigan, Minnesota, North Dakota, Ohio, Wisconsin.

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Green Car Reports

JUNE 5, 2012

The most effective way of getting regular consumers to warm to electric vehicles, hybrids and other alternative fuel vehicles is to get them behind the wheel. The same applies to business customers, who may be in a position to buy a fleet of green vehicles to replacing ageing current fleets.

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Baua Electric

MAY 18, 2023

The outgoing E 53 generates 429 hp from an inline-6, and we predict the unutilized one to store much more horsepower, perhaps from a 4-cylinder coupled with hybrid era. Minnesota’s Runge just lately paid a seek advice from to Jay Leno’s Storage with its original inauguration, the Dodge Viper-based Veleno.

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Green Car Congress

MAY 16, 2012

The technology is currently being tested in a number of North American cities, including Portland, Oregon and Minneapolis, Minnesota. Last year, Voith opened a hybrid power-train development center near San Diego which will further develop Voith’s hybrid diesel/electric power-train drive systems for transit buses.

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Green Car Congress

JUNE 1, 2017

Southwest Research Institute: Model Predictive Control for Energy-Efficient Maneuvering Of Connected Autonomous Vehicles Equipped with 12V Micro-Hybrid Engine Technology – $2,900,000. University of Minnesota: Small Scale Ammonia Synthesis Using Stranded Wind Energy – $2,900,000. Giner, Inc.: REFUEL SBIR/STTR.

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Green Car Congress

JULY 17, 2020

Regents of University of Minnesota. Field Demonstration of a Near-Zero, Tier 5 compliant, Natural Gas Hybrid Line-Haul Locomotive. Regents of the University of Minnesota. AOI 06a: Research to Transform the Efficiency of Off-Road Vehicles. Pacific Northwest National Laboratory. Cummins Inc. Gas Technology Institute. 299,899.

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Green Car Congress

NOVEMBER 3, 2016

The vehicle will be further augmented with a hybrid-electric system to broaden the engine control technology operating range. The GM team draws on experience in engine technologies and connected and autonomous vehicles to expedite the project development process. Michigan Technological University. The University of California, Riverside.

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Green Car Congress

DECEMBER 3, 2021

proposes a hybrid flare design coupled with advanced controls to ensure 99.5% University of Minnesota will use plasma-assisted combustion to enhance flare methane destruction efficiency. The combustors will be made of silicon carbide, which can withstand more than 2500 degrees Fahrenheit, using a new 3D printing process.

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Green Car Congress

SEPTEMBER 21, 2015

Midwest Nano Infrastructure Corridor, University of Minnesota Twin Cities with partner North Dakota State University, PI: Stephen Campbell. Soft and Hybrid Nanotechnology Experimental Resource, Northwestern University with partner University of Chicago, PI: Vinayak Dravid.

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Green Car Congress

FEBRUARY 6, 2015

Sunline Transit Agency, in partnership with the Southern California Association of Governments, will receive funding to build and deploy five hydrogen electric hybrid fuel cell buses. Louis County in northeast Minnesota. BAE Systems, Ballard Power Systems and ElDorado National will team up to build the new zero-emission buses.

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Blink Charging

SEPTEMBER 12, 2023

Sourcewell, a Minnesota-based agency, has pre-vetted and pre-negotiated competitive pricing for electric vehicle charging stations and services. State Funding for Electric School Buses In addition to national programs, many states have their own funding opportunities for helping to transition fleets to electric vehicles.

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Green Car Congress

SEPTEMBER 22, 2009

Stationary Fuel Cells and Hybrid Transit Buses Incremental Costs: The purchase of diesel-electric hybrid transit buses and stationary fuel cells for use in the statewide bus system in Connecticut. Statewide Paratransit Bus Hybrid Program: Purchase 31 paratransit hybrid buses to replace 31 gas and diesel vehicles.

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Green Car Congress

APRIL 29, 2015

—Ilja Siepmann, a University of Minnesota chemistry professor and director of the DOE-funded Nanoporous Materials Genome Center. Siepmann, University of Minnesota. Earlier post.). Using Mira, we are able to use our computer simulations to compress decades of research in the lab into a total of about a day’s worth of computing.

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Green Car Congress

JULY 17, 2014

A Novel Poplar Biomass Germplasm Resource for Functional Genomics and Breeding Goal: Further develop the poplar indel germplasm collection and use it to investigate the role of gene dosage in poplar hybrid performance and contribution to bioenergy traits. Michael Marks, University of Minnesota, Minneapolis. DOE-BER funded.

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Plug In Partners

JUNE 27, 2006

We would like to take this opportunity to report on our efforts to demonstrate to automakers that a market for plug-in hybrid vehicles exists in the United States today. Soft” fleet orders are a critical component of the Plug-In Partners goal of demonstrating to automakers that a market exists for flexible fuel plug-in hybrids.

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Clean Fleet Report

OCTOBER 25, 2023

It’s confusing because the same terminology is used by other car company’s to describe hybrid vehicles with no plug-in capability.] note: “Electrified” is Genesis current nomenclature for its EV.

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DIY Electric Car

APRIL 10, 2010

Currently our team is taking apart a 2002 Honda Odyssey Mini-van and we are converting it into an ALL ELECTRIC not just a HYBRID. Opening large energy company's eyes to the possibility of a "Green Future" is what we have achieved in our small town of Elk River, Minnesota.

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Green Car Congress

FEBRUARY 12, 2009

A Georgia Tech City and Regional Planning study on climate change concludes that “smart growth” combined with the use of hybrid vehicle technology could reduce cities’ carbon dioxide (CO 2 ) emissions significantly by 2050. Percent change in median CO2 by scenario relative to 2000. Stone et al. 2009) Click to enlarge. Stone et al.

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Tony Karrer Delicious EVdriven

APRIL 21, 2009

About CalCars Plug-In Hybrids FAQ How to Get a PHEV Where PHEVs are Carmakers Say. Conversions are mostly for the Prius, with a few for the Ford Escape/Mercury Mariner hybrid SUVs. See How Carmakers are Responding to the Plug-In Hybrid Opportunity. So far, most start as hybrids. They are early adopters, buying "Version 1.0"

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Plug In Partners

MAY 24, 2006

T hrough the leadership of Mayor Richard Daley , the City of Chicago has joined Plug In Partners with a big bang by committing to purchase 850 plug in hybrid vehicles. Now, as a Plug In Partner , Chicago becomes an important part of the move toward Plug in Hybrids. Minnesota Dept. Here are the most recent.

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Green Car Congress

NOVEMBER 13, 2009

This project will modify, extend and link established modeling frameworks to capture the strengths of each framework in a hybrid, multidisciplinary system. University of Minnesota (St.

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Green Car Congress

OCTOBER 18, 2020

Battelle Memorial Institute (Columbus, OH) - Hybrid Approach to Repurpose Plastics Using Novel Engineered Processes (HARNESS) – DOE Funding: $1,999,778. Case Western Reserve University (Cleveland, OH) - Hybrid Chemical-Mechanical Separation & Upcycling of Mixed Plastic Waste – DOE Funding: $2,498,539.

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Green Car Congress

MARCH 14, 2011

The new SCET report reviews a range of new technologies and fuels, from improved internal combustion engines, to hybrid and other electric drive technologies, to existing and new bio- and other types of fuels. Hybrid, all-electric drive, and fuel cell technologies are likely to see substantial market penetration by the end of this decade.

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Green Car Congress

APRIL 9, 2016

All vehicles have higher emissions in Minnesota, a colder state, compared to California. However, the increase in emissions is largest for the Leaf BEV, whereas only a slight increase is observed with Mazda 3 CV.

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Green Car Congress

AUGUST 16, 2016

Daimler Trucks North America LLC will develop and demonstrate a tractor-trailer combination using a suite of technologies including active aerodynamics, cylinder deactivation, hybridization, and the electrification of accessories. Navistar, Inc. Drive Oregon. 993,450.

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Green Car Congress

JUNE 26, 2021

High Efficiency Power-to-Gas in a Modular Hybrid Electrobioreactor, $1,000,000. Field Testing and Validation of Hybrid Optimization and Performance Platform (HOPP) , $500,000. Honeywell (Plymouth, Minnesota). Carl ZEISS Industry Metrology (Maple Grove, Minnesota). Electrochaea GmbH (Munich, Germany).

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Green Car Congress

FEBRUARY 19, 2009

He served as the chief engineer for the Ford Escape Hybrid from 1998 to 2003 and holds 12 patents. CPI is initially focusing on battery systems for what Patil calls xEVs—the range of electrified vehicles from simple hybrids through full electric vehicles—“ so we don’t stretch ourselves too thin. ” Prabhakar Patil. Click to enlarge. “

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Cars That Think

AUGUST 11, 2021

He's currently a senior research fellow at the University of Minnesota's Charles Babbage Institute , where he specializes in the history of technology. We're back with my guest Jim Cortada, a senior research fellow at the University of Minnesota's Charles Babbage Institute and author of a comprehensive corporate history of IBM.

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Green Car Congress

FEBRUARY 4, 2016

The study by researchers at the University of Wisconsin—Madison and the University of Minnesota is an early signal that the growing use of the new nanoscale materials used in the rechargeable batteries that power portable electronics and electric and hybrid vehicles may have unforeseen environmental consequences. Click to enlarge.

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Green Car Congress

MAY 15, 2021

University of Minnesota. The University of Minnesota will design a cell-free biocatalytic system that will reduce CO 2 efficiently into formate, a C 1 feedstock, with energy supplied from electricity. The goal is to shift the bioproduction paradigm and generate highly reduced carbon compounds from simple, inexpensive feedstocks.

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Green Car Congress

NOVEMBER 28, 2012

The University of Minnesota will develop an ultra-thin separation. energy storage device for hybrid electric vehicles that combines. Low-Cost, Fast-Charging Batteries for Hybrid Vehicles. storage battery for hybrid vehicles. The new structure of these catalysts would be used to create a. University of. University of.

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