Green Car Congress

SEPTEMBER 21, 2013

The US Department of Energy (DOE) announced more than $60 million in nuclear energy research awards and improvements to university research reactors and infrastructure. In the next few years, about 30% of nuclear energy industry workers, many of whom joined the field in the 1960s and 1970s, will be eligible for retirement.

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Green Car Congress

MAY 21, 2010

The US Department of Energy (DOE) has selected 42 university-led research and development projects for awards totaling $38 million. These projects, funded over three to four years through the Department’s Nuclear Energy University Program, are intended to help advance nuclear education and develop the next generation of nuclear technologies.

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Green Car Congress

JUNE 13, 2017

Proterra will utilize the $55 million to increase production at its manufacturing facilities in South Carolina and Los Angeles, while also bolstering research and development efforts at the company's headquarters in Silicon Valley. Due to Proterra's efforts, electric mass transit is overtaking fossil-fuel buses as the new standard.

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Green Car Congress

SEPTEMBER 7, 2017

Boston University. Core-Shell Heterostructures as Solid Oxide Fuel Cell Electrodes Boston University will research ways to synthesize and deploy core-shell heterostructures as SOFC cathodes that will improve SOFC performance by increasing oxygen reduction rates and improving cathode resistance to degradation. Boston University.

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Green Car Congress

MARCH 12, 2019

Understanding how the gut microbiome populations interact to deconstruct lignocellulosic materials to sugars or potential biofuels such as hydrogen and methane could potentially aid in the optimization of industrial cellulosic degradation. —Jennifer Pett-Ridge, a Lawrence Livermore National Lab biogeochemist and a co-author.

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Green Car Congress

JULY 14, 2016

Researchers at the University of Georgia (UGA) have crossed American sweetgums with their Chinese cousins, creating hybrid sweetgum trees that have a better growth rate and denser wood than natives, and can produce fiber year-round.

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Green Car Congress

AUGUST 22, 2016

Montana State University. The team, which includes researchers from Montana, Wyoming and South Dakota, seeks to identify a framework of carbon mitigation strategies that would minimize conflicts with food security and clean energy production priorities. Murray State University. University of Southern Mississippi.

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Green Car Congress

DECEMBER 1, 2016

Technical University of Munich, Technical University of Berlin and the University of Freiburg are working on next-generation catalysts, electrodes and membranes. GDLs are positioned between the catalyst layer in the cell and the gas flow channel; its structure controls catalyst utilization and overall fuel cell performance.

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Green Car Congress

AUGUST 31, 2009

a supplier of advanced biomass gasification systems, has received C$7.7M (US$7 million) in funding from the BC Bioenergy Network (BCBN), Sustainable Development Technology Canada (SDTC), the National Research Council Canada Industrial Research Assistance Program (NRC-IRAP), and Ethanol BC. Canada-based Nexterra Systems Corp.,

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Green Car Congress

MARCH 2, 2012

The US Energy Department (DOE) and its Savannah River Site (SRS) announced three public-private partnerships to develop deployment plans for small modular nuclear reactor (SMR) technologies at SRS facilities, near Aiken, South Carolina. The DOE has been working to advance SMR systems, which it defines as producing less than 350 MWe.

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Cars That Think

OCTOBER 30, 2022

Pong kick-started a global video-game industry that is now worth upwards of US $300 billion. Alcorn had majored in electrical engineering and computer science at the University of California, Berkeley, but had never played a video game before. At the time, video games were mostly the domain of research laboratories and universities.

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Cars That Think

JANUARY 5, 2022

In her search for treatment, she came across neurologists at New York University (NYU) who were trying electrical neurostimulation for long COVID patients. In Brazil, Suellen Andrade of the Federal University of Paraiba recently concluded a study using transcranial direct current stimulation (tDCS) to help patients in the intensive care unit.

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Green Car Congress

SEPTEMBER 27, 2009

In announcing their partnership, FPL Group and Duke Energy called for a wide variety of organizations to commit to greening their vehicle fleets, including corporations, governments, universities and other agencies. This commitment will provide the transportation industry the evidence that a robust market for PEVs exists.

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Green Car Congress

JULY 14, 2015

These projects will move SOFC technology closer to commercial deployment, with some of the small-scale demonstration projects illustrating the potential of SOFC technology to transfer to industry applications within the next 5 to 10 years. The University of South Carolina. The Tennessee Technological University.

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Cars That Think

SEPTEMBER 27, 2021

Ursula Gorham , senior lecturer at the University of Maryland School of Information Studies , said. Megan Iorio , counsel at the Electronic Privacy Information Center (EPIC), concurred with Rabb. If the story behind the data is foggier, though, a device's function and reliability may be the hinge upon which fate swings. What happens then?

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Baua Electric

JANUARY 25, 2024

Bryant Walker Smith, a law professor at the University of South Carolina, said “it was and is obvious that Cruise did not tell the truth, the whole truth, and nothing but the truth after the crash.” NHTSA, the CPUC, the California DMV, the SEC and DOJ were not immediately available for comment on the report.

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Green Car Congress

APRIL 14, 2009

Kentucky was selected over Texas, Illinois, Kansas, Missouri, New York, Pennsylvania and South Carolina. The National Alliance for Advanced Transportation Batteries (NAATBatt) ( earlier post ) has selected a site in Hardin County, Kentucky to build a more than $600-million automotive lithium-ion battery plant. Earlier post.).

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MARCH 10, 2015

The Southeast AFV Demonstration Initiative (SADI) will carry out a multi-fuel, multi- state vehicle demonstration program complete with vehicles, driver education and marketing strategies to help incorporate alternative fuels into new fleets and industry sectors in North Carolina, South Carolina, and Tennessee.

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Green Car Congress

APRIL 30, 2010

The project includes genetic modifications of bacteria that metabolize carbon dioxide, oxygen, and hydrogen to produce butanol; development of an industrially scalable bioreactor system; and a novel approach to recovery of butanol from the bioreactor. NC State University. Medical University of South Carolina.

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Carbon Batteries Battery Li-ion 249

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AUGUST 5, 2009

Industry officials expect that this $2.4 billion in cost-share from the award winners, will result directly in the creation tens of thousands of manufacturing jobs in the US battery and auto industries. Companies and universities in Michigan are receiving more than $1 billion of the grants. West Virginia University (NAFTC).

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SEPTEMBER 21, 2017

Topic Area 3: Industrial separations within an integrated biorefinery (no projects have been selected from topic area 3). Purdue University (West Lafayette, Indiana)—Purdue University aims to develop strong, innovative computational and empirical models that rigorously detail the multiphase flow of biomass materials.

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Green Car Congress

AUGUST 26, 2009

Fleets include transportation authorities, cities, school districts, the University of Michigan, FedEx, and Meijer. The fleets include two utility fleets, five cities and towns, three counties, ten private companies, two state fleets, ten school districts, and two universities. Total DOE award: $14,970,144.

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AUGUST 15, 2013

The US Department of Energy (DOE) has selected 10 university projects to conduct advanced turbine technology research under the Office of Fossil Energy’s University Turbine Systems Research (UTSR) Program. Texas A&M University. Purdue University. University of Texas at Austin.

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Green Car Congress

DECEMBER 23, 2016

Iowa State University will bring its expertise in biorenewable technologies and pilot plant operations to the country’s 10th Manufacturing USA Institute. That could save the chemical industry more than $9 billion annually, according to the US Department of Energy’s announcement of the institute. Earlier post.)

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Green Car Congress

NOVEMBER 12, 2014

In 2013, worldwide fuel cell industry sales surpassed $1 billion for the first time, reaching $1.3 Although early markets such as stationary power and material handling account for the bulk of sales, DOE noted that the fuel cell industry made “tremendous progress” in the light-duty transportation sector in 2013.

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JANUARY 4, 2020

The University of Oklahoma (Norman, OK) plans to develop, build, and validate a low-cost, field-installable, remotely-controlled natural gas compressor retrofit kit. University of New Mexico aims to develop advanced gas sensors (mixed potential electrochemical [MPE]) coupled with advanced computation (artificial neural networks).

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Green Car Congress

DECEMBER 17, 2016

State-of-the-art industrial ammonia production using the Haber-Bosch process requires a hydrogen source (usually natural gas), remains highly capital and energy intensive, and is only economical at a large scale. University of Delaware. University of Minnesota Twin Cities. University of South Carolina.

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Cars That Think

AUGUST 5, 2022

“If the data exists…and in particular exists in the domain of somebody who’s not the subject of those data, it's much more likely that a government will eventually get access to them in some way,” says Bryant Walker Smith , an associate professor in the schools of law and engineering at the University of South Carolina.

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Tony Karrer Delicious EVdriven

JANUARY 15, 2009

WestVirginia University : Formula Lightning Solar Cars Clarkson University :Solar Knights Kansas State University :Apollo Universityof Quebec : Eclipse II University ofToronto : Blue Sky QueensUniversity : Dawn Treader Street Cars CentralShenandoah Valley Regional Governors School : Datsun 240Z conversion.

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Cars That Think

JANUARY 29, 2022

Instead of drastically scaling up power-grid infrastructure, our work at the University of Vermont has focused on how to coordinate demand in real time to match the increasingly variable supply. These can be grouped into two broad categories: commercial and industrial loads, and residential loads. We think there’s a better way.

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